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The siege failed that day, although it was only the first wave of the attack on the hungry people, but Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others still retreated to the camp in shock.

The main thing is that the casualties are too great.

Not to mention the hungry people, the left, center and right wings, the number of hungry people driven by the foot soldiers was 1,78, and then they either died or fled, and in the end only three or four hundred people returned.

Special foot soldiers, three wings to charge the strong soldiers, followed by strong soldiers, the total number of about 1,200 people, 300 internal firearms hands. But less than half of the people who fled back, more than half of the firearms men, and dozens of horsemen.

You must know that Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long came to retaliate with their combined troops, and the total number of foot soldiers was only 4,000, and the horses and steps were combined, and the firearms were only 500 people. You know, this is the first wave.

Although they had many soldiers and horses, they had 2,000 cavalry troops, 4,000 foot soldiers, 4,000 soldiers, and 5,000 hungry people, making a total of 15,000 men and horses.

But it is impossible for the elite cavalry team to be dispatched, these are all elites, no matter who breaks into the camp Cao Ying, they are reluctant to fold the elite soldiers in such a small place. In the past, when Kaifeng and other big cities were attacked, the elite cavalry teams of Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others were almost immobile.

It's not necessary, and the maintenance will not be dispatched, for the rogue, logistics is very important, and when the maintenance is dead, who will make a fire for them, set up camp, and carry supplies? Therefore, those who can be used for attack are 4,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 hungry people.

The terrain on Suining's side, even if the West Gate can be attacked, can only use the tactic of adding oil, and it is not possible to embrace them all, because there are too many people to squeeze in. In this way, after the failure of the first wave of attacks, it became inevitable to retreat to the camp.

On that day, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long had a quarrel, and Wang Lung was inclined to withdraw his troops, believing that this kind of poor country and small place was not easy to fight and leave, and there was no need to lose troops here in vain. There was no oil and water, it was still smelly and hard, so it was better to retreat to another place.

Yuan Zongdi also had this opinion, he didn't advocate fighting Suining in the first place, but when he came, he had seen it, and sure enough, their firearms were very sharp, so that's it.

Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, and know how to deal with the corresponding situation in the future, knowing that there is such an enemy, but the righteous army conquers the city and conquers the city, and goes back and forth from south to north, and does not need to count one or two failures.

Only Li Guo is quite unwilling, their army has been invincible in the past two years, how can they have suffered such a big loss, and they will retreat, how can they be willing?

He decided to fight again!

However, he also knows the situation on the battlefield, the pros and cons of driving away the hungry people, and next time he drives the hungry people as meat shields, I am afraid that they will raise their hands one by one before they go to the low wall and ditch, and rush to surrender.

So he changed his tactics, not to drive the hungry people's families to come forward, but to single out the young and strong among them, and the family members to stay in the camp, and promised that all the young people could be selected into the infantry camp after the war.

In this way, for the sake of the family, these hungry soldiers will definitely fight hard, and the treatment of being selected into the infantry battalion is also quite tempting for them.

In view of the fact that Suining Xiangyong's breech firearms were really fierce and fast, and he was afraid that the hungry people would be exhausted in the middle of the range before they rushed to the wall, Li Guo decided to use the defensive tactics such as the door panel shield car suggested by Sun Youdonkey's "Donkey Master" earlier.

In this way, although their guns are sharp, they are far from penetrating the planks and wooden shields that are several inches thick, and they do not have many artillery, so they should be able to rush to their city with one blow.

Yuan Zongdi finally supported it, and Wang Long also compromised, thinking that such an arrangement could indeed be fought again.

After laying, you can enter Suining City to be happy.

If you can't beat it, you won't hurt your muscles and bones, but you can retreat to other places.

For a time, under the orders of several major sentinels, each battalion was raised in all directions, and under the protection of a team of horses, they collected door panels, cut down trees, and vigorously made shield carts and other armor.

They have been busy for three days, searching dozens of miles around Suining, and found more than a dozen door panels more than eight inches thick, and all the temple gates that can be searched have been demolished by them.

There are even some temple door panels as thick as more than ten inches (thirty or forty centimeters), and the outer room is wrapped in a thick iron sheet, made of very hard wood such as elm, which is very heavy.

There is also a shield cart, so they cut down the trees directly, bundle them together one by one, and become a large shield two steps wide, and install two wheels to become a shield cart.

In order to improve the protection, several layers of logs were bundled together, at least twenty inches thick, obviously Li Guo and others fought.

After all, in the Qing army, their most sophisticated shield car, the front guard and roof are only eight inches thick.

Such a rough shield car, Li Guo and others let the guards make fifty cars, two-wheeled structure.

There are also fifteen cars, similar to a car, with a four-wheel structure, which can be concealed in front and above.

There were also three pointed heads, seven feet high and capable of holding six people, covered with wet cowhides, and used to storm the city gates.

Finally, there are five moat and bridge cars, which are specially used for erecting trenches, without throwing dirt bags and soil, and the moat cars are forced to the front of the moat, and the wooden bridge can be passed.

China's thousands of years of history, all kinds of siege equipment is very rich, Li Guo and other camps to raise 4,000 people, including a large number of craftsmen, is not trivial, they only three days to work, to make so many siege weapons.

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Yang He was always concerned about the movements outside the city, and when the thieves retreated, he ordered to clean up the battlefield and kill as many as 780 thieves.

You must know that these are not the heads of the hungry people, but the head of the pure thief infantry battalion, and just one city defense battle, so many people can be killed, which can be described as another great victory after the ambush battle a few days ago.

Seeing these heads, starting from Gao Qifeng, the magistrate, all the officials, soldiers and civilians were all smiling from ear to ear.

They also rescued more than 600 hungry people, young and old, and women, which was also a feat. According to the approval of the fourth year of Wanli, all border passes, whoever recaptures the captured population to 100 mouths, the general in charge of the garrison, and the garrison is promoted to the first level, and more than 300 mouths are actually awarded the first level, although the hinterland does not have such a high reward, but it is also a meritorious achievement.

In this battle, the casualties of their own side were not high, and the social soldiers followed and went out, and they all made a lot of money by touching their pockets, and the morale of the army and the people was very high.

The sentinel was aware of the movement outside, and it seemed that the thieves were not willing to lose, and were still preparing for a war, especially making a large number of siege equipment.

After capturing some of the guards and torturers, they cut down a large number of trees to make shield carts, all of which were extremely thick, at least twenty inches (sixty-six centimeters) thick.

This news made Gao Qifeng and the others quite worried, after this battle, they were very confident in the firearms under Yang He's command, but no matter how confident they were, the shield car with a thickness of 20 inches might not be able to shoot through.

Yang He also frowned, the breech Xin'an gun under his command, with a range of more than sixty steps and a hundred steps, can penetrate two layers of one inch thick, that is, a total thickness of sixty-six millimeters, and thirty-four steps can penetrate four or five layers.

But it's only fifteen or sixteen centimeters, which is too far from sixty-six centimeters.

Even if you shoot in ten steps, it will only penetrate seven or eight inches, twenty-six or seven centimeters, which is still far behind.

At this distance, the firecrackers are meaningless, no matter how fast they are, they can't be as fast as the bow and arrow, and they will form a serious threat to their own low wall trench defense line!

He sighed in his heart that Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others were worthy of being thieves, and they found a way to deal with it so quickly.

Zhou Mingyuan suggested digging a trench again in front of the low wall trench, digging a few more roads, and blocking the march of their shield carts, Yang He shook his head, this trick is only effective when the two sides are in a field battle, and this city defense battle is just to slow down their marching speed, and it has no real meaning.

"You can only use a cannon."

After discussing with the officials, Yang He finally decided to use artillery, and the 20-inch thick shield car could not block the artillery at a distance of 100 paces, and the five Falcon Cannon type small Franc machines he placed at the West Gate were also the No. 3 Little Wolf Machine, with a bullet weighing five taels, that is, 187 grams.

Some people in the Ming army used the big turtledove foot gun, in fact, they bought or copied the heavy smoothbore guns of the West, claiming to be able to penetrate all shield cars, but the weight of the bullet was only one or two or eight yuan, and it was only 68 grams. The smallest Franc cannon here weighed almost three times as much.

However, the artillery is inaccurate at a long distance, the rate of fire is slightly slow, and the amount is small.

"Abandon the outer earthen wall, the whole army retreats to the polder wall, let the thieves enter the second earthen wall, and let them concentrate within the range of more than thirty paces and concentrate on shooting!"

Yang He made a decision, and he had two earthen walls in the low wall trench outside the city, the first fifty paces from the city, and the second more than thirty paces from the city. Let the thieves enter, crowded within thirty paces of the second earthen wall and the polder wall, and the fire guns slammed into it.

At such a close distance, they are condescending, and if they want to attack the city, they can only get out of the protective range of shield vehicles and the like, and their own sharp artillery can cause damage to them.

Another big victory, Yang He's prestige is unprecedentedly high, and everyone has no objection to the tactics he arranged.

And this is the optimal arrangement, and the rest of them can't think of any good way.

Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, also thinks that it is necessary to transfer the artillery of the remaining ones to the west gate?

This proposal made the chief bookkeeper Zheng Shixin, the county Cheng Liu Zunhe's face changed, they guarded the east gate and the north gate, if the thieves attacked, they had no artillery, how to resist?

Yang He was a little moved, but it was better to think about it.

These places are not easy to fight, you can't gather troops, and the official roads in front of each gate are only two or three steps wide, and even if the thieves push the shield cart, they can only go straight to one side when they come.

But the defenders in these places have little combat power, and the people and strong social soldiers still use bows and arrows, even if the thieves come to attack the number of one or two hundred, and push a shield cart as a cover, I am afraid that the bows and arrows in the city will not be able to do anything against them.

The artillery of the rest of the doors is still there, Yang He is worried about attacking in time, although the West Gate is definitely the main attack of the thieves, but the rest of the gates, maybe they will also feint.

There are six small franc machines in each door, and even if the thieves feint and push the shield cart, their armor can be destroyed.

Everyone discussed the defense carefully, and for the arrangement, Yang He thought that it was unlikely that the thieves would use the method of cloud ladder ant attachment, this tactic had fallen behind as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because the target was too simple.

They come close to the long ladder, and the fork can be overthrown, that is, the long ladder is heavy, the fork is resisted, and then several people work together to collide with the bumper rod, and the opponent's long ladder will inevitably collapse.

However, it is necessary to guard against a large number of fork strikers or to prepare.

For thieves, heavy ladders may be used, and the ladder head will be hooked with a curved iron head to hook the battlement wall, and gold juice will be used, as well as the night of righteousness and the wolf's tooth slap to deal with it.

The thieves are good at using the "release method", especially Li Zicheng and others, every time they attack the city, they will use the hanging building to deal with it, and attack it with a fire pot ash bottle of ten thousand enemies.

The last is the polder, there is no suspension bridge in the four polders of Suining, and the stone bridge is set up to facilitate walking, if they have a pointed head, I am afraid that they can be pushed directly outside the polder, and used to destroy the polder. Even artillery was pushed in and bombarded directly at the polder.

Gao Qifeng and others all thought that it was time to destroy the stone bridges of each gate, especially the stone bridge in front of the west gate, and then set up a horse behind the gate, and a knife cart for the gate.

Yang He thinks that there is no need, this is actually a good opportunity to kill the enemy!

He explained his arrangement, it didn't matter if the thieves smashed the polder, because after ten steps from the hole in the city gate, there would be a thick earthen wall, one zhang high, one zhang thick, and a semicircle, which would be connected to the polder wall in front of it, similar to an urn city.

The earthen wall is so thick that the thieves are not afraid of artillery fire, and the earthen wall is full of rejecting horses, so that they cannot get too close to the end of the wall.

Then they stand behind the earthen wall, a bunker resembles a breastwork, and if the thieves come in, the fire pot ash bottle is thrown desperately into it, and then the fire is shot with a bow and arrow, and they are beaten like a turtle in an urn.

"Such a half-urn city must be set up at each polder, especially on the west gate, which is defended by my baggage team, part of the grenadier team, and part of the social soldiers. Let them in, let them be in this place, and shed their blood! ”

Yang He explained his arrangement, and finally said with a cold gaze.

Gao Qifeng and the others of the county magistrate all took a breath of cold air, and they looked at Yang He, and their hearts were full of chills.

At the same time, I was secretly glad that it was the sorrow of the thieves to have such a person to defend the city, but it was a blessing for the officials and people of Suining.

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Lao Bainiu: Thank you for the 50,000 yuan reward from the 'Come Up Gangsters' book friends, the 10,000 yuan reward from the 'Guanzhong Mengjiang' book friends, and the 'Secretary of the Party Committee of the Meilijian Special Administrative Region' and other book friends for their tips and votes. In the past two days, I've been thinking about a writing technique, narration and events, which should help advance the development of the plot.