Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 168 Attacking Zunhua City

In the early morning of the second day, when the sun just jumped out of the horizon, the Jiannu barracks outside Zunhua City began to make noise.

It didn't take long for black smoke to rise from the camp.

The Jian slaves were burying pots and cooking, and when they were full, they were ready to attack Zunhua City.

Wang Yuanya stood on the city wall and looked out from the crenel, "Commander Fu, quickly get all the soldiers ready, Jiannu is about to launch an attack."

Fu Jianying stood beside Wang Yuanya and said in a deep voice, "Yes!"

Since yesterday, Fu Jianying has been recruiting young men in Zunhua City.Up to now, more than 3000 people have been recruited, and there are almost 4000 soldiers.

Time passed between breaths and breaths. Mangurtai swallowed the last bite of the pancake, and then walked out of the tent with the helmet in hand.

"Blow the trumpet and assemble the soldiers."

Looking at the black smoke floating in the barracks, Mang Gurtai said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

The messenger bowed his hands at Mang Gurtai, and then went towards the trumpeter.

When the horn sounded, the Jiannu soldiers put down the bowls and chopsticks in their hands one after another, and the armored soldiers gathered together.

Half an hour later, nearly 3 horses had all assembled.

Mang Gurtai rode on the horse, looked at the soldiers with bright armor and serious face, drew out the long knife from his waist, and shouted sharply: "Today, break through Zunhua City for me. After the city is broken, the sword will not be sealed for three days!"

"If you break through Zunhua City, you won't be able to seal your sword for three days! If you break through Zunhua City, you won't be able to seal your sword for three days!"

The Jiannu soldiers screamed wildly. In their view, it only took a moment to break through Zunhua City.

"Wilde, Li Platform, Zhang Yu, Sun Changde, where are you?"

Mang Gurtai looked in the direction of the Eight Banners of Han and shouted angrily.

These four people are Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty.

"The servant is here!" The four jumped off their horses and walked to Mangurtai respectfully.

Mang Gurtai looked at the four of them, and said sternly: "If you can't break through Zunhua City today, then don't blame me for being rude."

"Lord Baylor, don't worry, there are not many defenders in Zunhua City, and we will definitely win in one battle."

Wilde looked at Mangurtai obsequiously.

"Huh, it's best." Mang Gurtai snorted coldly, and then said: "You Han Eight Banners are attacking the city, and I'm holding the Blue Banner soldiers on both sides for you. Remember, if you dare to retreat, don't blame me Knife."

Mangurtai would not let his soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner go to death for a city siege with relatively high casualties.What's more, the slave soldiers were not good at attacking the city.

"Yes, yes, the servant will definitely take Zunhua City."

Wilde bowed his body and hurriedly replied.

"Beat the drums and attack the city!"

Holding a long knife in his hand, Mang Gurtai pointed at Zunhua City and roared angrily.

After the four Han Eight Banners Gu Shan Ezhen returned to their army formation, they led their army towards Zunhua City, and finally surrounded the entire Zunhua City directly.

Generally speaking, a siege is a siege, but Mangurtai doesn't want to do that.

Now Jiannu soldiers are in full swing and their morale is high. Even if the city is besieged from all sides, Mangurtai is sure to take down the entire Zunhua city.

Wilde was in charge of the front wall of Zunhua City. He pointed to Zunhua City in front of him, and then looked at his subordinates with a stern face, "Today, show me all your skills. If anyone dares to delay, don't blame me You are welcome."

Wilde's subordinates were Hanzheng blue flags, Li Ping'an was Hanzheng blue flags, Zhang Yu was Hanzheng red flags, and Sun Changde was Hanzheng red flags.There are about 5000 people in each banner, a total of more than [-] people.

"Come on for me!"

Wilde drew out the long knife from his waist, pointed at Zunhua City, and shouted loudly.

"kill!!!"

The soldiers of the Hanzheng Blue Banner let out a roar that shook the sky, and then rushed towards Zunhua City with all kinds of siege equipment.

Wilde sent about 500 soldiers in the first wave, most of whom carried sacks filled with dirt on their shoulders.

These sacks were used to fill the moat outside Zunhua City.

Wang Yuanya looked at the Hanzheng Blue Banner soldiers rushing over, and hurriedly shouted: "Jiannu attack the city, prepare to fight!"

Fu Jianying pulled out the long knife from his waist, leaned on the crenel, and looked nervously at the Hanzheng Blue Banner soldiers who rushed over.

"Fill up the moat for me." Niu Luzhangjing of the Hanzheng Lan Banner, who was holding a sharp knife and wearing fine iron armor, was behind the five hundred soldiers, pointing at the moat in front of him, and shouted at the top of his voice.

"They want to fill in the moat, Franz, give me a blast!"

Fu Jianying looked at the soldiers of the Hanzheng Blue Banner who were gradually approaching, waved the long knife in his hand, and shouted at the gunners who had just pushed the Frang machine out.

"Archery!"

At this time Wang Yuanya was also wearing armor and holding a long knife in his hand.

He looked at the soldiers of the Hanzheng Blue Banner rushing to the moat, and roared angrily.

As soon as Wang Yuanya finished speaking, the sound of trembling bowstrings could be heard endlessly.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

For a time, more than 20 arrows shot towards the soldiers of the Han Zhenglan Banner in front of the moat.

"Puff puff!"

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen soldiers of the Han Zhenglan Banner fell towards the moat with arrows in their bodies.

But there are only more than 800 defenders on the front wall, and most of them are just newly recruited young men.Archers who can shoot arrows are really limited, so the number of arrows looks a bit sparse.

"Those who retreat will be killed without mercy, let me do it."

Niu Luzhang Jing of Hanzhenglan Banner brandished a knife and yelled at the soldiers who were filling the moat.

"Plop plop!"

The soldiers of the Han Zhenglan Banner quickly threw the sack in their hands into the moat, and the sack fell into the water, splashing countless water.

After they threw the sacks in, they turned around and ran back.

In front of the Hanzhenglan Banner formation, 600 people were filling sacks non-stop.

The soldiers who rushed back carried the full sacks on their shoulders again and rushed towards the moat.

"Eh!" A Zhenglan Banner soldier who had just thrown the sack into the moat had no time to turn around when an arrow was stuck in his chest.

The sharp arrow of the armor-piercing arrow directly pierced through the tattered armor on his body and penetrated into his chest.

He looked blankly at the arrow on his chest, and then fell forward, lying on the sack he had just dropped.

The soldiers of Hanzheng Blue Banner who rushed up from behind threw the sack on him without even looking at him.

"Oh!"

A Ming army lying on the crenel held a gun and aimed directly at a Hanzheng Lanqi soldier who was carrying a sack and was about to throw it into the moat.

Gunshots rang out and a puff of black smoke rose.The Ming soldier hastily stretched out his head to look out, but unfortunately, the shot missed.

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, an arrow shot up from below and directly stuck in the Ming soldier's throat.

The Ming army soldier let out bursts of whimpers, and then fell directly backwards.

More than 200 archers stepped out from the middle of the Hanzhenglan Banner, stood on both sides of the moat, and counterattacked upwards.

It's a pity that the arrows were shot from the bottom up, and the moat was more than 70 steps away from the top of the city, so most of the arrows just hit the city wall.

As time passed, the moat in front of the front wall was quickly filled up by Hanzheng Lanqi soldiers.

Fu Jianying looked at the moat that was about to be filled, and scolded anxiously: "Hasn't the Folang machine been fixed yet? The moat has been filled up, you bastards, can you hurry up for me?"

As soon as Fu Jianying's words fell, a French machine on the top of the city let out a loud roar, and the thumb-sized iron sand in the barrel rushed downward.

The last wave of Hanzheng Blue Banner soldiers who filled the moat were killed before they had time to retreat.

The archers who covered and filled the moat also retreated in a hurry.

"Haha, the moat has finally been filled, let me flush it."

Looking at the filled moat, Wilde laughed wildly, pointed the long knife in his hand at the top of Zunhua City, and shouted sharply: "I will charge all those who have been withdrawn from the second wave and the first wave!"

As soon as Wilde finished speaking, the second wave of soldiers and the withdrawn first wave of soldiers rushed forward with weapons.

Seven or eight ladders were pushed by the second wave of soldiers and slowly moved towards the city wall.

There is a huge shield in front of the ladder, protecting the soldiers behind it.

After the first wave of soldiers withdrew, they picked up the shields they had prepared and rushed forward.

They raised their shields high above their heads, bent their bodies, and headed towards the city wall.

"Crench!"

The axles of the ladder car rubbed against each other violently, making a teeth-stinging sound.

The wooden wheels were crushed on the ground, leaving two deep ruts.

"Fire!" Fu Jianying shouted loudly as he looked at the ladder car slowly advancing under the city.

"Oh!"

The gunner on the top of the city aimed the Franc machine at the ladder truck below and ignited the fuse directly.

When the fuze was burned out, a burst of flames burst out of the muzzle, followed by a large wave of iron projectiles heading towards the ladder truck.

"Bang bang bang!"

The thumb-sized projectile hit the large shield of the aerial ladder vehicle and directly penetrated the large shield of the aerial ladder vehicle.

A large number of soldiers who were hiding behind the large shield and pushing the cart were killed.

The soldiers who were closely behind the soldiers pushing the carts hastily pushed the killed soldiers away from behind the ladder carts, and put them on top of them by themselves.

"Shoot the rocket, shoot the rocket!"

Fu Jianying looked at the ladder trucks that were still moving slowly, and hurriedly yelled at the messenger beside him: "Let the archers shoot rockets at me, and I must destroy these ladder trucks."

"Yes!" The orderly clasped his fist at Fu Jianying, and then passed on the order.

When the messenger came back, countless burning arrows shot towards the ladder car.

The back of the arrowhead of the rocket is wrapped with burlap soaked in kerosene, and once ignited, it is difficult to extinguish it.

At this time, the ladder car has come to the edge of the moat, and it is about to drive across the moat.

"Ding Ding Ding!"

In an instant, five or six arrows were nailed into a ladder truck with intense burning.

The soldiers pushing the cart behind the ladder cart didn't check at all, but just pushed the ladder cart forward.

It's not that they don't want to check it, but they dare not check it.

The kerosene on the rocket dripped directly onto the large shield of the ladder vehicle with flames, and in an instant, the large shield began to burn.

When Fu Jianying focused all his eyes on the ladder cart, the soldiers holding their shields and running towards the city wall had already crossed the moat, only ten steps away from the base of the city wall.

They put their shields in front of them, squatted on the ground, and took off the bows and arrows hanging from their shoulders.

These people were the archers of the first wave of soldiers who had withdrawn from the moat.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

All of a sudden, countless arrows flew towards the city wall.

The soldiers guarding the city wall hurriedly lowered their heads, and before the inexperienced young men had time to react, seven or eight of them were shot to death by bows and arrows.

For a moment, the young and strong on the city wall immediately panicked.

What's more, they even shoved and shoved with the soldiers defending the city, shouting loudly that they wanted to go home.

Fu Jianying looked at the panicked young men, and said to the commander of the guards who were protecting him: "You take the people, tie up the troublemakers and hang them on the flagpole at the top of the city. Who dares to be a demon."

"Yes!" The personal guard commander led seven or eight people towards the pushing side.

"Flanger, give me a blast!"

Fu Jianying turned around and looked at the soldiers of the Han Zhenglan Banner who were half squatting on the ground about ten steps ahead of the moat and kept shooting arrows and shouted sharply.

"Oh!"

A flash of fire flashed across the muzzles of the Francophones, followed by bullets flying downward like a storm.

All of a sudden, Han Zhenglan Banner archers were killed and wounded.

The pressure on the city was instantly reduced.

Although Frangji has a great advantage in defending the city, there are too few Flangji in Zunhua City.

There are only four gates on each section of the city wall, and there are no more than sixteen gates in total.

Moreover, these sixteen French guns were left over from when Qi Jiguang was in Jizhen. Because of the long time, these guns could not continue to fire.

These Franglers have to stop for more than 30 breaths every time they fire a shot, and they have to wipe the barrel with a wet towel to clean the barrel and cool it down.

Even so, the temperature of the barrel of the Frang machine continued to rise.

When the gun barrel of the Frang machine on the top of the city began to turn red, Fu Jianying decisively ordered to stop the shelling.

If we continue to fire, I am afraid that if Jiannu is not killed, Frangji will be the first to explode.

When the Ming army stopped shelling, the Han Zhenglan Banner under the city was instantly relaxed.

Without Frangji's attack, these soldiers were much more courageous.

All of a sudden, countless soldiers of Hanzhenglan Banner jumped out from behind the ladder car, and with only a shield on their heads, they rushed forward.

"The Nanmanzi can't fire the cannon anymore, push me hard, charge!"

A Niu Luzhang Jing jumped out from the large shield behind the ladder car, pointed the long knife in his hand at the city wall, and roared angrily: "Cross the moat and shoot them to death!"

(End of this chapter)