The artillery on the walls of the three county towns also returned fire.

The two sides fought hard, and thousands of fishermen and pirates rushed towards the city walls with ladders on their backs.

As he rushed, he howled, like the roar of a wild beast.

The artillery on the three county towns is still very powerful, these are the Hongyi cannons of the Ming army and the Qing army captured by Zhang Qiang, and they have an advantage in range, and the pirates are scattered, and even destroy the two six-pound guns operated by the Portuguese and Dutch that were dismantled from the warship.

More than ten miles away, Zhang Qiang, who was marching, stopped, reined in his horse, frowned, the enemy was unexpected, listening to the sound of artillery, there were quite a lot of artillery on both sides, and the situation outside Sanmen County must be very grim.

There were only two thousand militiamen, one thousand soldiers of the Righteous Army with cold weapons, two hundred musketeers, and a garrison of about five hundred men from two hundred households.

"Speed up the march, we must get there." Zhang Qiang shouted to the team.

Lin Yangcheng watched the rebel soldiers on the city wall run around under artillery fire, and couldn't help but feel anxious, "I don't know if the prefect's reinforcements can come in time, otherwise I will be loyal to Daming today." ”

Zhu Dayou's eyes rolled, "My lord, if you let Zhang Ying's sailors attack and contain the enemy from the sea, when we arrive, the enemy must be very panicked, and we can defeat the enemy in one go." ”

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "No, we can't startle the snake, our strength on the sea is too small, more than 100 medium-sized warships, more than 200 small warships, can't fight with the enemy at all, once the battle, it must be the end of the annihilation of the whole army, I want to destroy the enemy on land, and then let them attack, then the enemy is really panicked, our sailors can play a role, now go out, the enemy can calmly defeat our sailors, the blow to our morale is very big." ”

"Rush, little ones, rush into the county seat, eat meat, grab money and rob girls." A pirate leader shouted excitedly.

The Jinhua rebels in the city had been suppressed, their artillery was too small, and the soldiers who operated the guns were not as elite as the Portuguese and Dutch.

At the cost of less than a hundred casualties, the pirates put ladders up the walls, bit daggers, waist knives, and climbed shirtless.

At this time, the pirate artillery stopped firing, and the officers watched the battle with monoculars.

Lin Chengcheng commanded the rebel soldiers to rush up the city wall and fight with the pirates who jumped on the city wall, in terms of hand-to-hand combat, how could these rabble be the opponents of the well-trained Jinhua rebels.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a rabble of pirates and fishermen was beaten down, leaving behind more than five or six hundred corpses and scattered.

Then they continued to attack the fleeing pirates with artillery.

The enemy's artillery continued to fire at the walls, and another wave of fishermen and pirates was sent up, and in the battles of the Cold Weapon Age, both sides always liked to use cannon fodder to consume each other's forces.

More than a dozen Hongyi cannons were blown up, and some small cannons were also destroyed, and the defenders of Sanmen County, who were already at a disadvantage, endured the enemy's artillery fire and held on to the city wall.

"Why hasn't Lord Zhou come yet, not even Lord Hu Kui?" Lin Chengcheng was so anxious that he didn't fight a big battle of tens of thousands of people, and he hadn't seen it, but he was pressed and beaten like this, this was the first time, and he didn't know what to do.

A soldier rushed over and said, "My lord, run away." ”

This is Lin cultivating his own old Kou, after several tosses, there are not many old Kou who followed him in the southern and northern wars, he was captured, scattered, and finally dispersed into his troops.

"Run, yes, let's run." Lin Cheng panicked, and immediately dragged the soldier to his war horse.

A Qian general ran over with the guards, "Lord Commander, what are you trying to do?" ”

"Oh, I'm here, use you to take care of it, do your thing." Lin Chengcheng shouted loudly.

Mr. Qian was unmoved, and shouted loudly: "My lord, escape from the battle, and be killed according to the law, do you want to insist, my lord?" ”

"I'm the commander, I'm your immediate boss, do you want to behead me? It's the other way around. Lin Chengcheng roared.

"Although you are my immediate boss, but you also have to abide by the rules of the Jinhua Righteous Army, at this time, you do not command the troops to fight, but want to escape, according to the military regulations of the Jinhua Righteous Army, I automatically take over your command, and set up a three-person military court to try you, now, you are arrested, put down your arms, and accept punishment." Qianhu was wearing the uniform of the regular army of the Jinhua Righteous Army, a blue military uniform, with a military rank and logo.

Lin Chengcheng is the commander, he has a regular army of 1,000 households and 2,000 militia troops, and the commander of the garrison battalion is not under his command, but he is also mobilized with him in wartime, and the main task is to defend the city.

Lin Yangsheng was just about to make a move, when several firebolts were aimed at them.

Lin Cheng had blue tendons on his forehead, but he finally suppressed his thoughts of escaping and resisting, he knew the policy of the Jinhua Righteous Army towards prisoners and deserters, not to mention that he used to be the commander of the prisoner camp and the hard labor camp, and he knew that if he fell out, what might happen, unless he defected to the Qing army, or surrendered to Zheng Cai immediately, he had no way to live, and even life was better than death.

"Alas," he sighed, telling his men to lower their weapons and tie their hands down.

The battle continued, but Lin Chengcheng, the supreme commander, was imprisoned by his own people, and Chinohe and the garrison took over his command and fought the enemy together.

Outside the city, Zheng Fu looked at the city wall with a telescope, "Go up, go up again, this time we rushed up the city wall for the fifth time, according to those deserters who fled back before, the corpses of the enemy on the city wall are piled up one after another, and a lot of them have been eliminated." ”

"Okay, let my elites strike," Zheng Cai shouted.

"My lord, you mean the Sailors?" Zheng Fu asked.

"Yes, let the armored soldiers come up," Zheng Cai shouted.

Tens of thousands of pirates and fishermen rushed up one after another, jumping on the city wall one by one, but were killed by the militia troops and abandoned their armor, and the militia also suffered heavy casualties, although they had received a lot of training, and had experienced several small-scale battles, but they had not experienced such a tragic fight, and they were all eliminated soldiers who had been brushed down by recruit training, and many militiamen began to flee under the impact of so many enemies.

A few miles away, Zhang Qiang finally came to the battlefield with his large army.

Zhu Dayou said: "My lord, according to the information we have, the enemy is concentrated near the county seat, part of it is on Longzhu Island, and the warships are anchored in the open sea, so we can block them outside the range of the enemy's warship artillery." ”

"Well, quietly interspersed with it. Then block the enemy's return route and outflank and annihilate. ”

"Send cavalry for sailors to attack and attract enemy ships."

A scout rushed down from the hill and shouted: "The city is broken, the enemy has entered the city." ”