It was night, the sky was slightly cool, the camp of the Eight Banners in the west of Haicheng was a little busy, Dolgon was back, Azig was also back, the Houjin generals who went out with the army this time gathered together again, the lights in the tent were brilliant, it seemed to be very festive, but there was no joy on everyone's faces.

Huang Taiji frowned and sat on the handsome seat, his eyes narrowed slightly, he was silent, as if he was meditating, and the others didn't dare to say anything, so he stood silently below, silently.

It's been three days, he originally thought that three days was enough time for Meng Baqi and Han Baqi to fill the ditches on the north and south sides of Haizhou City, and rushed up to storm the city wall, but he didn't expect that in three days, the 120,000 army didn't even fill in the ditches on the north and south sides, and it was still a mile away from the city wall!

Dolgon and Azig both said that the Ming army had too many artillery, and at the beginning of the crazy bombardment, like the shells do not need money, so, in the first two days they did not dare to send too many people to fill the trench, this person is less, the progress is slow, it dragged on for two days, they have nothing to do, to the third day, finally survived the Ming army's "Hongyi cannon" bombardment range, they sent more people to fill the trench, as a result, more people died, because the Ming army's tiger squat cannon than "Hongyi cannon" more!

Huang Taiji knew that they were not lying, because the roar of artillery on the north and south sides of Haizhou City had not stopped in the first two days, and he could hear it in the west of the city.

There are too many artillery pieces in this Ming army, and Haizhou City is like a hedgehog, biting down, full of blood, should this city be attacked?

If he could, he really didn't want to attack this kind of city, hundreds of artillery, how many lives would have to be taken to fill it!

The Ming army seems to have calculated that he will attack Haizhou City, so he mobilized all the artillery that could be mobilized, which is tantamount to digging a pit for himself!

Zhang Bin's name couldn't help but come to mind, this technique is too similar to the style of that product.

At this time, he didn't know that Zhang Bin had been appointed as the governor of Jiliao and had led the army to Gaizhou, because Chongzhen did not announce the appointment of Zhang Bin in the court, and Zhang Bin did not publicize it everywhere after taking office.

He knew that tens of thousands of Ming troops came to Gaizhou, but he didn't care very much, because he also had "reinforcements", and not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands.

In his opinion, these are not problems, but the problem now is that he still has to attack knowing that there are hundreds of artillery pieces in Haizhou City, and he knows that it is a pit, and he has to jump!

Because the location of Haizhou City is too critical, whether he attacks Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou to the south, or attacks the Liaohe River valley to the west, he must pass through Haizhou.

The Qin army is a notoriously madman, if one or two thousand horses fight this, they will definitely go out of the city to ambush, even if it is forty or fifty thousand horses to fight this, they may also go out of the city to sneak attack, where did they come from so many people to defend them, this Haizhou City is not taken, what Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou, what Liaohe River Basin, don't have to think about it.

He had to think about it, because he had too many men and horses, and he couldn't support so many people just by relying on the little land around Liaoyang and Shenyang, he had to attack, and he had to take most of the land in Liaodong, otherwise, let alone the army under his command, the people of the Eight Banners might have no food!

This fight is definitely going to be fought, and now it depends on how it is fought.

Huang Taiji was silent for a long time, and finally coughed and said: "Everyone knows the current situation, there are a lot of artillery pieces of the Ming army in the city, especially the tiger squat artillery, and the number is a bit outrageous. However, I think they have moved all the tiger squat cannons in the east and even west of the city to the north and south, and if this is the case, we still have a chance to take this Haizhou City. ”

He was a little suspicious that the Ming army had moved all the artillery in the east and even west of the city to the north and south, but he couldn't be sure, but he had to say this, if nothing else, just to boost morale.

If he said that no matter how many artillery the Ming army in the city has, we have to take Haizhou City, the effect will be different, it is clear that we will use human lives to pile up, what will the siege soldiers think, who likes to eat cannonballs, who wants to send to death!

So, he can't tell the truth, he can only brag.

As soon as he said this, the faces of the generals in the tent were really much better, and just now they were almost all depressed, and at this moment, they finally had a little hope on their faces.

Huang Taiji saw that everyone showed hope, so he said firmly: "No matter what, we must take this Haizhou City, since the Ming army has transferred the tiger squat artillery in the west of the city to the north and south, we will mainly attack the west of the city." They have tiger squat guns, and we have them too, so I'll see who has more tiger squat guns when the time comes! ”

He wasn't bragging, because he had worked hard to build thousands of tiger squat cannons in recent years, and this time he brought 600 of them, and he didn't believe that the Ming army could hoard more than 600 tiger squat cannons in such a small Haizhou city.

If according to the manufacturing capacity of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, let alone 600 tiger squat cannons, it is impossible for a Haizhou City to be equipped with 60 tiger squat cannons, because there are no craftsmen who can cast artillery under the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War at this time, and it was many years ago to cast cannons.

The problem is that these tiger squat cannons are not made by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, these tiger squat cannons are all made by Zhang Bin in the arsenal over there in Dongfan Jiuwei, Zhang Bin wants to launch a ruthless attack, let alone 600 guns, he can make 6,000 tiger squat cannons.

At this time, Huang Taiji didn't know that he had made the wrong object and was destined to be deflated, and he also preached with confidence: "We didn't take out the tiger squat cannon, once we take it out, it will not be easy to take this Haizhou City!" ”

When the generals heard this, they were all overjoyed, yes, we also have tiger squatting cannons, I'm afraid of a fart!

Huang Taiji saw that the morale was almost boosted, so he ordered: "Dolgon, you will lead the white flag foot soldiers to the north of the city tomorrow morning to camp, and exchange them for 30,000 Mongolian Eight Banner foot soldiers." ”

This is a good feeling, you finally gave me back my footmen, Dolgon waved his sleeves excitedly, "Chirp." ”

At this time, the foot soldiers of the full eight banners are no longer 7,050 per flag, but 15,000 per flag, and this time the 60,000 foot soldiers led by Huang Taiji are the Zhenghuang Banner foot soldiers under his command and the blue flag, white flag, and white flag foot soldiers under Qierharang, Dolgon, and Azig, he was originally holding the foot soldiers under Dolgon and Azig and letting them go to the north and south of the city to command the Meng Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners desperately, and now he returned the white flag foot soldiers to Dolgon, and let Dolgon personally command, Dolgon was naturally excited.

Immediately afterward, he ordered: "Azig, you will lead the white flag foot soldiers to the south of the city to camp tomorrow morning, and exchange them for 30,000 Han and Eight Banner foot soldiers." ”

Azig waved his sleeves equally excitedly, "Tsk." ”

Huang Taiji then said: "You rest for three days first, and when I have almost filled the trenches here, you will wave your army to feint and fill the remaining trenches to attract the attention of the Ming army in the city." ”

He is going to play a trick of fiction and reality, for a while in the south of the city, in the north of the city, and in the west of the city, so that the Ming army in the city is confused, and he can't figure out which direction he wants to attack, this tactic has a premise to work, that is, the tiger squat cannon in the hands of the Ming army in the city is not as much as him, and he really needs to move over.

How did he know that Zhang Bin had fully supported Sun Chuanting with 800 tiger squat cannons, which was 200 more than the tiger squat cannons in his hand!