I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 47 Attacking Xia
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Several ladders were erected up to the city wall, and the Ming soldiers, who looked like wolves and tigers, climbed up the ladders with swords in their mouths.

"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow quickly!" President He Qian shouted loudly with his eyes about to burst. He even personally took the bow and arrow from the hands of the Qing soldiers around him and shot an arrow at the Ming soldiers climbing up the ladder.

The flying arrow penetrated the leather armor and accurately hit the shoulder blade of the Ming army soldier. The pain was so painful that the soldier lost his grip and fell from the ladder that was more than halfway up.

At a height of three to four meters, he still landed on his head. The soldier's neck was fractured on the spot directly under the action of gravity acceleration, and he died instantly.

"Okay!" Mr. He Qian looked excited, pulled up his bow and arrow, and shot at another Ming soldier who was climbing.

He was hit again. Although he fell down this time, his head did not hit the ground. He only suffered fractures and did not fall to death.

However, this is under the city wall, so naturally no one will come and drag it back.

This man was left wailing in pain not far from the ladder, while other Ming army vanguard battalions seemed to turn a blind eye and continued to climb up the ladder.

On the city wall, He Qianzong shot several arrows and shot down several Ming soldiers. However, in the face of the successive attacks of the vanguard battalion, this little battle damage was really a drop in the bucket.

Soon, the first Ming soldier held a waist knife in his mouth, grabbed the edge of the city with both hands, and turned over.

All the Qing soldiers at the top of the city were frightened and froze in place. The Ming soldier who was the first to board the city would not give them time to react. He immediately picked up his sword and slashed at the nearest Qing soldier. passed.

"what!!"

The Qing soldier didn't react in time and his arm was cut off instantly.

Only then did the surrounding Qing soldiers react. One of them seemed to be the leader of the Qing soldiers. They saw the Ming soldier looking at him with a fierce look on his face.

He was frightened for a while, but then he saw that this man was alone, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, hurry up, he is alone, if we don't kill him, we will all die!"

At this order, the rest of the Qing soldiers also reacted. With their long-term instincts and the fact that there was only one person on the other side, they all screamed and rushed forward with their swords in hand.

This Ming army also showed cruelty. He picked up a sword and started hacking with nearby Qing soldiers. In the blink of an eye, he killed and injured four or five Qing soldiers.

However, he was ultimately alone. Although he fought hard, in a short while, his body was covered with wounds, and his movements of swinging the sword became slower and slower.

Finally, due to too many swings of the sword and excessive blood loss, the sword was swung empty. A slightly thin Qing soldier was spared, and the Qing soldier also raised his waist sword with a ferocious look and struck the Ming soldier heavily. On the soldier's shoulder blade.

"Pfft!"

This was the sound of the knife cutting into flesh and blood. The Ming army tried to cut back with all his strength, but he had no strength at all.

The Qing troops in front of him stepped forward and pushed him towards the edge of the city wall.

He had no power to resist, and the eight-meter-high city wall fell heavily, and he died instantly.

The same scene was also staged in many cities.

The Ming army seemed to have a fierce offensive, but in the end it was just a tentative attack, with only a vanguard battalion participating.

Even though the Qing army was present, its thousands of troops were there, and they still had the home field advantage of the city wall.

To deal with the Ming Army's vanguard battalion, which had limited offensive forces, and at some cost, the Ming Army's attack was quickly contained under the city wall.

After losing nearly [-]% of their troops in a row, the Ming Army's vanguard battalion finally began to retreat.The battalion commander who led the team hurriedly took the Ming soldiers who had fallen down but had broken bones but were not dead yet, and quickly retreated towards the rear military formation, not even using the ladders erected on the city wall.

The Qing army, which had "bravely killed the thieves" on the city wall and suffered hundreds of casualties, saw that the Ming army's vanguard battalion finally retreated, and there was a burst of warm cheers, as if their side had already won a great victory. "Hmph, a mere bunch of rebels dare to offend our Qing Dynasty. When the Admiral returns with his army, you will all be wiped out." Mr. He Qian also felt confident. In his opinion, the rebels However, with the high walls and thick walls of Xiamen City, I can hold on for at least three days!

And counting the time, the Admiral will have to come back after annihilating the rebels in Zhangzhou and Yongchun.

At that time, the entire province's army will press forward, and the admiral will personally lead the army. What should we fear if there are tens of thousands of rebels?
And he defended Xiamen alone despite the pressure of the rebel army. After all, he should be remembered as a great contribution, right?

When Mr. He Qian thought of this, he suddenly felt a burst of pride in his heart, as if he was 20 years younger in an instant.

Little did he know that the Fujian Admiral Mu Tingcha, on whom he had pinned all his hopes, had died in Quanzhou four days ago, and the green battalions from the four towns gathered in Quanzhou were ordered to rush north by the governor four hundred miles a day ago. .

In order to protect Fuzhou and reduce his culpability, the governor of Fujian even ignored the law that the governor was not allowed to mobilize troops without permission.

The purpose of moving troops north now is to quell the rebels, but the merits are offset by the faults.

If he doesn't mobilize his troops, how can he resist the 20-strong rebel army based on his plans?

Once Fuzhou was defeated, he, the governor, would either die in the city or flee. Then he would be executed by the court for indulging the rebels and losing the city and land, and his family would also be implicated.

In front of Xiamen City, the Ming army formed a military formation.

"Your Majesty, Commander, I have humbled myself and disobeyed military orders. Please punish me!" The vanguard commander knelt down in front of Yang Gong with a face filled with shame.

Yang Gong waved his hand: "After this battle, go and get twenty military sticks!"

From the vanguard battalion's assault on the city just now, Yang Gong had already figured out the defensive strength of Xiamen City.

Empty, unexpectedly empty, Xiamen is an important town in Taihuan, and the defense force is actually so empty.

The former Kinmen hadn't noticed it, but the current Xiamen was really beyond Yang Gong's expectation.

Could it be because Zhangquan and Quanzhou have rebelled? If so...

Yang Gong didn't think about it anymore and looked directly at Xu Jin and Lai Chi beside him: "Xu Zhen, General Lai!"

Xu Jin nodded, Lai Chi also laughed and said: "It's easy to say, leave the rest to us!"

As he spoke, Lai Chi put on his iron armor, raised his sword in his hand, and shouted: "Brothers, rush with me, kill the dogs, and seize Xiamen City to present to King Zhu!"

"Attack and seize the city!" Xu Jin also drew his sword and gave the order.

When the deputy commander Lin Liang heard the order, he rushed out first, leading hundreds of fierce Ming troops and rushing to the top of the city carrying ladders.

Lai Chi, the commander-in-chief, went into battle in person and followed with a sword in his hand. The Ming army from Zhuluo County behind them also quickly followed up with howls.

The Qing army, which had just had a moment of respite, saw that the Ming army launched another attack. The number was several times, even ten times larger than before. Everyone was panicked.

The confidence gained from the victory just now disappeared in an instant. President He Qian was also shocked and quickly ordered: "Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows! Stop these rebels, stop them!"

In front of the Ming army's formation, Yang Gong directly ordered several squatting tiger cannons to be launched from the rear of the army's formation.

Although this thing is not as powerful as the red cannon and lacks the ability to attack and defend the city, it can still be used to harass the clearing troops at the top of the city and cover the friendly troops as they board the city.

　The Crouching Tiger Cannon is weak and is better than nothing in attacking and defending the city, but it is still useful. In the Battle of Tomorrow, the Crouching Tiger Cannon played a huge role in the Ming army's capture of Pyongyang.

　　
　
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