The speed of the crash car and the ladder truck was not very fast. Thousands of officers and soldiers followed the crash car and the ladder truck on both sides, using the crash car and the ladder truck to avoid the attack on the city.
boom! boom! boom!
Large solid iron balls were ejected from the barrel of the four-pounder on the city wall.
The cannon fell down without any reason.
Thousands of officers and soldiers, even if they were crowded together, would occupy a large area. Not one of the eight solid iron balls missed, and they all fell into the crowd of officers and soldiers.
One of the iron balls hit the ladder truck.
The officers and soldiers hiding around the ladder truck only heard a click, and the solid iron ball bomb fell to the side, but the ladder truck did not appear to have any damage on the outside.
This made the officers and soldiers hiding behind breathe a sigh of relief.
Those officers and soldiers who did not have ladder trucks or crash trucks to block the cannons were killed by iron balls. The ups and downs of the iron balls plowed ditches of flesh and blood in the flow of officers and soldiers.
"Get on target."
The captain of the artillery team on the city wall noticed the results of the previous round of shelling. Although many officers and soldiers were killed and injured, the damage to the siege equipment outside the city was not great, and not even a single one was damaged.
The gunners of several four-pounders began to repeatedly clean and load the four-pounders.
At this time, the thousands of officers and soldiers outside the city were getting closer to Yongning City.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of cannon sounded again from the top of the city.
This time the gunners' targets were still the siege engines outside the city.
Most of the cannonballs fell on the heads of the officers and soldiers outside the city, and two of them hit the ladder and the crash car. The upper part of the ladder was hit by one shot and then broke on the spot, directly hitting the officers and soldiers hiding below. Bottom.
The collision also shattered a wheel, and the heavy body tilted to one side, and several officers and soldiers who could not escape were smashed underneath.
"Stop attacking the enemy's siege equipment and shell the officers and soldiers following behind." The artillery team leader discovered that it took two rounds of shelling to destroy a crashed vehicle and a ladder.
If another round of artillery is fired at the top of the city, the officers and soldiers will rush to the bottom of the city wall. If they continue to attack the enemy's siege equipment, they may not be able to destroy any of them. Instead, it is better to directly bombard the officers and soldiers behind.
To bombard officers and soldiers, there is no need to adjust the shooting angle of the four-pounder.
It's a pity that the gunner next to him only needs to clean up, load and fire the gun step by step, but it saves time.
Soon, several four-pound cannons fired again, harvesting lives one after another.
boom! boom! boom!
At the crenellations on the city wall, the guards holding firecrackers fired their firecrackers at the officers and soldiers approaching from outside the city.
The officers and soldiers at the forefront had almost reached the gates of Yongning City and were within the range of the fire cannons.
After the sound of the cannons, dozens of officers and soldiers fell down, and the crash car and ladder truck also blocked many cannons fired from the city wall for the officers and soldiers.
Boom!
A crackling sound resounded on the battlefield, and the only cannon of the army a few hundred steps away from Yongning City exploded, affecting several officers and soldiers in front of it.
However, several ladder trucks and some officers and soldiers arrived at the gate of Yongning City, and the explosion of a cannon could no longer attract the attention of everyone on the battlefield.
The ladder on the ladder truck was erected, and officers and soldiers climbed up the ladder with shields in their hands.
boom! boom! boom! valley
Firecrackers crackled on the city wall, and the muskets were swung at the officers and soldiers under the city wall as if they were free of charge.
The shields were mostly made of lighter pine wood, and were specially wrapped with a layer of leather to protect against firearms.
Wow!
Just as the people climbing the ladder were climbing to the top of the city, the people on the city poured pots of boiling oil on the officers and soldiers below. Even the top of the ladder was covered with a layer of oil. .
Several officers and soldiers who were doused with hot oil screamed and fell down the ladder. Some officers and soldiers who had not yet had time to climb up the ladder were also doused with hot oil and rolled all over the ground.
After pouring the hot oil, the guards on the city wall did not stop. Soon, several flaming torches were thrown down.
When the hot oil touched the fire, the ground suddenly burst into flames. Not only did the ladder covered with hot oil catch fire, but some officers and soldiers also burned.
The officers and soldiers who were caught in the fire rolled around trying to put out the flames on their bodies, and the wails in their mouths continued to sound.
boom! boom! boom!
The firecrackers on the city wall were constantly fired, taking away the lives of officers and soldiers one after another.
As the battle progresses, the thousands of officers and soldiers attacking the city have lost seven to eight hundred people. The ground is covered with corpses in various forms of death, especially near the city wall, where there are more corpses.
In just a short time, more officers and soldiers died from gunfire than from four-pounders.
Only half of the ladder was burned. There were more ladder trucks with countless officers and soldiers holding shields and rushing towards the city wall. Some of the officers and soldiers following behind began to try to stab the city wall with their spears.
Wow!
Pots of stinky golden juice were poured down, and many officers and soldiers were scalded and fell off the ladder, falling heavily to the ground.
The four-pounder cannons killed the officers and soldiers slightly farther away from the city wall, and the guards behind the crenellations used fire blunderbuss to kill the officers and soldiers below the city wall.
Because the defenders did not have archers, the effectiveness of the shields in the hands of the officers and soldiers was greatly reduced. Some shields were shot directly through muskets and hit the people behind the shields.
As the number of casualties among the officers and soldiers on the city wall increased, they finally could no longer bear it, and the officers and soldiers attacking the city began to retreat.
"Captain, the barrel of the gun is too hot. You can't fire it anymore. If you don't let it go, the gun barrel will be deformed." A gunner turned back to look at the captain of the artillery team.
Upon hearing this, the artillery team captain shouted: "Go and prepare clean water quickly, pour water on it, and quickly cool down the gun barrel."
Several four-pounders had been fired so many times that the barrels were already hot to the touch.
"Captain, let's repel the enemy's attack."
As the officers and soldiers under the city retreated, a guard nearby said excitedly.
Yang Fan wiped his face, which was blackened by gunpowder, and looked at the retreating officers and soldiers outside the city with a heavy expression.
The enemy has an army of 50,000 to 60,000 men, and the enemies they repulse do not even account for one-tenth of the total number of enemies. The next battle will be very difficult.
"Let us rest quickly. The enemy may come up at any time. There are also medicines and fierce fire oil. Send some more." Yang Fan asked his messengers to convey the order.
The messenger next to him ran to deliver the order.
Yang Fan sat on the ground with his back against the female wall, breathing heavily and holding the gun tightly in his hand.
The defenders on the city wall began to carry the bodies of their dead companions and helped their injured companions to the bottom of the city for treatment.
In the previous siege, although the officers and soldiers did not rush to the city wall, the archers among the officers and soldiers still shot a lot of arrows at the city wall, causing a lot of trouble to the defenders on the city.
Fortunately, the guards on the city wall all wore armor. Although many of them were not iron armor, but just cotton armor and rattan armor, they were very effective in defending against arrows. As long as they did not hit the vital point, many of them were just injured.
