The hungry soldiers rushed under the city wall, and long ladders were also put on the top of the city. Soon the hungry soldiers climbed up the ladder toward the city wall.

Here I want to say something off topic. There are roughly two types of cloud ladders in ancient times.

One is a pure cloud ladder. To put it bluntly, this cloud ladder is not much different from the ladder used by the people. At best, it is a long ladder, but a barb is placed at the head of the ladder, which can hook the uneven places on the city wall, making it difficult to be pushed down by the guards on the city wall.

Another one is more technical, and this kind of cloud ladder is also called a ladder truck.

It has wheels at the bottom that can move quickly, the ladder body can be raised up and down, carried by manpower, and leaned against the city wall. There are hooks on the top of the ladder to hook and support the city edge, and can protect the head of the ladder from being pushed and destroyed by the defenders, etc.

However, the latter has a very high technical content, which is not something that ordinary people can build. With the level of Li Zicheng's subordinates, if you want to build a ladder truck or a more technical siege car, don't think about it.

Looking at the dense bandits below, the defenders on the city wall looked at the Jiangning Army soldiers standing around them.

Logically speaking, since the enemy has arrived at the city, all the defenders have to do is to start throwing rolling stones, wood, and even sprinkle the boiled gold juice. However, after these days of consumption, the materials guarding the city have basically been consumed, and they can only rely on the defenders to resist.

Now that reinforcements have arrived, the defenders naturally look at them, not to mention the shadow of the famous trees. The Jiangning Army has long been famous, and they also want to see how the famous Jiangning Army fought.

"Brother, why don't you fight yet? The bandits are coming!" A soldier wearing a tattered mandarin duck battle jacket said tremblingly to the Jiangning Army soldiers standing beside him, "If they are allowed to go up to the city wall, it will be troublesome."

The soldier glanced at the dense bandits below and said lightly: "Don't worry, wait for the order."

While the two of them were talking, as ladders set up the city wall one after another, the hungry soldiers wrapped in red scarves, pale and skinny faces and felt hats, and were holding shields and big swords to climb up the city wall crowded with each other.

Since it was an attack, Li Zicheng naturally could not just let those hungry soldiers holding wooden sticks, hoes, shovels and other objects go to death, which would not attack the city but to die. Among these hungry soldiers, there were also a small number of dead soldiers and elite bandits from the old camp. Although there were not many people, these were the real main force of siege.

Now, looking around, the city is full of people. Those crazy eyes and ferocious expressions may be scared to death if the timid people see it.

Seeing the hungry soldiers climbing up the ladder halfway, they heard a sharp whistle sound on the city wall. It was the swan whistle unique to the Jiangning Army, sharp and high-pitched. Even in the noisy environment, it was still soaring straight into the sky, and it was hard not to hear it.

As the whistle sounded, the eyes of the soldiers of Jiangning who had originally looked wooden suddenly became sharp. The soldiers near the cliff suddenly raised their muskets, poked their heads slightly out of the cliff, and pulled the trigger at the bandits climbing on the ladder.

"Bang...bang bang..."

A stream of white smoke rose on the city wall one after another. With the sound of low gunshots, a hungry soldier who was climbing up desperately either fell down the ladder without saying a word, or rolled down from the ladder with a sharp scream.

"My mom, hurry up and put up the shield, and the officers and soldiers fired guns!"

"Blade and Shield Hand, come on, are you fucking dead?"

Accompanied by screams, the bandits who were lucky enough to miss the mid lane were also panicked and shouted loudly one by one.

Logically speaking, the most suitable army for climbing city walls to attack cities is the sword and shield soldiers, but this kind of army with an attack and defense is an excellent elite army among the bandits, only the old camp and the dead camp.

Those hungry soldiers who act as cannon fodder are not qualified to equip machetes and shields, let alone armor, shields and machetes, some of them even only have a wooden stick. Even many sword and shield hands in the old camp only hold ordinary leather shields or even wooden shields.

What... an iron shield?

Young man, you are thinking too much. Even those leaders may not have such high-end things. You guys just use wooden shields.

Seeing that the defenders at the city wall were using firearms, the dead soldiers holding shields rushed to raise the shields in their hands. Many people protected the shields on their heads, held a knife in their mouths, grabbed the ladder with their right hand and began to climb up quickly.

But before I could climb halfway, I heard a sharp swan whistle sound above my head, accompanied by the deafening sound of muskets.

Pushed by gunpowder, lead bullets roared out of the gun chamber and shot towards the thief climbing on the ladder, hitting the shield.

"Bang!"

A lead bullet hit the shield, and the powerful impact force instantly penetrated the wooden shield. Then the lead bullet that deformed in his eyes hit the face of a dead soldier who was climbing quickly along the ladder with the remaining kinetic energy.

The already deformed lead bullet instantly took away half of the dead soldier's cheeks under the kinetic energy. In the severe pain, the dead soldier fell down from the ladder with a shrill scream, and hit the ground like a heavy broken sack. He twitched for a long time and then stopped moving.

Many people who share the same fate as this bandit, after being attacked from top to bottom by the Jiangning army, the casualties of the bandits rose sharply.

"Bang bang bang..."

After the shooting was completed, the sergeant who had fired the gun immediately stepped back and stood behind. When he left, another sergeant stood at the cliff, raised his musket and pulled the trigger at the ladder.

The sound of muskets kept ringing at the top of the city. Not only were bandits falling from the ladder, but then more hungry soldiers climbed up the ladder and stood on the city wall and looked down. There were people everywhere below.

Although a bandit fell from the ladder with the sound of the Jiangning Army's muskets, countless people followed him up, making people feel like they could kill them when they looked down.

On the city gate tower, both Pan Ruzhen and the civil servants who were with him looked pale, and looked at the black bandits below, Pan Ruzhen couldn't stand it anymore and turned his head to ask Yang Feng: "Dude, look at the momentum of the bandits, I'm afraid they won't give up until they take down the Hangzhou Prefecture. Don't you still have tens of thousands of troops? Haven't they arrived yet?"

Yang Feng shook his head, "No, they are far away in Huizhou, and they may have to wait a few days if they want to arrive."

"How many days will you wait?"
Chapter completed!