There was a brief emptiness in the defenses of the Qing army in the city, which allowed Wu Songwei to easily attack within a mile of the city wall.

In addition, it was the second half of the night at this time, and the brightness of the torches and fires was not enough to reflect every area under the city.

At the same time, the soldiers of Wusong were running fast, and no matter how accurate the defenders' bows and crossbows were, they could not hinder them, and the only way to hinder them was for the defenders to use dense arrows on the city wall.

But this requires more manpower, but the Qing army is lining up on the city wall at this time, unable to form a dense, until the Wu Songwei soldiers began to put the ladder on the city wall to enter the city, the Qing army has just completed the deployment on the city wall, and began to frantically shoot the siege troops with dense arrows.

A round of arrows knocked over no less than 100 Wu Songwei soldiers who climbed the city and fell directly from the ladder.

However, the Qing army only had two rounds of arrows.

The sound of artillery "rumbling", the mountains roaring and the tsunami, and the overwhelming cannonballs, dumped on the city wall, are naturally flowering shells.

The fragments from the explosion of the cannonballs were fired in all directions, forming a web of death.

The despair in the eyes of those Qing soldiers who worked hard to catch up with the wall and shot two arrows with bows was beyond measure.

The shells were so accurate that the second line of the flowering shells, that is, the fuses of the detonating shells inside the iron shell burned out, and the shells exploded in volleys, mostly on the heads of the defenders.

Also, the artillery has been fired for a whole day, and at this time, if the artillery fire is not marked, then the artillery regiment is not an artillery regiment.

This round of shelling can be said to be the most cost-effective round of firing of the artillery regiment for a whole day of fighting.

Hundreds of flowering bombs overturned the defenders of nearly 2,000 people.

By the time Wu Songwei's first wave of Dengcheng soldiers turned over and climbed the city wall, the Qing soldiers on the city wall who could still resist were no more than 300 people.

Later generations said that when weapons are separated from generation to generation, it is no longer war, but slaughter.

This is true on a specific battlefield.

For example, this has been confirmed by the local battlefield in Haizhou at this time.

Of course, the weapons of the two are not separated by generations, at most only half a generation.

Because they are all front-loading guns, the only difference is that under the guidance of Wu Zheng, the guns of the Northern Expeditionary Army are more exquisitely manufactured.

The rifling gives the shell an oval shape, which greatly improves the tightness of the barrel.

In addition, the calcined steel of a large steam engine greatly accelerated the toughness of the steel, so that the Northern Expeditionary Army could reduce the weight of the cannon of the same range by no less than forty percent.

This is no longer simple, and the standardization and refining of gunpowder has greatly improved the power and reliability of the explosion.

This is absolutely not the same as the red-coated artillery that the Qing army deployed on the city wall before, but now it has been destroyed.

The Qing army was even stuffing lead bullets and stone bullets into the barrels, how could this compete with the Wusongwei Artillery Regiment?

……。

The battle continues.

The resistance of the Tartars was still stubborn, but the bloody battle that should have been fought on the city walls was transferred to the city walls, and the two armies reversed their positions up and down.

Yue Le gathered no more than 10,000 troops near the south gate.

And the composition of these armies is much purer than Azig's original Xuzhou army in Fengyang Mansion.

Most of them are Han Banner Army.

Although there is a "Han" character in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, it really can't be regarded as an all-Han composition.

In fact, most of it was composed of Han people outside the Guanxi at that time, and it gathered various ethnic groups outside the Guan, such as the Goryeo people, and even the Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups.

The Han people outside the Guanxi have actually been assimilated by the Manchus, and they don't even think of themselves as Ming, let alone Han.

Their personalities, habits, and language are almost the same as those of the Manchurians.

Therefore, when Wu Songwei's first wave of 800 forwards rushed inward from the city wall, the resistance encountered was fierce.

This was a bloody battle that Wu Songwei had never experienced, and the soldiers on both sides had no tactical movements because they were crowded, just by instinct, beast-like instinct, tearing each other apart.

And in this regard, the Qing army has a clear advantage.

Wu Songwei's artillery fire could no longer provide support, the shells did not have long eyes, and Lu Zhiyu was not Li Guo, so he could order indiscriminate shooting.

Even if Lu Zhiyu is Li Guo, Wu Zheng, who came to the battlefield in person, would not agree.

This is not a joke, for the sake of an empty city in Haizhou (the people in the city have been slaughtered by the Tartars), Wu Zheng will not consider this non-mainstream method at all.

After a fierce battle for half an hour, Wu Songwei, who rushed down the city, was forced to retreat to the city wall by the Qing army.

Not only is it inferior to others, but the key is that Wu Songwei's one-man tall musket can't be used on the battlefield at all, and the crowd is too crowded.

And the army of Wu Songwei who followed the siege of the city wall could not join the battle at all, and there were no less than five or six thousand people on both sides, and they were crowded on the inside of the south gate, and the area within a radius of only two or three miles could be said to be impassable.

Both sides are desperately squeezing each other, pinching with their fingernails and biting with their teeth, and the battle seems to have returned to the primitive tribal period.

So much so that when a soldier of Wu Songwei suddenly detonated the grenade on his body, the explosion only made a muffled sound, and the void that appeared was filled by the crowd in the blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared.

……。

"Lord Wang, it can't go on like this...... This is tantamount to raising the enemy's strengths, our army is a firearms army, but it is close to the enemy...... In my opinion, it is better to withdraw and repair it, and then continue to attack ......! ”

Lu Zhiyu is indeed in a hurry, Wu Songwei, who has always been fierce, how can he fight this kind of battle?

was previously blocked by Qian Qiaogong outside Xinba Town as a meat shield and chopping board, and there were already heavy casualties, but now if he comes again on the city wall of Haizhou, then Wu Songwei will really be disabled.

He was in a mess, and now he only wanted Wu Zheng's permission to withdraw his troops.

And Wu Zheng looked at the direction of the south gate, the fire in the distance rose and fell, and said leisurely: "...... In fact, our army has taken a big advantage. ”

These words made Lu Zhiyu stunned.

Wu Zheng pointed to the direction of the battlefield and said: "The strength of the enemy army in the city is far superior to our army, and the physical strength and combat skills of individual soldiers are also superior to our army...... The reason why Yue Le did not dare to go out of the city to take the initiative to face the battle was nothing more than two reasons, one was that there were lessons from Ji Xiha and Lan Bai, Yue Le was worried about being ambushed again, and the other was that Yue Le knew very well in his heart that the Qing court had no plan to go south, even if he took the initiative to face the battle and win, I am afraid that he would not get the reward he deserved...... Moreover, our army's artillery is strong, and he may not have the confidence to win. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Zheng turned his head, looked at Lu Zhiyu and said: "Haizhou has blocked the route of our army's Northern Expedition, and our army can't afford to delay time...... If you want to win, you have to pay the price, are you ready? ”

Lu Zhiyu felt a pang in his heart, he understood what Wu Zheng meant, and he also knew that he and Wu Songwei were destined to be a chopping board for chopping meat.

He took a deep breath and raised his head and said, "The last general...... Get ready! ”

Wu Zheng nodded with satisfaction and asked, "How many people are there in the low hands?" ”

"Three thousand."

"Hmm...... Let's go up on top! ”

"Yes."