Whoever wants to attack a strong city must first test the weakness of the city's defenses. Then carry out an effective attack on defensive weaknesses.

How to test the weakness of the defense, of course, depends on human life to test.

Is there a more cheap life than Nikan in the Eight Banners?

Therefore, the Nikans were particularly favored by the Jurchen Old Khan, the Great Houjin Heavenly Mandate Khan, and Nurhachi.

The Nikans, as the best test cannon fodder, were sent to the front by Nurhachi in the first batch.

In order to give the Nikans a hope of willingly dying, Nurhachi gave the Nikans a coveted reward.

As long as they can rush to the top of the city, the Nikans can obtain the status of the Eight Banners, and the whole family can be converted to the Eight Banners.

Just for this illusory bubble, thousands of Nikans braved the artillery fire and made an unrepentant impact on Ningyuan City.

The slow-firing red-coated cannon at the head of Ning Yuan City was not enough to stop Nikan's charge, and Nikan's front line was getting closer and closer to Ning Yuan.

Finally, Nikan reached the first obstacle they needed to overcome.

The moat of Ningyuan City.

Seeing that the Eight Banners had approached the trench outside the city, Man Gui waved the flag in his hand again.

The Ming army at the head of the city received an order from Man Gui, and the big Buddha Lang machine gun began to fire.

In the smoke of gunpowder, a piece of Nikan instantly fell on the edge of the moat outside Ningyuan City.

The newly built shield cart was very ineffective in defending against this kind of artillery attack from the height of the city, and could not provide effective protection for Nikan at all.

There were trenches blocking the way in front, and there was a lot of artillery fire overhead.

The Nikans could no longer withstand this mortal pressure, and the whole army collapsed in an instant.

When the first soldier turned and fled, all the Nikans turned and followed.

Eight Banners' first charge was so easily repulsed.

The scattered Nikan had his own Eight Banners Supervisor team to contain, and Nurhachi looked at the head of Ningyuan City and frowned.

Ningyuan City is really difficult to attack.

The artillery of Ning Yuanming's army was arranged in a very layered manner.

The farthest is the redcoat cannon, and the trench near the moat is the area of the Great Buddha cannon.

It can be seen from the proven configuration of the Ming army that Ningyuan's defensive firepower is quite tight.

What worries Nurhachi the most is the way Ning Yuanming's army opened fire.

In the past, when confronting the Ming army, the firearms of the Ming army were often fired in one go.

It seems that the Ming army is fighting very lively, but in fact, the shooting effect of the Ming army is very poor. Most of the firepower was wasted.

And the shooting at the head of Ningyuan City was very different from the previous Ming army.

Ning Yuanming's shooting had a strong sense of layering, and the damage caused to the soldiers of the Eight Banners was also unprecedentedly large.

This made Nurhachi feel a little unfamiliar with the Ming army in front of him.

Nurhachi didn't know that Ning Yuan's gunners were not ordinary people.

The gunners in Ningyuan City are not the traditional and experienced gunners of the Ming Dynasty, they are all gunners who have been strictly trained by Sun Yuanhua and the Portuguese Luo Wen.

Under the teaching of Sun Yuanhua, these gunners already had a preliminary sense of standardization.

The gunners' sighting and each of their charges were tightly controlled. These controls allow the gunners to concentrate their shells.

Don't underestimate that, being able to do that, that's the huge difference between the pro and amateur levels.

Nurhachi faced the Ningyuan gunners, they were a group of artillerymen in the true sense.

A group of real artillerymen is hiding above the fortified city again. Their lives are not threatened at all.

If the Houjin Tartar can't break through the moat of Ningyuan City, he won't even be able to shoot an arrow at the head of Ningyuan City.

Such a group of artillerymen, under the dispatch of Man Gui, has fully exerted their normal training level.

This made the Ningyuan artillery completely surpass all the previous Ming troops in the destruction of the charging Eight Banners Nikan.

In just this wave of impact, the Eight Banners Nikan left more than 100 casualties on the battlefield.

Looking at the remaining casualties on the battlefield, Nikan, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of Nurha's red mouth.

"Attack again."

Pointing at the horsewhip, Nurhachi ordered without hesitation.

Nikan, Lao Tzu has.

In Nurhachi's eyes, these lowly Nikans are not his Eight Banner soldiers at all.

Let Nikan rush first, for the sake of now.

The only reason for the Nikans' existence now is to fill in the damn moat of Ningyuan for Dajin.

Under Nurhachi's strict orders, Nikan, who had just retreated, was once again forced to rush into battle.

This time, the Eight Banners Warlord no longer allowed any Nikan to retreat, as long as Nikan had the slightest intention of retreating, he would be shot directly by the Warlord.

However, the wise and magnanimous Mandate Khan still gave the Nikans new hope.

As long as the trenches are filled, Nikan himself will become a soldier of the Eight Banners.

As time passed, the Eight Banners Nikan had replaced 4 or 5.

Each Nikan suffered more than eighty percent casualties before it was allowed to retreat.

Ning Yuan's trench, which was one zhang deep and nearly two zhang wide, was slowly leveled under the decisive charge of the Eight Banners Nikan.

Looking at the moat that was about to be filled, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but feel a little nauseous. He never imagined that the real war would be so cruel.

Yuan Chonghuan saw very clearly that the Houjin Tartars filled the trenches, using mostly the corpses of their own people and those broken shield carts.

As for the soil, it is estimated that it is not even a tenth.

These Jurchen Tartars are really like wild beasts, and they are really not afraid of death!

Yuan Chonghuan's heart was full of shock.

Yuan Chonghuan originally thought that the information he had read was a bit too exaggerated about the Eight Banners under the command of the old slave. But now it seems that the description of the information is relatively fair.

Houjin Tartar is really not afraid of death.

Man Gui, who was in charge of commanding the battle, was also full of shock in his heart.

These Eight Bannermen were indeed different from the Mongols, and their nerves seemed to be more tenacious. They don't seem to care about human life at all.

Looking down from the city, Man Gui saw it clearly.

Every time the charging Eight Banners were repulsed, the overseers in the rear would not hesitate to execute the soldiers who fled first.

Under this harsh military method, although several of the charging Eight Banners were disabled, Ningyuan's moat was also quickly filled in a large section.

Seeing that the trench was about to be filled, Nurhachi waved his hand. The horn behind him suddenly sounded, and with the sound of the horn, Nikan's movements suddenly increased by a frequency.

Soon, the moat was completely filled in for a distance of 3 to 40 paces wide.

The sound of the bull's horn ceased, and the charging Nikans seemed to have been pardoned, and they quickly withdrew to the position of the Eight Banners with the remnants of the shield carts.

The Ningyuan moat was filled.

Man Gui understood: If the previous battle was just an appetizing dish, now the main dish is about to be served.

In other words, from this time on, Ning Yuan really entered the brutal siege war.

I just don't know how much blood Ning Yuan has to pay to support the attack of the Houjin Tartars.