Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 757

The prisoners arrived at the base of the city and began to erect ladders to climb up. Jin Li didn't take these troops to heart, but the main force of the Ming army in the distance came pushing their equipment, but he had to make preparations.

"Gushan, look at the other side!" A soldier walked to the wall and pointed outside.

Without his reminding, Jin Li had already discovered it. He took a step forward and looked into the distance, only to see that the densely packed Lügong carriages, burrows, rush carts, and ladders had already reached the Qinhuai River and were about to pass the pontoon bridge.

Ordinary pontoon bridges may not be able to carry so many heavy equipment, but the prisoner army built the pontoon bridge with three floors, and it was soaked in the water, which was enough for these equipment to pass through.

At this time, the Ming army was congested on the other side of the Qinhuai River like a torrential flood, and large equipment stood in the crowd, and some people and horses had already boarded the pontoon bridge.

Jin Li's eyes fell on it. Behind a Lu public car, dozens of soldiers of the Ming army leaned forward, pushing their equipment vigorously, and passed the pontoon bridge. back.

A Qing general trembled a little as he saw it. Everyone knew that once the Lu Gong chariot hit the city wall, the soldiers of the Ming army would rush up. The key point was that the Ming army would be followed by cave chariots one after another.

The whole thing is like a thousand-legged centipede, Lu Gong's car is the head, the cave car behind is the body, and the soldiers hide in the cave car, never showing their heads.

These cave carts are just like houses, with a pointed top and a wide bottom. There are logs inside and thick blankets and cowhide covering the outside. Bows and arrows can't pierce them, and kerosene is useless. Even iron bullets hit them because of the toughness of cowhide. rather than collapse easily.

Once these things are close to the city wall, it is equivalent to forming a safe passageway under the city.

The siege methods of the Ming army are really the ancestors of the Qing soldiers.

"Gushan, let the artillery tanks bombard it!" A member of the general Qing became anxious.

Jin Li looked at it, but didn't agree, "Wang Yan was blind, I was going to teach him a lesson, don't rush to move the cannon cart, you go elsewhere and bring some red cannons over here."

The general clasped his fists and left. Seeing this, Jin Li ordered the many Qing generals around him: "You all fight with your heart. If you can't even withstand Wang Yan's attack, let someone break the city gate." , I will be able to spare you, but the county prince and Governor Hong can't spare you, understand?"

"Gu Shan, don't worry!" All the Qing generals hurriedly saluted, then dispersed, and hurried back to their respective posts.

As the prisoners began to ascend the city, all the red cannons on the artillery array stopped to avoid accidentally injuring their own people. As soon as the Ming army's artillery stopped, the Qing army's artillery on the city began to sound again, and the iron eggs fell into the river. In the splashing water column, fast pass.

This is the captive army has begun to ascend the city, but their equipment is very simple, just ordinary siege ladders.

"Go!" A prisoner officer shouted with a shake of his arms.

More than a dozen soldiers raised a climbing ladder high, the head of the ladder was higher than the city wall, and then pulled down, the iron hook on the top hooked the top of the city, making it impossible for the defenders to push it down.

Once the ladder was fixed, the soldiers quickly climbed up when they heard the officer's call.

The top of the city was smashed down by a rolling log, and the archers of the Qing army on the horse's face shot from the side.

"Zhiniang thief!" Zhou Fangrong saw that his subordinates were still unable to climb the city wall, and the soldiers fell like jujubes. He couldn't help cursing angrily, and ordered the archers to throw arrows at the top of the city, suppressing the Qing army on horseback, and covering the nurses to climb up the city.

Bows and arrows shot at each other, intertwined like rain, in front of him were sword and shield players falling continuously, and the archers beside him were also shot with arrows, and the screams were endless.

He was in a hurry, and was about to step forward, when suddenly, with a "swoosh", an arrow passed by his face, and he broke out in a cold sweat, stopping his progress.

At this moment in the city, a group of Qing soldiers, holding a log, chanted, "One, two, three!"

The log slammed into the top of the climbing ladder fiercely. After a few blows, the big iron hook on the ladder was knocked loose. After a while, the iron hook was completely knocked off the ladder.

Several Qing soldiers immediately shouted, and then holding a long pole, they propped up the ladder leaning against the wall, and the ladder slowly fell backwards.

The soldiers above jumped down one after another, and they could save their lives if they fell to the ground. If they were crushed by this heavy ladder, they would either die or be disabled.

The captured troops built a pontoon bridge and attacked first, their morale and physical strength were gradually exhausted, but they also completed their mission, succeeded as the main attacking force, built a road, and restrained the defenders due to exhaustion.

At this time, the main attacking force, braving artillery fire, arrived one after another with various equipment such as Lv Gongcar, cave house, well rail, and ladder.

For a time, outside the Sanshan Gate, under the walls of the West City of Nanjing, soldiers of the Ming army were scattered like ants.

Jin Li was guarded by soldiers with shields. He looked down the city and saw dozens of Ming soldiers pushing a Lügong cart close to the city wall on the side of Wengcheng.

The soldiers of the Qing army on the city showed anxious expressions, leaning out from between the walls, shooting arrows and guns frantically, and some even used rockets, trying to prevent the Lu Gongcar from approaching.

The hedgehog was almost shot at the roof fender, and the soldiers inside held their sabers tightly, without saying a word, their eyes fixed on the fender, and they waited for the fender to be lowered and put on the city wall, and they immediately rushed to the fender. Fight on the city wall.

"Zhiniang thief! Are you here yet!" The soldiers pushing Lu Gong's cart were sweating profusely. Their sight was blocked by the cart, so they could only push hard with their heads down, but the cart was huge and filled with soldiers, so it was really hard to push.

Suddenly the whole car stopped, as if it had hit something, and the soldiers below couldn't move it no matter how hard they pushed, it was only when they heard the soldiers above shouting that they realized it.

"Puu Niao, push it when it arrives? Put the baffle on!"

The people below reacted, immediately released the winch, the baffle opened, and suddenly hit the city wall, but at the moment the baffle opened, the Qing army, which had already been preparing to attack at the top of the city, immediately shot a rain of arrows, but the Ming army He had already prepared and used the rattan card to protect the vital points.

After the rain of arrows, there were fire pots and thunderbolts. Although the soldiers in front were covered with shields, they were still bloody and bloody.

The soldiers who climbed on the roof of Lu Gong's car behind were not afraid. A hundred households roared, and the knife rushed out of the car, stepped on the burning baffle, and rushed to the top of the city. He killed one person with a knife, but immediately died He was stabbed by four or five spears at the same time.

At this time, the burrow below was already in a straight line connecting the city. The soldiers of the Ming army crossed the pontoon bridge, then passed through the burrow, entered Lu Gong's car directly, and then boarded the city wall.

During the whole process, the archers and gunmen of the Qing army had nothing to do.

All of a sudden, a large number of Ming troops rushed to the city wall. A Qing general found that some of the tops were blocked, and immediately grabbed a soldier and shouted together: "Quick, report to Gushan. Hold on, can't wait any longer!"

As soon as the Qing general finished speaking, a Ming soldier suddenly jumped up from the top of the city, and with a single blow, he chopped down the unsuspecting messenger from behind.

Seeing this, the general of the Qing rushed forward with a knife, and hacked down the Ming army. He saw that there were many Ming soldiers on the city, and they were fighting everywhere.

Jin Li originally wanted to send more Ming troops over, but he didn't expect the Ming troops to be so sharp that they would be out of control once they climbed into the city. He didn't dare to push him too hard at this moment, so he rushed to the female wall and shouted loudly towards the inner city, "Use it!" gun!"

Inside the city wall, there is a special troop hidden. The weapon they use is a trebuchet that is almost obsolete.

Compared with artillery, trebuchet has an advantage that it can lob.These trebuchets were hidden inside the city wall by Jin Li, and the artillery outside the city could not hit them at all, but he could use the cover of the city wall to continuously throw them outside the city.

This is Jin Li's secret weapon, and it is also one of Hong Chengchou's preparations for defending the city.

Nearly a hundred gun carriages were hiding under the city, and they were already ready. After hearing Jin Li's order, they all rang their whistles and hammered, and a hundred black projectiles flew into the air.

The Ming army that was attacking the city below the city suddenly exploded, and one of the chief executives was taken aback for a moment, and then his face changed drastically, "You shit, what you threw was a thunder!"

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