In addition, Li Hao immediately lit fireworks and notified the other three city walls to start a strong attack, so that Qing Haibo could not ask them for help.

Of course, Li Hao didn't know at this time that Qing Haibo, this old woman, was very cunning, and he would come early on.

Therefore, the actual effect of Li Hao's attack was not great, and as soon as he rushed into the city gate, the offensive was directly blocked.

Because Qing Haibo was prepared in the city, although he got out of the way, Li Hao's troops rushed in.

But soon the attack was interrupted by the men and horses lying in ambush on both sides of the wall, and then the enemy troops in front saw that the artillery attack line had been blocked, and they also rushed forward from a distance.

Under the attack from three sides, Li Hao's department was forced to retreat again and again, and directly returned to the doorway.

Seeing this, Li Hao directly ordered the whole army to withdraw and prepare the rifled guns.

After everyone on his side had withdrawn from the doorway, four shells rushed towards the doorway, two of which focused on the side wall of the gate, and two of which entered through the doorway.

Later, I saw that the inside of the door was a mess, full of stumps and broken arms, and accompanied by the smell of burning.

This scene has a great impact on the soldiers on both sides, and it may be easier for those who have been on the battlefield for a long time to accept.

But for those who haven't seen blood a few times, seeing the tragic scene now, it's just that the liver and gall are broken, and people are stupid.

Seeing this, Li Hao immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the whole army to attack.

The Japanese army deserved to be one of the four armies, and after receiving the order, they immediately rushed to the city wall again.

Not to mention, the effect this time is very obvious, while the enemy has not yet recovered from his senses, he directly expanded the battle line, giving the follow-up men a foothold.

Then he continued to charge, trying to crush the enemy in one fell swoop.

But Qing Haibo is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he has already reacted at this time.

In order to stimulate the morale of the army, he raised the knife and directly took his own soldiers into battle to fight.

Seeing that he personally went into battle to fight, the military spirit of the defenders in the city began to gradually recover, and slowly blocked the Japanese army on the royal street.

At this time, less than one-third of the people on Li Hao's side entered the city, and the rest were blocked outside the city gate.

Although the time drags on, as long as there are no accidents, it will be Li Hao who wins, after all, Li Hao has a large number of people here, and he can win the war of attrition.

But this is not the advantage of numbers, and it will inevitably delay more time, which is not what Li Hao thinks.

Just as Li Hao was thinking of a way, he suddenly saw those ladders and immediately had an idea.

Since the city gate can't be enlarged here, I'll go another way.

So he ordered some of them to re-erect the ladder, climb the wall first, and then charge down.

This method is really good, and it broke through the defense line established by Qing Haibo at once, forcing him to retreat to the Suzaku Gate and enter the inner city to hold on.

Seeing this, Li Hao naturally refused to let Qing Haibo go, and chased after Meng Hao all the way, wanting to eat Qing Haibo in front of the Suzaku Gate.

But in the end, he was escaped by Qing Haibo, but Qing Haibo didn't fall well, and none of the soldiers and horses under his command followed in.

Next, Li Hao ordered people to try to attack first, and after being thwarted, he asked people to stop, and transported the cannon from behind to continue the bombardment.

….

At the same time, two soldiers and horses were sent to Wanshengmen and Xincaomen to receive the British Ministry and Gu Tingye's Department into the city.

By the way, the enemy troops who are holding on to Wanshengmen and Xincaomen will be eliminated by attacking from inside and outside, so that they will not also flee into the inner city and cause trouble.

But in fact, Zhao Zongquan's people are not so dull.

As early as when Li Hao opened the cannon to bombard the city gate, it attracted their attention, of course, including Zhao Zongquan and Empress Cao in the palace.

Among them, Queen Cao and the others just heard the voice, and at first they thought it was a drought and thunder.

But I heard the thunder from behind, and I heard that the direction was at the Nanxun Gate.

At that time, although Empress Cao didn't know the specific situation, she could do it somewhat

Guessed that things must have changed.

And it wasn't Zhao Zongquan who did it, after all, the most important thing for Zhao Zongquan now is to attack the palace, and he won't be idle and have no intention of making such a big move in Nanxunmen.

No matter who did the rest, it would be a great thing for me, and it would be a good thing for me, and it would also be able to reflect the nonsense I made up earlier.

So Empress Cao asked Cao Jingxiu to go to the palace gate, and in front of Zeng Chaosheng and the soldiers guarding the city, she said:

"Did you all hear the sound of Nanxun Gate just now, it was our reinforcements attacking Nanxun Gate.

As long as they can hold out until reinforcements arrive, the rebels outside the palace have nothing to fear.

In addition, just now, the official family and the queen mother have agreed, and after the rebels are eliminated, all the soldiers will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to one rank."

After finishing speaking, Zeng Chaosheng immediately began to stir up the atmosphere and said, "Xie Guan's family and the queen's mother, Longen, we will fight bravely to kill the enemy and protect the safety of the palace."

Then the heads of all levels and Yu Hou followed up one after another, and the momentum was raised all of a sudden.

As for Zhao Zongquan, they naturally know the specific situation and know what they are doing.

And they felt that Qing Haibo's statement was a bit exaggerated, but in the end they still believed Qing Haibo's judgment.

Except for Zhao Zongquan's side, because he needed to capture the imperial city as soon as possible, he did not send troops to support.

Some people were sent to the remaining places, which did help Qing Haibo delay some time, but it also doubled their pressure.

After encouraging and supporting for a while, they received the news that Qing Haibo was passed on when he was defeated.

Knowing that the Nanxun Gate has been breached, there is no need for the outer city to hold on anymore.

So taking advantage of the gap between the siege of the city, a small number of people were arranged to stay behind and not let them be discovered outside the city.

Then he led the rest of his men and horses to retreat to the inner city, hoping to rely on the inner city walls to support it for a while.

However, on the way to retreat, the defenders of Wanshengmen and Xincaomen happened to collide with the people sent by Li Hao to intercept them.

Both sides were taken aback, after all, they were not ready to fight here.

So the two sides parted with a touch, only collided once, and then separated.

Fortunately, this is the case, you must know that on the side of Wanshengmen and Xincaomen, the British Duke and Gu Tingye's men and horses are still outside the city.

The manpower sent by Li Hao was far from enough to fight the soldiers and horses on both sides independently, that is, they did not know how many soldiers and horses they encountered.

I'm worried that I'll be restrained, otherwise I'm afraid I won't let them go.

….

When the two sides arrived, the British Duke and Gu Tingye had already led their troops to break through the city gate, and then Yang Wenyuan's side also took advantage of the situation to take the new sour date gate.

Several large armies regrouped outside the inner city, but the inner city was much smaller than the outer city, and it was easier to communicate with each other.

So simply Gu Tingye, British Gong and Yang Wenyuan handed over the matter of commanding the army to someone they trusted, and they came to the Vermilion Bird Gate.

I'm going to see what this cannon is, it's so loud that it can open the city gate and so many things that block it.

At this time, the artillery had already been transported and was being installed in full swing.

When they first looked at the artillery, Gu Tingye and the others were the same, treating this guy as a large assault gun.

He also said, "This thing broke through the city gate, doesn't it look special?"

Li Hao smiled: "Then you will see his power later, as for the city gate of Vermilion Bird Gate, there is nothing to block inside.

As long as we take two shots, we can go in directly, but the only pity is that this rifling was almost worn out when it broke through the Nanxun Gate.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have to put them all on the table, just a few rifled guns and I could easily do it."

Gu Tingye replied, "Yes, then I want to take a good look at it, is this thing as amazing as you say."

Outside the city, Li Hao was in a relaxed mood, but inside the city was different.

Because the south smoke gate is fast

The breakthrough cast a thick shadow in the hearts of Zhao Zongquan and other generals.

After all, they were only protected by a layer of inner city walls, and the security of this wall was much worse than that of the outer city.

In addition, they are also particularly concerned about the large assault rifle that Rong Changbo said.

Of course, the reason for caring is that they don't think that the power of that thing is really as powerful as Rong Changbo said, they just think that Rong Changbo made up nonsense in order to evade responsibility.

So this time, the other three city gates also sent people over, in the name of assisting Rong Changbo, but in fact, they didn't trust him and wanted to send people to watch him personally.

But as the first cannons were fired and hit the city walls, the others finally believed in the power of the artillery.

It's just that Gu Tingye and the others were very happy to see it, while Rong Changbo and the others were full of sadness, because they knew that the inner city could not be defended, and the time to break the city completely depended on when the city gate was shot.

At this time, the others also made a quick decision, and immediately decided to reduce the manpower of the other three city gates to a minimum, and some of the manpower was sent here to organize street battles and delay time.

The other part of the people went to support Zhao Zongquan, and they must break through the palace before the inner city is cleared, otherwise everything will be over.

In fact, their measures have indeed achieved a certain effect, and they are learning the lessons of the Nanxunmen operation.

After the cannons blasted open the city gate, they still garrisoned the city wall, and did not give Li Hao a chance to enter the city through the city wall.

And the soldiers and horses under the city wall also deliberately controlled the battlefield near the city gate, but did not press forward, so as not to let Li Hao's people break away from the battle line and be bombarded by artillery like last time.

In this way, under the Suzaku Gate, it was temporarily stalemate, and it was impossible to break through immediately.

….

This situation made Li Hao anxious to look at the back, and he wanted to lead the team to rush to kill once and make a breakthrough as soon as possible.

However, compared to Li Hao, Zhao Zongquan's side is even more anxious, after all, as soon as the Vermilion Bird Gate is broken, no one can say how long they can hold out in the frontal battle next.

At this time, Zhao Zongquan could no longer care about the casualties, and began to order everyone to be mobilized to participate in the siege battle, and even the personal guards around him were also sent.

For a while, the city defense of Xihuamen became stormy, but because of this, Zeng Chaosheng felt that what Queen Cao said might be true.

There are really soldiers and horses coming from behind to support, and the attack should be quite smooth, otherwise there is no need for Zhao Zongquan to be in such a hurry.

In addition, the thunder sounded closer and closer, from the original outside of the city to the current inside of the city.

Although Zeng Chaosheng didn't know what it was, it was certain that it was related to the soldiers and horses supporting him.

For this reason, Zeng Chaosheng hurriedly stepped forward to motivate his subordinates, telling them that as long as they held on for a while, the soldiers and horses who came to help would arrive soon.

But sometimes morale alone may not be enough, after such a long time of fighting, Zeng Chaosheng's side is no longer sufficient.

In the face of Zhao Zongquan's continuous impact, after all, there was a loophole in the connection of personnel, so that Zhao Ceying seized the opportunity, and immediately led people to rush up, opening up a safe area on the city wall to meet the follow-up personnel.

After that, Zeng Chaosheng also rushed up with a knife, trying to drive Zhao Ceying off the city wall.

Of course, it would be better if Zhao Ceying could be caught, so that having him in hand would also make Zhao Zongquan have some scruples, and maybe he would be able to delay until the reinforcements arrived.

But it's a pity that it backfired, Zhao Ceying led people to block Zeng Chaosheng steadily, although the area occupied has shrunk, but there is no sign of defeat.

On the contrary, Zeng Chaosheng's side mobilized people from other regions because he wanted to concentrate his troops, which inevitably reduced the number of troops in other regions.

Naturally, more gaps appeared in the city wall, making more and more rebels climb the city wall.

Seeing this situation, Zeng Chaosheng knew that he must not consume all his troops here, otherwise there would be no one to use in the future.

I had to break my wrist and go first

A firework shot out from the sky, informing the other three gates that they would find a way to retreat to the Funing Palace.

On his side, he personally led people to counterattack, and after opening up a wave of distance, the men and horses who were left behind were evacuated backwards first.

[In view of the general environment,

The time when Li Hao and Zhao Zongquan broke through the city was the kung fu of the front and rear feet, although Li Hao's side was a little earlier, but the relative obstacles they faced were also greater.

It wasn't until the end that Gu Tingye and Yang Wenyuan went into battle in person that they finally broke the deadlock and pulled the battle line to the vicinity of Kaifeng Mansion at once.

Then he met the enemy army who had retreated from Liangmen and Caomen here, and after the opponent joined forces, he resisted Li Hao's troops.

Of course, Li Hao was not in a hurry at this time, after all, since the other party was defeated from the city gate, the people who wanted to come there should be behind.

It will take some reaction time, but with the experience just now, I don't want to fall behind too much.

But after fighting for a long time, Li Hao never found that the other two soldiers and horses were coming, which made Li Hao feel strange.

It is said that there is no one in front of them to stop them, how can they delay for such a long time, are they planning to turn back, or is there any other means for Zhao Zongquan to fail.

It stands to reason that neither of these situations should happen at this point.

In desperation, Li Hao had no choice but to invite the British Duke and Gu Tingye to take people to both sides to see what was wrong with them.

At this time, outside the Liang Gate and the Cao Gate, it was indeed quiet, and after taking the two city gates, they each stopped attacking, as if they were waiting for something.

Of course, some people want to stop, and naturally there are also people who want to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take down the enemy in one go.

So at this time, many generals who led the troops on both sides gathered together and discussed the same topic.

From knowledge to strength