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Since the siege of this month or so, the losses of the loyal battalion have been three times greater than that of the Qing army, although most of the losses are auxiliaries and people's strong, but the Qing army has also lost some of the soldiers, and the losses of the loyal battalion soldiers are still greater than the Qing soldiers, especially in today's siege battle, more than 200 elite blue-armored veterans who climbed to the top of the city from the ladder car were all killed.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the elimination of more than 200 veterans of the old battalion is the biggest victory of the Ganshan Green Battalion. The original army started with coercing the homeless, this kind of old battalion veterans wearing blue cotton armor and white felt hats are the core strength of the camp, no matter how many times Li Zicheng fails, as long as the veterans of the old battalion are still there, they can quickly catch their breath and pull up a team. Today, Li Laiheng thought that the ladder car had been hit, and the victory was in his hands, so he let the elite veterans go to the city. As a result, I didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the Qing army at the head of the city was also very strong, and more than 200 veterans were besieged after landing in the city.

The Qing army defended the city with fierce firepower, and the speed at which the ladder car was burned was faster, and the follow-up forces could not reach the city, so the elite who took the lead in the city was surrounded by heavy surrounding, and the whole army was annihilated under the combined siege of the Qing army's hand-to-hand combat, the archers were killed by hidden arrows, and the birds were killed by cold guns.

In the camp of the Loyal Battalion, Li Laiheng was dejected by today's defeat.

"Dashuai, today is a day of siege, and the loss of the Tartars is not small! We still have four ladder trucks available, let's attack the city tomorrow and push them up again! Liu Tichun said.

Li Laiheng shook his head and said disappointedly: "Four ladder trucks, two or three hundred people can go up and they will be burned!" Is it useful to go up so many people? The Tartars at the head of the city are heavily assembled, surrounded by hand-to-hand combat, especially the fortress, the Tartars in the fortress can immediately turn the gun ** to kill our people, and the hundreds of elites who go up are not to deliver food to the Tartars? ”

Hao Shaoqi went up, arched his hand and said, "Handsome!" Tomorrow's siege of the city, the last general will definitely be able to urge people to clear all the obstacles in the west, simple moat bridges and simple ladders can be set up, and the ant siege on the side plus the frontal onslaught will definitely be able to conquer the broken city of this Tartar in one fell swoop! ”

"Okay, it's getting late, everyone rest early and attack again tomorrow!" Li Laiheng said.

The next day, just after dawn, the loyal battalion once again launched a fierce offensive against Baoji City. On the front, the auxiliaries of the loyal battalion pushed various siege weapons in the direction of the city walls. Groups of loyal battalion soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets rushed up to the city wall with improvised ladders, and archers and bird gunners followed the shield cart and slowly advanced forward. The loyal battalion even gathered a batch of tiger squat cannons and light Franc machine guns, set them up on shield carts, and advanced towards the city wall.

A fierce bloody battle ensued in front of the city, and projectiles and feathered arrows at the head of the city, rolling wood and stones, lime bottles, and oil cans fell like rain. The archers, birdmen, and gunners of the loyal battalion under the city fought back desperately, pouring heavy fire on the city.

The accuracy of the Qiongzhou army's mortar and howitzer was poor, and they did not dare to use it in close combat between the two armies, but the three-pounder cannon came in handy at this time, and the Qiongzhou army artillery team was two hundred steps away from the city wall, piling sandbags into a fort, setting up the three-pounder cannon inside, and bombarding the city head fiercely. Although the three-pounder cannon cannot destroy the city wall, it can destroy the female wall and kill and injure the Qing soldiers at the head of the city.

The Ganshan Green Battalion also used women's wall cars to plug the gap, and when a section of the women's wall was destroyed, the Qing army pushed women's wall cars and blocked them to protect the soldiers behind.

While Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun launched a fierce offensive on the front, Hao Shaoqi attacked from the flank. Yesterday, all day long, Hao Shaoqi's auxiliaries had cleared the obstacles seventy steps away from the city wall. As soon as the siege battle began today, Hao Shaoqi ordered the auxiliaries to push the shield cart to within seventy steps of the city, and then the auxiliaries left the shield cart and swung their axes to chop the obstacles.

The arrows and birds in the city were shot down in rounds, and the auxiliaries who were swinging axes to slash obstacles suffered heavy casualties. The archers and birdmen of the loyal battalion under the city counterattacked, but the Qing army at the head of the city was protected by a female wall, and the losses were not very large.

In the crowd of auxiliaries, bursts of blood mist continued to erupt, and the auxiliaries who were shot and shot fell down screaming. Some of the auxiliaries who did not die turned around and ran, and were immediately hacked to death by the soldiers behind.

"Those who retreat without permission will be killed!" Hao Shaoqi waved his sword and shouted.

While Hao Shaoqi's auxiliaries were struggling to advance, hundreds of Qiongzhou Army gunners carried eight-pounder mortars and approached one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall.

"Cannon!" The artillery commander shouted.

The gunners put the mortar on the ground, then nailed the wooden gun mount in the dirt, and then fixed the mortar to the gun mount, and then set up the cannon, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed in the direction of the city wall. With the order of the artillery team, the three mortar guns took the lead in test firing, and three shells were fired, but none of them hit the city wall, one shell fell in the moat, stirring up a column of water to the sky, one shell crossed the city wall and fell into the city, smashing down a house, and one shell simply did not know where it went.

The gunners adjusted two more times, and in the third round of test firing, two shells hit the walls.

"Prepare for a salvo!" The artillery commander commanded.

Thirty-two eight-pounder mortars made a sound of gunpowder gas expanding, and the shells smashed on the city walls. This round of firing used solid shells, and although it had been tested three times, the hit rate was still less than half, after all, the accuracy of the mortar was too poor.

Solid shells kept falling, and the shells that fell on the head of the city fell in the crowd of Qing soldiers, rolling and bouncing, killing many Qing soldiers.

After a quarter of an hour of shelling, the gunners began to cool down the mortars, pouring water into the barrels, lowering the temperature and thoroughly cleaning the chambers of the guns of the powder residue that had not been completely cleaned. This is also the disadvantage of the black huo medicine, there are too many residues, loading after each round of shooting, cleaning the gun chamber can not guarantee 100% clean, after firing for a period of time, you can only stop firing, clean the gun chamber with water, in order to ensure the later launch.

After a morning of fierce fighting, Hao Shaoqi's auxiliaries finally cleared the obstacles in front of the moat.

"Siege!" Hao Shaoqi pulled out his sword and pointed forward.

The drums of war rumbled, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and groups of loyal battalion soldiers carried improvised moat bridges and improvised ladders and rushed to the city wall. The Qing troops at the head of the city shot with bows and arrows and birds, and many of the soldiers of the loyal battalion fell halfway down the road before they could get close to the moat. The soldiers of the loyal battalion in the back stepped up, erected the trench bridge over the moat, and then rushed across the moat with improvised ladders.

Arrows rained down at the head of the city, mixed with a dense mass of projectiles, and soldiers of the loyal battalion were constantly shot by arrows, falling from the moats and falling into the moat.

The loyal battalion soldiers who crossed the river set up improvised ladders and began to siege the city.