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Duoduo returned to Chuzhou, and two or three hundred thousand Qing troops fought to the death, vowing to capture Chuzhou.
The fighting was no longer limited to the six city gates. The Qing army built nearly ten floating bridges on the moat. Floating corpses could be seen everywhere on the water surface filled with white hot steam. The Qing army rushed to the city wall fearlessly.
The shouts and cries of killing were like waves crashing on the shore, and the sound could be heard for dozens of miles. The cold wind howled sadly, the sun was dim, the flying grass was broken, the murderous aura was so strong that no bird would land.
Various battle flags were flying around the city walls, and the dense Qing army covered the city walls, as black as a tide of ants.
The soldiers' iron armor was stained with blood. The fierce artillery fire and the rain of arrows were terrifying. The sharp arrowheads pierced through bones and the flying bullets penetrated people's faces. The fierce fighting between the enemy and our army was so loud that it was enough to split rivers and thunder and lightning.
The Qing army did not bring any artillery, so Duoduo temporarily ordered people to hastily make more than 20 catapults, as tall as buildings. Each catapult was pulled by hundreds of Qing soldiers. Huge stones flew into the air, flew over the moat, and slammed heavily on the top of the city wall. The violent impact was earth-shattering, and the mountains and rivers were dizzy. The momentum was no less than the bombardment of the Red Cannon.
Some of the battlements were smashed down with a loud crash, raising dust and rubble. Every time a huge rock flew from the sky, the force of a mountain pressing down on their heads would scare the Qin soldiers on the city walls so much that they would scramble to escape and scream in fear. Some of those who were hit had their armor shattered, their flesh and blood flying, and they no longer looked human.
Aobai made up for his crime and personally led the army to attack the city. He was as fierce as a tiger, roaring like thunder, with a beard like steel needles on his face. Under his leadership, the Qing army rushed to the top of the city like wolves and tigers with murderous intent.
Tulai vowed to wash away the shame of being captured at Huangshiji, and he also took up his sword and fought side by side with Aobai. The two of them braved the rolling logs and rocks and climbed up the smoke-filled city wall. Several Qin soldiers, whose faces were blackened by the smoke, shouted with their guns and stabbed Aobai together.
"Ah!" Aobai roared like a tiger, and swung his sword vigorously, chopping off several spear heads, and then roared and swung the sword again. A Qin soldier was split into two by his fierce sword. Hot blood sprayed all over Aobai's face, making him look like a demon king who devoured people.
The remaining Qin soldiers were frightened by the fierce and ferocious Aobai and retreated one after another. Shangyi, who was ten steps away, saw his soldiers being cut into two pieces through the smoke. He couldn't help but burst into tears. "Fuck your mother's Tartar!" Shangyi roared and shot Aobai on the breastplate. Aobai was wearing two heavy armors, and the shot knocked him back a step, but did not cause him fatal injuries.
Shang Yi threw away his matchlock gun, picked up a spear and rushed over, "Everyone, come together, avenge Mo Xiaotao, kill him!"
At Shangyi's call, more than a dozen Qin soldiers rushed forward with a loud roar. Aobai laughed arrogantly, swung his sword like lightning, and with murderous intent, he killed two more Qin soldiers in succession, unstoppable.
Shangyi's spear was also cut off, but he still fearlessly stabbed Aobai's thigh with the half-broken spear.
Aobai staggered in pain, but he took a step forward with his mighty body, swinging his sword towards Shangyi. At the critical moment, a sharp whistle was heard, and a whip tip hit Aobai's face at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.
A blood groove suddenly appeared on his bearded face, "Ah!" Aobai roared, his hair and beard stood up, and turned his head to look, only to see a red shadow stepping on the top of the battlement and flying towards him, "Bitch, you are looking for death!" Aobai roared and swung his knife with a force like thunder.
Red Lady jumped up from the high battlement with her legs, and rolled in the air. Her red cloak was like a magnificent morning glow.
As it passed over Aobai's head, it kicked him hard on the head, causing him to fall sideways, and his strong body as strong as an ox hit the battlement.
Aobai was furious and roared like thunder. At this moment, with a delicate shout, the long whip like a spirit snake instantly wrapped around his neck. Hongniangzi pulled hard, but suddenly found that she couldn't move it. Aobai turned his tall figure around in a flash, and chopped down Hongniangzi with a big knife with the power to split the sky and the earth.
"Ying'er, be careful!" Qin Mu swung the Juque sword with all his might and killed a Qing soldier who rushed to the top of the city wall. Seeing Hong Niangzi in danger, he couldn't help but be frightened.
Hong Niangzi quickly threw away her whip and kicked her feet, narrowly avoiding Aobai's thundering sword. As she retreated quickly, she raised two spears and shot them at Aobai, but they were chopped away by Aobai's roar.
The hundreds of Qin troops who came with Qin Mu to support the South Gate roared like waves and fought hard with the Tatars who rushed to the top of the city. There was a burst of blood and screams.
Niu Wanshan's sword weighed thirty or forty pounds, and he could swing it with great force, sweeping across areas weighing thousands of pounds. Li Shi and his men cooperated closely and launched a fierce siege on Aobai, Tulai and others.
"Ying'er, are you okay?"
"It's okay!" Hong Niang picked up a spear and stabbed it out like the wind, killing a Tatar who rushed towards Qin Mu. The top of the city was filled with smoke, and her red figure was particularly conspicuous, and her skills were extremely agile.
After the couple reunited, one holding a huge sword and the other holding a spear, they fought step by step. The morale of the Qin army boosted and they kept shouting "Long live the King of Qin".
The sound of swords clashing on the city walls continued. The Tartars who rushed up tried desperately to defend this area of the city walls, while the Qin army risked their lives to drive them down.
Swords and sabers were flying like dancing silk, and the city walls were littered with corpses and scattered swords and guns. There were roars, screams, groans, and sounds of fighting. Someone fell down every moment, and the two armies continued to fight over the corpses on the ground. The bloody storm was like a raging tide, forming an extremely heroic picture.
In this battlefield of blood and fire, individual life is so insignificant that no matter how great a hero you are, you may be hacked to death and reduced to dry bones, neither noble nor humble.
Aobai fought on equal terms with Niu Wanshan, and with the siege from Li Shi and others, he was in danger. Finally, with the help of Tulai, the two of them climbed down the city wall and retreated in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
"Daqin will win!"
"Daqin will win!"
"Daqin will win!"
The enemy was repelled again, and the Qin army on the city wall cheered loudly...
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But outside the city of Lai'an, there was no cheering, only the sound of iron hooves shaking the earth.
Niu Wanchuan had also used rockets when he was attacking eastern Zhejiang, but this was the first time he used them against cavalry. The rockets filled with yellow gunpowder were extremely powerful. Flames shot up into the sky, and the violent shock wave carried countless shrapnel like rain. Li Guohan was killed on the spot, and three thousand Tatars were scared to death.
Su Jin's 6,000 troops then rushed into the scattered enemy formation with an overwhelming force, quickly breaking through, dividing, and encircling the enemy. After losing their main general, the Tatars were in chaos and were killed in a panic.
This was the first time, the first time that the Tatars were defeated so quickly and so miserably in a cavalry battle.
Less than 500 of the 3,000 soldiers and horses managed to escape, and the rest either died under the horses' hooves or were captured by the Qin army.
Su Jin left behind a thousand cavalrymen and the garrison in the city to clean up the battlefield and guard the prisoners, while he chased after Xihan without stopping.
At this time, Xihan's nearly 7,000 troops were besieging Ningyuan in Suzhuang, more than 30 miles east of Lai'an.
The 15,000-strong Ningyuan army was backed by Suzhuang, and a chariot formation was set up on the open space in front of the village. Every two chariots were locked with iron chains to prevent the Tartars from breaking through.
The Hundred Tigers' arrows on the chariot had been used up. Four thousand spearmen holding muskets lined up in five rows and fired continuously. The thick smoke almost suffocated people, and the whistling bullets caused great casualties to Xihan.
Xihan sent 2,000 cavalrymen to attack from behind Suzhuang. The Qin army used the houses in the village to launch a fierce attack. They scattered caltrops between the houses and piled up the furniture in the village to block the Tatar cavalry's charge.
The Tartars fired rockets, igniting a huge fire that filled the air with thick smoke. Then they dismounted and fought on foot, roaring like tigers and charging into the village, fighting the Qin army house by house. The battle between the two armies was already drawing to a draw.
Boom! Boom! The Qin army kept throwing thunder bombs, and some houses were blown down with a loud noise, burying the fierce Tartar underneath.
The Tatars' accurate archery skills allowed them to not be at a disadvantage in this kind of street fighting. As soon as the Qin troops showed their heads, they were often shot and killed by them, with arrow feathers hitting their faces and blood flying everywhere.
"Shield formation, shield formation!" Bi Gaosheng, a centurion of the Qin army, shouted loudly, and his one hundred men quickly coordinated, forming several layers of shield walls in the front, and those in the back holding two-meter-long spears, pushed forward along the alleys between the houses;
The Tartars rushed in groups with ferocious faces and fierce as tigers. Their sabers chopped against the shield wall, making loud noises. The two sides surrounded and stabbed each other. The first layer of the shield wall was broken, and there was also a second layer, a third layer... ...
The Qin army behind lit the thunder bombs and threw them into the Tatar formation with great force. There were continuous explosions and broken limbs were scattered all over the ground. It was a very tragic scene.
Some Tatars retreated into the courtyard next to them and worked together to push down the mud wall. The Qin army, which had formed a shield formation, was crushed under the collapsed mud wall, and their lives or deaths were unknown.
In the small village, the two sides fought back and forth, and the blood was flowing, which was extremely heroic.
Just as the two armies were fighting desperately, the sound of horse hooves like thunder suddenly came from the west...
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