The defenders on the city wall braved the rain of bullets shot from the city and ventured out, shooting arrows and firing guns desperately. Countless ragged Huai Army auxiliary soldiers fell down under the city.

At this moment, the artillery positions roared and the flames flashed, and a fierce bombarded towards the Gaoyou city wall. Liu Zeqing's army at the top of the city screamed repeatedly, and he could hear it very clearly on the noisy battlefield. The defenders were obviously disturbed, and the speed of archery and fired guns slowed down. The Folang machine cannon and tiger squat cannon that had been shooting desperately also destroyed a lot. The casualties between the two sides actually exceeded the attacking party!

Looking at the corpses of Huai Army auxiliary soldiers in ragged under the city, Liu Zeqing suddenly understood what was going on and was so angry that he cursed: "Li Ergou! You are so vicious! You actually put our people in front of you and sent them to death!"

"Be careful, handsome man!" The two servants beside him suddenly shouted and pushed Liu Zeqing down.

I saw a row of flames and white smoke rising from the Huai Army's position. Rows of artillery shells roaring with afterimages, landing accurately on the city top. The artillery shells fell on the city top, splashing bricks and gravel, sweeping the defenders on the city top like shrapnel. One of the shells hit a winch with wolf teeth hanging on the city gate tower. The wolf teeth immediately turned into countless pieces, and the wooden board fragments with long iron nails were flying in the air. The defenders on the city top screamed and fell down.

Liu Zeqing was pressed under his body by two servants. After the roar of cannons outside the city stopped, he pushed away the servants who were pressing on him and stood up. After slapping the dust a few times, he found that the two servants were motionless. He found that one servant had a long iron nail on the back of the wolf's teeth, and he had long lost his breath; another servant was hit on the back of the head by a splashed stone, and his helmet was flattened, and blood mixed with brain matter and flowed all over the floor.

These two loyal servants followed Liu Zeqing for many years and were veterans who had experienced many battles. Unexpectedly, they died worthlessly on the city wall.

I heard the sound of roaring cannons outside the city again, and more than a dozen black shells flew up to the sky, with burning fuses, smashing down at the top of the city like a meteor fire rain.

The flowering shells fired by the mortars fell accurately on the city wall. A flash of fire on the city wall and the explosion sounded like a piece. One of the flowering shells just landed in the middle of a mountain of tinder oil tanks. The shells smashed the tinder oil tanks, and then exploded. The scorching shrapnel, with fragments of the tinder oil tanks and tinder oil splashed everywhere, and a raging fire suddenly ignited on the top of the city.

"Ah!" Dozens of defenders who were burned into firemen struggled in pain in the sea of ​​fire, making heart-wrenching screams, running like crazy on the head of the city, dancing with their hands. The burning tinder oil splashed onto their companions as they struggled, causing more people to ignite flames.

Liu Zeqing twitched the corners of his mouth, took out the bow and arrow, and shot all the firemen who had ignited fire all over the city. He could only shoot the few soldiers who had caught fire by himself, otherwise as they ran, the tincture oil splashed on more people and suffered greater losses.

The ragged Huai Army auxiliary soldiers and cannon fodders finally opened up a passage in obstacles such as deer forts, wooden stakes and other obstacles outside the city and advanced to the moat.

After the obstacles were cleared, the well railing and the watchtower were pushed up. The light Folang machine cannon and rifled rifle shot the city at a high altitude, making the defenders at the top of the city almost untenable.

"Master, you can't fight like this. The general is willing to lead 5,000 people out of the city to fight back and destroy Li Zhe's siege weapons, otherwise the brothers would not dare to climb the city." A general volunteered to fight.

Liu Zeqing roared: "Didn't you see the infantry and cavalry behind Li Zhe's siege weapon? Will five thousand people leave the city, wouldn't they die in vain?"

In ancient siege battles, Jinglan and Wanglou cars approached the city wall. The defenders on the front of the city could shoot auxiliary soldiers of the cart and fire rockets to burn these siege weapons that were moving very slowly. After entering the half-firearm era, they could use cannons to destroy these siege weapons. However, Liu Zeqing's artillery was suppressed by the Huai Army, and the range of bows and arrows and rockets was far less than that of the Ming army rifled rifles and light Folang aircraft on the well.

The rifled rifle purchased by Li Guodong from Europeans is an advanced weapon with a long range and high accuracy; even the light Flang machine, after his improved Flang machine gun, uses a copper-packed iron gun, which improves the sealing ability and increases the range and power of the Flang machine. The initial speed of the shell is higher and the accuracy is higher.

Liu Zeqing's weapon range was at a disadvantage. The only way to crack these siege weapons was to send troops out of the city to counterattack. But he had been scared by Li Guodong for a long time, so how dare he go out of the city to counterattack?

The general said, "Master, if you continue to fight like this, the city will sooner or later be destroyed. Instead of waiting for death, it is better to go out of the city to fight."

Liu Zeqing sneered: "As long as we stick to it for three days, reinforcements will arrive!"

"Master General, Li Zhei's offensive is fierce. Not to mention three days, I'm afraid I can't hold on for two days!"

Liu Zeqing glared: "Let the people be strong, the servants of the white servants and the gentry retreat from the city to avoid death in vain! Organize the manpower, knock down all the houses in the city wall, and pile up an inner city. Once the city is broken, retreat to the inner city defense immediately! You can hold on for two more days!"

Those civilians who had no combat experience, the white soldiers and gentry servants stood at the top of the city and were also futile to shells. It would be better to retreat into the city and build an inner city.

After Liu Zeqing's orders continued, he immediately received the support of the gentry in the city.

Although Li Guodong only knew how to copy the homes of the gentry within the nine tribes of Wang Yongji, the reason for the death of the rabbit and the fox was sad, and the gentry slandered the factory guards by the gentry. As a result, almost all the gentry in the city helped and organized people to demolish the houses near the city walls. The bricks and stones that were demolished were used to build the inner city.

In fact, it is very simple to temporarily pile up an inner city like this. The building materials are all ready-made. The houses are pushed down, bricks and dirt are piled up, and the stones are pressed on them, and a dirt city is piled up within a day and a night.

The inner circle Tucheng was one hundred steps away from the outer wall, and all the buildings within one hundred steps were pushed down to build the Tucheng. There were sandbags outside the Tucheng to slow down the destruction of shells on Tucheng.

However, Liu Zeqing ignored a key point: the height of the Tucheng was not as high as the city wall. As long as Gaoyou City was broken, the Huai Army could set up artillery at the top of the city to bombard it at a high position, and the Tucheng's defense ability was also poor. After the outer city was broken, it would be very easy for the Huai Army to conquer the Tucheng again, and it would not even take a day to easily break the city.

The Huai Army attacked the city overnight, and the defenders on the city were killed and injured under the fierce firepower of the Huai Army. The next morning, the Huai Army filled the moat with a captive cannon fodder team and advanced to the foot of the city wall.

"Dig quickly!" The soldiers following the captive cannon fodder team aimed at the cannon fodder with bows and arrows and muskets, and ordered them to dig the city wall with iron chisels. As long as they dig a hole in the city wall, they would then send a large wooden box filled with gunpowder into the hole, and then detonate and explode the city wall.

After paying the price of killing more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers, these captive cannon fodder teams finally dug three holes in the city wall. Then the Huai Army suppressed the firepower of the defenders. Three shield vehicles came to the city with three large wooden boxes filled with gunpowder, sent the large wooden boxes into the cave, sealed the entrance of the cave, and lit the fuse.

"Boom boom boom" three earth-shaking loud noises, filled with smoke and dust, and Gaoyou City was blown up with a gap of two hundred steps wide.

"Kill!" The Huai Army soldiers rushed into the gap and climbed the city wall along the blown slope.

"Brother, Liu Zeqing has built a dirt city in the city." Hao Yaoqi came back to report to Li Guodong.
Chapter completed!