Although the Jin army did not retreat, the black pressure of the arrow rain continued to pour on the fort wall, although the rate of fire of the two Hongyi cannons was extremely slow, but more than a dozen pounds of guns hit the fort wall into bricks and stones, and the light leather cannons were also pushed forward to shoot at close range, the gap became bigger and bigger, a large number of Jin soldiers took advantage of the situation to rush up, set up more cloud ladders, and climbed up one after another, Ren Shouzhong continued to fill the gap with his troops, and pressed the Jin army under the city, and the casualties of the Fengzhou army were even more tragic.

"Use the chain bullet, this is specially used to hit the ladder." Chen Shishi ran into the corner tower with a few boxes with his ironworks men, and loaded the gun loaded with chain bullets into the barrel.

With the sound of two cannons, two chain bullets were deployed in the air, and the big ball flew to the two ladders with iron chains, and the Tessie people used this sharp weapon to tear the sails of the opponent's ships in naval battles, and the clever Toyoshu craftsmen had the ingenuity to use it to attack the ladders, and today was the first time it was used in actual combat.

In the confusion of the Jin army, a chain bullet accurately hit the ladder, the ladder and the unlucky egg on it were entangled in the iron chain and twisted into two sections, the Jin soldiers were so frightened that they threw away the ladder and ran, and the other chain bullet missed, flying into the archers, followed by a series of screams, and three or four archers fell to the ground in pieces.

"Okay, this thing can hit the ladder, and the effect of hitting people is even better, keep fighting, kill these dogs!" Chen Shishi clapped his hands in surprise.

The men of the ironworks shouted excitedly, and distributed the chain bullets to the various gun positions, and the Jin army soon suffered, and this strange thing roared and flew towards them, and was drawn like a whip, and the ladder was broken by the waist four or five parts, and the people suffered even worse, all of them were whipped to pieces, and a whip went down in pieces. It's too scary, this is more ruthless than a waist cut, Jin Bing listened to the heart-rending screams, all of them were terrified, and involuntarily retreated backwards, at this moment, there was a continuous explosion behind them - the leather cannon could not withstand the continuous firing, and finally began to explode, and then the fire gun was also infected, and the fire gun hand was blown up and screamed, this time the Jin army could no longer hold his breath, turned his head and ran backwards.

"You can't blame me for this, the leather cannon is easy to explode after twenty hits, I told you, no matter how good the goods are, they can't stand the blind toss" Chen Shishi watched Jin Bing run away with sympathy.

"The leather cannon stops firing," Zhou Yuji was directing the soldiers to hurry up to fill the gap, and when he heard this, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said to Chen Shishi, "Old Chen, are you here with a new cannon barrel?" Hurry up and put it on for me. ”

The sky began to darken, the offensive and defensive battle still did not stop, the Jin army had to rush time, although the attack on the gap was greatly slowed down, but taking advantage of the divergence of the attention of the Fengzhou army, the ground in front of the fort was cleared, the formation wall was pushed to the side of the fort wall as much as possible, and the Fengzhou army was shot with firecrackers and bows and arrows. Under the cover of the array wall, some outlaws rushed to the root of the city with light carts, quickly set up a thick roof, and began to dig desperately at the foot of the wall - this is the old method of the Jin army to attack the city, and there are miners in Liaodong who do not want to die, and these guys have the ability to dig down the city wall that has fallen into disrepair.

Fengzhou's iron-smelting and iron-making capacity far exceeds that of Jinguo, with the help of water turbine rolling, a whole piece of large, thin and strong iron sheet can be made, the key parts of the formation wall are equipped with this iron sheet, including the hub is also wrapped with wear-resistant iron sheet, and the spokes are also supported by iron bars, but sold to Jinguo after modification, the front of the shield is inlaid with broken iron sheets, and the wheels are also changed to wooden wheels with riveted iron nails, which can barely be used, but the maneuverability and defense ability are much worse. The Jin army didn't care when they were used to living a poor life, as long as it was better than their broken car, not only did they dare to fight against the Fengzhou army when they pushed it up, but they also removed the shield of the formation wall to build a roof, just so that they could hide below and tear down the wall and dig holes. This hand is also relatively effective, bows and arrows, infantry and even hand-thrown thunder are helpless against the thick shield, the newly equipped lifting gun can hit one or two heavy irons, can penetrate the formation wall, but the number is too small, the Jin army is not afraid, carry the dead and wounded aside, and the others will continue to do it. The Fengzhou army was a little helpless against the Jin soldiers under the fort wall, Zhou Yuji hesitated for a long time, and finally transferred a team from each of the two gate forts in the east and west where the fighting was relatively relaxed to support the front.

Ren Shouzhong was still fighting the fortress wall, cursing Xinghe Iron Works while raising the gun to shoot, this gun made a hole in the opposite wall, but the Jin soldiers still hid behind and resisted, he threw away the gun in anger and shouted: "Put the gun mount at the battlement and shoot down, and the others throw torches down and burn those ground rats." ”

More than a dozen torches were thrown, but they rolled down the slope of the roof to the ground, which had no effect on the golden soldiers, and the gunners carried the leather cannons downward, and the first cannon knocked a corner of the array wall, and the arrows and guns of the golden soldiers came immediately, and the two gunners fell together with their cannons.

"Just hit it like this, and if you have another shot, I don't believe you can't smash it!" Ren Shouzhong waved his hand and shouted, and two more gunners carried leather cannons to the battlements, and then there was a muffled sound, the fortress wall was filled with smoke, and the gunners covered in fire howled and rolled on the ground, and the disemboweled cannon did not fly far before falling headlong.

"Stupid, who told you to load the gunpowder in the warehouse of the monolithic fort, that kind of adult old goods are damp and clumpy, and there is a fart," Ren Shouzhong came over angrily and scolded, casually threw out a barrel of gunpowder, as soon as the words fell under the fort, there was a violent explosion and the heart-rending screams of the golden soldiers, he lay on the battlement and glanced out, turned around and shouted to the soldier, "See if you understand, if you want to use it, you have to learn from me." ”

When the excitement of the soldiers became up, they threw buckets of old adult goods to the heads of the golden soldiers under the fort wall, and then one after another torches were also thrown, the explosions sounded continuously, and the golden soldiers who were still digging the foot of the wall were covered in fire, screaming and fleeing for their lives, the bows and arrows of the Fengzhou soldiers and the fire guns continued to knock them to the ground, and several leather cannons and the camp guns in the corner towers on both sides also took the opportunity to exert their strength, destroying five walls in a row, the Jin army really couldn't stand it, and fled backwards in a chaotic manner, and no one dared to dig the foot of the wall anymore.

Dolgon did his best, from morning to night, but lost his troops and lost his troops in vain, and couldn't help but scold Yue Tuo and Hauge, the two bastard nephews, these two guys didn't seem to make any noise today, and sent someone to urge them to get a reply saying that they had a way to break the fort, let Dolgon fight his own, and leave them alone. Dolgon remembered Azig and Duoduo again, or a mother's brother, everyone else can't be trusted, especially Hauge and Yue Tuo have never taken me seriously, you don't fight well, then I will also mix up time, anyway, the main purpose of this western expedition is not to fight, so the north of Dushikou is lively and lively, but there is no danger.

Yue Tuo and Haoge really didn't work hard today, but it's not good to blame them, the east and west gate forts are adjacent to the mountain, the terrain is narrow and rugged, and the troops can't be placed at all, and there are rivers outside, there are urn cities inside, the fortress wall is as high as three feet and five feet, and there are two gatehouses in the north and south that can condescendingly cast guns, and the artillery and array walls brought by the Jin army are in the hands of Dolgon, they only have cloud ladders and fire guns, and they can only look away in the face of the tall fortress wall. Haoge was still more serious in attacking Ximen Fort, so he led people across the river to bluff, and used firearms, bows and arrows to stop and stop with the Fengzhou army on the fort, but the thunder and rain on the side of Dongmen Fort were small, and Yue Tuo still had the leisure to come to him.

"How are you playing at Fort Eastgate? Anyway, I don't have an idea, I can't attack it at all if I don't collapse the fortress wall, but it's not easy to put artillery here. Haug said, shaking his head.

"If you can't attack it, you won't attack, I only sent two or three hundred people to harass it, and the others are hiding behind the mountain to sleep and rest," Yue Tuo smiled and waved his hand, and said to Haoge in a low voice, "We each have five Kabush soldiers, these minions are being used, and when it gets dark, you will come to me quietly......"

"I see, if you have an idea, let Dolgon go blindly." Hauge thought for a moment, hugged Yue Tuo and laughed.

Dongmen Fort, the north side of the wind is on fire, but it is quiet here, the sentry rubbed his eyes and looked at the outside of the fort in the dark - the golden soldiers shouted outside the fort for a whole day, and withdrew as soon as it was dark, if they want to take the fort, they will dream, such a high city wall makes them unable to climb up the ladder, it seems that this military exploit will be snatched away by the outpost and the outpost.

The sentry didn't expect that at this time, there were a few golden soldiers under his feet, climbing up little by little - the Kabush Virtuous Soldiers, the king of soldiers in the white-armored Bayala soldiers, the elite of the elite, all of them were strong and strong, the arrows were extremely accurate, and the perennial training between the white mountains and black waters almost all practiced the stunt of climbing the rock and walking the wall, a high wall was nothing, a few homemade simple tools helped them quietly climb the fortress wall, and the sentry was twisted off his neck before he could react. Then, five Kabush soldiers took control of the wall, threw down ropes and pulled up the elite of the golden soldiers hidden below, and the other five rushed to the nearest north gate.

As soon as the five Kabush soldiers approached the north gate, they were discovered—their accents were too easily exposed, and several of the Fengzhou soldiers guarding the gate sounded the cry for help before they fell, and the Fengzhou soldiers woke up from their dreams and brandished their swords and spears up the fort wall. The sentry commander led a team of people to quickly support the north gate, the Kabush soldiers calmly faced the battle, even the bead arrows were shot, more than a dozen Fengzhou soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, even the sentry commander was also pierced by an arrow, the Fengzhou soldiers were arrogant and accustomed, how could there be the consciousness of suffering in vain, screaming and pounced on the life, the Kabush soldiers were surrounded by regiments, no matter how brave they were, they could not deal with the group beating, and they also blew the trumpet for help in the panic. Five companions on the fort wall and a group of golden soldiers were killed, twenty or thirty Fengzhou soldiers could not deal with this group of soldiers, after more than half of the casualties, they withdrew into the north gate tower to continue to resist, and the Kabush soldiers also paid the price of three dead and two seriously wounded.

The golden soldiers had a chance to approach the north gate, but they were disappointed - the fort gate had been blocked, not only fell the iron gate, but the door hole was also stuffed with bricks and stones, at the same time hundreds of gold soldiers climbed the fort wall, and the defenders of the east gate fort also had two teams to the north gate reinforcements, both sides are elite people who have experienced the war, and there is also a blood courage on their bodies, without hesitation to bump into each other to start hand-to-hand combat, no one can see who in the dark, and they all shouted loudly and raised their knives to slash indiscriminately, and the fort wall of the east gate fort and the urn city fell into chaos, shouting and killing, The screams were incessant.

More and more golden soldiers climbed into the fort to join the war group, the Fengzhou soldiers gradually became a little overwhelmed, and the remnants retreated to the north gate tower step by step, at this time the horn of the Fengzhou army sounded for a long time, and reinforcements arrived - Zhou Yuji was surprised when he heard the cry for help, and he couldn't care about the enemy head-on, gritted his teeth and pulled out the four teams of the outpost to reinforce, and on the way he happened to meet the deputy battalion officer Ding Chenglu, who was responsible for the defense of the fort, and a team of soldiers, and more than 200 people killed together to the East Gate Fort.

"The front team of the middle outpost is guarding the south gate, the left team is guarding the inner fort gate, and the others are rushing with me!" Ding Chenglu shouted with a knife, led three teams to climb the fort wall, and several personal soldiers threw hand thunderbolts, killing the Jin soldiers together by the light of the explosion.

There are too many golden soldiers, and they can't be killed, and the people below are still climbing up, Ding Chenglu is caught in a melee, and the soldiers around him are fighting less and less, and it is impossible for the Fengzhou army to hold the north gate, Ding Chenglu is covered in blood, and after slashing a golden soldier with a knife, he shouted hoarsely: "Can't hold it, put the arrow, and all retreat." ”

Three red trumpet arrows exploded in the air, and the remnants of the Fengzhou army retreated while fighting, but Ding Chenglu and a dozen soldiers at the front could no longer retreat, and the Jin soldiers surrounded them. I can't go back, just exchange my life for my life, Ding Chenglu slashed with Jin Bing with red eyes, the Fengzhou soldiers fought too fiercely, but the Jin soldiers had to retreat, and a Kabush soldier roared angrily and rushed up, killing three Fengzhou soldiers in a row, and kicked Ding Chenglu to the ground. The big knife was about to be cut down, Ding Chenglu did not dodge or dodge, sneered and stabbed a broken spear at the enemy in front of him, "Go to death" - the broken spear stabbed into the stomach of the Kabush virtuous soldier, and then the knife flashed, and Ding Chenglu's head flew.

Ding Chenglu, a Weiren of Guangning, Liaodong, has been in the army since he was a child, defeated all the way from Liaodong to Liaoxi, and then transferred to Beijing as a general, suffering from having no way to serve the country, and defected to Fengzhou with Zhou Yuji, Jin Guoding and others, dreaming of one day returning to his hometown, but today he spilled his blood on the land of Monan, thousands of miles away from his hometown.

The north gatehouse was also crumbling under the attack of the Jin soldiers, and Sun Tianqing, the captain of the front team covered in blood, rushed into the gatehouse, picked up the deputy sentry who was lying on the ground and shouted, "I can't stop it, Shangguan has ordered a retreat, climb on my back, let's go together." ”

"Forget it, with our dozen wounded numbers, everyone can't go, you go down the rope, this is a military order, execute it immediately," the deputy sentry commander pushed Sun Tianqing away and replied lightly, Sun Tianqing glanced at the injured dozen brothers, the brothers were smiling at him, he hesitated for a moment and stomped his feet and shouted "go", the brothers who could walk gave a military salute together, and then they were about to leave, the deputy sentry commander shouted again, "Tianqing, you are the only officer left in our right outpost, take our team well, and let everyone know that there is no one in our right outpost." ”

Sun Tianqing left, and the deputy sentry raised a torch, smiled and smoked a few puffs, and then shouted, "Brothers, go home!" Torches were thrown at several barrels of gunpowder piled together, and after a loud bang, the North Gate Tower was engulfed in flames.

After a night of fierce fighting, the Jin army took the north gate of Dongmen Fort and the urn city, while the Fengzhou army also held the inner fort gate and the south gate, both sides were exhausted and stopped fighting after daybreak. The situation of the Jin army was even more awkward, on the surface it had an advantage, but the burned north gate tower completely buried the fort gate, and the brigade of men and horses and siege equipment could not enter, so it had to send a large number of people to dig up the fort gate, so it had to delay time.

Outside the north gate, Haoge and Yue Tuo stood side by side, looking at the north gate where people were digging, Haoge said bitterly: "This kind of battle can no longer be fought, nearly two hundred people died in one night, and only three of the ten Kabush soldiers came back, that is one in a hundred elites, although the people they died are similar, but we suffered a big loss." ”

"If you want to fight, you can't fight, the reinforcements of Elu and Aita will definitely arrive," Yue Tuo shook his head, pointed to the fort and sighed, "Elu's soldiers are not the Ming army, they are all iron-blooded men outside the border like us, so let someone bury them." ”

In the corner tower of the north fort wall, Zhou Yuji observed the movements of the Jin soldiers with clairvoyance, while listening to Ren Shouzhong's report, last night was lucky, the Jin army outside the fort fought for a while, but did not take the opportunity to attack the fort - ran thousands of miles, just arrived and fought a day of fierce battles, no matter how tough the Jin soldiers were, they were flesh and blood, they were too tired to fight.

"We only have less than 600 people left, and Ding Chenglu was also killed, so we only fought for a day and night, and the combat strength of the Jin army exceeded our estimates." Ren Shouzhong said with a sad face.

"We are too trusted, we think that the Jin army is weak, I now understand how stupid it is for the imperial court to build a fort in Guanning Jin, as long as the Jin army is willing to pay the price, it can break through any Ming city, they want to drain the blood of the Ming Dynasty, Guan Ningjin fattened the Jin army, and also fattened the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty, but it will drag the Ming down until the last breath." Zhou Yuji suddenly became excited as he spoke.

Ren Shouzhong frowned and said: "Old Zhou, why can't you let go of this heart disease, Mingguo is Mingguo, Fengzhou is Fengzhou, their life or death is none of our business, now let's think about what we should do, right?" ”

Zhou Yuji sighed, lowered his head and thought for a while and said: "Our reinforcements may have arrived nearby, immediately send someone to ask them for help, you personally lead people to defend Ximen Fort, transfer the grain, grass, and ordnance there, we will hold on for another day, and then all withdraw to Ximen Fort to defend it, and all other places will be thrown to the Jin army." ”

"That's all there is to it." Ren Shouzhong nodded and went out.

Zhou Yuji made the worst plan, but the situation of the Jin army was even worse, that night came an urgent report from Sakhalian, a large number of Fengzhou troops were pouring towards Dushikou, his troops were too small to resist, asked for immediate support, Yue Tuo, Haoge did not say a word, left Dushikou to Dolgon, and rushed to meet Sakhalian overnight.

Dolgon received a hot job, he still had 3,000 people, and there was no shortage of troops, but the opponent hid in Ximen Fort in a flash, and the density of the defensive force suddenly increased, and he couldn't hold on to the high wall, Dolgon has been grinding with Zhou Yuji since then, until the Jin army retreated, he did not board Ximen Fort.