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Chapter 74 Siege
On the arrow tower at the top of the city, Man Gui held the hilt of his sword in his hand, watching the Jianlu rolling in with cold eyes, without any panic on his face.

But below the watchtower, those ordinary soldiers were not so calm.Most of them are soldiers of the Beijing camp, and they have to work hard all the year round. They go to battle to kill the enemy. What kind of stuff is that? They have never touched it!
Although they had seen Jianlu siege the city before, at that time it was blocked by King Youqin's army outside the city.Now all they can rely on is the city wall of the capital, so it is impossible not to panic.

Not only them, but also the civil and military officials watching the battle on the inner city wall behind them panicked.Seeing that Jianlu was getting closer, but there was no movement on the top of the wall, many censors or servants saw that Jianlu was getting closer, so they shouted at first, and then added jumping movements: "Fire, fire! Don't let Jian close..."

Hearing those officials shouting, the soldiers panicked a little. Fortunately, Man Gui's servants were in charge of the formation, and they only obeyed the commander's orders, but they were still stable.

On the Arrow Tower in the inner city, on the floor of Hu Guang, except for the vacant seats around him, there are the tallest civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty standing a little farther away.

The assistant minister Zhou Yanru was a little panicked when he saw this situation. He thought that Man Gui hadn't ordered the artillery to attack because he was afraid of accidentally injuring the rout soldiers who were rushing and fleeing in front. : "Qi Zou Your Majesty, I have a book to play!"

Hu Guangzheng was looking at this kind of battlefield with ancient cold weapons, felt the gold and iron horses, and slightly felt that his blood seemed to be a little boiling.When he was wondering if he was naturally adapted to the battlefield, he heard Zhou Yanru's voice and couldn't help turning his head and asking, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty Qizuo, I think..." Zhou Yanru hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly heard strange movements outside the city, so he couldn't help but glanced at it, and froze there.

Hu Guang also noticed it, and turned his head to look, but saw that in the torrent of Jianlu's line, suddenly a part of Jianlu's cavalry accelerated obviously, and they chased those defeated Ming soldiers who were running wildly, grinning grinningly. He swung his knife and slashed over. For a moment, blood gushed out and heads flew around.

There are even some strong Jianlu, holding iron guns, with the help of horsepower, piercing through the back of the rout soldiers, and taking advantage of the situation, they watched the rout soldiers on their guns who were still struggling in pain, screaming again and again. Howling is approaching.

The soldiers on the top of the city were all pale with fright, and many soldiers' legs were even trembling unknowingly.Those civil servants and generals who were still shouting just now had long forgotten to shout and urge, and just stayed there.Fortunately, they were not on the outer city wall, otherwise there would probably be a few people who would scare the pee.

The main general, Man Gui, looked at these with cold eyes, and sneered in his heart, knowing that this was one of the usual methods used by Jianlu to hit his own morale.

When he saw behind these Jianlu, relying on their excellent riding skills, teams of Jianlu were rushing towards the city wall with ladders, and he knew that these Jianlu were going to attack the city with all their might.

This surprised him a little, because only this part of the Jianlu had already made the siege posture, and the other parts of the Jianlu hadn't approached yet, and it seemed a bit out of touch. This didn't seem to be the situation that Jianlu should have.

But at this moment, he didn't bother to think about the reason, and immediately ordered to fire.

On the head of the capital city, Hongyi cannons, general cannons, and large Frang machine guns fired one after another.

Accompanied by the sound of "boom boom boom", gunpowder smoke filled the city, and it was impossible to see the situation outside at all.

But Man Gui on the arrow tower in the outer city could see iron eggs flying out one after another.

Some fell into the moat and disappeared when they smashed through the thin ice; some did not fly directly to Jianlu at all, but flew obliquely, which had no effect.

Of course, some iron eggs fell and smashed into the pile of prisoners, tearing everything that could be encountered, whether it was a war horse or a human body in armor, they all ended up ripped apart and torn apart.But this is like throwing a small stone into the sea, with only a small wave, and then being submerged by the army in the blink of an eye.

The sound of rumbling horseshoes continued, and Jianlu was getting closer.On the top of the city, the shelling continued.The first round is pre-loaded, and the second round needs to be loaded.

Thanks to the howling cold wind, the gunpowder smoke from the top of the city only permeated for a while before being blown away by the wind.Hu Guang happened to see the effect of the shelling, which made him frown.After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly felt that it was so funny, fortified city and sharp guns, this is simply nonsense.

At this time, the artillery fired iron eggs.And the iron egg is launched on the top of the city. Let alone the hit rate of aiming, it is said that the iron egg flies out of the shell from the height of the top of the city, falls to the ground in a parabola, and then needs to bounce to kill the enemy.Even if the enemies are lined up for you to fight, it is estimated that you will not be able to kill many enemies until the end of time.Not to mention Jianlu attacking the city, they were all scattered.

For large army operations, this kind of artillery defends the city and bombards the enemy, which is more of an intimidating effect.However, the enemies outside are now battle-hardened and have seen a lot of Jianlu with artillery, so it's no wonder they can be intimidated.

In fact, the most useful place for this kind of cannon is to siege the city.As long as the cannon is big enough and has a long enough range, aiming at a city gate or a city wall that is too big to move, after shooting many times in a row, it will definitely be able to knock down the city head or city gate, which is really the most effective siege weapon.

Hu Guangzheng was thinking this way, when he suddenly saw a flash of fire from the top of the city in front of him, and then gunpowder smoke came out. He only heard a "boom", but saw a big general's cannon explode, and the surrounding soldiers were killed and injured immediately.Some debris even spread to the civil and military officials on the inner city wall, and several of them broke their skins immediately.

Man Gui obviously noticed it, and immediately someone was ordered to come down from the watchtower to reorganize the defense of this area.But with such a lesson, the other gunners immediately became timid. The speed at which the cannon was fired was comparable to the speed at which the presbyopic grandmother threaded a needle.

The accident on the top of the city made Mangurtai outside the city even more convinced that his intimidation strategy had paid off. He didn't want to wait for the other two Heshuobeile leaders to come up, so he hurriedly urged his men to attack quickly.

After Jianlu's cavalry carrying the ladder rushed to the side of the moat, they dismounted together and carried the ladder to the moat.All of a sudden, on the outside of the moat, a lot of prisoners had arrived.

Behind these ladder-carrying Jianlu, another group of Jianlu got off their horses and took out their bows and began to shoot arrows at the top of the city for cover.

Of course, long-range weapons such as bows and arrows on the top of the city, and blunderbusses were also aimed at the Jianlu below the city, shooting arrows and firing arrows.

The battle to defend the capital entered a fierce stage from the very beginning.

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