Chapter Eighty-Three: The Battle of Gaoyang (3)

"These shitty tartars, I'll fuck your ancestors!"

In the Gangfeng Battalion stationed in Dongcheng, the battalion officer Wang Zhong, the firearms team Zheng Yang Fei and others looked at the surging people.

"Listen to the people under the city, if you dare to take a step forward, we are welcome, if it is a man, let Lao Tzu turn back and fight with the Tartars behind you, don't be driven away by them like pigs and sheep."

Several high-pitched Jingbei soldiers held earthen iron horns and shouted at the top of their voices.

However, the warning from the city could not stop the ordinary people under the city at all.

When these people watched their parents, wives and children die tragically under the butcher's knives of the pigtailed soldiers and did not dare to resist, they had already broken their backbones.

The firearms corps on the city wall pointed at the pigtailed soldiers who rushed up in horror, and said to Wang Zhong behind him: "Wang Yingguan, the pigtailed soldiers drove the people to attack the city, what should we do?" ”

"What else can I do? The general has an order, ready to open fire, scatter bullets, Lao Tzu can't because of those eggless cowards in the city, scourge tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Gaoyang City. ”

Wang Zhong knew that if he didn't kill the killer, the traitor army that followed closely behind would attack Gaoyang's wall, and then the people of Gaoyang would become like the people under the city.

Nearly a thousand people were driven by the traitor army to flock to Gaoyang Dongcheng, they had no armor, they had no weapons, they only carried ladders.

"Hit Lao Tzu, beat Lao Tzu hard!" Wang Zhong's eyes were red with anger, and he slammed his fist on the wall.

"Fire! Fire! Fire! ”

Zhang Erniu, the artillery officer, was angry when he looked at the people who came up carrying the ladder, but he knew that if he was soft-hearted, he would be the one who died.

In these days, the most worthless thing is human life.

"Rush up, put the ladder up to the city wall, and you will be alive."

Driven by the traitor army, the numb people rushed towards the Gaoyang City Wall with blank expressions on their shoulders.

Finally, the people, who were cannon fodder, finally rushed to the fire range of the Jingbei Army on the city wall.

"Bang, bang, bang......."

The firearms of the Jingbei Army on the city wall were strongly supported, and the fuses on the general's cannon and fire bolts were ignited.

The roar of the artillery drowned out the sound of the firing of the guns, and at this moment, only the sound of shelling was heard in the ears of the people, and nothing else.

Countless civilians were knocked to the ground by the scattered bullets fired by the general's cannon, and then cried and wailed in tears.

However, there were more than 1,000 people who were escorted up by Shi Tingzhu this time, and the rest of the people were still under the coercion of the traitor army, struggling to rush towards the Gaoyang City Wall.

"Stop the shelling, gunners, archers ready."

In order to prevent Wuzhen Chaoha behind the people, Wang Zhong resolutely ordered.

Nearly 100 musketeers began to load their ammunition and inspect the arquebuses under the orders of the officers.

No one believed that those people could put the ladder in their hands on the city wall, but in the face of countless unarmed people, the musketeers and archers of the Jingbei Army were numb one by one.

The sound of guns like fried beans sounded again, and one after another people were hit by guns and arrows.

The people behind rushed forward indifferently, frantically stepping on the corpses in front of them, surging forward desperately.

In the midst of countless firecrackers, many people who were not hit by the firecrackers were directly cut to the ground by the traitor army that followed, and then stepped over their bodies.

The guards and archers had to mechanically draw their bows and arrows, reload them with gunpowder, and fire them under the walls, but they were also numb at the moment, and only instinctively shot forward.

Nearly 1,000 people were almost killed and wounded under the attack of the Jingbei army in the city and the traitor army behind them, and those who did not die also struggled and squirmed on the ground.

The entire eastern city of Gaoyang City was like the hell of Shura, filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

Shi Tingzhu obviously did not give the Jingbei army defending the city a respite, and when there were only nearly a hundred civilians left, he brazenly launched an offensive against Gaoyang.

Wuzhen Chaoha in the Manchu language means heavy soldiers, originally the Han army hoplites, after Kong Youde surrendered to the Qing, and began to load firearms.

It's just that at this time, only four years have passed since Kong Youde surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Zhenchaoha under Shi Tingzhu is only equipped with more than 20 artillery pieces.

The rest were still hoplites, and most of these traitor troops were still heavy infantry in double cotton armor.

The smell of blood on the battlefield obviously did not frighten them, but aroused their ferocity, and after slaughtering the remaining people, they carried the cloud ladders scattered on the ground, and under the cover of shield carts, they stepped on the corpses of countless Han people and rushed towards Gaoyang Dongcheng.

"Fire, hit Lao Tzu hard, kill these animals!"

The ten general's cannons opened fire again, but this time they fired solid iron bullets, because the scattered bullets were not effective in killing the Han army banners in double armor.

Ten iron bullets, mixed with a terrible whistling sound, smashed into the sea of people with the surging Han army flag.

"Ahh

A cannon smashed directly into the body of a Han soldier, breaking his bones on the spot, and then bounced high and landed on a rushing car on the side of the Han soldier.

"Click!"

A sound of wood breaking, the rushing car was suddenly smashed in half, and the two Han army flags that were pushing the cart were pierced through the skulls by the broken wood, and their bodies and faces were dripping with blood in an instant, and they couldn't survive.

Under the attack of the general's artillery, the Han army banner, which was rushing towards the city wall, kept people falling to the ground with artillery.

But this can't stop the red-eyed traitor army at all.

Wu Zhenchao led Shi Tianzhu and Zuo Ling Shi Tingyu personally led the team to charge into battle, in their opinion, such casualties were just tickling for themselves.

"The old man wants to beat the drum in person and cheer for the soldiers, Li Xingzhi, if you can keep Gaoyang and kill Abatai, the old man will protect you as the chief soldier of a town, and the appointment and dismissal of all officials in the jurisdiction will be decided by you with one word."

When the traitor army was still more than 100 steps away from the city wall, Sun Chengzong, who had been guarding the head of Gaoyang City, could no longer bear it.

The tragic situation under the city had made the former cabinet assistant minister lose his mind, and he personally stepped on the city gate tower, pushed away the Jingbei army that was about to beat the drum and give orders, picked up two drumsticks, and beat them desperately.

"Knock, knock, knock......!"

As in history, when the Eastern Capture Army was approaching Gaoyang, the seventy-six-year-old man resolutely beat the cowhide drum to boost the morale of the defenders in the city.

Li Xingzhi did not stop Sun Chengzong, his eyes were fixed on the traitor army that was getting closer and closer.

"Once their ladder is erected, put a log on Ben General, and the rest of the brothers will stone it, and Ben will see if their skin is thick or our stone is hard."

Obviously, when facing hoplites, stones and logs are much more effective than firearms and bows.

After the Qing army's ladder was erected, one after another Gaoyang people lifted the rolling logs full of big nails and threw them down the ladder.

The Han soldiers who were climbing were all smashed down the ladder by the rolling logs with strong inertia, and then they were drowned by countless stones falling from the sky.

"Archers and musketeers cover the infantry for the arrival of the city."

Shi Tianzhu was dressed in double armor and watched as dozens of Han soldiers who were smashed by rolling logs drew their swords and roared.