At the end of Ming Dynasty: I, Sun Kewang!Desperate comeback!

Chapter 175 Exploding the City Wall
"Fire, fire quickly!"

Seeing tens of thousands of front troops attacking again, the officers of the Qing army shouted loudly one by one.

Commanding the soldiers, he suddenly shot at the tens of thousands of enemy troops that were swarming.

However, faced with the absolute superiority in numbers and artillery of the Jiaqian Army, no matter how hard the Qing army officers tried, they could not prevent the Jiaqian Army from approaching the city wall.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The high-pitched shouts of killing sounded again, and the fierce fighting on the slope reappeared.

The Qing army continuously threw thundering rocks and rolled logs and poured gold juice and fire oil on them, turning several slopes into a purgatory on earth.

The soldiers of the Qianqian Army also used bows, arrows and muskets to continuously shoot at the dense Qing troops on the slope.

Gradually, more and more corpses appeared on the city wall.

In order not to hinder the movement of troops and materials on the city wall.

The bodies of the Qing soldiers were dumped nearby.

Under the city wall, the corpses of former soldiers had accumulated several meters high.

Under the fierce resistance of the Qing army, the attack surface on a few slopes was too small.

After all, Jia Qianjun was blocked.

On the entire city wall, ladders were erected one after another, and countless soldiers from the front army climbed up.

Attracted the attention of a large number of Qing troops.

At the same time, at the several gaps dug out, a large number of Qianqian soldiers, under the cover of shields, muskets, and bows and arrows, had dug out the masonry on the outside of the Guilin city wall, entered the city wall, and were digging rammed earth rapidly.

"Fire, fire quickly!" A Qing army officer noticed something strange about the Qianqian army, quickly organized his troops, and kept shooting at the gap.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Countless lead bullets hit the shield, sending sparks flying.

However, except for a small number of lead bullets that hit the bodies of the Qianqian soldiers, most of them were blocked by the shields.

"Ten thousand enemies and fire oil! The more, the better!"

A Qing army guard leaned over and looked at the shields on the city wall, which were densely packed like turtle shells, and shouted quickly.

However, before the soldiers under him could make any move, a lead bullet hit his body.

The Qing army guard wailed and fell down from the city wall.

He was immediately quartered into pieces by the soldiers of the front army with knives.

"Fire!" Under the city wall, they saw that the work of digging into the city had made breakthrough progress.

A former military commander shouted loudly and organized his musketeers and archers to fire wildly to cover the advance of the soldiers digging into the city.

Bang bang bang!
Lead bullets hit the city head one after another, taking away countless Qing soldiers and Ding Zhuang.

A Qing soldier roared and threw a stone down.

The stone quickly hit the shield of the front soldier, but it was like a mud cow falling into the sea, without causing any sparks.

With a hiss, an arrow came out of the blue, piercing the Qing soldier's cotton armor and piercing his body.

In an instant, blood splashed out and the Qing soldier fell down.

"Quick! Quick!"

On the city wall, he personally organized soldiers to guard the line of the slope. Guoan personally led the team.

With a large number of Qing troops carrying tens of thousands of enemies and kerosene, they arrived at the most dangerous gap.

"Throw me!"

He gave an order, and a large number of Qing troops lifted up eighty kilograms of [-] enemy soldiers and aimed them at the Jiaqian army under the city.

"Shoot!" The former military commander was horrified and shouted quickly.

Bang bang bang bang!
Dense gunshots rang out.

The Qing army fell immediately.

There were several loud bangs, and several huge, ten thousand enemies fell on the city wall, making a terrifying explosion and taking away the lives of a large number of soldiers.

"Ahhh!" On the city wall, some Qing soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the explosion had their cotton armor ignited and a raging fire broke out.

In an instant, the city wall turned into a purgatory on earth.

However, although under the cover of muskets and bows and arrows, the Qing army that threw thousands of enemies suffered heavy casualties. Even the tens of thousands of enemies who were set on fire were blown up and burned to death on the city wall. Many Qing troops were killed.

But there were still a large number of tens of thousands of enemies thrown on the heads of the Qianqian soldiers.

Under the city wall, the soldiers of the Qianqian Army formed a turtle formation. Through the gaps between their shields, they saw the huge bombs falling. Their faces were ashen and they were horrified.

But it was too late, several loud noises were heard.

The Qing army's muskets, bows and arrows and even the thundering rocks and rolling trees were helpless. The turtle formation collapsed in front of the explosion of ten thousand enemies.

Countless Jiaqian Army soldiers were killed, and the primitive incendiary bombs called incendiary bombs shot out a large amount of flames among the dense Jiaqian Army soldiers, and because of their spherical shape, they also rotated several times. .

At this moment, a large number of Qianqian soldiers turned into burning men in an instant.

Not only that, the tens of thousands of enemies were also mixed with a large amount of toxic substances. With the sudden burning, the thick smoke quickly spread among the soldiers of the front army, and a large number of soldiers of the front army were smoked out.

In a moment, with the use of ten thousand enemies, the form of the gap in the city wall changed.

"Throw kerosene and shoot arrows!"

Seeing the front army being exploded and burned by tens of thousands of enemies, the turtle formation had dispersed.

The front line national security team made a prompt decision and organized soldiers and men to continue throwing kerosene and other incendiary objects.

On the one hand, he ordered the large number of elite soldiers he brought to shoot at the Ming army with hard bows.

Soon, under the fire of a large number of archers in the Qing army's reserve force, the Jiaqian army responsible for attacking here fell into a disadvantage.

The muskets of the Qianqian army were suppressed by the bows and arrows of the Qing army.

At the same time, dozens of Eight Banners elite soldiers were wearing double or even triple armor.

Under the traction of the rope, we quickly descended into the city.

Massacre the remaining frontline troops at the gap in the city wall!

A human head fell to the ground, and the last soldier digging into the city deep in the gap in the city wall died under the knife of an elite soldier of the Qing army.

So far, Xian Guoan has successfully stabilized the situation in this gap.

However, this did not make him happy, because there was more than one gap in the city wall.

So after stabilizing the situation, the Qing army's reserve team galloped quickly on the city wall and rushed to the next gap.

The sun is gradually setting in the west, and it is already afternoon.

Xian Guoan and his soldiers, who had been fighting fiercely for several hours, could no longer hold on. After rescuing more than ten slopes and gaps, they finally chose to rest temporarily.

The elite soldiers of the Qing army ate meat cakes with big mouthfuls, drank large bowls of water, worked hard to replenish their body's consumption, and rested desperately.

However, at this moment, there was a gap, and the soldiers of the Qianqian Army successfully dug out enough space.

"Sir! There is enough space in the gap. If you bury gunpowder, you can definitely blow open the city wall!"

A former military outpost with a background of absenteeism spoke up.

"Okay!" The military officer in charge of attacking here was overjoyed.

"Bury gunpowder!"

In an instant, a large number of front-line soldiers rushed towards the gap with barrels of gunpowder.

In the blink of an eye, more than three hundred barrels of gunpowder were filled in the gap in the city wall.

"Come on!"

With the command of the general, the fuse was lit.

A large number of soldiers from the Qianqian army evacuated quickly as if they were crazy.After watching the Jiaqian army that had been fighting to the death just now receding like a tide.

The suppressed Qing troops on the city wall noticed something one after another.

"No, the city wall is about to explode. Evacuate quickly!"

An officer was the first to speak out, and the Qing soldiers in this area were so frightened that they rolled and crawled away from the place.

In a relatively quiet place, Xian Guoan sat down leaning on the city wall.

The pro-military soldiers beside him quickly handed over meat pies and water.

"Master, please eat more. When you are full and have strength, you can kill more Southern Barbarians."

"Okay!" Xian Guoan quickly picked up the meat pie and wolfed it down.

"Rest for a quarter of an hour!" He issued the order while eating.

As the order was issued, there was a constant clanging sound.

The soldiers of Xian Guoan threw down their weapons one after another, leaning against the city wall or lying down directly.

While eating the meatloaf that I brought with me and drinking the water from the water bag, I rested desperately.

Then less than a quarter of an hour later, a shocking loud noise came from the north.

The city wall of Guilin, which was more than ten meters thick, was under the power of the explosion of more than [-] barrels of gunpowder.

It exploded with a bang, and a small mushroom cloud rose up.

Under the huge explosion power, countless bricks and stones exploded.

Many soldiers from the Qianqian Army and the Qing Army who were nearby were killed and injured.

And when the sound stopped and the smoke began to dissipate, a gap more than twenty meters wide gradually appeared in front of the soldiers of the front army!
"Brothers, make great achievements now!"

The military officer in charge of attacking here was overjoyed. He pulled out his saber, mounted his horse, and roared towards the gap.

"Make contributions, right now!"

Seeing that the city wall had been blown open, the soldiers in front of the army were overjoyed. The more than a thousand remaining soldiers came roaring in with their own weapons and rushed to the gap in the city wall in an instant.

"Quick! Come with me!" Xian Guoan suddenly moved.

He looked up and looked at the smoke not far away.

Terrified, he quickly stood up and shouted.

The stunned soldiers also reacted quickly, stood up and picked up their weapons.

"Send the order, all the soldiers and horses in the city will be blocked by me!"

Xian Guoan did not hesitate and conveyed his military order as if he was crazy.

Then he took his own soldiers and galloped north quickly.

"Kill it!"

In an instant, under the leadership of the Ming army general, a large number of advanced troops swarmed into the city.

In just an instant, hundreds of soldiers entered the city of Guilin.

However, at this moment, the soldiers led by Xian Guoan also arrived at the gap in the city wall.

"Hurry up and shoot the arrow!" Xian Guoan shouted crazily.

The soldiers under his command bent their bows and arrows one after another, and kept shooting at the gaps in front of the army.

At the same time, to the north of the gap, a large number of Qing troops had arrived, firing wildly with various weapons, taking away the lives of a large number of Qianqian soldiers.

In just a moment, more than a thousand front-line troops in this target suffered heavy casualties under the fierce attack of the Qing army.

However, after learning that the city wall had been blown open, more and more Qianqian troops came quickly, trying to break into the city wall when they reached the gap.

"Hurry and throw tens of thousands of enemies and kerosene!"

On the city wall, the Qing army officers headed by Xian Guoan shouted desperately and tried their best to organize.

In an instant, thousands of enemies were dropped one after another, and a large amount of burning objects were thrown into the gap.

Suddenly, a raging fire rose from the gap in the city wall, temporarily cutting the Qianqian army into two pieces.

Although the Jiaqian Army blasted a gap, their disadvantaged position could not be changed because the city wall was still in the hands of the Qing army.

Although the gap of more than [-] meters caused by the explosion was not small, it was not impossible for the more than [-] Qing troops in Guilin City to seal it.

Soon, the dense crowd suddenly exchanged fire at the gap.

The bows, arrows and muskets of both sides killed a large number of enemies, but because the Qing army always maintained a condescending posture, it was never possible to gain any advantage by leading the front army.

The hundreds of soldiers who entered the city were cut off by the fierce fire.

With the sound of horse hooves, a large number of Qing cavalry arrived and tried to seal the gap.

"Brothers, although our formation is in chaos, this is not outside. The cavalry has nothing to be afraid of!"

The Ming army general was shocked, but he still encouraged him.

"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars!"

In an instant, under the organization of the officers, the Jiaqian Army relied on the houses in Guilin to shout while engaging in street fighting with the Qing cavalry.

Due to the dense density of houses here, the Qing army's cavalry could not move at all.

The soldiers and officers organized by the former army either piled up roadblocks or entered the houses.

Therefore, most of the Qing cavalry, organized by officers, had to dismount and fight on foot.

Hejiaqian soldiers fought in small groups in densely packed houses in street battles.

No matter in that era, it was inconsistent with the art of war and tactics to put one's mobile troops into street fighting.

Because the most important thing about a mobile unit is mobility, it is a taboo in the art of war to abandon one's own strengths and engage in street fighting.

However, many times, decision-makers on both sides have no choice but to conduct violations of tactics in order to achieve strategic goals. It is common in wars.

Just like in later generations, in order to capture Stalingrad, the Germans sent six mechanized troops in and were maimed.

Now in order to defend Guilin, the cavalry troops in the hands of Xian Guoan had to give up their strengths in cavalry and archery, enter various houses with sabers, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the infantry of the Qianqian Army.

In the city of Guilin, hundreds of former soldiers were scattered in houses and courtyards, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing cavalry.

A large number of soldiers fell into a pool of blood together with the cavalry that the Qing army had painstakingly trained.

Behind them, the raging fire began to weaken.

Due to the previous brutal siege, too much burning material on the city wall had been consumed in order to seal the gaps and slopes.

However, not much of the burning materials and gunpowder in the warehouses in Guilin City could be transported to the city wall at one time.

So at this critical juncture, the Qing troops on the city wall had very little kerosene and gunpowder left.

The flames used to seal the gap of more than [-] meters were weakening.

"What did the cavalry do? They haven't finished wiping out all the Southern Barbarians in the city!"

Xian Guoan looked at everything in front of him, his teeth chattering.

If the kerosene and gunpowder accumulated by the Qing army in Guilin city were transported up the city wall, the journey would be long, and it would be inconvenient to go up stairs and reach the gap through the wall with a lot of debris.

But if we can clear out the hundreds of soldiers who entered the city with the front army.

Then the gunpowder and kerosene of the Qing army could be transported directly to the gap at the shortest distance and through the best streets.

Even if the kerosene and gunpowder are exhausted, a flame can be created nearby to seal the gap by dismantling the house.

But at this critical moment when the fighter opportunity was fleeting, the Qing cavalry was unable to open the passage.

(End of this chapter)