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Yu Xiaotian shouted twice in succession to follow up. This was an extremely rare thing in front of the army, so the Yu family's soldiers did not dare to neglect. The reserve team yelled wildly and rushed towards the city wall.

The artillerymen immediately listened to the order, operated the artillery frantically, aimed the muzzles at both sides of the place where the fierce battle was taking place on the city wall, and started a rapid fire.

The shells roared like the roar of death and hit the city wall, rushing towards the rebels at the lost location from both sides. They were cut to the ground like grass, and the rebels were killed and injured on the city wall.

Li Jiuzheng shouted loudly and led his soldiers to the scene of the accident from the direction of the city gate tower. A cannonball flew over quickly. Li Jiuzheng was not prepared at all. He was hit by the cannonball when he stopped in the middle. This cannonball was not a twelve-pounder, let alone a cannon.

The twenty-four-pounder cannon was only a shell fired by a six-pounder cannon with the smallest caliber equipped among the artillery of the Yu Jiajun.

Li Jiucheng was cut in half by the whizzing shell, and his upper body fell to the ground with a thud. However, his lower body actually ran forward for two steps before falling softly.

Li Jiucheng was hit by the artillery shell from the waist. All the intestines and internal organs in his abdominal cavity flew away from his body immediately. A piece of intestine was still hung on the neck of a soldier next to him, causing the soldier to scream in surprise.

cried out.

This was simply a cannonball version of cutting in half. Li Jiuzheng's upper body fell to the ground, but he was still alive for a while. He didn't know where he lost his knife. He lay on the ground screaming like a pig, twitching in pain, and scratching all over the ground in panic.

He searched for his scattered internal organs, tried to stuff them back into half of his body, and crawled towards his lower body, leaving a wide path of scarlet blood behind him.

His soldiers were also stunned. For a moment, they didn't realize what to do. They just looked at Li Jiucheng, who had been reduced to half, and crawled towards his lower body, but they didn't know what to do.

Li Jiucheng crawled and screamed all the way until he reached his lower body. He stretched out a hand and grabbed one of his legs tremblingly. Then he lay on his back on the ground and suddenly shouted: "Retribution!"

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Before he could finish shouting retribution, he opened his eyes and took his last breath.

"You're all handsome... You're all handsome... You're all handsome, don't die! You're all handsome..." Only then did his soldiers react, and they rushed to Li Jiucheng's side, crying and shouting.

As soon as they heard that Li Jiucheng was dead, the morale of the rebels suddenly collapsed. It is said that Li Jiucheng's status among the rebels was higher than that of Kong Youde. In fact, this rebellion was secretly instigated by Li Jiucheng, otherwise Kong Youde would not have been able to do so.

Will eventually choose rebellion.

Moreover, after the rebellion started, Li Jiucheng used his prestige among the rebels to become the de facto controller of the rebels, while Kong Youde was still under him and had to listen to his orders.

In fact, the biggest culprit of this Denglai Rebellion was not Kong Youde, but Li Jiucheng, and this tycoon Li Jiucheng had finished his life today, and his life was remarkable. Before the rebellion, he had

He was the main general of the Dongjiang Army who followed Mao Wenlong. He followed Mao Wenlong in the south and north of the Liaodong Peninsula and made many outstanding military exploits.

However, after Mao Wenlong's death, Li Jiucheng was not reused by Yuan Chonghuan. He was ostracized in the Dongjiang Army and finally defected to Sun Yuanhua. However, this man had many problems, not only gambling, but also lustful. Sun Yuanhua gave him money and asked him to go to Mao.

He went to the market to buy horses, and after he took the money, he played with women, gambled, and was deceived, losing all his money.

On the way back to Dengzhou, he didn't know how to explain the matter to Sun Yuanhua. It happened that Kong Youde was being persecuted by the family of Wang Xiangchun in Wuqiao County, so he tampered with Kong Youde's men and forced Kong Youde to rebel, trying to launch a rebellion.

The mutiny finally forced the court to recruit troops and muddle through the matter.

This Denglai Rebellion caused huge losses to the Ming Dynasty, destroyed the entire Ming Dynasty's layout in Denglai, destroyed the entire Denglai army and military system, and also caused political and economic catastrophe in the entire Denglai region.

Countless people died because of this catastrophe.

But now Li Jiucheng was shot dead by Yu Jiajun, and he died cowardly on the Dengzhou city wall.

As soon as Li Jiucheng died, the rebels in the south of the city immediately broke into chaos. The rebel general Chen Guangfu learned that Li Jiucheng had died, so he took over the command and continued to rally the rebels to resist. However, the death of Li Jiucheng caused the rebels to lose their morale and morale.

The Yu Jiajun took the opportunity to expand their gains on the city wall and launched fierce attacks on both sides of the city wall. The rebels were retreating steadily on the city wall, allowing more and more Yu Jiajun soldiers to board this section of the city wall.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Guangfu did not dare to retreat. He supervised the battle desperately and forced the rebels to go up the city wall to block the Yu's army's offensive. The two sides continued to engage in extremely bloody fighting on the city wall.

At this time, part of the city wall on the east side of the south gate of the city suddenly shook violently. A section of the city wall was like the back of a giant dragon. It suddenly came to life and arched upward. The originally solid city wall,

Suddenly it was filled with cracks like spider webs.

But this section of the city wall only arched upward slightly, and then immediately fell back. Almost instantly, a huge muffled sound came from the underground, and this section of the city wall collapsed like a landslide.

Go down.

In just a few seconds, a section of the city wall, about fifty meters long, turned into a pile of ruins and collapsed, leaving a huge gap in the originally complete city wall.

Yu Xiaotian stood in the army outside the city and observed the section of the city wall where a huge amount of dust was rising. He made a fist with one hand, retracted it to his waist, bent his legs and made a weird posture, and yelled.

He said: "Okay! The engineer company finally made some achievements! Haha! Beautiful!"

He then burst out laughing wildly, and his proud look was beyond words, and he couldn't hide it in any words.

It turned out that when the Yu family army launched an siege, the engineer company was also thrown into the battlefield by Yu Xiaotian. This was the first time that the engineer company cooperated with the infantry to launch an attack on such a strong city.

The engineer company is another trump card in Yu Xiaotian's hands. Before this, he rarely showed his prominence and was never conspicuous in the army.

Usually they are mainly responsible for setting up camps or paving the way for artillery or heavy supplies. They seem to be basically auxiliary troops.

But this army is basically composed of miners. What miners are best at, of course, is digging holes. They can't do anything else. Digging holes is their specialty.

During the siege this time, the engineer company went into battle, carrying two cave houses. Under the cover of other troops, they attacked the Dengzhou city wall and pushed the cave houses directly against the city wall.

The cave house car is equipped with thick wooden boards on three sides, and is covered with a layer of iron sheet on the top. It is very strong, almost like a tank. No matter how hard the rebels throw rolling wood and stones, it will not work if they hit it. But the engineers

But you can work safely below.

They used some professional tools to quickly dig into the ground at the foot of the city wall. Then they hollowed out the foundation at the foot of the city wall and dug into the city wall.

Although the rebels also noticed movement under their feet, there was nothing they could do about it. Musketeers were always suppressing the rebels on the city wall, making it impossible for them to lean out to observe the situation below, let alone take any measures against the two cave houses.

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The rebels also poured some boiling oil, but this did not stop the engineers from continuing to dig the hole. The rebels threw down the torches and ignited the hot oil, but the cave car was still covered with sand and soil and could not be burned for a while.

Cave car.

Later, the fire was put out by Yu Jiajun, and the rebels were helpless.

After the Yu family army captured the other side of the city wall, the rebels on this side were transferred to that side, leaving the rebels on this side unable to do anything to the engineers below.

The engineers spent several hours digging a large hole at the foot of the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, the engineers carried a large number of explosive packets from behind. Of course, these explosive packets were still filled with some black powder, but they were tied very firmly and pressed very solidly. Compared with the peasant army's siege in history, the explosive packets were much smaller.

The gunpowder is packed in a coffin or a wooden barrel, and such an explosive pack is much more powerful.

Moreover, these engineers have also received professional training and know how to place explosive packets and how to seal them so that the explosive packets can exert their maximum power.

In fact, the gunpowder they used did not weigh much, only about two to three hundred kilograms, but when it exploded, it still achieved quite good results.

The strong and strong Dengzhou City was blown down by more than 50 meters in width by the engineers, which was equivalent to disemboweling the Dengzhou City on the spot.

Including many rebels on the city wall, they were knocked unconscious on the spot when the explosion occurred. Some of them even had their legs broken. When the city wall collapsed, many rebels were buried alive in the ruins on the spot.

, the rebels were even more frightened for a moment, and let out a cry of exclamation.

The battalion commander of an infantry battalion waiting outside this section of the city wall saw that the engineers had successfully blasted the city wall and the city wall had collapsed. He immediately shouted loudly, drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, fix your bayonets! Charge with me!"

As soon as the roar subsided, the battalion commander rushed out at the lead, followed by more than a thousand army officers and soldiers, who immediately followed, shouting loudly one by one, and rushed towards the gap...

The street fighting in Dengzhou City lasted for two days. The street fighting was quite cruel. Both the enemy and ourselves paid a heavy price, because the rebels knew that the court would never let them go lightly. Once Dengzhou was lost, then

They had only one way to escape to Dongjiang Town.

After Kong Youde learned the news that Li Jiucheng had died in battle, he officially took over the entire rebel army and became a veritable marshal of the rebel army. However, at this moment, he was not happy at all about this matter.

(Today, I would like to express my special thanks to the three old brothers, Xiaoxi Feng in the Desert, Ying Zhi Wu, and Nan Nan Zhi Yu, for their rewards!)