Bright Spring

After a while, there was a loud cry from the top of the city, and the enemy soldier who was hit by the arrow accidentally overturned the wooden barrel.The hot fetid excrement|water gold juice sprinkled on several Annan soldiers, and in the white steam, those Annan soldiers struggled behind the wall like fish coming ashore.

"Ah!" A soldier of the Ming army rolled from the top of the wall onto the slope. Several men held him down, and saw that his right hand had been cut off, and blood was still gushing from the bones and flesh, and the soldier was spattered all over his body. With blood stains on his face, he grabbed his right arm with his left hand and just yelled.

At this moment, Liu Da was bumped to the left, he hurriedly supported the soldier who bumped into him, and saw that the young man opened his mouth wide, spitting blood and vomiting|vomiting together.Liu Da stretched out his hand to touch it, only to find that the young man's neck had been pierced by a cluster of arrows fired from a firecracker.He pushed away the young man and let the young man wait to die, because he couldn't be saved.

Liu Da let out a painful sound from his mouth, and took a deep breath with a mournful face.He has fought many battles in Yunnan, but he has never seen a scene like today.

Chapter 3 The whole country resists the enemy (9)

The Duobang city wall has been added several times, and now it is a big city with a wall height of three feet (more than eight meters).

But now it seems that it is not so high. The corpses are piled up on the wall. In order to push the ladder to the front of the city wall, the Ming army directly covered the corpses with soil to build roads. A series of large slopes were formed outside the city wall, swallowing the height of the city wall.

Nearly half of Baihu Yin Desheng's men were killed or injured, and he himself was blocked on the slope, unable to advance or retreat.The enemy soldiers on both sides of the city walls held guns and fired continuously at them. Yin Desheng felt more and more that his people were like living targets on the execution ground.

"Ah..." Another soldier on the left of Yin Desheng was hit by the firecracker, and the weapon in the soldier's hand fell down the slope, and he screamed while clutching his chest.A moment later, the artillery behind him roared like thunder, and a stone bomb fell from it, splashing earth and rocks on the top of the city, which was very frightening.

The roar of the guns and the voices of the people mingled together. In the foggy air, the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, as well as the smell of sweat, golden juice (boiling feces), and the filth of dead people's incontinence were mixed together. group.Yin Desheng only felt that it was difficult to breathe, and the feeling of retching and shortness of breath filled his chest all the time.

Yin Baihu still had dozens of people, but he couldn't retreat, because another Ming army was already blocked there at the bottom of the slope, and was about to climb up!

Yin Desheng suddenly remembered what Huang Zhong said when they first came up: Li Baihu was dead in front, and all his subordinates were injured, it was time for Yin Baihu's people to go up.

Aren't the people stuck at the bottom of the slope now, like Yin Baihu before, just here to fill their positions?Perhaps in the eyes of the general, Yin Desheng's men are finished!

There is no military order to retreat if the attack is frustrated. Now Yin Desheng is blocked by friendly troops on the slope, unable to advance forward or retreat behind; even if they try to squeeze back, there is only one end waiting for them: the crime of fleeing!

Yin Desheng felt that his hands and feet were getting cold.

From time to time, there was a scream from the brothers in front of the wall. People kept being stabbed from the top of the slope and fell into the corner of the wall. There was only one more corpse piled up in the mountain.The firecrackers on the city walls on both sides were between a few steps and twenty steps away, and they kept shooting|killing people on the slope from the side. The situation was simply horrible.

Just as Yin Desheng's head was buzzing, a voice said loudly: "Yin Baihu, you have to work hard!"

Yin Desheng wiped the sweat off his face, and stared, the person standing in front of him was old man Liu, the head of the small banner.Old man Liu pointed to the top and said: "The brother next door attacked the top of the city from the ladder, we have to seize the opportunity to go up, or we will die here sooner or later!"

Yin Desheng looked up, and sure enough, he saw knives|guns dancing wildly on the wall on the left, and soldiers fought hand-to-hand.Yin Desheng picked up a shield from among the dead, took a breath, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Brothers, come with me!"

Old man Liu also echoed and shouted: "We have nowhere to go, if we want to survive, go to the city!"

"Kill! Kill..." All the soldiers shouted desperately with the final momentum, and the struggle for survival made everyone's courage shine like a flash of light.

The soldiers at the front of the slope desperately rushed close to the wall stack, and were stabbed by long | spears and turned over several times in an instant.A soldier pressed his gun and shield against the wall, he turned upside down, and was immediately stabbed head-on by an enemy soldier with a forked and sharpened bamboo pole. The soldier's face immediately became bloody and hissed. scream.

There was a "bang", a string sounded in the noisy voice, an arrow feather was almost inserted into the enemy soldier's forehead, and the enemy soldier fell on his back without even screaming.

The soldier of the Ming army who had been poked in the face jumped violently while screaming, and fell directly on the ground!But he was immediately surrounded by many Annan soldiers, chopping and stabbing chaotically.At this time, two soldiers of the Ming army with gun shields flipped up again desperately.

Yin Desheng spotted an empty place, stretched out the goose feather knife and shield over the wall, his arms were on the wall, he quickly turned up, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Brothers, kill!"

After shouting, Yin Desheng immediately turned his head and prepared to fight.I saw a soldier in front whose shoulder armor had been deformed, with an arrow sticking out of his shoulder, holding a knife in his right hand, screaming and rushing towards the enemy soldier; The man slashed to death, and he himself was quickly stabbed|turned over to the ground.

As soon as the top of the sloping wall fell, more soldiers of the Ming army took advantage of the situation to come up.The chaotic Annan soldiers were defeated and fled to the right one after another.The right side is the east side, the city tower is over there, Annan army reinforcements are coming!The Annan army on this side was defeated, and almost all ran to the crowded place.

Although Yin Desheng is less than 20 years old, his father is a hundred households and knows what to do.He aimed at the gap, and immediately shouted: "Array!"

At this time, more than half of his more than one hundred men had been lost, and there were not many generals left under his command. Fortunately, Bai Hu was alive, and all the soldiers obeyed his orders and reluctantly gathered into a square formation.At this time, the troops of another hundred-family team from behind also climbed in from the slope here one after another.

"Bang bang bang..." A firearm exploded on the city wall, and clusters of arrows hit the shields and armor of the Ming army with clangs and bangs, and people screamed and fell to the ground from time to time.

Yin Desheng took a tattered and blood-stained military flag with the word "Ming" written on it from a general, roared, and rushed towards the densely packed Annan Army reinforcements.The morale of the hundred-household team that had just entered the city was high. Regardless of the chaotic formation, they also shouted when they saw the situation, and then rushed up.

The two armies quickly engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the enemy soldiers who had just finished firing their guns were immediately killed, crying for their fathers and mothers, and then the sound of weapons, shields, and armor colliding was overwhelming.The crowds on both sides were very dense, and when they rushed together, white dangling knives and guns were waving messily, as if countless fish and shrimps were jumping rapidly in pieces on the surface of the water just before the big net was about to come out.

Yin Desheng clenched the military flag in his hand and shouted to boost morale: "Brothers have killed the enemy bravely. Millions of soldiers in the city are watching. The world will praise you..."

But at this time, the sky was gray and full of smoke, and the people outside the city were all busy rushing upwards, no one cared about anyone else.

When Yin Desheng was panting, he glanced into the city and was dumbfounded.On the north and south avenues, countless war elephants are slowly moving towards the south city.There are groups of infantry on both sides, with knives and guns standing densely like trees, and elephants chirping one after another, like horns amidst the sound of guns.

The number of enemy soldiers in Duobang City is not necessarily less than that of the Ming army who attacked the city!

...The road on the city wall is quite spacious, at least two carriages can run parallel.The two armies fought together, and the Ming army quickly gained the upper hand and continued to advance to the east.

But at the upper wall passage in the city, Annan's army had been prepared for a long time. They moved many carbine-repelling guns made of sharpened and hard bamboo, and deployed seven or eight dense barriers. | hit.

The attacking men and horses of the Ming army were blocked, and they shot with bows and crossbows on the wall. Later, even artillery such as bowl and mouth guns were brought up. The artillery roared on the wall, and the smoke was even greater.

The scuffle above has spread to the Zhengnanmen Tower, and half of the city wall in the south of Duobang City has been occupied by the Ming army.The melee in that tower was even more brutal. The stairs going up to the city inside were very narrow, but Annan's reinforcements rushed up one after another... Like the Ming army on the slope of the base, they didn't want to rush forward bravely, but their retreat had already been blocked by the rear. The crowd is blocked|dead, and they can't even squeeze back.

Corpses piled up at the entrance of the stairs, almost blocking the opening.At this moment, a bowl of guns was facing the exit, and suddenly there was a loud "boom", the fire flashed in the tower, and white smoke immediately spread throughout the tower.On the stairs below, the wailing and screaming were like hell on earth.Inside the city tower, there was a burst of coughing and shouting|cursing.

"Boom, boom..." The city tower trembled amidst loud noises.

After the city gate lost the defense of the defenders on the tower, a huge chariot arrived at the city gate.Countless people yelled and shouted, rushed into the car, and a hundred-year-old tree trunk transported from the west mountain slammed into the city gate again and again.

Outside the city tower, there is a brick and stone slope passage leading from the city wall. A group of Ming soldiers surrounded eight big men and carried a Hongwu cannon to the top of the passage. "Ah!" A big man froze, a streak of blood splashed on his chest.Immediately a soldier next to him stepped forward, put his hands on the shoulder pole, and moved his shoulders over.

The soldiers were busy lifting the gun mount up, and put sacks filled with sand and stones to stabilize the gun mount.The Hongwu cannon was slowly placed on the mount.

The enemy soldiers below were yelling in a panic while setting off firecrackers. Annan's army also had all kinds of firearms, so of course they knew what it meant to have such a big cannon pressed against their faces.

The fuse squeaked, a wisp of blue smoke rose from the top of the city, the huge black muzzle was facing diagonally downward, and the enemy soldiers below began to run around.

"Boom!" A loud noise shook the bricks and stones on the ground, and the gunpowder smoke rose flatly and continued to impact the surroundings. The flames shot out from the muzzle, and the compacted fine soil flew out of the flames and splashed in all directions. An iron bullet weighing more than a hundred catties roared and swept away.The carbine-repelling gun on the stone steps was hit so that the bamboo splinters flew, and the iron bullet slammed into the crowd, screaming from below, and the black cannonball jumped into the air and fell into the dense crowd again.

"Kill! Kill..." In the white smoke, countless figures with knives and guns rushed out of the thick smoke.

The Ming army captured the city wall one after another, and the situation in the southern city was like a dike breaking, with troops everywhere.The flames of artillery and firecrackers flashed everywhere, and bursts of white smoke rose into the sky.

Amidst the huge wood rubbing sound, the south city gate slowly opened.Countless Ming army infantry began to advance directly towards the city gate.

On the front street, groups of war elephants and countless infantrymen of the Annan Army were also marching towards the city gate.The Annan army dispatched a large number of troops. In order to counterattack, thousands of troops seemed to be able to fill all the roads.The war is not over yet.

Chapter 3 Seventeen: The Nation Against the Enemy (10)

In the thick smoke of Duobangnan City, the sound of footsteps and horseshoes resounded through the sky and the earth.Pieces of red tassels swayed on the ground, and wide-eaved iron helmets and forests of knives and guns spread to the north like a torrent.

The Annan army on the opposite side seemed to be more numerous. Groups of war elephants were armed to the teeth, and infantry followed closely.The heavy steps of countless war elephants stepped on the brick floor together, and the ground seemed to be trembling.

"Boom boom boom..." All of a sudden, the cannons in front of the crowd of the Ming army fired together, followed by crackling firecrackers, and a large cloud of white smoke rose in the sound like thunder.

"Woo..." The elephants honked in panic.The war elephants, covered with leather armor and sharp weapons, are tall and terrifying, but when the firearms are fired, they don't listen to the animal trainer's shouts at all, and turn around and run away.

There was a sudden chaos in Annan's army, and the infantry all avoided the panicked elephants.

At this moment, the infantry of the Ming army in the south gradually moved to the sides, as if a gate had been opened in the phalanx.The sound of horseshoes from behind suddenly roared through the sky, and a group of brightly colored cavalry rushed out!

Those war horses are very eye-catching, and they are all covered with colorful tiger skins!General Zhang Fu knew that Annan's army had many war elephants, so he asked someone to paint tiger skins and wrap them around the horses.This trick was not created by Zhang Fu, Mu Ying's elephant soldiers who fought against the chieftain before did it with good results, Zhang Fu just repeated the old trick.