Chapter 658 Flyer

"Could it be that they want to dig the tunnel into the city?" The deputy general beside the Qi general was worried. Read

"Impossible, if so, they are so ostentatious, wouldn't they be completely exposed?" The Qi general shook his head.

But he really couldn't understand what the purpose of the Yanzhou army was.

Thinking of Han Bi, who was considered to be well-versed in military books among the children of the Han family and was highly valued by Emperor Han Zheng, he became more and more anxious.

"No matter what the cost, we must defend the fortress and wait for the arrival of reinforcements." Seeing that the tunnel was getting closer and closer to the city wall, Han Bi's eyes became sharp.

Turning to the deputy general beside him, he said: "Organize 3,000 soldiers to leave the city immediately and kill the Yan soldiers digging the tunnel."

"This..." The deputy general hesitated for a while, looking at the Yanzhou soldiers walking on the battlefield, he said: "General, our firearms have a shorter range than theirs. Letting the soldiers out of the city is equivalent to sending them to death?"

"As long as there is a war, there will be deaths. Once the fort is lost, the Yanzhou soldiers will march straight in. If the emperor blames us, you and I will both lose our heads." Han Bi said coldly, "Why do you want to disobey the military order?"

"I dare not." The deputy general's face turned pale, and he knelt on one knee and said: "I will send soldiers out of the city to kill the enemy."

Han Bi nodded. He naturally knew that the soldiers would die nine out of ten.

But he couldn't just watch the Yanzhou soldiers dig the tunnel in front of the city wall.

Not long after, the north gate of the fort suddenly opened.

A group of Qi soldiers wearing armor, waving long swords, rushed towards the Yanzhou soldiers who were digging the tunnel, shouting and killing.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

At this moment, dense gunfire sounded on the battlefield.

The scattered soldiers on the battlefield raised their rifles in their hands almost at the same time and fired at the group of Qi soldiers.

Since the Yanzhou soldiers were hiding in the tunnel, they would not be hurt by stray bullets at all.

The soldiers had no scruples when shooting, and dense bullets flew towards the Qi soldiers who were charging.

In an instant, a large number of Qi soldiers who had left the city gate fell down.

As if they had received a death order, the Qi soldiers behind did not stop and continued to rush out of the narrow doorway of the city gate.

But they just stepped over the bodies of their companions and fell in a pool of blood.

"Did they overestimate themselves or underestimate us?" Lu Chang looked at the top of the fort and felt that the Qi generals had made a very stupid decision.

Their rifles were not vegetarian.

Unlike flintlock rifles, bullets were fired and killed the enemy by luck.

After verification, the rifled guns they are currently equipped with can achieve a 20% hit rate when shooting at a target 350 meters away, 2 meters high and 1 meter wide.

Shooting within 200 meters can achieve a 40% hit rate.

Within 100 meters, it can achieve a 60% hit rate.

Although this 60% hit rate may not cause fatal damage, it will at least injure the enemy soldiers and basically lose their combat effectiveness.

So, in his opinion, these Qi soldiers are simply living targets for death.

"Just moths flying into the fire." Chang Wei shook his head.

If he were a general of Qi now, he would definitely be desperate now.

"Bang bang bang..."

The gunshots continued, and the Qi soldiers kept rushing out of the city gate and falling down.

A quarter of an hour later, the bodies of the Qi soldiers were all over the north gate.

At this time, the Qi soldiers finally stopped charging in vain, but closed the city gate.

On the city wall, Han Bi's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.

Three thousand soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and his attack on the tunnel failed.

Witnessing the desperate charge of the Qi soldiers, he realized that even if he sent more soldiers, it would be useless.

He could not stop the Yanzhou soldiers from digging tunnels.

"General, what should we do now?" The deputy general's hands trembled slightly.

Before this, they only knew that the Yanzhou soldiers' muskets had a longer range than theirs.

But from the current situation, it seems that their muskets are more accurate than bows and arrows.

They were deceived by the intelligence.

Realizing this, his confidence almost fell into the abyss.

Imagine that every Yanzhou soldier was holding a weapon with great power, a longer range than them, and an accuracy comparable to that of bows and arrows.

How can this battle be fought?

If it weren't for the military order, he would want to escape from this damn fort now.

"Check the defense materials and let all soldiers prepare to fight to the death. If the fort is there, the people are there. If the fort is dead, the people are dead." Han Bi said sternly.

As the darling of the Han family, he would not allow himself to escape from the battlefield.

"The hot air balloon is coming." At this moment, a soldier pointed to the sky not far away.

Five or six hot air balloons slowly floated towards the fort.

Han Bi's face suddenly became solemn, and he said to his deputy general: "Convey this general's order, no one is allowed to pick up the leaflets dropped by the hot air balloons, and those who hide them will be punished by death."

During the confrontation, the hot air balloons on the other side of the river floated over the fort more than once, dropping a lot of leaflets.

The leaflets said: Yanzhou is the orthodox place of Dasong, and Emperor Zhao Heng is sitting in Yancheng.

The powerful families who established the country are traitors and traitors, and everyone can kill them.

At the same time, they tried their best to clamor for soldiers to rebel, and promised that the generals who sentenced the soldiers would be rewarded by the court.

There was also a rule that made the nobles of Qi hate the most.

That was to announce that wherever the Yanzhou soldiers went, they would confiscate the land of the nobles, open the warehouses to release grain, and distribute the confiscated land to the people, and from then on implement a tax policy of 10% tax.

In addition to the fort, these hot air balloons also flew over the villages near the south bank and dropped leaflets, making the people on the south bank uneasy.

If the nobles had not sent their own soldiers to patrol the countryside, there would have been trouble.

"Yes, General." The deputy general immediately passed on the order.

In the time it took to burn an incense stick, the hot air balloon arrived above the fort, and then leaflets floated down from the sky like snowflakes.

Some landed on the city wall, some on the soldiers, and some happened to fall into the hands of the generals.

Han Bi picked up a leaflet, just glanced at it, and then he tore it to pieces.

There were only four words on the leaflet this time: Surrender and no killing!

"Even if I, Han Bi, can't defend the fort, I will make you break a few teeth." Looking at Yanzhou, where the tunnel was being dug, the soldier Han Bi's face was distorted.

At this time, the winding tunnel was less than 40 meters away from the city wall.

The Yanzhou soldiers no longer continued to dig southward.

Instead, they dug a horizontal passage parallel to the city wall.

This made Han Bi more confused, but he couldn't figure out why, so he could only hold a belly of anger.

"General, there is only one hour left. We can enter the fortress before dusk."

Outside the city, Lu Chang saw the soldiers begin to dig horizontally, full of confidence.

Chang Wei looked at the hot air balloon in the sky and nodded.

He hoped that the propaganda carried out by the Propaganda Department would have some effect.

So that they can achieve the greatest results with the least casualties.

In the afternoon, the horizontal tunnel was dug.

Chang Wei ordered the grenadiers to enter the tunnel.

Each of these grenadiers carried a basket.

Each basket was filled with grenades.

Entering the tunnel, they quickly approached the city wall, squatted in the horizontal tunnel, and waited for orders.