(Recommended reading: The next day, Tieling City withstood a more fierce offensive by the Houjin army, and the new annex army took the lead in the attack under the drive of Li Yongfang, and after two rounds of charges, it suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw from the battlefield to recuperate.

The Eight Banners under the command of Dai Shan and Huang Taiji took over the new annex army, shouting, waving the weapons in their hands and launching a frantic attack on the city wall.

The defending Ming army resisted desperately, in order to cause greater damage to the Eight Banners besieging the city, the beams of many houses in the city were demolished as rolling wooden envoys, once the Tieling City was breached, they either died or became slaves, where is there a home to speak of.

After all, if the home is gone, it can be rebuilt, and if the city is broken, then even life and freedom will be gone.

With the tragic battle between the Eight Banners and the Ming Army defending the city, the corpses of the Eight Banners under the city wall quickly piled up, and the blood flowing from the corpses gathered into a stream, making the Eight Banners soldiers besieging the city make a rattling sound as if they were stepping into a puddle, which sounded quite palpitating.

"Second brother, have you noticed it, the morale of the Ming army defending the city seems to be higher than yesterday, and they are fighting harder." Looking at the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the city wall and were killed and retreated by the Ming army, Huang Taiji, who was watching the battle on the small hill, frowned, and said to Dai Shan beside him.

The sharpest weapon of the Eight Banners is the bow and arrow, because there is more cover for archers on the ground, and the new annex army has consumed a large number of defending equipment of the Ming army defending the city, so it is easier for the Eight Banners to climb the city than the new annex army when attacking the city.

Generally speaking, once the Eight Banners soldiers ascended to the top of the city in batches, they would suppress the Ming army on the city wall with their strong combat effectiveness, causing the Ming army's defense line to collapse.

However, the performance of the defenders on the wall of Tieling City exceeded Huang Taiji's imagination, and it was completely a lifeless way to fight in the face of those Eight Banner soldiers who attacked the city, and some even jumped from the city wall with the Eight Banners in their arms, and they died together, he had never seen the Ming army show such a tenacious side before, as if they had changed an army overnight.

Due to the desperate counterattack of the Ming army, the Eight Banners could not gain a foothold on the city wall even if they attacked the city, and were driven down by the defending Ming army.

"Did these people fall for some kind of demon magic?" Dai Shan also noticed this change in the Ming army defending the city, and looked at Huang Taiji with some astonishment, if this method of play continues, the Eight Banners will cause a lot of casualties.

"Something must have happened." Huang Taiji didn't believe in any demon methods, and said after a deep sigh, this is the only explanation for the transformation of the Ming army defending the city at present.

"No matter what happens to him, according to the current situation, we will be able to capture Tieling in two days at most." Dai Shan sneered when he heard this, and said gloomily, "At that time, I will pick up the skin of Yu Chengfame!" ”

Although the Ming army was tenacious, after all, the enemy was outnumbered, and the difference in strength between the two sides was huge, so it was difficult for the Ming army to hold the city wall, and sooner or later it would be broken by the Eight Banners.

Huang Taiji was not as optimistic as Dai Shan, and the Ming army of Tieling City suddenly became high-spirited, which seemed to him to be extremely abnormal, and there must be something hidden in it that he didn't know.

"Second brother, did you say that the Ming army in Shenyang would come to rescue Tieling?" After pondering for a while, Huang Taiji asked Dai Shan with a serious expression, in his opinion, this was the only hope for the Tieling Ming Army, perhaps the reason for their sudden change.

"Shenyang is short of troops, but it is okay to defend the city, and rush to the aid of Tieling? Forgive them for not having the guts! Dai Shan sneered disdainfully, if it weren't for the thick walls of Shenyang City, then he would definitely lead the army to attack Shenyang City, since the Battle of Salhu, he simply looked down on the Ming army defending Liaodong.

Huang Taiji's brows furrowed again, he naturally knew the situation of the Ming army in Shenyang, but if it wasn't for the Ming army in Shenyang, then why did the defenders of Tieling have such an astonishing change?

Perhaps, only after breaking through the city can he get an answer from the Ming army defending the city.

As night fell, the soldiers of the Eight Banners stopped their attack to rest, and the soldiers of the new annexed army took advantage of the night to carry the corpses under the city.

The Ming army on the city wall also seized this rare time to rest and took the opportunity to eat a hot meal, which did not prevent the soldiers of the new annex army from collecting their bodies.

Due to the hot weather, if the corpses under the city are not cleaned up in time, it will be very fast**, and it is likely to lead to a plague, which is a situation that neither the besieging nor the defending side wants to see.

In addition, the corpses under the city are basically the new annexes and the Eight Banners who are besieging the city, and if they are allowed to fall in a pool of blood, it will have a negative impact on the morale of the new annexes and the Eight Banners, so Huang Taiji and Dai Shan will definitely clean up those corpses.

The city gate tower in the south of Tieling City, Yu Chengming once again convened the military attachés and gentry and celebrities in the city to discuss the matter, after today's fierce battle, several military attaches hung up the color, and the wounds on their bodies were wrapped in thick bandages.

The atmosphere in the room seemed a little dull and depressing, Tieling had never endured such a fierce offensive since the founding of the city, under the offensive of the new annex army and the Eight Banners, the Ming army defending the city suffered more than half of the casualties in just two days, and the arrows were almost shot out, and it would not last long if it continued like this.

"Lord Commander, the enemy is attacking fiercely, and if the governor's reinforcements don't arrive tomorrow, then the city walls are likely to be lost."

In the dreary atmosphere, Shi Ketai took the lead in breaking the silence in the field, looked up at Yu Chengming, and said worriedly, it is foreseeable that the Eight Banners will take a more crazy offensive next.

As soon as these words came out, everyone at the scene looked up at Yu Chengming with a serious expression with concern, and when Li Hongyu could arrive has become a question that they are now urgently concerned about.

The Eight Banners of Houjin were not only numerous but also strong in combat, which gave them a lot of pressure, if it weren't for the strong city defense of Tieling City that restricted the operations of the Eight Banners, then the defenders in the city would have been defeated by the fierce Eight Banners soldiers long ago.

"The governor is in charge of the overall situation, and he will definitely arrive in time." Yu Chengming naturally knew everyone's thoughts, but he couldn't answer this question, so he pondered for a while and said solemnly, "Everyone, now that the war situation is urgent, we can only survive by defending it to the death!" ”

The scene was silent for a moment, to be honest, they didn't expect the Eight Banners to be so fierce, so if the reinforcements of the Ming Army could not arrive in time, then they had to fight hard with those Eight Banners.

After a night's rest, the next morning, Tieling City once again shook the sky.

Under the urging of Huang Taiji and Dai Shan, the Eight Banners launched a fierce offensive, and even captured some city walls for a time, but they were finally defeated by the Ming army who rushed to support, and the battle between the two sides reached a fever pitch.

Yu Chengming knew very well that only by blocking the Eight Banners outside the city could they have a way to live, otherwise once the Eight Banners entered the city, then the Ming army in the city would not be the opponent of the fierce Eight Banners at all.

For this reason, Yu Chengming issued an order to defend the city wall, and when the battle was fierce, he not only sent his own guards, but also led the soldiers to launch a counterattack against the Eight Banners who attacked the city and recaptured the city wall.

After a day of fierce fighting, there were only five or six hundred soldiers left in Tieling City, most of whom were wounded, and even Yu Chengming's arm was stabbed, which made the atmosphere in the city look extremely dull and dignified.

After two days of siege, the Eight Banners also paid three or four thousand casualties, after all, the besieging side had a natural disadvantage, even if they could fight against the strong city wall, they could not use it, and they could not put on their wings and fly over.

Whether it is Yu Chengming or Dai Shan, Huang Taiji, it is very clear that tomorrow will be a very critical day, from the current situation of the Ming army defending the city due to limited strength can no longer carry out a strong counterattack, so as long as the Eight Banners soldiers climb the city wall on a large scale again, then the city wall will be lost, and the Ming army can only retreat to the city to fight street battles.

In this way, the people in the city will undoubtedly suffer, and the Eight Banners who attack the city will definitely take the opportunity to burn and loot.

Moreover, in the case of street fighting, the Ming army will be at a disadvantage, so holding the city wall has become the bottom line of Yu Chengming.

Dai Shan and Huang Taiji have also seen that the Ming army defending the city is showing a declining trend, after all, the main force of the Ming army in Tieling was transferred to participate in Yang Hao's four-way attack, and it was destroyed in the battle of Salhu, and now the defenders of Tieling are mobilized from the military households, and it is quite rare to be able to fight to this point.

After all, Tieling is too close to Shenyang, and the Houjin Army has an absolute advantage in strength, so in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Dai Shan and Huang Taiji convened the generals of the Eight Banners to discuss and let them take Tieling City tomorrow.

Therefore, early the next morning, the Eight Banners lined up outside the southern and western cities, preparing to attack from these two directions at the same time, putting on a posture that was inevitable.

"Lord Commander, it seems that Jiannu wants to take down our Tieling today!" On the tower of the city gate of Nancheng, a military attache glanced at the Eight Banners soldiers gathered together under the city, and said worriedly to Yu Chengming, who was standing in front of him.

"Then it depends on whether they have this life or not!" Yu Chengming's brows furrowed tightly, and when he heard this, he sneered and said, "The reason why the Governor hasn't arrived yet must be that he is dispatching troops, as long as we drag Jiannu here, then the Governor will definitely exterminate them." ”

The military attaché's lips squirmed when he heard this, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't say it, just imagine that Shenyang is so close to Tieling, but until now there are no reinforcements, so it is doubtful whether Li Hongyu mobilized troops to fight a decisive battle with the Houjin army in Tieling.

What is particularly important is that the elite of the Ming army has almost lost in the last battle of Salhu, which gave a great shock to the soldiers of the Ming army in Liaodong, and they involuntarily had a fear of the Houjin army, thinking that the Houjin soldiers were fierce and brave and difficult to resist.

After all, the main force of the Three-Way Ming Army was defeated by the Houjin Army commanded by Nurhachi in just five days, and anyone would be shocked.

As time passed, Li Hongyu's reinforcements were nowhere to be seen, which made the military attache begin to doubt whether Li Hongyu had the strength to fight the Houjin army in his hands, and it would be difficult to mobilize the main force of the Ming army from all over the country in a short period of time.

This was not just his idea, many people in Tieling City began to realize this problem as the battle situation became more and more miserable.

In other words, if Li Hongyu could not mobilize an army with sufficient combat effectiveness to come to Tieling to relieve the siege, then the defenders of Tieling would be trapped and killed in Tieling City.

Of course, although the military attache was suspicious, he couldn't say it, otherwise he would have the suspicion of disturbing the army's heart, and besides, Yu Chengming was only a defender of Tieling, how could he know about Li Hongyu's arrangement, so even if he asked Yu Chengming, he didn't know the situation of the reinforcements.

Therefore, the military attache can only pray secretly now, hoping that Li Hongyu can mobilize troops to relieve the siege of Tieling as Zheng Zhifan said, otherwise Tieling will not be able to hold it at all, and they will only be martyred in the battle.

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