"Bang bang bang" The continuous sound of muskets kept ringing, and the people above the fortress were beaten and couldn't raise their heads, so they could only hide at the head of the city and blindly throw brick and lime bottles down, and this kind of attack could not do much damage to the Ming army digging the city under the cover of the shield under the fortress.

Unlike Ningyuan City, which is surrounded by thick bricks outside the city wall, this kind of fortress is made of rammed earth, and it is already a little mottled and falling off under the wind and sun. The Ming army first piled up a large amount of dry firewood under the city wall to burn, and then poured cold water after the fire was extinguished, and a large piece of soil fell from the city wall under the heat expansion and cold contraction.

The soldiers of the brigade carried their shields and, under the cover of the musketeers, began to dig the city with axes and chisels, and it took only half a day to dig a large hole.

Filling the hole with a coffin full of gunpowder, sealing it with earth, tamping it, and lighting a long fuse, the soldiers of the city ran away like crazy.

It didn't take long for the ground to shake violently, and then there was a loud bang, and a large section of the city wall flew up from the dust, and then countless mud fell like raindrops.

The Ming soldiers who were two hundred paces away from the fortress were not shocked at all, because this was already the third fortress they had breached......

The Ming army was not shocked, but the thousands of people inside the fortress were shocked, as if the end was coming.

They were all people from the villages near the fortress, and when they heard that tens of thousands of Ming troops were coming from the sea, they immediately dragged their families and hid in the castle.

Almost every family had men who followed Wu Sangui to fight against the Ming Dynasty in the pass, and these people knew that the Ming army was not as good as them. The men went up to the city with hoes and spears to guard the city, and the women carried wooden lime bottles to the city, and they worked together. These men were all from military families, and they fought against the Eight Banners back then, and their skills in defending the city were not bad.

However, they were the people who threw away their weapons after all, and they did not have bows, arrows, firearms, artillery, and other weapons to defend the city, so they were powerless to stop the Ming soldiers from digging the city and planting gunpowder.

When there was a loud bang and a large section of the city wall flew into the sky, all the people in the castle were mourned one by one, as if the end of the world was coming. In the face of the Ming army rushing in from the gap, it was no longer able to resist......

One by one, men came out of the city gate with ropes tied, followed by weeping women and children. The people looked at the Ming army escorting them, with hatred, confusion and remorse in their eyes.

"Master Jun, please, don't kill my child's father!" A woman watched her man being tied with ropes by fierce officers and soldiers, and did not dare to stop her, kneeling on the ground and crying and pleading.

"As long as you are honest and obedient, you won't die!" An officer and soldier who spoke Shandong's dialect looked at the women and children crying, and felt a little unbearable.

"Erqiu, what do you have to say to them, these are traitors who abandoned their ancestors and surrendered to the Tartars, and they are innocent!" The little flag officer on the side looked at the ugly money rattail pigtail on the head of the arrested man, and spat disdainfully.

Seeing the contempt in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, the woman no longer pleaded, but took out a pair of scissors from her arms.

"What do you dare?" Two spears pointed at her, and the soldier named Erqiu shouted.

"We don't want to abandon our ancestors, and we are forced to surrender to the Tartars. The generals have descended, what can we ordinary military households do? The woman did not mean to resist, but explained that she leaned towards her man.

Xiaoqi and Erqiu and several other officers and soldiers looked at her in confusion, not knowing what she wanted to see.

With a "click", the scissors twisted the thin rattail braid on the man's head, and the woman put the scissors still on the ground, silently retreating into the crowd and hugging her daughter.

Another woman came up, picked up scissors from the ground, and cut the braids on her man's head. Soon, the ground was covered with braids.

Yingzheng Liang Jing watched this scene silently, the muscles on his face twitched, and the original hatred for these people who surrendered to the enemy was unconsciously reduced a lot.

Many soldiers watched this scene, and one by one they also sighed, so the next movements were much gentler.

"Tell them that as long as they are honest and obedient, as long as they are willing to be the people of the Ming Dynasty again, they will ensure that all of them will have no worries!" Liang Jing commanded, and one of his soldiers promised to run towards the city.

"Yingzheng, this is the third fortress we have captured, what should we do next?" The camp commander asked with a grin.

The magistrate is in charge of military discipline rewards and punishments, and although his status in the army is lower than that of the battalion, he is directly under the jurisdiction of the battalion department, and is the first person below the battalion.

"Send 500 soldiers to escort the women and children to the beach and get on the boat to Juehua Island, untie these captured men, organize them, and then they will do the work of digging up the city! Let's rest in this fortress for the night, and tomorrow we will attack Shahe Fort! After thinking about it carefully, Liang Jing said.

The magistrate was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "With a wife and children as hostages in our hands, these captured men don't dare to play tricks, Liang Yingzheng is really smart!" ”

In Ningyuan City, listening to the loud explosion faintly coming from afar, and then watching the people of the brigade walking towards the sea under the escort of the Ming army. How did the civil and military officials in Ningyuan City not know what was happening, that is, the fortresses of villages outside the city were breached.

"What is the Ming army doing to arrest the people? If you rob the food wealth, you have to spend food to keep it back. Zhixian Ma Dayuan was puzzled.

Ma Dayuan couldn't understand the intentions of the Ming army, but the guerrilla general Meng Yong guessed a few points and sighed: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid that the Ming army is going to coerce the people to attack Ningyuan City." ”

"What?" Ma Dayuan was shocked.

"The people outside the city and the soldiers and civilians in the city are all military households of Ningyuan's generation, and they have something to do with each other, either they were friends in the army or have a relationship with relatives, if the Ming army forces the people they captured to attack Ningyuan City, Lord County, think about it, are the soldiers and civilians defending the city in Ningyuan still willing to shoot arrows under the city?" Meng Yong sighed.

"How can the Ming army be so despicable?" Ma Dayuan said angrily.

Vile? Meng Yong sighed and said no more. Isn't it more despicable when the Eight Banners soldiers attack the city? At that time, how many people in Shandong were ruined under the prostitution of the Eight Banners, Meng Yong was a native of Shandong, Chongzhen was seven years old when the whole family was swept from Shandong to the outside of the Guan, first as a coat, because of the strength of some martial arts, and later was brought to the battlefield by the master of the Eight Banners as a servant soldier, and it slowly developed after establishing some military merits.

"Ning Yuan definitely can't hold it, he definitely can't hold it." Ma Dayuan muttered, "General Meng, what should we do?" ”

"We can only wait for reinforcements." Meng Yong didn't have a good way, "If the reinforcements from Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan can arrive in time, maybe Ning Yuan will still be saved." ”

"Will there be reinforcements?" Ma Dayuan looked at Meng Yong eagerly.

Meng Yong's lips moved, but he didn't speak, whether there were reinforcements or not only God knows. (https:)

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