The defenders of the city must withdraw! When he heard the report of his subordinates, Duoduo immediately understood the intentions of the Ming army. Fastest updates

As for why it wasn't to come for reinforcements, because the Sizhou city wall has been bombarded by artillery with many gaps, and it is already a matter of time before it falls, if it weren't for the unwillingness to lose the elite Eight Banners warriors under him, but sent the green battalion soldiers as the main force to attack the city, Sizhou City would have been defeated a long time ago.

Now that the Ming army is about to withdraw, Duoduo naturally can't let them get their wish.

The siege suddenly became fierce, and Duoduo sent Kong Youde as the main general of the siege, leading the Han army to launch a strong attack on the city. Kong Youde ordered his subordinates to use the thick wooden planks covered with cowhide as shields, transported several artillery pieces to the gap, and fired fiercely at the Ming army's tiger squat artillery position behind the gap.

The firing range of the tiger squat cannon was only more than a mile, and it was impossible to return fire in the face of the artillery bombardment of the Qing army outside the city, and the low wall was destroyed by the Qing artillery in a short period of time, and the gunners behind were shot on their backs.

Jin Shenghuan ordered the Tiger Squat Cannon to be transferred immediately, the Tiger Squat Cannon itself was only thirty or forty catties, and a soldier could resist. Wait for the Qing artillery to attack and then move back when the soldiers attack, and continue the blockade.

Who knew that at the same time as the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, Kong Youde ordered a group of Eight Banners to quietly move outside the city wall, and quickly rushed over the gap and rushed inward while the artillery stopped. On the city walls on both sides of the gap, the Ming gunners continued to shoot downward, and from time to time the Eight Banners were shot to the ground, but the ones behind continued to advance regardless of it.

Duoduo has already given a death order, and today he must capture the city of Sizhou and slaughter all the soldiers and civilians inside.

The Eight Banners entered the gap, but were blocked by a one-man deep trench, the hastily dug trench was not wide, but there was a low wall behind the ditch, and it was not easy for the Eight Banners wearing heavy armor to cross over. Fortunately, they had already prepared, and used the wooden planks they carried to stand on the ditch, and stepped on the planks to attack behind the ditch.

A soldier of the Eight Banners stepped on the plank and did not step on it steadily, and fell down suddenly, and was surprised to find that there was nothing wrong, it turned out that there was a thick layer of dry firewood and thatch in the ditch, which was wet to the touch, and there was a smell of oil when I smelled it.

"Ahh Be careful! He suddenly screamed, and before he could finish speaking, dozens of fires suddenly fell into the ditch, and the ditch suddenly burst into flames. The Eight Banners soldier hurriedly climbed up the ditch, but the speed of the flames was faster than his, and in a moment his body was covered in flames.

In order to prevent the Qing army from crossing the trench into the city, Jin Shenghuan ordered the young people in the city to throw a large amount of dry firewood and thatch into it, and ordered to collect vegetable oil from all over the city, pour it on the dry firewood, and then fire it with rockets from the city wall.

As soon as the oil met the fire, it burned rapidly, and the flame spread rapidly, and in a short period of time the trench burned into a fire dragon, and the flame spit out dry wood and burned to make a click-click sound, and a ditch that was not wide suddenly became a moat that hindered the Eight Banners from crossing, and the wooden planks sandwiched on the ditch were ignited in a short time, and the Eight Banners who did not cross the ditch could no longer cross.

Behind the ditch, thousands of Ming troops were waiting for a strict formation, and in front of them was a strict queue of 1,000 Ping Southern Army, with strong bows and crossbows, firearms and artillery, and launched a fierce attack on more than 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers who were cut off by the flames.

Duoduo sent Kong Youde with the Eight Banners Han Army to be responsible for the siege of the city, and at the same time sent Beleni Kanmel Ezhen Yild with 10,000 Outer Mongolian cavalry to kill the Huai River at the east gate of Sizhou. The Mongol cavalry were good at cavalry and archery, and could shoot at the river flotilla, killing and injuring the Ming troops on board to prevent the evacuation of the soldiers and civilians in the city. In order to completely destroy the fleet, Dordor gave Nikan a large number of rockets.

The range of the bow and arrow is only one hundred and fifty paces, and the Mongolian cavalry shoots arrows on the horse with a softer bow, the range is less than 100 meters, when Nikan rushed to the Huai River with the cavalry, before the bow and arrow range, suddenly countless white smoke came out of the boat in the river, and then there was a deafening sound.

When the Qing cavalry was more than a mile away, Wu Ping on the ship had already ordered the cannon to be fired.

More than 100 sand ships are all ships carrying goods on the canal, in order to improve their attack power, the Ordnance Department specially cast artillery on them, of course, with this kind of ships carrying goods, it is impossible to install too large guns, otherwise the recoil alone will tear the ship apart. The guns on the ship were all small-caliber and lighter, including tiger squat guns, bowl-mouth guns, and light Franco machine and mother guns that were only three or four hundred pounds. Of course, there are more firearms such as a swarm of bees and flying dragons made by the Ordnance Division.

After nearly a year of preparation, the Ordnance Division produced and stored a large number of firearms, in order to rely on powerful firearms to fight against the Qing soldiers.

Before the Mongol cavalry could get close to the flotilla, they were hit by the ship's artillery, and dozens of shells fell into the array, causing dozens of casualties among the cavalry. Of course, this level of casualties is not a fart for a cavalry of 10,000 people.

But when the cavalry continued to approach, into the river bank more than 200 steps, countless arrows flew head-on, that is a swarm of bees and a hundred tigers rushed arrows on the boat, a swarm of bees and a hundred tigers rushed arrows together, a swarm of bees and hundreds of tigers ran arrows were loaded with a hundred, dozens of swarms of bees and hundreds of tigers rushed arrows at the same time, tens of thousands of arrows flew head-on, the formation of the Mongolian cavalry was naturally very complete, but could not stand the opponent's arrows too much, the cavalry on the horse fell down from the arrows.

Tens of thousands of arrows were released at one time, and these dozens of rockets were worth nearly 1,000 taels of silver, and in the late Ming Dynasty, when the army was extremely poor, only the Pingnan Army was willing to spend so much money.

Suddenly attacked by the rain of arrows, Berenikan's heart was extremely shocked, such a dense rain of arrows could only be seen when Jin had just founded the country and fought against the Ming army around 20 years ago.

The Mongol cavalry were all light cavalry, at most wearing a pair of leather armor, and the war horses had no defense at all, so they could not withstand this kind of arrow rain at all, and the distance of 200 paces was far beyond the range of the Mongolian cavalry's bows and arrows, and if they went further, they would probably receive more blows. The long-range weapons of the Ming army fleet in the river were too powerful to be dealt with by the cavalry's bows and arrows.

Immediately, Nikan tried to restrain his horse and ordered the cavalry to retreat immediately and disengage from the Ming fleet.

However, once the horses were about to run, it was not so easy to stop and turn, and at the same time they were attacked by two rounds of arrows, and by the time Nikan led the cavalry to withdraw from the range of the fleet, at least six or seven hundred cavalry fell under the rain of artillery and arrows.

At the same time as the fierce battle broke out by the river, the people in the city of Sizhou entered the Huai River along the water gate and evacuated Sizhou, many people rowed rafts made of wood with door panels, or took small boats, supported by bamboo poles along the Huai River to Hongze Lake. With the protection of the fleet, they did not have to worry about being attacked by the Qing army. Sizhou was originally facing the Huai River Hongze Lake, and the Bianhe River passed through the city, and there were many boats in the city.