Chapter 40
Seeing the upside down ship extending into the city wall little by little, Li Jiaguo shouted anxiously: "Hurry up, dig the trenches and cut off the thief's tunnel! Once you find that the thief's tunnel comes, immediately smoke them out with smoke!"
The Li family members organized tenants to dig trenches in the city, preparing to cut off the tunnels dug in Shunjun.
But something shocked Li Jiaguo happened. After the upside down ship was halfway through and entered the tunnel under the city, the refugees who dug the hole threw away the downside down ship, escaped from the hole, quickly escaped the filled moat, and ran towards the Shunjun formation.
Li Jiaguo looked at the fleeing backs of the refugees in amazement, and said to himself in confusion: "Why did these thieves give up digging? What tricks did they use?"
Before Li Jiaguo could come to his senses, he felt the city wall under his feet suddenly shake violently. Then a dull loud "boom" sound came from his ears, and then the earth began to shake violently, causing him to fall to the ground. Then he felt a "rattle" sound of the city wall collapse.
"No, the earthquake is coming!" The tenants and tenants in the city scattered and fled in a panic.
Of course, this was not an earthquake, but the city wall was blown up. One of the three upside-down ships sent to the city was filled with a coffin dug from somewhere. Kraft paper was laid in the coffin and filled with gunpowder. After nailing it with nails, all the gaps were sealed with wax. An upside-down digging tunnels from the underside of the city platform and digging into the bottom of the city wall. The refugee auxiliary soldiers lit the fuse, discarded the upside-down ship, and retreated to the other side of the moat.
A coffin filled with gunpowder exploded violently, directly razing a large section of the city wall to the ground.
The servants and tenants who were directly above the explosion were in trouble. When the explosion occurred, they only heard a loud noise in their ears, and then they were shocked and lost consciousness. The city wall collapsed, they fell through the crack, and then were buried alive by the falling city bricks.
"Is it going to explode?" Hao Yaoqi looked at the sudden collapse of the city wall.
"Brother Hao, don't let the brothers attack quickly!" Zhao Peng pushed Hao Yaoqi, who was still in a daze.
Hao Yaoqi then woke up suddenly, pulled out the Yanling sword, and pointed forward: "Kill! If you kill in, you will get rich!"
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Shun Army who were ambushing in the trench in advance jumped up one after another and shouted to kill the collapsed city wall.
"The method of land collapse? But how can the method of land collapse be so fast?" At this time, Li Jiaguo understood that it was just that Zhao Peng's method of land collapse was very different from that of Li Jiaguo imagined. The ancient people's method of land collapse was to dig the tunnel below the city wall, dig an authentic tunnel parallel to the city wall below the city wall, then build a wooden stake, dig, and then dig, and after digging and expanding, they were supported by wooden stakes, and finally pour tempo oil on the wooden stakes, ignite the wooden stakes, and people evacuate the tunnel. When the wooden stakes supporting the tunnel were burned out, the tunnel collapsed under the pressure of the city wall's own weight, and this section of the city wall collapsed. This method of land collapse was very primitive, and it was very low in efficiency, took too long, and was easily intercepted by the defenders.
Zhao Peng's method of collapse was to use sealed gunpowder to blow up the city walls, saving time, effort and efficiency.
Li Jiaguo, who came to his senses, shouted loudly: "Hurry up, block the gap, and you can't let a thief army come in!"
The Li family's subordinates and tenants rushed towards the gap frantically. As long as the Shun Army that rushed into the gap and the tenants behind quickly filled the gap, the city wall could still be defended. As long as they could be defended, things would be easier to do in the future. I heard that the governor of Ji Liao, Wang Yongji, came up with a plan to use the Qing army to enter the pass and eliminate the bandits. As long as my Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers enter the pass, the bandits would be vulnerable.
"As long as our powerful Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers arrive, no matter what kind of thieves or eunuchs, hum! I will kill them one by one without leaving any armor!" Li Jiaguo said in his heart.
Li Jiajiadi rushed up, fifty melee masters with great martial arts skills held shields in one hand and knife in the other, blocking the front, behind them were spearmen who stabbed continuously, and the bird gunner followed behind to output firepower. The archers climbed to the city heads on both sides of the gap and kept shooting arrows at the gap.
The gap was only a narrow five feet wide. Although Shun's army had a large number of people, they could not open up at all and could only attack around the narrow gap. The Li family's servants and the tenants rushed up desperately, betting on the attack on the Shun's army. The two sides fought bloody battles at the gap. The narrow gap became the flesh and blood mill for the soldiers on both sides.
"Kill! Drive the thieves out, each person will receive twenty taels of silver! Behead the first level and receive ten taels of silver!" Li Jiaguo shouted.
The shout aroused the cheers of the tenants. The knife player in front blocked the spear stabbed by Shunjun. The spear soldiers behind the spear was like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, constantly sucking and spitting. Every breath, someone screamed and fell down.
During the battle for the gap, the siege outside had to go in at all costs. Only by entering can they not die under the solid city wall. The defender inside the gap tried his best to drive out the people who rushed in, because if they came in, all the people who defended the city would be killed.
On both sides of the gap were the tide-like people who were rushing to fight with their lives, and through this narrow gap, everyone was holding a spear and machete in their hands. How cruel and bloody this was. With such a bloody battle, the people in front would almost certainly die, but no one retreated, the one in front fell down, the one behind immediately filled it up, and filled it into the flesh and blood mill.
However, there is obviously an advantage in defending the city, because under the stimulation of the heads of the family, the tenants who climbed up to the city walls on both sides could not consider the casualties of the servants in the gap, and constantly smashed stones and wood into the gap, burying the bodies of soldiers on both sides in the gap; the tenants on both sides' heads also poured gold juice and turbulent tanks, and blocked the attacking Shunjun regardless of the fire of their own casualties.
The casualties on both sides increased sharply, and the fallen corpses were the same stone, wood and soil were sealed in the gap together. The Shun Army, who was anxious, ignored the casualties of its own people in front of them, bombarded the gap with artillery, and blasted the gap that the defenders had just blocked again. The attacking Shun Army broke into the gap again, but was soon driven out by the defenders who fought to the death.
The focus of the offense and defense was on the explosion of the gap in the south, but no one noticed that Zhao Peng took his Jinyiwei to build a trench bridge from the west, climbed the cloud ladder and climbed the top of the city.
The main force of the Li family department went to block the gap, and the staff left on the other three walls were seriously insufficient. The attacking Jinyiwei easily built a trench bridge on the river surface. Gong Xiaoda led the way to the first one, and rushed across the moat without encountering any resistance. Then the two Jinyiwei raised a ladder, Gong Xiaoda climbed quickly and jumped into the city quickly.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Two tenants who were active under the city wall in the west were preparing to reinforce the gap in the south finally found someone climbing up the city and shouted in horror.
Gong Xiaoda rushed to the edge of the city wall with one arrow, and shot a beaded arrow at the bottom of the city. Two heavy arrows flew out one by one, and the two shouting guys covered the arrow shaft that was stuck on their necks and fell slowly.
However, the defenders in the city still heard the shouts, and immediately someone rushed to the Jinyiwei's position.
"Brothers, prepare for the fight!" Gong Xiaoda shouted to the eight Jinyiwei who had climbed up to the top of the city.
Most of these Jinyiwei who had climbed the first place were veterans with high martial arts skills. Each of the first placers carried a shield, an embroidered spring sword, a bow and arrow, or a Lumi gun. Only Min Qinghua was the exception. One of his new recruits also followed the old people who climbed the city. He put the long-handled axe on the ground, and then placed the turtledove gun loaded with shotgun on the axe, aiming at the rushing Li family department.
"Shoot the arrow!" Gong Xiaoda was the first to pull the bow, relaxed his thumb, and a heavy arrow accurately pierced an enemy's throat.
Min Qinghua pulled the trigger, and the fuse was pressed into the medicine pool. He heard a loud "boom". The turtledove gun sprayed out a flame tongue, and the shotgun splashed into a fan shape and splashed at the enemy twenty steps away.
"Ah!" A scream rang out, and the two servants who rushed to the front covered the sieve that had turned into sieve and were falling down their chests that were bleeding.
"Bang bang" Gong Xiaoda shot two arrows in a blink of an eye, and the arrows were shot without any slightest. Two servants covered their throats and fell down.
"Boom boom" Two roars of Lumi guns sounded, and two Jinyiwei fired their guns and shot projectiles at the enemy fifteen steps away. Only fifteen steps away, the close distance of Lumi gun can be said to have hit every shot, and two other servants were shot and fell down.
The Li family on the opposite side also used bows and arrows to fight back, but from their vision, they only saw a row of four shields on the front. All the arrows shot were blocked by the shields, and even the millimeters of an Jinyiwei were not injured.
Gong Xiaoda shot arrows repeatedly, and three more people fell down on the opposite side in a blink of an eye.
"Roar up! As long as you rush up, the bow and arrow of the catfish will be useless!" a servant shouted.
Chapter completed!