Chapter Ninety-Five: The Banner Bearer

The west side of the Qing army's defense line on the periphery of Beiting Village.

The Qing army, who were cheering for the repulsion of the Ming army's night attack, was shocked by a loud noise coming from the rear.

Before he could react, the explosion sounded again.

In a row.

The Qing soldiers who were close could even feel the ground trembling under their feet, and their eardrums were buzzing with explosions.

With the smoke raised by the explosion, the surrounding one-foot wooden stakes were either destroyed by the roots in an instant, or were lifted into the sky by the explosion, and then smashed to the ground like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers.

The flying stakes shot out like sharp arrows, and the Qing soldiers who were caught off guard were either pierced by the stakes or "nailed" to the wooden barricades like meat skewers.

The wooden stakes that fell from the sky were even more smashed, and the Qing soldiers wailed.

The general Wan'an, who was untying his hands, heard the explosion and knew that it was not good, so he picked up his pants and was about to run away despite the fact that his butt had not been wiped clean, but a piece of wood flew straight towards him as if he had long eyes.

With a "poof", the wood pressed against Wan An's ass and stuck him straight into a big tree.

It looked as if the Green Battalion had always been riding on a log.

Quite like the witch riding a broom in a Westerner story.

"Click!"

Wan An, who had been twitching on the wood for a while, tilted his neck, and the seven-rank top on his head also rolled to the ground.

After the loud noise, the Qing army's pile defense line, which was dozens of zhang long and more than ten zhang deep, was blown out of several gaps.

The largest is two or three zhang, and the smaller ones are also zhangxu.

The wooden stakes, which had not been destroyed, were also crooked, and the wood that fell from the sky and the flesh and blood of the horses were scattered on them.

The wood at the center of the explosion was burning due to the heat.

Before the Qing army could react, the Ming army's shield cart pushed up towards the pile defense line that had been blown open several large openings.

Behind the shield cart were dead men armed with axes, canisters, planks, and shields.

The smoke obscured the view of the Qing army, and by the time they found out, the shield carts of the Ming army had already rushed to the defensive line.

With the exclamation of the Qing soldiers, the sound of fire guns was loud again.

The shouts of killing also broke the silence of the night again.

"Up!"

Wu Shijun, the chief soldier under Yuan Shuai, wore iron armor and personally led the dead soldiers to seize the pile.

Hundreds of armored dead soldiers took advantage of the cover of shield carts to put the ladders prepared in advance on wooden stakes one by one, and the planks were quickly laid forward from the ladders.

Once they had a foothold, the top dead man immediately held the cards and continued to move forward.

They must rush through the piles and fight them hand-to-hand before the Qing army fully reacts!

Someone keeps falling, and someone keeps making up.

Like laying a chain bridge, one passage after another paved with blood soon appeared on the piles.

"Release, release!"

"The thief is coming, fight, fight!"

"Hit those stakers!"

"I hit it first!"

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The commander of the Qing army behind the pile defense line was so anxious that he shouted when he saw that the Ming army had laid a passage on the pile.

Military orders are also contradictory.

Some shouted that the Ming army would hit the piles first, while others were shouting that they would hit those who were cutting the piles first.

The noise was loud and chaotic.

The Qing army was surprised to find that their guns hit the shield car of the Ming army, and the Ming army behind them was unscathed.

"Kill!"

Braving the guns of the Qing army, the general soldier Wu Shijun, together with dozens of Ming soldiers wearing iron armor, took the lead in rushing through the pile defense line along the passage and slashed towards the Qing army who was hurriedly loading medicine not far away.

"Kill!"

The dead soldiers of the Ming army in double armor jumped down from the passage one after another.

Suddenly, there was chaos on the inside of the Qing army's defensive line.

Under the slashing of the Ming army, the Qing army did not dare to get close at all, so they had to constantly retreat to the rear.

The Ming army followed, and the chaos quickly developed from one point to many points, and finally formed a chaotic area that was half a mile wide.

Mu Shenghui, the chief general of the Qing army, rushed over from the front.

Looking at the sergeants on both sides who had already been in a mess in front of him, Mu Shenghui did not lead his troops over to participate in the melee, but ordered the deputy general Guo Yi to immediately pull the artillery over and bombard the Ming army who were destroying the stake defense line.

While not allowing the Ming army to destroy the piles, it also isolated the follow-up of the Ming army.

"Huh!"

Guo Yi took the order and left, but he was also anxious.

Because most of the artillery deployed on the defensive line is aimed at the direction of Maolu Mountain.

The heaviest weighs more than 1,000 catties, and the lightest weighs four or five hundred catties.

If you want to pull these guns from the front to the back, you have to quickly form an artillery array, and the difficulties and pressures can be imagined.

God knows how this Ming army came from behind!

Needless to say, it must have happened to Zuo Dudu Yu Dahai.

Now I can't complain about the incompetence of the sea, so I can only quickly pull the cannon over.

With the efforts of many parties, several small cannons were first pulled over by the Qing army and the people who were levied and issued.

"Quick, quick!"

Seeing that more and more Ming troops were coming, the gunners panicked and couldn't wait to fire as soon as they compacted the cannons.

With a "poof", the fire rope burrowed into the chamber like a fiery snake.

With a "bang", a solid iron bullet whistled out from the muzzle of the cannon and flew towards the Ming army in the distance.

The shrill sound of cannon fire was very piercing in the night sky.

With a loud bang, the iron bullet hit a Ming army shield car.

The shield cart, which could block the guns but could not withstand the shells, was smashed to pieces on the spot, and sawdust flew everywhere.

The bodies of the two Ming soldiers behind the shield car were directly pierced by the cannonballs, and it was useless for them to wear double armor.

The artillery of the Qing army rang out again.

This time, three shells flew over the heads of the Ming troops at the pile, and only one fell in the crowd.

Killed several warriors of the Ming army on the spot.

One of the three flying shells landed in the follow-up Ming reinforcements, killing several people.

In the continuous artillery bombardment, another Ming army shield car was hit.

A Ming soldier who was struggling to chop a wooden stake was smashed off his left arm by the fast-moving iron ball, and suddenly blood gushed like a spring, and he wailed.

Another high-speed flying iron ball smashed into the follow-up team of the Ming army, killing two Ming soldiers at the same time, the iron ball instantly bounced up and smashed heavily on the head of a Ming army soldier who was rushing behind.

The head was missing on the spot.

The body is still running.

An iron ball didn't know how to bounce, and it actually passed directly through the belly of a Ming soldier, taking away all the flesh and bones in an instant, revealing only a large empty round hole, bubbling with blood.

"Kill!"

The artillery shells of the Qing army were powerful, but countless warriors of the Ming army were fearlessly moving forward.

No one flinched, no one feared.

As the veteran said to the young man, the more you are afraid of the cannon, the more it will chase you as if it has long eyes!

If you can't break through today, everyone is still dead.

It is better to starve to death than to freeze to death!

At the pile, a Ming soldier was knocked down by a shell, and more Ming troops made up for it.

No matter how the cannonball roared, he turned a deaf ear, and only roared angrily and kept chopping down the big axe in his hand.

On the ladder, there were soldiers of the Ming army who kept climbing up, and people on the passage kept falling, and people kept jumping forward.

The sound of fighting resounded in the cold night.

"Old man, I'll leave it to you here, I'll take someone up!"

Hao Shaoqi, the old handsome man with fiery eyes, glanced at Yuan Zongdi beside him, and went into battle in person with a big knife.

Yuan Zongdi didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

At this moment, there is no need for much to say between them.

"Hao Shuai, put on armor!"

The chief soldier Hu Yinxuan saw that Hao Shuai was about to put on his armor without even putting on his armor, so he hurriedly signaled his soldiers to bring Hao Shuai's iron armor.

"Wear a fart!"

Hao Shaoqi spitted on the ground, "Lao Tzu is a big banner bearer, he pulls a horse, Lao Tzu has never worn armor in his life!" ”