When Ma Jinzhong and the four of them saw this scene in the back, they were also terrified.

The artillery of the family army this week was really terrifying, and their own soldiers had collapsed before they could get close.

"Let's go into the city to avoid the edge for a while, if we continue to fight like this, our 200,000 army will be broken and escaped." Ma Jinzhong said.

"Okay, let's go back to the city!" Yang Zhenghai and the other three hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Ma Jinzhong let the drummer sound the order to retreat.

Hearing the drumbeat of the retreat, the remaining 150,000 soldiers ran to the Jiujiang City Gate regardless of the amnesty, and those soldiers who fled elsewhere had to flee further because they were too far away from the city gate.

Daniel Zhang watched all this in the telescope, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he said: "A group of rabble is vulnerable!" ”

At this time, Xiang Shaoyun walked over and said, "Commander, what now?" Whether to continue to attack Jiujiang City or to surround them. ”

"Take advantage of the victory and pursue, and attack Jiujiang City with all of you!"

After receiving the order, the Zhou army began to advance.

The Zhou army stopped advancing when it was four miles away from Jiujiang City, which was the maximum distance for cannon fire on the walls of Jiujiang City, and if they stepped forward, they might be threatened by the enemy's artillery.

"Zhou Zhan, you kid will shoot down all the cannons on Jiujiang City for me." Daniel Zhang said.

"Yes, Commander, I promise to complete the mission!" Zhou Zhan hurriedly agreed.

Then the artillery of the artillery division began to shell the artillery above the Jiujiang city wall.

At this time, the air force's hot air balloons had all risen to an altitude of more than 1,000 meters.

Then the hot air balloon began to float out towards Jiujiang City.

At this time, the soldiers on the Jiujiang city wall found the hot air balloon and exclaimed one after another.

As soon as Ma Jinzhong and the four of them reached the city wall, they heard the exclamations of the soldiers, and they were immediately startled when they looked up.

"What's that?"

"Could this be Zhou Jiajun's weapon?"

"Oh my God! Zhou Jiajun was able to fly into the sky. ”

"Could it be that Zhou Jiajun is a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general?"

Various voices rang out in the crowd.

While the soldiers were talking, the hot air balloon had already floated over Jiujiang City.

Just when Ma Jinzhong and the others were thinking about what these hot air balloons were flying over.

Suddenly all sorts of things were thrown from the hot air balloon, there were flaming glass bottles, there were bombs, there were lime bombs.

Suddenly, the gate of Jiujiang City became a hell on earth, full of soldiers running around who were ignited by the fierce fire oil, and soldiers who were flying into their eyes with their eyes closed and crashing everywhere by lime powder.

The soldiers who were not affected by the Jiujiang City Gate also fled from here one after another, looking for obstacles.

Since there were only a hundred hot air balloons with a limited number of bombs and Molotov cocktails, it only brought a little chaos to the defenders of Jiujiang City, and they quickly regained their composure under the appeasement of Ma Jinzhong and other generals.

Now the number of hot air balloons is too small, and the enemy forces are not very concentrated, this time only one or two thousand people were killed and wounded, which only played a deterrent role.

After the initial confusion, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers also began to adapt to the bombardment of the hot air balloon, and when they saw the hot air balloon overhead, they would hide behind the cover or leave below.

Although the 280 heavy artillery of the Zhou family army is very powerful, one cannon can collapse the city wall into a big hole, but the city wall of Jiujiang City is also extremely tall, eight meters high, and it is not so easy for the 280 heavy artillery to collapse the city wall.

This is mainly due to the fact that there are too few 280 heavy guns, if there are twenty or thirty 280 heavy guns bombarding the city wall, I believe it will not take long to collapse the city wall.

As for the damage to the city wall caused by the Tianwei cannon, it was even smaller, just blowing a small hole out of the city wall.

Daniel Zhang watched all this with a telescope from a high place in the position, "The walls of this Jiujiang City are really strong, I'm afraid a fierce battle is inevitable." ”

"Yes, the last attack on Xiangyang was still by surprise, and the night attack on the Dashun army made them chaotic before they easily captured Xiangyang City, if they also attacked Xiangyang City like now, I don't know if it can be captured." Xiang Shaoyun also sighed.

"There's no way, let the artillery cover the infantry to cross the moat." Daniel Zhang ordered.

Next, the frequency of the cannons decreased, and the center of gravity was no longer aimed at the city wall, but at the cannon position of Jiujiang City, so as to cover the infantry of the Zhou family army to cross the moat.

The soldiers of the Zhou family army saw that the artillery had begun, and the various regiment commanders began to charge with the soldiers, and came to the moat to build a pontoon bridge, because the soldiers of the Zhou family army used flintlock pistols and rifles and other weapons, so as long as they could rush to the city wall, it was basically a matter of nine out of ten.

Ma Jinzhong saw that the soldiers of the Zhou family army began to cross the river, and immediately ordered the artillery to be fired.

Although the cannons of Jiujiang City were suppressed by the cannons of the Zhou family's army, there were still more than forty cannons that began to roar under the hurried preparations of the soldiers defending the city.

More than 40 rounds of solid bullets flew towards the soldiers of the Zhou family, because the Zhou army was divided into regiments as a unit to charge, the personnel were not very dense, only more than 100 soldiers of the Zhou family army were hit by solid bullets, some soldiers were hit to the thigh, and the thighs were shattered immediately, and the soldiers all fell to the ground and screamed, and blood gushed out.

Zhou Xian's soldiers trembled a little when they saw this scene, but they continued to rush forward.

When Daniel Zhang saw this scene, he hurriedly ordered to increase the bombardment of the city wall.

After receiving the order, Zhou Zhan no longer asked the artillery to save shells and began a more intensive shelling.

The soldiers on the Jiujiang city wall were also killed and injured by this intensive bombardment, only to see a flowering bullet explode on the city wall, and more than a dozen soldiers around were blown away.

The cannons on the Jiujiang city wall were also bombarded, and only about thirty were left, and Ma Jinzhong ordered: "Continue the shelling, don't let the soldiers of the Zhou family army rush over." ”

The soldiers hurriedly continued to load, and "boom boom" another thirty shells flew towards the soldiers of the Zhou family, this time the soldiers of the Zhou family army were prepared, and when they saw the shells of the city wall coming, they climbed down one after another.

Sure enough, only thirty or forty people of the Zhou family army who fell down were hit by solid bullets this time, and now they are only about a few hundred meters away from the city gate, and the artillery has no way to hurt them anymore, and the soldiers of this vanguard regiment rushed forward even faster.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Zhou family army were about to rush to the bottom of Jiujiang City, Zhou Zhan ordered the shelling to be stopped in case it bombarded his own soldiers.

Seeing that the shelling of the Zhou family army had stopped, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers walked out from behind the bunker one after another.

Ma Jinzhong saw that the soldiers of the Zhou family army were about to reach the city wall, and hurriedly ordered: "Everyone is ready to roll stones and wood, and the archers are ready to shoot arrows, and the Zhou family army is going to climb the city wall, so they can't be allowed to come up." ”

At this time, there were more than 1,000 archers on the city wall, and they took out their bows and arrows one after another and aimed them at the soldiers of the Zhou family army who rushed up.

When the Zhou army rushed to two hundred meters, the archers began to shoot arrows, and a thousand arrows rained down more than 100 soldiers of the Zhou family army under the city were injured by arrows.

The soldiers of the Zhou family army also took out flintlock pistols and semi-automatic rifles and began to counterattack, and some archers on the city wall could not dodge and fell to the ground one after another.

The soldiers of the Zhou family army took this opportunity to climb the city wall with cloud ladders one after another.

The soldiers on the walls threw stones and logs down the city.