Strictly speaking, the Jian Nu did not live by nomadism, but actually lived by fishing and hunting. Therefore, these people were more or less good at swimming, so they would not drown if they jumped into the river.
The power of the medium-sized evil smoking mine was limited, and relatively few Eight Banners soldiers were affected.
The battle between the attacking and defending sides reached a fever pitch.
boom!
The Jiannu's red cannon once again poured bullets onto the city walls, shocking the Ming army into lying down and avoiding the artillery fire.
With a loud bang.
A section of the battlement of the city wall about half a meter long was smashed down by the shells and fell down. Without the cover of the battlement of the city wall, the Ming army was attacked by the concentrated fire of the Eight Banners soldiers.
In a short while, more than ten people were injured or killed.
At the same time, the soldiers behind the ladder pushed the ladder across the pontoon bridge and arrived near the city wall.
"The first one to climb the ladder will be granted a hereditary position and rewarded with a thousand taels of silver!" The leading soldier had a small cavalry shield tied to his left arm, brandished a sword in his right hand, and was the first to climb the ladder.
The Eight Banners soldiers behind rushed up continuously, stood under the ladders, holding shields in their left hands and knives in their right hands, waiting in line.
Some of the firearms soldiers and archers at the back continued to shoot at the Ming army on the city wall, while a small number of people walked to the moat and pulled their companions in the river ashore.
After getting ashore, these people were full of anger. They followed the floating bridge to the bottom of the ladder and scrambled to climb up.
They wanted to use the blood of the Ming army to restore their dignity after falling into the water.
"Kill, kill! The Jiannu are charging!" the herald shouted while waving the flag in his hand.
The spearmen who had been standing in the back waiting for orders moved out.
This is the last line of defense for the city. If this line of defense is breached, it means the city wall has been lost.
These spearmen were all civilians recruited temporarily. As the saying goes, an inch longer, an inch stronger. As long as their spears were long enough, the Jiannu could not hurt them.
The rest of the firearms soldiers and crossbowmen moved away from the ladders and continued to attack the Jiannu troops under the city.
"Go to hell!" Two civilians were dressed in cloth, with wooden boards hanging on their chests, books wrapped in cloth on their heads, and spears in their hands stabbed into the chests of the Jiannu.
There was no sharp blade piercing the chest as imagined, nor was there blood flowing, but only the unbridled laughter of the Jiannu and the shadows of waving swords.
The two civilians looked at each other, drew back their spears, and stabbed again.
The result is still the same.
The two civilians were stunned at first, and then they remembered what Yan Yingyuan had said during the previous drill: The Jiannu are wearing multiple layers of armor, and the weapons in your hands may not be able to kill them, or even hurt them. Next, you have two choices...
The two men placed their spears against the chest of the Eight Banners soldier and simultaneously tried to push the man off the city wall.
However, the Eight Banners soldiers were strong and healthy, many times stronger than the common people who had just eaten a full meal for a month. He held the ladder tightly with his left hand, and for a moment both sides were frozen in place, and neither could do anything to the other.
Time waits for no one.
The second Eight Banners soldier hugged the body of the first Eight Banners soldier and climbed up quickly. With a flash of the knife in his hand, he chopped off the spear shafts of the two spearmen.
The two men ran two steps forward due to inertia, but were slashed in the throat by the other party's sword, and slowly died in painful waiting.
"I'll be the first to climb up...Shishou..." Before he could jump onto the top of the city wall, he was stabbed in the face by a spear.
"Ah!" He covered his face and retreated subconsciously. As a result, the soldier fell from the top of the city wall and killed two of his companions who were waiting to climb the city wall before he died.
"Master Yan taught us to stab their faces and poke their eyes!" someone reminded.
Under the intensive face-stabbing tactics, the Eight Banners soldiers fell off the city wall one after another.
However.
The death of their companions did not frighten the people behind them, but only intensified their anger. These people rushed up the city wall one after another, dodging the attacks of the Ming army while trying to climb up the city wall and engage in close combat with the Ming army.
"Who has a cavalry shield? Tie it on my face!" After a lieutenant saw that he had been attacking without success for a long time, he thought of this method.
He wore a layer of dark armor and two layers of cotton armor, so ordinary weapons could not penetrate his armor. Moreover, he did not need to see the enemy, because the city walls were full of enemies.
As long as we find a way to rush to the top of the city wall and create chaos, we can create opportunities for the people below.
Soon, more than a dozen Eight Banners soldiers had cavalry shields tied to their faces, and they climbed up the ladders using their hands.
Yan Yingyuan shot the last arrow in his hand and ordered, "Bring the arrows!"
Then he ordered the herald: "Pour kerosene on the ladder, but don't light it. If there is no kerosene, pour tung oil."
Under Yan Yingyuan's instructions, pots of boiling kerosene were poured onto the ladder and flowed down the ladder. In ancient times, tung oil was used to preserve wood, similar to modern paint. Its characteristic is that it feels very smooth before it dries.
The Jiannu soldiers who were climbing the ladder were first scalded by kerosene. When they were about to let go, they found that the ladder had become very smooth.
Not only was he unable to grab the sides of the ladder with his hands, but his feet also felt like they were walking on ice and he was unable to fight.
"Cao you..." This Jiannu soldier who had learned the essence of Chinese uttered foul language unwillingly the moment he fell off the ladder.
The other ladders encountered the same situation. Under the pouring of kerosene and tung oil, the ladders were more slippery than ice. Not to mention climbing up the city to attack, they couldn't even stand on it.
For a moment, many Eight Banners soldiers looked at the city wall so close at hand and felt that they were willing but unable to do anything.
"Dig the city wall!" a lieutenant shouted.
Every 200 soldiers of the Eight Banners were grouped into a Niulu, with the leader being the Niulu Zhangjing, also known as the Zuoling, and above him were the Xieling, Fudutong, and Dutong.
After receiving the order, everyone immediately rushed to the bottom of the city wall with shields raised high, stabbed their knives into the gaps between the bricks, and tried to dig open the wall.
"Rolling logs and stones!" Yan Yingyuan pulled out the arrow from his shoulder and gave the order again.
The Eight Banners soldiers who were responsible for providing cover in the distance had obviously noticed Yan Yingyuan and were shooting arrows at him.
Fortunately, he was wearing dark armor and the arrow did not penetrate the armor.
He didn't wear the hidden armor because he was afraid of death, but because he was afraid that Xuanfu Town would be lost after his death. That's why he listened to Ding Yi's advice and put on the hidden armor.
The people who were holding up shields to block the rain of arrows in the back became energized after hearing the order. They dragged the stones, bricks and whole logs they had prepared in advance to the city wall.
"One, two, three, get down!"
"One, two, three throw!"
Plop, boom!
Various complex sounds rang out one after another, and the Jiannu's offensive came to a standstill again.
Duoduo used his clairvoyance to see all of this.
He was not shocked or angry.
As a head coach, no matter what happens, you must remain calm even when facing a catastrophe.
After watching for a while, he put down his clairvoyance and gave the order.
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