If according to the habits of Liu Liangzuo's subordinates, they would have already retired at this time, but not now, those Eight Banners Governor Team with money rattail pigtails are behind them, and they will definitely die when they go back, it is better to hide behind the shield car, although the safety here cannot be guaranteed, at least it is still a way to live.

In this way, the Qing army burst out with strong endurance under double pressure, and filled the moat outside the Jubao Gate to death a few hundred meters under the artillery fire of the Ming army. This is a dead end for the Ming artillery, and you can breathe a sigh of relief when you wait here.

But the Qing army thinks so, it is a little lacking in knowledge, the Nanjing city wall is a complete set of fortifications, Zhu Yuanzhang used more than 20 years, countless manpower and material resources to build the fortifications, that can be such a little defensive means.

There are many siege equipment to deal with the dead corners of the city, such as broken dragon stones, clappers, hot oil and other facilities. The broken dragon stone is made of thousands of pounds of boulders, and the stone is cylindrical, which is probably similar to the large mill in the countryside. There was a hole in the middle, and an iron chain the size of an egg was attached, and a winch was attached to the chain. Ten people must push down the slide with force, and the slide is coated with butter to reduce friction.

The clapper is an iron plate made of stainless steel, on which dozens of one-foot-long steel nails are installed, this kind of thing is similar to the principle of broken dragon stone, which uses the principle of gravity to kill the enemy from the city wall in free fall. As for the hot oil, it is simpler, there is a hole in the city wall every 100 meters that leads to the bottom of the city, and the soldiers will boil the tung oil from here to the bottom when defending the city, and use the hot oil to kill the enemy. There are also all kinds of other strange tools, Ma Cheng spent millions of taels of silver in the military department in the past six months, repairing the city's defense tools, and waiting for the Qing army to attack the city.

The first Qing army under the city to rush through the moat was rejoicing that they had finally crossed the moat alive. As soon as the Qing army arrived in the city, the pipe on their heads was poured with boiling hot oil from their feet, and as soon as the Qing army escaped artillery fire, they were blown into a piece of meat by the hot oil.

As the moat was filled, more Qing troops rushed under the city walls, and now all the defenses in the entire Jubaomen section began to be used, and the soldiers in the city began to slaughter the Qing troops under the city with various defensive tools.

However, because the Qing army had artillery under the city to cover its siege troops, the Ming army in the city also began to suffer casualties, but fortunately, the gunpowder power of the Qing army was not so strong, and the Franc machine leaked seriously, so the threat to the Ming army was not so great.

Li Shutai, who was in the rear of the Qing army, saw that the Qing army had attacked the city, and said to the heralds beside him: "Go up and give Liu Liangzuo an order, and the first person to climb the city wall will be rewarded with gold equal to his body!" The first 100 climbers will be rewarded with 100 pounds of silver! ”

With a heavy reward, the Qing army wanted to fight like chicken blood, with various killing tools on their heads, assembled dozens of ladders under the city, and began to officially attack the city. As the Qing army set up the ladder, the Qing army under the city also stopped firing to avoid accidentally injuring friendly soldiers.

Ma Cheng, who was hiding in the nest of the city wall, heard the sound of the Qing army's artillery outside, and knew that the bloodiest white-knuckle battle to defend the city was coming. Ma Cheng packed up the equipment on his body, today he wore a layer of chain mail inside and a piece of armor on the outside for the sake of insurance, and the whole person was like an iron can. Of course, fifty or sixty pounds of armor on the body must not be mobile, but Ma Cheng is followed by a hundred personal soldiers, these guys are veterans who have fought in Guizhou for many years, and they can protect the safety behind Ma Cheng.

The main force of the white-knuckle battle is Ma Cheng's new army, they did not participate in the defense of the city just now in order to maintain their physical strength, but they all stayed in the nest, and now that the artillery of the Qing army has stopped, it is naturally time to use them.

Ma Cheng walked out of his nest and looked at the new army standing in a row in the back half of the city wall, these guys have far surpassed the Qing army in physical strength after nearly a year of training, hoping that they can withstand this most tragic white-knuckle battle.

Ma Cheng stepped forward to look at these comrades-in-arms, patted the shoulders of several soldiers, and scolded with a smile: "Your mother, Lao Tzu feeds you with big meat every day, and now it's up to you!" After a while, Lao Tzu will fight with you, you are all brothers, and you will die in one place! ”

Ma Cheng's words are more effective than the righteousness of the family and the country, these soldiers don't understand any big truth, as long as they are good to them, they can die for you. Now when these soldiers heard Ma Cheng say this, they smiled one by one: "Please rest assured, Lord Junmen, we will definitely die!" ”

Ma Cheng nodded, and led Gu Yong and them to stand beside Wang Shuang, Wang Shuang is the battlefield commander of this section of the city wall today, he is in charge of the formation of the new army, he saw Ma Cheng coming and whispered: "My lord, in fact, you don't have to come up, there is the last general here!" ”

Ma Cheng shook his head and didn't say anything, of course he knew that it was safe to hide behind, but if he didn't come, the combat effectiveness of the army would be much worse, you must know that although the new army was strictly trained, it was still a farmer a year ago. If the morale is gone, what a fart fight?

"Wang Shuang, now Lao Tzu is a small soldier, you are the battlefield commander, and Lao Tzu will listen to you!"

Wang Shuang nodded when he heard Ma Cheng say this, and ordered people to raise the banner, and the five thousand new troops in the city began to form a five-person mandarin duck formation under the command of various small banners. Latest

As soon as the team was formed, the first Qing army outside the city wall climbed up the ladder, and this unlucky guy just showed up and was hit with a thunderbolt. This kind of firearm has been improved by Ma Cheng, the barrel has been enlarged, the caliber has reached three centimeters, and each gun is loaded with eight musket lead bullets, and each thunderbolt has four bullets, which can ensure that the shooting is not continuous. This is Ma Cheng's native shotgun modified according to the shotgun of later generations, although the range is not far, only more than ten meters, but it is very powerful in the melee of the white-knuckle battle at the head of the city.

The first Qing soldier to climb the city did not have the life to receive the same weight of gold as him, and as soon as he appeared, he was hit by a thunderbolt at close range, screaming and falling from the ladder to the city, and it was estimated that he could not live. However, with the arrival of the Qing army, it also heralded the beginning of the most difficult period of the siege of the city.

Ma Cheng's nervous hands were sweating, but the fine linen wrapped around the handle of the knife absorbed the sweat well. Ma Cheng saw a Qing soldier turning over from the battlement, Ma Cheng rushed over with a shout, and slashed at this unlucky guy with a knife.

This Qing army just turned over from the battlement, and was half kneeling on the ground, when I saw a Ming army monster screaming and rushing over, this Qing army reached out to block, it stands to reason that this Qing army wore two layers of armor, in addition to the outer cotton armor There is also a layer of leather armor, which is enough to deal with the shoddy knives of the ordinary Ming army. But I didn't expect that the Ming army in front of him was holding a thousand forging treasure knife, and he not only cut off the arm of the Qing army, but also cut off half of the body of the Qing army.

Ma Cheng is the first time to kill, naturally there is no weight in his hand, this knife uses the strength of the whole body, I didn't expect to cut off the arm of the Qing army in front of him, and cut off half of this guy's shoulder, Ma Cheng made too much force and didn't control his strength, and he almost didn't fall down. At this time, there was a Qing army outside the battlement, and I saw Ma Cheng's posture, the Qing army was overjoyed, this Ming army was well-armoured, and he was a big official at a glance, but he didn't expect that he could make great contributions just after he landed on the city.

The Qing army swung a knife at Ma Cheng and slashed at him, and the frightened Ma Cheng closed his eyes, and silently recited in his heart, Lao Tzu wants to return to his position!

At this time, Gu Yong, who was beside Ma Cheng, led someone to follow, and when he saw that the Qing army was about to hurt Ma Cheng, he stepped forward and stabbed the Qing army in the stomach, resulting in the Qing army's life.

Gu Yong helped Ma Cheng up and asked, "My lord, is there something wrong?" ”

Ma Cheng patted Gu Yong on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, thank you for saving me!" ”

Gu Yong knew that Ma Cheng had no actual combat experience, so he smiled bitterly: "My lord, you can just follow behind the last general!" And my lord, you used too much force just now, you don't need to use so much force to cut people, you can stab with a knife! ”

At this time, a large number of Qing troops came to the city, Gu Yong stepped forward and grabbed a Qing army, stabbed the guy in the stomach with a knife, and then turned to Ma Cheng and said, "My lord, do you see it?" It's simple, stabbing is less effort than chopping! ”

Ma Cheng nodded, stepped forward to test it, and found that it was true, thorns were much less labor-saving than chopping. At the same time, because the Qing army wore armor, this kind of cotton armor with iron was very effective for defensive knife slashing, but it was not good for stabbing.

Ma Cheng stabbed to death several Qing soldiers according to Gu Yongjiao's method, only to find out that he had been deceived by the TV series again, the kind of battles on TV are all slashing each other, but the effect is not obvious. It can also be seen through the weapon that the standard saber of the Ming army has a very small curvature, which is similar to the Japanese sword, and this kind of knife is very conducive to stabbing in addition to chopping, and now this kind of city head melee chop is not much use, it is better to stab directly.

The city wall is already in chaos, the guards who were in charge of the fortifications just now have retreated to the nest to hide, those guards are uneven, there are few strong men, leaving them on the city wall is completely chaos.

The garrison of more than 20,000 men was withdrawn, and the city wall was much emptied, which was just right for this kind of group operation of the new army. The new army is a group of five or six people, each group has a pikeman, a sword and shield hand, a musketeer and a thunderbolt, plus a commander, this kind of group is very flexible, especially this kind of melee, although the Qing army may be stronger than the new army in combat experience, but because there are many new soldiers, they can achieve numerical superiority in the local area, often two or three groups against five or six Qing troops, so that the Qing army under the attack of different weapons near and far, the Qing army that quickly climbed to the head of the city was repulsed.

Wang Shuang, as the commander of the battlefield, saw that all the Qing troops had been driven out of the city, and immediately ordered the new army to retreat, and the guards hidden in the nest came out again, and killed the unlucky Qing army under the city by operating the tools to defend the city.

Liu Liangzuo stood two miles outside the city, and saw that his men had already climbed the city wall, but they were driven down in less than half an hour, Liu Liangzuo scolded: "Waste, it's all waste!" It's all boarded and can be beaten down! ”

After Liu Liangzuo finished speaking, he said to Yang Wenfu, a confidant general beside him: "Heizi, you take 2,000 Chinese troops to the city, you must stand firm in the city!" ”