Chapter 684: Sinkhole

Just as the Qing army continued to grit their teeth towards the moat in front, the artillery at the head of the city fired again. At the same time, 9,000 guns began to be fired at the same time.

"Bang bang bang! ......"This is a deafening artillery firing one after another.

"Bang bang bang! ...... "This is a continuous fire hammer like popping beans, and it is being played intensively.

The artillery at the head of the city took turns firing a third salvo, and in the deafening sound of the cannon, the afterburners from the muzzles of the cannons were like countless golden flowers blooming in the cold wind. More than 500 large and small black and red-hot iron bullets, with a sharp death whistle, pierced through the smoke and sand curtains, and swooped down on the soldiers of the Qingshun and Qingshun armies under the city.

In the rumbling of cannons, the rows of guns at the head of the city also fired in succession, and the first volley began. Among the 9,000 firearms, more than 8,000 were fired, and rows of bright red afterburners flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, with a unique beauty like a death ritual, and a large group of choking white gunpowder smoke gushed up, and more than 8,300 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like birds of death, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and roared away to the rogue on the opposite side.

More than 500 huge iron bullets, together with more than 8,030 small three-coin lead bullets, formed a dense and cruel net of death, enveloping the two Qingshun armies that were rushing quickly.

The cannonballs were like black eagles flying one after another, whizzing through the crowd of enemy soldiers who were running desperately, and with absolutely strong and terrifying force, they ploughed out a straight path of flesh and blood. Everywhere the shells went, screams were repeated, and broken limbs and human internal organs were splashed everywhere, causing absolutely terrifying deaths and injuries to the running rogues and Qing soldiers.

Tiny buckshot is like a gray killer bee, whistling at whatever object it encounters in front of it. Those rogues and Qinglu who rushed to the front row immediately had many of them, like a trick, blooming with blood flowers, and those who were hit fell upside down on their backs as if they had suddenly been struck by a heavy hammer.

The power of such a combined attack of cannonballs and lead bullets caused so much damage to the rogues and the Qing prisoners that those rogues who happened to block the lead bullets with shields in their hands retreated and fell down in the face of this huge and violent impact.

It's just that as soon as they fell, they were immediately trampled to death and injured by the soldiers who were still rushing from behind, and the scene was a mess.

This round of artillery and firearms fired together, although it was completely impossible to aim, but it also caused at least 4,000 rogue soldiers to be killed and injured on the spot, causing chaos in the rogue formation.

When the formation of the rogue was scattered and the speed was slightly sluggish, the second round of fire salvo began again.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

The guns rang out, the embers flew away, and more than 8,500 guns were fired, and more than 8,500 lead bullets roared out, causing more than 2,000 casualties to the rogue soldiers when they were completely unable to aim carefully.

The formation of the Qing army suddenly became more and more chaotic, and the speed of the impact became less and less, and the faces of those rogue soldiers who rushed to the front were extremely frightened, and he didn't know when such bad luck would befall him.

Li Zicheng, who was monitoring behind the battle, saw that his own soldiers had begun to appear in the large-scale chaos and vacillation in the combined and intensive fire of the Tang army's artillery, and the speed and strength of the impact of the entire army formation had been greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but be furious again.

"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! If anyone doesn't rush, they will be killed! ! ”

Li Zicheng shouted angrily: "The dog entered! The moat of the Tang Army is close at hand, you can't rush up, what's the use of Lao Tzu raising you such a waste! Give it all to Lao Tzu, as long as you hit the moat, it will be a victory! ”

Li Zicheng shouted loudly, and ordered his subordinates to step up their drums and cheers, and a large number of overseers roared forward, forcing these rogue soldiers who were driven to be no different from pigs and sheep to continue to rush forward and attack the ditch to fight hand-to-hand with the Tang army.

In the north, at Dolgon, a large number of Qing troops were also killed one after another by the warlords, and the entire formation began to restore order and continue to attack forward.

These poor fellows, whose courage and will have been weakened, were still forced to rush forward, and the situation was extremely miserable. It's just that, looking at the moat that is already close in front of them, everyone still bites and rushes forward.

At this time, although the artillery at the head of the city of the Tang army stopped firing because the range was too close, the 9,000 guns were still firing quickly one after another, and the Liukou and Qing soldiers kept wailing and falling.

In a short distance, it was paved with the corpses and blood of countless enemy soldiers.

These extremely tragic siege soldiers let the god of death harvest their lives frantically, while their commanders Dolgon and Li Zicheng were expressionless. Coldly using a clairvoyant mirror, looking indifferently at everything through the sand and dust.

Compassion is not in charge of the army, cold-blooded and fierce, ruthless and iron-blooded, which are the necessary qualities of every qualified commander. These soldiers who are fighting for their lives are not human beings at all, they are just chips in exchange for the final victory, and when it is time to push them to the table, they must not hesitate to use them.

The soldiers on the battlefield are the most despicable creatures in the world, and they are also the shortest-lived species, their lives are as cheap as grass and as light as a feather, as if they are not worth mentioning at all. Under the fierce firearms of the Tang army, every enemy soldier attacking the city was like being in the Shura field, and their survival time could only be calculated in minutes and seconds. And they fought desperately on the bloody and cruel battlefield, constantly consuming their most precious lives, and their only value was only to reach the moat that was close and out of reach.

What an illusory victory, what an eternal death.

One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, and the battlefield only believes in the winner.

And when they were only more than twenty steps away from the ditch, another extremely terrifying thing happened that all the charging rogue soldiers did not expect.

At this time, everyone on the battlefield clearly heard a bang that almost broke their ears.

On the flat ground twenty paces away from the moat on the north, east, and south sides, these sparse grasslands that seemed to be ordinary and had nothing unusual actually collapsed out of thin air in an extremely terrifying way!

Looking from under the sky, it looks like a huge monster, suddenly opening its bloody mouth several feet wide, and devouring the prey that falls into its mouth.

The Qing army and the Dashun army who rushed to this place, even people and things, devoured all of them into their stomachs.

The enemy troops outside the three walls fell into the U-shaped chain of pits almost simultaneously, and were instantly pierced alive by the sharp iron or wooden sticks hidden underneath, and their condition was unbearable.

Even if there were lucky people who did not die, there were immediately Tang Army auxiliaries or spearmen lurking under them, like the Grim Reaper, rushing out with knives and guns, and quickly making up for them with a knife or a stab to ensure that they died quickly.

For a time, this huge, dim and terrifying U-shaped underground cavern with three sides became the most terrible hell, and under the brutal killing, the screams of dying and the collapse of siege equipment were intertwined, like the song of death.

The Tang army's unexpected ambush in the cave caught at least nearly 30,000 Qing troops and Dashun troops off guard and fell into the pit quickly.

And the enemy troops who followed closely behind, they stood on the verge of death, these people were fatal, but in the face of such a terrible death in front of them, everyone was almost frightened.

They could clearly see the terrible situation in the cavern, and watch the human limbs be pierced with iron or wooden skewers like lumps of butter falling on the tips of hot, sharp needles. Seeing the remaining survivors, they didn't even have a chance to get up from the ground, so they immediately died tragically under the stabbing of the wolf-like Tang infantry.

This living and terrible scene in front of them made these Qing troops or Shun troops who had been on the battlefield for a long time frightened.

And above the city, those Tang troops who were defending the city, seeing the Qing army's plan, fell into the pit with their weapons and quickly went to death, and they were thunderous with joy and great happiness.

Duan Shidi, the mayor of the fourth town of the Tang Army, who had been closely watching the battle at the head of the city, and Liu Wenxiu, the deputy mayor of the town, saw that the two armies of Qingshun had suffered such heavy losses and were so embarrassed, they all laughed loudly and high-fived to celebrate. Cool! Can there be anything more refreshing than this to let the soldiers of the Qingshun and the two armies end up here in such a cruel and whimsical way.

At this time, Dolgon and Li Zicheng, who were in the rear of the battle, both had sallow faces, trembling trembling, and their eyes were full of extreme fear, and they were about to fall off their horses.

Tang Jun!

These vicious and hateful guys, their methods are simply ruthless and strange, and they actually dug a trap early in this flat place, which is really completely beyond their own expectations, what a despicable and shameless can be described!

This huge, dark U-shaped hole is like the devil's mouth, devouring the lives of many of his subordinates alive and quickly, this scene is simply more terrifying than a nightmare!

And when they were blocked by the U-shaped moat, the nine thousand firearms still did not stop for a moment, and continued to be released.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

The guns rang out, the afterburners flew, and more than 8,500 firebolts were fired, and more than 8,500 lead bullets roared out caused more than 3,000 casualties to the rogue soldiers when the sand and dust were all over the sky and it was completely impossible to aim carefully.

In the face of such a powerful firearm attack by the Tang Army, in the face of such a violent slaughter with no way out and almost absolute death, the rogues who rushed into battle with their flesh and blood finally completely collapsed outside the big mouth of this giant beast, only more than 20 steps away from the moat.

The rogues threw their weapons one after another, howling and turning around and fleeing, like a group of pigs who don't care about their stomachs, no longer talking about any organization and discipline, everyone is desperately retreating and running, lest they fall behind, they will become the ghosts of the Tang army.

If you want to run, it's not that easy!

Seeing the black pressure on the rogue and the Qing captives, they finally completely collapsed under the heavy blow of their own firearms, and the whole army fled in a hurry, and the Tang army's Haogou array, as well as under the city wall in the distance, there were continuous and loud cheers.

A large number of Tang army spearmen, fully armored and armed with sharp steel spears, immediately jumped out of the ditch and hurried away, following the enemy soldiers who had fled in rout.

As soon as they got closer, the 4-meter-long stainless steel spear and the sharp and terrifying three-edged blood trough spear head stabbed towards the fleeing enemy soldiers as if they had eyes.

Being stabbed by the three-edged stainless steel spear head engraved with a deep blood groove is like being kissed by a poisonous snake, which can be said to be dead when touched, and dead when touched. Under the ferocious stabbing of the Tang army's spearmen, the enemy soldiers screamed again and again, constantly struggling and falling to their deaths.

At this point, the battle was no longer a battle, but a one-sided massacre.

At a glance, the three empty suburbs in the north, east and south outside the entire Pingkuangtang City are like a human slaughterhouse, and the ground is covered with the corpses of the soldiers of the Qingshun and Shun armies and scattered and broken siege equipment, horizontal and vertical, shocking. The overflowing blood, mixed with the rain, merged into a crimson river of blood.

The river of blood meanders and flows, which makes people's hearts palpitate and chill, which shows how cruel this killing was.

And in their respective rear formations, Li Zicheng and Dolgon, who had been postponed to supervise, saw that these tens of thousands of vanguard elites had not even touched the ditch, and they were completely defeated by the Tang army and it was difficult to clean up, and the anger and frustration in their hearts were difficult to describe in words.

Fuck, this fucking fight is so damn that it can suffocate people to death!

And when they saw that the spearmen and auxiliaries of the Tang Army were still chasing after these poor deserters, as if they were chasing death, the hearts of the two of them were even more like knives.

It's hateful, tens of thousands of elites, once wiped out, such a shame and defeat is almost to lose their face!

Moreover, now that the front has been frustrated, the army has lost all its troops, even if there are still the middle army and the rear army that have not moved, but now that the vanguard is scattered and morale is collapsed, it is simply impossible to want to capture the Tang army's Haogou.

Li Zicheng's eyes erupted with fire, and his teeth were gritted loudly. However, he deserves to be a veteran of the battlefield, and in the face of such an unfavorable situation, he tightened his face, tried to control the ups and downs in his heart, and gave the order to retreat in a deep voice.

"Pass on my military order, immediately sound the gold, order the whole army to retreat, and then order the reserve old battalion cavalry to immediately go out of battle to meet the enemy, and we must block the crazy pursuit of our army by those damned Tang army spearmen."

"Order!"

At the same time, Dorgon was in the middle of the formation, and also gave the order for the cavalry to urgently send out to the rescue.

Hearing the order, the two armies combined, as many as more than 20,000 cavalry, did not dare to slack off, they slammed their horses' bellies, fought hard, and rushed towards the Tang army's spearmen who were killing red-eyed.

However, they had only barely traveled far before they were immediately greatly hindered.

Because at this point in the battle, about 10,000 soldiers who fled from the front had been killed and stabbed, and the remaining enemy soldiers were still fleeing for their lives.

The military situation is urgent, life and death are at stake, the cavalry of the Qingshun and Shun armies saw this situation, they were also very helpless, they cursed loudly, while struggling to pull out their horses and advance from the gap in the flow of people, and some anxious cavalry, they couldn't wait to pull out their machetes, and slashed hard at the people fleeing on both sides, and in the continuous screams, Shengsheng squeezed out a passage from it.

However, this delay did not affect for too long, because soon, those Tang spearmen who were in full armor and tried their best to catch up, after rushing for a certain distance, as if they expected the enemy cavalry to come to block them, they did not chase those routs all the way, but retreated, returned to the beast-like cave, and stood by to move.

Next to this huge ditch, the cavalry of the Qingshun and Qing armies reluctantly stopped pursuing.