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- In Chaozhou City, the arduous battle to defend the city has entered its sixth day.
Both the offensive and defensive sides suffered huge losses, as if they were suffering in a bloody purgatory.
Not to mention the siege party, the losses of the defenders mainly came from the cannonballs fired by the pirates from the warships.
Although the lethality of solid artillery shells is limited, experienced gunners can basically hit nine out of ten shots at such a close distance without any pressure. Under their continuous attack from morning to night, the city wall of Chaozhou has become riddled with holes, and a corner of the city gate tower has been blown down, almost sending away Mr. Zhao who was commanding inside.
The officers and soldiers and Minzhuang who were hit by the shells had their chests dented and half of their heads smashed off. They died immediately on the spot. Countless people had their hands and feet broken.
Later, the command center improved the tactics in time and changed to only leaving observation posts behind the arrow stacks to monitor the enemy's situation. Most of the soldiers hid in the hidden caves under the city wall. After the enemy began to attack the city, they came out of the Tibetan Soldier Cave and returned to the city to defend themselves against the enemy. Only then did they reduce the losses.
But the strength of the pirates was several times that of the defenders, and they attacked from all sides at the same time. No matter how hard the defenders tried, they still managed to get to the top of the city several times. The soldiers resisted desperately. At the critical moment, even Zhao Erye's guards were pulled up. They paid a heavy price before driving the enemy off the city wall again.
Xu Weiyi counted nearly a thousand casualties last night! Among them, nearly 300 were killed and 700 were wounded who lost their combat effectiveness.
Fortunately, the defenders had no retreat and had to protect their wives, children, and children. Otherwise, they would have suffered such high losses. This improvised force collapsed early in the morning.
Of course, the fact that such an army composed of ** and people Zhuang can persist to this day is definitely directly related to the strong leadership of Zhao Erye's team and the calm and efficient command organization.
¡°Especially Mr. Zhao, who has always been willing to take risks and stick to the front line, setting an example and inspiring the soldiers. On the third day of the battle, his arm was broken by a brick that was blown away by a shell. His arm was splinted and hung in front of his chest, but he was still slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire. This added to his glorious image. A lot of appeal.
During the intervals between battles, Zhao Shouzheng was not idle either. He undressed, pushed food and greet the tired soldiers, and truly treated them like infants.
Mr. Zhao expressed his deep condolences to the injured soldiers and asked the medical team composed of medical staff from Jiangnan Hospital to do their best to rescue every wounded person, and assured the disabled that he would be responsible for them to the end.
As for the soldiers who died in battle, Mr. Zhao paid full pensions to their survivors on the spot and never broke his promise. ¡®Silver bullets to clear the way, emotional offensive¡¯, these are all things that we were familiar with when we were building embankments in Kunshan, but how have the people of Chaozhou ever experienced this? Everyone was so moved that no matter whether it was the police or Minzhuang, they all expressed their willingness to die for Mr. Zhao.
Therefore, although the casualties were heavy, the morale was still not affected. The people in the city also enthusiastically signed up to defend the city wall, so the lost troops were quickly replenished This was not sent by everyone, but the people themselves took the initiative to sign up to defend the city wall. city!
In short, everyone in Chaozhou City is united and defends the city wholeheartedly, never letting pirates invade their homeland!
But the pirates were also jealous in the face of huge losses. During the five days of siege, except for the first day, they lost thousands of people every day. The pirates don't have a medical team with superb medical skills, so getting injured is basically equivalent to losing your life
Seeing that everyone has suffered heavy losses, if this fails, the losses will be huge. Zeng Yiben knew that if he did that, he would completely offend his colleagues, and his men would be scattered. From now on, he would no longer have a foothold on the Fujian-Guangdong sea.
He ordered everyone, except the gunners and necessary sailors, to attack the city today. He would also personally disembark from the ship to supervise the battle. Anyone who retreated from the battle would be killed without mercy! If you are afraid of the enemy, you will be killed without mercy! Anyone who shakes the morale of the army will be killed without mercy!
"Everyone, show your determination to destroy the cauldron and sink the boat. After breaking the city, massacre the city for nine days!" Zeng Yiben roared at the top of his lungs.
"What? Are you going to sink the ship?" Pepper Laoyi became anxious upon hearing this. "That's not possible, how can we get home!"
"I'm just a metaphor" Zeng Yiben almost choked to death, half of his murderous anger was exhausted, and he shouted with a black face: "But before the city is destroyed, no one wants to go back to the ship!"
"Okay! Fight with them!" All the sea masters were also willing to risk their lives and shouted loudly. They are like a group of gamblers who have lost their sights and want to put all their bets on today.
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After daybreak, artillery fire hit the city again, and it was more intensive than usual. Startled countless birds!
The soldiers who defended the city were used to this horrific scene. They were hiding in the Tibetan Soldier Cave, eating taro cakes brought by the women, and waiting to go to the city.whistle.
The sergeant in charge of the lookout hid behind the arrow stack and watched the pirates landing one after another in small boats and gathering in a dense crowd on the riverside. Then, under the order of the leader, carrying ladders and holding shields, they came from all directions. Slowly flock to Chaozhou City.
Although their speed was slow, they felt a great sense of oppression, and they rushed towards the city with murderous intent.
A sharp whistle sounded at the top of the city. The officers, soldiers and civilians wolfed down the food they had got, and without taking a sip of water, they rushed out of the cave to hide soldiers and went to the top of the city.
As soon as they were ready to defend the city, the pirates had already reached the city, and the fierce siege started again!
Unlike the war in the past few days, which was slow and steady, today's siege battle entered a fever pitch from the beginning. Arrows flew like raindrops, whistling cannonballs continued to shoot at the top of the city, and rows of oak trees quickly rolled down the ladder. The pirates suffered heavy casualties, but they still continued to climb up without fear of death.
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Today, Zeng Yiben went around to the west city wall for the main attack. He gathered all his sharpshooters and asked them to rely on the high archery tower made of sandbags and bricks to continuously shoot at the defenders at the top of the city with refined blunderbuss.
The defenders at the top of the city immediately felt the pressure, and some people kept screaming and falling from the top of the city. The shooters in the city fought back desperately, but they still tended to be suppressed.
But the strange thing is that the pirates who were madly attacking the city suddenly retreated like a tide.
This made Pan Jixun feel very strange, knowing that there must be something fishy. He hurriedly risked being hit at any time and looked down under the protection of the shield.
It doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t see it, you will be shocked when you see it!
I saw a high mound of earth rising under the base of the city wall.
He clearly remembered that during the attack a few days ago, the pirates dug a deep hole there. Pan Jixun wanted to send people down to repair it at night, but the pirates set up an ambush outside the city. When they see someone coming to the city, they immediately come out to kill them, making it impossible for them to get what they want.
The pirates actually filled up the big hole and piled up such a thick layer of soil.
They are obviously not so kind, so there is only one possibility - they buried gunpowder in the city wall!
"Quick, quick, let the troops from West 3, West 4 West 5 withdraw to both sides and clear this area!" Pan Jixun yelled at the top of his lungs.
The soldiers immediately passed on the order. The officers, soldiers and civilians who had long been familiar with the military orders, although they did not know what was going on, rushed to both sides like a tide and cleared out a section of the city near the mound.
Immediately afterwards, there was an earth-shaking loud noise, and the soldiers felt a violent push and were knocked to the ground one after another.
The thick city wall trembled violently, huge amounts of broken masonry and soil sprayed into the sky, and smoke and dust immediately enveloped the entire city wall!
Pan Jixun was far away and was so shocked that he sat down on the ground.
The guards hurriedly helped Lao Butang up. Pan Jixun felt like the world was spinning, his eyes were full of stars, and his ears were buzzing loudly.
Pan Jixun bit the tip of his tongue hard to wake himself up, and looked at the location of the explosion with his eyes wide open, only to see a nearly ten-foot-long break suddenly appeared on the city wall.
Suddenly, in addition to the buzzing sound, there seemed to be a faint sound of killing from the horizon.
"Kill!"
"The city is broken, rush in, rob and kill them all!"
While Pan Jixun told himself that this was not an illusion, he raised his head with difficulty and saw that the bandit army that had just retreated came back again!
"Quick, block the breach!" In a daze, Pan Budang couldn't tell whether he was on the edge of the Yellow River or at the head of Chaozhou City.
But it¡¯s not bad, it¡¯s all about emergency rescue anyway. In this matter, he takes second place, and no one dares to take first place!
The officers and soldiers also knew that the most dangerous time had come, and they struggled to get up despite being shocked to the point where their ears were bleeding and they were dizzy.
They carried the bamboo baskets they had prepared long ago to the gap and threw them down. The bamboo baskets were filled with large rocks. They were prepared to take precautions when Pan Jixun saw a hole in the city wall.
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The pirates at the front have already rushed to the city wall, jumped into the gap that is only more than one meter high, howling and preparing to fight into the city.
Then I saw a bamboo basket containing seven or eight large rocks, weighing four to five hundred kilograms in total, falling from the sky. The pirates hurriedly dodge in panic, and those who couldn't dodge were slapped like cucumbers directly into the city wall
Basket after basket of large stones was thrown in, and the gap was blocked bit by bit. Zeng Yiben was so angry that he almost vomited blood, jumped on his feet and roared: "Find a way for me to unload those bamboo baskets!"
The pirates looked at each other, and someone quickly thought of a way to hook the basket with an iron hook, and then use a rope to pull it down together.
"But the defenders at the top of the city managed to block the gap with great difficulty. How could they be allowed to destroy it again?" Risk your life to prevent another breach.
They shot at the city with bows and arrows and muskets. They poured rolling stones, wood, and hot oil down the city wall as if for free, and even pushed the artillery that was in the way down the city wall, killing a group of enemy troops.
But the gap that was temporarily repaired was fragile after all. Under the desperate and focused attacks of the bandits, the bamboo baskets were still being torn off and falling at the base of the city wall. It became a rocky slope for climbing!
And the bamboo baskets containing the soldiers' uniform stones have been used up, and it is becoming more and more difficult to fill them. In the end, they can only fill them with human lives.
The two sides fought repeatedly over this gap, which was about 10 feet wide, and there really was a scene of so-called mountains of corpses. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?The basket is then pulled down together with the rope.
"But the defenders at the top of the city managed to block the gap with great difficulty. How could they be allowed to destroy it again?" Risk your life to prevent another breach.
They shot at the city with bows and arrows and muskets. They poured rolling stones, wood, and hot oil down the city wall as if for free, and even pushed the artillery that was in the way down the city wall, killing a group of enemy troops.
But the gap that was temporarily repaired was fragile after all. Under the desperate and focused attacks of the bandits, the bamboo baskets were still being torn off and falling at the base of the city wall. It became a rocky slope for climbing!
And the bamboo baskets containing the soldiers' uniform stones have been used up, and it is becoming more and more difficult to fill them. In the end, they can only fill them with human lives.
The two sides fought repeatedly over this gap, which was about 10 feet wide, and there really was a scene of so-called mountains of corpses. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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