Of course, Jiang Pengju did not charge with his soldiers' brainlessness. The two waves of arrows just now were shooting upwards. Jiang Pengju saw that it was less than 200 meters away from the city wall. Now the Qing army could no longer use upwards, but could only use horizontal shots. The power of the horizontal shot was far less than that of the upwards. Then he led his soldiers to lose their shields and start charging.

The distance of 200 meters arrived in an instant. Jiang Pengju was the first to arrive at the base of the city wall. Now the Yangzhou city wall is broken, but the base of the city wall is still there, and bricks and rubble on the ground form a small slope about two meters high. At the bottom of the slope, Jiang Pengju had already seen some Qing army commanders at the break, and the sentry officers were organizing soldiers to defend the break.

Jiang Pengju rushed to the first place. He saw that the Qing army had not yet stood firm, so he climbed up the slope in a few steps and jumped up to chop the sword at the general. The soldiers who always didn't expect the Ming army to come so quickly. They were stunned and instinctively blocked the sword with the knife in their hand. According to his experience, this sword should be able to block the opponent's weapons, but they did not expect that the Ming army's weapons were extremely sharp. The sword in his hand not only did not block it, but even the cotton armor on his body did not block the blade. The Ming army's weapons directly cut off his sword, then chopped it to his shoulder, and stopped after cutting half of his shoulder.

Jiang Pengju was 1.7 meters tall and weighed 160 kilograms. He was a strong man in the Ming Dynasty. The knife just now plus his own gravity, and the blade was deeply embedded in the body of the general. Jiang Pengju kicked the general's body away and looked at the horizontal knife in his hand. There was no gap at all, and it was still extremely sharp. Jiang Pengju couldn't help but shout, "Good knife!"

Of course, the weapons used by Guangdong Xinjun itself are not the kind of ductile iron casting. Jiang Pengcun's horizontal knife is a medium-carbon steel knife pressed by a hydraulic press. In this era, it is basically a treasure knife. However, in Guangdong Xinjun, there is a powerful tool.

After Jiang Pengju looked at his weapons, he cut down a Qing army archer next to him with a backhand. The Qing army in Yangzhou City was a Han army flag unit transferred from Huai'an and Shandong. They were still looking at the Ming army opposite with an old eye, thinking that they were just stronger than the Ming army that had collapsed with one blow. So after the city was broken, Zhu Shichang, the commander of the Qing army in the city, ordered the archers to take the lead first and give the Ming army a warning first. Maybe the Ming army could retreat and let himself calmly organize the work to repair the wall.

But I didn't expect that the Ming army would act so quickly and the Ming army's armor was so strong that it rushed up against the rain of arrows. Now the Qing army's sword and shield soldiers were still in the back team, and the front team was full of armorless archers, and they were killed by the Ming army for a moment.

Zhu Shichang was less than 200 meters away from the breakout. When he saw the Ming army rushing up, he couldn't help but regret his decision just now, but now there was nothing he could do. Zhu Shichang could only shout and ordered: "Sword and Shield Soldier, hurry up and rush up to me and hold back!"

Zhu Shichang's order was issued and the city wall was immediately in chaos. The archers wanted to retreat, but the sword and shield soldiers behind wanted to rush up. The trench was not too wide, and now thousands of people were unable to move here.

Jiang Pengju saw the opportunity, and at this time the first group of soldiers under his command had arrived. Jiang Pengju shouted, "Roar in and kill these archers first!" Archers in the era of cold weapons are not musketeers. You can find a farmer to train for two months to shoot. Archers are completely technical troops, and each soldier has to undergo two years of training. Now, these technical troops can still fall into the mouths of jackals such as Jiang Pengju. For a time, hundreds of archers outside the city wall were hacked to death by the Ming army.

After hundreds of people died, the breakout of the city wall was loosened a lot. The Qing sabers and shield soldiers from the back team finally squeezed through the crowd and rushed up to officially join the Ming army. At this time, the Ming army's weapons and armor showed importance. The Qing army's cotton armor could not resist the Ming army's horizontal swords at all, and the Ming army's plate armor could completely defend against the Qing army's swords and guns, except for some heavy weapons such as maces.

The first batch of Ming troops rushed up had more than 500 people, and they fought in a group with more than 1,000 people from the Qing army at the brink. The Qing army relied on the large number of people to fight, but it was a vivid battle. Jiang Pengju saw that the stalemate here was not a solution. If the gap could not be opened, the follow-up troops would not be able to enter at all.

Jiang Pengju called a regiment commander and shouted, "Where is the artillery? Go and transport the artillery up!" The 10th Division had ten artillery pieces, which were snatched by Zhu Jiang from the Guazhou Ferry. This was the time for the artillery to show its might.

After hearing what Jiang Pengju said, the commander of the regiment quickly went down the earth slope to look for artillery. It turned out that the artillery was stuck in the pile of rubble under the earth slope and could not be pushed up.

A cannon from the Guangdong New Army was 800 kilograms, so it was certainly no problem to transport it on the flat ground, but the city walls were covered with rubble, so it could be pushed up. A regiment commander came to the cannon and cursed at the cannon leader: "Damn, why haven't you pushed it up yet!"

The cannon leader was scolded and looked aggrieved: "Sir, they are all bricks and stones, so they really can't be pushed up!"

When the regiment commander saw that, he quickly called twenty soldiers and used people to lift them up before pushing the cannon.

In order to make the cannons available immediately, Jiang Pengju asked someone to load ammunition on the starting position, and then block the gun with a bundle to prevent the shotgun from falling out. When the cannon reaches the break, it does not need to be charged, and you can directly take off the bundle and open fire.

When Jiang Pengju saw that a cannon was finally brought up, he was overjoyed and shouted, "Let's retreat!" When the Ming army in front heard the shouts of the chief general, they retreated to the back, revealing the cannon.

The pressure of the Qing army on the opposite side decreased, and the guerrillas led the team were very happy. The Ming army was finally beaten out and was about to ask their subordinates to rush out, but they did not expect that the Ming army would retreat and reveal a shiny black cannon.

The Qing army guerrillas were Han army flags. I had seen the Folang cannon in Liaodong back then. Although the Ming army cannon opposite was different from the Folang cannon, it seemed to be difficult to mess with. Unexpectedly, the Ming army could actually get a cannon on the city wall.

The guerrilla was about to shout and retreat, but the cannon on the opposite side had already opened fire. The Ming army cannon was equipped with shotguns. Because the distance was too close, less than five meters, the shotgun had not exploded yet. It directly hit the guerrilla's chest, and then the iron bucket was cracked in his body, and twenty-one sub-munitions were dispersed.

Using shotguns in such a dense crowd is simply inhumane. Shotguns at high speed must penetrate four or five people before they can stop. This shotgun caused more than 100 Qing troops to die.

After the smoke of gunpowder spread, Jiang Pengju saw the Qing army corpses across the ground, and a large piece of people on the opposite side was missing. Jiang Pengju seized the opportunity and shouted: "Come on, rush in!"

The Qing army was completely scared and did not expect that the cannon could be used like this. For a moment, thousands of Qing troops scattered and retreated. After a bloody battle, Jiang Pengju finally occupied the gap.

When the Ming army entered the city, they found that the houses at Xu Ningmen had been cleaned up by the Qing army. The nearest house was five hundred meters away. The Qing army opposite stood in a row, with tens of thousands of people. Jiang Pengju thought to himself that it was not good when he saw the Qing army being prepared in an orderly manner. There were less than 3,000 people on his side, and there were tens of thousands of Qing troops on the opposite side. If he had to fight, he would definitely suffer a loss.

Jiang Pengju called the messenger beside him and asked him to leave the city to report to the rear team, saying that he had entered the city and asked other troops to follow up quickly.

As soon as Jiang Pengju finished speaking, the Qing army opposite had ordered the archers to start shooting archers. Just now, the Ming army threw their shields outside the city because of hand-to-hand combat, but now they were in trouble. For a moment, the Ming army fell to the ground one after another, and hundreds of people were shot by the first batch of bows and arrows of the Qing army.

When Jiang Pengju saw that his soldiers were a little unstable, he knew that these guys were okay in the battle, and now he was ready to retreat when he encountered difficulties.

Jiang Pengju grabbed a company commander and said, "Let officers at all levels be officers, and as long as there are retreating people, they will be killed immediately!" Jiang Pengju knew that this was a critical moment, and as long as he could survive the follow-up troops into the city, everything would be fine, so he directly issued a death order regardless of anything else.

This instability was suppressed after the grassroots officers cut off more than a dozen deserters' heads, but it was only temporarily suppressed.

Jiang Pengju was anxious, and Zhu Shichang, the commander of the Qing army's front line opposite, was even more anxious. Now that the Ming army had just entered, thousands of people, if they didn't take advantage of their unstable foothold to attack them and wait for the Ming army brigade to come in, it would be too late.

Zhu Shichang called a general and shouted: "Give you five thousand people and fight these Ming troops out for me! If you succeed, I recommend you to be the general!"

The general was overjoyed after hearing this and quickly rushed up with his people. Zhu Shichang fought a war for a lifetime. The first time he saw such an army that was not as large as the number of people but still had no retreat. He felt intuition that he was not good enough and called a personal soldier to ask him to go to the city to find Governor Hong to transfer 10,000 reinforcements.

The Qing army general led five thousand people to fight with the Ming army. Jiang Pengju and less than three thousand people started a melee with the Qing army. At this critical moment, the second echelon led by Zhang Bao outside the city rushed in, and Zhu Jiang also rushed in.

After Zhu Jiang rushed into the gap in the city wall, he saw that nearly 10,000 people were fighting each other within a radius of less than two miles. Xu Dingbang beside Zhu Jiang was a veteran and knew that this kind of melee was the most dangerous, because you didn't know when you were hit by a mysterious knife, so Xu Dingbang brought a hundred veterans to surround Zhu Jiang in the middle. Zhu Jiang shouted in a hurry: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! I'm going to the battlefield too!" But the melee of tens of thousands of people was not a bandit suppression. Xu Dingbang simply farted what Zhu Jiang said, and brought these hundred people to protect Zhu Jiang to the place where there were few people on the side of the city wall, watching the bloody battles of others in the city.

When Zhu Jiang saw that he could not go to the battlefield, and his soldiers and brothers were chopped down by the Qing army, Zhu Jiang's eyes turned red with anger and cursed: "Xu Sandan, I fuck your mother, why don't you let me come forward!"
Chapter completed!