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Chapter 851 Burning Yangzhou (2)

The attack and defense battle in Yangzhou City entered the last moment. With the advantage of a large number of people (nearly 600,000 Qing troops), the Qing army launched the craziest attack. The more than 400,000 people captured created thousands of siege weapons, including 400 large siege weapons, plus shield cars and simple cloud ladders. It is estimated that tens of thousands of siege weapons were all tens of thousands of siege weapons. After the captured people built siege weapons, women, children, elderly and weak were detained in the Qing army camp as hostages, and more than 200,000 men were incorporated into civilians or auxiliary soldiers to assist the Qing army in siege.

Such a siege war should be regarded as the largest siege war in history in human history.

The Qing army shot arrows and fired guns from a high position to suppress the firepower at the city. The Ming army's artillery could no longer suppress the firepower at the Qing army; under the city, countless green camp archers and musketeers shot locust-like arrows and raindrop-like projectiles at the city, and the red cannons behind them blasted the city at any cost. Under the attack of the three-dimensional firepower of the Qing army, the defenders at the city were almost untenable.

Thousands of simple cloud ladders were laid on the top of the city. The former Yangzhou people who stayed to defend the city fought to the death. They rolled wood, stones, lime bottles, turbulent oil tanks, and thousands of enemies fell like hail. Gold juice and turbulent oil were poured down from the top of the city, killing the Qing army's bodies piled up into mountains under the city, but they still could not stop the crazy green camp soldiers from climbing up to the top of the city.

Li Guodong and Wang Quan personally led the iron-armored soldiers to launch a counterattack, repelling the Qing army that had climbed up the city again and again. Even Wang Chengen and Lu Zhenfei led people to counterattack. Wang Chengen led more than 200 Dongchang men to kill hundreds of Qing soldiers who had climbed up the city. Lu Zhenfei led more than 1,000 canal transport soldiers to repel the Qing army three consecutive attacks.

In the enemy Fortress, the bird gunners of the bird gunners were scrapped countless times, dozens of cannons in the city were scrapped, and the crossbowmen suffered heavy casualties, and they could no longer suppress the firepower of the Qing army under the city. Every time the Qing army climbed up to the top of the city, they completely relied on Li Guodong's three thousand iron armored soldiers to turn the tide.

The Qing army's cart pushed the city under the city, and the Qing army auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang hid in the cart dug the city bricks, trying to dig a hole, and then stuffed the box filled with gunpowder into it and detonated it.

The Min Zhuang, who was helping guard the city, braved the Qing army's dense arrow projectiles, and tried hard to turn the winch, smashed a huge rock weighing thousands of pounds from the city, and flattened more than a dozen carts in succession.

However, Min Zhuang, who was guarding the city, suffered heavy losses under the cover of the Qing army's arrow rain and projectiles. Many winches of the city were already full of Min Zhuang's bodies. The winches of the city that had lost their control could no longer prevent the Qing army from approaching.

But several turbulent oil cabinets played a role. The defenders used the turbulent oil cabinet to spray fires at the chariots near the city walls. Several turbulent cars were burned into bonfires, and two turbulent gunpowder in the chariots was detonated and exploded into pieces.

The turbulent oil guarding the city was finally exhausted, and the winch that dropped the huge rocks was also completely lost. All the defending weapons used to crack the cart were exhausted. They could only watch the Qing soldiers under the city hiding under the cart to dig the city walls.

"It's almost impossible to defend, it's time to retreat!" Li Guodong ordered.

When the defenders evacuated this section of the city, they heard a earth-shaking sound, and the entire Yangzhou City shook violently, and the city wall was blown open by the Qing army.

"Kill!" The Green Camp Army, who was eager to make contributions, shouted and rushed into Yangzhou City.

"In the prosperous Yangzhou, there are countless gold, silver and treasures, and watery women. Prince Yu has already said that he will attack Yangzhou City and will not seal the sword for ten days!" Liu Liangzuo shouted excitedly.

In the battle of Yangzhou, Liu Liangzuo was the one who suffered the most losses in the Green Camp army. His subordinates Tian Xiong and Ma Degong were killed, and all the three kings were killed, losing 20,000 Green Camp soldiers one after another. Even the most elite servants were almost dead.

But now that Yangzhou City is broken, as long as you rush into Yangzhou, rob it, grab a lot of gold, silver and treasures, and have money, you are afraid that you will not be able to recruit people? Nowadays, there are fewer things, but there is no shortage of people. There are so many homeless refugees in the north who have no food to eat, as long as they give them a bite of food, they can be pulled into the Green Camp Army. But to give people food, they need money. So when they attack Yangzhou, they rob it, and with money, they can form another team.

But after the city was broken, the green camp soldiers excitedly rushed into the city found that what was waiting for them was not silver and women, but tightly sealed houses, and the doors and windows of the houses were blocked, leaving only black shooting holes.

From the shooting hole, a tongue of flames spewed out from time to time, and the Green Camp soldiers who were hit by the musket fell down screaming; from time to time, a row of crossbowmen appeared on the roof, and arrows were flying in a row, and countless Qing soldiers fell down.

When the Qing army entered alleys, they were first bombarded by artillery arranged in the alleys, and the shells pulled out a flesh-and-blood alley among the crowd. Then the Ming army's iron armored soldiers launched a counterattack, killing the Qing army crowded in the alleys, all over the ground with human parts.

There are iron-armored soldiers fighting back everywhere. More than a dozen iron-armored soldiers formed a formation and cooperated with each other to easily kill hundreds of green camp soldiers.

There were also fire thunders falling from time to time on the roof, which were actually simple grenades that fell into the Qing army crowd, causing the green camp soldiers to fly everywhere.

Liu Liangzuo never expected that his army would invade Yangzhou City and get not the money and women he had dreamed of, but the Ming army that he resisted tenaciously!

The Green Camp Army that invaded the city suffered another defeat, killing the bodies piled up in the streets and alleys.

"As long as I am willing to defend, even if the Tartars attack into the city and fight street battles, they can be killed out! But then that will not be able to completely wipe out the Tartars." Li Guodong said to Wang Quan with a smile.

Lu Zhenfei and Wang Chengen had already left the water gate in the east. The people of Yangzhou who were helping defend the city also left the water gate and retreated by boat, leaving only the Huai army to continue to block the enemy.

"If the Tartars set fire, how can we defend it?" Wang Quan asked.

"Anyway, we want to withdraw. If they set fire, we will retreat. If we hadn't burned the Tartars, the buildings in Yangzhou would have been converted to cement long ago." Li Guodong said with a smile.

In fact, after Li Guodong's renovation, it was not easy for the Qing army to set fire. The wooden beams on the roof were demolished, the doors and windows were blocked with bricks, and the flammable objects outside the large yard were cleaned. It was not easy for the Qing army to set fire to the house from outside. However, the houses were full of flammable objects. Lighting from the house could ignite a large fire. Li Guodong buried a large amount of fire-induced objects underground. When he retreated, he would definitely cause heavy losses to the Qing army.

When Duoduo saw a section of the city wall exploded, the Ming army stationed at the city was retreating like a tide. He thought Yangzhou City had been taken down, and shouted excitedly: "Li Laoer, you are finally defeated! Yangzhou has been taken down, and our army can cross the river and go south and attack Nanjing!"

Who knew how long before he was happy, he saw a group of green camp generals coming back in shame and reporting: "Prince Yu, Minggou in the city is so powerful, brothers have suffered heavy losses."

"How powerful can it be? I let the elite Eight Banners soldiers enter the city to help you!" Duoduo said. He thought to himself: It is normal for Li Lao Er's soldiers to be powerful. This person's soldiers can equally match our Manchu Eight Banners. Who are the opponents of those Green Camp soldiers? However, as long as Li Lao Er's main force is annihilated in this battle, the Ming army will no longer be able to compete with the Eight Banners soldiers.

Duoduo ordered the Han Eight Banners Army to push the small cannon chariot into the city, bombarding the buildings one by one, Han Eight Banners Musketeers suppressed the Ming army, and the Mongolian Eight Banners archers cooperated. The Manchu Eight Banners soldiers behind the hall held blunt weapons such as maces, sled hammers, axes, etc., and prepared to deal with the Ming army's iron armored soldiers.

The Qing army rushed into the city again. Under the bombardment of artillery, they blasted open the bricks blocking the doors and windows little by little, covering the green camp soldiers into the house.
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