492 Breaking the city
Towards evening, the Ming army finished building the fortifications and began the artillery bombardment.
I don't know if it's because I'm afraid of death, the artillery position was built a little far, and the iron bullets that bombarded the head of Ningyuan City basically had no effect.
"Hehe, I think that Xingguo Gong has in his brain, see when he can blast Ningyuan City!" Turg said with a sneer.
When his men heard this, they chimed in.
"At first, I was worried that this artillery of the Ming army was as strange as their muskets, but I didn't expect it, there was no one at all!"
"Just by virtue of this, the Year of the Monkey and the Moon will blast open the Ningyuan City Wall! Haha......"
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The artillery on the head of the city also returned fire, but the Ming army was only an artillery position in the east and a west, and the target was too small.
Gunpowder is limited, so it must be spared.
After watching for a while, he gave another order: "Guard the city gates, and in other places, whatever the dog wants!" ”
The city gate is a weak point, although the Ming artillery is far away, but if it is hit, it will still collapse.
Sure enough, the very busy Ming army also discovered this situation, so they stopped the shelling and started to transfer the Hongyi cannon again, trying to bombard several gates of Ningyuan City.
When Turg saw it, he simply asked people to block the city gate, so that he didn't have to worry about breaking it. Anyway, it will take three days for reinforcements to come. After the reinforcements arrived, it was okay to remove the earthen bags blocking the city gate and attack inside and out.
It may be the reason why the road near the sea side of Ningyuan City is not easy to walk, and the Ming army is not interested in bombarding the city gate on this side.
It was slowly getting dark, and the day was coming to an end. It also means that the day of reinforcements is one day closer.
Thinking so, Turg looked at the Ming army's banner at the head of the city, and sneered again: I thought that the Ming army had become powerful, but it turned out to be just a group of pigs. Yesterday's hatred will be found sooner or later.
However, what annoyed him a little was that after nightfall, when he returned to the yamen to rest, he heard the sound of "boom boom" again.
Hearing this, Turg had to rush to the head of the city to observe the enemy's situation, only to find that the Ming army was holding torches and shelling at night. Although the speed of each shelling was slow, it was shelling all the time.
"Hehe, this is because I'm worried that my Qing reinforcements are coming, so I don't even let go of the night time, and I'm going to shell?" When Turg saw it, he couldn't help but sneer again, "If you want to bomb, you can bomb, anyway, you have a lot of gunpowder, see how long you can bombard!" ”
After saying that, he didn't care, anyway, there was a rotating duty at the head of the city. It was impossible for the Ming army to blast open the city wall, and now it is even impossible to even the city gate, because it has been blocked with mud bags.
However, what annoyed him a little was that the Hongyi cannons outside the city rang out one after another, and he couldn't sleep peacefully.
One is that the sound of the Hongyi cannon is very loud, and the other is that Ningyuan City is the defender after all, in case of an accident, what will be blasted out by the Ming army, and what should the Ming army do when they attack the city in their sleep?
He is like this, and so are the other Jianyu in Ningyuan City, in short, he can't sleep well.
I was nervous for a day yesterday, and I didn't let people sleep well today, these Ming troops outside the city are really enough!
So, one by one, they cursed the Ming army that was noisy at night! They all thought that when the reinforcements arrived and caught Ming Gou, they would drag them to death one by one, just like they dragged Meng Qiaofang to death!
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On the side of the Ming army, the officers and men of the Ming army, who had received military orders in advance, fell asleep after getting used to the sound of artillery bombardment. Especially the infantry army to which Ma Xianglin belongs, he didn't have to worry about anything else, and he ate and went to bed early.
In the early hours of the morning, on the side of the infantry camp, with the help of the dim moonlight, some Ming soldiers began to go from tent to tent, quietly and silently waking up the infantry soldiers in each tent.
Because before going to bed last night, I had already informed that even if some of the soldiers of the Ming army had not woken up, as soon as they were woken up, they immediately remembered what they were going to do, and they didn't make a sound one by one. As for those who have woken up before the call, naturally not to mention.
In each tent, the soldiers of the Ming army who woke up would be given two hot buns, and after eating, they quietly went out of the tent and began to assemble.
At this time, it was not yet dawn.
Zhang Mingwei had already gotten up, accompanied by Ma Xianglin and Yan Yingyuan, as well as Wu Sangui, who had returned to the camp yesterday evening.
Seeing that the army assembly place was almost over, Zhang Mingwei looked up at the sky in the east, and after estimating the time, he said to the three generals around him: "Let it go, we don't need Ningyuan City!" ”
"The last general obeys!" When Ma Xianglin and the others heard this, they immediately clenched their fists and received their orders, and responded in a low and powerful voice.
Then, the three generals took their personal guards and led 10,000 infantry troops into the dark night and disappeared silently.
Yan Yingyuan led the way, made a circle, and arrived at the seaside of Ningyuan City, and stopped a stone's throw away from the city. Looking up at the rotating building at the head of the city, he moved a rock and revealed a hole.
Without saying a word, he was the first to burrow into the hole.
When Wu Sangui in the back saw it, he couldn't help but be speechless.
It's really insidious enough, when the tunnel is dug up, just wait for the pit to be built!
The bombardment of those Hongyi cannons is all to attract the attention of Jianyu, and the bombardment at night is also to cover the killer feature of passing through the tunnel!
Thinking of this, he became a little excited again, this time he has military merits to make!
Ma Xianglin was also excited, in the previous battle, his infantry army actually did not kill many prisoners, this time, his infantry army became the main force of the siege, and there were prisoners to kill.
Moreover, the Duke of Xingguo clearly ordered that he would not want Ningyuan City anyway, so he didn't have to scruple to destroy Ningyuan City, and he could use various means to kill him!
Thinking of this, he longed to be the first to burrow into the tunnel.
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The seaside of Ningyuan City has not been the focus of Ningyuan's city defense, and the buildings on this side are mostly private houses and places where livestock are kept. In one of the filthy pigsties, where several sows were sleeping soundly, suddenly their troughs moved, and then moved, and then they tumbled, and the heavy troughs rolled to the side.
The sows just snorted and went back to sleep.
Then, from the place where the original trough was, a person crawled out, and after looking left and right, he quietly pulled out a sharp blade, and cut off the pig's head one by one, and he could sleep for a lifetime without even humming.
Then the man went to the doorway, and after looking out for a while, he returned to the pigsty, and then the people who were waiting in the hole came out one by one, and soon the room was full of people, about thirty or so.
Then, these thirty or so all quietly went out and began to spread out to both sides. And inside the pigsty, people began to come out one after another.
About 500 soldiers of the Ming Army were out, and the sky in the east was white, and the morning light sprinkled on the earth, and a new day had arrived.
A large area of the vicinity was cleaned up by the Ming army who was the first to go out of the tunnel. Those Jianyu may have fallen asleep late at night, and when they were killed by the Ming army's good hands, they still didn't wake up in their sleep.
Wu Sangui had also entered the city and met with Yan Yingyuan, who came first, and after discussing in a low voice, Yan Yingyuan continued to clean up Jianyu while he had not found out.
Wu Sangui, on the other hand, led his guards to begin to capture the city gate.
The Hongyi artillery outside the city continued to bombard intermittently, and everything seemed to be normal. Jian Yu naturally did not expect that the Ming army had already dug the tunnels for the siege.
Unprepared, when the Ming army attacked the city, it was discovered by the Jianjiao on the city.
On the side of the Ming army, they originally tried not to alarm Jianyu, so they all shrank back, but when they found out that they were discovered by Jianlu, they let go of their hands and feet and immediately did a lot of work.
In the face of Jianlu's panic, the Ming army was like a fierce tiger, unstoppably rushing to kill Jianlu.
About 15,000 Jianyu had to defend the huge Ningyuan City, and there were not many troops in each place, not to mention, it was located on the side of the sea without the Ming army.
Therefore, the Ming army on this side had the advantage of local strength, and they came prepared, and immediately captured a large part of the city, the city gate was opened, and more infantry soldiers rushed in from the city gate, and continuously joined the battle in the city.
"Kill ......"
The shouting of killing, at the moment when it was discovered by Jianyu, suddenly sounded from inside the city. Immediately scared all the prisoners awake.
Turg, who was sleeping in armor, was woken up, got up from the bed, and immediately shouted: "What's the matter, is the Ming army attacking the city?" ”
His personal guards rushed in almost at the same time, their faces full of panic, and hurriedly said, "Oh no, the Ming army has attacked the city!" ”
"What?" Turg couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, "How is this possible?" How could the Ming army attack the city? ”
Of course, he attaches great importance to the defense of the city, and it is all arranged. It stands to reason that it is impossible for the Ming army to steal the city.
His guards naturally didn't know what was going on, anyway, when they found out, the Ming army had already captured a large part of the city.
Turge walked out of the yamen and ran to the street to take a look, in Ningyuan City, a large area, there was fire everywhere, and the sound of killing shook the sky. All he could see was the formation of Ming troops attacking sporadic subordinates.
Most of his subordinates, when they encountered this situation, fled in panic. Only a small number of men are still trying to resist.
As soon as he saw this situation, he understood that Ning Yuancheng was about to end.
Thinking of this, he didn't care, and fled first.
However, when he was about to escape, he found that the gates of the city had been blocked by his own order yesterday.
On the city wall as far as the eye can see, the Ming army is advancing step by step in the formation, and has captured most of the city walls, and the dazzling white-pole spears, under the cover of muskets, have pierced out a bloody road.
At the same time, he was also desperate to find that the Ming cavalry had also entered the city.