Chapter 212: Fall of Taizhou

The east slightly showed a white fish belly, and the sky was still gray. The whole city of Taizhou was still sleeping at this moment. Even the soldiers guarding the city were also leaning against the head of the city and drowsy. No one noticed that a yellow spark flashed in the sky in the distance of the north, piercing the sky.

What is it? It's a new thing invented by Zhang Yang: a signal bomb.

As long as a variety of different metal powders are added to the gunpowder, different colors will be released. For example, copper is added, the flame is light green, sodium is added, the flame is yellow, the saltpeter is added, and the flame is purple. The scientific name of this thing is called flame color reaction.

Mix gunpowder and salt together to make a tobacco column and stuff it in from the front end of Tianque. In this way, the bullet will hit the tobacco column into the sky and draw a beautiful bright line in the sky.

This is the most primitive signal gun. The professional signal gun should be a smooth-slith gun. There is no rifling. Now it is temporarily replaced by Tianque gun. When the scale expands in the future, it can be used to make short gun or signal gun.

The signal flew into the sky, and the gorgeous color was immediately seen by Li Bosheng, who had been waiting. This is the signal agreed by Zhang Yang.

"Let's go!" Li Bosheng immediately ordered. The sail was raised. At this time, it was the north wind. Under the strong wind, the speed of the ship was getting faster and faster. The oarsmen are still rowing desperately. The pointed bow broke through the water and sped forward.

The huge outline of the city is getting bigger and bigger in the retina. The gate full of yellow copper nails also looks so majestic. It's getting closer and closer. Li Bosheng counted down in his heart, "Three, two, one, ignition, diving!" The fire lit the fuse and immediately burned with a bang.

They jumped into the water, swam ashore, and ran back with the energy of a 100-meter race. The ships behind are simply more effective than the wolf's chase. If they don't run beyond the explosion radius, the large grenade can't tell the enemy from me.

Three hundred steps to the north is the position of the eldest brother. Countless poles have been put on and ready to cover the spearman's charge.

A drop of dew dripped on his face, holding a waist knife on the head of the city. The sleepy soldier felt a trace of coolness on his face and slowly opened his eyes. Suddenly, he felt a strange sound around him. In this quiet morning, the sound of "sneer, sneer" seemed particularly clear to the ears.

He poked out his head curiously and looked down, but he didn't know when two boats docked in the moat under the gate cave, huddled together, just facing the gate cave. In the haze, there was another boat coming quickly.

Whose boat is this? It's so eyeless. It blocks the gate and opens the gate for a while. You have to teach these boatmen a lesson.

A small flame can be clearly seen on the bow. Isn't the boatman too careless? Aren't you afraid of burning the wooden boat? Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide, and the small flame suddenly turned into a big fireball, full of his retina and the explosion that broke the eardrums. Then, he felt his body flying into the sky with the tower.

The large grenades of two ships exploded one after another. One blew up the gate, the other blew up half of the tower into the sky, and the third ship then expanded the results and blew up the whole tower into the sky. The northern gate of Taizhou no longer exists at this moment. This is a perfect directional explosion!

The gravel at the head of the city fell down and fell everywhere. The moat in front of it was almost filled, and people could cross the water.

"Let's go!" Bian Yuanheng shouted.

The spearmen who had just crawled on the ground jumped up from the ground and rushed to the collapsed gate. Their formation looks messy, but if they are more careful, they can find that they always maintain the standard charge of a team of ten.

The shaking of the earth completely awakened the defenders on the wall. They should have been very careful to stand guard, but Dalu Huachi left with the elite Mongolian army and the Tanma Chi army. The remaining part of the new attached army was originally the worst combat effectiveness, and the vigilance surname was also the worst. If they could be lazy, they would naturally be rude to be lazy. Not only ordinary soldiers, but also centurions. Similarly, some even deserted and ran to the city to hang out with the conquee, but they didn't come at all.

They didn't know what had happened. They poked their heads out one after another and looked down. They saw countless torrents of steel coming from a distance. With a face, the gate was opened. To be precise, there was no gate at all, not even a tower.

"Enemy attack!" They reacted that a rebel attacked.

"Ban, bang, bang." The sound of fire sounded, and when they saw the head exposed on the wall, the soldiers of the first team of the base camp naturally began to live the target rudely. Most of them were the first to get the sky. After this period of use, the accuracy was amazingly high.

The soldiers with their heads poked out from the top of the city were all in a miserable state. The other soldiers looked at it and immediately withdrew their heads. Those who can muddle through now are all veterans, all of whom are better than mice. They knew that the head of the city was going to be lost.

Hundreds of steps away, the soldiers jumped over and fished through the collapsed gate hole. As soon as they entered, they immediately rushed to the walls on both sides.

"Wh, th, thuff." Several bows and arrows came, and the people rushed to the front fell down.

The archer took out the second arrow. Before he put on the bow, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He looked down and saw that several spears had been inserted into his chest.

Several soldiers who had just fallen made the people behind them feel angry. They walked faster. Before the other party could shoot the arrow again, they rushed up, straightened up the spear, and got rid of the archer.

The spearmen continued to climb the wall. They worked together and repeated the skillful action: thorn!

Every time the fine steel spear is stabbed out, it will taste the blood of the defenders. The defenders slashed with knives, but to no avail: the other side's fine steel spear, even the spear handle is iron, and it can't be cut at all. The spearmen are also very depressed. The long guns they are equipped with are shorter than spears! Before he stabbed the other party, he was already pierced with a cold heart.

In a bloody battle, the spear soldiers are also blood points. Most of them are sprayed by the other party's blood, and some are unfortunately lucky.

The legs and feet are fast, and the garrison with lively brains have smeared oil on the soles of their feet and run away to both sides. They know that the other party is coming fiercely. I'm afraid that Taizhou City can't be saved. At present, it's still important to save their lives.

Zhang Yang looked at Bian Yuanheng controlling the head of the city and knew that the most critical action had been successful. He waved to the base camp behind him: "Go!"

The two hundred-man infantry behind them immediately raised their spears flat and rushed over. The firemen carried Tianque to their shoulders, found their horses from behind the position, and then rushed up.

The spearmen on the wall, like sheep, drove the defenders in front of them. The defenders had no intention to fight. They went up and down the city wall from the back steps and rushed into the city.

When he came to the East Gate, the defenders had run away for a long time. Bian Yuanheng asked people to put down the suspension bridge and open the gate. Shiyi, who had been waiting outside, immediately rushed in with troops.

Bian Yuanheng divided the people into three parts. A hundred-man team continued to drive the sheep and went to the south of the city to open the gate. A hundred-person team stayed to guard the city. The remaining two hundred-man teams wanted to run to the barracks in the city according to the original plan.

Zhang Yang left a spear team to guard the city, with the fire team and another spear team, and rushed to the barracks. Only when he took down the Tartar's camp and destroyed the Tartar's living forces could he control of Taizhou. In addition to the soldiers guarding the city, there are also 7,000 or eight thousand generals left in the camp, and Zhang Yang's team from two sides has less than 1,000 people. Can they win?

Zhang Yang is very confident that war is definitely not a simple comparison of the number of people. If you meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. When he entered Taizhou City, this was the moment of morale encouragement, but the other party was like a homeless dog, who was kicked around by himself and could not summon up the courage to fight at all. Those soldiers who fled from the city back to the battalion, adding fuel and vinegar, it is possible not to attack and collapse. The elites of the Tutars have already left the city, and what they have left are all some wall grass. The combat effectiveness of the new annexed army is very doubtful.

Although the world is safe, it is dangerous to forget the war. Although there has been a lot of turmoil outside, Taizhou City, which has always been in the calm, has not been baptized by the war. The city defense was very chaotic, and the timidity took away the elite, and the new attached army left in the camp had already exploded.

Hearing the explosion at the gate of the city, they knew that the situation was not good. They hurriedly got up from the warm quilt, pulled up their coats, put them on them, and looked out again. The soldiers guarding the city had run back. They picked up the property left in the barracks and prepared to escape for their lives. At the same time, they brought amazing news: a large number of anti-thieves came to attack and broke through the city wall and were about to come in!

So, there were crowds everywhere, running in all directions, and I don't know which direction is the safest. There are still a few people who run out naked, and their lives are the most important. As for weapons, no one takes weapons. If you go out like this, you can still act as a civilian. If you go out with a knife and a gun, you don't know where, you will be stabbed with a spear, and you will explain it yourself.

The intermediate officer can't suppress it, and the highest leader of the barracks is now Zhao Lian. Unfortunately, Zhao Lian is not here. However, even if he is here, I'm afraid there is nothing he can do. The thousands of households left behind don't know where they have gone. After being timid, most people relax and go out to enjoy.

Zhang Yang took the cavalry and first rushed to the north gate of the barracks. He saw the soldiers scattered like birds and beasts fleeing out of the barracks. Unfortunately, it was not the Tatars, but the new Fu army.

"Remone, get ready for battle immediately." Zhang Yang said. The 100-person captain behind him will arrive soon.

The soldiers came down from the horse and lined up in two arcs, encircbling the north gate tightly.

Most of the new subordinates who have just woken up from their dreams are still dizzy and confused. They only know how to run behind others. The people in the front found that they had been surrounded and wanted to retreat, but the people behind kept squeezing up. They couldn't retreat even if they wanted to, so they had to rush forward.

At a distance of 200 steps, Zhang Yang said with satisfaction, "Fire!"

"Ban, bang, bang." The sound of fire immediately sounded, and each sound would take away a life, because the distance between them was too close. At this distance, it must be a hundred rounds, and never waste a lead bullet.

The soldiers were expressionless, like a machine without any emotion, loading, shooting, loading, shooting. The tube has been hot, and all 20 lead bullets have been fired.

The new annexers fled in embarrassment. Outside the north gate, nearly a thousand corpses were left behind, and the blood soaked the ground and became soft.

If you can't go north, let's go south. There are only two gates in the camp: the north gate and the south gate. However, what they didn't expect was that although the gate to the south was not entertaining them, there were more cruel spears than the fire. He was shot to death by fire, and his body was a hole the size of a peanut. When he was stabbed by a spear, his intestines and so on flowed out.

Only the fast-impact cavalry can break through the spear team, but it also has to pay the price of bleeding. That metal forest is more like a sharp weapon to harvest life for the newly awakened army with bare hands.

Looking at the sheep-like soldiers in front of him, Shiyi calmly ordered. The soldiers raised their spears according to the already trained formation and were ready. As soon as you hear the command, it will be stabbed out quickly.

Although there are more people in front of us, the north gate has been scared. If you want to go out, this is the only way out. As the new annexes ran to the south gate, they thought to themselves, "Where is the killing god?" Yesterday, I was glad that I didn't have to go out to suppress the bandits. Unexpectedly, I was killed today.

The man in front of him didn't even wear a belt, so he carried his trousers in his hand. How can you run so fast! It's better to have trousers than to have bare buttocks, right? However, in the eyes of the spear soldiers, they just rushed to die.

Seeing that the other party was about to rush in two steps, the centurion began to shout the familiar password: "The first row, thorn!"

Countless spears were quickly stabbed out, and the unlucky people running in the front were all pierced into their chests by sharp spears, and their blood spewed out on the faces of the front soldiers.

"Second row, thorn!" From the cracks in the first row of soldiers, the spears of the second row of soldiers stretched out and stabbed the approaching enemy again. The two rows of soldiers alternately stabbed, and there were more and more corpses in front of them.

This is the power of the spear array.

Suddenly, the earth shook, getting more and more violently. From the camp, a team of Tatar cavalry rushed out! Although the number of people is small, it is very imposing. This is the supervisor left before he left. There is only one hundred-man team, but it is extremely fierce. They took advantage of the time that the new annexes rushed out of the north and south to win for them, they completed the assembly and rushed out.

The Tatars rode horses while bending bows and arrows. This is the standard step for cavalry to impact spears. Because they found that the other party was all spear soldiers and had no shield hands. If this round of arrow rain goes down, it can kill a bloody road.

"Well, I have known that there are big fish for a long time." Shi Yi said secretly. Now it's the new attached army. To put it bluntly, like myself, they are all southerners. It's only fun to kill the tars. So he has been hiding his killer mace without revealing it.

The new annexes who just rushed forward automatically gave way. No matter who the cavalry blocked the way, they would definitely trample on it directly.

"The first captain, the spear soldier, withdraw the channel." Shi Yi gave the order.

The spear soldiers quickly made way to both sides, revealing a small two-row scattered front behind them. The black tube pointed to the rapid arrival of the Tutar cavalry.

Behind the Spear Team, there is also a fire brigade of nearly 50 people! Although there are not many people, it is not a problem to kill all these tartars.

This is Shiyi's killer. Unlike the eldest brother, he has two half-hundred-person firemen. Good steel should be used on the blade. It has been hidden behind just now. Now he sees the Tatar cavalry rushing out, which makes his equipped Tianque play a role. Although the spear team can also stop the tar cavalry, such casualties are not what they can bear.

"Fire hand, shoot!" Shi Yi gave the order.

"Ban, bang, bang." Wisps of black smoke came out of the fire, and lead bullets roared.

The bows and arrows of the Tatar soldiers only had time to shoot a few sparsely, and they fell down from the horse one after another. For them, Tianque is still a new thing. At this time, it has spread to Gaoyou. The invigorate army in the salt field is equipped with a powerful fire. Unfortunately, the news is blocked, and the tars here do not know it yet. They rode horses and rushed forward, only a few hundred steps away, but they were close and out of reach.

The firemen shot four or five rounds, and there was no longer a living tartar, only a lively war horse, and they didn't know where to go in the corpses.

This road still doesn't work! The rest of the new attached army was originally intended to rush out after the cavalry, but now they have their eyes wide open, and even the cavalry can't get out. Is it possible for them? It was out of time, so I had to escape from the wall of the camp.

What traps, spikes, many people fell into their own fortifications. The soles of the feet were pierced by spikes, and the pain was death. No one cares so much. They only know how to run for their lives. The bloody scene was so scary.

Only two gates were surrounded. Zhang Yang's manpower was not enough, and the new annexes who escaped from both sides could not be completely eliminated.

Survivors of the New Affiliated Army escaped from the camp. Some people hid in their good-in-law's homes and became ordinary citizens. Some people rushed to the Xicheng Gate and escaped from Taizhou City, which was considered to have escaped from Hukou.

The most important force in Taizhou City no longer exists.

Zhao Lian, the provincial counselor, is in the yard of the state government at this moment. He has a habit of getting up early every morning to do morning exercises. He saw the "meteor" flashing in the distance and heard the huge sound at the entrance of the gate. He immediately realized that there was something wrong!

Zhao Lian immediately ordered his servant to prepare the horse. He didn't care about sitting in the sedan chair and took his personal guard. More than 20 people went straight to the North Gate. He was too timid to go out to attack the salt field. He has taken over the defense here. If something happens to Taizhou, he has to bear the main responsibility.

The state government is in the south of Taizhou City, a few miles away from the north gate. Usually at this distance, the fast horse is only a short time.

However, on the street, Zhao Lian found that Taizhou City was in chaos.

(to be continued)