The refugees attacked the city, and the defenders at the top of the city threw lime bottles and turbulent oil tanks; the rebels set up simple ladders, and the defenders at the top of the city smashed their wolf teeth and slapped the yaksha; the rebels dug up the bricks and hid in the dead corners, and hung out of the hanging tower at the top of the city, and the Ming army hiding in the hanging tower fired guns and shot the hungry people hiding in the dead corners.

The large ladder of the rebel army approached, and was fired by rockets halfway through the road. The bird gunners and turtledog-legged gunners of Jinyang Army kept shooting the carts and the hungry people who were extinguishing the fire. When the large ladder was up against the city wall, they were sprayed by the fierce oil cabinet at the top of the city, and even water could not extinguish the flames emitted by the fierce oil cabinet. Some soldiers of the rebel army were wrapped in wet quilts, and before the large ladder truck was burned, they forcibly climbed to the top of the city. As a result, they were greeted by rows of turtledog-legged guns. The turtledog-legged guns shot at the close range penetrated the wet quilts and armor, and turned the turtledog-legged guns into hornet's nests.

The rebels behind were no longer able to get on, and the large ladder truck was completely burned under the continuous fire attacks of the defenders.

The siege weapons such as the crash car, the well railings, and the siege vehicles approached. Chen Yongfu mobilized the cannons and bombarded them hard. After approaching, the Folang machine and the tiger squat cannons fired volleys, smashing these siege weapons to pieces and were finally smashed by huge rocks under the city.

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The rebels attacked for a day and a night, and in addition to leaving behind corpses everywhere and wounded soldiers wailing in pools of blood, they also left behind fragmented siege weapons.

Li Zicheng was unwilling to fail and ordered the old camp soldiers to supervise the refugees and attack one after another. After three days and three nights, corpses were everywhere outside the city, and corpses were piled up in mountains under the city. With mabao and the like, the bodies were almost piled up on the top of the city.

However, in the next siege, even if the corpses and macao were stepped on, the crusade was unable to climb up the city. Before the crusade was approaching, the crusade was killed and injured by various firearms. When the crusade soldiers climbed up along the pile of corpses, the defenders at the top of the city smashed stones, threw down lime bottles and turbulent oil tanks, and the crusades made the crusade roll down from the pile of corpses. After all, someone climbed up the top of the city and was killed by the elite infantry of the Jinyang Army.

Li Zicheng was unwilling to fail. Anyway, he had more than one million refugees in his hands, and those cannon fodders were worthless. According to his bandit thinking, refugees were burdens and burdens, and they didn't feel sorry for death. So he ordered a fierce attack on Kaifeng day and night, and fought for seven days and seven nights.

In the Jinyang Army camp, Li Guodong watched the rebel attack open the seal and attack for seven days and seven nights. Within these days, Wang Quan's Huai Army also arrived, and more than 10,000 infantrymen came to the river by boat. After the Huai Army infantry arrived, these ships loaded the 30,000 refugees who had been captured before on board and transported away.

"Lord, the combat effectiveness of the Huai Army's infantry is far less than that of our army. If our artillery cavalry cooperates with the Huai Army's infantry, would we be sure to defeat the millions of bandit troops?" Zhang Wei expressed concern about the combat effectiveness of the Huai Army.

Li Guodong said: "Although the Huai Army has never fought with Jiannu before and its combat power is indeed a bit poor, it is still possible to deal with bandits. This battle is just to train troops for them. If you don't fight a few battles, how can you become an elite army?"

Han Dashan smiled and said, "The bandit army attacked for seven days and seven nights, and its spirit has been decayed. Our reinforcements have arrived. At this time, it is an opportunity to attack."

Li Guodong was ready to attack, so he treated this battle as a good lesson. Therefore, the method he adopted was to cooperate with light and heavy cavalry, heavy infantry and artillery, and almost imitated the tactics of the Qing army to deal with Li Zicheng. In this way, Li Zicheng would teach a lesson so that he would not be defeated in the future after the Battle of Yibishi. I believe that after this battle, Li Zicheng would definitely think about how to deal with this tactic. At that time, the rebel army and the Qing army would have the power to fight.

On April 9, the 15th year of Chongzhen, before dawn, the Jinyang army and the Huai army began to make fires and make meals. The camp turned into a sea of ​​lights in the dark. They did not stop at night and set out before the army and headed towards their respective targets.

Soon after, the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army waving lights. As the drums sounded, officers from each battalion urged the soldiers to get up, and the noise and commands in the camp sounded.

The quiet army woke up from their sleep, and the day of decisive battle has arrived.

If you look at the ground from a high altitude, you will see that under the dark night, the Ming army camp is brightly lit, and torches and bonfires are continuous, just like the Milky Way in the sky landing on the ground.

In the camp, the soldiers brought the steamer off the stove and opened the steamer. There were steaming white flour buns inside. The big iron pot was picked up by someone and poured the white rice porridge in the pot into the large wooden bucket. The white rice porridge was cooked fragrant and very sticky. If you drink two bowls of such porridge, you can hold your hunger. However, for today's battle, everyone must eat a white flour bun.

Everyone ate silently, and Liu Fu, a soldier from Huai Army who was a refugee, ate silently. He drank the fragrant white rice porridge, broke the white flour buns, stuffed pickles and chopped green onions into it, and ate happily with the white rice porridge and fermented tofu.

After a while, Liu Fu finished his meal. The sound of the drums that set out had not yet sounded. Taking advantage of this short time, he carefully checked his turtle-legged gun. He pulled the trigger, hooked the fuse and pressed it into the medicine pool, and pulled the trigger several times in a row, without any problems. Then he checked the gun barrel without cracks, and finally checked the bayonet.

The turtledog-footed gun weighing more than 20 kilograms is a spear. Although it is heavier in your hands, the turtledog-footed gunmen are fighting in a row when fighting in hand-to-hand combat, and they only need a thrust action. Under normal circumstances, the turtledog-footed gunmen will not fight in close combat. They rely on the knife player in front, the spearman and the bird gunman to block it, and they can hide behind and shoot cold guns.

Everyone finished their breakfast quickly. Whether it was the Jinyang Army or the Huai Army, the military discipline was very strict. The drum sounded, and those who had not finished their meal had to put down their bowls to gather. So everyone finished their meal before they heard the drum sound and checked their weapons and equipment.

Liu Fu silently put on his leather armor, put on a six-pound pointed helmet, and sat on the stone waiting.

The drums finally rang out, and everyone followed their orders to the gathering positions of each team and stood neatly.

After the Huai Army assembled, Wang Quan stood on the stage, cleared his throat, looked around, and opened his voice and spoke loudly: "Dear brothers in the guise! I am your commander. Our Huai Army has not experienced a real fierce battle except for several battles to defend the city! Many of you may have been on the battlefield for the first time! On weekdays, you are training on the training ground, and now we are about to go out! Today our enemy is the bandits on the opposite side, which is a training for you! Dear brothers, do you have the confidence to defeat the enemy on the opposite side?"

"Yes!" The shouts from the audience shook the sky.

Wang Quan made a gesture to everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Brothers, although there are millions of thieves, they are a group of mobs! Today we defeat the thieves, and in the future we will face the more vicious Jiannu! Okay, my speech is over! Everyone, follow the brothers of the Jinyang Army out of the camp!"

The Jinyang Army had 6,500 cavalry, 3,000 heavy infantry, 3,000 camel soldiers and 1,000 artillery soldiers, 1,000 heavy infantry, 1,000 cavalry, 1,000 artillery soldiers and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, a total of 35,500 large army launched a powerful attack.

It was dawn, and the sound of horns and drums came one after another. Red streams flowed out from the camps. Thousands of soldiers formed dense marching formations according to their respective flags.
Chapter completed!