The city wall was shelled for eleven days in a row, and the rest of the men were not idle.

A large number of people have filled in several sections of the moat, but anyone who knows how to do carpentry work has been sent to make siege equipment.

There are about 500 ladders, which are equipped with arrow-blocking planks, anti-push grappling hooks, and winch lifts. There are also more than 1,000 simple ladders, which are basically useless, because the walls of Shangqiu are too high.

There are also chariots to cover the advance of the infantry, although they are improvised and not as sophisticated as the Manchu chariots, but they are enough to block arrows.

Also, there are many long planks left that can be placed on the notched walls. The ruined wall of more than two meters high, with dozens or hundreds of planks, can create a slope for attack.

The woods near Shangqiu have been cut down by Zhao Han!

Tens of thousands of troops attacked the city together, and there was no temptation with cannon fodder consumption, and the city walls must be taken down today.

The chariot is in front, and each chariot can cover the advance of dozens of foot soldiers.

A well-made ladder can also cover the footmen.

As the besieging forces advanced, 53 guns were aimed at the walls on both sides of the gap, because the enemy was burning oil on the walls under artillery fire.

Tong Yangjia dispatched soldiers to climb the city wall several times, but they were all smashed into chaos by a cannon. These guards of the city were so frightened that they all lay behind the female wall, and if an artillery hit the female wall, a group of unlucky eggs would be born.

The women's wall is thin, and it can only be protected against arrows, not artillery.

Tong Yangjia said to Sun Dingliao: "Sun Dutong, be sure to keep the gap!" ”

"Hold on." Sun Dingliao replied.

Sun Dingliao has been in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and the official has become the deputy commander of the Han Army with the Red Banner. The family business is all in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible for him to surrender, and even if he surrenders, there will be no good fruit to eat.

More than 20 chariots came to the gap, and Sun Dingliao's Wuzhen Chaoha heavy infantry stood on the broken city wall that was only more than two meters high.

On both sides of the intact city wall, there are more than 2,000 firecrackers from various departments, three-eyed guns, arquebuses, and flintlock pistols, and the three generations of grandparents have already made it up.

Daming also has flintlock pistols, but the performance is very poor, and the rate of dumb fire is more than three or four percent. In some cases, the rate of dumb fire even exceeded 50 percent, and the combat effect was far inferior to that of arquebuses.

When the friendly troops approached the city wall for dozens of paces, the artillery stopped firing for fear of accidental injury. The enemy's firecrackers took advantage of this time to go up to the wall and try to shoot the Datong Army infantry from a high position.

"Bang bang bang!"

A few meters away from the gap, a handful of foot soldiers hidden behind them were exposed to the guns of the enemy gunmen in the city.

"Bang bang bang!"

Some of the enemy musketeers did not listen to the order, and fired in advance in a nervous manner.

One person shoots, causing the next one to follow. crackling and shooting, only more than a dozen foot soldiers of the Datong Army fell.

If they had obeyed the order and had put the cart closer and fired, the soldiers would have been exposed even more, and it would have caused two or three hundred casualties.

"Bastard, who the was the first to let go?"

Meng Qiaofang's nephew, Meng Xiongbi, scolded loudly, and then shouted again: "Hurry up and reload!" ”

The interval between firing, reloading, and firing again has been shortened to about 50 seconds. And these miscellaneous firecrackers, loading ammunition in battle, is no longer a matter of time, but whether they can accurately load the ammunition.

Many of the firecrackers were in a hurry, either forgetting to put on the gunpowder or trying to stuff it in.

Meng Xiongbi was anxious, and asked the soldier who was boiling the gold juice and hot oil: "Is it hot?" ”

"Not yet, it's coming, it's coming!"

The gold juice and hot oil here were boiled only after the artillery stopped firing.

Tong Yangjia ordered the soldiers to burn oil under the fire, and under the coercion of the military justice team, a group of unlucky people went up to light firewood. Only one pot was knocked over by a cannonball, and the rest ran away, and then they were forced to go up the city wall by the law enforcement team.

Although the walls were wide, the accuracy of the artillery was not enough, and it was difficult to hit the people who burned the oil.

But fifty-three artillery pieces are fired in turns, not to mention ordinary soldiers, so that the Eight Banners soldiers can't withstand it, and the psychological pressure is too great.

Meng Xiongbi walked over to see that the oil in the pot had not yet smoked.

If you want to boil a pot of oil, it will also take time.

Meng Xiongbi's uncle (and adoptive father) is Meng Qiaofang, and his ancestors have made meritorious contributions to Zhu Dijing, and since then he has been a hereditary military general in Yongpingwei.

Meng Qiaofang's father even became the governor of Ningxia in the Ming Dynasty.

But this guy, who was cleared eleven years ago, is no different from Sun Dingliao.

Meng Xiongbi left the oil pot and shouted on the female wall: "Prepare to throw stones and fall wood!" ”

But it is the city wall on both sides of the gap, and there are also ladders pushing it.

The soldier was standing behind the baffle, using a winch to release the ladder, as long as the grappling hook buckled the female wall, he could climb the ladder and attack the city.

Sun Dingliao's Wuzhen Chaoha battalion crouched on the broken city wall, not only to avoid the enemy's possible firecrackers, but also to push away the planks set up by the Datong army as soon as possible.

However, the Datong Musketeers did not appear, and the melee soldiers did not build a slope with planks.

Hundreds of grenadiers, hiding on the steps behind the baffle, which belonged to the firing position of the Manchu chariots. The carts of the Datong army had no shooting holes, and only quietly hid grenadiers, throwing 10,000 enemies at the broken city wall.

"Boom, boom!"

An explosion sounded, and the unsuspecting Wuzhen Chaoha battalion was blown to pieces by the bomb.

Before the smoke cleared, the Datong melee soldiers carried several meters of wooden planks and built them on the broken section of the city wall one by one.

Three hundred warriors in plate armor, with shields in their left hands and swords in their right, rushed forward along the slope made of wooden planks.

Zhu Youdong rushed to the front, and when he heard this name, it was the Daming Sect. His ancestor is the seventh son of Renzong Zhu Gaochi. But his grandfather was just a little lieutenant of Fengguo.

Lieutenant Fengguo's annual salary is 200 stone rice, 40% of which is given to grain, and 60% is converted into silver.

If you can give enough money and food, your life will be passable, at least you won't be hungry. However, the clan's income was collected by the local civil officials in the subordinate fields and then handed over to the local vassal kings for distribution. Under the layers of restraint, most of the heads were taken away by the vassal king, and the little lieutenant Fengguo had to go hungry.

Zhu Youdong has grown strong since he was a child, like the reincarnation of a rice bucket, and often eats rice at home.

Later, he ran out of food, because the peasants rebelled and killed his father and two brothers, and he fled with his mother, younger brother and sister. Finally, the officers and soldiers suppressed the rebels, and they returned to their original houses, only to encounter the rebels again every two years.

Zhu Youdong simply voted for the Datong Army.

Now, he is the captain of the personal guard of Emperor Zhao Han of Datong!

Zhu Youdong is 1.85 meters tall, and his plate armor has wasted a lot of materials. Stepping on the planks and rushing up the broken wall, where the smoke had not yet cleared, he knocked over one man with his shield, and then slashed another with his sword.

Didn't hack to death, the other party was wearing cotton armor.

"Dangdang!"

Three enemies slashed around Zhu Youdong, and the blades collided with sparks on the surface of the plate armor.

Zhu Youdong's arm strength was extremely strong, he raised the shield and overturned a person, and the sword in his right hand slashed out again, this time hitting the opponent's neck.

Zhu Youdong didn't ask to kill many enemies, he rushed forward with his shield, and slashed people by the way. His mission was to disrupt the enemy formation, so that more friendly troops could rush forward and completely occupy the gap in the wall.

Bombed to pieces by 10,000 enemies, and charged by 300 plate armor soldiers, Sun Dingliao's Wuzhen Chaoha heavy infantry lost its organization in the blink of an eye. The cowardly and fearful of death turned around and fled, and the bold and brave stubborn resistance was already unable to control this section of the city wall.

The Datong Army rattan players and spearmen in the back rushed up one after another, forming a formation to assist the plate armor warriors to rush and kill.

The grenadiers also rushed up, still holding 10,000 enemies in their hands, and the fire fold was bitten with his teeth, ready to ignite the fuse at any time.

"Pour hot oil!"

Seeing that the friendly forces had lost control of the gap in the city wall, Meng Xiongbi ordered the hot oil that had not yet been boiled to be poured down.

"Ah!!h

Two plate warriors, a dozen rattan players and pikemen were drenched in hot oil, and one of the hapless Uzhen Chaoha soldiers was also hit.

"Set fire!"

Under Meng Xiongbi's drinking order, the Qing army threw down a lot of dry grass soaked in oil, and then pulled out firewood from the bottom of the pot and threw it indiscriminately downward.

The grenadiers hurriedly retreated and ran away, fearing that they would be set on fire.

Fortunately, the section of the city wall of Meng Xiongbi was also being attacked, and there were also firecrackers reloading ammunition, the scene was chaotic, and the hot oil and dry grass were not prepared due to the shelling. Otherwise, the place will be burned to the ground.

Even so, there were several Datong soldiers, whose clothes were ignited, and the firewood and grass and hot oil on the ground were also ignited.

It's not gasoline, it doesn't burn fast, and there is a chance to kill the life on the body.

"Bang bang bang!"

One after another, there were Qing army firearms, and after reloading, they condescendingly fired at the gap, and more than 50 Datong soldiers who were rushing to kill fell.

"Bang!"

"Ahh

I don't know if it's because the gunpowder is filled too much, or the quality of the guns is worrying, and two Qing guns in a row exploded.

On the top of the ladder, thirty or forty Datong soldiers fell down one after another, all of them were smashed down by stones and rolling logs. Xiong Wancheng wore two pairs of cotton armor, held a rattan tag in his hand, and quickly climbed the cloud ladder more than ten meters long.

Climbing to the female wall, several spears stabbed him, Xiong Wan dodged with a short body, and simply threw away the rattan card. As he climbed again, several more spears stabbed him, and he reached out and grabbed one and pulled it down with all his might. The other party leaned out and stabbed, and was caught off guard by Xiong Wancheng and pulled out of the women's wall.

The two collided and rolled down the ladder, knocking over several Datong soldiers one after another.

Rolling down from a height of more than ten meters, Xiong Wancheng did not die, and he could still stand up on the spot. On the contrary, the Qing army dragged down by him, as well as the friendly troops that were smashed in the rear, were already dying.

"Kill!"

Xiong Wancheng shook his head and climbed the ladder again and rushed up.

Zhu Youdong had already rushed through the gap, and three hundred plate armor warriors crashed into the enemy formation in the city together. Even the two plate armor warriors who were burned by the hot oil, because the hot oil was far from reaching the boiling temperature, and they were protected by plate armor and protective clothing, they were still charging with burns at this time.

The enemy here is not the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion, but a relatively elite foot soldier.

In the face of three hundred iron men rushing into battle, he began to be afraid before he could engage in battle. There was a clink, and it was impossible to break through the plate armor defense.

They had no experience in dealing with plate armor, and even if the plate armor warrior fell, they didn't know to lift the armor and stab their eyes.

In their opinion, this is an invincible group of steel monsters.

"Run!"

More than 2,000 enemy troops are densely arrayed, they are really already elite, otherwise they would not have been sent to plug the gap. But three hundred plate armor warriors rushed into the formation and killed them, and more than 2,000 people quickly collapsed psychologically.

More and more Datong melee soldiers rushed in through the gap with the plate warriors. They rushed up the city walls through the ramps in the city, and fought in formation to kill the defending troops, leaving the enemy defenders on their backs.

Xiong Wancheng, who was climbing the ladder, suddenly felt a sudden decrease in pressure. He fought his wounds and climbed over the women's wall, picked up his knife and slashed, and soon several friendly soldiers climbed up behind him.

The Qing army on this section of the city wall was also defeated!

"Quick, get up...... Don't run away! ”

Tong Yangjia shouted loudly, shouting and shouting, and he himself ran away.

(Tomorrow three watches.) ）