Under the city, Jiao Lian marched forward bravely, and with five hundred relatives riding straight like arrows from the string, he quickly swept across the moat, the outer trench, and rushed straight into the Qing army on the other side of the river. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Qing army had already set up a rejection horse in front of the formation to prevent the Ming cavalry from charging into the formation, but under the repeated bombardment of the new Western artillery, the formation suddenly became chaotic, and the rejection of the horse did not have time to relocate and hurriedly retreated.

When Jiao Lian's cavalry rushed to arrive, the swordsmen in the front row, who were no longer in formation, became ghosts under the sword.

Li Chengdong didn't expect the Ming army to have the courage to go out of the city to raid, and after a short period of panic, he hurriedly transferred a cavalry team of 1,000 people from his headquarters to encircle and intercept the cavalry that went out of the city to raid.

Looking from the city to the city, the Qing army was crowded with people, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the enemy or me, but only saw a banner with the battle flag of "Tiger Ben", which was always held high, constantly rushing left and right, and was invincible.

After rushing and killing for a while, the Qing army had slowly calmed down from the initial panic, and under the command of experienced officers at all levels in the battle array, the Qing army slowly surrounded Jiao Lian's department.

The knights of the five hundred Ming army suddenly felt a great increase in pressure, and the speed of the horse gradually slowed down, Jiao Lian's legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, wielded the long knife, slashed left and right, and the bravery was abnormal, and he kept sweeping away the Qing soldiers who surrounded him, and the other knights were also fighting separately with spears, and the first wave of Qing soldiers who surrounded him were suddenly killed and scattered.

However, the number of Qing soldiers was too much, and after killing a wave, and then surrounding a wave, after killing several waves of Qing troops one after another, the five hundred knights gradually felt struggling, during which more than a dozen horsemen were picked off by the Qing soldiers with spears, and hacked to death.

They unconsciously rushed to the Chinese position of the Qing army, and at this time it was almost four or five miles away from the moat, and the war drums on the city were still beating, but it did become high and dull, and it was a message that the five hundred knights could collect their troops and return to the city.

Jiao Lian also knew that the purpose of the Son of Heaven sending himself out of the city to raid the Qing army was not to kill or injure many Qing troops, but mainly to boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Wuzhou.

If there is a further battle, the speed of the horses will become slower and slower, and the advantage of cavalry mobility will be lost, and at that time, once they are surrounded by heavy troops, even if they can break through, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. What's more, the Qing army also had cavalry, and under the pursuit of the cavalry, the five hundred tired soldiers without horses were even more auspicious.

Almost at the same time, the position of the Qing army not far away suddenly remembered a burst of drums, Jiao Lian looked at the source of the drums, and the three thousand iron horsemen who were originally standing behind Li Chengdong's chariot were divided into a thousand people, and they were rushing towards their location on horseback.

The Qing general was going to send the main force to encircle and suppress them, Jiao Lian no longer hesitated, and immediately made a decision, he looked up to the sky and smiled: "It's really happy!" But your Jiao Ye is tired! Wait for the master to rest, and then come back to kill a good time! Two Tartars, leave your heads on your heads for the time being, and come back to get them later! ”

After speaking, he turned around and greeted the more than 400 riders behind him, and ordered: "Sons, go back to the city!" ”

The so-called strong generals have no weak soldiers under them, and more than 400 pro-horsemen are excited to kill, and shout in unison: "Go back to the city!" ”

More than 400 knights finally successfully crossed the moat and returned to the city smoothly before Li Chengdong's cavalry team surrounded the main force.

When they entered the city, the knights were exhausted, and finally retreated in time, secretly calling for luck. Five hundred horsemen when out of the city, four hundred and seventy-three horsemen left after returning to the city, this time the charge into battle, killed and wounded more than 200 Qing soldiers, and lost more than 20 horsemen, close to the exchange ratio of ten to one, the results of the battle are okay.

Zhu Youlang descended to the nobles, and took Zhai Shiyun, Wu Jisi and others to personally go down to the city to meet the triumphant division.

Before the battle began, more than 500 men and horses were lost, and Li Chengdong did not dare to underestimate the Ming army in the city anymore, and the marching formation was more cautious, and on the second day, the Ming army could no longer find the loopholes in the military formation, so he had to start a passive defense.

In the sound of the Qing army's horns, the vigorous offensive and defensive battle of Wuzhou kicked off.

More than 50 trench trucks were driven by the Qing soldiers, slowly approaching the city wall from the east, west and south sides, and the top layer of the trench filling vehicles had a hard guard plate, which had already been wet with water, which could resist the attack of rockets and prevent fire and burning, and the sacks full of soil were carried in the wagons of the trench cars to fill the moat and the outer moat.

Behind the trench cart are tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, rattan players form a card wall, archers and firecrackers are behind, shooting at the city!

Most of the Ming troops at the head of the city leaned against the female wall, blocking the arrows, the surrounding roaring sound continued, tens of thousands of feather arrows shot towards the city head like locusts, many Ming soldiers fell to the ground in the arrows, wailing.

Under the cover of the archers, the Qing soldiers roared and dragged the trench-filling carts.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps......

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the outer trench, Zhai Shiyun, the defense envoy and the first assistant of the cabinet, finally shouted an order: "Gunner, prepare!" ”

The gunners of the Ming army, who had been holding back, immediately loaded the shots and stone bullets and aimed them at the city. When he saw that the Qing army had arrived at the outer trench with the trench filling truck, Zhai Shiyun shouted: "Fire!" The gunners gave the order, the artillery fired in unison, and a large wave of scattered bullets poured out against the Qing soldiers under the city.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! Screams rang out again and again on the edge of the outer trenches, and many Qing soldiers who commanded the trench trucks were killed on the spot, and several trench trucks were directly hit by stone bullets, and immediately fell apart, sawdust flew sideways, and the Qing soldiers in the trench were crushed into meat cakes one after another, which was tragic and abnormal.

Seeing this, the Qing army's crossbowmen and firecrackers who were responsible for covering the trench filling vehicles once again set off a rain of arrows and lead, and fired wildly at the Ming army that fired artillery at the head of the city.

The crossbowmen of the Ming army, who had already been ready to attack in the city, were not to be outdone, and immediately fired arrows and released guns to return the color.

For a time, there was a rain of arrows and lead in the upper city of Wuzhou.

The Ming army was condescending, took advantage of the geographical advantage, and the lethality of the arrow rain was greater than that of the Qing army, but there were many Qing soldiers, thousands of archers, and firecrackers shot together, and the lethality was no longer under the Ming army in the city, and even by the victory, many Ming archers were nailed to the head of the city as soon as they sent out an arrow......

For three whole days, the Qing army attacked simultaneously in the east, west and south, and spent dozens of trench trucks, and finally filled most of the outer trenches, although it paid the price of hundreds of casualties, but this time the casualties were no longer the main force of the soldiers, but the miscellaneous cards of Lifu and the surrendered Ming army, which had little impact on the combat strength of the army. However, Li Chengdong knew that breaking through the outer trench was only the first step in the siege war, and it was necessary to continue to fill the moat, level the antler array, pull out the plum blossom pile, etc., and in the face of Wuzhou City, which had complete defense facilities, it was not easy to attack the root of the wall.