Although he was reluctant to retreat, Nikan was still unwilling to give up the siege of Yangzhou City, which had been more than half a month.

He looked at the messy and potholed Yangzhou city wall, and was ruthless in his heart, and decided to storm again before the Ming reinforcements arrived, if it didn't work, then he could only retreat to Huai'an Mansion.

At noon, after lunch, the Qing army once again picked up their weapons and prepared to go to the battlefield, but this time in addition to the Qing soldiers and siege equipment, there was also a group of ragged and crying refugees.

These refugees were civilians forcibly captured by the Qing cavalry from the vicinity, whose relatives had been killed, their wives and children had been ravaged, their property had been looted, and their houses had been burned down, so that they could almost say that they had nothing but their own rotten lives.

"Hurry up!"

"You untouchables, don't stop, and those who stop will be killed!"

Many Qing soldiers followed behind these refugees, asking the refugees to push the siege equipment closer to the city wall, or hiding behind them, using the refugees' bodies as human shields, and the refugees who were used as meat shields cried loudly, as if a tragedy was being staged outside Yangzhou.

On the city of Yangzhou, Su Ci grabbed the bloodstained female wall battlements, gritted his teeth and watched the Qing army drive away the refugees as meat shields, his eyes were torn, not only him, but the Ming soldiers on the city wall also showed hatred and anger, they never imagined that the Qing army would be so brutal and drive the people to the battlefield.

The city artillery on the city wall was therefore dumb, and the artillerymen hesitated and did not want to fire at the Qing army, but the Qing army had no scruples, and the Qing artillery took the opportunity to launch a fierce bombardment of the city wall, and many shells flew towards the city wall, leaving new scars on the already scarred city wall.

Bang –

The cannonball smashed on the city wall with a deafening sound, and made the city wall tremble, and the cannonball hit the previous crater, causing the cracks around the crater to become more serious, making a bad sound, and the Ming army above also noticed this, they looked down in shock, and saw that the crack on the surface of the city wall was gradually expanding.

"Oh no, the walls are coming down!"

The soldiers shouted loudly, have withdrawn from this section of the city wall, the Qing army on the opposite side also found out about the situation here, began to mobilize artillery at this section of the city wall for a fierce bombardment, seeing that the city wall was about to collapse, Su Ci no longer hesitated, he ordered the artillery to launch a counterattack on the Qing army, and dispatched the soldiers and horses in the city that had not yet been put into battle and the people who volunteered to participate in the battle to stand behind the city wall that was about to collapse.

The city wall of Yangzhou was heavily shelled by the Qing army in the previous battle of Yangzhou, and then it was repaired without additional money, and was shelled by the Qing army for days in this siege battle, and could no longer withstand the damage caused by the shelling.

Therefore, after the Qing army mobilized artillery to bombard, the city wall collapsed with a deafening wail in the frightened eyes of the soldiers and civilians in the city, and the dust raised almost obscured the day, but fortunately, the soldiers around the city wall had been withdrawn, which avoided casualties.

After the smoke and dust cleared, a slope two or three meters high appeared in the eyes of the soldiers on both sides, and the Qing army immediately let out a shocking cheer, as if the city wall collapsed, and they could successfully take Yangzhou City.

Nikan's eyes also flashed with a strange light in the rear, and he clenched his hands into fists, waving them in the air, shouting, "All the army attack! Be sure to take Yangzhou City today!"

"Conquer Yangzhou, slaughter the city for ten days, and set an example!"

As soon as the order to slaughter the city was issued, the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and they had always coveted the wealth of Jiangnan, even if Yangzhou City had been slaughtered by the Qing army six years ago, they still had no pity.

Contrary to the excitement of the Qing army, the people of Yangzhou were bloodless and mournful when they found out about the collapse of the city wall, but then, as soon as they thought of the atrocities that the Qing army had committed to the city, they were driven by hatred and fear to take whatever could be used as a weapon in their homes and go out of their homes and spontaneously participate in the battle against the Qing army.

However, when they came to the city wall, they found that the Ming army had already prepared measures to deal with the counterattack under Su Ci's order, and the Ming army and the people who were transferred to the city wall in advance raced against time to pile up obstacles on the gap before the Qing army came to resist the attack of the Qing army, and the soldiers on the city wall also abandoned the only remaining mercy for the refugees outside the city in the instinct of survival, regardless of whether they would be injured by mistake, and shot arrows and projectiles at the Qing army.

Despite the fact that there were refugees in front of them as meat shields, the Qing army still shot at the Ming army

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Heavy losses in the rain of bullets, a Qing soldier general saw with his own eyes that one of his brothers, who had been with him for several years, was shot through the carotid artery of his neck by flying arrows, blood gushed out like a fountain, and after struggling for a while, he lost his breath, and in front of him there were already several refugees who were shot by the flying arrows, unwilling to die.

The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, this sentence can be applied to everyone, even innocent refugees, as long as they are driven to the battlefield, their lives may be taken at any time.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Whoosh –

A rain of arrows rose from the city wall, crossed a graceful arc in mid-air, and fell into the attacking Qing army's formation, although many arrows were blocked by the Qing army's shield carts and shields, but still shot and killed many Qing soldiers.

In the whistling of arrows and the sound of birds' guns, the heavy but reassuring roar of the city fire cannon also sounded from time to time, and one after another black cannonballs smashed heavily into the Qing army columns and siege equipment with the grim smile of death, and the shield carts that the Qing army relied on to save their lives fell apart in an instant under the bombardment of the shells, and the soldiers hiding behind were also crushed into pulp.

The skyrocketing casualties did not make the Qing army fearful and retreat, and Nikan's promise to slaughter the city for ten days inspired every Qing soldier, and they shouted and stepped over the moat with long pedals, regardless of the large number of corpses floating on the moat, which was filled with a foul stench.

As more and more Qing soldiers rushed across the moat, the Ming artillery on the city wall shouted to put down the solid bullets, picked up the heavy sacks from the side, and poured a large amount of pig iron into the barrel.

This is the shotgun shelling of the Ming artillery, wherever in the shroud of pig iron, the Qing army, no matter how many layers of armor they are wearing, died tragically under the shotgun bombardment, the Qing army that crossed the moat was instantly emptied of a large area, and those who were lucky not to die were still lying on the ground in pain and constantly struggling and groaning - maybe it was lucky for them to die on the spot.

Rumble –

The Ming army's shotgun shelling brought the Qing army heavy losses, hundreds of people were killed in a round of shelling, and the huge casualties made the attacking Qing army stagnate, fearful, coupled with the Ming army on the city wall and behind the gap to take care of them with bows and arrows and muskets, many Qing troops suddenly had the idea of retreating.

At this time, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners wearing three layers of heavy armor rushed up in time, and their appearance inspired the morale of the surrounding Qing troops, and the Qing army then launched another attack with all their might.

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