We must defend this gap and never let the Qing army break through, because once we enter street fighting, the auxiliary soldiers and civilians will become a complete burden, and may even disrupt their own formation.

However, above this gap, the Ming army could not do anything to the Qing army, but the Qing army could not do anything to the Ming army. Both sides were squeezing in that place and refused to give in to each other. Every time they paid the price of a few soldiers, they could be supplemented immediately. They really couldn't drive the Qing army down and regained all the commanding heights to shoot from a high point.

Yin Yue thought that if he could shoot at the Qing army from the city walls on both sides of the gap, he would definitely be able to repel the Qing army. However, the Qing army's artillery, bird guns or archers kept firing the snares on the city wall, causing stones to fly there. The Ming army's limited artillery and archers on the city wall could only shoot against them there to prevent the Qing army ants from siegeing the city, and there was no way to kill the Qing army. If the stalemate continues like this, with the Ming army's strength, it is a big problem whether it can survive this night.

Soon, the sky began to gradually darken, and the Qing army still did not enter the gap. Even the original Niulu, which had been inlaid with the yellow flag of the Han army, had already been replaced with another Niulu from the Han army's Zhenglan Banner, and the color changed from yellow and red edges to a dark blue color. On the Ming army, the first game of the Dongyang Camp began to show fatigue. Yin Yue hurriedly ordered the second game to be slowly filled in to prevent the gap from being lost.

The gap is crucial, but the city wall will not be much worse. While the Qing army attacked the gap, the shooting at the city wall never stopped.

The sky had completely darkened, and the land was shrouded in darkness again. At this moment when we should have rested and been busy with life the next day, the Ming and Qing armies did not stop at all, but raised torches and continued to fight for the ownership of the city.

Yin Yue, the general of Jinhua Town, stood on a tall building in the west of the city. Here you can clearly observe the movements of Tongyuan Gate and the gap and the further area.

With his defense and support on the Jinhua North Line two years ago, he also had a vague reputation in the army. Yin Yue was still a little complacent about this, but unexpectedly, this time he served as the general of Jinhua Town, he ushered in a real defensive battle, and it was the absolute adversity of being knocked down a city wall at the beginning.

It is impossible to give up Jinhua Palace. This is the fundamental place of the Ming army in Zhejiang. If Jinhua is lost, even if the troops are kept intact, the people will successfully withdraw. However, the loss of facilities and warehouses in the city is enough to completely defeat the Ming army in Zhejiang and completely lose the ability to compete with the Qing army in Zhejiang. Even the word "defeat" is 90% likely to be born.

From a distance, the first game had completely retreated, and the sixteen infantry teams suffered casualties of varying degrees, and needed to be supplemented urgently. There was only one combat barracks in his hand, and the rest were either local garrisons or new recruits who had not been trained. Some of them needed to defend and monitor the city walls in other directions and patrol the city to prevent complex operations. With these, at least he had to hold on until dawn.

The Qing army rushed over and attacked the city overnight. After dawn the next day, he would definitely have to rest for half a day before continuing the attack. With this gap, he could organize civilians to repair the gap and build more fortifications within. Only in this way can he hold on for more time and gain more time for Chen Wen to return to his army.

"Reported that the Tartars' horse probingers appeared in the east city, and it seemed that they were fighting someone in the distance."

"Where are those people?!"

The east of the city was in Yiwu. Yin Yue asked quickly when he heard this, but the answer he got was that the team of light cavalry had retreated.

However, after getting this answer, Yin Yue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He knew very well that this might have been sent by Chen Wen, because the Ming army in Zhejiang did not have so many war horses for people to run wildly at night, which was a waste.

"I notify all departments that the general's reinforcements are on the road. If you persist until dawn, the reinforcements will arrive!"

"Ship Yin, that's more than a hundred miles away. What if the Grandmaster can't come at dawn?"

The whisper of the officer in charge putting his ears in his ears made Yin Yue sigh. These officers were still too young and could not stand alone for the time being, but it was not helpless to know that they would not let others hear it.

"If you can't come, just say that you were blocked by the Tartars on the way. Anyway, there are so many people that the Tartars can come, and it's nothing wrong with more."

The key to this moment is to keep Jinhua, otherwise there will be nothing to come. So if you have any questions, let’s hold on until dawn first...

The news of reinforcements spread quickly, and the Ming army in the city cheered loudly, and even the first game that had just retreated and the wounded soldiers were all excited. Little did they know that although the night was short in summer, it was just not long before nightfall, and there were still several hours before dawn.

However, the cheers in the city reached a vaguely outside the city, and the big horse was sitting on the stool with a golden sword. Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan were full of doubts and confusion in their eyes, and even a faint uneasiness flashed.

"Shishuai, after you have cleaned up the city, you should open another way. It is not a solution to waste this way."

"What Brother Liu said is very much."

After a long time, the second game that was made up at night had already been retreating and resting, and the third game began to show fatigue after persisting for a long time. On the Qing army, Qin Jiwu, Liu Wugao, Li Sheng, Wang Guofu, Zhong Shangzhi, and Jin Tingbao, Zhengbai Banner, have changed several Niulu, but they have never been able to make progress. Seeing that Ji Chengde's Niulu could not hold on, Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly recruited Jialazhang, Jing Zhangduan, Zhengbai Banner, Zhengbai Banner, and asked him to transfer a Niulu to make up. It was impossible for the Ming army to squeeze out the Qing army.

All these Niulu are garrisoned by the Eight Banners in Hangzhou. Although they have never confronted the Ming army head-on, they have never eaten pork and have always seen pigs. They naturally know much more about the Ming army's tactics than the Han Eight Banners troops transferred from Beijing just now, and it is more convenient to adapt.

In fact, the casualties of Niu Lu were only a few dozen people, but this was close to the bottom line, so it was not easy to force it. It was almost the same for the Ming army, but the gap between the troops between the two sides was too big. The Ming army was basically hung up and beaten on the city wall, and the limited number of cannons were also bombarded by the Qing army, let alone a gap in support.

The situation was very good, but Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan always had some hidden worries about the cheers. In fact, even without the cheers, they would not have been able to keep doing this. They always had to find another way, just this morning and night.

At this moment, the Ming army on the top of the city was no longer enough to pose too much threat. However, considering that it was in a hurry, it did not produce any siege equipment, and even the ladder was not carried, so Shi and Liu had to send a large group of Qing troops to Tongyuan Gate.

After a while, the fourth game had been replaced. In the other three games, the first game was supplemented with some of the recruits, and finally the number was restored. However, the large number of recruits made the entire first game dull, while the second game was to mix soldiers to ensure that the proportion of veterans was not too low. But at this moment, a messenger rolled and crawled down on the city wall of Tongyuan Gate and rushed to the restaurant where Yin Yue was commanding the battle.

"Ship Yin, a team of soldiers from the Tatars were coming towards Tongyuan Gate, which was not far away."

Accompanied by the messenger's report, as if to prove it, two loud bangs broke out at the gate of Tongyuan Gate. Almost in a flash, two more sounds were heard. The Baotie City Gate of Tongyuan Gate fell to the ground, pressing several civilians who had not had time to escape below.

The door was broken, and the two large-caliber Folang machine cannons that were easily transported were useless. The Qing army in the brigade shouted and rushed towards the unguarded gate. Because there were very few blockages on the city, they quickly rushed to the gate.

Stepping on the broken door, he pointed forward with Kush's waist and knife. The Qing army in the brigade rushed in like crazy, and the front ones even pushed the few horses from the door cave to the ground. On the side of the Ming army, the vast majority of the officers and soldiers, the auxiliary soldiers and civilians seemed to have not yet reacted to this sudden change.

"Ah, the city is broken, run away."

With a scream, the auxiliary soldiers and civilians who had been trembling before fled one after another. The first auxiliary soldiers rushed across the line, and Zhang Gongyan was still standing there blankly, allowing the auxiliary soldiers to pass by him. When he reacted, he turned his head to fulfill his duties and prevent the defeat at this moment, he saw that the auxiliary soldiers had separated, their heads flew high, and blood splashed all over him.

"Those who cross the line will be killed without mercy!"

The deserter suddenly started to kill. He was a man with a frost-faced face and a faint bitterness between his eyebrows. Zhang Gongyan recognized him at a glance. This guy was Ni Liangxu, the surrendered general of the Luo Chengyan Baitou Army whom his classmates had criticized from afar.

In fact, Ni Liangxu's mentality is always very complicated, but when he thinks of the Jinhua Massacre, when he thinks of Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others trace back to Chen Wen, the vitality of the Qing army before moving south will be destroyed again. When those who saw the happiness they came into contact with during their rest days, Ni Liangxu had no more distracting thoughts in his heart.

The next second, Ni Liangxu caught the level with one hand and raised it high to show everyone, his face full of ferociousness as if it were evil ghosts crawling out of hell. The murderous aura that soared into the sky seemed even more terrifying than the Qing army in the distance.

"Those who cross the line will be killed without mercy!"

The first Zhang Gongyan who reacted was fine. He had guarded Guilin with Qu Shishi. He had seen murders before. Seeing that Ni Liangxu had temporarily suppressed the deserters, he drew out his sword and shouted. However, among his classmates, many of them vomited on the spot, who were far less than that of him at this moment.

At this moment, the students from the officers around them rushed up together, drawing their swords and terrifying the auxiliary soldiers, and finally shocked them to stop screaming. However, when Zhang Gongyan cast his sight again on the Tongyuan Gate in the distance, he saw a team of Ming troops holding the Gengshou flag in the second game, and before them, an officer was rushing towards the Qing army with a door-squeezing cart.

Experience and courage. Liu Cheng, the former garrison commander of Dongyang County, has never lacked these. Experience has been accumulated step by step since he was the captain of the fourth Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team on Dalan Mountain. Courage has never been or was lacking for him to be eager for power and status all the time.

The city gate was broken, and the first thing the defenders did was to try to block it, and the door-sticking knives parked not far from the city gate were used to do this. Unfortunately, these officers still had too little experience, but if they had enough experience, it would not be the first to rush up to push the cart at this moment.

Cao Conglong's two-sided bets during the rebellion caused him to lose Chen Wen's favor, and when he found out that there was no evidence, he still became a training officer in the old camp.

The treatment of this job is much lower than before, and the rights are pitifully small. On weekdays, there is no real power to bully new recruits except using regulations to bully new recruits. Liu Cheng never regretted that time. He has always been fighting for power. He has to endure it until now. Seeing those guys who are far inferior to him climbing up one by one, there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at this moment. How could he just pass by it? He always has to fight to live up to his life!

He rushed forward with a shout and pushed the door-sticking knife chariot. Even the bravest Qing army dared not stop it. He pushed the door-sticking knife chariot into the city gate in one breath, shouted and pushed it out several meters, and nailed the Qing army who had not had time to make way out in the car.

While pushing the cart away, Liu Cheng took off the rattan sign on his back, pulled out his waist knife and cut off a Qing army's spear for the first time. Then he turned around like a mad tiger and rushed into the Qing army that had already rushed into the city.

Seeing that the training officers who were very strict on weekdays were so brave on the battlefield, the new recruits he brought were all excited and rushed over and fought with the Qing army into a group. In addition, the fire soldiers from a recruit training camp followed suit and rushed to the Qing army who had just rushed out of the city gate.

If it were the Green Camp soldiers, such a crazy counterattack might have stopped for a moment, but this Qing army was the Han Eight Banners Army, with rich combat experience, and such a level of counterattack had not been taken into their eyes. Especially Shi Tingzhu had already given orders - "After breaking the city, sealing the sword for three days", which even aroused their beastly nature.

The battle reached the most intense level from the beginning in the city gate area, and even the fierce battle at the gap could not be compared.

The soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies were slashing and killing their opponents madly, with blood flying with broken limbs and broken arms, while the wailing sounds had long been drowned by shouts. The team of new soldiers who rushed up first were soon killed, and only a dozen Ming troops followed Liu Cheng to guard the intersection on the north side, but the Qing army was not feeling well, and they completely lost the possibility of arranging the formation among the door-to-door knives and horse-rejecting horses. In a blink of an eye, a team of Ming army soldiers came and quickly used the Yuanyang formation to curb the Qing army's offensive.

Both sides continued to invest their troops. The Qing army did not mention it, and even the auxiliary soldiers on the Ming army had filled in. Every moment someone would fall down and never stand up again. Blood stained the stone road at the intersection of Tongyuanmen and the gaps were already soaked. It slowly left to the low-lying dark ditch under the trampling of pairs of big feet, flowing endlessly like a source.

I don’t know how long it has passed, at the entrance of the alley on the north side, the bodies of the Ming and Qing armies had been piled up like a low wall. Liu Cheng slashed over with a knife and cut off most of the neck of the officer with the blue flag of the Han army. However, as the strength was exhausted, the slippery plasma under his feet made his body balance unable to be maintained anymore, and he suddenly pounced on the Qing army.

The wounds on his body were no longer counted. He fell on the Qing army's corpse, and the pain in his body blew into his face, making him get up again without any strength.

"The next Tartar who rushed over should slash my neck with one knife or stab it in from behind with one shot..."

Liu Cheng smiled bitterly, but his body was unable to move after being exhausted. He was unwilling to give up, but there was no way. But after a long time, the expected death did not come, but instead heard bursts of cheers.

The two recruits who survived by chance had worked hard to turn over him. Seeing that he was still alive, they shouted to him in a hoarse voice: "Training officer, the Tartars have retreated, we have won, we have won."

The shaking of the soldier touched Liu Cheng's wound, but at this moment, his pussy had become numb in the pain, but the eyes that were always burning with desire seemed to feel a trace of light from the sky.
Chapter completed!