The archers and guards of the palace also opened fire one after another. Arrows shot down from the city like rain, but the effect was not very good.

The so-called archers do not refer to archers, but the soldiers in the yamen who are responsible for local patrols and arrests. The weapons they use are not necessarily bows and arrows, but also swords and guns, as well as bird guns. Although these archers are determined to resist, their military quality is too poor. On weekdays, they are okay to bully the people, but they really go to the battlefield, and nothing is wrong.

The guards of the royal palace were wearing beautiful armor, which was glamorous on the surface, but in fact they were also a bunch of garbage, with real silver-like gun tips. Only a few of the personal guards of the Fu King were quite capable, but there were too few people to stop the hungry people from approaching the city walls.

The hungry people approached the moat, and simple moat bridges were laid on the river surface. Groups of hungry people rushed across the moat, rushed to the city, and built simple ladders.

At this time, the most tragic offensive and defensive battles entered a white-hot stage.

The hungry people who had arrived at the city suddenly asked a pungent smell, and then they heard the sound of a pottery bottle breaking in the air. Only "crackling" explosions were heard. Lime bottles infused with water burst into pieces in the air, and the lime powder inside spread out, and white fog was covered with for a moment.

The explosion of lime bottles is not only the debris and hot lime that can kill, but also many lime powders that are not soaked in water spread out with the explosion of lime bottles. Lime powder floats in the air. If you accidentally enter your eyes, it will be painful and make people unable to open your eyes. If you cannot receive timely treatment, your eyes will be blind. If you are sprayed into your eyes by lime, you can only use vegetable oil to clean them. However, when siege, the hungry people cannot return to clean their eyes. Even if you have time to return, Li Zicheng cannot take out precious vegetable oil to clean their eyes.

The defenders picked up the lime bottle, scooped a scoop of water from the iron pot, poured it into the lime bottle, then stuffed the cork tightly, and threw it down from the city. The quicklime heated up when it encountered water and expanded rapidly. The water poured into the lime bottle turned into steam, and exploded the lime bottle in the air. The boiling lime water mixed with quicklime that had not yet been able to mix water splashed everywhere. The power of the explosion dispersed the lime powder in the air. Even if it did not blow into the eyes, the lime powder sprayed into the mouth and nose, and people felt unbearable pain and coughed endlessly.

After the lime bottle was smashed down, the crusade below only covered his eyes and face to prevent quicklime from spraying into his eyes and his mouth and nose, and he did not dare to look up at the sky. But some lime bottles exploded after they fell on the ground, and lime powder was sprayed up from the ground, causing many hungry people to turn their heads and run away.

At this moment, taking advantage of the opportunity that the hungry people could not raise their heads, the wolf teeth on the top of the city patted the yaksha slapped again and again, but they just covered their faces and lowered their heads and had no time to hide, and they were smashed one by one.

There was a sound of gold from behind, and the rebels who launched a tentative attack retreated. At the city, only the bodies of hungry people who were killed by a group of wolf teeth were left, as well as many injured hungry people who were sprayed into their eyes with lime powder, as well as the injured hungry people who were injured by wolf teeth were shot.

Seeing the hungry people retreating, Wang Yinchang laughed: "The thief is nothing but like this."

Lu Weiqi said: "It all depends on Wang Junmen's strategy and command as if he is determined!"

Wang Shaoyu hurriedly said: "What kind of virtue is that you can do with your humble position? It depends on the soldiers' efforts to kill the thieves!"

Shortly after the rebel army retreated, it launched another attack. This time, the rebel army changed its tactics. The hungry people in front held large shields, followed by the elite old camp archers of the Break Army. The rebel army also launched a series of cannons in the formation of the rebel army, all of which were captured Ming army's Flang machine cannons. This type of cannon is a two-wheeled cart with a Flang machine cannon on it. When firing, as long as the cart is stopped and the two wooden frames behind it are supported on the ground, the Flang machine cannons can be loaded and then fired.

Such a gun mount would fall apart if it fired the three-pound guns of Li Guodong. However, the Folang machine used by the crusade army is also a light Folang machine. The shells fired only weigh one pound and have little recoil. They can be fired with such a simple gun mount.

The sound of cannons rumbling, and the shells fired by the riots kept hitting the city wall. One round of shells hit the city wall. The hard wall was beaten and sparks were splashed. The blue bricks on the most fragile squadrons appeared one by one, and cracks soon appeared. Then another row of shells flew over, and some female walls were cracked.

The rebel army approached the city, and the hungry people in front protected the big shield hand, and the elite archers in the back aimed at the top of the city.

The defenders at the top of the city, the guards of the royal palace, and the archers also counterattacked the city with bird guns and bows, but their accuracy was far inferior to those of the old soldiers of the rebel army. The two sides shot fiercely, and soon the defenders at the top of the city were shot by the archers of the rebel army.

The rebel army advanced again, rushed across the trench bridge, and once again set up the simple cloud ladder that fell on the ground. Groups of hungry people shouted and rushed towards the city.

Lime bottles were thrown on the city, causing hungry people to roll down from the ladder. Even if someone covered his face with cloth to climb up the city wall, he could not exert his combat effectiveness and was chopped over in a blink of an eye. The wolf teeth were smashed on the top of the city, and the hungry people rolled down from the city like dumplings. There were even gold juice and turtle oil tanks. Ten thousand enemies fell from the city, and the gold juice was poured on people, and the flesh was blooming, and the city was smelly. The turtle oil tank was smashed and then ignited by the torch that was thrown down, and a raging fire ignited at the foot of the city wall; ten thousand enemies fell into the crowd and exploded, and built-in caltrops flew everywhere, and a large number of hungry people were blown up in a pool of blood.

"Let me go!" A veteran officer from the rebel camp shouted.

The archers of the rebels who rushed to the moat all set off their bows and shot rows of arrows at the top of the city. The city walls seemed to be covered with white reeds. Many arrows hit the defenders who were emerging to attack the targets under the city. A scream immediately came from the top of the city.

Among the defenders guarding the city, Wang Shaoyu's servants, the guards of the royal palace, the servants of the yamen, and the servants of the gentry were still very tenacious in resisting. They shot arrows on the top of the city like locusts and resisted tenaciously, knocking the hungry people who were climbing the city walls down the city again and again, killing the hungry people who were climbing the city on the city wall.

"King of Chuang, I didn't expect that the defenders on the front of the city could still be so stubborn!" Liu Zongmin, who had been unable to capture for a long time, knelt on one knee and apologized to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng didn't say anything, but turned to look at the three great military advisors beside him: "Didn't you say that the morale of the defenders in the city is gone? Why did he still fight like this?"

Niu Jinxing hurriedly came out and replied: "When the King of Chuang, the people who resisted the palace were the guards of the royal palace, the yamen and the servants of the gentry. You can take a closer look. The real officers and soldiers did not resist. As long as our army dragged until the night, the hungry people in the city should be mobilized, and the city can be broken in one fell swoop!"

Song Xiance also agreed with Niu Jinxing's statement: "King Chuang, there are not many officials and dogs in the city who are truly loyal to the court, but our army only attacks a corner, so those dogs are gathered together. If you enter the city at night, as long as you attack multiple times, there will be no so many loyal people in the city to defend the city, and you will definitely break the city!"

Li Yan did not agree with the opinions of the two military advisors: "The student has long said that since he has an insider, why bother to attack the city in the day and sacrifice the lives of the people in vain? Just wait for darkness."

"Women's kindness!" Niu Jinxing snorted, "If you don't attack the city in the daytime, the officials and dogs in the city will definitely be suspicious! They must be prepared, and it will be difficult to fight at night."

In the city, in the yard where Hao Yaoqi lives.
Chapter completed!