Chapter 22: The Bloody Battle of Kunming (4)
After the moat was filled, groups of soldiers carried ladders to the bottom of the city. Because when Wu Sangui attacked Kunming City before, the sheep and horse wall was destroyed, and it has not been built so far, so now it can easily come to the bottom of the city wall.
The soldiers set up ladders and scrambled to climb to the top of the city. Seeing this, Wang Pingfan of the city hurriedly ordered the soldiers to pour fire oil and gold juice down. The boiling oil and boiling gold juice were poured on the ladders, and the Ming army covered his face and screamed and fell down the ladders.
At this time, the mobile artillery under the city was also constantly firing at the city, and the archers were also throwing at the city.
After the first round of fire oil and gold juice poured by the Qing army, the Ming army on the cloud ladder took advantage of this gap and quickly climbed towards the city. As soon as a Ming soldier climbed the city, a few spears were stabbed in front of him, and he was instantly pierced into a hedgehog and fell off the city before he could dodge.
As more and more Ming troops poured up, the two sides fought fiercely at the head of the city. Wang Pingfan immediately organized firecrackers to shoot at the Ming troops who poured up, and after a dense burst of gunfire, the Ming troops who came up were swept away.
After this wave of offensive was suspended, Li An ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and stop the attack on Kunming City. After this round of tentative attacks, according to the defensive strength of Kunming City, Li An was convinced that Wu Sangui had led his troops out of Kunming City.
He immediately sent Li Si to inform Wu San Province and asked him to lead his troops to Kunming as soon as possible. After receiving the order, Wu Sansheng marched rapidly overnight and arrived outside Kunming in the early morning of the second day.
40,000 soldiers and horses gathered under the city of Kunming, and without further ado, Li An decided to officially start the siege today. Arrange for Ma Bao to attack the East Gate, Wu San Province to attack the West Gate, and himself and Lei Pilgrim to attack the South Gate. Although Li An did not arrange for someone to attack, in the woods outside the north gate, there were 5,000 cavalry led by Ma Weixing to wait for him.
The rushing car is also called the Linchong Lu bus, which is generally more than ten meters high, and can be equal to or higher than the city wall. With a sky bridge installed on it, it can be placed directly on the opponent's wall, allowing your soldiers to easily rush into the opponent's ranks.
The siege cone is a blunt weapon used to hit the city gate and city wall to destroy the enemy's city defense, so as to achieve siege victory. Fastened to a four-wheeled vehicle by a huge pile, it hits the city wall or gate with great inertia through the pile head. After breaking through the first gate, soldiers will rush up to attack and destroy the fragile second gate.
Li An took out the three Hongyi cannons at the bottom of the box, two of these three cannons were brought by Ma Bao, and one was brought by Dao Muqi. These three cannons are several heavy artillery pieces in the army, and they are also Ang Lee's baby bumps.
The Hongyi cannon was set up three miles from the city, and the gunner began to quickly clear the chamber and charge. There was a loud "boom", and the cannonball smashed into the female wall, and the entire female wall suddenly shook violently.
"Tsk." Li An was also surprised by the power of the Hongyi cannon.
At this time, Wang Pingfan at the head of the city saw twice as many soldiers and horses as yesterday, and he suddenly felt bad in his heart, could it be that Li Dingguo's purpose was Kunming, not Guangzhou.
The more Wang Pingfan thought about it, the more he felt that Li Dingguo's purpose was Kunming, and it was a long way to Guangzhou, even if Li Dingguo was defeated, he couldn't hold it; Second, Kunming is Li Dingguo's lair, and the people here support him.
At this time, the rumbling sound of cannons interrupted Wang Pingfan's thoughts, and he didn't care about thinking so much, and hurriedly organized people to counterattack.
The Ming army's charging car also began, leaning on the city wall, and Wang Pingfan hurriedly ordered the gunners to aim and rush to attack.
The Franco's cannon and Hongyi cannon at the head of the city began to wield, and a rushing car was hit by a cannonball in the middle. The entire rushing car was suddenly torn apart, and the soldiers inside the rushing car were hit by shells and suffered heavy casualties.
The artillery on Li An's side hurriedly fired shells at the head of the city to relieve the pressure of rushing the car, and the artillery on the head of the city also fired at Li An's artillery position, and the artillery of the two sides began to bombard each other, and one by one the shells smashed into the artillery positions of both sides.
There were eight chariots in total, four carrying musketeers, four pikemen and shield men, one carrying musketeers had been scrapped, and the remaining seven vans were hurrying towards the city wall.
At this time, the four musketeers on the rushing car had already begun to shoot at the head of the city, and "Bah, Bah" kept remembering the sound of gunshots. At the head of the city, Wang Pingfan also ordered the firefighters to counterattack, and the firefighters on both sides continued to fall.
After a round of fighting, each side is charged with a fire charge. Thanks to the fixed paper shell bullets, the Ming army has already loaded the medicine and is ready to shoot, but the Qing army has not yet half loaded.
The Ming army did not hesitate to shoot, knocking down the Qing gunners who were loading, and the surviving Qing gunners were scattered.
At this time, the other three rushing cars saw that the Qing army was rushing into the ice and scattered, and hurriedly put down the overpass, and the sword and shield men and spearmen in the rushing car jumped to the head of the city in an instant.
Li Lu, who was the first to jump down, raised the Pu knife in his hand and split a Qing soldier in half with one sword. Then Li Lu roared, raised his knife and entered the ranks of the Qing soldiers, a big knife flew up and down, and in an instant, the Qing soldiers were killed and fled.
Seeing that this person was so brave, Wang Pingfan personally stepped forward with a spear to engage in battle. Li Lu, who was slashing and killing the Qing soldiers, saw a general carrying a gun and killing violently, Li Lu didn't dare to be careless, turned around and drew a knife, and slashed at Wang Pingfan.
Wang Pingfan hurriedly blocked the big knife that Li Lu slashed from, Li Lu saw that the big knife was blocked, and slashed with the knife along the barrel of the gun, Wang Pingfan immediately let go of the barrel of the gun with both hands, and the spear fell to the ground for the rest of his life.
Seeing that the main general was in danger, the Qing soldiers behind Wang Pingfan rushed up to besiege Li Lu, and the Ming army at the head of the city also surrounded them. The Ming army and the Qing army fought fiercely together, and for a while the area around Li Lu and Wang Pingfan became a flesh mill.
As more and more Ming troops climbed to the top of the city, the Qing army gradually became overwhelmed. Just when the Qing army was about to collapse, Wu Anzhi led the Qing soldiers to rush to the city in time to support, and the reinforcements brought by Wu Anzhi were the 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry left by Wu Sangui in Kunming City.
The Guan Ning troops who rushed to support were all dressed in heavy armor and armed with three-eyed firearms. As soon as the Guan Ning army joined the battlefield, they fired a volley at the Ming army with the three-eyed firecracker, and after the shooting, the Guanning army raised the three-eyed gun in their hands and killed the Ming army.
The fierce Guan Ning army slashed at the Ming army like a wolf and a tiger, and the Ming army was suddenly killed and retreated. Li Lu was also besieged by several Guan Ning soldiers and already had multiple wounds on his body.
As the Ming army gradually retreated, Li Lu saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shouted that the Ming army that attacked the city head retreated. But at this time, the Ming army had been entangled by the Guanning army, and only a small number of Ming troops successfully jumped on the rushing car, and most of the Ming army fell into a bitter battle.
Li Lu saw that the remaining Ming troops really couldn't get out, so he had to reluctantly order the car to retreat. Lei Pilgrim under the city saw that the rushing car began to retreat, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
After a whole day of bloody fighting, both the Ming army and the Qing army were exhausted.
After collecting the troops, Ma Siliang counted the losses and immediately reported them to Li An. More than 1,500 soldiers were killed, more than 800 were seriously wounded, and more than 1,000 were slightly wounded, most of which were caused by the battle with the Guanning army. Li An also learned that it was precisely because of the support of the Guan Ning army that today's siege was a failure.
When Ang Lee learned of the loss, he was so distressed that so many people were killed and injured on the first day. It's really hard to take this city in a short period of time!
After Li An personally went to comfort the injured soldiers, he sat in the big tent and pondered the way to break the city. This Kunming City must be taken in a short period of time, and if it drags on for a long time, Wu Sangui will come back to help, and then everything will be over.
Just when Li An was worried about how to break through the city of Kunming, the scout suddenly came to report that there was a Qing sergeant outside the camp gate who asked to see him, saying that he was Gao Dejie, a general under Wu Sangui.