Facing a Qing army team that came out of nowhere, Liu Zhiyuan was also startled, but then he looked at it and recognized Chen Xinyou, the Qingbo Gate garrison headed by him.

Liu Zhiyuan succeeded to the post of the general of the Hangzhou town guard of Jin Li, who died on the battlefield, so he naturally knew Chen Xinyou, the garrison of the green camp in the city, he was stunned at first after recognizing the other party, and then remembered that the other party should be stationed in Qingbo Gate at this time, and should not appear here, but in the next moment, he saw the red-robed army following them, and quickly reacted, drew his saber, and roared angrily:

"Chen Xinyou defected to the enemy and treasoned and killed him!"

Seeing that Liu Zhiyuan reacted so quickly, Chen Xinyou also raised his saber and shouted: "Brothers, kill with me!" ”

The Qing army immediately rushed towards the Qing army under the leadership of Chen Xinyou, and the two sides immediately fought together, and the Ming army behind them wanted to come forward to help, but the front was blocked and could not join the battle, at this moment, the grenadier Baihu Gaofan, who was selected by Su Yan as the temporary commander before the division of troops, saw the houses on both sides of the street and the ladders set up in the alleys, and ordered: "Set up the ladder, climb the roofs on both sides, and shoot at the Qing army from a high position!" ”

While giving the order, he personally ran into the alley and lifted a ladder, put it on the wall, and took the lead to climb up the ladder, with Gao Fan's lead, the soldiers looked for the ladder one after another, and even if they couldn't find it, they also used the way of stacking arhats, one person stepped on the shoulders of another person to climb up to the house that was only one story high.

Then, they quickly ran to both sides of the battlefield, unhurriedly set up their rifles, reloaded, and fired at the Qing side - the distance of the fire was less than twenty paces, so they could hit the target even if they shot with their eyes closed.

The Qing army below soon discovered the Ming army above, Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly transferred archers and bird guns, intending to shoot at the Ming army on the roof, and at the same time he also ordered to find a way to climb up to the roof, during this time, Gao Fan, who personally climbed on the roof, gave an order, took the lead in igniting the grenade hanging on his waist and threw it towards the pile, the grenade exploded in the crowd, and the Qing army was about to blow up people on their backs.

Under the cover of the Ming army's firepower, the Qing troops on the streets were very uncomfortable, and they could only watch the Ming army condescendingly shoot at them with impunity, throwing thunder into the sky, and their morale was shaken.

However, at this moment, Liu Zhiyuan's transferred archers and bird gunners finally arrived, standing in the street and shooting at the Ming army on the roof, such a close shot, the Qing army bird gunners were finally able to play their role, and the Ming army who climbed on the roof was not many at this time, so they were suppressed by the number of Qing troops for a while in the shooting, and many people were shot and killed.

"Reload on your knees as much as possible and don't expose your body to the enemy's firing sight!"

After throwing a grenade again, Gao Fan quickly retreated, keeping himself away from the sight of the Qing Army's birdmen, and then shouted to the other soldiers on the roof.

As his voice fell, many of the soldiers obediently fell to one knee, but others moved a little slower, were killed by projectiles and arrows, and rolled off the roof screaming.

Seeing several soldiers being shot by the arrows that flew up, Gao Fan was extremely painful, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Grenadier! Give me all the grenades to drop! ”

"Blow them up!"

The grenadiers responded one after another, cursing while throwing grenades into the crowd, and they blew up the Qing army for a while, and those Qing troops were unwilling to continue to stand on the street as live targets even if they had Liu Zhiyuan's seat, and they began to retreat, even if the Qing army raised their knives and scolded, they were indifferent.

Chen Xinyou seized this opportunity, he took the lead, cut down a Qing soldier who could not dodge, and shouted: "Brothers, kill it!" ”

Under his leadership, the Qing army took the initiative to launch a counter-charge anyway, although they were not many in number, but the numerical advantage in this not wide street could not play any role for a while, plus the Qing army was disheartened by the Ming army firearms and grenades on both sides, and was actually defeated by Chen Xinyou's counter-charge for a while.

The rout in front also affected the Qing archers and bird gunners who were shooting at the Ming army on the roof, and they were carried back in a daze, Gao Fan saw this, and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to chase after him, and continued to shoot at the retreating Qing army.

Liu Zhiyuan, who was supervising the battle in the back, watched his subordinates begin to retreat with some annoyance, but he did not join the battle impulsively, even now, he still did not find out how many Ming troops entered the city, and the chaos caused by the fire in the city and the gunfire around him made him unable to judge for a while, for the sake of prudence, he still ordered to gather the rout and retreat to the main road with more space.

Seeing that the Qing army actually took the initiative to retreat, Chen Xinyou and Gao Fan were stunned, but the former immediately cheered up and continued to rush up with his subordinates, wanting to kill as many Qing troops as possible.

When he returned to the street, he saw Chen Xinyou and the others who were still chasing just now retreated in a hurry, Chen Xinyou pointed to the street corner in front of him, and said to Gao Fan who returned to the street: "Gao Baihu, the Qing army is lined up on the road in front, and as soon as we emerge, we were shot by the Qing army and lost a lot of brothers. ”

Gao Fan frowned when he heard this, but he still said in an undoubted tone: "Then take a detour, we must go to Fengshan Gate to assist the friendly troops outside the city to enter the city!" ”

As soon as his words fell, at this moment, he suddenly heard a deafening sound from the side of Fengshan Gate, Gao Fan and several people subconsciously looked in the direction of the city gate, but the view was blocked by the houses on both sides, Gao Fan hurriedly ordered people to go back to the roof again to check what was happening at the city gate.

And at the street corner in front of them, Liu Zhiyuan, who was lined up on the main road, looked at the direction of Fengshan Gate with a gloomy face, and also sent his subordinates to check how the battle was going, he wanted to rescue, but there were Ming troops nearby, and before he figured out the number of this group of Ming troops, he did not dare to divide his troops to go to the rescue, otherwise it was very likely that he would be dumpled by the Ming army.

Soon, before the people he sent came back, Liu Zhiyuan heard a deafening shouting and killing sound from Fengshan Gate, and under the backdrop of the firelight, the Qing army battle flag fluttering on the head of the city was cut off under his shocked gaze, and then, a red battle flag was inserted on the head of the city, and a burst of cheers rang out at Fengshan Gate!

The Ming army broke through the Fengshan Gate and entered the city!

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