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Hauge brought more than 3,000 cavalry to the outside of Sanyi Fort.

Li Shutai immediately sent someone to persuade him to surrender - Li Shutai, who cherished his life so much, would certainly not do such a dangerous thing in person.

The one who shouted was one of Li Shutai's slaves. He had some eloquence and courage, but he also cared about his life.

He rode to Sanyi Fort three hundred steps away and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Listen to the defenders in the fort. Today, I, His Highness the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, are leading an army of 100,000 people into the pass to attack the puppets and avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

I heard that you are all from the Ming army. If so, why don't you surrender to the Qing Dynasty on the spot?
If you resist stubbornly, you will face death or life in front of our Qing heavenly soldiers.

Surrendering will not only save your life, but His Highness Prince Su will also reward you with many gold, silver, and women..."

boom!
Before the coated slave could finish speaking, the sound of cannons was heard from the top of Sanyi Fort.

Two blooming bombs came straight towards me!

Although the coated slave was clever enough to hit his horse and run away immediately, he still let the explosive bomb fall down. Both the man and the horse were injured and rolled on the ground, howling miserably.

"Master, save me..."

Li Shutai was indifferent, but focused on his master, Hauge.

"You really don't know how to praise me!" Hauge was very angry and had no patience for others to continue to persuade him to surrender. "Pass this king's order to capture Sanyi Fort and leave no chickens or dogs behind!"

"twitter!"

As the messengers left in response, more than 3,000 cavalrymen acting as vanguard immediately started moving.

Although they only carried Crouching Tiger Cannon, they had nearly a hundred of them.

As for the firepower of Sanyi Fort, they don't know yet. That's why they have to attack the test...

Sanyi Fort is built on a protruding hillside. It is three feet high, and it is four to five feet high from the valley below.

The military fort is circular in shape, divided into upper and lower floors, and has a cellar.

The uppermost layer, that is, the top floor, does not have houses, but is a platform used for combat, with crenels as protection.

Such a military fort does not have field guns, but it has four general guns from the pre-Ming Dynasty, two red barbarian guns, and sixty squatting tiger guns.

As for the musketeers, there were three teams of ninety men.

There are also a number of firearms such as pistols and three-eyed guns from the Ming dynasty.

Finally, there are thousands of grenades!
It's a pity that they are all old models, not new ones with added yellow explosives.

Even so, this kind of firepower can be said to be fierce, which is one of the reasons why Liu Zhao and other soldiers are willing to defend Sanyi Fort - what if, what if they can hold out until reinforcements arrive?

The Xinqi who conveyed the military information had been gone for a while, and the headquarters of the third brigade was stationed at Longmen Guard City not far away, and the headquarters of the second regiment was stationed at Chi Castle, which was also not far away.

Moreover, both Longmen Acropolis and Chi Castle are in the upper reaches of the river, so it is very fast to go down the river to Yangtianji.

They were not without hope of reinforcements.

At this time, Liu Zhao endured silently as he saw two to three hundred people approaching, carrying or resisting the Crouching Tiger Cannon. It wasn't until these Qing troops came within 200 steps that they gave the order to fire.

For a time, the general artillery, red barbarian artillery, and tiger squat artillery fired all at once. Even if the Qing army was widely dispersed, there were hundreds of casualties.

However, the remaining Qing captives did not retreat. Instead, they took the opportunity to speed up their pace and approached a position of more than a hundred steps.

These Qing captives are almost all Baoyi, Aha, and even slaves.

They are not afraid of death.

However, the Qing army's military orders were strict, and without orders, they would die if they retreated.

It's better to keep going and give it a try, maybe you can survive, or even make a contribution and have a good future.

Although the Qing army's squatting tiger artillery can also hit a distance of two to three hundred steps, but now they have to attack a place four to five feet high, so naturally they have to get closer.

The Qing army's squatting cannons had already been loaded with lead bullets and gunpowder, and they could be fired when they were set up more than a hundred steps away.

It's a pity that not many can reach the top of Sanyi Fort.

The few lead bullets that were fired failed to cause many casualties to the Yi army because they were too small.

Before the Qing army could reload, the Yi army's Crouching Tiger Cannon was loaded first and fired the second round.

Amidst a series of crisp cannon shots, the remaining Qing troops suddenly suffered nearly a hundred casualties!
Seeing this, Hauge looked ugly.

Although after the battle at Longmen, he realized that the Yi army was not comparable to the Ming army, and the Sanyi Fort was probably equipped with a lot of guns, which would not be easy to chew.

But he still felt annoyed when he really discovered that Sanyi Fort had five or six cannons and dozens of squatting tiger cannons.

"Is it possible that the Yi army has so many artillery pieces that they have no place to put them? Such a small military fort is actually equipped with dozens of artillery pieces, large and small?!"

After hearing Hauge's words, Li Shutai and other Qing generals didn't know how to answer. Because they also felt quite speechless, and even had the idea that "it was a mistake to enter the customs this time."

However, their army has traveled a long distance to enter the pass, and they certainly cannot just retreat.

In that case, Hauge will definitely lose his prestige.

Hauge did not cherish his soldiers, but he did not want to lose his troops in vain, so he immediately ordered the remaining more than a hundred people to return.

Li Shutai suggested: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid we have to wait until the infantry from behind arrive with the red barbarian cannon before we can attack Sanyi Fort.

In addition, we have to beware of reinforcements from the Yi army.

In this case, it is better to leave a few soldiers and horses here to keep an eye on Sanyi Fort, while the other cavalry goes to the south to ambush the Yi army reinforcements. "

Hauge nodded, "That's it!"

Then Hauge divided more than two thousand cavalry to ambush in the southern valley, while he sent five hundred fine cavalry to keep an eye on Sanyi Fort.

After waiting for an hour or two, the Qing infantry arrived.

Hauge immediately asked the general to place twenty red cannons around Sanyi Fort and began to bombard them fiercely.

Although Sanyi Fort was located in a commanding position, only six artillery pieces could barely reach the Qing army's Hongyi artillery position, and they were suppressed by artillery fire.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hauge ordered Baoyi and Aha from the army to approach with the Tiger Crouching Cannon and bombard them.

For a while, Wei Jun was so beaten that he did not dare to show his head.

Haug laughed when he saw this, "Haha, everyone says that the Yi army's guns are sharp, but in my opinion they are just mediocre!"

Sanyi Fort is a building left over from the former Ming Dynasty. Although it was repaired with cement after it was taken over by the Yi army, it was not a real cement building after all. Under the bombardment of twenty red barbarian cannons, parts of it collapsed in less than an hour.

It was getting dark at this time, but Hauge didn't care much and ordered the infantry ants to attack the fort.

The Qing army not only had thick armor, large bows and heavy arrows, but also a lot of firearms. Like the Shun army, they even imitated relatively crude black powder grenades.

However, Sanyi Fort is so big. Although the Qing army has many people, they can only invest about a thousand people at a time.

Even so, the fighting was brutal.

Hauge did not use the flag men at all, but only sent the Baoyi, Aha, and slaves who accompanied the army to go up one round at a time to consume the Wei army's ammunition, arrows and other defensive supplies.

Although the Tai army occupies a favorable location, it only has 300 men. In fierce battles, some people are unlucky enough to be shot by Qing bows, arrows, muskets, or simply blown up by grenades, resulting in constant casualties.

Fortunately, the Qing army's grenades were not very powerful, otherwise the security sergeants of Sanyi Fort would have been killed and injured even faster.

Even so, when it was completely dark, the garrison of Sanyi Fort also killed dozens of people, seriously injured dozens of people, and lost more than a hundred troops!
If the casualties reached 30% in the wild, even if these garrison troops were tougher than when they were the Ming army, they would definitely be defeated.

But now they are clinging to the military fort, and their ability to withstand death is naturally stronger.

For example, in history, all of Zhou Yuji's Yongwei battalion died in the battle to defend Ningwu.

The quality of the Da'ei garrison was no worse than that of the Yongwei Battalion at that time.

However, Liu Zhao and others now basically have no expectations for reinforcements.

For one thing, a long time has passed. If reinforcements are to come, they should arrive before dark.

Secondly, they had seen the Qing army dispatch more than two thousand cavalry to go south.

Even if reinforcements arrive in time, they may be ambushed by the Qing army. It would be good if the reinforcements were not defeated and annihilated by the ambushed Qing army.

If you want to come to Sanyi Fort to aid, unless the reinforcements defeat the ambushing Qing army - thinking about this kind of thing, there is little hope.

Therefore, Liu Zhao and other garrison officers are now mentally prepared to die in Sanyi Fort.

Boom boom boom...

Another round of artillery fire was fired by the Qing army.

As for Sanyi Fort's six long-range artillery pieces, they were either damaged or lacked ammunition, and all failed to fire.

Therefore, Liu Zhao and others could only be beaten passively.

And this undoubtedly makes Sanyi Fort more difficult to hold on to.

Therefore, when the Qing army's artillery fire stopped and its infantry rushed towards them with shouts of killing, Liu Zhao also said loudly: "Brothers of the third battalion, we have already killed enough soldiers today! Every additional one we kill will be If you make money, you can say that you will die without regrets!"

night.

The remaining two hundred or so soldiers of Sanyi Fort's garrison all shouted after hearing this.

"Death without regrets!"

"Death without regrets!" (End of chapter)