Chapter 30 Come on together

At the beginning of the Wei hour, which was around 1:00 p.m., the Eight Banners' formal siege of the city began.

During the intermission, the relatively intact ladders and the bodies of the Tartars under the city were taken away from the city wall by the baoyi slaves, so the Ming army could not destroy these siege equipment. The baoyi in the distance pushed more shield carts and ladders to replace the siege equipment damaged by the Ming army.

What made the defenders on the city wall feel depressed was that this time there were ox carts in the team of bondservants, and small artillery was clearly fixed on the carts.

It seems that the Eight Banners are preparing to use artillery to destroy the city wall.

The northwest and northeast artillery batteries noticed the enemy's firearms and immediately called in red cannons to fire at the ox carts.

Unfortunately, there was no such thing as trajectory for cannons of that era. They just aimed straight and fired, and it depended on luck whether they hit the target. Two or three salvos from several cannons only caused damage to four ox carts.

The captain of the firearms battalion on the city wall immediately ordered the soldiers to move the small artillery pieces, and moved dozens of Tiger Cannons, Small General Cannons, Large General Cannons, etc. to the area where the Tatar ox carts were about to arrive, and then began to focus on defense.

Near the city, the first people to climb the ladder were the poor baoyi, but the rate at which these baoyi wore armor had increased significantly, with body armor and helmets. One could tell from the shape of the armor that it was captured from the Ming border army.

Some fully dressed Baoyi may even have a small wooden shield.

The number of bannermen and Bayala mixed in with the baoyi increased significantly. What was annoying was that the Bayala climbing the ladder wore two layers of armor, lamellar armor on the outside and cotton armor on the inside, and held swords and shields in their hands.

The cotton armor is made of seven or eight kilograms of compacted cotton. Its texture is a bit similar to a felt carpet. Even a blunt knife cannot cut it, and its defensive power is actually quite good.

The red tasseled spears of ordinary soldiers could hardly penetrate Bayara, who was wearing two layers of armor. At the beginning of the battle, some Tartars jumped off the parapet and engaged in a melee with many Ming soldiers.

After a few brave soldiers stood firm on the city wall, more and more bannermen and flagmen followed suit and climbed up.

On the one and a half mile long wall, the Tartars who climbed the city walls had already bloomed everywhere. The ordinary soldiers in the camps did not have the courage to fight against the double-armored Bayalas with swords and shields, and could only stab them with their spears. In order to improve the efficiency of clearing the Tartars who climbed the city walls, the battalion commanders, captain commanders, and battalion commanders all began to order their servants to fight, and finally stabilized the situation.

The two sides started to grind each other into pieces, and it was just a matter of time before they could stop.

The Ming Dynasty had the home advantage, so after each family servant or battalion soldier had fought a round, they would be replaced by friendly troops who had rested enough under the city.

The injured Ming soldiers were supported and carried out of the city, and doctors from the public were recruited to wait at the foot of the city, playing a dispensable medical role.

The Tatars had no way to retreat; they had to either die in the city or capture it.

It was extremely difficult to defend other places, and the soldiers and servants knew the pain. However, the servants and soldiers on Li Hao's side had nothing to do, and at best they did some work to move the corpses of the Tartars.

There is no other reason, General Li is just too powerful.

This enemy tower was given special attention. Three ladders were set up and those who climbed up were all real Tatars. They rushed up shouting in bird language, howling for the bounty on Niulu'ezhen.

But General Li, holding a heavy axe, told them what it meant to be one Han against five Barbarians.

No, it's not just the Five Barbarians. It's not an exaggeration to say that one Han is equal to a hundred Barbarians.

Compared to the morning's chopping as soon as they showed up, General Li was obviously more skilled in the afternoon. Although more enemies climbed up because of the increased number of ladders, it did not affect Li Hao's performance at all. He either swept the Tatars horizontally with his heavy axe or hooked the Tartars down with the edge of the axe and then swung it in a circle to chop them. In short, he did not let his servants get tired.

"General Li, please let me kill two Tartars! My sword has long been thirsty for Tartar blood."

The young Cao Bianjiao was filled with blood. His lifelong wish was to kill the Tartars like General Li was doing in front of him.

Learn the arts of literature and martial arts, and become a member of the royal family.

The biggest worry for this emperor and father was the Tartars, and all Cao Bianjiao thought about all day was killing the Tartars.

"Your knife craves for Tatar blood, but my heavy axe says it wants to eat the flesh of the barbarians!" Li Hao did not give in at all. Without the threat of Qing Gong, his powerful melee strength was fully utilized. The pleasure of frying fish made him more and more excited as he chopped.

Because the enemy had lost so much blood and the weather was cold, the ground on this enemy tower was so slippery that it was almost impossible to stand on.

Cao Bianjiao was helpless, and then he started to dance with his sword behind Li Hao.

Therefore, the Tartars who climbed up to the top of the city wall often had two ideas:

In this kind of situation, there are actually people doing war dances to cheer; Oh my god, how come this axe is getting bigger and bigger!

Under the city.

In order to deal with the Ming general Li Hao, the two great masters of the Plain Yellow Banner, Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai, and the Plain Red Banner, Jiala Ezhen Yekeshu, were forcibly dispatched by Huang Taiji to the shield chariots under the city to supervise the battle.

Although Tan Tai was given the title of Gushan Ezhen, he was not a flag owner, nor a small flag owner. Gushan Ezhen was only the military chief in charge of five Jiala.

Because the old Khan Nurhaci gave the leadership of the two yellow flags to the two brothers Dodo and Ajige, and Dodo was still young and Ajige was a little crazy, the specific military affairs of the two yellow flags were handled by several generals with the title of Gushan Ezhen.

"Ye Keshu, your men should hurry up and avenge the great prince Daishan!" Tan Tai encouraged Ye Keshu who was lying behind another shield car.

The scene of blood and flesh flying on the city wall shocked him greatly and reminded him of the fear he felt when he was dominated by Li Rusong.

Legend has it that Li Hao is Li Rusong's uncle. The older the generation, the more powerful he is. He is definitely not someone that these ordinary bannermen or Bayara can resist.

"Tan Taigushan, just look at that big axe and you'll know I'm not capable. Our Beile is the most capable Baturu in the whole banner, but he was killed by that Ming general. If we, hundreds of people, go up there, won't we be sending ourselves to die?" Yekeshu replied helplessly. They had been worn out by Li Hao.

In Manchu, Baturu means warrior or hero.

"You useless guy, the people with blue banners are coming up from behind. Use your whip to drive Amin's people up. I don't believe that Ming general can keep swinging such a heavy axe. Sooner or later, he will lose his strength. Then send our people to charge up."

Even from dozens of steps away, he could clearly see the shape of the axe, and thought it must be very heavy. Tan Tai's idea was to use the flag soldiers of other flags to consume the physical strength of the Ming general, and then his own flag soldiers would go up and reap the benefits.

Yekeshu certainly agreed with this proposal. The soldiers of the Zhenghong Banner around him were already unable to move forward. Even if they were whipped to death, they were unwilling to climb the ladder.

The difference between dying on the spot and being punished later was clear to the soldiers of the Zhenghong Banner who had witnessed General Li charging into the enemy lines and fighting to the death on the city walls.

Even if some flagmen could not bear the whip and rushed out, they would cross the wooden boards on the moat, walk along the city wall to the east, and then climb up the ladder to start working.

The flag soldiers hiding behind the shield carts could see clearly that the farther away from General Li they were, the safer they would be.

"What Tan Taigushan said is absolutely right. I will send someone to drive the people of the Bordered Blue Banner over here."

Yekeshu had no courage to climb the city wall and fight the terrifying General Li, but he had great courage to whip the flagmen of the Blue Banner.

When Li Hao on the city wall discovered that blue-armored Tartars were rushing up, he became inexplicably excited. All that was missing was the white ones, and all four colors of Tartars would be killed today.

Suddenly I felt the pleasure of stamp collecting.

"All of you Tartars from the Red, Yellow, Blue and White Banners, come at me all together. I, Li, have nothing to fear!"

He shouted towards the city.

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