The moment Shi Guangrong climbed to the top of the cliff, he saw a tall Ming army officer with two long spears between his chest and abdomen. Two Qi soldiers were yelling and pushing him to the edge of the cliff.

The tall Ming army officer shouted wildly, holding the gun bar tightly with both hands, and lifting it up hard. The two Qi soldiers flew up and screamed over the officer's head. They were still going up the cliff before the officer. The screams continued in the wind.

The officer's figure was shaking and his body was falling down the cliff. Shi Guangrong reached out to hold him, but when his hand was stretched out, the officer's whole person had fallen backwards.

Shi Guangrong turned around, rushed forward with his gun with blood red eyes, and knocked two Qi troops to the ground with two shots. Another lunge took a stab and knocked down another soldier who was attacking with a knife.

"Kill!" He shouted wildly and rushed towards him.

This was the third day they had attacked Crab Bay Claw Arm. In three days, a group of Ming soldiers attacked the top of the mountain, and then all fell here, or fell to the cliff. Today, the battle finally reached the critical point.

After half a day of bloody battle, the blood of countless pioneers was not wasted in vain. Rope nets hung down from the top of the cliff. More Ming troops were climbing up along the rope nets continuously, and guarding the small part of the cliff top and moving forward, expanding more places for the latecomers, became a task that pioneers must complete.

Both sides knew that this time had become the key to this battle, and no one had a way out. Once the Qi army was defeated, they would inevitably lose Crab Bay. Once the Ming army retreated, they would no longer be able to launch such a powerful attack in a short period of time. Behind every lonely attack, it represents the next attack powerlessness.

Zhou Li, who was on the sea, could only watch the fight on the cliff in silence, watch the enemy or his own people fall from the cliff incessantly, and more people fell on the cliff. His cannon could only be silent at this moment, and the enemy and us were completely killed together at this moment. When the cannon fire, they would kill them together without distinguishing between the enemy and me.

The airship silently watched this extremely fierce battle in the air, and at this moment they could only watch.

A small team of Ming troops attacked forward dozens of steps and made a shield formation difficult. After Shi Guangrong brought more than a hundred soldiers under his command to the shield formation, the shield formation was not big, so he could only barely cover about twenty soldiers to raise their guns and shoot behind the shield formation.

Although they did not belong to a battle sequence, the Western Army in Suqian formed the shield formation, and the troops equipped with Ming 1 Shi Guangrong belonged to the Navy and Marine Corps, at this moment, no one needed to command, so they naturally cooperated tacitly.

Shi Guangrong clamped his legs and clamped the Ming Dynasty Style 1 on the shield formation. He flew over the crossbow arrows in front of him like locusts, and just steadily hooked the trigger. After five guns were shot, he immediately threw the gun in his hand behind him, and a gun filled with bullets would be handed to his hand immediately.

Twenty gunmen fell from time to time, and whenever one fell, another would be filled up immediately. At the back, they took out the grenade from their waists and threw it hard towards Qi Jun who was rushing towards him.

Soon, this group pressed the Qi army on the opposite side into the ranks of the shield array, and more and more gunmen joined the ranks of shooting.

The effects of sporadic shooting and volley shooting are completely different. During the chaos, even if you knock down one of them with one shot, it is not conspicuous on the chaotic battlefield. However, when hundreds of guns form a gun array and fire at the same time, each sound will cause the entire row of Qi troops to fall down, this intimidation effect will immediately appear.

After the shield formation, more than ten mortars were also steadily mounted and began to fire shells at the Qi army's crossbow and arrow positions in the distance. The Qi army, who had been insisting on attacking forward and wanted to push the Ming army back to the cliff, could finally not stand it.

They began to retreat slowly because behind them there was a line of defense, a city wall, a fortress, and they still had a way out. They wanted to retreat to the fortress and then fight to the death with the Ming army.

But Zhu Ruofan didn't think so. He knew very well that once the Ming army stood up on the top of the mountain, it was the beginning of his destruction. Only by pushing them off the cliff when they were unstable can he defend Crab Bay.

The drums that inspired the soldiers to attack were always beating wildly at the top of the fortress.

But it was obvious that his order had lost its effectiveness at this time. More soldiers from Qi and local areas could not understand Zhu Ruofan's idea. In their opinion, since there was a solid line of defense behind him, why did he carry out such a brutal killing? They could completely retreat to the fortress to effectively kill the Ming army.

When one side has a way out and wants to retreat, but behind the other side is a cliff. Retreat means death, the fighting will erupt from both sides is completely different.

This is how the battle is. Those who are not firm in their minds always retreat first. In fact, the Ming army did not gain much advantage in the battle at this moment. It’s just that their determination is more firm.

The Western Army in Suqian is a unit that has fought countless hard battles. They have seen more tragic battles than they saw. They ignored the situation in front of them, while the Qi army was very different. In the previous battles, they basically defeated their opponents in a crushing manner. They were really evenly matched, and there were not many tragic battles. When they actually encountered one, they finally began to shake.

If one side retreats, it is naturally one side advancement. If one side is shaken, the other side will naturally become more determined.

Zhu Ruofan watched his troops desperately resisting the previous moment, but at the next moment, they suddenly collapsed. They turned around and fled to the fort behind them.

After pushing forward for more than a hundred meters, the Ming army stopped and did not pursue it again, but began to establish positions on the spot. More and more Ming troops climbed to the top of the cliff. Zhu Ruofan looked at all, his expression was dim. He knew that he had lost the best chance to defeat the enemy. Even if he organized a counterattack again, he would not be able to force the Ming army to retreat. In the next time, he could only become the passive side of defense.

Looking at the eight cannons arranged on the top of the mountain and the carefully designed and arranged thunder fires in the back mountain, he felt like he wanted to cry. These were all designed to deal with the enemies on the sea surface, bays and beaches. When the enemy attacked the cliff, these became decorations.

"Transfer the order, give up the artillery room, transport all the remaining gunpowder and shells to the city wall, and all the stone bullets on the Pili Fire to the city wall." He gave an order in a relaxed mood.

"Yes, General Zhu." A general who had just retired was a little ashamed, but Zhu Ruofan looked at the blood-stained general and was injured in many places, and it was really hard to blame him anymore.

"General, we still have a strong fortress, we can guard the Crab Bay!" Or perhaps he noticed Zhu Ruofan's helpless eyes, and the general said softly.

"Of course, we can definitely defend it." Zhu Ruofan replied in a positive tone: "I'm going to sleep for a while. Today, the Ming army should not attack. Whether it is them or us, we need to take a breath."

Suqian also went up to the top of the cliff, and with him, there were ten artillery pieces that were removed from the Dachu. The artillery soldiers came up to the cliff and began to find the best place to set up artillery. The artillery brought by Suqian was to bomb these city walls. The mortars equipped by the Western Army could effectively kill the enemy, but the strength was not enough to destroy the city walls.

"General, these artillery from Qi people are really big!" A general looked at the huge bronze artillery in a cannon room that was abandoned by Qi people, stroked the slightly hot gun body, and sighed: "This must be the main artillery on our Da Chu, right?"

"Big and unreasonable." Suqian sneered: "It is much less powerful than the main gun on the Da Chu."

"General Su, the naval marines are still fighting hard in the bay. I think the position of this artillery is good. If our gunners can use it, can we turn the gun mouth and hit the Qi army fortresses in the bay to give some support to the naval marines?" The general pointed to Ma Guangrong and his group who were resting in the distance. This time, the soldiers of these naval marines made great contributions.

Suqian climbed onto the roof of the cannon room, glanced at it a few times, and slapped his thigh, "Good boy, there are you! There are still a few cannon rooms, can it be used?"

The general smiled and shook his head, "The last general went to see it. The other positions were not suitable. It was just one, just a gate that could reach the inside of the bay. The barrel was so long and thick that it should be good to shoot out. This thing is bulky and heavy. It is not good to hit our mobile warships, but you should be sure to hit those dead targets!"

"That's it. Come on, call me the gun team." Suqian said with a loud laugh: "Take people immediately and remove the four walls of this gun room for me to see if you can find a way to turn the cannons."

After Guan Zhen of the Navy Marine Corps completely controlled the water camp for three days, the battle immediately fell into a deadlock. The enemy fortifications on both sides of the bay he wanted to take down were lightly reinforced and concrete structures, similar to the bunker counties that Wang Yun and others encountered in Lincheng. Without heavy firepower, he encountered tenacious resistance when attacking these fortresses. With very little progress and insufficient troops, they were even forced back to the water camp several times. Fortunately, their weapons were sharp, and once the enemy counterattacked on a large scale, they could use such an opportunity to kill the enemy heavily. After repeated several times, the Qi army learned their lesson and never came out again. This made Chen Zheng's idea of ​​using this little trick to lure the main force of the enemy and give the enemy the greatest damage to the enemy. The two sides were deadlocked for a while.

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