713 Bloody Scramble

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"All of this is caused by the dog tartars, for the sake of Daming, for the sake of the saint, kill!"

However, the sadness in Hao Qiang's heart soon disappeared.

He knew that at this time, if it wasn't time to think about this, these Han people in front of him were already Tartar dogs, they were enemies, and they had to kill!

These Ming soldiers brought by Hao Qiang were Lu Xiangsheng's descendants, and they were also the few remaining elites of the Tianxiong Army under Lu Xiangsheng back then.

After Lu Xiangsheng took power, he asked Hao Qiang to regain these Tianxiong soldiers, and asked Hao Qiang to retrain a group of recruits.

It's a pity that Lu Xiangsheng can't personally participate in the drill, and Hao Qiang's ability is actually not strong, whether it is training recruits or leading the army to fight, at most it is decent.

The reason why Lu Xiangsheng trusts him so much is because of his brother Hao Jian, and on the other hand, because of his loyalty.

Therefore, the Tianxiong Army after Lu Xiangsheng asked Hao Qiang to rebuild it could no longer return to its previous scale, nor could it reach its previous elite.

There were less than 6,000 people, but compared to the other Ming troops, they were already elite enough.

At least, at this time, Hao Qiang led these veterans of the Tianxiong Army, and when he killed these Qing soldiers, none of them flinched.

Hao Qiang obviously also saw that these attempts to climb the city wall to clear the soldiers were to cover more Qing soldiers to enter the city, and of course he did not allow such a thing to happen.

If they can't be eliminated in time, the more than 20 Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall, when they continue to occupy this corner of the city wall, there will be a steady stream of Qing soldiers rushing up behind them.

At that point, the trouble will be big.

Therefore, Hao Qiang's order to these veterans of the Tianxiong Army is to kill these more than 20 Qing soldiers as quickly as possible, regardless of the cost of casualties.

And these veterans of the Tianxiong Army have also unswervingly carried out Hao Qiang's orders.

Regardless of their lives, they used their own flesh and blood to break through the shield wall outside the Qing soldiers and kill them.

"Kill!"

Hao Qiang, like his brother Hao Jian, has a good martial arts, and at this time he rushed to kill in the Qing soldiers, and the sharp long-pole war knife was extremely sharp, and he slashed and killed several Qing soldiers.

Hao Qiang's war knife was made by Li Zixiao in Jiangbei, the handle is very long, can be held with both hands, and the blade is extremely sharp.

During the battle, Hao Qiang even cut off the long knife in the hand of a Tartar.

Hao Qiang's long-pole war knife was built by Li Zixiao to the craftsmen of the Jiangbei Arsenal as a gift to Hao Qiang and build a good relationship.

Because of Li Zixiao's personal instructions, those knife masters in Jiangbei were also very careful when building.

Using their latest knife casting techniques and tools, it is a bit too much to say that sharpening iron is like clay, but at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, it is definitely the sharpest war knife.

Poof!

As Hao Qiang slashed to death the last Qing soldier on the city wall, it took nearly half a stick of incense to kill all the Qing soldiers on the city wall.

During this period, in addition to the more than 20 Qing soldiers who were the first to climb the city wall, there were seven or eight Qing soldiers who came up later, and they were all killed.

As the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall were killed, the Ming soldiers behind rushed to the battlements of the city wall to prevent other Qing soldiers from continuing to climb.

Some Ming soldiers even used special long poles and forks to directly open the Tartar ladder on this section of the city wall.

The crisis on this section of the city wall can be regarded as temporarily lifted.

"Whew!"

After killing the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall, there was no need for Hao Qiang to do the rest of the matter, he was panting on the city wall with his sword.

Although there was only half a stick of incense and the time for the bloody battle of the Qing soldiers just now, these high-intensity battles were very huge for physical exertion.

"Veterans, assemble, count the numbers."

Hao Qiang immediately roared and asked the veterans of the Tianxiong Army who followed him to gather and check the casualties.

These days, the veterans and elites of the Xiong Army, Hao Qiang didn't use them to defend the city, they just acted as a support team, firefighters, just like just now, where there was a crisis, they would support there.

Of the 5,000 men and horses that Lu Xiangsheng brought from Daizhou yesterday, there were only 2,000 such veterans of the Tianxiong Army.

Originally, Lu Xiangsheng thought that it was a bit early to bring these veterans of the Tianxiong Army to come over so early.

But today, when the Tartar siege began, Lu Xiangsheng knew that he was fortunate to have brought 2,000 veterans of the Tianxiong Army yesterday, otherwise today's battle would be even more difficult.

"Tell the general, the count is complete, fifty people after the battle, forty-five killed, and five wounded."

As he spoke, the face of this Ming general showed a look of loneliness.

Hao Qiang had just led a 100-man Tianxiong Army veteran, and in order to quickly kill the more than 30 Qing soldiers, they also paid a heavy price for casualties.

"The brothers are all good, they didn't embarrass our Tianxiong Army, and they didn't embarrass the marshal."

Hao Qiang looked at the corpses of the veterans lying around, and his heart was also very sad, these veterans were personally led by him, and they were far more emotional than ordinary Ming soldiers.

"Kan Meng!"

Immediately, Hao Qiang shouted at the Bai Zong just now.

"General, you are in a humble position."

"You take your brothers down to rest, and by the way, take the bodies of your dead brothers and your wounded brothers with you, and send the wounded for treatment.

When you go down, let the next team of 100 come up and take your place. ”

Hao Qiang said to this Ming general Baizong.

"General, we can still fight, we don't retreat, I will arrange for my brothers to send the bodies of the fallen soldiers and the wounded down."

The Ming army shouted excitedly.

"Kan Meng, obey the order and take people down."

"General, we ......"

"Get out, Lao Tzu's order, you don't listen to it, do you?"

The Ming army still wanted to fight for it, but was interrupted by Hao Qiang's roar.

"Yes, obedience."

Immediately, the remaining fifty veterans of the Tianxiong Army, with the bodies of their fallen comrades and five wounded, retreated from the city wall and let another team of 100 take their place.

There are a total of eight teams of veterans of the Tianxiong Army like this one on the walls of this Yanmen Pass, and they are ready to support everywhere at any time.

And there are twelve such hundred-man teams under the city, and they will take over as a reserve for the hundred-man team that has retired from the city wall and is crippled.

"Hey, alas, it's just a little bit."

Outside the gate, Bai Ze, the commander of the blue flag, rode on his horse, flicked his whip, looked at the Qing soldiers who had been re-beaten down on the city wall in front of him, and said unwillingly.

"Well, it was indeed an opportunity just now, but Brother Bai doesn't have to regret it.

From the attack just now, it can be seen that the strength of the Ming army defending the city is not strong, so send a group of soldiers up. ”

Zhao Tianda, the commander of the capital with a red flag next to him, was very calm and said to Bai Ze.

"Okay, then send another 3,000 men."

Woooooo

Immediately, there was a desolate sound of bull's horns behind the Qing soldiers, which was an order urging the Qing soldiers to continue the attack.

At the same time, 3,000 Qing soldiers joined the siege from behind, and the offensive of the Qing soldiers did not decrease, but became more fierce.

Among the three thousand new Qing soldiers, a Qing soldier leader who was pressing the formation also jumped out at this time and shouted: "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, it's our turn now."

The general said, the first person to climb the city wall will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold, carry the flag, and rush! ”

"Rush!"

These 3,000 new Qing soldiers shouted one by one and rushed forward bravely.

And the Qing soldiers, who had been crippled at this time, heard the horn of continuing the attack, and saw the reinforcements rushing up from behind, which also boosted their morale again.

Under the orders of the leaders around them, the remnants of the Qing soldiers gritted their teeth and attacked again.

And these Qing soldiers knew that at this time, the horn of attack was blown behind the formation.

If they do not charge, but retreat, the Tartar armourers who are eyeing them behind and supervising them will surely not be stingy with their arrows and will shoot at them.

If they die like this, their families will be given up as slaves to the armoured men.

Therefore, at this time, these Qing soldiers who had been attacking for more than an hour, although they were all tired, they could only charge, and they would die on the way to the charge.

You must know that the first Qing soldiers to attack the city were actually only about 3,000 people, of course, this does not include the gunners, musketeers and archers in the back, but only those foot soldiers who were responsible for the charge.

These foot soldiers also suffered the heaviest casualties in each siege.

After more than an hour of fierce siege of the city, the first batch of 3,000 foot soldiers sent to the city had already suffered more than half of the casualties at this time.

When the remnants of more than 1,000 Qing soldiers continued to carry the ladder and staggered towards Yanmen Pass to attack, the Red Flag Dutong, who was standing behind to supervise the battle, couldn't help but sigh lightly.

Turning his head to Bai Ze, the blue flag beside him, he said: "Brother Bai, more than half of the infantry in the first wave of attacks have been killed and wounded, do you want them to withdraw!" ”

"No way!"

Bai Ze shook his head, his eyes looked behind them slightly, turned his head to Zhao Tianda beside him, and said, "Let them withdraw now, it means that all the achievements will be abandoned, and those warriors just now will die in vain."

So now they can only let them continue to rush, even if they are dead, they must cover the second wave of foot soldiers to rush forward, Brother Zhao, you can't be a woman's kindness!

The princes are watching from behind us, they can't beat the Yanmen Pass, and the two of us are unlucky. ”

Zhao Tianda also knew that what Bai Ze said was right, but he still sighed: "Hey! That's it. ”

Zhao Tianda and Bai Ze knew that in the eyes of Azig and Haoge, all they cared about was when to take Yanmen Pass, and it was far less important than how many Han soldiers were killed or wounded.

In their eyes, these soldiers of the Han army are slaves, and the lives of thousands of people are just cold numbers in their eyes.

"Rush!"

The battle at the gate gate in front of him became more and more fierce, and with the first wave of foot soldiers who continued to fall, the second wave of foot soldiers also came up.

This time, the Qing soldiers once again killed the city wall of Yanmen Pass, but not in one place, but in many places where the Qing soldiers landed in the city.

"Kill me and drive the Qing soldiers down!"

Immediately, Hao Qiang arranged all over the city wall, and those 100 veterans of the Tianxiong Army played a key role at this time.

When the Qing soldiers had just climbed the city wall, a group of veterans of the Tianxiong Army who was closest to there came to their aid in time.

"Kill!"

The sound of shouting and killing enveloped this Yanmen Pass, and a group of Ming soldiers and Qing soldiers fought hand-to-hand on the city wall, and the battle was extremely fierce.

And this time, many small groups of Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall did not rush down as easily as Hao Qiang did.

In order to kill the Qing soldiers who climbed the city wall as soon as possible, the Ming army recaptured the city wall and prevented the Qing soldiers from continuing to climb the city as soon as possible.

As for the Qing soldiers, in order to defend that corner of the city wall and cover the companions behind, they climbed the city wall.

Neither side could back down, so on this narrow city wall, hand-to-hand combat, blood rushed, stumps and broken arms were everywhere, and corpses were slowly covered with the city wall.

"Send another 2,000 people up, we must drive the Qing soldiers down, quickly!"

Seeing that more and more Qing soldiers were coming up on the city wall, Hao Qiang couldn't calm down, so he could only continue to transfer people from the 8,000 reserves in the Guannei.

This is the second time he has transferred people after the start of the war, and the only 20,000 defenders in the city have now participated in the battle, except for the 4,000 reserves.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was still standing on the main tower of Yanmen Pass, and he could clearly see the Qing soldiers outside the city who were holding shields and carrying ladders with cloud ladders.

"Sent a message to the soldiers who had not yet reached the city wall, and asked them to push out the dozen catapults in the pass, tie up three thunderbolts together, and shoot them out with catapults.

I can't let the Qing soldiers behind continue to rush over like this, and I have to cut off their follow-up reinforcements.

As long as their follow-up reinforcements are cut off, those Qing soldiers who have climbed the city wall at this time are sourceless water, and Hao Qiang and they can solve them. ”

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng could see at a glance that on the battlefield, it was a very important point for the Tartars.

As long as you can cut off the Qing soldiers behind you, continue to rush up, even if it can only be cut off for a short time.

Then when the time comes, those Qing soldiers who climb the city wall will not be replenished by the follow-up soldiers, and they will soon be killed by the Ming soldiers who swarm and kill back.

At this time, if you want to cut off the Qing soldiers behind and continue to charge, artillery and iron-shelled mines are undoubtedly the best choice.

Artillery Lu Xiangsheng couldn't count on it, but fortunately, he had a lot of iron-shelled mines in his hands, and he used catapults to throw them out, and the effect was almost the same.

"Yes, let's arrange it."

After hearing this, a Ming general behind Lu Xiangsheng answered, and immediately ran down to make arrangements.

Soon, the only dozen catapults in Yanmen Pass were pushed out by the Ming soldiers, and then they lit three iron-clad mines tied together, put them in the catapult basket, and then threw them out.

"Whoosh!"

In a slight sound of breaking the air, countless black iron-shelled mines were thrown out of the pass by the soldiers of the Ming army with catapults.

Soon, a violent explosion sounded outside the city walls.

The iron-shelled mines that were thrown out by the soldiers of the Ming army in the Guannai with projection vehicles rolled out of the city one by one, and the heels of the Qing soldiers who were charging exploded.

In the earth-shattering explosion, he finally rushed to the city wall, and was bombed horribly, and the stumps that were blown away flew everywhere.

As many as hundreds of iron-clad thunderbolts enveloped the entire foot of the city wall, making this place as terrifying as Senluo Hell.

(End of chapter)