Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 196 North Gate

The fire below the camp was short of gunpowder, and the Ming army was desperately trying to put out the fire, so the fire was quickly extinguished by the Ming army.

After the fire was extinguished, the mess below naturally revealed.

Thick smoke enveloped the entire camp, emitting bursts of burnt smell.

At this time, dozens or hundreds of uninhabited corpses that had been burned were densely covered with burnt bodies.

Some were killed by Ming army with muskets and bows, and more were burned to death by fire.

From the corpses of the wrinkled limbs, it is not difficult to guess that these people have experienced a very painful struggle before being burned to death.

On the city wall, the soldiers of the Qianhai camp of the Ming army did not cheer because the foreign troops in front of them were still in a dark place.

On the contrary, the Ming army tried their best to pour water down the camp to put out the fire and put out the fire under the city. The foreign soldiers who were forced back by the fire earlier were once again surrounded.

"These Ming people are cruel enough." Li Youcheng, who was watching the battle under the city, couldn't help but breathe in when he saw the scene in front of him.

Fortunately, the Zhenla soldiers under Mosin who went up to attack the village would have killed many people if they let the Guangnan soldiers under his command rush up?

However, after such an attack, the Fan army could find out the approximate number of Ming troops in the camp.

"Sir, General Mossin led the remaining foreign troops to kill him. Should we rush over?" A personal soldier next to him asked.

Seeing that Mosin was irritated and led his army to continue attacking the camp, Li Youcheng shook his head.

He also saw the previous offensive that the Ming army defended the camp was not weak, but the troops were flawed.

The Ming army in the camp will not have more than 500 troops. Now there are so many soldiers guarding the west gate, so the other gates must be weak.

Li Youcheng is naturally not a fool. He would not pull his subordinates under the arrow of the Ming army artillery as in vain as Mosing.

"Since Mosin's attack on Ximen has restrained a large number of Ming people's troops, then we will attack the North Gate." Li Youcheng laughed loudly, looked at the foreign soldiers rushing forward, and immediately led the five hundred soldiers under his command to attack the North Gate of the Camp.

The Ming people's fire attack also completely angered these foreign soldiers.

At this moment, except for the burnt corpse that fell in front of the camp, hundreds of Zhenla soldiers rushed up without fear of death.

The Ming army's arrow clusters and lead bullets flew over their heads, and the remaining few rushers were escorted by the card players.

"Hurry, hold on, don't let the foreign soldiers rush over."

The Ming army archers on the wall shot arrows toward the French soldiers below, and many of the French soldiers held vine shields to block the clusters of arrows from above.

Some foreign soldiers were not very lucky and were stabbed in the thigh by the stragglers and fell into the mud with screams. The foreign soldiers behind them stepped on his torso and continued to rush forward.

Fortunately, a large number of corpses of the storm fell in front of the camp. Because they were scorched by the fire, most of the storm soldiers were twisted. The storm soldiers who rushed up could not be transported at all, so they had to let the storm over.

This hindered the offensive of the rushing chariots and the foreign soldiers. Just as the chariots were struggling to move in the pile of corpses, several six-pound stone shells hit him.

The difficult-to-move rusher is simply the best target for the Ming army artillery.

Although a lot of gunpowder was used to cause fire before, most of the gunpowder in the village was still left.

"Don't worry about the rushing car, just get it on me." Mosin, who was riding on the Malaysian supervising war, cursed and asked the soldiers to carry the cloud ladder to attack the village.

The Ming army artillery guarding the village had only four guns, and the loading was complicated, so it had to be used to destroy the chariots of the foreigners.

The attack ladders temporarily built by the foreign soldiers had to be handed over to the archers beside him.

Although the proportion of Zhenla's archers was very small in the deployment of troops, their troops had an absolute advantage. Therefore, the number of foreign archers was not allowed to be compared with the Ming army.

The foreign archers who raised their bows below the camp also caused great casualties to the Ming army.

Seeing the four or five Ming army archers beside him fall down by the arrows, Li Shi felt heartbroken.

Although there were hundreds of corpses under the camp at this time, the corpses still had the advantage of numericality.

You should know that there are only 200 guards in Qianhai Camp in the entire camp.

In addition, there are four gates in the camp that need handles. Even if the hand towels on each gate of the village soldiers, the guards at each gate are at most one hundred.

At this time, the number of casualties of the Ming army was no less than 60 or 70.

As a last resort, the defenders from the other three gates had to be dispatched to reinforce.

Li Shi looked at it and found that there were two or three hundred foreign soldiers under the camp, and he included the officers and soldiers coming from the other three villages, and only 100 people were involved in the full battle.

"Sir, there are too many foreigners, and the arrows of foreigners are shooting accurately, and the archers are suffering heavy casualties." A flag officer ran over, and more than half of his archers had suffered casualties.

"Since the archers and musketeers cannot suppress the foreigners below, then open two holes to let the foreigners come up." Li Shi sat on the ground, breathless and weak.

Seeing that the foreign soldiers under the camp had already set up a ladder to attack the city wall, they simply put some of the foreign soldiers up.

With the intention of the Ming army, two foreign soldiers deliberately put up the ladders.

Other places are blocked by shield soldiers and sword players and suppressed by a small number of archers.

Four or five foreign soldiers jumped on the wall from the two gaps that were deliberately opened by the Ming army, but before they could react, more than ten spear guns were pushed over.

With the screams, four or five foreign soldiers were taken to the wall.

And when the spearmen were collecting their spears, several more soldiers jumped onto the wall.

At this time, the Ming army's musketeers took over, and seven or eight musketeers sounded.

Several foreign soldiers who rushed up were beaten to bloody damage by muskets.

Li Shi deliberately gathered all the musketeers and spearmen in these two places, and there were knives and cards in other places to prevent foreign soldiers from coming up.

In this way, the soldiers who did not know the situation on the city wall naturally thought that these two ladders were easy to attack, so they all rushed to these two places impatiently.

As a result, the Ming army, which originally had no advantage in numbers, had an absolute advantage in numbers and firepower in these two gaps.

Moss's soldiers had no idea what was going on on the city wall at all. Seeing these two ladders the easiest to jump onto the wall, they all rushed over like adding firewood.

The result was that the foreign soldiers jumped onto the wall and were then picked up by the Ming army.

When the Ming army officers and soldiers of the West Gate fought with Mosin's foreign soldiers, the 500 Guangnan soldiers led by Li Youcheng had already arrived at the north gate of the camp.

At this moment, the number of officers and soldiers guarding the north gate was less than half of the west gate. The most important thing was the lack of cannons in the city, and even the musket soldiers and archers were insufficient.

Seeing that Li Youcheng's 500 Guangnan soldiers formed an army to press towards the North Gate, the Ming army at the North Gate had to temporarily mobilize a large number of rural soldiers to defend.

At this time, the Guangnan soldiers under the city of Beimen had more troops than the Fan army at Ximen.

Compared with the aggressive advance of the Zhenla foreign soldiers, the methods of attacking the camps of these Guangnan soldiers have also been adjusted.

First, several soldiers were sent to test. After seeing that there were no artillery on the Ming army's city wall, they rushed to about fifty or sixty steps away from the camp under the cover of vine shields and sandbags.

This lead bullet fired from the musket is basically no lethal, let alone accurate.

In addition, the arrows of the Ming army in the North Gate were limited, so I could only watch the Guangnan soldiers advance about fifty or sixty steps away from the camp.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next