"The key to the battle for the defense of the city lies in the city walls and gates, and if you kill the city walls, you can occupy the commanding heights to contain the counterattack of the defenders, so that more troops will rush to the city and gradually overwhelm the opponent in numbers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info and the city gate is the key key. The gates were in the hands of the attackers, and they could take advantage of this flat avenue to move the army in quickly; If it is in the hands of the defenders, it can be harassed. If the attacker enters the city, once it gets into a street fight, it will basically drag on time, and the possibility of being able to push the attacker back out is almost non-existent. ”

The loud sound of the city wall collapsing had begun to dissipate, and Zhang Gongyan in the distance suddenly remembered what the instructor in the martial arts academy had said not long ago.

decided to stay in Zhejiang because Zhang Gongyan saw the difference of this Ming army, but compared to being a civilian official, this Confucian student was more eager to be able to put pen to paper, so he was arranged by Chen Wen to study staff assignments in the staff department of Zhejiang Martial Arts School. After all, the contemporary poor literacy rate is here, and military generals can be illiterate, but staff officers cannot.

Since entering the martial arts academy, Zhang Gongyan has been eager to one day be able to truly enter the army and contribute to the great cause of expelling the Tartars. But what he didn't expect was that this first time he was in the battle array, it would be in such a situation.

The cheers of the Qing army outside the city resounded in the sky, and they seemed to have decided that this Jinhua Mansion could no longer resist their attack. In fact, their faith is well founded, but not all of them will give up their resistance and be captured in the face of these traitors who play for the Tartars.

There are all classmates standing side by side, and some of these classmates who study staff assignments have risen from the army, and they are generally grasping all the time to read and write while studying, and a few familiar ones have asked him for advice many times; Some of them have read books and can read, but in their hearts, they don't really look down on those who were born with mud legs, but now they have a look of fear.

"Fellow students, we are the overseers of the army, this line is the dead line, the deserters want to go over, they cut the deserters, and the Tartars want to kill the Tartars. It is better to die standing before this line than to live on your knees behind this line! ”

Zhejiang Martial Arts School, the officer training base of the Zhejiang Ming Army, the trainees who are still here are all in the army without military positions, but they still stand up to fulfill their morality and mission in addition to this duty.

After a while, the flying dust dissipated, and the Qing army knew very well that the city wall had been broken now, which was equivalent to opening a larger gate on it, but this gate was undulating, which was not conducive to the sudden advance of the cavalry. Of course, in the stage of street fighting, the use of cavalry is limited to quickly attacking some points, and now they have an absolute superiority in strength, as long as the foot soldiers kill in to end the battle. As for after the annihilation of the Ming army......

"After breaking the city, the knife will be sealed in three days!"

Although the word slaughter has not been exported, every Qing army can hear the meaning of Shi Tingzhu. Rape and plunder, this is the most powerful way to stimulate the army's bestiality, and in Shi Tingzhu's view, this kind of bestiality can greatly stimulate the will to fight, and his masters have always done this.

In the second eruption, in the more deafening cheers than before, the Qing troops of the brigade began to walk towards the gap tens of meters wide with firm steps, and more Qing shooters and those artillery began to sweep the city, intending to suppress the Ming army's fire suppression of the gap.

The Qing army of the brigade slowly approached the gap and rushed towards the city along the slope of the gap, but in front of them, a Ming army with fewer soldiers than them had occupied the commanding heights of the gap and was located in the original city wall, and assumed a defensive posture.

Seeing this, the commander of this Qing army, the Han army's Yellow Banner Niu Lu Zhen Qin Jiwu hurriedly drove the bird guns behind the battle to step forward, and the fire guns and archers in the Ming army did not show weakness.

It was nearly June, and the weather in Zhejiang made the Ming and Qing armies unarmed, but even then they were still sweating profusely. On the battlefield, there was just a Qing army wearing a yellow and red-trimmed "lightning rod" military uniform and a Ming army wearing a fiery red military uniform and a helmet with wide eyes and gritted teeth.

In an instant, the archers of the two armies rushed forward to complete the first round of shooting, and after more than a dozen people were shot down on both sides, the Qing saber and shield soldiers on the slope stepped forward and threw a burst of javelins and throwing axes, and then rushed forward with a shout.

After the shooting at the gap was completed, the shooters of the Ming army retreated, and at this time, the Han Eighth Banner Army, which was more experienced in combat, took advantage of this kung fu to rush up, occupy a relatively gentle commanding height, and fought with the Ming army.

Niu Lu, who rushed to the commanding heights, was the old army of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, and they had been in Zhejiang for a long time, and the weather was more adaptable, so the first wave of the offensive was naturally killed by them. In fact, this is also the most secure, because they have seen how Xu Lei's mandarin duck formation of the standard promotion battalion in Hangzhou easily defeated another standard promotion battalion, although the self-confidence is still there, and the combat experience is also richer, but they will not make stupid moves because of ignorance.

Rushing to the flat commanding heights, the first row of the Han Eight Banner Army hurriedly closed into a shield array, and the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army stood densely in a row, defending with shields, without the slightest intention of blindly rushing up to break the formation.

Blocking, slashing, and even grabbing, the Qing army in the front row did not show weakness in the face of the Ming army's spear formation, and the rugged gap not only slowed down the Qing army's impact, but the Ming army's formation was far less neat than in the previous field battles in flat areas. However, this inch is long and strong, and the combination of the Ming army's one-foot five-foot spear and long card players is also not something that the Qing army can easily shake, and no one can help anyone for a while.

"Bird, go up!"

Qin Jiwu, who pulled out his waist knife, said nothing, and the other team had already finished loading, but the bird gunners who had not opened the fire door cover walked up with their guns, and soon passed the spearmen in the second row.

"First row, squat!"

The people in the front row shouted loudly, only to see those Qing soldiers squatting down in an uproar, leaking out those birds.

For a while, the bird guns erupted flames and gunsmoke, and also bullets of lead bullets on the battle array of the Ming army. Rao had just noticed that the Qing army had redeployed the Bird Gunners, and the Ming Army had turned to a defensive posture, but there were still a few pikemen who were shot to the ground and dragged down by the firefighters behind.

The moment the Qing army finished shooting, the Ming army immediately changed the formation and launched another round of assassination against the Qing army, which was about to disperse. However, this Qing army is composed of Liaodong Han people Niu Lu, all veterans who have fought for more than ten or twenty years, and at the moment when the bird shooter is completed, they reorganized the shield array, but in the smoke of gunpowder, they could not determine the location of the Ming army's assassination and were stabbed to death on the spot, and then the sword and shield soldiers behind them re-filled the battle formation.

In this way, the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army used their shield arrays, relying on their personal martial arts and the experience accumulated over the years to block and cut the spears of the Ming army, and occasionally there would be bird gunners rushing up to shoot a round. On the side of the Ming army, relying on the thickness of the spear array, they stubbornly held the commanding heights of the gap, and the casualties of the soldiers would be dragged down by the auxiliaries and replaced by the soldiers behind, while the archers were constantly shooting from the back, and the musketeers were trying to find a position to shoot.

For a time, the position of the gap turned out to be like a meat grinder, devouring the soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies. Neither the commanders of the Qing army, Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan, nor the other Qing troops thought that as soon as they came into contact with the battle, they immediately entered a white-hot situation. (To be continued.) )