"Kill!"
The several rows of spearmen behind the phalanx shouted in unison and made their first stabbing movement.
Dozens of Shunjun cavalry who tried to cut into the gaps in the Ming army's formation were stabbed through their armor by five-meter spears.
The spear-wielding soldiers also lost their spears due to the impact of the opponent, and some were knocked to the ground.
Some people even died because the back end of the spear penetrated their bodies because they held the spear incorrectly.
A commander of the Shun Army Cavalry Department who continued to charge forward had his neck pierced by a spear blade.
He screamed and fell to the ground.
The man on the horse was smart and brave.
He took advantage of the situation and rolled forward from the saddle, losing the momentum and passing under the gunfire at the same time.
When he got up, he came to a three-eyed gunslinger.
He raised his hand and stabbed the opponent's chest with the steel knife in his hand.
A sword and shield player next to the gunslinger quickly swung his sword and slashed away.
The commander of the cavalry unit of the army looked in all directions and shrank his body back.
The tip of the sword passed in front of him.
The steel sword in his hand struck that person again.
The sword, shield and hand are coming.
Ming Saber and Shield were in a hurry and could barely block it with their shield.
When the commander put his sword away and prepared for the third blow, a heavy object hit his Tianling Gai hard.
Shunjun generally did not wear helmets, and the spiked three-eyed blunderbuss cracked his skull and immediately fell to the ground.
A dozen cavalrymen who escaped from the forest of spear blades and tried to cut into the enemy's formation in foot combat all met the same fate as this commander.
They were killed by the steel knife in the hands of the sword shield and the "mace" of the three-eyed gunman.
The remaining 700 cavalrymen had turned their horses and scattered in all directions.
They never gathered again to fight.
They were obviously defeated.
The Chinese military formation of the Shun Army, which pressed forward from the front, also suffered several rounds of bombardment from about two hundred three-eyed repeating matchlock gunners.
There were heavy casualties, and the Ming army's spearmen retreated back before they had time to take action.
Most of the gunners on the left and right gave fire support to the rear.
Therefore, the Shunjun army formation did not suffer much firearm damage in these two directions.
The military line had entered a distance where they could engage the opponent, and they all raised their guns.
Knife, come forward and kill.
In front of them was a dense mass of spear blades.
The new recruits who had never been in battle and some veterans had stopped moving forward.
Those refugees who had fought several "Shun battles" and had only joined the Shun army a year or two before were still rushing forward, trying to find gaps in the forest of spears and cut in to kill the enemy to make achievements.
But more than half of them fell to the Ming army's five-meter spears.
The other half who squeezed in between the spear poles were also intercepted and killed by the gunslingers and sword and shield wielders.
A military swordsman and shieldman approached the Ming army's gunner and slashed away with his sword.
The gunman was also a Tianjin soldier who was new to the battle.
He forgot to wave the "mace" in his hand to resist, and moved backwards at a loss. pace.
Fortunately, a Ming saber shield hand next to him raised his shield with his left hand to block the sword.
He stabbed away with his right hand and hit the opponent's right rib.
It penetrated into the chest from between the two ribs.
There was also a Shun Army spearman who bullied himself into the forest of spears.
He raised his remaining spear and pierced the nearest Ming Army spearman.
There was a bang and his head was hit by a gun two feet away.
The three-eyed gunman fired into a honeycomb.
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This was the last shot of the three-eyed gunman.
At this time, the three hundred Guards riflemen inside and outside the Ming army's formation also concentrated all their firepower on both wings of the square formation.
The more than two hundred Lumi gunmen who were the first to fire had also loaded new ammunition.
Under the command of the general, they went up to the front of the formation and fired another round of volleys to the left and right.
In the smoke, as the soldiers of the Shun Army continued to fall, the formation of the Shun Army on the left and right wings was in chaos and they were forced to retreat.
If the Ming army had not attacked to catch up, the Shun army on the left and right wings would have collapsed now.
Under Tian Jianxiu's command, the frontal Shunjun formation held down their positions and pressed forward again.
Xia Hua gave an order, and another seven to eight hundred Lumi gunmen who had reloaded their ammunition stepped forward in waves and fired four consecutive volleys.
The frontal Junjun formation that had just been stabilized was suddenly torn into pieces.
Tian Jianxiu was stunned at this time.
Since the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, he had never seen the Ming Army's firearms unit equipped with such firepower.
The cry of a soldier next to him brought him back to his senses: "General, the Ming army is coming.
We can't hold it anymore, so retreat quickly."
Only then did he realize that the Ming army had been on the defensive.
The Ming army's formation suddenly moved, and very quickly.
The dense spears rushed straight ahead like an overwhelming force.
There were also sporadic bursts of firecrackers and bullets.
"Withdraw, withdraw quickly.
Send my military order, withdraw," Tian Jianxiu ordered without hesitation.
Before his order could be conveyed, the troops in the Shun army had collapsed, and the defeated soldiers passed by him like a tide and rushed towards the suspension bridge.
The central army collapsed, and the Shun troops who stood far away on the left and right began to flee in all directions.
At first, the generals tried their best to maintain it, but later, seeing that they could no longer control it, they themselves ran away.
Niu Jinxing on the city tower could clearly see the battle situation and had already urgently ordered the soldiers in the city to close the city gate and pull up the drawbridge.
The defeated soldiers had swarmed onto the suspension bridge.
When Tian Jianxiu, who was running at the front, was only a battle away from the city gate, the gate was closed with a clang.
Tian Jianxiu slapped the door panel with his hands and kept yelling and cursing.
But soon he could no longer curse.
The defeated soldiers behind him poured onto the suspension bridge layer by layer, pressing him tightly against the door panel, suffocating him and gradually becoming silent.
The suspension bridge was crowded with soldiers huddled together, so it was naturally impossible for the soldiers at the top of the city to pull it up again.
The Ming army's spear blades arrived near the head of the suspension bridge a moment later.
Most of Tian Jianxiu's soldiers had fled in all directions.
The Suspension Bridge and the surrounding soldiers who had no time to escape all abandoned their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.
Wang De chose to take the lead and led several Ming soldiers with prepared sharp axes to rush to the bridge and cut off the chains.
Then the captured soldiers of the Shun army were escorted down one by one and tied together with ropes.
At this time, arrows suddenly rained down from the top of the city.
More than 20 Ming soldiers and more than 100 Shun army prisoners were all injured or killed by arrows.
Xia Hua ordered the entire army to retreat to a safe distance, and ordered the riflemen and Rumi gunmen to watch the city head to prevent the people on the city tower from suddenly attacking and destroying the suspension bridge, and to fire rapidly as soon as the people on the city tower showed up.
Under the intensive firepower of the Ming army, more than a dozen crossbowmen from the Shun army were shot dead one after another.
No one dared to stand near the Qihua Gate Tower and look out.
More than half an hour later, the artillery team including Xia Hua finally arrived.
Four Hongyi cannons were lined up in a row, aiming at Qihua Gate and starting direct fire bombardment in turn.
Ten mortars were also lined up behind them, ejecting primitive explosive shells ignited by twist wire.
In the rumbling artillery fire, the Shun army defenders squatting behind the battlements suffered heavy casualties.
After several rounds of mortar bombardment, these soldiers, led by the general, fled into the city.
The roar of cannons shook most of Beijing, and the people in the city knew that the intruders had not been in the capital for a long time.
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After three rounds and twelve shots from the Hongyi cannon, the gate of Qihua Gate was blown to pieces, and finally the whole thing collapsed from the city wall
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