The artillery of the Qing army ravaged the city wall, and also slaughtered the righteous soldiers who defended the city, every moment someone was hit by the cannonball or the gravel stirred up by the cannonball, died, injured, screamed, and even some people cried and shouted for their mother, some people were timid, some people panicked, some people dropped their weapons and ran down, but they were killed by the officials behind them and some of the Ming army township brave officers, under the threat of death, many people even directly faced the government officers and Ming army township brave officers counterattacked, However, their force and numbers were not enough to face the powerful military officials and the Ming army's township brave officers.

Order was maintained in a panic.

It is not yet at the point of final collapse.

Some squires and landlords also rushed up with their own families to help maintain order and fend off the Qing army's besieging soldiers.

Zhang Qiang barely calmed down after the initial panic, how to say that he is also the highest officer here, except for Zhu Dadian.

However, at this moment, he has not been recognized by everyone, those squires and bureaucrats, officials, officials, or have received Zhu Dadian's report, but they have not met, and even after meeting, with Zhang Qiang's background and the identity of a stranger, who will really listen to his command, or treat him as an official.

Personally, he has no prestige in Jinhua City, and in terms of his position, he has no prestige in the entire ranks of the rebels.

So, no one would really listen to him, even if he told them that he was their ruler.

Therefore, he can only fight by himself now, and the ones who can help him are the two family members sent by Zhu Dadian and the five patrol soldiers he brought just now, how can they be said to know Zhang Qiang, and they dare not help because of Zhu Dadian's prestige, at least they have to protect Zhang Qiang.

Because the front city wall in the southwest corner was ravaged by enemy artillery at this moment, Zhang Qiang had to lead two family members and the remaining four patrol soldiers to move more than a mile south of the Jinhua city wall.

At this moment, the archers of the rebel army here are blocking the new annex of the Qing army who is about to climb the city wall, that is, the Ming army that has surrendered to the Qing army.

The battle is very fierce, the enemy's ladders and siege vehicles have not moved to the mouth of the city wall, there are more than a dozen cannons bombarding the city wall, the casualties on the city head are still not small, after a while, no one is not injured, the light serious injuries were carried down, Zhang Qiang saw that there were forty or fifty, almost more than a hundred dead, and a team of rebel soldiers was made up under the city wall.

Hiding in the corner next to the gate tower of the city wall, Zhang Qiang stood on tiptoe and looked outside the city wall, there was still a dense crowd, and there were many casualties of the enemy, after all, it was an ant attached to the siege of the city, this primitive attack method, even if the Qing army was brave, the surrendered Ming army was forced to climb the city wall and send it to death, but they were much braver than when they were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, because if they did not advance, they could only be killed by the Qing army, and they might not be killed if they advanced, as long as they captured the city wall, they had a chance to live.

In less than half an hour, when the sun was at the head, the Qing army besieging the city had pushed the ladder and siege vehicle to the base of the wall, and heard a shout, the cannon fodder of the Qing army, the Ming army descended and climbed up to the city wall, and the soldiers of the righteous army hurriedly chopped those ladders with forks, spears, and even axes.

At the same time, the rolling wood and stones were thrown, and from time to time there were women who brought boiling hot oil, and when a pot of hot oil was poured down, they listened to the sound of the hot oil burning the skin, and could smell a scorching smell, and the screams were incessant, and the enemy's first wave of attack was useless, and soon retreated.

Only the cannon was still roaring, the head of the wall was hit violently from time to time, there was a shock under the feet, a few screams, standing on the city gate tower and looking around, I saw that the corpses of the dead rebels had no time to be transported.

The enemy was already regrouping, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the troops were driven to attack the city, this time, the enemy's strength was even stronger, and some soldiers began to break through the resistance of the rebels on the city wall sporadically, jumped on the wall, and fought with the rebels.

Zhang Qiang did not fight, even if the enemy jumped in from outside the city walls on both sides of the city gate tower where Zhang Qiang was, there were four patrolmen and two family members to resist for Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang is like a spectator, if there is a camera, he may be a battlefield reporter, recording this amazing scene and making a documentary.

It's a pity that he isn't, the reason why he doesn't go up to fight, on the one hand, is that he is afraid of death, on the other hand, he doesn't know if he can beat the enemy, he was an otaku before he was born, you let the otaku fight with a gangster, they are all beaten goods, bullied, how can you cut and kill people head-on, isn't the decades of benevolence education in the Celestial Empire done useless work?

Zhang Qiang's whole body was drenched with sweat, because he was scared and nervous.

But it's useless to be afraid, according to his observation, these two groups of sieges, at least two thousand Ming soldiers died, dozens of Mongolian cavalry, one or two Qing army bannermen, and the righteous soldiers on the city wall also died at least two thousand people, most of them could not last a quarter of an hour on the city wall, because the Qing army's attack time was quite short, almost a quarter of an hour, just retreated a wave, there was another wave rushed over, even set up ladders, climbed the city wall, and the time to fight was only half an hour, and during this period, the enemy's artillery has been bombarding non-stop, Even if the enemy retreats, the enemy's shells can bring fear and death to the city walls, at least dozens of casualties at a time.

After two hours of attacking, when the sun tilted to the west, the enemy soldiers finally climbed up, and the walls were plunged into fierce fighting, full of enemies, and the rebel soldiers were in the middle, and they were almost invisible.

The squire's family members were now coming up from under the city walls, and then like dough thrown into a frying pan, fried inside and tender on the outside, covered in blood.

The patrolmen guarding the city gate tower finally couldn't resist, the two patrolmen fell to the ground with a scream, the two Ming soldiers wearing tattered soldiers' clothes and wearing hats poured in, and the remaining one patrolman and Hu Kui hurriedly ran over from the other side to support Zhang Qiang, and fought together with the two Ming spearmen.

On the other side, two soldiers of the righteous army and two family members of Zhu Dadian's mansion resisted these seven or eight Ming saber players.

Zhang Qiang trembled and retreated to the attic on the second floor of the city gate tower, and at the same time, nervously pulled out the short fire gun he was wearing, nervously loaded, as a pseudo-army fan, how many times have I heard of this kind of short fire gun, at this moment, the first time I used it, I can think of that kind of nervousness.

"Ahh

Instead of helping his companion kill Hu Kui, the leader of the patrol, the pikeman smirked and ran towards Zhang Qiang at the staircase of the attic.

Zhang Qiang felt that his throat was itchy, his throat was dry and about to smoke, and he shivered and aimed the short fire gun at the Ming army pikemen, who dodged left and right, while bending over and holding the spear, a bloodstained face, a pair of red eyes, staring at him deadly, and the short fire gun in his hand, which looked like he was going to eat people.

Zhang Qiang barely swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva, and pointed at the pikeman, "Ahhh

"Boom-"

Zhang Qiang saw the pikeman's body fly out of the window of the city gate tower cleanly, falling down like under the city wall.

"Ahh

"You killed a new pikeman of the Qing army, and you gained 24 experience." Zhang Qiang heard the cold mechanical sound of the riding and chopping system that he had heard before ringing in his ears.