Huang Taiji thought that it was impossible for Yuan Chonghuan to prepare hundreds of thousands of rockets, that was because he underestimated Yuan Chonghuan too much!

Although Yuan Chonghuan didn't have Zhuge Liang's ability, he could hold 100,000 arrows in three days, but he had more than three years, and in these three years, Huang Taiji trained 60,000 heavy armored infantry but didn't bring them over, Yuan Chonghuan created not only hundreds of thousands, but millions, and he brought them all.

He doesn't have Zhang Bin's technology, nor does he have as much money as Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin can make muskets, artillery, and even super battleships, he can only make longbows, arrows, and even throwing guns, these things are the head of the iron consumption, and they are not worth much, but the effect of dealing with cavalry is quite good.

This time, almost all of the 50,000 foot soldiers he led were equipped with longbows, and these foot soldiers not only had twenty arrows full in their quivers, but each of them also carried one or two bundles of arrows for backup, so that they carried no less than three million arrows.

The next day, the two sides fought again, or Qierharang urged the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Meng Yuan to go up to fill the ditch with sacks on their backs, in one day, how many wooden shields can be made by the 150,000 army, this is really impossible to count, in short, their wooden shields are absolutely enough, and the 50,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are still continuing to make wooden shields, and the Ming army is in vain even if there are more rockets.

The corners of Qi'erharang's mouth already showed a disdainful chuckle, this Yuan Chonghuan specializes in playing some useless tricks, digging ditches, and rain of arrows, can these stop the 200,000 army?

If they are allowed to fill in like this, they will naturally not be able to stop it, and no matter how much the ditch is dug, it will be filled, and the 80,000 army will dig for three days, and the 200,000 army will be able to fill it in three or four days at most.

Yuan Chonghuan naturally wouldn't let them fill it up like this, the first wave of foot soldiers just approached the trench, as usual, another rain of arrows came down, everyone's wooden shield was on fire, and the foot soldiers of Mengyuan Eight Banners continued to rush forward without hesitation, according to the way they were yesterday, they just had to rush to the edge of the trench, pour the soil out, and then run back, and throw the almost burned wooden shield and it was over.

However, as soon as they came to the trench, another rain of arrows came down, this time not rockets, but ordinary arrows, and the foot soldiers who filled the trench still did not hesitate to raise their shields and put them on their heads, because the arrows thrown were covered from above, and as long as the shield was held a little in front of their heads, it would be basically fine.

If this was the case, the rain of arrows would have been shot in vain, but unfortunately, as soon as they raised their shields, a thousand foot soldiers suddenly burst out of the trench about fifty paces in front of them, raised their longbows and fired a round of flat shots, and then jumped into the trench again.

The Meng Yuan infantry who filled the earth was miserable, they patronized the arrows on their heads, plus the shield was on fire, there was fire and smoke in front of them, and they didn't see the rain of arrows on their chests at all, even if they saw it clearly, they were not easy to defend, and the rain of arrows on their heads hadn't fallen yet.

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At this time, there is no mercy to talk about, seeing that these Meng Yuan foot soldiers have been hit by arrows and fallen to the ground, the Ming army will naturally not be polite, and there is a rain of arrows in the trench in front of them, and the screams of these people finally slowly subsided, and everyone was shot into hedgehogs again.

Seeing this, Qierharang's face changed, and he fell into the way of the Ming army again, this first trench has not been filled yet, and there are almost thousands of people who have taken it in, and it will be okay to go on like this.

He thought for a moment and shouted, "Send a thousand archers to protect and continue to fill in the earth." ”

He didn't explain too much, anyway, the generals of the Mengyuan Eight Banners saw the situation just now, how to protect the archers, how to cooperate with the foot soldiers is their business, in short, the matter of filling the soil cannot be stopped.

The generals of the Mengyuan Eight Banners discussed for a while, and simply sent a general to command, with a thousand cavalry to follow the position of about thirty-four steps behind the foot soldiers, and slowly stepped forward with the foot soldiers who filled in the earth, preparing to deal with the Ming army that came out to make trouble.

The Ming army did not stop because of this, it was still raining arrows, even if the last wave of flat shots would be hit by the archers who followed behind, they still did not hesitate to rush out to attack the Meng Yuan infantry who filled the earth.

Qierharang looked at the situation in front seriously, a thousand archers seemed to be a little insufficient, the Mengyuan infantry who went up to fill the soil was still shot over, and few could escape back, and the Ming army did not have many arrows under the cover of the trench.

Two thousand bows were not enough, and he continued to order: "Send another thousand bows to ride." ”

The casualties of the Ming army who came out to make trouble this time were large, but the casualties of the Meng Yuan infantry who filled in the soil were even greater, and basically every time they stepped forward to fill in a wave of soil, they had to leave hundreds of corpses like hedgehogs.

Qierharang's face was cold, and he had no intention of stopping, although Meng Yuan's foot soldiers were afraid, they had to go up to fill the soil, because disobeying the order was worse than being shot to death by the Ming army.

If they go up and are shot to death by the Ming army, it will only be a loss of some foot soldiers, and if they disobey Hou Jin's order, they will rush into the tribe and kill all the young and strong people of the entire tribe, and the remaining men, women and children will become slaves!

After such a thing, Jin didn't do less, and the Mengyuan tribes on the grassland didn't know how much they had destroyed, otherwise, the Mengyuan tribes would not honestly obey their orders and use them as cannon fodder.

Persisted like this for nearly two hours, the Mengyuan tribes paid the price of thousands of foot casualties, and finally filled a trench, the corpses piled up in front of the trench were enough to fill the trench, if Qierharang was a little more vicious, it would be completely possible for the Mengyuan infantry to jump directly into the trench with a sack on their backs, so that the speed of filling the ditch would be faster, and it would not take a quarter of an hour to fill a trench!

Of course, he would not give such an order, if he gave such an order, the Mengyuan tribes would definitely be angry, and it would be difficult to control it at that time, let them slowly add oil lamps to death like this, they would not have much resentment.

Huang Taiji did not send a new order, it seems that he is acquiesced in this way, take the association to consume the strength of the Ming army, this is the consistent style of the Hou Jin, although the casualties of Meng Yuan's infantry are relatively heavy, the casualties of the Ming army must not be small, Qi Erharang has no patience for this at all, after filling the first trench, he did not hesitate to order, continue to fill in!

Although the Ming army said that there were many trenches dug up, they only dug two miles away, and there were more than ten trenches at most in a straight line, so that as long as it consumed 20,000 or 30,000 Mengyuan foot soldiers and spent five or six days, it could fill in a road leading to Xining Fort, which was completely acceptable, because it was impossible for the Ming army to repair Xining Fort in five or six days.

100,000 Ming troops, relying on an unrepaired fortress and even 60,000 post-Jin Tie cavalry, as long as they can kill this Ming army, even if they consume all of the Meng Yuan infantry soldiers, it is worth it, so Huang Taiji did not issue a new order, and Qierharang forced the Meng Yuan troops to continue to fill with human lives!

On the city wall south of Xining Fort, Yuan Chonghuan was still indifferent, the speed of the Houjin coalition army filling the ditch was a little beyond his expectations, five or six days, they really couldn't repair the entire Xining Fort, but as long as they could repair the two city walls in the southeast, it was almost the same, he still had a follow-up move, and he was full of confidence in holding Xining Fort.

At this time, more than 100 miles south of Xining Fort, at the mouth of the Liao River, more than 50 wheels were lined up in a row to enter the Liaohe River waterway, and on the first wheel, Zu Zepu excitedly said to Qi Yuanbi on the side: "General Qi, there are more than 100 miles to Xining Fort, this time I really thank you so much, without your musket and artillery support, we really don't know if we can take the first line of the Liao River." ”

Qi Yuanbi smiled and said: "General Zu, don't be so polite, they are all your own people, thank you or not, our Governor is also very concerned about the situation in Liaodong, and it is a great thing to recover the lost territory of four hundred miles, if we can contribute, we naturally have to contribute." ”

It's not as simple as they can make some efforts, the fifty wheels led by Qi Yuanfu are only the first batch, and behind, there are also twenty Zhenyuan cruisers and hundreds of wheels led by Qi Yuangong.

The reason why Zhang Bin made such an arrangement was that he was afraid that Zu Zepu would talk nonsense everywhere and expose his strength, and because some materials could not be allocated in a day, such as grain, which would have to be allocated in Guangdong.

This time, Zhang Bin didn't just support a little musket and artillery, flintlock pistol, he allocated 5,000 to Yuan Chonghuan, a thousand catties of Franc machines, and he directly ordered someone to dismantle a hundred guns from the Weiyuan battleship!

There are also supporting ammunition, as well as 100,000 stone grain, and more importantly, 10,000 Qi family troops, if Yuan Chonghuan can't stand it, Qi Yuangong will not hesitate to lead the Qi family army to land and support, according to Zhang Bin's meaning, no matter what, this battle must not be defeated!

Huang Taiji didn't know that Zhang Bin had prepared several big meals for him, and he still fantasized about annihilating the main force of the 100,000 Ming army in front of him, and then breaking through the Guanningjin defense line.

In the afternoon, the battle continued, the infantry of the Mengyuan tribes began to fill the second trench, the arrows in the sky were staggered, the ground screamed again and again, from time to time there were Mengyuan infantry soldiers and Ming soldiers who were hit by arrows fell to the ground, and the commanders on both sides looked at all this coldly, without the slightest intention of stopping.

At this moment, a fleet of boats suddenly appeared on the Liao River in the east.

Huang Taiji couldn't help but change his face when he saw it, because he knew that this was definitely not Houjin's fleet, and there was no sailor under him at this time.

Yuan Chonghuan smiled when he saw it, he still knew the wheels of the Daming Water Master, and only the Governor of Daming Fuguang could make up so many wheels, Zhang Bin was really interesting, and even he didn't expect that the support would come so quickly.

The battle continued, but the eyes of the commanders on both sides were not on the battlefield, they were all watching the more than fifty wheels.

Huang Taiji had the intention to send a bow to the river bank to put a few rounds of arrows, but after carefully observing the structure of the wheels, he gave up this idea again, the wheels were specially designed for naval warfare in the era of cold weapons, and the cabins were all nailed with thick wooden planks, and ordinary arrows could not penetrate at all, as long as the people in the cabin did not come out, it was useless for you to release arrows.

Qi Yuanfu wanted Jiannu to come up and be cheap, he had already ordered all the musketeers of the Qi family army to gather at a few windows in the cabin, as long as Jiannu dared to send someone over, let them taste the taste of bullets.

It's a pity that there was no movement in Jiannu in the distance, not even a person who came up to shout.

Soon, the fleet sailed through the camp area of Jiannu and entered the area controlled by the Ming army of Xiningbao that had been dug up and ravine everywhere.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan had come to the east of Xining Fort, on the simple wharf on the bank of the Liao River, this wharf was naturally not the original, it was built by Yuan Chonghuan, he knew that Zhang Bin would allocate some muskets and artillery for him nine times out of ten, and it was very likely that he would take the waterway, so he asked people to build such a simple wharf.

As soon as the first wheel docked on the dock, Zu Zepu jumped down from the boat and shouted excitedly: "My lord, Lord Zhang, the governor of Fuguang, sent General Qi Yuanbi, the deputy chief of the Qi family's army, to send us five thousand muskets and one hundred cannons. ”

Yuan Chonghuan was dumbfounded when he heard this, this Zhang Bin is too interesting, five thousand muskets, there are not so many Shenji battalions in the capital, and there are a hundred artillery pieces, saving a little use, enough to defend ten fortresses, his plan is to build five fortresses along the Liao River, so calculated, isn't it that each fortress can be equipped with twenty artillery, that is even stronger than the defense of Ningyuan City!

At this time, Qi Yuanbi also got off the wheel, and he walked quickly to Yuan Chonghuan and arched his hand: "Qi Yuanbi, the deputy chief soldier of the Qi family army under the command of the last general Fuguang, will see Lord Yuan." ”

Yuan Chonghuan arched his hand again and again: "General Qi has worked hard, General Qi has worked hard." ”

Qi Yuanbi did not greet him, but continued to arch his hand: "The last general has the courage to ask Lord Yuan how the battle situation is now, our Governor Lord said that if Lord Yuan needs support, he can speak at any time, and ten thousand soldiers of the Qi family army are waiting on the sea outside the Liao River." ”

When Yuan Chonghuan heard this, he was shocked: "Are all the Qi family's troops here?" This, this, it is a big crime to transfer his soldiers and horses to leave the garrison without authorization, Lord Zhang, Yuan really can't repay it! ”

Qi Yuanbi said fearlessly: "Lord Zhang said, in this battle, the Liaodong Army must not be defeated, let alone the Qi Army, if Lord Yuan really can't stand it, even if all the guards of the Dongfan Jiuwei are transferred, they will have to renovate the slaves!" ”

When Yuan Chonghuan heard this, he was moved and said: "Don't thank you for your kindness, you go back and tell Master Zhang, this kindness Yuan has written down." At this time, I can still hold on, you better not risk entering the war, with these 5,000 flintlock pistols and 100 artillery pieces, we will win this battle! ”

Qi Yuanbi said with a little regret: "In this case, then hurry up and unload the muskets and artillery, this time we also brought two hundred tiger squat cannons, but this can only be lent to you first, because our Qi family army has only two hundred tiger squat cannons, and now there is a shortage of copper in Dongfan, and it cannot be replenished for the time being." ”

When Yuan Chonghuan heard this, he thanked him again and again, and then he beckoned his soldiers to assist the Qi family army in moving the flintlock pistol, the thousand-pound Franc machine, the tiger squat cannon and the corresponding ammunition into Xining Fort.