Southern Ming Rebel Army

Chapter 651 Seizing the City (Part )

The sounds of shouting, screaming, and weapons clashing are intertwined on the battlefield. This sound is the most common scene in any war.

Just as the defenders were forced by Muhalla to stand up and withstand the threat of musket fire from outside the city and launch a counterattack, Liang Sanhu, wearing heavy armor, arrived at the foot of the city.

The place that had just been burned by the flaming oil did not continue to burn after being covered with soil by the Qian army, but bursts of white smoke were still rising from under the sand.

The ladders that were hit were still burning and obviously could no longer be used. However, the Qian army had built a large number of ladders, and the damaged siege equipment had been dragged away by the Qian army and abandoned in the trench.

Liang Sanhu, protected by his personal guards, was about to climb the ladder. Just as Liang Sanhu stepped onto the ladder, four cans of flaming oil were dropped from the top of the city wall.

Liang Sanhu's face turned pale when he saw this. He cursed loudly, "You bastard, come back!"

As soon as he finished cursing, Liang Sanhu jumped out quickly. Just as Liang Sanhu jumped away, torches were thrown down from the top of the city wall. The kerosene ignited as soon as it came into contact with fire. In an instant, thick smoke billowed, temporarily forcing the Qian army that was about to climb the city wall to retreat.

Not far from Liang Sanhu, there was a special team of Qian army who, under the cover of the firearms soldiers under the city, rushed to the base of the city wall. One of them climbed up the ladder and took out a long-handled object halfway up. Then he quickly picked up the fire starter, lit the fuse of the long-handled object, and threw it onto the top of the city wall.

There was a loud bang, and several defenders hiding in the parapet were blown away by the power of the explosion of the fire bomb.

This object was the hand-thrown shrapnel bomb that was developed by Xia Wanchun and his craftsmen at the suggestion of Meng Jun. However, although it was developed, it has not yet been equipped on a large scale in the army. Only more than 100 bombs were provided to the Western Expedition Corps as experimental weapons.

At this moment, a soldier of the Qian army took the opportunity to climb up and jumped onto the top of the city wall which was already empty.

The man raised his knife and stood on guard, shouting loudly: "The first one to climb up is Gao Chuanfeng! The first one to climb up is Gao Chuanfeng!" He shouted more than ten sentences in a row, making Liang Sanhu, who was not far away, curse his bad luck inwardly.

Liang Sanhu looked at the Qian army who were still desperately covering the ground, roared, and regardless of the still burning flames, he stepped onto the ladder and climbed up in two steps at a time.

The movement was too fast, and Liang Sanhu's personal guards had not reacted in time before Liang Sanhu had almost climbed to the top of the city wall.

The guards did not dare to delay, no one cared about the still burning fire, and they rushed forward one after another.

On the top of the city wall filled with smoke and in ruins, Muhalla shouted loudly: "The Qian army is coming to the city!"

At this time, Liang Sanhu had already jumped off the parapet and stepped onto the top of the city wall of Turpan. Wearing heavy armor and holding a sharp blade, Liang Sanhu killed six people in a row, like a god of death, and frightened the surrounding Yarkand soldiers.

Muhara watched the Qian soldiers jumping onto the top of the city wall one after another, and then saw the ferocious Liang Sanhu. He gritted his teeth and was about to go forward to fight. Liang Sanhu also saw Muhara. Liang Sanhu saw that this man was wearing extraordinary armor and knew that he must be no ordinary person.

Liang Sanhu was overjoyed. He kicked a Yarkand defender away with all his strength and rushed towards Muhara with a sharp knife in his hand.

Muhara was holding a scimitar. Seeing Liang Sanhu was about to rush over, he instinctively took two steps back. As the saying goes, when two brave men meet in a narrow road, the brave one wins. Before the fight even started, Muhara was already at a disadvantage.

The road between the two was not smooth, and there were many defenders blocking them, but Liang Sanhu was invincible, and no one could stop him. Even if some swords and guns attacked at tricky angles, they were blocked by Liang Sanhu's excellent armor.

Besides, at this time, Liang Sanhu's personal guards had already caught up with him and blocked some of the cold knives and cold guns for him.

Muhara thought to himself that this was not good. He had no confidence that he could win against this killer. Muhara pretended to be calm, but he shouted in a timid way: "Reinforcements, send reinforcements quickly, drive the Qian army away!!!"

After shouting, Muhalla could not stop retreating and continued to retreat. Liang Sanhu became more and more annoyed and shouted at Muhalla who was still dodging: "Thief general, do you dare to fight me?"

Muhalla didn't understand what Liang Sanhu said, but he knew that what he said was definitely not good. Muhalla ignored Liang Sanhu, but instead forced the soldiers to block Liang Sanhu, trying to use human wave tactics to consume Liang Sanhu.

Just when Liang Sanhu was blocked by the Yarkand defenders, a team of Yarkand elite soldiers wearing chain mail were climbing up the stone steps to the city wall, preparing to reinforce the top of the city. This army was the most powerful and best-equipped force in Muhalla's hands.

Muhara had not intended to send out his elite troops so quickly, but the city was already surrounded by dangers and he had no time to hesitate.

But at this moment, more than ten hand-fire bombs were thrown on the stone steps. With the sound of "boom boom boom", the densely packed Yarkand elite troops on the stone steps were immediately blown to pieces by the hand-fire bombs.

Muhara was cursing angrily, but what made him even more desperate was that when some elite Yarkand soldiers were mustering up their courage to step onto the stone steps that were already littered with broken limbs, another round of hand-fire bombs were thrown at them, once again blowing these warriors to the ground.

Although there were still many Yarkand troops in the city, the Yarkand people in the south city were already completely passive at this time, especially the firearms that could be thrown by hand, which were difficult to defend against.

Many Yarkand soldiers who witnessed all this actually thought that these Qian army soldiers who threw hand-fired bombs had divine powers, otherwise how could they launch such powerful weapons without the use of artillery.

At this time, as more and more Qian troops climbed up to the top of the city wall, there were fewer and fewer Yarkand soldiers on the top of Turpan city wall, especially at the south city gate, because the stone steps were blocked by fire bombs thrown by the Qian army, resulting in a large number of troops in the city being unable to reinforce the top of the city wall.

Soon, the city wall of Turpan was occupied by the Qian army, and the drawbridge used to protect the city gate was also lowered by the Qian army. However, Lin Shiqi did not build a siege hammer this time, so if the Qian army wanted to attack Turpan on a large scale, they had to seize the city gate.

At this time, Muhara had retreated to the corner of South City and West City. It was almost dusk, but the two sides were still fighting.

Until dark, Muhara still failed to retake the west city wall. However, it was already dark and Lin Shiqi still had no intention of calling a truce. Lin Shiqi ordered the front-line troops to light torches and ordered the logistics supply to deliver dry food and water to the top of the city wall. He also dispatched soldiers for rotation many times.