The Manchurian soldiers are also human beings, and they are also flesh and blood, no matter how brave they are, the roadblocks of the Jingbei Army will also hinder their progress.

In the rumbling sound of artillery, the Manchurian soldiers raised their swords and spears in their hands and pounced on the Jingbei Army walled city stuck on the official road.

Again, the first obstacle they faced was the stakes and trenches that were scattered all over them.

"Raise your shield and clear the stakes."

As the first attacker, Niulu Akma roared and gave the order, knowing that even with the cover of artillery, the defenders in the walled city would not easily let the defenders clear these barricades.

"Shoot Lao Tzu!"

At the moment when the Manchurian soldiers entered the firing range, Zhang Erniu, the second-town long-range soldier A team hiding behind the battlements of the walled city, took the lead in lighting the fire gun in his hand.

Soon after the expansion of the Jingbei Army, the weapons were not sufficient, and the three long-range infantry units in the second town only had more than 500 firearms.

In order to guard the official road, most of the long-range soldiers deployed by Wang Zhong in the walled city were 500-strong infantry composed of the officers and soldiers of the former Shandong Town and the long-range soldiers of the original fire battalion.

In comparison, these soldiers have experienced the real battle formation, and they must be much stronger than the soldiers who have just been recruited.

"Bah, Bah, Bah......!"

Under the command of Zhang Erniu, the firecrackers of Team A played a dense firecracker.

The shields used by the Manchurian soldiers were all made of wood, which could not block the guns fired by the Jingbei army, but they effectively weakened the power of the guns, plus the three layers of thick cotton armor on their bodies.

The first salvo of the Jingbei Army did almost no damage to the Manchurian soldiers, and only a few unlucky Manchurian soldiers were pierced through the skulls by the guns.

The death of several of their companions obviously did not frighten the Manchurian soldiers, on the contrary, they advanced more quickly when they saw that their shields could block the attacks of the firearms.

The stakes were uprooted by the Manchurian soldiers who braved the rain of bullets, and soon reached the front of the trench, but the trench in front of them, which was about four feet deep and about a foot wide, became an insurmountable barrier for them, not to mention that the trench was also covered with sharp bamboo stakes.

Tanaka, who commanded the attack of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, looked at the three trenches in front of the walled city, and his scalp was numb, even if the Manchurian soldiers were brave, it was impossible to rush with their flesh and blood.

"Alan Chai, you take people to dig the earthworks at the foot of the mountain on both sides and fill in the trenches, we don't have much time."

Tanaka looked at the Han army flags that were feint towards the peaks on both sides of the mountains, and then looked at the sun that was gradually sinking in the west, and his heart was entangled.

Not only Tanaka is anxious, Yue Tuo is also anxious, it is not three minutes now, if the official road cannot be opened, the Qing army will definitely have to retreat to camp, if the thieves dig a few more trenches at night, how to go tomorrow.

"Hmmm! But what do we use to fill the soil? ”

Alan Chai hurriedly received the order, and he also knew the consequences of not opening up the official road.

The Qing army came lightly, and there were no heavy supplies at all, let alone carrying sacks.

"Dressed in cotton armor! I asked the sons and daughters to cover you with shields, so as not to break the camp of the thieves, we have to retreat to camp tonight, if the thieves dig a few more trenches at night, we will not be able to get out at all. ”

"Good! I'll let the sons and daughters go and load the soil. ”

"The artillerymen bombarded the wall battlements of the thieves to cover the advance of the Mongols."

The gunners of the Han army, who were originally bombarding the battlements, turned their guns one after another, and their target was the Jingbei army ambushed on the wall.

The speed of the Qing army's advance with the adjusted deployment suddenly accelerated.

Although the artillery of the Qing army was not much, it still fired dense fire on this narrow official road, although the accuracy of the artillery in this era was not high, and there were still three cannons smashed on the battlements.

More than a dozen archers of the Jingbei Army who were hiding behind the battlements didn't have time to react at all, and they were knocked to the ground by the cannons that smashed through the wooden battlements. There was a commotion in the Jingbei Army on the wall of the wall.

At the same time as the artillery attacked, the Manchurian soldiers with shields began to cover the advance of the Mongol soldiers who had lost their cotton armor and soil.

"Gunners shoot! Archers shoot on their backs! ”

Zhang Erniu was not stupid, he quickly judged the gap between the bombardment of the Qing army's artillery, and took advantage of the gap in the Qing army's artillery charge, and hurriedly ordered the long-range soldiers of the headquarters to attack.

The result was obvious, after the dense rain of bullets fired, the Mongol soldiers who had taken off their cotton armor and worked hard to carry the soil suddenly fell in pieces.

The Mongol soldiers who came directly from the follow-up were all frightened, and Alan Chai was also quite worried, but he still waved his knife to urge the Mongol soldiers under his command to advance.

The Mongol soldiers, who had no other choice, had no choice but to rush forward.

Although the Ming army's attacks were intensive, they did not necessarily hit themselves, but if they did not fill the trenches, the Manchurian soldiers behind them probably would not let them go.

There was still a glimmer of hope to advance, and retreat was the strict military order of the Qing army, and the Mongol soldiers obviously knew what they should do.

In order to cover the advance of the Mongol soldiers, the artillery of the Qing army continued to roar.

The role of the veterans was fully demonstrated in the defense of the city, although the artillery of the Qing army constantly hit the wall, but they did not disagree, but scattered on the wall and took turns shooting.

The Mongolian soldiers without armor became the best targets of the Jingbei army, and one after another the Mongol soldiers who were burdened with soil fell to the ground and died, and then were pushed into the trench by the Manchurian soldiers covering in the front row.

After pushing down nearly 100 Mongol corpses into the trench, Akma was pleasantly surprised to find that he seemed to be able to continue his march on the corpses of Mongol soldiers.

"Attack it, clear the barricades."

Dozens of Mongol soldiers who had advanced on negative ground were brutally pushed away by the Manchurian soldiers, who crossed the trench on the corpses of their former companions, and then repeated their old tricks and began to uproot the barricades of the Jingbei army.

"Tanaka, this is to use the lives of our Mongols to fill in the defense line of the thieves and open the way for you Manchurians."

Alan Chai's heart was dripping blood.

The Mongol soldiers under his command had lost nearly 200 men in the previous battle of the Jiaolai River, and nearly 200 people had been broken in the negative soil filling trenches. Alan Chai didn't dare to imagine it anymore.

"If we don't break through the city of thieves, we won't have a way to live! Get your people ready to fill in the trenches. ”

Tanaka ignored Alanchai's doubts, and he only saw the Ming army's walled city and nothing else.

The Yangwu generals Yue Tuo, Zuo Lingao Bei, and the Mongolian Ezhen Sonomu and other Manchu and Mongolian generals who were watching the battle also saw the Eight Banners rushing through the first trench.

Yue Tuo and other Manchurian generals were excited, but Sonomu was miserable, because his subordinates were being forced by Manchurian soldiers to pave a passage to the Ming army's walled city with their lives.

"Prince Cheng, Manchu and Mongolia are one, and the Mongolian soldiers under the slave department have folded nearly a thousand people after entering Laizhou, and the task of filling the trench is to remove part of the Han army flag, and feint to attack the Big Buddha Ridge, where do you need so many military horses."

Sonomu knelt dead in front of Yue Tuo, crying with tears.

"Well, let your people continue to attack, and you must not interrupt the offensive, Ben will take off the Han army flag and join the battlefield."

It was getting late, and Yue Tuo knew that once it got dark, the hard work of the whole day would be in vain, and tomorrow there would be more trenches and pickets and barricades.