Chapter 203 Entering the city
The Manchu Tatars on the city head of Suide Gate and the temporarily armed Aha and Er Tatars were also shouting, shooting arrows, and throwing stones.
Yang Zhen and his men just shouted slogans and crossed the bridge. In fact, they were still far away, but the two Tatars on the top of the city had already started defensive operations.
In fact, the enemy and we have not yet met face to face, and no one can reach the other.
The team including Gao Chengyou and Hu Dabao were closest to the city gate and were still four to five hundred steps apart.
At this distance, arrows from the top of the city cannot be shot at all, and stones cannot be thrown. Only by chance when the Fo Lang machine cannons commanded by Gao Chengyou, Hu Dabao and others miss the target.
By coincidence, it landed among the crowd at the top of the city, immediately arousing the two Tatars to scream in terror.
Yang Zhen led Zhang Chen, Miao Naicheng and their troops, holding torches and shouting slogans of revenge and humiliation, and walked all the way. When they finally met with Gao Chengyou and Hu Dabao's troops, they were at the front of the entire team, a distance away.
The five Franco machine guns about four hundred paces away from the city gate had already fired four rounds.
All the sub-cannons that had been preloaded before were now gone. They were all fired. The city gate in the distance had no major damage except for a few potholes that let out the light from the city.
Seeing this situation, Yang Zhen stamped his feet and felt a surge of anger in his chest.
"Hu Dabao! We lured the enemy at the North Gate in the morning. Don't you know how far the bows and arrows on the Tatar City can shoot?! The Tatars on the Suide Gate don't have a Buddha machine. What are you afraid of?
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After seeing the situation in front of the formation and seeing Hu Dabao running over to greet him with a happy face and a smile on his face, Yang Zhen was so angry that he immediately scolded him:
"Push the Folang machine forward! Immediately! Immediately! Advance one hundred steps forward! No! Advance two hundred steps forward! No need to waste ammunition!"
Hu Dabao came over with a smile on his face and wanted to boast about his achievements. Unfortunately, before he could open his mouth, he was scolded by Yang Zhen. At that time, his smile stopped, he scratched his head in embarrassment, nodded, and turned around to leave.
Soon, Hu Dabao was shouting at his subordinates: "You bastards and bastards, I told you to move forward a long time ago, but you don't dare! You are so cowardly! Move the cannon forward! Move forward!"
Move, two hundred steps! Quick! Hurry!"
At midnight last night, Gao Chengyou and Hu Dabao led their men to move the five Franco machine guns and their attached sub-cannons step by step from Shiqiaozi to the north for about a mile.
Later, they were afraid of getting too close and accidentally alerted the Tatars on the city gate tower, who then suddenly left the city and were robbed, so they did not dare to push forward.
Originally they thought that what they did was enough, but unexpectedly, they were scolded by Yang Zhen as soon as the fight started this morning.
At that moment, Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou were also angry in their hearts. They scolded their men without leaving any room, and soon pushed the five French cannons forward for more than a hundred steps.
This situation happened under the city gate. Although the Tatars on the city tower could not hear clearly what Yang Zhen and the others were saying, they saw that the four rounds of artillery that had just been fired had advanced so far, and the city was also in commotion.
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Those who yelled and shouted to convey orders, those who stretched their bows and arrows to shoot downwards with all their strength, and those who formed groups to supplement and transport rolling logs and rocks, all in all it was a busy place.
Yang Zhen led Zhang Chen and others and moved forward with Fo Langji's artillery array. When they arrived at the Desuide Gate, about three hundred steps away, they saw a huge crowd at the top of the city. They had gathered more and more, and the city
On the city walls on both sides of the gatehouse, there are still groups of people gathering here.
Looking at Hu Dabao and the others, they had already advanced the Fo Lang machine gun position to within 300 steps of the city gate. They also thought that they had been separated from the official army for a long time and were now pirates, so they did not want to ask for too much.
At that moment, he shouted to Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou:
"Brother Hu! Brother Gao! That's enough! Adjust the gun position as soon as possible! Hit the city gate directly!"
As a result, as soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, he saw a flash of red light in the west, and at the same time, he heard "boom", "boom" and "boom" followed by several loud sounds, which shook the ground under his feet.
There was a tremor.
Yang Zhen was startled by the sudden violent explosion and thought it was Hu Dabao's improper operation that caused an explosion. However, in a blink of an eye, he saw Hu Dabao, Gao Chengyou and everyone else around him looking to the west one by one.
It suddenly dawned on me.
This is when Li Lu began to detonate the tens of thousands of enemies buried under the west city wall!
There was a moment of ecstasy in Yang Zhen's heart, and then he shouted loudly: "Hu Dabao! Gao Chengyou! You continue to lead your troops to attack the south gate!"
After saying this, Yang Zhen didn't wait for Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou to answer. He immediately turned around and rushed back, saying to Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng: "Zhang Chen! Miao Naicheng! Lead your troops and follow me to support the west! Success or failure?"
, in one fell swoop!”
After saying this, Yang Zhen held the long musket in his hand, took the lead, turned around and ran towards the west direction. Qiu Zhenhai and Ma Keqing saw this and hurriedly followed him from left to right.
Subsequently, Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng also led their respective teams, left the Fo Lang machine gun position outside the south gate, and followed Yang Zhen and others to the west.
The Tatars on the top of the city saw the changes below the city from a distance, and they screamed again, as if they were sending people to investigate the situation.
At this time, where Li Lu and Pan Xi were, several enemy missiles buried deep in the wall detonated again. With the sound of "boom" and "boom", the ground shook and the mountains shook.
, a section of wall more than ten feet long collapsed suddenly.
The dull sound of the wall collapsing, as well as the cheers of Lu Pinqi's troops who had been waiting outside the west wall, spread throughout Xiongyue City inside and outside in an instant.
Yang Zhen, who was running forward, almost fell down amidst the sound of the earth shaking. At that moment, he was almost rolling and crawling forward.
At this time, Tatar Jia Lazhangjing Zhang Kushan, who was on the south gate tower, already understood what was going on, and immediately dispatched a team of people to gallop westward along the city head.
Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou who were at the south gate also fired the five French cannons in their hands at the right time.
The artillery array was halfway closer to the city gate, and its power was immediately apparent. Every time a cannon hit, a hole as big as a palm was left in the city gate.
Seeing that the artillery array was nearly halfway close, the Tatar bows and arrows on the city wall were falling like raindrops, but they were still a few steps away from their own array. Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou looked at each other speechless, feeling very annoyed.
If I had been more courageous, maybe this time I would have won the first prize.
Of course, the two of them looked at the Tatars who were still gathering at the top of the South Gate City and knew in their hearts that even if the first victory was not theirs, they had accomplished the task of containing them.
Yang Zhen no longer cares about what the two pirate leaders at the south gate think.
Because when he reached the camp of Li Lu, Lu Pinqi and others with one foot deep and one foot shallow, he saw Lu Pinqi's cavalry rushing up towards a huge gap in the west wall like a stream of iron.
Behind Lu Pinqi's cavalry, there was a group of people shouting and rushing forward. The group of people holding torches and rushing forward with the cavalry were none other than the grenadiers led by Li Lu and Pan Xi.
The left and right wings of the team.
When Yang Zhen saw the scenes in front of him, his blood suddenly surged. He shouted the slogans he had used to lure the enemy before, and once again took the lead and rushed towards the gap in the city wall.
"Kill his mother! Steal his mother! Revenge! Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
At the critical moment, Yang Zhen smoothly adapted the slogan of the bandits in Guan Nei, and led the already scattered team behind him to shout and rush forward with all his strength.
With the addition of the new force brought by Yang Zhen, the ruins of the gap in Xiongyue's west wall suddenly became filled with shouts of killing, the sound of muskets, and the explosions of flying generals.
By the time Yang Zhen, under the cover of Ma Keqing and Qiu Zhenhai, rushed to the ruins at the gap, Lu Pinqi's cavalry team had successfully crossed over under the cover of the grenadiers who rushed to the gap.
The ruins at the gap rushed into Xiongyue City.
The Tatar troops who rushed in for reinforcements from both sides of the gap in the city wall were blown off their feet by the air generals thrown by the grenadiers. They patrolled and stopped moving forward. They could only hide on the city wall and look far away towards the huge gap below.
Throwing arrows.
In the naval battalion under Miao Naicheng, some people kept being knocked down by the rain of arrows thrown from the walls on both sides, but most of them still shouted slogans, and with rare courage, followed Yang Zhen and those in front.
Chapter completed!