The remaining more than 70 Qing soldiers retreated into the room, they did not carry firearms, and suffered a great loss to the Shenji battalion of the Ming army. That Niu Lu is also a veteran of the battle formation, and he knows that he can't beat the Ming army's Shenji Battalion at a long distance, so he entered the surrounding houses, intending to rely on the houses to deal with the Ming army. After all, in the eyes of these Qing troops, the firearms are powerful, but the individual combat ability is far inferior to theirs.

The Qing army's abacus was very fine, but they were facing the most elite Shenji battalion of the Ming army. The Shenji Battalion came to Dongcheng for reinforcements this time, and in addition to the firearms, they also brought dozens of artillery pieces. Because of the use of stainless steel, the artillery designed by Ma Cheng weighed much lighter than the Qing army's pig iron and red-coated cannons, so seven soldiers could push it on the solid ground in the city.

When the Ming army saw that the Qing army intended to use the brick walls of the houses to resist their own bullets, they scolded: "These Tartars really don't know whether they are alive or dead!" Come on, push the cannon up, and change the shotgun to kill these grandsons! ”

Xiao Qi, who was in charge of pushing the cannon, heard what the Lord Baihu said, and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to push the cannon up and aim it at the house. The chamber of the cannon was already filled with large shotguns, and the gunpowder was also double, and the cannon was fired under the order of Baihu.

Most of Nanjing's ordinary dwellings are made of wood, with only brick walls in key areas. The planks had a good resistance to the previous Ming armaments, but not the new gunpowder-propelled lead bullets.

The Ming artillery used large shotguns, each of which contained ten lead bullets the size of an egg, designed to deal with dense targets at a distance, and this kind of lead bullets could reach an initial speed of nearly 400 meters per second under the impetus of new gunpowder, not to mention thick wooden planks, even two layers of brick walls could not stop it.

The artillery rang out, and there were screams from the house, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who hid in the house were half killed, and the rest of the big ones were also injured in different ways and were lying on the ground wailing.

Seeing that the artillery was working, the hundred households of the Ming army shouted to the small flag holding the cannon: "For these houses, come down to each one!" After speaking, he called a general flag and asked him to lead his subordinates to begin to clear the Qing army that did not die.

The front team of the Shenji Battalion had already connected with the Qing army, and Ma Cheng climbed to the roof of a house behind him and stood on it to watch the surrounding battle situation. The current hour is about the hour, that is, in the middle of the night, the city can not see anything except the firelight, Ma Cheng can only see the figure of the fire, and there is a dense sound of gunfire, which proves the fierceness of the battle.

After looking at it for a while, Ma Cheng couldn't figure out how many Qing troops came in, from his own place to Taipingmen, there were fires everywhere, and there were shouts of killing everywhere, looking at this situation, there should be a lot of Qing troops entering the city, and it is estimated that there are at least 10,000 people.

Ma Cheng brought only 5,000 people, and he was at a numerical disadvantage to the Shangqing army. Ma Cheng thought for a while and said to the soldiers around him: "Go, send someone to Xicheng and transfer Luo Bingran's new army of 5,000, no!" Seven thousand! There are also 5,000 guards and let them come to Dongcheng to help in the war! ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he said to another personal soldier: "You go around the imperial city and go to Longguang Mountain to see if Xie Guangkun is still alive, if he is still alive, let him attack the flank of the Qing army from the east!" ”

At this time, Ma Cheng couldn't care about the other city gates, the Jubaomen and Zhengyang Gate in the southern city were fighting fiercely, Ma Cheng didn't dare to transfer their troops, but there was no movement in Xicheng, let Luo Bingran and them help him.

After the pro-soldiers who gave the order left, Ma Cheng said to Gu Yong: "Gu Yong, you take 300 pro-soldiers to the surrounding area to collect the defenders of Dongcheng, organize them and gradually put them into battle!" ”

Although there is chaos here in Dongcheng now, Ma Cheng saw that the entire Dongcheng was full of firelight and shouting and killing, which proved that the Ming army in Dongcheng did not give up resistance, and there must be some people who resisted the Qing army under the leadership of the grassroots commander. Ma Cheng's order to Gu Yong was to let him gather these small forces, after all, it was useless for them to fight on their own, and it was the right way to gather them.

Gu Yong hesitated when he heard Ma Cheng say this: "Lord Junmen, what should you do if the last general is gone?" It's all Tartars here, and there are only 200 people around you, what if you run into a large group of Tartars? ”

Ma Cheng heard Gu Yong say this and scolded: "Fart, it's useless to think about it when it's over, if you let the Tartar gain a firm foothold in the city, Lao Tzu is not far from death, don't go quickly!" ”

Gu Yong couldn't help it when he heard Ma Cheng say this, so he had to hand over the task of guarding Ma Cheng to his deputy, and then leave the two hundred people who were the most capable of fighting, and he himself took three hundred people to the city to collect the remnants of the Ming army.

Ma Cheng's response is very effective, although the Qing army is very strong, but the Ming army's new army's combat effectiveness is not weak, after nearly years of offensive and defensive warfare, the new army has already been tempered into the elite of the Manchu Qing banner. It's just that the new army was caught off guard by the Qing army, and the commander Ma Xi escaped from the battle, so the dragons were pressed and beaten by the Qing army without a leader.

When Gu Yong gathered the scattered new troops in the eastern city to command, the pressure on the Qing army immediately increased, and as the front-line commander of the Qing army, Luck Dehun found that the resistance of the Ming army began to strengthen, and immediately ordered someone to send a message to Duoduo outside the city, so that the Qing army brigade quickly entered the city to exterminate the Ming army.

However, Lucke was in a hurry and Duoduo was more anxious than him, and the gunpowder power of the Qing army was limited, and it took more than 7,000 catties to blow up a hole of more than 20 meters, and half an hour passed before entering the city of less than 10,000 Qing troops. When Duoduo learned the news from the city, he immediately sent his own 300 Bayala soldiers to let them enter the city and quickly open the Taiping Gate.

These three hundred Bayala soldiers were the elite of the elite, each wearing three layers of heavy armor, coupled with sophisticated weapons, and quickly took down the Taiping Gate. At this time, most of the defenders of the Taiping Gate had fled, and the remaining guards were the opponents of Bayala's own soldiers, so the inner and outer gates of the Taiping Gate were finally opened.

Duoduo was overjoyed to learn that the city gate was opened, and immediately ordered the Qing troops gathered at the breach of the city wall to enter the city through the city gate, and then ordered the 50,000 Qing troops stationed in Xiaoling to quickly come and enter the city from the Taiping Gate. But last night, in order to confuse the Ming army in the city, Duoduo ordered the Qing army in Xiaoling to stay still, and even let them eat and sleep on time.

Now although Duoduo asked them to get up and rush to the Taiping Gate to help the battle, but the ancient army had the speed that the later army ordered to prohibit, coupled with the large number of Qing troops, it was not possible to assemble the team in a few hours.

Although the 50,000 Qing troops had not yet arrived, the 20,000 Qing troops who entered the city were enough for the Ming army. These Qing troops are not the new annex army attacking the city outside the southern city, these Qing troops are all Mongolian flags and Han army flags in addition to the 5,000 Manchurian flags, these people are the absolute main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the combat effectiveness is worse than the Manchurian flag, but it is not much worse.

The entry of 20,000 Qing troops into the city suddenly increased the pressure on Ma Cheng, and the defense line that had been steadily advancing suddenly retreated several hundred meters, and the Qing army was only twenty meters away from Ma Cheng's command post at the most dangerous time.

Just when Ma Cheng fled in embarrassment, Luo Bingran arrived with 15,000 reinforcements. For the sake of insurance, Luo Bingran brought all the 10,000 new troops under his command, and the addition of reinforcements allowed the Ming army to immediately stabilize the defensive line, and began to advance steadily, slowly squeezing the living space of the Qing army.

Although the eastern part of the city is different from the downtown area of the southern and western cities, there are many private houses. Ma Cheng's Shenji Battalion actually couldn't exert ten percent of its combat effectiveness in this kind of street fighting. Because the fire guns of the Shenji Battalion are two feet long, and the firing range is as far as two or three hundred meters, the power of the fire guns of the Shenji Battalion is very limited in street battles within thirty or forty meters.

But the new army is different, Ma Cheng's new army is half firearms and half cold weapons, and at the same time, Ma Cheng trains them according to Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation. The Mandarin Duck Formation is a kind of military formation that pays attention to coordination, there are two kinds of ten and five people, this kind of military formation is very suitable for close combat such as street fighting, and at the same time, a large number of thunderbolts of the new army are also very suitable for this mode of street fighting.

Different from muskets in the traditional sense, Thunderbolt is a small-caliber Franc machine, each Thunderbolt has four sub-guns, but they can be quickly replaced to keep the firepower continuous. However, this kind of thing was useless after its invention, the power of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was not good, and the processing technology at that time was not good, the sub-gun and the barrel were not tightly closed, and the air leakage was serious, so the range power was not very good.

After Ma Cheng discovered this weapon, he sighed that this was not the shotgun of later generations! Shotguns can't shoot at distant targets, of course, but they are invincible in close combat. Therefore, Ma Cheng improved the Thunderbolt, expanded the caliber of the barrel and improved the manufacturing process, and solved the problem of the loose closure of the gun and the barrel. Coupled with the use of new gunpowder as a firing* projectile, this new type of thunderbolt is very powerful at a close distance of 20 meters. Ma Cheng has done experiments, and he can penetrate a layer of iron armor within 20 meters, and even three layers of iron armor within 10 meters can't withstand it.

This artifact, later known as the trench gun, was put into use, and immediately posed a great threat to the Qing army. Each sub-gun of the Thunderbolt is loaded with a lead bullet, this kind of thing does not need to be aimed at all, nor does it need to be ignited by the arquebus, just fire directly after seeing the approximate location of the enemy. Therefore, after Luo Bingran's new army entered the battle, the threat to the Qing army was much greater than that of the Shenji Battalion.

The arrival of the Ming army reinforcements made Duoduo feel great pressure again, he didn't expect the Ming army in the city to be so able to fight, Duoduo saw that his 20,000 Qing troops were slowly compressed to the vicinity of the Taiping Gate, and scolded angrily: "Come on, go to the back and see, why hasn't the Qing army in Xiaoling arrived yet?" Give Jin Shenghuan an order, and if you don't arrive within half an hour, you will want his head! ”

Duoduo was angry and corrupted Ma Cheng but commanded Ruoding, at this time Ma Cheng was not fleeing in embarrassment like an hour ago, now the Ming army has played a rhythm, Luo Bingran's new army entered the battle, Long Guangshan Xie Guangkun's back sneak attack, so that the Qing army suffered from the enemy, and now the Qing army has been driven to the Taiping Gate around 300 meters, and will soon be driven out of the city. If you like the second ancestor of the eunuch, please collect: (om) The second ancestor of the eunuch is the fastest update.