The outer walls of Zhaoqing City were solid, all made of huge strips of stone, and the power of the six-pounder cannon was limited, and there was not much substantial damage to the city wall. The pen &www.biquge.info amp; fun & pavilion can only cause a certain amount of damage to the Qing army at the head of the city, suppress the firepower, and destroy some of the Qing army's defense facilities and city defense equipment, such as the female wall, the wolf's tooth beat, the yaksha beat, etc.

Three rounds of shelling passed, "Boom! Boom! Boom! ......" The drum beat changed again, and with the roar of the big drum, more than 1,000 crossbows and bird gunners who had already been arranged behind the phalanx suddenly launched and poured arrow rain and lead on the head of Zhaoqing City.

At the same time, the infantry of the Ming army was in a group of several people, two people held rattan cards, held waist knives to guard in front, four people pushed the trench cart full of sandbags, rushed to the moat, threw all the sandbags on the car into the river, and then returned the same way, continued to fill the bags, in this process, the Qing army will also shoot some arrows sporadically, lead, most of which are blocked by the rattan card of the knife hand.

Under the continuous attack of artillery and crossbows, the Qing army at the head of the city was fiercely suppressed, almost unable to show its head, and lost its long-range ability to attack, so it could only watch the Ming army throw sandbags into the moat little by little, and so on, after more than two hours, the Ming soldiers successfully filled in several sections of the moat, forming several passages that can accommodate many people to travel.

They crossed the moat, continued to push the battle line forward, hundreds of sword and shield soldiers charged forward, with waist knives to sweep the antlers, reject horses, and buried in the ground thistle, for the back of the siege equipment to open the way, at this time, they are already very close to the city wall, the counterattack suffered by the sudden fierce, many Qing troops at the head of the city risked death to the city to fire arrows, firearms, many sword and shield hands can not defend, arrows, bullets fell to the ground.

The closer to the root of the wall, the greater the casualties, fortunately, Zhu Youlang did not plan to attack the city with the method of ant attachment, just wanted to clear a few passages, this casualty was still bearable, with absolute fire suppression, the sword and shield soldiers cleaned up quickly, and it took less than half a day to clean up under the wall.

The Qing army at the head of the city was looking for a gap to shoot, while desperately throwing stones to the city, and the huge stones smashed on the rattan cards of the Ming army, and suddenly there was a dull crashing sound, and some sergeants were smashed into meat cakes with shields.

Zhu Youlang rode a horse and stood under the banner of the Chinese army, with a trace of pain on his face, each of those sergeants was his baby bump, and it was a pity to die, but he also knew that there were no immortals in a war, especially if he attacked and captured the city, it was not a matter if he did not lose two or three percent of his troops, of course, he would not use this kind of hard tactics until he had to do so.

After the Ming soldiers cleared out several passages leading directly to the root of the wall, Zhu Youlang did not rush to the city, but ordered the troops to return to the camp. This kind of action made Du Yonghe, who thought that the Ming army would be attached to the ants along the passage, was confused, and the second monk was a little confused, but his vigilance was not reduced at all, and the moat and antler array under the city were broken, and the danger was not only not lifted, but more urgent, until the Ming army returned to the camp, still staring at the city.

The day's fierce fighting was over, and the city was in shambles, littered with rubble, moat-filled wagons, cracked rattan signs, sandbags scattered on the ground, and grass and trees blackened by gunsmoke, arrows stuck in the yellow ground, and huge pits after cannonballs had been plowed over......

The wounded soldiers and corpses of the Ming army were snatched back, and only some corpses of the Qing army that had fallen from the city were left on the battlefield, and the blood penetrated into the yellow earth, dyed a black and brown, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

Under the city is so, the head of the city is the place where the artillery of the Ming army focuses on taking care of, the situation is even worse, the female wall around is full of gaps in the artillery, many places even the bricks and tiles have collapsed, the city gate building in the south city has unfortunately suffered a few shots, the wooden frame is scattered, the broken stone tiles are scattered everywhere, there are still a lot of stumps and broken arms and wounded soldiers, there are few shells, almost all of them are killed and injured by the scattered brick and stone fragments, the head of the city is full of blood, a wail, the soldiers have been passively beaten, and the general morale is low. Chen Zhiji, the prefect of Zhaoqing, had rarely seen such a tragic situation in his life, and he was already so frightened that his face was like a blank sheet of paper, and he stared blankly ahead, not knowing what he was thinking.

The sun sets and night falls.

Although the Ming army did not launch another offensive after retreating, from nightfall, every half hour, hundreds of Ming troops would run to the city to beat gongs and drums, shouting and shouting.

Chen Zhiji, the prefect of Zhaoqing, was a civil official, who did not know the battle array, and was quite puzzled by the behavior of the Ming army, he looked at Du Yonghe in confusion, and Du Yonghe explained: "This is the tired plan of the thief army!" It seems that the puppet emperor still knows some art of war, but the general underestimated him! ”

The strategy of exhausting the army is a trick, knowing that the enemy is doing this to make you tired, but you can't help but mention the spirit and be careful, because once you are negligent, maybe the enemy will turn from virtual to real, and really attack, and then everything will be closed.

So Du Yonghe didn't dare to go down to the city to rest easily, he pillowed his waist knife, put on a jacket and slept in the city, he was awakened more than a dozen times in one night, he told his own soldiers, must be vigilant and careful, take shifts, observe the movement under the city, and never slack off.

After more than half an hour, his eyelids were too heavy, and he was about to fall asleep, when suddenly his body was pushed a few times, and he woke up suddenly.

Seeing that it was the personal soldiers who were assigned to guard him, he hurriedly said vigilantly: "Is there anything outside the city?" ”

The soldiers arched their hands and said: "Report to the general, the Ming army seems to be digging tunnels!" ”

"Digging tunnels? In which city? ”

"The southeast corner of the city."

"Hurry up and take Ben to check it out!"

Before the battle, Du Yonghe buried more than a dozen large vats under the four city walls in advance, and specially left more than a dozen cronies and soldiers on duty to monitor and monitor, mainly to listen and judge whether the enemy had secretly dug tunnels.

He arrived at the southeast corner, and after listening to the vat himself, he judged that there was indeed the sound of digging tunnels outside the city, and the echo of the vat was very loud, and he did not expect that a precautionary move would come in handy, and he was shocked and rejoiced.

He smiled contemptuously and said: "The puppet emperor still wants to secretly dig tunnels to attack the city, is it really that I Du someone eats dry rice?" They are really poor in donkey skills, dig it, let them dig as much as they want, and see how Ben will break this tunnel technique by then! ”

"The general is wise! When the time comes, we will take revenge on those brothers who were killed during the day! "As soon as the soldiers thought of the scene in the daytime, they were angry and aggrieved, since they followed Li Dashuai to the Qing Dynasty, all the way south, they have pulled out countless cities, they have never been the only ones who abused the Ming army, when did they shrink in the city and be abused by the Ming army? This revenge must be avenged!