Although Azig did not take the casualties of the Han Banner Army into account, in order to avoid a rebound, he was not so ruthless as to let the Han Banner Army brave the artillery fire to attack the city, until after nearly an hour of shelling, the cannon was hot and stopped, and Azig began to order the Han Banner Army to attack the city.

"Kill"

The first wave of the Qing army attacked the city, with 10,000 people, and the momentum was huge.

After nearly an hour of artillery bombardment by more than 40 cannons of the Qing army, there are countless broken bricks on the Tai'an city wall at this time, and there are many large and small potholes destroyed by cannonballs on the surface of the city wall nearly three zhang high.

"The Qing army has stopped shelling, hurry, hurry up to the city wall to defend the city!" Just now, because the Qing army was only shelling, and did not let the soldiers below brave the artillery fire to attack the city, so in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Yan Yingyuan came down and most of the soldiers went to the city wall to hide, and now that he heard that the Qing army's artillery had stopped, he would inevitably start the first wave of siege.

In addition to leaving about 1,500 reserves, more than 3,000 people followed Yan Yingyuan to the city wall to block the Qing army's siege.

"Woohoo"

"Ah" arrows rained down, constantly flying towards the city, from time to time someone was hit by the arrow, let out a miserable scream, this is an incomparably bloody scene.

More than 20 ladders of the Qing army began to be erected on the city wall, and the soldiers were densely surrounded under the ladder one after another to prepare to enter the city.

There were also a few Qing soldiers who were lucky enough to climb the city wall, but he definitely didn't have time to be happy, and he was immediately cut into several knots by the Tai'an defenders on the city wall, which was very miserable.

The two sides attacked and defended tragically, at any time, the siege of the city is more difficult than the defense of the city, Yan Yingyuan is undoubtedly very good at defending the city, the ratio of casualties between the defenders of Tai'an and the Qing army of the siege reached an astonishing level of one to five, which greatly exceeded the normal casualty ratio of the attacking and defending sides. This is due to Yan Yingyuan's various almost flawless arrangements, which can maximize the manpower of the defenders, and minimize the casualties of the defenders and kill more Qing troops outside the city.

This first wave of attack and defense lasted for about an hour, and the temperature of the Qing army's artillery cooled down, and it was ready to start bombarding again. The Qing army besieging the city retreated like a tide.

"It's not good, the Qing army is going to start bombarding the city with artillery again, go down and dodge." Seeing that the Qing army began to load shells, Yan Yingyuan and the other three brothers immediately led most of the soldiers to the city to hide.

More than 40 cannons of the Qing army roared again, the sound shook the sky, and the city shook.

There were only more than 100 people left on the city wall to watch, but in the bombardment of nearly an hour, more than a dozen of them were directly hit by cannonballs, or hit by flying broken bricks and stones, and they were killed on the spot, or crippled.

With the second and third waves of Qing attacks, the city wall was destroyed by artillery for the fourth time, and the sky gradually darkened.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Finally, at the end of the fourth artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the city wall of Tai'an was already in danger, and there were even many cracks in the place where the artillery focused on that section, and the uppermost wall was also blown up for nearly a battle, and the Qing army only had two rounds of shelling at most, this section of the city wall would inevitably collapse completely, and the situation was critical.

"I'm afraid this wall is going to collapse, what should I do, big brother!" Chen Mingyu looked at the city wall that was about to collapse, and asked in a gloomy voice.

"Third brother, you mobilize some people to set up some horses and other things in the section of the city wall that is about to collapse, so as to ensure that once the city wall is blown up, it can block the charge of the Qing army's iron cavalry." Yan Yingyuan commanded.

"Yes, big brother!" Feng Houdun immediately went down to mobilize the people.

At this moment, Yan Yingyuan has no extra way, he can only resign himself to fate, Tai'an can hold on to one day at a time, according to his imagination, there will be two to three days at most, if the imperial court sends troops to rescue Shandong, it should be able to arrive, if the imperial court does not send troops to rescue

In Tai'an, Yan Yingyuan also knew that the emperor personally drove Zuo Liangyu to fight against the army, but after being surrounded for so many days, Yan Yingyuan didn't know how the battle situation in Anqing was going, so although he knew how important Shandong was to the strategic position of the imperial court, he couldn't be sure whether the imperial court really had extra troops to support Shandong when the emperor dispatched almost all the country's soldiers and horses to fight Zuo Liangyu, so he didn't want to think about it.

Ay! Regardless of whether the imperial court sent troops to rescue or not, he Yan Yingyuan did his duty as a member of the Ming Dynasty and desperately resisted the Qing captives here, worthy of the imperial court and the nation!

Yan Yingyuan was firm in his heart, with the determination to die, unwilling to think about it, Yan Yingyuan looked at the night sky with no stars in silence, it was already November at this time, the weather had already cooled down, and the biting cold wind blew particularly cheerfully at night.

Suddenly, the cold wind howled, and many white spots suddenly floated in the dark night sky, which was snowing, and it was getting heavier and heavier.

"It's snowing!" The Qing army camp, looking at the heavier and heavier snow, and then at the Tai'an city wall that was almost about to collapse, Azig smiled coldly, the night siege is extremely unfavorable, anyway, the Tai'an city wall is about to collapse, he is not in a hurry, when the snow stops tomorrow morning, at most two bombardments, Tai'an will break!

"Stop the siege!" Azig gave the order, and then turned around and returned to his Chinese tent to avoid the snow.

Many of the soldiers were amnesty, and none of them wanted to brave the darkness and heavy snow to attack the city, after all, it was dark and snowy, and the danger was nearly twice as high as at night.

After a day, the Tai'an defenders suffered more than 1,000 casualties, although they also brought thousands of casualties to the Qing army, but the Qing army was large and could be replenished at any time, while the Tai'an people were few, almost one less dead.

In the Tai'an City Tower, Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu were observing the eastward advance of the Qing army.

"Big brother, tonight's snow is so heavy, you see that the Qing army doesn't seem to be ready to attack the city overnight." Chen Mingyu pointed to the Qing army camp in the distance and said with a smile.

If the Qing army is not ready to attack the city, it is naturally better, their main purpose is to delay time, so that the imperial court can have time to mobilize troops and horses to the north to rescue, although he is not sure whether the imperial court is fighting Zuo Liangyu at the moment, whether it can really send troops to rescue, but at least give himself and the people of Tai'an a thought worth looking forward to.

Yan Yingyuan nodded, since the Qing army did not plan to attack the city overnight, then the soldiers could rest for a good night tonight.

The two brothers are in a heavy mood, they know very well that according to the current situation of the Tai'an city wall, the city wall will be the cannon of the Qing army at any time, and when tens of thousands of Qing troops rush in, the war will be extremely tragic, maybe after tomorrow, Tai'an will not be guaranteed, and the three of them will also realize the oath they made when they worshipped, and they really died on the same day, the same month, the same year.

"Second brother, do you regret it?" Yan Yingyuan suddenly asked.

"Why does the eldest brother still say such things, the third brother and I have already told the eldest brother, the three of us brothers can fight the Qing Lu here together, it is already in vain in this life, we should feel honored, how can we regret it." Chen Mingyu said with a smile, very sincere.

Everyone's fate is different, but there is one point, sooner or later they are going to die, some people die less than a feather, some people die heavier than Mount Tai, they can die in order to defend the country's territory against the invasion of foreign races, they feel that it is worth it, this is the national righteousness, they die well, they are not in vain in this life, how can they regret it.

Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu looked at each other and smiled, looking forward to the arrival of tomorrow's war.

Suddenly, at this moment, Yan Yingyuan noticed the scene of the Qing army's camp in the distance outside the city, his heart suddenly moved, and the corners of his mouth gradually hooked up a smile, maybe there can be any changes, the Qing army wants to break through Tai'an tomorrow, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!

"Huh? Big brother, you haven't thought of a good way! Chen Mingyu noticed Yan Yingyuan's expression, his eyes widened slightly, and he asked happily.

"Yes, look there!" Yan Yingyuan smiled and pointed towards a place in the Qing army camp.

Chen Mingyu looked in the direction Yan Yingyuan pointed to, looked at it for a while before he understood, and asked with a smile: "Big brother wants to send someone out of the city secretly, sneak attack the Qing camp, and blow up the ammunition of the Qing army's artillery?" ”

"Yes!" Yan Yingyuan smiled and nodded.

Then his eyes narrowed slightly, and then he said something that made Chen Mingyu's face change: "But it's not to send someone to go, but I will go alone, and I will be able to succeed in one fell swoop!" ”

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