The walls of the Ming military camp are all made of large baskets filled with soil, the bottom is three rows of large baskets, the middle is two rows, the top is a row, there is a wooden staircase in the middle, and there is a corridor,.。 Now a platoon of soldiers rushed up the road, picked up their muskets and began to shoot outside. Unexpectedly, it was raining heavily at this time, and many barrels were poured into the rainwater. Muskets are not the same as artillery, artillery gunpowder is wrapped in silk, and it is filled into the barrel of the gun in its entirety, so that there is some water in the chamber so that it does not delay things. But muskets were different, muskets needed to pour gunpowder into the chamber, and a little water in it would not go off, and less than a third of the musket salvo of that platoon was fired, and it was like a fart.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the back and scolded: "Waste! Rubbish! Can such a big rain musket be fired? Why don't you find a tent to dry the barrel and come out after reloading? ”

In fact, if the Qing army seized this opportunity to attack the north gate with all its strength at this time, it would be able to attack it. At this time, the Ming army only had four artillery pieces fired, and the soldiers were in a hurry, loading in the rain, most of the muskets could not be fired, and the Qing army could achieve some results if the front-line commander seized the fighters. But the generals of the Qing army were afraid of death, they all knew that the Ming army had powerful firearms, and they had already hidden in the back, even Xu Yong, a deputy general, was not ready to go to the front to take risks, let alone those general generals. As a result, the front line of the Qing army was only a few low-level officers of the hundred households, and these people saw that there was no official in charge, and the artillery of the Ming army was really powerful, so they retreated for their own lives, and the soldiers around them naturally followed suit, and they also retreated like a tide.

Zhu Hongsan lay on the battlement and saw that the Qing army had retreated, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it was too dangerous just now, if the Qing army's combat effectiveness was stronger, it would be able to rush in. At this time, a large group of people in the barracks came, and Zhao Guodong came to Zhu Hongsan's side and said: "Your Majesty, the rain is too heavy, please go back to the tent to hide from the rain, and leave it to the ministers here!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, pulled Zhao Guodong and said: "It's dark now, the military situation outside is unknown, just repel the Qing army's attack, don't go out to pursue, wait until dawn!" After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he came to a tent two hundred meters behind, where someone naturally waited for him to change his wet clothes.

Just when Zhu Hongsan was changing clothes, the defeated soldiers of the Qing army retreated to the grove. Hong Chengchou, who was wearing a robe, saw Xu Yong and Ma Degong coming back, and asked with a low face, "Vice General Xu, why did you come back so soon?" The result? ”

"Marshal, the artillery of the Ming army is really sharp, and the last general really can't rush in!"

"Fart, Xu Yong, do you think I can't hear the sound of Ming artillery in the rear team? There are only four guns in total, and you can't rush in with 5,000 people? Are you afraid of the enemy? ”

"Dashuai, that's not the case! The brothers really fought to the death, but the Ming artillery was too sharp, and a single shot could kill hundreds of brothers... ”

Hong Chengchou waved his hand to prevent Xu Yong from continuing: "Ma Degong, you also went, tell me what's going on?" ”

Ma Degong summed up in his heart, if he speaks for Xu Yong now, he will be accused of ineffective fighting, and he will not die in poverty, or Xu Yong, you will be unlucky!

"Great marshal, the last general led 10,000 cavalry in the rear, and I saw with my own eyes that Vice General Xu was ineffective, and the Ming army retreated after only two cannons!"

Xu Yong originally expected Ma Degong to speak well for himself, but he didn't think that Ma Degong's good words would not be talked about.

"Ma Degong, you bastard, why don't you say that Lao Tzu is fighting to the death in front!"

Hong Chengchou is waiting for this sentence, now the Qing army of 60,000 people has been drenched in heavy rain all night, morale is low, and a head is needed to boost morale, so that these guys can fight to the death, Xu Yong happens to be not his own lineage, he is a rogue from a rogue background, and the former master Li Chengdong also voted for the Ming Dynasty, and took his head to sacrifice the flag.

"Come on, push Xu Yong and his five leading captains out and cut them down, pass on the head of the first three armies, and hand over his team to Ma Degong to lead!"

Hong Chengchou's personal soldiers came up and didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, pushed Xu Yong and the five unlucky eggs out and cut them down, and presented the heads. All the Qing army generals looked at the six bloody heads, and their necks were cold.

Ma Degong was originally Hong Chengchou's confidant, and he knew that he was fine, but he didn't feel very comfortable when he really saw the head.

Hong Chengchou waved his hand and asked his soldiers to take down the six heads, and said to Ma Degong: "General Ma, your 20,000 cavalry is the most combative, now I will hand over all the remaining 4,000 people of Xu Yong to you, you must break through the wall of the Ming army for me, can you do it?" ”

At this time, if he said that if he couldn't do it, he would die, Ma Degong gritted his teeth and said: "Please rest assured, the general will definitely do it!" ”

"Okay, General Ma, as long as you do it, this official will promote you to be the governor of Jiangnan!"

The admiral is a military attache of the first grade, and the admiral is in charge of the military power of a province, and he is a veritable feudal official. As soon as Ma Degong heard that he could be promoted, his eyes were even red: "Please rest assured, the last general is willing to make a military order, if he can't take down the Ming army wall, just like Xu Yong!" ”

"Okay, this official will press you in the rear team, you can go!"

Ma Degong returned to his army, found his own brother Ma Dezhu, and said to his younger brother: "Second brother, it looks like our buddies are going to work hard today!" ”

Ma Dezhu is a deputy general, and he was on the side just now, and he saw Xu Yong's beheading, and now he can't help but feel embarrassed when he hears his brother: "Big brother, it's dark now, and our soldiers can't see it, how can this battle be fought?" ”

"If you can't fight, you have to fight, this time you can only succeed and not fail, if you lose, Xu Yong will be like our buddies! Just now I saw that the Ming army's muskets were sparse, it should be damp and can't be used, let's do this, the second child, you take 10,000 to the West Gate, I take the rest of the people at the North Gate, as long as there is a place to break through, it is the credit of our buddies! ”

"Okay, big brother! I'll take someone to Simon now, and you have to be careful! ”

Ma Degong grabbed Ma Dezhu and whispered: "Second brother, your goal is small, if you really can't attack it, you must take a few people to run first, return to Yangzhou and arrange our families, don't come out to be an official, be a rich man!" ”

Ma Dezhu didn't say anything when he heard the eldest brother say this, nodded and then led people to the West Gate.

Ma Degong gathered his men, gathered his troops, and led 14,000 men to attack the north gate.

In the camp of the Ming army, at this time, several civil officials had already woken up, and they went out to inquire about the situation, and later asked Zhu Hongsan to say goodbye here at the north gate. Zhu Hongsan saw that Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi, Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Huangyan and other civil officials were not left behind, and they all gathered here to him, and he couldn't help laughing: "Let you gentlemen worry, rest assured, the Qing army can't attack it!" ”

At this time, Zhu Hongsan saw that the concubine Wang Wan'er also came over accompanied by Li Chengen, and couldn't help frowning and asked, "You are here like this?" What should you do if you have no eye injuries on the battlefield? ”

Li Chengen saw that Zhu Hongsan was angry, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. Wang Wan'er smiled on the side: "I asked Gonggong Li to accompany me, now that the war is in chaos, it is still safe by Your Majesty's side!" ”

Only then did Zhu Hongsan suddenly realize that these stinky old nine didn't care about themselves, but because they were safe here. However, Han Sanqiang, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard Division, was afraid that the emperor would lose, so he sent a regiment of 3,000 people to surround the periphery, and there were 500 brocade guards inside to protect him, which was impregnable.

Jiang Yueguang and Zhang Huangyan still nodded their faces, their faces were red, and they bowed their heads and didn't speak. Qian Qianyi and Tong Yangjia didn't know what their face was.

Qian Qianyi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister is here to see how my Shenwu Emperor shows his might, how to eliminate Hong Chengchou's dog traitor!" ”

Tong Yangjia beat a drum on the side: "Lord Qian, you don't know, when Your Majesty and I went south, we encountered tens of thousands of rogue horses in Hengzhou, and Your Majesty defeated them with less than a thousand people, and these Qing troops on the other side are really small compared to the rogue bandits!" ”

Just when these two old guys were shamelessly patting their ass, the sound of dense horses' hooves came from outside the camp, and it seemed that the Qing army had come up.

Han Sanqiang on Zhu Hong's three sides had rich combat experience, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he couldn't help but wonder: "We have the protection of the wall, isn't it looking for death with cavalry charges?" ”

Zhu Hongsan couldn't understand why, but he suddenly saw the puddles on the ground, and suddenly remembered that his walls were all made of mud, and what he was most afraid of was rain.

"Quick! The order is to let the soldiers on the road come down, and the Qing army will make a move on the wall! ”

Zhao Guodong didn't know what the emperor meant, but he still seriously implemented the emperor's order and let the hundreds of soldiers who stayed on the Yongdao get off the Yongdao.

As soon as these soldiers got off the road, they heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the camp stop, and suddenly hundreds of iron hooks were thrown in from outside, grabbing at the wicker baskets on the wall. Then the sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and the iron hook exerted its force, collapsing the wall of the wall made of dirt.

In fact, if it was daytime or when it was not raining, the Qing cavalry would never be able to get close to the wall. But who would have thought that Zhu Hongsan was so unlucky, just in time for the heavy rain, less than half of the 500-kilogram large earthen basket was washed by the rain, and it was now night, and the Ming army could not aim, which made the Qing army's sneak attack successful.

Zhu Hongsan saw that the good wall was broken more than 200 meters, and knew that there was going to be a fierce battle tonight, and only 30% of the muskets on his side could be used except for artillery, so it seemed that it would not work without hand-to-hand combat.

Zhu Hongsan took off his dragon robe, revealing the steel armor he was wearing inside, reached out and took the two horizontal knives from the hands of the Jinyi guards beside him, and said to Wang Xian beside him: "Wang Xian, you take two hundred people to protect your lords!" Big brother, it looks like I'm going to work again tonight! ”

"Work" is Zhu Hongsan's black language, which means killing people and setting fires. Zhu Hongyi didn't speak, nodded and took off the four-clawed dragon robe, revealing the three-layer heavy armor he was wearing, pulled out his two horizontal knives that were the same as the slashing saber, and stood in front of Zhu Hongsan silently.