The loyal battalion attacked under the city of Baoji, and the officers and soldiers of the loyal battalion launched a fierce attack on the city wall of Baoji like a tide. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Da Ming, Wan Sheng!"

"Loyal battalion, Wansheng!"

Thousands of officers and soldiers of the loyal battalion wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets and goose-yellow felt hats, under the pressure of hundreds of veterans of the loyal battalion wearing blue cotton armor and white felt hats, shouted loudly, carried simple ladders, and rushed towards the Baoji city wall. Behind the large array of the loyal battalion, large ladder trucks, nest cars and watchtowers were pushed out.

At the head of the city, the Qing army desperately opened fire and fired arrows, and many loyal battalion soldiers fell under the city before they could get close to the city wall.

The loyal battalion paid a certain price, and finally put the simple ladder on the top of the city. At this time, the offensive and defensive battles entered a white-hot level. The Qing army at the head of the city threw rolling wood and stones, threw lime bottles and oil cans, shot rockets, and the wolf's tooth slap and yaksha constantly rolled down from the city, rolling down along the ladder, and the ladder that was smashed was immediately broken. The Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang at the head of the city poured basins of hot gold juice, and the soldiers of the loyal battalion who were scalded opened their skin and let out heart-rending screams.

Lime bottles and canisters burst open in the ground, and a raging fire broke out under the city, and ladders fell into flames, and the soldiers of the loyal battalion who were ascending the city fell down the ladders like dumplings.

Under the city, the auxiliary soldiers of the loyal battalion pushed the shield cart up, and the musketeers and archers of the loyal battalion hid behind the shield cart and shot arrows at the city.

On the tall watchtower car, the rifled gunner of the Qiongzhou army stood on the car, outside the range of the Qing army, with high precision, long-range rifled guns to shoot the Qing soldiers in the city, almost every gunshot, there was a Qing soldier with blood mist sprayed on his body, and fell on the head of the city with a miserable scream.

The improvised ladders were broken one after another, some were burned with fire oil, and piles of corpses more than two feet high were piled up under the city walls, and the loyal battalion soldiers who were climbing fell down one by one.

Finally, someone climbed to the top of the city through a simple ladder, but the soldiers of the loyal battalion who had just reached the head of the city only had time to cut down one or two Qing army auxiliaries and people who were defending the city, and they were killed by the Qing soldiers who surrounded them, or drove them down the city. Despite the continuous attacks of the loyal battalion, they could not gain a foothold at the head of the city, and most of them could not even climb the top of the city, but fell from the ladder under the blows of various defensive weapons at the head of the city, or were hit by the fire from the flanks of the fortress. A few people climbed to the top of the city, but they could not become the climate, and were killed at the head of the city by the Qing army.

"Ladder truck! The ladder truck is up! Several ladder carts appeared under the city, slowly advancing towards the city walls to the sound of rumbling war drums. Seeing the ladder cart appearing, the loyal battalion soldiers let out an excited shout.

"The thief's ladder truck is coming! Give me a hard beating! Wang Jinbao shouted hoarsely.

The Qing army set up artillery and tried to shell the ladder car, but the rifled gunners of the Qiongzhou Army on the watchtower car had already stared at the Qing artillery, and the guns roared, and the Qing gunners were killed one after another. The few remaining gunners braved the rain of bullets from the Qiongzhou army and fired shells at the ladder truck, and most of the shells missed.

A few shells hit the ladder carts, but they were made of large sturdy wood and covered with thick wet felt, and the shells hit the ladder trucks, only to shake and the ladder carts continued to move forward.

The Qing army fired rockets, and the rockets were stuck on the ladder cart, only a burst of flames appeared, and then the auxiliary soldiers who followed the ladder cart carried buckets to extinguish the flames. However, the bullets fired from the forts on both sides caused great losses to the auxiliary soldiers of the loyal battalion who were pushing the ladder cart forward. In a dense rain of arrows and bullets, the cart's auxiliaries fell one by one.

One of the auxiliaries fell, and the auxiliaries behind them came up and continued to push the ladder cart forward. A small number of auxiliaries turned around and ran, and they were immediately hacked to death by the blue-clothed veteran who pressed the formation behind.

Although the ladder cart is strong, but it is too heavy, the speed of the advance is extremely slow, in the process of advancing, the auxiliary soldiers of the cart become the key target of the city's firepower, especially the fortress, the bullets fired from the two wings can avoid the shield on the front of the ladder cart, directly hit the auxiliary soldiers of the cart.

At great cost, the Loyal Battalion managed to push four ladder carts under the city walls.

A row of canisters of fire oil crackled down at the head of the city, and torches and rockets fell, igniting a raging fire beneath the ladder cart. The eighty elite blue-armor and white-hatted veterans of the loyal battalion who had been waiting for a long time on the four ladder carts shouted and jumped onto the city, starting a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the Qing soldiers at the head of the city.

Wang Jinbao personally took his own soldiers and rushed to stop the veterans of the loyal battalion who had landed in the city. At the head of the city, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and those elite veterans of the loyal battalion were killed one by one by the Qing soldiers after slashing and killing the auxiliaries and people who defended the city one after another.

The ladder truck leaning on the top of the city has begun to catch fire, and the fire has dried up the moisture in the wet felt, even if the auxiliary soldiers continue to carry buckets back and forth, and some people wave shovels and use soil to extinguish the fire, but under the fire attack of the Qing army at the head of the city, the ladder truck will be burned sooner or later, but it is just a matter of how long it lasts.

There were constantly loyal battalion soldiers wearing wet cotton cloths, braving the raging fire, climbing on the burning ladder cart, rushing to the head of the city, and starting a fierce battle with the Qing army, but the loyal battalion soldiers who climbed up were soon killed by the defenders at the head of the city.

Until all four ladder trucks were burned down, the Loyal Battalion still couldn't hold a foothold in the city!

While the loyal battalion launched a frontal attack from the south of Baoji City, it also launched a fierce attack in the west of the city. Most of the Qing army's long-range artillery was moved to the south, and the western city wall was relatively weakly defended. Hao Shaoqi took advantage of this opportunity to take the soldiers and press a group of auxiliaries to destroy the wooden stakes and deer barricades under the city.

Due to the lack of artillery fire, the Loyal Battalion auxiliaries slashed through the obstacles very quickly, and in less than a day, the Loyal Battalion auxiliaries had advanced within seventy paces of the city wall.

There were only seventy paces left, when the feathered arrows and projectiles at the head of the city fell like a torrential rain, and the auxiliary soldiers of the loyal battalion, who were swinging axes and chopping wooden stakes and deer, fell innumerable.

"Press it down and shoot the Tartar!" Hao Shaoqi shouted.

The archers and musketeers of the loyal battalion stepped up, suppressed the fire on the city, and desperately shot the Qing army at the head of the city. Under the cover of their own long-range fire, the auxiliaries sweated like rain, swung axes, and desperately slashed down obstacles under the city.

The sky gradually darkened, and on the first day of the offensive of the battle of Dengcheng, it was obvious that the loyal battalion suffered a big loss, and the loyal battalion lost more than 3,000 people, including more than 800 soldiers, four easy-to-build ladder cars were burned, and more than 200 blue-clothed veterans who climbed the city were all killed.

The losses of the Qing army were significantly smaller, with more than 1,200 casualties, of which less than 300 were lost by the soldiers.