As the commander of Zhenwu Guards, Yuan Chaoju stood on the city wall wearing a helmet and armor.
"Can you use cannons to hit the cavalry outside the city?" Yuan Chao raised his finger and pointed at the many cavalry outside the city and said.
One of the hundreds of households on the side stretched out his hand and gestured in the direction of the cavalry outside the city. Finally, he shook his head and said, "No, the bandit cavalry is too far away from the city wall and our cannon can't reach it."
Almost all the Tiger Banner cavalry outside the city were some distance away from Daizhou City. Only a few cavalry went to drive away the people below the city before they entered the range of the cannon on the top of the city.
"The cavalry of the rebel army has arrived outside our Daizhou City. I think the infantry of the rebel army will arrive soon. I don't know how long this battle will last. The commander might as well take advantage of this time to rest first. " said a military general next to him.
On the walls of Daizhou City, there are soldiers and horses of Zhenwu Guards. The officials and servants in the Zhizhou Yamen are responsible for the public security on the streets, and the Daizhou Zhizhou sits in the Yamen.
Yuan Chao put a hand on the female wall, looked outside the city, and said: "The traitors are coming, and I will serve as the guard of Daizhou City. As long as the traitors do not retreat, I will not return to the mansion for a day."
"My subordinate died serving the general."
The city guarding officers standing around immediately bowed to Yuan Chaoju, and several general sentries and hundreds of households even knelt on one knee.
Yuan Chaoju stretched out his hand to support the person closest to him and said: "The traitors are coming. I hope you all can work together to defeat the traitors with me. As long as we can defend Daizhou City, I will definitely ask for credit for you." "
"We will follow the general to the death." The surrounding generals shouted in unison.
"Thieves, thieves are coming from the north."
On top of the city, the soldiers on the observation deck shouted loudly.
Yuan Chaoju hurriedly looked in the north direction.
In the distance, a large banner appeared in the sight of everyone on the city wall.
"I'm afraid there are thirty or forty thousand troops!" A member of the Qianhu family standing next to Yuan Chaoju said with a stunned look on his face.
After hearing this, Yuan Chao glanced at the other party and said, "Don't you already know how many soldiers and horses the thieves have? There is no need for you to repeat it here."
"That's not what I meant, General. I thought that the bandit army of 30,000 to 40,000 people was an exaggeration because of the defeated troops who escaped from Yanmen Pass, but I didn't expect there to be so many." Qianhu smiled bitterly.
Generally speaking, if the bandit army has tens of thousands of people, it can be said that it is an army of one hundred thousand. If there are hundreds of thousands of bandits, it can be said that it is an army of half a million. Once the number of bandit soldiers exceeds two hundred thousand, it can be said that it is an army of one million.
As for the army of thieves outside the city in front of them, there was no moisture at all.
"Order the civilians to send the defensive equipment to the city as soon as possible. If there are not enough earth, stone and bricks, we will demolish the houses in the city. The cauldrons for burning gold juice will be burned by the general." Yuan Chaoju looked nervously at the army of thieves outside the city.
The number of rebels outside the city had exceeded his expectations. What was even more frightening was that the rebels walked from a distance to the foot of Daizhou City. Their formation was not scattered at all. Even the most elite frontier troops he had ever seen. Far inferior to that.
At this time, he no longer had any luck in his heart.
The bandit army was able to defeat several frontier armies in Xuanda. It was not necessarily just good luck, as he had previously thought.
"General, I'm afraid this battle won't be easy."
Yuan Chaoju was not the only one who noticed that the bandit army was unusual. There were other generals on the city who also discovered that the bandits outside the city were more powerful than they imagined.
"We will fight even if it is not easy. If we cannot defend Daizhou City, you and I will both be imprisoned by the court!" Yuan Chaoju was dissatisfied with his generals saying such discouraging words.
As the commander of Zhenwu Guard, he had no way out since the day Yanmen Pass was lost.
"The thieves are pushing the cannon up." Someone reminded on the top of the city.
Yuan Chaoju's face was extremely ugly.
The bandit soldiers pushed the cannon to the front of the formation, and he could see clearly on the city wall.
What he never expected was that there were only a few cannons in Daizhou City, but the cannons pushed in front of the formation by the bandits outside the city were densely packed. Without counting, he could tell that there were at least dozens of cannons.
"Why do the bandits have so many cannons?" A general on the city wall exclaimed.
Artillery is a powerful weapon in both siege and defense. Sometimes a few cannons can turn the tide of the battle. As long as he is not a fool, he knows that it will be even harder to defend Daizhou City.
"Fire the cannon, fire the cannon, I will use the cannon to hit the thieves pushing the cannon."
Yuan Chaoju was not sure how many cannons Daizhou City could withstand, so he did not dare to let the Tiger Flag's cannons get close to the city wall. He could only order his own cannons to attack first, hoping to rely on a few cannons on the top of the city to defeat the approaching cannons. The thieves on the city wall.
On the city wall, several gunners were manipulating their own cannons.
It took a while to load the gun and gunpowder, and one of the gunners used a torch to light the match rope on the breech of the gun.
boom! boom! boom!
It was very powerful, and several cannons were fired smoothly. The cannons inside flew from the top of the city to the tiger-shaped flag artillery formation below the city.
However, the range of these cannons was insufficient, and they all fell to the ground halfway.
After seeing the cannon landing, the Tiger Flag gunner outside the city continued to push the artillery truck forward to close the distance with the city wall.
"Shoot on target, you're a bunch of trash." Yuan Chaoju cursed angrily when he noticed that his cannons failed to cause any damage to the rebels.
A man from a hundred households walked up to the gunner who was operating the cannon, kicked and cursed: "It's damn accurate. I didn't even touch the side of the bandit. Didn't any of them eat? Load more gunpowder and give it to me." beat."
After some beatings and scoldings, the gunners at the top of the city hurriedly cleaned the barrels of their cannons and loaded them with gunpowder and cannon balls.
In order to be able to shoot farther and reach the bandits outside the city, each gunner loaded his cannon with enough gunpowder.
boom!
On the top of the city, a cannon suddenly exploded. All the gunners nearby were injured, and one of them was killed on the spot.
"What's going on?" Yuan Chaoju looked over hurriedly when he saw the chaos on top of the city.
After a while, a member of the Baihu family ran over and said with a dark face: "Reporting to the commander, a cannon just exploded and several gunners were injured."
"Trash." Yuan Chaoju cursed angrily.
There were already fewer cannons on the city wall than in the bandit army, and now that one was missing, it would be even more difficult to threaten the bandit soldiers.
"What are you still doing here? Go and let your people fire the cannon. Do you want to wait for the bandits to push the cannon down the city and bombard Daizhou City?"
When Yuan Chaoju saw the hundred households still standing in front of him, he couldn't help but scolded them.
Baihu ran away in a hurry.
boom!
There was another muffled thunder sound on the top of the city, and the sound of wailing echoed over the city head.
Yuan Chaoju looked at the chaotic situation on the city wall again, and felt a bad feeling in his heart.
I saw Baihu, who had just left not long ago, running over again.
"General, another cannon has exploded." As he said that, the hundred households lowered their heads.
Yuan Chaoju suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "What's going on? Wasn't it fine when we fired the gun before?"
