Black Cloud Dragon felt a burst of intense white light less than two feet away on his right, and then flames rose into the sky. Then he felt a ringing in his ears and temporarily lost his hearing.
There was a dense crowd over there, and the shells exploded in an instant, causing them to fall in all directions.
Hei Yunlong suddenly knelt on the ground. He felt an excruciating pain in his calf. His head felt dizzy and he felt like vomiting. When he touched his calf, which was not protected by the armor skirt, there was blood.
"Dad, your leg is injured." Hei Minglian rushed over from behind.
When it exploded just now, everyone was stunned. They didn't know that the shell could explode.
The artillery shells of this era were all spherical solid projectiles. They mainly killed the enemy by hitting, smashing and shattering buildings to produce fragments.
The first time they encountered an explosive bomb, they were all shocked and stunned.
Then, someone screamed, turned around and ran away.
On the city wall, the guardsmen collapsed. They howled and threw away their swords and guns and fled in all directions.
Hei Yunlong pushed Hei Minglian away and shouted: "Servants, stop them. Anyone who escapes will be shot to death."
Heiyunlong gritted his teeth and stood up. Regardless of the wound on his calf that was still bleeding, he chopped down an old fugitive with a knife. He shouted loudly: "Go back to me. Anyone who dares to run away will be executed."
The servants swarmed up and drove the guardsmen back with their spears.
Baiyin looked at the cannonballs, one after another falling on both sides of the city wall and on the city wall.
Explosive flames and thick smoke rose from the city wall from time to time. Limbs, armor and stomachs, and fragments of swords and guns were constantly blown up. Some people were even thrown from the city wall.
The servants had already secured the entrances and exits above and below the city wall, and these guardsmen had nowhere to escape. But they had no experience in avoiding artillery bombardment, so they ran around like wolves and wolves.
Some were lying on the ground and covering their heads. Some were huddled under the crenellations of the city wall, trying to minimize the area of their bodies exposed. Some were kneeling on the ground and praying.
"Everyone is here, the first group, the shield soldiers are in front, and the second and third groups are behind with ladders. Come and charge with me." Bai Yin ducked out from behind a wall, roared and rushed forward.
The first group of eleven people immediately held up their shields to protect the front.
Team leader Zhang Luer shouted: "Brothers, protect the brothers behind us and engage the enemy quickly. The faster we engage the enemy, the fewer rocks we will bear. Charge."
There were ten brothers in a row in front, holding two large pot lids with quilts sandwiched between them and nailing them together to form a shield. They moved forward quickly.
At the same time, they carefully avoided all kinds of construction debris underground to prevent them from tripping. Because if they fell down, the brother carrying the ladder would be exposed behind them.
A team of thirty people formed a group, a total of ten groups of people rushed towards the city wall.
There are also nine other teams that are also attacking the city wall.
The distance of thirty meters was reached in an instant. Twenty long ladders were leaning against the city wall.
The tops of these ladders are equipped with steel hooks. Once they lean against the city wall, the huge steel hooks at the top will hook onto the city wall, thereby firmly fixing the ladder and the city wall together.
The city wall is a full twelve or thirteen meters high, and the hypotenuse of the triangle must be longer than the right-angled side. Therefore, the ladder is a full twenty meters long. The ladder is very heavy, even though it is made of wood from the beams and columns of the house, with staples
It is made of large iron nails that are quickly nailed together.
The structural weight has been reduced as much as possible, but it still requires seven or eight people to carry it.
Such a heavy ladder has a large steel hook on the top, which can firmly hang on the blue bricks of the battlement.
It is simply impossible to push the ladder open with the strength of one or two people. In movies and TV shows, the enemy climbs up the ladder, and several defenders use wooden poles to push the ladder back. This is all made up.
The ladder weighs several hundred kilograms and is fixed with steel hooks. In addition, there are more than ten people on the ladder. How can it be pushed with a weight of more than one ton?
By this time, the shelling had stopped, and the city wall was in a mess.
Guard soldiers who were killed or injured were everywhere. Many of their tattered mandarin duck jackets were turned into tatters and hung on their bodies. Some were in a daze, some were trembling, and some were running around.
Called.
With the support of Hei Minglian, Hei Yunlong went to the crenel and looked down, and gasped.
Twenty long ladders were already leaning against the city wall. The Mongolian Tatars were holding the backs of their knives in their teeth, using both hands and feet to climb up quickly.
Heiyunlong held up a three-eyed blunderbuss and stretched it out from the crenellation of the city wall. He held the blunderbuss rod under his arm and took out the torch from his pocket with his other hand. He bit off the torch cap with his teeth and blew out the torch in two breaths.
Stamp on the lead.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Three rounds of lead bullets were fired one after another, and Wang Zhantian and Asba who were rushing in front screamed and were shot. The leather robes, cotton coats, and stab-proof uniforms worn by the two men could not block the three-eyed gun at close range.
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The fire door gun is very powerful within ten meters.
The two fell from the top of the ladder.
Plop, plop, they fell heavily under the city wall covered with ice and snow. The fall caused the two of them to vomit blood, twitched a few times, and then passed out.
The shield soldiers behind immediately rushed out. The two of them dragged the two of them back behind the broken eaves and broken walls.
Quickly call the medical soldiers and doctors accompanying the army to come over and provide first aid on site. In the cavalry army, each squadron is equipped with three medical soldiers and one doctor. Therefore, the wounded soldiers can be effectively treated on the battlefield.
Heiyunlong fired three rounds of lead bullets, hitting two enemies, and one of them flew away.
He was strong and powerful. He grabbed the long pole of the three-eyed gun, swung it and broke it at once. The wooden pole on one side of the long ladder. The ladder creaked and bent downwards, and the remaining six people on the ladder turned to the side.
One crooked.
Taking advantage of these people's panic and loss of balance, Heiyunlong swung the three-eyed gun again and suddenly broke the other side. The entire ladder collapsed. Six people fell down shouting.
The height of the fourth floor is not low, and these people were immediately knocked to pieces. They would not be able to get up for a while.
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Hei Yunlong sat down on the wall at the crenellation of the city wall, breathing heavily.
He said to Hei Minglian who was bandaging his wounds: "You bring your servants up, these soldiers are no longer useful. Block their ladders, at least they cannot climb up. Otherwise, all the soldiers in these guards will collapse."
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Hei Minglian and Hei Mingxiao immediately led 200 men to replace the guardsmen at Duokou, and started fighting with the enemies who climbed up with steel knives in their mouths.
Yang Fan clasped his hands behind his back and looked at the Beijing camp training under the city tower. After a ten-day holiday, the soldiers who were herding sheep were organized again and began training outside Jimingyi.
Now the wind and snow in the mainland have stopped, and although the weather has not gotten warmer, it has begun to feel less cold.
Yang Fan was thinking about Zhangjiakou, and he knew that at this time, the siege had already begun.
Yang Fan was still a little worried. Only less than a quarter of the troops on the grassland were Han Chinese, and many of them were officers from the Jia Ding team. In addition, there were also refugees who were recruited to open up the grassland. After these people became soldiers, they contacted Mongolia.
People are mixed together in the Wuhu.
They have fought dozens of large and small battles in the past two years and are now a mature force tempered by the flames of war. However, they have always fought positional warfare and cavalry mobile warfare. This is the first time they have attacked a fortified city.
Siege is the most casualty strategy.
This time is an important exercise for them. Cavalry cannot just fight on horseback.
