As soon as the sky dawned, the position of the Hongtang army began to think of the roar that shook people's hearts.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on the wall of the capital division have long begun to get used to the roar that has not stopped from morning to night, and at the same time, they are no longer helpless and panicked when they first came into contact with the fierce artillery fire, but numbly hide behind the female wall, quietly waiting for a certain shell that may bombard their hiding place, or fortunately waiting for the sound of artillery fire to stop.

Since the day after the main force of Hongtang came from Tianjin Weidang and joined the Hongtang troops under Jingshi City, Jingshi City has not had a peaceful day for a day, and it has been nearly a month now.

After experiencing the strong blow from the physical to the spiritual level of the entire Gongwei Jing Division garrison at the beginning, and losing more than 10,000 soldiers, Du Yinxi and Cao Bianjiao gradually summed up many ways to resist the artillery attack of the Hongtang army.

However, the garrison soldiers were able to evade fortifications by transferring strongholds and building strong fortifications to resist the attack of the Hongtang army, but this dead-like Jingshi city has withstood the Hongtang artillery attack in more than a month, in exchange for the acne-like cannonballs on its majestic body.

The whole city was already crumbling, but the Hongtang army under the city, as the besieging party, was stunned that there was no large-scale siege of the city, which made the Ming army, which was accustomed to using human lives to attack the city in ancient times, quite uncomfortable.

However, the results achieved by the other party are remarkable, and the Jingshi, a strong fortification built with thousands of years of rich experience in resisting the invasion of the grassland peoples, has become a thing of yesterday, trembling under the advanced tactics of the new era.

"It seems that we are afraid that we will not be able to hold out until the kingdom's reinforcements arrive!"

Although they knew that the support of Nanjing City in the south was minimal, the generals who guarded the Beijing Division, such as Du Yinxi and Cao Bianjiao, were still full of confidence in guarding the Beijing Division for two or three months or even half a year at the beginning of the war.

At the beginning, after the Qing people occupied the Beijing Division, under the attack of the two or three hundred thousand troops of Sun Chuanting's superintendent, they were able to hold on for three or four months, not to mention the Ming army that was better at defending the city.

But the fact is that the Hongtang army has not yet sent a large army to forcibly attack the city, just by relying on a day of unprepared artillery bombardment, it has already made the defense of the Beijing division crumbling, and the army of the Ming Gong guarding the Beijing division has lost more than 10,000 soldiers.

"To tell you the truth, this artillery is too useful for future siege operations, and it has already exceeded our previous expectations!"

As a veteran of the battlefield, Cao Bianjiao has personally experienced a thunderous artillery attack in the past month, and even at the most dangerous time, a cannonball weighing more than 30 catties fell only more than ten zhang away from his hiding place.

"With the city defense of our Jingshi, we can only hold on for a few more days at most, and it may collapse directly, and in the end, the other party can be said to be able to attack the Jingshi City without much effort."

"In the opinion of our subordinates, instead of fighting with them hand-to-hand on this ruined wall, it is better to wait until the wall falls, and then we will retreat into the city, relying on the criss-crossing lanes, and continue to entangle each other."

"No matter how bad it is, we can still retreat to the imperial city, relying on the city defense of the imperial city, and then defend the city for more than a month, it is not difficult."

"Do you also think that after the city is broken, we are not opponents in a head-on battle with the Hongtang army?"

As the commander of the garrison, Du Yinxi listened carefully to Cao Bianjiao's plan, although there were many dissatisfactions hidden in his eyes, but those dissatisfactions were more of worries about their future battle situation, not dissatisfied with Cao Bianjiao's proposal.

"My subordinates have personally gone out of the city to fight against the Hongtang army, not to give up on themselves, but in addition to the powerful artillery used by the opposing army, the combat strength of their Shenji battalion and infantry army is not something that our army can resist."

"In particular, they are all Shenji Battalion, and they cooperate with their infantry army to fight, and they can distinguish between friend and foe on the fierce battlefield, and shoot accurately at our soldiers, this accuracy is no worse than those sharpshooters in our army!"

Cao Bianjiao replied with some discouragement, as the chief general of the vanguard army, the purpose of taking 30,000 troops out of the city to fight was originally to test the strength of Hongtang's army, so although they failed in the final battle, it was not without other gains.

"How many archers can there be in our army, at most in the hundreds, and they have to draw a four-stone bow to shoot, a maximum of two arrows at a time, and then they have to rest for a few hours, otherwise their arms will be useless."

"But there are no less than thousands of musketeers with this accuracy in Hongtang's army, and this is only the calculation of our fighting opponents, not including the hidden musketeers of the other side, as well as the possible Shenji battalion in this reinforcement main force."

What Cao Bianjiao said had actually been reported to Gu Yinxi a long time ago, and now the old words are brought up again, just because Cao Bianjiao himself is not optimistic about the ability to fight head-on with the Hongtang army.

"But even if we fight with them, how long can we delay? General Cao, have you ever calculated? ”

"From the perspective of subordinates, the territory of Jingshi is vast, and the traffic is complicated, and if you are not a local, you will get lost in these criss-crossing lanes; In our army, there are countless soldiers who are familiar with the local environment, which has brought us great convenience and allowed us to gain geographical advantages! ”

Cao Bianjiao replied in a deep voice: "The more complicated the environment, the more convenient it is for us to attack the Hongtang army in pieces, and we don't want to give the other party the whole force to strangle, but if we can do our best to eliminate its living force, it will be a great blessing for our dynasty." ”

Cao Bianjiao's plan has actually been hidden deep in his heart for a long time, but it was still brewing and completing it before, and now that the city is about to break, he has to reveal it and let Du Yinxi decide.

"Hmm......"

Plugging Yinxi fell into deep thought, and directly abandoned the city fortifications when the city was broken, which was a rare action made by the Ming army to stick to the city, and the entire city was turned into a combat field, which was a rare military tactic since the Ming Dynasty.

But Cao Bianjiao's last words reminded Du Yinxi that there was little hope for reinforcements from the imperial court to arrive, and if the current development of the war was concerned, even if there were really reinforcements going north to support them, they might not be able to hold out until that time.

But if they can use the Jingshi as the battlefield, let them defend the 80,000 troops of the Jingshi, and do their best to inflict heavy losses on the Hongtang army here, even if the city is ruined, they can be regarded as worthy of the imperial court at night.

The biggest flaw in the Hongtang army, just like the Qing people who were in great trouble with the Ming Dynasty before, is that their army is not large enough, every time they kill one more Hongtang warrior, they can weaken the opponent's strength a little more, and then the powerful Jiaolong, the night can only become a sick snake, and let others slaughter.

(End of chapter)