Heiyunlong felt that less than two feet away from his right side, a strong white light flashed, and then flames rose into the sky. Then he felt a ringing in his ears and temporarily lost his hearing.
There was a dense crowd over there, and the shells exploded in an instant, causing them to fall in all directions.
Hei Yunlong suddenly knelt on the ground, feeling an excruciating pain in his calf. I felt dizzy in my head and felt like vomiting. When he touched it with his hand, his calf, which was not protected by the armor skirt, was covered in blood.
"Dad, your leg is injured." Hei Minglian rushed over from behind.
When it exploded just now, everyone was stunned. They didn't know that the shell could still explode.
The artillery shells of this era were all spherical solid bullets. It mainly relies on hitting, smashing and smashing the debris generated by buildings to kill the enemy.
The first time they encountered an explosive bomb, they were all shocked and stunned.
Then, someone screamed, turned around and ran away.
On the city wall, the guardsmen collapsed. One by one, they howled, threw away their swords and guns, and fled in all directions.
Hei Yunlong pushed Hei Minglian away and shouted: "Servants, stop them. Anyone who escapes will be shot to death."
Heiyunlong gritted his teeth and stood up. Regardless of the wound on his calf that was still bleeding, he chopped down an old fugitive with a knife. He shouted loudly: "Go back to me. Anyone who dares to escape will be executed."
The servants swarmed up and drove the guards back with their spears.
Baiyin looked at the cannonballs, one after another falling on both sides of the city wall and on the city wall.
Explosive flames and thick smoke rose from the city walls from time to time. Pieces of limbs, armor, stomach, swords and guns were constantly blown up. Some were even thrown from the city walls.
The servants have already secured the entrances and exits above and below the city wall, leaving these guardsmen with nowhere to escape. But they had no experience in avoiding bombardment, so they ran around like wolves and wolves.
Some lay on the ground and covered their heads. Some huddled under the crenellations of the city wall, trying to minimize the area of their bodies exposed. Others knelt on the ground and prayed.
"Everyone is here. The first group, the shield soldiers are in front, and the second and third groups are behind with ladders. Come and charge with me." Bai Yin ducked out from behind a wall and rushed forward with a roar.
The first group of eleven people immediately held up their shields to protect the front.
Team leader Zhang Luer shouted: "Brothers, protect the brothers behind us and engage the enemy quickly. The faster we engage the enemy, the fewer rocks we will bear. Charge."
There were ten brothers in a row in front, holding two large pot lids with quilts in between and nailing them together to form a shield. Push forward quickly.
At the same time, he carefully avoided all kinds of construction debris underground to prevent him from tripping. Because once they fall, the brothers carrying the ladder will be exposed behind them.
A team of thirty people rushed towards the city wall, a total of ten groups.
There are also nine other teams that are also attacking the city wall.
The distance of thirty meters was reached in an instant. Seeing twenty long ladders leaning against the city wall.
The tops of these ladders are equipped with steel hooks. Once against the city wall, the huge steel hook at the top will hook onto the city wall, thereby firmly fixing the ladder and the city wall together.
The city wall is a full twelve or thirteen meters high, and the hypotenuse of the triangle must be longer than the right-angled side. Therefore, the ladder is fully twenty meters long. The ladder was heavy, even though it was made from the timbers of the dismantled beams and columns of the house, quickly nailed together with large iron nails in the shape of staples.
The structural weight has been reduced as much as possible, but it still requires seven or eight people to carry it.
Such a heavy ladder also has a large steel hook on the top. The blue bricks of the battlements are firmly hung.
It is simply impossible to push the ladder away with the strength of one or two people. In movies and TV shows, the enemy climbed up the ladder, and several defenders used wooden poles to push the ladder backwards. It's all made up.
The ladder weighs several hundred kilograms and is fixed with steel hooks. In addition, there are more than ten people on the ladder. How can it be pushed with a weight of more than one ton?
By this time, the shelling had stopped, and the city walls were in a mess.
Guard soldiers who were killed and injured were everywhere. Many of their already tattered mandarin duck jackets became tatters and hung on their bodies. Some were in a daze and some were trembling. There are also those running around and shouting.
With the support of Hei Minglian, Hei Yunlong went to the crenel and looked down, and gasped.
Twenty long ladders were already leaning against the city wall. Those Mongolian Tatars were holding the back of the knife between their teeth, using their hands and feet to climb up quickly.
Black Cloud Dragon wielded a three-eyed gun and stretched out the crenellations of the city wall. He put the blunderbuss rod under his arm and took out the gunpowder from his pocket with the other hand. He bit off the flash cap with his teeth, blew out the flame in two breaths, and poked the fuse.
boom! boom! boom!
Three rounds of lead bullets were fired one after another, and Wang Zhantian and Asba who were rushing in front screamed and were hit. The leather robes, cotton coats and stab-proof uniforms worn by the two men could not block the three-eyed gun at close range.
The fire door gun is very powerful within ten meters.
The two fell from the top of the ladder.
Plop, plop, he fell heavily under the city wall covered with ice and snow. The fall caused the two of them to vomit blood, twitched a few times, and then passed out.
The shield soldiers behind immediately rushed out. The two of them dragged the two of them back behind the broken eaves and broken walls.
Quickly call the medical soldiers and doctors accompanying the army to come over. On-site first aid. In the cavalry army, each squadron is equipped with three medical soldiers and one doctor. Therefore, wounded soldiers can be effectively rescued on the battlefield.
Heiyunlong fired three rounds of lead bullets. Hit two enemies. One shot flew off.
He was strong and powerful. He grabbed the long pole of the three-eyed gun, swung it and broke the wooden pole on one side of the long ladder. The ladder creaked and bent downwards, and the six remaining people on the ladder tilted sideways.
Taking advantage of these people's panic and loss of balance, Heiyunlong swung the three-eyed gun again and broke the other side at once. The entire ladder collapsed. Six people shouted and fell down.
The height of the four-story building is not low, and these people were immediately thrown to pieces. I won't be able to get up for a while.
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Hei Yunlong sat down on the wall at the crenellation of the city wall, breathing heavily.
He said to Hei Minglian who was bandaging his wounds: "You bring your servants up, these soldiers are no longer useful. Block their ladders, at least they cannot climb up. Otherwise, all the soldiers in these guards will collapse." "
Hei Minglian and Hei Mingxiao immediately led 200 men to replace the guards at Duokou, and started fighting with the enemy who climbed up with a steel knife in his mouth.
Yang Fan clasped his hands behind his back and looked at the Beijing camp training under the tower. After a ten-day holiday, the soldiers who had been herding sheep were organized again and began training outside Jimingyi.
Now the wind and snow in the mainland have stopped, and although the weather has not gotten warmer, it has begun to feel less cold.
Yang Fan was thinking about Zhangjiakou. He knew that at this time, the siege had already begun.
Yang Fan was still a little worried. Only less than a quarter of the troops on the grassland were Han Chinese, and many of them were officers from the servant team. In addition, there are also refugees recruited to cultivate grasslands. After these people became soldiers, they were mixed with the Mongols in groups.
They have fought dozens of large and small battles in the past two years and are now a mature force tempered by the flames of war. But they used to fight positional warfare and cavalry mobile warfare. This is the first time to attack a fortified city.
Siege is the most casualty strategy.
This time is an important exercise for them. Cavalry can't just fight on horseback.
