Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Seeing another round of shells falling like raindrops, Hao Yaoqi shouted loudly and ordered his old battalion to resist with shields.

The old battalion moved quickly, raising their shields all at once, most of the explosive bullets landed on the shields, and instantly exploded, sending countless lead bullets and iron sand flying everywhere.

If the shield can block the shells, then the cannon is not called a cannon, let alone a red cannon.

In a burst of intensive shelling, the shield was instantly destroyed, and the second round of shelling came again. Blood and flesh flew across the battlefield, and the old battalion soldiers fell one by one.

Hao Yaoqi was completely dumbfounded, not only his old battalion infantry, but also their cavalry, under the shelling, their horses ran around in fright.

"General, you can't fight like this, let's retreat first."

"Pfft, Sanima, whoever dares to disturb the morale of our army, execute the Fa on the spot, rush out, as long as you advance a certain distance, and meet the Ming dog hand-to-hand, the shelling will definitely stop."

Seeing that his old battalion was almost severely damaged in the shelling, Hao Yaoqi split the soldier just now in half with an axe, raised the ax high and ordered, and rushed quickly.

Under the leadership of Yuan Zongdi, their left-wing cavalry also began to charge. Although the losses were huge, no one chose to retreat in order to break through the capital.

Nearly 20 infantry and cavalry, with the loss of more than [-] people, finally broke through to the front of the Ming army phalanx under the city. At the same time, the shelling at the top of the city also stopped.

"Arrow"

Seeing the square formation of the Ming army on the other side, Hao Yaoqi immediately ordered to release arrows, and the archers of the rogue army immediately took off their bows and arrows, and began to shoot arrows at the positions of Qi Jiguang and others.

Originally, the rogues also had red cannons, but in the first round of attack, the red cannons were all destroyed by Zhu Youjian

Hao Yaoqi gave an order, and in an instant, arrows rained down, and the Ming army's heads were densely packed with arrows coming at high speed, densely packed, like a dark cloud.

The Ming army had already prepared for this. Qi Jiguang waved the command flag in his hand, and the three phalanxes immediately erected shields. The shields could not stop the shells, but there was no problem in preventing bows and arrows.

"Bang bang..."

There was a sound of arrows shooting on the shield, and the rapidly falling arrows were blocked by the shield one after another.

Some arrows that were not blocked by the shield also caused hundreds of casualties to the Ming army.

Seeing that the Ming army erected their shields one after another, feeling that the opportunity was approaching, Hao Yaoqi commanded in one fell swoop:

"The whole army attacked."

Under the command of Hao Yaoqi, hundreds of thousands of infantry and cavalry rushed to the Ming army's position like a tide.

"fire"

However, just as the bandits started to activate, Qi Jiguang gave an order, and the muzzle of a tiger squatting gun was exposed from under the shield, and balls of flames spewed out from the muzzle in an instant.

Under the bombardment of the tiger squatting cannon, the rogues rushing to the front fell down row after row, but those in the back row immediately began to charge.

The eyes of the old rogue battalion were full of anger, without a trace of timidity.

Hao Yaoqi charged forward, while Yuan Zongdi Tian Jianxiu led the cavalry to attack from both sides.

Chapter 25

Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting saw that Qi's army was struggling, so they hurriedly ordered the artillery fire of their two phalanxes, and began to cooperate with Qi Jiguang to bombard them in turn.

The muzzles of rows of flintlock guns were also aimed at these cavalry at the same time.The flintlocks fired as soon as they broke through the barrage of artillery fire.

Standing at the top of the city, Zhu Youjian saw the ferocity of the old battalion of rogues, and he couldn't help but doubt the history.

The army of rogues is definitely not as vulnerable as described in history. How could Dorgon defeat such an army so easily? There must be a problem within the rogues.

In fact, after the rogue bandits entered the capital, they would eat, drink, burn, kill, rob, and enjoy everything. They thought that they could release Nanshan immediately and put their swords and guns into storage.

Li Zicheng never had the ambition to unify the whole country. A few provinces were enough for him. After the goal was achieved, the rogues became the masters.

They are all enjoying themselves, no one is willing to work hard, and no one wants to fall into the darkness before dawn. Coupled with the raging plague, this should be the reason why the elite rogues lost their fighting power.

Rogue Barracks

At this time, Li Zicheng was sitting in the tent of the Chinese army full of confidence. If he said that he could not win the capital with all his best, even if he was killed, he would not believe it.

"Report to Your Majesty, Minggou's artillery fire was fierce, and our army suffered heavy casualties. After losing tens of thousands of horses, the two armies of General Hao Yaoqi and General Yuan Zongdi are about to meet Minggou head-to-head."

Suddenly the Chinese army came to report that the armies of the two sides would soon be fighting hand to hand. Li Zicheng slammed the table, got up and ordered:

"Send the order that all infantry and cavalry elites start to attack, and at the same time send a signal to let the people in the city start their actions."

"obey"

A loud arrow shot into the air, sending an attack signal to the capital, and hundreds of thousands of elite infantry and cavalry from the rogue bandits were dispatched.

At this time, Yuan Zongdi Tian Jianxiu's cavalry launched an attack from both wings, and was also attacked by two Ming troops, Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting.

"Bang bang..."

A burst of flintlock guns made a loud bang, and a barrier of bullets and bullets was built in front of the veteran battalion of rogue bandits.

Facing the rapid fire of the Ming army, although the rogue cavalry was fast, they were still unable to break through the Ming army's defense line.

Zhu Youjian held a telescope in his hand and kept observing the movement of the camp of rogues. As for the hundreds of thousands of Hao Yaoqi under the city, he believed that Qi Jiguang and others could deal with it.

Suddenly, in his camera, an army of rogues appeared all over the mountains and plains again. Judging from their equipment, it was definitely the elite rogues who were dispatched.

"Huang Ming, the artillery is ready, the rogue's hole card is shown, and I will beat you hard."

"obey"

Huang Ming agreed, and waved the flag in his hand:

"All preparations."

"fire"

"Boom"

As soon as the elite rogues entered the range, the artillery army in red began to roar. No matter how powerful an elite you are, you are still human. Under the cover of huge artillery fire, you cannot avoid casualties.

It's just that the speed of the elite is faster, even though the gunfire explodes around them, their formation is not chaotic, and they still advance quickly.

Li Zicheng fought all the way to the capital city. The Ming army either surrendered or fled. This also made Li Zicheng inflated. He didn't pay attention to the capital at all.

Attacking the capital is a death order. Anyone who dares to retreat will be beheaded. Li Guo commanded 15 elite cavalry to attack with fierce artillery fire.

In half a stick of incense time, the shelling of the Ming army caused a large number of casualties among the elite rogues, but the elite rogues had already broken through the shelling above the city.

Facing the fierce guns, the old battalion soldiers in front gradually couldn't resist, and were repelled by tiger squatting guns and flintlock guns.

The originally neat lineup of elite rogues was suddenly disrupted by his old battalion soldiers. Hao Yaoqi Tian Zaixiu and the supervising team killed dozens of people in succession, and the old battalion gradually stabilized their position.