Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 263 Restoration of Huaiqing Mansion
"It's the other way around, the hound dares to bite its owner." Niu Luzhen shouted.

He never imagined that Du Feng and the green battalion soldiers would be so courageous as to take the initiative to attack the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mizhou, which was almost unheard of.

But soon, his voice disappeared, swallowed by the Green Battalion soldiers ten times his own.

Although the armor on their ships is very thick and it is difficult to break through the defense with the swords and guns of the green battalion soldiers, the command of the working people is endless.

Du Feng arranged a dozen or so experts who were good at throwing stones and bows and crossbows on the top of the city in advance, and asked them to condescendingly shoot at these mite soldiers.

The stones used by these slingers are used to defend against the enemy's siege. They are very hard. In addition, the slingers throw them condescendingly, and the kinetic energy of the stones is very terrifying.

Once it hits a person's head, even wearing a helmet will be smashed to death.

If there were no endless siege by the Green Battalion soldiers around, these Eight Banners soldiers could still use their bows and arrows to shoot all the attackers on the top of the city to death, just like hitting sparrows.

But it's a pity that the Green Battalion soldiers one after another are like waves, almost squeezing the Eight Banners soldiers into canned meat.

Even if there were Eight Banners soldiers among the crowd, they didn't have enough space to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and could only watch helplessly as they were crushed to death by stones falling from the top of the city.

Du Feng's tactic was very effective. Most of the dozens of Eight Banners troops were killed by condescending slingers and crossbowmen.

Now that the Manchurian officers and soldiers guarding the city gate had been dealt with, Du Feng simply opened the city gate directly to avoid having to open it again temporarily when the Ming army attacked, which would waste too much time.

At the same time, the battle was over and temporary fortifications were erected to block the Manchurian soldiers in the city.

Although Du Feng doesn't know how to march and fight, he still has some cleverness. With the help of the veterans around him, he soon set up a line of defense with spearmen, crossbowmen, and sword players.

Among them, spearmen stood at the front with spears up to three or four meters long, and two or three hundred people stood in a dense row, tightly packed.

The crossbowmen climbed the ladders to the houses facing the street, and when they saw the Mitezhou soldiers approaching, they shot down from a height.

As for the sword players, they stood on both sides of the street and in the alleys leading to the main road, preparing to wait for the Eight Banners soldiers to engage in battle with the spearmen, and then take the opportunity to rush out and catch them off guard.

However, no matter how good the layout is, if the combat effectiveness of these green soldiers is not good, it is impossible to defeat Hauge's Manchu army.

The only way for Du Feng and Feng Hai to survive is for the Ming army to rush over to support them earlier, so that there is a possibility of victory.

Just as Du Feng climbed to the top of the city to see how long the Ming army would come, Hauge had already led 3000 Manchurian officers and soldiers over.

His lieutenant general Duotuan led another 3000 people to the east gate. In addition, he also had [-] Manchu soldiers guarding the west and north of the city.

Defending a city is like protecting a kettle, no matter which side has a hole, the outcome is the same.

In order to ignore one and lose the other, in order to prevent the rebellious green camp soldiers from opening the gates to the west and north of the city and welcoming the Ming army in, Hauge had to divide his troops.

But this was ultimately in vain. Hauge and the other Mite Island soldiers were hated by the Han people inside and outside the city. Now Zhu Cixiang had tens of thousands of troops and 1 troops from the rebel Green Camp.

Tens of thousands of troops attacked in an all-out manner, with the force of a sudden collapse of the earth. Unless Hauge had Sun Wukong's ability to pull out monkey hair and transform into monkey soldiers, the Huaiqing Mansion today was destined to be recaptured by Zhu Cixiang.

However, because of Hauge's money rat tail hairstyle and not much hair on his head, I'm afraid even with Sun Wukong's ability, he still can't stop Zhu Cixiang.

Huaiqing Prefecture is not a big city, and Hauge soon saw the south city gate tower. After all, it is only one of many prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Chengxuan Government Envoy in Henan. The land and population under the jurisdiction of Huaiqing Prefecture are not large in Henan.

Of course, in addition to this, there are also the Green Camp soldiers who are waiting in full formation.

"Your Majesty, they have set up a formation. Why don't you send a Niulu infantry up to test the situation first?" Seeing the green battalion soldiers setting up a spear phalanx, a general beside Hauge advised.

"No, it's too late." Hauge waved his hand and said.

"Everyone, rush over and close the city gate as quickly as possible."

He ran out of time. If he couldn't close the city gate as soon as possible and let the Eight Banners soldiers ascend the city for defense, the Ming army would be able to enter the city in an instant.

At that time, it will be really powerless. Once the Ming army enters the city, these unpopular alien conquerors will be besieged by the army and people of the city, and there will be no place to escape.

So Haug decided to charge directly with heavy cavalry. Anyway, there were not many people in the green camp's spear phalanx, and it didn't look thick. At most, it cost dozens or hundreds of people.

Hauge can afford this price.

"Charge!" As soon as he spoke, Hauge came to the front of the cavalry and took the lead in charging.

Now the city is besieged on all sides, and has fallen into a desperate situation. Today, Hauge has regarded this battle as a battle in which all boats are destroyed and no retreat is made.

The horseshoes of the war horse stepped on the stone road, making a powerful sound.

In the blink of an eye, Hauge led the Eight Banners Xiaoqi behind him to break through the phalanx formed by the Green Battalion spearmen.

The green battalion soldiers whose formation was broken suddenly became a mess. The knives and poker players who were ambushing on both sides of Du Feng did not dare to fight out. Only the bowmen who were ambushing on the roof could still shoot two arrows from time to time by taking advantage of the favorable location. go out.

But just when Hauge thought he could lead people to close the city gate and keep the Ming army out of the city, a group of Ming guards and cavalry suddenly rushed like a gust of wind.

After discovering that the Mitezhou soldiers were trying to close the city gate, without saying a word, they took out the handguns from their waists and fired randomly.

Those Manchurian soldiers who dismounted and tried to close the city gate were immediately beaten to death on the ground. When facing the fire, the armor they relied on could not protect them, especially at such a close distance.

Seeing that the Ming army outside the city finally killed them, Du Feng standing on the top of the city excitedly yelled at the Green Battalion soldiers who were in a mess in the city.

"The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have come, we have won, kill all these Tartars, and exchange their heads for silver, official positions, and fields."

Du Feng's words greatly boosted the morale of the green battalion soldiers, although their swords and guns were in bad shape, and some of them didn't even have armor.

But there are so many ants that can kill an elephant, let alone these bloody green camp soldiers.

As long as these heavily armored Manchurian soldiers fell to the ground, they would pounce on them immediately, looking for weak spots in the armor and inserting knives into them.

No matter how strong and perfect the armor is, there will still be weaknesses, which cannot be avoided.

(End of this chapter)