225 Battle of Hanju (2)
In the face of the enemy camp outside the city, Cao Bianjiao's vision is also a little indifferent, it has been almost three hours, although they have defeated Haoge's offensive in a row, but now the situation is different, just half an hour ago, the Great West rebel general Sun Kewang led the army to arrive, a hasty inspection, Cao Bianjiao can judge that the number of enemy troops is definitely more than 40,000, Sun Kewang has a high prestige in the Great Western Army, can the military heart be stabilized, for these just transferred to the Ming Dynasty, Cao Bianjiao really does not have much certainty,, The Qing army's offensive was very fierce, and his soldiers and horses were far behind, but he was already prepared for the loss of Hanzhou, but he really couldn't do it, and he would defend Chengdu at that time, and the reinforcements were already on the way, and then he could only fight a war of attrition with Haoge.
"Brothers, I will know that some of you are from Henan, some are from Shaanxi, and some are from Huguang, and now everyone is fighting bloodily for this Hanzhou city, to tell you the truth, the reinforcements are still on the way, I don't know when they will be able to arrive, but I, Cao Bianjiao, am ready to die for the country, you have orphans and widows, or wives and children, if you don't want to die now, this general can allow you to lay down your arms and leave Hanzhou City while the enemy army has not captured the city."
All the soldiers looked at Cao Bianjiao, in addition to the surprise in their eyes, there was a little dazed, but no one put down the weapons in their hands and left, on the battlefield, either you die or I live, they are already old men who have seen blood, no one is willing to admit that they are guilty at this time, leave here, can they really live, they don't know, but stay, maybe there will be a glimmer of life!
Cao Bianjiao glanced at everyone and shouted, "Okay! Now the enemy army is outside the city, shooting the firearms and ammunition in our hands into their bodies, proving to the world, the Qing soldiers are just like that, in the next few days, there may be many people who will die, but the court will not forget you, and I will not forget you, I Cao Bianjiao will not forget you, I hope you can remember, we are born as people of the Ming Dynasty, and death is the ghost of the Ming Dynasty, even if we die, we have to have a gentleman. Let all the great warriors be proud of us. ”
"I am willing to fight to the death with the general and never retreat!" Li Dingguo raised his arms and shouted.
"I am willing to fight to the death with the general!" Everyone responded in unison, resounding through the sky.
"This Cao Bianjiao, but he really has some ability, the Ming army has always been weak, and there are countless people who have fled before the war, but according to our scouts, since the beginning of the war, not a single Ming army has fled, and even the people, no one has migrated, which shows that they are united!"
Five miles away in the Qing army camp, Hao Ge overlooked the direction of Hanzhou City, and heard the oath from the city, for him, this was a provocation, but he was not angry, but praised Cao Bianjiao in the city, respecting the opponent is respecting himself, which he did very well.
Ao Bai next to him sighed a little ashamedly: "Master, it's not that the last general is incompetent, but this Hanzhou city is fully armed, firearms are fired continuously, and it also occupies the terrain, giving us a major blow. ”
Haoge smiled slightly, patted Aobai's shoulder, and said with relief: "The benefits of firearms, is the director of the Ming army, with my Qing Dynasty has also developed firearms, but in technology is still inferior to the Ming Dynasty, and Sichuan is such a strange terrain, not your sin, Hanzhou is not our final goal, but our first goal, Hanzhou we are bound to win, now our army is several times the strength of the Ming army, why worry about not breaking it." ”
"In order to clear the firepower on both sides of the Ming army, I have asked Tazhan to lead the men and horses to quietly raid, so that they lose their geographical advantage, and now we surround Hanzhou City and storm it, just to flank Tazhan, this king must enter Hanzhou City."
"Huh!" Ao Bai agreed, he didn't expect Haoge to find the weak point of the Ming army so quickly, and he had already sent Tazhan to attack the Ming army, but they had no cover on both sides, and their firepower would be greatly reduced, and their chances of victory would be greater.
In the face of the cannons like thunder, the miscellaneous sergeants of the Qing soldiers all stepped forward bravely, regardless of life and death, people kept falling to the ground, and before they got close to the city wall, they were killed and injured by the firearms of the Ming army, and they did not dare to retreat, because behind them was the upright and upright battle supervision troops, if they dared to take a step back, the big sword of the war supervision team would fall on them, that was Haoge's guard pro-army, the most elite warriors of the Eight Banners, no one dared to resist.
"Pour oil ......" Under the call of Cao Bianjiao, more than a dozen pots of hot oil poured from top to bottom, and poured on the Qing soldiers who were preparing to enter the city, making many people scream and scream, very miserable, but the people in front fell, and the people behind rushed up again, one after another, not afraid of death.
Under such a fierce offensive, someone finally rushed to the city wall, and launched a hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army in the city, a head-to-head duel, and the Ming army fell behind at the moment, although it was also baptized by blood, but after all, the combat experience was not richer than that of the Qing soldiers, and the fighting skills were also inferior. Even if the Qing army is a miscellaneous puppet army, it is also a veteran, or the border army of the Ming Dynasty, or the soldiers and horses of the Northwest Dashun Army, they are all good fighters, not to mention that there are many people and horses with the Eight Banners.
"Soldiers, fight with them and drive them out of the city!" Cao Bianjiao personally hacked to death a Qing soldier who rushed up, blood splashed his face, he didn't even have time to wipe a handful, and constantly commanded the soldiers in the city to fight, and the Qing soldiers outside the city continued to follow the ladder and began to rush to the city.
The battle on the head of the city is very tragic, one side swears to seize the city, the other side swears to defend the city, both sides come and go, they have already killed the red eyes, see different clothes, go up is a knife, no matter who you are, anyway, if you don't wear your own clothes, it is not your own people.
The "death squad ......" saw the Qing soldiers pouring into the city, Cao Bianjiao knew that he had to fight for the advantage at this time, so he decisively issued a military order.
"Boom ......" a huge explosion sounded, the Ming soldiers went to their deaths, ignited their own *, and threw down the Qing troops who had rushed to the city, and the fire oil they carried was all shattered when they landed, igniting the fire under the city, detonating the * on their bodies, and the Qing soldiers under the city wall were directly blown away, and the Qing soldiers under the city, a large number of people were buried in this explosion, and the people in the city also lost their advantages and were ruthlessly killed.
Hauge saw this scene, and his eyes were split, these people who rushed up were not only the soldiers of the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army, but also his people, this explosion caused them to lose at least three or four hundred people, and many people were blown to pieces, Hauge was also gritting his teeth with hatred at the moment, and his eyes were red.
"Rush into the city and kill them all!" Hauge never gave up, and once again drove the men and horses to attack, and this time let Kong Youde lead the Han Eight Banners as the front.