The dozens of Ming troops who climbed to the top of the city were already completely in chaos at this time, they had to fight with the Chen Butcher on the other side and the Huangzhushan bandits led by Fang Dongquan on the other side, and on the other hand, they were also facing the bayonet charge of the musketeers under the command of Li Xuan himself.

And the bayonet charge launched by the musketeers with a dense formation was more intimidating than the Chen butchers.

Rows of bright bayonets kept stabbing at the Ming army, and the Ming troops in the front row could not resist at all, they could only retreat while trying their best to block.

However, although most of them were dressed in armor and had excellent steel knives and shields in their hands, because they did not form a dense phalanx, most of them fought separately in the face of the bayonet charge of the musketeers, and they might be able to block one or two bayonets, let alone several bayonets at the same time.

In less than ten seconds, more than a dozen Ming soldiers in the front row were killed and wounded, and the remaining Ming troops involuntarily retreated.

But there are other Ming troops behind them, and after them, there are still Ming troops who are constantly climbing up the city.

On the narrow city wall, dozens of Ming troops and a considerable number of Tang New Army were crowded, so that on this narrow city wall, there were swords and blood everywhere.

When the bayonet phalanx of musketeers continued to approach, those Ming troops continued to retreat to help the Ming army companies behind to stand on their feet, and many Ming soldiers were pushed and fell directly from the two-zhang high city wall.

On the other side, Butcher Chen saw that the musketeers had already controlled the situation and continued to oppress the Ming army, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, victory or defeat in this move, they all rushed up with Lao Tzu to kill his mother!" ”

Butcher Chen once again took the lead in attacking the dense Ming army, and the bandits under his command were also aroused at this time, and more importantly, these guys who were originally good at fighting with the wind had already seen the decline of the Ming army, as long as they rushed again, these Ming troops would definitely fail.

Seeing the hope of victory, the new army of the Tang Dynasty gave full play to the characteristics of being greedy for life and fearing death, and fighting a good battle, and more than 20 bandits shouted various slogans and followed Butcher Chen to charge again.

Fang Dongquan, who was behind, was also urgently organizing more spearman reinforcements.

For a time, the Ming army on the head of the city was constantly compressed, and in the end there was no place to stand!

Just one minute later, the Ming army that climbed to the top of the city completely collapsed, they either died in battle or had no intention of resisting, put down the long knives in their hands and wanted to surrender, and some of them even jumped off the two-zhang high city wall.

When the last stubbornly resisting Ming army threw down the long knife in his hand and knelt down and shouted surrender, Li Xuan reached out and touched the blood on his face, stepped on the corpse of a Ming soldier, and held his long sword high in one hand and roared: "The Tang Dynasty is invincible!" ”

"Invincible!"

"Long live Datang!"

The cheering slogan instantly resounded throughout the entire city wall!

Under the city, Su Jiakang looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army on the city with a black face, and sighed deeply after a long time: "Let them come back!" ”

When he said this, his face was full of unwillingness and helplessness!

The previous second round of siege battles, from the beginning to even a minute ago, went extremely smoothly, they used Qingzhuang as cannon fodder to attract and consume the firepower of the musketeers and archers of the pseudo-Tang thief army, even if Qingzhuang suffered a lot of casualties, but it bought enough time for the regular army of the main force of the siege.

Taking advantage of the firepower of the musketeers of the puppet Tang thief army at the head of the city, the Ming army climbed to the head of the city and launched a fight for the head of the city.

If it is a normal situation, the moment the Ming army rushes to the city, it can basically be announced that it has broken through the county seat of Zhengtai.

Because in most cases, once the attacker breaks through the layers of interception and ascends to the top of the city, it means that the defender's defense has been torn apart, and then the attacker can completely defeat the defender's defense as long as he continues to invest troops.

But what Su Jiakang didn't expect was that the puppet Tang thief army at the head of the city was able to launch a decisive charge at the last moment and annihilate the soldiers who attacked the city.

The troops that attacked the city had already been routed, which was not only a tactical defeat, but more importantly, a serious blow to the morale of the attackers.

For the attackers, they braved the fire of the defenders to launch a charge under the city, and a large part of it was supported by a belief: as long as we rush forward, we will win!

And when they find out that they will be driven down even if they climb the top of the city, they will quickly lose the courage to fight.

Once the courage to fight is lost, it is difficult to pick it up in battle.

Even if Su Jiakang is not a military general by profession, he can see that this attack can no longer be continued, and continuing to fight will have no effect except for increasing casualties.

With the Ming army Mingjin withdrawing troops, Li Xuan was also greatly relieved.

This Ming army finally retreated, if the Ming army would rather die than retreat, but continue to fight in the city, he didn't know how long the new army of the Tang Dynasty under his command could hold out.

Although the bayonet charge just now seemed to be very powerful and even bloody, and there were many Ming soldiers killed, in fact, there were many casualties on the side of the Tang New Army itself.

Just what Li Xuan saw with his own eyes, there were no less than ten soldiers in front of him.

A quarter of an hour later, Qian Mengjiu, who was in charge of the battlefield statistics, walked up to Li Xuan with a heavy expression: "Your Majesty, the casualties have been counted!" ”

Li Xuan didn't look at him, but continued to look at the Ming army outside the city, and at the same time said, "Oh, what's the specific situation?" ”

Qian Mengjiu said: "After entering the city, our army killed a total of 15 people and wounded 36 people, of which the musket team suffered heavy casualties, 8 people were killed and 13 people were wounded!" ”

Li Xuan was not too surprised to hear this number, he already had a general psychological expectation of his own casualties, in order to drive the Ming army off the city, they paid the price of blood, especially when the musketeers launched a bayonet charge, although in terms of results, they almost crushed the resistance of the Ming army, and finally drove the Ming army off the city, but these musketeers without any armor protection themselves also suffered a lot of casualties, plus before Li Xuan gathered the musketeers, After these Ming troops climbed the city wall, they also caused a lot of casualties to musketeers who did not have much hand-to-hand combat ability.

But as many as twenty casualties also made Li Xuan's heart ache, these are all musketeers, the core combat power of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, there are only more than eighty people in total, and now a quarter of them are killed and wounded at once.

If he came a few more times, his musket team would not be dead or wounded.

At this time, Qian Mengjiu still continued: "Although our army suffered a lot of casualties, but the Ming army suffered more casualties, in this battle, we captured more than 20 people just by taking prisoners, and the enemy soldiers killed at the head of the city were forty-six, and the enemy soldiers killed and wounded outside the city were at least hundred. ”

"Although most of the Ming troops killed and wounded outside the city were young and strong, the Ming troops who were killed and captured by us at the head of the city were all regular troops, and most of them were elite in armor!"

After hearing that the enemy's casualties were several times that of his own, and that sixty or seventy of them were still in the elite armor, Li Xuan also felt a little better.

Although their own casualties were not small, adding up to fifty dead and wounded, these casualties were scattered among the various arms, and the real core elite musketeers only suffered twenty casualties.

Among the nearly 200 dead and wounded in the Ming army, sixty or seventy were elite in armor, and their own side made a lot of money in terms of exchange ratio.

After all, the Datang New Army is not a professional army, in essence, it is still a group of bandits, and it is quite good to be able to fight like this with a group of elite Ming Army under the absolute disadvantage of troops.

As for the lost troops, they can be recruited back from the young and strong when they turn around, anyway, their core combat power musketeers are not very demanding, and they can only train for three months.

However, those dead and wounded archers and sword and shield soldiers are not easy to replenish, although these people are said to be bandits, and their quality is not to be looked down upon, but these soldiers are all people with a skill, not that any peasant can be competent.

Li Xuan was a little skeptical, if there were a few more battles like this, the sword and shield soldiers and archers under his command would not be dead, and there would be no way to replenish them.

Maybe in the future, all the soldiers under their command will become musketeers and spearmen!

The reason is simple, these two classes are easy to replenish and train, while the sword and shield soldiers, archers and cavalry have too high requirements for soldiers to replenish.

But those are all in the future, and now Li Xuan is not in the mood to think about the future, and now that the threat of the Ming army is imminent, he must find a way to break through with his troops.

Yes, it's a breakthrough!

From the moment he entered the city, Li Xuan planned to rely on the city guard of Zhengtai County first, and find an opportunity to break through after getting through the difficulties in front of him.

As for staying in Zhengtai County, this is absolutely undesirable, because Zhengtai County may be a strategic place for the Ming army, and Su Jiakang said that he would recover everything, but for their Datang New Army, Zhengtai County is a dead place.

If you continue to stay in Zhengtai County, you will face the end of being completely surrounded and finally annihilated.

Therefore, it is impossible to stay in Zhengtai County, and now it has repelled the two attacks of the Ming army, and if it is almost dark today, the Ming army outside the city has no obvious signs of launching a third attack.

At this time, it is time to consider breaking through.

It's just that they want to, but Su Jiakang doesn't let them go, that night, after the soldiers of the Datang New Army hurriedly had dinner, they just wanted to break through from the northwest city gate, but the forward of the Datang New Army just opened the city gate, and it was less than 100 meters out, that is, they found that there were hundreds of Ming troops in ambush in front, and the frightened forward of the Datang New Army ran back again.

After the breakthrough was blocked, Li Xuan's face was not very good-looking, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly said to Qian Mengjiu: "Qian Aiqing, you arrange for someone to go out of the city to negotiate with Su Jiakang!" ”

Hearing Li Xuan suddenly say this, Qian Mengjiu's face on the side changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, although we are trapped for a while, we must not surrender!" ”

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