Dolgon looked coldly at the trench not far away, silently calculating the time it would take to fill the trench in his heart, and was silent for a long time before he said aloud to the herald guards behind him: "Order, the Mengbaqi infantry take turns to step forward to fill the trench, one thousand people at a time, one hour per flag, no matter how fierce the artillery fire of the Ming army is, it is not allowed to stop, and today it must be advanced one mile!" ”

The trench opened by the Ming army outside the city is about five miles, and the outermost part is exactly within the range of the Hongyi cannon, that is to say, the outermost part is actually the most dangerous, as long as it advances for about one mile, there is no danger, until the distance of about two hundred steps in front of the city wall, it will not suffer any attack.

He wanted to fill in the trenches within a mile of the periphery on the first day, beyond the range of the Hongyi cannons, and on the second day fill in all the trenches outside the first mile of the city wall, and on the third day, fill in all the trenches within a mile of the city wall to launch a fierce attack on the city wall.

As he gave the order, the herald's guards dispersed, and soon, a thousand Mengyuan foot soldiers rushed towards the first trench with sacks.

There was not much fear on the faces of these Meng Yuan foot soldiers, because they were not very densely lined, and the distance between them was more than one step, and they were also lined up horizontally, so that one cannonball could kill one person at most, and according to their understanding, there were at most dozens of artillery pieces in Haizhou City, scattered to four city walls, and there were only twenty guns on each city wall at most, and the enemy only had twenty artillery pieces.

Dolgon didn't think that there would be many casualties when filling the trenches, he was not thinking about how many artillery the Ming army had, but how many shells the Ming army had, to be honest, if he commanded the artillery bombardment, in the face of such a sparse enemy, he would not even order the artillery, because the shells are consumables, and they will be gone if they are shot, and one artillery can be matched with a hundred shells.

If calculated according to the standard of manual casting, he is indeed right, the cannonballs should be cast by hand, and then processed by hand, it is indeed very laborious to build, a cannon can be matched with a hundred shells is indeed amazing, but he was wrong, because Zhang Bin and Wang Zheng they had already mechanized the casting and processing of cannonballs, and the reserves of cannonballs in Haizhou City were more than 100,000 rounds, even if a cannonball could only kill one person, the cannonballs alone could bombard the 180,000 army!

At this time, Zheng Hua was holding a telescope to closely watch the movements of the enemy, and when he saw Meng Yuan's infantry rushing up in a scattered formation, his brows couldn't help frowning, but soon, he regained his composure, and ordered aloud: "Order, all two thousand catties of Franc machine guns are loaded with shells and ready to bombard." ”

If Dolgon could see the situation on the city wall, his eyes would definitely be shocked, because the artillery on the city wall was not one by one, but in a row, and the number was only twenty, and there were more than two hundred.

However, there are not many big guys in these artillery, mainly small tiger squat guns, there are indeed only 20 2,000-pound Franc cannons, and only 30 1,000-pound Franc cannons.

In addition, Dolgon miscalculated, the range of the trench dug by the Ming army was actually not about five miles, but about six miles, because the two-thousand-pound Franc cannon had a farther range than the Hongyi cannon!

Zheng Hua silently calculated the enemy's marching speed and the landing point of the shells, and when the foot soldier carrying the sack was still more than ten steps away from the first trench, he waved his hand without hesitation and shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Boom, boom", there was a loud bang, twenty shells whistled into the sky, and in the blink of an eye, several balls of blood burst out in front of the first trench, which were hit by shells the size of people's heads, and there was absolutely no escape, even if they were wiped and they would be missing arms and legs.

The scene of people being hit by shells was indeed very scary, but the first round of shells also hit a few people, so the first batch of Meng Yuan infantry soldiers were not frightened and panicked, they quickly ran to the front of the trench, opened the mouth of the burlap bag, poured the soil inside into the trench, and then ran back quickly with the empty bag.

Seeing this scene, Dolgon couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face, the Ming army really only had more than 20 artillery pieces as he expected, and the Meng Yuan infantry performed very well, and was not frightened by the artillery of the Ming army, it seems that the losses in the first two days should not be very large, but I don't know how many muskets the Ming army in the city has, if the number of muskets of the Ming army is not much, it should not be a big problem to capture Haizhou City, after all, they have 180,000 troops on their side, and the defenders in the city are only 40,000 in total.

The offensive and defensive battle of Haizhou City began like this, on the first day, the offensive and defensive battle was not very intense, because the trenches outside Haizhou City were dug too intensively, and they could not be filled in a day, and this first day was just filling in the trenches, and only the Mengbaqi infantry in the north of the city and the Han Baqi infantry in the south of the city were filling in the trenches, and the Manbaqi infantry in the west of the city were only building siege equipment and did not begin to fill the trenches.

Except for the roar of artillery from time to time in the city, the soldiers on both sides didn't even bother to shout, and the whole scene was like practicing artillery bombardment, which was dull and abnormal.

However, the accuracy of the Ming army's artillery is indeed a bit terrifying, at the beginning, a round of 20 shells can only hit five or six people, but, the more people are hit, the more people are hit, and in the afternoon, each round of artillery fire of the Ming army can basically hit more than a dozen people, such a long distance, fifty percent of the hit rate, it is indeed a bit scary.

In addition, the number of shells of the Ming army is also a little scary, at the end of the day, the shelling of the Ming army has not stopped, and each artillery has more than a hundred shells, that is, on this day alone, the Ming army in the city has fired out four or five thousand shells!

This guy, the Ming army in the city is not crazy, Dolgon and Azig saw that the Ming army was so crazy, not only were they not frightened, but they were all relieved, because they both thought that the number of shells was limited, and the Ming army almost consumed the shells on this day, and when they commanded the army to attack the city later, the losses were much smaller.

As the sun set, the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Meng and Han began to disperse and collect their troops, and the day's offensive and defensive battles ended like this, and at this time, Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, had just received the news of the attack on Haizhou City.

Sun Chuanting's reaction speed was actually quite fast, as soon as Huang Taiji led the army to set off, he sent out an eight-hundred-mile expedited express here, but Haizhou City was more than 1,500 miles away from the capital, even if it was an eight-hundred-mile expeditious, it would take two days.

When Chongzhen received the news, he was instantly dumbfounded, this Huang Taiji is not crazy, his eldest son Haoge can be in his own hands!

Immediately after, he fell into a panic, nearly 200,000 troops, that is not a thief, but a slave!

Can Sun Chuanting withstand it?

What if he can't stand it?

Once Haizhou City is lost, the Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei, and Jinzhou Wei behind it are all in danger, as well as along the Liao River.

At this time, he really wanted to smoke a few ear scrapers for himself, and he actually believed that Jiannu would stop the war, and he was simply a pig!