In the eyes of Li Dingguo, the chief general of the Tang Army, the Qing army's attack this time was a grand but uninnovative battle.

He saw that the Qing army still used the method of attacking from all four walls, hoping to make it impossible for itself to carry out key defenses through the superiority of troops. Outside every wall of the inner city, there seemed to be an endless Qing army shouting and rushing over.

And if you look closely, you can clearly see that the main direction of attack of the Qing army is still the north and south city walls that were bombed with two huge gaps last time, and the troops in the side are more dense.

In addition to the north and south city walls, the Qing army also launched an offensive on the east and west walls of the inner city, and Li Dingguo saw that there were dozens of siege ladders on the east and west city walls, which were in a parallel form and leaned towards the city.

For a while, Li Dingguo sighed.

The Qing army's attack on all sides seemed to have the momentum of ambition, which really made the Tang army, which only had more than 3,000 people, feel overstretched, but now he can only do his best to complete the almost impossible task of guarding the inner city of Vladivostok Fort.

Soon, under the command of Duoduo, the Qing troops outside the north and south city walls, pushing huge and heavy joint chariots, took the lead in approaching the city walls, preparing to blow up the north and south city walls as they did last time.

"Quickly organize the soldiers on each city wall, burn coal, mix in fire oil to help the fire, and then dump down the wall, and be sure to burn all these strange cars of the Qing army!" Li Dingguo ordered loudly.

"Order!"

It's just that now seeing these giant cockroach-like joint carts, Tang Jun has long lost the great fear they had when they first saw it, and after Li Dingguo gave an order, they skillfully began to prepare for a counterattack.

In the square inside the fort, Adjutant General Zu followed a group of wounded soldiers who survived the last battle, and set fire to piles of coal. After each pile of coal was burned, there were other soldiers, each in large iron barrels, and carried it to the north and south walls.

In order to survive the winter smoothly, there are sufficient coal blocks in the inner city of Vladivostok Fort, and the coal blocks used in the last battle are less than a quarter of the storage capacity, so the Tang army does not have to worry about the shortage of coal blocks. As far as the eye can see, countless soldiers of the Tang Army, like a team of ants carrying goods, run back and forth between the square and the city wall, constantly repeating the actions of loading coal and dumping.

Zhang Ercheng, the only survivor who participated in the raid last time, was one of the busy ones.

With a splint on his chest, he worked without sparing, shoveling the burning coals from place to place, shoveling them into iron buckets, and then letting others carry them away.

This nineteen-year-old boy, in addition to receiving a lot of rewards for his successful blow up of the outer city wall in the west, was also overstepped by Li Dingguo from the post of captain and directly promoted to captain.

At this time, Zhang Ercheng, although the ribs in his chest were finally found to be broken by the military doctor, and he felt a faint pain from time to time, but he felt that he had a heavy responsibility as the captain, but he did not dare to take a break, and he worked very hard, and the sweat on his forehead was oozing.

Zhang Ercheng knows that in this extremely dangerous battle, every effort is an extra hope of surviving, no matter how slim this hope seems.

Beside Zhang Ercheng, there are also many wounded soldiers who are constantly busy, and Zhang Ercheng's figure is very inconspicuous among them.

These iron drums filled with coal were brought by the Tang army to the top of the city wall, and then here, the Tang army mixed these burning coal blocks with fierce fire oil, so that the more burning coal blocks in the barrels were poured down from the city head.

All the Tang troops defending the city know that whether they can destroy these combined chariots of the Qing army in time can become the key to whether they can successfully hold the inner city.

After these burning coals with fierce fire oil were continuously dumped under the city, Li Dingguo saw that the trick that Li Xiao used in Jinjiazhuang Fort back then began to have a remarkable effect.

These coals, which were overturned on the combined cart and were still burning violently, first quickly dried the cowhide soaked in water and the wet quilt underneath, and then set the whole cart on fire, and the fire quickly spread to the entire cart.

Because the ignition point was at the top, the Qing troops hiding under it could not extinguish the fire in time, and could only watch the fire get bigger and bigger, and finally completely burned the entire combined car to ashes.

Soon, as the Tang army kept pouring such violently burning coals, more and more Lianquan cars began to burn and catch fire.

It's just that Rao is joint chariot began to catch fire, digging the wall under the Qing army, afraid of the military order, but no one dared to escape without permission, and the Tartar leaders who were in the formation inside kept drinking and ordered them to continue to advance quickly to the foot of the city wall.

However, due to the continuous watering of the Tang army in the past few days, the ground was seriously frozen, and the Qing army had to clear the residual ice while approaching the city wall, which led to their advance at a much slower speed than the last attack.

And the slower they moved forward, the more conducive it was for the Tang army to throw away the coal conductors that were soaked in fierce fire oil and were burning, and the combined carts began to burn on them, but they still kept moving forward, like a multi-legged monster covered in flames.

Soon, the combined chariots of the Qing army, one after another, arrived under the city wall.

At this time, every Tang soldier stationed at the head of the city could clearly hear the clanging chisel sound under the inner city wall.

Under the four walls of Vladivostok Fort, there have been more than a dozen such joint chariots, leaning against the wall, the chisel sound is very harsh, every Tang soldier seems to be faintly able to feel, the chisel sound, as if it is knocking on their own heart, and the city wall under their feet, is coming from a slight vibration one after another.

"Boom!"

When the Qing army was desperately digging, the United Truck, which had been burning non-stop, finally burned down first.

With a dull explosion, one such joint car finally collapsed completely from top to bottom, smashing most of the Qing troops inside into meat patties, and only a few Qing soldiers who were burned like burning men, in an extremely terrifying form, howled and ran out of a distance, and then fell to the ground in extreme pain and convulsed to death, until they were completely burned into a ball of charcoal.

Soon, four more of these combined trucks were burned and collapsed by the coal thrown down, and the Qing troops inside were also inevitably killed.

What is particularly terrifying and terrifying is that after many combined vehicles were burned down, the raging flames ignited the explosive box carried by the Qing army, and suddenly, the huge explosion sound that could almost break the human eardrum sounded, and the entire collapsed combined car, as well as the Qing troops who were crushed and burned to death under the car, were all blown apart, becoming a large mass of scattered debris.

Seeing that the Qing army under the city was beaten so miserably by their own coal-burning tactics, the Tang army at the head of the city let out a loud cheer, and everyone's face was full of joy.

However, they soon saw that the Qing army was like crazy, as if they were not afraid of casualties at all, and one burned down, and the other was on top, as if the only goal was to dig up and blow up the city walls.

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Li Dingguo clenched his fists, and his face was as cold as iron.

The dog's Tartar is really not afraid of death, just go on, I will fight you to the death!

Li Dingguo clenched his teeth tightly, and his heart was secretly ruthless.

In the distance, seeing the Qing army's joint chariot offensive and suffering such a big loss, Dolgon, who was watching the battle from afar, was anxious in his heart, but his face was ruthless

After all, reluctant children can't trap wolves, this flesh-and-blood siege battle, casualties are inevitable, if the soldiers are withdrawn at this critical moment, the Qing army can be abandoned! That would be a serious damage to one's prestige, which is absolutely unacceptable to oneself.

After all, now that he has just taken advantage of the fact that Huang Taiji is not a director, he has grasped the command of the whole army, if he does not take this opportunity to make achievements and take this Vladivostok Fort, how can he convince the public!

Therefore, even if you pay more casualties, this inner city of Vladivostok must grit your teeth and take it.

While the Qing army was storming the north and south walls of the inner city with a combined chariot, at the east and west city walls, the marching siege ladders stopped suddenly outside the crossbow arrows.

"General Li, you see, the Qing army has attacked with a chariot!" 、

A soldier who accompanied the army pointed to the slowly advancing cart outside the west city wall, and shouted loudly to Li Dingguo.

"Oh?"

Li Dingguo turned his head to look west, and saw that where the earth-shattering war drums and the piercing swan horn sounded, the Qing soldiers on the east and west walls let out a beast-like roar in unison, and continued to push the cart forward.

Li Dingguo's heart sank, he knew that the Qing army was going to use the last attack method again, first approaching with a chariot, and then firing bows and arrows to suppress the Tang crossbowmen at the head of the city.

Li Dingguo has not yet come up with an effective method of restraint for the Qing army, after all, the Qing army has the protection of the car, and it is too difficult to shoot them.

The cold clouds were thousands of miles, the wind was roaring, and the crossbowmen of the Tang Army on the city wall looked silently at one Qing army cart after another, pushing with a squeak, getting closer and closer.

When they arrived at the moat that had frozen into a crystal ice belt, the Qing army's chariots lined up and slowly stopped.

Like last time, after the chariot stopped, from behind the Qing army's chariots, a continuous sound of bows and arrows suddenly broke out, and countless sharp arrows shot into the air in a parabolic shape, and then crossed an arc in the air, shooting towards the Tang army defenders on the entire western city wall.

The collective projectile of nearly 20,000 Qing troops, dense with arrows overwhelming, emitting a crisp scream, like a flock of birds released by death, swooped down on the crossbowmen of the Tang army who were caught off guard at the head of the city.

"Dingding, ding! ……“

This is the sound of arrows hitting the tin shield in front of you.

When the arrow hits the shield, it sends out a flash of sparks, which are immediately splashed away by the missile.

"Puff puff! ……“

It was the sound of one of the few arrows lucky enough to get past the shield and shoot into the body of the crossbowman behind it.

Although the crossbowmen wore standard two-piece breastplates, their faces and hands were still very weakly defended, so that although they were protected from being shot, they could not resist such a dense attack of arrows.

As a result, in the Tang army's array, there were Tang army crossbowmen screaming loudly from time to time, and there were even many crossbowmen who were hit by arrows, who were shot upside down by the powerful momentum of the arrows, and fell from the city wall, either dead or disabled.

The Qing army's volley of arrows caused at least more than 200 Tang crossbowmen to be killed and wounded.

"Attention crossbowmen! Crouch down on the spot, dodge the arrows, and the wounded crossbowmen retreat to fill the walls, where they are replaced by reserve crossbowmen! “

Li Dingguo, a sorcerer who was intensively protected by a group of guards holding shields, shouted loudly at the soldiers who gave orders.

Hearing Li Dingguo's order, the crossbowmen hiding behind the shields all hurriedly squatted, leaning against the shield soldiers who were kneeling with shields, hooking their heads, and dodging the arrows falling from the sky as much as possible.

It turned out that when the Qing army hiding behind the chariot saw that the crossbowmen of the Tang army had squatted down to avoid arrows, and there was only a row of dense shields left at the head of the city, but they did not see the crossbowmen above, they suddenly had no worries and walked out of the protection range of the chariot one after another.

These smiling Qing soldiers were full of the pleasure of being released after being suppressed, and they pulled the bowstrings from time to time and fired arrows, these sharp heavy arrows, ruthless and accurate, will accidentally expose their hands, feet or faces to the shield soldiers, one blow shot, so that these Tang crossbowmen, more or less seriously injured.

For a time, the attack and defense of the enemy and us quickly changed, and the Tang army defending the city began to become extremely changeable.

They knew that under the premise that the Qing army now had the initiative to attack, they would no longer be able to stand up and fight back, and everyone could expect that as long as they probed, those Qing troops who were looking for an opportunity to shoot would definitely immediately shoot at themselves with bows and arrows, and what was waiting for them would be an extremely powerful arrow.

The current situation, as in the last battle, is almost exactly the same, the crossbowmen of the Tang army were suppressed by the Qing archers, and they were not able to fight back at all.

And such a passive situation was naturally quickly exploited by the Qing army.

The long siege ladders were carried by the Qing army, which was as many as ants, and quickly approached the east and west city walls.

These Qing troops, carrying siege ladders, shouted loudly and laughed unscrupulously, as if they were not going to fight, but to participate in a light-hearted sports meeting.

Perhaps, in their opinion, the Tang army defenders, who had been firmly suppressed by the archers of the Qing army, could only watch them lean over the siege ladder and let them launch a siege battle.

Moreover, the Tang Army's hand-thrown mines have now been exhausted, and they simply cannot carry out close-range sniping like last time. Such a situation was almost one-sided in favor of the attacking Qing army.

In fact, as the Qing army expected, they easily crossed the moat with thick ice, and then came to the west gate city wall smoothly and unhindered, and then, with a crackling sound, at least more than 30 siege ladders were leaned on the two frozen city walls of the east and west that shone silver, and immediately, countless Qing troops began to climb up the ladder like ants on trees.