Outside the east gate of Xiangyang City, the roar of cannons sounded again, intermittently, as if there was no end forever.

This was the fourth morning of the siege, and yesterday it was the same. The crazy army was as if they were crazy, and inexplicably set up a cannon formation and blasted there.

If they were using solid cast iron bullets or armor-piercing bullets, Ma Yuanli might have to worry that the city wall would be smashed by others. After all, the number of other artillery is there. Although a shell can only burst into a big hole in the fist, it cannot resist the number of others!

It is hard to say what the result will be if thousands of shells, tens of thousands of shells, or even hundreds of thousands of shells are smashed down.

The problem is that people don’t use those solid shells. In the past two days, they have used the kind of burst shells. Although the splattered iron pieces are quite scary, as long as they use the door panel to block them, there is basically nothing wrong.

Ma Yuanli really didn't understand what the Crazy King wanted to do, so he could only huddle behind the pile of arrows, and occasionally poked his head out during the gap of bombardment of artillery, and looked out to see if the Crazy King army had any follow-up actions.

At the beginning, the army of Crazy King was still firing like yesterday, like crazy, without a fixed interval and no rules to follow.

However, after a few rounds, the shelling seemed to have become regular, not only the gaps were the same, but also fast and uniform.

What's going on?

Ma Yuanli took the risk and looked out, and couldn't help but be stunned.

The army of Crazy King actually pushed thousands of well railings and quickly formed a long snake formation by the Han River!

This well railing is probably higher than the city wall. If it can be pushed to the city wall, it will be troublesome. People can jump directly from the well railing and jump to the city wall, and they cannot even be defended.

Question, how can this well railing push over the Han River, which is more than a hundred steps wide?

He really didn't know what crazy this crazy king was doing.

Of course Zhu Qizhu was not crazy, and he didn't think about pushing the well rail across the Han River.

The move he played was called firepower suppression. The purpose of the cannon volley and pushing the well railing was to suppress the defenders on the city walls.

Soon, thousands of well railings were arranged, and a wall of well railings that was taller than the city wall appeared on the east bank of the Han River. Tens of thousands of infantry carrying muskets were used together. After a while, they climbed to the top of the well railing and lined up in two neatly, one row squatting in front and the other row standing behind. The muskets in their hands were aiming at the city wall.

On the city wall, as soon as Ma Yuanli showed up, a gunshot sounded, and more than ten bullets were covered with him. He quickly lowered his head and caught the bullet with his helmet.

He also needs to react quickly, otherwise he will be beaten to a macaque on his face!

At this time, he already vaguely understood what the Crazy King Zhu Qidiao was going to do, and he was afraid he would take the opportunity to attack the city!

Sure enough, the well railing array had just been laid, and hundreds of wheel boats arrived one after another. The wheel boats were densely packed with Ming army infantry, and these infantry were carrying ladders.

As soon as the wheel boat approached the shore, the infantry put the ladder on the shore, then ran quickly over the ladder, and went ashore in a few swishes.

In less than a quarter of an hour, tens of thousands of infantrymen surged up from the open space between the Han River and the city wall.

These infantrymen just formed a little and rushed towards the city wall with a ladder.

It's over!

Ma Yuanli looked at him quickly, and his face immediately became extremely ugly.

This is a big trouble!

There are shells that keep falling on their heads. They will be injured as long as they leave the protection of the door panel. In front of them is a row of aiming muskets. As long as they stick their heads out, they may turn into pockmarks. They can't shoot arrows and stop others from siegeing the city. Even if they hear that they have already put the ladder on the city wall, they can't lift the rolling stones and throw them down.

what to do?

Ma Yuanli just thought for a while and ordered decisively: "Send an order, all infantrymen on the city wall are ready to fight, and 20,000 reinforcements under the city wall are ready to go to the city wall to support them at any time."

He could only hope to fight in close combat. As long as the army of Crazy King surged onto the city wall, the shelling on the opposite side would definitely stop. They could not have bombarded their own people, right?

Fortunately, he had tens of thousands of soldiers arranged on the east wall, and there were 20,000 soldiers under the city wall at any time to prepare for support. The Crazy King could only transport 20,000 soldiers at most. No matter how many, the place below could not be squeezed.

Before he could think too much, the army of the Crazy King had already surged onto the city wall like a tide.

The shelling on the opposite side really stopped!

Ma Yuanli lifted the door panel above his head without hesitation, stood up and drew his sword and shouted: "Release the door panel and kill!"

"Kill!"

A crazy roar sounded, and the infantry guarding the city lifted the door panels and fought wildly with the Ming army rushing up.

If both sides are evenly matched, Ma Yuanli will really be able to drive these people down and defend the city wall.

Question: The tens of thousands of people rushed up from the first group were elite troops of the Imperial Guards!

They are the white pole soldiers in the original invincible southwest. How could ordinary bandits be their opponents?

Moreover, they were not without reinforcements. After putting them down, Chewelboat turned around and went to the south dock to continue to get on. At the speed of Chewelboat, a few miles away, it was almost a blink of an eye. Before the first group of Chewelboats finished the people on the first group of Chewelboats, the second group of Chewelboats had already followed.

The five hundred wheel boats were like a huge circle, turning rapidly, continuously transporting the soldiers of Pingdong Army, Pingxi Army, Pingnan Army, Pingbei Army, Annan Army and Anbei Army.

There were more and more Ming soldiers on the city walls, so many that they could not stand.

Ma Yuanli led his personal guards to fight to the spear formation of the Baigang soldiers. Soon, several holes appeared on his legs, arms, and even on his hands, and there were fewer and fewer personal guards around him. He had to fight and retreat and lean towards reinforcements under the city wall.

The commander was driven off the city wall. Needless to say, the other people had fought fiercely, and the entire eastern city wall had been occupied by the Ming army in less than half an hour.

At this time, the Ming army did not rush to attack the city walls in other directions, nor did they rush down to attack the city area. They actually started to renovate the city walls on the ground!

Ma Yuanli took this opportunity to assemble the defeated troops and reinforcements, and sent orders to the defenders on the city walls on both north and south, preparing to defend themselves, wait for an opportunity to counterattack and retake the city walls.

Although the east wall was lost, it does not mean that they had no chance. After all, he still had more than 40,000 troops under his command, and the east wall could squeeze out 20,000 troops. As long as they guarded the corners of the north and south walls and the steps below the city walls, the other Ming troops could not squeeze on the city walls, and they still had the opportunity to retake the east wall.

At least, that's what he thought.

Actually, he was thinking too much.

The reason why Ma Qiancheng and Ma Xianglin ordered the stop attack and repaired the team on the spot was to wait for the people below to transport muskets, tiger squat cannons, sky thunder and other firearms. As long as both sides break away from contact, it will be the world of firearms!

Not long after, a roar of artillery and firecrackers sounded on the east city wall. The Imperial Army occupied the corners of the north and south city walls in an instant, and quickly advanced to the north and south sides. The speed was astonishingly fast.

The defenders on the city walls on the north and south were killed and injured in the double blow of muskets and artillery, and could not resist them at all.

The more than 20,000 troops led by Ma Yuanli under the city wall were even worse. Li Wanxiong brought a large number of sky-blasting thunders to the city wall and quickly distributed them. Then, he decisively ordered: "Submit!"

Good guy, there are tens of thousands of sky-bombing thunders hitting down like raindrops. Even if there is no explosion power, it will probably hurt a large area by just smashing it. What's more, the explosion power of the sky-bombing thunder is not much worse than the explosion bullet of the tiger squat cannon.

After a dense explosion, except for the generals and soldiers wearing armor, the other infantry were basically covered in blood and fell to the ground and screamed.

Seeing this, Ma Yuanli couldn't help but look miserable.
Chapter completed!