"Battal Commander! Let's set up the cannon and fire a few fucking shots!" The leader of the artillery cadet team came excitedly to ask for a fight, "Kill the dog officers in the city for their majesty!"

You Laohu looked at it for a long time before saying, "Forget it for today!"

He already knew from the scout's report that a dozen people had secretly descended from the other two city gates in the middle of the night. The scouts followed his order and did not arrest them, but just followed their whereabouts. It was discovered that three or four people were going to Fucheng.

And left, and the rest went to various parts of the county.

You Laohu analyzed that this must be because the county sent people to mobilize rural warriors from all over the county to strengthen the defense of the city. The more rural warriors gathered in the county, the wider the news that they came to Chengmai to besiege the county town.

Therefore, he did not intercept these envoys and allowed them to go around asking for help. Today, Minzhuang Township in the city bravely came out to fight, which shows that they are not going to mobilize too few people.

In his heart, he longed to fight a big battle under Chengmai City and achieve great success. Moreover, he was full of confidence in his own firepower and the combat effectiveness of his soldiers. He believed that as long as he remained vigilant at all times, he could repel any number of people who came to attack him.

The next day, Yu Zhiqian brought back dozens of stones of grain and two to three hundred civilians. The two of them started working under the city. While repairing the camp, they cut wood to make ladders and rams for siege. The officials and gentry in the city

Seeing that although the Kun bandits only had a small force, they were driving the civilians to make all kinds of preparations to attack the city. In addition, they already knew that the Kun bandits had sharp firearms.

Enter the city for reinforcements.

"There are more and more brave warriors in the city." You Laohu said, "If we capture the city, we can capture a large number of prisoners."

Yu Zhiqian said nothing. He felt that because his own troops had not increased in the past few days, the defense on the city had gradually relaxed, so he suggested starting to bombard the county town.

"We don't have enough people, so others will look down upon us, so let's give them a taste of cannonballs."

"Okay, the provincial militiamen will bring back the artillery shells and gunpowder."

In order to increase the tension, Youhuo approved the artillery cadets to bombard the south gate of the county seat. Although the 12-pound mountain howitzer shells could not destroy the city wall, they destroyed half of the city tower and many battlements and parapets, killing and injuring many city defenders.

The strong people and brave people, especially the grenades and incendiary bombs fired, greatly shocked the soldiers and civilians defending the city - they had never encountered such severe artillery fire. Several fires broke out in the city, and some houses were also damaged.

The cannonballs that entered the city destroyed it. After the continuous bombardment, the soldiers and civilians defending the city were demoralized. If He Ming hadn't stopped them from breaking the city, Chengmai would have captured it immediately.

You Laohu felt that this was not powerful enough, so he discussed with Yu Zhiqian: Instead of wasting artillery shells here, it is better to use howitzers to break down a few villages, wipe out several large households, and take advantage of the fighting to eliminate a group of local powerful factions and lay the foundation for future rule.
Chapter completed!