Chapter 41: The Battle of the Four Cities (8)
In the wilderness outside the West Gate, the big drum of Yansui Town sounded, more than 2,000 Yansui infantry pushed dozens of Hao Bridges and Cloud Ladders to rush to the front, and the three thousand headquarters of the Wendeng battalion also advanced to the stone bridge outside the Ximen Urn City in turn, and the seventh bureau of the 2,000 headquarters was the assault, and they were already close to the stone bridge on the moat of the West Gate of Luanzhou, the stone bridge was not destroyed, and it was also shrouded in smoke and dust at this time.
The captain of the killer team ordered loudly that the vertical formation was divided into two formations on the left and right, and then divided into three small formations, climbing along the collapsed messy stones and mounds to the city wall.
They groped all the way, climbed the wall along the collapsed city wall, the first few soldiers just poked their heads out, the sharp blades came head-on, the first few soldiers were stabbed, screaming and falling down, the killer soldiers next to them immediately returned fire with weapons in their hands, the upper Houjin soldiers also fell two people, the back Jin soldiers filled up, the two sides exchanged death in the collapse place endlessly, the Houjin soldiers occupied the geographical advantage, and the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion continued to fall down the slope.
After the first bureau was put into action, the follow-up troops of the second division were waiting under the city, and a killer flag team of the seventh bureau suffered heavy casualties, and the news spread to the stone bridge, and the second division of the thousand general generation Zhenggang army flag waved, and the eighth bureau immediately went into attack.
Chen Xin also rushed to Dai Zhenggang's Qianzong banner, listened to the shouts of killing on the city wall, and watched the new troops enter the killing battlefield with a calm expression.
There are not many Houjin troops on the city wall, although they have the advantage of geographical advantage, but they can't withstand the continuous attack of the Ming army, the dead Houjin army piled up high corpses at the broken wall, and finally the first Ming army stepped on the wall, he faced the attack of five or six Houjin soldiers, and was quickly killed, the second killer soldier brandished a round shield and blocked the spurs of several spears one after another, and then a pikeman stood up next to him, the pikemen killed a soldier with a big knife with two spurs, and the two cooperated to force several other Houjin soldiers to retreat a few steps, More Ming troops appeared on the city wall, forming a small three-talent formation to attack, and the Houjin soldiers in front of them could no longer resist it, so they turned around and fled to the city tower behind.
The Ming army advanced a section and occupied a section of the city wall, the killer team in front advanced rapidly, they turned north at the place where the city wall of the urn city forked, and the complete battle group behind turned to the direction of the city tower, they had to capture the west gate tower and let the army enter the city through the city gate, which was the fastest way to put in the troops, and it was also their first combat goal.
At this time, the smoke and dust had slowly dissipated, and the front battle group discharged five people side by side, and rushed straight to the city tower that had collapsed.
After the Houjin soldiers rushed more than ten steps away, the battle team leader shouted an order, and the five combined guns were fired at the same time, and several Houjin soldiers in front fell to the ground at the same time, rolling on the ground and screaming.
The Houjin soldiers in the back dodged the wounded soldiers on the ground, the formation became chaotic, the firearms team retreated to the back row, and the killer team made up for the first rank, and the ten killer soldiers lined up in two rows, quickly defeated the Houjin soldiers who were in a mess, and occupied the city wall of the section of the city tower after paying a few casualties.
The loss of the urn city made the Houjin soldiers lose the support point of defense, and the firearms teams behind lined up behind the female wall near the city tower, and under the order of the captains of each team, they put the combined machine on the female wall and fired a volley at the panicked Houjin soldiers under the city wall, so that the Houjin soldiers could neither assemble nor move.
In the continuous explosion, the Jiannu under the city fled into the streets and alleys under the city wall, avoiding the killing of muskets, after the large number of Jiannu was dispersed, the two battle groups began to attack the city gate hole along the city ladder, Jiannu hid at the mouth of the alley with a bow and arrow, the iron armor could not resist the heavy arrows with the armor-piercing cone at close range, the first two combat groups dropped a few corpses on the city ladder and retreated to the city, the follow-up troops of the second part continued to pour onto the city wall, the firearms on the wall became more and more dense, they shot at Jiannu in batches, as long as there were Jiannu who came forward to shoot arrows, A musket attack quickly overpowered the archers, and after several iterations, the battle group finally rushed into the gate and opened it.
The soldiers of the 3,000 headquarters who had already entered the city from the gap swarmed in, and the red and black queues rushed into Luanzhou along the wide West Street, and the Houjin army in Xicheng had already broken under the city, and the scattered small groups of Jiannu did not dare to fight with this brave Ming army, and they all hid in the lanes beside the road, and the 3,000 headquarters left a ten-person combat team at each alley to prevent the Jiannu from harassing them, and the brigade did not delay and advanced rapidly to the crossroads.
After all the three thousand headquarters entered the city,
Zhong Laosi roared in a row, beckoning his own combat group, they were the second game of the 10000 headquarters, they entered the city after the third part, Chen Ying followed behind Wu Chang Zhou Shao'er, running into the dark West Gate Doorway, the doorway echoed with dense footsteps and the clanging sound of iron armor.
After breaking through the door, Chen Ying's eyes lit up, the gunshots on Ximen Street had already sounded, and the white gunpowder smoke was wafting in the air, it should be the 3,000th headquarters and Jiannu who broke out in a fierce battle on Ximen Street.
The sound of Zhong Laosi reminding him to turn to the north came, Chen Ying's combat group turned north into a small street as planned, and the other bureaus also began to turn north at other intersections, they would break north for a while, and then turn to the east to reach Beimen Street, closing Jiannu's retreat.
There were some people with pig tails kneeling on the side of the road, they were all Han civilians, crying loudly and begging for mercy, Chen Ying knew that it was the people of Luanzhou, who were forced to shave their heads by Jiannu.
As long as they didn't have weapons in their hands, the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion didn't pay attention to them at all, and a few of them forgot to put down their sticks, and they were mercilessly killed by the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion passing by, and after running for a while, there was a bowstring sound in front, and a few cries of pain came, and the firearms team of a combat group in the front row began to shoot, and after shooting, the killer team quickly rushed to the front of those Jiannu archers who shot arrows in the smoke and killed them one by one.
Then they turned east into another street, and advanced to the north city gate, where they encountered a group of dozens of Jiannu armor soldiers, they cunningly hid on both sides of the street, shooting endless heavy arrows, after the killer team suffered several casualties, they did not dare to rush hard, and used firearms to shoot at each other, and some killer soldiers who could shoot arrows also took bows in their hands to help suppress the enemy.
The attack of the battle group in front was blocked, and Huang Yuan, the head of the hundred, was anxious, he wanted to rush to Beimen Street first, turned around and shouted here: "Zhong Laosi, take your battle group around." Attack those Tartars from behind. ”
Zhong Laosi agreed, and led the combat group into an alley, where the doors of the houses were closed, and they ran in only to find that the alley was very long, and there was no fork, so they had to keep running along the alley, and the soldiers of the killer team wearing iron armor began to pant heavily, and after turning a few corners, there was finally a fork, Zhong Laosi couldn't tell the direction, and he didn't know where to turn.
Zhong Laosi listened to the shouts and muskets around him, his heart was very anxious, he called Chen Ying to squat, Zhou Shao'er helped him to step on Chen Ying's shoulder, Zhong Laosi supported a courtyard wall with his hand, stood up and looked around, the cannon sound at the east gate was like thunder, the smoke and dust were billowing on the urn city, the Guan Ning army was still shelling the city wall, and the white smoke of Ximen Street was thicker, and the location was close to the center of the cross street, and then Zhong Laosi found the location of the small street just now, he silently remembered the direction in his heart, jumped off the wall, and chose the fork in the road on the right-hand side, He estimated that he should have bypassed the Houjin soldiers.
After turning another corner, he finally saw the small street outside, the street was full of Manchu shouts, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, and several Jiannu on horseback flashed outside the alley, it seemed that there were a lot of Jiannu on the street.
Zhong Laosi licked his lips, looked back at the others, and then said, "After going out, divide into two small battle groups on both sides, and I will take the right-hand side ...... myself."
Before he finished speaking, a courtyard door next to him suddenly opened, and several Jiannu hurriedly came out of it, first one carrying a blood-dripping knife, and the other hand also pulled a rein, he looked up and saw a bunch of soldiers at the door froze.
Neither side reacted, and they looked at each other for a few seconds, Zhong Laosi was finally a veteran, first relieved himself, and stabbed the flag gun in his hand as a chest with a shout.
The first Jiannu subconsciously retreated, was blocked by a soldier behind, and was immediately stabbed by a spear, the screams reminded both sides, the killer team of people have killed the weapons to the door, several Houjin soldiers light armor archers to the courtyard defeated and retreated, Chen Ying's spear is inconvenient to use here, he threw the spear on, picked up the first Tartar's knife and rushed into the courtyard together, chasing and killing those Houjin soldiers, did not dare to fight with the killer team at all, some climbed over the wall and hid in the house, there were five or six horses inside, at this time in fright, Screaming and scurrying around in the yard.
In front of him, the sword-and-stick man swept an archer off the wall, and was surrounded and killed by a group of soldiers, who then rushed into the houses and swept through them.
Chen Ying followed Wu Chang Zhou Shao'er, kicked open a side room, rushed in to see, there were two wounded Houjin soldiers lying inside, the last Houjin soldier was bloodstained, it should have been injured just now and sent back here, at this time struggled to stand up, wanted to resist, Chen Ying jumped on the kang to suppress a person, dropped the knife, and felt out the dagger he had been polishing for a long time, the sharp blade cold light flowed, the archer was hit by a lead bullet in the right shoulder, and he was powerless to resist at all.
The Houjin soldier watched in horror as the dagger slowly approached, twisting his head desperately, and the sound of lotus came out of his mouth, Chen Ying said with a cold face: "You also know that you are afraid." ”
His dagger pierced the archer's cotton armor, and continued to advance slowly, the tip of the edge had already sunk into the archer's chest, and the cold feeling from the chest made the archer's whole body tremble, and his voice was like crying and howling, his eyes changed back and forth between his chest and Chen Ying's face, full of pleading.
The dagger did not get deeper and deeper, and the archer's head shook back and forth violently twice, watching Chen Ying's eyes slowly become unfocused, and his limbs spread out softly.
Chen Ying took a breath of satisfaction, stirred the dagger and pulled it out, and when he turned his head, Zhou Shao'er had already cut off the head of another soldier, looking at him from behind, Chen Ying nodded to him, and also picked up the knife and beheaded the person, carried it outside, and threw it into the picks of the firefighters.
Zhong Laosi snorted at the head: "These dog Tartars killed all the family before leaving." Then he said to the others: "Now we have to go out quickly, if the Jiannu outside finds out, block the alley, we can't get out, after going out, we will be divided into two small battle groups on both sides, I will bring the one on the right, and the other one will be led by Captain Huang, let's fight at both ends." ”