Like the Ming army, the defending Qing army also used a rotation method to defend the defensive line. After Hu Wenke saw the arrival of two reinforcements from Niu Lu's Han Eight Banners, he planned to let one of Niu Lu go to the city to participate in the battle, and the other Niu Lu and the green battalion of the reserve army fought in the wall in reserve. At this critical moment, Han Baqi did not intend to bargain, and he wanted to join the war group without saying a word. When they saw the Central Army like the Eight Banners rushing to help the war, Hu Wenke's subordinates cheered one after another.

However, at this moment, Li Guoying's heralds arrived again, and after careful consideration, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi still ordered to delay the time for the Han Eight Banners to enter the battlefield as much as possible. The defense line attacked by the Ming army was about two kilometers long, and tens of thousands of Qing troops took turns to defend it, and Li Guoying felt that there was no need for the Eight Banners to be dispatched for the time being. While ordering Hu Wenke to use the Eight Banners troops prudently, Li Guoying also asked the generals in other areas to send a little people to Hu Wenke. The order of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was that as long as the green battalion still had spare strength, the Han Eight Banners should not be consumed in defensive battles. These Han Eight Banners were only just in case, and only when the Green Battalion was no longer able to stop the Ming army from advancing along the city walls, the Han Eight Banners could be put into battle.

Under Li Guoying's handsome flag, he was explaining his deployment to Sun Sike: "Thieves will be tired, and they may show flaws at any time. This flaw can be big or small, maybe a thousand people can seize the opportunity and win, maybe three thousand people are not enough. Therefore, it is necessary to accumulate a relatively large army in hand as much as possible, so that it is easy to find more opportunities to break the enemy and break the siege. ”，

Li Guoying said this because Sun Sike had misunderstood again just now, Sun Sike thought that after the battle of Zhongxian, Li Guoying would be worried that the Han Eight Banners would have to leave the stall at a critical moment, after listening to Li Guoying's explanation, Sun Sike had nothing to say and retreated to the side, and the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi also continued to observe the battlefield.

Everyone's life is at stake, but Li Guoying does not doubt the fighting spirit of Han Baqi. In addition to Sun Sike and his gang, Chongqing also had 400 Manchurian garrisons and Eight Banners. These Manchu and Han Eight Banner armies are the central troops of the Qing court with the best nutrition, the most training funds, and the highest degree of loyalty, as long as it is a matter of their own life and death, Li Guoying feels that their combat effectiveness should still be above the green battalion. In addition to these Eight Banner troops, Li Guoying also had 600 Governor's Standard Battalion Guards in his hands. After escaping back from Qijiang, there were only more than 200 people left in Li Guoying's standard camp at one time, and some of them have been restored in the past two years, and they are all heavily armored cavalry like the Manchurian Eight Banners; The last 1,000 people in the reserve were Shaanxi veterans carefully selected by Li Guoying, commanded by Wang Mingde and several other old subordinates.

After receiving Li Guoying's order, Hu Wenke had no choice but to adjust his deployment and use the troops at hand to resist He Zhen.

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"The thieves are filling in the trenches!"

A Qing soldier poked his head out and observed that Li Laiheng's troops were also approaching the front of the city.

"Prepare to throw stones." The Qing army officer gave the order. Li Guoying supervised the battle on the tower not far away, and the Qing army officers here must behave well, and they must not allow the strong men to cheat and cheat.

Because it was facing the commander of the Kuidong Army, the Qing army also deployed a large number of elite soldiers. While the Qing soldiers stocked up on more wood and stone by the wall, a large number of archers were also neatly on standby in the back row. Song Liang was also one of them, he saw scouts poking their heads out of the battlements from time to time to observe the progress of the Ming army in front of the city, most of them poked their heads out quickly, looked around and immediately retracted to report; But there was also bad luck, just beside Song Liang, a scout had just poked his head out when he was shot head-on by a crossbow arrow, and Song Liang even heard the dull sound of the cold metal shooting into the flesh of the human cheek.

Almost at the same time as the crossbow was struck in the cheek, the scout's helmet was also shot by another arrow, and the Qing soldier who was hit fell to the sky, and after a few convulsions, he was motionless.

Immediately, two unarmored soldiers walked over, dragged the dead scout to the inner wall, and pushed it down the wall.

Song Liang saw one of the unarmored soldiers remove the scout's helmet with one hand, and with the other he ripped off the hat on his head and put it on.

"This helmet can not only save lives, but sometimes it can also kill you, most of this scout just now is because of this......" Song Liang thought silently in his heart. At this moment, the officer's command was heard, interrupting Song Liang's speculation about the cause of the scout's death.

"Archer, step forward!"

"Wow." As the Green Battalion soldiers responded, they leaned towards the battlements. Song Liang's lips moved, and he also agreed softly.

The officers have already explained just now that the Qing army's bows and arrows do not hurt much to the slowly advancing Ming army's shield wall, so the officers asked the Qing army to target the Ming army's unarmored soldiers who carried dirt bags or ladders. Although these targets are farther away, it is easier to attack them to achieve results.

All the archers of the first row approached the battlements. Song Liang was very nervous in his heart, but he did not hesitate to stride forward, if there was any hesitation at this time, the officer who supervised the battle would definitely raise the steel knife instead of the leather whip without hesitation.

As a veteran who had participated in several urban assault and defense battles, Song Liang knew that when they first appeared on the battlements, they would be attacked by a heavy rain of arrows from the enemy. There was a wall battlement in front of him, Song Liang took a deep breath and took the last step, he was already standing on a battlement, and suddenly had an unobstructed view of the situation outside the city. A large shield array of déjà vu resembles a massive beetle-like creature, slowly wriggling at the edge of the trench. Behind them were the endless stream of Ming army without armor, they transported the soil bags like ants, and then used these to fill the trenches, pile up the city walls, and let the Ming army rush into Chongqing on the dirt mountain, and kill Song Liang and them all.

Song Liang steadily opened his bow and aimed at an enemy within a range of the Ming army's shield array, where Song Liang was aiming, there was a busy flow of Ming troops, and if he accidentally missed, there was a chance to hit others.

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Not far in front of Song Liang, Lao Qingyan was raising his crossbow machine and pointing it at the head of Chongqing. Deng Ming assigned these Hanyang-made individual crossbows to his veterans of the Zhejiang army, and Li Laiheng also gave them to the best marksmen in the Jingzhou army. The crossbowmen were the first Ming troops to approach the city of Chongqing, and under the cover of shield soldiers, they first engaged in a battle with the archers in the city. Both sides were under the protection of shield men, so neither side achieved a worthy result. However, through this kind of shooting, both sides have figured out some details of the other side. The Qing army considered the equipment of the Ming army, and the cover of the Ming crossbowmen ensured that the brigade could approach the city walls faster and safer.

When the infantry of the Ming army was approaching the city wall of Chongqing, Lao Qingyan saw that the enemy shooters on the city wall had disappeared. Recruits may feel strange about this, but in the eyes of veterans like Lao Qingyan, it is a normal thing - after the Qing army finds that the long-range attack is not effective, they will naturally hide behind the battlements, which not only hides their strength but also avoids damage from stray arrows.

On the section of the road where the Ming army formed a shield formation and cautiously approached in front of the trench, Lao Qingyan aimed at the head of Chongqing with a crossbow machine from beginning to end. Past experience told him that when the Ming army began to fill the trenches and clear the plum blossom piles, a large number of enemy archers would appear and launch a fierce attack. All the crossbowmen and archers of the Ming army were hidden in the shield formations of the infantry, fully on guard, ready to give a head-on attack when the Qing archers appeared.

Crossbowmen need to react extremely quickly, and crossbowmen undoubtedly have an advantage over archers, as they can stay fully wound all the time, which archers obviously can't. Even so, the crossbowman needs to maintain a high level of mental concentration at all times in order to seize that fleeting opportunity.

However, Lao Qingyan was not able to launch at the moment when the Qing army appeared, because he was busy winding his crossbow machine, and although the head of Chongqing was calm just now, from time to time there were mole-like Qing army scouts poking their heads out to observe the movements of the Ming army under the city -- hiding behind the battlements, the field of observation and shooting was very narrow, and the Qing army could not accurately grasp the overall movement.

For the scouts of the Qing army, Lao Qingyan generally did not attack. Because most of the scouts are experienced veterans and are agile, if Lao Qingyan sees the target appear and then turns the crossbow arrow to aim, at that time, the scout has already seen everything in front of him and quickly retracts behind the wall.

But just now, an enemy directly behind the wall in front of him made a mistake, his body was not low enough, so that Lao Qingyan could see the spire of a helmet poking out from the edge of the wall. So Lao Qingyan raised the crossbow and locked it in the place where the spire of the helmet was. A Ming army archer beside Lao Qingyan, after being prompted by Lao Qingyan, also bent his bow in that direction.

Seeing the spire of the helmet swaying for a while, when it was about to come out, Lao Qingyan pulled the crossbow machine, and the iron arrow shot out, and when it flew on the city wall of Chongqing, the Qing scout hiding behind the wall just poked his head out and caught Lao Qingyan's crossbow arrow with his cheek. The movement of another Ming army archer was a little slower, and after seeing Lao Qingyan's arrow shoot out, he followed the bow, and Lao Qingyan saw that the arrow seemed to have hit the target - a recruit is a recruit, Lao Qingyan knew that if there was no one, this archer would probably have to see the head clearly before opening the bow, so when the feather arrow flew, the other party would have disappeared behind the wall again.

When Lao Qingyan raised the crossbow bolt again, the Qing army behind the battlement had already completed a round of shooting and retreated.

Many of the Ming soldiers were shot by the enemy, and they were quickly helped down by their companions, who also struggled to hold back the pain until they were far away from the fighting troops before they began to cry out in pain.

The archers of the Qing army appeared behind the battlements in groups, and they attacked the Ming troops who were engaged in carrying and the Ming crossbowmen who were threatening greatly, and the Ming army also kept counterattacking the city with colors.

Song Liang had already rotated three times, and he saw the officers commanding the unarmored soldiers to prepare in front of the battlements, and ordered them to lean out to attack the Ming army in front of the city. This order relieved Song Liang, because these people would attract the fire of the Ming army for the shooters. The officer then turned to look at the archer, Song Liang knew that the tactics of the archers were about to be deployed, and this tactical deployment would determine his life and death today.