Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 752
There were only 3000 Qing soldiers on the fort, and there were hundreds more who were responsible for operating the cannon. The Ming army had a thousand archers, lined up in nine rows, standing a hundred steps away, pulling the bow into a perfect circle, and using a thousand feathered arrows concentratedly, flying into the air. Then, it was like a torrential rain in the sky.

The fort was no bigger than a big city, the place was so big, but it was crowded with many people, the arrows were shot down, the Qing soldiers had nowhere to hide, countless people were hit by the arrows, the arrows were stuck on the bricks, and the shafts of the arrows buzzed and vibrated, which made the Qing soldiers terrified .

The archers of the Ming army stuck the feathered arrows in the sand beside them, and after shooting an arrow, they immediately stretched out their hands to pinch the arrow feathers, pulled them up, placed them on the bow, and shot again, continuously suppressing them.

The gunners of the Ming army lined up in three rows and took turns shooting. They couldn't lob like archers, but they fought so hard that the Qing soldiers didn't dare to show their heads.

The lead bullet hit the masonry and the soil bag, and a big hole appeared immediately. Several Qing soldiers raised the log, but before it fell down, the lead bullet punched a few big holes on their bodies, and they fell from the fort.

For a while, the Qing army's attack on the Dengqiang Ming army became sparse, and the arrows and logs were sparse.

The sword and shield soldiers of the Ming army took advantage of the opportunity to climb up the earthen wall quickly one after another. The soldiers jumped up, and thousands of soldiers shouted together, "Kill!" There are thousands of households in the army, but in this great power war, many retired veterans were conscripted back.

He was a little lame and didn't return to the supervision bid. He was assigned to the Xiaowu Camp in Zhongwu Town and led a team of Shence Army to supplement the recruits.

Although his feet are not straight, but when he ascended the city, he was unambiguous at all. He jumped onto the fort in a few steps, much more nimble than ordinary soldiers.

He jumped onto the earth wall, and behind him thousands of Ming soldiers climbed up the ladder like a colony of ants. The soldiers climbed up the ladder with one hand, and held the shield in the other, holding the miao knife in their mouths, struggling to climb up.

The Qing army was suppressed by the Ming army, and the earth wall was less than two battles high. In just a moment, the Ming army on more than a dozen siege ladders had rushed to the top of the wall.

As soon as Hu Hengyuan got on the fort, a Qing soldier stabbed at him with a long spear. He reacted quickly, swung his shield away, and then stabbed the Qing soldier's abdomen with his knife. The Qing soldier's face twisted, and the spear fell. He kicked hard with his lame foot, pulled out the saber, and splashed blood all over his body.

"Kill~" More and more soldiers of the Ming army were fighting fiercely on the wall on the narrow fort. Hu Hengyuan swept his eyes and found Sun Youguang wearing a bowl hat in the distance. Pointing at the saber, he yelled at a few of his men to go forward and kill, but it was obvious that other officers had also spotted the prey.

A hundred households of the Ming army with helmets and flags on their heads rushed up to a cannon in red, slashing with their sabers, knocking down two Qing soldiers who were wielding the cannons in an instant, and then led their subordinates to rush towards Sun Youguang. Hu Hu was very brave, and the green battalion soldiers who were killed by him did not dare to resist, and turned around and fled one after another.

But seeing that he was about to kill Sun Youguang, more than 30 red-haired barbarians suddenly appeared. These people were holding muskets and wearing breastplates. They carried their guns and launched a round of bombardment. The hundred households and several people rushed forward. The soldiers were immediately sent flying.

Hu Yuanheng, who followed closely behind, was taken aback because he didn't see the other party igniting the fire. At this time, the second row of Hongmaoyi raised his gun again. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat, rolled over, and hid to the side .

A few soldiers around him didn't have time to dodge, a few blood holes were punched in their bodies, blood gushed out, and there was a burst of mourning.

In just these two strikes, these thirty or so red-haired barbarians had already killed or wounded more than a dozen Ming soldiers. The Ming army was a little caught off guard by the sudden appearance of such a group of red-haired barbarians, and their offensive stalled immediately.

The leader of the red-haired barbarians had a haughty smile on his face, and turned to Sun Youguang and said, "General, as long as you fire a volley of guns and kill a dozen people, they will run away in fright, and all of them will collapse. A Dutch soldier can defeat 25 soldiers." A Ming countryman."

This group of red-haired barbarians came from Taiwan, and the leader was a captain from the Netherlands named Bader, who had suppressed the uprising of the people in Taiwan. He was very arrogant and looked down on both the Ming army and the Qing army.

Sun Youguang didn't expect this group of red-haired barbarians to be so sharp, his face just showed joy, but he froze immediately, and Bader's expression also changed immediately.

The red-haired barbarians fired three rows of guns in a row of ten people. Unexpectedly, the Ming army was only slightly taken aback, then calmly responded to the challenge, and did not run away in all directions.

After the sword and shield soldiers boarded the fort, the archers and blunderbussmen who were in charge of suppressing below lost their function, and if they shot again, they might injure their own people.

The mighty Five Loyalty Army fought countless bloody battles, how could they be intimidated by dozens of red-haired devils.

A team of musketeers, seeing this group of red-haired barbarians, immediately raised their guns forward, fired their guns at each other, and knocked down several red-haired barbarians in an instant. At this time, Hu Hengyuan and another hundred households bypassed the front and attacked from left and right. Hong Maoyi was dumbfounded.

Hu Hengyuan rushed up from the side and slashed. As soon as he slashed on the breastplate of a Heyi, sparks flew everywhere, but it did not cause any damage.

The beheaded red-haired Yi was also taken aback. The West is basically entering the era of hot weapons, and there are very few opportunities for hand-to-hand combat, and hand-to-hand combat often requires more courage than shooting a gun.

Hu Hengyuan's saber didn't work, but he has been in battle for a long time and has a lot of experience. I saw him turning the saber, pulling it back, and slashing Hong Maoyi's leg with the saber.

The red-haired man was in pain, and immediately knelt down on one leg, and his tall body suddenly fell short, revealing a fatal flaw. At this moment, Hu Hengyuan swept across with his saber, and chopped off the head of the much taller Hong-haired man.

The courage of these pretentious red-haired barbarians suddenly collapsed. Westerners pay attention to their interests. There is no need for them to die for the Qing Dynasty, and they fled immediately.

The straw in Sun Youguang's hand broke suddenly before he could grasp it firmly. Seeing this, he had no choice but to retreat again and again.

The Five Loyalty Army is far more elite than his men and horses, and there are more people than him. He only saw the Ming army's swords flying, killing the Qing soldiers on the city wall with blood and flesh flying all over the city wall, and the corpses were scattered all over the ground. , Crying and crying.

In this case, the only way to protect himself is to retreat in time, but the sandbar is surrounded by water, where can he retreat?
Just when the overall situation on the fort was settled, the battle on the river had long been reversed.

As the Ming army attacked the fort, the Qing army's fort's attack on the Ming army's navy gradually stopped, and Man Dazhuang was able to have a one-on-one duel with the Qing army's navy, then the situation would inevitably reverse.

This is not to look down on the navy of the Qing army, but that they are indeed rubbish. They were beaten by the king of Lu last year and were defeated. Now without the support of the fort, they can only be beaten up.

Sure enough, the navy of the Ming army, which had lost the containment of the fort, began to show its power. The cannons and rockets on the ship fired a volley, igniting the sails of the Qing army, and the sky was suddenly covered with smoke and dust on the river.

Seeing the defeat, Liang Huafeng, the naval officer of the Qing army, made a signal to let the Qing army withdraw to the Guabushan Fort.

(End of this chapter)