Seeing this situation, even Yang Xingmin, who has been known for his determination and perseverance since the start of the army, was unavoidable for a moment of vacillation and pessimism. Could it be that my perseverance and hard work all the time; in the face of these thief army's all-out methods, is it so useless
With just such a face-to-face attack, there was a tendency of collapse in the city where he was located. Just what he saw in his field of vision, the city wall was already an unstoppable fleeing crowd; it was like the fine waves that had been shot across the embankment, drowning out the few generals who were still shouting and drinking, trying to stop and stop them. They.
Then they fled in a crowd on the ramps and stairs specially built for transporting city defense materials, trampling each other and squeezing into a ball. The preset fortifications, barriers and shutters were overturned and overturned one after another; there were also equipment and materials piled up everywhere. It's like a colony of ants forming a cluster when they meet with water.
The colors of the main robes on these deserters in the city are also stinging Yang Xingmin’s turbulent thoughts; these are the new army sequences he reorganized after integrating the local troops who had been surrendered; therefore, compared to him. The morale and veteranness of the headquarters of the Shouhao Army that was brought was a lot worse; if you take time, you will not be able to train as one.
However, yesterday his subordinates indiscriminately executed a large number of relevant local generals on the grounds of suspicion of collaborating with the enemy in the purge army. And those newcomers who were newly sent to take over the defense and support of the city, obviously did not convince the public and did not have enough time to establish authority beyond the high pressure of military deterrence; as a result, they were spied by the thieves outside the city. Opportunities and flaws, but have been retributed by the world
If I knew this a long time ago, why should I compromise and endure for a while to those unruly old subordinates? . . . . . . .
"See after staying, Feihuo will come and follow suit..."
"After Fengsong stayed, Chang Chai came to listen to the effect..."
"Hefei always follows, only to stay behind Jianfeng's point..."
"Quxi camp, dare to be the first to stay?"
"The Yellow Head Army is here, but please attack first..."
"..."
The next moment, the blockbuster running footsteps from various streets and the loud calls for backup supporters of different numbers once again awakened Yang Xingmin from this short-lived negative emotion. In the meantime, he changed back to the Yang Durate who led everyone through thorns and battles without regrets, and was always able to overcome difficulties and difficulties time and time again.
Even if it is a momentary defeat, as long as there are these people in the city who rely on them as the backbone and backbone, where is the chaos and chaos of the world, where can not be advanced, and where can not survive? Thinking of this, the enlightened mist in his heart was gone, and in the midst of the rumbling roar and the sound of the trembling palace killing, he stood high and shouted:
"Zhu'erlang, but follow me up to the city to kill the thief..."
"Kill the thief."
"Kill the thief..."
"The return rate is..."
"Follow and stay behind..."
"With me invincible, Wansheng!!!"
Amidst this wave of noise that emerged in the city, the defeated soldiers who had fled from the city, lost their equipment and flags, and wanted to take off their robes and go to the homes of the people in the city. In the cry of yelling father and mother, the fresh troops and supporters who were rushed by these follow-ups yelled at the front to stop them.
Then, amidst anger and yelling and yelling and yelling, he cut off a large number of people's heads in blood, and in an atmosphere full of fear and excitement, as well as grief and indignation, This burst of defeat was pushed back with all his strength.
However, at this time, the thief troops outside the city that had attacked had already taken advantage of this gap and the moment of decline, climbing up the mutilated wall one after another, popping up on the battlements and crenellations covered by fireworks. Facing the defenders who were forced to return, they raised their swords and held a license, and pointed out many large and small spheres with smoke.
In an instant, just like these sandwich biscuits forced to the limit by the inside and outside, they were forced to retreat to the defenders who wanted to defeat the stubbornly resist; more smoke and flames burst out of thin air, and there were screams. The sound and the thick blood splashing on the top of the wall and the wall.
And looking on the floating boat outside the city head, it was a short interval of morale that has been and morale after these rounds of artillery destroying the city head defenders. The situation and terrain of the battlefield outside the city have caused tremendous changes like earth-shaking.
The auxiliary soldiers and the engineering team of the Taiping Army outside the city prepared a large wooden plank tied with rope, as well as stepping feet, soil bags and wood bales for filling the pit, and they were hundreds of steps from the besieged camp to the root of the wall. In the meantime, many smooth roads were laid out at a fast speed, which could be fast and loaded.
Therefore, the pickers and the first soldiers who are ready to go are like rushing torrents leaping from behind various camp gates, over the paved trenches; and like superimposed swells, Holding up the large platoons and group cards that cover their bodies, pushing various specialized vehicles and equipment, piled up under the city wall where there is not much momentum for counterattack.
In just a dozen breaths of busy rushing to work, the chaotic borders of the city and the inside of the moats were cleared; then, the immediately following wheel hub ladders, iron-top rushing cars, and towering mobile enemy platforms also went through again. The ground was compacted and reinforced, and slowly pushed up.
In this process, although the artillery firing on the earth barriers and high platforms gradually ceased; only a few of the heavy artillery and mortars with relatively curved ballistics were still extending to the inner side and the two ends of the deterrent bombardment. With.
However, more long gunners replaced the corresponding bunkers and joined the sequence of shooting at the head of the city. Fragmented smoke clouds almost formed a long and dense smoke and dust belt in front of the earth barrier, and the lead and iron pellets whizzing through the sky made the remaining defenders between the ruins and broken walls unable to show up at all.
On the two wings of the offensive on the ground, more archers from the archery team were also drumming, slowly advancing while trying to throw waves of arrows towards the back of the city, volleying; one after another. It was not until the arm strength was exhausted that another batch was rotated.
That’s how they kept cooperating with the intensive firecrackers on the high platform and the soil barriers; and under the guidance of the banner of the high-altitude flying boat constantly mobilizing, they tried to cover and kill the two ends of the south main gate that was attacked from the key. The defenders came in groups to support; among the fallen corpses were clusters of tufts, drenched with blood-colored tail feathers like a shining mountain flower.
And after the array of these shooting teams, if no one came closer to the city wall; after that, fires with smoke trails rose up, turning into groups of burning fireballs and bursting smoke balls, and drove those forward and afterward. The defenders; caught off guard and bombed and overturned a piece, or screamed and burned into a short-lived wall of fire.
When the first row of wheel hub ladders hit the incomplete city head amidst the sound of the mechanism turning over; the roof-shaped iron-roofed car, which looked a bit heavy and clumsy, was almost unscathed and then pushed to the outer doorway of the west gate. Inside, the combat engineers began to work on the tall and heavy city gates.
Just sticking out from this assault vehicle, it is no longer a traditional swaying accumulating iron cone or a stone hammer to hit the head, but a thick, thick, stubby muzzle. He leaned against the thick door panel fastened with iron bars and rivets without interruption. Then he was struck hard by hammers and drills, along with the chain of iron chains pulled out of the cart, and nailed to the door panel.
At this time, the moving enemy platform finally moved over the uneven ground. With the baffle with messy arrows inserted and the back of the wooden lug, the group of armored soldiers who had time to hold knives in rows to catch guns was dull and sound. It leaned against the root of the wall that was temporarily excavated and planed out of a gap.
And just a few steps away from the inside of the city wall, the group of defenders who have been driven back are already in the blood and firework mottled, and they are dead and wounded; and this stack is covered in the battlements of the city. Behind the sea of blood in Jianshi Mountain; the fresh troops from the backup in the city are also busy stepping on them, and they are turned into slippery steps and ramps by the flowing blood, knives and guns rushing forward in full roar.
However, the first to greet them is not those who have already entered the battlement through the ladder, and have thrown out two or three explosive bombs with them, and can only hold the united formation to guard the subsequent breakthroughs in the city, but move the enemy's platform. All kinds of horn blunderbuss and short blunderbuss are on the fireworks and lead like rain.
It was like a gust of wind and rain that suddenly swept down in the summer, sending them to the head of the city with the screams and exclamations of a little splash of blood, blowing and rolling down; but they were wearing even more. Enemy soldiers with wicker armors and iron pockets on their ears, like the rising tide flooding the shore, re-emerged with the corpses of these fellow robes or holding long cards.
Just a few dazzling breathing scenes, with these enemy platforms and ladders emptying firearms in their hands and rushing down endlessly, wearing blue-grey thin scale armor and steel sheet chest protectors, wearing a hat-shaped helmet. Xian Deng and Xianfeng soldiers, bloody courage and vigor undiminished face-to-face with swords and swords, they fought together.
As the so-called "meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins" between the splash of blood and Weng Ming, who was killed by swords and guns, many leather pockets and hat-shaped helmets were almost disturbed; the chaotic battles regardless of each other became a ball; However, the next moment, the ground of the city wall under their feet suddenly burst out with a very dull and very distinct shock.
The ground was flowing and gathering blood, suddenly trembling, slapping and flooding most of the feet, and then it seemed to be absorbed and swallowed by invisible things, and disappeared in a short time. Many of the enemy and our soldiers who fought on the city's head even lost their balance and stability, so they sat down one after another, fell into the corpses and blood.
"The door banged open..."
With loud cheers and roars and screams bursting out of the city, the morale of the defenders who were fighting on the city’s head was also stagnant. Suddenly, they were pushed back many distances by the more and more courageous Taiping soldiers, and they came close to it. Only on the edge of the inner wall of Wengcheng did it stop and continue the fierce battle.
And in the doorway below them, the accompanying combat engineers were also using large axes and long saws to cut, break open and expand the holes made by the door panels, and finally chisel the crossbars and pillars against the door. Open and saw off. Then, the rolling sand and large blocks of wood and stones that were dumped on the face once again blocked the way.
But this is not difficult for these battle engineering sequences that have already experienced many battles. I saw that they once again completed the filling of the gun barrels in the hedging vehicle, and re-inserted several stickers between these messy piles of wood and stones. The round cake medicine packet, after pulling the line of fire, stubbornly resisted it with the big plate removed from the cart. . . .
However, at the next moment, the Huainan army gathered in Wengcheng City, throwing darts and throwing axes intensively, immediately knocked down and overturned the Taiping Xuan who was holding a card. Compared with the city head that has been bombarded with wreckage and ruins, they hiding in the caves and tunnels have never seen the tragedy of their robes, and they are obviously more just right and their morale is much higher.
Behind them, they stretched out and displayed like swallow wings. Many armored men with their entire bodies covered their heads and faces came, holding a large axe and a long knife in their hands, as well as a few heavy nails and rods. The long rod and hammer, awe-inspiringly outflank the Taiping Xuan Feng from the two wings towards the doorway.
Another iron gate with a cast iron grid crashed down. (End of this chapter)