Fan Chengmo knew that once the city was broken, he would definitely die, so he once again let Tian Xiong and Zhang Gera take the common people hostage. Knowing that Wang Yu is not a good type, he will not be soft-hearted, and the common people will not be able to stop the Ming army if they are in front. But Fan Chengmo was planning to use the corpses of the common people to delay the pace of the Ming army, and use the corpses of the common people to plug the gap!

In the Ming army, the order to "slaughter all the dogs and leave no prisoners" has been issued, and every soldier who rushed into the gap has red eyes and fights like a madman.

The Ming troops outside the city poured in from the gap one after another, and as soon as these newly arrived Ming troops rushed to the Qing army, they were not in a hurry to step forward for hand-to-hand combat, but threw their hands and threw grenades. Everyone threw all the two grenades they were carrying, and then drew their swords, raised their spears, and joined the warband.

Explosions rang out one after another, and the Qing troops blocking the road were blown to pieces.

More and more Ming musketeers climbed to the top of the city and fired into the city, and the city walls continued to flicker with dazzling fire, and white smoke rose in the air. Bullets spilled down like water, and pieces of Qing soldiers fell.

One of Tian Xiong's subordinates stood up and shouted: "Brothers! Follow Lao Tzu! Be loyal to the Qing Dynasty! Kill the thief! ”

A member of Zhang Jie's subordinates, surnamed Zhao, also stood up and shouted: "Brothers! Today, I, Zhao, am willing to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and I will never give up! If it's a gentleman, follow Lao Tzu! ”

Not to be outdone, the two generals drew their swords and rushed towards the gap with the green battalion soldiers. Today's battle is a life-and-death battle for the Qing army in Ningbo. Fan Chengmo took the people as a hostage, so that the Ming army had already issued an order not to leave prisoners, as long as the city was broken, all the Qing soldiers could not survive.

Knowing that rushing forward would be death, the Qing army still went forward one after another, using a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood to plug the gap.

The shirtless Qing soldiers brandished broadswords and spears, desperately launching a counterattack. For the survival of other Qing soldiers in the city, for the people of the city banner to survive, and even more so for themselves to survive, they have completely become a group of madmen who do not want to die, as crazy as the Ming army.

The musketeers and archers of the Ming army in the rear and on the commanding heights kept firing, and the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded. The Qing army also used bird guns and bows and arrows to shoot at the Ming troops who poured into the gap.

The breach has become a real gate of hell, the corpses of soldiers on both sides are piled up into a hill more than a man high, and the blood on the ground of the bluestone strip flows into a stream, and a person's foot on it will slip and fall. The height of the corpse mountain continued to increase, and the green battalion Qing soldiers and Eight Banner soldiers who rushed over fell one by one.

In the midst of the chaos, there was no intact place on the body of the Eight Banners general Ilde from head to toe, the cotton armor had been cut to tatters, many openings had been made, his body was scarred, there were several arrows on his shoulders, chest, and back, and there was a wound on his leg and arm that had been hit by a flintlock pistol, and the lead bullet remained in his body.

The power of bullets is not comparable to cold weapons, and it is incomparable to feather arrows, ordinary people are hit by a bullet, and they basically lose their combat effectiveness, but Ilder supports it with strong perseverance.

"Dog brute! Go to hell! "Ilde fought hard to kill a Ming soldier.

"Roar!" At this moment, Ilder suddenly heard the sound of a blind bear roaring, and when he looked up, he saw a giant man who was a head taller than himself, standing up like a small mountain, swinging a long axe, and slashing down his head.

Ilder swung his sword to parry, but the pain on his body and the excessive physical exertion made him unable to parry. Just before the axe split Ilde's skull, Ilder clearly saw the high-nosed, deep-eyed, yellow-haired face.

"Rakshasa people!" This was the last consciousness in Ilde's mind.

Ivanov smashed Ilde's head with an axe, and it was then that he realized that he had just killed a barbarian general!

Since coming to the South, Ivanov's perception of the East has changed a lot. Originally, he thought that in the Far East there were only barbarians, and there were no civilized people at all. The legendary ancient civilization of the East has been occupied by barbarians. But after coming to the south, Ivanov found that the legendary ancient civilization of the East had not perished! She continues to thrive in the South and even more brilliant!

Ilde's death was like a small stone thrown into the Yangtze River, stirring up a small wave and then never moving, his death did not cause large-scale chaos in the Qing army, the Qing army still went forward one after another, desperately rushed up to fight hand-to-hand.

"Quick! Hurry up! Several Qing generals urged the people behind the Qing soldiers.

Carrying sandbags, stones, and baskets of bricks, the people built a wall behind the Qing army. The corpses of the Qing soldiers, the corpses of the people, and the corpses of women, children, and the elderly and weak were also used as raw materials for the construction of the simple city wall, and they were piled up underneath, and sandbags were piled up on top, and bricks were attached to the outside, and large stones were built.

Projectiles and feather arrows were fired one after another, and the people who were working fell down, and the people in the back came up to replace the people in front and continued to build the city wall.

"The city is broken!" Not far away, there was a sudden shout of clear soldiers.

"The city is broken!" What could be more demoralizing than this voice? However, these three words spread rapidly among the Qing army.

"Don't let gossip confuse the people! Disobedient, slash! Tian Xiong drew his sword and roared at the blood-red bull's eyes.

"My lord, look over there!" One of the soldiers pointed to the east in a crying voice.

On the east tower, three red lanterns were hung to represent the critical situation. With the help of the moonlight and firelight, it can be vaguely seen that the red Ming army flag has been raised on the south city wall, and the original green Qing army flag has long disappeared. Needless to say, the eastern city has been lost.

It turned out that Wang Xinyu's style of play was not to stare at a gap, but to take a two-pronged approach.

In the past few days, the Ming army auxiliaries filled the moat, and the craftsmen were not idle, they built a large number of moats, ladders, river crossing boats and other siege equipment. When the Ming army blew up a gap and the soldiers on both sides fought hard at the gap, the Ming army, which was responsible for attacking the southern city wall, suddenly launched a siege battle.

Wang Xinyu originally thought that the attention of the Qing army had been completely attracted by the gap in the western wall, and they threw a large number of fresh troops into the gap, but ignored the defense of the southern wall.

The Ming army arrived at Nancheng with improvised ladders, improvised moat bridges, and boats to cross the wide moat, and then crossed the river to attack.

When attacking the southern city wall, countless torches suddenly lit up on the city, and a large number of Qing soldiers and people stood on the city wall, shooting the moats and boats crossing the river with rockets, pouring fire oil on the city head, and igniting the city by the moat. The rolling logs and stones fell down one after another, the ladders were broken one after another, and the Ming army besieging the city suffered heavy losses.

It turned out that Fan Chengmo had long expected Wang Xinyu's move, and as a result, while ordering the gap to be plugged, he did not relax his vigilance against the south of the city.

In the city of Ningbo, there are more than 13,000 Qing troops, and more than 30,000 people have been recruited. Fan Chengmo mobilized 5,000 elites and 3,000 people to plug the gap in the west that was opened by mortar artillery, as well as more than 8,000 green battalion Qing troops and more than 20,000 people, most of which were deployed in the south of the city, just to prevent Wang Xinyu from sneaking up on the south of the city.

It's a pity that Fan Chengmo ignored the east of the city!

The Yongjiang River in the east of the city is the natural moat of Ningbo City, the average width of the river is one mile, and the widest part is three or four miles wide, which can be said to be the natural risk of Ningbo City. But that is for the army without a water division, the Yongjiang River is a natural danger. However, for the Qiongzhou army and the Fujian army, which had a strong naval division, the Yongjiang River was a wide passage.

Wang Xinyu's attack in the south of the city was only a feint, and the real purpose was to cover the attack in the east of the city.

The cannon roared on the river, and the obstacles in the river had been cleared in advance, the underwater wooden stakes were blown up, and the Ming army sailors who had broken the barrage rushed into the east river of Ningbo City, and all the large and small warships directly bombarded the city with naval guns to suppress the firepower of the Qing army in the city, and then the Ming army put down a large number of small boats and launched an attack on the river.

The main force of the Nanyang Navy, which was subordinate to the Qiongzhou Army, was in the vicinity of Singapore, preparing to intercept a possible attack by the Dutch. Despite this, the strength of the Qiongzhou Army, the Fujian Army, and the Zhejiang Army Naval Division in Zhejiang should not be underestimated.

More than 700 Chinese-sized warships and 20 Western-style river gunboats exerted their maximum firepower, and more than 1,000 naval guns bombarded at the same time.

The fire on the river was blazing, and the warships spit out fire, like lightning across the river. The cannonballs rained down on the city wall in the east of Ningbo, and the battlements of the female wall cracked, and the Qing army at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties.

When the small boat on which the Ming army was riding arrived near the river, the soldiers immediately set up a ladder and climbed up to the top of the city.

The besieging troops in the east met little resistance, and the Qing troops at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties after heavy artillery bombardment, the battlements of the female wall were flattened, and most of the weapons defending the city were destroyed. The Ming army climbed to the top of the city at a very slight cost, and wiped out the people stationed at the head of the city in the east.

Although the main force of the Qing army in the city still existed at this time, fighting this thing relied on morale, especially in the era of cold weapons, morale was very important. Once an army loses its morale, it faces collapse.

The east city was lost, in fact, there were not many Ming troops who could enter the city, after all, the east was the Yongjiang River, and the main force of the Ming army attacked the gap in the west, and a part of it had to be divided into a feint attack in the south, and the Ming army entered from the east There were only a few elite land division soldiers, most of whom were not good at land warfare, and the city gate in the east was still in the hands of the Qing army. However, the emergency signal at the east gate and the Ming army battle flag hanging high above the city made the morale of the Qing army in the city collapse at once.

"My lord, Minggou has entered the city!" Zhang Jie's personal soldiers cried.

The Qing army, whose morale collapsed, was beaten back to the prototype at once, and it was simply unable to resist the Ming army that was constantly pouring in from the gap. As more and more Ming troops entered the city, the newly arrived Ming troops had grenades in their hands, and several rows of grenades beckoned to the past, adding to the situation of the collapsed Qing army. Then the Ming army fought into the crowd of the defeated Qing army.

"What's going on?" Fan Chengmo rushed over.

All the Qing generals knelt on the ground one after another: "Lord Futai! The eastern wall is lost! Minggou has taken the city! ”

Fan Chengmo looked in the direction of the east city wall, and saw that the city was already full of red Ming army battle flags, but the east city towers were still in the hands of the Qing army.

"Immediately organize the manpower and go to Dongcheng to drive the barbarians out!" Fan Chengmo yelled.

Zhang Jie had no choice but to bite the bullet and take two thousand elites to Dongcheng; Xicheng Yutian Xiong continued to resist stubbornly, using various fortification equipment such as knife carts, cooperating with the buildings on both sides of the street, struggling to support and prevent the Ming army from continuing to attack the gap, and at the same time organizing a large number of men to launch a counterattack, trying to recapture the city heads on both sides of the gap.

The fierce battle at the gap continued, and a group of Qing soldiers came from the city wall and fought fiercely with the Ming army who had climbed to the top of the city. However, the quality of the Qing army was not as good as that of the Ming army, and the morale was already low, so it was forced by Fan Chengmo and Tian Xiong, and it didn't take long to fight before it was driven back.

Tian Xiong led 2,000 elites to counterattack to the east of the city, trying to drive out the Ming army that attacked the city.

Although most of the people who attacked the east city were Ming army sailors, and there were only a few land division soldiers, the Ming army was well-armed, and a small number of land division soldiers were the most elite iron man army, and the Qing army's counterattack was quickly beaten back.

"My lord, the last general has done his best! But the thieves' ironclad soldiers are really powerful! They are covered in iron armor, and even their shoes are iron! Arrows can't penetrate, knives and guns can't penetrate! The brothers suffered a great loss when they encountered them. Tian Xiong took the defeated Qing soldiers and knelt in front of Fan Chengmo.

At the head of the city to the west, Tian Xiong led the Qing army to retreat in defeat.

"Your Excellency!" Tian Xiong knelt in front of Fan Chengmo, "The last general has done his best!" There are too many thieves in the city! ”

"At this point, we can only retreat into the inner city and hold on!" Fan Chengmo roared viciously.

At that time, the inner city was full of cities, and the people living in the city were all banner people, not only the Manmeng Eight Banners and their families, but even the Han Eight Banners and the clothed minions all lived in the city. The so-called people in the city are also banner people and cloth.

The outer city was lost, and the Qing army retreated into the city. Although the Qing army suffered heavy losses due to attacks from three sides, in fact the main force of the Qing army still existed. A total of more than 8,000 green battalions of Qing troops and more than 10,000 people retreated into the inner city. In addition, Fan Chengmo organized more than 3,000 bannermen and clothed servants in the city to defend the city, and there were more than 20,000 troops stationed in the inner city.

"The thieves will slaughter the whole city, whether it is a woman, a child or an old man, take up arms for me to defend the city!" Fan Chengmo stood on the city tower, cheering up the Qing army defending the city.

Outside the inner city, the Ming army that invaded Ningbo City searched door to door, and searched out those Qing soldiers who had no time to escape into the inner city, took off the Qing army uniforms, and hid in the homes of ordinary people. Together with the Qing soldiers captured before, the Ming army captured a total of more than 3,000 Qing soldiers.

"Report to your lord! The Tartars retreat into the inner city and resist stubbornly! Luo Shen, Li Rui and others came back one after another to report.

"Take all the captives to the outer city and cut them all!" Wang Xinyu gave the order.

As revenge for the Qing army taking the people hostage, Wang Xinyu not only gave the order to slaughter the whole city, but also gave the order not to leave prisoners of war.

When these Qing soldiers who were tied up by the Ming army were escorted to the city, they knew that they were in trouble. Some of the soldiers sighed, some wept bitterly, and some begged bitterly. (To be continued.) )