The sky was already slightly white, and the battle under Huanggang City continued.

Reinforcements from the Qing army had arrived, and the plan to storm the city had to be abandoned. In the urban offensive and defensive battles, the battle loss ratio of the offensive and defensive sides is often as high as 2 to 1 or 3 to 1, and the Chu army can not bear such a large number of casualties, so Wang Kefan pushed the time of the general attack again and again, and only carried out a few feints before dawn to harass the Qing army, but the main energy was on the city walls on both sides of the city tower, so that the Ji'an battalion could hold the city tower and use half a boat to keep digging under the city wall.

Blow up the walls and you'll be able to win with minimal effort.

In other parts of the city wall of the south gate, the Chu army also made some attempts, using ramming and other siege equipment to hit the city wall, trying to create some more blasting points, but without the cover of the city tower, the progress of these crashes was very slow, and they were finally destroyed by the Qing army, and the attempt was declared a failure.

The key to victory or defeat lies on both sides of the tower.

In order to stop these half-cut boats, the Qing army constantly launched counterattacks.

They attack first with flying stones!

"Hey! Hey! ”

The young men shouted hoarse trumpets, and tried their best to transport the rectangular stones up the city wall, and the ordinary flying stones could be moved by one or two people, and the weight was limited, and they were useless in front of the sturdy half-cut boats, so the Qing army let the young men transport these heavy and huge stones.

"Ah——!h

"Steady!"

"Fucking death!"

"Ahh

The overseer team composed of green battalion soldiers held steel knives, forcing them to walk towards the battlement, carrying heavy stones, the speed of the young men advancing was very slow, and from time to time they were hit by the bows and arrows of the Chu army, and fell to the ground with a miserable cry, and the Qing soldiers forced the other young men to go up to fill the position, whose movements were a little hesitant. Immediately was slashed by the Qing army.

More than a dozen people, more than 20 people worked together, braving the bows and arrows of the Chu army, pushing the heavy and huge stones up the battlement, and smashing them along the edge of the city wall to the half-cut boat.

These giant rockfalls weighed hundreds of kilograms, falling from the sky with huge kinetic energy, and although the bamboo guards of the half-cut boat were tough, they were also flattened and deformed by the falling rocks, and they were sunken downward, and several soldiers inside were killed by the rocks.

Hiding under the castle tower was a group of soldiers from the Ji'an battalion. Immediately rushed up to push away the stones, re-jacked half of the ship's guard, transported the casualties from the boat, and replaced them to continue digging, when the Qing army threw the falling rocks again. The soldiers of the Ji'an battalion repeated this process again, only reducing the number of people who went to the bottom of the boat. lest there be too many casualties.

The Qing army threw down four or five falling rocks one after another. A particularly huge piece smashed on the edge of the half-cut boat, and finally smashed the scarred half-cut boat overturned, the guard plate bounced into the air, the body broke in two, and the soldiers of the Ji'an battalion hiding below were injured two, and the others rolled and crawled to the side.

The morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted. The motivation was even higher, and one stone after another was thrown down and smashed into the other half-ship.

The soldiers of the Ji'an battalion under the city tower rushed up again, and they did not bother with the overturned half of the boat. Instead, he moved the rectangular stones, first pushed over a stone lying flat on the ground, and then used three or four oblique stones to lean against the city wall to build a shelf, and put the broken guard under the shelf, forming a simple bunker.

Although the guard plate was damaged, it could also prevent bows and arrows, and Gu Zongfu sent a team of daredevils, two people in a group to alternate in turn, burrow into the bunker and then dig the city wall.

After the Qing army on the head of the city threw down a few more stones, he stopped, and the stones leaning on the city wall had a good unloading effect, and the stones were bounced off when they were smashed up, so it was not a matter to go on like this, the more the stones were stacked, the more they could not be smashed by the Chu army.

In the middle of the Chu army's formation, a brand-new half-cut boat was pushed up again and stopped on the opposite bank of the moat, if the simple bunker was destroyed by the Qing army, this half-cut boat would be on top.

The Qing army switched to fire attack!

The fire suppression of the Chu army was very resolute, and the green battalion soldiers themselves did not want to be sent to death, so they forced the young men to lean out from the battlements, smashed the jars and jars filled with fire oil into the half of the boat, and threw down the wood, firewood, grass and rags soaked in oil. Of course, it was difficult to find so many flammable materials in a hurry, but with the efforts of Niu Yan, a batch of clothes and furniture was forcibly confiscated from the people's homes, and then they were all replaced with suitable rags, quilts, and wood.

These young men were promised that if they leaned out and made an accurate throw, they could retreat under the city walls, change to a safe job, and be rewarded with an extra string of copper coins. Although they don't believe in Manchu Tartars, these young men have no choice but to gamble desperately.

They trembled and poked their heads out from under the battlement, hesitated and did not dare to get up, but they were severely beaten by the Qing army supervision team with the back of the knife, and finally gritted their teeth and stood up, and were immediately shot by the Ming army's bow and arrow, and the canister of fire oil in their hands fell on the battlement and was shattered.

However, more canisters of fire oil and other flammable materials were thrown down, half of the ship was covered with wood, firewood, grass and rags, and the roof of the ship was soaked with oil like a large briquette ready to burn.

The half-cut boat moved and slowly retreated backwards, although the soldiers of the Chu army were brave and did not want to stay here as roast chickens, but the Qing army immediately shot down a row of rockets, and the half-cut boat was on fire!

"Teng! Rise! Rise! ”

Taking advantage of the sudden fire, the guard plate of the hidden soldier cave under the city wall was opened, and a group of Qing army death squads rushed out, and in front of them were several shield bearers, holding tall shields in both hands, blocking the front of the hidden soldier cave.

This Tibetan soldier cave has long been discovered by the Chu army, and has been sending archers and firecrackers to monitor it, but the half-intercepted boat was suddenly attacked by fire, and the archers and firecrackers of the Chu army went to support the half-intercepted boat, and then turned back to shoot half a beat slower, and the Qing army's sword and axe hands continued to rush out of the hidden soldier cave.

Half of the ship and all kinds of flammable materials were burning violently, and the rags were billowing smoke, and the crackling sound could be heard from afar, and the soldiers of the Chu army were burned to the ground and scattered and retreated.

The soldiers of the Chu army under the half-cut boat were very brave, although they retreated and wanted to keep the half-cut boat, but they couldn't get out of the fire, and several soldiers who escaped from the stern of the boat were stained with fire oil and burned into a burning man, with screams in their hands, dancing and struggling.

Gu Zongfu rushed to him, raised his knife without hesitation, and hacked to death these Chu soldiers with three strikes and five divisions, and then rushed towards the Qing army in the Tibetan Soldier Cave with a knife, shouting hoarsely: "Kill the Tartars!" Avenge your brothers! ”

"Kill!"

Hundreds of soldiers of the Ji'an battalion rushed forward regardless of the qiē, and the Qing army that had been killed retreated step by step, while Wang Ding commanded another group of men and horses to launch a fierce attack from the city tower to the city walls on both sides. (To be continued......)