Chapter 10: Breaking the City

The sun was shining, and on the north wall of the city, Serious Nian was carrying a bird gun on his back, looking at the rebel positions outside the city, and scolded fiercely.

"What the hell are these shitty rebels doing?"

The rebels set up artillery in the houses, shelling at one time, stopping at another, intermittently, back and forth. The rebels' musketeers hid behind the low walls dug out of the moat and fired, intermittently, and the bannermen on the walls were exhausted.

It's just that the sun is too much in the past few days, standing on the city wall and drowsy, covered with stinky sweat, and I don't dare to take off my armor. If they were hit by the rebels' artillery or firearms, if the other side wanted to cross the river and attack the city, would they lose their lives.

There are a lot of ladders on the moat, and God knows when the rebels will attack the city.

"Who knows what's going on with these guys? However, there is a lot of food in the city, as long as we hold the city, we are not afraid of the rebels! ”

Kuta wiped a handful of sweat from his head, and his body was slippery and uncomfortable.

If it had been left in the past, he would have gone to the restaurant to drink and find a girl to have fun.

"Kuta, where are these rebels coming from? Prince Kang and General Lahada, were they really killed? ”

Thinking of the plot when he was persuaded to surrender, and thinking of the strings of corpses, his heart was pinched again.

"Who knows? Prince Kang and Lahada have thousands of troops, how many people are there in these guys, they must be fake! ”

Kuta was very confident in the Qing army in Zhejiang.

"I said yes! These rebels are sparse in attacking the city, and they must not have that much ability! ”

Serious years of peace of mind.

Prince Kang and General Hangzhou, what a big official that is, tens of thousands of elite Qing army guards, how could they be killed by this rebel army.

Moreover, all the high-ranking generals were served in a pot, which is also too brutal.

"You say, if the city is really broken, what will the rebels do to us bannermen?"

Kuta asked in a whisper as he looked around.

"How can I ...... Do you know? ”

Seriously young, his face was pale, and his lips trembled.

He guards the martial arts gate on weekdays, and he does a lot of things like bullying men and women, and blackmailing. Even if the rebels can let him go, those Han people in Hangzhou City may not stop.

The Han people pay attention to paying debts and killing people to pay for their lives. Seriously rejoiced in the year, fortunately he didn't hurt anyone, and he didn't spoil the big girl and little daughter-in-law, otherwise, there would be no way back at all.

"Kuta, you haven't bullied the Han Chinese?"

In addition to being seriously weak-hearted, he turned back on Kuta.

"What is it for me to do that, lend money, extort a few small money, if the Han people are reasonable, they will beat me twice at most, and at best they will imprison me for a year and a half. If you win, you will be killed! ”

Kuta refers to Shengbao, the deputy chief of Hangzhou Mancheng, who ruined the Han woman a few years ago, causing the woman to commit suicide, and the family sued to no avail, but lost a lot of silver, and everyone in Hangzhou knows it.

"Needless to say, those big and small officials and generals, who hasn't harmed the people of Hangzhou City? If the city is really destroyed, they will be the ones who are most afraid! ”

Serious years involuntarily became a judge of crime.

"That's it! What are we compared to them? ”

Kuta echoed the serious years and cheered himself up.

"Seeing that it's getting dark, there is no good wine and food at night, but it's not easy to boil!"

Serious years complained, the body is very honest.

"The city is besieged, how can those chickens, ducks, and fish come in? Stay up, it's a day to be able to stay up. ”

Kuta's eyes widened, listless.

Such a heart-pounding day has just begun, when will it be the end?

It was easy to stay up until the evening, and in the second half of the night, the weather was cool, and it was a good time to sleep, and the rebel artillery outside the city was constantly sounding, and the sound of fire guns was endless, and the archers kept shooting at the city, and even the heart-pounding "ten thousand enemies" were also raining down on the city.

It seems that the rebels have made up their minds to break through the city from the northern wall.

Serious and Kuta were so frightened that they hid behind the battlement wall and tightened their grip on their arquebuses.

"Reload your ammunition and prepare to return fire!"

Katsuho hid behind the battlement wall, shouted angrily, and directed the flag soldiers to counterattack.

"Cheer up Lao Tzu! Think about it, inside the city are your wives and children. But if you can't stand it, they will suffer. Parents and children are dead, and women are ruined. If anyone dares to escape, Lao Tzu will cut him! ”

The city's religious field is just behind the northern city wall, and the rebels are really crazy to pick the hardest bones to gnaw.

Compared with Katsubo's toughness, the bannermen on the city wall were not so big-hearted, and many of them were pale, hiding behind the city wall, allowing the other party to attack.

Seriously sweating on his forehead, his hands trembling and loading ammunition, he did not dare to show his head at all.

"Holy shit, stand up and fight back!"

The Qing generals kicked the flag soldiers hiding behind the battlement wall and told them to return fire.

The guns and cannons roared loudly, the feather arrows roared endlessly, and people kept falling down up and down the city wall, but the rebels only shot through the moat, and from time to time threw a few "10,000 enemies" up, and did not cross the moat to attack the city.

The darkness covered everything, and the attention of the Qing army on the city wall was all restrained by the battle on the north city wall, and no one paid attention to the pitch-black water gate.

The violent explosion continued, and while the Qing army on the city wall was evading, several black shadows dived and swam into the water gate, and the black things floating on the river surface also entered the water gate hole.

Under the cover of the sound of gunfire, Fang Hu and the others swam to the iron fence of the water gate, and the arm-thick iron fence could not be broken at all. They grabbed the iron fence, dug down the huge bricks on the water gate one by one, gently sank into the water under their feet, and with the buoyancy of the river, the four pieces were butt to each other, and it took about half an hour to erect a foundation more than two meters high as a foothold for the sappers.

The moat that filled the city was ten meters wide and four meters deep, and the sappers, who were mostly in the water, supported each other and began to dig holes under the walls of the water.

"I'm coming!"

Jiang Zhong dug for a while, he was already sweating, Fang Hu patted him on the shoulder, took the sapper shovel, and continued to dig.

Outside, the guns rang out in unison, the sappers in the water gate dug hard, and the fire outside suddenly appeared, and you could see the sappers sweating profusely on their faces and shoulders, and the river in the water gate was slowly muddy.

Just above the Water Gate, the bannermen were concentrating on the attack of the rebels, completely oblivious to the movement in the Water Gate.

The night covered everything perfectly.

"Kuta, how do I think it's weird, it seems like something is happening!"

Serious Nian stood up cautiously, poked his head out, hurriedly fired a gun out of the city, and quickly hid himself and loaded his ammunition.

"What's the matter? It's not that I'm afraid of suffering, the women in the family have no men, go out and fool around! ”

Kuta smiled lewdly and lowered her voice.

"You can go with confidence. Your woman, brother, I will take good care of you! ”

After fighting for a long time, the rebels' attacks thundered heavily and rained, which made his spirit relaxed.

"Don't be a fool of yourself, Lao Tzu is serious!"

Seriously replied angrily.

"My right eye is beating so badly, something big must be happening tonight!"

"The left eye jumps to wealth, the right eye jumps to disaster, do you believe in this thing of the Han people? I forgot, you were originally a Han Chinese, and you only carried the flag for meritorious service. You dog minion! ”

Kuta scolded with a laugh.

The rebels only shelled and fired across the river, and he really had nothing to fear. Just be careful when shooting.

"Kuta, listen, is there any sound on the city wall?"

The action of reloading ammunition in the serious years stopped, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully.

"What's the noise, I think your kid is brainy!"

Kuta listened for a moment, but could hear nothing but the rumbling of gunfire.

"Kuta, it seems like there's really some sound!"

Serious years ear Traine, he was about to listen carefully, Kuta shouted urgently.

"Ten thousand enemies!"

A "10,000 enemies" fell on the head of the city, and the "clang" sounded under the firelight, which made people feel frightened.

Seriously in the old age, his soul was scattered, and he hurriedly lay on the city wall with his head in his hands, just like Kuta, and did not dare to get up.

With the sound of "Tong", the earth and rocks flew, accompanied by the screams of several flag soldiers, which was heartbreaking.

Seriously covered in dust, his ears were constantly "buzzing", he had a terrible headache, and he couldn't care about what happened under the city walls.

"My mother!"

Kuta broke out in a cold sweat, quickly hid his body, and didn't dare to be careless anymore.

The sappers dug hard, changing hands in turn, and the flag-bearers on the city walls, even the slightest murmur, were muffled and distracted by the rumbling of gunfire.

A large hole that was one person high, three meters deep, and almost 90 degrees from two meters of bend was dug, and one by one it was wrapped in oiled paper, and bundles of sturdy, schoolbag-sized explosives were moved into it and stuffed into the hole two meters deep, which was full. Similarly, a finger-thick fuse wrapped in oiled paper was drawn out and turned to the outer one-meter-long hole.

"Seal!"

Fang Hu whispered and gave a military order.

The inside layer is dry earth, the middle is the large brick of the city wall, and the outside is the mud of the earth and water, which is tightly sealed, leaving only a small hole in the upper part of the thick arm, which is the passage where the fuse wrapped in oiled paper sticks out.

"Withdraw!"

Fang Hu confirmed again and again, and immediately gave the order to retreat.

The sappers withdrew, and they dive beneath the surface of the river with thin bamboo pipes in their mouths.

"My lord, you withdraw first, if there is anything missing, I can handle it myself!"

Jiang Zhong whispered to Fang Hu for orders.

"What's missing? Lord Wang said that if it can be blown up, it will definitely be able to! ”

Fang Hu's face was pale, obviously convinced of Wang Heyao's words.

Suddenly, someone outside screamed, apparently something was happening. Fang Hu didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately polished the fire twist, trembled, and lit the fuse.

"Blah", the fuse burns, and the fire in the water gate is dazzling.

"Let's go!"

Fang Hu's heart was shocked, and he sank into the water with Jiang Zhong, struggling to swim out.

At this time, I didn't care about diving underwater, so I left the water gate as soon as possible.

The sound of gunfire suddenly became fierce, and all the artillery in the rebel army opened fire together, pouring down on the city wall.

The Qing army on the city wall was again suppressed by the firepower of the rebels. Someone shot at the moat in a panic, and he didn't know where he had hit.

"Serious Nian, Kuta, quick, you guys go down and take a look in the water gate!"

Gurt, the general of the Qing army, shouted loudly.

In a serious year, several people took off their armor and helmets in a panic, and were about to jump into the water, when suddenly the mountains shook.

Serious years swayed and fell on the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, the thunder rolled, and more violent shaking occurred, and the smoke clouds rolled, breaking through the sky, followed by the earth and rocks rising into the sky, flying into the air, setting off countless frightened Qing troops, presumptuous and abnormal.

On the walls outside the city, everyone was dumbfounded.

In the midst of their gaze, the middle section of the northern city of Hangzhou miraculously disappeared, leaving only a huge gentle slope and smoke.

Inside and outside the city, there are no obstacles as far as the eye can see.

The city is full and broken!

Before the smoke and dust had dissipated, countless rebels with "short hair" screamed, climbed the huge gentle slope, and swarmed towards the city.

Wang Heyao looked at the collapsed city wall in the distance, smiled slightly, and made a flying kiss.

Farewell, Hangzhou City!