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Chapter 94

The Qing army in the green camp in front was lying on the ground and did not dare to move, but the Qing army in the green camp in the back rushed forward desperately under the pressure of the Eight Banners' swords. As long as they were slower, the knife in the hands of the coats would not be polite to them. The Qing soldiers behind continued to surge, and the crowds gathered closer and closer, and soon they squeezed into a group on the hillside.

"Tube the turbulent oil tank!" Gong Xiaoda pointed forward in the embroidered spring knife in his hand.

The Ming army's firepower was immediately opened, with bird guns, frank gun shotguns, lime bottles, turbulent oil tanks, and rockets flying from various angles, covering the entire hillside. Even if the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp were lying on the ground, they were constantly hit. When they found that they could not escape death, they suddenly burst out with amazing courage. Under the leadership of several Green Camp officers, they suddenly shouted and rushed towards the mountain.

"Roar up! If you rush up, we will win!" several Green Camp officers shouted.

All the Green Camp soldiers were in a state of madness, and rushing up was victory! They only had this idea in their minds, which was the only way for the Green Camp soldiers to survive. If they retreated, the knife in Baoyi Aha's hand was not a vegetarian! In order to survive and to live in a humble manner, these cowards on weekdays became warriors who fought to the death.

Thirty steps, twenty steps... The Green Camp soldiers rushed faster and faster, and the more they rushed, the more they rushed forward, and the rain of bullets kept coming, and people fell down around them. Under the threat of death, they just attacked forward with one breath. Soon there were only ten steps left, and the remaining more than a thousand Green Camp soldiers let out dying howls, gritted their teeth and rushed forward.

Dozens of black objects suddenly rolled down the hillside, with a diameter of just as big as a round table. They rolled into the Qing army crowd. A flash of fire and a violent explosion sounded on the hillside.

This is the enemy of ten thousand people. This is a ball made of mud and a city guard weapon made of bamboo baskets on the outside. There are gunpowder and caltrops inside. After igniting the fuse, it pushed down from the top of the mountain and exploded halfway up the mountain. The mud and caltrops were crushed to pieces, and countless caltrops were sprayed out from the fireball, sweeping over the remaining Qing soldiers in the Green Camp.

The large bomb of 10,000 enemies weighs more than 100 kilograms of black gunpowder, and the rest are mud shells, caltrops and bamboo shells, and the weight of caltrops accounts for the majority. The shells made of bamboo are divided into parts in the explosion, and the fragments are as unscrupulous as shrapnel.

A total of 50,000 enemies rolled down, and the remaining more than a thousand Qing soldiers in the Green Camp were almost swept away, leaving only more than two hundred Green Camp soldiers who were lucky enough to die and fled back.

However, these green camp soldiers had just escaped from the Ming army's firepower coverage and were immediately suppressed by Baoyi Aha and others who had already been waiting behind them.

More than 200 green camp soldiers who escaped by chance were kneeling in a row. Behind each green camp soldiers, there was a Baoyi Aha holding a ghost-headed sword standing.

When Tang Tong saw this scene, he felt bleeding in his heart. Originally, when he was in the Ming Dynasty, he didn't have many soldiers, only more than 15,000. After surrendering to Li Zicheng, he absorbed more than 8,000 refugees and had more than 23,000 troops. However, after fighting with the Guanning Army, he fought several more battles with the Qing army, leaving only more than 13,000 people. This time, he attacked the Ming army and immediately trapped nearly 3,000 people. The more than 200 veterans who fled back were going to be executed by Baoyi Aha again.

These veterans who survived by chance were all veterans of the Tang Tong army, but their elite soldiers. It is precisely because these people are experienced veterans that they survived the Ming army's guns and bullets. However, when they escaped, they were going to be executed by the Qing army.

Tang Tong walked to Duoduo, knelt on the ground with his knees, begging: "Prince Yu, the soldiers of the slaves are fighting to the death, but the terrain of the slaves is not good, and the pseudo-open firearms on the hill are powerful. Three thousand people went up, and only these two hundred veterans were lucky enough to come back alive. Please ask Prince Yu to let them go."

"Bold!" a Goshha beside Duoduo shouted, "A lowly man! You are worthy of calling yourself a slave! Only our brave Manchu warriors are qualified to call themselves a slave!"

Duoduo drank the Goshha and said to Tang Tong with a smile: "Tang Junmen, this slave is right. You Han people are not qualified to call yourself slaves. Although Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Wu Sangui and others are Han people, they have already raised the flag, so they can call themselves slaves in front of us! Lord Tang, the deserters under your command should be killed according to the law! Military orders are like mountains, don't say more. Today, seeing that your subordinates have suffered too much loss, so let's replace them to attack the mountain!"

"Thank you, Prince!" Tang Tong fought a thousand and retreated. The fraction of his more than 13,000 people attacked in just one time, and all of them were cut off, losing more than a quarter of them. The army could no longer fight. If Duoduo forced him again, he would probably become a bare general.

Tang Tong retreated, and he could only watch the Baoyi Aha and his men's hands fell, and more than 200 heads of the Green Camp soldiers fell to the ground.

Duoduo asked to call Jiang Xiang again: "Jiang Junmen, Tang Junmen failed to attack the mountain just now, and his army lost more than a quarter, and he was really unable to fight again. Now it's your turn to join! You have so many soldiers and generals, and you won't hurt your muscles even if you lose thousands of people."

Of course, Jiang Xiang knew that Duoduo wanted to use the Green Camp soldiers as cannon fodder to consume the ammunition of the Ming army on the hilltop, but he had no choice but to kneel on the ground and hit a thousand: "The general obeys the order!"

Xuan's army is still quite large. Originally, there were more than 20,000 people when Jiang Xiang surrendered to Li Zicheng. Later, a group of refugees was recruited, with more than 50,000 troops. The attack lost thousands of people at one time, and the foundation was not damaged. What's more, when attacking later, Jiang Xiang just wanted the recruits formed by refugees to be placed in front as cannon fodder, and his elite veterans would be able to support the formation behind.

With Jiang Xiang's order, the Green Camp Army launched another attack on the mountain.

Jiang Xiang asked two thousand new recruits composed of refugees to put in front of them. Each recruit only held a simple shield made of wooden boards and a broken rusty blade. He wore tattered clothes and did not look like soldiers at all, but rather like beggars. Because Dorgon recruited too many green camp soldiers this time, and there was no time to make such a large suit. These new recruits composed of refugees could only wear their original ragged clothes and go into battle.

Behind the recruits cannon fodder team is Jiang Xiang's first fierce general, Wang Fuchen, personally led the veterans of the two thousand Xuan army. Most of the veterans were bird gunners and archers, as well as five hundred turtledove gunners and four hundred light 100 kilogram Franchise.

When the 100-jin Franchise was attacking the mountain, it was in groups of four people. Two soldiers carried the Franchise, and the other two carried five sub-guns. When they rushed to the launch position, the two soldiers placed the Franchise on the ground, put it on a large stone, aimed at the target and fired. After firing, they could quickly load the sub-guns.

The power of a single shell of a light 100-jin Franchise machine is similar to that of a turtle dove gun. Moreover, the weight of a light 100-jin Franchise machine is five times heavier than a turtle dove gun. The turtle dove gun is only twenty kilograms and can fire a 4-liang projectile; the 100-jin Franchise machine has a projectile of only five liang, but the advantage of a 100-jin Franchise machine is that the rate of fire is much faster than that of a turtle dove gun.

Braving the dense rain of bullets from the Ming army, the Xuanda Green Camp Army rushed up the hillside like a tide and rushed towards the Ming army position on the hilltop. The sound of cannons and muskets fired again on the hilltop. The ragged new recruits in front fell down in pieces. The simple thin wooden shields they held could not stop the firearms at all, and even the bird gun bullets could not stop it. When they hit it, they would pass through.

The green camp recruits in front fell down in a dense crowd. The green camp soldiers and weapons behind took advantage of the opportunity that the smoke had not yet dissipated and rushed up the mountain. They rushed for more than ten steps, and estimated that the light flaming aircraft on the top of the mountain would be launched again. They hurriedly fell down and took advantage of the bumpy hillside and layers of corpses as hidden objects, picked up bird guns, set up turtledove guns and light flaming aircraft, and shot desperately on the mountain.

The bird guns, turtledove guns and light Franchises of the Green Camp Army pose a certain threat to the mountain defenders, but the Ming army hiding in the trenches and shooting were extremely casualties, and the losses were only some refugee recruits with no combat experience. The elite Jinyi New Army, who had been strictly trained, still have zero casualties.
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