boom!
The cannons on the city wall fired bullets one after another amid the roars of the crowd.
The large solid bullet was aimed at the siege machine. If one of the wooden sticks was broken, the machine would be destroyed.
The hundred-bullet bursts were aimed at the Jiannu soldiers. These small lead bullets fired from the artillery easily penetrated the armor and knocked the Jiannu soldiers to the ground.
However, these people were not afraid of life and death, and pushed the siege weapons forward with all their might.
The Eight Banners of Han were in the forefront and were responsible for pushing the siege equipment under the city wall.
The Eight Banners soldiers wearing double armor followed closely behind him, and they would climb up the moment the ladder was set up.
Later on, except for a small number of shield soldiers, the vast majority were archers.
These bows were not the soft bows commonly used by cavalry, but the hard bows used by infantry.
It has great power and long range. After being equipped with armor-piercing arrows, it can easily pierce cotton armor and cause damage to the person hit by the arrow.
Just as the Eight Banners soldiers were about to reach the moat, the second round of artillery fire began.
boom!
As the gunfire stopped, Yan Yingyuan realized something was wrong.
This time the sound of the artillery was much quieter than the last time, and the number of Jiannu soldiers who fell was also much less than last time.
There's something wrong with the artillery?
He hurriedly looked towards the Red Cannon position.
broken!
turn out to be.
The power of the nine red cannons firing at the same time was so great that the air waves generated by the firing directly overturned the makeshift tents, and many tarpaulins were broken into two pieces, with one part remaining on the wood used to set up the tents, and the other part breaking and falling off the city wall.
Not only the Red Cannon, but many medium and large artillery pieces encountered the same problem.
Only the small artillery and the musketeers' tents were safe.
The defenders on the city wall did not panic for long.
Especially the artillerymen, they first covered the boxes storing gunpowder with tarpaulins, then worked in groups of three or five to set up the tents again, and then set up the tents again with spare tarpaulins.
"Bring dry cloth and paper! And a can of kerosene!" a Ming soldier shouted.
The order was passed on one by one and soon reached the ears of the people who were hiding in the city gate to avoid the rain.
They immediately wrapped the dry cloth and paper with rain cloth, picked up a porcelain jar full of kerosene, covered it with a hat, and climbed up the city wall like a flash.
The artillerymen breathed a sigh of relief when they saw these things. They first wiped the accumulated water inside the cannon with cloth and paper, and then made a simple torch with coarse cloth and wood, dipped it in kerosene, and lit it with an open flame.
The torch kept going in and out of the muzzle, using the heat of the flame to evaporate the remaining moisture inside.
While the artillerymen were busy, the Eight Banners soldiers had already pushed pontoon bridges and ladders to the edge of the moat.
thump!
"Ouch!" From time to time, Eight Banners soldiers fell to the ground, cursing.
Although the heavy rain silenced the Ming army's artillery, it also had a significant impact on the Eight Banners soldiers.
First, their artillery was disabled due to heavy rain.
Second, the roads are slippery.
The muddy road slowed down their movements, especially for those soldiers wearing double-layer armor. The dozens of pounds of extra weight made them extremely clumsy on the slippery road in the rain.
The rain is getting heavier.
The defenders on the city wall were overcoming hardships, and the Jiannu soldiers under the city wall were also overcoming various difficulties.
Soon, the pontoon bridge was pushed onto the moat, and the first batch of Jiannu soldiers who had chiseled the wall rushed up howling.
They took various tools for chiseling walls and prying bricks, and chiseled hard at the city wall of Xuanfu Town.
Without any orders, the defenders on the city wall immediately picked up rolling logs and rocks and threw them down.
"Ah!" The screams continued.
The first wave of Jiannu soldiers attacking the city were instantly submerged in the rubble and trees of the Ming army.
but...
Behind them, there were countless Eight Banners soldiers lined up waiting to charge.
Just as the Ming army attacked the soldiers who were prying bricks and digging the wall, the ladder was pushed to the edge of the city wall.
"Whoever reaches the summit first will be granted a hereditary position!" The leading Eight Banners soldier roared and rushed forward with weapons in hand.
"Kill one Jiannu and you'll be rewarded with twenty taels of silver!" The Ming army's messenger waved the flag and shouted!
"The Jiannu are charging up, spearmen, quickly stab them back!" a civilian shouted and threw the brick in his hand down, killing a Jiannu who was trying to pry open a brick.
Because he was too close to the ladder, the Eight Banners soldiers on the ladder slashed his neck with a knife.
The saber was very sharp and it directly chopped off the civilian's head.
The boiling hot blood surged several feet high, and under the cold rain, it turned into a light red liquid and fell to the ground with the raindrops.
"Fuck you!" A Ming army soldier thrust his spear forward and pushed the Jiannu soldier on the ladder down.
Amid screams, Jiannu soldiers would fall from the ladders from time to time, hit the ground and either die on the spot or lie in the mud, spitting blood and waiting to die.
Even so, more and more soldiers climbed up the ladders.
This was a tactic that Duoduo had formulated in advance.
One up and one down, two-pronged approach.
The soldiers on the ladders were responsible for containing the firepower of the Ming army, while the soldiers below the city took the opportunity to pry bricks and dig the walls.
If the Ming army's attention was focused on the city, the soldiers on the ladders would focus on climbing the city.
Without firearms, the Ming army’s defensive capabilities were greatly reduced!
The heavy rain not only made the Ming army's firearms ineffective, but also made the fire attack method they relied on ineffective.
Especially the tough little Wanren Di, this quilt soaked in gunpowder cannot burn in the rain at all.
As for kerosene, even if it can be ignited in the rain, its power will be greatly reduced because of the heavy rain!
Due to the limited space on the city wall, the defenders near the ladders could attack the enemies on the ladders without taking into account the enemies digging the wall below the ladders.
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