Volume 3 The Struggle for the Country Chapter 115 A Pyrrhic Victory

This time, the soldiers of Manchu Jia pounced like crazy, because their king had already said that whoever attacked the city first to seal the four products and thousands of households, and who opened the city gate first to seal the viscount.

In the face of the crazy enemy army, the recruits of the Black Shark Army have taken it easy. It's just that in the past few days, more than just new recruits have been consumed, and the seven thousand veterans have been less than four thousand, which makes it impossible to form many military formations, which greatly weakens the Black Shark Army's already low combat power.

The siege battle did not stop until noon, and seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers in the city, Liu Canghai had the will to die in his heart. Having driven the enemy down the city again, he sat down on the steps of the tower, and waited a little numbly for the moment to come, despite the intense blood and mutilated limbs around him.

His expression shifted suddenly, and he heard a commotion coming from the staircase. Then a large crowd of people of different colors came up with sticks, kitchen knives, hoes, and hammers.

"General Liu, let's defend the city with you!" An old man at the front said after giving a salute.

"This ......" Liu Canghai suddenly felt a hot liquid flowing down from the corner of his eye, "Thank you!" Thank you, folks! ”

"Where is the general's words! Since you Black Shark Army came, we have been kind to us, and we have seen them in our eyes and remembered them in our hearts! With an army like yours here, let's be steadfast! The old man also said with emotion.

"Woo———— knock! Boom! Boom! ”

The crowd looked out of the city, and another enemy siege began.

"The enemy is attacking the city! Everyone separated along the wall and listened to the orders of the military master on the wall! Fast! The old man turned around and yelled.

"Good!"

"Listen to Master Moda!"

The crowd began to disperse along the wall in confusion, and not one of the people who could come up was afraid, but they all had that holy mission. Spiritually, they stand on the high ground!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

After a few days of shelling, a small half of the artillery was damaged, and only 31 could be used. The Tiger Squat Cannon only destroyed one of them, and it was thrown down by the soldiers who threw the wooden and rolling stones in order to stop the enemy.

The enemy army no longer has siege towers, and only relies on quick and easy siege ladders to start the siege. Soon the enemy troops climbed to the top of the city. The old man named Mo Da was right in front of the enemy army that was coming out, and without seeing him panic at all, he raised his big knife and cut off the man's head with one sword.

At first, the people were able to fight soundly, but when more and more enemies entered the city, they began to be defeated, and their numbers were rapidly decreasing.

Liu Canghai led his escort team to form an iron bucket formation, crisscrossing the vicinity of the tower, killing all enemies he could see.

"Boom!" The horizontal knife in his hand was broken, and after countless collisions with the enemy's weapons, the blade had long been full of gaps, and now it was finally broken.

Liu Canghai glanced at the broken blade in his hand and the only three guards around him, his mouth was bitter, has this moment still come?

Just as the Black Shark Army and a small number of civilians on the city wall were in despair, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance. Liu Canghai raised his eyes, and a group of cavalry suddenly appeared after the Manchu Jiazhong Army, waving various pirate banners, with bloody waves, and several pirate organizations that surrendered to the Black Shark Gang, such as Shizong, Longyinyuan, and Tianlei Mountain.

"Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived! Kill me with me! Liu Canghai's eyes lit up, he threw away the knife in his hand, picked up a tiger head ring knife from the ground and rushed towards the stunned enemy soldiers on the city wall!

"Kill! Our reinforcements are coming! "Those Black Shark Army, who originally thought they were going to die, seemed to have been re-injected with strength, and they were as fierce as mad tigers, and the enemies they killed were defeated one after another!

There are still 4,000 elite guards in the camp of Bailimissoula, and the scattered cavalry impact of the pirates alone cannot shake it.

Both sides of the battle on the city wall saw the battle below, and the morale of the soldiers who had just been discouraged was high, and they saw that they were about to take the city wall.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

Suddenly there was a crispy sound like fried beans in the distance! When everyone took the time to look at it again, the situation underneath changed again. Groups of infantry confronted the elite of the Manchurian Thorn Plus army, and they took strange firearms and fired at the Manchurian soldiers a hundred paces away.

The strange thing is that there are constantly people on the side of Manthorn who are wailing and falling to the ground. Firecrackers are not rare, they were available in the Yuan Dynasty, but they only have a range of more than a dozen paces, where is there a firearm that can hit a hundred steps!? is so sharp and continuous, all of a sudden, it is full of thorns and the Chinese army is in chaos.

The thousand-strong army of firearms was still steadily advancing, and as they walked, more and more soldiers on the opposite side were knocked down. In the end, it turned into a rout! The soldiers on the head of the city panicked, and some of them jumped off the city wall and fell to their deaths, while those under the wall turned their heads and ran, and the ladder on them slid down directly from above, causing a string of comrades to fall.

The rout of the Manchu soldiers was just the moment when the Fire Gun Army appeared, and the various factions who had been rushing to no avail took the opportunity to kill them! For a while, the outside of the city was full of running enemy troops, followed by the most murderous people of all factions! Like a shepherd chasing after his lamb!

"Finally retreated! We're winning! We're winning! Woo woo woo ...... "Liu Canghai knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, this was the only time he cried in front of the soldiers.

"Brother Qi, Brother Qi, your heroic spirit is still there, but you can see our victory!" Liu Canghai cried bitterly and slapped the ground of the city wall.

Just at noon, when the people went to the wall to support, he had already learned the news that Qilu had died in battle, and he was still thinking that it was okay for his brother to go first, and he would always follow him, but he didn't expect him to die, but he survived!

Just as Liu Canghai was crying to death, a pair of blood-stained leather boots appeared in front of him. The two shoulders were firmly grasped by a pair of large hands, and when they were lifted up, a resolute voice sounded in his ears.

"Liu Canghai, get up for Lao Tzu! Look at you! Not worthy of being my Black Shark General! ”

Liu Canghai raised his face covered with blood and snot and tears to look at the person, it was Meng Chengbi's deputy gang leader, who was usually sven, but he was also rude at this time.

"Helper, I'...... I hurt here! Liu Canghai slapped his chest hard, "Qilu and a group of new and old brothers, as well as Uncle Moda...... And also...... And so many people died! I don't deserve to be this general...... O General! ”

The emotions that had been suppressed by himself for many days finally broke out in full force at this time, he was also afraid, he was also anxious, and he was even more heartbroken to die of his brother!

Meng Chengbi hugged him violently like a heartache and slapped him on the back fiercely, "Don't blame your brother!" You've done your best! Even if the boss comes, he can't do it to this extent! ”

"Woo woo woo ......" Although Liu Canghai's cry was small, he still whispered, "It's all my fault!" It's all my fault! Nearly 30,000 brothers! ”

The remnants of the soldiers around them lost their joy for the rest of their lives, and they all wiped their tears and sobbed together.

"General! I don't blame you! Just do it again, and the brothers have no complaints! A soldier wiping tears shouted.

"That's right! Checkmate! You're the best general! ”

"General......

Liu Canghai raised his head, broke free from the arms of the Meng gang leader, looked around at his only remaining soldiers one by one, and counted them one by one with tears in his eyes, there were only three hundred and six people left, and there was a pang of colic in his heart!

Meng Chengbi stepped forward and grabbed Liu Canghai, who was still frantically examining the dead body, "Canghai go back and rest, let the brothers find it!" ”

"Alas! Let's go! Let the helper laugh today! Liu Canghai followed Meng Chengbi in disappointment and staggered away to the city.

"I like men with real temperament! And you are! Meng Chengbi said very seriously.

When he returned to the station in the city, Liu Canghai saw a patrol team carrying long firecrackers walking back and forth, and then he remembered the battle outside the city, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Helper, are they carrying firearms?" ”

"That's what you say! Yes and no! Meng Chengbi summoned a soldier, took down the musket on his back and handed it to Liu Canghai, "Look at it!" This is the idea proposed by the boss, and it took a year to study it in the workshop! The boss called him a musket! ”

"Muskets?" Liu Canghai couldn't put it down and touched the cold barrel, "Wouldn't it be invincible if there was one per person?" ”

"You think beautifully! Just this tube, do you see it? Meng Chengbi pointed to the long barrel, "It must be hammered into strips with hundreds of refined steel, and then a master will not sleep until he can barely drill one out in five days, and it may be scrapped halfway!" Now this thousand muskets is all the production of the workshop for half a year! ”

"So time-consuming?" Liu Canghai asked in surprise.

"Well, you think!" Meng Chengbi returned the gun to the soldier, and then took the lead and walked back to the lobby.

"If we have 10,000 muskets......" Liu Canghai suddenly stopped talking, and he remembered that even if he had 10,000 muskets, he didn't have so many people under him!

The enemy was defeated, and almost every house in the city was crying, some of them were killed in battle, and some of them were killed in the battle of supporting the city walls. In the end, Meng Chengbi waved his hand, as long as it is verified that he died on the city wall, it will be counted according to the family of the military martyrs.

Liu Canghai ignored the scars all over his body, and distributed pensions and military martyrs' certificates from family to family. When each family received a thousand taels of silver in comfort, everyone was grateful and sad, but their hearts were even more towards the Black Shark Army.

By the time all the martyrs in the city had been pacified, it was three days later. The ten regiments of veteran battalions led by Lin Xian also arrived at Roujia City, although they came late, but fortunately, the panicked situation settled down! Their own army is back, and who is afraid of the full thorn of the donkey's day! There are even many people who petition/wish, hoping that the army will go and destroy the Manchurian Thorn! They would rather give their entire fortune for it!

Among them was Morimi, Moda's son, who was born with a disabled left foot and walked on the foot of a slope, so he was left at home by his old father while supporting the city wall.

Morimi's kindness was politely rejected by Meng Chengbi, who said that even if he wanted to fight all the thorns, he didn't need his family property, because the Black Shark Army was not short of money! What he said was telling the truth, since the Black Shark Gang unified the pirates in the Strait of Malacca, it is indeed a daily profit, and it is not bad for money at all!