Chapter 233: Out of the city to fight
Su Hongzu gave an order, first launched hundreds of Hongyi cannons to fire a salvo at Luoyang City a mile away from Luoyang City, and when the Qing soldiers opened fire, the Ming artillery on the city tower also counterattacked.
"Bang, bang." Five or six hundred cannons were aimed at the Qing artillery and bombarded it.
Thanks to Zhu Youlang's strict management of the army, under the heavy reward, the soldiers were terrible and familiar with the operation of firearms, so that the Ming artillery could concentrate fire and bombard within ten steps of three miles away under the order, so as soon as the Qing artillery was exposed, the Ming artillery took the lead in gathering fire to bombard the Qing artillery.
After the first round of Hongyi artillery bombardment, Su Hongzu immediately drew out a big knife and pointed at the east gate of Luoyang City: "Give Ben will take this city, and whoever climbs this city for the first time will be rewarded with ten thousand taels." ”
As soon as Su Hongzu's words came out, the generals around him immediately drove their horses away, and the green battalion soldiers who had been prepared immediately rushed towards Luoyang City with a battalion carrying a cloud ladder.
Just when the Qing soldiers rushed to one hundred and fifty paces, the big and small Buddha wolf machines in the city all blasted towards the Qing soldiers under the city, and for a while, countless lead bullets were scattered towards the Qing soldiers like a torrential rain.
For a time, batches of Qing soldiers fell in the rain of lead bullets, and the big and small Buddha wolf machines were strictly trained, and the Ming soldiers fired nine sub-cannons in one go.
In the rain of large pieces of lead bullets, looking at the soldiers who fell in batches, the Green Battalion soldiers all slowed down with all their hearts, and did not have the momentum of descending the mountain like a tiger before.
This is because most of these green battalion soldiers are from the Ming army, and they know that it is extremely difficult for the Ming soldiers to have combat effectiveness under the lack of sound and food, especially those generals have no intention of being in the Ming Dynasty at all.
With such a deep understanding, they all thought that as long as the brigade rushed over, they could make the Ming soldiers surrender, but these Ming soldiers who had not fought against Zhu Youlang's new training had never thought that the Ming soldiers would have such combat power.
But after seeing the green battalion soldiers behaving like this, Su Hongzu immediately gave the order to supervise the team to move forward.
Su Hongzu ordered, and the Eight Banners Cavalry Supervision Team, which had already been prepared, immediately rode forward, and driven by the saber, the green battalion soldiers gritted their teeth and pushed towards Luoyang City.
And after the nine sub-cannons were fired, the big and small Buddha wolf machines stopped shelling, and at this time, the Hongyi cannon that needed to be bombarded with the Qing artillery had also ended, and when the Qing soldiers approached the city wall.
The soldiers of the open fire battalion immediately lined up and fired their guns down the city wall, while the green battalion soldiers from the south under the city wall all took up their positions and fired a volley of fire at the city one by one.
At that time, the soldiers of the barracks, who had already come to the boiling Khan with the people, were on the tower in ten steps, and the soldiers of the firearms battalion retreated under the command of the banner.
After the firearms battalion soldiers retreated, the Ming soldiers immediately poured gold juice into the city, and when the boiled gold juice fell down, the soldiers under the city immediately screamed again and again.
When the city was full of smell, the soldiers of the firearms battalion and infantry battalion who had already prepared under the city immediately opened the city gate and rushed out of the city under the command of Chen Youlong.
The Qing soldiers did not expect that the Ming soldiers would open the city gate and go out of the city to meet the battle, and for a while, those soldiers who were already in chaos immediately retreated.
It's just that the overseers in the back don't care about the life and death of the green battalion soldiers at all, and those who retreat will be killed, so those green battalion soldiers are even more chaotic.
But the chaos of the green battalion did not make the Ming soldiers soft, but the Ming generals were even more excited to command the Ming soldiers to fight and rush when they saw the green battalion soldiers in chaos.
Originally, under Chen Youlong's assumption, after a shock blow, the Ming soldiers immediately retreated, but at this time, the battalion generals standing in front saw the chaos of the green battalion soldiers rushing towards the Qing army, and they immediately let go of their hands and feet and pushed forward with the soldiers.
Although the Ming soldiers rushed quickly, under the strict military discipline, these soldiers still rushed forward in a formation.
As soon as Su Hongzu saw the green battalion soldiers besieging the city rushing over as if they were being driven out, he knew that the rebels were hurting the army formation, so he immediately ordered the cavalry to ride and order the green battalion soldiers who had been routed to go on two sides.
Under Su Hongzu's order, the green battalion soldiers who attacked the city and collapsed had already come to the Qing army camp three miles away, but the Eight Banners elite cavalry who had already obeyed the order immediately drove these chaotic soldiers to the left and right of the military formation.
Driven by the Eight Banners Elite Cavalry, these Green Battalion soldiers went to the two sides one by one, and at this time, the Ming soldiers in front also saw from the clairvoyant mirror that the Eight Banners Cavalry drove the Green Battalion soldiers to the two sides.
Seeing this, General Ming immediately ordered the soldiers of the firearms battalion to march in front, with the infantry battalion soldiers behind, leaving space every ten zhang for a quick retreat.
In a few moments, the chaotic soldiers who failed to attack the city and were driven out by the Ming soldiers had all retreated to the two sides, and the green battalion soldiers that Su Hongzu had already prepared immediately pushed forward.
Just when Su Hongzu was about to swallow the Ming soldiers in front of him, the soldiers of the open fire battalion immediately fired a volley at the Qing soldiers, and these open fire weapons battalion, which had already stopped the formation, immediately retreated after a round of musket volleys.
At that time, every ten steps behind him, a general held a swarm of bees and shot at the Qing soldiers who rushed over, and in a few breaths, countless rockets shot towards the Qing soldiers like a torrential rain.
At the time of the rocket salvo, the soldiers of the firearms battalion retreated in formation while loading, and immediately after the rocket salvo was completed, the infantry battalion soldiers immediately retreated.
Just as the Qing soldiers were pursuing, the firearms battalion still fired a volley at the Qing soldiers, and after the firearms battalion finished firing the salvo, the infantry battalion suddenly rushed out.
Just when there were more and more Qing soldiers, the Ming artillery in the city immediately bombarded the Qing soldiers outside the city under the command of the banner.
At this time, the open fire battalion retreated backwards and pulled out of the inverted eight-figure formation under the command of the banner, and the Ming soldiers were only two miles away from the city.
And Su Hongzu had become extremely angry in his heart because of the previous rout, so he ordered all the green battalion soldiers who were originally preparing three or four batches to attack the city.
At this time, Su Hongzu just wanted to eliminate these Ming soldiers in front of him, of course, his heart still longed for the Ming soldiers in the city to come out to the rescue, but what made Su Hongzu not believe it was that the orderly advance and retreat of the Ming soldiers and the cooperation with the Ming Hongyi cannon in the city made him frightened.
At this time, the Ming soldiers had already been fighting with the Qing Green Battalion soldiers who rushed over, and just as the Qing soldiers were gathering more and more, the hundreds of infantry in front of the firearms battalion were already holding a swarm of bees and igniting the Qing Green Battalion soldiers.
Just when the rocket was shot like a torrential rain again, the Qing general was also amazed that the Ming soldiers dared to shoot rockets at such a close distance, regardless of the life and death of their own people.
It was only when the rockets fell behind their own army formations that they understood how well-trained the Ming soldiers' rockets were, and these rockets did not fall in the area where the Ming soldiers and the Qing soldiers were fighting, but outside the melee area.
With the help of rockets, the Ming infantry began to retreat while fighting, and when the Ming soldiers retreated to the front of the firearms battalion, the open flame battalion soldiers who had withdrawn from the inverted eight-figure formation immediately shot at the Qing soldiers.
At this time, the infantry immediately retreated with the cooperation of the firearms battalion, and just as the open firearms battalion soldiers finished firing, the Hongyi artillery in the city bombarded again.
With the cooperation of hundreds of Hongyi cannons, the Ming soldiers immediately retreated to the city in an orderly manner.
And the Qing soldiers were under the urgent order of the supervising team and Su Hongzu, and those green battalion soldiers quickly chased after them, and when the Ming soldiers retreated to a hundred steps below the city while fighting, the big and small Buddha wolves in the city were disguised as single lead bullets and shot at the Qing soldiers.