Seeing that many puppet Tang bandits are about to climb up the city!
At this time, the Ming army on the top of the city will naturally not sit still and let the heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers of the pseudo-Tang rebel army rush to the top of the city, because once they are allowed to rush up, it will be a massacre!
At first, many soldiers of the Ming Army raised the boiling water and even poured oil downwards. After the hot oil and water hit the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty below, they screamed in pain!
Some people also threw stones and even rolled logs downwards, which also caused the casualties of some Tang soldiers!
But just like this, it is naturally impossible to stop the attack of these soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty!
They finally managed to withstand the Ming army's firepower and crossed a distance of 100 meters. After reaching the bottom of the city wall, they were about to climb the city wall. How could they give up so easily at this time!
The one below was also wearing armor, but the helmet was marked with the rank of second lieutenant. The sword and shield bearer didn't care at all about the boulder that fell under his feet, shouting: "Quick, quick, rush up, as long as we rush up, we will
Just win!”
There were many other officers doing the same thing as him!
They kept urging the soldiers to start climbing the city wall, and even they themselves started climbing up the long ladder!
Seeing the puppet Tang bandit army below gradually moving up, taking charge of a hundred households on this section of the city wall, they looked panicked and shouted: "Quickly, cut off their ladders!"
Immediately, a Ming army ran up and tried to cut off the long ladder. However, the long ladder was built on a section of the city wall. It was not made of bamboo, but made of iron. This was to prevent the enemy from cutting off the long ladder and then overturning the long ladder.
!
After struggling to chop several times, his hand was in pain from the shock, but the iron hook on the long ladder was still intact. Just when the Ming soldier was about to despair, a Ming soldier lifted a stone directly.
He got up, and then smashed down the puppet Tang rebel army who was climbing up the long ladder!
Although the shields in the hands of the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who were climbing below were considered thick, they could not withstand the huge impact of the boulders rolling down.
The shield hadn't been broken yet, but he couldn't hold on to the long ladder. Then he let out a muffled groan and fell down, knocking down a comrade behind him along with him.
When the Ming soldier who threw stones at the city saw this scene, he also showed an expression of relief!
But his expression didn't last long, because just a second later, his whole body seemed to have been hit by something, and then he fell backwards!
When others looked at it, they saw that a large blood hole had appeared on the chest of the Ming soldier who had reached the bottom. The hot blood was spurting out quickly and quickly soaked the city wall beneath him.
At the same time, a musketeer from the First Brigade about eighty meters outside the city wall did not know that the shot he fired just now had hit the enemy. After he fired, he did not look ahead at all.
, in fact, he couldn’t see clearly because of the smoke.
After he fired the gun, he immediately put the gun down and started a new round of loading!
At this time, his boss, the captain of the Third Musketeer Team, had already ordered to prepare for the next round of shooting!
As a veteran musketeer, his reloading action is quite standard and fast. It doesn't take long to finish reloading and then raise the gun!
However, the officer had not yet given the order to fire, so he did not have time to take a quick glance around. The comrade on the left was a veteran like himself. Although the loading movement was slower than his, he had already loaded it at this time.
Finished, but the comrade on the right is a rookie who has just been recruited from the new military camp for only five or six days!
At this time, I was busy loading, and I made an error!
Immediately he said: "Don't panic, take it easy, the Ming army can't attack you now, it's only you who can attack them, so why panic!"
The recruit seemed to be older than the veteran, but at this time he showed a hint of embarrassment and did not speak, but continued to reload!
Although there was an error in the process, the recruit finally caught up with the officer and finished loading before giving the order, and then raised the musket in his hand.
At this time, these musketeers heard the voice of the platoon leader who was near them: "Get ready!"
"aim!"
"shooting!"
After a series of commands, these musketeers successfully pulled the trigger, but just like the previous shooting, it was impossible for them to know whether they had hit the enemy.
With so many people shooting at the same time, no one knows whether they have hit the enemy.
However, after this round of shooting, many Ming soldiers seemed to have fallen on the city wall, and some even fell from the city wall with tragic screams!
Cai Erhu, who was under the city wall, had already dismounted. Seeing that another group of Ming soldiers fell down on the city wall, he couldn't help but look back at the musketeers behind him, and then muttered: "You are not lazy!
"
Then he turned around and quickly glanced left and right, and shouted again: "What's going on with the Second Assault Battalion? Don't be stunned. Climb up quickly. Do you want to stay under the city wall and wait to die?"
After shouting, suddenly a bow and arrow came straight towards him from the top of the city, and then nailed directly to his chest armor!
Cai Erhu was shocked when the arrow struck. He thought he was so unlucky that he was going to die on the battlefield. But when he looked down, he saw that although the arrow was hanging on his body, it only penetrated the outermost part.
There were layers of armor, but the inner layer of armor was still intact and had not penetrated, and there was no feeling of pain on the body.
Those bastards from the Ministry of Industry didn't lie to me. The armor they gave me is indeed top quality. It will save my life. I'll treat them to a drink when I get back!
He immediately laughed loudly and shouted: "Grandsons, if you want to kill me, do it in the next life!"
He immediately reached out and pulled out the arrow hanging from his body, threw it away and stepped on it with his foot. He raised the steel knife in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, charge, kill them all. After rushing in,
The money is ours, the women are ours, everything is ours!"
At this time, Cai Erhu fully demonstrated his gangster spirit as a bandit leader, and he always needed money and women to encourage his subordinates to charge.
On the contrary, the middle and low-level officers under his command are much more normal!
"Don't stop, hurry up, hurry up, rush forward!"
The soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty below the city were like a tide at this moment, hitting the city wall and then flooding the city!
It didn't take long, only more than ten seconds later, and finally a heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldier from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty climbed up to the top of the city. But before he had time to take a look at the top of the city and the scenery inside the city, there was a Ming army wielding a sword.
It struck him. Although he raised his sword to block the blow, the huge impact made him unsteady when he stood on the top of the city. The next moment, he fell from the top of the city.
A shrill scream was left in the air, and in the next moment, he fell heavily to the ground under the city wall, and the huge impact even made a bang.
Looking closely, I saw that he had completely lost his breath, his body was twitching slightly, and the connection between his head and neck was folded at an extremely twisted angle. The soldier who was the first to rush to the city did not die in the enemy's attack.
He fell under the knife, but died on his head when he fell!
But just after the soldier fell down, the second, third, even fifth, and sixth soldiers from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also climbed up the city. Two more people were killed because their footing was not stable, but
However, there were a few people who blocked the fatal blow and survived.
And as long as they can gain a firm foothold, the power of the heavy armored infantry can be unleashed!
Almost every one of the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers who climbed up the city wall faced the siege of several Ming army soldiers at the same time. However, relying on their heavy armor, they only blocked and dodged the most threatening attacks, especially
It's the thrust of a spear.
They didn't even care about the enemy's swords, and directly used their armor to attack them, so that in a short period of time, many knife marks appeared on their armor. Fortunately, their armor was even stronger than the heavy armor, sword and shield.
Among the soldiers, it is also a batch of armor with the best quality, so it is worthy of the wait!
This group of heavy-armored, sword-and-shield soldiers who were the first to board the city were basically the suicide squads of this group of troops who climbed the city. They were selected from more than 10,000 people in the army. Everyone has good martial arts skills.
, and also equipped them with the best quality armor, shields and waist knives!
The first batch of twenty or thirty heavy armored sword and shield soldiers who came to the city, the equipment they wore was worth no less than a hundred taels of silver!
They are all tall and powerful. Because of their abundant physical strength, they can choose to wear extremely heavy full-body armor. This kind of full-body armor is a kind of cotton armor, but it is much thicker than the cotton armor of ordinary sword and shield soldiers and spear soldiers.
, the iron sheets in the interlayer are thicker, and the key parts are even steel sheets.
At the same time, the helmet on the head also comes with an iron mask, and even the hands and feet are protected by armor!
This kind of full-body cotton armor is also a special product of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty. It was originally intended to be distributed to a large number of hand-to-hand combat troops. However, even if this kind of armor is modified, the cost is also very high. Each set of this kind of full-body armor
The armor costs more than sixty taels of silver, which is three times more expensive than ordinary iron armor!
In the end, only dozens of sets were made, and these dozens of sets of full-body armor were assigned to these most elite heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldiers and a small number of sword-and-shield warriors in the guard camp.
In addition to armor, the shields used by the more than 30 first batch of heavy-armored sword-and-shield bearers who came to the city in front of them were also the most sophisticated shields, and the waist knives in their hands were all steel waist knives!
Such a complete set of equipment is worth no less than a hundred taels of silver!
It is precisely because they are equipped with extremely sophisticated equipment that they have the courage to use their armor to resist the swords of the Ming army!
There was a Ming Army soldier in front of him, and he couldn't help but look desperate when he found that after slashing with his sword, he could only leave a shallow mark on the opponent's armor!
These pseudo-Tang thieves are all covered in thick armor. How can they be killed?
However, the expression of despair on his face did not last long, because it was soon replaced by a look of pain. He felt a severe pain in his lower back, and the strength in his body was quickly passing away!
Unable to stand still, he staggered and fell to the ground. After falling, he happened to see a pseudo-Tang rebel soldier also wearing heavy armor crossing in front of him, and his knife was still dripping on the ground.