Chapter 204 The First Battle

Li Shuanzhu asked Zhang Chao, "Brother Zhang, have the women, children and idle people in the village been evacuated?"

This time, Xiao Tianjian left Li Shuanzhu in Shuangfengzhai, and the guard of Shuangfengzhai was handed over to him for overall responsibility. The rest of the generals were his deputy and obeyed his orders, so Li Shuanzhu took over the arrangement.

Zhang Chao nodded and said, "Most of the women, children and idle people in the village have been transferred to the mountains south of the village, but according to the general's instructions, the craftsmen have not evacuated and continue to work overtime!

In addition, the general also specially told him to let Tiezuo and Gunpowder Factory produce more iron Thunderbolt cannons during this period, which is the most suitable for defending the city! Humph, let the officers and soldiers know the power of our Thunderbolt cannon this time!"

Zhang Chao nodded and laughed. He shook his head and said, "That's what I said, but the number of Thunderbolt guns is very limited. We only have only a few hundred of them. Even if the craftsmen work overtime every day these days, it is estimated that the number will not be too much. When this thing is not the key, the general also said, Don't take it out in large quantities first, wait until you decide the winner, and then take it out for the officers and soldiers to taste it!

This time, the guards on both sides of the northeast will be handed over to Brother Zhao and Brother Jiang. According to the general's arrangement, the brothers of the third battalion will not be used until the critical time, so they rely on you two to resist the attack of the officers and soldiers in advance!"

Zhao Erli and Jiang Chengdu nodded and agreed. Although Zhao Erli was a little dissatisfied with listening to Li Shuanzhu's dispatch, he did not show it on his face, but there was always a feeling of goosebumps in his heart.

Li Shuanzhu stood on a newly built fort wall and looked down the mountain with a pergola. After looking at it, he sneered and said, "These officers and soldiers have not realized the strength of our wall here, so let them try to take good care of it!" Lao Huang, how is your injury now? Can you stand it?"

In the battle with the officers and soldiers half a year ago, Huang Shengqiang was hit in the right chest by a three-eyed bullet of the officers and soldiers. He was seriously injured and almost lost his life. After half a year, he basically recovered and returned to his artillery battalion.

After listening to Li Shuanzhu's question, Huang Shengqiang coughed and laughed, "No problem! It's just that sometimes I cough a little! Fortunately, Dr. Lv treated him in time. Otherwise, I might have been finished last time! Say it! Brother Li, what can I do for you?"

Li Shuanzhu smiled and said, "I dare not say it. This time, leave a message to us before the general leaves, asking us to consume more troops of the officers and prepare for the next counterattack. Your artillery has a job this time. Whether we can withstand the attacks of so many officers depends on the performance of your artillery!"

Huang Shengqiang touched his two wisps of mice and smiled and said, "Brother Li, you can rest assured that our artillery team can be said to be incomparable to the past!" I have prepared enough snacks for the officers and soldiers for a long time. They can see it!"

While several people were talking, they heard messengers running from the north of the stockade and shouted to Li Shuanzhu, "General Li and all the generals. The officers and soldiers have begun to gather outside the north gate. It seems that they are going to take action!"

After listening to this, Li Shuanzhu nodded and said, "I know! Brother Zhao, then you can go back to the North Gate first! Jiang Chengcheng stayed at the East Gate. Brother Huang worked harder and greeted your men back and forth. It seems that the East Gate is also starting to do it! This time, I will sit in the village with the Zhang Chao brothers. If you have something to do, just let me know at any time!"

The generals dispersed one after another and began to be busy. After Zhao Er donkey turned back to the north gate he was responsible for, he raised his eyes and looked up. Sure enough, the officers and soldiers under the mountain had already made a team of about 1,000 people, carrying big wooden bells and dozens of long ladders, and the war drums also began to beat.

More than a thousand officers and soldiers immediately shouted at the sound of the war drums and rushed up to the north gate of Shuangfengzhai.

"Grandma, there are a thousand people at once. It seems that Xu Dingguo really wants to take this place with all his might! Humph! What a pity! This time, the army has found the wrong place again!" After looking at it, Zhao Erlu said to himself with a sneer.

Although Zhao Erlu is a little small-minded, but after following Xiao Tianjian for the past two years, this guy also performed well before the battle. He has experienced dozens of battles, big and small, which can be called a veteran, so in the face of the current situation, Zhao Er Donkey seems very calm.

"Greve me the order! The teams of one sentry and two sentries entered their respective positions on the wall and beat the officers and soldiers for me! Three outposts and four outposts continue to rest!" After watching the movements of the officers and soldiers, Zhao Er donkey turned his head and shouted at the messengers.

"General Zhao has an order, and all teams enter the position! Ready to fight! ..." The messenger immediately conveyed Zhao Er donkey's order, and the trumpet immediately grabbed the military trumpet and blew it.

After a team of village soldiers who were resting heard the sound of the call, the generals stood up and waved their hands and shouted, "Brothers, the officers and soldiers are coming up. It's our turn to take action!" Let's all go to the wall!"

After saying that, a team of township soldiers, led by their respective commanders and Shichangs, climbed up the wall, entered the pre-arranged position, operated all kinds of weapons, and began to look down the mountain with their heads.

Xu Dingguo rode on the horse and quietly watched the sent team go slowly towards the north gate. He waved his hand and ordered, "Give the order, push the cannon up, and bombard me at the thief's stockade. Let's see if it can collapse the thief's village!"

This time to attack the Xing Tianjun, Wu Yong can say that he has made a lot of effort. When Xu Dingguo came, he even ordered people to dismantle a batch of cannons used to defend the city of Taiyuan City and handed them to Xu Dingguo to bring them here. Considering that Xu Dingguo and they might have a tough battle this time, they tried to make Xu Dingguo in the fire. It has some advantages in strength.

Therefore, Xu Dingguo did not lack artillery on his hand. This time, he also took them out, lined up on the open ground at the foot of the mountain, and pointed the muzzle of the black hole at Shuangfengzhai.

There are many kinds of artillery equipment by the officers and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, ranging from only 20 to 30 catties of Fran machine guns, and dozens of Hongyi cannons weighing thousands of catties. Yangcheng is located in the mountains, and the road is not easy to pass, and most of the Hongyi cannons are concentrated in the capital, Xuanda in the north and Ji Liao line to prevent and build slaves. Tai The number of Hongyi cannons here is very limited, so the guns brought by Xu Dingguo this time are basically medium-sized Fran machine guns or mortars.

After dozens of cannons were lined up outside the stockade, they were also quite strong. With the roar of the officers, these cannons were ignited one after another and began to ring.

Suddenly, in front of the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain, there were clusters of flames and smoke. Dozens of cannons opened fire at the same time, which was quite shocking, and the ground seemed to tremble.

How have those villagers who have just climbed the wall ever seen such a scene of a hundred cannons? When they heard the gunfire outside the village, many people trembling and almost threw the guys in their hands to the ground.

These dozens of shells sprinkled like a torrential rain on the wall of Peking University of Shuangfengzhai, and the gray stones on the wall of the fortress suddenly flew around, so that people on the wall of the fortress could feel a slight trembling under their feet. Many villagers' faces were suddenly a little green, and their morale could not help but be frustrated again.

Zhao Er donkey was also shocked by the shelling of the officers and soldiers. His body involuntarily lowered his body and hid behind a thick pile of arrows. However, when this round of artillery, he saw that such a fierce shelling caused very limited damage to such a deformed wall like them. Even if the shell hit the wall directly, because Because the wall is ripped and has a considerable slope, the shells cannot effectively transmit the power to the wall. They turn into jump bullets and fly to the side. In addition, the official gunners have limited accuracy. In this first round of shelling, less than 30% of the shells accurately hit the wall, and the rest are either high or low. The cannonballs do not know how to fly. Where did you go?

Zhao Er donkey was relieved and said with a sneer, "Get up! There is nothing to be afraid of! There's nothing we can do about the cannons of the officers and soldiers!"

After listening to the roar of Zhao Er's donkey, the villagers on the wall calmed down a little and quietly waited for the next battle.

On the contrary, the attacking officers and soldiers began to become a little excited when they heard that they saw the cannons on their side firing. They shouted again one after another, struggled to raise the wooden basket and the long ladder in their hands, and rushed towards Shuangfengzhai.

When this group of officers and soldiers were about to approach a hundred steps away from the wall, the officers and soldiers separated a group of people from the crowd, placed large wooden boxes outside the wall, removed the cover in front of the wooden box, and then lit the box to reveal the medicine twist.

After a while, these wooden boxes began to make strange whistling sounds, shooting countless rockets, and all kinds of flying guns and arrows pulled out thin smoke in the air. The whistling sound mixed with fire really flew towards the wall like a nest of bees coming out of the nest.

After hearing this harsh sound, the soldiers on the wall quickly hid behind the piles and let these flying guns and arrows fly over their heads. In a short moment, nearly a thousand rockets shot on the wall.

If you use this swarm of bee rockets to deal with the dense enemy on the open ground, the effect is indeed quite powerful, but after getting it here, these swarms of bees will lose their effectiveness. In addition to being able to strengthen their prestige, they basically can't do much damage to the Xingtian army on the wall, and they can only get up. It's just some deterrent effect.

In this rocket launch, only three unlucky villagers on the wall were injured by rockets because they couldn't avoid it, but only one person died because of the arrows in the face, and the other two were only slightly injured, which basically had no effect on the defenders on the wall.

But the officers and soldiers who attacked the wall did not know. They only saw their rockets shooting on the wall like a bee, thinking that they would have caused a lot of damage to the enemy, so they shouted excitedly and rushed towards the wall.

Zhao Er's donkey lay behind an arrow pile, stared at the officers and soldiers outside from the arrow hole, and cursed, "What did Huang Shengqiang eat? With so many officers and soldiers close to the wall, why didn't they fire?

Just as Huang Shengqiang walked behind him and heard his words, he said to Zhao Erlu, "Brother Zhao, it's not kind of you to say that!" The people in our artillery team don't have any idiots! Look at it for yourself, how can I shoot on this wall? Even if you fire a gun now, you can't hit the officers and soldiers! How can I set off empty cannons compared with the officers and soldiers? Just wait! In a moment, as long as the officers and soldiers come up, they will look good!"

Zhao Er donkey didn't expect that he had just heard Huang Shengqiang's bad words, which made his old face a little ashamed. He quickly nodded and said yes, and let Huang Shengqiang hurry up.

Huang Shengqiang went down to a gun position, looked at the installed cannon in person, and then said with satisfaction, "The general is really awesome!" Unexpectedly, such a wall was made. This is enough for the officers and soldiers to drink a pot! As long as they enter the depression, they will shoot them fiercely. This is simply amazing! Hey hey!"

These gunners also showed a treacherous smile on their faces. They even nodded and agreed, and each of them was ready to fire.