The Ming army spent more than ten rounds of new flowering shells to blow up a gap, which is not equivalent to breaking the city, it can only be said to be half the success, because the gap opened is not only the door of victory for the siege troops, but also the gate of hell for the two sides to fight!

The amount of sulfur [acid] made by hand under completely laboratory conditions is extremely limited, and the Dana explosives produced by hand are also extremely rare and precious items, and it is impossible for the Ming army to have too many new flowering shells in their hands, and Wang Xinyu certainly cannot blast a large area of the city wall, only a small section.

It is precisely because of the narrow gap that the Qing army will inevitably struggle to block the road, counterattack, and do everything possible to drive the Ming army out of the gap. So the battle for the gap is the bloodiest, and it's all about who is crazier.

The main force of the Ming army in front was the elite of the mountain army known as a madman, and everyone regarded death as home. But the Qing army at the moment of life and death was also unambiguous, especially the combat effectiveness of the green battalion Qing army in this era was still very strong, and it was not the kind of green battalion soldiers who had been corrupted and declined in later generations.

The sword soldiers, mountain soldiers, and Russian soldiers had just slashed and slaughtered the Qing soldiers who had rushed into the gap, and a large number of Qing soldiers rushed towards the gap with shouts.

"Ready, cast!" Looking at the dense Qing soldiers pouring up, the mountain soldier general Su Zheng yelled.

The mountain soldier took out the grenade from his waist, bit open the safety cover, and clutched the grenade tightly in his hand.

These grenades are the new weapons of the Qiongzhou army, compared with the original national surname bottle, the grenade is ignited with glass slag and copper wire, and it does not need to be ignited by a torch, which is much more convenient, and the shell of the grenade is cast in pig iron, using an iron mold specially made of grenades, and it is cast by pouring molten iron. Before the pig iron has completely cooled, carving a criss-crossing groove into the grenade wall can increase the lethality of the grenade when it explodes.

Although the grenade is filled with nothing more than ordinary black [gun] powder, the amount of gunpowder ground into granules, and the shell of prefabricated fragments are not too small for this kind of grenade.

"Cast!" Su Zheng shouted.

The mountain soldiers pulled off the strings of the grenades, stayed in their hands for a few seconds, and threw the grenades.

The grenades that exploded in the crowd of Qing soldiers raised fireballs, releasing countless fragments, causing a bloody storm in the crowd, and countless Qing soldiers fell screaming.

The Qing soldiers in front were taken aback, and some of them turned around and ran, but they were hacked to death by the overseers behind them.

"Fight to the death! Escapees, behead! The Qing officer shouted.

A group of soldiers in front of them fell, and a group of soldiers rushed into the billowing smoke behind them, and then they were blown up by grenades, and fell in a pool of blood screaming.

After a few rounds of grenade throwing, the grenades in the mountain soldier's hands were all gone.

"The barbarians don't have the earth-shattering thunder! Hurry up! The Qing officer shouted.

A large number of Qing soldiers rushed up, trampled on the corpses of their companions, and rushed towards the gap. The soldiers on both sides collided fiercely together, and a fierce hand-to-hand combat began.

The Qing soldiers kept falling, and the corpses were piled up more than two feet high. The Qing army behind was like a chicken blood, and rushed towards the gap without life, and was killed by the Ming army.

The strong and brave mountain soldiers have cut off the heads of many Qing soldiers in general, and the Miao knives made of steel and extremely hard have been cut to the edges. Ivanov, the Rakshasa who fought side by side with him, has completely become a bloody man, but the Rakshasa still wields the big axe tirelessly, and wherever the axe goes, the Qing soldiers are either in different places, or they are cut in two by the waist, or their heads are directly split.

Just as Ivanov slashed over one of the soldiers with another axe, another soldier came out from the side, and before Ivanov could recover the axe, he slashed at his head with a knife in his hand.

The long-handled axe used by the Russian musketeers in melee is heavy and powerful, but the weight also has a disadvantage, that is, the reaction is slow, Ivanov, who has just cut down a Qing soldier, is too late to cut the Qing soldier back, and he wields the axe for a long time to cut people, which also makes his physical consumption extremely high, and his movements become slow.

Seeing that Ivanov couldn't dodge this knife, Su Zheng took a step forward, blocked the Shun knife cut by the Qing soldiers with one knife, and stabbed it backhand, and the Miao knife that had already rolled the blade slashed at the back of the Qing soldier's neck. The power of this knife is infinite, and the Miao knife with the curled blade actually slashed into the back of the Qing soldier's neck and cut into the cervical vertebrae.

The Qing soldier fell down with a scream, but Su Zheng couldn't pull out the Miao knife again.

A soldier in front of him screamed and killed, but his brain burst out with an axe from Ivanov.

Zhu Qi followed behind the army, holding a pen and a drawing board in his hand, and a boy holding an inkstone and ink by his side. Zhu Qian sat down on a stone, and with the help of the moonlight and firelight, the pen in his hand quickly recorded the tragic battlefield scene thirty steps ahead.

"My lord, it's too close! Dangerous! A servant used sign language to persuade Zhu Qi.

"How do you record a point that is not close?" Zhu Qian replied in sign language.

Zhu Qi, also a member of the Ming royal family, formerly known as Zhu Tong, is the ninth grandson of Ning Xianwang Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if I pretended to be deaf and dumb or was born deaf and dumb, so I was also called Zhu Qi. When he was in Qiongzhou, he used his proficient sign language to train a large number of special combat teams. This time, the Ming army went out, and Zhu Qi also followed.

Hearing Wang Xinyu say that he wanted to recruit war correspondents and record the battlefield scenes at any time, Zhu Qi, who is good at Danqing painting, did not hesitate to sign up.

Considering that Zhu Qi was a member of the royal family, Wang Xinyu didn't agree at first, but he couldn't stand Zhu Qi's resolute request, so he had to agree to him. Who knew that Zhu Qi followed the siege troops to the battlefield, and he followed closely behind.

Although the Qing army was very desperate, it couldn't fight such an elite Ming army at all. At the gap, the corpses of the Qing army piled higher and higher, piling up into a hill. Although there were also Ming troops who fell, there were not many of them.

"Up! Hurry up! Ilde, the general of the Eight Banners who rushed over, shouted loudly and asked the Eight Banners soldiers to go up.

"Kill the barbarian!" Hordes of elite Qing soldiers of Baijia, Goshha and Bayala poured into the gap. Before the person arrived, the short axe, flying sword, and short spear in his hand had already shot out, knocking over many Ming soldiers at the gap.

The elite Eight Banners soldiers joined the battle group, which caused the casualties of the Ming army to increase suddenly, and there was a scuffle in the gap, raising a bloody rain, and the soldiers on both sides continued to fall. A Ming mountain soldier had just hacked down a Bayala when he was cut down by a Goshha in front. cut down the Ming army's Goshha, and in the blink of an eye, he was cut in two by a tall Rakshasa with an axe, and then another white armor killed the Rakshasa man.

"Hurry up!" Gong Xiaoda shouted anxiously.

On both sides of the gap, the Ming army set up a simple ladder, holding a rattan card, and the Ming army was biting the short knife in its mouth, desperately climbing to the head of the city.

On the city wall, the Qing army discovered the intention of the Ming army, and immediately had the green battalion Qing army and Minzhuang organize defense, throwing rolling wood and stones from the city, pouring fire oil, throwing torches, and pushing open simple ladders with bell rakes.

The climbing Ming soldiers kept falling down from the ladders, breaking one after another, and a fire broke under the city, and several Ming soldiers who were on fire screamed and jumped into the moat.

A large number of sharpshooters and musketeers appeared under the city, and a dense number of feathered arrow projectiles were fired at the top of the city. The Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion and Minzhuang, who were struggling to stop the Ming army, were shot one after another, either falling at the head of the city or falling from the city wall screaming.

Because the main force of the Qing army was plugging the gap, there were not many Qing soldiers at the head of the city on both sides of the gap.

Under the cover of the fire of their comrades-in-arms, the light armored sword soldiers of the Ming army who climbed the city wall quickly jumped onto the city and killed into the crowd of Qing troops. More than a dozen sword soldiers rushed into the crowd of Qing soldiers, and where the steel knives passed, blood splashed everywhere, and the Qing soldiers fell one after another. Just after the Qing army easily gathered its forces and cut down more than a dozen Ming troops who first landed in the city, they found that more and more Ming troops climbed to the top of the city, and the entire city head had been mixed up.

The hand-to-hand soldiers of the Ming army quickly took control of the city on both sides of the gap, and the musketeers and archers climbed the ladder to the top of the city.

After landing in the city, the musketeers immediately aimed at the gap and fired dense projectiles at the elite Manchurian Eight Banners of the Qing army, such as Baijia, Goshiha and Bayala, who were blocking the road in the gap.

No matter how elite the Manchurian Eight Banners are, they are nothing more than flesh and blood. Bombarded by projectiles driven by gunpowder gas, the fragile human body was vulnerable to bullets, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were shot one after another, and blood mist sprayed on their bodies. These elite Goshkha and Bayala were shot in the gap by the Ming flintlock musketeers like pigs and dogs.

In the gap in the front, there were also Ming flintlock musketeers. The dense barrels of guns stretched out from the mountain of corpses more than one person high, and the roaring gunshots were endless, and the Qing soldiers who made up for it fell one by one. The Qing soldiers in the back came up and fell in front of the gap.

In the city of Ningbo, the governor's mansion of the Qing court in Zhejiang.

"Minggou blasted open the city wall? Ignoring the women, children, old and weak at the head of the city, they even opened artillery to bombard the head of the city? Hearing that the city wall was bombarded by cannons, Fan Chengmo was stunned.

Zhang Jie said: "I didn't expect the Ming Dog Master on the opposite side to be so fierce!" Even their own barbarian people can be so ruthless! ”

"Now is not the time to talk about it! You take someone right away, and you must drive Minggou out! Fan Chengmo roared.

"Wow!" Zhang Jie hit a thousand and retreated.

"Wait!" Fan Chengmo shouted to Zhang Jie again, "Escort another batch of barbarians and people over!" Let them be in front, and you will lead the people to plug the gap in the back! ”

"But what about Lord Ilder and the bannermen?" Zhang Jie asked.

"Plug the gap with stones and sandbags! Don't worry if the flag soldiers can't retreat! It's all jammed outside! Fan Chengmo gave an order ruthlessly.

More soldiers poured into the gap, falling in pieces under the muskets, followed by a group of soldiers, and then in front of the mountain of corpses.

"Don't kill us!" On the streets of the city, a large number of old people, children and women appeared, crying and walking towards the gap. The Qing soldiers in the back used knives to force these people to walk towards the gap step by step. A large number of people carrying stones and sandbags followed behind the women and children, preparing to use the women and children to get close to the gap, and use stones and sandbags to build a wall behind the gap.

Seeing the women and children walking in step by step, and hearing the cries of women and children coming from the crowd, Gong Xiaoda's eyebrows jumped, and his eyes almost erupted with fire. Shouted viciously at the musketeers and archers: "Leave it alone! Fire! Can't let the Tartars plug the gap! ”

"Execute the order!" The musketeers turned their heads, their eyes already red.

Gong Xiaoda personally picked up a heavy firearm loaded with shotguns and aimed it at the people who were getting closer and closer, his two eyebrows already erected, and a fierce light shot out of his eyes.

"Put!" Gong Xiaoda yelled and pulled the trigger.

The "Bang" bipod heavy firebolt spewed out a dazzling fireball, and the shotgun was sprayed towards the crowd thirty paces away.

At the head of the city, a pole bipod fire gun and a flintlock pistol spat out tongues of fire one after another, and bows and arrows shot arrows like locusts flying in the sky. Projectiles and random arrows burrowed into the crowd of ordinary people, and the people who were taken hostage by the Qing soldiers were like harvested rice, falling one by one in the rain of bullets.

The common people in front turned around to run, and immediately fell under the butcher's knife of the Qing soldiers.

"Grenade, throw!" Gong Xiaoda glared at his blood-red eyes and roared.

The musketeers, who had fired a volley of bullets, took off their grenades, pulled off the strings, and threw their grenades with all their might. What they had to do was to throw the grenade as far as possible, and throw the grenade into the crowd of Qing troops behind, rather than into the crowd of civilians in front.

The "boom" grenade exploded countless flames, and pieces of Qing soldiers were pierced by shrapnel, their hands and feet were cut off, and their heads were blown off. Of course, there are also many fragments from grenade explosions that burrowed into the crowd of people.

After all, the Qing army, the people and the people were mixed together, and the grenades caused great injuries to the people. The explosion of the grenade caused confusion among the crowd of Qing troops. Many ordinary people who did not die turned around and ran away with shouts. At this time, the Qing soldiers were unable to protect themselves, and they could not take care of the people who fled.

After a while, except for most of the dead and injured people lying on the ground, the people who survived had run away, revealing the people behind them who were carrying long stones, carrying bricks, and carrying sandbags.

For those who assisted the Qing army in defending the city, the Ming army showed no mercy.

The rows of guns were endless, bullets burrowed into the crowd, and arrows rained down like a torrential rain. A large number of people were shot by arrows and fell on the street one after another. But the people in the back were not afraid, but carried stones and sandbags, and directly sealed the bodies of those dead Qing soldiers into the wall.

"Brethren! Kill! Su Zheng saw that the Qing army and the people had begun to build a wall to block the gap, shouted, and rushed out of the gap with the mountain soldiers to kill the people who were working.

"Up! Block the dog! We can't let them break up the people! Zhang Jie yelled.

The Qing soldiers of the green battalion rushed to the gap and stopped the Ming army, so as not to cut down the people and destroy the construction of the wall.

The remaining Eight Banners soldiers, together with the Green Battalion Qing Army, had already rushed to the front.

At the top of the city, the sound of flintlock pistols sounded again, and the Qing soldiers sprayed blood mist one after another, and they were beaten into a sieve.

"Don't quit! Rush up! Kill the Bright Dogs! Zhang Jie roared hoarsely.

The flintlock gunner, who had finished firing the bullets, stepped back and nervously reloaded. The mountain soldiers in front collided with the Qing army, the sword flashed, and Su Zheng led the brothers, wielding various weapons, and cut down the Qing soldiers one after another. (To be continued.) )