Chapter 40 The Artillery Fire
The Ming army and the Yuan soldiers were retreating, and Da Kui stood majestically between the two armies with cannons in his arms
"Hurry back, hurry back, you're going to open fire," the Yuan soldiers screamed, but there were too many people in the city, and they were crowded together, but where could they retreat from the city immediately
"Ignition" Da Kui ordered, and the captain behind him hurriedly squeezed to Da Kui and lit the cannon fuse with the torch in his hand
The Yuan soldiers were directly stunned, the soldiers in the front row threw their weapons, turned around, and squeezed lifelessly, just wanted to squeeze through the crowd as quickly as possible, which Cheng thought, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't squeeze because of the excessive crowding, many Yuan soldiers fell to the city on an unstable footing, and some fell to the ground and couldn't get up again, Da Kui didn't open the cannon, and the Yuan soldiers were already trampling on each other, and they were killed and wounded
"Boom" There was a loud bang, Da Kui held the cannon, and flew out violently, and the Ming soldiers behind him were suddenly knocked over, and then an explosion came from the ears, and a miserable howl came from the crowd of Yuan soldiers, and the dead bodies all over the ground in the smoke of gunpowder were difficult to describe
This cannon went down and directly sent more than 100 Yuan soldiers to meet the king of Hades, as the saying goes: Take advantage of your illness to order your Yuan soldiers, after the cannon just now, more than 100 people were killed and injured in an instant, where is there still a fighting spirit, all crying, turning around, retreating sharply, Da Kui threw the cannon, stood firm, and shouted: "Kill", the Ming soldiers next to him shouted in unison, roaring, and rushed towards the crowded Yuan soldiers
The two sides were too close, the Ming army rushed forward, the Yuan soldiers retreated, but it was very slow, after all, the boundary on the city was narrow, and soon the two sides were short again
Da Kui grabbed the two Ming soldiers and shouted, "You two follow me"
"Follow the general's order," and the two soldiers bowed down in unison to receive the order
Da Kui hurriedly said to the lieutenant who was following him: "Quickly reload, the three of you just reload for me, hurry up."
The captain took the order to take two soldiers back and go, gunpowder and shells are placed on the battlements of the city wall, they are going back to carry ammunition, Da Kui stood on the side, watching the Ming soldiers rushed in front of him, his heart was very eager, at this moment the Ming army in the city is less than 3,000 people, most of the men and horses are still outside the city, once the Yuan soldiers from the other three gates to attack the Ming army, the consequences are unimaginable, the top priority is to capture the east gate of Lanzhou as soon as possible, and send troops to open the city gate, let the brigade of men and horses enter the city
Da Kui stood at the head of the city, and saw a group of men and horses running on the long street in the city, and roughly estimated that there were more than 10,000 people, and the reinforcements of the Yuan soldiers had arrived, and it seemed that a bloody battle was inevitable
"Is it ready?" asked Da Kui, looking back
"General Yu is loaded," the captain replied loudly, now there are shouts everywhere, don't speak loudly, afraid that Da Kui can't hear it, in fact, no matter how loud Da Kui can't hear it, both ears are plugged, how can he hear it, but Da Kui saw the fuse that had been installed on the cannon at a glance, and immediately bent down to pick up the cannon again, fortunately it was set up on the city wall, and the muzzle of the black hole was facing the long street, as long as the Yuan soldiers reinforced the people, Da Kui would not hesitate to come to the cannon
Just as Da Kui was ready to go, dozens of people rushed behind him, but Yang Xiaohu arrived with gunners, and at this moment, the Ming army was still climbing the city, and the Ming army on the city would not be able to attack the city for a while and a half, so the city gate was not open, and the Ming army could only climb up along the city wall
"The father-in-law gunner has arrived," Yang Xiaohu ran behind Da Kui and shouted
Da Kui was looking at the street, but he didn't hear it, fortunately, Yang Xiaohu was smart enough, and looked around, only to see that there was a city defense cannon every ten steps on the city, according to the righteous father's intention, it was natural to return the favor to the other way, at that moment, Yang Xiaohu hurriedly ordered all the gunners to arrange the cannons, and the cannons were aimed at the streets in the city
The Yuan soldiers came to reinforce Li Siqi's hussar battalion, about 13,000 soldiers and horses, and the leader of the troops was a man named Hartai, who saw from afar that the Yuan soldiers on the wall of the east gate were being defeated and retreated, and his heart couldn't help but be angry
"Speed up the march and retreat the Ming army, and you will have a heavy reward," Hartai shouted, and at the moment he rode his horse and whipped, and rushed straight to the east gate with a big knife in his hand, and the soldiers and horses behind him followed closely, for a time, the banner was displayed, the armor was sonorous, and the wind and dust were raised
In this Lanzhou city, Li Siqi has a courtyard, here Qionglou Yuyu is indescribably luxurious, Li Siqi can be described as an old fox, he has become the east gate of Jingcheng, he is still leisurely, the captain who reported the matter under the hall is so anxious that his head is full of sweat, Li Siqi is full of splendor, leaning in the arms of the beautiful concubine, fighting wine, humming a little song, a prodigal appearance
Li Siqi is not in a hurry, although the city gate is lost, but he still has a backup move, there is to send Haertai to lead 13,000 men and horses to seize the east city gate, as long as the city gate is snatched, strictly guard the city defense ladder, control the city gate, even if the Ming army wants to fight, what can they do, the city is crowded, but it can only stand 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the city defense ladder is narrow, and the 5,000 Ming army can not be killed in one go
Thirteen,000 soldiers and horses were enough for this battle
This strategy is not yet a clever Li Siqi has ordered his three generals to lead 15,000 men and horses each from the west gate, south gate, and north gate to besiege and kill the Ming army outside the east gate
"Hehehehe, Captain Hu, you step down, General Ben knows the battle situation well, you don't need to worry," Li Siqi said, stretched out his hand and twisted it on the thigh of the beautiful concubine Bai Shengsheng, which immediately caused the beauty to scream
This Captain Hu is Li Siqi's pro-military captain, this person's martial arts are still strong, and more importantly, he is loyal to Li Siqi, Li Siqi really has a hundred hearts for this Captain Hu, otherwise the responsibility of guarding will not fall on him
"Ignition" Da Kui roared angrily, and the Ming military captain behind him lit the fuse on Da Kui's shoulder with a torch, at this moment Da Kui carried the bottom end of the cannon, and the front was on the city wall, and the muzzle of the cannon was directly facing the city street
Looking at it from afar, the whole long street is several miles away, and it is actually crowded with reinforcements of the Yuan soldiers Da Kui's cannon muzzle, let the horse gallop Hartai, and then 'boom', the cannonball collapsed in the crowd of Yuan soldiers under the city, and the Yuan soldiers under the city were blown up for a while, and the people on their backs turned over the flesh and blood, and the crowd that was originally black and oppressive, this cannon went down, and it was hard to blow out a clearing
Da Kui fired a cannon, then turned around and shouted: "Boom for me", as soon as the words fell, more than ten artillery pieces on the left and right sides were lit together, and then the "boom, boom, boom, boom, ......boom" cannon sound exploded on the top of the city, and the city instantly turned into a sea of fire, and stumps could be seen everywhere, and broken arms danced horizontally
Da Kui ordered all the Ming troops on the city wall to be divided into three groups and two groups of 2,000 people each, on the left and right sides of the city wall, blocking the Yuan soldiers attacking from the north and south sides of the city wall, the rest of the people collected artillery and erected them all on the city, as long as the time of two pillars of incense was bombarded like this, it must be difficult for the Yuan soldiers to hold for a long time
In less than a moment, the second round of cannons rang out again, although there were only more than a dozen cannons, but fortunately, just firing at the crowd was enough to save even aiming
The soldiers under the city cried and shouted to their mothers, hugged their heads and scurried, and for a time they died under each other's trampling and artillery fire, and countless Yuan soldiers died
Hartai rushed into the city gate under the artillery fire behind him, and when he looked back, he was not only dumbfounded, but also the dead and wounded soldiers on the street were elbowed one after another, and the corpses were covered in a layer on the street, and countless wounded soldiers were wailing on the ground, and the rest of the soldiers had already taken refuge in the houses on both sides of the street
Under this round of shelling, at least more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded under Hartai's men, and they were all elite cavalry, but fortunately, the foot soldiers were still far away, and they all stopped moving forward when they saw the tragic situation under the bombardment in front
Da Kui seized this opportunity, found his iron spear and jumped up the city wall at the moment
"Brothers, follow me to the city, open the city gate, rush," Da Kui raised his voice and shouted, on the city wall, the battlements rushed to the city defense ladder, the figure did not stagnate, but jumped up and pounced on the city defense ladder, at this moment, the city defense ladder was crowded with both sides of the war, Da Kui shook his empty hand, the iron spear stabbed over the three Yuan soldiers, and stayed to stand firm on the city defense ladder, and there was a Yuan soldier who was gone, the Yuan soldiers were constantly retreating, Da Kui led hundreds of Ming soldiers to rush towards the city gate and kill the past
As soon as he arrived at the city gate, he rushed to the front of him, rode a war horse, and immediately the general danced a big sword and went straight to Da Kui to kill him
"Come to life" Hartai took the horse and raised the knife and went straight to Da Kui, and the general came to the front of him, and slashed towards Da Kui's head, Da Kui's figure was rushing forward, and he didn't dodge the knife, and stabbed Hartai in the chest with a gun
'Poof', the blow of the two sides actually worked, Da Kui stabbed this Hartai in the chest with a shot, and Hartai's big knife was also cut on Da Kui's shoulder, but unfortunately, Da Kui has shoulder armor on his shoulder, and there is a silkworm armor in addition to the battle robe
To say that the strength of this Hartai's knife technique can be regarded as fierce and abnormal, this knife actually cut off the Da Kui shoulder armor alive
Da Kui shot successfully, and then shouted loudly, he actually picked up Hartai's corpse and fell off the horse, and the Ming soldiers around him saw that their general was so brave, not only their morale was greatly boosted
"Chong," Da Kui took the lead and killed the city gate again
Scattered dozens of Yuan soldiers saw Da Kui with the Ming army to kill until he lost his armor and fled for his life, Da Kui killed to the city gate to command the soldiers to open the city gate, when the Yuan soldiers who were still watching in the distance saw that there were only a few hundred people around Da Kui, not only moved the mind of picking up the cheap, one of the thousand generals took the lead and shouted: "They don't rush much."
This shout, the 10,000 thousand soldiers who were standing in the distance of the long street did not know where to stay, and the general suddenly woke up as soon as he shouted, and followed the general behind him, and killed Da Kui and others at the city gate
When these 10,000 people occupied the long street again, the artillery in the city had been loaded, and they waited for a long time, and when the 10,000 troops rushed to the city gate, Yang Xiaohu had already led more than ten artillery pieces, and when the fuse was fired, the 10,000 soldiers just entered the range of the artillery
"Boom, boom, ......boom, boom", under the cannon, there was another sea of thunderbolts, and the thousands of Yuan soldiers rushed to the front, and they were drowned in the sea of fire in an instant, and the smoke of gunpowder dispersed, only to see corpses abounding on the long street, and there was already a layer of corpses on the street, and this corpse added another layer