Baihu, who was standing not far away, was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.
Looking at the broken limbs not far away, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his crotch became wet unknowingly.
On the other side, the Rencheng Guard commander and a group of Rencheng Guard officials were escorted off the city wall by many soldiers and servants.
As for the gunners who died on the city wall, no one cared about their life or death.
The gunners of the Tiger Flag only used one round of bombardment, which completely silenced the official cannons on the city wall.
Although there were still cannons intact on the city wall, no soldiers dared to approach them for fear of ending up dead like the other cannon operators.
The Baihu who supervised the artillerymen firing the cannon saw the sound of the cannons stop, got up from the ground, and hurriedly fled away, unwilling to stay here for a moment.
The Tiger Flag Artillery Team outside the city soon launched a second round of bombardment on the city.
The target was still the cannon of the city's defenders.
The only two remaining cannons of the army were completely destroyed by this round of bombardment, and the casualties were actually much less than the first time.
The biggest reason is that few soldiers dare to approach the cannon.
Commander Ren, who was safely escorted off the city wall by his own soldiers, heard the sound of cannons, looked up at the city wall, and said, "Why don't you fight back! Aren't there cannons on the city? Let me help you fight back." "
When he arrived at the city, his own safety was guaranteed, so he was in no hurry to leave.
"Huang Qianhu, why did you come down with us? Who will guard the city when you come down!" The commander on the side, Zhi Yulu, saw the guard Qianhu fleeing down the city wall with them, and his face suddenly darkened.
After hearing this, Commander Ren of the City Guard also looked at Huang Qianhu and said, "What are you going to do if you don't go to defend the city? Go back and defend the city."
Now is the time when the Tiger Character Banner is attacking the city. It is not easy to kill the general before the battle. The only choice is to let the opponent go back to the city wall to command the soldiers to defend the city.
"Yes, General Mo will go back right now." Huang Qianhu also realized that he shouldn't leave the city wall with him.
However, in the previous situation, he could be regarded as having complied with his intentions.
The first level of the official rank is overwhelming. The officials in the surrounding guards and command yamen are the lowest-ranked officials who are also the commanders. However, he, Qianhu, is the lowest-ranked military attache.
As a lower-ranking official, I naturally had no qualifications to be picky, so I had to bite the bullet and walk to the horse path leading up to the city wall.
"Remember to get out of the way of the cannon and use the cannon to fight back hard at me." Commander Ren Chengwei said through gritted teeth.
Because of the shelling of the Tiger Flag, he had to flee down the city wall in embarrassment. He felt that he had lost face and wanted his own artillery to win it back for him.
"Don't worry, general. I will let my men fire back when I return." Huang Qianhu responded and strode onto the horse path.
Commander Ren City Guard watched Huang Qianhu climb the city wall, and turned to a commander on the side and said: "You stay and cooperate with Huang Qianhu, and the others will follow me to check the situation at other city gates. .”
The commander who was left behind had a bitter look on his face.
Others breathed a secret sigh of relief.
Ren Chengwei, the commander of the city guard, took the remaining people and left the gate of the West City on horseback.
As more and more cannons from the Tiger Flag Artillery Team entered the combat position, the siege troops in the rear were also ready to attack the city.
Soon, more and more cannons were fired from outside the city, and cannonballs flew towards the top of the city.
In order to attack Ziyang City, Chen Xunping asked the artillery team to prepare hundreds of cannons.
You must know that when Lao Nu attacked Ningyuan City, he only used more than 80 cannons, many of which were small cannons, and there were not many real heavy cannons.
But the Tiger Flag uses powerful heavy artillery, some of which are more powerful than the Hongyi cannon on top of Ningyuan City.
A cannon was fired, and the entire west gate of Ziyang City was buried by the cannon.
The entire city wall seemed to have been plowed, and any living creature was turned into a corpse with mutilated limbs under the repeated hammering of the cannon.
Minced meat, bones, and blood from Sticky Lake were mixed together and stained on the city bricks under their feet.
After just a few rounds of shelling, there was no longer a living creature still standing on the city wall.
"Tell the First Battle Barracks to attack!" Chen Xunping used the monocular in his hand to see the situation on the city wall, and ordered the flag soldiers to send the siege signal to the First Battle Barracks.
Cao Guang, the commander of the First Battle Barracks, was also observing the situation on the city wall with the monocular telescope in his hand.
However, his position is not as good as Chen Xunping's.
Chen Xunping stood on a temporary command podium with a higher position and could clearly see everything on the west wall of Ziyang City.
As the main siege team, the First Battle Barracks was closer to Ziyang City, so the field of view was somewhat poorer, but they could still clearly see part of the defenders on the city wall.
"Is it time for us to attack? The division commander won't let the artillery team stop for a moment." Seeing that there were no officers and soldiers guarding the city on the wall in front of him, Cao Guang, the camp commander, felt a little anxious.
[In view of the general environment,
Wu Chunguang, the staff officer standing next to him, said: "Don't worry, as long as the time is right, the division will definitely issue an order to attack the city. We are the main attack camp."
"I'm just afraid that the people in the artillery team will get addicted to firing and won't give us a chance to contribute." Cao Guang said with a look of resentment.
The army attacked the city all the way. Many times when the artillery was fired, the officials in the city took the initiative to attack the city. All the credit was taken away by the artillery team. Instead, the various military camps, which were the main force in the siege, did not get any credit and became the backbone of the artillery team. .
Several combat barracks were robbed of credit by the artillery team, and they complained a lot.
At this moment, the messenger ran over and said urgently: "Ying Zheng, there is an order from Division Zheng, ordering our first battle barracks to attack the city."
"Okay." Cao Guang, the commander of the camp, clapped his hands excitedly and said, "Give me the order to launch an attack on Ziyang City in accordance with the attack order assigned by each thousand-man team in advance."
Order after order was sent to the thousands-man troops in the First Battle Barracks.
Soon, the First Battle Barracks rushed to the wall of Ziyang City carrying several ladders.
As the war barracks launched an attack on Ziyang City, the artillery team also stopped shelling Ziyang City.
Huang Qianhu, who was guarding the west city wall, heard the sound of cannons stop and shouts of killing coming from the bottom of the city. He immediately knew that the Tiger Character Banner had begun to send out infantry to attack the city.
As the defender of the city, he did not dare to hide any longer, and hurriedly called out to the other soldiers who were still alive, shouting: "Quick, follow me and return to the city to defend against the enemy."
As he said that, he held the waist knife in his hand and rushed towards the city.
But when he took a few steps, he found that no one was following him.
Seeing this, my heart sank.
How can anyone not understand that these people were frightened by the shelling just now and did not escape immediately because they were afraid of leaving their hiding place and being injured by the cannons flying from outside the city.
Thinking of this, Huang Qianhu knew that Xicheng could no longer be defended.
He made a prompt decision, turned around and fled into the city, no longer caring about defending the city.
