The archers who suddenly appeared outside the fort immediately became the focus of attention for the defenders in the fort.
The two sides fired at each other with their weapons.
The gap in weapons and armor caused completely different results between the two sides.
The Qing army's archers, who were under the intensive care of the gunmen in the fort, gradually suffered more casualties, leaving only a few of the originally small number of archers.
However, the offensive in Tangchi Fort has not weakened at all.
boom! boom! boom!
While the archers outside the fort were fighting with the tiger-shaped flag gunners inside the fort, some Han army flag soldiers took the opportunity to advance a few steps towards Tangchi Fort.
However, it was immediately blocked by a squatting cannon in the fort.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon may not be as powerful as the cannons of the Tiger Flag, but the damage done by shotguns at close range is no worse than those cannons that are better at killing targets at long distances.
As the cannons fell, more than a dozen Han army flag soldiers were killed on the spot.
This is because the attacking Han flag soldiers were stationed in scattered locations. If they were concentrated in one place, they would only cause more casualties.
"Archers, archers, shoot arrows into the fort, suppress it." The Han army flag general who led the team shouted with tears in his eyes.
The dead and wounded were all his men and horses, and the pain made him twitch in his heart.
After shouting several times in succession, he suddenly found that there were only a few lonely arrows flying towards Tangchi Fort.
Only then did he realize that only a few of the dozen archers he had brought were left.
Without the archers to suppress the defenders in the fort, they would only have to rely on human lives. As long as they rushed to the bottom of the fort wall and climbed up the fort wall by force, the pressure brought by the defenders' firearms would naturally not be that great.
As for the artillery in the rear, he no longer counted on it.
"Charge, the first one to reach the fort will be promoted to three levels in a row." The leader of the Han army flag general shouted loudly, regardless of whether people in the distance could hear it.
At this time, he had no choice but to enter Tangchi Fort.
Because he knew that once he retreated, he didn't know whether others would survive, but as the general who led the team, he would definitely be executed.
Those Eight Banners soldiers from Zhenglan Banner who stayed behind to hold down the formation would not be able to reason with him, a Han general.
After shouting, he was the first to rush towards the fortress wall in front.
The courage of a soldier lies in the courage of a general. He knew that only if he rushed forward without fear of death, his soldiers and generals would be as brave as him and not be afraid of death, and win the slightest possibility of attacking the wall of Tangchi Fort.
boom! boom! boom!
There was a sound of gunshots on the fort wall, and the gunshots were swung towards the enemy soldiers who invaded outside the fort wall.
The sound of gunfire was occasionally mixed with the sound of one or two tiger crouching cannons.
The Qing troops who rushed towards Tangchi Fort continued to fall. Even some fire protection equipment prepared by the Qing soldiers did not have much effect at all and could not save the lives of these Qing soldiers.
Sun Degong, who was far away, saw this scene and his mouth twitched.
"Your Majesty, look!" Sun Degong cast his pleading eyes on Hauge, hoping that Hauge would give up this behavior of sending Han Junqi to his death.
However, Hauge said expressionlessly: "Continue to send people to put more pressure on the tiger thieves in Tangchi Fort."
After hearing this, Sun Degong had no choice but to continue arranging another group of several hundred Han flag soldiers and horses to join the attacking team with a grimace.
boom! boom! boom!
The battlefield was filled with the sound of artillery and the sound of muskets.
There are not many archers in the Han Army Banners, and they are not as numerous as the number of archers in the Jurchen Eight Banners.
In order to have a chance to capture Tangchi Fort, Sun Degong gritted his teeth and directly sent two-thirds of the archers up.
Under the protection of others, these Han flag archers arrived at a position about forty or fifty steps away from Tangchi Fort.
It's not that I don't want to get closer, but if I get closer, the casualties will increase exponentially.
The artillery positions of the Qing army were also completely destroyed. Our own artillery was unable to come to support at all. On the contrary, the artillery in Tangchi Fort was able to free up its hands to attack the invading Qing army from time to time.
As the war continues.
As the attacking side, the Qing army was obviously at a disadvantage, and this trend became increasingly obvious.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's a pity that so many lives have been lost in vain." Daishan looked regretful, but there was no emotion in his eyes.
The guard of Baya La who was guarding the side said, "Should we stop Prince Su? If he dies like this, it will not be good for the next garrison in Haizhou."
The death and injury of some soldiers of the Han Army Flag is not a big deal to Manchus like them, but guarding Haizhou requires manpower. There are too many casualties of the Han Army Flag, which is of little benefit to them Manchurians.
"Send someone to tell Hauge that the quarrel has been enough for so long and ask him to withdraw his troops." Daishan said.
"嗻!"
One of Bagala's guards turned around and ran to deliver the order.
Soon, Daishan's order reached Haug.
Hauge has a gloomy face.
Several defeats outside Tangchi Fort had already made him sober, knowing that the city guarded by the Tiger Flag was not that easy to deal with, even a military fort like Tangchi Fort.
But he was not convinced.
He only admits that the people of the Tiger Character Banner are good at defending the city, but in field battles, he does not think that he is worse than the Tiger Character Banner. After all, the city guarded by the Ming army is not easy to deal with, but in field battles, he is far from the Qing Dynasty's opponent. .
When he has the opportunity to meet the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag in the wild in the future, he believes that he will be able to avenge his shame and regain the face he lost here in Tangchi Fort.
The Qing army quickly withdrew from Tangchi Fort.
Except for some of the Jurchen Eight Banners that were initially damaged at the hands of Hauge, all the casualties in subsequent battles were soldiers of the Han Army Banner.
In the battle at Tangchi Fort, the Han flag suffered over a thousand casualties, and several cannons were destroyed.
Such a loss is somewhat difficult for Daishan to accept.
He did not feel sorry for the Han soldiers who died in the battle, but because one Tangchi Fort destroyed more than a thousand soldiers and horses of the Qing army, and he failed to capture Tangchi Fort.
He once again felt that the Tiger Flag, which was equipped with a large number of firearms, was more difficult to deal with than the city garrisoned by the Ming army in terms of defending the city. This also made him not optimistic about retaking Gaizhou City.
In Tangchi Fort, the captain of the Tiger Flag detachment and several of his captains gathered together and watched the Qing troops withdrawing from the high places on the fort wall.
"I didn't expect the Qing army to retreat so quickly. I haven't fought enough yet!" It was deputy captain Jiang Cheng who spoke.
Zhou Lingqing on the side said: "Don't worry, there will be no shortage of battles in the future. As long as the Tatars still want to take back Gaizhou, they will come again. The Tangchi Fort we are stationed in is in an important position, so we will definitely come again."
"I'm afraid that the Tatars won't dare to come." Captain Qin Anpu said, "The Tatars even have such a hard time attacking Tangchi Fort. If they want to attack Gaizhou City, I'm afraid they can only think about it in their dreams."
A few people said it very easily, but they quickly sent out sentries and dropped far behind the Qing army to determine whether the Qing army was really retreating.
