I am one year older than Chongzhen

With the musketeers' condescending cover, the casualties of the soldiers climbing the ladder ants to attack the city were controllable.

Of course, the attack was in full bloom, not only climbing the wall to enter, but also rushing the car to hit the city gate and city wall, and using the car to cover and dig into the wall at the same time.

The Xinghe Army was already highly disciplined. After several exercises, every general and even every regular soldier and auxiliary soldier knew their position, the route of advancement, and the tasks to be completed when the general offensive was launched.

An old saying goes: "The way to use troops is to attack the heart first, and to attack the city below; to fight the heart first, and to fight with soldiers next."

During the exercise, the Xinghe Army did not forget to publicize the policy of surrendering and avoiding death.

Every day there are dozens of loud voices holding specially made thin iron trumpets and shouting in unison!

In the beginning, the rebels would organize some loud voices to curse.

However, no matter how vicious and obscene the rebels were, the Xinghe Army did not speak harshly to them.

Still shouting in unison: "Brothers in Dengzhou City, if the Xinghe Army does not kill the prisoners, surrender and avoid death!"

Gradually, the rebels calmed down.

Ran Xinghe's side repeated this sentence from morning to night, from the day of the siege to the day of the general attack.

On the morning of December 11th, the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, there was nothing unusual at first, but suddenly the rumble of cannons made the earth tremble.

"Brothers, rush!"

"This is the time to make a meritorious service, brothers, let's do it together!"

"Hey, hey, work harder! Push harder! Don't fall behind!"

"One, two, one, two, let's all work together! One, two, one, two, we can capture Dengzhou City! One, two, one, two, we can all be promoted to regular soldiers!"

"Kill! Kill!"

"Surrender and avoid death, those who dare to resist will be killed without mercy!"

In an instant, the sound of chants, shouts, and shouts of death shook the earth!

The rebels were really defenseless!

It’s not that the rebel generals are too lax!

But General Xinghe is too cunning!

There is a lot of movement every morning on the Xinghe Army's position, because the exercise is on the other side of the huge mound that is higher than the Dengzhou city wall.

The mounds of dirt outside the city were higher than the city wall, so the rebels only heard intermittent shouting of drums and horns, and often loud shouts of killing. They didn't know what they were doing.

I hear it every day, and once I hear it, I’m not surprised.

Therefore, the noise made just before the general attack did not arouse the rebels' alertness.

By the time the rebels discovered the Xinghe Army's intentions, the gun emplacements on the city wall had already been focused on by the Xinghe Army's "primary and secondary artillery".

The subsequent actions were almost the same as during the exercise. After three artillery salvos were fired, no further salvos were required.

The gunner responsible for observing and aiming fired shotgun shells when he discovered that the rebels were trying to open fire.

The first roar of the cannon was the signal for the general attack to begin. Forty-nine thirty-six powerful laborers pushed forward hard at each well.

There are not wheels under the well, but sleds. The snow within 200 steps outside Dengzhou City has long been compacted when the auxiliary soldiers leveled the land.

The weight of the well, plus the weight of the six musketeers and equipment, is no less than five thousand kilograms.

The thirty-six strong men shouting slogans were able to reach a speed of eight kilometers per hour in the snow.

The artillery salvo of the Xinghe Army certainly alerted the rebel generals such as Li Jiucheng, Chen Shiyou, Kong Youde and others.

They realized that the Ming army had begun to attack the city, but they did not panic.

Because from the day they were heavily surrounded, they began to prepare for the offensive and defensive battle of the city.

No one would have thought that under Huang Yi's plan, the defenders at the top of the city would not be able to take the lead at all, and the prepared weapons for defending the city such as wolf fangs, rolling logs, thunder stones, fierce fire oil cabinets, and bed crossbows would not be used at all. Li Jiucheng ordered the drums to be beaten to gather the generals.

He planned to gather the generals who were not on duty around him. If there was an emergency, he could quickly dispatch the generals and their direct troops to support.

During the time when Li Jiucheng was gathering generals, one hundred ladder trucks of the Xinghe Army were attached to the city wall, and the iron hook at the front of the ladder successfully hooked the city wall.

Dengzhou City was an important city in the Ming Dynasty. There are detailed records of how high the city is, how thick the walls are, how many enemy towers there are, how long they are, and when they were laid with bricks.

Wang Xi, Sun Yuanhua, Song Guanglan, Zhang Tao and other civilian and military generals assigned to the army participated in supervising and manufacturing siege equipment.

Therefore, the ladders used by the Xinghe Army and the Dengzhou City Wall can be described as dowels and tenons.

Today, these criminals who were exiled to the army are all excited, waiting to break through Dengzhou and avenge their previous humiliation.

Almost at the same time that the ladder carriage was set up, two hundred wells had already entered fifty steps away from the city wall.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Gunfire continued above the advancing well, and many rebels who tried to resist lay dead on the city wall.

After entering a distance of fifty steps, the well was temporarily still, and the 1,200 musketeers above were shooting more accurately from above.

This is because the musketeer's feet no longer swayed, and the flintlock gun in his hand did not follow the feeling, but carefully aimed before pulling the trigger.

At such a close distance, the two-hundred-mini gun basically managed to fire without missing a beat.

Not all of them on the city were fearful of death. There were quite a few rebels who had the guts. Most of these people came from Dongjiang Town and were veterans of guerrilla warfare with the Jiannu slaves for a long time.

It's a pity that these people mustered up the courage to rush out of the bunker with shouts.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

Usually they are not hit by a lead bullet. The worst ones are like being beaten into a sieve, with white brains and blue feces being shot out. The death scene is extremely horrific.

Some of the rebels were street gangsters, some were gangsters, and some were refugees from Liaodong. It was okay for these people to take advantage of the situation and rob them, but it was wishful thinking to expect them to fight bloody battles.

When they saw the formerly ferocious Dongjiang soldiers being beaten to pieces, with red, white, and green stains all over the floor, they were so frightened that they peed their pants, and some actually had a nervous breakdown.

The nervous cries and laughter were mixed with the wails of the injured, which was particularly strange. The surviving rebels at the city head completely lost the courage to resist!

Under the cover of gunfire, the soldiers climbing the ladder suffered only a few casualties.

After a while, two thousand and several hundred regular soldiers and one thousand auxiliary soldiers and activists quickly occupied the southern city wall.

The rebels who were hiding in the enemy towers or huddled under the crenels were obediently holding their heads and kneeling in a row along the crenels...

Li Jiucheng heard the bad news directly without waiting for the emergency messenger.

"Report~~, Marshal Du, the Xinghe Army has captured the south city head, and may have captured the south gate at this time!"

"What? What? What are you talking about?"

Not only Li Jiucheng didn't believe it, but all the generals present were stunned and looked in disbelief.

"Marshal Du, you are not talking nonsense. The artillery fire of the Xinghe Army was too fierce. The brothers at the top of the city suffered heavy casualties. Our General Ma Qian was killed."

Li Jiuzheng was shocked and angry. He drew his sword and shouted: "What are you waiting for? Follow me to Nancheng!"

All the generals, including their personal attendants, ran out of the original Denglai governor's residence in a chaotic manner, mounted their horses and galloped away.

They didn't go far when they saw a group of defeated soldiers running towards them in a panic.