The newly established archery battalion of 2,500 archers has been put in place, distributed on the five-mile-long city wall, with an average of one battlement, and the Qing army under the city is densely packed, and one arrow can be shot at hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, it is no longer accurate, and the comparison is the rate of fire. The dense green battalion soldiers swarmed to the moat, the water in the river had been drained, and what they had to do now was to fill in the moat before they could attack the walls. After all, a trench more than ten zhang wide and two zhang deep is not easy to cross even if there is no water.

However, as soon as they rushed to the moat, they ushered in a rain of arrows at the head of the city, and the arrows continued to fall from the city like locusts, and the height of three zhang made the arrows heavier when they fell, even if they were wearing armor, they could not stop the arrows, not to mention that most of the green battalion soldiers had no armor at all, and some were wearing a cotton armor at most, or they were wearing a single military uniform. Where can their equipment be compared with the Eight Banners, just a round of arrow rain, and many people screamed and fell to the ground with arrows.

Shouldn't the Ming army have fled? Many of the green battalion soldiers were dazed by the rain of arrows in the city, and they threw down the dirt in their hands and turned around and fled, but the green battalion soldiers behind were still in a hurry to rush forward, and the collision between the two sides became more chaotic.

Unorganized battles are like this, many of the green battalion soldiers who have just surrendered have no combat effectiveness at all, so it's okay for them to fight a good fight, but it's really difficult for them to attack a fortified city like a siege.

After just a few rounds of fire from the archers at the head of the city, the Green Battalion soldiers left behind hundreds of corpses and fled in a hurry.

Belebolo led 3,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to press the rear, and Li Chengdong and other green battalion soldiers were slow to move and did not attract his attention. It is impossible for all the 100,000 green battalion soldiers to attack the city at the same time, and there are not so many people under the five-mile-wide city wall of the southern city.

When he saw the green battalion soldiers rushing towards Yangzhou one after another, Bolo frowned at that time. However, Prince Yu Duoduo only sent him to be the overseer, and did not explicitly give him full command of the siege, so Bolo did not want to do much. Chaos is chaos, who can expect an army to surrender to the wind how much combat power it has!

But when he saw that it was just a rain of arrows at the head of the city, and tens of thousands of people were crying and shouting to retreat, Bolo was furious. Urging the war horse to lead three thousand cavalry to kill the generals, anyone who dared to retreat was a knife, and dozens of heads were cut off in an instant.

Shocked by the ferocity of the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion soldiers all stopped in horror. The ferocity of the Manchurians is well known, and their own little life is worthless in their eyes, and the green battalion soldiers stopped trembling, and no one dared to retreat.

The lieutenant generals of the general army shouted and restrained their teams, and it took a lot of effort to reorganize the queue and attack Yangzhou again.

They attacked much more cautiously this time, first sending out the shield bearers in the team, using shields to protect their heads and carrying sandbags to fill the moat.

More than 10,000 Green Battalion soldiers braved the rain of arrows with shields on their shoulders to the moat and threw sandbags and even the corpses of dead Green Battalion soldiers into the river.

The arrows at the head of the city were still dense, but the casualties of the Green Battalion were much smaller.

The artillery on the forts on the city wall bombarded tirelessly, and it turned out that the gunners of the Ming army were really not at the top of their work, and the loading speed of the artillery was very slow, and they had long been replaced by the well-trained artillery crews of the Daishan army.

"Bombard that cavalry!" A lookout pointed to Bolo's 3,000 cavalry miles away.

The red-coated cannon opened fire on the Bolo cavalry, and five stone bullets of more than ten catties fell into the cavalry array, smashed over several cavalry, and broke more than ten horse legs when rolling, and the entire cavalry array was in chaos.

Bolo took a deep look at the city, urging his horse to retreat farther away.

A hundred wheeled guns were finally transported to the southern city and began to concentrate their fire on the green battalion soldiers below the city. At this time, the archers were already very tired, and for these novices, each of them was sore and sore when they shot twenty or thirty arrows in a row.

The artillery was loaded with scattered shells, and each artillery bombarded a large area, and the barrage rained down from under the city's hood, and each bombardment fell a piece of Qing troops.

There were murderous Eight Banners soldiers behind to supervise the battle, and the Green Battalion soldiers did not dare to have the intention of escaping, they would rather brave the rain of bullets at the head of the city to fill the water, rather than retreat and be cut down by the Eight Banners, so they began to fill the river regardless of casualties.

At the cost of more than 2,000 people, several passages of more than 20 zhang long were finally filled. The moat was littered with the corpses of the Green Battalion.

If it is driven to a dead end, even the army with poor combat effectiveness will radiate its combat effectiveness. With the Eight Banners supervising the battle, these green battalion soldiers had to start working hard.

As soon as the moat was filled, a large number of green battalion soldiers rushed to the city wall with ladders, and began to climb up the ladders on the city. Thousands of archers poured to the moat and began to shoot arrows upwards to cover the green battalion soldiers on the ladder.

There are not many archers in the green battalion, mainly the personal soldiers around the generals, it can be seen that these green battalion generals have worked hard and even the most valuable personal soldiers have been sent out. As for the firecracker, the firecracker is always easy to blow up and bor, and not many people want to use it.

Hu Shangyou, the chief soldier of the four Chuan, looked at the green battalion soldiers who were densely packed like ants climbing up with a pale face, although he was extremely scared in his heart, but at this time he had to command his subordinates to fight back with all his might, because he always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him, so that he did not dare to give birth to the idea of surrendering or escaping.

In fact, at this time, he had no way to escape, the gate of the southern city had been filled to death, and the outside was surrounded by Qing soldiers. As for surrender? There are 1,000 Daishan army infantry in the city, as well as more than 2,000 archers, plus 10,000 recruits in the city, these recruits only listen to Su Lubo's orders, and they may be killed by these Daishan troops before they surrender!

In this case, we can only fight! Commanding his soldiers, carrying stones and throwing them down, throwing ash bottles, and listening to the screams that sounded from the city, the fear was much better.

In fact, it is not so difficult to defend the city, and there is no need to fight face-to-face, as long as you have the strength to throw stones and wood, and smash it down, aim at the battlement where the ladder is placed, lift the stone and put it on the battlement, and gently push it down, and it will smash down a string of enemy soldiers. And the enemies under the city can only be threatened by archers. However, their archers are not vegetarians, and they do not suffer at all in condescending to shoot with them.

With the full support of the Ming army in the city, the corpses thrown by the green battalion soldiers finally retreated. In the siege of the city for more than an hour, they lost at least more than 3,000 soldiers, and together with those who died during the river reclamation, nearly 5,000 died in half a day's effort. Such a tragedy shows that they have used all their strength, and even Bolo, who oversees the war, is unwilling to criticize them anymore.

When Ren Siqi led people to climb up to the top of the city, he happened to see the green battalion soldiers running and retreating into the distance. (To be continued.) )