In the sky above Wuzhou Mansion, a sharp eye, a sharp mouth, and powerful wings vigorously stirred the air, raising his huge body high, quietly hiding under a cloud, his head turned, and his eyes stared at every corner of the battlefield, just like a drone carrying a holographic camera, transmitting every detail of what happened on the battlefield to Zhang Qiang.

When did the Southern Ming Army resist so strongly?

The whole battlefield seemed to be burning.

There were about 100 artillery guns firing on all sides of the city, and the walls of the city had collapsed in many places, and more places were collapsing in the artillery fire, and even many places in the city were hit by the incoming shells, and the houses were collapsing, and many people were running in panic.

The artillery fire stopped an hour later, countless Qing troops rushed to the city wall from all directions, many Southern Ming troops on the city wall were busy, cleaning up the wreckage, lifting up the overturned cannon, and then operating the cannon to re-fire, a group of Ming troops running into the stream like running from the city to the city wall, or the gap in the city wall, desperately moving stones, soil, and putting them in the gap to plug the gap, the gap was restored at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, the Qing army was not idle and had nothing to do, and played with cannons bombarding the city wall, and the Qing cavalry had already rushed close to the city wall, bent their bows and arrows, and splashed a wave of arrow rain on the Ming army at the gap.

The gap is very irregular, and some are high, some are low, the war horse can not be around the potholes, boulders, city wall bricks, such a complex terrain rushed to the gap in the city wall from the gap and jumped in, the gap is too high, some are as low as two meters, some are more than three meters high, not the war horse can cross, the purpose of the cavalry is only to give the Ming army defending the city a blow, and then let the infantry behind the impact of the gap.

They wanted to suppress the Ming army, the Ming army was not vegetarian, soon someone counterattacked with bows and arrows, after all, the cavalry had strong mobility and ran around the city wall, the bow and arrow counterattack at the head of the city could not work, only three or two cavalry were unlucky to be shot down, and then the Ming army on the city wall was enraged, a row of arquebuses fired several rounds of volleys, the cavalry fell off their horses, and then ran farther away in panic to dodge, they did not complete the task of suppressing the Ming army that blocked the gap at the gap.

After the artillery fired, they had to retreat farther away, anyway, they could not enter the city gates, they could not jump into the gap, there was no need to die.

About one-tenth of the cavalry were dismounted or killed, and then the Qing infantry rushed forward.

Swords, guns, swords, halberds, everything, and carrying a short ladder.

There were a lot of Qing troops in the east of the city, but the Ming army in the city obviously didn't know that they transferred their soldiers to the west of the city, and the Ming army in the west of the city had already started hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

This time it was the real Qing army, the Han army flag, which was particularly fierce.

And many of them came up with axes, pickaxes, and shovels, as if they would not stop until they had dug down your walls.

On one side, he was carrying a ladder to attack the city, and on the other hand, he was digging a wall under the city wall, and the busy Ming army was overwhelmed.

On the city wall, the Ming army's bows and arrows, crossbow arrows were swayed together, rolling wood and stones, and some people even picked up the bricks of the city wall that were blown up and smashed the Qing army below.

Hold on for more than half an hour, seeing that the Qing army has dozens of people jumping into the gap and is about to kill the Ming army at the gap, and more Qing troops have broken through, from the mouth of the alley to turn out a team of Ming troops, pushing a few small cannons, regardless of the gap is a bombardment, suddenly the gap is clean, all the Qing troops have fallen, all the Ming troops have fallen, and then a team of Ming troops poured out, brandishing knives and guns to climb the city wall, reoccupy the gap, and the other team is arquebus troops.

Dressed in reddish-brown coarse cloth, the word Musketeer is written in black letters, and a white arquebus in the shape of an arquebus is printed on the back.

This gap was blocked, and the other gap was still fighting, and the musketeers ran quickly along the city wall to other places, and then with a volley of guns, the Qing army below collapsed, some retreated and some came back again, and some simply retreated, far resting.

However, the gap in the east of the city did not stop because of the arrival of arquebusiers and small cannons, more Qing troops rushed up, a surprise attack with bows and arrows, and then used arquebuses to fight each other, the two sides suffered casualties, and then the cold weapons of the Qing army rushed up again, climbed the gap, and dug the city wall.

When the battle was in full swing, piles of corpses piled up under the city walls, and the corpses of the Ming army continued to fall or be pushed down on the city walls, and then new soldiers took up their positions and continued to fight against the Qing army.

In the blink of an eye, it has been several hours since the Qing army attacked, and the Ming army, which was insufficient in strength, could not defend against the Qing army, and several gaps in the east of the city were occupied, and the Ming army and the Qing army continued to fight on the city wall and at the gaps.

Zhang Qiang's war eagle was watching from above, and he didn't quite understand the mental movement of the decentralized generals.

In the city, Feng Shuangli was already preparing to retreat.

In this battle, he has already suffered heavy losses, 40,000 elite soldiers, and currently only 5,000 new troops, 2,000 cavalry, and 2,000 remnants are available.

In the palace, he put on his clothes, strode out of the palace that had been entrenched for several years with his guards, glanced back, and then stepped on his horse and headed towards the west gate with the last of his troops.

He has figured out the west gate, it is the enemy's feint attack force, the real main force is in the east gate, at present, the east gate has not fallen except for the city gate, and the other gaps have been lost.

He sent all the 2,000 remnants of his army over, hoping to plug the gap and delay the enemy's time to take the city gates.

Simon, when he came here, ordered four thousand of the five thousand new troops to counterattack from the breach, led the three thousand soldiers who were still holding out, and one thousand young men to counterattack, and then made peace with him a mile outside the city gate.

The city gate was opened, and he took the hundreds of soldiers guarding the city gate, a thousand new troops, and two thousand cavalry poured out like a tide, and then slashed all the way, and the enemy retreated like a tide, and he rushed to a mile outside the city gate, only to get rid of the horses, boulders, and ditches that he had set up to hinder the enemy's attack.

Then he waved his army to attack the second line of defense at a distance of 3,000 meters, and the defeated soldiers followed him all the way, and the Qing army, which had no idea that the enemy would counterattack, retreated again and again.

When Feng Shuangli arrived at the first trench five miles away and laid a fort that occupied the gap in the main road, there were 2,000 new troops, and a thousand soldiers were still following him.

Looking down from the sky, the Ming army fought very fiercely in order to escape for their lives, and the Qing army also ran for their lives in order to intercept the Ming army, and the Qing army even sent arquebus troops to intercept it.

When Feng Shuangli stopped six miles away, there were only 1,500 new troops and 1,800 cavalry around him, and the others were blocked on the road, and a phalanx composed of hundreds of Qing army new troops on the opposite side was waiting for him.

Feng Shuangli hurriedly formed his team, preparing to fight the last battle, if he could not quickly defeat the enemy, the cavalry of the Qing army arrived, and he was finished.

(End of chapter)