Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Battle of Gaoyang (8)

The Jingbei army at the head of the city had just repelled the Qing army's offset, and before they had time to catch their breath, the brigade's Zhenglan Banner Manchurian soldiers were thrown into the battlefield again.

The traitor army and the Manchurian soldiers, who were forced back by the defenders with lime and artillery, regrouped and pressed again towards the eastern city of Gaoyang.

"Let Li Rui transfer troops to reinforce Dongcheng, is Abatai, a dog Tartar, crazy?"

Li Xingzhi's brows tightened, from yesterday to now, nearly a thousand pigtailed soldiers have fallen under Gaoyang City, this Abatai actually has no intention of stopping, but constantly throws his descendants into the battlefield, isn't he crazy?

"Fire!"

In Gaoyang East City, except for the four great general's cannons that had been damaged in the artillery battle before, the rest of the artillery roared again.

One by one, the cannons weighing several pounds accompanied by dazzling firelight continued to fall in the military formation of the Han army flag that was charging ahead.

"Click!"

This was the sound of wood breaking, a whistling cannon, directly penetrating a shield cart and smashing on the skull of the Han army pushing the cart behind, directly smashing the entire head, white, red, and splattering brains everywhere.

After all, the shield car has a small target, and the artillery hit rate of this era is low, and only two of them were destroyed after several rounds of shelling.

However, the Qing army's wells were different, the target was large, and the movement speed was slow, so only the first round of artillery bombardment had several wells hit, and the broken wood flew sideways, and one even hit two shots, directly penetrated the keel and fell to the ground, and many Qing archers did not have time to dodge, so they fell from the platform.

Seeing that the target was hit, the Jingbei Army was even more excited, and one by one they reloaded the medicine and continued to open fire.

People continued to fall to the ground, and more Qing soldiers advanced regardless of casualties.

"Break Gaoyang, don't seal the knife!"

Li Shutai and Shi Tingzhu raised their arms and shouted, and a large number of Manchurian soldiers joined the battlefield, which greatly boosted their morale, and all of them were blood-red-eyed, staring at Gaoyang City, which was filled with gunsmoke, even if their companions kept being hit by guns and falling to the ground, they had no scruples.

"Fire! Fire! ”

Yang Fei's voice was already hoarse, and his eyes only looked at the approaching pigtailed soldiers.

"Bang!"

A large general cannon at the head of the city suddenly made a loud noise after ignition, and then rolled down the fort with inertia, and directly pressed down on a gunner who was about to ignite, and the gunner was crushed by the thousand-pound barrel before he could call out.

"What's going on?"

Yang Fei was shocked.

"Head, this cannon is blown up!"

One of the gunners replied in horror.

Yang Fei was shocked, and hurriedly ordered a group of gunners to immediately check the barrels, it turned out that after several hours of hard fighting, most of the artillery of the Jingbei Army was already with red barrels, and they had to be cooled with cold water before they could be used, otherwise I am afraid that more than half of them would be blown up.

"Let the people carry water to cool down."

Yang Fei roared anxiously.

Li Shutai and Shi Tingzhu are both old people who have fought in Liaodong, and when they saw the artillery fire of the Jingbei Army on the city wall sparsely thinning, they knew what was going on, and they shouted one after another: "Sons, the artillery of the Ming thief can't be used, kill Lao Tzu quickly!" ”

Taking advantage of the silent fire of the defenders' artillery, the musketeers and archers of Wuzhen Chaoha organized again, divided into several queues, and shot wildly at the corner of Gaoyang East City.

Dozens of Han heavy infantry, with shields on their heads, braved the rain of arrows of the Jingbei Army, pushing two rushing cars straight to the east gate of Gaoyang, and the Han army flags that rushed to the city wall were desperately hanging ladders.

They didn't care about the countless rolling logs and rocks falling on their heads, they only knew that they had to break this damn Gaoyang City today, and then vent their beastly desires to their heart's content.

One after another, Han army banners and Manchurian soldiers jumped on the ladder regardless of it, and then climbed up desperately.

Ladder after ladder was hung up, then pushed up by the defenders of the city, and then put back on the ramparts.

The bull of the blue flag, who was known for his bravery, climbed the city himself with a sword, and in order to speed up the climb, he didn't even have a shield, so he climbed up regardless of it.

The Qing army fought hard, and the Jingbei army and young men who defended the city also fought hard, everyone knew that once the city wall was broken through by these beasts, the people of Gaoyang, including themselves, would be slaughtered by these red-eyed livestock.

"Protect Gaoyang, protect the family!"

This was the shout of the young men who were assisting in the defense, and they braved the rain of arrows of the Qing army, lifted the stones one by one, and threw them down from the battlements with all their might, and many of them were shot by a dense stream of arrows before they could get up.

A pot of boiling hot gold juice was also moved to the wall by the young man who assisted in the guarding, and then thrown directly down the ladder.

Many Qing soldiers who were burned by the gold juice jumped off the ladder with a scream, and then their bones were broken by the stones falling from the city, and they screamed again and again.

Finally, Actun, who had made it to the death to the city, took the lead in attacking the city wall, his pointed helmet no longer knew where it had fallen, his body was covered with bloodstains, and even the smooth skull was injured by the golden juice soup, and with his distorted face, it was as straight as the Shura of the underworld.

"Ahh

A few young men guarding the edge of the city exclaimed in fright, and then retreated again and again.

Lord Niu Lu's martial arts ordered the Manchurian soldiers who followed closely behind, and everyone was excited, and in just over 20 breaths, dozens of Manchurian soldiers were killed at the head of the city.

"Kill all these lowly dogs!"

Acton roared again and again, and rushed left and right with the Manchurian soldiers who had ascended the city, frantically slashing and killing the young men who were assisting in the defense and the fire soldiers of the Jingbei Army, and soon cleared a gap of a few feet.

Li Shutai and Shi Tingzhu, who were overseeing the siege of the city, were overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers, the city is about to be destroyed, kill Lao Tzu!" Break Gaoyang City, and the women and gold and silver inside are ours. ”

"Break Gaoyang City, rob money and rob women!"

Countless traitor soldiers shouted wildly, surging like a tide towards the ladders erected on the city wall.

"It's urgent, Wang Zhong quickly leads the whole team, and he will kill the slaves with him!"

Li Xingzhi knew that if he couldn't drive these Manchurian soldiers down, then Gaoyang City might be breached today, so he immediately rushed to the Manchurian soldiers who were rushing and beating on the city wall with a knife.

The Gaoyang city wall is not too wide, five or six people can crowd the city wall, after two days of fierce battles, the mandarin duck soldiers of the Jingbei Army A team set up shields, holding wolf whisks and rushed to Actun, which was in conflict.

"What is this?"

As an old Manchurian who had experienced the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, Acton clearly remembered the scene where the Ming army with the flag of "Qi" rushed towards him in hundreds of small formations after the car formation was bombarded by artillery.

In that battle, the muddy river was stained through, and the dead and wounded Manchurian children piled up into a small mountain.

Acton and the Manchurian soldiers behind him did not expect that eighteen years later, the same military formation would appear in front of him.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken. Only loyal and righteous, angry bullfighting. The Lord will kiss me like a parent, and he will violate military law, and he will not be free. The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written. Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late. Report to the country and save the head of Qian. Kill all the slaves and find a marquis. ”

At the most critical moment, Li Xingzhi and Wang Zhong led ten Qi family troops with the courage to die, sang the war song of the year, and rushed to the Manchurian soldiers who attacked Gaoyang without hesitation.