On the second day after arriving at Hanzhong City, the various divisions launched a siege of the ancient city.

When everyone dug trenches and built fortifications to prepare for the siege, the Qing army on the city wall was very annoyed, and everyone stood on the city wall or fired cannons to obstruct the volunteers from building siege fortifications.

Seeing that the other party was like this, each standard relied on the small hillside outside the city wall to establish a Franco machine gun position to launch a counterattack, and at the same time, Wang Gao also rushed to the outside of the west gate with 20 mortar guns.

Mortar cannon is a kind of siege artillery, which was used when the soldiers surrounded the city, and it can shoot more than 30 catties of stones to the city tower 100 meters away to smash the loose city wall and achieve the purpose of siege.

After half a day of firing artillery, even if the city tower was blown up, the entire city tower was seriously damaged.

Seeing that the mortar cannon was so powerful, Nikan panicked and hurriedly convened the generals to discuss.

Some people believe that although the Qing army was invincible in the field battle a few days ago, the rapid mobility of the Tartar iron cavalry was far from being comparable to that of the infantry of the Volunteer Army.

The way now is to send cavalry out of the city to harass in order to cut off the food route of the volunteers.

Hearing such a result, Manchuria Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhentun Qita shook his head and said: "Lord Belle, the volunteers gathered under the city of Hanzhong and used artillery to attack the city, and the city of Hanzhong is about to fall, and the situation is critical.

The Eight Banners athletes come and go like the wind, far from being comparable to the volunteers, but the day before yesterday, our army suffered heavy losses in the field battle, and now there are many casualties in each battalion. ”

The Mongolian Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen Malashi and the Manchuria Zhenghong Banner Meler Ezhen Durd were also unwilling to go out of the city to face the battle, and Nikan had no choice but to give up the plan to go out of the city.

When the generals of the green battalion heard this, they panicked, and everyone felt that Hanzhong could not be defended, and they asked to withdraw their troops one after another.

Now that the battalions of the various departments are full of wounded soldiers, if they retreat, wouldn't they entrust these wounded soldiers to the enemy?

Li Guoying, the general soldier of Sichuan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, turned his thief eyes a few times, thought for a while and said: "Lord Belle is not panicking, the slave has a plan, but he can ensure that Hanzhong does not fall into the hands of the other party." ”

Now that the situation is in danger, there are people who can protect Hanzhong without losing it, this is too unbelievable, everyone looked at Li Guoying and showed disbelief.

Now that he has become a shameful traitor, there is only one way to die now, Li Guoying's eyes rolled, and he whispered a few times in Nikan's ear, Nikan was stunned at first, and then laughed.

Nikan ordered Li Guoying to lead Gao Mingzhan and other troops to guard the west gate of Hanzhong, and now the volunteers concentrated more than 20 mortars to attack the city outside the west gate, and a huge stone weighing more than 100 catties fell, and the entire city wall was smashed to the ground.

Li Guoying ordered his soldiers to go from house to house to send strong men to guard the city, and all those who were over 16 years old and in good health were to be used as laborers, regardless of whether they were high or low.

Forced everyone to demolish a street house outside the city tower, and spent two days and two nights to form an urn city inside the city tower.

By noon on the third day, there was a loud noise outside the west gate, and the sky was full of dust for a while, and after three days of shelling, the west gate collapsed, and a large gap of ten meters wide appeared outside the entire city wall.

At this moment, time seemed to stop moving, I don't know how much time passed, there was a continuous explosion of Franco's machine guns inside and outside the city, and rows of dense bird guns appeared, followed by shouts and killings one after another, from far and near, slowly approaching the collapse of the city tower.

Several siege towers approached the walls on both sides, and hundreds of ladders appeared around the walls on both sides.

At the same time, the city was in chaos, Li Guoying drew his sword and forced the soldiers to drive away more than 100 people, everyone waved white flags and shouted loudly: "Volunteer brothers, we are civilians, don't shoot, we are civilians, don't shoot." ”

Seeing more than 100 people pouring out of the gap, the entire battlefield situation condensed again, and the soldiers who rushed forward to kill involuntarily stopped, and everyone looked at the crowd gathered at the gap blankly, and everyone didn't know what to do.

Yang Bingyi, the 5th co-ordinator, hit the case with a heavy fist and scolded: "This group of brutes let the common people be shields, and Lao Tzu never did this when he was a local tyrant, it's really inferior." ”

Wang Jiushao, the 15th bidder from Daxi, also scolded: "The Manchu Tartars are really not human, everyone says that Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the West, is brutal and easy to kill, but he has never treated the common people as strong." ”

Yang Bingyi pointed to both sides and said: "Let the 2nd and 3rd battalions on both flanks strengthen the offensive, and the front is the common people, or the adults will decide." ”

Wang Jiushao shook his head and said: "Co-ordinator, adults love the people like sons, doesn't this make adults in a dilemma?"

The situation ahead of the battle outside the two miles is unclear, and they come and go, delaying time.

You and I were born in a rogue and have a bad reputation, and if you have a little bit of stigma, it's not the same. ”

When Yang Bingyi heard this, he was ruthless, pulled out his sword and rushed to the front in person, and said to the left and right: "Brothers, on the battlefield, either you die or I live, the Tartars drive the people to fill the gap, and if you want to survive, we must not let it go as you wish."

Brothers, where there are a large number of ordinary people, everyone shoots at the sky, and where the number of ordinary people is small, directly shoot me to kill those bastards raised by sons.

Brothers, charge with me. ”

Immediately rushed out first, rushing towards the gap.

Seeing that the co-ordination was still like this, everyone followed closely and rushed forward.

Approaching the gap of more than 100 steps, everyone released their guns and arrows, and for a while, the sound of guns and cannons continued, and missiles and bows and crossbows rushed to the face.

The people had never seen such a scene, and everyone was terrified, and some people panicked and ran for shelter.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the escort green battalion stopped one after another, everyone didn't want to lose this natural barrier, and in order to stop the riots, some even drew their swords and cut them and forcibly detained the hostages.

In front, when the wall of people is dead, and retreating is also death, both are death, and the fear of death hangs over everyone's heads, and everyone is at a loss and doesn't know how to deal with it.

Suddenly, they heard bursts of dense artillery fire in front of them, and everyone looked up, only to see more than ten iron balls flying behind them and falling behind the urn city.

(At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army repeatedly used the people as a wall to obstruct the Ming army's attack.) In the battle of Xinhui, there was a shortage of food in the army, and the Qing army killed one person per family in Xinhui City as rations.

Li Dingguo led his troops to open a gap in the Xinhui city wall, and the Qing army drove the people to form a human wall to block the Ming army's advance. ）

It turned out that Yang Lin had been watching the battle from the rear, and he was very happy after seeing a large gap of more than ten meters in the collapse of the city tower, and was observing the battlefield with a monocular.

Who knew that the Tartars actually drove the people to fill the gap, drove the people as a human wall, and when they were hesitating and didn't know how to respond, they saw Yang Bingyi and others decisively lead the troops to attack, and everyone released arrows from afar to deter the people.

Seeing that the people of the 5th Associate Tartar were advancing forward regardless of the guns and arrows they were firing forward, Qian Bangqi, who was in charge of the capital army next to him, was greatly annoyed and pleaded: "My lord, it is really hateful that the Tartars form a human wall with the people as hostages.

But my volunteer army takes it as its mission to save the people in the world, and must not be in the same stream with the Tartars, my lord, those who win the hearts of the people will win the world, my lord, let the Fifth Association withdraw, and everyone will think about it in the long run. ”

Yang Lin was furious, slammed the telescope on the table, and said angrily: "Qian Jianjun, when you are old, you can't see clearly, don't talk nonsense, and ruin the reputation of my volunteers."

Yang Bingyi and Wang Jiushao are also heroes, how can they ruin the reputation of our volunteers?

In order to save the people, the brothers of the Fifth Association just fired guns and arrows into the sky to deter the Tartars, and everyone desperately charged forward despite the dense guns and crossbows fired by the Tartars hiding behind the people.

With so much sacrifice, how can you say that my heroic brother of the Fifth Association is in the company of the Tartars?

You are old, your eyes are old, and you can't see clearly, but don't talk nonsense and insult my Fifth Brother. ”

Qian Bangqian was at a loss, and he didn't know what to do when he stayed in the local area, and he looked forward desperately with his eyes wide open, but he couldn't see clearly at all when the smoke kept rising in front of him.

The people around were quite surprised, although the adults and the envoys often argued, but they had never said such serious words to the other party's face.

A few people were the first to react, Yin Chengqi handed the telescope in his hand to Qian Bangqi and said: "According to the inspector, you are really dizzy and don't see clearly, you take a closer look, the brothers just shoot arrows into the sky, how can they shoot at the common people?" ”

Qian Bangqi was born in Jinshi, although he is quite pedantic, but he is not a person who does not know how to be flexible, he picked up the telescope and looked at it blankly, and nodded again and again.

At such a critical moment, Yang Lin certainly didn't have the heart to pay attention to what Qian Bangqi thought in his heart, in the face of such a change, the attitude of the main general on the battlefield was very important, and what he had to do now was to pass his attitude to the front as soon as possible.

After looking at the three-pound artillery position in front, he immediately issued an order, ordering the artillery regiment to concentrate its artillery and shell 100 meters behind the gap.

Sent a messenger to inform the whole army that the Tartars were brutal and drove the people to form a human wall to block the attack of our army, and Yang Bingyi, the commander of the Fifth Association, responded to the battle calmly, regardless of the huge casualties caused by the green battalion hiding behind the people, and bravely fought to the death with the Tartars.

The crowd was in high spirits, everyone shouted, pushed the siege tower, carried the ladder, and killed Hanzhong City under the cover of artillery fire.

Because Yang Bingyi and Wang Jiushao immediately decided to lead their troops to kill the gap, coupled with Yang Lin's use of artillery as a signal, he clearly showed his attitude through continuous shelling of the rear of the gap.

Seeing that the volunteers did not retreat at all, and hearing the burst of artillery fire behind them, the people were terrified, some of them cried and shouted to obey the will of the generals of the escort Green Battalion, some cried and ran away, and some people grabbed the weapons of the Green Battalion and fought with them.

The morale of the 1st Battalion of the 15th Standard, which rushed to the gap, was greatly boosted, and everyone braved bows and crossbows to rush to the gap, brandishing broadswords, and fighting with the soldiers of the Green Battalion hiding behind the people.

For a while, the gap was chaotic, Wang Jiushao led the 1st battalion of the 15th standard (regiment) to rush up, everyone fought with the escorted green battalion soldiers, because there were too many hostages and people, everyone did not dare to concentrate the musket salvo, so they had to wield swords, raise the spear equipped with spurs, and fight with the other party.

Both sides were red-eyed, everyone shouted and kept charging forward, and the two streams of people collided together at the gap, until half an hour later, Yang Bingyi led the 5th standard to control the two wings of the gap city wall, and the Qing army retreated.

The Qing army relied on the improvised urn city behind the west gate to continue to resist and struggle, but the temporary urn city was too short and not very strong.

After controlling the West Gate, Yang Bingyi concentrated more than ten large Franco machine guns on the city wall and attacked continuously at the target.

When night fell, what surprised people was that the other party had no intention of stopping at all, and there was a posture of attacking the city overnight and vowing not to give up until the goal was achieved.