Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 885

On the top of the city, a group of Qing soldiers raised their guns, the sound of "bang bang bang" sounded, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and bullets rained down on the rushing soldiers of the Ming army.

The arrows thrown down from the sky and the rain of bullets splashed on the face form an attack in two directions. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty raised their shields to block the heavy arrows falling from the top of their heads, but they could not block the projectiles coming from the head, and vice versa. The attacks of the Ming army were intertwined into a huge net, and the soldiers of the Ming army in the middle faced the same fate as in the first round of attacks.

There were screams, and a soldier who was stepping on the trench bridge spanning the bridge body on both sides of the trench, stepped up and down, charged up with a shield, and shot down a heavy arrow, with a "clank" , shot on the shield, the arrowhead was nailed into the shield, and the wings on the tail of the arrow shook again and again. If it weren't for holding the rattan shield, this arrow would definitely break the armor and injure the soldiers.

The arrows were still falling like raindrops. The soldier didn't have time to pay attention to the feathered arrows inserted into the shield. Passing through, filled with sharpened wooden stakes and bamboo sticks, full of dangerous trenches, with a hint of joy on his face, a bullet hit his chest, and the soldier's body was hit by the impact of the bullet. He fell, flew backwards immediately, and then smashed heavily on the trench bridge. His body rolled down the trench and was pierced by wooden stakes and bamboo sticks in an instant.

Under the pincer attack of the Qing army's arrows and gunballs, the Ming army could not be scrupled and comprehensive. If they defended against the arrows, they could not defend against the gunballs, and if they defended against the gunballs, they could not defend against the arrows. Falling into the trench, the attack was very tragic.

The Ming army's first wave of temptation was in this situation, and they retreated in a hurry. At this time, the Ming army was facing the same situation, but upon closer inspection, there were some differences.

One of the soldiers raised his shield and charged forward. A row of guns from the Qing army shot at him, causing sparks to fly all over his body. He felt a pain in his chest and thought he had been shot, but when he looked closely, he saw that the plate armor on his chest was punched out with several egg-sized depressions, but none of them pierced through the armor.

This discovery made the soldier and the robe supporting him look at each other, and a surge of confidence immediately surged into their hearts. They both held up their sabers and shields at the same time, roaring like a senior brother possessed, and rushed towards the stone. stronghold.

When the two thousand cane players in front all rushed through the first ditch amidst the dense rain of arrows and gunballs, the gunners behind the Ming army finally reached the front of the ditch with their carts.

"Quick! Move away!" Zhang Youde, who was in command of the gun team, shouted anxiously.

The soldiers quickly lined up the carts to form a wall, and in the process of opening, nearly a hundred feathered arrows were already nailed to the wooden boards, and the arrows of the Qing army kept shooting at it.

The artillery team of the Ming army immediately carried the Flang cannon onto the cart. There was a hole in the front fender of the cart that was as thick as a bowl, allowing the muzzle to stick out of the fender.

The Fran machine gun is different from the red gun. The red gun is loaded from the muzzle, while the Fran machine is replaced from the rear, which is equivalent to the breech-loading gun, so the muzzle can be extended outside.

When the artillery team was preparing, the three thousand gunners also quickly lined up. Because there were one thousand new guns, they actually formed two square formations serving different drums.

"General, get ready!" Zhang Youde stood in the middle of the two phalanxes, the two thousand bird gunners on the right were still charging and igniting the fire, and the one thousand gunners on the left were ready. He reported.

Zhang Youde looked ahead. Under the attack of the Qing army, the two thousand rattan players had already rushed through the third ditch. As they got closer to the fort wall, the armor-piercing ability of the Qing army's guns, bows and arrows also increased. Big up.

"Silent gun, shoot first!" Zhang Youde shouted immediately.

On the left side of the fort wall, a team of Qing soldiers retreated immediately after shooting, and the second team immediately stepped forward with guns. At this time, on the left side of the Ming army, behind the board wall, a sharp trumpet sounded, and three hundred gunmen of their own, When the guns were about to be raised, with the sound of "bang bang bang", accompanied by clouds of white smoke, the gunmen of the Qing soldiers on the fort wall all fell down one after another.

The gunners of the Qing soldiers in the city suddenly panicked. The originally dense formation suddenly became thinner. The gunners in the front row hurriedly fired a gun and retreated in a hurry. The Qing army gunners in the back row just stepped forward. A piece of bullets was thrown towards the city again.

At this moment, the Qing army on the left side of the fort wall suddenly became chaotic. The rate of fire of the Ming army's musketeers made them feel a burst of panic, causing many green battalion soldiers to make frequent mistakes when reloading, and some did not even notice that the matchlock was extinguished.

At this time, the Ming army had three rows of self-generating firecrackers, firing them in turn. They hid behind the wooden wall, one team finished shooting, and the other team went up. Only then did he realize that the self-generating gun does not need to be ignited.

Although the self-generating gun has the defects of misfire, these defects can be completely made up for in the face of the rate of fire.

During the days of bombardment, most of the fort walls had been damaged, and the effect of blocking bullets was not as good as the simple wooden walls of the Ming army.A gunner of the Qing army in the second row saw a Qing army in front of him. Before he could fire, he was hit by the gunball and fell to the top of the wall. Fire the gunpowder, then tamp it with a cleaning rod, and install the bullets.

The whistle commanding the firecrackers on the top of the city blew, and the Qing army hurried forward, and then raised the blunderbuss, and the Ming army fired the blunderbuss one step ahead, making the Qing soldiers around him scream again and again. Under his nervousness, he could only He wanted to step back immediately after firing the blunderbuss, so he turned his head and pulled the trigger hastily. There was an explosion immediately, the blunderbuss exploded, and iron sand splashed, making his face bloody and bloody, and he fell to the ground, crying and rolling.

At this time, the [-] old guns on the right side of the Ming army and the Frangji on the front line also began to fire at the stone castle. The smoke filled the air, and immediately suppressed the Qing soldiers on the city.

Seeing this, Ezu Huisai was in a hurry, and hurriedly asked the Flang machine on the fort to fight back. Several gunners of the Qing army aimed at the wooden wall of the Ming army, and the iron bullets roared from the top of the rattan players of the Ming army. After that, they went straight to the Ming army gun array.

Zhang Youde was commanding when he heard a "bang". Two feet away to his right, a wooden plank in front of a large cart suddenly exploded. Suddenly, a gunner was behind the shield, and was hit by an iron bullet just after he released the gun. With a muffled sound, the gunner's body was instantly torn into several pieces, and scattered around, a burst of blood mist sprayed out. And the iron bullet remained undiminished, directly piercing through the entire blunderbuss formation, and the three blunderbussmen standing in a line were all bloody and bloody, and were killed on the spot.

Although the artillery on the fort returned fire, the Ming army's general situation was determined, and it would not cause panic just because a few shells fell into the gun formation.

Behind the wooden wall, the sound of cannons and blunderbusses continued unnoticed, and the smoke from the firing of cannons and blunderbusses covered the bright array. The firepower of the Qing army on the fort was suppressed by the Ming army, especially the blow of a thousand self-generated blunderbusses on the left. Next, the gunners of the Qing army on the fort on the left did not dare to show their heads at all.

The rattan players of the Ming army who were charging quickly found that the oncoming gunballs were sparse. They only needed to defend against the feather arrows falling from their heads. wall.

A short ladder was built on the fort wall, and two thousand players climbed up the ladder like a colony of ants. They climbed the ladder with one hand, held the shield in the other, and struggled to climb up with the seedling knife in their mouths.

The gunners of the Qing army began to smash down the walls of the fortress with stones and rolled logs, and soldiers were hit one after another, screaming and falling down the city, but the height of the fortress wall was limited after all, only ten feet high, and the Ming army just fell from the ladder. , even if the siege ladder is overturned, it will not be able to cause substantial damage to the Ming army.

In just a moment, the Ming army on more than a dozen short ladders rushed up the left fort wall, fighting with the Qing army on the wall.

Seeing this, Zhang Youde immediately drew his sword and pointed at it, and shouted, "Kill!"

The Ming army's blunderbuss had stopped shooting when the rattan players entered the city. They listened to the order, immediately pulled out their sabers, pushed away the wooden wall, and swarmed down the fort.

?Soon, more and more soldiers of the Ming army killed the wall. Thousands of people fought fiercely on the wall of the fort, and some people kept falling down.

Several brave Ming soldiers even jumped off the fort wall and massacred the Qing army archers hiding behind the fort wall.

As the elite of the Ming army, Zhongwuzhen's combat strength was revealed at this time, especially when there were more than a thousand soldiers wearing plate armor among them. The Qing army knife slashed on it and sparks flew everywhere, but it couldn't hurt the Ming army at all, and was stabbed backhand instead. Cut down directly, the Qing army in the melee immediately panicked.

Huizhai saw more and more Ming troops rushing up the fort wall, and many of them jumped down like tigers in a herd of sheep and killed the Qing army's archers. The Qing army's archers instinctively fled to the east where the Ming army had not attacked. He knew it was over.

The Ming army mainly attacked the west wall of the fort, and the other three sides were not attacked. Although they were safe, they retreated to the other three sides, which undoubtedly freed up more space for the Ming army, allowing more Ming troops to rush into the fort.

Sure enough, the Ming army who jumped off the fort wall chopped off the Qing army's archers. After several attacks, they finally killed the Qing army guarding the fort gate and opened the fort gate.

There was a burst of cheers, and the Ming army who were still outside swarmed in instantly. At the gate of the fort, countless soldiers of the Ming army wearing disc helmets rushed into the fort along the passage, and the Qing army guarding the fort had already begun to collapse.

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