Li Chengdong's subordinates include Hu Maozhen's department, and there are only 20,000 people, of which all the archers and firecrackers add up to less than 3,000, how can they be compared with the Ming army? So in the face of the continuous shooting of the Ming army under the city, he fell into a situation where he could not fight back after being beaten.

Occasionally, a brave soldier would shoot a gun down the battlement, and he would immediately have to retract quickly, because the next moment he would be met with a volley of a dozen or so firearms. The Ming army was clearly divided into labor, and a dozen or so firecrackers were responsible for one or two battlements, which was enough to suppress the defenders behind the battlements, which forced the green battalion soldiers and archers to dare not show their heads at all, and could only shoot blindly below.

"The Ming army of the dog day, the firepower is so powerful!" Li Chengdong sneered, "But so what, you can't climb the city wall with these firearms, bows and arrows alone!" ”

"Lord Wang, the Ming army is about to attack the city!" A guard in charge of the lookout shouted.

Li Chengdong hurriedly poked out along the battlement, and then quickly retracted his head, and at this glance, he saw that countless Ming troops were pushing shield carts and ladder carts, pressing towards the city wall. The moat with thick ice could not stop it at all, and the Ming army only set up some planks and easily approached the city wall through the moat.

This is really going to attack! Doesn't Li Yi want to be with Hu Maozhen? Why do we have to adopt such a costly tactic? Didn't he know that such a forcible attack would cost great casualties?

Thinking wildly in his heart, Li Chengdong's mouth issued a series of orders. Under his order, the artillery of the city-head fort finally opened fire, shooting at the tall Lu carts and ladders.

A Lu bus was scattered by a shell, and dozens of Ming soldiers on it fell down screaming.

The green battalion soldiers in the city are also ready, lime bottles, fire oil, and hot water are ready, just waiting for the moment when the Ming army will climb the ladder to attack.

Finally, dozens of ladders were set up at the battlements of the city wall, and there were impatient green battalion soldiers throwing lime bottles down the ladder, and more green battalion soldiers were holding forks, ready to fork the ladder.

A large number of lime bottles were thrown under the city, and there was a burst of coughing sound below, and when the ladder was forked with a fork, it was found that there were some difficulties, and the Ming army set up the ladder just right, and only a short point of the battlement was exposed, and it was not possible to use force at all.

"Don't panic, wait for the Ming army to come up!" Li Chengdong ordered in a deep voice. He knew that only when the Ming army climbed the ladder was the best moment to kill.

However, the attack of the Ming army was not as fierce as imagined, and after waiting for a long time, I did not see the Ming army emerge from the cloud ladder, which made the green battalion soldiers of the Ming army who were holding shields and spears ready to assassinate the outcropping were tired and sore.

The impatient green battalion soldiers risked their lives to stick their heads out of the battlements and looked down, and saw the Ming army gathering beside the cloud ladder under the city, but they had no intention of climbing up.

reported the observed situation to Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand what was going on. Could it be that the Ming army was afraid of death and did not dare to climb the ladder? It's not right, according to his understanding of the Pingnan Army, under Chen Yue's strict training, there are not many soldiers who dare not attack for fear of death.

Just when Li Chengdong was suspicious, suddenly a soldier ran from far away from the West City Gate and reported to Li Chengdong that there were Ming soldiers trying to dig the city wall.

Digging city walls? Could it be that the Ming army wanted to enter under the pretext of digging down the city wall? Li Chengdong thought it was incredible.

Digging down the city wall is a much larger and longer project than the red-coated cannon to break the city!

What's going on with this Li Yi? How did he attack the city with a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, and he didn't know what he wanted to do?

Li Chengdong thought about it carefully, but he really couldn't figure out Li Yi's intentions, and finally could only conclude that Li Yi might be using these means to attract the attention of the defenders and cover for Hu Maozhen.

After thinking about it, Li Chengdong lazily returned to the city tower. Damn, since the Ming army wants to have fun, let's play with them, and when they are exhausted in the afternoon, let Hu Maozhen open the city gate and let them in, just to defeat them in one fell swoop!

However, Li Chengdong didn't sit in the city tower for a while, and suddenly there was a burst of explosions on the city wall outside, which made him jump up in shock, and hurriedly ran out of the city tower to look, and saw that the city wall was in a mess, and many green battalion soldiers fell crookedly in a pool of blood, and there were more screams and ran around, and then dozens of black dots were thrown up from under the city, and as soon as they fell to the city, they exploded, and a large group of fire appeared, and the city head was filled with gunsmoke.

What's going on? Li Chengdong was stunned.

What he didn't know was that when the defenders of the city were lax, relying on the suppression and cover of musketeers and archers, the Ming army quickly climbed up the ladder, stopped when they were almost close to the city wall, and threw the prepared grenades on the city one by one.

A grenade exploded in a radius of several steps, hundreds of grenades were thrown from hundreds of ladders, and the entire section of the city wall was enveloped by the explosion.

In order to deal with the attack of the Ming army, there were many green battalion soldiers gathered in this section of the city wall, and just one round of explosions caused hundreds of casualties among the green battalion soldiers......

Seeing such a tragic scene, Li Chengdong hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched. But round after round of black dots were thrown from below, and the explosions continued. The green battalion soldiers at the head of the city cried and screamed, facing the grenades falling from the sky, the shields in their hands, and the city walls on their sides could not give them enough protection at all, and they screamed one by one and fled to the city walls on both sides, and Li Chengdong's scalp was numb when he saw it.

If the Ming army took advantage of this time to climb and attack, the possibility of attacking the city wall was very large, and the Qing army, which was blown up, would not be able to stop the Ming army's attack at all!

Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and hurriedly sent an order to send more soldiers to prepare for the siege of the Ming army.

However, the explosions gradually stopped, but no Ming army climbed to the top of the city. Li Chengdong ventured to look down the city, and saw that the Ming army had already gone down the ladder and had no intention of attacking.

"Use fire oil to burn all these ladders to Lao Tzu!" Li Chengdong ordered angrily, and at this time, he didn't care about whether he could kill or injure the Ming army!

However, in the explosion just now, a large number of oil pots on the city wall were overturned, hot oil flowed on the ground of the city wall, and fires even ignited in many places.

So some officers hurried to the city to gather more fire oil.

"Lord Wang, is it time for General Hu to dispatch?" A lieutenant suggested in a low voice.

According to the agreement between Hu Maozhen and Li Yi, open the city gate and surrender, introduce the Ming army into the urn city to ambush, and then take advantage of the defeat of the Ming army to attack, which was a strategy formulated in advance.

"Nope! Let Hu Maozhen wait first, I want to see how many tricks the Ming army still has useless! Li Chengdong gritted his teeth and said.