Li Xiao was sad and indignant to see that although his brothers were still fighting desperately, and even risking their lives to stop the Manchu attack, they were still beaten and kept retreating step by step.

The battle has been raging for a long time, and the soldiers under him are exhausted, and they are no match for the recuperated Eight Banners soldiers. In addition, the soldiers of the Eight Banners were all wearing heavy armor, and the white armor soldiers at the front were wearing triple armor, one by one rampaging like a bear, and most of the dozen or so small flags in front were scattered.

The battle went on in less than a stick of incense, and the Pingnan army had already suffered nearly a hundred casualties, while the Eight Banners had only fallen five or six, and they were all killed by the fire of the firecrackers.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners are all professional soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time, most of them have been training martial arts since childhood, and they have been fighting since they were teenagers, and their combat experience is naturally not comparable to these soldiers of the Pingnan Army who have just enlisted in the army for one year. Of course, the exhaustion of the Pingnan Army after two consecutive battles is another reason.

Seeing his subordinates being defeated and retreating, and countless soldiers dying tragically under the full Tartar sword, Li Xiao's eyes were about to split, and when he was about to raise his gun and go into battle in person, a gong sounded, which was the order to retreat from the command office at the head of the city.

Glancing hatefully at Man Tartar, who had already attacked not far away, Li Xiao took the lead in retreating to the rear.

The Pingnan Army has extremely strict requirements for military discipline on the battlefield, and those who disobey orders in battle will be severely punished by military discipline. Although Li Xiao's anger was boiling, he had to take the lead in withdrawing.

The resisting Ming army finally couldn't withstand the attack of the Eight Banners warriors, and retreated like a tide, and Li Shutai in the formation showed a smile on his face. The combat strength of the Ming army in front of him is not bad, but it is only compared to the Eight Banners warriors. Even if it was the nine-sided elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in the past, what Qi family army, and what white pole soldiers, when they fought against the Eight Banners, they were not all broken through the array and ended up being wiped out. Can this Ming army in Sizhou be an exception?

Therefore, the defeat of the Ming army was expected by Li Shutai, and he calmly continued to attack with his Eight Banners, as long as he broke out of the gap and entered the city, the follow-up army would continue to follow in, and the city of Sizhou would be broken.

The Ming army has withdrawn from the gap in the city wall, Li Shutai suddenly felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, just when he was secretly surprised to lead the troops into the city, from the gap on both sides of the city wall suddenly dropped dozens of objects and fell on the array of the Eight Banners, looking at the object that he threw at himself I don't know what it was, Li Shutai's subordinate a personal soldier Goshha smashed it with the back of the knife, a crisp sound sounded, the object suddenly shattered, and then a large cloud of white powder flew out of it, shrouded in the sky above everyone.

"Ahem, cough, cough" Li Shutai coughed violently, and then felt that his eyes were hot, and severe pain hit.

"Lime!" Li Shutai shouted in horror, and hurriedly shouted: "Be careful not to let it enter your eyes!" ”

But where is the time, the gap of twenty or thirty zhang restricts the formation of the Eight Banners, making their queue very dense, plus the Pingnan army has retreated into the city, so that the Ming army on the city walls on both sides no longer cares, the lime bottles used to defend the city fell like raindrops, and a large group of quicklime powder shrouded the Eight Banners Soldiers.

The sound of violent coughing was loud, accompanied by an uncontrollable howl. Quicklime will produce a lot of heat when it enters the eyes and sees water, and in severe cases, it will erode the eyes of blind people, and the pain is not tolerable to ordinary people.

At least 100 of the four or five hundred and eight banner soldiers were caught in the eyes of the lime, including Li Shutai, the general who led the troops, who stopped the pace of advance at that time, and some tried desperately to rub their eyes, but it could only make their eyes more painful, and it was impossible to attack if they couldn't open their eyes.

When the Eight Banners in front of them were still attacking, the Eight Banners at the gap were already in chaos. Before these white-armored soldiers could come to their senses, the retreating Ming army suddenly ran wildly on both sides, and then revealed a deep ditch, behind which was a low wall, behind which hundreds of Ming soldiers were defending.

Some of the retreating Ming troops went around the deep ditch to both sides, and some simply jumped into the ditch.

The chasing Eight Banners soldiers were a little at a loss, not knowing whether to chase and kill the Ming troops running to both sides, or to think about crossing this deep ditch.

At this moment, the fierce cannon sound of "boom boom" suddenly sounded, and a cloud of white gunpowder smoke shrouded the low wall, accompanied by the roar of "chirp", and countless small projectiles shot out from behind the low wall, shooting towards the Eight Banners soldiers who split their heads and covered their faces.

Each tiger squat cannon was loaded with more than 100 small projectiles, and ten tiger squat cannons were arranged behind the low wall, ten of which were thousands of grains, like a storm and rain, and fired towards the attacking Mantar like a storm, and its power was enough to penetrate the steel plate at a very close distance, and the three-layer armor of the white armor could not be stopped.

In just one round of shooting, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Tartars who had broken out of the gap fell to the ground one after another like duckweed beaten by the rain, and several white-armored soldiers in the front were even shot with dozens of projectiles, and their bodies were shot like a sieve, dozens of small holes were bleeding outward, and their bodies were lying on the ground and convulsing.

In front of artillery, no matter how thick the armor is, it is useless!

When the northwest of the city was blasted out of the gap by the Qing army's red-clothed artillery, Jin Shenghuan was thinking about countermeasures, relying on the soldiers and the young and strong people in the city to fill the gap, even if it could be filled in time, it would not be able to withstand the next shelling. In this case, it is better to open up this gap into a battlefield and use this place as a decisive battle place with the Qing army.

Jin Shenghuan then ordered to dig a deep ditch more than 20 zhang behind the gap, and a low wall was piled up with excavated soil behind the ditch, and more than ten tiger squat guns were arranged behind the low wall, and the firing range of the artillery was adjusted in advance. Make this gap a trap.

Of course, for ordinary green battalion soldiers, with the combat power of the Pingnan Army is enough to drive them out of the gap, this trap is not needed, only when encountering the strong Eight Banners, Jin Shenghuan will let Li Xiaobu, who blocked the gap, retreat, and then kill the enemy with a tiger squat cannon.

Under the sudden fire of the tiger squat cannon, a large number of the Eight Banners who attacked the gap suddenly fell, plus the Eight Banners who were attacked by the lime bottle and couldn't open their eyes, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of these two Niu Lu has basically been disabled. Nearly five hundred Mantars could still stand, and less than a hundred.

The drum at the head of the city sounded, and Li Xiao, who retreated along the deep ditch to the city wall, shook his spirit, ignoring the dozens of subordinates who were accidentally injured by the tiger squat cannon, and took the remaining more than 500 subordinates who could still run to kill the generals.

At the same time, the Ming gunners behind the low wall also shot angry projectiles, and the remaining Mantars quickly disappeared under the cold and glistening spears of the Pingnan army.