Chapter Twenty-Seven: Breaking the Castle (I)

Liu Dachang stubbornly resisted, this is what Li Xingzhi expected, there is a strong dock fort to rely on, Liu Dachang can not easily be captured, but this is good, it is good to test the training results of the Li Jiazhai Fire Camp at this stage.

Through the blazing firelight, Li Xingzhi said coldly: "Li Rui, call Lao Tzu and tell Liu Dachang and the defenders in the fort that the owner of this village will only give them a pillar of incense, and if the hour passes, he will kill Liu Dachang and all the recalcitrant guards." ”

"Whoa!"

Li Rui received the order loudly, although he was forced to surrender to Li Xingzhi, but seeing that Li Xingzhi could share weal and woe with the soldiers, and never engaged in specialization, so now he is dead set on Li Xingzhi.

"Listen to the defenders on the fort, our lord of the village said, only give you a pillar of incense, if the hour passes, don't blame us for being ruthless! When the time comes, it will really be ruined. Li Rui shouted loudly with the tin horn used in the cottage training.

After hearing this, the guards and tenants on the fort were terrified, and they all looked at Liu Dachang, who was commanding from the gatehouse.

Liu Dachang will also be a little scared, but this dock fort is his net worth, where is he willing to give it away like this, if this gang of thieves enters the fort, where can the silver and food they have accumulated over the years be saved, so he immediately said: "Don't listen to them, they are thieves, our Liujiabao fort wall is one foot five, they don't have siege equipment, how to climb up, I have already ordered Liu Cheng to lead people to block the door with stones, as long as we hold on for a few days, as soon as the county officials and soldiers arrive, we will be safe"

The guards and tenants were obviously moved by Liu Dachang's words, after all, there were thieves under the city, and how could they dare to believe the words of the thieves.

Although they were still afraid, the guards still stretched their bows and arrows on the battlements one by one, and the tenants moved stones and bricks behind the battlements, waiting for the thieves under the fort to come into range.

The time of a pillar of incense passed quickly, and seeing that the defenders of Liujiabao were indifferent to their intimidation, Li Xingzhi resolutely gave the order to attack.

Since there were no siege equipment such as ladders, shield carts, and rushing carts, the soldiers of the Steel Blade Battalion were all on standby, while the fire guns, birds, and archers of the Fire Battalion came out of the crowd.

"Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah......!"

Sixty musketeers and bird-gunners shot at the defenders on the wall in three groups, according to the rules of training.

The guns continued to fall on the fort wall with the roar of death, and the gatehouse was full of flying broken bricks and stones, and the range of the guns obviously exceeded that of the archers on the fort wall, and more than a dozen unsuspecting guards were directly killed by the flying lead.

Where did Zhao Yong, the leader of the courtyard, think that this gang of thieves actually had so many firearms, and roared wildly: "It's not good, the thieves have firearms, hide behind the battlements, they don't have the equipment to attack the city, and the fortress gate is blocked by us, they can't attack it." ”

Without Zhao Yong's order, the nurses and tenants would dare to come out in fear, and they shrank their heads one by one and trembled behind the battlements.

By the light of the fire, Li Rui saw the situation of the fort wall clearly, that is, he raised the iron horn again and shouted: "Listen to the defenders in the fort, the owner of my village is Li Xingzhi, we broke the Leijia Fort before, but there was no harm to a civilian, you have to surrender now, otherwise Lao Tzu will have to fire the cannon." ”

Liu Dachang roared heavily, "Don't believe the nonsense of the thief, how long has Li Xingzhi been in trouble, where did he get the artillery!" ”

The guards and tenants will be really afraid, the ghost knows, where did the thieves come from so many firearms these days, and now they actually say that there are artillery, although this dock fort can be defended against firearms, but the courtyard wall is only less than two feet thick, whether they can block the cannonballs, they are really bottomless.

"Fire!"

Li Rui knew that if he didn't fire a few shots, it would be impossible for these guards and tenants to give up, so he immediately ordered the gunners of the rear team to come forward.

Soon.

The two Tiger squat guns were pushed to the front of the formation, and the loader emptied the chamber according to the usual training requirements, and after loading the medicine and shells, the gunner carefully lit the fire rope.

"Bang, bang!"

After two deafening roars, two craters were smashed on the fort wall of Liujiabao, and the fort wall seemed to be shaking, and several guards who were defending the courtyard wall with ladders were even more frightened by the fierce cannon sound and rolled down the escalator.

"Fire!"

Lijiazhai's artillery continued to fire, the dark muzzle continued to shoot out firelight, one after another cannon continued to smash into the courtyard wall, and soon the wall cracked, and the wall was densely covered with broken lines, like a spider web as terrifying.

"The thieves really have cannons!" The Liu family's courtyard and tenants are already about to collapse, because at this moment, the inner side of the courtyard wall of the dock fort is also constantly cracking, and fragments of masonry are constantly falling from the wall.

Liu Dachang is also scolding his mother, isn't this Li Xingzhi being suppressed by Huang Wenchang, a guerrilla in Baoding who is about to take office, and fled? How did they get so many firearms and artillery, this equipment can catch up with the defenders of Anxin County, but Zhang Shaoqian, the hundred-household official he was counting on, did not move, and he didn't know what he was doing? How's that for good?

Under Li Xingzhi's signal, Li Rui once again shouted: "Everyone is from Baoding, our main thing is only money and food, now Zhang Shaoqian has been lowered, what is the point of your resistance, our village owner also said that if you open the door now, not only will it not harm you, but also give you money and silver." ”

Liu Dachang's face was pale in shock, no wonder the thieves entered the town so easily, it turned out that Zhang Shaoqian, who was killed that day, secretly communicated with the thieves, and now the situation is very clear, as long as there are a few more rounds of shelling, the courtyard wall will definitely be broken by the thieves, what can I do with my life at that time?

Like Liu Dachang, the nurses and tenants are also very entangled at the moment, they must not be able to hold it, open the door and surrender, if they turn back to the county and blame themselves for the crime of being a thief, how can it be good?

"Fire!"

Li Rui couldn't allow them to think too much, his patience was limited, and after waiting for half a pillar of incense, he once again issued a military order to open fire.

"Bang, bang!"

The two tiger squat cannons once again spewed their anger at the courtyard wall, and the precarious courtyard wall could no longer withstand such a blow, and in an instant, two cannons smashed out two holes the size of bowls, and one of the cannons pierced through the courtyard wall and passed through the chest of a tenant.

"Ahh

In the midst of the terrible screams, the tenant took a few steps back, and then collapsed with a bang, the blood on his chest gushing like a fountain, and the ugly organs were smashed everywhere, emitting a thick fishy stench.