Chapter 41: More Surprises
After an hour of preparation, the main attack of the Qing army began.
Five hundred Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners served as archers to provide cover for the siege troops, and one thousand Green Battalion soldiers and five hundred Eight Banners armored soldiers charged in three echelons, and Zu Kefa's Green Battalion soldiers took the lead and launched an attack on the camp wall of the Ming army.
In such a narrow valley, five hundred soldiers were dispatched at a time was a bit too crowded, and the more than a dozen stone cannons of the Ming army were almost inmissible, and each stone bullet could kill and injure several green battalion soldiers, but fortunately, the firing frequency of the stone cannons was very slow, and after the green battalion soldiers were hit by a round of stone bullets, they had already rushed through the open ground in the middle and put a cloud ladder on the camp wall.
The stone cannons of the Ming army shifted their targets and began to attack the archers of the Eight Banners, but this time they no longer fired a salvo, but took turns firing one shot from the east and one from the west, and the front and back were always connected...... A single stone projectile is not a big threat, and the archers of the Eight Banners can easily dodge it as long as they avoid it in time, but in this way, it is inevitable that they will be nervous, and most of their minds are careful about the stone projectiles that suddenly fly, and the accuracy and speed of the arrow are significantly reduced.
The Ming army on the camp wall took advantage of the situation to counterattack, bows and arrows, fire guns, flying stones, and earth bombs ......, condescendingly smashing the Qing army under the wall, and in a blink of an eye, sixty or seventy green battalion soldiers were put down, and several ladders were knocked down.
Standing on the ruins of the first camp wall to watch the battle, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly when he saw the casualties so tragic.
If you continue to dig the camp wall with half a boat, you can avoid casualties, but who knows how thick the stone wall inside is? How long does it take to dig up? If it takes another two or three days, the next camp wall of the Ming army has been repaired.
Time, time is the most precious, we must take advantage of the fact that the third camp wall of the Ming army has not been repaired, and use the tactics of a sea of people to break through the enemy.
If there were the red-clothed cannons of the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers, it would certainly be easy to blast through this camp wall. But Bol Hui rode forward this time and was accidentally ambushed, and what he said about the red-coated cannon here and now is just a useless nonsense.
The arrogant army will be defeated, this sentence suddenly flashed in his mind. After the Eight Banners entered the customs, they won a hundred battles, and the Ming army fled everywhere they went, and they didn't know when he had lost his due vigilance and caution!
"If you can escape this time, you must ......" Bolhui suddenly shook his head heavily. No, Weishenme is going to escape. There's still a chance to win this battle! Although the casualties of the Ming army were not large, they must have been very tired from continuous battles, with a thousand elites of the Eight Banners still there, and more than thirty Bayala soldiers still there, as long as they could rush to the camp wall. It will definitely be able to kill the Ming army!
He squatted down and jumped lightly, jumping directly from the eight-foot-high camp wall. Stride forward and push the drummer away. Throw out your arms and beat the drums of war.
"Knock knock ......!"
The rapid sound of the drum was an order, and Zukefa put on his helmet and armor, and personally rushed forward with the second wave of green battalion soldiers.
The 500 green battalion soldiers in front were climbing the ladder, and the 500 green battalion soldiers in the back followed, and dozens of cloud ladders were erected, one next to the other. Occupying all the camp walls, Zu Kefa took the lead with a single knife and climbed with the green battalion soldiers.
The Ming army threw down rows of flying stones with their heads and faces, and the Qing soldiers on the ladder fell down like dumplings. But the companions behind immediately filled in to keep up, and there were more and more green battalion soldiers on the camp wall, and they had already joined together, like a strange and strange plant growing along the wall, slowly rising with an irrepressible momentum......
The Qing army's crowd tactics have finally shown their power!
With Bo Erhui's order, the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, who had rested for two days, were finally dispatched.
Five hundred Eight Banners in armor and carrying tiger tooth knives, carefully avoiding the attack of stone bullets, rushed forward together, there are green battalion soldiers in front as cannon fodder, they can calmly climb the ladder, they don't need to unload their armor and go into battle lightly, more than five feet long tiger tooth knife, enough to fight with the Ming army's nine-foot spear!
Among them, there were thirty elite white-armored soldiers, led by a tall and strong Bayala Zhuangda (a junior officer of the white-armored soldiers), more than 1.9 meters tall, weighing more than 250 pounds, strong like a brown bear, he was wearing a heavy flower iron armor, but he was still striding like flying, and his skills were agile.
Flower iron armor is the iron armor used by the Eight Banners, which has a higher protection than the cotton armor, enough to resist the stabbing of ordinary spears, but because it is too heavy and does not conform to the combat style of the Eight Banners soldiers, it is not equipped much. But in the battle of the fortification, this Bayala Zhuangda in flower iron armor was like a humanoid tank, which could rampage through the spear array of the Ming army......
"Broken village! Broken village! ”
The cheers of the green battalion soldiers were heard from the front, and after paying heavy casualties, they finally climbed to the top of the camp wall, and several people had already climbed to the battlement, pulled out the steel knives behind their backs and slashed at the Ming army.
Seeing that the Qing army was unstoppable, the Ming army behind the female wall suddenly turned around and ran, and the morale of the green battalion soldiers was greatly boosted, and they climbed the camp wall together and jumped into the battlements.
......A thick white smoke suddenly rose from the camp wall, and dozens of guns of the Ming army shot together, immediately knocking down a row of Qing troops, and the rest of the green battalion soldiers raised their knives and rushed forward, only to find that a wooden fence suddenly appeared in the smoke, blocking their way!
When Zu Kefa climbed the battlement, there were green battalion soldiers around him who kept falling off the camp wall, screaming again and again, he stopped and looked inside, and immediately fell on the ladder.
"I'm X!"
Is this still a camp wall? It's time to catch up with the city walls!
Only when I climbed up did I see that the camp wall was more than two zhang wide, and hundreds of Ming soldiers lined up in a neat spear formation, constantly assassinating the green battalion soldiers who climbed up. The most infuriating thing is that more than four feet away from the female wall, Huo Ran stood a wooden fence, blocking the way for the green battalion soldiers to charge!
This wooden fence is as high as one person, and it is made of wooden stakes the thickness of an arm, which is difficult to cut with a knife and axe...... The Green Battalion soldiers did not have long weapons in their hands, so they could only hide and dodge, staring dryly and unable to fight back.
Fuck, why are there so many bad moves!
......Seeing that the situation was not good, Zu Kefa jumped off the camp wall with both hands, and fell to the ground for half a day and couldn't get up.
At this time, the Eight Banners had already begun to climb the ladder.
Bo Erhui, who was watching the battle, couldn't see what was happening on the camp wall because of the angle, but he had expected that the Ming army would resist desperately, and he didn't care about the heavy losses of the green battalion soldiers. The Eight Banners are about to climb the camp wall, and the brave white armor soldiers are going to climb the camp wall, and they will definitely be able to defeat the Ming army!
The drums of war were like thunder, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners flocked to the camp wall.
In the face of the vicious Tartars, in the face of these legendary man-eating devils, the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion were not afraid, because there was a strong fence in front of them, blocking the way of the Tartars.
As soon as the Eight Banners jumped off the battlement, countless spears pierced into the gaps between the fences, and they wielded tiger-headed knives to cover the left and right, but they could not break through the cover of the wooden fence. The soldiers of the Gongyi battalion are even more courageous, the spears in their hands are constantly expanding, and several people are dealing with a Tartar together, some are dazzling, some are piercing the waist, and some are piercing the feet, anyway, the enemy can't rush up, so you can rest assured that you can attack boldly and at will.
The soldiers of the Eight Banners were anxious, brandishing tiger tooth knives and screaming again and again, they were all veterans who had experienced a hundred battles and had strong martial arts, but at this time, they were like beasts in a cage, no matter how they waved their minions, they could not hurt the Ming army on the other side of the fence.
Fight in battle!
In the special terrain and environment, fighting in a village is more powerful than fighting in a formation, and it is a powerful weapon for the weak to fight the strong!
Because of the special environment on the camp wall, this wooden fence is indestructible, and the space in front of the Eight Banners is only four feet wide, unable to rush up, unable to retreat, and the tiger tooth knife in his hand cannot reach the Ming army, so he can only be stabbed down one after another.
The physical strength is constantly being consumed, and the follow-up Eight Banners soldiers continue to climb the camp wall, the space in the fence is getting smaller and smaller, and the casualties are rapidly expanding! Some of the Eight Banners fiercely pounced on the fence and tried to climb over it, but they were stabbed to death by several spears as soon as they were halfway through.
At this time, thirty white-armored soldiers finally climbed the camp wall, led by the tall and fierce Bayala Zhuangda. He looked left and right, immediately understood the situation in front of him, and rushed to the fence with a loud roar.
"Bang!"
The huge body was used as a weapon, and he slammed his armor into the fence, and the wooden fence shook twice at once, and he turned back to climb the battlement, and jumped down and rushed towards the fence...... The soldiers of the Gongyi battalion saw that the momentum was not right, and more than a dozen spears stabbed at the same time, only to hear the rapid sound of a gold and iron exchange of "dang dang dang chang", and the heads of the spears were bounced away by his flower iron armor.
"Bang!"
There was another impact, and the fence shook at a greater angle.
"Bang bang bang!"
More than a dozen guns fired at him together, but as soon as he raised his arm to protect the vital point of the face, he was exposed to these dozen leads, and his iron armor was also covered with a layer of cotton armor, although he was shot, it did not hurt much.
"Bang!"
There was another impact, and the whole fence shook violently, and when it was about to be knocked down, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he turned and kicked the battlement, and pounced again.
"Bang!"
There was a loud bang and smoke filled the air!
Nabaya Lazhuangda's body suddenly stopped, the armor of the flower iron was full of honeycomb bullet holes, and there were traces of blood oozing from it, his body shook twice, and he staggered two steps towards the fence, but a blood suddenly appeared from the corner of his mouth, and his body tilted, and he fell to the ground with a bang.
Ten paces behind the wooden fence, the soldiers of the Gongyi battalion stepped aside, revealing a swarthy cannon with a wisp of green smoke coming out of its muzzle.
Thousand Thunder Cannons!
Qianzi Thunder Cannon, the shotgun of the Ming Dynasty, has a limited range, but it is extremely powerful, Wang Kefan happens to have two Qianzi Thunder Cannons, both of which were extorted from Ma Jinzhong. (To be continued......)