For the Ming army, the way of defending the city has changed considerably. In the past, the defenders relied on the city wall to guard a line, and once this line was breached, the city was lost.

However, since the European fortress fortifications were introduced to the Ming Dynasty, the General Staff began to continuously study the fortress garrison system to find the advantages and disadvantages of this fortification. This was not only an attempt to build a more perfect fortification, but also a study of how the enemy should overcome the fortress itself.

The more the General Staff studied, the more they discovered that a perfect fortress fortification was not only small but strong, but also important in making the invading enemy troops face a blockade of low, medium, and high three-dimensional crossfire, no matter which side they chose. To put it simply, the front of the fortification should be as narrow as possible, but the fire on the front of the fortification should be as dense as possible.

If you look further, this becomes a mathematical problem of how to ensure that the defenders fire more bullets than the enemy forces attacking head-on.

The appearance of flintlock muskets, grenades, and howitzers with shorter barrels and more curved ballistics enriched the defenders' defensive means. As a result, the Ming army began to defend from a line at the top of the city wall to the era of three-dimensional fortifications.

Although Yingkou City is not a finished product according to the fortress system studied by the Ming army, when the Ming people designed this city, it was arranged according to the layout of the fortress. Although limited by the monitoring of the Qing army, only the most basic city walls and gate towers were built in Yingkou, but on the side near the city wall, in addition to ordinary residences, the Ming people also built seven large earthen platforms, which were originally claimed to be used by the Ming people to dry mountain goods.

Regardless of whether it is ginseng, fungus, mushrooms, etc., it will be dried here again and then packaged in equal quantities. The Manchus were not suspicious of these large mounds, because they were basically the same as the city walls, and there were no walls, and they did not consider these platforms for drying mountain goods to be dangerous.

It wasn't until the Ming army captured Yingkou that the people of Yingkou discovered that in just a few days, these mounds for drying goods had become forts.

Duoduo pressed the formation with his own white flag, and ordered the Yaozhou army, the Haizhou army and the surrounding Tuntian Han army to storm the city, so as to test the defensive arrangement of Yingkou.

As a result, these Qing soldiers were fortunate to be taught the three-dimensional defense system that was optimized by the staff officers of the General Staff. The mathematically calculated area of fire coverage kept the besieging Qing army in the cross-fire zone of artillery and Ming muskets.

In the past, the Qing army relied on shield chariots as a sharp weapon for infantry siege, and there was basically no blind spot to hide in such crossfire. Moreover, what is even more ruthless about the Ming army defending the city is that it does not blindly expel the Qing army from the vicinity of the city wall, but lures a group of Qing troops to the city by calculating, and then encircles and annihilates the city wall on both sides, and the artillery covers the reinforcement channel of the Qing army, so as to give the Qing army the greatest damage.

Rather than explaining that the army was defending the city, it should be explained that the army was taking advantage of the advantages of the city walls and artillery to carry out a strangulation war against the living forces of the Qing army. This kind of tactical guiding ideology is very different from the concept of defending the city of the Ming army in the past.

When Dorgon received the report and personally ran to stop the younger brother's brutality, Dorgon had almost lost nearly a third of the nearly 4,000 troops in his hands, although most of them were Han Chinese and men outside the two white flags, but it was enough to make the Manchu generals below Ye Keshu dissatisfied with the young Prince Yu.

It should be said that although the young prince of the clan had a strange temper, perhaps because of the unnatural death of his mother Abahai, he did not get along well with other clan members when he was young.

As he became an adult, he personally took charge of a banner and actively fought in the battle against Korea, which made people look at him with admiration.

Ye Keshu, the Minister of Nimatsa, Taisong Azi, Nurhachi has been subordinated to this Heavenly Mandate Khan, and has participated in the Battle of Liaoyang, and can also be regarded as the old man of the Eight Banners. Dolgon ordered Ye Keshu to lead the army with Duoduo as the vanguard of the army, and also hoped that the veteran of the Eight Banners would be able to restrain this younger brother so that there would be no major mistakes.

But when he heard that the Dordor Overseers had stormed the camp without hesitation of the lieutenants, he finally began to get anxious. Now Huang Taiji is dissatisfied with the two white flags, and he has to find out the problem if there is no problem, not to mention that Duoduo personally sent this excuse.

Nikan and Bolo, the two sons of the clan, were also driven by Duoduo to attack the city, and they couldn't sit still. Nikan is the third son of Chu Ying and is now 29 years old. Because of the eldest brother Du Du Touming, coupled with his father's affairs, he has not been reused, and when Chongde changed the yuan, he won the title of Gushan Beizi.

However, Dorgon admired his steady nephew and led him to follow him. Of course, Dolgon did not have the idea of using Nikan to communicate with Dudu at that time.

And Bolo is the third son of Abatai, although Abatai is not valued by the clan because of the low status of his biological mother. But this good guy is also the same as Dai Shan, a clan general who has experienced many founding battles.

Bolo had the intention of following Dordor, but Dolgon also meant to woo his nephew as help.

However, the perverse Duoduo actually sent the two to the battlefield under the unfavorable situation of attacking the city, isn't this just pushing the forces that support the two brothers outward.

So Dolgon asked Huang Taiji to go to the front line at Yingkou to personally supervise the battle and make some preparations for the arrival of the army.

Huang Taiji agreed to Dorgon's request, so he rushed to Yaozhou overnight with hundreds of horsemen, and finally stopped Dordo before he continued to press the panicked soldiers to attack the city.

For Duoduo, who is like a mad dog to outsiders, it is much more normal in front of his half-brother. Knowing the casualties of his troops, Dorgon relieved him of his military authority and took charge of the mixed vanguard himself.

Dolgon first reorganized the troops and sent the wounded and corpses back to Yaozhou City, so that the Qing army camp was no longer filled with the wailing of the wounded, so that the soldiers finally slept well.

Then he stopped the siege and began to rebuild the various siege equipment, and used this time to get an idea of the previous battles. From the generals Nikan, Bolo, Raussa, Xingne and other generals, Dolgon finally pieced together a preliminary impression of the defense of Yingkou and the combat strength of the Ming army.

Although the Qing army could only see a few small cannons on the city wall, the Ming army also set up many artillery positions behind the city wall, so whenever the battle was the most intense, the Qing army's attacking troops were always interrupted by the Ming army's artillery fire, making their offensive unsustainable.

Although the city wall north of Yingkou is short, it has become an insurmountable natural danger for the Qing army under the cross-blockade and garrison of artillery fire. Even if the Qing army climbed to the top of the wall for a while, because there was no response from the rear troops, they would either die on the city wall, or they had to jump off the city wall, lie down in the pile of dead people, wait for the shelling to end, and then find an opportunity to escape back to their own position.

After listening to the words of these Manchurian generals, Dolgon turned his head and looked at Yingkou City from a distance for a long time before he asked them, "Then what should we do to take this city, according to you?" ”

Nikan said to Dolgon, "Yingkou City is bordered by the sea to the south, the Liao River to the west, and the marshland to the east, and only the north side can be attacked.

With the current strength of our army, it is still possible for the Ming army trapped in this city not to come out, but it is probably not enough to storm this city. After all, this battle front is really not long, which is conducive to the Ming army's holding, but not conducive to our army's attack..."

Bolo said: "The Ming people rely on nothing more than artillery, although these cannons are quite different from those we have seen before, and they can hide behind the city and shoot cannons, which makes it difficult for us to guard against them.

But the range of this kind of artillery does not seem to be very long, I heard that the Great Khan has brought the Wuzhen Chao Hazakh army with him on this expedition, maybe we can apply to the Great Khan for the transfer of this red-coated cannon in the Han army. Use the red-coated cannon to suppress the artillery in the city, so that you can offset the advantage of the Ming army in firearms.

In addition, our army should build a high platform outside the city to observe the movement in the city, and should not let the Ming army move its troops in the city so easily, and our army is unaware..."

After listening to the thoughts of these generals, Dolgon just pondered for a moment, and then said to Ye Keshu on the side: "The lives of my Manchurian soldiers cannot be wasted in vain under the firearms of the Ming people, Bolo is right, since we have an army like Wuzhen Chaoha that can be used to suppress the Ming army in the city, there is no need to use the lives of the Manchurians to fill the city wall."

In the name of the generals, you drafted a document requesting the Great Khan to allocate the Uzhen Chao Kazakh army to the next level, so that our army could suppress the artillery of the Ming army and reduce the casualties of the soldiers. ”

Ye Keshu bowed and said, "Yes, the lower official will write it." ”

Dolgon then said to Bolo, "It's a good idea to build a platform outside the city to observe the movements inside the city, so I'll leave it to you." Choose a suitable site to build a raised platform.

In addition, it is also necessary to prevent the Ming people from going out of the city to destroy the high platform we have built, so that Nikan can ambush the high platform with his soldiers. If the Ming people don't come out, it's fine, once the Ming people go out of the city, give them a hard lesson. ”

Bolo and Nikan agreed one after another, and accepted the order to go down. Dorgon groaned for a long time, and dismissed the other generals, leaving only Rausa, Cinne, and Dordor by his side.

Only then did he open his mouth and say to Lausa and Xingne: "The Great Khan sent you to spy on the movements of the Ming army at the entrance of the camp for the army, and to cover this area to prevent the Ming army sentinels from moving at will.

You are the sentinels of the army, and if you discover the movements of the Ming army, you should naturally report back to the vanguard first, how can you forget your mission and save Yaozhou instead.

If a Yaozhou city is lost, it will be lost, and there is nothing to save from wine bags and rice bags like Turushh and Yaozhou defenders. As long as the strikers can catch up and besiege this Ming army in Yaozhou City, we will not be so passive now.

or besiege the city to send reinforcements, or gather heavy troops to encircle and annihilate the Ming army in Yaozhou City, there are articles to do. Now let them flee back to Yingkou, once things are not harmonious, the Ming people can retreat from the sea at any time, how should you and the vanguard wash away the defeat in front of Yingkou City?

Not only will you be punished by the Great Khan, but even Prince Yu will be dragged down by you. Are you convicted? ”

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