Chapter 22: The Collapse of the Line

Outside the city, Bolo sat weakly on the ground, his fingers trembling, and this time his attack killed the two Jurchen Eight Banner Warriors of Niu Lu.

This is his capital, how many cattle are there in the Jurchen Eight Banners?

However, three hundred Niu Lu, plus those who turned into Han people and became complete Jurchen Tartars, this time besieged Jinhua Mansion City, he lost five Niu Lu's bannermen, as well as one hundred red armor, three hundred cotton armor, four hundred leather armor, seven hundred clothed minions, and the most important thing is that even the most expensive white armor warriors of the Jurchens also lost more than 70 people, and the warrior officers of the Zhang Jing level lost more than a dozen people.

He vomited blood in distress.

This does not include the Mongolian Eight Banners, the losses of the Mongolian Eight Banners are even more serious, more than 2,000 people, these are the elite of the Mongolian Eight Banners.

The Mongol generals were already privately complaining about his command.

Tshar and Sunit were silent with grim faces.

The villagers captured from around Jinhua lost more than 10,000 people, although the villagers were captured by them and were not counted in the army, but the regular soldiers also suffered heavy losses.

The Ming army lost 20,000 troops, the Han army lost 10,000 people, and even the Han army flag artillery that came to support also lost 300 people, and the artillery lost 35 guns, which was almost 40 percent of the troops he led.

Now he still has more than 70,000 people.

Seven thousand Jurchen Eight Banners, more than 15,000 Mongolian Eight Banners, 45,000 Han Army Banners, some newly attached squires near Jinhua, more than 4,000 soldiers trained by the Haoqiang Regiment, and 1,700 Han Army Banner Artillery, 160 cannons, 10 red-coated cannons, 90 Buddha machine guns, 50 Tiger squat cannons, 10 guns, and more than 40 other miscellaneous cannons.

Previously, he used the most cannon fodder in the nearby Jinhua Township Yong to attack the city, and the Ming army stood behind him, and later had to send the Ming army to fight, and then the Han army flags were sent.

But in a month, but the loss of more than 10,000 troops, after a series of replenishment, and 100,000, but in the past few days of siege, he found that his troops slipped from his hands like quicksand, and there were more than four or five thousand people who fled, plus the losses, the captured, and the dead.

Even the Mongolian Eight Banners had Han Chinese minions who fled, and even Baoyi had escaped, and morale had fallen to the point of being out of control.

He wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and stood up, and the guards led his horse and looked at him with trepidation.

"Kill."

A Ming army officer surrendered and said cautiously: "Lord Belle, now the enemy is resisting stubbornly, the master can besiege but not attack, trap them, the slave thinks, after more than a month of siege, the city will definitely lack food and clothing, can be besieged for a long time, and when the enemy has no food and grass, when the time comes, you can pay a piece of paper, and the city can be taken without attacking." ”

Bolo looked at him with red eyes, and said coldly: "Drag it out, cut it." ”

"Master, master, the slave is kind, master, master." The demote shouted and was dragged out, and in a moment a human head was carried up.

Bolo stared at the human head and scanned the surroundings, the generals around him were silent, and no one dared to provoke him at this moment.

"Attack again." Two words popped out from between his teeth.

In less than an hour, Zhang Qiang and the others once again ushered in a large-scale siege by the Qing army.

The Qing army directly crossed the first city wall and launched a large-scale siege on the second city wall, this time, in addition to the cannon fodder running in front, the squire's heroic regiment practiced the village bravery, followed by the Ming army, and then the Han army flag, and then the Mongolian Eight Banners, and then the Jurchen Eight Banners pressed the formation, wielding a horse whip, machete, and pulling a full bow.

The Han flag artillery and shotgunners also followed, slowly moving the cannons towards the city wall.

Seeing such a scene, Zhang Qiang directly retreated to the second city wall with three hundred firearms.

"Papapa" the muskets on the city wall, the sound of fire guns is constant, the sound of bows and arrows is indecisive, and the volunteers on the city wall continue to throw spears, stones, and axes to kill and injure the enemy.

The enemy, carrying ladders, stumbled under the walls, swarmed up, and then fell under the walls in pieces.

The archers of the Han army banner behind, the Mongolian archers, shot locust-like feathered arrows at the city wall, and the screams were endless.

As far as the eye can see, in less than a quarter of an hour, the enemy at least more than 10,000 people poured in, this time Zhang Qiang did not have the opportunity to plant gunpowder and squander fire oil, so he could only resist hard, more than 2,000, close to 3,000 volunteers fought with the enemy.

In half an hour, the walls on the left and right flanks were overcome, and the enemy attacked the volunteers in the center along the walls.

The ants are attached to the siege and are extremely cruel.

You Haibo's family and 2,000 volunteers fought and retreated, retreating from the limited passage to the hills behind, and the enemy followed closely.

Zhang Qiang only led nearly a thousand people to resist for another half an hour, retreating to the hills, the fighting in other places was tight, and there were no extra troops to reinforce them, only some unwilling people in the city, women and weak guards the weak points between the hills and the hills.

On the two largest hills, You Haibo killed and wounded the enemy with crossbow arrows on one side, and on this side, Zhang Qiang killed and wounded the enemy with three hundred firearms, and used the rebel soldiers to fight the enemy in close combat.

The night was late, the fighting was still going on, and it was already late at night.

Suddenly, Zhang Qiang heard, "Your Domination Skill has been upgraded to Level 2, you can command 100 Volunteer Soldiers, and the Righteous Army Soldiers under your command will increase their combat effectiveness by 10, their weapon proficiency by 10, and their loyalty to you by 1 point." ”

Zhang Qiang could only smile bitterly when he heard this, this kind of skill improvement at this time was useless for the whole battle, there were tens of thousands of enemies, and there were constantly pouring in troops, and there were only a hundred people, which could only give him a little psychological comfort.

The reason why he can lead so many rebel armies is because he now has the official title of deputy commander of the rebel army convened by Zhu Daxue, most of the city generals and Minzhuang are still used to reporting to Zhu Dadian, and he currently doesn't know the situation in other places, including whether the people have retreated, where they are settled, how many displaced people and refugees are still alive, where is it, and how the battle at the North Gate is.

The information he got intermittently was reported from the family members he sent out to make him an official.

The battlefield has been flooded by the enemy, the enemy is like ants pouring over, he can only shoot mechanically, reload, shoot again, and from time to time he has to draw his waist knife to melee with the enemy in close quarters.

"My lord, the left wing has collapsed."

"My lord, the right wing has collapsed."

"My lord, the Mongols broke through the defenses and killed the palace."

"My lord, the Han Army Banner broke through the southwest defense line and killed the west gate."

"My lord, the Jurchens killed them from the city wall to the east gate."

There were musketeers around him, and the musketeers were screaming in panic, and some of them had retreated to the top of the hill, looking down on the whole city.