It is obvious that Ma Degong is no longer an opponent for his rhetoric. After all, he lacks more than three hundred years of experience. There is nothing wrong with it. Regarding Chen Kai's provocation, the Qing army knew that they were outmatched and simply responded with artillery.

Chen Kai's clamor was suppressed.

As soon as the cannon sounded over there, Chen Kai already realized that the Qing army was about to use all its strength. In this regard, the Ming army did not have larger artillery. However, the city wall was already seven meters high, and the recoil of the artillery with such a caliber was so huge that it was very difficult to

It may collapse the city wall. The towering medieval city walls can reduce the pressure of ants attacking the city. However, in the age of firearms, they are not as strong and easy to defend as the much shorter bastion buildings on the European continent.

Difficult to attack.

The artillery thundered in the distance, and the shells roared in. The effect of the first round of test firing was very poor. The Qing army gunners fired based on experience, and the hit rate had to slowly increase with each firing. This was inevitable. But

The attitude of the Qing army had been revealed. Chen Kai, who was only responsible for guarding the city and boosting the morale of the defenders, simply handed over the task of guarding the city to Lang Deng and Zhou Quanbin, and sat there minding his own business.

Sitting on a chair in front of the city gate building, he held a telescope and looked at the movements of the Qing army in the distance.

During the test firing, the Ming army stood ready, while the Qing army made final preparations. Immediately after Ma Degong gave an order, the commander's flag pressed forward, and more solid observation towers were built, rushing to pull away from each other.

The distance between them separated the front and back levels, and they walked slowly. The Qing soldiers carrying ladders hid in the lookout, and after charging the car, they used these siege equipment to resist the long-range shooting of the Ming army.

The siege equipment moved forward slowly, and the artillery on the Ming army's city did not start shooting until the Qing army's chariots entered the range. Such siege equipment was used to hit city walls and gates, which was very dangerous. Compared with

Last time, this time the Qing army not only had more siege equipment, but also became more threatening. The Ming army's defensive pressure suddenly increased sharply.

The Qing army's shelling continued, and the Ming army's shelling also began. As Chen Kai looked, a shell tore through the air and hit the top of a ram car, directly knocking the two ram cars apart.

It collapsed, causing cheers from the Ming army's artillery crew.

The ram chariot collapsed, and the Qing army behind them did not care about anything else, and rushed to a lookout and one or two ram chariots on both sides, continuing to avoid the Ming army's fire. The wood of the ram chariot carbonized, ignited, and then burned fiercely.

The Qing soldiers who were still alive after being smashed down were treated as flammable materials and burned, adding a screaming melody to the occasional explosions made by the wood.

The Qing army was still advancing. After a while, before the observation tower was close enough, a cannonball crossed a black parabola and hit a crenellation on the south side of the east city wall.

On the way, the falling stones immediately injured several Ming soldiers and civilians nearby.

"Citizens, come up and save people!"

After all, there were only a few doctors. Those who were slightly injured would be bandaged by their apprentices on the city, and then continue fighting. Those who were more seriously injured would have to be carried or carried down to the city by civilians to be treated at the injury clinic.

The sound of wailing could be heard here. The civilian husbands under the city listened to the order and rushed up from the stairs. Following the instructions of the apprentices and officers, they sent down the soldiers and civilian husbands who needed to be sent to the sick and wounded hospital for treatment. The sound of pain could easily attract attention and cause harm.

The morale of the defenders was greatly improved. The doctors who sent them down were treated and taken care of by the doctors who had their own sick and wounded hospitals. Shen Quanqi was also in charge of the work. Chen Kai did not hesitate in the medicinal materials and always tried to save lives as much as possible. And those who are still there are still there.

The wounded in the city need to grit their teeth, suppress the pain, and continue fighting.

The battle has not yet entered a fierce stage, and the casualties on both sides are still sporadic and probabilistic. However, as the Qing army continues to approach, especially when the observation towers get close enough, the shooting begins, and the casualties on both sides increase.

It immediately increased in size.

"Tongji, as well as those large-caliber Franco machine guns, aim at those lookouts and give me a hard hit. Rifle archers, suppress fire, blunderbuss and other cannons, don't waste gunpowder. You guys

The range of our attack is not enough, so we’ll hit whatever we need to hit, how we practice on weekdays, how we hit the day before yesterday, how we hit today, who dares to embarrass us in front of Chen Shenjun in the back of the town, don’t blame me for being ruthless in military law!”

An officer shouted loudly to resume the defense of the damaged city wall. Langdon no longer cared about that. He looked at the approaching rush car and ordered the firewood under the prepared oil pans to be lit.

The lookout dispersed too much firepower of the Ming army, and the damage to the ram and the casualties of the Qing army after the ram were suddenly reduced. The Qing army used the bedding on the roof of the ram and the thick soil on the upper layer to defeat the Ming army.

Bird cannons and flaming arrows were powerless against them. However, after entering this distance, the Ming army's plum blossom stakes began to show their effect. The Qing army had to clear them to ensure that the car could pass through, but this also gave the Ming army a chance to shoot.

Opportunity.

A moment later, after taking a certain amount of casualties, the rush car approached the appropriate distance. As the grassroots officers issued orders, groups of Qing troops carried ladders and shouted, rushed towards the city.

"The commander-in-chief has an order. After the city is broken, the sword will be sealed in three days, and all the treasures and treasures of your children will be returned to you. I will not take any money from you!"

The order to massacre the city was issued, and the morale of the Qing army immediately rose. Thinking of the gold, silver, jade and silk in the city, thinking of the beautiful ladies in the city, and thinking of the pleasure of wanton killing during the massacre, it was as if they smelled the smell of blood, and they shouted

Then, screaming and running wildly, carrying the ladder, he rushed to the bottom of the city like flying, and directly put the ladder up.

Aerial ladders were set up one after another, and the Qing troops climbed up holding shields. The Qing troops behind them continued to advance in an orderly manner. After waiting for a while, the first rush cart was pushed under the city wall. The shooter on the observation deck in the distance,

With the selected forwards climbing up with shields and the huge trees shouting slogans and pushing the vehicles to hit the city wall, the Qing army's offensive on Zhongzuosuo City instantly overwhelmed the Ming army defending the city.

The pressure of the defense increased sharply, arrows pierced the sky, the city wall under their feet vibrated, and there was a "dong-dong" sound, accompanied by the sound of creaking bamboo and wood under pressure. The energy of the Ming army defending the city had to be distributed everywhere.

In this way, the Qing army's counterattack from any angle will inevitably be divided.

The so-called siege warfare, no matter what kind of tactics it is, ultimately depends on whether the attacking party overwhelms the defenders, or whether the defenders exhaust the attacking force.

This time, the Qing army's offensive was far more violent than the day before. It can be seen that after the last attack on the city, this Qing army has begun to face up to the Ming army defending the city, and is no longer as careless and underestimating the enemy as before.

The pressure from the Qing army came, and the officers at the grassroots level of the Ming army shouted loudly, urging their soldiers to kill and injure every Qing army they saw according to the weapons they used.

The strength of the Ming army was less than half of that of the opponent, so the civilians had to share the pressure. Following the orders of the Ming army officers, the civilians who had already prepared behind the Ming army defending the city carried rolling logs and stones and followed the direction of the Ming army.

, stuck out his head and smashed down the climbing Qing army.

The stone fell and hit the Qing army's shield heavily. Due to its own weight and gravity acceleration, the Qing army's shield-holding arm twisted and deformed at a speed invisible to the naked eye. It was not just the scream that came out first.

, it was better to let go and fall first. Only one Qing soldier who could be seen by more people was knocked down the ladder by the stones thrown from the city, and the unlucky guy who had just climbed up the same ladder was also hit.

It's below.

At this moment, there was no need to cheer, and there was no need to worry about cheering. The officers quickly ordered the civilians to go down to the city, and along the way, they carried a few wounded Ming soldiers down for treatment.

This time, because they happened to be stuck in the shooting gap of most of the Qing troops on the nearest lookout, they were not sniped, and the actions of the civilians were not disturbed. Chen Kai didn't know if the officer was deliberately stuck.

At this point in time, but sitting there, he secretly remembered this experience.

However, at the same time, not far from where he focused his attention, a cannonball roared over. While breaking through the crenellations, it blasted straight into a group of people who had just carried their garrison up the city ladder.
Chapter completed!