Like many important towns, there is an inclined downward shooting hole below all the battlements of Chongqing City Wall, which is relatively safer to shoot the enemy from here. Song Liang hopes that the commander will let the veterans use these shooting holes and let the less experienced archers take charge of the battlements. However, the officer's order disappointed Song Liang. The officer asked the new recruits to monitor the shooting holes, and if there was a Ming army in his sight, they would attack, and veterans like Song Liang would go to the battlements to prepare for war.

"Is the situation so serious? It's just the beginning." Song Liang slandered. He knew very well that in terms of using shooting holes, there was not much difference between veterans and new recruits, because there was a relatively small field of vision and a narrow attack angle. If there was no suitable attack target, it would be useless to have rich experience. If experienced shooters attacked from battlements, they would have more targets to choose from, which could also bring greater damage to the enemy, and of course, it would be easier to be hit by the enemy. This tactic will increase the intensity of consumption between the two sides.

The Ming army was approaching the city wall and was setting up a ladder. The officers on the city wall let out a thunderous roar, asking the soldiers to come forward to attack the Ming army. The officers and their servants were both holding steel knives to supervise the battle behind them, and the soldiers were not allowed to throw blindly, but they must poke their heads out and accurately throw the big stones on the heads of the Ming army under the wall.

Two archers squatted beside the shooting hole on Song Liang's right hand. They took turns to pull the bow and aimed at the hole. One of them shot and replaced the other. Song Liang looked at them enviously, then turned around and looked at the battle ahead, waiting for the right opportunity.

From time to time, the Ming army's arrows flew up. The two auxiliary soldiers in front of them carried a big stone forward. One of them showed half of their body. While letting go, they were shot by an enemy arrow. The soldier screamed and fell behind him. Song Liang seized this opportunity, stepped forward suddenly, quickly turned sideways beside the battlement, aimed at a Ming army holding the foot of a ladder and let go of his bowstring. While the arrow was off the string, Song Liang took two steps back - if the Ming army had aimed at this clutch just now, he would definitely not have time to turn the string.

The Qing soldiers kept coming forward and threw violently at the city. Every moment, people were hit by the Ming army. Another Qing soldier in front of the battlements carried the stones. He leaned out of the wall and just raised the big stones above his head. Before he could hit it hard, he was shot in the chest by an arrow. Song Liang saw that the Qing soldier was pushed by an arrow shot from below, and then his body fell forward and fell softly on the chassis.

"Put him out!" the officer shouted, and immediately two people stepped forward, raised the legs of the man on the squadron, and pushed the body out of the city.

"Asphalt!" Seeing that the obstacle had been removed, the officer shouted again at the top of his lungs. The soldier holding the iron pot behind him hurriedly ran up and poured the hot black liquid down the mercer.

While killing the Ming army, the Qing army's archers and stone throwers continued to fall down. Song Liang finished shooting again. When he hurriedly retreated, he tripped his feet and fell to the sky, and at the same time he heard a slight moan under him.

The one who tripped Song Liang was a dying Qing army wounded. At first, these bodies were always cleaned up in time, and the wounded were dragged down the city, but as time went by, a large number of casualties were on the city walls.

Coincidentally, several Qing soldiers carrying the asphalt pots rushed up were also anxious because they were urging by the officers. One of them was tripped by the corpse when his feet were weak, and the entire pot was overturned. Several Qing soldiers in front of the wall could not dodge and were splashed by the sticky asphalt liquid, and they all jumped in pain.

"Take these things down!" Seeing the chaotic scene, the officer who was already shouting loudly was furious and cursed the strong men: "Dog, are you in a hurry to reincarnate? You are lazy again!"

Hearing the officers' scolding, the Qing soldiers said nothing and dragged everyone 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 thrown from the inside of the city wall with the corpse. Song Liang hurriedly bounced up from the ground with a carp, jumping at the two armourless soldiers staring at him, indicating that they were all normal. The two men moved their eyes away from Song Liang and pulled another corpse.

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The Qing army generals rotated the soldiers on the city wall, so that the tired people came down to take a breath, and replaced the new force to continue fighting. The Qing army originally thought that they would divide the troops into three batches, one batch after another, and today's battle should end. But after fighting for a while, the first team was exhausted. If the Ming army continued to maintain this offensive intensity, it would seem that they would have to rotate two or three rounds today.

Li Laiheng received a report that it was only an hour to fight, and there were hundreds of people on the wall where he was responsible for attacking. Li Laiheng's line was the most fiercer. The density of bows and arrows above this wall seemed to be closer than the two sections of Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun, at least several times that of Dang Shousu. In order to block Li Laiheng, the Qing army ordered all-out shooting and not to be stingy with bows and arrows.

"Li Laiheng was deliberately consuming our army," Li Guoying observed the movements on the city wall for a while, and confirmed that Li Laiheng did not attack with all his might. He set up a ladder just to deter the defenders, forcing the Qing army to resist continuously: "He has erected so many ladders, but he has not climbed up the people for a long time. Obviously, he wanted to consume more of our bows, arrows, equipment and manpower, and wait until we are exhausted before we can climb the city together."

Li Guoying kept receiving emergency reports that the Ming army had more and more ladders on the city wall, and the defenders were almost unable to suppress the Ming army.

"To break Li Laiheng's attempt..." Li Guoying pondered, hesitating whether he should order his subordinates to adjust their deployment, save manpower and equipment, and make Li Laiheng's troops feel that the time to enter the city is ripe; further, Li Guoying suddenly had a bold idea. If the Ming army in various ways had a unified plan, they had to feint attack first, make preparations, and then launch a general attack uniformly at the agreed time, then disrupting Li Laiheng's rhythm would be even more beneficial. Li Guoying could first let Li Laiheng come up, then concentrate his troops against him, and when Li Laiheng's attack ability was exhausted, the troops would be removed and returned to the original position. This would reduce the pressure on the entire line, and there was no need to use the reserve team in his hands; and the Ming army on other fronts would most likely not get the news in time, and they would probably continue feint attacking, waiting for the time of the general attack to arrive, thus giving Li Guoying the opportunity to defeat each other.

"But if I was wrong, the Ming army did not have such a unified plan, but would act according to the opportunity, which would cause great trouble." Li Guoying considered it over and over again, but still did not dare to use such risky means: "If I make a mistake in judgment, Chongqing will encounter danger and lose more soldiers."

Li Guoying, who was not risky, asked the soldiers to continue to resist Li Laiheng's attack firmly and suppressed the Ming army's activities in the corners of the walls for a moment.

The first day of the Ming army's general attack, the pressure was brought by such great pressure, which made the staff around Li Guoying all look solemn. Gao Mingzhan looked at Li Laiheng's dense crossbows shooting up the city, and kept scolding the Southeast Governor-General and the enemy. Everyone knew that Li Laiheng himself was incapable of making so many weapons. Three years ago, I heard that he could not get military pay from the Yongli court, so poor that he could not even wear clothes, 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 attacked by Deng Ming and Li Laiheng. But if he had not witnessed it with his 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, Lang Tingzuo and others have not sent cannons to Deng Ming and Li Laiheng."

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At this time, Yuan Zongdi was attacking the city wall in a calm manner. When he set up the ladder, he asked his men to find out if there was a place where the tunnel could be excavated, but it has not been found until now. As Liu Tichun said, Chongqing City was completely built on the mountain, with hard rocks everywhere that were difficult to dig.

"Little Tiger fights well, Li Guoying should be with him." Yuan Zongdi looked at the central front in the distance, and it sounded like the battle over there was much more intense than his here.

Yuan Zongdi has now set up more than fifty ladders, and a small group of troops keep trying to climb the city, but they are all very cautious. They are not climbing up, but are always vigilant. Once they see that the situation is wrong, they will jump down to avoid the asphalt and torches.

In the past, when the equipment was simple, the Ming army could only use human lives to attack the city, but now that there were many weapons, Yuan Zongdi cherished his lives more and more. Because the Ming army kept attacking tentatively, the Qing army had to maintain the number of defenders on the battlements at all times, which allowed Ming army shooters to hide under the cover of the shield formation to attack them constantly. Although the Ming army was the attacking side, Yuan Zongdi felt that the Qing army suffered a lot of losses, and the Qing army suffered many of the unarmored auxiliary soldiers, but the same was true for the Ming army. So far, Yuan Zongdi lost the most to the auxiliary soldiers who carried the land buns.

"The terrain of Chongqing City is really bad." Yuan Zongdi wanted to make some simple catapults to attack, so that when the defenders concentrated their troops on the city wall, they would suffer greater casualties. However, the general attack began too quickly, and Yuan Zongdi did not have time to make a lot of equipment, and the mountains were not convenient for transportation, making it difficult for Yuan Zongdi to deploy catapults near the city wall.

At yesterday's military meeting, Li Laiheng concluded that Li Guoying would put the main force on the front line, trying to block the Ming army's attack at the first moment - everyone concluded that the Qing army was in a low morale, so Li Guoying did not dare to take risks and needed to reliably boost morale. Therefore, Li Laiheng suggested that everyone have a feint attack for one morning first and use the equipment in their hands to kill and injure some of the Qing army. When noon passed and the sun turned to the Qing army, the entire army would launch a general attack together and take down Chongqing City.
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