The Eight Banners are unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, and they are generally reluctant to attack the city.

Reluctance is unwillingness, but it does not mean that it will not!

No matter how strong the camp of the Ming army is, it is not as good as the real city, the eight-foot high camp wall is much lower than the three-zhang high city wall, as long as the cloud ladder is on the wall, a few jumps can climb the camp wall.

The first wave of the Qing offensive began.

Rushing to the front were a hundred short axemen, who worked in groups of several people, holding a rattan card in one hand to protect themselves, and carrying the bamboo row flying bridge in the other, braving the attack of stone cannons to rush to the front of the trench, and working together to build the bamboo row flying bridge to the opposite bank. In this process, you have to throw away the rattan card in your hand, and you can only be beaten passively, and the arrows on the wall of the Ming army are raining down, and the fire guns are ringing in unison, and seven or eight Qing soldiers are immediately overturned.

Three hundred Eight Banners soldiers rushed forward, jumped off their horses and stepped forward on foot, raising their bows and shooting arrows at the camp wall to cover the short axe soldiers who were opening the way.

Under their cover, the Qing army short axe soldiers successfully built several flying bridges, then leaned over to pick up the rattan plaque to protect their heads, swarmed across the flying bridge, and pulled out the short axe at their waists, and began to clear the antler obstacles. Because they didn't have to go through large siege engines, they only had to make a rough passage in the antlers, so they advanced quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they approached the camp wall.

The Ming army on the camp wall continued to shoot with firearms, bows and arrows, and on the other hand, they lifted stones and smashed them, and the heavy stones smashed on the rattan plaque, making a dull crashing sound, which was also mixed with the screams of the Qing army.

Borhui rode his horse in front of the formation, motionless as a stone statue, his face expressionless.

How can there be immortals in war? Since it was a strong attack, he must have suffered heavy losses, and he was even prepared to lose 30% of his troops, and now this loss is nothing.

The hatcheers wounded twenty or thirty men, but made a few passages through the antler barrier, and were now forced to the foot of the camp wall. With a wave of his hand, the second wave of Qing troops began to attack.

The two hundred Eight Banner soldiers were all dressed short, wearing cotton armor and helmets on their upper bodies, but the two scarbs on their lower bodies were removed to facilitate the movement of their legs, anyway, the attacks of the Ming army came from the top of their heads, and the lower body did not need to be covered and protected. As for the Eight Banners spear, tiger gun, pick knife, horse fork and other long weapons, the tiger tooth knife and the big knife are inserted in the back, and the hand holds short weapons such as ladder knife and shun knife, which is convenient for climbing the ladder.

(These are all commonly used weapons by the Eight Banners.) The ladder knife is two feet six minutes long, and it is a special weapon for siege purposes, and the sword and short axe are no more than two feet, and can also be used when climbing the ladder. ）

The camp wall of the Ming army was only eight feet high, and the ladder built by the Qing army did not need to be too long. The weight is not heavy, and the two people with little strength carry it together. If you have a lot of strength, you can even carry it on your shoulder. Two hundred Qing troops rushed forward with a hula and a cheer.

After shooting arrows continuously for a long time, the physical consumption was very fast, and after the three hundred Eight Banner soldiers in charge of covering shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, the frequency of drawing the bow began to slow down...... However, all of the Eight Banners were archers, and three hundred Eight Banners immediately followed. The first wave of archers was replaced.

After these three hundred fresh troops came up, the bows and arrows of the Qing army immediately became much more dense, and the Ming army on the camp wall was so pressed that they couldn't raise their heads for a while, but it was only a few minutes. "Papapapa......", ladders were set up on the camp wall, and the second wave of Qing troops rushed to the camp wall.

Above! These two hundred and eight banner soldiers have short knives in their mouths, and they have to go up the ladder, plus the first hundred short axe soldiers, and the camp walls are densely packed with Qing troops.

At this time, dozens of objects the size of watermelons suddenly flew down from the camp wall, and there was still fire on them, and a Qing soldier took two steps forward to check, but before he could figure out what it was, a cloud of smoke suddenly rose in front of him, and a loud noise was heard in his ears, and then the sky was spinning, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Suddenly, a series of explosions, sharp iron sand and bamboo pieces flew all over the sky, more than 200 Qing troops were blown up to the point of crying wolf, and the ladder on the camp wall was also blown up and more than half of it was blown down.

General Ray!

The earth bomb manufactured by the Gongyi Battalion Repair Machinery was mixed with black powder mixed with a large amount of iron sand bamboo chips, and ignited and exploded with a fuse. This thing can't be thrown out like a grenade to hurt the enemy, but it is infinitely powerful when thrown condescendingly into the dense Qing army on the camp wall!

The Eight Banners attacked for the first time and were repulsed......

Artillery has been widely used in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called red-coated cannon, in fact, is a false name for the Hongyi cannon, the artillery jishu of the Qing army came from the surrendered Ming army, and the artillery jishu of the Ming army came from the West.

So in the wars of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, artillery was very common, but there were no explosive packs, grenades, mines, earth bombs, coffins to blow up the city walls and other tactics, but for the traverser, this is just a few layers of sealed oil paper, plus many shiyan can solve the problem.

General Lei, the name given by Wang Sheng and others, was quickly recognized by the soldiers and called out in the army. For Wang Kefan, this is a simple earth bomb, and the name "General Lei" is exaggerated, but considering that it can deter the enemy and boost morale, he recognized this name.

Today is the first time that General Lei has used it in actual combat, and because the Qing army was completely defenseless, he suffered a big loss.

When the remnants of the Qing army retreated, Bolhui had not recovered from the shock, what was this? The sound is like a thunderbolt, the power is huge, and the explosion is like a cannon used by the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers, but Weishenme can be held directly in his hand, and it will not blow up the Ming Army itself?

Counting the casualties, more than 160 people were lost in this battle, but they didn't even touch the wall of the Ming military camp wall.

All the lightly wounded are not counted, the Qing army directly killed more than 40 people, seriously injured more than 100 people, carefully examined the injuries of the wounded soldiers, which shocked Bolhui even more. Because many Qing soldiers did not wear armor on the lower half of their bodies, they were blown up by the ancient monster and their flesh and blood were blurred, and the two legs and crotch were densely packed with wounds, which were embedded with iron sand and bamboo chips.

The earth bombs made of black powder had limited power, and there were not many Qing soldiers who were directly killed, but these seriously wounded had a lot of rusty iron sand in their bodies, which was difficult to clean up at the level of surgery in this era, and what awaited them was the infection of the wound, the high fever did not go away, and then they died painfully.

The Qing soldier's injuries in front of him were even more serious, and a Lei General exploded two feet in front of him, not only injuring his legs, but also piercing his lower abdomen with several sharp pieces of bamboo, plus honeycomb-like iron sand, even his intestines were exposed, and he kept screaming in pain.

Bolhui's face was pale, he pulled out the sword at his waist, raised his hand and inserted it into his chest, then got up and got on his horse, "stepped on" to the front of the formation, and stared at the Ming army in the city with fire in his eyes.

"Where is Wang Kefan, let him come out and answer!"

"Ben will be here!" Wang Kefan leaned out from behind the female wall, stretched out his hand and pointed: "Bo Erhui, you are not small, you dare to come to my territory to spread wild, be careful that I pull out your Baya Lalong flag!" ”

"The Han dog surnamed Wang, hurting my son with such a vicious thing, are you still a hero?" Bolhui shouted angrily: "If you have the ability to go down to the city, I will share the victory with you one-on-one!" ”

"Yin damage and vicious? You Tartars burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil, they are just jackals and beasts, and this kind of thunderbolt should be used against you! Wang Kefan said coldly: "You have fallen into my trap, save some strength and wait for death!" ”

After he finished speaking, he retreated backwards and disappeared, but Bolhui was startled, and he didn't care about getting angry, so he hurriedly beat his horse and returned to his own position.

"Is there any news from Zukofa?"

"Qi Qi Zhangjing, the two thousand soldiers and horses of the green battalion have arrived three miles away, and there is another report from the Malays, and there is also a Ming army blocking the road on the back road of our army, and a camp has been built, and Zu Kefa is fighting fiercely with them......"

What the? Bolhui's face finally changed.

Blocking in front and intercepting in the back, this is not to defend Linxiang, but to trap yourself in the mountains!

After seeing the sharp firearms of the Ming army, he didn't know if he could break through the camp of the Ming army and break out of the encirclement. Looking at the meaning of the Ming army, it is obvious that it is the plan to build a fortress and besiege it, and wait for its own food and grass to run out, and defeat itself without a fight.

Grain, food is a big problem!

Bolhui's heart regretted for a while, and he couldn't wait to slap himself. In order to march quickly, the soldiers of the Eight Banners generally carry not much military rations and baggage, which is an old habit developed for many years, even if there is a change in the Jiangnan area, they still feel that it is too cumbersome to bring as little as possible.

After receiving the letter from Ma Jiaolin and Hei Yunchang, Bolhui thought that he would not fight again, and in order to hurry to receive Linxiang, the military rations he carried were not replenished in time, even if he saved some food, he would last for six or seven days at most...... If the army runs out of food, the consequences will be unimaginable.

It is not reliable to send people to Luck Dehun for help, this is more than 300 miles away from Wuchang Mansion, and there are lofty mountains and mountains everywhere, even if the messenger of the news has worked hard to find out the mountains, and then wait until he arrives at Wuchang Mansion, and then wait until Luck Dehun sends a large army to rescue, it will take at least ten days to come and go.

There is only one way left, which is to enter the deep mountains and old forests to disperse and break through, but to do so is tantamount to self-defeat without a fight.

Don't think about receiving Linxiang and Yuezhou anymore, the Qing army even has a problem with self-preservation, thousands of people and horses are not familiar with the place, and they will soon become a plate of loose sand when they enter the forest, under the pursuit and interception of the Ming army, how many percent of those who escaped from the mountains alive can be left?

No, he can't do this, for the sake of the entire Huguang battle situation, he must move forward and fight his way out...... Moreover, the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners must not be broken in your own hands!

The more difficult and dangerous it was, the more he moved forward, and Bolhui made up his mind in an instant.

He called more than a dozen elite subordinates, all of whom were white-armored soldiers, and ordered them to divide into three groups and find their way through the dense forest to Wuchang Mansion to report the news...... Anything can happen on the battlefield, although you know it's too late, this is also a procedure that must be followed.

Then he ordered the whole army to camp and build siege equipment such as half-cut ships, which were bulky but extremely defensive, and should be able to resist the poisonous weapons of the Ming army.

"Kuaima sent an order to Zu Kefa, and the green battalion stopped attacking the Ming army's rear village, and led the troops to join the general......"

Now is the time to fight hard, but can no longer let the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners die in vain, Bo Erhui made up his mind to sacrifice these 4,000 green battalion Han troops, fill them with people, exchange their lives, continuously consume the defense of the Ming army, and use the tactics of the sea of people to break through this strong camp. (To be continued......)