Chapter 618: Seizing the City

"Boom boom boom..."

Han Qi was thinking hard and could not figure it out, when suddenly the artillery of Yanzhou roared.

One after another, the shells whistled and hit the city wall.

At the same time, the Yanzhou soldiers once again carried the ladders to Pingyuan City.

"You are really looking for death!" Han Qi snorted and said to the artillerymen: "Load all of them with grapeshot and beat them into a pulp."

The Qi artillerymen received the order and immediately took the grapeshot to stuff it into the barrel.

It was just that the muzzle was very high, so they could only load the shells while standing. Since the muzzle slightly extended out of the city wall, their bodies were exposed to the muzzles of the Yanzhou soldiers.

"Bang bang bang..."

Bursts of fire and white smoke emerged from more than 2,000 foxholes.

Under the shooting of the rifle, the Qi artillerymen loaded with shells fell into a pool of blood.

Han Qi's face suddenly became ugly.

Not only did the artillery have to be loaded, but the barrel had to be cleaned after firing, which would expose the soldiers to the Yanzhou soldiers.

"Kill them!" Han Qi pointed at the Yanzhou soldiers in the earth pit.

Although loading was hindered, more than a dozen artillery pieces were loaded smoothly.

After receiving his order, the Qi artillery aimed at the earth pit.

But they found that the moment the artillery sounded, these soldiers shrank into the earth pit.

Their shells could not hurt the Yanzhou soldiers in the earth pit at all.

After the sound of the artillery, these soldiers showed their heads again, aimed their muskets at the city wall, and waited for an opportunity to shoot.

Once the Qi artillery was exposed, dozens or hundreds of bullets flew at them.

At the same time, the artillery of Yanzhou was still bombarding their artillery.

There were continuous gun carriages being destroyed, and the artillery was deformed by the shells and rolled down from the city wall.

The explosive shells were also continuous, causing heavy casualties to the Qi soldiers.

Under the triple harassment of the Yanzhou soldiers, the Qi artillery was basically unable to fight for a while, the city wall was full of corpses, and the soldiers guarding the city wall were replaced one after another.

This bombardment lasted until noon.

At this time, the heavy infantry of Yanzhou carried the ladders and rushed to Pingyuan City with shouts of killing.

When they came to the bottom of the city wall, they leaned the ladders against it and climbed up quickly.

The scattered soldiers covered them and fired bullets at the city wall to prevent the Qi soldiers from approaching the ladders.

"Go, all of you!"

The situation suddenly became bad. Han Qi was angry and anxious, and could only urge the soldiers to resist.

After a while, the heavy infantry broke through many city walls.

They jumped down from the city wall, waved the long swords in their hands, and slashed at the Qi soldiers.

For a while, there was chaos on the city wall.

Taking advantage of the chaos, some heavy infantry rushed to the Qi artillery, took out nails, and hammered the nails into the cannon's fuse hole.

"Fire!"

Before the heavy infantry climbed the city wall, the Qi generals gathered a group of matchlock musketeers on the city wall.

Looking at the Yanzhou heavy infantry fighting with the Qi soldiers, they ordered to open fire without caring about the lives of the Qi soldiers.

In their opinion, the death of these Qi soldiers was a small matter, but the loss of the city wall was a big matter.

Therefore, they would rather sacrifice these soldiers together than kill the Yanzhou heavy infantry.

"Bang bang bang..." A burst of gunfire.

Immediately, heavy infantry and Qi soldiers fell under the muzzles of Qi's matchlock musketeers.

Shot by their own people, the Qi soldiers who were fighting suddenly fell into panic. They retreated one after another and wanted to hide behind the matchlock musketeers.

Seeing this, the Yanzhou heavy infantry immediately picked up the bodies of the Qi soldiers on the ground and used them as meat shields.

The wall of Pingyuan City was only ten meters long. Excluding the positions occupied by both sides, there were only five or six meters between them.

"Bang bang bang..." Another burst of gunfire, bullets hit the bodies of Qi soldiers, bursting out a ball of blood.

Taking advantage of the gap when the third row of musketeers came forward, the heavy infantry pushed the bodies of the Qi soldiers forward, and then rushed into the musketeers in one step.

None of these musketeers had bayonets on their musketeers.

The heavy infantry fought hand-to-hand with them, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

The long swords were raised, blood splashed, and the musketeers fell in a pool of blood, and the musketeers were in chaos.

At this time, following the heavy infantry, the rifled musketeers of the palace climbed onto the city wall.

They pulled out bayonets from their waists, mounted them on their muskets, and immediately joined the battle.

One by one, the Qi soldiers were killed by them.

As more and more Yanzhou soldiers appeared on the city wall, the Qi soldiers gradually couldn't hold on, and were constantly forced down the city wall and retreated into the city.

The soldiers of the palace immediately controlled the city wall, and the rifled musketeers lined up in a horizontal line beside the city wall and began to shoot the Qi soldiers within 200 meters.

The heavy infantry rushed down the wall, entered the gate, and moved away the stones and sandbags that the Qi soldiers had used to block the gate.

"Stop them!"

Han Qi also retreated into the city with the soldiers. Seeing that the north gate was about to be opened by the Yan Wang soldiers, he looked terrified.

But everything was in vain. The fall of the north wall greatly reduced the morale of the Qi soldiers.

Even if there were soldiers who tried to rush over for the reward, they would be shot and killed when they were 200 meters away from the wall.

Seeing the miserable state of their companions, the other soldiers dared not rush over.

This was simply like sending themselves to death.

For several times in a row, the soldiers who rushed over all failed. Han Qi felt like he had drunk a bellyful of ice water in the hot summer.

Looking at the Yanzhou soldiers on the wall with resentment, he ordered the Qi soldiers to enter the streets and houses, ready to fight to the death with the Yan Wang soldiers.

"Good fight!"

Outside the city, at the aerial artillery, Chang Wei had a panoramic view of the scene on the wall.

Seeing that the northern wall was occupied by the soldiers of the palace, he immediately ordered the whole army to press forward.

For him, this war should also end.

If the 100,000-man army can't even deal with these Qi soldiers in the past few days, he won't have to be a general.

After all, when fighting the Northern Di, his soldiers were ten times stronger than one.

Although the Qi soldiers also have artillery and muskets.

But compared with the soldiers of Yanzhou, the quality is obviously far behind.

Moreover, the time they have been exposed to firearms is far less than that of the soldiers of Yanzhou, and their training in firearms is probably even worse.

His order was issued, and the remaining large troops began to move towards Pingyuan City in a mighty manner.

At this moment, the soldiers of the palace who occupied the north city gradually captured other walls along the city wall.

The army of the palace was divided into three routes.

One route went north to support the soldiers who climbed the city wall.

One route went west to capture the western city wall.

One route went east to capture the eastern city wall.

In less than an hour, the soldiers of the palace controlled the three walls of Pingyuan City.

Only the southern wall was left for the soldiers of Qi to escape.

But halfway, they had set up an ambush with cavalry, ready to kill them with blood.

In the evening, Chang Wei led Qin Shan, Guan Tong, Lu Chang and other generals into Pingyuan City.

Climbing the wall of Pingyuan City, Chang Wei looked into the city.

At this moment, the soldiers of the palace were attacking southward under the leadership of the generals.

Gunshots were heard from time to time in the streets and houses.