After the first round of counterattacks, due to the different loading speeds of the artillery on both sides, the red artillery on the city was more advantageous, and they had the right to fire the Ming army artillery positions outside the city earlier. However, with this attack coming to an end with the loading period, the gap between the artillery between the two sides was completely revealed.

The artillery positions of the Ming army were built by engineers and artillery, and were not as strong as the city wall. However, the artillery positions of the Ming army were still able to carry a few bombardments of the Red Barbarians. However, the damage to the city walls by the Ming army was even more amazing. However, after this round of artillery, one of the 10,000-pound cannons on the top of the city was completely destroyed, and several other artillery that could attack the artillery positions were also damaged. As for the defenders, the physical casualties were not too great, but the psychological blow was particularly huge.

Shang Kexi's supervision team climbed the city wall and finally maintained the order of the defenders on the city. While cleaning up the fragmented straw that hindered the defenders on the ruins, emergency treatment of the wounded in pain and wailing, various artillery groups also returned to a series of steps such as resetting, clearing the slag, aiming, and loading.

However, this round of artillery bombardment completely awakened Shang Kexi's dream. Since ancient times, the most taboo thing to guard the city was to defend the city. Previously, he had to give up attacking because of his great reputation as the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. At this moment, he had to take a risk.

The loading on the top of the city was about to end, but the Ming army artillery position in the distance took advantage of the panic of the defenders and then shot the city walls in units of artillery groups.

The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were like this, and most of the defenders were old soldiers. Under the supervision of the supervision team, they also knew that they had only the only way to shoot at the target. Seeing that the mortar cannon fire again, when a new recruit panic was immediately killed by the supervision team, they could only grit their teeth and continue to load, aimed quickly and fired back.

The hit rate of the second round of artillery attacks by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was significantly improved. Although these twenty-two artillery did not have a shell to directly hit the Red Barbarian artillery as just now, the attack on the city wall became even more fierce.

Youdao is that the son of a daughter does not sit in the Chutang. Shang Kexi had already retreated from the city before the shooting started and came to a place higher than the city wall in the east of the city to coordinate the overall situation. On the top of the city, only Xu Erxian and the Supervisor Team were in charge, but it was enough to intimidate the guards. However, as the giant cannons on both sides were silent again, Shang Kexi could realize that even if he was not on the top of the city, his 10,000-pound cannon and the mortars outside the city were not on the same level as the previous gap between the two was even widening.

This is definitely not a solution. It is still gratifying to know where the gap between the two sides is, but the reality is here. If the city wall is collapsed by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even if Du Yonghe was defending Guangzhou, the strong help from the people in the city to the defenders would turn into a mess under that situation. He had a lot of blood debts in Guangzhou. At that time, the people in Guangzhou did not come out to lead Chen Wen, which would be his delusion.

"Where is Yuyunlong?!"

He had ordered Youyunlong to prepare, and now he was inevitably looking for this life-saving straw at the commanding heights. Fortunately, Shang Kexi's vassal soldiers were originally elite troops affiliated with the Han army, and Youyunlong's response arrived almost instantly. After a moment, the gate of the Wengcheng City at the Dadong Gate opened, and the suspension bridge slowly fell. Before he could land, a big green horse jumped out, and the subsequent cavalry followed closely behind the cavalry and rushed out like a torrent.

The general on Daqing's horse with a helmet and armor was nothing but a general under Shang Kexi's command, the initiator of the Xinhui tragedy in history. Yu Yunlong, the general who was called "ogreat" by Chen Wen behind his back.

The general Yunlong was awarded only after Shang Kexi reorganized the Green Camp in Guangzhou. However, his command, who had climbed to a high position from a low-level officer, was the most important cavalry in Shang Kexi's hands. It was sent here to deal with the artillery groups protected by bunkers.

The defenders' cavalry rolled out, and the same was true in the Ming army's formation. Even when there was some movement in the East City Gate, Chen Wen had already sent cavalry to cover the artillery groups that seemed lonely outside the city.

The cavalry of both sides rushed there at the same time, because everyone knew that the key between the offense and defense was here. Each artillery position was about to be attacked, but the artillery teams did not stop their work and continued to restore, clean up the slag, etc., so as to cause greater damage to the city wall after loading and aiming.

The artillery group of Yi Chenxi was the first to be hit. The auxiliary soldiers below became more and more panicked, but Yi Chenxi ignored them. Instead, he focused all his attention on the aiming of the artillery. While using those tools proficiently, he wrote and painted with charcoal on a whiteboard. He quickly determined the angle required for the next shot based on the numbers, experience and observation results of the previous shot.

The entire artillery team devoted all their energy to the next round of artillery bombardment. As the cavalry came, the auxiliary soldiers began to look around.

However, their panic did not rise rapidly in the thunder of the horse's hooves trampling on the ground, and soon reached the point of panic. Instead, they remained on the artillery position, as if the place where a large number of cavalry was about to be attacked was the safest place on the battlefield.

The cavalry that defended the raids were getting closer and closer, and although the Ming army's cavalry was not slow, they might not be able to seize the advantageous terrain to provide better protection for them. But at this moment, two teams of infantry emerged from the small bunker behind the entire artillery group, blocking the gap on the left and right positions at an extremely fast speed.

Each mortar and its gun group are integrated. Once the members of the gun group are damaged and cannot fight, the effect of the artillery will be damaged. This is because each gun has a little difference, and only a special gun group is the best understanding of its differences in use.

Since this is the case, Chen Wen is even more unlikely to simply rely on cavalry. The spear forest of infantry is the best way to protect artillery. Now, what Yunlong needs to face is a two-pronged defense.

Yunlong knew that even any of the twenty-two mortar cannons had the ability to independently collapse the city wall. Since that was the case, he had to attack separately. In a flash, a cavalry led by Yunlong himself had already reached the left side of Yi Chenxi's artillery group, and an infantry team from the Yuyao Division guarded here.

The spear was pointed at a 15-foot spear and the firearms team had already strode forward. After a round of volleys, several Shang army cavalry were dropped, and even two war horses were directly killed by the turtledove-footed gun and fell to the ground, throwing the cavalry above them out.

Although the range of Lumi guns and turtledove-footed guns is better than that of bird guns, especially the latter, the opponent is the cavalry. After this round of shooting, the firearms team retreated behind the infantry to load them.

The cavalry arrived in an instant, and the firearm team was still loading. However, facing the infantry's spear forest, although Yu Yunlong was a brave general in the Shang army, he still did not dare to be arrogant. He had to ride and shoot for a round and then bypass and search again to find the direction of the attack.

In this weather, long-term battles in armor will affect the combat effectiveness of the infantry. The firearm team here does not have a single piece of armor. Even heavy infantry only wears helmets, face armor and half-body armor that the firearm team wears on weekdays. In this way, as long as the cavalry hits parts such as limbs, they can directly kill and damage the infantry. In this round alone, two infantry lose their combat effectiveness.

The fire soldiers of the long spear formation killer team took over one infantry position, while the fire soldiers of the fire weapons team took over another infantry position. The battle formation was restored, but after a circle, Yu Yunlong did not come, but instead rushed towards the late Ming cavalry.

The battle broke out near the various artillery positions. The bunkers of the positions, the long spears and muskets of infantry, and the arrival of the cavalry were all trying their best to stop the raids of the defending cavalry for these artillery groups. A new round of artillery fire sounded as scheduled, and the artillery battle between the two sides continued, but Chen Wen did not focus on bombarding the city walls and intercepting the cavalry. Instead, he was still paying attention to the suspension bridge that was still unshelved by the Dadong Gate.

After a while, the city gate opened again, and the brigade of infantry rushed out with the squad flag. After crossing the moat, they began to line up outside the city. The small north gate in the northeast, which was earlier than this, and the small east gate in the southeast also opened the city gate one after another, with defenders with the large north gate in the north and the large north gate in the southeast, erecting horse and yellow banners, and marquises with the large north banners in Wu came out one after another.

The military situation was reported from the horse exploration everywhere, and Chen Wen was clear about the intention of Shang Kexi. The key to the confrontation between the two sides was the mortars, which was beyond doubt. Since the cavalry raids are now difficult to play a role, instead of passively waiting for the mortars to collapse the city wall, it is better to fight the city in a field.

When the defenders left the city, Chen Wen also issued an order for the general attack. The cavalry behind the formation came out four times to cover the battlefield, and the army formed a formation to move forward. Chen Wen gave Zhang Zisheng below the command, Hou Guoyuan and An Youfu, and he turned his attention to the bombardment of the city walls.

The East City Wall is located in the area north of the Great East Gate. The fort was bombarded and unusable. There were cracks on the city wall, which were not only visible to the naked eye, but even more obvious than when the previous shot was shot.

This place is not far from the Wucheng. Although it is prone to side attacks by the defenders, once the city wall collapses, it is difficult to say how much fighting spirit the defenders on the Wucheng still have. Therefore, the area where Ban Zhifu's infantry first lined up was also here, and he obviously realized this.

It took time for the defenders to leave the city and line up, and the same was true for the Ming army to advance to the city. The distance between the two sides was constantly approaching, and the offense and defense around the artillery positions became increasingly fierce.

He passed by, even Yuyunlong, who was known for his bravery in the Shang army, only set off his opponent's weapons and then relied on his war horse to break out of contact.

The Ming cavalry general who had just fought with him for several rounds. He looked not very old, but he was very skilled in martial arts. He could not breathe in the wind and water. After a few rounds, he was almost killed by him twice. In this way, Yunlong was excited and his war horse turned around. Then he straightened his spear again and rushed towards the Ming cavalry general.

The one who fought against Youyunlong was not someone else, but Yu Youming, who has now been promoted to the deputy battalion officer of the Xinchang Cavalry Battalion of the Siming Division. The cavalry is a clutch soldier. In the case of mobile combat, a deputy battalion officer was established to strengthen combat command and also serve as the squadron leader of a cavalry squadron.

Yu Youming brought this cavalry to fight and soon fought with Youyunlong into a regiment. Infantry was focused on fighting without formations, and cavalry was much less particular about this. The direction they demanded was more focused on mobile raids, and the worship of personal bravery was also the most prominent among all types of troops.

Yunlong came, Yu Youming shouted loudly and rushed up. Two guns intertwined, sparks flew everywhere, but no one could do anything to his opponent. The battle between the two cavalry chiefs was originally mixed with other cavalry, but later they were all left, and the others rushed around the artillery position of Yi Chenxi.

The cavalry war continued, but with the formation of the Shang army's battle formation, especially the large strides of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army formation, the cavalry escorting the infantry advance began to meet with the cavalry here, and soon moved from the closest to the artillery position to the flanks of the two armies.

The troops of Ma Xiong, Wu Liuqi and Huang Yingjie left the city earlier, and some of them even came out of the Dadong Gate with Ban Zhifu's troops. The phalanx of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army was outside the range of 10,000 kilograms of cannons and advanced nearly three miles away. Shang Kexi's army lined up under the city was already ready for battle.

Without a moment of stopping, the square formation of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang directly rushed towards the defenders fighting against the city. The battle was about to break out, and the artillery on the top of the city also turned direction and no longer continued to bombard the artillery positions, but poured the artillery fire towards the Ming army's square formation.

The shells bombed into the hollow square formation, which was obviously better than the previous record of dozens of red cannons bombarded several rounds but only knocking two mortars to the point of being dull. Infantry without cover was obviously a better target.

However, casualties began to rise in the artillery fire, but the phalanx of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang still maintained a constant speed, as if not moved by it at all.

After a while, the Ming army carried Shang Jun's muskets in a firm step and entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat with him. In just a moment, the Shang army, which was lined up with the city, was suppressed by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The spear stimulated the infantry and the muskets suppressed and fired the defenders at the city. As the attacking party, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang launched an attack on the defenders above and below the city in the most proactive manner.

The city was lined up, the city gates were closed, the suspension bridge was pulled up, and there was a moat. The defenders who left the city were fighting in the field, but also fighting against the water. The families in the city behind the city had no way to retreat, and the morale of the Shang army almost reached the peak that the feudal army could reach under normal circumstances.

However, the generation gap between the two armies exists, and the technical and tactical levels are too large. Although the defenders under the city are still bravely fighting fiercely with the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, their battle formations are retreating step by step, and the rear of the formation is getting closer and closer to the moat, especially the external armies on both wings. Their fighting will cannot be compared with the Shang army headquarters, and they are not even far away.
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