"General, our people are just a little short of capturing the lower city wall." Lieutenant General Lin Huai, who was following Man Gui, said.
The officers and soldiers rushed to the wall of Yongning City several times, but although they were all driven down, he believed that as long as they continued to fight, the officers and soldiers would be able to gain a firm foothold on the city wall sooner or later.
"You can't hold on any longer." Man Gui turned to look at Lin Huai and said, "Lieutenant General Lin, you immediately lead the troops behind me to support the soldiers attacking the city. You must seize the city wall in one go."
Although the siege officers and soldiers attacked the city wall several times, the casualties were still high. He was afraid that if he waited any longer, the siege officers and soldiers would be unable to retreat due to too many casualties, so he decided to send a fresh force to support.
"Take them all away?" Lin Huai asked hesitantly.
Man Gui said: "I will give you all the troops here to support our people immediately."
"The general has taken everyone away. What will happen to your safety? The main force of the bandits has arrived near Yongning City." Lin Huai said.
Man Gui said: "As long as you capture Yongning City, I will be fine. There are tens of thousands of General Jiang's troops outside. You can lead your troops and leave."
"The general will obey the order."
Lin Huai saw that Mangui insisted on giving him all the troops and horses to attack Yongning City. Without further explanation, he immediately stepped in and took over the general's order.
An army of five to six thousand men, led by Lin Huai, rushed towards Yongning City.
At this time, Mangui was surrounded by only a few officers and soldiers, except for hundreds of soldiers and servants.
On the city wall on the south side of Yongning City.
Yang Fan, who was killing the enemy, noticed another large group of officers and soldiers coming towards Yongning City in the distance, and his face turned dark.
The south wall where he was sitting had been attacked by officers and soldiers once. However, the other walls in Yongning City were not as well equipped as the south wall, so the situation was definitely more critical.
Now a team of thousands of officers and soldiers have arrived to reinforce the siege. The southern wall where he is stationed may not be able to be defended, and it is even more difficult to hold the other walls.
"Kill the enemy!" Yang Fan shouted, and the fire gun in his hand hit an officer and soldier who was about to climb the city wall hard in the face, knocking him off the ladder.
He no longer cares about the other walls. All he can do now is to block the attacking officers and soldiers here and prevent the south wall from falling into the hands of the officers and soldiers.
The battle started with fire cannons and archers shooting at each other on and under the city wall, to the fight on the wall behind.
More and more people were killed in the battle, and the piles of corpses were getting thicker and thicker.
boom! boom!
Several tiger crouching cannons struck hard at the officers and soldiers who stormed the city wall.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon is filled with gravel and iron sand, and a large piece is formed when it is hit. It goes around like a big net. At close range, it is far more ferocious and cruel than a firecracker.
Pine shields, chainmail, cotton armor, various armors and defensive items could not withstand the iron sand fired from the Crouching Tiger Cannon at such a close distance.
As soon as several squatting tiger cannons fired, a large number of the officers and soldiers who barely managed to gain a foothold on the city wall were immediately killed and injured. The remaining few officers and soldiers who were not injured because their human shields blocked the cannons of the squatting tiger cannons, before they could recover, were killed. He was beaten to death by the guards on the city wall with firecrackers.
Yang Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
Once again, the officers and soldiers who appeared on the city wall were driven back.
"There is no need to save medicine. Use the fire oil, gold juice, wood and thunder stones. Use whatever you can. We must not let the officers and soldiers climb up the city wall again." Yang Fan shouted loudly.
The firegun in his hand was fired at an officer and soldier climbing on the ladder.
Pots of kerosene were poured down from the city wall by the defenders, and poured on the ladder trucks and other siege equipment under the city wall. Then they used torches to light the kerosene and use the fire to burn the siege equipment under the city wall to prevent the officers and soldiers from passing through. These things scaled the walls.
Arrows under the city wall continued to be thrown towards the top of the city, causing more and more defenders on the city wall to lose their combat effectiveness, and the number of casualties continued to increase.
At this moment, Yang Fan was already disgraced by gunpowder.
But he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. If he relaxed even a little bit in blocking the officers and soldiers below the city, some officers and soldiers would immediately take the opportunity to climb up the city wall and threaten the guards on the wall.
Reinforcements of officers and soldiers arrived.
The offensive, which had just slowed down, immediately became stronger again. Many officers and soldiers stared at the muskets on the city wall, climbed up the city wall, and formed simple battle formations.
"Tiger Crouching Cannon, hit the officers and soldiers on the city wall." Yang Fan shouted loudly.
However, he didn't need to remind him at all. When the gunner operating the Crouching Tiger Cannon saw more officers and soldiers climbing up the city wall, he immediately fired at these officers and soldiers with the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
A squatting gun shot out countless iron sand, and the officers and soldiers who were hit by the iron sand were bloody and bloody on the spot.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several arrows were shot from the crowd behind the officers and soldiers, and several of the nearest gunners were shot on the spot. Two of them were hit in the vital parts by the arrows and were killed on the spot.
When Yang Fan saw archers among the officers and soldiers climbing up the city wall with other officers and soldiers, his expression immediately changed.
If it were just some officers and soldiers using swords and guns, he wouldn't be afraid at all.
There are fire cannons and squatting tiger cannons on the city wall, which are enough to rely on distance to knock down the officers and soldiers who have climbed up the city wall.
However, with the presence of archers among the officers and soldiers, the problem of distance can be solved at once and can threaten the life of the gunner.
"An enemy of ten thousand people, an enemy of ten thousand people." Yang Fan did not dare to give the archers among the officers and soldiers another chance to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and hurriedly loudly ordered his men to fight back.
Ten Thousand Enemy is a primitive grenade, which is relatively large and filled with gunpowder and various iron nails and iron sand.
Although it is not as light as the grenades of later generations, it is far less powerful, and it cannot kill anyone. It relies entirely on the iron nails and iron sand inside to hurt people. As long as it is not unlucky and hits the vital point, it is difficult to kill people.
But the biggest advantage of Ten Thousand Enemies is that when it explodes, objects such as iron and iron sand will fly out in all directions, injuring people around them. The more densely populated the place, the greater the power of Ten Thousand Enemies. .
Especially the archers, whose armor is not as good as that of the officers and soldiers occupying the city wall. As long as they are injured by ten thousand enemies, they will basically lose the opportunity to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
Several bullets of ten thousand enemies were thrown into the crowd of officers and soldiers on the city wall.
boom! boom! boom!
A series of muffled thunder-like explosions sounded. Under the cover of thousands of enemies, almost no one among the officers and soldiers escaped the iron sand and nails that flew out after the explosions of the thousands of enemies.
The few archers hiding behind the officers and soldiers were even worse. Their arms and faces were covered with flying iron nails and iron sand. Two archers next to the crenels fell directly from the city wall.
The guards on the city wall took this opportunity to use their spears to lift off the city wall the officers and soldiers who had been injured by thousands of enemies.
"Take all the ten thousand enemies and throw them under the city wall where there are many people."
The weapon of tens of thousands of enemies has been exposed, and Yang Fan no longer hides and tucks it in. He directly has people take out the enemies of ten thousand and throw them into the crowd of officers and soldiers below the city.
Soon, hundreds of thousands of enemies were thrown off the city wall.
A large number of officers and soldiers under the city wall were killed or injured. The officers and soldiers who were originally crowded under the city wall were cleared out by thousands of enemies.
