Three hundred and twentieth chapters gunpowder keg
"Brothers, there is the same pass ahead. Only by taking this place can Jinzhou be safe and the enemy will not threaten Yanzhou. Hold your weapons tightly and follow me!"
Amid the sound of cannons, sixty teams carrying cloud ladders were ready.
Each team is led by a small flag, with a total of fifty people.
Before the attack, the general flag circled around the soldiers under his command, shouting to cheer them up.
At the same time, the ten cloud ladders were led by a captain.
Whether it is the small flag, the general flag or the lieutenant, they will take the lead in charge during this siege.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
The soldiers shouted that this would be the hardest siege they would have fought in Jinzhou.
When they were in Xincheng, they took advantage of only more than 2,000 soldiers in the city.
When they were in Jincheng, they took advantage of the cannons that collapsed the city wall.
But there will not always be any advantage on the battlefield for them to take.
What's more, with the current support of artillery and flintlock rifles, they already have great advantages.
"Your Highness has returned to Yancheng, but he has been watching us! This time we will use Tongguan to prove to Your Highness that we can chew on the hard bones!" After cheering up the soldiers, Guan Tong rode back and forth in front of the soldiers, shouting.
Finally he stopped in front of Chang Wei, who nodded to him.
Pulling out the sword from his waist, he pointed at the head of Tongguan City and shouted: "Run!"
"kill!"
Guantong ordered that soldiers carrying the ladder rushed towards the city wall.
At the same time, Chang Wei ordered the flintlock spear team to march forward and suppress the Xiliang soldiers on the city wall.
The artillery stops at this time, and continuing to bombard the artillery will cause accidental injury.
On the city wall.
Hearing the sound of killing, Qu Dan poked his head out and looked at it.
The soldiers of King Yan carried the ladder and launched a charge.
He felt tight and he shouted, "All up and guard the city wall!"
After receiving Qu Dan's order, the Xiliang generals on the city wall urged the soldiers to stand up.
The cannon sound stopped, and the soldiers of Xiliang became more courageous.
Seeing that the King of Yan was carrying a ladder, the soldiers were about to arrive at the city wall.
They immediately picked up the rolling wood and gravels waiting for the arrival of the King of Yan soldiers.
At the same time, the Xiliang archers on the city wall stood up and shot arrows at the Yan King soldiers under the city.
"Swoosh swish swish swish..." The sound of arrows breaking through the air kept ringing.
Like raindrops, landing on the charge of the royal palace soldiers.
From time to time, charge soldiers were hit in a place without armor and fell to the ground screaming.
While the Xiliang archers fired the arrows, the flintlock spearmen walked forward.
Shoot at the top of the city in a row below the city.
"Bang bang bang..." A dense gunfire sounded.
In the flames and smoke, people in Xiliang archers on the city wall were constantly shot and fell to the ground.
With the help of the Flintlock Team, the pressure on the royal family soldiers in the charge suddenly decreased.
They came to the bottom of the city wall, leaned the ladder up the city wall, and climbed up the ladder.
Under the suppression of the flintlock rifle, soldiers from Xiliang lie behind the wall.
Seeing that the soldiers of the royal palace were about to climb up the city wall, the general of Xiliang immediately ordered the soldiers to pick up the stone in their hands and smash it down.
A soldier from Xiliang picked up the stone in fear and stood up, then threw it at the ladder.
His arm was hit while the stone was thrown.
The severe pain came, and he squatted under the wall with his arms covered, screaming.
The other Xiliang soldiers were even more scared when they saw this.
Although there were no artillery, such weapons that were hard to describe indescribable to the defeated soldiers also filled them with fear.
"Everyone gets up to kill the enemy, no matter who squats behind you!" The general's voice came.
But in fear, not many people paid attention to them.
Seeing this, the general waved the sword in his hand and slashed a soldier squatting under the wall.
The pupils of other Xiliang soldiers suddenly expanded.
They gritted their teeth and shouted, and they picked up the rolling wood and threw it down.
Other soldiers also poured gravel, hot oil and other things down.
“On the reserve team!”
Under the city, Chang Wei clenched his fists tightly.
The narrow city walls and sufficient troops allowed Xiliang to constantly replace the dead soldiers and maintain the offensive.
Amid the rocks, rolling wood and hot hot oil, the soldiers of the royal palace suffered casualties.
Soldiers were constantly hit and fell off the ladder.
"This is a damn Tong Pass." Chang Wei hated Tong Pass for the first time.
No matter how much he liked it before, he even guarded it here.
But now in the hands of the enemy, it is the hateful existence in his eyes.
In particular, he also caused so many casualties to his soldiers.
The war lasted from morning to evening. With the narrow city walls of Tongguan, the people of Xiliang resisted fiercely.
When night fell, Chang Wei ordered the siege to stop.
On the city wall, looking at the faded Yan King soldier, Qu Dan's hands were trembling slightly.
If there were no such city wall, if there were no 30,000 Xiliang soldiers in the city.
He believed that the city was now broken.
But even so, he was shocked.
In war, the defender of the city occupies a good position and often sacrifices much smaller than the other party.
But compared with the casualties of the Yan King soldiers outside the city, he actually found that the casualties of his guarding the city were actually greater than those of siege.
The reason is the strange firearms of the soldiers of the King of Yan.
So many soldiers held this kind of firearm like the same number of archers.
Many Xiliang appeared and were killed.
Outside the Pass.
Chang Wei and the commanders looked solemn.
After one day's fierce attack, the city walls at the same pass were not taken down.
The two sides of the Tongguan face mountains, facing the grasslands on one side, and only the south gate can attack on the other side.
This is simply a chance to concentrate troops against them.
Although the soldiers fought bravely, they could not do anything about the destruction of stones, rolling wood, and hot oil.
"It's a pity that lime firecrackers cannot be used, otherwise it will be much smoother." Guantong sounded the lime that once again played a miraculous effect when attacking Jincheng.
But the situation is different now. Throwing firecrackers from bottom to top will only cause lime to float down, which will cause trouble for your own people.
"Firecrackers!" Guan Tong's mutter made Chang Wei stunned for a moment, and a light flashed in his mind.
He looked at the wall facing him and said, "Continue to bombard the weak point of the wall."
Then he said, "Concentrate some gunpowder and make some gunpowder barrels."
When Guan Tong heard this, he immediately understood what Chang Wei wanted to do.
A hint of joy appeared on his face, and he immediately asked the soldiers to prepare.
Soon, the roar of artillery sounded again, bombarding the once-renovated place.
The next day, thirty and a half meters high wooden barrels were moved to the front of the military formation.
Each barrel is filled with particles of gunpowder, and a fuse is stuffed into the barrel for ignition.
After a night of bombardment, the blue bricks in the bombardment completely fell off, leaving only rammed earth.
Moreover, a large and deep hole was smashed by a shell.
This is what Chang Wei wants.
Even though the bombardment speed of the cannon was too slow, he used a powder barrel to blow up the city wall directly.
Chapter completed!