The attack on the city gate during the day caused the corpses to be dissatisfied from the inner city gate to the outer city gate, and the summer night was still not very cool, and the already wounded and mutilated corpse had begun to decompose at this time. Swarms of mosquitoes and flies densely spread all over the city gate. If it weren't for the fact that these elite families did not fight against the strong enemy on the front line in Liaodong and developed a fairly good psychological quality, they would have started to revolt at this time.

"Don't be afraid! No one survived the hail of bullets that came before. Even if the defenders inside built strong fortifications to block most of the bullets, they would definitely not have many dense troops to attack! Shangguan said, don't ask for beheading, as long as you win, the first to break the city will reward all the officers and soldiers below the general level with 5,000 taels of silver each! ”

The arithmetic is not very good, and the family members can't tell what a lot of money if everyone rewards five thousand taels of silver when they are about to fight, even if Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli and others don't take it, but they know what the meaning of five thousand taels means. That almost means a lifetime of financial freedom and even the threshold of really entering a big family. Therefore, the soldiers' spirit was also inspired by the fire in the darkness, and they launched an attack on the city gate.

Sure enough, as expected, the auxiliaries who survived in the city of Urn and even the inner city gates seemed to rely on the fortifications to throw bows and arrows and black powder grenades one after another, forming a very dense blow in the small area. It's just that these blows, whether they are black powder grenades with the power of a large artillery battle, or a war bow that is more than seven buckets to one stone, have little effect on the assault team that imitates the assault team on the head of the city while wearing heavy armor and forming a tortoiseshell array with a shield, and the fierce shells sometimes bring heavy casualties to the team, but only at the initial time can also deter the assault of the heavy Ming army, when the artillery heavy artillery is difficult to sustain the previous rate of fire, and the accuracy of the shells hit at a longer distance is not very good. Under the pressure of supervising the battle and rewarding the elite of the Ming army, they finally attacked the city gate, and even entered the inner city gate.

Just as more and more elite Ming troops began to break into the inner city gates, and used the explosives that had been prepared for a long time to launch a blasting attack in an attempt to destroy the last obstacles, suddenly from the night sky, a viscous liquid that seemed to be pouring rain sprayed over. Under the direct fire of the arrows of the hundred tigers rushing together, a raging fire quickly ignited, and the entire inner city gate went to the outer city gate. The corpses that had begun to decay and were lurking in danger of the plague were suddenly engulfed in flames, along with the attacking heavily armed Ming army.

The bullets outside the city that were responsible for suppressing and covering were more violent, but they still did not contain the Dao Dao fire dragon that drilled out from under the inner city walls and even under the city roots of the urn city, using stone carts and even rafts filled with oil, as well as the intestines composed of rafts filled with oil and animal intestines, and even the heavy weight of lead shotguns on the rafts that could be tilted down at any time. Under the artificially created pressure of about three or five atmospheres, the injection distance of fierce fire oil can finally reach a distance of ten to ten zhang, which brings a better and safer fire attack effect. The fire dragon could even barely cross the city and cover some of the reinforcements outside the city gates.

The raging fire also detonated some of the ammunition and even reserve ammunition carried by the attacking Ming army. Many Ming troops who were ready to take the opportunity to blast and bomb the city also broke down under the attack of this fire dragon. Not only the two key assault directions of Dongzhimen and even Andingmen, when the Ming army outside the city began to focus on attacking in the direction of other city gates, they also encountered the killing and wounding of the fire dragon that bypassed the city wall at any time from the direction of the city root, not only the original attack preparation was miscalculated.

Almost at the same time, the anxiety at the head of the city seemed to be coming to an end, and the artillery support prepared by the Ming army outside the city, although fierce, was obviously not as sustained as the archers inside the city. Although the Ming army outside the city can also concentrate a lot of elite archers for cover, the killing and wounding of offensive targets outside the city that are not covered by high walls is different from the targets hidden in the city walls and the high walls behind them, and the armor ratio of the troops invested by the two sides is also obviously different, which brings about a completely different survivability under the rain of bullets.

At this time, the building carts hiding a large number of gunners also began to use the high wall behind the city wall to launch fierce fire, sweeping the entire city head that could roughly judge the enemy's situation under the glow of the fire.

The continuous fierce battles around the city lasted for about an hour, and in order to avoid casualties, it was obvious that Xiao Xuan's heavy forces in the counterattack could not capture the entire city. However, it inflicted serious casualties on the Ming army that had just occupied the city.

The 400 officers and men of the eight assault formations were killed as many as 100 in the battle, and the total number of casualties was about half of the scale, and only more than 200 people were able to retreat in good condition, and the total casualties and losses were as many as 1,000 people, including the troops supported by the city.

However, in contrast, because of the lack of cover, the use of troops was not carefully calculated, and the level of protection of the troops was even worse, and a total of more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded in the fierce battle around the city, and there were thousands of corpses left on the city alone, most of which were solved by the counterattack of the assault troops with short spears and sharp blades like slaughter. In Andingmen and Dongzhimen, thousands of corpses of elite families were left.

Not only that, but the gunpowder and even the life of the cannon barrel that had been hoarded before also had a non-negligible consumption in this short period of time. The final result was that the besieging enemy army that had captured the city for more than ten miles was forced to retreat, and Xiao Xuan did not plan to invest too many troops in the defense of the outer city wall. When the techniques, tactics and even means of both sides have changed a lot compared with the ancient traditional city defense warfare, the advantage in the traditional city wall defense seems to no longer exist. It is expected that it is the focus of the forward contention between the two sides, and it is better to say that the entire city wall of the capital has become an obstacle like a moat for the defenders. But just this obstacle and a high wall behind it that didn't seem to be very strong became the biggest obstacle to the attacking army of more than 200,000.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao did not lose confidence and felt that this might be the result of the defenders' long-term planning, and if he launched a surprise attack in another place, it might still be fruitful. It's just that Yuan Keli lost the courage to continue the adventure at night: "It is too bad for us to see the bullet arrow clearly at night." You still have to find a new way... ”

(End of chapter)