"The Tartars are coming up again, the Tartars are coming up again" The sound of gongs sounded from the towers, and the sound of gongs was accompanied by the screams of soldiers. what Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong, who were about to go down to the city, suddenly stopped and looked outside the city, and in their sight, thousands of Qing troops were rushing towards Xinhui City in the sound of war drums.
"This" Song Xianggong muttered to himself, his face became extremely ugly, just now he was very confident and told the generals that the Qing army would not attack again, but after the words, the Qing army pounced again, and the momentum and strength were several times greater than Fang Cai, which made the old master Song both ashamed and annoyed, and at the same time faintly worried.
"The soldiers will block, the water will flood, and when it comes, it will be put together."
Zhou Shixiang patted Song Xianggong, who had an ugly face, and shouted at the stunned officers: "Prepare for battle" "it" Ge Yi spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm mixed with blood on the sticky wall bricks, and jumped up to the city with a long knife that he hadn't had time to wipe off.
The people on the side could see clearly that there were only four fingers left in Ge Yi's hand holding the knife, the broken phalanx was full of thick blood, and a small piece of broken bone the size of a fingernail was hung by a bloody tendon and shook with the movement of the owner of the body.
"The dog Tartar is coming up again, and the brothers are all giving Lao Tzu more spirit, cutting off more Tartar heads, so that these bitches know that our Taiping Army is not easy to bully" Ge Zheng, whose face was stained with blood, trembled all over his face, standing there like a killing god was daunting, his eyes that were already like bull's eyes were wide open, and the pupils were full of fierce light.
The still alive general banner and small banner shouted and scolded their brothers to prepare for another bloody battle with the Qing army, and the Han army flag captives who operated the cannon were also busy cleaning the cannon chamber again.
Before the war, Zhou Shixiang transferred 2 teams of firecrackers from the guards battalion to support the Zhenyu battalion, and the leader was Zhang Erjiang, who tried to do 100 households, these 2 teams of firecrackers suffered little casualties, basically full, but the firecrackers were not formed for a long time, and basically did not go through several shooting training before the war, so when the green battalion attacked the city before, the performance of the firecrackers was very poor, and they could not even suppress the archers of the green battalion.
After this round of actual combat, although the gunners have not yet mastered the shooting essentials of the firearms, and the speed of loading the medicine is also very slow, at least they will no longer shoot indiscriminately as just now, and they will not explode because they are busy loading more medicine, so Zhou Shixiang ordered Zhang Erjiang to lead all his troops to the east city wall as the largest supplement to the Zhenyu camp.
After all, the Taiping army only has more than 2,500 people, and the Qing army outside the city is afraid that there are tens of thousands of people, and the difference between the enemy and our strength is several times, so it is not at the last moment, Zhou Shixiang does not dare to easily evacuate the remaining three defenders, lest the Qing army divide troops to attack the remaining three gates while attacking the east gate.
Xinhui four gates, lose one gate will lose the whole city, the four gates are life and death for the Taiping army, must not be lost.
Don't dare to draw out the remaining three defenders, the supplementary strength of the east gate defenders can only be the guards battalion that is randomly waiting to move, the security team members formed by the back battalion, and even those prisoners and young people.
At present, the number of people in the Zhenyu battalion guarding the east gate is not large, and the nearly 500 officers and soldiers of the whole battalion can still defend it, and there are 200 firecrackers in Zhang Erjiang, and the security guards and prisoners who can be transferred at any time, and the strength of the defenders of the entire east gate has reached 1,000 people, which can be said to be all the capital that Zhou Shixiang can take out in his hands.
As long as the battle is the same as before, one side will attack and one side will defend, this kind of war that is obviously beneficial to the defender, Zhou Shixiang will never worry that Xinhui City will be captured by the Qing army.
"Brothers, the Tartars are coming up again, this time there are more people than before, the brothers are scared, don't be afraid, this Tartar is also raised by his father, he didn't give birth to one more head, he grew one more leg, and he didn't see many lives coming out with a knife, as long as we don't panic, this Tartar can't capture this Xinhui City no matter how much it comes."
"The Tartars are coming to die, and the brethren will fulfill them, and this new city is ours, and no one will want to snatch it from us." “” Zhou Shixiang cheered for the soldiers loudly, and at the same time led people to patrol the city, check the gap caused by the green camp siege, and at the same time ordered the young men to send all the city's defense equipment to the city, and asked Song Xianggong to send a part of the security team to the east gate to standby, and at the same time ordered the remaining three gates to prepare for battle, once the battle at the east gate is urgent, it is necessary to send people to reinforcements in time.
In the distance, the sound of the trumpets of the Qing army became more and more urgent, and thousands of Qing troops pressed up towards the city wall.
"Shoot the gun, let the gun go and shoot the gun" The large and small artillery volleys on the head of the city were fired, and the black smoke enveloped the sky and at the same time filled the Qing army array in the distance.
During the artillery bombardment, large and small iron balls continued to jump and harvest human lives, and the first to bear the brunt were those unlucky green battalion soldiers, who had forgotten their ancestors like the Han army flag, and were smashed down in pieces.
Broken limbs, splatters of blood, viscous and disgusting organs, and miserable screams turn the battlefield into hell.
The same tragic scenes continue to happen, without gaps, without pauses, and are so repeated that people don't even want to look at them.
Human life is worthless in troubled times, and it is even cheaper on this battlefield.
After enduring the maddening shelling, the Qing army stumbled and finally rushed under the city wall, as before, dense ladders were erected on the city wall, and the remaining shield carts were also pushed by groups of shield-wearing battalions to rush to the city gate.
"Dodge the arrows, dodge the arrows" The officers at the head of the city kept shouting, and the soldiers who had had enough of the hardships of the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers subconsciously lay behind the battlements without being reminded this time, instead of standing stupidly as before and letting the arrows come at them.
After shooting a rain of arrows, the Taiping army probed from the battlement, used the big fork in their hands to push the ladder that came up, and used the spears in their hands to cut the Qing soldiers who climbed up.
At the city wall where the ladders are built more, the sassal wood begins to be thrown, and a sassal log often takes several cloud ladders down, and the Qing soldiers on the cloud ladder fall to the ground like a kite with a broken line, and the Qing soldiers below are crushed by their companions who come from above and scream.
Before the original stench in the air dissipated, the smell of fresh dung and oil diffused again, and the steaming gold juice once again made the Qing soldiers below miserable.
From south to north, the entire eastern wall of Xinhui City is full of bloody dramas of killing and being killed, and all kinds of tools that can kill people are wantonly harvesting human lives.
On the city wall, the Taiping army was crowded, and under the city wall, the heads of the Qing army were also densely packed.
With the previous victories and experience, the officers and men of the Shock Battalion were able to deal with these Qing sieges again, and although casualties were inevitable, they inflicted greater casualties on the Qing army than before.
Lacking siege equipment, if the Qing army who wanted to climb the city with a cloud ladder alone had no other means, Zhou Shi was confident that Xinhuicheng could become a meat grinder to slaughter the Qing army in Guangdong.
As a thousand households, Zhou Shixiang never had the consciousness of hiding behind to watch his brothers and subordinates and the enemy desperately, and after leading his guards to continuously support several areas that were climbed up by the Qing soldiers, he suddenly found that the Qing soldiers who were climbing under the city no longer seemed to be those green battalion soldiers, but another army of soldiers and horses.
"What kind of soldier is that?"
Zhou Shi felt strange to the Qing soldiers who were wearing double armor and blue inlays on their uniforms, and wanted to ask someone, but Song Xianggong had already gone down the city wall, and none of the guards around him knew the origin of these Qing troops, so he didn't know the answer for a while.
It doesn't matter what kind of soldier he is, as long as it's a Qing soldier, he'll fucking die Zhou Shixiang shook his head and didn't think about it, the long knife in his hand was cut out again, and a Qing soldier who had just emerged from the battlement mouth was slashed with a knife, and the other party raised his head and fell backwards with a scream, and in a blink of an eye, he disappeared into the pile of corpses under the city wall. oshow7 t1706231537: