Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Bloody Battle

The Qing army desperately fired arrows at the Ming army, which was almost rushing to the front, but failed to shoot a few Ming soldiers. The fine armor of the short sword soldiers of the Ming army effectively blocked the arrows. Although the Qing army's bird gunners could cause some damage to the Ming army's short sword soldiers, most of them would not cause fatal injuries. Iron armor can block projectiles. Even if the iron armor is pierced, the thick silk inside the iron armor, together with the silk lining of the iron armor, can reduce the damage of lead bullets, and as long as it is not hit by the vital point, the short knife soldier will not be fatally injured.

The Ming army's bird archers and archers opened fire, shooting locust-like arrows and rain-like projectiles from the opposite side of the moat, knocking the Qing army archers and bird gunners who were standing at the head of the city to the ground one by one.

The Ming army has rushed to the gap, and the Ming army hung several arrows on the body of the total Wu pig egg, but the effective protection of the armor made the arrow unable to penetrate, in fact, the Wu pig egg was only slightly injured. He was the first to rush up the slope full of bricks, stones, and rammed earth, and with a swing of his Miao knife, he cut off the head of a Qing soldier who was rushing head-on.

The Ming army behind rushed up, colliding fiercely with the Qing army blocking the gap, the knife light flashed, the blade cut the bones, and pierced into the soft **. The soldiers on both sides fell one after another at the gap, and the blood splattered formed a blood mist at the gap, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.

The well-equipped Ming army suffered less losses, and the Ming army was covered with thirty pounds of armor, as long as it was not cut in the face, arm, calf, or pierced by the tip of a knife or spear, it would not be a big deal. Most of the Qing soldiers only had their uniforms, and the native soldiers did not have excellent iron armor, and they were cut down by the Ming army, that is, they were cut in two.

The Qing army threw stones from both sides of the gap and knocked down some Ming soldiers.

"Snap" a stone the size of a millstone smashed over, and a Ming soldier next to Wu Zhudan fell down with a scream.

"Dog Tartar!" Wu Zhudan scolded, and cut a Qing soldier in front of him into two with a knife, and then took a big step and successively split two Qing soldiers and a native soldier, and jumped on the right city head with an arrow step, and slashed at the Qing army and civilian Zhuang who had just thrown the stone, and the Miao knife was cut down from the right shoulder, until the left waist, and the whole person was split in half.

More and more Ming troops poured in, and the auxiliaries followed, laying wooden planks on the rubble of the collapsed city wall, so that the heavy ironclad soldiers and long-sword soldiers could rush up smoothly.

At the same time as launching an attack on the gap in the south of the city, the east and west walls of Qiongzhou City were also attacked by the Ming army at the same time.

"Kill!" The shouts of killing shook the sky.

A large group of Ming army auxiliaries carried the trench bridge, pushed the flying river cart, pushed the ladder cart, and rushed towards the city wall. The lightly armored soldiers adapted from the Tusi soldiers carried a simple ladder and rushed to the city wall.

Six-pounder guns, four-pounder guns, three-pounder guns and other small cannons bombarded the city, the female wall sprayed the flying and splashed rubble, the Qing soldiers standing behind the female wall were knocked down by the rubble, and the city head screamed for a while.

The Ming army had already rushed to the edge of the moat, and a simple moat bridge and a flying river car with a complex structure were erected on the moat.

"Kill!" Hordes of lightly armored soldiers shouted, carrying ladders and rushing across the moat.

Originally, the attention of the Qing army was focused on the gap, but they didn't expect that the Ming army would attack the gap at the same time, and also launch an ant-attached siege on both sides! By the time the unsuspecting Qing soldiers came to their senses, the Ming army had already begun to set up ladders to climb the city.

On the eastern city wall, more than 30 simple ladders were erected, and more than 60 Tusi soldiers captured and adapted light armor soldiers struggled to climb towards the city. In the blink of an eye, more than thirty lightly armored soldiers in front of them had almost climbed to the top of the city.

The Qing soldiers who reacted threw a stone the size of a grinding disc from the city and smashed it on a cloud ladder, and the light armored soldier in front of him who was about to climb to the city head screamed and fell down from the cloud ladder. The lightly armored soldier below dodged the falling stone and fell to the side and fell into the moat.

At the top of the city, wolf teeth and stones kept falling, and the lightly armored soldiers who were about to climb to the top of the city splashed blood one after another, screaming and falling down the ladder. Some of the ladders were directly smashed by stones or wolf fangs, and the light-armored soldiers on them fell into the moat behind them like dumplings.

The hot gold juice poured down from the city, and several lightly armored soldiers were drenched with the gold juice, and they were immediately scalded to the flesh, let out heart-rending screams, and jumped into the moat one after another.

The canisters of fire oil were dropped from the top of the city and smashed to the ground, and torches were thrown down, and many ladders were ablaze. More than a dozen lightly armored soldiers standing below burst into flames, crying and jumping into the moat.

Attacked from above, the lightly armored warriors who were about to climb to the top of the city fell from the ladder and were almost all killed; Some of the lightly armored soldiers who climbed relatively low, or stood below to hold on to the ladder, were slightly injured, while others were severely burned or scalded. In an instant, there were nearly 100 Ming casualties.

Under the city, the archers and bird gunners of the Ming army continued to shoot at the city, and many Qing soldiers who poked their heads out to attack the ladder were killed by feather arrows or killed by projectiles.

More than 30 ladders fell half, but more ladders were erected on the city wall, and more than 100 light armor soldiers of the Ming army held wooden cards, clenched the Pu knife in their mouths, and struggled to climb towards the city.

On the city wall, stones, wolf tooth pats, gold juice, and oil cans continued to fall, and the lightly armored soldiers who were climbing the city fell down from the ladder in batches. But a group of ladders fell, and another group of ladders went up. At the foot of the city wall, the corpses of the Ming army's lightly armored soldiers piled higher and higher, piling up into a hill.

These natives were actually quite strong, and in order to avoid going to Luzon to serve hard labor, they chose to fight to the death, so the natives fought very bravely, and a group of people were killed and wounded, and another group climbed the ladder.

More than 20 official soldiers of the Ming army rushed across the trench bridge and the flying river car, and threw the smoking bottle of the national surname in their hands to the city wall.

A series of explosions suddenly sounded at the head of the city, and the flesh and blood of the Qing army who were stubbornly resisting at the head of the city flew sideways.

The firepower of the Qing army's counterattack weakened, and the Ming army's offensive became more violent.

After the Ming army paid a heavy price, more than a dozen Ming army light armor soldiers finally climbed up to the top of the city, jumped into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and cut down a lot of auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang of the Qing army like chopping melons and vegetables. But the good times did not last long, and the Qing soldiers and native soldiers of the green battalion immediately surrounded them, and the more than ten Ming army light armor soldiers who attacked the city were overwhelmed by the group of Qing soldiers in a blink of an eye.

The second group of more than 10 light-armored soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, after slashing and killing more than 20 Qing soldiers, were also devoured by the Qing soldiers who came up from the encirclement.

At this moment, two huge ladder carts had been pushed by the auxiliaries to the edge of the moat.

It is very difficult to build this kind of ladder car that can prevent fire attacks, and it is impossible for the Ming army to build much, there are only four in total. There are two in the direction of the western wall and two in the east. It is precisely because there are too few ladder cars and too few soldiers who can enter the city at one time, so it is necessary to carry out ant sieges elsewhere to attract the attention of the Qing army in order to play the role of ladder cars. However, those who climbed the city from the ladder car were the most elite soldiers in the Ming army.

In the direction of Dongcheng, the first batch to land from the ladder truck were Cai Dezhong and Ma Chaoxing. Originally, it was impossible for Wang Xinyu to let the special forces participate in the siege battle, but these two people insisted on going to the city to fight, and Wang Xinyu couldn't persuade them, so he had to agree.

On a ladder cart on the left, stood Cai Dezhong and two elite ironclad soldiers; On the ladder car on the right, stood Ma Chaoxing and two elite ironclad soldiers. This kind of ladder car, the first group of people who climbed the city did not need to climb the stairs, as long as they stood on the platform of the ladder, and the auxiliary soldiers pushed the ladder into place, they could jump into the city to fight. The reinforcements behind continued to climb the ladder and climb the city to reinforce several of their daredevils.

The Qing army saw two huge ladder carts pushing over, and attacked with bows and arrows and bird guns. But the arrows were shot at the ladder cart and were blocked by a thick baffle; The projectile of the bird's gun hit it, and even the wet felt that covered the outside could not penetrate it.

The platform of the ladder is slightly higher than the city wall, so that the stones, wolf tooth swatters, gold juice, lime bottles and other throwing weapons of the Qing army are useless, and the bows and arrows and projectiles are blocked by the baffle of the ladder. The four ironclad soldiers on the two ladder carts took off the bows and arrows on their backs, put on their wrenches, and kept shooting arrows.

Sharp arrows were shot from the ladder cart, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city fell one after another. The nest cart that followed behind the ladder cart also shot a series of deadly arrows, taking the lives of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city.

The Qing army fired a volley of rockets and shot them at the ladder cart. However, the ladder cart wrapped in copper skin and covered with wet felt was not afraid of rocket attacks at all, and the rockets of the Qing army shot on the ladder cart, and only a small flame appeared, which was immediately extinguished.

Several Qing soldiers who were not afraid of death grabbed the fire oil canister, poked their heads out from behind the women's wall, and threw the fire oil canister out with all their might.

The oil canisters flew out, flying more than ten feet in the air, and three of them smashed on the ladder cart that was about to reach the moat, smashed to pieces, and the oil flowed out.

"Hit!" Before the Qing soldiers could cheer, they were shot into hedgehogs.

A volley of rockets shot from the head of the city, hitting the ladder truck that had been hit by the canister. But immediately someone poured buckets of water on the ladder truck. The burning oil was washed down by the water and flowed to the ground to burn. Several auxiliaries then extinguished the flames with sand.

The ladder cart is followed by a shield cart full of buckets, and in case things go wrong, the auxiliaries are ready to fetch water to extinguish the fire. Unless it was bombarded with artillery, the Qing army at the head of the city did not have a weapon that could attack the ladder cart.

"It's in place!" Several auxiliaries shouted.

The ladder truck does not need to cross the moat, as long as it is pushed to the opposite bank of the moat, a few auxiliaries pull the winch, and the platform on the ladder car can be erected to the head of the city.

Cai Dezhong looked at the city that was getting closer and closer, took out the iron bead from his arms, and performed a magic trick.

"Whoosh" iron beads shot out like bullets, and the Qing soldiers more than ten paces away were hit one after another. Some Qing soldiers had a blood hole on their foreheads, some Qing soldiers covered their throats in pain and fell, and some Qing soldiers were shot through the eyes by iron beads, and fell to the city with heart-rending screams.

Cai Dezhong's bullets were not missing, and more than ten iron beads were shot, which took the lives of more than a dozen Qing soldiers in an instant.

On the ladder car on the right, Ma Chaoxing did not have Cai Dezhong's skills, only shot five darts, and after killing five Qing soldiers, the platform of the ladder car had already "snapped" above the female wall at the head of the city.

"Kill!" Ma Chaoxing pushed open the baffle and jumped into the city from the platform of the ladder truck.

Three or four spears stabbed at Ma Chaoxing, and the two ironclad soldiers behind him opened their bows and arrows and shot over the two Qing pikemen, and Ma Chaoxing cut down the other two Qing soldiers.

Cai Dezhong had also jumped into the city, wielding a heavy sword and slashing back and forth. Wherever Bai Hong passed, the Qing soldiers were either split in two, or their brains were split.

Ma Chaoxing waved a single knife and continuously slashed the Qing soldiers who rushed in front of him. The first few Qing soldiers formed a formation to slash and kill, and at this time, two ironclad soldiers jumped off the platform and jumped into the city. The heavy ironclad soldiers landed on the bricks with a metal crash. The ironclad soldiers were like humanoid chariots, crushing into the crowd of Qing soldiers.

The swords, guns, and spears of the Qing soldiers beckoned to the ironclad soldiers, but they could not penetrate them. And the steel knife in the hands of the ironclad soldier can cut the Qing soldier in an instant, and he can immediately cut the person in two.

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