Chapter 738: Breaking the City 4

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the shotgun fired at close range knocked down dozens of Wu soldiers. The originally tight hollow square formation immediately lacked a big hole. The refugees who were highly motivated cheered and surrounded the gap, waving sticks, stones, and a small number of weapons snatched from the defenders to the panicked Wu soldiers. Just as if they were crushing the last straw of the camel, the short cannon placed on the east gate tower played a key role at this critical moment. When the refugees poured into the gap, the Wu army's spear could not be used, and they were knocked down one by one by one by the refugees' sticks and stones. The entire square formation slowly but unstoppable collapse. At first, it was one person, then two people, and more and more Wu soldiers dropped the spears in their hands and turned around and ran away.

"Stop it and go back to fight, bastards, go back!" The commander of the Wu army tried his best to wave the short staff in his hand, trying his best to stop the fleeing Wu Bing. His right shoulder had been injured by the shotgun just now, but he still tried his best to beat and kick the escaped Wu Bing, trying to restore the tightness of the square formation. Suddenly, with a gunshot, the commander's helmet flew into the air, and his heavy body fell to the ground, and soon the resistance of the hollow square formation collapsed, except for a few who had escaped at the beginning.

The running Wu Bing saved his life, and almost all the remaining people were dead. They were wearing heavy armor and could not escape the pursuit of refugees. Moreover, the refugees who had a hard hatred towards the Wu Bing would never accept prisoners. They shouted happily and vented their anger and hatred on the enemy. Soon, the head of the Wu army commander was cut down and was picked up by the refugees on the tip of the spear and waved them. On both sides of the narrow road, there were incomplete Wu army corpses everywhere.

"The fourth brother, you really have yours. These Wu Gou really have a trick. If it weren't for you, we would have to lose hundreds of lives to pick it up!" Song Erlang laughed loudly. Shang Jinzhong's command just now was an art. The dead refugees were nothing at all, and they even saved a lot of food. At present, as long as there is food, people still need as much as they want, as long as they don't have the capital to start their own business.

Shang Jinzhong was very calm and whispered: "Big Master! Wu thief defeated these five hundred people, and there was not much mobile power in his hands. The morale of the vagrants is high. He took advantage of the opportunity to siege the west, south and north gates to restrain the other side. We just took the governor's mansion. The arsenal of Hengzhou City and most of the food were there. We took over the next step of action!"

"Okay! Let's do what you said!" At this time, Song Erlang naturally followed Shang Jin Zhongyan's advice. He turned around and ordered several men beside him, "You two go out of the city to pull our team into the city, and then notify all the leaders outside the city, saying that the counterattack of the Wu thief has been completely wiped out by me, and thousands of beheadings. Now the Wu thief in the city has only one last breath. If they still want to eat meat, don't stand outside the city to watch the show. Take down the three city gates in the west, south and north quickly, otherwise don't blame Song for being unkind and not even giving them a sip of soup when eating meat!" Speaking of this, Song Erlang pointed to the body of Wu soldiers on the ground and said, "You two took two sets of armor before you go, and there were two muskets to serve as a gift for those guys, so that those bastards would not think that some family would deceive them!"

"Here!"

Song Erlang turned around, his face full of smiles, and said to Shang Jinzhong: "The fourth brother, since that's the case, I'll trouble you if you take down the governor's mansion!"

About an hour later, in front of the Hengzhou Governor's Mansion, the water was surrounded again. Unlike before, the entire Hengzhou City has now fallen into the hands of refugees. The Wu soldiers at the West Gate, South Gate, and North Gate quickly collapsed due to the sudden annihilation of the Wu army sent to regain the East Gate and the limited mobile force, Zhou Hubiao in the Governor's Mansion had no countermeasures. The only thing he could do now was to persist as long as possible to wait for reinforcements from Tanzhou. Fortunately, the walls of the Hengzhou Governor's Mansion were reinforced, and the gate was also protected by multiple forts and the side fire of the towers. There were more than a thousand guards in the mansion, including food, drinking water, and gunpowder. The miserable experience of the Wu soldiers captured not long ago was enough to make the Wu soldiers in the mansion fight to their last breath.

In a courtyard more than 300 steps away from the governor's mansion, since this courtyard was used to store grain, the surrounding rammed earth wall was more than half a meter thick. After the besieged side thickened the outer wall with sacks filled with grain, it was enough to withstand artillery shooting on the high ground of the governor's mansion, so it became the command center of the besieged side.

In the courtyard, Shang Jinzhong was giving orders to a group of refugee leaders one by one, looking like a general.

"Hu Dangjia, you bring fifty people to the city, first gather the curved utensils in Chongren, the west, and cook. Before dinner, you must prepare hot rice for two thousand people, and enough hot water!"

"Dangshu Huang, you bring two hundred people there. Within an hour, gather the big carts in the city and the carpenters, wait for my hair to fall."

"Xu Dangjia, there is sand on the ground on the river beach outside the west gate. You will take your subordinates to fill all the sacks in the warehouse behind the warehouse and place them outside the yard to wait for use!"

The refugee leaders were silent in front of Shang Jinzhong. The person who was called the name hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down to obey the order. They knew very well that not long ago, the man in front of him had wiped out more than a thousand Wu soldiers. In the courtyard, he was full of men wearing iron armor and holding spears and convex guns. These armor, spears and convex guns were all taken off the dead Wu soldiers. Facing such a man, shouldn't they obey orders honestly?

When the refugee leaders left one by one, the face of the Sanding family, who was watching, became increasingly ugly. Whether it was his fame in the green forest road in Sanxiang or the ranking of Song Erlang's thieves, he was above Shang Jinzhong. However, this guy only brought two and a half-year-old children to join him. Song Erlang attached great importance to him. He ignored him and placed him in the position of the Siding family. He followed his advice and specially selected six or seven hundred of the most ingenious boys for him to practice. This made many other thieves look at him, so many people talked about it. But Song Erlang

Without saying a word, he dragged several of the most outrageous people to Juyi Hall, whipped them 50 times, and then kowtowed to Shang Jinzhong to admit his mistakes, forcing many people to suppress these rumors, making many people dare not speak out, he himself is one of these people. Judging from today's affairs, Shang Jinzhong is indeed capable and has foresight, but the third leader saw it and felt like a cat's claws were scratched. He felt very uncomfortable. He couldn't help but sneer: "Fourth, you are so majestic, I'm afraid even the boss can't match you!"

As soon as the third head of the army said this, the people in the courtyard suddenly changed their faces. It is common to know that fire and seize the throne on the green forest road. The eldest head of the army was about to refute, but he heard Shang Jinzhong laugh and said, "What the third brother said is that there is no second head in the army, otherwise it will be a bad thing. Brother, there is one thing you have to do!" He suddenly turned to Song Erlang beside him and said.

Song Erlang was stunned when he heard this, and then he felt acquainted and bowed to Shang Jinzhong and said, "Song Erlang is here."

"Wang Gou will be besieged later. There will be no idle people in the city. Please ask the boss to lead two hundred people to patrol the four gates in the city. If there are people who do not comply with the law, they will be engaged in military laws!"

"See Jun's order!" Song Erlang bowed to Shang Jinzhong before turning around and leaving the hospital. The third head of the army saw it and became even more angry. He snorted coldly, turned his head and went out.

There is a protruding multi-faceted fortress at 150 steps to the right of the gate of the governor's mansion. Originally, there was no such thing in the past Hengzhou Governor's Mansion. After Zhou Hubiao occupied this place, he built this multi-faceted fortress to strengthen the defense of the governor's mansion. From this multi-faceted fortress, you can use firearms to kill and attack the enemy soldiers from the side and backward direction, eliminating the dead corners under the wall. The terrain is very important. As long as this multi-faceted fortress is still in the hands of the defenders, the refugees cannot attack the gate with all their strength. Even if the gate is opened, they cannot expand the breakthrough. As long as the defender has a small amount of mobile troops, they can use counterattacks to regain the gate and restore a complete defensive situation.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the first cannon fired at the governor's mansion. What surprised Zhou Hubiao was that compared with the attacks at night, the attacks of the refugees now were much more organized. They did not rush to the trap set by the defenders with all their might, like the beginning, and then were destroyed by the grenade guns and shotguns in rows like irrational beasts. One of the attackers began to carefully bombard the two viewing towers next to the gate with cannons - which were the commanding heights in the mansion, from which you can see the movements in several yards close to the governor's mansion, which cast a shadow on Zhou Hubiao's heart: Obviously, there are people among the refugees who understand the defense tactics of the Wu army, and even a considerable number of gunners, otherwise they would not be able to control the artillery that had been hidden from the Wu army. Then he immediately ordered the artillery on the Houyuan Highlands and the artillery on the multi-faceted fort to fire and fight back to destroy the artillery of the refugees.

As the artillery battle began, streams of white smoke ejected from the multi-faceted fortress. Soon, the white smoke that had not been able to dissipate covered the multi-faceted fortress and covered the defenders' sight. However, they continued to fire according to the pre-set elements. After several volleys, in order to cool the inner chamber of the artillery to a sufficient temperature, the Wu army gunners had to temporarily stop the artillery fire. However, to their smugness, the sound of the gunners on the opposite side also stopped completely. Obviously, the artillery fire of the attacking party was suppressed, and it is very likely that the gunners were also killed and injured.

"Haha! A bunch of mud legs that can't even eat enough to eat, and dare to play with artillery, is so laughing to death!"

"This is why you are mean, and those mud legs are not easy. It is rare for them to break the cannon without slapping the chamber!"

At the multi-faceted fort, the Wu army gunners were talking proudly. Their reaction was not surprising. Even in the new Wu army, the gunners had the highest status and salary. The reason was very simple. The various knowledge that the gunners needed to master and the harsh training they received determined that they were very expensive. Therefore, in the eyes of the Wu army gunners, the gunners in other vassal armies were simply not worthy of this noble title, let alone these refugees who were the same as beggars in front of them. While using wool brushes stained with vinegar water, they impatiently waited for the temperature of the gun barrel to drop to a sufficient temperature so that they could continue to use shelling to teach those hateful refugees a lesson.
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