"The last general takes command!"
The Tiger Crouching Artillery Group and the Folang Machine Cannon Group approached the city wall again, firing to suppress the slave-building enemy troops on the city wall.
More than a hundred people carried very sharp pickaxe-like objects and took the opportunity to rush towards the place where the green bricks collapsed.
Digging holes five meters apart, stuffing palm mines to enlarge the hole, then placing eight or nine thunder mines in the large MiG hole, lighting the fuse, and retreating quickly!
As soon as the group of people retreated from a distance of a hundred meters, several roars far greater than before sounded. The ground shook violently. The tens of meters long city wall flew up to half a meter high, and then fell hard and fell apart. .
In just an instant, the entire southern city wall was shrouded in dust, and everything within dozens of meters was razed to the ground.
Although the nearby city wall has not collapsed, it is already covered with dense cracks, some of which are as wide as several feet and are on the verge of collapse.
Although the city gate tower did not collapse, it was seriously damaged.
The violent noise and smoke made all the slaves freeze on the spot with fear in their eyes.
"Huang Degong immediately led Wu Xiang's left guard to occupy the collapsed city wall and defended it with palm thunder, bows and arrows and tiger squat cannons to prevent Jiannu from rushing out. In addition, he climbed up the city wall from the collapsed city wall and advanced to both sides. Entry into the city was strictly prohibited."
"The last general takes command!"
Huang Degong shouted loudly, waved his hand, and three thousand men behind him rushed forward with the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time.
These three thousand households have a clear division of labor and each has its own characteristics. One goes straight to the gap in the collapsed city wall, and is fully equipped with flintlock guns and French cannons.
The other two, one on the left and one on the right, charged towards the city wall along the gap. Their equipment was very mixed, but it was mixed but not messy, and they were very sophisticated.
The first few rows are filled with thick, high-handled shields that need to be carried by two or three people, followed by pikemen, followed by sergeants with palm mines, and at the end are all flintlock muskets. sergeant.
The Xinmin City Wall is about 800 meters long and wide, nearly six meters high, nine meters wide at the bottom, and the military road is only six meters wide, but it is full of potholes.
Six meters is very wide, but it is far from enough on the city wall. Especially when the two armies are fighting, it is not not enough, but quite crowded.
The large shield of the left guard sergeant Wu Xiang was held tightly against him, and a spear with a cold light pointed diagonally in front of the shield. Anyone who tried to climb over the shield would be stabbed to the core.
Jiannu was very good at riding and shooting, but it was impossible to ride a horse on the city wall, and the bow and arrow were blocked by the big shield and could only be thrown.
The Jiannu sergeant violently hit the shield, but was resisted by the Ming army sergeant. Even if the shield was dented and even if the sergeant behind him had a bloody head, he would not take a step back.
But for the Ming army, it had no impact at all. The sergeants in the rear lit the palm mines and threw them over their shields, falling into the crowded formation of Jiannu sergeants.
The palm thunder that could only injure two or three people now became a reaper of the undead, and each one could take away more than a dozen people.
In just a few breaths, more than a hundred meters in front of the shield became a vacuum zone.
The rest of the Ming army squatted on the city wall, shooting at the sergeants in the city with flintlock rifles to ensure that the attacking team would not be affected.
"Continue the attack!"
"Last hit!"
"Clean up the body!"
A series of military orders were issued, the shields were staggered and advanced, and the spearmen were behind them. Whenever they saw the Jiannu sergeant, no matter whether he was dead or howling miserably, he would stab him in the throat with a gun, and then he would be thrown off the city wall by the sergeant behind him.
The ones who were completely dead were lucky, but the ones who were not dead fell heavily off the city wall, and the unlucky ones fell directly onto the burning equipment, howling miserably, and then being engulfed in flames.
Near the half-collapsed city gate tower, Haug and Saharian struggled to get up from a collapsed table. There were several wounds on their faces and arms, but they were all covered with dust.
Looking at the half-collapsed city gate tower, the two people's eyes were full of horror and fear. If they hadn't run away two breaths earlier, they would have been buried in the ruins by now.
Looking at the sergeants on the city wall who were retreating step by step and the soldiers who were fighting back more than a hundred meters below the city wall but whose bows and arrows had insufficient range, and then looking at the Ming army transporting trebuchets outside the city wall, Sahalian was filled with sadness.
He was wise, contented and resourceful. If it were a cold weapon, he would have the confidence to persist for more than a month. However, under the attack of such firearms from the Ming army, his resourcefulness had no effect at all.
"Hauge, Xinmin City can't be defended anymore!"
"If the Ming army waits for the trebuchet to be transported to the city wall, then the entire Xinmin City will be within the range of the trebuchet, and we will become a living target. It doesn't take too many. As long as there are a thousand of that kind of firearm, we can only Waiting for the entire army to be annihilated!"
"I am ready to let the army rush out of the city. Even if the Ming army outside has prepared Juma stake formations, Folang machine guns, etc., even if all our twelve thousand warriors with yellow flags are wiped out, we can still kill half of the opponent. of troops!”
Hauge's face was filled with sadness, and Sahalian's analysis was correct.
The warriors of Dajin are unparalleled in riding and shooting, but they are not good at defending the city.
According to past practice, if you want to capture Xinmin City where 12,000 warriors with yellow flags are stationed, you will need at least 100,000 sergeants and it will take several days.
But the reality broke their cognition. From the beginning of the Ming army's siege to the present, more than half an hour had passed at most.
At this moment, a large part of the city wall of Xinmin City collapsed. The Ming army occupied at least three hundred meters of the city wall. At least two thousand Sergeant Dajin died, and it was still expanding.
"Wait a moment!"
"What are you waiting for? If you wait just one more breath, dozens more people will die. Now you still want to hold on?"
Facing Saharian's roar, Haug took out a letter from his arms: "This is what Father Khan gave me. He said that if we really can't hold on, then we should act according to the plan in the letter!"
Saharian snatched the letter, took out the letterhead inside, and scanned it quickly.
"When the city was broken, the first army was cut off, and the first army withdrew to Zhangwu. Together with the garrison in Zhangwu City, they immediately entered Mongolia. From the moment the letter was broken, Sahalian was fully responsible!
He also immediately notified Duduo of Kangping City, and immediately led his troops north along the Liaohe River into Mongolia, met at the Baihe River, and then quickly escaped! "
Looking at the contents of the letter, Saharian was a little unbelievable that he actually let them escape.
But this is indeed Huang Taiji's handwriting.
Could it be that the Great Khan had a premonition that the new people would not be able to hold on?
Or is it that the entire Dajin tripartite coalition cannot stop the Ming army's attack?
Is this battle destined to fail? Otherwise, why should they be kept in hiding?
"Since the whole army may be wiped out, it's better to fight to the death. Kill one to be enough, and kill two to make a profit. We have ten thousand warriors here who can kill at least twenty or thirty thousand of the opponent. If you die, you will be considered a profit!"
"No, the letter from the Great Khan seems to have the intention of asking us to retreat and hide directly. This is the fire left to Dajin."
"Does the Great Khan know that the Ming army has such powerful firearms that can directly blow up city walls? The Xinmin side has already fired hundreds of them, so wouldn't there be more on the Liaohe side?
What if the Khan didn't know it and was caught off guard by such a firearm? "
"Hmm... No, this kind of powerful firearm requires a trebuchet. To send the trebuchet across the Liao River requires a large warship. The range of the trebuchet is limited. If it is set up by the river, it will not threaten the army at all. However, we still need to inform the Great Khan. Be prepared early.”
