The rain has completely stopped, and the Ming troops who came one after another surrounded Jinhua City with three layers inside and three layers outside. Zhuo Butai stood at the head of the city and watched the Ming army digging fortifications and building barracks, but he did not dare to send troops out to attack and harass the Ming army.

"This battle was lost so badly! It's all a damn Eight Flags special! Zhuo Butai gritted his teeth.

Liu Liangzuo, Wu Ruyu, Liu Zhiyuan, and Wang [Fu] ministers were unable to return to the city, and Chen Shikai was seriously injured after returning to the city and could only lie on the sickbed. At present, in addition to Zhuo Butai, there are also three generals in the city: Li Sang'e, Liu Guang and Yu Yongshou. There were not many soldiers who returned to the city, and more than ninety percent of the 150,000 troops were lost, and less than 10,000 returned to the city, including more than 6,000 soldiers and 3,000 auxiliaries.

The Qing army, which suffered a crushing defeat, was demoralized and completely lost the courage to fight a war.

After the defeat and retreat into the city, Zhuo Butai gathered the remnants of the defeated army and prepared for defense. Perhaps only a strong city wall could give the Qing army a certain amount of self-confidence. As long as they can hold the city and delay time, they will still be saved.

The structure of the Qing army has been completely chaotic, and I don't know whose soldiers are entering the city. Zhuo Butai asked the generals and officers who had fled back to the city to recall their old units and count their men.

At the foot of the city wall of Chisongmen, a bearded general sat on the ground, and about 50 Qing soldiers around him were staggering or sitting on the ground or leaning on the city bricks.

"Roll call! Whose soldiers are you? "A Goshha came over with more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers.

The general hurriedly stood up: "Go back to your lordship, we are Lord Wu's soldiers, and our lord hasn't come back yet." ”

Goshha opened the roster, gave the letter a suspicious look, and asked, "Which town and battalion are you from?" Who are your guerrilla generals? Who is the garrison? ”

The bearded answer was like a stream, and the answer came up with a 1510.

Goshha looked at the roster and found that none of the guerrilla and garrison that the green battalion had always said had returned, and his heart was even more suspicious: how could it be so coincidental? None of his superior officers came back, and the army lost more than ninety percent, but you, the person under the chief officer, came back more than half?

Seeing a hint of murderous intent in Nagoshha's eyes, the bearded man suddenly burst out, pulled out his waist knife, and slashed at Nagoshha's neck.

The green battalion soldiers who were sitting on the ground and staggering also jumped up one after another, and all kinds of weapons in their hands beckoned to those Eight Banner soldiers.

Goshha is the personal soldier of the general of the Eight Banners Army, this Goshha still has two hits, found that something is wrong, the whole side of the person, dodged the blade that was always chopped, and shouted in his mouth while drawing the knife: "There are barbarians!" The barbarians have infiltrated the city! Come on! Let's kill the barbarians! ”

The bearded man is always dressed as an agent of the Heaven and Earth Society, and his martial arts are strong. But the Goshha kung fu of the Eight Banners is not weak, and the two are inseparable for a while.

The more than 50 Green Battalion Qing soldiers under the command of the General are also agents of the Heaven and Earth Society, and everyone is a master, and against more than a dozen ordinary Eight Banner soldiers, it is not a problem to fight more or less. In a burst of slashing and slashing, more than fifty agents of the Heaven and Earth Society slashed and killed more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers in a pool of blood in an instant.

After the heads of more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers were all cut off, the one was still fighting with Goshha.

"Bang bang" two bangs, Goshha covered his chest in disbelief, widened his eyes, shook a few times and slowly fell.

An agent of the Heaven and Earth Society blew out the white smoke that had not dispersed from the muzzle of the short gun, and threw down a sentence: "Xiao Wu, why do you need to be so troublesome, the problem can be solved with two guns." ”

The agent with the short-shot is the real leader, dressed as a small leader who is no more than an agent in general.

As he spoke, all the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society tied a strip of red cloth to their left arm, which meant to represent their own people, so as not to be accidentally injured by the agents, or the other Ming soldiers who did not collect it at night.

Goshha's shouts and the sound of the fight just now had already alarmed the Qing soldiers in the city.

On the steps of the city gate tower, more than a hundred Qing soldiers shouted to take up arms, and someone pulled the alarm bell on the city tower.

"Kill!" The Agent Leader roared.

More than fifty agents with red strips of cloth on their arms rushed up the steps with a shout, they looked no different from ordinary Green Battalion soldiers, but they were very agile, and each of them pulled out the Thunderbolt from his arms.

"Bang bang bang" There was a fierce gunshot, and the Qing soldiers who rushed down from the top of the steps fell in a pool of blood. The dense sound of thunderbolt firing covered the alarm bells at the head of the city.

The speed of fire of the Thunderbolt was extremely fast, and more than 50 agents pulled the trigger one after another, shooting a dense rain of bullets, and the Qing soldiers pouring out of the city tower were like hitting an invisible wall, and they were knocked down one after another.

Some of the agents opened fire very quickly, and when they ran out of bullets in the belly of the gun, they immediately thrust the short gun into their waists, pulled out the knives on their waists, and rushed up the castle tower.

On the city wall, there were also many green battalion soldiers with red cloth strips on their left arms, wielding various weapons, and slashing down the Qing soldiers around them.

Hearing the sudden gunshots in the city, Wang Xinyu knew that the secret agents, Ye Bushu and elite soldiers who had infiltrated the city must have been recognized, so he gave a decisive order: "Siege the city!" ”

The war drums rumbled, the sound of killing shook the sky, and groups of Ming troops slaughtered the city wall. Because of the hasty siege, there was no time to build siege weapons, only simple ladders and simple moats. The Ming soldiers carried these improvised siege tools and shouted to attack the city. In the blink of an eye, the besieging Ming army rushed across the moat, set up a ladder at the head of the city, and scrambled to climb up the city wall.

"Minggou has attacked the city!" A Qing army commander at the head of the city shouted.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back, turned his head to look, and saw that the boss behind him stabbed him in the back.

While tying a strip of red cloth around his arm, he shouted, "Brothers! Don't give any more life to the Tartars! Come with me and kill all the Tartars! ”

A few pro-soldiers had already sent down the red cloth strips, and dozens of green battalion Qing soldiers tied up the red cloth strips one after another, brandished their weapons, and slashed down on the heads of those former companions at the head of the city.

It turns out that this general is also a hidden agent of the Heaven and Earth Society! Seeing that the time was ripe, he suddenly counterattacked with his own soldiers and killed the defenders at the head of the city.

The Qing soldiers on this section of the city wall were all cleared, and the Ming army climbed to the top of the city without much effort. After reaching the city, the Ming army immediately rushed to other cities. Dozens of Qing soldiers rushed to the front, and they slashed and killed their former companions, even harder than the Ming army.

"Quick, kill the Akamatsu Gate! I'm afraid our people over there won't be able to bear it! Li Rui, who had climbed to the top of the city, shouted.

"Kill!" The Ming army and the Green Battalion soldiers rushed to Chisongmen.

At this time, on the top of the Chisongmen Tower, the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society and the night Bushu who came later fought side by side, on the city wall, on the steps, and the corpses in the arrow tower were piled up into a mountain, and I don't know how many Qing soldiers fell under their swords and guns. However, under the strong pressure of some Qing army officers in the back, more Qing soldiers rushed up from the steps and rushed to the city to fight fiercely with the agents of the Tiandihui and Ye Bushu.

There have already been many agents and nights who have not collected casualties, but the Qing soldiers are fighting more and more.

Seeing that it was about to be unable to control the Chisong Gate, the Ming troops who poured from the city on both sides of the city rushed into the crowd of the Qing army, and several Ming saber and shield bearers raised their hands and threw a row of grenades at the most dense place of the Qing army.

There were explosions one after another, flesh and blood flew in the firelight, and a gap appeared in the dense Qing army formation.

More Ming troops climbed up to the top of the city, with sword and shield men in front, musketeers and archers in the back also coming up, bows and arrows were thrown into the crowd of Qing troops. The musketeers fired freely, aiming at targets more than ten steps away, and even smoothbore guns with very poor accuracy could accurately hit the target, not to mention that the Qing army was very densely formed.

The imminent Chisongmen was controlled by the Ming army again, and the Qing army was driven down the city.

"Drop the drawbridge!" Li Rui shouted.

Several Ming soldiers pulled the winch, and the drawbridge at the head of the city slowly fell down and was erected on the moat. But the city gate tower is densely packed with Qing soldiers, and there are people shooting arrows at the city, and there are several knife carts on the street, and the Ming army at the head of the city does not dare to go down, and the city gate is still in the hands of the Qing army.

"Take back the gates!" Liu Guangsheng roared hoarsely.

The Qing army tried to rely on the advantage of the number of people to desperately attack the city through the steps, but they were all beaten back by the Ming army, and the corpses were piled up on the steps, the city head and the streets in the city, most of which were the corpses of the Qing soldiers, and there were also the corpses of the Ming soldiers and the dead agents.

The Ming army standing at the head of the city shot and shot arrows at the bottom of the steps, and some people lit oil cans and threw them down the city.

The canister landed on the street, blazing brightly. The Qing soldiers were taken aback, crying and scattering to dodge. There were a few more ping-pong sounds, and the oil canister smashed on the knife cart, and then several rockets shot down, and the knife cart ignited a fire, and the Qing soldiers who pushed the cart dropped the knife cart and turned around and ran.

Outside the city, groups of Ming troops rushed across the drawbridge, and the Ming troops who rushed in front carried a thick log and slammed it on the city gate.

Two blows, not long after the impact, the city gate was knocked open.

"Kill!" The Ming army rushed into the city, and the Qing soldiers who were blocked in the city gate saw that the situation was not good, and pushed and retreated.

Fierce street fighting broke out on the streets, morale was low, and the Qing army, which was already close to collapse, was unable to drive the Ming army out, and was beaten back and forth, and then began to rout. In the chaos, Liu Guang was also beheaded by a Ming soldier.

The Ming soldiers who cut off Liu Guang's head did not pick up the head from the ground, but continued to rush inside with the large team. Because the meritorious service system of the Qiongzhou Army is not calculated according to the achievements of a single person, but is settled in a unified manner after the fact, and the collective merits are counted first, and then the individual merits are calculated, so that there will be no wartime to put down the fight to harvest the heads, and it is even less likely that the phenomenon of killing the good and risking the merits will occur.

A few Qing soldiers who were anyway stopped and wanted to harvest the heads on the ground, but they were whipped a few times by the Ming army officer: "Go inside and kill the enemy!" We're not counting individual heads! ”

Seeing that no one in the Ming army stopped to harvest the heads, the Qing soldiers followed into the center of the city anyway. (To be continued.) )