"Leave a group of people to guard the flanks of the artillery array, and the rest will cooperate with the artillery to capture Lushun City." Xing Chaoxi ordered a general attack.
The sound of artillery once again covered the southern part of Lushun City.
As the main attack, the Third Battle Barracks began to approach the city wall of Lushun City.
At this time, on the city wall of Lushun City, Chen Jisheng saw Huanglong's attack failed and fled. While disappointed, he was also shaken in his heart about whether he could hold Nancheng.
Lushun City is not a big city. It was built because it was close to the port. It occupies a small area and is already crumbling under the constant bombardment of nearly a hundred cannons.
"General, I can't stay on the city wall anymore. Please go back to the city and take shelter." Shang Kexi came to Chen Jisheng and persuaded Chen Jisheng to evacuate from the city wall.
He knew very well that if something happened to Chen Jisheng, the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, in the city, Nancheng would really have no hope of holding on.
Seeing that Huang Long had fled to the north city of Lushun, Chen Jisheng did not refuse Shang Kexi's proposal, and solemnly told Shang Kexi: "Shang Dusi, I leave this place to you, you must hold it."
"General, don't worry, we will live and die with Tongjinmen." Shang Kexi assured loudly with his chest.
Chen Jisheng nodded with satisfaction at his statement, and the friendly Shang Kexi patted him on the shoulder and said: "As long as you can prevent the tiger thieves from crossing Tongjin Gate and entering the city, I will definitely report your merits to the court. I won’t treat the hero badly.”
"I would like to thank the general first." Shang Kexi bent down and saluted.
Chen Jisheng said: "I'll leave this to you."
After saying that, he hurried down the city wall with his personal guards.
The artillery fire outside the city became more and more fierce, and the guards on the city wall could only find a place to hide again. Even so, many people still became the victims of the artillery fire because they could not escape.
Shang Kexi hid in the place where Chen Jisheng had previously hidden.
After the sound of artillery continued for a while, the sound gradually became rarer.
"General, tiger thieves are attacking the city!" Some of the guards found Shang Kexiang.
Hearing this, Shang Kexi picked up his knife and hurriedly led people back to the city wall.
As soon as I came up, I immediately found a ladder set up at the entrance of the crenel.
"Follow me and kill the tiger thief!" Shang Kexi shouted, raised his knife and killed him at the crenel where the ladder was.
The top of the city was bombarded many times by cannons outside the city. Some of the defensive equipment prepared in advance were destroyed and broken. Basically, none of them could be used. The only way to defend the city was to rely on desperate efforts.
Shang Ke is not afraid of risking his life.
If he didn't work hard, there would be no meritorious service. He also wanted to use this tiger bandit's attack to accumulate merit and be promoted to a guerrilla general, so that no one would think that he was resting on his father's credit book.
"Push the ladder away!"
When they came to the crenel at the ladder, no one outside the city had climbed up the city wall along the ladder, so Shang Kexi immediately asked someone to push the ladder.
The soldiers with the tiger flag on the ladder climbed up. Naturally, one person could not move the ladder. There was no such thing as a fork. If you wanted to move the ladder, you could only lean out and push the ladder with your hands.
As soon as some officers and soldiers leaned out, they heard a few gunshots, and then they fell down the city wall.
One of the officers and soldiers who originally wanted to help was so frightened that he quickly retreated.
After such a delay, soldiers with the Tiger Flag climbed up the city wall along the crenellations.
When he saw the man with the tiger-shaped flag coming up, Shang Kexi rushed over with his sword and raised his hand to bang it down.
The tiger-character flag warrior who had just stepped over the crenel with one leg had not yet stabilized his footing when he was hit on his shoulder. He tilted his body and rolled down the city wall.
Before Shang Kexi could take back his sword, another soldier immediately climbed up from below.
The soldiers who had just emerged from the crenels were not in a hurry to climb the city wall like the previous one. Instead, they were holding a fire blunderbuss and aimed it at the nearest person.
When Shang Kexi saw the person coming up from the ladder raising a firecracker, he hurriedly hid to one side.
The sound of firecrackers sounded.
Shang Kexi, who had tried his best to dodge, still didn't get over completely. His left arm was hit by the musket. The pain was so painful that he couldn't help but scream and fell to the ground, cold sweat flowing down his forehead.
Even the bone stubble was exposed at the place where the musket was hit, and the surrounding flesh and blood smelled like a burnt lake.
"General!"
The surrounding officers and soldiers hurriedly surrounded Shang Kexi, wanting to know whether Shang Kexi was alive or dead.
The tiger-character flag soldiers on the ladder crossed the crenel and climbed onto the city wall, raised their bayonets and stabbed the nearest officers and soldiers.
There is more than one ladder set up on the city wall.
More and more tiger-character flag soldiers climbed up the city wall through ladders.
In addition to fire gunmen, the soldiers who climbed up the ladder also included sword and shield soldiers.
The sword and shield soldiers hold a sword in one hand and a round shield in the other hand, which can protect themselves very well. And as several sword and shield soldiers hold the city wall, they immediately form a circular formation to win more for the soldiers behind. time.
The soldiers who climbed the city wall did not have the advantage of long-range strikes with fire guns, and could only fight in close combat with the officers and soldiers guarding the city.
People on both sides continued to fall, but the soldiers on the city wall held the last bit of ground.
As more and more soldiers climbed up the city wall via ladders, more and more soldiers joined the fight, and the disadvantage of the tiger-character flag soldiers on the city wall became less and less.
Especially when many soldiers armed with muskets came up and began to form a simple gun formation relying on the crenels, the pressure on the soldiers on the city wall was suddenly reduced a lot.
With the cooperation of the gun array and sword and shield men, they slowly began to counterattack the officers and soldiers on the city wall.
From the beginning, it only occupied an area of a few steps, and gradually expanded to seven, eight, or more than ten steps, allowing more soldiers to climb the city wall and making the spear array thicker.
The situation was reversed, and the tiger-character flag warriors who climbed onto the city wall gained a firm foothold on the city.
As for the officers and soldiers, the leader Shang Kexi was taken off the city wall by the soldiers because he was injured. The remaining officers and soldiers did not have much morale left under repeated shelling.
As soon as the soldiers of the Tiger Flag took a firm foothold on the city wall, the officers and soldiers began to retreat steadily.
As more and more tiger-character flag soldiers climbed up the city wall, the soldiers who were at a disadvantage and had an advantage continued to force the officers and soldiers on the city wall to retreat.
The fighting began to form a one-sided situation.
The soldiers of the Tiger Flag quickly captured the city wall, and the officers and soldiers either surrendered or followed Shang Kexi and fled towards the city.
The Tiger Flag soldiers who captured the city wall opened the Tongjin Gate and let the soldiers outside the city into the city.
"Put me down!"
Shang Kexi used his hand to pull the back of the soldier's clothes who was running for his life with him on his back.
"General, you're awake!" The soldiers on the side looked happy.
Shang Kexi, who was hit by a musket, fainted from the pain when he was on the city wall. Because of the fighting between soldiers and horses on both sides of the city wall, his soldiers took people off the city wall.
Shang Kexi endured the pain and got down from the back of the soldier who was carrying him, and stood on the ground. He stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
The soldiers next to him hurriedly reached out to help the person.
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