Chapter 196: The North Gate

The fire under the camp was quickly extinguished by the Ming army due to the lack of gunpowder to help ignite, and the Ming army desperately put out the fire above.

When the fire was extinguished, it naturally revealed the mess below.

Thick smoke hung over the entire camp, emitting bursts of scorching stench.

At this time, dozens or hundreds of inhuman-like corpses that had already been burned were densely packed under the camp.

Some were killed by the Ming army with firearms, bows and arrows, and many more were burned alive by the fire.

From the corpses of those people with twisted limbs, it is not difficult to guess that these people went through an extremely painful struggle before being burned to death.

On the walled city, the soldiers of the Qianhai battalion of the Ming army did not cheer because of this, because the Fanren army in front of them was still black.

On the contrary, the Ming army desperately poured water down on the camp to extinguish the fire and extinguish the fire under the city, and the soldiers who were forced to retreat by the fire earlier surrounded them again.

"These Ming people are ruthless enough." Li Youcheng, who was watching the battle under the city, couldn't help but gasp when he saw the scene in front of him.

Fortunately, the Zhenla soldiers under Mo Sin, who went up to attack the village, if they let their Guangnan soldiers rush up, how many people might die?

However, after such an attack, the Fan army can be regarded as finding out the approximate number of the Ming army in the camp.

"My lord, General Mosin led the rest of the army to kill it, should we rush over?" Beside him, a pro-soldier asked.

Seeing that Mosin was irritable and led the army to continue to attack the village, Li Youcheng shook his head.

He also saw the previous offensive, and the firepower of the Ming army defending the village was not weak, but the troops were wounded.

The strength of the Ming army in the camp will not exceed 500 people, and now there are so many soldiers guarding the west gate, so the other gates must be weak.

Li Youcheng is naturally not a fool, and he will not pull his subordinates to death under the arrows of the Ming army's artillery in vain like Mo Xin.

"Since Mosin's attack on the West Gate has contained a large number of Ming forces, then we will attack the North Gate." Li Youcheng laughed loudly, looked at the soldiers rushing in front of him, and immediately led his five hundred soldiers to attack the north gate of the camp.

The fire attack of the Ming people also completely angered these soldiers.

At this moment, in addition to the charred corpses that fell in front of the camp, the remaining hundreds of Zhenla soldiers rushed up without fear of death.

Surrounded by clusters of arrows and lead bullets flying overhead, the few remaining vans were escorted by the players.

"Quick, hold on, don't let the soldiers rush over."

The Ming archers on the wall shot desperately at the soldiers below, and many of them held rattan shields to block the clusters of arrows from above.

Some of the unlucky soldiers were stabbed in the thigh by stray arrows, screaming and falling into the mud, and the soldiers behind him stepped on his torso and continued to rush forward.

Fortunately, a large number of corpses fell in front of the camp, and because they were roasted by the fire, most of the corpses of the soldiers were twisted, and the soldiers who rushed up could not be hauled at all, so they had to be run over by the rushing car.

This hindered the attack of the rushing car and the soldiers, and just as the rushing car was struggling to move through the pile of corpses, several six-pound stone shells smashed over.

The rushing car, which was difficult to move, was simply the best target for the Ming artillery.

Although a lot of gunpowder was used to ignite the fire, there was still more than half of the gunpowder in the village at this time.

"Don't worry about rushing the car, give it to me." After seeing that the Ming army had destroyed all the rushing carts, Mosin, who was riding a big horse to supervise the battle, scolded and asked the soldiers to carry the ladder to attack the village.

There were only four artillery pieces of the Ming army guarding the village, and the loading was cumbersome, so it had to be used to destroy the rushing vehicles of the Fanren.

For the soldiers to set up a makeshift ladder, they had to hand it over to the archers on the side.

Although the proportion of Zhenla's archers in the deployment of troops is very small, their strength has an absolute advantage, so the number of archers in the army is also not allowed by the Ming army.

The archers under the camp who raised their bows and shot on their backs also caused great casualties to the Ming army.

Seeing the arrows fall from the four or five Ming archers beside him, Li Shi was heartbroken.

Although there are hundreds of corpses of Fanren under the camp at this time, Fanren still has a numerical advantage.

You must know that the Qianhai battalion defenders of the entire camp are only 200 people.

In addition, there are a total of four gates in the camp that need handles, even if you count the handkerchiefs on each door of the village soldiers, the defenders of each gate are at best a hundred.

At this time, the number of casualties of the Ming army was no less than sixty or seventy.

As a last resort, the defenders of the other three gates had to be dispatched to reinforce them.

Li Shi looked at it, there were still two or three hundred soldiers under the camp, and he counted the other three officers and soldiers who came from the village, and there were only about 100 people when he was full.

"My lord, there are too many fans, and the arrows of the fans are accurate, and the archers have suffered heavy casualties." A flag officer ran over, and more than half of his archers had already been killed or wounded.

"Since the archers and firecrackers can't suppress the people below, then open two openings and let the people come up." Li Shi sat on the ground, unable to speak.

Seeing that the soldiers under the camp had already set up a ladder to attack the city wall, he simply let some of the soldiers come up.

Under the intention of the Ming army, the soldiers of the two cloud ladders were deliberately put up.

Elsewhere, shieldmen and sword players were held back, and suppressed by a small number of archers.

On the two gaps deliberately opened by the Ming army, four or five soldiers jumped on the wall at this time, but before they could react, more than a dozen spears and guns came over.

With a scream, four or five soldiers were picked off the wall.

And when the spearmen collected their spears, several more soldiers jumped on the wall.

At this time, the Ming army's musketeers took over, and seven or eight firearms sounded.

The soldiers who rushed up were beaten to a blur of flesh and blood by the firearms.

Li Shi deliberately gathered all the firecrackers and spearmen in these two places, and there were sword players in other places to block them, preventing the soldiers from coming up.

In this way, the soldiers who did not know the situation on the city wall naturally thought that these two ladders were easy to attack, so they were impatient to run to these two places.

As a result, the Ming army, which did not have a numerical advantage, had an absolute advantage in numbers and firepower in these two gaps.

Mosin's soldiers didn't know the situation on the city wall at all, and when they saw that these two ladders were the easiest to jump onto the wall, they rushed in waves like firewood.

As a result, the soldiers jumped on the wall, and then were picked off by the Ming army.

And when the Ming officers and soldiers of the West Gate were fighting with the soldiers of Moxin, the five hundred Guangnan soldiers led by Li Youcheng had also rushed to the north gate of the camp at this moment.

At this moment, the number of officers and soldiers of the Qianhai battalion guarding the north gate was less than half of that of the west gate, and the most important thing was the lack of artillery to defend the city, and even the lack of musketeers and archers.

Seeing that Li Youcheng's 500 Guangnan soldiers formed an army formation and pressed towards the north gate, the Ming army at the north gate had to temporarily mobilize a large number of village soldiers to defend.

At this time, the Guangnan soldiers under the North Gate City had more troops than the troops at the West Gate.

Compared with the reckless advance of the Zhenla soldiers, the attack methods of these Guangnan soldiers have also been adjusted.

First, several groups of soldiers were sent to test the situation, and after seeing that there were no artillery on the wall of the Ming army, they rushed to a place about fifty or sixty steps away from the camp under the cover of rattan shields and sandbags.

This lead bullet shot from the fire gun is basically not lethal, let alone accurate.

In addition, the arrows of the Ming army at the north gate and the limited gunpowder could only watch the Guangnan soldiers advance to about fifty or sixty steps away from the camp.

But unexpectedly, the Quang Nam soldiers stopped when they were fifty or sixty paces away from the camp and began to build a simple defensive wall with sandbags and timber from their hands.