The cannon sounded, the gongs and drums shook the ground, tens of thousands of lions outside the city put the array, the soaring murderous spirit locked the clouds, a mountain of soldiers was unearthed, and hundreds of big ships rushed out along the river, the top of the giant cannon mountain threw a thunderbolt, and the fighting spirit went straight to the nine heavens.

On the city of Yangzhou, the war drums roared, the Qing army in the whole city entered the war readiness, 40,000 Qing soldiers divided the land and defended, the Qing soldiers entered their own positions, especially the 20,000 Qing troops responsible for defending the west city, here is the key place for the Ming army to attack, and the Qing army naturally has to focus on defense.

A team of red-topped hats ran on the streets of the city, and the officers came to the west city with the soldiers in a little panic, and most of the soldiers ran directly to manipulate the stone cannons, and behind the city wall, three or four hundred artillery carts were pulled with a rattling sound.

Relatively speaking, it is a safer job to operate the artillery cart hiding behind the city wall, after all, the Ming army can't be attacked by artillery, and the Ming army has many firearms and fewer bows and arrows, and they are not worried about being shot by arrows.

Compared with the artillery carts, the situation of the archers of the Qing army is also better, most of them are also under the city, lined up in a square, hanging and shooting the Ming army attacking the city, it is also relatively difficult to be attacked, but a small number of archers and other troops assigned to the city are poured blood mold.

At this time, the Ming artillery on the high slope was clearing the fortifications of the Qing army on the city at a fixed point to facilitate the attack of the Ming soldiers.

A group of Qing soldiers who were supposed to defend last time ran to the bottom of the steps, and the people in front heard the loud rumbling sound of the city, listened to the collapse of the masonry and the wail, and unconsciously stopped, looking at the city with some panic on their faces, and they stopped, and in a moment thousands of Qing troops were blocked under the steps.

Seeing this, a white-armored bull who supervised the battle immediately led more than a dozen bannermen to separate the crowd, and when he came up, he shouted: "What are you doing, are you waiting for death?" Don't go to town yet! ”

When the green battalion soldiers in front saw that it was the Eight Banners supervising the battle, they couldn't help but shrink their necks, looked at each other with timidity, and then gritted their teeth and rushed to the city.

Like a school of fish swimming upstream, these green battalion soldiers braved the artillery fire and rushed to the city, and then scattered around the city as if frightened, looking for a place to hide.

When the Qing army was deployed, the Ming warships had already rushed into the moat, the oars on both sides of the big boat swayed, and began to move closer to the city, and the small boat sergeants swayed the oars, ready to build a pontoon bridge.

If the artillery of the Ming army is on the plain outside the west city, at this time, the firing range of the artillery will be blocked by the Ming army's own warships, causing accidental injuries, while the artillery on the city of the Qing army can bombard the Ming warships with all their might, but the Ming army occupies the high slope outside the west city, and the situation is different.

The artillery of the Ming army was placed on a high place, and the condescending point shot at the head of the city, not only would it not be blocked by the warships from here, but it could continue to suppress the head of the city for the warships, and only after the Ming soldiers landed in the city, they would stop, or shell the streets, causing chaos in the city.

The Ming warship sailed into the canal, the gunnery on the side of the warship was immediately opened, the muzzle of the black hole was stretched out, and a cloud of white smoke suddenly rose up, the ship was advancing, violently shaking, and the barrels stretched out from the side gun, one after another, suddenly retreated at the moment of spewing out the iron bullets, and the gun body at the gun window retracted one by one.

The Ming warships first provoked and fired, and the gravel at the head of the city was splashed, and the Qing troops who were ready to release rockets in a row hurriedly squatted down in the shelling, and the artillery at the head of the city was basically destroyed in the two-day artillery battle, and the remaining artillery shot out sporadic bullet rain, the shells fell into the water, and the water column splashed.

The defense of the west city was personally commanded by Duoduo, when the Ming warships rushed into the moat, the Qing army behind the city wall began to counterattack, dense arrows rose into the clouds, dense artillery stones were thrown away, flew from the city head, smashed into the warships in the moat, and made a loud noise.

These cannons, with the strength of a thousand catties, smashed in the water splashing waves, higher than the ship's tower, the water splash fell, like a downpour, the ship's tower to the city head of the Ming soldiers poured soaked, so that many firecrackers, can not let go.

Although the big ship hung a baffle and paved it with cowhide, but when the boulder came, it could still smash the ship's side, but he hesitated to wet the tenacity of the cowhide, and the boulder smashed the baffle and the ship's side, but it was caught by the cowhide, and then rolled down into the moat.

Compared with large ships, small boats are much more dangerous in the face of artillery, and in a round of artillery of the Qing army, two small boats were directly smashed and sunk into the moat.

At this time, the archers of the Qing army, to the battlefield presented a magnificent scene, the Qing army behind the city archers had 10,000 people, they lined up in nine rows, divided into three, took turns to bend the bow to throw outside the city, each time a fire cloud was raised, thousands of rockets, like a meteor fire shower, overwhelmingly shot at the big ship.

The rockets nailed the side of the battlefield full in an instant, and although the Ming warships were covered with cowhides, under the blows of artillery and rockets, some were still smashed and tilted, and some ignited flames. After many of the boats were set on fire, the soldiers jumped into the water and swam back to the opposite shore.

The artillery stones of the Qing army still hurt the warships very much, especially Duoduo concentrated the artillery carts at the exit of the canal, so that many warships, as soon as they left the canal, they had to suffer several cannons.

This is the Ming army in the war drums beating, the Chinese army urged the warships to immediately approach the city wall, the Ming army column is on the field, and also began to carry equipment, planks, to advance to the city.

The earthen wall built by the Ming army on the side of the Grand Canal was made according to the scale of the western city, and the attacking army trained under the earthen wall for more than two months, and the problems that the siege would face had already been anticipated.

At this time, the vanguard was Li Yuanyin of the Tang Dynasty, who saw the fierce artillery of the Qing army, and had smashed many warships, and immediately let the warships approach the city wall.

There is a characteristic of artillery ejection, the trajectory of the artillery is parabolic, and the target cannot be too close to the artillery truck, otherwise the projectile artillery will not be hit.

Li Yuanyin's boat issued a flag, the drum on the ship suddenly rose, in the drum, the forward ten big boats, have approached the city, they got closer to the city wall, the artillery fell behind them, but as the distance on the city approached, the power of the Qing army's rockets was shown.

Inside the cabin, topless sailors, shouting trumpets and swinging their oars at high speed, the ships braved a dense stream of rockets to rush to the city walls.

As the distance approached, the rockets fired by the Qing army in the city rose into the air in waves, and when they flew to the top sky, the gravity of the arrows made the arrows whistle down and shoot towards the warship like raindrops.

The Ming soldiers on the deck were holding shields, rockets kept nailing to the ship's board and shields, clusters of flames were ignited, and soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground, but the surrounding soldiers were full of slaughter, holding knives, holding shields, staring at the city, without a trace of commotion.

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