Chapter 84: Breaking the City (2)

At the same time as the first and second rounds were fighting with the Qing army on the urn city, there was also a fierce battle near the city tower behind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The third and fourth games have completely stabilized the front after repelling several rounds of counter-attacks by the Qing army. Like the Qing army on the urn city, although the Qing army near the city tower was numerous, it was difficult to give full play to the advantages due to the restrictions of the terrain, and it was more and more panicked after several rounds of counter-attacks were declared unsuccessful.

In fact, there were not many Ming troops attacking the wall at this time, and the two ways to attack the city tower and the urn city were only more than 500 people in one division. However, the western city wall has been broken, and the strength of the Ming army is constantly being thrown into the city, and the psychological defense line of the Qing army has also suffered a heavy blow, and there is no longer the courage to fight like before.

Listening to the increasingly fierce shouting and killing in the direction of the city tower, Chen Blind couldn't help but glance over there, and saw a general soldier recognizing the flag, and a large area of Qing troops under its banner was densely surrounded, struggling to resist the advance of the third and fourth rounds.

"The Tartar generals are here, too? If you can leave him behind, it can be regarded as revenge for Lao Tzu's eye! Blind Chen gritted his teeth and silently read in his heart.

As he pondered, after a series of loud noises near the gap in the wall below, cheers came like a tidal wave. You don't need to look to know that this should be the 2nd and 3rd thousand corps that entered the city through the gap and have broken the Qing defense line behind the city wall.

The Qing army near the castle tower realized that they were about to be attacked on their backs, and their morale collapsed, and they fled to the city like a tide. The Qing army on the urn city was even more chaotic, screaming and fleeing in the direction of the city tower.

As soon as the Qing army retreated, the first and second games quickly occupied the entire section of the city wall in front of the urn city.

Standing on the front wall of the urn city, Ding Liehu saw that the Qing troops near the city tower behind him had begun to flee towards the city in a swarm, and some of the officers were shouting and dancing, as if they were shouting to order their soldiers not to mess up, but their voices had already been completely drowned out in a panic howl.

In front of him on the right, the south wall of the urn city was also crowded with fleeing Qing soldiers, rushing towards the horse road south of the city tower like a tide, the road was narrow, and from time to time people were squeezed off the city wall, letting out a scream.

In the first and second rounds, Bai Zong was not in a hurry to catch up, and first ordered the musketeers to shoot at the Qing troops who were crowded in front of the city tower and on the right wall of the urn city.

The commanders of the battle team leaders came and went, and Ding Liehu and the other musketeers put their flintlock pistols on the women's wall and stretched them out, aiming at the black Qing soldiers on the south side of the city wall.

As soon as the command to fire was heard, the dense forest-like barrel of the gun spewed out dazzling red flames at the same time, and the explosion like fried beans was wrapped in white smoke.

Countless blood flowers bloomed in the crowd of Qing soldiers who were fleeing for their lives, some screamed and fell from the city wall, while others fell in place, tripping over those behind them, causing even more chaos.

The Qing army had no intention of fighting, but only cared about fleeing for their lives, and the battle at the head of the city lasted less than two quarters of an hour before it was completely over. By the time the first and second games and the third and fourth games were completed in front of the city tower, there was no longer a living Qing soldier in sight at the head of Yongchun Gate.

"Damn, I still ran a lot, and the Tartar general also ran away, what a pity!" Chen Blind, who failed to repay the "revenge at a glance", scolded secretly and spat fiercely.

Standing behind the female wall next to the tower, he looked into the city and saw a large number of Qing troops retreating like a tide along Yongchunmen Street. The Qing troops in other directions also seemed to have been affected, and although they were not directly attacked for the time being, there were constantly panicked shouts.

For the Qing army in the city, it is obvious that the general trend has gone.

The Yongchun Gate Tower was taken, and the second division, which had previously guarded the gap, handed over the task to the follow-up troops, and also climbed to the top of the city through the slope of the gap ruins, and completed the rendezvous with the first division, and the next task was to open the Yongchun Gate and let the follow-up siege troops enter the city. Although it is possible to enter the city through the gap in the wall, entering the city through the gate is the fastest way to send troops.

At this time, most of the Qing troops behind the Yongchun Gate had fled under the flank attack of the 2000th Corps, and the Qing troops who rushed to support from other directions were also constantly repelled by the 3000th Corps. The capture of the gates was no longer a difficult task for the 1,000th Corps, which had been reunited.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps on the wall south of the Yongchun Gate Tower, and when the figure flashed out, it was a group of Qing troops. This should have come from the Wenchun Gate in the south, but unfortunately it was too late.

The expression of the thousand general manager of the 1,000th team did not move, and he transferred the two bureaus of the second division to meet him. The Qing army probably didn't expect Yongchun Gate to be completely occupied so soon, and the will to fight was not resolute, and after being knocked down by muskets, they fled without looking back.

After solving this trouble, the 1,000th Corps began to go to seize the city gate, and the first division was at the forefront.

Ding Liehu followed the team and ran down the road to the city, when he saw a large area of Qing troops gathered near the city gate in front of him. These Qing troops seemed to be preparing to flee but didn't have time to run, and they were even more panicked when they saw the Ming army appear in front of them so soon. Several of the officers shouted for the pikemen and archers around them to resist, but few responded.

The sparse and chaotic arrows fired, and the first killer team that ran at the forefront raised their shields to block easily, and then the musketeers who followed fired a volley, and the Qing soldiers on the opposite side fell in pieces.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides collided together, and the melee combat was bloody and brutal.

This group of Qing troops did not have much will to resist, and they were rushed by the First Division with such momentum, and it didn't take long for them to completely collapse. Most of the people fled towards the center of the city, and the few officers and veterans who resisted were quickly killed.

The officers and soldiers of the First Division looked at each other so smoothly that they could hardly believe that these seemingly rabble people in front of them had held Ji'an for two months under the siege of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's army, and recently made Huguang Town's many sieges in vain. It seems that this is like a mountain of defeat, morale has collapsed, and naturally everything is over.

Seeing that this group of Qing troops fled, the thousand commanders of the 1,000th corps did not order the pursuit, and the 2nd and 3rd thousand corps were waiting for them in front of them, and it was important to open the city gate first.

The first division took the lead in rushing into the city gate cave, but he didn't expect that there were still some Qing troops hidden inside, and they were far more fierce than those outside.

A battle group that rushed to the front was somewhat careless because the city gate was close in front of them, and it was a little caught off guard for a while.

"Yikes!" One or twenty Qing soldiers pounced on them and broke up the formation of the killer team in front. Before Ding Liehu could raise his flintlock pistol to react, he was thrown to the ground by an oncoming person. That person should be a sentry officer and a Qing army officer of the general class, with a fierce aura on his face, a fine chain mail, and a short knife in his back hand stabbed him violently.

Ding Liehu's hair stood upside down, and he struggled to support the wrist of the Qing army officer with his hand, but the opponent's strength was obviously far superior to him, and the tip of the knife was in front of him in an instant. Ding Liehu's eyes widened, looking at the tip of the knife that was sent to his throat and the other party's hideous face, and he let out a loud roar unwillingly. And the other party also kept yelling and scolding with a Liaodong accent.

This process did not last long, almost instantly, the hideous face of the Qing army officer suddenly froze, and then the body was tilted to the side, revealing the face of the blind man behind him.

After Ding Liehu gasped for breath and was pulled up by Chen Blind, the fight in the city gate cave was almost over.

These twenty or so Qing soldiers with Liaodong accents should be Liu Wuyuan or Hu Yousheng's family members, who can indeed be called elite, and they also caught the Ming army off guard. But after all, they were outnumbered, and it didn't take long for them to be killed on the spot.

"Don't hang on, you kid is still alive! Let's go and open the city gate," Chen Blind patted Ding Liehu on the back of the head.

After knowing the remnants of the enemy in the city gate, the officers and soldiers of the first division removed the sandbags and boulders blocked behind the city gate one by one, and finally opened the Yongchun Gate.

As soon as the heavy and thick iron-clad gates were opened, the cheers and shouts from outside poured in like a tide.

The three thousand corps of the Tiger Ben Battalion and the team directly under the battalion headquarters ran in turn, and the sound of dense footsteps and the clanging of the collision of armor leaves echoed in the city gate hole. After entering the city, follow Yongchunmen Street and go straight to the direction of the government office in the center of the city.

The city gate has been taken, and the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the Gangfeng Battalion, which had previously entered the city through the gap in the city wall, joined up with the 10000 Brigade occupying the Yongchun Gate after clearing the Qing army near the western city wall, and also began to detour along the root of the city wall to the north of the city.

At this time, the panicked cries of the Qing troops in various parts of the city had completely burst out like a flood that had burst the embankment.

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Inside the city, shouts of killing rang out.

Outside the north city wall, the Yuezhou battalion was completed and waited for.

In addition to the Gangfeng Battalion and the Tiger Ben Battalion that entered the city, Pang Yue also laid several defensive lines outside the city to intercept and kill the Qing troops who broke through. The first line of defense outside the northern city wall was formed by the Yuezhou battalion.

The whole battalion was roughly divided into bureaus, formed into small squares, and arranged into three long squares in the shape of inverted pins according to the structure of the three thousand corps.

The battalion headquarters and the subordinate team are deployed at the bottom of the inverted pinzigzag, and at the head of the pinzi is the 1st Thousand Corps, directly facing the north city wall, and the two flanks are the 2nd and 3rd Regiments respectively. Behind the battalion headquarters and on the side of the three thousand corps, there was a reserve of each bureau as a mobile force.

In the small square of the reserve next to the 1,000th Corps, Zhao Liangdong silently stared at the city gate in front of him. Unlike some of the soldiers who looked nervous, he was a battle-hardened soldier who had seen real battles, and he seemed calm at the moment. I also have some expectations in my heart, and I want to see with my own eyes how much power this new organization adopted by Huguang Town can exert in the field.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw the city gate open, and the Qing army poured out of the city like a tide, with a large area of black pressure and black pressure.

The Qing army began to break through.

Zhao Liangdong took a deep breath and quietly waited for the password to come. (To be continued.) )