"Ming, come here?"

The range of the Qing army's bow and arrow is not as far as that of a rifle, Xu Sheng ordered the guard team to continue to advance, about two hundred meters away from the city wall, this distance is a very dangerous distance, the Qing army archers can cause damage to the Ming army guards by projectile, but it is also the best sniper distance for rifles.

Xu Sheng risked being shot by the Qing army archers, and issued a sniper order to the sniper squad soldiers, and the Qing army archers also fired arrows at the Ming army under the city.

Almost at the same time, the Qing army released arrows with bows and arrows, the Ming army snipers released guns, the number of Qing army archers was more, and the Ming army guards immediately raised their shields to meet the baptism of the Qing army's arrows, and the Ming army's nine bullets crossed the sky and flew towards Hatai.

Hundreds of Qing arrows fell from the sky and smashed on the shield of the Ming army, although the Ming army had shield cover, but was still shot dead and wounded dozens of people, the sniper team after completing the first fire, and quickly pulled the bolt, fired four shots in the direction of Hatai, and then quickly retreated.

The Qing army archers shot dozens of Ming soldiers, cheering one by one, and some low-ranking officers also laughed at the Ming army, but only one did not move.

That was Hatai, he stood straight near the battlements, looking at the two bloody holes in his chest in disbelief, what kind of weapon was this, how could it hit him at such a distance?

He wanted to open his mouth to talk to the nearby generals, but he couldn't lift his breath, and finally fell to the ground with a bang, and when he fell, the nearby Qing army Manming generals were frightened and hurriedly helped him up, but he seemed to see a wound in his chest.

Two bullets pierced Hatay's left chest, one of which broke Hatay's heart and was also a fatal wound to Hatay.

I don't know who it is, I shouted that the commander was dead, and the entire Qing army in Xiping City fell into a panic, and the archers who were still elated just now were even more dazed.

Outside the city, the Ming army began to beat drums, and the thunderous drum beat was like a thunderbolt hitting the nerves of the Qing army soldiers one by one, and some Qing soldiers began to retreat, hesitating to surrender to the Ming army, whether to continue to fight with the Ming army.

Ling Jingyang was having a friendly exchange with Li Dingguo, when he suddenly heard a burst of gunfire outside the city, and thought to himself that the sniper team would start sniping?

After a while, there was a shout from the Ming army at the North Gate, Li Dingguo was a little curious, why did Ling Jingyang's subordinates suddenly become so restless, could it be that they were trying to welcome the arrival of the Great Western Army?

Ling Jingyang said to him mysteriously: "General Dingguo, our department has sniped the general of the Qing army. ”

sniping the generals of the Qing army at the beginning of the war, and sniping the Qing generals inside the city outside the city, in Li Dingguo's view, is like talking about the night.

He didn't believe it, Ling Jingyang made an invitation gesture, and the two of them came down to the north gate in a group of generals, and heard from afar that the head of Jiannu was dead.

Ling Jingyang was surprised that the sniper team led by Xu Sheng achieved results so quickly, and Li Dingguo was even more shocked in his heart, how could the Ming army have such a marksman.

Xu Sheng was full of pride in his heart, led the sniper team, and killed a lieutenant of the Qing army with forty-five bullets, which was a record recorded in the history of the Ming army.

Although the Qing army said that Hatai was dead, he was not complacent, because he was not sure whether he had killed Hatai, he came to Ling Jingyang with a calm face, and said to Ling Jingyang: "Du Du, the subordinates of the last general sniped the general Jiannu, and the Jiannu in the city said that the captain was dead, and the last general didn't know if it was true or not?" ”

Ling Jingyang admired Xu Sheng's attitude, and before the results were determined, he didn't swagger, and said to Xu Sheng: "Well, good job, go down." ”

"Yes"

Xu Sheng led the guards to separate Ling Jingyang's sides, Li Dingguo was even more shocked, sniping and killing the general Jiannu, but it was a great achievement, why didn't Ling Jingyang reward this young general?

Ling Jingyang saw that the army in the city was unstable, so he suggested to Li Dingguo that the Qing army in the city obtain a group of dragons without a leader, and launch it at this time to coerce the Qing army in the city to surrender.

This proposal was supported by Li Dingguo, who ordered all troops and horses to make a siege posture, and Ling Jingyang ordered the artillery battalion to continue to bombard, even if the shells were finished, to give the Qing army enough deterrence.

Under the command of Ling Jingyang and Li Dingguo, the Ming army and the Daxi army launched a strong attack from the north gate and the west gate respectively, and the Daxi army did not have many firearms troops, so they used bows and arrows to shoot at the Qing army under the city, and then the soldiers carried ladders to launch a strong attack, and they climbed the city wall with their lives, and the losses were great, but they also caused casualties to the Qing army.

The Ming army was different, and Ling Jingyang ordered

The artillery battalion continued to open fire, and then the various units concentrated their shield soldiers in front, the archers in the back, and the sniper squads mixed in the archers, sniping at the Qing generals who were exposed on the city walls.

The Qing army in the city was suddenly attacked by the coalition forces, and the frightened chaos was in chaos, especially Hatai was killed, the Qingming generals did not have unified command, and many green battalion soldiers had the idea of surrendering.

The first to resist in the city was the Eight Banners, thousands of Eight Banners soldiers holding weapons on the city wall to resist to the death, these Eight Banners were not many in number, but they led many green battalion soldiers to follow the resistance to the coalition attack.

The resistance of the Qing army caused great casualties to the coalition forces, the Great Western Army attacked at the West Gate and suffered heavy losses, and the Ming Army also lost hundreds of soldiers and horses at the North Gate, but the nine-shot rifle once again came into play when the snipers and archers moved under the city.

As long as the Qing generals who commanded the battle at the north gate showed their heads, they were ruthlessly sniped by snipers, because there were many people on the battlefield and the snipers were inexperienced.

The generals of the Qing army at the north gate also found that the Ming army had divine killers, and they hid a few meters away from the battlements one by one, because of the angle, the snipers could not snipe, and Xu Sheng withdrew from the battle with the sniper team.

The sniper team withdrew from the battle, the Ming army increased its offensive intensity, but the resistance of the Qing army became weaker and weaker, after the attack of the Great Western Army was repulsed, Li Dingguo reorganized his troops and horses to launch an attack, and the attack of the Great Western Army at the West Gate became more and more smooth.

Although the Eight Banners were brave, as the Eight Banners continued to die, the Green Battalion's heart began to collapse, and the Eight Banners had to resist the attack of the coalition forces, and they had to drive the Green Battalion to fight.

The green battalion soldiers are also nests, and they have to fight with the coalition forces, and they have to be driven by the eight banners to fight, and finally the green battalion soldiers at the north gate resisted, and a green battalion soldier always carried hundreds of eight banner soldiers, and suddenly launched a surprise attack, hacking to death dozens of eight banner soldiers at the top gate of the north gate, and the other green battalion soldiers saw that someone rebelled, and also rebelled.

The green battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers in the city immediately broke out in a scuffle, in the melee, the green battalion soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the Eight Banners soldiers slashed and killed countless green battalion soldiers, but after all, the number was too small, and finally a small number of green battalion soldiers opened the north gate to welcome the Ming army into the city.

Before the Ming army entered the city, Ling Jingyang deliberately let people shout in the army, the green battalion soldiers are anyway, the colonel will be promoted to one level, and the soldiers will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and the Ming army is also easy to distinguish the green battalion soldiers, the green battalion soldiers are dressed and the Eight Banners are not comparable, at a glance, you can know who is the Eight Banners and who is the Green Battalion?

After the Ming army entered the city, they only killed the Eight Banners, and most of the green battalion soldiers followed the Ming army to kill the Eight Banners, but there were also a few green battalion soldiers who disarmed and stood on both sides of the city wall, waiting for the end of the battle.

The north gate was broken by the Ming army, the eight banners in the city could no longer withstand it, the Qing army collapsed on the whole line, but the Great Western Army was very embarrassed, although the eight banners collapsed, but there were still a few eight banners soldiers who did not open the city gate, and the number of soldiers of the Great Western Army who climbed up from the city wall was not much, and they did not break through the west gate.

In the end, Li Dingguo ordered part of the Great Western Army to enter the city from the north gate, and the Ming army eliminated the Eight Banners in the city.

The Great Western Army entered the city from the north gate, the battle in the city was one-sided, under the siege of the Ming Army, the Great Western Army, and most of the green battalion soldiers, the Eight Banners were beaten to the ground, and finally only two thousand Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers broke through from the east gate.

Li Dingguo ordered the cavalry battalion to pursue the Qing army, be sure to annihilate all the Qing army, the Great Western Army and the Ming Army both entered Xiping City, the Great Western Army occupied the south city of Xiping City, the Ming army occupied the north city of Xiping City, and the two armies took an alley as the dividing line.

Ling Jingyang immediately led the Ming army artillery battalion into the city, the Qing army in Beicheng surrendered quickly, Ling Jingyang got more than 4,000 green battalion soldiers in Beicheng, and rescued Wang Xiao and other captured soldiers of the Great Western Army in Beicheng, Ling Jingyang asked the rescued soldiers of the Great Western Army if they were willing to stay in the Ming army, and those who did not want to stay in the Ming army could go back.

There were more than 400 soldiers of the Western Army who felt that it was irrelevant to go back, so they stayed in the Ming army, and only Wang Xiao returned to the south of the city with more than 200 people and became Li Dingguo's general again.

Li Dingguo captured more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers in Nancheng, most of these green battalion soldiers are grass on the wall, the Qing army will follow the Qing army when it is strong, and the Great Western Army will follow the Great Western Army if it is strong, Li Dingguo looks down on these people, but the Qing army is about to go south, and it needs to recruit troops at this time.

He pinched his nose and organized more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers into the new army, with Wang Xiao as the chief soldier, and the captured officers and men of the Great Western Army became generals and backbones of the new army at all levels.

The Great Western Army and the Ming Army wiped out the remnants of the Qing army in their respective territories, and by noon, there was no resistance in the city, and Ling Jingyang ordered the people and baggage in Kaifeng Mansion to quickly follow, and set off for Huguang the day after tomorrow.

Ling Jingyang also asked He Zhen to come alone

reported that He Zhen went to the captives to select soldiers and horses to do his best, and He Zhen led his subordinates to the captives, and the first thing he did was to let the subordinates who had been captured by the Qing army come back.

Among the more than 4,000 captives, hundreds of them were his former subordinates, and when they saw that the old general had given him a chance to return, they returned to He Zhen's command, and He Zhen selected more than 1,500 people among the captives to form a new army.

He did not eat all the prisoners, on the one hand, he was afraid that Ling Jingyang and other generals would be dissatisfied, and on the other hand, most of the prisoners in the whole army would affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

After Ling Jingyang selected the soldiers and horses, he asked the generals of the various departments to select the soldiers and horses among the prisoners, and some people who were not suitable to continue to be soldiers were all driven to the ranks of the people to escort grain and grass for the army.

Then the Ming army found a granary in the warehouse in the north of the city, which contained 20,000 stone grain, and the Qing army warehouses were in the north of the city, the Great Western Army was stunned in the north of the city and did not find a grain of grain, Ling Jingyang understood the Great Western Army, and asked Zhang Shun to send 10,000 stone of grain and grass to the Great Western Army, and asked Xu Sheng to send an invitation to the Great Western Army, and invited the soldiers of the Great Western Army to a banquet tonight.

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The Great Western Army lost some soldiers and horses in today's battle, and the grain and grass were still in the rear, Li Dingguo thought that there was grain and grass in the city, but the grain and grass were in the north of the city, he was thinking about how to talk to Ling Jingyang and ask for some grain and grass, but Ling Jingyang sent him 10,000 stones of grain and grass.

This made Li Dingguo think that Ling Jingyang was a friend worth making, and led the generals of the Great Western Army to attend Ling Jingyang's banquet in the evening.

Ling Jingyang invited Li Dingguo to tell him that he was about to lead the army to Huguang, and the entire Henan region was given to the Great Western Army.

He said to Ling Jingyang: "Ling Dudu, it is my honor to be able to fight side by side with you, this glass of wine is considered to be my practice for you, do it!" ”

Heroes cherish heroes, Ling Jingyang also did a dry mouthful, Li Dingguo thought that the Ming army could go south first, capture the southern prefectures and counties of Runing Prefecture, and clear the way for the large army to go south.

Ling Jingyang had already asked Li Rufeng to lead his troops to Ruyang to open up a way for the army to go south to Huguang.

In fact, the generals of the Great Western Army all thought that Ling Jingyang went to Huguang to avoid fighting with the Qing army, but today seeing Ling Jingyang leading his troops to fight fiercely with the Qing army, it is not like a passive avoidance of fighting.

Many people don't understand, but they still respect Ling Jingyang's choice, at the banquet, the generals of the two armies competed for the amount of wine, Ling Jingyang and Li Dingguo, the two young people found a corner and pointed out the country to determine the general trend of the world.

Li Dingguo is younger than Ling Jingyang, and he is still on the rise, Ling Jingyang has more historical knowledge than him, and both of them realize that they must unite all the forces that can be united to resist the Qing army, but Ling Jingyang has more information than him, that is, the Fusang army is about to enter the war group.

There are not many Fuso people, even if there is an army equipped with advanced weapons, the number will not be very large, and in the face of powerful armies such as the Qing army, the Ming army, the Dashun army, and the Daxi army, the Fuso people are not absolutely sure of victory.

First of all, it is certain that the Qing army will definitely not be defeated easily, and even if it is defeated, it will not surrender to the Qing army, after all, the Qing army has entered the Central Plains and already has the idea of the world, so it is almost impossible for them to become vassals of the Fusang people.

The Dashun Army, the Daxi Army also established a regime, completing the transformation from the righteous army to the feudal dynasty, they can resist the Ming Dynasty, and they will also fight with the Fusang people, as for the Ming Dynasty, Ling Jingyang thought that they would not give up the great rivers and mountains belonging to the Zhu family, and let the Fusang people trample on the Central Plains.

Ling Jingyang and Li Dingguo talked about an advanced idea, the Great Western Army fought against the Qing army in Jiangbei, but it needed to have a stable rear, and only a stable rear could hold on with the Qing army.

The first and second generations of the Qing army are also older, and in just a few years, these fierce generals will pass away.

Li Dingguo felt that Ling Jingyang was a very far-sighted person, maybe he had a more ambitious goal in going to Huguang, but he still asked tentatively: "Ling Dudu, do you know that the Qing army is about to go south to Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, is Ling Dudu afraid of fighting the Qing army?" ”

"I'm afraid, I'm not afraid, my troops are too few soldiers and horses, I went to Huguang to gather more troops, if you can't resist, I will raise troops to the north to support."

At this time, listening to Jingyang's heart, since he formed the army, he also had five major legions when he had a large number of troops, and his strength was one of the best in Shanxi.

But Zhang Luofu and Zhu Youzhen launched a mutiny, which led to a sharp drop in his troops, and the two soldiers and horses of Lao Mantou and Wang Tiedao were besieged by the Qing army in Huaiqing Mansion, and these two soldiers and horses were almost lost.