Of course, Jiang Pengju is not a brainless charge with soldiers, the two waves of arrow rain just now are back shots, Jiang Pengju saw that it is now less than 200 meters away from the city wall, and now the Qing army can only use flat fire instead of back shooting, and the power of flat shooting is far less than that of high shooting, so he led his soldiers to lose their shields and start charging.

The distance of two hundred meters was instantaneous, and Jiang Pengju was the first to rush to the root of the city wall. Now the city wall of Yangzhou has been broken, but the root of the city wall is still there, and the bricks and rubble on the ground are a piece, forming a small slope about two meters high. At the bottom of the slope, Jiang Pengju had already seen that some Qing army generals and sentinels were organizing soldiers to defend the breach.

Jiang Pengju rushed to be the first, he saw that the Qing army was not firmly established, climbed the dirt slope in a few steps, jumped up and cut down one of them. The general didn't expect the Ming army to come so quickly, and instinctively stopped it with the knife in his hand in a daze. Originally, according to his experience, this knife should be able to block the opponent's weapon, but he thought that the weapons of these Ming soldiers were abnormally sharp, and the knife in his hand not only did not block it, but even the cotton armor on his body did not block the blade, and the weapon of the Ming army directly cut off his own knife, and then cut it to his shoulder, and stopped after cutting off half of his shoulder.

Jiang Peng is 1.7 meters tall and weighs 160 pounds, which is a strong man in the Ming Dynasty. The knife just now added its own gravity, and the blade was deeply embedded in the total body. Jiang Pengju kicked away the corpse, looked at the horizontal knife in his hand, there was no gap at all, it was still abnormally sharp, Jiang Pengju couldn't help but shout: "Good knife!" ”

Of course, the weapons used by the Guangdong New Army are not the kind of ductile iron casting, Jiang Pengju's horizontal knife is a medium carbon steel steel knife that has been pressed by a hydraulic press, which basically belongs to the treasure knife in this era, but in the Guangdong New Army, this kind of sharp weapon is in everyone's hands.

After Jiang Pengju saw that his weapon was unharmed, he cut down a Qing army archer on the side with a backhand. The Qing army in Yangzhou City was the Han army banner troops transferred from Huai'an and Shandong, and they were still looking at the Ming army on the other side with old eyes, thinking that they were just like the Ming army that was defeated in one blow before, and they were nothing more than stronger firearms. Therefore, after the city was broken, Zhu Shichang, the commander of the Qing army in the city, ordered the archers to go up first, and then give the Ming army a wave of dismounting, maybe the Ming army could retreat in the face of difficulties, so that he could calmly organize the construction of the wall.

But who would have thought that the Ming army would move so fast, and the armor of the Ming army would be so strong, that they would rush up against the rain of arrows. Now the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army are still in the rear team, and the front team is all unarmored archers, and they were killed by the Ming army for a while.

Zhu Shichang was less than two hundred meters away from the breach, he saw that the Ming army had rushed up, and he couldn't help but regret his decision just now, but now there was no way, Zhu Shichang only ordered loudly: "Sword and shield soldiers, rush up for me, and resist Lao Tzu!" ”

Zhu Shichang's order was issued, and the breach of the city wall immediately became a mess, the archers wanted to retreat, and the sword and shield soldiers behind wanted to rush up, but the breach was not very wide, and thousands of people were crowded here and couldn't move.

Jiang Pengju, who was outside the breach, saw the opportunity, and at this time the first batch of soldiers under his command had arrived, Jiang Pengju shouted: "Rush in for me, hack these archers to death first!" "Archers in the Cold Weapon Age were not musketeers, and they could shoot with a farmer trained for two months. The archer is a completely technical class, and each soldier has to go through two years of training. Now these technical troops can still fall into the mouths of Jiang Pengju and these jackals, and for a while, the archers outside the city wall were hacked to death by the Ming army.

After hundreds of people died, the breach of the city wall loosened a lot, and the Qing sabers and shield soldiers in the rear team finally squeezed through the crowd and rushed up, and officially joined the Ming army. At this time, the weapons and armor of the Ming army showed their importance, and the cotton armor of the Qing army could not resist the horizontal knives of the Ming army at all, and the plate armor of the Ming army could completely defend against the knives and guns of the Qing army, except for some heavy weapons such as maces.

The first batch of Ming troops rushed up with more than 500 people, and more than 1,000 people of the Qing army fought together at the breach. Jiang Pengju saw that there was no way to stalemate here, and if the gap could not be opened, the follow-up troops would not be able to enter at all.

Jiang Pengju called a regiment commander and shouted, "What about the artillery?" Go get the artillery here! "The 10th Division has ten artillery pieces, which Zhu Jiang snatched from the Guazhou Ferry, and this is the time for the artillery to exert its might.

When the commander of the first regiment heard Jiang Pengju say this, he hurriedly went down the dirt slope to look for artillery, but it turned out that the artillery was stuck in the rubble pile below the dirt slope and could not be pushed up.

An artillery piece of the Guangdong New Army is 800 catties, and of course it is no problem to transport it on flat ground, but the city wall is full of rubble, and it can be pushed. The commander of the regiment came to the artillery and scolded at the artillery commander: "Your mother, why don't you push it up!" ”

The artillery commander was scolded with a face full of grievances: "Sir, it's all bricks and stones, I really can't push it!" ”

When the commander of the regiment saw the same, he hurriedly called twenty soldiers and pushed the cannon up.

In order to make the artillery immediately usable, Jiang Pengju asked people to load these guns with ammunition on the starting position, and then blocked the muzzles with cloth balls to prevent the shotguns from falling out. When this gun reaches the breach, it does not need to be charged, and it can be fired directly by taking down the cloth regiment.

Jiang Pengju was overjoyed when he saw that an artillery piece had finally been transported, and he shouted, "Come back!" "The Ming troops in front heard the shouts of the main general, and retreated to the back, revealing their artillery.

The pressure on the Qing army on the opposite side was reduced, and the guerrillas who led the team were overjoyed, and the Ming army was finally beaten out, and he was just about to ask his subordinates to rush out, but he didn't expect the Ming army to retreat and reveal a black and shiny cannon.

The Qing army guerrilla is the banner of the Han army, I saw the Fran cannon in Liaodong back then, although the Ming army cannon on the opposite side is different from the Franc cannon, but it seems that it is not easy to provoke, I didn't expect the Ming army to be able to get a cannon on the city wall.

The guerrilla was about to shout back when the cannon on the opposite side had already opened fire. The artillery of the Ming army was loaded with shotguns, because the distance was too close, only less than five meters, and the shotgun chamber had not yet exploded, and an iron bucket directly hit the guerrilla's chest, and then the iron bucket cracked in his body, and twenty-one submunitions were dispersed.

The use of shotguns in such a dense crowd was completely inhumane, and the high-speed moving shotgun had to penetrate four or five people before it could stop, and this shotgun caused the death of more than 100 Qing soldiers.

After the smoke cleared, Jiang Pengju saw that the corpses of the Qing army on the opposite side were all over the ground, and a large piece of the crowd on the opposite side was missing, Jiang Pengju seized this opportunity and shouted: "Give it to me, rush in!" ”

The Qing army was completely frightened, but they didn't expect that the artillery could still be used like this, and for a while, thousands of Qing troops scattered at the gap and retreated, and Jiang Pengju finally occupied the gap after a bloody battle.

The Ming army entered the city and found that the houses here in Xu Ningmen had been cleaned up by the Qing army, and the nearest house was also 500 meters away, and the Qing army on the opposite side stood in a few rows, with tens of thousands of people. Jiang Pengju saw that the Qing army was preparing in an orderly manner, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good, there were less than 3,000 people on his side, and there were tens of thousands of Qing troops on the opposite side.

Jiang Pengju called the herald beside him and told him to go out of the city to report to the rear team, saying that he had entered the city and asked other troops to follow up quickly.

As soon as Jiang Pengju finished speaking, the Qing army on the opposite side had already ordered the archers to start shooting arrows. Just now, the Ming army threw their shields outside the city because they wanted to fight hand-to-hand, but now they are unlucky. For a time, the Ming army fell to the ground one after another, and hundreds of people were shot by the first batch of bows and arrows of the Qing army.

Jiang Pengju saw that his soldiers were a little unstable, and knew that these guys were okay to fight with the wind, and now they were ready to retreat when they encountered difficulties.

Jiang Pengju grabbed a company commander and said: "Let officers at all levels be prison officers, as long as there are retreaters, they will be killed immediately!" Jiang Pengju knew that now was a critical moment, and as long as he could survive until the follow-up troops entered the city, everything would be fine, so he didn't care about anything else and directly gave a death order.

This instability was suppressed only after the heads of a dozen deserters were chopped off by junior officers, but only temporarily.

Jiang Pengju was anxious here, and Zhu Shichang, the front-line commander of the Qing army opposite, was even more anxious, now that the Ming army had just come in a few thousand people, if they didn't take advantage of their unstable foothold to beat them out, and wait for the Ming army brigade to come in, it would be too late.

Zhu Shichang called a general and shouted: "Give you 5,000 people, and beat these Ming troops out for me!" Succeeded, Lao Tzu guaranteed that you would be the chief soldier! ”

The general was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly rushed forward with his people. Zhu Shichang has fought all his life, and for the first time he saw this kind of army that was not superior in numbers and still fought to the death, he intuitively felt bad, and called a personal soldier and asked him to go to the city to find the governor Hong, who was transferring 10,000 reinforcements.

The general of the Qing army rushed forward with 5,000 men to fight with the Ming army, and Jiang Pengju took less than 3,000 people and started a melee with the Qing army. At this critical moment, the second echelon led by Zhang Bao outside the city rushed in, and Zhu Jiang also rushed in.

After Zhu Jiang rushed into the gap in the city wall, he saw that within a radius of less than two miles, nearly 10,000 people were fighting each other. Xu Dingbang beside Zhu Jiang is a veteran, and he knows that this kind of melee is the most dangerous, because you don't know when you will be hit by an inexplicable knife, so Xu Dingbang took a hundred veterans to surround Zhu Jiang in the middle. Zhu Jiang hurriedly shouted: "Get out of the way!" Get out of the way! I'm going to war too! But the melee of tens of thousands of people is not a bandit, Xu Dingbang took what Zhu Jiang said as a fart at all, and took these 100 people to protect Zhu Jiang to the side of the city wall, where there were few people, and watched the bloody battle of other people in the city.

Zhu Jiang saw that he couldn't go to the battlefield, and his soldiers and brothers were cut down by the Qing army, Zhu Jiangqi's eyes were red, and he scolded: "Xu Sandan, Lao Tzu fucks your mother, why don't you let me come forward!" ”

As a veteran, Xu Dingbang knows that any bravery on the battlefield is nonsense, and only protecting himself is the most important thing, and now he listens to Zhu Jiang scolding himself with big eyelids, and he doesn't care about him at all.