Chapter 840: The Siege

"General, something terrible has happened! The Yan Wang's troops have arrived at Changcheng, and those mud-legged peasants have rebelled too..."

In a small courtyard, Xie Kang was sitting under an old locust tree eating his meal.

On the table sat a pot of Wine and four dishes: boiled tofu, roast chicken, peanuts, and fennel beans.

"You're crazy! What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

Xie Kang, who was savoring the Fine Wine from the Yan Prince Mansion from Jiangbei and eating until his mouth was slick with grease, glared at the soldier, furious.

"General, I'm not crazy! Listen to the gunfire outside; the East Gate has already been seized by the Yan Wang's soldiers." Xie An's movement of holding the wine pot froze instantly as if ice-bound.

Originally, he had assumed it was the Shizu Army shooting and killing unruly commoners.

Such things happened often.

He had not expected that a real disaster had occurred.

"How is this possible? How did they get to Changcheng? Are the patrolling soldiers all blind?" Xie Kang cursed.

The soldier continued: "General, this cannot be blamed on the soldiers. The Yan Wang's soldiers are all disguised as commoners; they must have mingled among the people while we weren't paying attention."

Upon hearing this, Xie Kang's face turned so gloomy it could drip water. "How many of them are there?"

"Not many. I estimate there are absolutely no more than five or six thousand," the soldier said.

Xie Kang nodded. "Take my Military Tally immediately and go to the main camp to mobilize troops. Hmph, five or six thousand people want to take Changcheng? It's nothing but a daydream."

As for the commoners taking the opportunity to riot, he didn't care about them at all.

Once this Yan Wang army was wiped out, they would be nothing but a mob.

The soldier took the Military Tally and left, and Xie Kang immediately headed toward the East Gate.

His force was ten times that of the Yan Wang army; it was not necessarily impossible to fight.

But before he even reached the East Gate, bad news came one after another: the North Gate had fallen, the Nanmen had fallen, and the West Gate had fallen.

All four city gates had been seized by the enemy in a short amount of time.

At this moment, Xie Kang vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Each of the four gates had over five thousand soldiers; how could they all have fallen at once?

Just as he was filled with shock and suspicion, a commander and several soldiers fled toward him in a sorry state.

Grabbing the commander, he demanded: "What is going on? How did the East Gate fall!"

The commander clutched his injured arm; he had just been struck by a Bullet.

With terror still in his eyes, he said: "General, we couldn't stop the Yan Wang's soldiers. Their firearms are too powerful. We fire one shot, they fire five, and they can fire in any posture they want. Our soldiers just stand there stupidly while reloading, acting as nothing but targets for them."

Taking a sharp breath, he continued, "And they are accurate. One shot kills one man. We had two thousand men deployed near the gate, but as soon as we made contact, we suffered heavy casualties. The remaining soldiers were terrified, lost the will to fight, and all ran away."

"Also, the commoners have rebelled too. They seem to be led by someone and are much more terrifying than when they caused trouble in the past. The remaining soldiers hadn't even reacted before they were killed by countless commoners who snatched their firearms. Moreover, they listen very well to the Yan Wang's army and are fighting us alongside the Yan Wang's soldiers."

Xie Kang had originally been full of confidence,

but the more he heard, the paler his face became.

Clearly, the Yan Wang's army had come prepared this time; otherwise, how could the commoners have organized attacks on their soldiers and coordinated with the Yan Wang's soldiers to fight?

"Bang, bang, bang..." Just as Xie Kang was at a loss for what to do, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out.

The distance seemed to be only a hundred meters away.

He looked ahead and discovered some people dressed as commoners holding firearms and shooting at the retreating Shizu Army soldiers.

Turning their eyes toward his side, they immediately aimed their muzzles at them.

Xie Kang was so scared he almost wet himself. At this moment, he couldn't care about anything else; he turned his horse around and headed into the city.

After fleeing three or four li, he encountered the thirty-thousand-strong army heading to support the various gates. He let out a sigh of relief, thinking that the situation was lost and only saving his life mattered, so he shouted: "Everyone, charge toward the Nanmen and retreat from the Nanmen!"

Upon his order, the thirty thousand Shizu Army soldiers immediately marched toward the Nanmen.

The Artillerymen followed behind, towing the Field Artillery.

Upon reaching the Nanmen, they immediately deployed the Field Artillery.

The muzzles were aimed at the Yan Wang's soldiers on the city wall.

"Get down!"

Seeing the Shizu Army's Field Artillery, the Du in charge of the Nanmen immediately shouted the order.

The Wangfu Army soldiers, who had been firing at the Shizu Army from a kneeling position, immediately lay down to shoot at the Shizu Army from a prone position.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Just then, the Shizu Army's Field Artillery let out a thunderous roar.

Cannonballs flew toward the city wall.

However, these Cannonballs either smashed into the wall or flew past the edge of the wall, failing to touch the Wangfu Army soldiers at all.

"Charge up and kill them!" After the Artillery had bombarded for a while, Xie Kang saw no results and grew furious, urging his soldiers to attack the gate and force it open.

Receiving the order, the Shizu Army soldiers surged toward the gate like a tide.

The Du in charge of the Nanmen saw this and shouted: "Prepare the Hand Grenades."

From the start of the battle until now, they had been reluctant to use the Grenades.

After all, they had penetrated deep into enemy territory this time without logistics, and every Grenade used was one less.

Therefore, they would never use the Grenades unless it was a critical moment.

Right now, the Shizu Army was clearly trying to break out from the Nanmen and escape.

To stop them, they had to rely on the mass-killing power of the Grenades.

"Kill!"

At this moment, both the Shizu Army commanders and soldiers were desperate.

They were single-mindedly focused on clearing the passage at the Nanmen.

Anything blocking them was something they had to destroy.

Upon receiving the order, a portion of the Shizu Army raised their Flintlocks and fired continuously at the city wall to suppress the Wangfu Army, while another portion of the soldiers charged toward the city gate.

But just as they approached the city gate, Hand Grenades suddenly flew down from the sky.

Amidst the sounds of explosions, the Shizu Army soldiers fell while screaming in agony.

The first wave of the Shizu Army's charge failed quickly.

Seeing this, Xie Kang became even more anxious and immediately urged another thousand soldiers to charge the gate.

The sounds of gunfire and explosions at the Nanmen entrance instantly merged into one.

At the same time.

Just as Nanmen was mired in a fierce struggle, the Wangfu Army from the other three directions was converging toward Nanmen.

The movements of so many Shizu Army soldiers could not possibly be hidden from them as they observed from the city wall.

Especially the Wangfu Army from the East Gate and West Gate; they soon arrived in the vicinity of Nanmen.

However, they did not support the Nanmen soldiers from the city wall.

Instead, they descended from the city wall and attacked from the flanks.

At the same time, the soldiers at Nanmen also arrived under the command of Commander Pang San, and along with him came the remaining three thousand Wangfu Army soldiers.

They had already dealt with the Shizu Army outside the city, and now they only needed to deal with the Shizu Army inside the city.

As for the three city gates, there were also a huge number of commoners guarding them, so there was no need for them to worry.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

"Boom!", "Boom", "Boom"...

Five thousand Wangfu Army soldiers gathered at Nanmen, and the firepower suddenly became fierce.

Moreover, in order to rout the Shizu Army as quickly as possible, the Wangfu soldiers coming from the three city walls brought out their Hand Grenades one after another.

While nimbly weaving through the streets and alleys, and even climbing onto rooftops to shoot and kill the Shizu Army, they threw Grenades over from time to time.

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