Chapter 20: Defeat the enemy again
The backyard of the Zhu Mansion.
"Miss, miss,"
"Well, Xiancui, why are you here?"
"Will Daddy let me out?"
Zhu Panpan was lying on the gap in the chaimen and looked at the maid dressed in pink outside.
"No, Miss, the lord is busy in the city now, I don't have time to take care of you, Cui'er has sent you something to eat, this is a few aunts to give you a snack from the kitchen, it's a little cold, but at present, the whole city and the whole house are busy, I went out to take a look, those homeless people outside, the people are almost hungry and faint, no one has eaten a bite, thinking that you have been locked up here for a few hours, not a drop of water has entered, ask a few aunts to give you a little food, eat quickly!"
"Cui'er, thank you,"
"It's all the guy who doesn't know where the ambition came from, calling himself Your Majesty, seducing my father, my father has been shrewd all his life, this time I don't know what the way is, he actually called such a guy the master, the Zhu family is unlucky, and has always been loyal to the imperial court, but at this time he has defected, disgraced his ancestors, alas-woo wooββγ"
"Miss, Miss, Cui'er doesn't know about any family and country affairs, but since Miss thinks which person is unknown and which person she hates, Cui'er also hates it, but she can't eat or drink, if Miss has three long and two short, how can Cui'er be at ease, why don't Miss eat some, okay?"
Zhu Panpan wiped away his tears, "Cui'er, I'm not hungry, let me out, I think of a place where I can escape, as long as I escape, we can go around the north gate, from Beishan to Fuzhou, we will go to the emperor to expose this villain's demagoguery of my father, and let the court order to arrest him." β
"But Miss, Cui'er doesn't dare to let you out, there are guards here, although Huzi let me in, but I don't dare to embarrass Huzi, if I let the master know, it was Cui'er who let Miss out, not only Cui'er suffered, Huzi will be punished by the master, Miss, you know that Huzi is a good person, in this case, the lord will definitely kill Huzi, besides, I heard that the enemy has surrounded Jinhua, we can't escape not to say, if it falls into the hands of the enemy, Miss's chastity is not guaranteed, I'm afraid it will also make the master embarrassed."
"Cui'er, who are you listening to?" Zhu Panpan asked coldly.
"Cui'er is Miss's maid, of course she listens to Miss." Xiancui replied softly.
"But Miss, I ......"
Zhu Panpan quietly comforted: "Cui'er, go and call Huzi, if it doesn't work, let's take Huzi away, you also know Huzi's skills, we are safer with him, the passage I know is what my father had thought about before, you can go straight to Beishan outside the city, there is no need to detour." β
"Thisβ" Cui'er was embarrassed.
"Cui'er,"
"Okay, miss."
"Miss, you eat first."
After speaking, Cui'er stuffed a plate of her own snacks under the wooden door.
NPC Zhu Dadian can't take care of them, NPC Zhu Dadian is wearing a famous general Mingguang armor, holding a long knife in his hand, leading the family to kill left and right, he took 200 family members, including fifty elite family members who have always carried it, facing the family members of the squires and the Ming army who poured in from the West Gate, and fought bloodily.
In other places, the rebels either fled or resisted vigorously, and from the heights, there were more and more enemies, and there were fewer and fewer rebels, and the pressure was not ordinary.
In the other direction, the southwest wall collapsed again, and all the defenders on it were blown into the sky, but the soldiers who survived were buried in the rubble.
The Qing army swarmed up, cleanly cleaned up these wounded rebel soldiers, and then rushed to Zhang Qiang's breastwork.
At a distance of forty paces, both sides can clearly see each other's faces.
The archers in the Qing army and the archers in front of and behind the chest shot arrows at each other, threw javelins at each other, and as the number increased, the infantry began to rush towards the chest with their shields, this time they were more orderly, some rushed to the collapsed wall, some rushed to the chest, and some covered the sides.
This time, the gap opened by the Qing army was much larger than the original, about 100 meters wide, and the 50 meters could be passed directly, and the walls on both sides collapsed to form a more gentle attack terrain, so that the Qing army could attack the rebels on the city wall along these places, and at the same time they could jump down to surround the rebels behind the breastwork.
Others rushed to both sides along the gap to seize the main gate and support the battle for the west gate.
The rebels on the first city wall fought and retreated, and fought with the Qing army in the passage.
Some of the frightened rebels ran to the rudimentary gate of the second wall, banging on the gate and crying.
The rebels on the second city wall put down a lot of ladders to meet the rebels.
This is very dangerous, and may make the Qing army climb the ladder to the second city wall, but Zhang Qiang did not want to chill the rebel soldiers who had passed through the first wall of the bloody battle, so he took the risk and ordered to respond, and on the second wall stood scattered firecrackers, who killed and wounded the Qing soldiers who were close to the city wall one by one, and tried to support the rebel soldiers who fled back.
"Ready,"
Zhang Qiang held the waist knife of the Ming army, looked left and right, these veterans of the Ming army who used the arquebuses bought by the Portuguese to rob, they had a little panicked look on their faces, but they were better than those ordinary people, and they did not shoot in advance, causing the other soldiers to collapse and take the initiative to shoot.
"Put" Zhang Qiang waved down the waist knife heavily.
"Bang Bang Bang"
In the darkness of the night, the musketeers behind the breastwork fired one after another, sparks flickering.
The neat row of guns gave a heavy blow to the Qing soldiers in the gap, and dozens of Qing soldiers did not figure out the situation, so they fell down with a blood hole the size of a baby's fist on their chests, and the large-caliber arquebus was grabbed, even if the lead bullet was softer than the modern copper bullet, but it also made the Qing army at close range either dead or wounded, and suffered heavy losses, and more importantly, the morale of the Qing army was low and fell into a panic.
The Qing army in front of them who were chasing the rebel soldiers who took the initiative with their teeth and claws were stunned for a moment, and then there was a burst of confusion, and they all thought about turning back.
The musketeers behind the second breastwork behind Zhang Qiang continued to fire, and their bullets swept over the heads of the comrades on the first breastwork, knocking down some of the Qing troops who rushed to the front of the first breastwork and then to the ground, thirty paces away, no more than fifty paces away, this is exactly the range of the Ming army's firearms, to the fifty paces distance, although the lethality is limited, but for those villagers who only wear cloth armor, or cloth clothes, it is still very lethal, even if it is wearing three layers of armor Jurchen Eight Banners, and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers, there is also a considerable deterrent effectto make them move slowly, beware of the bullets of the firearms.
The first round of firing caused the enemy to panic, and the soldiers who resisted in front fled back, and the surviving rebel soldiers on the city wall were given a chance to breathe and escape.
In the second round, the musketeers beside Zhang Qiang loaded their bullets again, and another round of shooting, the Qing army retreated in an uproar, crowded in the gap, and the second round of shooting by the musketeers caused many people in the Qing army to be injured, or fell down the city wall, rolled down the gap, and were injured countless times.
In this way, almost all the rebel soldiers fled back, most of them fled to the second wall, a few ran to the left and right, and some ran to the chest, and were intercepted and joined the guards on the left and right of the first breastwork.
After a quarter of an hour of fighting, the Qing army retreated, and only the Jurchen Eight Banners on the city wall fought along the city wall to the main gate and the east and west gates.
At this moment, the first city wall has been full of holes, and it has collapsed in many places by the artillery of the Qing army outside the city.
In half an hour, the enemy attacked again, the first breastwork was crumbling, and the musketeers had to fight with the enemy with their muskets, but finally, with the support of the second breastwork, repelled the enemy's attack again.