Dolgon has been really depressed for the past two days, he is about to vomit blood when the trench outside Haizhou City is filled, and the range of the Ming army's artillery makes him even more crazy, he can't understand how the Ming army's artillery is installed, it can cover such a wide range!

He always thought that the artillery of the Ming army was the same as the Hongyi cannon they made themselves, they could only adjust the angle slightly, and it was amazing to be able to bombard a range of one mile, but he never thought that the artillery of the Ming army seemed to be able to adjust the angle at will, and the trench was filled two miles away, and the artillery of the Ming army could also bombard the Meng Yuan foot soldiers who filled the trench.

Now, he really can't stand it, it's not that he can't stand the consumption of Meng Yuan's foot soldiers, it is a common thing to die more than a thousand people a day in siege battles, anyway, it is not the foot soldiers of the white flag under his command, he will not feel distressed if he dies more, the key problem is that he can't complete the task of attacking the city wall within three days.

There are still three or four miles of trenches in front of the city wall, if you don't send more people to fill it up every trip, how to fill it up in one day, the problem people send more people to squeeze together, a shot down, it is not a bombardment to kill one, but a bunch of bombardment, although he does not feel sorry for the consumption of the Mengbaqi foot soldiers, but it can't consume too much, if it consumes tens of thousands of people a day, then this battle can't be fought.

In desperation, he could only wipe his face and send someone to beg Huang Taiji for two more days, otherwise, if he didn't complete the military order, Huang Taiji would not necessarily drag himself directly to cut down, lock himself up, and lock him up until death, which is absolutely possible.

Huang Taiji really wanted to lock up the three Dolgon brothers until death, but he couldn't do this, at least not before people made a big mistake, because these three brothers led the three banners of the Eight Banners, if he dealt with the three brothers on trumped-up charges, the three banners under their command would definitely not accept it, in that case, the Eight Banners would be in danger of splitting, so although he was afraid of the three brothers to death, he did not dare to treat other people's sins casually.

Similarly, in order to avoid falling into the truth, he can't be too outrageous to these three brothers, like this, the artillery of the Ming army has been bombarding non-stop, he can't force people to fill in the trench within three days, although he said when he gave the order that no matter how fierce the Ming artillery is, it must launch a fierce attack on the city wall within three days, but he can't force them to urge the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to fill the trenches, if he really desperately persecuts people, then it is not only the Three Banners under their command that will be offended, Both the Mengbaqi and the Han Baqi will be dissatisfied.

As the king of a country, he is much more qualified than Chongzhen, Chongzhen doesn't care, he can do whatever he wants, and he doesn't care about the feelings of his subjects at all, so he himself plays himself to death, and Huang Taiji's skills are much more clever than Chongzhen, everyone knows that he is afraid of the three Dolgon brothers, but he never deliberately persecuts people, everything is according to the rules, at most let them perform some dangerous tasks, so that his subordinates will not be like those courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, disgruntled or discouraged, It's a plate of loose sand.

For example, this time, he ordered the Dolgon brothers to carry out the most dangerous siege mission, but he did not ignore them and force them to eat cannonballs, he just ordered the people to lead the army to attack the city, and when Dolgon and Azig sent people to ask him for two days, he agreed.

The subtlety of this, Chongzhen must not be able to do it, if Chongzhen is replaced, this one thing alone can make the Eight Banners, Meng, and Han Eight Banners dissatisfied, and thus become a plate of scattered sand.

Dolgon also knew that as long as he pulled his lower face, the legitimate request of Huang Taiji would definitely agree, and if he had a grace period of two days, he would have no problem attacking under the city wall.

However, early on the morning of the third day, when he ordered the Eight Banners infantry to continue to line up to fill the trench, a strange thing happened, and the artillery of the Ming army actually stopped!

What's going on, isn't the artillery of the Ming army moving?

Whatever happened, it was a good thing for him, and after filling a trench, he ordered the Eight Banners to increase the number of trench filling soldiers, sending 3,000 men up each time, and then filling it within a mile in front of the city wall.

The speed of filling the trench is naturally much faster, and if there are twice as many people, the speed of filling the trench will be twice as fast, and it will definitely not be a problem to fill about three miles a day.

Dolgon's brows were stretched out after frowning for a day, but Hou Gongji on the city gate tower frowned, because he knew that the angle of the artillery could actually be adjusted a little higher, and the two thousand jin franc machines and the thousand pound franc machines on the city wall added up to fifty, but Zheng Hua had only ordered twenty franc cannons to fire, and at this time the enemy was lined up several times denser, and Zheng Hua didn't know if he would take the opportunity to open artillery bombardment, whether this guy would fight!

After holding it for nearly half an hour, Hou Gongji finally couldn't hold it back, and he politely arched his hand and said: "General Zheng, it seems that the angle of this Franc machine gun can be adjusted, why don't you order all the artillery bombardment while the enemy is dense?" ”

Zheng Hua also explained politely: "General Hou, the tuning angle of this artillery is indeed fifteen degrees, but only the following five degrees are the most accurate, if you adjust it higher, the landing point of the shells is not so easy to control, and the general error will be more than five steps, now the enemy's formation is a little denser, but the horizontal is still relatively flat, and the thickness is definitely not ten steps, so that the chance of me hitting them is small, so I simply ordered to stop the shelling, don't waste all the shells." ”

It turned out that this was the case, Hou Gongji thought about it, and asked puzzledly: "Since only the lower five degrees are the most accurate, then why do you have to engrave fifteen degrees when you build the cannon, isn't this a big move?" ”

Zheng Hua still smiled and explained: "This is not an extra move, the above ten degrees are also necessary, because in naval battles, the target of our attack is generally the enemy's warship or even a battleship, and the warship and the battleship are more than ten steps long, and the error is still large." ”

It turned out to be for naval warfare, Hou Gongji couldn't help but suddenly realize, he didn't pester Zheng Hua to ask endlessly, because if he asked too much, he would seem very naïve and ignorant.

However, soon, he couldn't bear it anymore, because he really didn't want to see people filling the trench so comfortably, but this trench was dug out one by one by his men, and it was filled in vain, how cost-effective it was.

After another half an hour, he finally couldn't help Sun Chuanting on the side and said: "My lord, why don't we send some people down, hide in the trench behind and use muskets to beat their foot soldiers who fill the trench, as long as we send 3,000 people down, we can beat them and can't fill the trench." ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he smiled and said, "There's no need to be so troublesome, it's the same to use muskets when they start to attack the city." ”

How can this be the same, Hou Gongji's face was full of doubts, but he was embarrassed to ask again.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting continued to explain: "Every coach actually has a shot in his heart, what effect should be achieved after the first battle, and how much loss he can accept, these are all general ideas in the boss's heart, Huang Taiji definitely doesn't want to consume all the foot soldiers here, and we still have tiger squat cannons, flintlock guns, and thunder, which are enough to exhaust all their troops, anyway, when the loss reaches a certain number, Huang Taiji will stop attacking, or simply withdraw the army, why should we let our corporal soldiers climb up and down on the city wall." What about the loss of physical strength? ”

Hou Gong nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, it turned out that as the commander of the first army, he still had to think about so many things, he really hadn't thought about it before.

Sun Chuanting is deliberately cultivating him, because this Hou Gongji has a good family background, good character, and kung fu is also very good, and most importantly, he is still young, if he can be cultivated, he can still fight for the Ming Dynasty for twenty or thirty years, such a rookie, he naturally has to focus on cultivating.

Sun Chuanting was here to focus on cultivating Hou Gongji, but Dolgon was urging the Eight Banners Infantry to desperately fill in the trenches, and at about one o'clock in the afternoon, the Eight Banners Infantry finally filled in a position about a mile away from the city wall.

At this time, Dolgon did not order them to stop, he didn't know that the Ming army in the city had a lot of tiger squat artillery, he just thought that the Ming army would have muskets, and the attack distance of the muskets was about two hundred steps, he wanted the Mengbaqi infantry to go forward to fill a few trenches, and directly push the siege vehicles to fill them tomorrow, so as not to delay time.

In fact, Zheng Hua had long known that they had entered the attack range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, but he did not order the cannons to be fired, but divided all the Tiger Squat Cannons on the city wall into five batches, and adjusted the angles respectively, until the Meng Yuan infantry filled a trench, he ordered the group of cannons closest to the attack to open fire.

At this time, they were carrying the sack containing soil less than ten steps away from the trench in front, and more than 30 people were still scared, so everyone subconsciously quickened their pace and rushed up to pour the soil in the sack into the trench.

"Boom, boom, boom", there was another burst of artillery roar, and nearly thirty Meng Yuan infantry soldiers fell in response, at this time, they were all pouring soil, and naturally they would not give up.

"Boom boom", there was another roar of artillery, and nearly thirty Meng Yuan foot soldiers fell in response, at this time, their soil was almost finished, and everyone carried empty sacks and ran back desperately.

"Boom, boom", this time, the roar of the artillery on the city wall is not known how many times louder, and hundreds of Mengyuan foot soldiers fell in response.

Dolgon in the distance was startled by the dense roar of artillery, and when he heard the roar of artillery, he realized that the Ming army in the city had tiger squat cannons, but, looking at the effect, there were only thirty or forty guns in total, so he didn't care very much, but, in the back, the Meng Yuan soldiers who filled the earth obviously fell down a large area, how many tiger squatting cannons were there in the Ming army!

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