In addition, Li Hao immediately lit fireworks and notified the other three walls to start a storm, so that Qing Haibo could not ask for help from them.
Of course, Li Hao didn't know at this time that Qing Haibo was a very cunning old woman and had already called for support.
Therefore, Li Hao's attack had little actual effect. As soon as he rushed into the city gate, his offensive was directly blocked.
Because Qing Haibo had already prepared in the city, he gave way to the front and allowed Li Hao's troops to rush in.
But the offensive was soon interrupted by the men and horses ambushing on both sides of the city wall. Then the enemy troops in the front saw that the artillery attack route had been blocked, and rushed in from another distance.
Under attack from three sides, Li Hao's troops were forced to retreat continuously and directly back to the doorway.
Seeing this situation, Li Hao directly ordered the entire army to withdraw and have the rifled guns ready.
After everyone on their side withdrew from the doorway, four shells rushed towards the doorway, two of which were concentrated on the side wall of the city gate, and two of which were fired through the doorway.
After that, they saw that the doorway was a mess, full of broken limbs, and there was a burning smell.
This scene had a huge impact on the soldiers on both sides. For those who have been on the battlefield for a long time, it may be easier to accept it.
But for those who have never seen blood a few times, seeing the tragic scene now, they are just heartbroken and stupid.
Seeing this situation, Li Hao immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the entire army to attack.
The Japanese Army was worthy of being one of the top four armies. After receiving the order, they immediately rushed towards the city wall again.
Needless to say, the effect this time was very obvious. Before the enemy could recover, he directly expanded the front line and gave the follow-up troops a foothold.
Then he continued to charge forward, trying to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Fortunately, Haibo is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he has already reacted at this time.
In order to stimulate military morale, he raised his sword and directly led his soldiers into battle.
Seeing him fighting in person, the morale of the defenders in the city began to gradually recover, and they slowly blocked the Japanese army from the Imperial Street.
At this time, less than one-third of Li Hao's troops entered the city, and the rest were blocked outside the city gate.
Although time drags on, as long as nothing unexpected happens, Li Hao will still win. After all, Li Hao has more people on his side and can win in a war of attrition.
But this did not give full play to the numerical advantage, and it would inevitably delay more time, which was not what Li Hao thought.
Just when Li Hao was thinking of a way, he suddenly saw those ladders and immediately had an idea.
Since the city gate cannot be expanded here, I will find another way.
So he ordered some of them to put up the ladder again, climb up the city wall first, and then charge down.
This method was indeed good. It broke through the defense line established by Qing Haibo in one fell swoop, forcing him to retreat to Zhuque Gate and enter the inner city to hold on.
When Li Hao saw this, he naturally refused to let Qing Haibo go. He chased and beat Qing Haibo all the way, hoping to eat Qing Haibo in front of the Suzaku Gate.
But in the end, Qing Haibo was able to escape, but Qing Haibo didn't escape either. Not even one of his men followed him in.
Next, Li Hao first ordered his men to try to attack. After being defeated, he had his men stop the attack and brought up the cannon from behind to continue blasting.
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At the same time, two soldiers and horses were dispatched to Wanshengmen and Xincaomen to assist the British Gongsuo Department and Gu Tingye's Department into the city.
By the way, attack from both inside and outside to get rid of the enemy troops stationed at Wansheng Gate and Xincao Gate, lest they also escape into the inner city and cause trouble.
But in fact, Zhao Zongquan's people are not that slow.
As early as when Li Hao opened fire to bombard the city gate, it attracted their attention, including of course Zhao Zongquan and Empress Cao in the palace.
Among them, Queen Cao and the others only heard the sound, and at first they thought it was a drought thunder.
But later I heard the continuous thunder, and I heard the direction was at Nanxunmen.
Although Empress Cao did not understand the specific situation at that time, she could more or less
Guess things must have changed.
And it wasn't Zhao Zongquan who did it. After all, the most important thing for Zhao Zongquan now is to attack the palace, and he won't be too busy to make such a big noise in Nanxunmen.
Then no matter who did it, it would be a great thing for me, and it could also serve as a foil for the lies I made up before.
So Empress Cao asked Cao Jingxiu to go to the palace gate and said in front of Zeng Chaosheng and the soldiers guarding the city:
"Did everyone hear the sound from Nanxunmen just now? It was our reinforcements attacking Nanxunmen.
As long as they could hold out until reinforcements arrived, there was nothing to fear from the rebels outside the palace.
In addition, the officials and the Queen have just promised that after the rebels are eliminated, all soldiers will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver and the officials will be promoted to one rank. "
After finishing speaking, Zeng Chaosheng immediately started to stir up the atmosphere and said: "Thank you to the official family and the empress for your kindness. We will fight bravely to kill the enemy and protect the safety of the palace."
Then the heads and princes of all levels followed suit, immediately raising their momentum.
As for Zhao Zongquan and the others, they naturally knew the specific situation and what they were doing.
Moreover, they felt that Qing Haibo's statement was a bit exaggerated, but in the end they believed Qing Haibo's judgment.
Except that Zhao Zongquan did not send troops to support because he needed to capture the imperial city as soon as possible.
Some manpower was sent to the remaining places, which indeed helped Qing Haibo delay part of the time, but it also doubled their pressure.
After encouraging and supporting them for a period of time, they received the news that Qing Haibo had been given when he was defeated.
Knowing that Nanxun Gate has been breached, there is no need to hold on to the outer city anymore.
So taking advantage of the break in the siege, a small group of people were arranged to stay behind to prevent discovery from outside the city.
Then he led the remaining troops to retreat to the inner city, hoping to rely on the inner city wall to support them for a while.
However, on their way back, the defenders of Wanshengmen and Xincaomen ran into the interceptors sent by Li Hao.
Both sides were taken aback now. After all, neither side was ready to fight here.
So the two sides were separated at the first touch. They only collided once and then separated.
Fortunately, this is the case. You must know that at Wansheng Gate and Xincao Gate, the British Duke and Gu Tingye's troops are still outside the city.
The manpower sent by Li Hao was far from enough to fight the two armies independently, that is to say, they did not know how many soldiers and horses they encountered.
They are worried that they will be restrained, otherwise they will not be let go.
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By the time the two sides arrived, Ying Gong and Gu Tingye had already led their troops to break through the city gate, and then Yang Wenyuan also took advantage of the opportunity to capture the new Suanzao Gate.
Several large armies have reunited outside the inner city, but the inner city is much smaller than the outer city, making it easier to communicate with each other.
So Gu Tingye, Ying Gong and Yang Wenyuan simply handed over the command of the troops to someone they trusted, and came to the Suzaku Gate themselves.
I plan to see what this artillery is. It is so loud and can open the city gate and all the things blocking it.
Just at this time, the artillery had been transported up and was being installed in full swing.
When they first saw the artillery, Gu Tingye and the others thought of it as a large gun.
He also said: "This thing has breached the city gate. Doesn't it look like anything special?"
Li Hao smiled and said, "Then you will know how powerful he is later. As for the city gate of Zhuque Gate, there is nothing blocking it inside.
As long as we get two shots, we can go in directly, but the only pity is that the rifling was almost worn when we broke through the Nanxun Gate.
Otherwise, I don’t have to put them all in. I can easily do it with just a few rifled cannons. "
Gu Tingye replied: "Well, then I want to take a closer look to see if this thing is as magical as you said."
Outside the city, Li Hao and the others were in a relaxed mood, but it was different inside the city.
Because Nanxunmen was quickly
The breach cast a thick shadow in the hearts of Zhao Zongquan and other generals.
After all, they now only have one layer of inner city wall protection, and the security of this city wall is far inferior to that of the outer city.
In addition, they were particularly concerned about what Rong Changbo said about the large musket.
Of course, the reason they were concerned was that they didn't think the power of that thing was really as powerful as Rong Changbo said. They just thought it was a lie made up by Rong Changbo in order to evade responsibility.
So this time, people were sent to the other three city gates, in the name of assisting Uncle Rongchang, but in fact they didn't trust him and wanted to send people to watch them personally.
But as the first batch of artillery was fired and hit the city wall, others finally believed in the power of the artillery.
It's just that Gu Tingye and the others were extremely happy to see it, while Rong Changbo and the others had sad faces, because they knew that the inner city could not be defended, and the time to break the city completely depended on when the city gate was shot.
At this time, others also made a prompt decision and immediately decided to reduce the manpower at the other three city gates to a minimum, and sent some manpower here to organize street fighting to delay time.
Another group of people went to support Zhao Zongquan. They must attack the palace before the inner city was cleared, otherwise everything would be over.
In fact, their measures did achieve a certain effect, and they learned the lessons from the Nanxunmen battle.
After the cannons blasted open the city gate, they still stationed troops on the city wall and did not give Li Hao a chance to enter the city from the city wall.
The soldiers and horses under the city wall also deliberately controlled the battlefield near the city gate, but did not push forward to avoid allowing Li Hao's men to break away from the battle line and be bombarded by artillery like last time.
As a result, under the Suzaku Sect, there was a temporary stalemate, unable to break through immediately.
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This situation made Li Hao anxious from behind, wanting to lead his team to a charge and make a breakthrough as soon as possible.
However, compared to Li Hao, Zhao Zongquan was more anxious. After all, once the Suzaku Gate was broken, no one could say how long they could last in the frontal fight.
At this time, Zhao Zongquan no longer cared about the casualties, and began to order everyone to join the siege, including the personal guards around him.
For a time, the city defense of Xihua Gate became precarious, but it also made Zeng Chaosheng feel that what Queen Cao said might be true.
There really were soldiers and horses coming from behind to support, and the attack should have gone smoothly, otherwise there was no need for Zhao Zongquan to be so anxious.
In addition, the sound of thunder was getting closer and closer, from outside the city to now inside the city.
Although Zeng Chaosheng didn't know what the sound was, he was certain that it had something to do with the troops supporting him.
For this reason, Zeng Chaosheng hurriedly stepped forward, encouraged his soldiers, and told them that as long as they persisted for a while, reinforcements would arrive soon.
But sometimes morale alone may not be enough. After such a long period of fighting, Zeng Chaosheng's manpower is no longer sufficient.
Faced with Zhao Zongquan's continuous attack, there was finally a loophole in the personnel connection. Zhao Ceying seized the opportunity and immediately led people to rush forward and opened up a safe area on the city wall to meet the follow-up personnel.
After that, Zeng Chaosheng also rushed forward with a knife, trying to drive Zhao Ceying off the city wall.
Of course, it would be better if Zhao Ceying could be captured, so that with him in hand, Zhao Zongquan would be able to have some scruples, which might delay the arrival of reinforcements.
But unfortunately, things went against expectations. Zhao Ceying and his men firmly blocked Zeng Chaosheng. Although the area occupied was reduced, there was no sign of retreat.
On the contrary, Zeng Chaosheng mobilized troops from other areas because he wanted to concentrate his forces, which inevitably reduced the number of troops in other areas.
After paying attention to one thing and neglecting the other, more gaps appeared one after another on the city wall, causing more and more rebels to board the city wall.
Seeing this situation, Zeng Chaosheng knew that he must not waste all his troops here, otherwise there would be no one available in the future.
The strong man had no choice but to cut off his wrist and go to the
A firework shot out of the sky, notifying the other three city gates and asking them to find a way to retreat to Funing Hall.
On his side, he personally led a wave of counterattack. After widening the distance, the men and horses left behind retreated backwards.
[In view of the general environment,
Li Hao and Zhao Zongquan broke into the city at the same time. Although Li Hao was earlier, he faced greater obstacles.
It was not until the end that Gu Tingye and Yang Wenyuan went into battle in person, finally breaking the deadlock and suddenly pulling the battle line to the vicinity of Kaifeng Mansion.
Then here they met the enemy troops who had retreated from the Liangmen and Caomen. This time the enemy forces combined their efforts to hold back Li Hao's troops.
Of course, Li Hao was not in a hurry at this time. After all, since the opponent retreated from the city gate, he thought that the people coming over there should be behind him.
Although it will take some reaction time, I think with the experience just now, I won't lag too far behind.
But after fighting for a long time, Li Hao never noticed the other two groups of troops arriving, which made Li Hao feel strange.
Ordinarily, there was no one in front of them to stop them, so why did it take so long? Could it be that they were planning to betray the enemy, or did Zhao Zongquan have other methods?
But logically speaking, at this point, neither of these situations should happen.
In desperation, Li Hao had no choice but to invite Mr. Yingying and Gu Tingye to take people to both sides to see what was wrong with them.
At this time, it was indeed quiet outside Liangmen and Caomen. After taking down the two city gates, they stopped their attacks, as if they were waiting for something.
Of course, some people want to stop, and naturally some people want to take advantage of the victory and take down the enemy in one go.
So at this time, many generals leading the troops on both sides gathered together and discussed the same topic.
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