Chapter 56 The city is surrounded by fire and water
"Sons, give Ben General to kill this broken castle and kill this gang of thieves!" Sun Youguang drew his sword and roared.
"Wow!"
The two Niu Lu who followed Sun Youguang responded to the order.
Soon, the Zhengbai Banner Han Army formed two neat phalanxes under the command of their respective Niu Lu, with the heavy infantry in front, and the cavalry in the rear slowly pressed towards Huangjiawu Fort with bows and arrows one by one.
Sun Youguang and Lang Shaozhen took more than a dozen Goshha to watch the battle on a high ground about the distance from Wubao.
On the gatehouse of Huangjiawu Fort, Wang Zhong looked at the Han army of the white flag slowly approaching, the right hand holding the knife was also trembling slightly, and the more than 100 soldiers of the shock battalion guarding the fort looked nervous, although they knew that they were the army that lured the enemy, but the sense of slaughter on the battlefield still made them extremely frightened.
Amid the sound of horses' hooves, the Han army with the white flag finally entered the range of the defenders on the fort wall.
"Shoot the arrows!"
On the corner tower, dozens of archers on the gatehouse shot the arrows in their hands at the same time, but these arrows did no harm to the Qing army under the fort at all, and the Han soldiers in cotton armor waved their swords one by one contemptuously to block, even if they couldn't stop it, it didn't matter, those arrows couldn't penetrate their armor at all.
"Shoot arrows, play with bows and arrows in front of our banner people, the thief is not crazy!"
Niu Lu of the rear team sneered again and again, and with a move of the spear in his hand, the three hundred vests instantly unfolded in a fan shape, and then shot out the arrows in his hands.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......!"
Sun Degong's Zhengbaiqi Han army has been taking refuge in the East for a long time, and his archery skills are also very sophisticated.
Feathered arrows shot at the gatehouse and the corner tower as if they had eyes.
Suddenly, there were more than 20 aftershocks, and the soldiers of the battalion fell to the ground with arrows, and some soldiers were even hit by five or six arrows, but they were dead and could not die again.
"Stop shooting, brothers hide behind the battlements and stone him shit!"
Seeing that the pigtailed soldiers under the fort only attacked in one round, and the men and horses on the side had lost more than 20%, Wang Zhong had to re-issue the military order, if he didn't fight it, if he didn't resist at all, who knew if this group of Tartars would withdraw from the city.
It is safer to hide behind the battlements and throw stones than to shoot at the Tartars under the fort, and the remaining seventy or so soldiers are naturally happy to obey the order.
Large and small stones kept being thrown down the fort along the wall buttresses, constantly smashing on the Qing troops who were pouring in under the fort.
Obviously, the effect of the stone is obviously much better than the bow and arrow, even though this group of white flag Han troops has experienced countless battle formations, they have also killed and injured more than ten people under countless stones, and a few of them are even brain-bursting, which is unbearable.
However, the death of these Han soldiers did not make the rest of the pigtailed soldiers fearful, but aroused their ferocity, one by one screaming and pounced on the fort wall, the high fort wall could not stop this group of red-eyed beasts, they rushed to the city wall, with the spear in their hands kept stabbing at the battlement.
A group of Han soldiers didn't know where to find a log with a thick bowl mouth, and then carried the log and crashed into the wooden fort gate.
"Click, click!"
The wooden gate of the fort rattled under the violent impact, and the masonry and wood chips at the gate were constantly scattered and splashed.
The soldiers of the Zhenyu Battalion, which was composed of displaced people, trembled one by one under the attack of the Han army of the Zhengbai Banner, and could not organize effective resistance at all.
"Defeated, defeated! Run! ”
Without Wang Zhong's order, the soldiers of the Zhenyu battalion collapsed under the powerful offensive of the Qing army, they threw down their weapons, rushed under the fort wall in terror, and then ran to the back door without looking back.
His soldiers fled, and Wang Zhong naturally fled, but after he left the fort, he did not forget to light the hay and firewood piled up in the fort.
On a dry September day, the hay burned little by little, and soon a wall of fire was formed.
"Bang dang!"
A loud bang came, and the wooden fort gate was finally knocked open, and the Han army with the white flag who attacked the fort gate was ecstatic, and hurriedly threw down the log in his hand, pulled out the long knife at his waist and rushed into the fort with a roar.
However, as soon as they rushed through the fortress gate, they were blocked by the raging fire, and through the firelight, they could even see the back of the thief wolf.
Sun Youguang, who commanded on the high slope, also saw the smoke billowing in the fort, and Lang Shaozhen, who was beside him, smiled and said: "Ming thief, this is a poor donkey skill!" Let the vests outflank from the wings, and we will see if their legs are fast, or our war horses are fast! He laughed.
Lang Shaozhen no longer hesitated, and hurriedly ordered the flag bearers behind him to wave the flag left and right, signaling the vests of the rear team to outflank them from both sides of the dock fort, which made him even feel ashamed of his previous timidity, this group of thieves was inferior to Guan Ningjun, and he was actually worried that they would set up an ambush.
After receiving the military order, the three hundred white flag Han army vests immediately divided into two teams and outflanked them from both sides of the dock fort.
Looking at the cavalry galloping to the two wings, Sun Youguang laughed loudly, until now he still thinks that this group of Ming troops is the garrison of Xin'an, if this group of Ming troops is annihilated here, then Xin'an is not his own mouth, even this Gaoyang County is estimated to be under the power of his own soldiers.
At the same time as the cavalry assaulted, the fire in the dock fort gradually disappeared, and the infantry Niu Lu, who was blocked by the fire, also rushed into the fort gate.
"Enter the fort!"
Sun Youguang waved his hand, urging the war horses under the seat to rush down the high slope and run towards Huangjiawu Fort, Lang Shaozhen and a group of Goshha also hurriedly beat their horses to keep up.
Stand tall and see far!
Sun Youguang will be thinking about climbing the fortress wall and watching the fall of the thief.
However, before he could enter the fort, there were two loud noises on the left and right sides, and they were the sound of gunpowder exploding.
"Where's the gun?"
Sun Youguang hurriedly reined in the war horse, drank a word, and looked to the left and right.
A group of Goshha and Lang Shaozhen also followed Sun Youguang in surprise and watched left and right.
It's okay not to watch it, but after watching it, everyone is shocked.
Two water dragons were rolling towards the dock fort in the direction of the cannon, and the collapsed gap was getting bigger and bigger under the impact of the water.
"It's not good, it's a trick, retreat!"
Sun Youguang and Lang Shaozhen were shocked, and hurriedly turned their horses' heads, beat their horses and galloped wildly, as for the cavalry vests that entered the dock fort and pursued, where could they still care.
As the saying goes, water and fire are ruthless, although the war horse is fast, how fast to cross the water, soon, the surging waves on the east and west sides converged, and then galloped towards Sun Youguang and others and in the direction of Wubao.
The pursuing white flag vests and the heavy infantry that rushed into the dock fort bore the brunt of the attack, and their bravery was so humble in the face of the raging waters.
Wang Zhong and his camp were also affected by the flood, and a dozen or so slow runners were instantly washed away by the rapid current, and they didn't know where they went.
Fortunately, with Li Rui's response, the rest of the soldiers successfully climbed onto the fishing boat, but their eyes and noses were full of yellow and smelly muddy water.