Chapter 200: Burning the Village
"Fan soldiers, Fan soldiers have attacked the village." Just as Li Shi and the others were discussing the escape, the mournful roars of the Ming soldiers resounded on the walled city.
Several generals turned pale and hurriedly turned around and rushed in the direction of the camp.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up, rush in the direction of the camp for me." Li Shi grabbed a scurrying villager and held him down.
"Run, run, go back." Li Shi roared angrily.
"My lord, the West Gate is lost." The villager didn't know if he recognized Li Shi, shouted at Li Shi, and then broke free and fled into the chaotic crowd.
"Simon, lost." The generals of the Ming army present looked at the direction of Xizhai Gate in despair.
At this time, the fire outside the camp was blazing, and the raging fire lit up the entire sky.
The soldiers of the Ming army under the walled area rushed inside like crazy, and the banner of Guangnan had already been planted on the walled city.
Outside the walled city, Li Youcheng looked at Qianhai Mingzhai in front of him with a proud face.
Not only the Ming army will attack at night, but he Li Youcheng will also do it.
Li Youcheng and Mosin had many more soldiers than the Ming army.
After a day of guarding the village, more than half of the officers and soldiers of the Qianhai Battalion were killed or wounded, and the remaining Ming officers and soldiers were naturally tired.
In addition to the four hundred Zhenla soldiers led by Mo Xin, who was the main attacker, most of the casualties were lost, and the five hundred Guangnan soldiers under Li Youcheng did not suffer too many casualties.
Even a considerable part of the soldiers did not participate in the siege, so they retained their vitality.
And this group of Guangnan soldiers naturally became the new force of tonight's main attack.
The officers and men of the Qianhai battalion had already lost most of their combat strength after a day of bloody fighting with the soldiers, and now the Guangnan soldiers attacked the camp at night, and the direction of attack was the west gate instead of the north gate, which the Ming army focused on defending.
This afternoon, the Beizhai Gate was breached, and there was an earthen wall built by the soldiers fifty steps away.
Therefore, the generals of the Ming army believed that if the soldiers attacked at night, they would inevitably come from the north gate.
Therefore, Li Shi had to gather a large number of township soldiers in the village to defend the north gate.
Who would have thought that Li Youcheng would choose the West Gate instead of the North Gate, which is more powerful to himself.
The defenders of Simon fought to the death of the army under the command of Mosin all day.
The defenders had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the township soldiers who had originally rushed to the west gate were transferred to the north gate by Li Shi one after another.
Facing the siege of hundreds of Quang Nam soldiers, it was naturally impossible to hold it.
Hundreds of rockets were fired into the camp, which became the best light for the soldiers at night.
The first batch of Guangnan soldiers have already entered the village along the ladder.
Under the wall, more than a dozen Guangnan soldiers are working together to carry a striking wood against the West Zhai Gate.
Soon, the knocker broke through the fragile bamboo gate.
A large number of Guangnan soldiers shouted words and slaughtered into the camp.
On the walled city, the Ming officers and soldiers were still fighting to the death.
"Ahh One of the firecrackers screamed, and a bloody machete passed through his abdomen.
He had just finished a shot and was picking up the powder pot on his waist when he was attacked by a Quang Nam soldier behind him.
The Guangnan soldier let out a loud shout and pulled the knife out of the belly of the firecracker, and for a moment blood and intestines flowed all over the ground.
The pot also fell to the ground, and the black powder dust was scattered on the ground.
The Ming army's gunners, archers and even spearmen could not play a role at all in such a crowded and chaotic walled tower.
Often, as soon as the Ming army firecrackers put a gun, before they could collect the guns and retreat, they were rushed up by the soldiers and cut down to the ground with machetes.
The formation of spearmen in an array is deterrent and lethal, but in the face of the night attack of the soldiers, the Ming army has long been in chaos, how can it be possible to gather around and stab the enemy?
However, it was the long sword soldiers and sword players of the Ming army who blocked the soldiers.
When guarding the village today, the casualties of the sword players and the long knife soldiers were not very large, and at this time, they were also blocked in front of the soldiers as the main force.
The knife player used a wooden card to block in front of the Guangnan soldiers, not allowing the soldiers to go down to the camp.
"Hit me." A Ming army flag officer shouted loudly, holding a wooden card and knocking down three Guangnan soldiers in a row, and the soldiers behind him raised their knives and fell to hack the three Guangnan soldiers who fell to the ground to death.
Under the city, the Ming army's occlusion car was also pushed to the west gate by the township soldiers, because today's north gate attacked the defense wall, the Ming army's occlusion knife car was burned by the Guangnan soldiers, and at this moment the Ming army can only use a few old-fashioned occlusion cars.
These blockade cars are not equipped with blades, so they are not lethal enough, but they can still be used as temporary city walls to block the Quang Nam soldiers some times.
The shouts of killing in the walled city came and went, and not far from the outside of the wall, dozens of elite cavalrymen were ignoring the camp in front of them.
"It's still the adults who are resourceful, knowing that the Ming people will inevitably guard the north gate with heavy troops, and the adults will do the opposite and attack the west gate." Mo Xin looked at Li Youcheng with admiration.
"General Li, if it weren't for the fact that the general and his Zhenla soldiers fought with the Xizhai Ming army for a day, causing more than half of the casualties of the Xizhai Ming army, I wouldn't be able to take the Xizhai Gate at this moment." Li Youcheng naturally will not take the credit alone.
"Today, I will inform Lord Ruan Youjing of the bloody battle of the Zhenla Wang Army under the Ming thief village, Lord Ruan Youjing feels the general's bravery, and naturally he will also say a few good words for the adult in front of the hidden mannen, I believe that the general will return to the firewood stick, and the hidden nen will be rewarded."
Hearing Li Youcheng's words, Mo Xin burst into tears for a while, not because of the reward for the merits that Li Youcheng said, but because they were really aggrieved in today's battle.
First, it was bombarded by the Ming artillery under the city of Nainong, and almost fled back like a lost dog.
Attacking the Xizhai Gate guarded by hundreds of Ming troops, the Zhenla soldiers could not attack for a long time, and the corpses of the Zhenla soldiers under the village were piled up layer by layer.
Now there were less than 200 men under Mosin's command.
But it was all worth it, and at this time, the Guangnan soldiers had already attacked the Xizhai Gate.
On the walled gate, the fighting between the two sides has also become white-hot.
As the Guangnan soldiers continued to pour into the wall, the Ming army gradually lost its support for the walled tower.
Soon, the Ming army guarding the wall became a lone army.
"Bang bang bang!" A puff of white smoke rose from it.
On the wall, the last few firecrackers threw their guns on the soldiers after putting the last guns.
Several spearmen nailed a Fan Ren Commander with their spears, and the Fan Ren Wu Commander screamed, and the cold spear tip pierced the rattan armor on his body, and the Guangnan soldiers on the side slashed at several spearmen like crazy, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Several artillerymen struggled to lift the barrel with most of the gunpowder left and smashed it at the Quang Nam soldiers who rushed up to the wall.
The heavy medicine barrel hit the paper-thin body bones of Guangnan Bing and directly knocked down a large piece.
The barrel tumbled, and the gunpowder rolled down the bamboo ladder.
When a flag officer who was fighting bloody on the walled wall saw the scene in front of him, he actually knocked down the remaining barrels of gunpowder kegs one after another.
After cutting off the wooden planks between the barrels with a machete, he directly lifted the powder barrel and threw it down the wall.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Ming army on the wall finally understood what the flag officer was going to do.
They lifted the powder keg one after another and poured it into the gate and wall.
When the Guangnan soldiers on the side saw this scene, they were stunned at first, and then their faces showed frightened looks.