The sky was shrouded in thick white smoke, and everywhere was the dull sound of gunfire and artillery, and looking down from the sky, groups of soldiers in various armor and with lightning rods and helmets on their heads surrounded a village, pushing heavy shield carts, filling the trenches in front of them, and shooting arrows at the front, and the battlefield was filled with screams and explosions of the wounded.

Today is the third day of the siege of Jiazhuang by the Qing soldiers, although the losses of the Qing soldiers are very heavy, but under the strict orders of Yue Tuo and Dolgon, all the Qing soldiers are divided into six teams, one group of Qing soldiers will retreat after two hours, and the other team of Qing soldiers will make up for it, so as to ensure the continuous attack on the Ming army.

Under this continuous attack, the Ming army obviously felt the pressure, due to the limited manpower, Pang Gang and the Xuan army and the Shanxi army had to divide the soldiers into two teams and take turns to defend, fortunately, they were on the defensive, and the weapons they used were mostly firearms, so that they could still maintain some physical strength, but the hearts of the generals began to hang.

The warm wind blew the earth, but it could not disperse the pungent smoke and smell of blood on the battlefield. In this village, the soldiers of the Ming and Qing dynasties were tearing and killing without forgetting to die. After the failure of their plan to use the Ming people to threaten the Ming army to fill the trenches, Yue Tuo and Dolgon could only drive the soldiers of the Eight Banners to use shield carts and crude wooden shields, as well as their flesh and blood, to contend with the Great Ming Fire Guns behind the earthen walls.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Qing army also had some experience, although the first and second trenches had been filled, but in order to prevent the Ming army from digging the trenches again at night, the Qing army not only brought large stones to fill the trenches, but also used war horses to step on the first and second trenches tightly.

Now, the Qing army can push the shield cart in front of the third trench to cover their soldiers, but they still dare not advance aggressively, and the experience of the previous times tells them that when they want to pour into the Ming camp from those three passages with their numbers, the scattered bullets fired by the opponent's artillery will cause unbearable losses to themselves. In order to test this idea, the Qing army had already paid the price of more than 2,000 people, so the Qing soldiers could only honestly continue to fill the trenches with bags of dirt.

In the sound of the horn, countless Qing soldiers dressed in various colors of armor gathered in front of the trench, and under the protection of the shield carts covered with cowhide and rough wood, the auxiliary soldiers of each banner continued to flash out from behind the shield carts, and threw the bags full of dirt in their hands into the trenches in front.

The riflemen of the Qingzhou Army behind the low wall kept shooting at these people, knocking over the people who rushed out from behind the shield cart to the ground one by one. The Qing archers behind the shield cart were desperately covering and shooting. The third trench is only sixty or seventy steps away from the earthen wall built by the Ming army, at this distance the power of the arrows of the Shangqing army is not great, the defense of the chain mail worn by the infantry of the Qingzhou army is still very high, even if it is a few arrows on the body, it doesn't matter, most of the arrows are bounced off by the hard iron armor, as long as they are not so unlucky to be shot in the face, even if the iron armor is broken, there will be no too serious injuries.

After a few days of offensive and defensive battles, the soldiers of the Qingzhou army also gained experience, because the Qing army's arrows were aimed at their faces, they would immediately retract back to the low wall and dodge after a shot, so that the chance of being hit by arrows in the face would also be greatly reduced.

Hao Dayong held a Mini rifle, lying on a low wall groove, his eyes were firmly attached to the gun, compared with the old bird gun and Lu Mi gun, the Mini rifle not only has a great increase in range and power, but also installed a crosshair, the rifleman can aim at the enemy in a three-point and one-line way, and the accuracy is greatly increased.

Due to the high frequency of attacks of the Qing soldiers, the Ming soldiers guarding were also very tired, so they had to be divided into two groups to take turns to defend, so the manpower was very tight, and even Hao Dayong, the general manager of Qian, personally picked up a rifle and went into battle shirtless.

Gently pulled the trigger, "Bump!" A dull gunshot, Hao Dayong only felt that his shoulder was hit hard, a cloud of white smoke came out of the muzzle of the Minnie rifle, and an archer who was holding a longbow and pulling the bowstring to shoot was as if he had been punched, and the whole person fell backwards, and there was an instant thumb-sized hole in his chest, but Hao Dayong could guarantee that the hole behind him must be as big as a fist.

This archer was very baptized, he just shot a total of five arrows at the Ming army's position, two arrows hit the target, although the two soldiers who were shot in the face were carried down, but Hao Dayong knew that their chances of survival were very slim, so several riflemen, including Hao Dayong, were eyeing him. However, Hao Dayong took a step faster and put the archer down.

Hao Dayong immediately held the gun after firing a shot, and shrank his whole body under the low wall, and as expected, when he shrank behind the low wall, seven or eight arrows immediately shot at him and flew over his head.

Hiding behind the low wall, Hao Dayong grinned, the Qing soldier who was shot down by him just now is estimated to be a small official, otherwise the Tartar would not have retaliated so angrily. But who made him so greedy, originally the Tartar would be exhausted after shooting four to five more arrows, and automatically retreated to the back to recover his strength, so that the archers behind could take his place, but this archer may have relied on his own strength, and wanted to shoot one more arrow and then retreat, who knew that it would be a delay of such a little time and it would become a yin and yang separation.

"Bumper Bumper ......"

Not only did the gunfire ring around him, but seven or eight Qing soldiers in front of Hao Dayong kept falling in the gunfire, including auxiliaries and archers in cotton armor, as well as soldiers in heavy armor.

The men, who had been shot in the face or in the chest, were not dead from the bullets, and they lay on the ground crying and wailing in agony, and the ground was covered with blood from their bodies, until a few moments later, a group of auxiliaries tiptoed up and carried them down under the cover of the shield cart.

Although the deck in front of the densely arranged shield carts was very thick, it was also crackled by the lead bullets of the rifles, and the cowhide wood in front of the shield carts was fluttering, and the Qing soldiers behind them were terrified. You know, these shield cars are the kind of well-made shield cars, with wheels to push, a baffle in front, a thick cowhide and iron sheet, and even splashed with water to increase protection.

Up to now, most of the foot soldiers have been firing freely, and from time to time, auxiliaries and archers who have flashed from both sides of the wooden shield have been hit by the Ming army. At such a close distance, even ordinary heavy shields had to be pierced by the fast-flying lead bullets, and in order to resist these lead bullets, the Qing soldiers specially reinforced the heavy shields, which were enough to be fist-thick, and it took the combined efforts of two Qing soldiers to lift them. Most of those auxiliaries were only wearing thin cotton armor, and as long as they were shot, a thick mist of blood would erupt from their bodies, and the whole person would fall to the ground and roll on the ground in pain.

The power of the Minnie rifle is very huge, not only hitting the heavy wood splinters, sometimes even shaking the two Qing soldiers holding the wooden escape, from time to time there are projectiles through the gap between the heavy shields and knocking the Qing soldiers behind them to the ground.

But. Although the Ming army continued to shoot, but the Qing army still stubbornly held the wooden escape forward, from seventy steps to sixty steps, and then to fifty steps, forty steps, the distance is getting closer step by step, as the distance is approaching, the Qing army's archers are also increasing the threat to the Ming army step by step, to the distance of thirty or forty steps, the Qing army's bow and arrow can already pose a great threat to the armor of the Ming army, and the Ming army hit by the arrow is often pierced by the heavy arrow on the arrow.

Seeing this situation, Pang Gang secretly became anxious in his heart, now even his own defense line is a little urgent, not to mention the Xuan army and the Shanxi army, fortunately he has already sent Hao Dayong and the Black Iron Faction over, otherwise the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

In fact, the current situation is similar to what Pang Gang thought, at this time, on the defense line of the Xuanda army, the Qing army has advanced to a place thirty steps away from the low wall, and the archers of the Qing army shot arrows like rain, knocking many Ming soldiers to the ground on the spot.

One of Yang Guozhu's generals said to Yang Guozhu eagerly: "My lord, we can't go on like this, the third trench is about to be filled, if the Tartars fill the trench, there will be no danger in front of us." The general said very anxiously, picked up a long knife from the side, and said resolutely to Yang Guozhu: "My lord, it is better to let the last general take people out to kill for a while, so as to alleviate our crisis." ”

Yang Guozhu shook his head and said: "No, now the Tartars are surrounding us, if we rush out now and fall into their hands, you must know that the Tartars' strength is several times our strength!" ”

"What then? Shall we just watch the Tartars rush in? ”

Yang Guozhu was also very anxious at the moment, his eyes looked around, and suddenly found that Hao Dayong and the Qingzhou army officers and soldiers who came to reinforce were still calmly shooting outward with bird guns, shooting the Qing army archers who were outcropping outside to the ground one by one.

"Aren't they in a hurry, Mr. Hao Qian?"

Yang Guozhu's heart moved, and he was about to call Hao Dayong over to ask, when he suddenly saw Hao Dayong put down the bird gun in his hand, and shouted loudly to the Qingzhou Army infantry around him: "Brothers, prepare for the earth-shaking thunder!" ”

Hearing Hao Dayong's shouting, the surrounding Qingzhou soldiers lit torches one after another, and then took out black things from the cloth bags behind them, these things were cylindrical with long handles, with wooden handles underneath, and a small white fuse was exposed under the wooden handle.

"What are they going to do?"

Just when Yang Guozhu was full of doubts, he only saw Hao Dayong shouting: "Everyone, prepare to drop bombs and light the fuse!" ”

At the same time, the Qing soldiers had advanced to a distance of more than twenty paces from the defensive line, and the rain of arrows they shot was even more dense.

"Bomb dropping!"

With Hao Dayong's voice, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army threw the huge earth-shattering thunder one after another......

(To be continued)