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"Commander, a gap was created in our city wall by artillery fire, and the tiger thieves have entered the city through the gap." An Eight Banners soldier ran to Badatai to deliver a message.
Upon hearing this, Badatai's face sank, and he cursed and said: "These Han people are really useless. Let's go and follow me to plug the gap."
As he spoke, he picked up a big sword, got on his horse, and rushed towards the city wall where the Tiger Flag was attacking.
Although there were not many Eight Banners soldiers in the city, they were all taken with him.
A group of people rushed over in a mighty manner.
Before they even got close to the city wall, they saw Han soldiers retreating from the other side of the city wall into the city.
He raised his knife and slashed at a Han soldier who had escaped. At the same time, he shouted: "Drive all these Han soldiers back to me. Anyone who dares to escape will be chopped into pieces."
The Eight Banners soldiers who came with him immediately took action and chopped down several Han soldiers who had fled back, stopping the retreat of these Han soldiers.
"Go back immediately and follow me to take back the city wall." Badatai shouted loudly, and with more than a hundred Eight Banner soldiers around him, he drove the fleeing Han soldiers back.
When he arrived with his people, the city wall was not completely lost. Han general Pan Yueqing was leading his people to resist the tiger-character banner soldiers who entered the city from the gap in the city wall.
Although they tried their best to resist, they were still defeated.
"Kill me!" Badatai shouted as he approached, and he jumped off his horse and used his two legs to kill the soldiers with the Tiger Flag at the gap in the city wall.
He had fought many big battles and small battles. Riding on horseback at this time would only make him a target for the enemy's attacks. On the contrary, fighting on foot was most suitable for the battle at hand.
Wearing double armor, he walked with great force, walking no slower than anyone else.
"Our reinforcements have arrived, brothers, follow me and fight back!" Pan Yueqing noticed Badatai and his men coming over and started to cheer up his men.
The arrival of the reinforcements indeed boosted the morale of the Han soldiers under Pan Yueqing, and they began to charge back with weapons in hand.
boom! boom!
The sound of two squatting tiger cannons sounded against the city wall.
Many Han soldiers who had just boosted their morale were killed by the iron sand and iron beads fired from the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and the morale of the Han soldiers immediately dropped.
The Han soldiers who had just taken a few steps stopped again.
More than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers who came from behind the Han soldiers rushed out in a rampant manner.
The sound of artillery did not scare these Eight Banners soldiers.
These Eight Banners soldiers quickly rushed to the front of the Han soldiers. Of course, this was also related to the Han soldiers in front giving up their positions intentionally or unintentionally.
Although Badatai was not at the front of the Eight Banners soldiers, he was still in the middle.
These Eight Banners soldiers had at least a layer of iron armor on their bodies, and more than twenty of them wore double armor, and the backs of the broadswords in their hands were thicker than ordinary knives.
boom! boom! boom!
A series of chaotic gunshots sounded, like firecrackers, crackling without any tacit understanding.
However, the soldiers of the Tiger Flag who control the fire blunderbuss are just quick to shoot. As long as they have loaded the medicine, they will fire the blunderbuss at the enemy in front. They will not aim carefully at all, nor will they wait for others to form a team. Let’s start shooting together again.
Forty or fifty steps is already within the effective range of the fire gun, and within twenty steps, the accuracy of the fire gun is already sufficient, and basically there are very few people who want to hit it empty.
The iron armor on the Eight Banners soldiers is very good at defending against swords or arrows, but its defensive effect against blunderbuss is much worse.
When the sound of gunfire sounded on the side of the Tiger Flag, several Eight Banners soldiers wearing iron armor were hit by the gunfire and fell directly to the ground.
I have to admit that the Eight Banners soldiers have a stronger fighting will than the Han soldiers.
Several Eight Banners soldiers were killed by fire cannons, but they could not stop the offensive of other Eight Banners soldiers. Even more Eight Banners soldiers wanted to take advantage of the fire cannons to fill the gap and kill them directly.
If it were the Ming army's gunmen, they might have succeeded.
It's a pity that they are facing well-trained tiger-shaped flag fire gunmen. Not only are they more disciplined, they are less afraid of death, and they can reload their weapons faster.
Before the Eight Banners soldiers could rush to the scene, the medicine in the fire gun had been reloaded. In addition, the self-generated fire gun did not need to wait for the match rope to burn. As long as the medicine was loaded, it could be fired again at any time.
boom! boom! boom!
Another series of chaotic gunshots sounded.
This time the Eight Banners soldiers were not so lucky. Because of the closer distance, more than ten Eight Banners soldiers were killed on the spot, which directly blocked the Eight Banners soldiers' attack.
There were only a hundred or so Eight Banners soldiers in total, but as the gunshots continued to sound, there were more than 20 casualties.
The only advantage is that the Eight Banners soldiers are closer to the Tiger Flag soldiers guarding the gap in the city wall.
For Badatai, as long as the gap is blocked and the tiger-character flag soldiers and horses in the gap are driven out of the city, then the victory of the battle will still belong to the side defending the city.
Therefore, he could no longer care about the casualties, because he knew that once the Tiger-Character Banner troops and horses gained a firm foothold, Fuzhou City would fall as the Tiger-Character Banner troops and horses from outside the city continued to enter the city.
"Rush over and kill them all." Badatai waved the knife in his hand and shouted loudly.
However, there were too many gunshots and shouts of death around the city wall. Badatai's shout could only be heard by some people around him, and it was difficult for people further away to hear it clearly.
Because the fire cannons on the Tiger Flag are not fired in rows, there are always people firing cannons among the soldiers.
boom! boom! boom!
Several squatting tiger cannons were finally loaded again and sprayed the iron sand and iron beads inside towards the approaching Eight Banners soldiers.
As a cannon for advancement, the Tiger Crouching Cannon can exert its greatest power in close combat, especially since it is filled with lots of iron sand and iron beads. It has a wide attack area and is powerful. Like a paste.
The Iron Armor of the Eight Banners Soldiers was invincible in front of the Ming Army, but it was useless in front of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
More than twenty and nearly thirty-eight flag soldiers were hit by the cannon fired from the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and there were dozens of corpses on the ground.
In addition to the previous casualties, more than half of the Eight Banners soldiers brought by Badatai were killed or injured. Even Badatai did not escape this disaster. His arm was directly hit by iron sand and a large piece of flesh and blood was torn off.
The pain in his arm made Badatai's mind unparalleled.
He had realized that it was impossible to recapture the gap in the city wall from the people with the Tiger Flag, so he made a prompt decision, turned around and ran back.
He didn't even say hello to the other people around him.
His escape directly caused the other Eight Banners soldiers to lose their last bit of courage and flee in the direction behind them.
Even the Jurchens' Eight Banners soldiers fled. The surrounding Han soldiers who dared to stay all fled in the direction behind them.
Pan Yueqing, who deliberately followed the team at the end, ran away as soon as he saw the Eight Banners soldiers retreating.
He has little chance of winning the battle, but he is very skilled at escaping.
(End of chapter)
