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Chapter 130 Smoke bomb destroys Ruyang!
Zhu Guobao is a little short-sighted and the distance is far, so he can't see clearly.

Then he asked Cui Zhen, "Is it really the Hongyi Cannon?"

Cui Zhen frowned, squinted his eyes, and said, "It seems to be about one foot long. It's probably the Hongyi cannon."

No wonder the two were still suspicious after seeing the rebel army artillery.

First, the rebel army cannons were silver-gray in color, which was very different from the iron-made Hongyi cannons.

Secondly, there are not many Hongyi cannons in Henan, and only a few are installed in the two giant cities of Kaifeng and Luoyang, but they are rarely used.

Most of the Ming Dynasty's Hongyi cannons were on Shanhaiguan and the cities outside the customs, then on the capital city, and again on the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong.

Therefore, some officials and generals who have been serving in the mainland have only heard of the Hongyi cannon by name and have never actually seen it.

While Zhu Guobao and Cui Zhen were in shock and doubt, five army artillery pieces of the rebel army had been placed at the selected location.

Immediately, the gunner began to test the cannon based on the direction of the Ming army's cannon given by Liu Sheng.

Yesterday afternoon, the four general cannons at the top of the city fired several rounds. Liu Sheng did not allow the army cannons to show up to fight back because he was worried that the Ming army would make targeted arrangements at night.

But he had memorized the locations of the four general cannons so that he could have the army cannons knock them out one by one today.

Boom...
The army artillery that had been prepared for a long time fired quickly.

Still five stone bullets.

Because stone bullets are the cheapest.

After the Battle of Wuyang County, the army's artillery bombardment skills improved slightly.

Only two of these five stone bullets hit the wall, and the remaining three hit the top of the city near the general cannon.

Because the Ming army did not expect the rebels to have siege artillery, and they did not expect to start firing them so quickly. When the artillery shells fell, many people were still standing in a relatively concentrated manner.

Especially near the general cannon, more than a dozen people often fight together.

Unexpectedly, three people were killed and seven or eight injured by this round of test artillery.

Amidst the miserable howls of the wounded, other Ming troops could not help but panic and their morale dropped.

Zhu Guobao and Cui Zhen were also shocked by the rebels' test firing.

But we also knew from this that what the rebels launched were five Hongyi cannons, which were of quite large caliber.

Because it is not that easy for Hongyi artillery to hit the top of the city two miles away.

After coming back to his senses, Cui Zhen said: "Tongjian, since the rebel army has Hongyi cannons and is close to the moat, there should not be too many soldiers at the top of the city. I would like to request that some of the battalion soldiers be transferred to the horse road first (you can push carts or walk on horseback to the city wall). sloping stairs) and the city is on standby."

Of course, it is impossible for the big city of Ruyang to cover all the defenses with just a few thousand battalions.

There are also rural soldiers under the camp soldiers.

The so-called rural soldiers were recruited and trained by the prefects, prefectures, and counties. They also received food and salary, but it was much less than the soldiers recruited from the camp, but the deductions were very small.

The rural warriors are trained by the sages, gentry, and powerful landlords in the countryside. They are private or small collective armed forces. They are basically only responsible for defending their hometowns and maintaining public order in the countryside.

Xiangyong basically had no food and salary, and even when he went on an expedition, he was only responsible for food.

But if the battle is won, there may be a reward.

As for robbing people, it's not just in one's hometown. At this time, most armies will do it and regard it as an additional benefit of being a soldier.

There were 3000 rural soldiers in Ruyang, [-] of whom were nominally recruited and led by Fu Ru for the prefect, but in fact the training and command of the rural soldiers were all handled by Zhu Guobao.

Zhu Guobao knew something about military affairs, but Fu Ruwei didn't like leading troops in war.Secondly, Zhu Guobao's general judgment is relatively strong.

Nowadays, there are one thousand of these rural soldiers on the city walls, one thousand in the city guarding the government's arsenal, granaries, government offices and other important facilities, and one thousand of the city guards are resting during the night.

The other five hundred township soldiers were recruited by Wen Shiyi in the name of Ruyang County Government. In addition to protecting several important facilities of the county government, their main responsibility now is to assist the police and government officials in maintaining public security in the city.

As a prefectural city, Ruyang City has nearly 10 people. The city is large and there are many streets. Maintaining public security requires a lot of manpower.

I heard that the government office has been planning to divide Runan County into two counties, following the example of Beijing and some big cities in the south, so as to facilitate governance.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this matter has always been just a plan and has not been implemented.

After the original recruitment of camp general Wang Yingtai defeated Tianmu Mountain, the number of soldiers increased to more than 500, but there were also more than 1000 people who guarded the city at night and were taking turns to rest.

There are only more than 2000 soldiers on the city walls. On average, there are more than 600 soldiers on each city wall, and several hundred people serve as reserves.

In fact, because there were no enemy troops in the west or south, there were only 100 rural soldiers and more than [-] battalions guarding each city wall.

The rest of the officers and soldiers were on the east and north walls.

Cui Zhen proposed to let some of the battalion soldiers retreat, undoubtedly because he wanted the rural soldiers to act as the main force to withstand the artillery shells.

As the actual leader of the rural soldiers, Zhu Guobao should have been sympathetic to the rural soldiers.

But he also knew that camp soldiers had higher combat effectiveness and were more valuable than rural soldiers, so they really shouldn't be on top of the city.

It's a trivial matter to get killed by artillery shells from time to time. The key is that morale is easy to drop.

As the main force defending the city, if the morale of the battalion soldiers is too low, it will not be so easy to defend the city.

He nodded and agreed to Cui Zhen's proposal.

Not long after Cui Zhen asked his servants to deliver the order, most of the battalion soldiers were preparing to retreat, and the second round of artillery shells from the rebels came.

Boom...
"How come the thief Hongyi's cannon fires faster than the general's cannon?!"

Hearing the sound of artillery, Zhu Guobao and Cui Zhen both hurriedly hid in the city gate tower and were surprised by the speed of the rebel artillery fire.

Then, a series of explosions were heard.

But it was the rebels who fired explosive bullets this round.

Although the power is not much greater than live ammunition, it is shockingly powerful and has a greater impact on the morale of the officers and soldiers.

What was even more unfortunate was that one of the explosive shells ignited the powder barrel next to a large general cannon, and immediately blew up more than a dozen battalion soldiers, including the gunner, who were hiding nearby!

Zhu Guobao hidden in the city gate tower was shaken and fell to the ground.

"It's a bomb!"

Zhu Guobao's face turned pale.

Cui Zhen's face looked so good that he couldn't see where he was.

When he came out of the city gate tower, he saw soldiers and village soldiers wailing on this section of the city wall. He didn't know how many people had been killed or injured.

"Hurry up! The soldiers are all coming down to the city wall! The country soldiers are putting all the gunpowder barrels in a safe place and sealing them up!"

Considering the speed of the rebels' shelling, Cui Zhen didn't bother to count the casualties, and hurriedly shouted for the officers and soldiers to execute the order.

Five or six minutes later, the rebels' third round of artillery shells came.It's still a blooming bomb.

Some of the rural soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were recruited to guard the city were killed and wounded.

Not many people actually died on the spot, but many were injured.

And the injured people did not receive timely treatment, and the morale of the officers and soldiers dropped even faster as they wailed.

Zhu Guobao came out to take a look and quickly scolded other rural soldiers for carrying the wounded down for treatment.

I was thinking in my heart that if the bandit army continued to bombard like this, they would probably organize the people in the city to help defend the city tomorrow.

Otherwise, there will be too many casualties among the rural soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and the morale will drop sharply, which will also affect the recruitment of soldiers for the camp.

woohoo-

The desolate horn sound interrupted Zhu Guobao's thoughts and surprised him.

"The thieves are attacking the city?!"

···
This time to attack Ruyang City, Liu Sheng still used the same method as he attacked Wuyang City.

The so-called one-trick delicacy can be eaten all over the world.

But there have been changes in specific aspects.

He first asked the first and second regiments to attack the north gate, while the fourth regiment was on standby outside the east gate.

Only the second regiment's baggage battalion and the three hundred knight battalion personal guards were left with him.

After the attack horn sounded, the four battalions of the First Regiment (three combat battalions and one baggage battalion) and the two battalions of the Second Regiment, consisting of 4000 people, were divided into three echelons and surged toward the north wall like waves.

200 people from Huben Camp were also among them.

Under the cover of five army cannons and nearly a hundred tiger squatting cannons, the rebels quickly passed the moat and started climbing the city using cloud ladders and long bamboo ladders with hooks.

The Ming army in Ruyang City prepared quite sufficient defense materials.

There are all kinds of defensive means such as rolling stones, oak trees, gold juice, and thousands of enemies.

However, the timing of the rebel attack was too good. It happened to be the time when the soldiers had just withdrawn from the city wall, the remaining Ming army was at its lowest point, and the defensive position was in chaos due to the handover.

This was not luck, but Liu Sheng stood on the lookout car and used his binoculars to observe signs that some of the camp troops had withdrawn on the city wall, and then ordered a fierce attack.

This put the defenders of the northern city wall under great pressure instantly. Even if the defensive supplies were sufficient, they would not be able to play much role for a while.

Upon seeing this, Cui Zhen quickly sent someone to bring up the soldiers who had just withdrawn.

Worried that there were not enough manpower, he sent people to the east wall to mobilize some battalions to support.

Although the rebels are coming fiercely, it is not easy to be the attacker.

Many rebel soldiers were knocked down by rolling stones just as they climbed the ladder, or had hot and smelly gold juice poured on them.

Fortunately, the guards of the Huben Camp who were mixed in quickly came into play.

Each of these guards carries a grenade.

Seeing the opportunity, he climbed up the ladder and threw the ignited grenade up, which immediately blew up and silenced the Ming army above.

At this time, the rebel soldiers took the opportunity to climb onto the city wall.

It is a pity that after a few rebels scaled the city wall, if they could not quickly expand their victory, they would be driven off by the Ming army or killed on the spot...

Liu Sheng saw that the battle was quickly becoming more intense at the stage of climbing the city, and he immediately issued two orders in succession——

"Send the order! Let the fourth regiment attack the east wall!"

"Send the order to the heavy artillery team again to replace the smoke grenades!"

As the messengers rode on horseback, the sound of trumpets soon came from the east.

Then, outside the North City Gate, five army cannons fired five smoke bombs.

This kind of "special bombs" existed in the Ming Dynasty, and there were even poisonous smoke bombs, but the rebels only sent ordinary smoke bombs, which at most had a bigger smoke.

In addition to using the north wind to cover the sight of the defenders, another function is to notify the Shengjie army who had already sneaked into the city to take action...
Zhu Guobao walked carefully from the city gate tower and happened to see a smoke bomb falling not far away.

The northwest wind blew, causing him to cough and his vision became bad.

This made him even more anxious.

"Where's Cui Youbi?" he asked loudly.

"Cui Youzhi has gone to the east!" Someone else answered in the smoke.

Zhu Guobao felt that the rebel smoke bomb was a bit cruel, and he was afraid that there would be serious flaws in the guards at the North City Wall, so he immediately took out his token and said to the accompanying captain of the rural soldiers: "Go to the city quickly to deliver the order, and ask the resting rural soldiers to come to the North City Wall to support them." !”

"As ordered!"

After the captain of the rural soldiers took the order to leave, Zhu Guobao took a dozen followers and walked towards the east half of the city wall, hoping to find Cui Zhen.

Unexpectedly, after walking nearly a hundred steps and before seeing Cui Zhen, I heard a cry of surprise coming from the east -

"The thieves have an insider!"

"The east gate is broken!"

"···"

Hearing these shouts, Zhu Guobao suddenly froze, and there were only two words in his heart: It's over!

Zhou Xing took advantage of the smoke to climb up the ladder behind a Huben Ying knife player, and jumped excitedly to the top of the city, where he happened to see Zhu Guobao in a daze in the thin smoke.

Zhou Xing was overjoyed when he saw Zhu Guobao wearing civilian uniform, so he followed the Huben camp sword player to kill Zhu Guobao and others.

Zhu Guobao's entourage was all selected from rural soldiers. Although he was not treated lightly, he was not overly taken care of.

At this time, when they heard that the East City Gate had been breached, the village soldiers were worried about the young people in the city and had no intention of fighting.

Seeing Zhou Xing and other brave rebels coming, the leader was still wearing two layers of armor. He almost killed the unarmored soldiers one by one, and the remaining soldiers immediately fled in all directions!
"kill!"

Zhou Xing had a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and he rushed in with excitement.

Perhaps due to luck, Zhu Guobao happened to run away from his direction and tripped over the corpse and fell to the ground.

Zhou Xing rushed forward and stabbed him three times, killing him.

Behind him, more and more rebel soldiers climbed onto the city wall and chased the defenders along the city wall...
　Second more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)