"Where the hell are you going to fight!" The flag officer raised his leg towards Niu Er and kicked him.
The unprepared Niu Er fell headfirst into the basket and hit his head heavily on the iron ball inside, knocking out a big bag.
Niu Er got up from the basket and looked over cautiously. He found that one of the ladders on the wall of Xinpingbao was missing, to be precise, half of it was missing.
He remembered that the direction in which the cannon shot was fired seemed to be the direction where half of the ladder was.
"What the hell do you want to eat? I let you use cannons to bombard the bandits on the city wall, but I didn't let you hit our own people." The flag officer waited for Niu Er fiercely.
A total of five ladders were erected on the city wall of Xinpingbao, one of which was broken into two parts by his own family.
If he hadn't known that where the cannon hit had little to do with Niu Er, he would have chopped it up with a knife instead of kicking him.
Soon, the other three general cannons of the official army fired one after another.
Unfortunately, all three shots hit the city wall and did not threaten the bandits on the city wall at all.
"Hurry up and clear the barrel of the cannon, load the gunpowder and continue to shoot. If you hit one of your own, I will chop off your heads first." The flag officer cursed, turned and walked towards the other gates.
At most, the gunners of the government army could only say that they knew how to fire a cannon, but without long-term training, they tried to fire a second shot in a panic, which took a long time.
However, the gunners with the Tiger Flag on the city wall gave them no chance to fire a second shot.
Four-pound cannons were fired one after another on the top of the city, and all the artillery fire was concentrated on the four general cannons of the official army.
The soldiers surrounding these general cannons were unlucky.
Even if the cannons fired from the top of the city cannot hit the several general cannons of the official army, they can still hit the camp soldiers surrounding the several general cannons.
Screams came from the mouths of the camp soldiers operating the cannon.
Niu Er saw with his own eyes that a battalion soldier who was cleaning the barrel of a cannon in front of him was hit half-body by a cannon, and countless flying blood spots splashed on his face.
Although it wasn't the first time he saw a scene of broken limbs and arms, it was the first time he saw a whole person torn in half right before his eyes.
Wow!
Niu Er only felt something gushing out of his stomach, and then he couldn't help but lie down in the basket containing the iron balls and vomited.
But when he saw a feces-green intestine falling out of the basket, he vomited even more.
"ah!"
A battalion soldier who was not hit by the cannon like Niu Er saw his comrades being instantly torn apart by the cannon. He finally couldn't bear it anymore and ran away into the distance yelling like crazy.
Niu Er did not stop the opponent.
If he wasn't worried about the cavalry behind him, he would have wanted to escape back to the camp like the other party and never face the scene before him again.
However, he knew that as long as the cavalry holding down the formation did not leave, the firearms battalion soldiers would have no chance to escape and would have no choice but to die on the battlefield.
Sure enough, it was just as he expected.
Several firearms battalion soldiers who wanted to escape from the battlefield were forced back by the cavalry with bows and arrows as soon as they were halfway there. The battalion soldiers who looked like they were crazy were shot to death on the spot with an arrow.
There are only a dozen gunners left around the four general cannons, and Niu Er is one of them.
As for the previous flag officer, he was hit by the cannon under the shelling just now, and his head was torn apart like a watermelon.
On the other side, the Xuanfu soldiers and horses who were relying on ladders to attack the city were fighting fiercely with the soldiers guarding the city with the tiger-shaped flag.
As the sound of fire and gunfire continued from the top of the city, pots of golden juice poured down from the top of the city, and the lives of the attacking officers and soldiers were harvested one by one.
Especially the archers under the city are the main targets of the firecrackers on the city.
After the rows of fire cannons sounded several times on the top of the city, there were only a few official archers left below the city. The scattered archers could hardly pose much of a threat to the people on the city wall.
As a result, it becomes more difficult to force your way to the top of the city through luck.
After leaving behind three to four hundred corpses, the Xuanfu troops attacking the city began to retreat.
Yang Guozhu, who was sitting at the rear, looked livid.
He looked at Wang Bao on the side with a cold face and said: "If you work harder, you can attack the city wall, but your Xuanfu soldiers and horses retreated at this time. Although I don't want to kill the general in front of the battle, Mr. Wang Soldier, you have to give me an explanation."
"You can't say that." Wang Bao, who also had an ugly face, said, "The cannons you sent to Xinpingbao City did not have much effect at all. Instead, they injured many soldiers and horses of our Xuanfu. I have to explain. , and it should be Commander Yang who gives me an explanation."
Both men believed that the fault lay with the other.
Yang Guozhu snorted coldly, unwilling to argue with Wang Bao on this.
Because he knew that he and Wang Bao were both commander-in-chief, and no one could control the other. It was useless to argue.
"General Yang, let's think about how to attack the city tomorrow!" After Wang Bao said this, he turned his horse's head and left.
It was obvious that he was not going to continue attacking Xinpingbao today.
"Damn it!" Yang Guozhu looked at Wang Bao's back in the distance and cursed.
Xue Mu, who was standing next to him, came up and said, "General, withdraw your troops! The morale is declining at the moment, and it will be difficult to break through Xinping Fort if we continue to fight. It's better to take a long-term approach."
Several generals around him looked at Yang Guozhu.
Yang Guozhu took a deep breath and said: "Ming Jin withdraws his troops!"
The two armies of the imperial court successively returned to their own camps from outside Xinpingbao City.
On top of Xinpingbao City.
"The camp is in full swing, the imperial court has withdrawn its troops." Cheng Ping said to Pan Yi.
Through the single-channel telescope, Pan Yi naturally saw the scene of the officers and soldiers retreating.
"How about sending a team of soldiers and horses to clean up the battlefield outside the city? The official army's several general cannons and ladders have not been taken away." Cheng Ping reminded.
The officers and soldiers retreated quickly, and all the general cannons were abandoned on the battlefield.
As for the soldiers in the artillery camp, when they heard the call to withdraw their troops, they ran faster than anyone else. No one thought about taking these general cannons away, and they knew they couldn't take them away.
It was very troublesome to take away such a heavy thing. Once the army retreated, the soldiers left behind could not defend these general cannons at all, so they had no choice but to leave the cannons and leave with the army.
Pan Yi withdrew his gaze from the monocular, looked at Cheng Ping, and said, "This battle has been a huge loss. We are still not prepared enough."
"The soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu are attacking the city. We have to help them contain the bandits on the city wall. If anyone dares to be lazy, don't blame me for cutting off your head in the name of a deserter." The chief flag officer drew out his sword and looked at Niu. Er body glanced at it.
Niu Er noticed and shrank his neck.
"Light the fire! I'm here to teach you." The flag officer glared at Niu Er fiercely.
Niu Er hurriedly picked up the torch and lit the match rope exposed on the cannon.
Zhi!
The match rope burned out quickly, and then there was a bang, and the cannonball in the barrel was shot out.
The sudden sound of cannons startled the flag officer, and the knife in his hand almost fell to the ground.
