Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Siege of the City

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Outside Niuzhuang City, a white sail has been spread across the river. A heavy artillery was aimed at Niuzhuang City, a small city with a circumference of two miles and ninety-three paces.

Akdun looked out of the city with a bewildered expression, there are tens of thousands of troops on land and water, right? How did it come to the cow farm without warning?

Looking at the posture of the Ming army, you can know at first sight that it was killed by sea, is it the southern naval division that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty said in the newspaper?

The Manchu Qing Dynasty is still very well informed in the customs, and they have already issued notices, but guards like Niuzhuang and Yaozhou don't care at all. The so-called sailors, in their hearts, are the Jiangdong Army that was swept away many years ago. The latter's navy and the navy in front of them are completely different concepts, not to mention that they don't believe that the Ming army is not afraid of death and dares to go deep here!

Of course, if the defenders of Niuzhuang are sound, he really doesn't care about these Ming troops outside the city, don't look at the Ming army's tens of thousands of land and water troops, but he has three hundred and eight banner warriors, hundreds of Han troops in hand, and thousands of coats, why be afraid of the Ming army?

The Eight Banners Warriors deal with Ming Dogs, and one person can fight a hundred!

At the beginning of the Songjin War, the bannermen of Niuzhuang had already been transferred away, and a lot of the coatings were transferred. Even if there were some turnarounds a year ago, they were all wounded soldiers, and the shortage was still very large. Now his Ding Zhuang is full of calculations, and together with the Baoyi Ahabs who came back from the front line to farm, there are only 500 people!

Akdun hurriedly sent people to Haizhou.

There are more soldiers and horses in Jinzhou, but the distance is also farther, isn't it?

"Newspaper—"

A fast horse went straight to Zheng Zhilong's banner, "Yu Dashuai, the commander of Jianyu Haizhou, Yileshen, has a thousand soldiers, and he has rushed to Niuzhuang." ”

Ilshen is a man with a yellow flag, and his old surname is Fei Mo. In the early years, he led six families to Nurhachi, and all the people were killed by the Ula tribe. In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, Nurhachi was specially appointed to prepare for the imperial office with his sincerity. Later, he accumulated his career to the rank of second-class general. During the Tiancong period, he was ordered to lead troops to garrison Haizhou (now Haicheng, Liaoning), and led the military in Haizhou, Yaozhou (now Yingkou County, Liaoning), and Niuzhuang at the mouth of the Liaohe River, and has been in charge for more than ten years.

The news of Yaozhou's destruction earlier had reached his ears, and it was really a blow to the head. After sobering up, he was furious, and he just wanted to dig Zheng Zhilong's heart out.

Because there are Japanese soldiers, sea ships, and the master with the banner of the Ming army, it must be Zheng Zhilong.

The loss of Yaozhou City has been made up in his brain. It must have been Tu'an's negligence, and he crashed into Zheng Zhilong's ambush circle with Ding Zhuang, who was already small. The latter is a group of southerners, and they can no longer fight that is also a man. Tens of thousands of people, heaps can also pile up Tuanadin people. Then the empty Yaozhou City was naturally taken down by the First Battle.

But what about the cow farm? Although there were only five hundred people stationed there, it was obviously not something that Zheng Zhilong could easily take.

But Niuzhuang City is small and has few soldiers, and there are few artillery, Zheng Zhilong has the advantage of water, as long as he goes out, Akdun will not be able to defend Niuzhuang. Can he produce one hundred and eight banner warriors? are all wounded soldiers who retreated from the front line, and the rest of Ding Zhuang is mostly coated with Ahba.

However, the coatings are not credible. Yaozhou City was breached by Baoyi!

Therefore, Ilshen chose to send troops without hesitation. He has three or four hundred Qiding Zhentar under his command, and all the young and strong people in Qiding can be recruited at least five hundred. and then there are subordinates coating, and pulling out thousands of young people is also a piece of cake. After all, Huang Taiji's two yellow flags had withdrawn from the Battle of Songjin, and the troops under Ilshen, who were subordinate to the yellow flags, were naturally strong and strong.

This time, Elshen brought out more than 1,000 horses, which was full of confidence.

Don't look at the large number of Ming troops, but the twenty years of war have already cultivated Jianyu's self-confidence. One by one, they regarded the Ming army as nothing, and regarded the Han as a lamb. The advantage in his heart is greater than Zheng Zhilong's military advantage.

Even though he knew that Zheng Zhilong had a water advantage, he just wanted to drive Zheng Jun away.

"In this case, there is no need to keep the cattle farm. Pass the order down and attack with all your might! ”

Zheng Zhilong has the meaning of besieging the city to send reinforcements, so the role of Niuzhuang has been reflected. Lured the thousands of Ilshen's men out of Haizhou, and they completed their historical mission.

As for whether his team can quickly conquer Niuzhuang, Zheng Zhilong is a hundred confident.

"Aim, put!"

The army has surrounded Niuzhuang, not to mention the east of the city, even the troops outside the west of the city are also strong. The big turtledoves lined up one after another, and the officer standing in front of him drew his waist knife and pointed straight at the west gate of the cattle village.

This is a large turtledove foot gun that can be pierced even by a shield car, and the bullets of ordinary turtledove foot guns can have 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), and the guns of the big turtledove foot guns are at least two taels.

The big turtledove foot gun that can penetrate the shield car may not be able to penetrate the gate of the cow village, the latter are all good anti-corrosion heavy wood, wrapped in copper skin, painted outside, and the outermost layer is a door nail with gold. The texture is much stronger than that of a makeshift shield car.

But if one shot fails, what about ten? If you don't succeed in one round, what about ten rounds?

Just like the ram that hit the city, it kept hitting at once, then it came two or three times, and the heavy city gate could withstand it five or six times, but after ten or twenty times, even Akdun panicked.

The entire city gate has been turned into a hornet's nest, and several places that have been hit frequently have been cleared.

Zheng Zhilong put away the telescope and put his hand forward.

The two bald soldiers who were selected, one by one, holding long cards and carrying packets of medicinal powder, rushed to the city gate with their heads bored. At the same time, all the muskets and cannons were aimed at the head of the city, crackling and firing.

The Qing army at the head of the city did not dare to show their heads at all.

Niuzhuang is next to the Liao River, and the city naturally has a moat, but it has already been filled. Zheng Zhilong countered his body with his human way, and made use of the old and weak Jianzhu caught in the Zhuangzi around Niuzhuang, and rushed to the head of Niuzhuang City one by one with dry firewood and withered grass.

To deal with the moat, fill the bag of earth at the beginning, that is the next strategy. First, the moats were covered with dry firewood and withered grass, which were bulky and lightweight, and had buoyancy power, and then covered with earthen bags and wooden planks on top of them.

Akdun proved that the beast also has a heart. These Tartars regard Han'er's life as a mustard, but they are quite good to their own people.

The moat of Niuzhuang was easily filled, and one of the main reasons was that Akdun had started. But this can only make Zheng Zhilong want to kill even more!

The defenders were so overwhelmed by the guns that they couldn't stop the two bald men from approaching. These people are the brave men who surrender in the cloak. Anyone who wants to make meritorious service and atone for their sins can sign up. But there is one thing, there must be a kinship bond.

The two bald soldiers rushed to the city gate, and two ten-pound powder packets were in place, and then they lit a fire and evacuated.

Both of them lost their shields, and ran frantically in the opposite direction along the diagonal line. But not far away, there were two booms, and even though the huge shock wave was swallowed up a lot by the open space in the opposite direction, the air wave still affected the two of them. It was as if they had been hammered in the back, and both were flipped to the ground.

"Kill—" Gan Hui put down his hands that were blocking his ears, and saw that the west gate of Niuzhuang had been opened, and only some remnants of the previous city gate were still left at the city gate. If you don't rush now, when will you wait?

Akdun was stunned, and the sudden explosion made the city gate seem to shake. As soon as his feet went limp, he fell to the ground and could not stand up.

Blood flowed from his ears, only a buzzing sound remained, and nothing else could be heard again. It was just a banner man who hugged him and shouted frantically, and Akdun didn't hear a word.

"Kill—" Gan Hui roared as he danced his slasher. Behind him, the Iron Man Army rolled in.