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The battle of the West Gate of Shunde went very smoothly, and more than 2,000 Tartar soldiers paid the price of hundreds of casualties, but still failed to rush to the wall of Shunde Mansion.

But Li Zixiao was standing in the city gate tower at this time, frowning tightly, he always felt that something seemed wrong there.

At this time, at the south gate of Shunde, Liu Chong was in charge of the direction of the guard, but there was a big problem, and Liu Chong led the White Dragon soldiers into a bitter battle.

Because this is the direction of Abatai's main attack, he did whatever it took to press all his troops at once, a full 5,000 Tartar soldiers.

In front of the southern gate of Shunde, 5,000 Tartar soldiers were all crazy, driven by their respective Niulujia Lazhang Jing Kushba, rushing towards the Shunde city wall, mixed with ladders one by one.

Liu Chong saw so many Tartar soldiers, rushed madly, and his face suddenly changed, he knew that the Tartars should be hiding from the sky and the sea, and secretly moved the main force to their side and launched a strong attack.

And he only had less than 600 Bailong soldiers under his command, and about 1,000 Shunde soldiers and civilians, looking at the black pressure of the Tartar soldiers under the city, he knew that there was a big trouble.

"Immediately go and report to the general, and say that we have fallen for the Tartar scheme, and my side is the real direction of the Tartars' main attack, and now there are at least four or five thousand Tartars storming the south gate.

Let the general immediately send reinforcements to support us, otherwise with the little strength in our hands, it will be impossible to defend the south gate at all."

I, Liu Chonghui, will lead my subordinates, and at the last moment of the battle, I will never take a step back! ”

Liu Chong sent out a personal guard beside him to ask Li Zixiao, who was still at the west gate of the city, for help, but it would not work if he did not ask for help.

In the face of the attack of the black pressure of the Tartar soldiers under the city, even Liu Chong was not confident that he could hold on until the moment when Li Zixiao led people to come to support.

But Liu Chong didn't plan to retreat without a fight, and gave up the South City Gate, even if he didn't have enough troops in his hands, he would fight until the last moment.

Thundered......

Liu Chong's side is the same as Li Zixiao's West Gate, equipped with artillery and bird guns at the same time, but the number is slightly less than that of West Gate's side by about one-third.

The Tartars began to charge, and Liu Chong fired from the artillery.

When the Tartars arrived, one hundred and fifty paces from the city wall, the Fran cannons on the city wall were already firing at such high speed that the barrels were already hot.

The gunners had no choice but to retreat, constantly using clean water to cool down the barrels, and then continued to fire.

Subsequently, the Tiger Squat Cannon, which had been silent, also began to exert its might, and the Tiger Squat Cannon was loaded with scattered bullets, and all the shots issued from the barrel were dense lead bullets or iron balls.

When the projectiles fell from the sky, many Tartar soldiers who rushed in front were immediately hit by this rain-like projectile, and screams rang out.

"Ahhh......h

I watched the Tartar soldiers who rushed to the front, being hit by projectiles like hailstones, and lying on the ground with screams.

Supervising the battle at the back of the team, Abatai, who could see it clearly, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Among the Tartar soldiers who had just been knocked to the ground included a Niu Lu and a few Kush Dials, as well as a number of horse armor soldiers.

These people are all the elites of the Blue Banner, and now they are being knocked to the ground like wheat by the artillery of those Ming people.

Abatai's heart at this moment is like being burned by a red-hot iron, and it hurts to the heart!

But there is no turning back from the bow, and it is impossible for Abatai to change his mind at this time because of a few casualties, which is not what the general does.

Abatai's face had become extremely hideous, and he shouted loudly in front of him: "Rush, rush forward, kill all these dogs, the gold and silver treasures in the city, women, you can rob and kill them!" ”

Under Abatai's strict orders, the Tartar soldiers rushed forward desperately, and after paying a lot of casualties, they finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall and began to climb the ladder.

"Birdman, fire!"

With Liu Chong's loud roar, there were bursts of gunshots like fried beans over the south city of Shunde.

The Tartars, who were desperately trying to climb upwards, immediately fell in pieces.

The new type of bird gun that the White Dragon Army is equipped with at this time, although the accuracy is still not very good, but at such a distance of more than ten or twenty steps, it is not difficult to shoot at such an obvious target.

As the gunshots continued to ring, the Tartar soldiers, who were desperately climbing upwards, were constantly knocked down the ladder.

Falling from the two-foot ladder, even if they were not dead, those Tartar soldiers had already lost their combat power, and one by one they fell to the ground screaming and moaning.

A White Dragon Army Bird Soldier rose up, and after loading with buckshot, he poked most of his body out of the battlement and shot at the front.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed, and the bird-stinger screamed and fell backwards.

A heavy arrow from a Tartar soldier struck him in the chest, and the long arrow pierced him in the chest.

He lay on the ground, screaming so terrible that he didn't seem to survive.

"Be careful, everyone, be careful with the Tartar's bow and arrow!"

A White Dragon Banner General hurriedly opened his throat and loudly reminded the surrounding soldiers.

Who knew that after this guy shouted a few times, he was also hit in the head by a long arrow flying from nowhere, and fell to the ground without saying a word.

It turned out that at this time, a large number of Tartar archers had already caught up one after another, and they stood under the city wall, shooting arrows desperately towards the city head to suppress the firepower of the Ming army.

Liu Chong, who was standing on the tower of the city and commanded, saw such a scene, and hurriedly ordered: "Order the bird gunners to shoot at the archers of the Tartars, and they can't suppress our firepower."

In addition, you bring up the two boxes of grenades that the general gave us before.

When he saw that there were many Tartars in the city, he threw grenades into that place and gave them some cruelty. ”

"Yes!"

When one of the heralds received the order, he immediately ran down the wall and backwards.

As the White Dragon Army's bird guns and Tartar archers began to shoot at each other, the Tartar soldiers, who had lost the suppression of the bird's firepower for a while, were desperately climbing up one by one.

This made the Tartar soldiers who were climbing the ladder suddenly feel greatly reduced.

Knowing that the opportunity was rare, they desperately stepped up the ladder one by one, and soon some Tartar soldiers climbed up one after another.

Liu Zhong saw more than a dozen Tartar soldiers climbing up along the ladder, with both hands and feet, and they were all about to climb to the battlements of the city wall.

Liu Dazhong shouted: "Golden juice, pour it down for me!" ”

At this time, two soldiers immediately scooped a large spoonful of gold juice from the cauldron with a large wooden spoon, and then came to the mouth of the city wall and poured it down.

The boiling dung juice immediately poured down like a waterfall, and the steaming heat came out in the cold wind, and an extremely foul smell began to diffuse.

As the gold juice fell, a terrible cry sounded from below.

On this ladder, seven or eight Tartar infantry soldiers who were climbing, as well as a few unarmored Tartar auxiliaries who pressed the wooden ladder under the ladder, were all poured with boiling dung.

Immediately they screamed, fell to the ground, and rolled back and forth on the ground holding on to the place where they had been struck by the golden juice, making a scream that did not resemble a human voice.

The boiling dung juice that split the head and covered the face, rushed down, and no one was spared, and one by one the skin and flesh fell down the ladder, and even the cotton armor on the body was snorting and smoking.

The unarmored auxiliaries below who had no shield protection were even worse, their hands and faces were all burned open, and even the white bones inside were exposed.

These tartars, who had been burned by the golden juice, screamed miserably on the ground, and poured dung juice on their bodies, all of them badly burned.

Even if you don't die on the spot and are contaminated with feces full of germs, it won't be long before the wound will be severely infected and rotten, and there is absolutely no chance of survival.

"Grenades, quick, throw them where there are a lot of people."

As more and more Tartars climbed along the ladder to the southern city wall of Shunde, Liu Chong, who already had few troops, felt more and more pressure.

As a last resort, he used a grenade, a big killer weapon.

Thundered......

With the white dragon soldiers, they threw fifty paper mines and ten iron mines at the city, making a violent explosion sound, blowing up many surrounding Tartars.

Although there were not many Tartars killed by the explosion, many Tartars were injured by the bullets and iron pellets fired in all directions.

What's more, the sudden and violent explosion caused the Tartars who rushed up from behind to panic.

Looking at the ground in front of them, the companions who were rolling and screaming with wounds on their bodies, many Tartar soldiers also hesitated and slowly slowed down.

"Rush, rush, don't stop!"

He was followed by a Tartar Niu Lu who shouted loudly, urging the Tartar soldiers in front of him to continue to rush forward, but he always hid behind.

The fierce battle continued, and despite Liu's calm command, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army killed and wounded many Tartars.

However, Abatai was determined to capture the city of Shunde, and even though the Tartars suffered many casualties at this time, they still did not receive the order to retreat, so they had to desperately climb the city wall.

When one of the Tartars fell, another climbed up, and gradually the corpses of the Tartars were piled up under the walls.

The advantage of the bird's gun soldier was also revealed at this time, an archer fired twenty or thirty arrows in a row, which was basically the limit, and the arm would be so sore that he couldn't lift it.

Bird guns are not like bows and arrows, they don't need strong arm strength at all, as long as the bird guns are not hot, and there is a sufficient supply of ammunition, they can shoot continuously.

Half an hour had passed, and there were at least a thousand corpses of Tartars lying under the southern city wall, but those Tartar soldiers seemed to be red-eyed, and there was no sign of retreat.

At this time, the head of the southern city was filled with thick white fog and choking gunsmoke, which was the masterpiece of the artillery and bird soldiers on the city wall.

Relying on the advantage of artillery and birds, Liu Chong relied on only 600 white dragon soldiers and 1,000 soldiers and civilians in Shunde, so that 5,000 siege Tartar soldiers have not been able to reach the top of the city.

But at this time, they also paid a heavy price of nearly 600 casualties, of which nearly half of the White Dragon Army casualties, more than 200 people, and the rest were soldiers and civilians in Shunde.

Liu Chong's heart gradually hung up, and if it continued like this, they wouldn't be able to last long at all.

After a while, the news that Liu Chong was most unwilling to hear finally came from the city.

"General Qiyu, the bird guns report that now the bird guns are overheated due to the continuous firing, and they can no longer be fired, otherwise there is a danger of exploding."

"General, the gunner reported that the artillery was fired too often, and the barrels were already red!"

"General, the gold juice and rolling wood and stones on the head of the city have been exhausted."

"General, we have thirty grenades left, including twenty-five paper mines and five iron mines."

Liu Chong's face was gloomy, and he listened to his subordinates come to report one bad news after another.

Scold......

Liu Zhong drew his waist knife, said to his subordinates with a cold face: "Brothers, the last moment has come, the gunners retreat with all the artillery and birds, as well as the wounded.

All the rest of you, rush out of your swords and guns, kill the Tartars for Lao Tzu, and never let a Tartar enter the city, and the general will soon bring people to support us.

Brothers, kill me! ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The White Dragon Army was ordered by Liu Zhong to leave less than 300 soldiers, including more than 100 birds.

At this time, they also gave up on the birds, drew their long knives, and prepared to fight the Tartars who rushed up to them in hand-to-hand combat.

Although the number of the White Dragon Army was small, their morale was still high at this time, and their fighting spirit was soaring, and none of them showed fear, and none of them had the idea of escaping.

Of the remaining 700 or so Shunde soldiers and civilians, only about 400 were Shunde garrison officers and soldiers, and the rest were all ordinary people who were temporarily recruited.

They were also given spears or knives each, but looking at their frightened eyes and trembling hands and feet, Liu Chong didn't have much hope for them.

Soon, a Tartar showed his head on the wall, and a Tartar soldier with a round shield and a half-moon short-handled axe in his right hand was the first to rush up the wall.

He was covered in two layers of heavy armor, his whole body was powerful, his cheeks were full of beard, and he had several deep scars on his face.

Looking at his armor and the banner on his back, he turned out to be one of the leaders of the Tartar horse armor, a Tartar veteran with very rich combat experience.

Such a Tartar veteran is also the elite of the Tartar ranks.

When he climbed up the ladder to the top of the city, he didn't look around.

Instead, he waved the shield in his hand and waved it from side to side to protect himself from the sharp blades of the enemy behind the walls.

Then he jumped on the city wall with a shield, and then rushed forward a few steps with a loud shout, trying to use his momentum to frighten the Ming army on the city.

This method, which he has used frequently in previous battles, is still tried and tested.

In the past, when they attacked the city of the Ming army, as long as they attacked the city wall, he could scare away a large group of Ming troops with such a wild roar.

As long as the Tartar soldiers stepped on the wall of the Ming army, it meant that they had already taken a Ming city.

The next battle will be all one-sided slaughter.

Because those Ming troops who were frightened and had no intention of fighting had already collapsed, and they only thought about fleeing for their lives and not being slaughtered.

But this time, the leader of such a Tartar vest soldier miscalculated, and his roar did not scare away the White Dragon Army on the opposite side, which surprised him.