If there had only been one or two precision shots, Chaganbala would have thought they had been unlucky and had been hit by a stray bullet flying sideways.

But after seeing several of his subordinates being shot and killed one after another, and he himself was almost hit, Chaganbala noticed the abnormality.

He cautiously looked out, and found that some Ming troops armed with firearms were scattered on the battlefield, shooting at the Qing soldiers on the city wall, they almost missed a shot, and the targets of the shooting were basically the Mongol soldiers under his command.

At this moment, Chaganbala immediately understood, and he hurriedly shouted to his subordinates in Mongolian:

"It's the marksman of the Ming army, don't lean out rashly, stay away from the wall!"

The Mongols, who were reminded, hurriedly retreated and handed over the front line to the Han soldiers, who learned to shoot the Ming army who climbed up from the ladder in Chaganbala, and then the light infantry had no goal and could only fight the ordinary Qing troops who came out.

Touch! Touch!

At this moment, the battering ram was finally pushed outside the Nanxun Gate, and the soldiers struggled to slam the top-sharpened log into the gate with iron on the skin, and Gao Simeng, the leader of the former rebel army who joined the Chinese military camp, also took several of his old brothers to assist in slamming the door, although they were required by Su Yan to undergo military training for a while before they could go to the battlefield, but seeing the fierce siege battle, they still went to the battlefield to assist in carrying siege equipment.

"Bump!"

"One, two, three!"

Under the hard impact of the Ming army, the city gate of Nanxun Gate was soon knocked out of several cracks, because Nanxun Gate is in the inner city, the city gate has not been repaired for a long time, and it will soon be unable to withstand the force under the violent impact of the battering ram, and it will be forcibly knocked open when shaking!

"Kill it!"

The next second the city gate was knocked open, the Ming army rushed into the city gate with a shout, but they were greeted by a volley fired by the Qing army's bird gunners, and the Ming soldiers who rushed to the front were immediately beaten into a sieve and fell on the way to charge.

The robe behind them did not retreat, they shouted and crashed head-on into the Qing army who intended to retreat and change the defense, Gao Simeng, who was rushing to the front, waved the shield in his left hand and slammed it on the face door of a bird's hand, the bridge of the man's nose was knocked crooked, and the blood stained the face door, Gao Simeng then swung out his right hand waist knife, slashed into the man's shoulder, the man screamed and knelt down, Gao Simeng kicked it over, pulled out the waist knife, and continued to face the next person.

"Kill!"

Under the onslaught of the Ming army, the Qing army at the city gate fought and retreated, Chaganbala saw that most of the Ming army turned to the city gate, so he led his subordinates Niu Lu to gallop down the city wall to help the city gate, and when they arrived at the city gate, several nearby Qing troops also rushed over, they joined forces to block the attack of the Ming army, and finally it was able to stabilize the position.

However, because the Qing army shifted the focus of defense to the city gate, the defensive pressure on the city wall suddenly doubled, and Su Yan sent the second target of the artillery to attack the city, they quickly took position under the city wall, and then fired round grenades at the city wall.

Most of the defenders of Nanxun Gate were defeated by the Qing army on the main road by the first standard of the Ming army, they naturally recognized these balls, as soon as they saw the balls actually being thrown up, they immediately panicked, and before they could dodge, those grenades exploded one after another, and the Qing army on the city wall was directly blown down, and the Ming army seized this opportunity to attack the city along the ladder again, and successfully gained a firm foothold on the city wall.

The explosion on the city wall quickly attracted the attention of the Qing army under the city, and they immediately understood that something was not good, and they wanted to divide their troops to climb the city wall to support, but before they could climb the city wall, the Qing army on the city wall was blown up by mortar cannons and lost their ability to defend themselves was cleared by the Ming army, who used the city wall to condescendingly shoot at the Qing army behind the city gate.

Seeing that the battle flag of the Qing army on the city wall was cut down and replaced with his own flag, Su Yan waved his fist excitedly and ordered the line infantry to quickly climb the wall and attack the Qing army in the city on the city wall.

Nikan, who was supervising the battle at Tianqumen in the northwest of Jiacheng, soon heard the bad news of Nanxunmen, and he wanted to support, but the ferocity of the Ming army he faced made it impossible for him to divide his troops to fight - it was Zhang Huangyan and the Suzaku Left Brigade under his temporary command who were responsible for attacking Tianqumen.

Under the fierce offensive of the heavily armored Russian garrison, the defenders of Tianqumen could only struggle to support, and in fact, in the siege battle a day earlier, it was the Suzaku Left Brigade that almost broke through the Huai'an Gate several times, but only barely repelled them after the Qing reinforcements arrived in time.

This shows how brave and good these warriors, who inherited the strong physique of the Russian garrison with tomahawks in their hands.

Tianqumen because Nikan himself sat in the town, so under the fierce offensive of the Ming army, it was able to maintain morale and continue to fight, but the Shuncheng Gate and Qingcheng Gate, which were also attacked by the Suzaku Left Brigade, only lasted less than an hour under the onslaught and were captured by the Ming army because of the collapse of the army, and the Qing army that was still holding on in Huai'an City was affected by the fall of Beicheng yesterday, and its morale was reduced, and it suffered heavy losses under the fierce onslaught of the Russian garrison, so naturally there was no reason to continue to hold on.

After Shuncheng Gate and Qingcheng Gate were conquered, Zhang Huangyan sent a messenger to inform the nearby friendly troops of the situation here, and then personally led the soldiers and horses to enter the city from the Qingcheng Gate of the south gate, and soon after entering the city, it was blocked by the Caobiao right battalion transferred by Wang Wenkui, the governor of Caoyun, and the two sides fought on the street, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated.

After defeating the right battalion of Caobiao, Zhang Huangyan's department continued to advance, directly taking the Governor's Caoyun Department and the Huai'an Prefecture Office in Nancheng, Wang Wenkui, who was sitting in the Governor's Office to command the resistance of the gates, learned that the right battalion was defeated, and the Ming army was killing this side, so he hurriedly went out, and did not care about the defenders who were still holding on to the gates of Nancheng, so he took his wife and daughter and a few attendants to flee to Jiacheng, intending to break out together with Nikan.

However, when they just ran to the Cheng'en Gate connected to the South Gate, they saw that the head of the Cheng'en Gate had been replaced with the Ming Army battle flag at some point, seeing this, Wang Wenkui involuntarily deduced that the Nikan in the Jiacheng was more than auspicious, and he stood in the middle of the street at a loss, and suddenly did not know where he should flee to.

"Master, what should we do?"

His wife, Hu Shi, asked in a panic and tugged at his sleeve.

"How do I know what to do?" Wang Wenkui said irritably, he looked at the alleys on both sides of the street, and suddenly had an idea, and said: "Get off the horse, go and change into the clothes of the common people, and we will sneak out after the Ming army occupies Huai'an." ”

Anyway, regardless of the reactions of the others, he took the lead and turned over and dismounted, and went into one of the alleys.

On the other hand, Zhang Huangyan successfully attacked the Governor's Caoyun Department and the Huai'an Prefecture without resistance, and the soldiers searched the two yamen, but did not find Wang Wenkui's whereabouts, only the governor's seal abandoned by Wang Wenkui.

According to the interrogation of the subordinates in the department, although they knew that Wang Wenkui had escaped, but now that there was still resistance from the Qing army in Nancheng, they had to put down the matter of arresting Wang Wenkui first and attack the Qing army that was still resisting.