About seventy or eighty breaths later, Zhang Cunren's camp suffered a third round of flowering bullets.

This time, the few gunners were no longer taken care of by special care. Instead, the fences, horse-rejecting horses, arrow towers and other defense facilities in the camp were damaged by many shells, which were damaged by more than half.

Under the protection of Yiniu Lu's personal soldiers, Zhang Cunren retreated directly to the north of the camp. Seeing the fireworks everywhere in the camp, and even some camp tents were rising, he couldn't help but murmur: "How should I fight?"

But at this time, the personal soldiers who had been sent to observe the enemy situation in front ran over and shouted: "General, the Ming army is outside the camp!"

Zhang Cunren came back to his senses and immediately said to a personal soldier: "Go quickly to Gongshun King's camp for help, and ask him to send at least three thousand troops!"

"Yeah!"

The Qing army mainly arranged five camps in the south of the city, arranged in the form of three north and two south.

According to previous military meetings, Kong Youde's troops in the middle of the north were mainly responsible for suppressing the defenders on the city walls with artillery fire, supervising the Green Camp siege, and supporting the two camps in the south at any time.

So Zhang Cunren immediately asked Kong Youde for help.

After his personal soldiers attacked Ma Bei, Zhang Cunren immediately brought his personal soldiers back to the camp to deal with the Ming army attacking the camp.

The Niulu personal soldiers beside him are comparable to the white-armored soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchus and can be used as a dependency.

What's more, the loss of the three thousand step armor was not large when the previous shelling was hit.

Therefore, in Zhang Cunren's view, based on the remaining facilities and trenches in the camp, they could withstand the Ming army for a while.

As a result, as soon as he entered the camp, he heard another cannon sound, which scared him so much that he almost fell to eat shit.

‘At this time, the Ming army dared to fire artillery? Aren’t they afraid of accidentally hurting their friendly troops?’

He thought this first, and then he realized that the sound of the cannon was wrong.

"General, it's a tiger-squatting cannon. The Ming army brought a lot of tiger-squatting cannons to attack the camp!" A personal soldier in front ran back and said.

Zhang Cunren immediately boarded a large cart next to him and looked south with his feet.

He was already in a high terrain and stood in the car, so he could see the Ming army outside clearly.

These Ming soldiers were wearing the cloth armor of the past and put on a piece of armor outside, but their helmets were mostly made of felt UFO hats.

Zhang Cunren breathed a sigh of relief by not those Mingjun wearing plate armor and iron flying saucer hats.

Then he noticed the tiger squat cannons that were either resisted or embraced by the Ming army.

He found that these tiger squat cannons were obviously reflective. They looked quite large, but they looked like small-caliber tiger squat cannons worth more than 30 pounds, allowing Ming Jun to run with them.

Hiss, is it possible that the Ming army tiger squatting cannons are made of fine iron (steel)?

This guess made Zhang Cunren take a breath.

Then he was confused again.

When did the Ming army become so rich and so willing to spend money on military preparations?

According to his understanding, even if the Ming Dynasty court really allocated military expenses, it should be divided up by the officials and military leaders below. How could it be used in practice?

Is this the Ming army he knew?

Even though he was surprised, Zhang Cunren was not even more worried - he didn't think the situation would be even worse.

Even if the Ming army had many tiger squat cannons and were light, his camp was full of trenches and some cars, so he didn't believe how much power the tiger squat cannons could exert.

Sure enough, the Ming army protected hundreds of tiger squatting cannons and sent them off in a roundabout way, but because of the blocking of mounds, trenches and chariots, they did not cause much casualties to the flag army.

On the contrary, some of the Kokang flag soldiers used the trenches and chariots to cover them and approached the Ming army and shot them with heavy arrows, causing some casualties to the Ming army.

Seeing this, Xu Chong was a little at a loss and became impatient.

Just then the walkie-talkie on his body rang.

When he got it to his ear, he heard Huang Degong cursing: "Idiot, the tiger squatting cannon is not very effective, so he lets the soldiers rush in and still have grenades!

We have more people than them. If we don’t rush up to defeat them as soon as possible, will we have to wait for their reinforcements to come?!"

Xu Chong hurriedly replied: "I understand!"

After the Ming army approached the enemy camp, they could not see the large-scale enemy, so they naturally used not shotguns, but live ammunition.

But the tiger squat cannon was not the small steel cannon of later Japanese devils. It was not the flowering bullets that were sent. In this case, the power was a little weak. This was also because Zhu Mei came to Nanzhili too urgently and couldn't wait for Chengdu.

Flowering bullets for small-caliber artillery were developed.

This involves the issue of gunpowder - the power of a large flowering bullet configured with a black cannon is acceptable, but if a smaller caliber flowering bullet such as a tiger squat cannon is made, it is better to let the soldiers use grenades.

Although the black gunpowder grenade is also less powerful and heavier than those of later generations, it is ultimately more powerful than the flowering bullets sent with tiger squatting cannons and is more convenient to use.

At this moment, Xu Chong gave the order, the infantrymen from Huang Degong's personal military camp rushed into the camp fiercely, wearing two layers of armor.

Then pick up the grenade transported from behind, ignite it and throw it into the trench.

With the size of these grenades, even if the fire is stopped, it can still hurt the enemy's head.

In fact, grenades are only a very small number of times, and most of them fall into trenches and explode.

Let’s talk about damage. When the Han Banner Army also focuses on armor, the mortality rate is extremely low.

But there were a large number of people who were shocked, bombed and injured.

Xu Chong and Chen Xiance's troops did not carry many grenades. After throwing them for a round, the two ordered a rush.

Chen Xiance is quite vulgar. He hid behind and was protected by his personal soldiers and occasionally shot one or two enemies with bows and arrows. He was still good at being a general.

Xu Chong is more powerful.

He was wearing cloth armor, chain mail, zipper armor, steel flying saucer hat on his head, holding a thick-backed hijab, jumped into the trench and began to kill all directions.

The Han flag army was suddenly bombarded by grenades, and was already a shotgun. Xu Chong led the heavy armored infantry to kill him in a row. They were defeated and fled back.

Xu Chong led his heavy armored infantry to chase after him. When he arrived at other trenches, he did not use grenades and went straight up.

Chen Xiance had few elite soldiers under his command, so he commanded his troops to attack on both wings from behind, and asked the auxiliary soldiers to continue to carry grenades or use tiger squat cannons to bombard the gathered Han flag army.

With the cooperation of the two, the Han flag army of Zhang Cunren was unable to stand firm.

Even though there were trenches, the car was still beaten and retreated continuously!

"Hold on! Hold on to me!"

Zhang Cunren shouted like this, but with the support of his personal soldiers, he retreated to the north of the camp first. How could other Han flag troops withstand this?

Zhang Cunren actually had the lead in his mind and body, but he worked as a civil servant in the Qing Dynasty for several years, and when he saw the fierce Ming army, he became cowardly.

Besides, his skills are far less powerful than when he was a general in the Zu family army, so he probably won't be of much use when he went up.

In the end, he could only grit his teeth and send a hundred personal soldiers as the supervisor.

"If anyone retreats, he will be killed immediately!"

After threatening, he cheered up again: "Hold on for a while, the reinforcements of King Gongsun will arrive soon!"

With Zhang Cunren's use of various means, the Han Banner Army, which had lost three-quarters of the camp, finally barely stabilized its position.

But I didn't notice that they were already quite concentrated at this time.

Xu Chong transferred the tiger squat cannons up, and the live ammunition and shotguns took turns to bombard the Han flag army, which immediately defeated again, leaving only more than a thousand people, and fled north with Zhang Cunren.

Xu Chong was about to chase and kill him, but saw a army of more than 3,000 people coming from the north, so he could only make up his mind to let the soldiers rely on Zhang Cunren's camp to build a temporary position.

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On the slope of the southwest corner, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army camp.

A rider rushed over and rolled down in front of Duoduo, reporting: "General, the two camps in the south can no longer support him. King Gongshun asked him to send troops to support him quickly!"

This time, the Qing army in the south of the city regarded Kong Youde as the chief general of the five major camps, and Zhang Cunren as the deputy general.

As for other Green Camp generals, they could only obey orders.

Duoduo put down the monocular lens in his hand, his face looked ugly and his eyes were cold.

His monocular lens was seized and was said to have been made by foreigners.

He was on this slope, condescending. Although he could not see the scene in the south of the city clearly, he could barely see large-scale changes in personnel from both sides.

Therefore, before Kong Youde's men came to ask for help, he had already seen two large camps in the south being captured one after another, the Green Camp Army and the Han Banner Army were beaten by the Ming army and fled north in a panic.

Although the Green Camp Army and the Han Banner Army were not as good as he expected, he did not expect that Zhang Cunren, Li Jiyu, and Liu Zhong would be defeated so quickly.

Especially Li Jiyu and Liu Zhong, who were on the east side, almost a moment after the Ming army rushed into the camp, nearly 10,000 people fled out of the camp, and they were simply useless.

Nushan saw Duoduo very angry, and advised: "Your Majesty, Green Camp soldiers, the Han Banner Army's defeat was as expected, why bother to be angry about this?

To defeat the Ming army, we have to rely on our Eight Banners Warriors of Manchuria. Please order the troops to be sent quickly."

"Yes." Duoduo responded in a muffled voice, then raised his hand and said loudly: "Transfer my military order to send troops!"

"Yeah!"
Chapter completed!