Chapter 35 Battle of Longzhou 2

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Xiao Tianjian looked at the battle in front of him very depressedly. As soon as his artillery team's five-door Fran machine guns were released for two rounds, they were counterattacked by the defenders on the wall. Several stacks on the head of the city spewed flames at the same time, and thick smoke rose. Several solid shells immediately hit his Fran's. Around the artillery array, pieces of earth and stone were raised, which fell down like rain.

In fact, he had already expected that the officers and soldiers guarding the city would not be too weak. Otherwise, yesterday, Li Zicheng was likely to take advantage of the situation and occupy Longzhou City. Now, after a day of preparation, the defenders in the city should have made full preparations, so waiting for them will never be easy to take Longzhou City.

And he had just seen from afar that the defenders had launched dark artillery in many places on the wall, and the black hole pointed out of the city, but what he did not expect was that the defenders' artillery was also quite sharp, and the general was not messy. Unexpectedly, the first wave of counterattacks found his artillery array. Counterattack.

Seeing a tiger squat gun waiting to attack forward was blown into the air by the defenders' shells. The two gunners guarding the tiger squat gun were caught off guard and were bombarded on the spot. In a blink of an eye, they landed and died. Two gunners were injured by gravel and fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

Huang Shengqiang was also shocked. He didn't expect that the garrison's artillery was also so fierce. Unexpectedly, a round of gunfire killed him and killed and injured several of his gunners. So he quickly greeted his subordinates and said, "Turn the muzzle quickly and aim at the guns in the city! If we can't suppress them, we will be unlucky!"

So the gunners who operated the five-door Fran machine gun immediately began to adjust the muzzle. At the same time, they used the door on the gun body and the front sight to find the position of the artillery on the city and began to counterattack. With the violent beating of the gun rack, a door Fran machine opened fire again, raising pieces of broken bricks and stones on the wall.

Liu Zongmin was dressed in leather armor and roared and waved a pair of iron mace. He strode to the front of the team, followed by more than 800 of his subordinates. Today, Li Zicheng asked him to go first. Of course, he would not lose face to Li Zicheng in front of Xing Tianjun, so he made up his mind at the beginning and wanted to show off well. On the last face, Li Zicheng gave an order, and he killed him first.

Longzhou City suddenly boiled like a pot, and the sound of war drums, horns, cannons, firecrackers, and shouts became a piece.

Two trenches were built on the trench with a bang, and the other one tilted into the trench. Liu Zongmin led his men to swarming through the trench and rushed towards the city wall, but the defenders in the city had recovered from the panic of the initial shelling. In the roar of the officers, the officers and soldiers and villagers grabbed it one after another. Next to the mouth, all kinds of weapons were used to put them under the city.

For a moment, all kinds of weapons were splashed from the wall like a rainstorm. The three-eyed gun, bird gun, fire gun were successively sounded by the officers and soldiers guarding the city and the villagers. More arrows of the crossbows shot from the city, which can be said to be the arrows and stones, covering the head of the group of volunteers led by Liu Zongmin. Immediately, many people He was shot or hit by an arrow and fell on the sheep and horse wall ten steps away from the city wall. Liu Zongmin rushed several times, but was beaten back by the defenders of the city. A large group of volunteers who rushed through the trench of the city were immediately suppressed on the side of the sheep and horse wall.

The five-door Fran opened fire repeatedly, leaving one bullet hole after another on the wall, and finally overturned an iron cannon of the officers who opened fire at them, but then a Fran machine gun on their side jumped violently and was hit by a bullet flying directly. In front of the gun rack, the copper-cast Fran machine gun was immediately lifted to the sky, and even a gunner was cut off by a flying cannonball, tore it into pieces, and the flesh and blood splashed far away.

Xiao Tianjian didn't expect that the firepower of the defenders of Longzhou City would be so fierce. Under their counterattack, the artillery team, which he was quite proud of, failed to suppress them at all, and instead lost two cannons in a row.

Liu Zongmin's lead was pressed behind the sheep and horse wall. He couldn't show his head at all. Liu Zongmin shouted angrily. In a hurry, he turned over and stood up again and shouted, "If you are not afraid of death, just lift the ladder to me!" After shouting, he grabbed a long ladder beside him and carried it on his shoulder.

Dozens of Liu Zongmin's hands saw that Liu Zongmin was desperate, so they rushed up and carried the long ladder with him. Someone grabbed the front and raised the shield to cover the stone for them.

After climbing over the sheep and horse wall, a group of people rushed to the foot of the wall, but before they approached the wall, a roar sounded from the side of the wall. A tiger squat gun on the wall jumped violently, spitting out a flame, and a hundred and ten lead bombs immediately splashed down like a rainstorm.

Several of Liu Zongmin's men were covered with a piece of blood fog and fell to the ground one after another, and the long ladder they were carrying was instantly thrown to the ground.

A group of Rebel archers stood on the side of the trench and raised their bows to shoot arrows on the wall, but their firepower obviously could not suppress the firepower of the defenders in the city. Soon, more than a dozen archers were put on the ground, and the rest of the archers had to find a place to hide from the defenders' bullets.

Liu Zongmin saw that things were not good, so she roared and took the rest of the people back behind the sheep and horse wall. The defenders in the city released a swarm of bees again. Hundreds of rockets fell under the city with a roaring sound like locusts. The Rebel soldiers blocked behind the sheep and horse wall would be as fierce as cutting rice. The firepower was cut to the ground, and almost every moment someone was hit to the end. Soon, more than a hundred people were killed in the city of Longzhou.

Liu Zongmin was like this and did not give up. He once again organized his men to launch a charge, but then he was hit back heavily by the defenders. As a result, he only set up a long ladder on the wall, but paid the lives of more than 20 generals. Even Liu Zongmin was also hit by two arrows. Fortunately, he was protected by leather armor. Although he suffered two arrows, he did not fall down.

Seeing that Xiao Tianjian could not suppress the firepower of the defenders in the city, Liu Zongmin turned his head and looked at the brothers around him. They all showed fear. Liu Zongmin knew that today's attack was invalid again.

Li Zicheng saw the fierce firepower of the defenders in Longzhou City, and saw that Liu Zongmin's troops suffered heavy casualties in the city, so he lamented in his heart and had to order Ming Jin to recall Liu Zongmin and his party from the front.

Liu Zongmin took his iron maple, withdrew his troops back, spit heavily on the ground, strode to Li Zicheng, knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty to Li Zicheng, "General, I'm incompetent and failed to make a contribution!" Please punish the general!"

Li Zicheng came forward and picked up Liu Zongmin, patted him on the shoulder and asked him, "How's the injury?"

Liu Zongmin looked at her shoulder blade and the two broken arrows on her right chest, shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter! It's just skin injury! The officers and soldiers defending the city are so strong that we still can't get on it!"

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Go down and wrap your wounds!" I can't blame you for this! It's just that we didn't expect that the defenders of Longzhou City would be so strong!"

Liu Zongmin sighed hatefully and turned her head to look at the defenders who were cheering in the city. She was helped to the back team and bandaged the wounds on his body.

The people of Xing Tianjun are also a little discouraged, and at the same time they are a little shocked. They can say that it is the first time they have seen such a tragic siege like today. Although only the artillery team fought and they did not visit the city in person, they also have a kind of experience.

Seeing that one after another Rebel soldiers will fall under the strong firepower of the defenders, and their Rebel counterattack seems so weak, they can't imagine whether they can do better than the people on Li Zicheng's side if they let them go up. At this time, the momentum in the formation will decline a little, and they are all silent. He silently looked at the retreating artillery.

Xiao Tianjian has also been paying attention to the development of the previous war. When he saw that Li Zicheng's soldiers would attack the city in this way, he was first shocked by such a tragic scene, and then he secretly shook his head and smiled bitterly.

After all, the Rebels are still peasants. Although Li Zicheng and others have rebelled for several years, they have not formed an effective attack ability so far. At best, they can only be called bandits. At the beginning of today's siege, they showed all the disadvantages of the peasant army, in addition to relying on this kind of close to the sea of people. In addition to the general tactics, basically this siege method really makes people a little short of breath. If you only want to attack Longzhou City with this method, not to mention that Longzhou City still has two or 3,000 defensive troops and a large number of firearms and crossbows to defend the city. Even if there are only 8,000 people, Li Zicheng wants to attack Longzhou in this way. In the state city, I'm afraid that 8,000 people will not die, and it will be difficult to attack the top of the city.

Looking at Huang Shengqiang, who withdrew with a gray face and didn't wait for Huang Shengqiang to plead guilty, he immediately said, "Huang Whistle will not have to say more. Let's take a rest for the time being. It's none of you! Send the wounded to the medical camp for treatment! Go down! Zhao Er's donkey!"

Huang Shengqiang was slightly moved. Originally, he wanted to show a brush in front of the two armies today, but he didn't think that he could not show his face. Instead, he was hit with a disgraced face by the artillery of the officers and soldiers defending the city, and lost a Fran machine copper cannon. Although he also made some achievements, compared with the expected results, he The achievement was really nothing, which made him not know how to explain to Xiao Tianjian. However, after he came back, Xiao Tianjian had no intention of blaming him at all, which made Huang Shengqiang feel better, so he quickly took the order and led the team back into the battle.

"I'm here!" As soon as Zhao Er Lv heard Xiao Tianjian calling his name, he immediately ran over and answered.

"You take someone to drag the broken cannon back!" Xiao Tianjian used a horse whip to point to the French cannon that was overturned by the defenders' artillery before the battle and told Zhao Erdit that at the time when they were about to attack the city, a French machine gun was still very important to them, and this French machine gun was only overturned by the defenders' shell and may not be completely scrapped, so Xiao Tianjian was reluctant to give up. He lost the cannon like this, so he sent Zhao Erlu to take people to grab the scattered Fran cannon.

"Yes!" Zhao Er's donkey turned his head and looked at the scattered Fran machine gun in front of the battle. He didn't dare to say no. He immediately agreed. He turned around and nodded dozens of elite soldiers under his command. He took a rope and flew out of the array, rushed to the front of the battle, tied the rope to the scattered cannon, picked up the scattered guns on the ground, and shouted the trumpet. I dragged it back.

When the defenders saw that they wanted to grab the broken Fran machine gun, how could they succeed so easily? Yang Yulin sneered and immediately ordered the two general guns in the city to fire and kill the dozens of people who robbed the guns.

After two roars, two shells flew over and hit the ground outside the city heavily. After the heavy iron bullet fell to the ground, it was immediately bounced up by the ground and continued to fly forward. After repeatedly taking off and landing on the ground twice, a projectile crashed directly into the crowd led by Zhao Er's donkey. First, he passed through the waist and abdomen of a soldier, tore the waist of the soldier, and then flew forward over the thigh of a soldier and directly cut off one of the legs of the soldier. Then he fell to the ground and rolled a few meters away to stop his murder.

Zhao Er's donkey trembled with shock and immediately greeted his men to grab the two injured brothers and dragged the scattered Fran machine gun back to the array. At this time, the soldier with a broken leg lost too much blood and severe pain. Xiao Tianjian was so angry that he squeezed the whip in his hand hard.

Xiao Tianjian asked Huang Shengqiang to check the Fran machine. Huang Shengqiang reported: "General, this gun can still be used, but the gun rack is scattered, and another gun rack can still work!"

Xiao Tianjian felt a little more comfortable. In order to get back the cannon, he paid the lives of two more men. If the cannon is useless again, he will lose a lot this time.

The first battle was unfavorable, which made the soldiers on both sides of Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian a little discouraged. Xiao Tianjian ordered his subordinates to rest on the spot. After inviting his subordinates to discuss, he turned over and drove the horse to Li Zicheng's array alone and said to Li Zicheng, "General Li, we didn't expect that the defenders were still firepower. This is fierce. I'm afraid it's difficult to enter the city in this way. The casualties of the brothers are too big! Even our cannons can't suppress the defenders' cannons. It seems that we have to do it another way!"

Li Zicheng was also discussing with several generals how to deal with the firepower of the defenders in the city. After seeing Xiao Tianjian coming, he stopped discussing and bowed to Xiao Tianjian.

"General Xiao is just right here. I'm also discussing with my brothers how to change the way of playing. Let's discuss it together!" Li Zicheng nodded and said to Xiao Tianjian with a gloomy look on his face.

Xiao Tianjian turned over and got off his horse and got together with Li Zicheng and others. You discussed it one by one. After Xiao Tianjian talked to them like this, Li Zicheng and several generals under him nodded one after another and came up with some ideas. Everyone's face Then the expression relaxed.

With the order of Li Zicheng and Xiao Tianjian, the two armies withdrew their troops back to the camp and withdrew from the battlefield.

Yang Yulin held the mouth with his hand. After watching the two rebels outside the city retreat, he sneered and said, "Li Thief and the Xing Tianjun are not as good as you! If they dare to come again, then beat them back to me like this and see what ability they have to attack this Longzhou City!"

After listening to the officials and soldiers guarding the city and the villagers, they raised their arms and shouted one after another. Many people laughed recklessly. Some people even simply stood on the mouth, untied their trousers, and took out the guy in the crotch and peed at the bottom of the city.

Xiao Tianjian looked back at the arrogant defenders in the city, sneered, turned his head and led the army back to the camp.