Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 545 Fierce Battle

The establishment of the Five Loyalty Army, each battalion is basically based on the original establishment of the Shenji Battalion, except that there are no horses, each battalion is full of 5000 people.

Li Dingguo was included in the Zhongyi Army, and now serves as the commander of the Zhenwu Battalion, Zhang Xianzhen is the Tongzhi, and together command 5000 troops to attack the mountain.

The original command of the Western Army to attack the mountain was a cannon fodder test, but this time it was completely different. It was the Ming army who had dug trenches for half a month and was fully prepared for a one-hit kill.

At this time, the Ming army entered the deep moat and marched in a circle.

The Qing army lost a few yuan, and he felt that it was boring, so he stopped.

On the city, Wu Sangui took a look and guessed that Li Guoying was more or less fortunate. Although he had expected it a long time ago, and Li Guoying was not one of his people, he still felt somewhat sad.

After all, once the stronghold is lost, the Ming army can concentrate on attacking the city, but the terrible thing is that the Ming army dug the city, but they have already dug and collapsed a piece of the south of the city.

At this time, the Ming army circled up the mountain and finally reached the exit, and the Qing army was obviously ready.

The battle drums were beating non-stop at the foot of the mountain. Wang Yan took a binoculars to watch the top of the mountain. A hundred Ming soldiers came out from the exit with their shields on their backs to make a test. They were immediately bombarded by nearly ten cannons. fell here.

When the Baiming army was bombarded, the Qing army also immediately shot a wave of arrows. The Ming army injured 30 people and immediately retreated to the deep trench.

In order to reduce the damage caused by thunder, rocks and logs, the Ming army braved the rain of arrows to push the deep trench to a hundred steps away from the foot of the stronghold, and dug another circle around the stronghold in order to facilitate the deployment of troops and horses.

At this time, at the exit of the deep moat, Zhang Xianzhen saw that the Ming army had been severely attacked by the Qing soldiers as soon as they attacked, and quickly said: "The Qing army was prepared for a long time ago and deployed heavy troops at the exit."

Seeing this, Li Dingguo frowned, "Since the focused attack is not enough, let the soldiers lift the wooden boards, climb out of the deep trench, and climb from all sides. As long as they attack one place, the second wave will attack the breakthrough point with all their strength."

"Then the generals will lead the first wave, and the commanders will follow behind." Zhang Xianzhen clasped his fists and pleaded for orders. Now that he has been recruited into the Five Loyalty Army, it is equivalent to boarding a big ship, and he no longer has to worry about Zhang Xianbi's affairs implicating him. meritorious service.

Li Dingguo nodded, the chief of the first battalion had no reason to take the lead, Zhang Xianzhen went first, it was reasonable.

At this time, on the deep trench, a wooden board was pushed away, and a flag stretched out, waving again and again.

The deep moat is narrow and cannot accommodate many people. Of the 5000 people in the Hujie Camp, more than 1000 arrived at the tunnel near Qingzhai, and most of the rest were coiled on the mountainside. Moreover, the soldiers were in the deep moat, and the general's orders could not be conveyed. We can only play the semaphore to Yamashita first, and then use the war drums at the foot of the mountain to convey orders.

At this time, with the waving of the flag, Yamashita quickly responded. The rhythm of the war drum changed instantly, heavy beating and light beating, and the length of the interval could represent different instructions.

Following this change, the planks on the ditch near the cottage were immediately lifted, and the first wave of more than a thousand soldiers jumped up from the ditch as if they had drilled out of the ground. Carrying the bamboo ladder, he climbed up and rushed over the fatal distance of a hundred steps.

The Qing army originally focused on defending the exit, but they quickly realized that the rolling stones and arrows on the mountain suddenly fell like raindrops, shooting all over the sky. Logs and clay pots filled with quicklime came crashing down like hail, but many Ming soldiers who couldn't dodge were smashed to pieces and rolled down the hillside screaming.

Looking at the car, Yuan Zongdi felt a pain in his flesh when he saw this. This was not cannon fodder, but his brothers, "This cottage is really difficult to fight, the trench is almost dug to the bottom, and it is still impossible to rush up."

"There should be no problem this time. The Qing army can't focus on defense when climbing in all directions. The guards on each side will be weaker, and as long as you climb a hundred steps, it will not be difficult to attack." Wang Yan analyzed it again and issued an order: "Here I beat the drums to urge the battle, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

In order to dig trenches, the Ming army killed at least more than 1000 people. It is impossible that there was no effect.

Sure enough, with the rumbling drums and the shocking shouts of the friendly troops at the foot of the mountain, Zhang Xianzhen charged forward in person with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, shouting: "Rush up, kill all the dogs!" He smashed the low wall, and chopped down a Qing soldier who was holding a rock and smashing it down with a single knife.

Zhang Xianzhen slashed and killed with a knife, the Qing soldiers behind the low wall were in chaos, and when they were in chaos, no one was throwing rolling stones and beating trees, the Ming army suddenly felt the pressure lighten, using this place as a breakthrough, they climbed up more than ten in an instant Ming army.

At this time, with the first wave of Ming army attacking, the tunnel full of people was immediately emptied, but he didn't stay empty for long, and was immediately filled by the people behind him.

The first wave of thousands of people attacked and climbed from all sides. Most of them failed to get close to Qingzhai, but there were also a few places that broke into the low wall. This was the opportunity for the Ming army. Li Dingguo immediately let the second wave start climbing.

On the wall of the Qing army's stronghold, Li Guoying saw that the low wall was killed by the Ming army, and the Qing army could not use rolling stones to beat the wood to attack the Ming army who continued to climb, and felt very anxious.

At this time, he saw that a bright general was very brave, beheading many people in succession, he snatched the bow and arrow from the Qing soldiers beside him, opened the bow and set the arrow, opened the bow and set the arrow, unexpectedly shot two arrows in succession.

Zhang Xianzhen was fighting with people, when a gust of wind suddenly hit him, he turned around and blocked an arrow with a knife, but the next moment, his whole body suddenly fell backwards, and an arrow hit his left shoulder.

Seeing this, several Ming soldiers immediately stepped forward and protected him with shields.

The weather is too hot, and it is mountain climbing, so most of the soldiers and generals wear light armor, and their defense is relatively poor.

At this time, as Hu Xianzhen was injured, the Ming army inside the low wall had to fight with the Qing army's infantry, and was also shot dead by the Qing army's archers on the wall, which seemed to mean being driven down the mountain.

Fortunately, the civil war on the low wall was a mess, and there were no rolling stones and trees. The second wave of Ming troops quickly climbed up and stabilized the battle.

The first two waves of the Ming army were all swords and shields. They stabilized their positions, and there was nothing to command in the back. Li Dingguo immediately rushed up the mountain with the third wave of archers.

Under his leadership, the archers of the Ming army began to shoot arrows at the wall of the stronghold. The dense arrows shot at the stronghold, and the Qing soldiers fell down in large numbers.

The weather was so hot that many northern soldiers took off their cotton armor and went into battle shirtless. Some of them only wore a cloth jacket, which basically had no defense. They would be injured if they were hit by an arrow. The Qing army's archers were immediately suppressed. The Qing army immediately relaxed, the Qing soldiers were hacked and killed, a large area was cleared with swords and shields, bamboo ladders began to be erected, and the Ming army began to climb up the stockade.

Li Dingguo thrust his spear into the ground, fetched a hard bow, and aimed one arrow at the wall of the village with perfect precision.A hundred households climbing up the ladder were holding their shields against the spears stabbing at the wall of the village, but suddenly they felt the pressure lighten, and when they looked up, they saw that the two spearmen of the Qing army were shot dead by bows and arrows, and they were both shot together. Arrow pierced the throat.

Seeing this hundred households were overjoyed, their feet flew like flying, and they rushed up five or six steps at a time, and they were about to climb up. The eyes of a Qing army commander suddenly stopped on the unguarded bamboo ladder, and he rushed up immediately, raising his knife. He chopped at Baihu who had just leaked his head, but before the knife arrived, he clutched his throat again and fell down.

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