"! This group of Ming troops, arrogant, with more than 7,000 people, dared to come to the border city of the town where thousands of our Qing soldiers were stationed. ”

Tan Tai, who was standing at the head of the town border, couldn't help but look surprised when he saw Li Xiaojun who was silently and quickly pressing towards the town border city from the clairvoyant mirror. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Tan Tai's impression, in many battles in the past, as long as the Qing army defended the city, under normal circumstances, if the Ming army did not have more than five times the strength, it would never dare to attack the city. Moreover, even if the strength of the Ming army was more than five times that of the Ming army, those Ming troops who were depressed and fearful of the Qing army were often defeated by the Qing army in a face-to-face battle, which is really not a cause for concern.

This unknown Ming army is very strange.

"Master, do you want to send someone to ask Lord Yanguli or nearby allies for help, just in case?" Behind Tan Tai, Karamu's voice sounded quietly.

Tan Tai waved his hand and stopped Karamu's suggestion.

"Hmph, now in the border city of the town, our department has a total of 1,000 Manchurian soldiers, 700 Mongolian soldiers, 700 Han troops, and nearly 2,000 surrendered Ming troops, nearly 4,500 soldiers and horses, and the Ming army is only 7,000, what is there to fear! If it weren't for the fact that this official took into account the military order of my brother Yanguli and wanted to firmly defend the border city of this town, this official would have sent troops to the west gate to fight against those Ming troops! You must know that when you were in Liaodong that day, even if you were ten with one, this official could also kill those Ming soldiers who shouted their fathers and mothers! ”

When Tan Tai said this, a sneer flashed on his face, and he ordered: "Karamu, you just arrange for the army to guard the city wall, I want to see what siege tricks this Ming army can come up with!" ”

Karamu's face hesitated, but he still snorted quickly, and went down to arrange the arming.

Soon, the fortifications of the town border city were as follows.

On the east and west city walls, there are 300 Manchurian soldiers, 250 Mongolian soldiers, 300 Han soldiers, and 500 surrendered soldiers.

On the north and south walls, 500 of the remaining surrendered Ming troops were arranged to garrison them.

In the city, there were 400 Manchurian cavalry, 100 Mongolian cavalry, and 50 Han cavalry, which remained in the city as a countervailing force.

In addition, considering that the Ming army might attack the west gate, Tan Tai ordered that the various large and small artillery pieces that were originally evenly distributed at the head of the city, a total of 40 pieces, be concentrated in the west of the city, and operated by the surrendered Ming army who could fight artillery.

When the Qing army was urgently deployed, Li Xiaojun under the city was also urgently mobilizing troops.

According to Li Xiao's order, all the infantry gathered a hundred paces away from the west gate of the city on the edge of the town. The whole cavalry bypassed the north and south sides of the town and concentrated outside the east gate of the town to prevent the enemy from retreating from the east gate.

At this point, an hour later, Li Xiaojun finally completed the distribution of troops to catch turtles after closing the door according to Li Xiao's intentions.

Tan Tai had been watching the Ming army under the city divide his forces with a contemptuous look, but when he saw that this Ming army had taken a posture of firmly encircling the east and west city gates, he was secretly surprised in his heart.

This besieging general is not crazy!

This Ming general is really bold, not to mention that it is basically impossible to defeat our army, but I didn't expect that he actually wanted to surround and annihilate our army, this snake wants to swallow an elephant!

Karamu next to him also had a shocked look on his face. After a while, with sharp eyes, he suddenly pointed to the back row of Li Xiaojun and said loudly: "Master, look, what is it that Ming Gouzi pushed over?" ”

Tan Tai fixed his eyes and saw a large number of Ming troops looking like auxiliaries, with a team of ten people as a team, slowly pushing out 40 large, strange-looking things, all the way to the north wall of the city at the edge of the town, about ninety steps away, standing in a straight line.

"! This thing of the Ming Army should be a trebuchet! Tan Tai frowned, but there was a contemptuous sneer on his lips: "This Ming army, shabby, not even artillery, actually made these antiques hundreds of years ago, it's ridiculous." No, they plan to throw rocks at the local area and collapse the border city of this town! ”

After Tan Tai finished speaking, the Qing army defending the city at the head of the city all laughed.

Soon, though, they couldn't laugh anymore.

"Ready!"

With the wave of the flag, the Qing army at the head of the city saw that the Ming army auxiliaries of a team of 10 people were desperately moving the winch, squeaking to throw the 6-meter-long stone thrower and pull it down and flatten.

Subsequently, several auxiliary soldiers gritted their teeth and picked up a black and 80-pound throwing thunder together, and struggled to put the earth-shaking thunder at the end of the pole throwing pot.

"Ignition!"

Another order was given, and the 40 earth-shaking thunderbolts placed on the catapults immediately had auxiliary soldiers with lit fire ropes in their hands, and the long lead of the earth-shaking thunder on the trebuchet was ignited.

"Put!"

At this order, the winches of the 40 trebuchets that had been forcefully suppressed by the auxiliaries were loosened, and with a soft sound, the 40 throwing rods bounced high, and the 60 earth-shattering thunderbolts in the basin at the end of the head immediately roared towards the west wall and gate of the city on the edge of the town, and slammed away.

When they saw the 40 strange-looking trebuchets on the opposite side, flying out black balls that looked like small black stones from afar, all the Qing troops on the city wall of Ximen, including Tan Tai, did not know what the Ming army had thrown. They even had an interested expression on their faces, staring blankly at the little black dot whizzing through the air.

"Boom, boom, boom。。。。。"

A total of thirty earth-shattering thunderbolts struck the already weathered and peeling ground wall of the town border, smashing huge cracks on the city wall that stretched like spider webs, and then fell to the ground, and immediately exploded.

In the dazzling golden firelight and dense billowing white smoke, a huge explosion that broke the eardrum sounded continuously, and the entire west gate wall of the town's border city seemed to be trembling violently. Large chunks of rammed earth splattered and cracked, and the entire western wall was covered with yellow dust.

On the city wall, a large number of Qing soldiers who were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths bleeding together, everyone felt that they seemed to have suddenly arrived in a silent world, and their eyes were shrouded in choking smoke, only the city wall under their feet was shaking violently, and there were more than 30 Qing soldiers who were unstable on their feet, screaming and falling from the city wall, and then fell into a meat pie.

Another two earth-shattering thunderbolts, smashed the city gate drawbridge, violently exploded, the thick drawbridge immediately split apart, iron sheets and wood slag splashed everywhere, four like an arm-thick bridge cable, under the action of the huge impact, fangs and claws bounced off, one of the flying iron cables, swept a small copper cannon at the head of the city, the artillery, and the four surrendered Ming soldiers who operated it, together screamed and swept down the city wall.

There were also two earth-shattering thunderbolts, which flew over the city wall and smashed into the city in a parabolic trajectory, one hit a civilian house, and then blew the entire house and several surrounding houses into ruins. And the other one was very lucky, it actually landed on the edge of the 50 Han cavalry, and when they were still stunned about what this huge black ball of fire rope was burning, this eighty pound earth-shattering thunder exploded violently, and actually sent these 50 Han cavalry, even people and horses, to the west sky!

Tan Tai, who was bleeding from his seven orifices, covered with loess and dust, and his ears were buzzing like a blower, his eyes were full of fear.

This earth-shattering thunder of the Ming army, how can it be so powerful!

Compared with the earth-shaking thunders that the Ming army could only injure four or five people at a time in the past, the earth-shaking thunders thrown by the Ming army now are as powerful as one in the sky and one underground.

It is no wonder that this Ming army dared to attack our army like this, because it was because of such a powerful earth-shattering thunder, but it was because of its own carelessness that the Ming army succeeded in one blow.

If this Ming army continues to bombard like this, can its own town and city really be able to hold it?

In Tan Tai's heart, a sense of fear arose.

"Shoot back!"

After his ears finally regained a little bit of hearing, Tan Tai surrendered to the Ming army to those trembling cannons and shouted loudly.

"Master, the farthest artillery that can be hit in the border city of our town is six Franc machines, and the accurate firing range must be within eighty paces, and the Ming army is too far away, and it may be difficult for our army to bombard accurately."

After the Ming soldier finished speaking, after listening to the translation of the Han people's affairs, Tan Tai slapped him, hitting him so that blood spurted from his mouth, and he spit out two teeth with a poof.

"Boom! Whether you can hit it or not, you will always give me a damn bomb! ”

Tan Tai's face was hideous, and he roared loudly at the surrendered Ming army who were operating the artillery, and his expression was very crazy.

Fearing its might, the Ming troops trembling and began to fill the barrels, fill the gunpowder, and stuff the shells.

"Boom, boom, boom。。。。。。"

Another 40 earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown over, and more than 30 earth-shattering thunderbolts hit the city wall.

In the explosion that broke the eardrum, the entire western city wall collapsed in three places, and a large number of Qing troops and surrendered Ming troops at the collapse gap fell like scattered pieces of paper.

Five or six cannons of various types were also smashed from under the city walls, and the originally poorly made cannons were smashed down from such a high position, and immediately smashed into a pile of useless scrap iron on the bluestone slab ground.

At this time, the wooden city gate was shattered by a sky-shattering thunderbolt, revealing an astonishing hole more than one person high. The remnants of the city gate were burned in flames.

There were also several earth-shattering thunderbolts, flying over the city walls into the city, and in the violent explosion, several places in the city on the edge of the town were on fire.

Some of the surrendered Ming troops, seeing that the Ming army's earth-shattering thunder power was so huge, had already been frightened, I don't know who shouted, these surrendered Ming troops, one after another, turned around and ran under the city wall.

"Don't run, keep it for Lao Tzu!"

Tan Tai, Karamu and other Manchurian soldiers frantically slashed and killed the surrendered Ming army who turned around and fled, and it was not easy to stop the escape momentum of the surrendered Ming army.

"Hurry up!"

Tan Tai, who was covered in blood and dust, was like a devil in hell, shouting loud orders at the gunners who were still nervously debugging over there.

"Bang 。。。。。。"

Among the thirty-four remaining artillery pieces at the head of the city, twenty-three were fired, the other five did not sound, and six were blown up.

Among the 23 large and small shells that were fired, there were more than 10 shells, I don't know where they went, only five shells jumped on the ground and broke into the Ming army's formation, killing and wounding seven or eight Ming army shield soldiers or spearmen who had no time to dodge.

Seeing the results of his own artillery, Tan Tai's eyes were cracked and he almost exploded.

It's just that after the surrendered Ming troops finally hit this round of volleys, the next round of attacks by Li Xiaojun's trebuchet began.

"Boom, boom, boom。。。。。。"

After this bombardment, there were as many as eight or nine collapsed city walls on the entire West Gate city wall, and several collapsed places were connected together, and the width of the gap was at least five or six meters.

A large number of Qing troops and artillery, like dumplings, screamed and fell from the sky.

On the ruined western wall, the number of enemy troops, after these three rounds of bombardment, has lost a quarter, and the remaining surrendered Ming troops, as well as the Mongol soldiers and Han troops, have fled to the city with wails.

Even the hundreds of Manchurian soldiers with the Yellow Banner were full of horror on their faces, if it weren't for the might of their own commander, they were afraid that they would follow and flee to the city.

"Master, the city wall can't be defended, quickly retreat into the city to defend!" Karamu, whose mouth was full of blood, attached to Tan Tai's ear, shouted loudly.

Tan Tai sighed and nodded helplessly in agreement.

At the same time, he also ordered that the soldiers of the three walls of the east, south, and north also got off the city walls, concentrated at a distance of about ten steps from the west city wall, and continued to defend.

After the Qing army where he was located withdrew the city wall, Li Xiaojun carried out the last round of earth-shaking thunder bombardment.

After this bombardment, there were nearly 20 gaps in the entire western city wall, large and small, and almost one-third of the city wall area collapsed.

There were also four or five earth-shattering thunderbolts, which crashed into the city along the gaps that had collapsed, and violent explosions rang out in all directions, and the city on the edge of the town was on fire and smoke.

More than 300 Qing troops were killed alive by the earth-shattering thunder thrown over because they were not prepared for it. At the place of the explosion, flesh and blood flew everywhere, screaming again and again, and the stumps and broken organs of the human body were splashed everywhere like rain, and spread out in a circle radiating around.

At this point in the battle, Li Xiao, who had been watching the battle in silence, finally ordered loudly: "All the gun and shield soldiers obey the order!" Rush to the edge of the town and attack in a battle formation! ”

As soon as he gave the order, Li Xiaojun's spear and shield battle array, shouting loudly, rushed in a straight line towards the entire western city wall.

Originally, Li Xiao could also throw the earth-shattering thunder to destroy the city wall of the West Gate and the facilities in the city more completely, so as to reduce the losses of his soldiers. However, considering the baggage and goods stored in the border city of this town, as well as the various houses that can provide a resting place for himself in the future, Li Xiao still decided to stop the bombardment and send infantry to attack. Because, Li Xiao didn't want to leave himself with a complete ruin.

The spear and shield soldiers who strode forward were soon strangled with the Qing army defending the city.

The enemy and the enemy fought desperately, the sound of swords slashing, the dull popping sound of spears shooting into the human body, and the screams of the dead and wounded soldiers, all intertwined.

The red blood of the two sides merged and filled the bluestone streets and alleys on the edge of the town, making the ground of the entire battlefield begin to become wet and sticky.

Tan Tai originally thought that in the current close-range hand-to-hand combat, the Qing army would obviously have the upper hand, but he was surprised to see that the surging Ming army spears and shield soldiers were extremely orderly and orderly, just like a precision killing machine.

Of course, the strong Manchurian soldiers under their own command are all elite in a hundred battles, and in the case of encountering a strong enemy, they can still calm each other, rely on each other, and bravely slash and kill the Ming army that is constantly surrounding, and from time to time there are also Ming shield soldiers or spearmen, screaming and falling.

However, the situation is not optimistic, the Mongols, the Han army, and the surrendered Ming army, they were pressed back again and again by the fierce Li Xiaojun, although they were still desperately resisting, but they were obviously showing a tight state, the original contact battle formation in a straight line, began to gradually become a semi-arc state, and the battlefield advantage began to tilt more and more obviously towards the Ming army. (To be continued.) )