The rain has been falling non-stop for several days, and the temperature in Niuzhuang has dropped significantly, and it is only July, which has already made Zheng Zhilong feel a chill.

This Xiaoice climate is also admirable!

Niuzhuang City was quiet, and the Qing army camp outside the city was also silent, and the two armies had been facing each other for two or three months, and the morale of the Qing army had obviously dropped.

It's a very helpless and normal thing, when the army is under the fortified city and can't be conquered for a long time, no one can keep the morale of the attacking side as high as ever.

After Duoduo arrived at Niuzhuang, he took advantage of the opportunity of Zheng Zhilong's fleet to go south, and also launched several waves of fierce attacks.

The chest wall in front of the city was riddled with holes with a Hongyi cannon, and the west wall of Niuzhuang was also swept away.

It's a mutual injury, a fight that only warriors can initiate.

The confrontation between the head of the city and the city is a Hongyi cannon. The gap is not as big as the bow and crossbow, because the accuracy of artillery in this era is very problematic.

But the head of the city is always at the advantage. The Qing army under the city, the Qing army in the position of a challenger, is important to suffer some losses.

The two sides are competing with each other about who lasts longer.

In other words, it is to compare whose family has more cannons, whose gunners have more and more powerful guns.

As a result, Zheng Zhilong's blood was obviously thicker.

Not to mention that the Manchu artillery was not all concentrated in Niuzhuang, then Zheng Zhilong obviously did not either, but in terms of the battle of Niuzhuang, Duoduo obviously couldn't consume Zheng Zhilong.

Although several days of artillery battles also caused a lot of losses to Zheng Zhilong, such as the destruction of the fortifications outside the city, as well as the serious damage to the female wall and battlements on the head of the city.

Although the battle was a bit miserable, compared to the losses of the Qing army, this loss was completely worth it.

Duoduo stopped for a few days, and if he didn't succeed, he had another plan. In the confrontation between the two armies for dozens of days, it is not only now that it rains, and there is no such drought outside the pass.

Duoduo's idea was to take advantage of the rain at night!

Why a night raid?

Because the side effects of night raids on guns are obviously greater.

He doesn't know how to fight during the day, Zheng Zhilong installed a roof on the battlement wall after it was repaired, of course, at this time, this is called a war shed.

China has had this kind of guard for a long time. Resist the female wall with a long log, generally similar to the enemy building, can be clutched, set up in an instant, in case the city tower is destroyed or there is no building to be attacked, then the war tent is urgently opened.

In short, it is a shed that can be dismantled or assembled to repair the city's defenses after the battlements have been damaged, so that they can be quickly erected and counterattacked from a high position.

Zheng Zhilong now regards it as an enlargement, which can cover the entire city wall, and at a glance, it is like adding a cover to the city wall.

In this way, the effect of the rain on the guns in the city was minimized. Naturally, Duoduo would not call his soldiers and horses to be shot and fired in vain. He will only let the clothed Ahabs in his hands desperately fill the moat, putting on a posture of attacking and fighting, but in fact, there is thunder and rain during the day.

When night falls, that's where the main event comes in.

Sneaking into a city on a rainy night is just as much a technical job. Although the sound of wind and rain can drown out the sound of action in the distance, when it comes closer, it is a trouble. There are too many potholes, and when you step into a puddle, the sound is enough to alarm Zheng Jun who is on duty at night.

And it is not clear where Zheng Jun came up with the strange trick, he actually set off fireworks at night, and the short-lived light was enough to illuminate the large open space in front of the city. Although it can't make people scan the whole scene in an instant, if it's a large-scale sneak attack, it's impossible to hide it. Before coming to Niuzhuang, Duoduo had never encountered such a strange trick, who let it be the YY that Zheng Zhilong saw in the novel in his previous life.

That's why Duoduo doesn't play sneak attacks at all, people are night raids!

Just hoping to be able to catch the Ming army off guard, a large number of infantry soldiers killed the city at the fastest speed, leaning on the ladder and the ants attached to it. Some small Fran cannons were brought in from the rear to harass the defenders of the city.

Duoduo had absolute confidence in the hand-to-hand combat ability of his own soldiers and horses.

Zheng Jun is only sharp in his heart, and his ability in hand-to-hand combat is not at all. That mentality is very similar to the famous general Suvorov of the 18th century - the bullet is a fool, and the bayonet is a hero!

In fact, Zheng Jun is indeed inferior to Jianyu's elite in hand-to-hand combat. But the point is that there is a wall.

Let's just talk about how much advantage the defense of the city can occupy in the cold weapon war. With the gunners who reacted, the attack that Duoduo made up his mind only lasted half an hour before he withdrew his troops and returned to the camp.

Helplessly, the casualties were too great.

Whether it is the lethality of guns or grenades, the Qing army cannot bear it.

The darkness of the night obscured the vision of the strong gunners, which greatly weakened the power of the guns, but they didn't fight from a distance, and it was always okay to shoot closer, right?

The Iron Man Army is not a waste of tissue paper, it is served by good food and drink, has a good treatment, and has followed Zheng Zhilong to win a few battles, and his body and mind have been sharpened. Standing at the head of the city, condescending, how can the Eight Banners Infantry Armor be easily torn apart?

With a solid defense, even if the power of the guns is less than half of its power, it is enough for the Qing army to vomit blood.

Dodor had thought that he was strong enough to withstand the pressure, but he had expected that the night attack would be successful and pay a heavy price. But he didn't expect the numbers to increase so quickly. The pressure is estimated to be the same as when the author Jun looked at the collection in the background for a long time and didn't see any movement, and his heart was the same.

Duoduo couldn't bear such a fast casualty rate, and the battle only lasted about half an hour before it was stopped, leaving a large number of corpses on the battlefield, leaving Zheng Zhilong with hundreds of heads.

Then, the Niuzhuang battlefield was completely quiet.

Zheng Zhilong didn't know if the Qing army on the other side would change commanders, and he didn't see a large number of reinforcements arriving, in fact, after that, the attention of the Manchu Qing was shifted to Shengjing City.

Huang Taiji grabbed Duoduo's handle, how could he let go easily?

However, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is good reincarnation. If you don't believe it, look up, the sky has spared anyone. Just when Huang Taiji was triumphant and boasted of winning the battle, Hao Ge outside Songshan City suddenly released a big satellite to his Lao Tzu.

Not only did he escape Hong Chengchou and several thousand Songshan Ming troops, but he even asked Wang Tingchen to lead two thousand remnants into Xingshan City. When the latter came out of the south gate of Songshan, the military strength in his hands was nearly 4,000, and after a night of fierce fighting, only half of the strong and strong people successfully broke through to Xingshan with him, and the loss was not small. But this can already be called a victory!

Because there are two white flag soldiers and horses led by Azig outside Xingshan City.

Together with the men and horses taken away by Hong Chengchou, more than 10,000 Songshan Ming troops escaped. Although the losses were quite a lot, they were already a successful rout. Not to mention that the army also killed and wounded many Eight Banner soldiers in the siege battle.

Isn't the pain of that fiasco ten times greater than that of Duoduo?

Huang Taiji was even more caught off guard.

But Huang Taiji quickly stabilized his footing, he cut off Haoge's title, and confiscated Haoge Niulu, Yinliang, armor, carved saddle horse, plain saddle horse, etc., but is this important?

Unimportant.

Because even if he cut Hauge's princely title, only Hauge, who was left with the title of Lord of Heshuo Beylor, was still his eldest son Huang Taiji.

He confiscated Hauge's Ox, and the Ox would not fly away or fall into the hands of someone else. That was in Huang Taiji's own hands. What's the difference?

At least in Huang Taiji's eyes, it makes no difference at all.

So he slashed Haug with a ruthless hand, and when he turned his hand, he naturally had to knife Dodor.

But Dorgon is not stupid, Dorgon is even more shrewd, and has already given his brother an idea to let Dodor bite Hauge. Hook up the two completely!

Because Duoduo's defeat is far worse than Hauge, how can Huang Taiji clean up Hauge? No matter how ruthless he is, can he still take away Hauge's main position as the blue flag? If you can't take away Haoge's banner mastership, there will be only three or five Niu Lu at most, and if there are more, it will shake the foundation of the positive blue flag led by Haoge.

This is not something that Hauge can accept, and it is not what Huang Taiji wants to see.

Among his sons, Hauge is decent and can be his helper. In the early years, in order to strengthen Haoge, Huang Taiji found a reason to mix the two yellow flags with the Zhenglan flag and give him a batch of cattle records.

In this way, without Zheng Zhilong knowing at all, a reversal drama has been staged in Shengjing City, which is very joyful!