"Bang, bang, bang..."

The Qing army continued to attack the city day and night, and the fire illuminated the night sky of Fengyang City.

The fierce bombardment of two days and one night has caused a large number of Ming army deaths, including the commander Dai Liren, and more than 4,000 people have been killed in battle.

There were five or six thousand innocent people who died under the Qing army's artillery fire, and countless people were injured by shells and splashed tiles, and the city was filled with wailing.

"Will Lin Zhenjiang, who is raised by a bitch, come? If I don't come, I will surrender!"

After Dai Liren died in battle, Yingtianwei commander Ye Xian became the supreme commander of Fengyang City. At this moment, he was cursing under the female wall and cursing, and the morale of the soldiers behind him was depressed.

He Nengwu, who was promoted to deputy garrison, had a soot on his face. At this moment, he was filling the general's cannon with gunpowder and lead bullets, and then ignited the cannon. "Governor Lin said that, he would definitely come back!"

The shells flew out nearly two miles, landed into the Qing army's artillery position, killed two artillery soldiers, and destroyed a Folang machine cannon.

Ye Xian took the opportunity to stand up and take a breath: "Where is the reinforcements? I haven't even seen a ghost yet!"

He Nengwu roared: "It takes about three days to arrive at the fastest distance of more than 400 miles from Nanjing to Fengyang. If you persist for one day and one night, you should arrive!"

"The shells have fallen on their heads, how can you persist?"

Ye Xian was dejected and suddenly said with a voice, "I'll stop surrendering when I open the door. General Li Jiucheng shot a letter last night..."

The soldiers behind Ye Xian followed suit and cheered: "Surrender, surrender... The court doesn't care about us anymore, and can't work stupidly anymore..."

"The traitor will die!"

He Nengwu suddenly rose up, swung out the steel knife in his hand, and chopped off Ye Xian's head with lightning speed.

He bent down and held it in his hand, his eyes wide open, and his voice was like thunder: "Whoever dares to surrender again, will it be like a thief!"

The personal soldiers behind He Nengwu raised their muskets and pointed them at Ye Xian's subordinates, "Those who dare to surrender will be killed without mercy!"

These soldiers were originally cowards, and the leader was even more leaderless when they died. They begged for mercy: "We dare not surrender, so where do we want to defend and fight to the death!"

He Nengwu raised his head and raised his arms and shouted: "Dear soldiers, fellow villagers, the Tartars were cruel and bloodthirsty. They slaughtered Sizhou in front, and now they threatened to slaughter our Fengyang.

Everyone has relatives in Fengyang. If the city is destroyed by the Tartars, their lives will be difficult to protect. Du Tong Dai sacrificed his life for the country yesterday, and he is indeed a model of our army and a hero of Fengyang.

The reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, and the soldiers gritted their teeth and persevered for another night. The city is in the city, the people are dead, and they will never surrender. They will fight to the last one!"

With He Nengwu's encouragement, the Ming army on the city wall cheered up slightly and shouted in unison: "I will never surrender, the city is there!"

There were only about 7,000 left in the defenders. In order to avoid being slaughtered by the Qing army, the nobles and gentry in Fengyang City sent slaves to the top of the city with their private mesh guns to assist in the defense.

Fengyang is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. There are nearly 100,000 people with the surname Zhu in the city. These people knew that if the city was broken, they would definitely die first. They tried their best to defend the city and wait until reinforcements arrived and still had hope of survival.

With any organization, at least 15,000 private soldiers were added to the city wall, and tens of thousands of various types of mesh guns were added. For a time, the gunshots were much denser, which greatly hindered the Qing army's attack.

At the hour of Hai, the 20,000 vanguard troops under Wu Sangui arrived at Fengyang City, and set up fifty artillery pieces to bombard the city walls, causing a large amount of damage to the defenders.

There was screaming in Fengyang City, and the situation was in danger. How could Wu get caught in a stray bullet? He still commanded the city with injuries and would rather die than retreat.

"I fuck his grandma, the firepower of this army is so strong!"

He Nengwu hid under the wall, holding a Thunder gun in his hand and cursed, "It doesn't look like a dog-full tatar?"

Someone who saw the flag clearly through the firelight reported loudly: "This is not Mangou, this is the team under Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui who was guarding Shanhaiguan."

"I'll fuck his grandma!"

He Nengwu cursed, "When he beat the Tartars, he was like bears, and he beat his compatriots to look like tigers. He turned the cannon to bombard the Wu army with a fierce blow."

In the fire, the Wu army's flanks suddenly became turbulent, and a cavalry rushed out like a ghost from behind the hillside. Taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Wu army, they rushed over.

"Kill!"

The cavalry came very quickly, sweeping into the Wu army's positions like a tide, waving machetes, and slashing at the Wu army's artillery and musket soldiers.

The Wu army was just arriving, and the terrain was unknown, and the attention was focused on the city wall, so they suffered heavy losses unexpectedly. At least four or five hundred people were cut down in a short period of time, and three or four cannons were also damaged.

"Look, it seems to be reinforcements!"

"The reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived, Fengyang is rescued!"

The morale of the defenders on the city was greatly boosted. Under the command of the commander Han Li, the assistant commander Yang Han and others, they fought back and fired at the city with cannons, muskets, bows and arrows, forcing the Qing army to step beyond the line.

"This cavalry is limited in number, kill him!"

The vanguard general of the Wu army, Ma Bao, was unscathed with his sword, and ordered his deputy general Ma Xiong to lead the cavalry to attack, "Go a big circle for me and surround this cavalry, don't put it alone!"

"Follow me!"

Ma Xiong turned over the horse, carried an iron sword in his left hand, and a three-eyed gun in his right hand and pulled the reins. With a long roar, he led the horse to lead the way.

"Kill!"

Three thousand cavalry roared out, each holding muskets, bows, arrows, spears and other weapons, following the main general in a big circle, preparing to intercept the Ming cavalry's retreat.

"withdraw!"

The generals of the Ming army followed Xu Gongji's order and retreated quickly as long as they saw the Qing cavalry dispatched, and they would never fight in love.

The Qing army was powerful, with more than a thousand cavalrymen just chariots, and fighting head-on is like an egg hitting a stone. The right choice is to harass and attack behind the scenes, relieve the pressure on the defenders in the city and encourage their morale.

The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and a thousand cavalry drove away. The Wu army followed and chased after him in a mess, with bows and arrows firing, and muskets roaring.

Feather arrows mixed with lead bullets, steel balls, and raindrops poured into the retreating Ming army. Forty or fifty cavalry and horses were shot overturned, either dead under horse hooves or the heads were harvested by the Qing army that was caught.

But in the end, he quickly got rid of the entanglement of the Wu army and retreated south like lightning. Wu general Ma Xiong was not willing to let go, leading the three thousand iron cavalry to chase him relentlessly.

"Don't leave the Ming army, do you dare to fight with dignity? Hiding your head and showing your tail, and sneaking attacks and harassing you, who are heroes?"

Ma Xiong's voice was loud and could be heard clearly in the chaos. He flew to the green horse under his crotch, waved his iron sword to charge first, and led the Wu army's iron cavalry to chase for seven or eight miles, and he was clenched.

Xu Gongji led 200 cavalry to bend their bows and arrows, and waited on the side hillside. He just waited for the Qing army to rush over and caught him off guard.

"Bah... the traitor who treacherously dares to speak out loud!"

Xu Gongji picked up the Type 95 rifle, used the light of the torch to aim at the Qing generals who were three hundred meters away, pulled the trigger, and fired several shots in succession.

In Ma Xiong's perception, it is only dangerous when the distance between the two sides is about sixty feet, so even if he notices ambush on the flanks, he does not take it seriously.

When the sudden gunfire sounded, Ma Xiong felt his body tremble, and then there was a heart-wrenching pain. Even wearing armor, he could not block the bullets flying through the air, and he was shot to the ground with his man and horse.

The brigade of cavalry following behind could not stop the horse's hooves, and trampled by like a tide, instantly turning into a pile of flesh-and-blooded meat pie.

"Tsk tsk...What a good gun!"

Xu Gongji was so excited that he aimed at the charging Wu cavalry and fired more than ten guns in a row, "Fire for me!"

With the order from the main general, the Ming army's muskets that had been waiting in line for a long time were fired, making Wu army dizzy, people were on their backs and horses, and those who were shot and fell from horses were shot one after another.

If all kinds of coercion guns alone would not be so lethal to the cavalry wearing armor, but there was an amazingly powerful Type 95 rifle mixed in it, that would be another matter.

This automatic rifle developed by China Weapons Group in the 1990s can be placed in the gun even before Lin Yu travels through, and can penetrate 8 mm of steel plates within a range of 100 meters.

What's more, the cotton armor of this period was useless and completely vulnerable to shooting within such a close range.

In addition, the large group of people charged in a intensive manner, and there was no need to aim the bullets flying out of the chamber, and almost every bullet would not fall into nothing. They either hit people or hit horses.

Xu Gongji fired extremely fast, shooting almost at a frequency of 30 rounds per minute. In a moment, he finished more than a dozen magazines and fired more than 300 bullets, killing and injuring at least seventy or eighty Wu cavalry.

Under the leadership of Xu Gongji, the morale of the Ming army was high, and two hundred muskets were fired at the same time. The Wu cavalrymen were on their backs and overturned their horses, and their formation was in chaos, and countless people fell off their horses.

The Ming cavalry, who had been chased for a long time, turned their horses, waved their spears, shouted and rushed straight to the Wu army's positions, and launched a fierce counterattack.

When the Wu army was just arriving, they were attacked continuously and were killed in battle. I don’t know how many ambushings were there in the vast dark night?

The Ming army rushed violently and the morale of the army collapsed and they turned around and fled. Under the trampling of each other, there were heavy casualties and injuries.

Xu Gongji didn't dare to chase him too hard. After all, the Qing army was powerful, and if it fell into the encirclement, it would be abolition.

Seeing that he had taken a lot of advantages, he personally sounded the horn of retrieving troops, "Retreat for the time being, wait for a different direction in the second half of the night before sneaking into the slave army!"

A sneak attack battle, an ambush battle, killed at least nearly a thousand Wu troops and seized more than 300 horses, while the Ming army lost only more than one hundred cavalry, which was considered a great victory.

The Ming cavalry was full of morale, driving away the captured war horses, following Xu Gongji's horse hooves, and soon disappeared into the vast wilderness.

When the angry Qing cavalry leader Wakda led 10,000 Eight Banners cavalry soldiers to arrive, the Ming army was already missing, leaving only corpses in the wilderness and war horses lying on the ground.
Chapter completed!