Although the cavalry of the Eight Banners is numerous, it can't beat the cavalry of the Wu army with high dejie at all, it is impossible to fight at all, the cavalry of the Wu army has not stopped fighting over the years, and it has suppressed the Yungui Tusi every year, and the cavalry of the Wu army is skillful. On www.biquge.info the other hand, the Qing army has long been worn out by the parasite life of worry-free food and clothing in the Guannei, and has lost its sharpness. Although the Eight Banners cavalry still had courage, their martial arts declined, their strength declined, and their discipline was lax, and they were already vulnerable.

The cavalry of the Wu army rushed through the middle of the cavalry of the Qing army, tore a bloody road, and killed the Qing soldiers on their backs.

Gao Dejie suddenly found Qiyan, who was wearing a red and white armor, a white cloak, and a golden helmet on his head, and looked very stylish, so he judged that that guy must be the chief general of the Qing army.

"Son of a Tartar, die!" Gao Dejie galloped his horse and rushed forward at high speed towards Qiyan.

A Qing soldier came up to block it, and Gao Dejie used the horse lance in his hand as a stick, and hit the Qing soldier hard, knocking him off the horse. The crooked lance struck another Qing soldier and knocked him off his horse.

In front of him, another Eight Banners cavalry appeared, Gao Dejie retracted his right hand, and the horse lance, which was almost bent into a circle, bounced straight, and the spearhead pierced into the body of the Eight Banners, picked him up, and then fell heavily to the ground.

Qi Yan suddenly saw a general of the Wu army killing him, and then saw that the general of the Wu army was brave and invincible, and where did he dare to face the battle, so he turned the horse's head, whipped it, and ran away. After escaping for a while, Qiyan drew his bow and arrows, turned around and shot an arrow at Gao Dejie, who was rushing over.

The feather arrow was fired head-on, and was picked open by Gao Dejie with a flick of his horse's lance. Immediately afterwards, Gao Dejie caught up with Qiyan and slammed it into his heart.

Qiyan was killed, the Eight Banners cavalry completely collapsed, and suddenly scattered as birds and beasts, and fled to the northeast in embarrassment.

The cavalry of the Wu army pursued closely, followed behind to cover the killing, and killed more than 500 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners who were caught up. Coupled with the more than 700 Eight Banner cavalry who had been killed face-to-face by the two sides before, the Qing army lost more than 1,200 people in this battle. Originally, the Eight Banners cavalry planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the Wu army's siege to attack thousands of miles in an attempt to take advantage, but who knew that they did not take advantage of it, but lost more than 1,200 horses.

The Eight Banners cavalry, who suffered a big loss, did not dare to come again, and they knew that they were also sending food to the Wu army.

After expelling the cavalry that had come to harass the Eight Banners, the Wu army concentrated on attacking the city.

After paying the price of more than 500 people, the Wu army auxiliary soldiers finally cleared the deer and wooden stakes under the city, pushed the shield cart to the edge of the moat, and threw bags of sandbags. At the head of the city, the Qing army shot random arrows, smashed down lime bottles, and used lifting, earth cannons, and tiger squat cannons to shoot desperately to block the Wu army's auxiliaries from filling the moat.

Many Wu army auxiliaries died on the edge of the moat, and their bodies fell into the river with sandbags, and the water of the moat was dyed red, but the sandbags kept falling, and the moat was gradually filled. The rifled gunners and archers of the Wu army also inflicted considerable casualties on the defenders of the city.

When the Wu army auxiliaries filled the moat, Wu Sangui did not give the order to open artillery to bombard the city. It's not that Wu Sangui is afraid that the artillery fire will accidentally injure his own auxiliaries, these auxiliaries are all prisoners and temporarily recruited people, to be honest, Wu Sangui is not distressed by how many deaths, Wu Sangui is just reluctant to precious gunpowder. After all, the Wu army lacked saltpeter and sulfur, and the gunpowder produced by Yungui was insufficient, and most of the gunpowder was provided by the Qiongzhou army.

The fierce battle lasted until dark, and the width of the moat gradually narrowed. But after dark, the Wu army did not stop the siege, and the Wu army auxiliaries took advantage of the darkness to push the shield cart and transport sandbags to fill the moat.

At the head of the city, the Qing army lit torches, and the battlements of the city wall were filled with torches to illuminate the moat under the city. With the help of the lighting of the firelight, the Qing army used various weapons to shoot fiercely at the city, killing and injuring a large number of Wu army auxiliaries.

Taking advantage of the darkness, the gunners of the Wu army pushed several six-pounder cannons to a hundred and fifty paces away from the city wall, raised their muzzles, and aimed them at the head of the city.

Because of the darkness, the Qing army at the head of the city could not find the Wu artillery in the dark.

Wu auxiliaries piled sandbags in front of the artillery positions and built fortifications to protect the six-pounder guns. The gunners loaded solid shells. Then the Wu gunners lit the torches. At this time, the Qing army found the torches lit in front, but it was too late, and the power of the Qing army's tiger squat cannons, small general cannons, and earth cannons was too small to destroy the Wu military fortifications piled up with sandbags at 150 paces.

The muzzle of the cannon erupted with fire, and several solid shells smashed into it. Because of the proximity of the distance, the artillery was fired at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and the shelling was so accurate that the female wall of the battlement at the head of the city was blown down, and a row of torches planted in the battlement was extinguished. However, the resistance of the Qing army was very stubborn, and the Qing soldiers lit torches again and fired heavily at the city.

"Reload shotguns!" The Wu artillery officer gave the order.

The shotgun used by the Wu Army's six-pounder gun is also a new type of shrapnel provided by Wang Xinyu, this kind of shrapnel is sealed with an iron shell to seal the iron balls inside, and when the shell is fired, gunpowder gas is poured into the shell. The shrapnel flew a hundred paces before bursting, forming a huge killing surface.

"Boom" a few cannon sounds, the shrapnel burst thirty or forty steps away from the city wall, and the iron beads were scattered on the head of the city, overturning a large number of Qing soldiers and people.

The Wu army attacked the city overnight, and by daybreak, the auxiliaries had already filled in three passages in the moat.

"Prepare for the siege! Let the ladder truck go out! Wu Sangui gave the order.

In the past few days of preparation, Wu Jun has built four large ladder trucks and countless simple ladders. In addition to ladder trucks and improvised ladders, the Wu army also built improvised moat bridges and large moat wagons, two siege weapons that could be mounted directly on the moat and did not need to pass over the filled moat. After the auxiliaries had filled in the passage in the moat, the Wu soldiers, who had slept all night, began the final assault.

The Wu army attacked from five directions at the same time, and on the three-section filled moat, a large number of Wu soldiers carried simple ladders, shouted and rushed through the filled moat, arrived at the bottom of the city, and set up simple ladders. In the other two directions, the Wu army erected more than a dozen improvised moat bridges, and groups of Wu troops rushed across the moat bridges, arrived at the city, and set up improvised ladders.

The resistance of the Qing army at the head of the city was very fierce, rolling wood and stones, oil cans, gold juice, feather arrows, and projectiles were splashed down like rain, and a raging fire was ignited under the city, and the ladders were constantly broken and burned, and the besieging Wu army suffered heavy casualties. Some Wu soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, but they were also driven down by the Qing troops in the city.

However, when the large ladder truck behind slowly pushed in, the situation changed. Before the ladder car was burned, more than 400 elite Wu soldiers climbed up to the city from the ladder car and gained a firm foothold.

The gate of Nanyang was wide open, the green green camp Qing army flag on the city tower fell to the ground, Wu Sangui's flag fluttered high, and groups of Wu soldiers shouted and poured into the city.