Chapter 218: Fierce Battle of Xue Cheng (2)

At this moment, there were still more than 4,000 people left in the first army of Ji Feng's Yinglong army, and the soldiers of the first army originally had no ammunition and could only fight with the Qing army with bayonets, but after the round with Yan Yingyuan's fourth army, they obtained some ammunition from the fourth army, and formed a battle formation with the fourth army to advance, all of which were added together, there were about 20,000 people left, and there were more than 43,000 people left in ordinary Ming armies such as the Lingnan army.

The first army and the fourth army together, 20,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army formed a triangular horn, like a sharp blade, constantly splitting the obstruction of the iron cavalry of the Duoduo Qing army, and slowly advanced towards the north gate of Xue City, although the Qing army continued to cause a lot of damage to the Ming army, but in the face of the muzzle of the Ying Long army, it could not completely block the advance of the Ming army.

Duoduo grinded his teeth angrily, and stared at Xue Cheng who was almost close at hand with a gloomy face, if he hadn't brought any siege equipment, he would definitely order a part of the army to attack Xue Cheng directly, but it was a pity.

The reason why Duoduo successfully attacked Xue Cheng was not only because of the traitor, but also because it came suddenly, and Xue Cheng didn't have time to seal the city gate, so Duoduo was allowed to succeed in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, Duoduo heard the sound of shouting and killing and the rumbling of war horses from within Xue City.

"Isn't it that someone has already invaded Xue City, is it Tuoyue?"

"Hahahaha, as long as Tuoyue can quickly occupy Xue City, the Ming army will become a turtle in the urn and it will be impossible to escape!" Duoduo's expression shook suddenly, and he was overjoyed.

It was an accident, but also a turning point, and the Ming army was doomed.

"Order, 30,000 iron cavalry to attack Xue Cheng!"

"Wow!"

"Boom" 30,000 Qing army iron cavalry came to the north gate of Xue City, although because they did not carry any siege equipment, they could not really attack the city, but they threw arrows into the city, killing and injuring the Ming army inside!

Tens of thousands of arrows were thrown into Xue Cheng.

After the rain of arrows was densely thrown into the sky by the Qing army, it rained down like rain.

Not only on the city wall, but also within a radius of 20 meters from the city wall, all of them were shrouded in a rain of arrows, which was unavoidable, and a large number of casualties were caused to the Ming army who were guarding the north gate within a radius of 100 meters.

In the city, while the Tuoyue army rushed to kill, they also shot countless arrows.

Only more than 3,000 soldiers defending the north gate of the north gate within a radius of 100 meters, there are arrows everywhere flying, heavy casualties, according to this, the Qing army does not need many rounds of arrow rain to shoot all the more than 3,000 Ming troops who are defending to death!

More than 3,000 soldiers defending the city were killed and wounded in an instant, and the situation was critical!

Yan Yingyuan and Ji Feng and other tens of thousands of troops were only one mile away from the north gate of Xue Cheng at this time, as long as they broke through the distance of this mile, they would be able to kill the north gate of Xue Cheng, but before that, the north gate must still be in the hands of the Ming defenders.

"Not good! There are a lot of fights in Xue City, there must be a Qing army attacking, and it has already attacked the north gate, once the north gate also falls, we are in danger! Yan Yingyuan was shocked.

"Must be rescued!" Ji Feng said categorically.

The two glanced at each other, Yan Yingyuan nodded at Ji Feng, and Ji Feng understood what Yan Yingyuan meant. There are no two generals on the battlefield, Yan Yingyuan is to let Ji Feng have that idea, after all, Ji Feng is the earliest commander of the Yinglong Army, and his prestige is much higher than Yan Yingyuan, with Ji Feng, Yan Yingyuan can only give up the position of commanding the commander to Ji Feng.

Ji Feng was not polite, and immediately ordered: "Order!" Three thousand soldiers of the Yinglong Army broke away from the main force and took the first step to reinforce Xue Cheng! ”

There was nothing flawed in Ji Feng's order, the main army was constantly subjected to the impact of the Qing army's iron cavalry due to the tens of thousands of Lingnan Army and other ordinary armies following behind, in order to prevent these ordinary armies from being crushed, although the main army had Ying Long's army to open the way for the horns, the marching speed was extremely slow.

Immediately, the three thousand soldiers of the Yinglong Army immediately broke away from the main force and attacked the north gate of Xue Cheng first.

The distance of one mile was not far away, and after the three thousand soldiers of the Yinglong Army broke away from the main force, the advance speed was nearly twice as fast.

"Forward Shoot!" The general of the Ying Long Army, who commanded the 3,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army, constantly gave orders.

"Bang bang bang" shot while advancing, and the lethal lead bullet was unstoppable, constantly tearing through the blockage of the Qing army's iron cavalry and slowly advancing!

"Stop them!" Duoduo ordered in a deep voice.

Immediately, the Qing army brought dozens of giant crossbows to block it 200 meters in front of the 3,000 Ying Long army.

Dozens of giant arrows pierced the air, all of them shot into the military formation of the three thousand Ying Long Army, and hundreds of Ying Long Army soldiers were penetrated, but the Ying Long Army was not affected and continued to advance.

"Xiuxiu" The Qing army once again shot dozens of huge arrows.

The giant arrow pierced through the body, staining the earth with blood.

"Bang bang bang" sawdust flew sideways, and the Qing army's giant crossbow did not have time to evacuate, and was included in the range of Ying Long's flintlock guns. The giant crossbow is so precise that it can be destroyed if it is shot by a lead bullet, and nearly half of the dozens of giant crossbows that were immediately blocked in front were destroyed.

"Killing" the Qing soldiers also killed red eyes, and at the cost of ignoring the casualties, they rode their horses to break through the lead bullets of Ying Long's army, and broke into dozens of meters away from Ying Long's army to shoot arrows.

The arrows rained like a tide, and the three thousand Ying Long soldiers were soon killed and wounded nearly a thousand, but at this time, the three thousand Ying Long soldiers also advanced half a mile, leaving only the last half a li, and the remaining two thousand or so Ying Long soldiers even if they used corpses to pile up, they had to advance to the north gate as soon as possible, otherwise once the whole army in the city was wiped out and Xue Cheng was occupied by the Qing army again, it would be too late.

In the city, the more than 3,000 defenders defending the city also suffered heavy casualties, and even most of them were killed and wounded, leaving less than 1,000 people to defend the north gate within a radius of more than 30 meters.

Here, not only within the range of the arrows thrown by the Qing army outside the city, but also within the range of the Tuoyue army in the city, besides, at this time, the soldiers of the Yinglong army in the city have been killed and wounded, and the Qing army's iron cavalry has no check and balance, so they can rush and kill fiercely.

The situation was at stake, and just when the defenders of the city were so wounded that there were less than 500 men left, the dense gunfire outside the city finally approached.

"Open the gates!" Ying Longjunqian, the chief general of the Xue City defenders, was stabbed into the right chest by a Qing army general, and he grabbed the blade of the Qing army that stabbed him in the right chest with both hands, and his mouth overflowed with blood and let out a final roar.

The general of the Qing army pulled the handle of the knife suddenly, and the steel knife brought out a touch of blood red, pulled out of the chest of the commander of Ying Longjun, and slashed again.

"Poof!" Ying Longjun was slashed at the door with a knife, and after a mouthful of blood mist sprayed into the sky, he died of anger, and his body fell to the ground, extremely tragic!

The last more than 200 defenders of the city opened the city gate, regardless of whether the main army outside the city broke through to the city gate, but they were too late if they didn't open the city gate, because in the face of the attack of countless Qing army iron cavalry, they really couldn't support it.

Thousands of arrows were fired at the last of the 200 or so defenders of the city.

At the moment of "snort", most of the last more than 200 defenders were hit by arrows, and the whole army was about to be wiped out in a moment.

The first person to rush in from the open city gate was not his own people, but several Qing army iron horses.

"No" At the end, a hundred generals under the city, with an arrow stuck in his left shoulder, stared at the number of Qing army iron horsemen who rushed in from the city gate first, and let out an extremely unwilling scream.

Isn't it still possible, tens of thousands of troops will be wiped out here?

A total of more than a dozen Qing cavalry cavalry rushed into the city from the open city gate, and at this time, the last remaining dozens of soldiers in the city were finally wiped out.

"Close the gates!" Tuoyue shouted this order.

Outside the city, the soldiers of the Yinglong Army, who had broken away from the main force, had also killed in front of the city gate, and successfully tore through the barrier of the Qing army's iron cavalry, and they were only a few dozen steps away from entering the city gate.

It's the last minute of success or failure!

"Squeak" several Qing soldiers wanted to urgently close the city gates.

"Fire!" Outside the city, the general of the Ying Long Army roared angrily.

"Bang bang bang" hundreds of lead bullets all hit the city gates.

The huge city gate was hit by lead bullets into dense potholes, and the Qing soldiers who wanted to close the city gate were killed, but several Qing soldiers on the back of the city gate were not killed, and the city gate was still slowly closing.

"Rush" Ying Longjun General yelled.

"Kill" The soldiers of the Ying Long Army sprinted with all their might, and finally rushed to the city gate at the moment when all the city gates were closed, and dozens of Ying Long soldiers pushed open the city gate that was almost closed at the same time.

Tuoyue Tie's face was blue, and he fell short!

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Yinglong Army re-occupied the north gate, and the front and rear lines blocked the Qing army inside and outside the city gate.

The distance is very close, although the flintlock pistol in the hands of Ying Longjun keeps firing, and the Qing army's iron cavalry is blocked dozens of distances inside and outside the city gate, but the Qing army's arrows can also cover the city gate.

Hundreds of arrows rained down.

"Sneering" so much arrow rain, more than 1,000 Ying Long soldiers were killed and wounded more than 200 in an instant, facing the attack of countless Qing troops inside and outside, these more than 1,000 Ying Long army could not hold on for long, fortunately, the main army outside the north gate has also broken through to more than 200 meters away from the city gate, and they are fully able to hold on until the arrival of the main army.

Finally, the main army outside the city successfully tore through the road blocked by nearly 200,000 Qing army iron cavalry under the horns of 16,000 Yinglong troops to attack, and attacked the north gate of Xue City.

"It's a failure!" Duoduo's eyes were blood-red, and he gritted his teeth.

"This king is not reconciled, you must all die here!" Duoduo did not give up completely, even if he let the Ming army enter Xuecheng, he and Tuoyue together had an army of nearly 240,000 troops, attacking inside and outside, and I don't believe that the Ming army could not be annihilated in Xuecheng.

With the Ming army of more than 50,000 troops all entered the Xue City, the battlefield immediately moved to the city, which was also very tragic, but with the houses and alleys in the city as the basis, the mobile advantage of the Qing army's iron cavalry was limited, under the guns of the Ying Long army, the Qing army may not be able to take much advantage, and the tragic war is still continuing.

At the same time, the 140,000 reinforcements from Xuzhou had arrived only more than 40 miles away from Xuecheng, and as long as Yan Yingyuan and Ji Feng and other remaining 50,000 troops could hold out for two to three hours, the reinforcements from Xuzhou would arrive.

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