"We all rely on the enemy’s head to calculate the military achievements … we still have a chance to fight if we don’t surrender, but if we surrender, there is no chance at all to get the military achievements. The so-called imperial court rewards silver. These imperial loyalists will definitely kill us and send our heads to the court like this …"
"All the brothers will not surrender even if they fight hard with the imperial court loyalist outside the city. Let them cut off our heads and like it-…"
When I heard that, the platoon leader’s face flashed a little unknown smile directly.
Then I continued to ask dozens of departments in front of me, "In this case, I ask you a question … Do you want to give up the tiger and leopard army’s high salary for everyone, give up your family’s high salary every month, give up the good life you have already got, and go back to that hungry day?"
"I don’t want to …" Dozens of ministries answered this question almost without thinking.
At this time, I have got the answer I want. The platoon leader never hesitated to yell at everyone. "Since everyone doesn’t want to go back to the past and surrender to the imperial government, they can’t escape death …"
"Then there is only one way left before we wait, and that is to fight with the government loyalist outside the city …"
"Win them on the battlefield and let them know that our tiger and leopard troops are powerful and never dare to attack us again."
"Only in this way can we be qualified to negotiate with the court to let the court cancel the title of" Tiger and Leopard Army Rebel "… and all of us can continue to lead a high salary to make ourselves and our families live a better and better life …"
The platoon leader had just finished a middle-aged man with a full face of wind and frost, and shouted with a full face of anger
"To fight with loyalists outside the city … after living for so long, those officers who have been defended have been holding up and even have enough to eat … now it’s hard to have enough to eat. No matter who blocks the old life, they will fight hard with him …"
"Fight with those loyalists outside the city … we also have guys who can kill people. Why should we let them live a good life … and let their families eat and live a good life …" Another soldier followed suit and chimed in.
Then more than 30 soldiers clamored and fought desperately with the loyalist outside the city as if they had taken stimulants.
"Morale can be …" This is the first thought in the platoon leader’s mind after seeing everyone’s reaction.
When dozens of pairs of eyes gathered behind him again, the platoon leader finally spoke.
He said to everyone with a dignified face, "Brothers are right. We have a choice, and that is to fight hard …"
"There is another thing I can give you a guarantee. You have seen those merchant ships at Yanchang Wharf … From now on, those merchant ships will continue to transport brothers and families to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in batches."
"When we get to Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the government loyalists will never be able to endure them …"
"However, due to the limited number of merchant ships, the brothers’ families must be transported to the Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces in a time-sharing manner to win more for the brothers’ families. We must also keep here for a long time …"
"Now I order the musket brothers to get ready to fight back … without musket brothers, one person is divided into two grenades, and they will transport stones to the wall without being assigned to grenades …"
"In a word, we must not let the loyalist climb the wall outside the city and attack the Yantian behind us …"
"In addition, I also want to tell you a good news. The generals in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces will not give up. We want us to persist until the first batch of merchant ships return to the saltworks, and we can get supplies from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces …"
"Then every brother can be equipped with muskets …"
"And we can beat the loyalists outside the city with these muskets and make them pay the price of blood."
When the morale of thousands of soldiers in the garrison division of the city wall saltworks changed from chaos and diffusion to high bit by bit
Standing five hundred steps outside the city, more than ten thousand loyalists have appeared outside the city carrying more than thirty ladders.
At the same time, dozens of guns of various types were carried into the battlefield by loyalists shouting slogans …
It took only half an hour for thousands of garrison troops to watch the loyalist, and then dozens of artillery pieces were supposed to be completed. At the same time, 1,000 loyalists also carried the ladder step by step across the artillery positions and pressed to the wall.
The mighty loyalist siege team had just rushed to the city for 200 steps when a dense cannon roared and suddenly the battlefield sounded. At the same time, the roar generated by the solid shells flying out of the gun bore across the sky also sounded on the battlefield.
However, although the loyalist artillery fired a lot, there were only a handful of people who really hit the wall.
Plus the garrison foot, this wall is made of cement, which is far stronger than ordinary walls. Even if several solid shells hit the wall, they did not cause damage to the wall.
Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong Province, may have seen that the wall was strong and directly ordered the artillery to stop this meaningless shelling, and then ordered the hand to suppress the tiger and leopard muskets to approach the wall behind the siege team …
In a moment, the two siege troops approached the city one hundred and fifty steps and entered the range of flintlock guns.
Stick to the wall, 500 flintlock muskets, and pull the trigger without hesitation.
The gun rang out from the muzzle, white smoke rose rapidly from the city head and roared at the same time, while the lead shot was like an impenetrable steel storm that rushed directly at the front loyalist.
"Before before …" A tiny lead shot sounded into the meat battlefield.
These hot lead bullets in front of the loyalist only equipped with leather armor are hardly hindered, and they easily penetrate the leather armor and shoot into the loyalist body …
In a blink of an eye, dozens of loyalists carrying ladders were shot down and turned into bodies.
However, such losses did not stop the loyalist attack.
The officer behind him urged the follow-up loyalist to quickly fill the gap hit by lead bullets, shoulder the ladder again and continue to charge forward.
Five hundred flintlock muskets were attacked round after round, and the loss reached 200 people. The loyalist finally rushed to the position of one hundred paces.
For an ordinary matchlock gun, it is almost impossible to hit the target even though it is its limit.
But thousands of loyalist musketeers still raised their muskets and began to fight back against Chengtou Tiger and Leopard Army.
Similarly, after the explosion of the bean-like gun, the dense lead bullets did not fly to Chengtou with a roar because of whether the tiger and leopard army was a just party.
Although most lead bullets have lost their power when they fly to Chengtou.
However, there are still many lead bullets flying over the battlements to hide from the city wall to shoot the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Because the tiger and leopard gunners are only equipped with leather armor, the recruits are not even equipped with leather armor, but there is hardly much power. Lead bullets still bring more than a dozen losses to the defenders of the city wall.
There are loyalist siege teams that are getting closer and closer before, and loyalist musketeers who are constantly shooting lead bullets at the city wall.
In the face of the fact that there is an adventurous loyalist outside the city with 500 butch arms gunners, Ma hesitated and didn’t know who to point the gun at.
Guo-zhong he also frowned at this time.
Chapter three hundred and ninety-four Loyalist malicious people
Our own muskets are limited, so we have to order ourselves to shoot at the officer’s arms and marines. The officer’s siege team will certainly March straight into the city wall and rush directly to the foot of the wall.
At that time, they will have to rely on their hands to save their lives, and the last weapon grenades and loyalist siege teams will fight …
But once this happens, it means that the limited equipment in hand will run out in a short time.
After losing equipment and ammunition, can thousands of unarmed garrison soldiers stick to the follow-up reinforcements from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces?
When He Guozhong was caught in a difficult choice, the battlefield became more and more tense, which directly urged him to make a decision immediately.
A head of the guard shouted, "The teacher can’t hesitate any longer. Let’s decide who to hit first. Who are the brothers waiting for?"
"Let’s play the officer’s arms and marines first …" The Ministry urged a pair of eyes to quickly sweep the bodies of fallen soldiers around him. Guo-zhong He finally made up his mind to order.
After that, he continued to order, "Give me a stone greeting when the loyalist siege team rushes to the foot of the city wall … Don’t remember never to use grenades as a last resort …"
"In addition, take out the pike that has been eliminated from the warehouse …"