The winter nights in Annan are not hot at all, just as cool as the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanjing.
Soldiers wearing armor will not feel unbearable heat.
Xue Lu stared at Duobang City. He came here to kill the enemy, perform meritorious service, and find a title. Now, the opportunity has come! There are a large number of Annan sergeants in Duobang City. As long as these people are killed, getting promoted will not be a foolish dream.
bring it on!
I have been waiting for this day for many years!
Xue Lu held the waist knife tightly, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.
Ji Gang kept rolling his eyes, recruiting fifty of his men, and said seriously: "When the artillery fire stops, you must follow me closely. If anyone runs the wrong way again and causes me to lose the victory of seizing the city, I will forgive you." Can’t touch him!”
"Don't worry, Boss Ji, we will follow closely."
The sergeants returned quickly.
Ji Gang pointed in the direction of the Duobang city wall and said: "Wherever it is the weakest, we will rush to it. As for the crenels where there are still people, let Xue Lu and the others clean them up. The first achievement is far more important than Sergeant Annan's head!"
"As commanded."
Ji Gang looked at the obedient people and couldn't help but grin.
The first achievement of Ailiuguan is yours. If the first achievement of this multi-border city is also yours, once you return to Beijing and join the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion as a fourth- and fifth-grade officer, you will be enough to enter the Security Bureau and become a town governor. The location in Tangbuping is good, suitable for doing a lot of things.
Risk it all for the sake of your future!
Lin Zhaoxue yawned, looked at Ji Gang who was not far away, and said to Geng Wei on the side: "What time is it now?"
Geng Wei didn't want to talk to Lin Zhaoxue, so he took a step outside and looked at Duobang City with a straight face.
You are the Security Bureau and I am a soldier, not a system. Who cares about you? Even if you are wearing armor and charging with us, you are also a member of the Security Bureau. Keep your distance.
Lin Zhaoxue was speechless. The Security Bureau had not done anything bad in the past two years. It was Jin Yiwei's reputation that was ruined...
Yuan Yue looked up at the starry sky. He grew up from a soldier to a guard commander. He was repeatedly valued by Zhang Fu and became the top commander of Pingxiang Guard and Nanning Guard. He was ordered to capture Ailiuguan, but these achievements were not enough to repay Zhang. Fu's kindness of knowing and meeting him could not repay the emperor's recognition and trust.
Greater military success equals a bigger stage!
I want to leave Guangxi!
I heard that the Beiyuan cavalry came and went without a trace and were very brave. I really wanted to try their skills!
Using scimitars and swift horses, charging into battle and slashing, should be more exciting than infantry combat, right?
Zhang Fu said that the real headache for Ming Dynasty was Bei Yuan. As for Annan, it would only make Ming Dynasty stomp his feet numb.
Now, it’s time to stomp your feet!
Zhang Fu stood in front of the tent, looking at the Duobang City with torches in the distance, his eyes deep.
Tang Buping remained motionless, standing next to Zhang Fu. At his feet was a special push shield. It was covered with five layers of cowhide and wood. It was nearly half a foot thick and reached as high as his neck. Plus, the weight alone was beyond the limit. Fifty pounds.
Such a thick push shield can be said to be a wall. This was specially prepared by Tang Buping to ensure Zhang Fu's safety. Although Annan had not yet used the divine machine cannon, Daming knew that the opponent's divine machine cannon was powerful, and the opponent's divine machine cannon fired Whether it is a stone bullet or an iron bullet, you can still withstand it with a thick and strong push shield.
Even if the rock knocked open the push shield, and Tang Buping was blocking it, with two layers of defense, the coach would not be killed directly.
"With your skills, you should be on the front line."
Zhang Fu knew how powerful Tang Buping was. He heard that some unconvinced soldiers in the army challenged him to a duel. When he finally saw Tang Buping, he took a detour, as far as ten feet away.
Tang Buping looked at the Dobang City Wall intently and said: "According to the emperor's arrangement, as the commander-in-chief, you should be on the south bank of the Sanjiang River, rather than risking your life to come to the north bank."
A wrinkle squeezed out of the corner of Zhang Fu's eyes: "It should be just a suggestion. I don't intend to accept the emperor's suggestion. The brothers are here, and they are ready to throw their heads and blood, but I am staying behind to strategize and sit down. Looking at the situation? Haha, that’s Zhuge Kongming, I’m Zhang Fu.”
Tang Buping said calmly: "My mission is to protect you. Wherever you are, I will be. As for the front line, they are enough."
Zhang Fu smiled and said nothing more.
Yang Rong came over and reported: "There is still a quarter of an hour until midnight."
Zhang Fu looked up at the night sky. It was a little dark, so he ordered: "Tear down the tents and load gunpowder bombs."
Yang Rong agreed, and three whistle arrows flew into the sky.
The Annan army in the city was used to it. The Ming army would fire various sentry arrows every night, but after that there was not much movement, and this time was no exception.
But under the flames of the Dobang city wall, it was difficult to see clearly the relatively dim camps in the distance. It only seemed that some camps seemed to be missing, but they were only outlines and could not be seen clearly.
Zhu Bingzhong was the guard at the north gate, and he was in charge at night. When he saw any sergeants who were sleepy or exhausted, he would whip them and scold everyone to be vigilant and beware of Ming Dynasty sneak attacks.
Looking up at the sentry arrows rising into the air, Zhu Binzhong felt a little uneasy. He lay down at the crenel and looked into the distance. He seemed to have noticed something. He turned around and shouted to the sergeant: "Let's see the rockets!"
Dozens of sergeants took arrows. The arrows were wrapped with linen cloth. The linen cloth was full of pine oil. After lighting it, they shot it into the distance. The rocket flew in the air, driving the wind, and the flame suddenly became weaker, like a glimmer of light, tearing away the darkness and falling to the ground.
The arrows fell, and some were nailed to the ruined wood of the camp. The fire burned slowly, and some were inserted into the ground and extinguished in an instant. With the help of the rocket's peripheral vision, Zhu Bingzhong took a closer look and did not see the Ming army within two hundred steps.
More and more tents were put away, revealing the dark new divine machine cannon.
Mu Sheng stood next to a divine machine cannon, stretched out his hand to touch the barrel, and asked Yu Rang on the side: "This is the new divine machine cannon of the Second Artillery Bureau. It doesn't look very good. It's just bigger than the Wankou cannon." Just click.”
Yu Rang chuckled and agreed, "Yes, I don't know why Zhang Fu regards this as a treasure."
The sergeant of the Shenji Battalion who operated the Shenji Cannon looked at the two amateur generals and said boldly: "When the fight starts, you will know how powerful it is."
Mu Sheng still wanted to speak, but the sergeant asked him to step aside because he was in the way.
As a dignified marquis, he was despised by others. Mu Sheng planned to squat behind and see what all this stuff was about and how good it could be.
In the middle of the night, whistle arrows soared into the sky.
Breathtaking tranquility, the wind blowing across the river, the starry sky disappearing.
moment!
Zhu Bingzhong, the general in Duobang City, saw a row of firelights emerging from the river outside the city, and then heard a deafening roar, and gunpowder bombs came with the harsh sound of wind!
"Enemy attack!"
"Ready to fight!"
Zhu Bingzhong shouted with all his strength.
call out!
The gunpowder bombs flew into the air and flew towards their respective targets in arcs.
Mu Sheng picked up the telescope and looked at this scene nervously, and a scene that made him tremble appeared.
The gunpowder bombs landed on the Dobang city wall and exploded violently. The sergeants rose into the air one by one and were directly blown out of the city wall by the air waves. The seemingly solid arrow tower was shattered into pieces with just one blow!
Countless soldiers screamed and ran on the city wall.
Mu Sheng thought that he had seen the cruelty and killings on the battlefield and had long been accustomed to bloody scenes, but this time, he found that he was wrong! Compared with the scene of slashing with cold weapons, what is caused by gunpowder bombs is called the real hell!
Missing arms and legs has become the most common scene!
Mu Sheng was shocked. He actually saw a man who was still running away without half his head. Although he didn't run very far, he did move. There was also a man who was holding his arms and his face was exploded, with a complete face. They are all gone, still struggling there.
vomit!
Mu Sheng felt nauseated and quickly put away the telescope. If he continued to look at it, he would even have eaten his dinner in vain! Seeing that Mu Sheng stopped looking, Yu Rang grabbed the binoculars, took a look, turned around and started to vomit.
Go ahead, whoever is running around with intestines hanging from his neck is disgusting!
"Is this the Second Artillery Bureau's divine machine gun? Damn it, why don't we in Yunnan Dusi?!"
Mu Sheng was very dissatisfied. There was not even one such murderous weapon in Yunnan, but Guangxi Dusi had as many as 500!
How unfair!
These hundred gates will belong to Yunnan Dusi. I must take them back. If Zhang Fu stops him, I will beat him up. If he can't do it, I will challenge him to a one-on-one fight!
The roar continued, and the divine machine cannon fired gunpowder shells one after another, hitting Dobang City.
The strong impact and huge movement made every defender in the city feel fear. Fan Yuangui stood on the wall of the inner city and looked at the wall of the outer city. There were mourning people everywhere, and screams continued. It was covered up by the huge explosion.
"How is this going?"
For the first time, Fan Yuangui witnessed the explosions with blazing fire happening again and again in Duobang City, and every explosion took away his sergeants!
Zhu Bingzhong trembled, hid behind the crenel, and shouted: "Counterattack, counterattack, divine machine gun!"
But the sergeants around him were just running away in confusion, and few people could hear Zhu Bingzhong's voice!
During the gap between the divine machine cannon attacks, Zhu Bingzhong shouted to the sergeants in the city: "Ruan Zhengqing, organize the sergeants to come up!"
Ruan Zhengqing was hiding in the city gate at this time. When he heard Zhu Bingzhong's voice, he quickly ordered: "Come on, everyone will die if we can't defend the city!"
Groups of sergeants had to climb up the city wall along the ladder. Before they could find a protective position, they saw gunpowder bombs falling from the sky!
"Hide behind the crenels and get down on the ground!"
Zhu Bingzhong shouted sharply.
This kind of firearm is very destructive, but it is difficult to destroy Stone City. When it explodes, the damage is mostly to high places. As long as it doesn't explode next to you, there won't be much problem if you lie on the ground.
Some sergeants crawled forward, looking at the corpses on the ground, wiping the blood stains and moving forward!
To survive!
Sergeant Annan gritted his teeth and crawled toward his own protective zone. From time to time, some people died, but more people had mastered the skills and began to move closer to the crenellations and the roots of the crenels, thus avoiding a large number of subsequent losses.
At the same time, Zhu Bingzhong ordered a counterattack, and some of the divine machine guns that had not been destroyed were aimed at the outside of the city and bombarded!
Zhang Fu watched the firelight ejected from the city wall fleetingly, and something seemed to fly over in the air. Tang Buping stared at it, holding the thick push shield in his hand.
A cannon stone landed three feet in front of Zhang Fu, creating a crater in the ground. Some of the cannon stones flew over the new divine machine cannon and hit the group of sergeants, causing some damage.
Zhang Fu did not look back, nor did he pay attention to the sergeant's wailing. Instead, after five rounds of divine machine gun coverage, he ordered his men to fire whistle arrows.
Mu Sheng and Han Guan from the west gate and east gate saw the whistle arrows in the air and ordered: "Up!"
Rows of sergeants rushed out from different directions, either individually or in pairs, each holding a Tiger Crouching Cannon, a Zhankou General, and a Wankou General Cannon, and quickly moved forward. They began to adjust their angles when they were about 200 steps closer to the city wall. Prepare gunpowder shells or cannon stones.
Zhu Bingzhong saw the approaching figure through the crenel, and shouted loudly: "Two hundred steps, gunmen, archers, shoot!"
