Wang Deren did not expect that he had captured the city at the cost of only four or five thousand miscellaneous soldiers, and secretly regretted in his heart, if he knew that the Ming army was so discouraged, why waste time bombarding across the bank, and lead the army to storm Sookou as soon as possible, maybe he would have spent all day drinking in Ganzhou City at this time.

But when he ran to the edge of the city fortress, he vaguely felt that something was wrong - the Ming army defending the city just now did not fight to the death with Guo Tiancai's people, which means that these Ming troops did not have many casualties, but at this time, the city did not release a single arrow, and it was terrifyingly quiet. In addition, the Qing troops who had just climbed to the top of the city stood still and did not continue to attack the inside of the city fortress.

A moment later, when he climbed up the rampart along the ladder, he was stunned by what he saw.

There was even a layer in the middle of the ramparts! It sits on a mound more than a foot high, a large section higher than the outer city wall.

The inner and outer layers of the fortress are separated by about six zhang, and in the middle is a ditch filled with water.

Looking up at the top of the inner fortress again, I saw that there was a circle of stairs at a height of three zhang, and the recessed part of the staircase could not be seen clearly, but I thought that there must be a defender with a firearm bow and crossbow.

It was only then that he could fully see the structure of the rampart, and the six towers were built on top of the inner level of the rampart, looking at him condescendingly.

Wang Deren thought of the cannon on the tower, and suddenly shuddered, and a terrible thought immediately appeared in his heart - those Ming troops just now did not lose their fighting spirit and retreat, but deliberately lured themselves closer!

When he turned his head and saw more and more Qing troops climbing the city, only to be blocked by the trench between the inner and outer layers and unable to continue their advance, he felt more and more that this idea was probably right.

What to do?! Wang Deren's heart was about to get angry, if he withdrew now, not to mention that so many people died in vain, he would inevitably be chased and beaten by the Ming army, and he would probably lose half of his men and horses in a back and forth.

He looked at the nearest tower, which, by its prismatic shape, had a narrow angle between the tower and the wall, and to his astonishment from years of siege, there must have been only a limit of firepower on the entire rampart.

Since so many people have died to stand on the head of this city, then fight again, as long as you take this fortress, it is equivalent to getting half of Ganzhou! I don't believe that the thousands of Ming troops in this city can defeat more than 20,000 of us in an instant, as long as we climb this inner wall, with the morale of the Ming army, they will definitely scatter and flee.

As soon as Wang Deren finished his thoughts, he immediately ordered Guo Tiancai to lead people to carry sand and light ladders to the outer wall, and then ordered all the soldiers to fill a trench with sand and soil, and then gathered under the tower, set up a light ladder, and climbed the inner wall from the corner of the tower.

When Chen Yi heard that the Qing army was dense on the outer wall and began to carry the light ladder, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Mr. Zhao, it's time to hit the thief army at this time!"

Zhao Yinxuan nodded, and then ordered his subordinates, "Order the whole army, wait for a cannon sound, all the soldiers will be captured at the same time, don't call one to run away!" ”

"Obey!"

Tens of thousands of people can really be said to have thrown their whips to cut off the river, and in just a few moments, the trench between the inner and outer walls was filled in by 20,000 Qing troops to create a place where they could stand.

Wang Deren was about to give the order to erect a light ladder when he heard a cannon fire above his head. A mighty cannon on the tower spewed out a large number of scattered bullets, and gravel and rotten iron were shot into the gathered Qing army, and dozens of people fell to the ground in an instant.

As the cannon sounded, various defensive weapons immediately appeared on the inner wall of the Ming army's fortress. At the top of the "steps" is a dense row of bird guns and crossbows, which are fired in a neat row downward.

Several towers were under constant artillery fire, and because of their proximity, all of them were fired with shotshots, which could knock down a large area with a single shot.

Every protrusion or depression in the inner wall of the fortress is not arbitrarily designed, and almost all of them are arranged with fire points. A large number of low-priced tiger squat cannons were everywhere on the inner wall, and as the horn cannon sounded, nearly a hundred barrels of tiger squat cannons immediately stretched out from the wall.

Although the cannon has a very short range, it is very useful for attacking enemy forces in the immediate vicinity of the wall. Similarly, with the use of scattered bullets, you can shoot down several thieves with a random shot, and it is not impossible to get more than ten shots with good luck.

Chen Yi has been studying the drawings of the fortress given to him by Su Chengyu for a month, and after many attempts, he finally arranged the current set of firepower on the fortress.

The combination of the Bird Gun and the Tiger Squat Cannon provides ample fire coverage from near and far, and forms crossfire as much as possible. Supplemented by bows and crossbows, the entire inside and outside of the fortress was completely shrouded in a large net composed of lead bullets, cannonballs, and arrows.

At first, the so-called "shooting blind spot" selected by Wang Deren did indeed become a "dead spot", and the walls of the elaborately designed fortress were concave inward, so that a large number of scattered bullets from artillery sprayed here were instantly covered here.

Due to Wang Deren's order, the Qing army was so dense that it was impossible to hide under the crowd, and in an instant a thick layer of corpses was piled up next to the tower, and the trench between the inner and outer walls was immediately filled in flat.

The terrifying artillery fire caused the Qing army to retreat violently, and countless people screamed and scrambled for the light ladder, but instead of attacking the city on the inner wall, they climbed towards the outside of the fortress on the outer wall.

But tens of thousands of people were crammed into a small area between the inner and outer walls, and in a short time, the Qing army had begun to kill each other in order to compete for the light ladder. However, the people who were still standing on the outer wall just now and did not have time to go down shouted at this time, and fled down the city along the ladder outside the wall.

Wang Deren was constantly smashed by the crushed stones and iron fired by cannons, and his own soldiers desperately cut down dozens of Qing soldiers, grabbed a light ladder for the master, and sent him up.

Seeing that Wang Deren was still two steps away from being able to climb the outer wall, suddenly the light ladder was hit by Ming artillery fire and snapped in the middle.

Wang Deren's feet suddenly emptied, and the whole person fell heavily under the corner of the wall, and a large number of people who were scrambling to climb out of the outer wall were all looking up, and there were dead corpses under their feet, and no one cared about anything more.

Wang Deren's Qing soldiers desperately shouted and searched, but where could they still find his shadow among the crowds. In just a moment's time, this generation of scum who had led the scourge of most of the Ming Dynasty, invaded Beijing with Li Zicheng, surrendered the Ming Dynasty first, and finally surrendered to Jianyu, was trampled into scum by his soldiers.

Without Wang Deren's unified order, the Qing army suddenly became even more chaotic. After discovering that there was no hope of escape, some people began to choose to surrender on their knees.

The surrender quickly spread, and eventually no one continued to resist or try to escape from the wall, and all the Qing soldiers knelt on the corpses, wailing and begging for surrender.