Chapter 224: Battle Outside the City (1)

On June 3 of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, in order to completely besiege Xuzhou, Dolgon divided his troops to storm the periphery of the east and west gates of Xuzhou!

"Kill"

At the West Gate, countless Qing troops crossed the river and stormed the periphery of the West Gate of Xuzhou.

"Xiuxiu" arrows rained down, blood stained the river red, and the corpses of countless Qing soldiers floated on the river.

The morale of the Qing army was high, and after paying more than 2,000 casualties, the first wave of soldiers began to land and fight with the 40,000 Ming troops stationed here.

The Great Qing Shuoying Prince Azig personally commanded here, and the Qing army's offensive was very fierce, constantly advancing to the west gate of Xuzhou.

The Ming army will suffer no more casualties than three or four hundred, but it seems that it does not intend to entangle with the Qing army more.

"Withdraw!"

With an order, all the Ming troops withdrew from the west gate into the city of Xuzhou.

"Rush, enter Xuzhou!" When Azig saw the west gate of Xuzhou open, he was immediately overjoyed and wanted to take the opportunity to enter Xuzhou and establish a miracle in one fell swoop.

The Qing soldiers were excited, everyone wanted to fight for the first credit, followed the Ming soldiers behind the open west gate and rushed to the open west gate, when the last Ming soldiers entered the city, the three Qing soldiers who rushed to the front also stepped on the suspension bridge of the moat.

Seeing that they were about to enter the city, these three Qing soldiers were as excited and excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and their faces were full of red light, because as long as they could be the first to enter the city and successfully survived, promotion was inevitable.

"Cluck, cluck"

Suddenly, after the suspension bridge of the moat made a sound, several Qing soldiers who stepped on the suspension bridge slowly rose.

Because of the rise of the drawbridge, forming a slope of almost 90 degrees, these Qing soldiers could not control the suspension bridge and rolled down towards the city gate, at this time the city gate was not closed, so these Qing soldiers were able to successfully roll into the city gate. But no one was excited, but frightened, because they were greeted by a cold blade.

"No" The cold blade shook with the breath of death, and several Qing soldiers let out a desperate cry.

"Snort" These Qing soldiers were instantly cut into meat sauce by dozens of steel knives, and their deaths were extremely miserable!

At the same time, after the countless Qing soldiers behind rushed to the edge of the moat, they could only watch helplessly as the drawbridge rose, and the nearly ten-meter-wide moat blocked their way.

"Knock Knock"

More than 100 splashes splashed in the "dong dong" moat.

"Damn, who pushed Lao Tzu down the river!"

Because the Qing soldiers behind rushed too fast, many people couldn't hold their feet for a while, and hundreds of Qing soldiers standing on the edge of the moat were pushed down the moat by the people behind and turned into soup chickens.

"Xiu Xiu Xiu" on the city wall suddenly appeared countless Ming soldiers who were bending their bows and arrows, and tens of thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows and flew down.

The dense crowd of Qing soldiers suffered heavy casualties under this sudden rain of arrows, and some of the corpses fell into the moat, and the blood flowing from the corpses stained the water of the moat red.

"Retreat!" The Qing army quickly withdrew from the range of the Ming soldiers' bows and arrows on the city wall and retreated to a distance of two hundred meters.

Azig had a gloomy face, his eyes staring at Xuzhou City, which was cut off by a moat, although he knew that Xuzhou could not be attacked so easily, but he was still very unwilling in his heart.

To say that at this time, among all the generals of the Qing army, no one could want to make more contributions than Azig, because of the two humiliations that made him unable to raise his head among all the generals of the Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, the first time Tai'an City was forced by more than 10,000 Ming troops from the camp of 100,000 troops, such a shame has never been in the entire Qing Dynasty, although this more than 10,000 Ming Army is the Ying Long Army of Megatron, but the prestige of this Ying Long Army was not established by stepping on that war, and this shame was brought to the Qing Dynasty by him Azig.

There was a rainy night a few days ago, Azig asked for the order to lead the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry into the city to find Ji Feng and Ying Longjun to shame, but the final result was that Azig was seriously injured by Ji Feng and carried out, although in the end Jining City was still captured by the Qing Dynasty, but it was not captured by him Azig, which was also a shame for Azig.

Because the Ming army all retreated into the city of Xuzhou, the Qing army occupied the periphery of the West Gate and began to organize the siege of the West Gate under the leadership of Azig.

At this moment, what Azig didn't know was that he was unwilling not to attack Xuzhou, but there were also people in Xuzhou City who didn't want him to occupy the periphery of Xuzhou City so easily.

Within the West Gate, all 40,000 people of the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army of the Yinglong Army were concentrated here.

A soldier quickly ran down from the city wall.

"How many Qing troops have come to Ximen now?" Zhang Kuishan, commander of the Fifth Army, asked the soldier.

"Back to the military seat, more than 80,000 Qing troops have come to Ximen, and they are still increasing." The soldier replied.

"Okay, hahahaha! Finally, it was Lao Tzu's turn to lead the army to the battlefield, and this was the first time to take the Qing prisoner outside the West Gate! Order, the whole army prepares, put down the drawbridge, kill Lao Tzu, and defeat the Qing captives outside the West Gate! Zhang Kuishan laughed, very excited.

When the Ying Long Army was just established last year, Zhang Kuishan was one of the original generals, and even Zhu Cihong's most trusted general, and the position of the commander of the First Army of the Ying Long Army should have been Zhang Kuishan, but because of the matter of being in charge of Jinyiwei, Zhang Kuishan failed to become the first batch of generals of the Ying Long Army, which made Zhang Kuishan slightly regretful. Although the authority of the commander of Jinyiwei is high, it is a symbol of the emperor's trust, it can be said that one person is above ten thousand people, but Zhang Kuishan has always been more enthusiastic about leading troops to the battlefield to fight, this will be the big war is approaching, and he is also the supreme commander, which makes him not excited.

"The whole army is ready, the whole army is ready!" The order was passed on, and the 40,000 soldiers of the Fifth and Sixth Armies were all calm.

"Squeak!"

The drawbridge was slowly lowered, and with a thud it connected to the other side of the moat.

The Qing army immediately discovered the movement here, and Azig rode on his horse, staring at the wide open west gate with his eyes, and his heart was shocked, and he couldn't understand what the Ming army was trying to do for a while.

Without Azig thinking about it, countless soldiers of the Ying Long Army poured out from the west gate, and lined up in a formation of three half-moons.

As more and more soldiers of the Ying Long Army poured out of the city gate, this half-moon formation became longer and wider!

"Attack forward!" Zhang Kuishan ordered.

"Attack forward!" Niu Yongsheng, the commander of the Sixth Army, also shouted and ordered.

The 40,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army formed a long half-moon formation and continued to press towards the Qing army hundreds of meters away.

"Ying Longjun!" Azig gritted his teeth, his eyes red.

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