The seven-pinned cannon was once again powerful, and stone bullets like scattered flowers of the Heavenly Maiden fell from the air and smashed into the crowd of Qing army auxiliaries, stirring up a blood mist in the sky, spurting brain pulp and bone fragments everywhere, and the air was filled with a dazzling blood red.

Seeing that the auxiliaries and Minzhuang at the foot of the city wall fell like rice harvested by a sickle, Hu Guozhu wanted to let the general artillery destroy the trebuchet of the Ming army, but those trebuchets were all erected on the top of the hill on a high place, and there was a dense forest in front of them, and the elevation angle of the general cannon was not enough, so it could not hit the trebuchet on the mountain at all.

In four consecutive rounds of trebuchet attacks, thousands of large and small stones fell into the crowd of Qing troops, and more than 1,000 Qing soldiers who were digging under the city wall were killed and wounded more than a third on the spot. On the city wall, feather arrows and projectiles rained down, and a group of Qing soldiers were knocked down. Immediately after the trebuchet finished loading, it rained stones from the sky again.

Stones fell into the crowd, bones shattered, brains splattered, and screams were repeated.

"Run!" The remaining more than 300 auxiliaries and people turned around and ran.

The more than 30 soldiers of the Green Battalion who were following behind the auxiliaries and Minzhuang also turned their heads and fled from the coverage of the stone bullets.

The shield carts and rushing carts discarded by the Qing army overturned horizontally under the city wall, and a row of rockets was shot at the head of the city, igniting these abandoned siege tools, and the fire at the foot of the city wall soared into the sky, billowing black smoke into the sky.

"Those who have not yet fled the battlefield without permission will be killed!" Zhuo Luo Beizi led more than 300 Eight Banner soldiers to block the way of these deserters.

"Get on your knees!" An Eight Banners soldier kicked the crook of a Minzhuang's leg behind the knee.

All the green battalion soldiers, auxiliaries and people who fled back all knelt on the ground, trembling all over their bodies and breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Flee without permission, behead them all!" Ai Xing Ah doesn't know when he appeared on the law enforcement field.

More than a dozen auxiliary officers were pulled out and their heads were cut off first. Then those Green Battalion soldiers were also beheaded off by the Eight Banners one by one. When the last people and auxiliaries were beheaded, these people who had been temporarily drawn from the common people fell to their knees and wept bitterly. Pleading. However, the Eight Banners were unrelenting, one by one, and all the people and auxiliary soldiers were slashed and killed.

Seeing that his green battalion soldiers were all beheaded, Gao Qilong was so distressed that the corners of his mouth twitched. These people who served as the overseers were all veterans who had followed him for many years.

Ai Xing Ah walked up to Gao Qilong, pointed at him with a horsewhip and said, "Immediately send people to attack the city!" The second wall must be destroyed! There are not enough auxiliaries and people. Your people fill it in! If anyone dares to escape without permission, they will take you for their crimes today! ”

Gao Qilong broke out in a cold sweat, and he had to honestly beat a thousand: "Pierce!" ”

Turning his head, Gao Qilong's face was gloomy, and he looked at his subordinates with a fierce look: "Give Lao Tzu a good look at the auxiliary soldiers and the people!" If they dare to retreat, they will be killed on the spot! If you dare to run, Lao Tzu will cut you down first! ”

"Piercing!" A group of generals and officers knelt down.

Ai Xing Ah had already walked up to Xia Guoxiang: "Let your archers and bird gunners follow!" ”

"Piercing!" Xia Guoxiang knelt on the ground and beat thousands.

The Qing army launched another onslaught, with a platoon of auxiliaries armed with wooden plaques at the front, followed by a large number of carrying tools. The auxiliaries and the people with sacks on their backs, the green battalion soldiers with steel knives mixed in the auxiliaries and the people to press the formation, followed by a large group of archers and bird guns.

"Up! Above! The Green Battalion overseers brandished steel swords and urged the Minzhuang and auxiliaries to charge towards the death zone in front.

The drummers of the Green Battalion beat the drums of war, and the Eight Banners blew the horns of conchs, and the rumbling drums and the low sound of the horns mixed together, inspiring the Qing soldiers to attack the mountain.

The auxiliaries and the people rushed to the first wall, which had become a slope, at this time. The seven-pinned cannon erupted with astonishing power again, and patches of stone arced through the air. smashed into the crowd of Qing troops. Even the wooden sign in front of it could not stop the rain of stones falling from the sky, and the stones fell into the crowd, the wooden signs shattered, and people were smashed to break their bones and smash their heads open. Bows and arrows and projectiles on the second wall also spilled over the fortress of the third wall. A cannon spat out balls of fire, raining shotguns from the flanks to the middle, forming a crossfire net.

In the blink of an eye, the corpses of the auxiliaries and the people were piled up on the slope.

Some of the auxiliaries and the people were frightened and turned to run. was beheaded by the Green Battalion soldiers who were mixed in the crowd.

"Up! Rush up! The Warlords roared hoarsely as they brandished their steel knives.

The auxiliaries with wooden cards in their hands rushed to the bottom of the second earthen city, and the auxiliaries and Minzhuang who followed closely behind rushed up, waving the tools in their hands and began to destroy the city walls. The auxiliary soldiers and people who carried sandbags threw sandbags on the ground, and then rows of arrows and projectiles were fired, and the Qing soldiers fell one after another, stacked on top of each other on the sandbag pillows on the ground.

Qing archers and bird-bearers hid behind sandbags and corpses and fired arrows at the city.

On the city wall, falling rocks and wolf fangs kept smashing down, smashing the wooden plaque in all directions, and the people and auxiliary soldiers who were hiding under the wooden plaque to dig the city wall were smashed to the point of flesh and blood. Then the city was drenched with hot gold juice, and heart-rending screams rang out from the crowd.

"Pour!" There was another roar from the head of the city.

The hot oil pot was slowly lifted up by pulleys, and then a crane arm stretched out of the city. The auxiliary soldiers behind the female wall pulled the mechanism, and the oil pot turned, and the pot of hot oil poured down the city like rain.

"Papapa" rows of torches were thrown from the top of the city and landed under the city.

"Huh" rushed to the sky, the screams at the foot of the city were screaming, and the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang who were on fire cried and shouted, struggling painfully in the fire, and rolling on the ground. As the skin on his body was gradually burned black, the Qing soldiers who were on fire on his body fell to the fire, no longer moving, and the air was suddenly filled with a burnt smell of human flesh.

After a while, the second group of more than 1,000 auxiliaries and people who rushed forward were all buried at the foot of the second city wall. More than 700 people died in the attack of the Ming army, and more than 300 people were hacked to death by the Qing army's own warlords.

Rolling wood, trebuchets, bows, birds, and artillery formed a deadly net of firepower, and even the Green Battalion Qing soldiers and the archers behind them suffered a lot of losses.

But immediately after that, the second batch of Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang rushed up again, using their lives to pile up.

The archers and bird guns of the Qing army also posed a certain lethality to the Ming army at the head of the city, and many auxiliaries and people at the head of the city were shot by arrows and fell. But the losses of the Qing archers and bird gunners were greater, and they had only one means of attack, while the Ming army in the city had five or six means of attack.

"Fire!" Hu Guozhu roared with blood-red eyes.

The three-pound general cannon raised the muzzle, and with the explosion of gunpowder gas, rows of shells rushed out of the muzzle with the white smoke and smashed down to the city wall.

Although the power of the three-jin general cannon was greatly reduced after raising the elevation angle, the shelling still caused a certain amount of damage to the not very strong Tucheng. Shells fell on the earthen city, dense craters appeared on the city wall, and patches of earth collapsed. Some shells hit the head of the city, causing losses to the Ming army at the head of the city.

This kind of earthen city wall built on the naturally rising terrain of the hillside is still relatively strong in its ability to resist artillery bombardment, unless the Qing army can transport the red-coated cannons, the destructive power of the three-jin general cannon is not so good.

The Qing army shelled for a while, the city wall did not collapse, although a large area collapsed, but as soon as the Qing army's artillery bombardment stopped, the Ming army auxiliaries and people filled it with sandbags and soil.

At this time, the second batch of auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang of the Qing army rushed up to the city wall.

The rolling wood and stones at the head of the city, the arrows and birds, the artillery in the stone fortress, and the trebuchets on the back hill exerted all their firepower, forming a three-dimensional cross-killing effect, and the Qing soldiers who had just rushed up fell one by one, turning them into corpses on the hillside.

Once again, the Green Battalion's Overseer team found a job: many of the people and auxiliaries turned around to run, but they were all cut off by the Overseer one by one. The Overseer team slashed softly, and finally didn't let the "fish that slipped through the net" escape back to the rear. If the "fish that slipped through the net" escaped back to the rear formation, the consequences would be unimaginable, and these green battalion soldiers would become ghosts under the knife of the Eight Banners.

More than 2,000 lives were filled in the front and back, but the second wall was destroyed only a little, and a lot of sandbags were piled up, and the corpses and sandbags were already more than three feet high.

Because this second earthen city is on the hillside, large siege weapons cannot be pushed up, and can only be filled with human lives. But even if the Qing army conquered the second earthen city, it was useless, and the Ming army still had a third city wall to block them.

Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and allocated the third batch of auxiliaries and Minzhuang to Gao Qilong. Lost so many people and auxiliaries, although these are all captured people, but in the sparsely populated Yunnan at that time, it was difficult to recruit so many people, these people were still Hong Chengchou from Huguang and other areas at that time, if the loss is over, you can only let the green battalion soldiers, and when the green battalion soldiers are dead, it will be Wu Sangui's turn to go to the Pingxi Wangfu army.

The third group of Minzhuang and auxiliary soldiers went up, and in less than half an hour, they were all buried under the second city wall.

Sandbags and corpses were piled higher and higher, and the earth dug up by the auxiliaries and Minzhuang from the foot of the earth city was also piled on top of the sandbags and corpses. With a few more such attacks, the Qing army would be able to pile sandbags and corpses at the top of the city, forming a ramp to the top of the second wall, allowing the soldiers to rush up.

"Isn't there any news from Wu Guogui?" Wu Sangui suddenly remembered Wu Guogui, who was sent by himself to attack the Ming army from the flank, and the 3,000 soldiers he brought.

Wu Sangui didn't know that at this time, Wu Guogui had already fought against the Ming army. The Qing army's mountain soldiers tried to make a detour, but the Ming army left spies in the mountains and forests, and Wu Guogui and three thousand soldiers were discovered by the Ming army as soon as they came around from the side.

The side mountain road is extremely difficult to navigate, and can only accommodate one person. If the Qing army was a sneak attack, this way could be detoured back to the back of the Ming army. But it was discovered, and as long as a few people stood on the mountain and threw stones, the Ming army could block the sneak attack of the Qing army.

Stones continued to fall on the mountain, and feathered arrows shot down from a high place, knocking Wu Guogui and his soldiers back. (To be continued.) )