Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 380 Obtaining the Military Order Mandahai Retreats

Man Dahai took advantage of the fact that the Ming army was too small in number and had no troops to defend the city. Every day, several Qing soldiers took turns to fight, trying to drag down the Ming army with wheel-to-wheel battles.

Numerous Qing soldiers first rushed to the high platform piled up outside the city. A large number of Qing army archers looked down at the city wall from above and shot arrows at the Ming army, which greatly weakened the Ming army's advantage in defending the city.

The Ming army set up wooden planks on the city wall to resist the bows and arrows above their heads. The high platform of the Qing army was higher than the city wall, and the artillery fired directly by the Ming army could not take the Qing soldiers on it. Shoot the Qing army on the high platform.

Hu Zun Cannon is not very powerful. It is similar to today's mortars. It is an artillery that mainly shoots in a curved line. , the most effective means.

In addition to the Qing soldiers on the high platform overlooking the rain of arrows, Man Dahai also took the two-thousand-sword shield and the four-thousand-step archer as the vanguard, lined up in four rows, and charged towards the city in a mighty manner. The swords and shields in the front row held their shields high, After resisting the intensive bows and arrows from the top of the city, the archers behind bent their bows and set their arrows, throwing arrow rain on the city.Behind them are five thousand of the most elite soldiers led by Li Chengdong. They are the real main force in the siege.When entering within a hundred steps of the city wall of Guangzhou, the archers and musketeers on the top of the city fired a rain of arrows and bullets at the same time, roaring at the Qing army.

The Qing army erected their shields on the ground, forming countless shield walls. The powerful rain of arrows crackled and shot on the shield walls, making a series of "ding ding dong dong" sounds, most of which were nailed on the shields.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Li Chengdong participated in the rebellion of bandits. He followed Li Zicheng's general Gao Jie for a long time, nicknamed "Li Hezi", and was extremely capable in fighting. Later, he surrendered to Ming Dynasty with Gao Jie.

Among the four towns in Nanming, Gao Jie was the strongest town. After Gao Jie was assassinated by Xu Dingguo in Suizhou, when the Qing soldiers went south, Li Chengdong surrendered to the Qing, and Gao Town was incorporated by the Qing court.

In the green camp sequence of the Qing army, Gao Zhen is definitely at the top. Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Hu Maozhen, and Yang Chengzu are all very capable of fighting, but Li Chengdong is definitely the most powerful existence in the crowd. The Eight Banners soldiers are inferior.

Arrows rained like shuttles above and below the city, and the cannons sounded again and again. The Qing army camp blew a low-pitched horn, and the five thousand elite green battalion soldiers waiting behind were pushing the ladders and carrying hundreds of siege ladders. Then they rushed to the city head like a tide.After more than half a month of defending the city, the soldiers of the Ming army had accumulated a lot of experience. Many of their soldiers, including the chief general Liu Shun, had figured out the steps of the Qing army's attack on the city.

The Ming army was smaller than the Qing army in terms of numbers, so they would not shoot at the Qing army. When the overwhelming arrows came from the city, they immediately hid behind the battlements, squatted on the ground and shot them or fired them from the shooting holes. Arrows, which greatly reduced casualties, but when the Qing soldiers began to attack the city aggressively, the archers and musketeers at the top of the city would start to fight back with spears and logs.

It's just that the rain of arrows shot down by the Qing soldiers from the high platform was difficult to resist, causing a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

At this time, five thousand Qing soldiers had already attacked, and more than a dozen of them worked together to erect the siege ladder. The Ming army immediately held the long pole and pushed the ladder away to prevent the barbs on the ladder from hanging on the city. The Qing army had nearly a hundred ladders running vertically towards the city wall, but the Ming army could not push them all away.In the shooting hole on the top of the city, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and sections of rolling logs fell from the top of the city. The arrows were like dense rain, and the guns were like thunder. When the rolling log hit, the bones were broken and the tendons were broken, and there was a lot of wailing.As dozens of city ladders climbed up the city wall one after another, soldiers of the Qing army swarmed up. The Ming army, who had fought hard on the city for many days, could only use their exhausted bodies to fight the Qing soldiers desperately.

Li Dingyi, who had experienced the offensive and defensive battles of Yangzhou, seemed to be handy in the attack of the Qing soldiers. A group of Qing soldiers set up a ladder in front of him. Several brave Qing soldiers held their swords in their mouths and climbed up with their shields. A mansion soldier fired a few arrows down, but none of them could hurt the climbing Qing soldiers, and he felt very anxious.

As soon as Li Ding saw this, he directly lifted a can of kerosene and dropped it. The mansion soldier immediately understood, lit a rocket, and shot it down. It still missed and landed on the shield raised by the Qing soldier. But a three-foot-high flame sprang up.

A string of Qing soldiers on the siege ladder immediately fell into a sea of ​​flames together with the ladder. The Qing soldiers were covered in flames. They screamed in horror and fell down the city wall. After rolling on the ground for a while, they disappeared.Seeing this, the government soldiers couldn't help looking at Li Dingyi with some admiration, but at this moment, a Qing army infantry archer on the high platform pointed his arrow at this old soldier who had experienced battles.

"Old Litou~" the mansion soldier cried out in pain, a rain of arrows had directly shot into Li Dingyi's face, and blood was dripping immediately.

At this time, at the key attack points of the Qing army, fierce soldiers of the Qing army kept rushing to the top of the city, and were repeatedly killed by the tenacious and heroic Ming army. The spear pierced his chest, and he burst out with his last strength, and fell off the city wall with the Qing army officer in his arms.

At the gate of the city, Li Chengdong yelled: "Attack the battering ram!" Hundreds of soldiers of the Qing army pushed the giant log weighing a thousand catties, and under the dense protection of hundreds of shields, they rushed towards the gate again and again. The bows and arrows, logs, and fuel tanks of the Ming army kept falling down. "Boom!" Pulled by the soldiers of the Qing army, the siege hammer swung high and slammed into the city gate fiercely. Amidst the loud noise, the city gate shook, the city wall trembled, and the mud and broken bricks rattled. fall.

Amidst the sound of chant, the Qing soldiers joined forces to swing the giant tree up again, and then rushed towards the gate of the city again with a force of ten thousand catties.In the camp of the Qing army, Man Dahai held a binoculars and watched the scene of the Qing army attacking the city. He saw the Qing soldiers fighting fiercely on the top of the city, and the crumbling city gate, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

If the attack continues like this, the city of Guangzhou is in his hands, and the capture of the city is just around the corner.

Man Dahai put down the binoculars. At this time, a group of Qing cavalry suddenly rushed to the gate of the camp from a distance, and then showed Boluo's token. The soldiers who guarded the gate did not dare to stop them. Into the camp.

When the cavalry saw Man Dahai, they got off their horses immediately, ran forward quickly, knelt down and said: "Master, this slave is ordered by Lord Baylor to report urgent military information."

After Qing Bing finished speaking, he took out the letter from his chest and presented it with both hands. Man Dahai picked up the letter with doubts, opened it, and read it. After a while, he couldn't say a word, but he sighed, "God's will!" That's it!" Seeing this, the generals of the Qing Dynasty didn't know what happened, and their faces showed doubts, but Man Dahai didn't explain, and waved his hands: "Send the order to retreat~"

(I don’t know if I can get out of the next chapter. I suggest you rest early and read it tomorrow morning.)
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