The Ming army's attack came suddenly and fiercely. At the last moment, the whole army was still setting off fireworks and singing songs to celebrate the New Year. At the next moment, countless shells had already landed on the heads of Qi people.

Inertial thinking made the Qi people relax their vigilance at this moment, which was fatal. The Ming people tried their best to spend countless money to do these preliminary work, but they were just a prelude to launch this fatal attack on the first lieutenant of the Navy Marine Corps.

The first lieutenant quickly broke through the natural barrier formed by hundreds of steps. Although he only occupied a small position on the third street, he penetrated deeply into the originally integrated Qi army's defense line like a wedge, breaking the Qi army's defense line from the two pieces.

Chen Zheng's second lieutenant, one thousand men were soon subjected to a fierce counterattack from the Qi army from three directions. The Qi people knew very well that if they did not quickly extinguish the Ming army, a large number of follow-up troops of the Ming army would rush to the third street through this stone stairs.

There is really not much time left for them.

The Qi army's defense line, which had been blown up by the Ming army, quickly became the position defended by the Ming army. The bodies of the Qi army who died in battle were unceremoniously built up and turned into the Ming army's bunker. The soldiers of the Second Captain lay on these cold, or a little hot, and even some were still twitching and trembling bodies. The Qi army, who rushed up in three directions, desperately opened fire.

Dozens of mortars were now scattered everywhere in the position, constantly launching strikes against the Qi army, reducing the burden on the soldiers. In the sky, countless stone bombs fell down like rain. The powerful crossbows tore the bodies that were used as covers with a harsh roar. One by one, the gunpowder packs were thrown in by the catapult and exploded on the defense line.

The Ming army's position seemed in danger, but it was always shaken and could not fall down. It was like the reefs in the sea in the storm. At this moment, it was flooded by raging waves, and the next moment, it tenaciously resisted the bombardment of the tide and exposed its head again.

Ma Guangrong took out the flag of the Second Captain from his arms, found a spear discarded by the enemy, put the flag on it, and flew on the position with the flag of the First Captain.

The feathered arrows on his head were whizzing, and from time to time, stones fell around him, making the surrounding things roar. But he was like a stone sculpture, half-kneeling on the ground, resting the Ming Dynasty style 1 on a broken bunker, calmly hooking the trigger. On his side, a soldier with both legs flipped at strange angles was running cold sweat to press bullets on him. Now he had three guns alternately shooting.

There are too many enemies, so Ma Guangrong doesn't need to aim, just shoot the bullets in the barrel. Every time a bullet flies out, a Qi soldier will fall in front of him.

A gunpowder bag fell from the sky and landed beside him. The fuse was burning. As he was about to burn to the bottom, he almost subconsciously picked up the gunpowder bag and went out. The gunpowder bag was still flying in the air before it landed. Ma Guangrong almost curled up while throwing out the gunpowder bag. After a rumbling sound, he felt his ears buzzing, and his internal organs were almost changed. The waves of overturning the rivers made him unable to help but kneel down and retching. Other damages from the explosion can be avoided and dodged, but only this powerful shock wave is inevitable.

Qi Jun, who was only twenty or thirty steps away from him, was also released by the sudden explosion. After Shi Guangrong retching a few times, he pushed the gun behind him and reached out to get another gun. He took it, but he took it. When he turned around, the soldier who was seriously injured and still pressing bullets for him was now sagging, his head was drooping, and his seven orifices were bleeding, and he had already died.

Without frontal suppression, Qi Jun on the opposite side immediately rushed up. Shi Guangrong shouted, picked up a row of grenades placed at his feet, pulled the firing rope and threw it outward.

The explosion kept ringing, but the enemy was still rushing up.

When Shi Guangrong was about to throw out the last grenade, a figure flashed in front of him. A Qi army rushed up like a tiger down the mountain, pressing him tightly under him. The short knife with a cold light in his hand was pierced at Shi Guangrong. He grabbed the inserted short knife, and his hand hurt heartily, and blood sprinkled on Shi Guangrong's face, but Shi Guangrong grinned, and his other thumb inserted into the grenade's fire and squirted outward, and the blue smoke came out from the grenade.

The officer who was holding Shi Guangrong shouted in horror and wanted to get up, but Shi Guangrong was snatched tightly with his legs. He abandoned the knife and wanted to steal the grenade from Shi Guangrong's hand, but Shi Guangrong's bloody hand suddenly surrounded his neck and pulled it hard towards his chest. The two of them were tightly pressed together.

The Qi army around them fled outside in panic.

Chen Zheng watched this scene and the last thing he heard was Shi Guangrong's singing with pleasure.

"I wish you all the best, the Ming Dynasty!"

Before the song could fall, the explosion sounded loudly.

The smoke and dust dissipated, and Chen Zheng could no longer see Shi Guangrong's trace. Only the second lieutenant's flag that was inserted behind him, although it turned into a rag strip, was still fluttering in the wind.

A row of Ming troops rushed up, and the gunshots sounded, and immediately rolled the group of Qi soldiers who had just rushed to the ground. Another round of grenades, and the Qi army behind them was also swept out of an open space.

"Preserve the flag of the second lieutenant for me. If the first lieutenant is not dead, the flag of the second lieutenant cannot fall." Chen Zheng roared angrily.

A complete and strict defense system is like a chain linked together. As long as one of the locks has problems, it will inevitably produce a domino effect and the entire system will be affected. This is the case in Laicheng's defense now. In order to block the first hole, Xu Junsheng had to draw troops from other places. When he was anxious to be unable to take down the enemy, the consequences appeared.

Chen Zheng was the main offensive point here, but it was not the only point. In fact, at this time, the Ming army launched an attack on the entire line.

Airships that had never performed bombing missions at night also took off. They took great risks to lower the altitude and tried to throw bombs onto the enemy's heads as accurately as possible. If they could barely endure the bombs, then these airships brought batches of soldiers down from the air ropes, which would pose a greater threat to the Qi army.

These soldiers occupied a small area and then hung the long ropes they carried with them from the top of the peak. The Ming army, who had already been waiting below, climbed up the rope. When Xu Junsheng focused his attention on Chen Zheng's main attack troops, several small troops of the Ming army climbed to the top of the peak from places that seemed impossible to climb.

The Qi army not only did not drive the Ming army down, but instead allowed the Ming army to bloom everywhere on the territory they finally defended.

Xu Junsheng stood on a three-story steel and concrete house, holding a telescope and looking at the entire battlefield with a heavy face. With his experience, he was already very clear that he was facing failure. He originally thought he could defend for ten days and half a month, but now, since the Ming army started an attack, he faced a complete failure in just three days.

At the other end of the stone stairs, with the arrival of the Ming reinforcements, they had stabilized the situation and began to slowly expand their positions. On the other side of the river, more Ming troops were ready to go.

He slowly moved the telescope. In the city where the fire was filled with fire, several black behemoths were hovering. Several long ropes hung down, and Ming troops slipped down like monkeys from above, and then disappeared into the darkness.

He could not wait for reinforcements from Liaodong Leidong, and Zhu Ruofan in Guanzi City had no news yet. In just three days, the people he sent out might not have arrived in Guanzi City, or he was caught by Ming people halfway.

"General Xu, I can't defend it anymore!" A general rushed in with blood on his face, "I'll order to retreat. No matter how late we are, we will be entangled by the Ming army and cannot even retreat."

Xu Junsheng put down his telescope and silently watched the fires soaring into the sky. Explosions kept coming from the streets, and smiled bitterly: "Get back, where to retreat? Huaihua has been occupied by the rebels, and we have no way to retreat. Fight, fight until the last moment!"

He turned around, lifted a big knife on the table, pushed open the door and walked out.

When it was dawn, the Ming army had already invested all its strength. Guan Zhen's 5,000 naval marines, 10,000 troops from Suqian, and Lu Dayuan's command, except for 5,000 people monitoring the direction of Guanzi City, the rest were also devoted to this battle. Fights broke out everywhere in the main city of Laizhou.

The Qi army had completely lost command, and even the Ming army, which had a great advantage, was in chaos at this time. Every house, every lane, and even some caves were fighting.

It was not until the first ray of sunshine broke through the sea of ​​clouds and fell on the top of the peak that the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing fell. Guan Zhen, who was covered in blood, walked to Chen Zhihua with the same bloody knife.

"Xu Jun is alive and dead. He is surrounded by us and refuses to surrender. He detonates the gunpowder in the house and blows himself to pieces." Guan Zhen said.

Chen Zhihua nodded and looked at the rising sun, "They have their pride, and they will die if they die. The old ones die, and the new ones will come. Today is the first day of the new year, and Laizhou will also usher in a new life. General Guan, the military minutes reiterate that the eyes of the supervisory officials will be opened from now on."
Chapter completed!