On the seventh day, from the beginning of the attack, it showed that this was a bloody day. In the morning, the attack in Beicheng began, and the ground was full of hair and lifelessly crawled towards the top of the city.

The Qing soldiers fired their muskets and slashed wildly, but their hair was still like crazy drunken opium, and they hit the Qing soldiers in the North City like a tide. The battlements, which had just been washed away by the rain two days ago, quickly turned back to the colors of red, blood and flesh.

Tong'an was patrolling the east city wall. His ears were filled with waves of shooting sounds, shouts, screams from the north. He looked at the smoke of bird guns and cannons that had risen there, like a black cloud covering him. He touched his sweaty forehead and turned his head to the east outside the city wall. It was still quiet here!

Ignoring the crying and blood of the two guards of the North City every half hour, Tong'an even pressed his beating heart back to his chest, and put the main force in Dongcheng.

He only asked the prefect to take the labor and reserve team of migrant workers to the Beicheng to assist in defending the city. He knew that it was not easy today and Tong'an would not let him take responsibility. The prefect of Shaozhou also came to supervise the battle in person.

No one is a fool, especially at the critical moment of life and death.

Although Changmao chose the north from the beginning of his arrival at the city, the subsequent war progress and the main force's deployment all showed that Changmao's leader on the opposite side wanted to break the city in the east.

Tong'an roared: Dongcheng is the key to life and death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure enough, not long after, the east cannons were together, and flags were everywhere stood up from a distance, and the black and long hair rushed towards the east wall with a ladder.

"Prepare!" Tongan pulled out his sword, pointed at the flood fiercely, and shouted: "Kill!"

Suddenly, loud noises rang out on the wall, and artillery and bird guns lined up shot at the Taiping Army.

Dongcheng was quickly shrouded in the black clouds of bloody battles.

The battle here is a hundred times more bloody than that in Beicheng, because the main force of both sides is concentrated here, and the sea of ​​people is against the sea of ​​people.

A sword hit the face exposed in the middle of a battlement, ignoring the shrill shouting, and the body was soaked with the smell of gunpowder, Tongan held up the bloody sword and jumped and yelled: "Kill me hard! I will be rewarded after today! Opium is full!"

The shout aroused the cheers of the Qing army on the wall. The spear they stabbed out became even more fierce, and the hands holding the gun were more stable, just like the dam was three points in an instant, and they were even more fearless about the waves of crazy flesh and blood that were drawn over.

But at this moment, a Qing soldier with a dark face covered in smoke rushed to Tong'an, pointed to the north in panic and shouted: "General, we have repelled the enemy, but there are thousands of people in the north! He is rushing towards us, and we have suffered heavy casualties! Please reinforce us!"

"Thousands of people attacked the North City?" Tong'an ran a few steps in surprise, and went down to the northeast corner and looked down. Sure enough, he was shocked: the long hair that had just attacked the North City had retreated and shrank into the cover of the ruins of houses, and a crowd of black long haired people rushed towards the North City from their camp!

Seeing them running rapidly, with bright flags and shouting loudly, this must be the new force Changmao has never participated in the war today!

Turning his head and looking at the long-haired offensive that he had been frustrated by himself. The pressure was a little less. He gritted his teeth and waved his hand to let a steward take his four hundred green camp soldiers from the east city to the north city to deal with this wave of offensive.

"General, one battalion is not enough! Our Qin Guan led our subordinates have already suffered half of their casualties! He asked you to send at least two Guan led one thousand people!" The messenger was full of panic.

"Why are there a thousand fucking people to give you!" Tong'an was so angry that he jumped. This is a common scene in the war. His subordinates competed for troops, after all, it would be safe if there were too many people.

Tong'an pointed at the city of Beicheng and shouted: "Let the prefect bring his team training and training to the city! Immediately!"

But before the messenger could get up, a loud sound of the earth shaking and mountain shaking exploded violently in Shaozhou City!

It seemed that the entire city wall had jumped. Tong'an grabbed the wall brick next to him and staggered to the wall. When he looked up, his eyes were bleeding from anger.

After the loud noise, a huge yellow earth mist suddenly rose under the black cloud in the north city that was about to dissipate due to a temporary ceasefire, shattering the black clouds. Then, under the yellow fog, amid the panic shouts of the Qing soldiers, Tong'an watched helplessly as a section of the northern city wall disappeared into the earth mist, as if a cliff suddenly appeared in the continuous ridges where the Taiping Army could not break through the flesh and blood.

Maybe it is the gate of victory for the siege, or the gate of honor for the defending siege, but it must be the gate of hell for both sides.

"They blew up the city wall!" Tong An closed his eyes. At this moment, sweat and blood suddenly made his eyes feel extremely painful, but what is this pain than the pain in his heart? The pain in his heart is like a huge sea snake swallowing him into his mouth. He floated down, but he could not fall to the ground.

But this is only a moment.

The next moment, the guard of the whole city roared and raised his sword, and roared heart-wrenchingly: "Clog the gap!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Opposite the Qing Dynasty guard general Tong'an, Zhao Kuo, who was sitting outside the camp in supervising the battle, jumped up suddenly after the loud thunder, clasped his hands tightly, and his eyes were not instantly staring at the gap, roaring like Zhao Kuo: "Take it down!!!!!!!!!!"

The main generals of both sides are not nervous. This is indeed a time when both sides are at risk of life and death, and no one is sure of it.

In ancient siege battles, siege in caves could be successful, but this only means half of the success.

It is obvious that the tunnel dug out in the short term will not be a major project, the gunpowder capacity is limited, and in terms of the gunpowder level at that time, it is impossible to compare with the powerful explosives in later generations that can blow up the entire building with just one blow. There is only the most basic gunpowder here, and its power is very small. It can only collapse a small section of the city wall on the tunnel, and it is often collapsed by the gravity of the city wall itself.

The walls of each city often stood for many years, because at that time, the simplicity and inability to choose from construction methods and building materials were all stone bricks, and black-hearted officials reported the cost at most, and there would be no tofu projects that cut corners in later generations (he wanted to save steel bars and concrete, did he save it? He did not invent it at all!), so the walls were also very strong, and there would be no good things that would cause damage to the entire line.

To sum up, even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's siege of the cave is successful, it is just a narrow gate opening on the city wall. Whether or not it can be taken down and killed into the city is the key to everything.

But this is also an extremely difficult thing.

Because the hole is small, the defending city can use the method of stacking soldiers into the gap or even fighting out to resist the siege. The soldiers behind, the laborers and soldiers on the left and right walls, were thrown into the gap with bricks, stones and wood, because the manpower was narrower than the gap, and it could almost quickly build a new earthen massif to firmly block the gap.

The competition for this gap is really made of flesh and blood. You can imagine a scene like a college graduate job fair or a Carrefour promotion in later generations. The sea-like crowds are blocked at the narrow entrance, and even the door can be squeezed into pieces.

During the battle for the gap, the siege outside the gate had to go in at all costs. Only by entering can one not die under the solid city wall; the defender inside the gate tried his best to drive out the people who rushed in, because if they came in, all the defenders would die.

On both sides of the gap were the waves like the sea of ​​tides that were rushing to the death, and through this narrow door, everyone was holding spears, swords and guns in their hands. How cruel and bloody it was.

(You can refer to the movie "Dynasty of Heaven", but that movie is not enough to show the tragic siege battle, because with the manpower level of the defending city, new walls can be built with building materials to block the gap. These walls are often mixed with the bodies of warriors on both sides of the offense and defense!)

At this time, the pure fight was that who was less afraid of death, because almost all the people in front of the two factions would die.

But the defending city has a more advantage. During the siege, the city is often filled with wooden stones for smashing people. At this time, you can directly smash into the gap and weld the corpses of the enemy or their own people directly into the new battlements in the gap. Moreover, the soldiers on this line of the city wall can unscrupulously shoot at the dense enemy crowded in the gap, throw stones, and pour boiling oil.

In history, the Taiping Army exploded the city wall more than once but was driven out of the gap by the deadly Qing soldiers.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo used the elite reserve team in the battle for the gap. All of these people were old men in Guangxi. Their elite level was definitely beyond the reach of new recruits who had deserted when they siege a few days ago. They were all equipped with melee cold weapons. Hot weapons were not suitable for this bloody fight. They would be covered by the retreating North City attack troops and seized the gap and entered the city in one fell swoop!

He wants to win Shaozhou City in one battle! Life and death are today!

Holding a big sword, he rushed towards Shaozhou City frantically. The gap in front of him kept shaking under his rushing steps, but the narrow gate of victory was always clearly stuck in Zhu Qingzheng's pupils.

Zhao Kuo sent him to command this gap battle, which was a glorious and difficult improvement.
Chapter completed!