Like many important towns, all battlements in the walls of Chongqing had a sloping downward firing hole, from which it was relatively safer to shoot at the enemy. Song Liang wanted the commander to let their veterans make use of the firing holes, and let the less experienced archers take charge of the battlements. However, Song Liang was disappointed by the officer's order, and the officer asked the recruits to monitor the shooting holes and attack if there were Ming troops in sight, while veterans such as Song Liang went to the battlements to prepare for battle.

"Is the situation so severe? This is just the beginning. Song Liang slandered. He was well aware that there was not much difference between a veteran and a new recruit when it came to using the shooting holes, because the field of view there was relatively small, and the angle of attack was relatively narrow, and it was useless to be experienced if there was no suitable target for attack. Having experienced marksmen attack from battlements gives them more targets to choose from, more damage to the enemy, and of course, more likely to be hit by the enemy. This tactic will increase the intensity of attrition on both sides.

The Ming army had already approached the city wall and was erecting a ladder. The officers on the city walls let out a thunderous roar, causing the soldiers to come forward and attack the Ming army. The officers and their servants were all holding steel knives behind to supervise the battle, and the soldiers were not allowed to throw blindly, but they were required to poke their heads out and accurately throw large stones on top of the heads of the Ming troops under the base of the wall.

Next to the shooting hole on Song Liang's right, there were two archers, who took turns pulling their bows and aiming at the hole, and one of them finished shooting and replaced the other. Song Liang glanced at them enviously, then turned to look at the battle ahead, waiting for the right opportunity.

From time to time, the arrows of the Ming army flew up, and the two auxiliaries in front of him stepped forward carrying a large stone, one of them showed half of his body, and was shot by an enemy arrow at the same time as he let go, and the soldier screamed and fell behind him. Song Liang seized this opportunity, stepped forward suddenly, quickly turned sideways beside the battlements, and aimed at a Ming army holding the foot of the ladder before releasing his bowstring. At the same time as the arrow left the string, Song Liang took two steps back sharply - if the Ming army had aimed at this battlement just now, then he would definitely not have had time to wind it.

The Qing soldiers kept coming forward and threw them violently at the city, and people were hit by the Ming army at every moment. In front of the battlements, another Qing soldier went up holding a stone, he leaned out of the wall, and just lifted the big stone above his head, and before he could smash it hard, he was shot in the chest by an arrow. Song Liang saw that the Qing soldier was hit by an arrow from below, and then his body fell forward, and he fell softly on the battlement.

"Push him out!" The officer shouted, and immediately two men stepped forward, lifted the legs of the man on the battlement, and pushed the body out of the city.

"Asphalt!" Seeing that the obstacle had been removed, the officer shouted again with all his might, and the soldiers holding the iron pot in the back hurriedly ran up and poured the hot black liquid from the battlement.

While killing and wounding the Ming army, the archers and slingers of the Qing army also kept falling. Song Liang finished shooting again, and when he hurriedly retreated, he stumbled and fell on his heels, and at the same time heard a slight moan under him.

What tripped Song Liang was a dying wounded Qing soldier. At first, the bodies were always cleaned up in time, and the wounded were dragged down the city, but as time went on, the walls were littered with a large number of casualties.

Coincidentally, several Qing soldiers who rushed up with asphalt pots were also urged by the officers, and one person tripped over the corpse as soon as his feet were soft, and even the entire pot was overturned.

"Throw these things down!" Seeing the chaotic scene, the officer, who had already shouted hoarsely, was furious and cursed the strong men sharply: "Dog, are you in a hurry to be reincarnated? I'm lazy again! ”

Hearing the officers' shouting and scolding, the Qing soldiers couldn't help but say something, and dragged everyone who was lying on the ground to the wall. The man who tripped Song Liang argued in a slight voice, saying that he was still alive, but was also thrown from the inside of the city wall along with the body. Song Liang hurriedly bounced up from the ground with a carp, and jumped at the two unarmored soldiers who were staring at him, indicating that he was normal. The two men took their eyes off Song Liang's body and dragged another corpse.

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The generals of the Qing army rotated the soldiers on the city wall, let the tired people come down to catch their breath, and replaced them with fresh troops to continue the battle -- originally the Qing army thought that if the troops were divided into three groups, one batch at a time, today's battle should be over. But after only such a short time, the first team was already exhausted - if the Ming army continued to maintain this offensive intensity, then it looked like it would have to rotate two or three rounds today.

Li Laiheng received the report that it was only an hour's engagement, and that the section of the city wall he was responsible for attacking had already been reduced by hundreds of men. Li Laiheng's line was the fiercest battle, and the density of bows and arrows above this section of the city wall seemed to be denser than those of Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun, at least several times that of Dang Shousu's side. In order to block Li Laiheng, the Qing army ordered to shoot with all their might, not to be stingy with bows and arrows.

"Li Laiheng is deliberately depleting our army," Li Guoying observed the movement on the city wall for a while, and confirmed that Li Laiheng did not attack with all his strength, and set up the ladder just to deter the defenders, forcing the Qing army to resist non-stop for a moment: "He has erected so many ladders, but he has not climbed people for half a day, obviously he wants to consume more bows and arrows, equipment and manpower, and when we are exhausted, we will join the ants to enter the city together." ”

Li Guoying continued to receive urgent reports that the Ming army had more and more ladders at the head of the city, and the defenders were about to be unable to suppress the Ming army.

"To break Li Laiheng's attempt,......" Li Guoying groaned, hesitating whether to order his subordinates to adjust their deployment, save manpower and equipment, and make Li Laiheng's troops feel that the time was ripe to ascend the city; Furthermore, Li Guoying suddenly had a bold idea, if all the Ming armies had a unified plan, they had to feint first, make preparations, and then launch a unified general attack at the agreed time, then it would be more beneficial to disrupt Li Laiheng's rhythm. Li Guoying can let Li Laiheng come up first, and then concentrate his forces against him, and when Li Laiheng's attack ability is exhausted, he can withdraw his troops and return to their original positions. This would reduce the pressure on the whole line, and it would not be necessary to use the reserves in hand; Most of the Ming troops on other fronts will not be able to get the news in time, and it is likely that they will continue to feint and wait for the time for the general attack to come, so as to give Li Guoying a chance to break through.

"But if I'm wrong, the Ming army doesn't have such a unified plan, but acts separately, it will bring a lot of trouble." Li Guoying considered it again and again, but still did not dare to use such a risky method: "If I make a mistake in judgment, Chongqing will encounter danger and lose a lot of soldiers." ”

Li Guoying, who did not take risks, asked the soldiers to continue to resolutely resist Li Laiheng's attack, and suppressed the activities of the Ming army in the corner of the wall without stopping.

The first day of the general offensive of the Ming army could bring such a huge pressure, which made the staff around Li Guoying all look solemn. Gao Mingzhan looked at Li Laiheng's dense crossbow arrows shooting at Shangcheng, and scolded the southeastern governor for taking care of the enemy--everyone knew that Li Laiheng himself was not capable of making so many weapons. Three years ago, I heard that because he couldn't get military pay from the Yongli Imperial Court, he was so poor that he couldn't even wear clothes for soldiers, let alone armor and sharp blades. Later, I heard that Hu Quancai gave Deng Ming tens of thousands of sets of equipment in Zhongxiang, and Lang Tingzuo's tens of thousands of Liangjiang troops were also wiped out by Deng Ming and Li Laiheng, but if they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, who would have thought that they would be so rich.

"It's okay, it's okay." Li Guoyingqiang laughed and comforted Gao Mingzhan: "At least Hu Quancai and Lang Tingzuo haven't sent cannons to Deng Ming and Li Laiheng. ”

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At this time, Yuan Zongdi was attacking the city wall without hurrying. When he set up the ladder, he asked his men to look for a place where they could dig tunnels, but they hadn't been found yet. As Liu Tichun said, the city of Chongqing is built entirely on a mountain, and there are hard rocks everywhere that are difficult to excavate.

"Little Tiger is playing well, Li Guoying should be there with him." Yuan Zongdi glanced at the central front in the distance, and it sounded like the battle there was much more fierce than he had here.

Yuan Zongdi had now erected more than fifty ladders, and small groups of troops kept trying to climb the city, but they were all very cautious, not climbing upwards with their heads bored, but always on alert, jumping down to avoid asphalt and torches when they saw that the situation was wrong.

In the past, when the equipment was poor, the Ming army could only fill the siege with human lives, but now that he has a lot of weapons, Yuan Zongdi has become more and more cherished for the lives of his subordinates. Because the Ming army was constantly tentative offensive, the Qing army had to maintain the number of defenders on the battlements at all times, which allowed the Ming archers to hide under the cover of the shield array and attack them non-stop. Although the Ming army was the attacking party, Yuan Zongdi felt that the losses of the Qing army were not small, and although many of the Qing army's losses were unarmored auxiliaries, the same was true for the Ming army.

"The topography of Chongqing City is really bad." Yuan Zongdi originally wanted to make some simple catapults to attack, so that when the defenders concentrated their forces on the city wall, they would suffer more casualties. However, the general attack started too quickly, Yuan Zongdi did not have time to make a lot of equipment, and the mountainous terrain was not easy to transport, so it was difficult for Yuan Zongdi to deploy catapults close to the city wall.

At yesterday's military meeting, Li Laiheng concluded that Li Guoying would put the main force on the front line in an attempt to block the attack of the Ming army at the first moment -- everyone concluded that the morale of the Qing army was low, so Li Guoying did not dare to take risks, and he also needed to rely on stubborn resistance to boost morale, so Li Laiheng built a feint attack for a morning, using the equipment in his hands to kill and injure more Qing troops. As soon as noon passed, when the sun turned in front of the Qing army, the whole army launched a general attack and took the city of Chongqing.

"Originally, I was afraid that Dang Shousu wouldn't be able to help them, but it seems that Dang Shousu can't take the city wall." Seeing that the unified battle plan was progressing smoothly, Yuan Zongdi said to himself with satisfaction: "I heard that Li Guoying cast some cannons, and when Chongqing is taken, we will be the ones with cannons." ”