After all, the Qing army in the city had already prepared, and they had planned to surrender in advance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNow that the plan of fraudulent surrender has been discovered, the Qing soldiers who were originally behind the urn city and were preparing to ambush and break through the Ming army of the urn city saw the fireworks signal, and they took action one after another, and pressed in the direction of the urn city where the soldiers on both sides were fighting fiercely.

At the head of the city of Urn, the soldiers of both sides engaged in a fierce battle. There are more than 5,000 people in the vanguard of the Ming army, but there is only a little space at the head of the urn city, and more than 5,000 Ming troops cannot use their strength. In the same way, the Qing army in the city was too numerous to deploy its forces, and the two sides fought fiercely on the narrow head of the city.

"Kill the Tartars!" Shao Yue, who was lucky enough to survive in the 500 cannon fodder team, waved a big knife and desperately slashed the Qing soldiers in front of him. volunteered to serve as cannon fodder for the five hundred captives who attracted the attention of the Qing army, and after a fierce battle just now, less than one-fifth of the people survived, and Shao Yue, who had rich combat experience, survived again. Speaking of which, since he joined the Green Camp Qing Army, he doesn't know how many times he has escaped death, the first time was in Changsha, and he almost died under the artillery of the Ming army; In the Battle of Yuezhou, he was almost hit in the head by a bullet; In Wuchang, he escaped death again and fled back to Jiangbei. Finally, when they arrived in Jingzhou, after the city of Jingzhou was broken, the besieged Qing army was cornered, and Shao Yue was also captured by the Ming army.

After Shao Yue was captured by the Ming army, he originally wanted to start as a coolie. Seeing the rich salaries and good food of the Ming army, Shao Yue volunteered to join the death squad, just to ascend to the sky and become a soldier in one step.

Just now after entering the urn city, from the time the Ming army blew up the city tower, the cannon fodder team began to fall into a bitter battle.

The Qing army seemed to be inexhaustible, a group fell under the grenades and swords and guns of the Ming army, and another group of Qing troops poured up.

The four grenades on Shao Yue's body had all been used up, and he wanted to retreat, but the passage behind him was blocked by the follow-up Ming army, and he couldn't go back at all, so he could only fight to kill the enemy with a steel knife. On the head of the city of Wengcheng, the soldiers on both sides collided fiercely, because the contact surface was too small, the Ming army in front threw grenades, and the Ming army in the back could not throw grenades, so they could only watch the partners in front of them engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army, and wait until the people in front fell, and the Ming army behind could follow up.

At the head of the city, the corpses at the junction of the two sides piled up into a hill more than three feet high, most of which were the corpses of Qing soldiers, but many Ming soldiers were also killed.

The Qing soldiers armed with broadswords and spears went one after another, constantly stepping on the hill of corpses and pressing towards the Ming army. Although the Ming army on the contact surface of the two sides had finished firing short bullets and throwing all grenades, those Ming troops were all elite, and their hand-to-hand combat ability was only above that of the Qing army. The Qing soldiers who pressed up were constantly overturned by the Ming army with spears and cut down by broadswords. But the Qing army did not retreat, but came up in batches.

Although the Ming army at the forefront was fierce, in the struggle to slash and kill, people were constantly injured, and there was physical exhaustion, and some Ming troops were cut by the Qing army, or pierced through the body by spears. Many of the Ming soldiers who were pierced by spears did not fall, and their bloody bodies rushed forward with great strength and cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers with large knives.

There was a river of blood flowing at the head of the city, and the bricks that had already sucked up the blood could no longer absorb any more blood, and the blood that gathered together formed a small stream that flowed along the head of the city.

The Ming army in the back pushed away the corpse of the Ming army that was pierced by spears in front, stepped over the corpse that was cut off by the head, or stepped over the corpse that was beaten into a hornet's nest by the flintlock pistol of the bird, and marched forward with difficulty, killing the Qing army blocking in front.

Finally, the Ming army, who still had grenades at hand, made up for it, raised his hand and threw a row of smoke-emitting grenades at the Qing soldiers in front, exploding gaps in the crowd of Qing troops.

The grenade exploded into a burst of fire, the flesh and blood of the Qing army flew sideways, and the formation blocked in front immediately became much looser, and the Ming army pushed more than ten steps into their formation.

The Ming army behind followed up one after another, but did not directly attack the top of the urn city, but spread along the collapsed city tower to the city walls on both sides, launched a fierce attack on the Qing army at the head of the city, and cut down the Qing soldiers who kept climbing up the steps at the head of the city, expanding the results little by little.

The Ming army, which occupied the head of the city, condescendingly threw grenades into the city and opened fire, causing bursts of blood to erupt in the crowd of Qing troops who had reinforced.

"Brethren! Go the extra mile! Hurry up! Don't let Ma Jiuyu's people steal the first credit! Wang [Fu] Chen, who was standing on a large raft, stared at the blood-red eyes, looked at the Xiangyang City in front of him and shouted excitedly.

The attention of the Qing army was attracted to the direction of Yangchun Gate, on the section of the city wall that Wang [Fu] Chen was about to attack, it can be said that there were not many Qing soldiers stationed, almost an empty city, as long as their raft crossed the opposite bank, they could directly raise a large cloud ladder on the raft and climb to the top of the city.

These ten large rafts are all specially made, the raft is more than eight zhang long and three zhang wide, and the raft is equipped with a large lifting ladder. Modular engineering weapons can be separated, not only can be installed on the chassis and wheels, built into a ladder truck to advance the siege, or directly placed on a boat or raft, directly row to the city, on the boat or raft can go to the city.

The large raft rowed to the opposite bank of the moat, and the opposite wall reached the shore, and the Ming army on the raft did not need to get off the boat, but could shake the handle, raise the ladder, and dock with the head of the city. This lightweight, large ladder is covered with copper skin, which is not easy to ignite by rockets, and the base is mounted on a raft, which is not easily ignited by fire. The only thing that could pose the greatest threat to the raft was the artillery of the Qing army, but there was obviously no artillery of the Qing army in this section of the city.

Of course, if there are many defenders of the Qing army at the head of the city, this kind of ladder on the raft is easy to be pushed away by the Qing army with the ladder and the raft, and the ladder is also easy to be ignited by the Qing army's oil can, but there are too few Qing army defenders in this section of the city.

"Raise the ladder!" The king shouted.

The big raft, which had already hit the riverbank, stopped, and the Ming army on the big raft shook the handle and raised the ladder.

"Ming dog! Minggou is here! The Qing soldiers stationed at the head of the city shouted.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city on both sides heard the shouts and saw the lanterns lit, and rushed to the place where the Ming army was ascending the city. The Qing army fired rockets at the ladder that had reached the top of the city, but after the rocket hit the ladder, the flames were extinguished for a while. Arrows and projectiles hit the Ming auxiliaries on the raft, and many of them screamed and fell into the moat.

"Kill!" Wang [Fu] Chen, the first fierce general of the Qiongzhou Army, was the first to jump on the city, and before the person landed, the two grenades in his hands had already swirled and flew over, blowing up a piece of Qing soldiers.

Wang [Fu] fell into the city, holding a thunderbolt in his left hand and a steel knife in his right hand that sharpened iron like clay, and smashed into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and in the blink of an eye, eight Qing soldiers fell under his sword.