The bandits were not good at shooting, and the power of bows and arrows was not very strong. Many of them were almost exhausted when they shot to the top of the city, and they were all covered by shield walls. At this moment, the soldiers guarding the city had almost no casualties.

He has always been not good at siege warfare, and position warfare is the favorite tactic of bandits. Sun Chuanting died in position warfare.

These bandits who siege the city were all infantry, and they were all prepared for siege. The cavalry did not move at all behind. As long as the city gate was opened, they began to attack quickly together.

Zhu Youjian was fully focused on watching the fierce siege battle. Suddenly, a group of people rushed to the top of the city, including men, women, young and old, and were immediately stopped by the army.

The new army commander stepped forward and shouted:

"Who? All retreat, this is a military land, otherwise everyone will die."

Seeing the soldiers pointing their guns at their hands, the people who came stopped, but they were still shouting:

"Official, let us go up. We are here to defend the city, otherwise the city will be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty. We will share life and death with the Ming Dynasty."

"Defend the city? What a joke."

Although the commander of the thousand-man was also infected by the loyalty of these people, hesitated when he saw these people. There were men, women, young and old, and they were still defending the city, and it was almost the same to cause trouble.

He didn't dare to make decisions and hurriedly thought about Zhu Youjian's report:

"Thank you to the emperor, there are many people coming, they want to go to the top of the city to defend the city."

"Oh, who are the people in this matter?"

Zhu Youjian felt strange and turned around and walked to the group of people. His heart felt warm and he couldn't help but feel a little moved.

According to historical records, when the capital city was broken, no one defended the city at all. Perhaps it was referring to the Ming army and some Jinyiwei.

Today, these people are almost all eunuchs and palace maids, and there is no record of history.

I saw a large group of eunuchs and palace maids, with more than 200 people, all holding weapons in their hands.

Some palace maids obviously have no martial arts skills and are staggering when walking with long spears.

Although most of the people who came here were powerless.

But even eunuchs and palace maids dare to come and have loyal hearts. This is also the only person in the capital who is willing to help Zhu Youjian.

The eunuchs themselves were slaves from the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and their paths came to an end, but civil and military officials were different. They could sell their owners for honor and beg for mercy.

The palace maids and eunuchs in the Qianqing Palace were driven away by Emperor Chongzhen the day before yesterday. These eunuchs and palace maids must be from other palaces, and Zhu Youjian had almost seen them.

Now the rebel army is shooting arrows on the top of the city, and these people cannot come up at all, otherwise there will be casualties. Zhu Youjian hurriedly asked the army to stop all these people.

"Everyone listens to me, I feel understandable, but don't come up and retreat. You have no experience in this area. You may be able to shoot the bow and arrow to death."

When the eunuchs and palace maids saw Zhu Youjian, they all fell to the ground and released animals and cried. Who would have thought that the Emperor Ming Dynasty would stand on the top of the city to guard the capital?

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body. You can come to defend the city in person. Of course, we must do our best, whether for ourselves or for the Ming Dynasty, even if we are broken into pieces..."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand:

"If you all go down, my army will definitely be able to defend the capital. If you really want to do your part for the Ming Dynasty and help those fire-headed troops, you will be needed even more."

"This... Thank you, the Emperor..."

Zhu Youjian's words were imperial edicts. These people looked up at the mighty army on the city, and they all obediently went to the Huotou Army to help, and there was no problem with washing and cooking.

"Swoosh swish swish..."

As soon as these people walked down the city, there was another rain of arrows on the city, but most of them were blocked by shields and did not cause any casualties.

As the commander of the Ming Dynasty who was temporarily appointed by Zhu Youjian, Qi Jiguang looked at the bandits who were shooting archery contemptuously and couldn't help laughing:

"Rebels, now let you taste the taste of my Daming musket and flowering bullets and light the fire."

At Qi Jiguang's order, the eight thousand Shenji camp soldiers lit the flower bullets in their hands in order, and threw them rows at the siege of the bandits.

At the same time, the firearms in the hands of 20,000 new troops and the Qi family army also began to fire at the same time.

"Boom..."

"Bang bang..."

With a loud bang, these flowering bullets and muskets exploded on their heads and around them. The siege bandits fell down in an instant, but the attack on the city did not stop and continued.

Flowering bullets fell from the sky, like a rain of flowering bullets, including rockets and shrapnel fired by muskets.

"Brothers are amazing. The Ming army is too fierce. We can't get close to the city. Retreat quickly."

"What are you going to withdraw? If the general doesn't order it, it's a dead end to withdraw. It's better to climb up. If you survive, there will be a silver woman..."

"Bang bang..."

The bandit soldier who was just trying to climb up the city was suddenly hit by a few flowering bullets, and more than a dozen fell down next to him. This guy's silver turned into a bubble in an instant.

In less than half a stick of incense, the city was covered with corpses. Most of the 100,000 bandits who had just attacked the city suffered casualties, and basically lost their combat effectiveness.

Seeing that the bandits ahead suffered heavy casualties, Hao Yaoqi gave an order, and his 50,000 Ming surrendered troops began to attack the city gate.

"fire"

Seeing the bandits reinforcements, Qi Jiguang ordered the artillery again.

Suddenly, countless artillery shells exploded among the bandits' siege, and the explosion made them fall over. As soon as they attacked the city, the flowering bullet exploded above their heads.

This siege was the most difficult and the most casualties since the establishment of the bandits. Seeing the fall of many under his command, General Liu's eyes were about to spurt fire.

But he suppressed his anger and ordered:

"Send the order, suspend the siege."

Although these bandits were brave and were not afraid of death, who would die alive? Hearing the order to withdraw his troops, he immediately began to retreat quickly.

Seeing Liu Zongmin retreating, Hao Yaoqi felt that he could not continue to fight like this, and then ordered a retreat.

"Tell me the order to suspend the siege and retreat five miles."

In the first siege, the bandits ended in failure, leaving behind corpses and broken limbs on the ground, and the bandits retreated in a panic.

"Your Majesty, look, the bandits stopped siege and began to retreat. Should we kill them for a while and kill all the people who siege the city today?"

Sun Chuanting pointed at the retreating bandits and wanted to go out of the city to fight.

Zhu Youjian shook his head:

"We won't go out to fight today. There are still many things to do in the city. Tomorrow, you will be able to kill you to check the gunpowder and the wounded, and all the supplies needed will be filled."

"Abide by the order"

Although the bandits failed to attack the city, there were still hundreds of thousands of troops, and once they were surrounded, it would be troublesome. If there were too many ants, they would bite the elephant to death.

Not long after, Qi Jiguang came to report:

"Your Majesty, one hundred and thirty people were injured, but the injuries were not serious. Most of them were due to poor quality of firearms and their own people were injured by accident."

"What? How many accidental injuries are there, how many gunpowder and flowering bullets?"
Chapter completed!