Chapter 314: The Ruthless Move Reappears

"This letter must be thrown at the right time. Read"

After telling the generals his plan.

Zhao Xu returned to his tent and wrote a letter.

Then he gave the letter to the scout and asked him to deliver it to the Ma family army.

However, this letter was not really for Ma Jin, but for the people of Xiliang.

After saying yes, the scout stuffed the letter into his arms and left.

Then, he sent other scouts to investigate the location of this Xiliang army.

According to the news sent back by the scout.

Most of this Xiliang army is infantry, with only more than a thousand cavalry, and the marching speed is very slow.

Even if they travel day and night, it will take more than a day to arrive here.

He has enough time to prepare.

"Boom..." Just as he watched the scout leave.

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard, and the sound of heavy objects falling into the water was heard.

He turned his head and saw that the city wall on the north side of Jincheng had completely collapsed.

A lot of soil inside the city wall and blue bricks outside the city wall fell into the moat in front.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu was overjoyed.

Seeing this, generals such as Chang Wei also gathered around him, looking happy, waiting for him to give the order to attack.

"It has been bombarded for five or six days, and I don't know how many shells have been wasted. Finally, it collapsed." Guan Tong stamped his feet happily.

Chang Wei patted Qin Shan's shoulder fiercely, and Qin Shan almost sat on the ground.

"What are you waiting for, attack the city!" Zhao Xu shouted, "There is no need to hide the flintlock rifles, and don't save the artillery shells, take down Jincheng!"

"Yes, Your Highness." The generals clasped their fists heavily.

Returning to their respective armies, they immediately arranged according to the sand table rehearsal.

Because the collapsed city wall fell into the river, half of the river was filled.

Chang Wei dispatched soldiers wearing heavy armor to push the Xiliang soldiers on the city wall to pour the ladder into the debris of the city wall.

At the same time, the soldiers holding flintlock rifles, just like in Xincheng, tilted bullets towards the top of the city with the cooperation of artillery to cover the heavy infantry crossing the river.

It was the first time that the Xiliang soldiers in Jincheng saw flintlock rifles.

After avoiding the shooting of artillery, some Xiliang archers took bows and arrows to shoot the soldiers of the royal palace holding flintlock rifles.

"Swoosh" the arrows flew towards the soldiers of the royal palace, hitting the scales on the chest of the soldiers of the royal palace.

The soldiers' bodies just shook slightly and felt a pain.

At the same time, the soldiers of the royal palace also pulled the trigger in their hands.

"Bang bang bang..." The dense sound of flintlock rifles sounded.

Lead bullets flew towards the top of the city like raindrops.

Frightened by the gunshots and the fire, the Xiliang archers shook involuntarily.

But they were hit by lead bullets before they could react.

The Xiliang archers who showed their heads fell down one after another.

At this moment, even if the injured and dead flintlock riflemen were removed, there were more than 20,000 flintlock riflemen in the royal palace army.

They were all archers, and the archers of Xiliang could not gain any advantage in the exchange of shots. After three rounds of shooting, they were suppressed and could not raise their heads.

This made it impossible for the Xiliang defenders to organize an effective counterattack on the city wall.

At this moment, heavy infantry wearing plate armor crossed over the ladder.

"Kill!" Amidst the roars, they climbed up the collapsed gap.

At this time, the Xiliang soldiers in Jincheng also climbed up the gap, and the two sides fought each other.

In the city.

Murong Wuji was discussing with the generals the strategy of preventing the troops of King Yan from attacking the city.

Suddenly, a loud rumble was heard.

Then there was a "bang bang bang" sound much lighter than the artillery, like a firecracker.

When he looked at the source of the sound, his face changed drastically.

A section of the city wall five or six meters wide at the north gate collapsed.

"Stop the gap immediately, and don't let a Yanzhou soldier in." Fine beads of sweat appeared on Murong Wuji's forehead.

The Xiliang generals were terrified, but they still gathered the soldiers to rush to the north gate according to the order.

Murong Wuji, wearing armor, went to the north gate with the generals.

Once there was captured, Jincheng would fall.

"Kill!"

Under the command of the Xiliang generals, a large number of Xiliang infantry rushed to the gap, and the black soldiers kept replacing the Xiliang soldiers who were killed in the gap.

For a time, the soldiers of both sides were deadlocked there.

"Go, get the lime firecrackers in the camp."

Outside the city, seeing that the heavy infantry could not break into Jincheng, Chang Wei said to a general beside him.

After receiving Chang Wei's order, the general left with a team of soldiers.

Not long after, wooden boxes were lifted up one by one.

On the vast battlefield, these firecrackers are not easy to use.

So they were not used when ambushing Jili.

Now the Xiliang soldiers are crowded behind the city wall, and it is time to use this.

"Throw it in." Chang Wei pinched his waist, his eyes fixed on the battle situation in front.

The soldiers carried the boxes across the moat.

They lit firecrackers behind the heavy infantry and threw them over the city wall.

The firecrackers exploded thirty meters away from the city wall, and white smoke burst out among the Xiliang soldiers.

Then firecrackers were thrown in one by one.

The lime powder gradually spread at a distance of twenty to thirty meters.

Under the shock wave of the explosion, the lime powder spread more quickly into the eyes of the Xiliang soldiers.

Rushing out of the smoke, the Xiliang soldiers gradually felt discomfort in their eyes and stopped.

More and more Xiliang soldiers stopped, and the Xiliang soldiers behind were blocked and could no longer climb up the city wall.

The Xiliang soldiers whose eyes were burned by the lime powder lost their fighting power.

The Xiliang soldiers fighting at the gap suddenly lost support and were immediately beaten back by the heavy infantry of the palace.

It didn't take long for the heavy infantry to cross the gap and enter the city.

"Each small flag is a team, go!"

Seeing the heavy infantry rushing into the city, Chang Wei immediately asked the flintlock soldiers to follow.

The heavy infantry is a strong shield, but the flintlock is faster to kill the enemy.

"Follow me!"

After receiving the order, Qin Shan immediately ordered his soldiers.

The small flag general shouted loudly, and led his fifty soldiers to climb up the city wall behind the heavy infantry.

After crossing the city wall, they no longer followed the heavy infantry.

Instead, they moved to one side, and the fifty people quickly formed a small horizontal team.

Attacked forward with a small horizontal team.

As they marched, such flintlock teams continued to pour in.

"Bang bang bang..."

Encountering the Xiliang soldiers who reinforced the north gate, the flintlock soldiers pulled the trigger.

The first row of soldiers tilted the bullets out, and the second row of soldiers stepped forward to shoot again, followed by the third row.

The Xiliang soldiers who rushed over kept falling under the muzzle.

As the number of flintlock soldiers increased, the firepower became stronger and stronger.

The Xiliang soldiers, who had tasted the bitterness of this weapon on the city wall, encountered this strange weapon again.

The huge casualties soon made the Xiliang soldiers dare not continue to charge.

For them, this was not a battle, but a massacre.

With the firepower support of the flintlock soldiers, the heavy infantry quickly gained a foothold behind the city wall.

They rushed into the doorway and lifted the sandbags in the doorway one by one.

Half an hour later, the sandbags in their doorway were cleared out.

The soldiers immediately opened the city gate and lowered the drawbridge.

"Kill!"

At the moment when the drawbridge was across the moat, more soldiers from the palace rushed into Jincheng amid shouts of killing.