Chapter 40: Accidents

After this wave of attacks was defeated, the Qing army's offensive was finally suspended.

The casualties were too great.

The nearly 100 Qing troops who rushed to the camp wall were all killed, all of them were elite soldiers under Zu Kefa, if they fought in a formation on flat ground, they might not lose to the Gongyi battalion, and now they are dying so badly, the blow to morale is very big.

In the continuous fierce battles of one day and one night, Zukefa's Green Battalion suffered heavy casualties, and the total number of light and serious wounded and dead soldiers exceeded 30%, or more than 1,500 people. If the battle had been fought on the plains, such a large battle loss would have collapsed long ago than the troops, but Zukova's green battalion had rested and prepared for an hour before attacking again.

Trapped beasts are still fighting!

Surrounded by the Ming army in the mountains, there are eight banner soldiers behind them to supervise the battle, they want to escape and have nowhere to escape, they can only desperately fight their way forward, and there is no other way to live...... By this time, their attacks were even more ferocious and frenzied!

Zu Kefa no longer had any reservations, and sent the most elite five hundred family members, these family members were all the dead soldiers he had raised for many years, fed with silver women, and fought without fear of death, which was a trump card in his hand.

However, the tactics of the Qing army were also adjusted accordingly, and while they used the ladder ants to attack the city, they also worked together to carry the thick bumping wood and repeatedly hit the camp wall of the Ming army!

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock......"

The dull sound of impact kept coming, the camp wall of the Ming army kept trembling, and for the first time, a smile appeared on Bo Erhui's face, but he secretly regretted it in his heart. It should have been directly attacked the camp wall of the Ming army a long time ago, but it was just an earthen wall, which could be slowly cut down with axes and swords, so why did you have to build a cloud ladder to attack?

"Knock knock, knock, knock......"

The sound of the impact is getting more and more sparse. Those green battalion soldiers carrying the crashing wood were a group of live targets, greeted by the Ming army on the camp wall with various weapons, bows and arrows, fire guns, flying stones, earth bombs, ......, although there were companions holding shields to protect, casualties were still increasing rapidly.

With a wave of his hand, Zukaffa rushed up a hundred more men, lifted the fallen logs, took the place of his dead and wounded companions, and then chiseled the wall.

Beside them, the other Green Battalion soldiers climbed up the ladder to the camp wall. Even if you go up just to die, you have to interfere with the Ming army above. Behind them, hundreds of Eight Banner archers fired rows of arrows at the camp wall in a row, providing cover for them.

Gradually, several large pits were carved into the camp wall. The entire camp wall was shaking continuously...... Suddenly. The Ming army dropped dozens of earth bombs. They all landed around the few crashing logs, and the screams that blew the green battalion soldiers down were repeated, and the impact finally stopped.

At this time, the sound of "squeaky" wheels came from behind the Qing army, and two half-cut boats were pushed up.

The half-cut ship is like an earthen armored car. The frame of the cart is made of a low cart as the bottom, and the sides and top are covered with baffles made of bamboo rows, which are shaped like an inverted boat, so it is named a half-cut boat. In pursuit of protection. The baffles of the half-cut ships are all very strong, so they are huge in size and slow to move.

Several strong green battalion soldiers hid under the baffle, pushed the half-cut boat towards the Ming army's camp, and the companions in front cleared the road for them, filled in the trench, and led the half-boat to the camp wall.

Start!

The green battalion soldiers in the half-cut boat waved pickaxes and shovels and began to dig the camp wall of the Ming army, they hid under the thick baffles, not afraid of the bows and arrows of the Ming army, and the baffles on both sides almost touched the ground, and they were not afraid of the Ming army's earth bombs...... The Ming army on the camp wall lifted a boulder and pushed it down, and smashed it on the half-cut boat with a bang, and several screams came from inside, and the top of the half-cut boat was smashed flat.

The surrounding green battalion soldiers immediately rushed up, pushed away the boulder together, and propped up the top of the boat, the bamboo baffle on the top of the boat was very tough, although it was smashed a few, but the whole was still connected, several green battalion soldiers drilled into the stern, dragged the wounded companion out, picked up the pickaxe shovel, and continued to dig the camp wall.

Under the cover of the archers of the Eight Banners, although the half-cut ship was attacked by several falling rocks, it was never destroyed, and the large pit in the camp wall was dug deeper and deeper, and the bow of the half-cut ship drilled into it, advancing inch by inch.

The camp wall kept trembling, and it was about to collapse, the green battalion soldiers no longer climbed the ladder, and the Ming army on the wall could no longer resist, the bows and arrows and firearms had stopped, and they seemed to have gone down the wall to flee for their lives.

"Boom la la ......"

After paying a heavy price, the Qing army finally destroyed this camp wall, and the earth, sand and gravel collapsed with a clatter, cracking a huge gap more than two feet wide!

The green battalion soldiers cheered in unison, brandishing their swords and guns and rushed towards the gap, they wanted to rush in and break the village in one fell swoop before the Ming army blocked it.

The Eight Banners Green Battalion behind the formation also boosted their morale and shouted together.

"Broken village, broken ......"

As if suddenly the switch was turned off, they slammed their mouths shut, stopped, and stood there dumbfounded. The dust from the fall of the camp wall gradually dissipated, and it was very clear from the gap that less than two hundred steps ahead, Huo Ran stood another camp wall!

"I'm X!"

Zukefa scolded, feeling that he was going crazy.

With all his efforts and heavy casualties, it was easy to break this camp wall, but the Ming army built another camp wall in the back, and faintly you can still hear the voices of people behind the camp wall, maybe a third camp wall is being built!

This battle can't be fought!

"Lord Zhang Jing, the last general thinks that he can't attack anymore, it's better to stick to the ...... and wait for reinforcements"

"Stuck on the sidelines? There is not enough food unless all the wounded soldiers are killed. Bolhui shook his head, but his eyes kept staring at the second camp wall of the Ming army, almost spewing fire.

The casualties of the Green Battalion were close to 2,000, and more than half of them were lightly or seriously wounded, who had lost their combat effectiveness, but still consumed food...... Zu Kefa's body trembled slightly, this is not good, he is reluctant to kill these wounded soldiers, and he can't kill them, killing more than a thousand wounded soldiers at once, the troops may really mutiny.

"Otherwise, kill the horse?"

"What did you say?!" Bolhui suddenly turned around, stared at him deadly, but one hand stroked the mane of the iron horse under his crotch, and asked coldly, "Do you want to kill it and eat its flesh?" ”

"The last general will not dare. The last will not dare! The last general will go to regroup his troops and continue the attack! Zu Kefa hurriedly bowed his head, and a layer of cold sweat had already broken out on his back.

Breaking through the wall and clearing the roadblocks, the Qing army attacked again.

When the battle came to this point, Bol Hui was like a red-eyed gambler, he couldn't withdraw, he still had 3,000 elites in his hands, and 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers were basically complete, how could he easily admit defeat? As for those green camp Han troops. No matter how many casualties there were, Bolhui didn't take it to heart at all.

Perhaps with a little more effort, the Ming army could be defeated, and the length of this mountain pass was limited, and it could build up to three camp walls. There are such sharp siege equipment as half a ship and a crashing wood, which can destroy all the camp walls of the Ming army!

Offensive. Continuous attack!

But. The resistance of the Ming army increased significantly.

Between the first camp wall and the second camp wall, there were two deep trenches, and the middle was also planted with plum blossom piles more than two feet high, which were used to block half of the ship. In order to clear the way forward, the Green Battalion rushed forward with a shield hatchet.

"Whoosh, whoosh......" A series of stone bullets were fired from behind the wall of the Ming military camp. All of them were the size of watermelons, and there were more than a dozen in a row, and they smashed down together on their heads and faces, so that the green battalion soldiers had no way to hide.

Flesh and blood flying!

An ominous feeling flashed through Zukefa's heart. The Ming army did not seem to have been idle in the past two days, not only built a second camp wall, but also placed a large number of stone cannons behind the camp wall...... It seems that this camp wall is the main line of defense of the Ming army!

He called Bo Erhui, and the two of them climbed the ruins of the first camp wall together, looking to check the reality of the Ming army. As expected, the second camp wall of the Ming army seemed to be thicker and stronger, and the height had increased by two feet, about a zhang high.

"How to attack this camp wall, please show Master Zhang Jing!" Zu Kefa didn't dare to say any more frustrating words, but the difficulty was obvious, and he still let my men go down to die?

Bolhui was silent for a long time, and finally spit out two words: "Attack!" ”

“……”

Zukofa had no other choice. You can only bow your head and bow down to answer orders.

Charge after charge, increasing casualty figures, Zukofa has become numb. He knew that no matter what the outcome of this battle was, the troops he relied on for his life had been crippled, and in the future, he didn't expect to open up territory for the Manchu masters, and he didn't want to make a fortune by virtue of military merit, he just hoped that he could desperately break through the camp of the Ming army, so that Bo Erhui could fulfill the promise of half of the "future" and change the status of a Manchu nobleman to retire and die.

At the cost of more than 500 casualties, the Green Battalion finally cleared the obstacles in front of the camp wall, filled in the trenches, cut down the plum blossom piles, and the rereinforced half-ship rumbled and pushed up.

The green battalion soldiers braved the attack of bows and arrows, sacrificed their lives to carry the crashing wood, and repeatedly hit the camp wall, and the two half-cut boats continued to dig forward, gradually expanding the working surface...... However, they suddenly ran into obstacles.

Stone wall! The main body of the interior of this camp wall turned out to be a stone wall, all made of mountain stones, and it was extremely strong!

"I'm X!"

Zu Kefa ignored that Bo Erhui was in front of him, and burst out again.

It's all fucking waste!

He finally understood that when the Ming army erected the first camp wall, they had the intention of giving up retreating to the second camp wall, and they held the first camp wall for two days, just to build the second camp wall strong enough! The most hateful thing is that after they repaired the stone wall, they reinforced and thickened it with mud, and hid the stone wall inside, causing the Qing army to waste their efforts, carrying and hitting wood, pushing half of the boat, and stupidly touching nails!

Of course, the stone wall can also be slowly hollowed out, but it will take a lot of time, and the Qing army is short of food and grass, so it can't wait.

"Lord Zhang Jing, there is no other good way now, but to use the cloud ladder to attack again!" Zukefa's eyes were red, and he didn't mention the words of holding on to help. If he couldn't turn defeat into victory, he would probably be used as a scapegoat for the defeat in this battle and be cut down by the Manchu master.

"I am willing to personally lead a thousand dead soldiers to attack the camp, but in order to win in one fell swoop, please ask Lord Zhang Jing to send the elite of the Eight Banners to help in the battle!" Zukoffa was desperate.

"Good! I'll send 500 armor and 30 Bayala soldiers to help you fight!" Bolhui also bet on Zuihou's chips.

Continue to attack slowly in waves, sooner or later it will be dragged to death by the Ming army, the Qing army is ready to make a desperate bet, launch a strong attack with all its troops, and use the tactics of a sea of people to flood the camp wall of the Ming army, life and death are this hammer deal! (To be continued......)