Twenty days later.

Southwest of the South Fort of Dagukou.

In the swamp that had begun to thaw, a few dilapidated boats hid among the dry reeds, and even the canopy was full of reeds, like a few grains of sand in the vast sea of sand.

This swampy area is too big.

Because of the construction of the Great Wall along the coast, many small rivers leading to the sea were cut off, and the water of the Great Wall could not be crossed, so they could only find a new channel to flow into the Haihe River, and then create a vast pool of water in this low-lying coastal lowland, and then turn into a swamp surrounded by countless ponds after the water level drops in winter......

This is a paradise for water bandits.

It is also an underground passage for the Clearers.

"Why don't Jiannu burn the reeds?"

Liu Guoxuan, the head of the reconnaissance post directly under the Second Marine Corps, asked Chen Tai curiously while nibbling on the cold whale meat.

It was the latter who led them in.

It was not easy for the best of the professional snakeheads to sneak over a wall less than two feet high with dozens of infiltration masters, but they still had to wait here, waiting for the Ming army's attack to begin. And it wasn't just Liu Guoxuan's team that infiltrated, in fact, the entire reconnaissance post was led by those professional snakeheads to cross the Great Wall and lurk in this reed. This is the fifth day they have been incubating, and in order to avoid revealing their tracks, they have been nibbling on the cans they carry with them for five days, and the whale meat kept in tinned tin cans provides them with enough heat.

Even though it's unpalatable like a piece of.

"Brother Liu, do you think that Jiannu doesn't know that thousands of people escape from this reed swing every year?"

Chen Tai said.

The latter had an expression of humility seeking advice.

Liu Guoxuan, who is in his twenties this year, was the first batch to join the Marine Corps, and with his brains and martial arts, and of course, Zheng Chenggong's appreciation, he has been promoted to a position similar to that of a special captain, and he has a bright future in the army.

"They all knew that at first they really wanted to stop it, but then they all understood that even if they stopped, what could they do? Since these people really can't survive, and they can't let them live if they stay, then they can only rebel, and then Jiannu has to spend money and food to exterminate them. The most lacking thing in Jiannu is money and food, and the war in their rebellion will also destroy production and reduce Jiannu's taxes, on the contrary, they will have nothing to do when they leave, so why stop it? It's too embarrassing not to stop them, let's let them continue to sneak away for the sake of face! This reed, which stretches for nearly 100 miles, is a fig leaf, and even the fig leaf is gone when it is burned! ”

Chen Tai said with emotion.

"Uh, that means that you brought out groups of people so easily, in fact, with the tacit consent of Jiannu?"

A soldier next to him was stunned.

"I can't say that, although I know this kind of thing, but I still don't put my head on the belt of my pants, if I accidentally take a picture, then Jiannu will not be merciful, kill the same to solve the problem, and the people stationed in this area are all divine troops, these Jiannu minions are very bad!"

Chen Tai said.

"Captain!"

Suddenly, one of the soldiers in charge of observation shouted.

Liu Guoxuan hurriedly raised his head, and a red thing in the sky in the distance was slowly rising......

"Hot air balloons!"

Without hesitation, he threw away the can and shouted.

The Ming soldiers who had been waiting for five days on all the nearby ships rushed out of the cabin and looked at the hot air balloon in the sky with surprise, they had been waiting for this thing for five days. Almost at the same time, in the barracks next to the South Fort, countless Qing troops poured out to climb the city wall, dragging mountain splitting cannons and carrying muskets to rush towards them along the city wall in confusion.

The next moment, a muffled thunderous cannon sound came from the sky.

"Let's go!"

Liu Guoxuan put on his own camouflage and shouted.

Then he jumped out of the boat and stepped onto the thawing mud beside him, and his men disembarked one after another, and they hurried forward among the reeds in the camouflage of fishing nets and withered grass. At the same time, in this reed, two hundred elite Ming soldiers divided into five teams were moving forward together. On the city wall three miles in front of them, the artillery battle between the two sides had already begun, and the cannons erected by the Qing army on the nearby piers continued to spew flames forward. In the smoke of gunpowder, the cannonballs flying from outside also continued to fall on the city wall, and even the high cannonballs crossed the city wall and landed in this reed. But Liu Guoxuan didn't know what the specific situation of the Ming army was outside, the Great Wall blocked their view, but the rise of the hot air balloon was the signal for them to attack.

And the landing point of the Ming army was determined before.

This place just avoids the defense range of the 10,000-jin cannon of the South Fort, but the distance is not too far, and the Ming army that landed can be put into attack in the shortest time.

After all, those forty pounds of mortar cannons are not light!

If there is a mistake......

Then they will have to be wiped out.

However, Liu Guoxuan and his subordinates didn't bother to think about this problem at all, they kept moving forward under the cover of the reeds, and the vast reeds were their best protection. Even if it's not a green gauze tent in summer, the dry reeds in the wind make them completely at one with the environment in their khaki military uniforms and camouflage uniforms.

There were more and more Qing troops on the city wall ahead.

They stationed 2,000 Manchuria and 5,000 Banner Divine Army in the South Fort of Dagukou, and all of them were in the barracks of the South Fort except for 1,000 on the piers and platforms in various places. But the flat passage at the top of the city wall was like a national highway, which allowed the Qing army to quickly complete the deployment in a short time, and even the artillery could be dragged on it. In addition to the coverage area of those 10,000-pound cannons, both sides of the Dagu mouth were full of sediment brought by the Haihe River and the Yellow River, and the sea water was very shallow, and the cruisers could not get close at all, and the long-distance bombardment could hardly cause substantial damage to these city walls.

Even if it's just a rammed earth wall.

In the end, it can only be the infantry to land in a small boat and ride the tide, and then the ants will attack hard.

Then faced with the fire of the Qing army.

"Quick!"

Liu Guoxuan urged his subordinates.

At this time, another team on the right issued a code, and the two sides used the code, each of them moved forward under the cover of the reeds, and soon the distance was reduced to less than half a mile. Liu Guoxuan lay down without hesitation, and all the subordinates behind him lay down, and then began to crawl forward, while slowing down.

The Qing army was unaware.

They were all too familiar with the reeds.

It would not have been imagined that there was still a Ming army lurking here, and all their attention was directed to the sea outside, and there were not only cannons on those piers on the city walls, but even mountain splitting cannons joining in the fire. This means that the Ming army has been closed to less than a mile, the Qing army's mountain splitting cannon is basically a two-pounder cannon, the actual fired solid bullet weighs a catty, and the effective aiming range is only one mile, but even a catty shell is fatal for those small boats. And the number of this thing is extremely large, almost every Niu Lu in the Qing army has two, anyway, it is a cheap pig iron, our Qing Dynasty at this time by the Ming Dynasty is still very preferential treatment to craftsmen, Zunhua Iron Yard with charcoal smelting pig iron quality is not bad.

The artillery battle between the two sides became more and more intense.

Liu Guoxuan and the others who were crawling forward constantly had cannonballs whistling over their heads, the sound of the cannons blocked by the city wall was like rolling thunder, and the smoke of gunpowder from the counterattack on the city wall filled the sky, and floated to the reeds behind under the impetus of the sea breeze, adding a protection to Liu Guoxuan and others.

I don't know how long it took, but the reed swing finally came to an end.

Liu Guoxuan immediately stopped.

Covered with dry reeds, he quietly looked up in the last reeds, and looked through the reed leaves at the city wall, which was less than two feet in the smoke of gunpowder, and the broken bricks and dead bodies from the continuous impact of cannonballs fell from the city wall......

This is the last hundred steps.

It is also a hundred steps to achieve victory or loss, and even life and death.

He looked at both sides, a pair of eyes looking at him in the shade of the reeds, and he quietly untied the flying tiger claws on his waist, and those subordinates also untied their own flying tiger claws. At this time, the guns on the city wall also joined the firing, which meant that the attacking Ming army had entered a hundred paces, and soon they would face the arquebus of the Qing army.

Liu Guoxuan took a deep breath.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the city wall, and then a large number of Qing troops on the city wall in front of them swarmed to the right.

Clearly, this is a good opportunity.

He jumped out without the slightest hesitation, and even he didn't bother to look at his subordinates, in fact, he didn't need to look, his reconnaissance post was the nature of special forces, all of them were the elite of the elite selected by each brigade, and they didn't need any special commands at all, and they cooperated with each other very tacitly, and at the same time as he rushed out, all forty soldiers also rushed out. They rushed forward at full speed, and they were still cloaked, and their speed reached a hundred steps to sprint, and in almost less than twenty seconds, Liu Guoxuan was the first to reach the city wall.

The enemy overhead still didn't notice.

They didn't know what was going on, and they were all firing desperately outside.

Liu Guoxuan leaned his back against the city wall and then threw out the flying tiger claw upward, he didn't care what he hooked, he turned around and went up at full speed after pulling it with all his strength and finding that there was no problem.

That's when someone finally saw them.

On the city wall not far away, a Qing soldier raised his gun in astonishment and opened fire, and the bullet swept behind Liu Guoxuan, but at the same time, his hand grabbed the low wall at the top of the city.

Weekday training has achieved his feats at this moment, without the slightest delay, he instantly climbed the city wall, a Qing soldier who had just turned around looked down at him in amazement, Liu Guoxuan pulled out his gun before he stood up, and pulled the trigger on this guy's chin. The latter's response fell, and Liu Guoxuan, who threw away the short gun, had two more cone stabs in both hands, and a Qing soldier on his right just raised his knife to cut a subordinate who came out, Liu Guoxuan flicked his right hand, and the cone spur flew directly out of the chest of the Qing army. Several Qing soldiers opposite him who were raising their arquebuses and aiming outwards turned their heads at the same time, and before their arquebuses could be pointed at him, Liu Guoxuan ran into one of them. While his left hand stabbed him in the chest, he pushed the muzzle of the gun with his right hand, and the Qing soldier still instinctively pulled the trigger, and the bullet was shooting into the head of a Qing soldier next to him.

At this time, the second Ming army landed in the city.

The short gun in his hand then erupted into flames, and a Qing soldier who was aiming at Liu Guoxuan fell.

At the same time, the third Ming army ascended the city.

But the fourth place was cut on the shoulder by a Qing soldier at the same time as his head was exposed, he simply roared bravely and grabbed the hand holding the knife, and the other hand climbed the low wall and forcefully up, and was dragged up by the retreating Qing army, who was startled, and before he could react, he was pierced into the heart by the Ming army's cone thorn.

At this time, the second team of Ming troops rushed to the city.

However, Liu Guoxuan didn't care about the others, and even Liu Guoxuan didn't care about seeing where the Ming army outside was, he stabbed with one hand and killed wildly in the Qing army with the other. As the elite of the Ming army, it can be said that he is unstoppable when he enters the state of killing, and in the blink of an eye, there is no Qing army standing beside him, so he took the time to take a look outside......

And then he was stupid.

He even forgot that he was on the battlefield and just stared out in amazement.

Less than 100 steps outside is the high tide of the water.

Hundreds of small boats loaded with Ming troops came on the tide, many of them had already washed up on the beach, and the marines carrying ladders were rushing forward under the fire of the Qing army. However, the damage was not small, after all, they were almost a target at sea, and there were still dead bodies pushed to the shore by the tide.

But none of the Ming troops retreated, and they all charged forward like crazy.

But that's not what stunned him.

This is a normal picture.

That's what he's been waiting for for five days.

However, what stunned him was that among the Ming troops who only had cuirass on the beach, there was a guy with a full body of plate armor, holding a huge long-handled battle axe, stepping on the soft sand and galloping at a speed comparable to that of a war horse. And the Qing soldiers who gathered in horror were screaming and firing at him, and even two guns were spraying flames at him, but only seeing the bullets hitting obvious sparks on his body could not stop his progress at all.

This weird style of painting made Liu Guoxuan directly petrified.

Then in the blink of an eye, this steel monster with even his face covered under the iron mask had already rushed under the city wall, and a raised gun that was originally aimed at Liu Guoxuan hurriedly pointed at him. Immediately after that, the muzzle flames erupted, and several shotguns stuck to his chest, and the huge impact force even pushed him back involuntarily.

But then he held it up with a tomahawk.

Then he violently wielded his great axe and roared at the walls.

At this time, Liu Guoxuan also came to his senses.

He pulled out his other short gun as fast as he could, aimed it at a Qing soldier who was about to open fire on this guy, and pulled the trigger.

Then, at the same time as the Qing soldier fell, the steel monster let out a long roar, and suddenly jumped on the spot for more than half a zhang, and saw the giant axe in his hand in mid-air instantly turned into a dazzling arc light, and slashed at the top of the city wall with his roar. The stacks of arrows of the bricks shattered as if they had been struck by cannonballs, and the remaining great axes caught the wreckage of the female wall in the flying fragments. He was already falling, grasping the handle of the axe with both hands, and then kicked the city wall with all his feet, and the same iron-tipped boots even kicked into the rammed earth with some slope at once. But in the next moment, with the power of re-bounce, together with the giant axe in his hand, he took the blade of the axe that hooked the female wall as the center of the circle, and drew a piercing arc in mid-air again......