Liu Zhaoji, as the military commander-in-chief of the entire Yangzhou City, was supervising the battle on the tower of the East Gate at this time.

Liu Zongbing, who has been in battle for a long time, felt that the Qing soldiers attacked the city a little strange today, looked down from the city tower, and saw that although the shouts of the Qing soldiers under the city were very loud, they were holding shields and swaying towards the edge of the city wall.

After such a long time, there has not been a single ladder to the city wall, giving people the feeling that these Qing soldiers are here to harass rather than siege the city, Liu Zhaoji knows that these Qing soldiers have been frightened.

The arrows shot by the archers under the city on the city wall were far away, and they had no strength when they reached the head of the city, and some of the Ming troops in the city didn't even bother to raise their shields.

Liu Zhaoji was about to go to the other city gates to have a look, and before he walked down the steps of the city wall, he saw Ren Minyu riding a horse over, and hurriedly stopped to wait for him.

Ren Minyu ran to the stairs with a loudspeaker, gasped and said to Liu Zhaoji: "Dingwei, this method is good, many Qing soldiers on the west side have turned back." ”

Seeing that Liu Zhaoji was a little confused, he didn't care about him, went up to the city wall, took the shield in the hand of a soldier, and went to the city to shout.

Liu Zhaoji quickly understood, Lao Liu reacted quickly, and when he saw Ren Minyu shouting, his voice was a little hoarse, and he shouted at the soldiers on the city wall: "Everyone shout with me!" Don't be a slave to the Tartars, the Han people don't fight the Han people! ”

When the soldiers of the city heard the shouting from the city wall, and the arrows were no longer shot, they all looked up at the city and pricked up their ears to listen.

"Go into the city by the west gate, and the gate is open!" Liu Zhaoji took the horn from Ren Minyu and shouted to the city. His voice is much better than Ren Minyu's, and he listens to it very well.

The shouts from the city made the Qing soldiers under the city clamoring for a while, and in the chaos, one person shouted: "Don't be a slave to the Tartars!" Let's go into the city and go to the Inspector of History! ”

Liu Zhaoji stretched out his head from the side of the city and took a look, only to see a big man in the Qing army raising the long knife in his hand and shouting vigorously, and the surrounding soldiers echoed one after another.

At the back of the crowd, a general in armor held a waist knife in his hand, and did not speak, but slowly leaned towards the big man, and when he got closer, he raised the knife in his hand and stabbed the big man.

The soldiers below were in the midst of a drum noise, and no one noticed that Liu Zhaoji was condescending, but he could see it clearly, and hurriedly shouted, "Be careful!" He had a loud voice and a loudspeaker, so he could hear it clearly both in and out of the city. The general who wanted to kill with a knife was startled by this sound, and with only this effort, the big Han soldier gave way to the side of his body and stabbed him in the stomach.

The shouting man raised the spear in his hand and stabbed at the general, but he blocked it with a knife, and two soldiers next to him raised their spears and stabbed at him.

"Kill this guy, let's go to the history inspector!" The Han soldiers kept stabbing out the spears in their hands and shouted, and several soldiers surrounded them, and one of them slashed the general's arm with a knife, and the big man took the opportunity to stab him in the chest with a shot, and immediately settled the account.

"Let's go! It's time to enter the city at the west gate! The big man raised the spear in his hand and shouted, and the surrounding soldiers shouted one after another. The soldiers shouted and ran towards the west gate. At first, there were only a dozen people, and then there were more and more people following behind, and in the end, there were only a few dozen people left under the city wall looking up at each other, and one person suddenly took the lead and ran backwards, and in an instant, there were only a dozen siege ladders lying on the ground under the city wall, but all the people were gone.

Ma Yingkui in the city looked at this scene blankly, and said to Ren Minyu and Liu Zhaoji stupidly: "This is okay?" ”

Liu Zhaoji ignored him, and only said to him: "Take your grenadiers and follow me to the south gate." ”

In contrast to the strange siege battles between the West Gate and the East Gate, the attack and defense of the South Gate were unusually cruel and fierce.

The attack on the south gate was Kong Youde's Tianzhu Army and Geng Zhongming's Tianyou Army, after Geng Zhongming was captured, his son Geng Jimao took over the Tianyou Army. These two armies surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with Kong and Geng as early as 12 years ago, and were classified by Huang Taiji into the Zhenghong Banner, and later changed to the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army.

The most ruthless attack was Geng Jimao's Tianyu Army, they couldn't help but work hard, Geng Jimao's father Geng Zhongming was still being arrested in the city. Since yesterday Duoduo ordered to urgently build siege equipment to prepare for the siege, most of the other Han troops were perfunctory, only Geng Jimao urged his subordinates to keep cutting down trees to make siege equipment. Although the time has been short since yesterday, they still built two nest cars (building cars) and five catapults overnight, and there are many simplest ladders.

Regardless of casualties, the soldiers of the Tianyu army climbed up the city wall from dozens of various ladders, and countless corpses of the Tianyu soldiers were piled up under the city wall, and some archers and firecrackers even used these corpses as shields to resist the falling logs and arrows on the city wall.

What really caused a lot of casualties to the defenders of the city was the firearms and bows and arrows of Kong Youde's heavenly help, and yesterday Kong Youde's specially made thickened shields came in handy, relying on these shields, these firecrackers and archers were very close to the city wall, so that the soldiers defending in the city could not show their bodies.

Zhuang Zigu, the guard of the south gate, was already covered in blood, and he still shouted and commanded the soldiers on the city wall to defend hard.

There were more and more Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall, and the deputy general Lou Ting struggled to cut down a Qing soldier, and blocked a knife cut by a Qing soldier, and fought and retreated, leaning together with Zhuangzi.

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief, why aren't there any reinforcements?" Lou Ting, who was also covered in blood, asked Zhuang Zigu in a deep voice, and easily cut down another Qing soldier.

"Li Qifeng is afraid of death, I'm afraid the reinforcements won't come." Zhuang Zigu's voice was full of helplessness, it was originally planned that the Gansu soldiers were to rescue the south gate, but no one has been seen so far, obviously Li Qifeng is not ready to send reinforcements over.

The Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall gradually gathered together and squeezed towards the soldiers defending the city. Zhuang Zigu and Lou Ting led the defenders of the city to fight and retreat, and the cheers of the Qing soldiers were already heard under the city wall.

Zhuang Zigu wiped the blood on his face fiercely, gritted his teeth and was about to rush up to fight with the Qing soldiers, but he heard Liu Zhaoji's roar behind him, "Zhuang Zigu, wait for the retreat!" Looking back, it was Liu Zhaoji who had already gone up to the city wall with dozens of people.

Seeing that there were already seventy or eighty Qing soldiers on the city wall, Liu Zhaoji only brought a few dozen people, and Zhuangzi still stood by and did not retreat. Liu Zhaoji had no choice but to beckon the grenadiers to throw the grenade at the Qing soldiers behind.

The city wall was already narrow, and the Qing soldiers who came up consciously gathered together, only to hear two loud noises, and suddenly more than a dozen fell.

Ma Yingkui's grenade was thrown farther than others as usual, and it was thrown directly under the city wall and landed on a ladder. With the sound of the explosion, the ladder broke in two, and the five or six Qing soldiers on the ladder also fell down heavily.

When Zhuang Zigu saw it, he immediately understood Liu Zhaoji's intentions and shouted, "Everyone retreat quickly!" He stood up to stop the Qing soldiers who rushed up, and as the grenades continued to throw down the city wall, no Qing soldiers climbed up again.

The last dozen or so Qing soldiers who were blown up by the grenade still followed Zhuang Zigu and chased after them, Liu Zhaoji was furious when he saw it, and pounced on it with a long knife, Zhuang Zigu, Lou Ting and others also mustered up Yu Yong to follow Liu Zhaoji and rushed up.

The Qing soldiers on the city wall were quickly cleared, and Zhuang Zigu, Lou Ting and others sat on the ground and gasped. Liu Zhaoji didn't see the reinforcements coming, so he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at him, but Li Qifeng was of the same grade as him, he couldn't control others, so he could only find the supervisor to complain.

Although Geng Jimao made his Tianyu army attack the city very urgently, he knew that there were some magic weapons in the city, and he only dared to command it one mile away from the city wall. Seeing that his own soldiers had suffered heavy casualties, Geng Jimao was already red-eyed, and saw that many people had already attacked the city wall, and they were about to rush up with knives, but before they rushed a few steps, they heard the explosion of grenades up and down the city wall, and the soldiers who did not want to attack the city just now also retreated like a tide.

Geng Jimao knew that it was impossible to attack the city, so he stared at the city wall fiercely, eager to grit his teeth. Seeing that the grenades on the city wall exploded one by one among the defeated soldiers, and the soldiers fell one by one, Geng Jimao, who had no choice but to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Liu Zhaoji got down the city wall, took the walkie-talkie from the soldiers under the city wall, picked up the walkie-talkie, and reported the situation at the south gate to Shi Kefa. When he rushed to the city wall just now, he was afraid that he would break the walkie-talkie during the battle, so he specially asked a personal soldier to wait for him under the city wall.