After the elite soldiers of Wang [Fu] Chen attacked the city, they immediately tore a gap in the city wall between the already weak Xicheng Gate and the Wenchang Gate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Boats, rafts, and bamboo rafts kept coming to the shore, and groups of Ming soldiers jumped out of the boat and set up the improvised ladder at the head of the city. Amid the shouts of the officers, the Ming soldiers carried torches and ants to the city and launched a siege battle.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city threw rolling wooden stones, shot arrows and projectiles, threw lime bottles, poured gold juice, smashed down oil cans, and then dropped torches, shot rockets, and the city burned into a sea of fire, and there were constantly Ming soldiers falling from the simple ladders, and the ladders were broken, and the ladders were pushed away by the pushers, and people kept falling into the moat.

On the boats, rafts and bamboo rafts under the city, the Ming musketeers opened fire desperately to suppress the defenders at the head of the city.

Although the resistance of the Qing army was very fierce, but at this time most of the Qing soldiers were ambushed in the city, and most of the remaining Qing troops were also concentrated in the Yangchun Gate area to block the Ming army's attack, between the Xichengmen and Wenchang Gate, the Qing army's strength was too weak, and above one of the sections of the city wall, more than 500 people from the most elite Wang [auxiliary] ministers had already landed in the city, and the Qing army also had to organize troops to block, so as not to expand the results of the war and seize more cities. In this case, the Qing army defending the city was seriously underwhelmed.

After paying a certain price in casualties, the Ming army finally climbed to the top of the city.

"Kill the Tartars!" The Ming army who climbed to the top of the city shouted and slashed at the crowd of Qing troops.

A Ming army officer climbed up to the top of the city and kicked over a large iron pot that was boiling gold juice, and the hot gold juice in the iron pot spewed out, scalding the two auxiliary soldiers and three people at the head of the city to let out a heart-rending scream. The Ming soldiers in the back followed closely and killed them, chopping melons and vegetables, and cutting down the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang one by one.

"Minggou is here!" A green battalion soldier officer shouted, and led the green battalion soldiers guarding the city to kill the Ming army who had climbed to the top of the city.

In the offensive and defensive battles of the city wall, it is the warrior archers who shoot arrows at the head of the city, and most of the defending weapons such as rolling wood stones, fire oil cans and lime bottles are auxiliary soldiers and people, and there are generally a group of hand-to-hand combat soldiers waiting at the head of the city, and the opponent has not yet boarded the city, and the hand-to-hand combat soldiers retain their physical strength. Once the opponent ascends the city, hand-to-hand fighters will come up to plug the gap and drive the opponent who ascends the city down.

Therefore, the besieging side is often after paying a great price, the few people who come up to the top of the city fall into the opponent's heavy encirclement, if you can't break through a gap, gain a firm foothold in the city, then the previous efforts will be wasted, the previous losses of personnel are in vain, the result is only to annihilate a little defenders.

However, for the Ming army, which was equipped with grenades, they were not afraid of falling into the encirclement of the Qing army at all, and more than a dozen Ming soldiers climbed up to the city and threw grenades at the place where the Qing army was most crowded.

A violent explosion sounded on the city wall, and a large number of Qing soldiers fell down, and the crowd immediately became much more evacuated. Immediately afterwards, the Ming army drew its steel sword and slaughtered into the crowd of Qing troops.

From time to time, Qing soldiers hiding in the shadows shot with hidden arrows and cold guns, and knocked down many Ming soldiers. The Qing army auxiliaries also pushed knife carts and women's wall carts up to hit the Ming army at the head of the city and build a second line of defense at the head of the city. However, a row of grenades by the Ming army blew up the Qing army behind the knife cart and the female wall car. Then a Ming sergeant with an explosive bag leaned forward and threw the explosive bag into the knife cart and the female wall car, blowing up a large number of weapons to defend the city.

The Ming army that attacked the head of the city finally gained a firm foothold, and formed a controlled area of the Ming army within 30 steps on the left and right sides of their own position in the city.

Following the breakthrough of Wang [Fu] ministers, a second breakthrough appeared at the head of the city, and more and more Ming troops climbed to the head of the city, which made the problem of insufficient strength of the Qing army even more serious.

So the head of Xiangyang City, like a dam that was washed open by a flood, was a small gap at first, then a second gap, then a third, a fourth gap, and finally a small gap came together and became a huge opening, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the dam.

At this point, the Qing army at the head of the city could no longer stop the Ming army that climbed up to the head of the city one after another, and could only watch more and more Ming troops climb the city wall.

"Quick, protect Wenchang Gate!" Qing army general Sunahai shouted anxiously.

The direction of the city gate is the key position of defending the city, if the Ming army that climbs the city can not seize the city gate, then the Qing army can continue to climb the city through the steps behind the city gate, and the Ming army is blocked outside the city gate tower, and the Ming army can not seize the urn city, and cannot open the city gate to put the main force into the city.

The moat of Xiangyang was too perverted, and the Ming army could only cross the river by boats, rafts and bamboo rows, and could not invest all its troops at once. If the conventional siege method is followed, it will take more than a month to fill in just a moat. Now the Qing army has used a plan to surrender, and the Ming army is a plan, so it did not fill in any section of the moat, and completely relied on boats, rafts and bamboo rafts to ferry back and forth, and the follow-up troops were difficult to go up for a while.

At this time, the boats, rafts and bamboo rows of the Ming army rowed back to the opposite bank to pick up the follow-up troops, and the attack on the city head appeared a gap for a while, and the follow-up troops could not come up for the time being. Fortunately, Wang [Fu] Chen's troops were indeed elite divisions, and they were well-armed, and everyone fought a bloody battle with the Qing army.

The Qing army launched a counterattack in an attempt to recapture the lost city.

The Ming army used sandbags, knife carts, female wall carts and rolling wood and stones of the Qing army at the head of the city to construct fortifications and defend the Qing army's counterattack on the city wall.

"Put!" The steel knife in the hand of the king pointed forward.

The musketeers of the Ming army, who were hiding behind the knife cart and the women's wall car, pulled the trigger, and the muskets that stretched out from behind the buttress of the women's wall car spewed out flames, emitting white smoke, and the Qing soldiers who fought back continued to spray blood and fell down in pieces.

The Qing army in the second round of attack also pushed the knife cart and the female wall cart, using the city defense weapons as cover, and pressed up step by step. The bullets fired by the Ming musketeers hit the knife cart and the women's wall cart, and the thick wooden planks blocked the bullets. At the same time, the Qing army's birdmen, flintlock musketeers, and archers hid behind the final knife cart and the female wall cart, and engaged in fierce fire with the Ming army.

The grenades of Wang's ministers had run out, and they fired muskets at the Qing army, and there were also many casualties among the Ming army. However, the elite Ming army firmly controlled the breakthrough at the head of the city, like an iron nail nailed to the head of the city, and did not retreat a step.

The counterattacking Qing army attacked in front of them, and several Qing soldiers used spears to pick up the women's wall car, and the Qing soldiers behind shouted and jumped over. The musketeers of the Ming army, who had not had time to reload their bullets, did not think much about it, and immediately picked up their muskets with bayonets and engaged in a fierce battle with the Qing troops who counterattacked in front of them.