In addition to the officers and soldiers climbing the ladders, there are also archers on the city wall who constantly shoot arrows at the city wall to suppress the defenders on the city wall and give the officers and soldiers climbing the ladders a chance to climb to the top of the city.
"Quickly, pour the kerosene down and burn them to death." He Qianyou shouted loudly.
A guard picked up an iron pot with a wooden fork and poured it down towards the officers and soldiers under the city wall.
The scalding hot oil cannot be blocked by a shield at all. Even if you are wearing armor, it will flow into the clothes along the gaps. Not many people can bear the pain.
As soon as the hot oil was poured down, another torch was thrown down from the city wall. When it touched the grease, it immediately caught fire.
Several officers and soldiers covered in hot oil were directly burned into burning objects. They screamed and ran to the rear, trying to find something to extinguish the fire on their bodies.
One of the ladder trucks was stained with kerosene and quickly caught fire.
There was not much kerosene prepared on the city wall, and soon it was all used up, so they began to pour the hot golden juice on the officers and soldiers below the city.
"Use the fire blunderbuss to hit the archers and the officers and soldiers on the ladder first." He Qianyou raised the fire blunderbuss in his hand and fired it in the direction of the archers below the city.
Then without looking at the results of the battle, he squatted down and leaned against the female wall to reload the gun in his hand.
The guards on the city wall who used fire cannons were almost all the same. After firing the fire cannons, they immediately hid and did not give the archers below the city a chance to aim and kill.
Even so, some guards were hit by arrows.
There are not as many guards on the east wall as there are on the south wall, and the number of firearms is also smaller. However, the number of officers and soldiers attacking the city below is no less than that on the south wall, so the pressure they bear is naturally greater.
Several times, officers and soldiers rushed to the city wall. When they were almost on the wall, they were knocked down by the spears in the hands of peasant soldiers.
He Qianyou knew that if the situation continued like this, it would be a matter of time before the officers and soldiers rushed to the city wall.
"Captain, captain, reinforcements are coming." A guard ran up to He Qianyou and said.
He Qianyou turned his head and looked over.
On the other side of the horse road, soldiers and horses kept rushing up the city wall.
"How many reinforcements have come?" He Qianyou asked.
The guard replied: "There are three hundred people here, all of them are firecrackers."
"Leave a hundred and go to the west and north city gates with the rest to support them." He Qianyou said to the other party.
The guard said: "Captain Yang has sent troops for reinforcements, and they also have three hundred fire guns."
"There are few defenders on both sides. Send more reinforcements to them. I'm still holding on here. Go quickly. Just leave a hundred for me." He Qianyou ordered.
When the guards saw this, they had no choice but to send them to the other side of the horse road.
In the end, only one hundred reinforcements were left on the east wall, and the remaining two hundred reinforcements went to reinforce the west and north gates.
With the reinforcement of a hundred gunmen, the city's defense became stronger. Some of the officers and soldiers who had a chance to climb the city wall were once again forced back to the middle of the ladder.
Because the archers under the city were the focus of the attack, they suffered more casualties, and the support for other siege officers and soldiers was naturally weakened.
Likewise, the number of dead, wounded and out-of-combat defenders on the city wall also began to increase.
"Hit!" He Qianyou raised his gun and fired it at the officers and soldiers below the city.
If the officers and soldiers do not retreat, they will have no choice but to keep fighting.
Just on the eastern section of the city wall where He Qianyou was, there were between one and two hundred officers and soldiers killed and injured, and there were also many injured.
If they were the officers and soldiers they encountered in the past, the officers and soldiers would have retreated long ago when the battle reached this level, but these officers and soldiers from Liaodong still fought to the death, and their offensive did not weaken at all.
The fighting continued, with neither side showing any intention of giving in.
One side defends to the death, while the other side risks his life to attack the city.
"The spearmen picked the enemy down."
Some officers and soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder, and He Qianyou ordered the defenders with spears to come up.
Several spears pricked the officers and soldiers who had just jumped onto the city wall.
The officers and soldiers wanted to resist with the shields in their hands, and at the same time waved the swords in their other hands to block the spears that were thrust towards them.
The shield was pressed against the spearhead of a spear, and the knife in his hand also deflected the spearhead of a spear, and several spearheads were still stuck in his body.
The tip of the gun pierced into the flesh, making a squeaking sound.
Before the officers and soldiers could stand firm on the city wall, they died on the spearheads of several spears. Their bodies lay paralyzed beside the crenellations and were pushed off the city wall by the spears.
He Qianyou on the other side picked up the newly loaded fire cannon and hit the next officer and soldier who was about to climb the city wall, knocking him down the ladder.
Subsequently, more and more officers and soldiers began to climb up the city wall via ladders.
At first, the guards could use their spears to push the officers and soldiers who had just climbed onto the city wall down the city wall. But slowly, more and more officers and soldiers climbed onto the city wall. The spears began to be unable to carry them over, and the officers and soldiers began to gain a foothold on the city wall.
boom! boom! boom!
Some of the defenders started firing muskets at the officers and soldiers on the city wall.
Gradually, more and more guards using firecrackers began to retreat, leaving the front position to the guards using spears. The spears were held in front, and the firecrackers were fired one after another from behind.
The defenders on the city wall who were using the new rifles of the Tiger Flag all mounted their bayonets and formed groups to fight hand-to-hand with the officers and soldiers who stormed the city wall.
Although the officers and soldiers on the city wall are also forming formations, they occupy a very small space. They can only allow a few officers and soldiers holding shields to stand in front and slowly push forward to expand the space, allowing more officers and soldiers below the city to have the opportunity to board. City head.
"Press forward, press forward, drive them down." He Qianyou held up a firecracker equipped with a bayonet, and two rows of firecrackers also equipped with bayonets, moved forward step by step, squeezing the movement of officers and soldiers on the city wall. space.
"prick!"
After the two sides got closer, He Qianyou shouted and stabbed the enemy in front of him with his bayonet.
All around him were musketeers who stabbed the enemy with bayonets like him.
The officers and soldiers on the city wall used shields to resist and fought back with knives in their hands.
The length of the musket hitting the bayonet was almost as long as the spear. The knives in the hands of the officers and soldiers could not threaten the guards who thrust out the bayonets, and they could only be beaten passively.
After several consecutive assassinations, there was no longer an officer or soldier left standing on the city wall.
There were no officers and soldiers on the city wall, and the guards threw the corpses of the officers and soldiers down with rolling wood and rocks.
The injuries on his body were also noticed by several people in the tent.
"Get up quickly. How did you get this injury on your shoulder? Have you seen the military doctor?" Jiang Yingzhao asked about the injury on the sentinel's body.
The sentry got up from the ground and said: "Early this morning, I was ordered to lead a group of people to investigate the surrounding situation. Unexpectedly, when I returned, I encountered a large group of thieves. They fought hard. He was shot in the shoulder, but he finally escaped."
"Where did you meet the thieves?" Man Gui asked eagerly.
The sentry detective said: "It is twenty miles away from the army camp. I didn't notice it when I led the people passing by, but when I came back, I suddenly encountered it."
"So close." Mangui frowned.
There are many mountains and forests in Yanqing Prefecture, and sometimes they are more than ten miles apart. It would be difficult to find each other unless they bump into each other.
