Since Wuzhen Chaoha is equipped with artillery, it is naturally also equipped with firecrackers, which were not captured by the Ming army, but made by Han craftsmen who were coerced to Liaodong after Kong Youde's rebellion in Leiden.

In terms of quality, it is much stronger than the firearms of the Ming army, not only has good stability and high precision, but also has a very low probability of exploding.

In command of the firecrackers and archers is Shi Tingzhu's own brother, Shi Tingyu, who is currently the leader of Wuzhen Chaoha.

After Kong Youde surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he not only brought a large number of firearms craftsmen to the Qing court, but also brought the Ming army's three-stage firearms tactics.

More than 300 Wuzhen Chaoha firecrackers took turns shooting at an area of Gaoyang Dongcheng under Shi Tingyu's order.

In addition, nearly 100 archers of the Han army were also transferred, and their task was to continue to suppress the firepower of the defenders on the city wall in the gap between the fire and ammunition, so that the Jingbei army that threw rolling logs and stones could not rise.

"Uh. Bang. Bang......! ”

The sound of dense firecrackers rang out, and those screeching guns, ordinary beans, poured into the area where the firecrackers attacked.

The Jingbei army defending the city was okay, with cotton armor and the iron armor brought by the general soldier, and there were no casualties, but the young men who assisted in defending were beaten by the dense firepower and did not dare to take their heads.

Shi Tianzhu, who commanded the heavy infantry, saw that the defenders at the head of the city were suppressed by the firepower of the other side, and immediately supervised the siege of the city.

The bravery of the commanders encouraged everyone in the heavy infantry of the Qing army besieging the city, and they climbed the wall with their swords one by one.

"Get on the fork and push them down, what about our little cannon, quickly give Lao Tzu a fire bolt to the Tartar."

Looking at the Han heavy infantry that was constantly climbing, Wang Zhong drank again and again, and constantly gave orders to attack.

A few small cannons of 400 catties quickly adjusted their direction and bombarded the Han army under the city.

Hundreds of scattered bullets quickly formed a barrage under the city, and although these small cannons did not necessarily kill the Qing army's musketeers and archers, they obviously prevented them from continuing to attack the city walls.

The defenders at the head of the city took advantage of this gap to finally emerge and push the stones and rolling logs behind the battlements downward.

The fork pole hands composed of young and strong, more than ten people in a group, desperately resisted the ladder hanging on the city wall.

Li Xingzhi's temporary heightened city wall effectively delayed the speed of the Qing army's climbing of the city, and under the attack of the defenders of the city wall, one after another cloud ladders were pushed up, and the Qing troops on the cloud ladders were like rolling gourds, and there were more than a dozen of them.

Of course, there were also many Qing troops who took advantage of the offensive of the appropriate firearms to climb to a place less than a few feet away from the battlement, and then used the knives and spears in their hands to continuously stab at the battlements.

"Kill!"

The Mandarin Duck Soldier A Team A who had been guarding the city wall saw that the Qing army was about to enter the city, shouted, and waved his sword with five soldiers to meet him.

The pikemen of the Mandarin Duck Army took the lead, and the spears in their hands stabbed at the Qing heavy infantry who had just emerged.

"Puff, puff!"

The Qing army at the top of more than a dozen cloud ladders didn't have time to react, so they stabbed their spears through the face and fell down.

However, the heavy infantry of the Han army behind seized the opportunity, waved their knives to open the spears that the Jingbei army was still in the future and recovered, and then jumped onto the city wall with a fierce face, and then pounced on the Jingbei army and the young man defending the city with a hideous face.

Shi Tianzhu, the leader of the Han army who followed closely, saw that he had broken through the city wall, and excitedly raised his arms and shouted: "The city is broken only today, and the sons and daughters rush up to this staff leader." ”

After that, waving his knife, he desperately climbed towards the city wall, and the Han army behind him was also blood-red at this moment, climbing up lifelessly, they knew that once they broke Gaoyang, the women and property in the city would be at their disposal.

"Let Ma Sande resist, Wang Zhong, you go and prepare hay, and when the Tartar with the banner of the general goes to the city, he will set fire to the general outside the city, and the general will see how fierce the Tartar is!"

Li Xingzhi looked coldly at the Han army flags rushing left and right on the top of the city, and his voice was still calm.

Abatai, who was outside Gaoyang City, saw that the Han army under Shi Tingzhu had already landed in the city, and Yang Guli on his side stroked his palms and laughed: "The people of the Shi family have been voting for me in the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and the battle is really brave. ”

"Kill!"

Shi Tianzhu finally managed to climb to the top of the cloud ladder under the cover of the Han army on the city wall, and then jumped with his sword and pounced on several pikemen of the Jingbei Army in front of him.

"Puff, puff!"

The two spearmen who were stabbing at the city wall didn't have time to dodge before they were slashed to the ground by Shi Tianzhu several times.

Immediately afterwards, the flag-bearer who followed Shi Tianzhu also jumped on the city wall, and followed Shi Tianzhu's flag after the Gaoyang East City was raised.

Fierce cheers erupted in the Qing army's array, and Shi Tingzhu, Shi Tingyu, and the Han army of the Zhenglan Banner that had withdrawn before all rushed to the city wall like chicken blood.

"Throw hay and get ready for the hot oil!" Wang Zhong looked at the Qing army that was pressing over like a tide, and Shi Tianzhu and others who were rushing left and right on the city wall, and hurriedly ordered.

The Jingbei army and the young men defending the city also knew that the situation was urgent, and after receiving the order, they pushed the hay that had been prepared one by one under the wall stack, and at the same time threw out countless dry firewood and wooden planks, as well as cans of fierce fire oil.

Shi Tingzhu, who was overseing the army to climb the city, was shocked, he was also a person who had been in battle for a long time, how could he not know what the defenders in the city wanted to do, and he also knew that once this fire was ignited, his brother Shi Tianzhu would be drowned by the defenders on the city tower no matter how brave he was.

"Quickly wave the flag, let them retreat, once the thief sets fire, it's all over!"

Shi Tingzhu shouted heartbreakingly.

However, it was too late, and Wang Zhong, who was on the north side of the city, threw down the first torch with a strange smile, followed by countless torches thrown out from behind the battlements.

Piles of hay and dry firewood sprinkled with fierce fire oil were ignited in an instant, and then the fire borrowed the wind, and the wind borrowed the fire to burn the entire Gaoyang Dongcheng through.

Shi Tianzhu, who was slaughtering everywhere on the city tower, couldn't be distracted at all, what were the rest of the defenders on the city wall doing, he had been entangled by the five mandarin duck formations commanded by Ma Sande at the moment.

As the general manager of the original Guangning Ming Army, he naturally knew that General Qi Jin only relied on 3,000 Zhejiang troops to resist more than 10,000 Manchurias.

Although the Mandarin Duck soldiers in front of him now are far inferior to the invincible iron army, but with him and the more than thirty Han troops behind him, they can't break through the Jingbei army that is waiting for him, so he only hopes that his brother can lead his troops to the city as soon as possible, as long as one or two hundred people come up, Shi Tianzhu is confident that he will capture a section of the city wall.

However, something to his despair happened, and no Han army climbed up the city behind him, but a raging fire ignited.

The brave and peerless Shi Tianzhu was stunned, and the more than 30 Han military flags behind him were also stunned.