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Chapter 75 Siege

Zhang Shun knew very well that he should not set up flags indiscriminately when doing things, otherwise he would end badly. This "Zijin Liang" is a typical example.

His pointed wooden donkey was indeed perfect, and a two-inch caliber tiger squatting cannon was hidden inside it, pushed it near the city gate, aimed at the gate of Douzhuang City, and blasted the left gate of the west gate with a fist The large and small holes startled the servants and householders who guarded the city in Douzhuang.

Zhang Daojun hastily ordered the imitation western artillery to be loaded with live ammunition and fired. After just one round of firing, the pointed wood donkey pushed by the subordinates of "Zijin Liang" exceeded the shooting range.Unfortunately, Douzhuang's imitation western guns failed to hit even a pointed wooden donkey.

"Zijin Liang" became more and more happy, and said to Zhang Shun: "Thanks to the cannon of little brother 'Optimus Prime', otherwise it would not be easy to take this city."

Zhang Shun glanced at him strangely, thinking: This guy has been tossing and tossing under the city for more than half a month, but he has made no progress at all. How can he brag about his courage to break through the city today?
Zhang Shun didn't know that although "Zijin Liang" and others were from the frontier army of the guard, they had been fighting against captives in Yansui all year round and had no experience in siege.The so-called Taolu is the contemptuous name given by the Ming people to the Tatars and Oara Mongols who lived in the Hetao area.These people basically live by water and grass, and have no fixed place, so the method of fighting Yansui and them is mostly field warfare, supplemented by defending the city, and there is no way to attack the city.

A few days ago, "Zijin Liang" mostly used the simple method of "Ant Possession", which just relied on the long ladder to pile up human lives, and there was no advanced siege strategy.Only in the past few days, Han Tingxian, his counselor, gave him a plan to attack the city.

It's a pity that "Zijinliang" underestimated Zhang Daojun. When he saw the pointed wooden donkey of "Zijinliang" coming to the city, he ordered the servants of the farmer to throw stones down, trying to smash the pointed wooden donkey.As a result, because the pointed wooden donkey cooperated with the artillery, it could shoot without approaching the city gate.The stones thrown from the city cannot hit that far to destroy the pointed wood donkey.

So Zhang Daojun ordered the farmer's servants to throw an iron hook at the pointed wooden donkey, and the iron hook hit the top of the pointed wooden donkey.He also made dozens of people work together to pull the top of the pointed wood donkey away, and then shot with fast guns and three-eyed guns.

The pointed wooden donkey lost its protection, and the small flag with ten people as a unit suffered heavy losses, almost the entire army was wiped out.Zhang Daojun did the same, and the tops of the pointed wood donkeys made by "Zijinliang" were pulled off one after another. Then, except for some soldiers who escaped back, most of them were bloody on the spot. "Zijin Liang" not only lost part of the elite siege elites, but even lost eight of the cannons that were still in their hands.

Zhang Daojun was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly opened the gate of the city. Using his servants as sharp knives and farmers as backing, he brazenly went out of the city to snatch the artillery. Seeing this, "Zijin Liang" became angry from embarrassment, and quickly ordered his soldiers to suppress the opponent with artillery, while releasing the cavalry in their hands, and launched a surprise attack on the soldiers sent by Zhang Daojun outside the city.

Zhang Daojun was also taken aback. When he attacked the city a few days ago, everyone was pecking at each other, but they didn't know how good they were. The "Zijin Liang" in his own way was only at this level, but he never thought that the opponent still held a cavalry in his hand.

In fact, Zhang Daojun had been in the interior for a long time, and he underestimated the Shaanxi rebels.Since the uprising of the Shaanxi Rebel Army, he was killed by Hong Chengchou and others until his blood flowed like a river, and he died early because of his slow legs.No matter what specialty they have, at least they can ride horses, and some of them are even the three-sided elite cavalry of the Ming army who often fought against captives.

The cavalry was released from this compartment, and Zhang Daojun quickly ordered artillery support from the city, but the effect was still not very good.Except for the servants brought back from Liaodong who could fight and retreat, those village households and servants who left the city were cut to pieces by the horsemen under the command of "Zijinliang" in an instant, crying for their father and mother.

Zhang Shun's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself: This is only one or two hundred cavalry, and they are so powerful when charging, if there are thousands of cavalry, how powerful will they be in this age of hot and cold weapons?No wonder the infantry in later online novels basically only includes pikemen and musketeers, which are specially set up for the enemy's cavalry.

The two sides fought for a while, Zhang Daojun was defeated and retreated leaving behind a dozen corpses. The cavalry under "Zijinliang" wanted to take the opportunity to attack the city, but they didn't expect Zhang Daojun's servants to fight and retreat. The city was supported by artillery, fast guns, three-eyed blunderbuss and other firearms. The "Zijinliang" cavalry could not get close to the city and lost Five or six times, we had to put the cannon on the rope, and use the horse to pull the discarded cannon back.

Although "Zijin Liang" also suffered a small loss this time, Zhang Daojun's arrogance was suppressed anyway. "Zijin Liang" made a big publicity in the camp, rewarded the cavalry for their meritorious service, and boosted the low morale.

In the middle of the afternoon, "Zijinliang" reorganized its team and built two arrow towers outside the city. People used bows, arrows and firecrackers to shoot into the city to suppress the defenders on the city wall of Douzhuang.Others rushed to the gate of Douzhuang with oil and straw, ignited a fire, and burned the gate of Douzhuang.

Zhang Daojun ordered people to dump sand and soil from the city to extinguish the fire, and at the same time ordered people to shoot at each other with artillery and the arrow tower set up by "Zijin Liang".As a result, the city gates were sunken and the city walls were somewhat sunken, so the fire could not be extinguished in time, and two city gates were burned down by the "Zijin Liang".However, the Urn City still exists, and the "Zijin Liang" still cannot break into the city.However, the shotgun shells used by the artillery are too short to reach the arrow tower of the "Zijin Liang"; the solid bullets can hardly cause damage to the wooden frame structure of the "Zijin Liang" arrow tower.What's more, the feng shui took turns, and the sun was setting at this time, which happened to shake the eyes of the guards in Douzhuang, which made Douzhuang only have to be beaten and had no power to fight back.

Anyone else would definitely be unable to use this arrow tower, but who is Zhang Daojun?He has helped the imperial court supervise the manufacture of various Western-style artillery, and is quite familiar with some types of Western ammunition.Immediately ordered people to make refining bombs, also known as mandarin duck bombs, which are the chain bombs played by Zhang Shun's later generations in the game of great navigation.

There is a Martian Temple in Douzhuang City, which is a fire temple dedicated to Zhurong.It was the workshop where Zhang Daojun was in charge of supervising the manufacture of Western-style artillery a few years ago, and all the craftsmen inside were supported by Zhang.After receiving Zhang Daojun's order, he hurriedly made a few mandarin ducks and popped them out.

Zhang Daojun asked people to load these mandarin duck shells into imitation Western artillery and bombard the arrow tower of "Zijin Liang".Sure enough, after the chain bomb was shot, it spread out from the middle, and hit the wooden structure of the arrow tower in a whirl, smashing the wooden structure to pieces.It took only a few shots to destroy the two arrow towers in an instant.The dozens of soldiers on the pitiful arrow tower had no time to get down, so they screamed and fell from the tower, falling to pieces.

Seeing this situation, "Zijin Liang" turned purple with anger.On the contrary, Zhang Shun was very interested in the shells fired by Zhang Daojun's artillery: Is this the chain bomb in the game?How could such a weapon appear in this small Douzhuang?
(End of this chapter)