Chapter 1060: Fierce Battle on a Rainy Night
readx; The sound of killing was everywhere, and the ambush soldiers were exhausted, and Tun Bulu knew that he had fallen into the Ming army's plan to lure the enemy, but it was too late. www.biquge.info Some of his Qing soldiers were still rushing through the gaps in the city wall, and they couldn't stop the car at all, and at least a dozen people fell into the pit and died. At the head of the city, arrows rained down, and dozens of lit torches were thrown down from the city, which instantly illuminated the city, so that these hundreds of Qing troops had nothing to hide.
But Tunbulu was worthy of being a fierce general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he had already judged the situation he was in in an instant. Obviously, attacking the city now is obviously looking for death, as evidenced by the tragic deaths of dozens of Qing soldiers; And it is impossible to retreat, because I don't know how many archers of the Ming army are at the head of the city, the ground is slippery and muddy in the rain, and I can't run fast, I'm afraid that if I can't run a few steps, I will have to be shot into a hedgehog by countless sharp arrows.
Therefore, the only way to survive now is to climb the city to the head of the city by holding on to the broken walls. Because although the Qing soldiers were very dense, the archers of the Ming army did not need to aim at all, as long as they released arrows roughly in this direction, they could shoot; But the scope of the two sides facing each other is also very small, just a few feet. No matter how many Ming troops there are in the back, they can't exert their maximum attack power. As long as you fight to the death in hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city, you can get a glimmer of life.
Moreover, the Qing army shouted in unison just now, which also sent a signal to the 3,000 cavalry led by Aibali a mile away. In the night rain, the Ming army could not use firearms, and even if an ambush was set up in advance, it was still unable to stop the Qing army's charge. As long as these 3,000 cavalry come up, the two sides can fight to a draw; When Mang Gurtai's tens of thousands of troops come up again, it will completely change the situation and break through the city walls in one fell swoop.
Therefore, Tunbulu immediately commanded the Qing soldiers to step on the ruined city walls and the corpses of their companions, and desperately stormed the city walls on both sides. He himself cunningly cowered in a hollow in the wall, a position that was difficult for a bow and arrow to reach.
Those Qing soldiers were simple-minded, and secondly, they knew that if they didn't work hard, they would be completely finished, so they were not afraid of arrows and stones, and attacked desperately. However, since the Ming army set up an ambush, it could not be guarded against this, and in addition to archers, there were shield bearers and pikemen at the head of the city. The shield hand puts the big iron shields side by side, which is an impassable iron wall, whether it is a knife or a human collision, it cannot be shaken in the slightest.
The pikemen behind the shield stabbed outward. This is another variation of the Mandarin Duck Formation, which is most suitable for use on this narrow terrain. Ren Qingbing was all brave, but he was helpless in the face of this copper wall, and after a while, dozens of Qing soldiers were stabbed by spears, screaming and falling to the bones.
When the fierce battle was raging at the gap in the city wall, the 3,000 cavalry led by Aibali really heard the sound and killed them. In fact, the Qing soldiers are very good at night fighting, because they eat meat as their staple food, and meat contains a lot of vitamin A, so they will not harm the blind eye. On the contrary, the Ming army was originally a vegetarian diet, with very little meat, and repeatedly defaulted on food and wages, and often had insufficient food in the stomach, and there were very many blind birds, accounting for almost four-fifths, and it can be said that they were almost like blind people at night.
But today there are special circumstances, not only night battles, but also rain battles. The battlefield was already scattered with a large number of wreckage and corpses of Qing soldiers, and they were not cleaned up at all; Coupled with the fact that the ground was muddy, it was very unsuitable for cavalry charges.
However, due to the strict orders of Mang Gurtai, and the fact that he had already started to move before, he was really ready to send it. So he immediately charged, and three thousand horsemen galloped on horseback, but in a short time many of their horses stumbled and fell into the icy muddy water.
The cavalry brigade charged, and the most terrible was the situation. Because the large group of war horses behind them didn't care whether they were lying on the ground in front of them or not, even if they wanted to, they couldn't stop, and they couldn't change the direction if they wanted to, so they could only trample on the past. In an instant, dozens of people were trampled to death by random hooves, and the fallen war horses mixed up more horses, and for a time the Qing army was in chaos, and before the battle was engaged, more than 100 people had been lost.
With great difficulty, he managed to organize his men to rush to a distance of fifty paces from the city wall, and although the casualties were a bit heavy, he was still a little proud, because after all, he had successfully rushed over. In front of it is the gap in the city wall, with the impact and bouncing power of the Mongolian horse, you can jump over the horse and enter the city, then you won!
So he immediately led the fifty most elite cavalry around him, and while firing arrows at the head of the city, he slashed like a whirlwind into the gap.
But just as he was about to approach the breach, Aibali suddenly heard Tunbulu shouting hoarsely in Manchu: "Don't rush in, there is an ambush!! ”
It can be regarded as his fate, in the chaotic battle where the shouts of killing and the sound of wind and rain are intertwined, Aibali actually heard this shout of Tunbulu. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat and tugged on the reins. The horse under his seat was in full swing, when suddenly he received an order from his master to stop, and very reluctantly raised his front hooves, almost upright, and at the same time let out a long, terrible neigh, and finally came to a halt before the wall.
But the cavalry around Aibali was not so lucky. They did not hear Tunbulu's reminder, nor could they restrain the momentum of the charge, and immediately more than a dozen horsemen jumped into the gap. As a result, there is no need to ask, the big pit dug by the Ming army can accommodate hundreds of people, and there are more than a dozen people and more than a dozen war horses, and there is no problem at all. Immediately, a miserable sound of people shouting and neighing horses came, and Tunbulu couldn't help but close his eyes in pain, knowing that they had been skewered with sugar gourds again!
But as the cavalry rushed up one after another, Tunbulu was still in high spirits, and shouted to Aibali: "The Ming army has set up an ambush and directly attacked the city!" ”
Indeed, the arrival of the cavalry of the Abba Rite Division immediately changed the situation on the battlefield. Because of the sneak attack of Tunbulu, in order to facilitate the siege of the city, they all advanced lightly, wearing only a layer of leather armor. These cavalry are still the standard equipment of the Manchu Eight Banners, all of which are protected by iron armor, although they cannot catch up with the white armor soldiers, but they are also very strong in defense against bows and arrows. As long as they were not shot at parts that were not covered by armor, they were not very afraid of the rain of arrows from the Ming army, which was in stark contrast to the much poorly equipped Han Army Banner and the Mongol Eight Banners.
But just as the Qing soldiers abandoned their horses and swarmed towards the city wall like ants, suddenly countless black guys fell from the sky, and then a series of terrifying explosions sounded! The gap in the wall where Tunbulu was located was the most dense place to explode, and it was useless for him to hide in the depression, and suddenly he felt as if he had hit a wall, and he was suddenly pushed out and fell heavily in front of Aibali!
Aibali hurriedly picked up Tunbulu, only to see Tunbulu's mouth full of blood, his eyes full of fear and resentment, but he still muttered vaguely: "No... Is it raining, how can the Ming army's firearms still be used? ”
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