Chapter 557
To the east of Shibao are Dazong Lake and Desheng Lake, as well as large silt and swamps, with a very complex terrain.
The Qing army deployed a lot of people between Dazong Lake and Desheng Lake.
Originally, more than 10,000 people were stationed in the west, but with the tense war on the southern front, Ajige was forced to draw troops from time to time. In order to deal with the Ming army that broke through the defense line, he transferred thousands of troops.
However, there were still five or six thousand Qing troops in the west at this time, enough to block the Ming army.
Under the cover of night, Zhao Ming led a thousand dead soldiers to quietly leave Shibao and come to the earth wall built by the Qing army.
At this time, the Ming army did not fire the torch, and its visibility was very low. They could only use the moonlight and the torch of the Qing army on the earthen wall to see various obstacles blocking the way.
Zhao Ming was wearing armor, tied a cloth strip around his waist, holding a mace in his hand, touching Qing Jun's feet, and then waved his hand, and more than a thousand black shadows behind him immediately squatted down.
"Go!" Zhao Ming narrowed his eyes and observed for a while. The Qing army's attention was attracted by the Ming army on the southern front, and the terrain on the east was complex and there were many silt swamps, so the Qing army's inspections were not strict.
Seeing a team of Qing troops patrolling the torch, Zhao Ming waved his hand and more than a hundred soldiers hugged and touched them, moving away the horse-rejected stakes, deer antlers and other items blocking the road.
Suddenly, the bell tied to the horse stake made a crisp sound, and a loud shout came from the opposite Qing army defense line.
He was not speaking Chinese, but Manchu. The Ming army naturally did not respond. The Qing army's defense line suddenly sounded, and several torches were thrown, and the Ming army was instantly discovered.
"Move away! Move quickly!" Zhao Ming yelled.
The Ming soldiers worked together to hold the stake of the horse stake and move the two stake horses away just like opening the door.
"Kill!" The Ming army's dead soldiers roared angrily, rushed forward, desperately crossing the passage.
At this moment, the soldiers in front screamed everywhere, and the sound of breaking through the air came. The Ming soldiers rushing in front were either shot by bows or arrows or stepped on the caltrops, and fell to the ground one after another.
The Ming soldiers braved the Qing army's arrows and muskets and quickly moved away the various obstacles blocking the front. Zhao Ming looked up and saw that there were also the Qing army's defense line in the Qing army's camp in the distance. The stars of torches came into view. The alarmed Qing army was coming from all directions.
Seeing this, Zhao Ming immediately rushed forward with a roar, regardless of the arrows and the gun balls that were shot, and frantically removed the obstacles in front of him. He was caught in the arrow, ignoring the arrows, waving the mace, and smashing the stake that was blocking him, "Brothers, fight!"
At this time, a large number of Qing troops on the opposite side were coming towards him. Zhao Ming dragged his mace and ran very fast in the darkness. Behind him, the Ming army died in the Ming army forward frantically. The Qing army hurriedly raised the musket, or aimed the arrow at the rushing Ming army, and quickly shot a few arrows, but the Ming army rushed to them regardless of the casualties and injuries.
"Snap!" Zhao Ming roared loudly, and the Ming army, who was leading the way, threw the grenades. Amid the "bang" explosion, the Qing army's musketeers and archers were blown up.
In the panic, before the Qing army could react, they saw a black shadow crashing into the crowd. With a wave of the stick, they were invincible and smashed a piece of it.
The screams were heard in the dark night. Zhao Ming had not personally fought for many years to kill the enemy. Now he rushed into the enemy's formation, but he was still terrifying and sharp. It reminded the Qing army that Zhao Zamao was not only a commander, but also a fierce general like a king.
He swept through with a stick and instantly smashed four or five Qing soldiers, all of whom were verbally blood or had brain burst.
Seeing this, the Ming army's dead soldiers were greatly motivated and took advantage of the riot caused by the grenade to the Qing army. They rushed forward and chopped the weapons in their hands ruthlessly greeted the Qing army.
The Qing army really did not expect that the Ming army in the city would have the strength to break through, and they did not break south, but joined the Ming army in the south, but broke into the swamps and mud in the east, which was really unexpected.
The Ming army faced several grenades and disrupted the Qing army's formation. Then, suddenly, the Ming soldiers who were fearless in the Qing army's formation were killed by the Qing army for a moment, and they were defeated step by step, opening a gap.
"Go away!" Seeing this, Zhao Ming immediately roared from the bottom.
After the dead soldiers, the Ming soldiers, who were hungry and tilted around, carried mud horses and plucked up their last strength, supported each other and trot forward. Under the protection of a thousand Ming soldiers, they broke eastward like bees.
The terrain on the east side was complicated. Before the Ming army could run a few steps, someone was trapped in the mud. The Ming soldiers immediately took off the mud horse, stood on the mud horse with one leg, slid with one leg, and ran on the mud.
However, the gap opened by the Ming army was too small. Before a thousand people could run past, the Qing army pressed from both sides, compressing and cutting the gap.
"Push to both sides to protect the passage!" Zhao Ming immediately roared loudly.
When the Ming army died when they heard the order, they immediately formed a wall of humans, resisted the attack of the Qing army, and met with the Qing army in close combat.
The Ming soldiers slashed their swords and slashed around, but did not dodge or avoid the swords and guns of the Qing army, and fought fiercely. From time to time, soldiers ignited grenades and exploded in the Qing army formation, and the battle was extremely fierce.
More than ten miles away, Ajige was commanding his troops and blocking the 10,000 Donghai Town soldiers who rushed into the Qing army's defense line.
At this time, the Qing army had just stabilized the front line and Ajige was very happy when he suddenly heard a flash of fire in the northeast direction, and a faint explosion came. He was shocked and his expression changed drastically.
On the side of the Ming army, Wang Chaoxian and Ruan Mei led 10,000 soldiers to fight to death on the Qing army's defense line, tearing a gap, breaking into the Qing army's defense line, and trying to enter Shibao to join Zhao Ming, but was stopped by the Qing army.
Seeing that he could not rush again, Wang Chaoxian, Ruan Mei and the soldiers of Donghai Town could not help but feel desperate. At this moment, the Ming army also discovered the movement in the northeast direction.
Wang Chaoxian immediately roared, "Brothers, the general has broken eastward. Kill me and restrain the Qing soldiers in front of him!"
The Ming soldiers suddenly had a great morale and launched a fierce attack on the Qing army.
At this time, Ajige was in a dilemma. The Qing army was unable to repel the Ming army in front of him for a while, and Zhao Ming broke out to the east, making him not sure whether to defeat the Ming army in front of him first or pursue Zhao Ming.
"Zhengbaiqi, follow me to return to the army, and you can't leave Zhao Ming!" Ajige was confused and suddenly roared like crazy, and finally decided to pursue Zhao Ming.
As soon as Ajige pulled out his horse's reins, he led thousands of Zhengbai Banners and galloped away.
Chapter completed!