At this time, there were more and more people in the official army, and Li Dare knew that he could not fall in love with the war, so he ordered to retreat, and the Qin army was no longer entangled, and withdrew one after another.

Zuo Liangyu did not chase his troops, and ordered all efforts to clear the barricades and let the brigade pass as soon as possible.

Li Dang's resistance was also somewhat effective, and it took nearly two hours for the officers and soldiers to clear the way, and it was already dark at this time.

Zuo Liangyu was very angry, he ordered the whole army to stop, light torches, and hurry at night, this place is still two or three hundred miles away from Xi'an, and it will take two days, he can only hope that Xi'an City will not be broken so soon.

Hong Chengchou estimated well, and after noon, sure enough, the peasant army began to attack again.

In this attack, the peasant army erected more ladders, which were placed under the city, and the iron nails at the bottom were firmly pierced into the ice, and the soldiers began to climb the city.

It seemed the same as at the beginning, but this time the peasant army attacked more fiercely. There is a momentum of not breaking the city and vowing not to stop.

The four city walls add up, there are enough two or three hundred ladders, and the defenders in the city are only about 6,000 people, counting the soldiers who resist one ladder, there are only more than ten people.

And the peasant army under the city did not stop firing arrows at the city.

As the casualties continue to increase, the Ming army on the side of each ladder is getting fewer and fewer, Shi Kefa went to the city in the morning, personally participated in hand-to-hand combat, he looked down at the city, the boundless peasant army kept pouring up behind him, and there was a tendency of black clouds to overwhelm the city.

At this time, the two sides of the melee killed extremely fiercely, and a corpse had fallen on the ground lying on the ground under the city, and the Ming army in the city did not stop people being carried down, and the screams were endless. There were no more officers and soldiers above some of the ladders, and the peasant army began to climb the city.

Shi Kefa shouted the order, and the last reserve army under the city rushed up, surrounded the peasant army that had climbed to the top of the city, and fought a melee, and all the peasant troops who had just entered the city were killed at the head of the city.

Someone in the city was shouting: "There are not many officers and soldiers, everyone go up...... The handsome man has an order, and the first one to go to the city will be rewarded with one hundred taels of gold. ”

When the peasant army heard this, they bravely took the lead one by one, and climbed up regardless of life or death.

Shi Kefa was very calm, and he ordered the gunners: "Bomb with shotguns." ”

The Ming gunners hurriedly loaded the shotguns, and then bombarded the city, this kind of shotgun is a bag of lead pellets, after hitting the city, it forms a dense lethality, can kill and injure people within a radius of two or three zhang. After a few shots, dozens of peasant troops under the city fell, either dead or wounded.

As soon as the peasant army saw the powerful shotgun, they retreated one after another, and Sun Kewang shouted: "Put a shield on your head, and you will not be afraid of shelling." When the peasant army heard this, they all picked a shield, put it over their heads, and rushed up again.

The Ming army at the head of the city bombarded again, and the lead bullets hit the shields, and they were all ejected. It turned out that although the shotgun was lethal, the range was too close, and the rate of fire of the projectile was not high, so it could not penetrate the shield.

Seeing that the shells were futile, the peasant army again shouted and climbed up.

Shi Kefa was not flustered, and ordered: "Fetch the cannon mount, prop up the cannon, and hit the ladder." ”

The Ming army pushed over the gun rack and moved the Furlong machine gun up, this gun rack is in the style of an iron car, and there is a crossbar in front of the car to block the muzzle of the gun, so as not to slide down, at this time the army stuffed the shotgun, and then lit the fire rope, lifted the shelf, and the muzzle of the gun was directly aimed at the peasant army on the ladder.

With a bang, the peasant army that was about to climb up was bombarded to the ground, and flew up directly, smashing the people on the ladder behind them.

With just one shot, more than ten people on the ladder were bombarded down together, and they were either killed or wounded.

The Ming army was overjoyed at first sight, and the cannon sound was endless, and the peasant army on the ladder rolled and climbed, and fell to death under the city.

Sun Kewang's eyes were red and he shouted, "Release the arrow." "The archers under the city aimed at the gunners at the head of the city, and kept firing cold arrows, and many Ming soldiers were killed and wounded, and then the peasant army rushed up again, and this time the climbers put their shields together and blocked them in front of them to prevent shotguns.

After the Ming army bombarded for a while, there were fewer and fewer shotguns at the head of the city, and the peasant army strengthened its shields, and the casualties were much smaller, and many people just fell under the city and were caught by the people below, and were slightly injured.

Once again, the peasant army climbed to the top of the city.

At this time, Hong Chengchou arrived, and he took a group of strong men, all recruited in the city, and drove up to the city in full armor.

Shi Kefa stepped forward and shouted: "My lord, the anti-thieves are attacking the city too fiercely, why don't I go out and kill for a while, and use the cavalry to rush forward and block the anti-thief backups, so that the pressure on the city can be reduced." ”

Hong Chengchou looked at the city, and sure enough, the peasant army came up with infantry, some gathered in the ditch, and more shouted outside the ditch, ready to make up for it at any time, and there was no shadow of cavalry.

He nodded and ordered: "Take five hundred elite cavalry, go out and kill for a while, don't divide the troops, don't be alone, once the anti-thief cavalry appears, return to the city immediately, don't fall in love." ”

Shi Kefa received the order, recruited more than 400 well-skilled Ming troops at the head of the city, and rushed down to the city, and their gap was immediately filled by the recruited strong men.

Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry, pulled a chair, sat down under the enemy's building with a golden knife, and actually made a pot of tea, sat down and drank slowly, facing tens of thousands of attacking enemies, he seemed to watch a play, leisurely.

The Ming army in the city saw it, all of them were a hundred times more courageous, you know, Hong Chengchou is the governor of the three sides, holding the military power of several provinces, the official is very big, and now braving the rain of arrows, personally to the city to supervise the battle, and see the meaning of never take a step back.

If he doesn't retreat, it is impossible for others to retreat, not to mention the soldiers, even those recruited strong men are red-eyed, and they frantically slash and kill the peasant army on the ladder, preventing them from going up to the city.

Shi Kefa arrived at the city, ordered everyone to wear iron helmets, put on iron armor, rode across war horses, and immediately had leather armor to cover, out of the city gate, to the city gate of the urn city, he ordered people to quietly open the city gate, the city got the order, put down the drawbridge, Shi Kefa took the lead, holding a fine iron knife, with these more than 400 people, like a javelin.

As soon as the last cavalry left the city, the drawbridge was pulled up and the gates were shut.

There are also a lot of peasant troops standing on the edge of the ditch outside the city gate, Leng might as well find that the drawbridge is lowered, the city gate is opened, and I don't know what is going on at first, thinking that there are troops in the city to respond to the opening of the city, just about to rush in, I saw a team of cavalry rushing over the drawbridge, the speed is extremely fast, like lightning in the sky, the horse's hooves are like thunder, directly to their heads.

Shi Kefa urged his horses, knocked down seven or eight peasant troops, stepped on their bodies, and rushed into the crowd of peasant troops, and the cavalry behind him followed him closely, storming towards the place where the peasant soldiers had the most.

The appearance of this cavalry of the Ming army was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, injuring countless people. These cavalrymen all held elongated scimitars in their hands, thick and fast, and cut off people's heads like cutting watermelons, killing the heads of the peasant soldiers and bleeding like rivers.

Shi Kefa rushed to the front, he picked up the big knife, slashed left and right, and dismounted his crotch like crazy, freeing his four hooves, kicking and biting, everywhere he went, the peasant army dodged one after another, and no one dared to be its front.

In the blink of an eye, the formation of the peasant army began to be chaotic, and Shi Kefa rushed along the edge of the ditch, cutting off the peasant army and their support who were climbing the city.

The pressure on the Ming army at the head of the city was immediately much less, because many peasant troops who had climbed the city also turned around and looked at Shi Kefa's cavalry. They are also afraid of being surrounded.

The offensive of the peasant army was immediately stopped, and the city took advantage of this opportunity to fill the shells, replace the equipment, carry the wounded soldiers, and replenish the crossbow arrows and artillery stones.

Zhang Xianzhong saw that Shi Kefa's cavalry was very fierce from a distance, and he knew that it was not good, he thought that there were few soldiers in the city, and Hong Chengchou could not send men and horses to counterattack, but at present, this team of cavalry seemed to have four or five hundred people, and the officers and soldiers at the head of the city were not few.

He immediately understood, and the city began to send strong men to the city.

At present, this cavalry of the official army must be annihilated, otherwise the peasant army will not be able to attack in front of and behind.

He looked behind him, Li Dingguo led thousands of cavalry to stand by at the bottom of the slope, and he ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn and summon the cavalry.