There was a scream, and a Ming soldier thirty steps away was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.
"Bang bang bang!" The sound of bow strings vibrating continuously sounded from behind Shi Tu. Without looking back, he could guess that the flag men following him had rushed up and were drawing their bows and firing arrows at the Ming army's gap in the inner city wall.
More banner men rushed past Shi Tu and the others, heading towards the gap.
In the gap ahead, a dozen Ming troops who had just emerged were shot dead instantly.
For these Eight Banners soldiers, the distance of thirty steps is simply in vain.
"Go to hell, you Ming Dynasty dogs!" Shi Tu laughed ferociously and drew his big bow again.
Then the next moment, the smile on Shi Tu's face suddenly solidified. What the hell is this?
Because at this moment, an unimaginably huge "giant shield" suddenly appeared in the gap in the inner city wall. This giant shield was so big that it easily blocked the entire gap!
The length of this "giant shield" cannot be clearly seen. Anyway, after the gap is blocked, the head and tail cannot be seen.
But the height of this "giant shield" can be seen clearly in the stone map, and it is a full foot high! My dear, what kind of giant shield is this? It is clearly a wooden city wall!
And it’s also a movable wooden city wall!
"Stop them!" Shi Tu roared hysterically.
"Stop them quickly. We must not let them block the gap. Stop them quickly!"
The dozens of banner men who had just rushed into the Wengcheng howled and rushed toward the gap in the inner city with their swords waving, trying to prevent the Ming army from fixing the giant shield in the gap in the inner city wall.
However, it was too late, as the banging sound could be heard through the wooden city wall.
Just by listening to these sounds, you can tell that the Ming army is hammering wooden piles.
If the Ming army was allowed to hammer the wooden piles used to fix the wooden city wall into the ground, then the manpower of dozens or even hundreds of bannermen would never be able to knock it down again.
But Qiding's speed is also very fast.
In the blink of an eye, a dozen flag men rushed to the wooden city wall first and pushed together, but they didn't move at all.
Without a trace of hesitation, more than a dozen flag men immediately set up human ladders in twos and twos, preparing to serve as human ladders for the flag men who arrived later, so that their companions could step on the human ladders they had built to launch an attack.
However, at this moment, a row of holes suddenly appeared on the wooden city wall.
Then a dozen spears were poked out of the holes and stabbed at Qiding.
Fortunately, most of the flagmen were wearing chainmail, so they were not seriously injured. However, they were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground. Subsequent flagmen were unable to step on the ladder to launch an attack.
In just this moment of delay, the wooden city wall blocking the gap suddenly grew taller!
I saw that the wooden city wall, which was originally only one foot high, suddenly doubled in height and became at least two feet high!
Well, it's not that it's taller, it's that a wooden city wall is superimposed on another wooden city wall, and it's fixed with tenons and rivets in the middle.
Immediately, there were continuous sounds of pile driving and the creaking sounds of wooden beams supported on the wooden city wall. The two wooden city walls immediately clung tightly to the inner city wall.
Hearing this movement, even across the wooden city wall, Shitu could imagine it.
At this moment there must be hundreds of wooden beams leaning diagonally behind the wooden city wall.
So at this time, they, the bannermen, are powerless. I am afraid that only the red cannon can blast open this wooden city wall again!
Thinking of this, Shi Tu did not hesitate any longer.
At that moment Shi Tu shouted loudly: "Go back!"
However, when I thought of retreating at this time, it was already a bit late.
As soon as Shi Tu finished speaking, bundles of straw, wheat straw, and dry firewood were thrown down from the inner city wall, the outer city walls on both sides of the gap, and even the moving wooden city wall.
"Rewind!" Seeing this, Shi Tu's hole shrank sharply in an instant.
It has to be said that Shi Tu and the Eight Banners soldiers have already cast a shadow on the Ming army in Shanyang City.
All the Eight Banners suddenly turned around and rushed back to the gap in the outer city wall. Almost at the same time, hundreds of torches were thrown down from the top of the city, and the fire started burning.
As soon as the fire started, it quickly spread throughout the Wengcheng.
Logically speaking, even if there are straw, wheat straw, dry firewood and other burning materials, the fire will not be so fierce.
"The thief fell into Ming Gou's scheme again!" Shi Tu immediately realized that sulfur fire and other flammable materials must have been buried underground in the Weng City in advance, and gunpowder might even have been laid!
Because Shi Tu could clearly smell the smoke of burning gunpowder!
In short, the fire filled the entire Wengcheng almost instantly.
Shi Tu looked forward in horror, only red was left in his field of vision.
Even so, Shi Tu didn't dare to stop and could only run forward.
While running wildly, Shi Tu could clearly feel that his back, legs, arms and stomach were on fire. The flames ignited his cotton armor, penetrated through the chain armor, and burned him to the core.
pain.
…
Before the fire broke out, Duduo was chatting and laughing with Shang Kexi outside the city.
Duduo said: "There is no need to deny that Yan Yingyuan's resourcefulness is the only one I have seen in my life. However, facing a powerful siege weapon such as a red cannon, any resourcefulness is useless."
Shang Kexi said: "The prince's resourcefulness is beyond the reach of ordinary people."
"King Zhishun, you are exaggerating." Duduo laughed and added, "However, Yan Yingyuan surrendered so simply, which really disappointed me. I thought he could play more tricks..."
At this point, Duduo's voice suddenly paused, and then he looked straight ahead.
"Prince, what's wrong?" Shang Kexi looked in the direction of Duduo's gaze, and then let out a light sigh, "Hey, why is there a fire? It shouldn't be right?"
The robbery hasn't even started yet, so how could it be possible to set a fire?
Thinking of this, Shang Kexi was suddenly startled, could it be?
Duduo also thought of this possibility, and his heart immediately rose.
At that moment, Duduo had no intention of chatting with Shang Kexi, so he quickly opened the telescope and pointed it at the gap.
With the help of a monocular telescope, Duduo could clearly see the gap, but he saw that the gap had been completely engulfed by fire. Just looking at the intensity and direction of the fire, Duduo immediately realized that the thief had been attacked again.
!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In a short while, the bannermen rushed out of the gap one after another, and I saw that these bannermen were all burning with fire.
There was a bannerman who had obviously escaped from the gap, but he still couldn't bear the severe pain of being burned by the fire. He fell to the ground and let out a continuous cry, while rolling around and trying to put out the fire on his body, but this was in vain.
After a while, the flag man only had slight twitches, and finally no more twitches.
The corners of Duoduo's mouth also began to twitch, and there seemed to be a roar in the void: Yan Yingyuan! The thief set fire to his mother again!
…
The fire lasted for almost half an hour.
The fire was extinguished and the sky became completely dark.
Because it was already dark by this time.
Looking at the remaining flames that were still not completely extinguished below, Yan Yingyuan said in a deep voice: "Erdan, let the artillery team set up all the tiger squatting cannons on the inner city wall, and all the musketeers also go up to the city wall to seal the gap in the outer city wall.
, to ensure that the slaves did not sneak attack from the gaps in the city wall, and then let the civilian men repair the gaps in the city wall overnight, not only the inner city wall, but also the outer city wall."
"You don't need to build it too high. Two feet high is enough, and you don't need to build it too strong."
"It only takes a few days to hold up the Hongyi cannon. I don't believe it. How many more days can it take to build a slave?"
Speaking of this, Yan Yingyuan turned his head and looked outside the city. Would Jiannu dare to come again?
…
"Master, this slave is punished by death."
Shi Tu knelt down in front of the couple with a pop.
"Get up, it's not your fault." Duduo said, "You have tried your best."
Shi Tu stood up slowly, and roared with red eyes: "Master, after the city is broken, I request that I kill the thief Yan Yingyuan, and I must cut him to death with a thousand knives to eliminate the hatred in my heart!"
"Okay." Duduo said with a dark face, "If you really want to break the city, I will allow you to behead it alive."
The Battle of Shanyang has been going on so far, and Duduo has also been really beaten. I still don’t believe it. Can a mere Shanyang City really stop my army?
"The Point Guard Is Here"
After a pause, Duduo asked again: "Shi Tu, what happened just now?"
Shi Tu told Duduo exactly what happened when they rushed through the gap in the city wall and rushed into the urn city.
"A wooden city wall? Can it still be moved?" Dodo frowned and asked, "I don't know the length. Is it at least one foot high?"
"Yes, it is a movable wooden city wall." Shi Tu finished speaking and briefly described the appearance of the wooden city wall.
After hearing this, Hou Fangyu suddenly felt something in his heart and said, "Your Majesty, maybe that is not a wooden city wall, but a canal boat belonging to the Hecao Governor's Yamen."
"You said it's a tanker?" Duduo asked.
"Xiaosheng suspects it," Hou Fangyu said, "because the shape of Nanming's watercraft is about seven feet long, about one foot wide, and the draft is between three and five feet. When it is erected horizontally, it is exactly the wooden wall Master Shi Tu mentioned.
wall."
Hearing this, not only Duduo, but also Tunqi, Ashan, He Luohui and others' expressions instantly became extremely embarrassed.
Because of the shape and size of these cannons, they are simply like ready-made wooden city walls. They are perfect for filling the gaps in the city wall opened by the Hongyi cannon, and they can be repaired extremely quickly.
As long as the canal is erected sideways and supported, can it be faster?
Duduo thought of another serious question: "Hou Fangyu, did you say before that how many canal ships there are in Shanyang?"
Hou Fangyu said without hesitation: "I don't know the exact number. There must be more than five hundred ships. There may be thousands of ships, because Shanyang is where the Hecao Governor's Yamen is stationed."
Duduo's face instantly turned black.
There are more than a thousand canal boats and more than a thousand movable wooden city walls, so why bother?
They finally opened a gap with red cannons, but the Ming army easily filled it with cannons, and also gave them another wave of fire attacks. Who can bear this?
The Battle of Shanyang continues until now. How many of their people have died?
Fifteen Niulu and more than 4,500 bannermen have been killed in battle!
It’s not that I didn’t know, but I was shocked to find that so many bannermen had died in the battle!
In addition, more than 5,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, which adds up to nearly tens of thousands! God damn Yan Yingyuan!