Surrounding the three queyi, Hao Shaoqi set up three big villages outside the east, west and north gates of Chongyang, and only vacated the south gate, leaving a way for the Ming army to escape to the city.

This is the advantage of the superiority of troops, Hao Shaoqi 15,000 men and horses, can put 5,000 people in each big village, from the east, west, north three directions at the same time to attack, these three directions do not matter which is the main attack, which is a feint, can be changed at any time according to the battlefield situation, so that the defenders take care of one and lose the other.

However, Hao Shaoqi still focused on it and placed the direction of the main attack at the north gate. Chongyang, like most cities, has an east-west rectangle in the shape of the county seat, and breaking through from the north gate is conducive to the rapid deployment of troops, dividing the defenders into two halves, and also helping to seize the granary as soon as possible, so as not to set fire to the defenders before they flee.

On a very ordinary morning, rows of wooden donkey carts suddenly appeared in the early morning mist, and the offensive and defensive battle of Chongyang began without warning.

A cannon sounded, the drums and trumpets sounded, and the Dashun army rushed out of the camp, lined up a thousand paces in front of the city wall, and blocked the road right in front of the city gate. The rattan soldiers are in the front, the pikemen are in the center, and the archers are in the back, and the horse repellents are placed in front of the formation to prevent the Ming army from charging into battle.

Their task was to cover the besieging troops and prevent the defenders from going out of the city to attack and harass, and it was the wooden donkey carts that really sang the leading role today.

The wooden donkey cart, which was actually a modified chicken cart, was propelled forward by a soldier, with a guard made of tough bamboo, covered with thick wet mud to resist arrows, birds, and rockets, and loaded with sacks full of dirt to fill in the moats and outer moats.

With Hao Shaoqi's order, more than 200 wooden donkey carts pushed forward together, making a creaking noise.

"Spread out, spread out more! A row of twenty wooden donkeys, others following behind, beware of the stone cannons......"

Commanders rode back and forth, with a troop of cavalry following the wooden donkey carts, tasked with protecting the sluggish siege engines and guiding the soldiers pushing the carts behind the guards.

Five hundred, three hundred, one hundred paces ...... from the city wall, gradually approaching the outer moat, the stone cannons on the city began to shoot, one after another stone bullets whistled, and then the wooden donkey cart entered the range of the bow and arrow, only to hear the sound of tuk tuk on the guard, and was constantly hit by arrows.

Stone cannon, in fact, is a catapult, this thing is not small, but the structure is complex, the operation is not easy, basically there is no accuracy, whether you can hit the target depends on luck. The wooden donkey carts of the Dashun army were very loose between them, and the stone cannons in the city continued one after another, but they never hit the wooden donkey carts.

Finally, a wooden donkey cart was rubbed by a stone bullet that jumped up, and the watermelon-sized stone bullet carried a huge kinetic energy, although it was bounced off by the tough bamboo guard, the wooden donkey cart was suddenly crooked, revealing the soldiers behind the guard, "poof, poof......" Several feather arrows were shot, and the soldier of the Dashun army fell to the ground with arrows.

Without the "driver", the wooden donkey cart fell to the ground with a bang, and it was so twisted that it could not be used, and the wooden donkey cart that followed behind silently bypassed it and continued to approach the outer trench.

The first, second, third ......, more and more wooden donkey carts threw the sacks into the outer trenches, this process inevitably had to show their hands and feet, the most dangerous, the feather arrows on the city were more dense, from time to time there were soldiers of the Dashun army who were injured by arrows, several wooden donkey carts fell to the ground, but the vast majority of them were safe and sound, and pulled the cart and slowly retreated back.

Hao Shaoqi watched the battle in front of the formation, with a smile on his face.

The carefully prepared siege equipment finally showed its effect, throwing down more than a thousand sacks, and only six wooden donkey carts were lost, a figure that was completely acceptable, and if people rushed up with sacks on their backs, the casualties would be ten or twenty times more......

At this rate, a few more trips will fill in most of the outer trenches and create a few wide passages to clear the way for tomorrow's attack.

"Let the brethren rest and go up again, it doesn't matter if you slow down, try to be careful, don't fucking die in vain......"

There are no immortals in the war, Hao Shaoqi does not feel sorry for the casualties, but he feels sorry for the damaged wooden donkey carts, in order to win this battle, he almost collected all the chicken buses around Puqi, and if he lost one, he would lose one. Breaking through the outer trench is only the first step, and there are antler arrays, plum blossom piles, and moats behind them...... Even the Chongyang city wall has to rely on wooden donkey carts to charge into battle, so it must be spared.

For a whole day, the Dashun army launched an attack on the eastern, western, and northern gates of Chongyang at the same time, and successfully filled most of the outer trenches with few casualties. The Ming army in the city, however, seemed helpless, and did not make any moves other than to counterattack with stone cannons and bows and arrows.

The next day, Hao Shaoqi intensified his attack on the North Gate.

The number of wooden donkey carts increased to three hundred, and together they attacked, and in the midst of them appeared several large and bulky bridge carts, with flying bridges made of bamboo planks and wooden planks, which could be built on top of the trenches to form passages.

"Bang, bang, bang......" The bulky bamboo raft flying bridge fell and was erected on the opposite bank of the outer trench, and with most of the outer trenches that had been filled in, this obstacle was completely cleared.

Behind the outer moat, there is a dense array of antlers and plum blossom piles, the effect of the antler array is similar to barbed wire, the plum blossom piles are made of short and thick wooden piles, exposed to the ground two feet high, used to block all kinds of siege equipment, if you send the rattan players to go up and cut slowly with knives and axes, under the blow of various weapons on the city wall, there will definitely be heavy casualties.

However, the Dashun army has already had a countermeasure.

The wooden donkey cart rushed up and poured the sacks full of dirt directly on the antlers and plum blossom piles, not to clear the obstacles, but to lay a passage on them!

The distance to the city wall was getting closer, the wooden donkey carts were becoming denser, the stone cannons and bows and arrows on the city were more fierce than yesterday, and the casualties of the Dashun army were increasing.

But this situation was already expected by them, and the Dashun army did not retreat in panic, but continued to move forward calmly, a wooden donkey cart was destroyed, more wooden donkey carts followed, and several sack-paved roads slowly advanced towards the moat.

The archers of the Dashun army also came to support, and stood in a sparse line near the outer trench, firing back at the city wall, dodging the stone projectiles fired by the stone cannons, and a group of rattan players followed behind the wooden donkey cart, and if the "driver" was wounded by an arrow, he immediately took over.

Flying stones, arrows, casualties, screams, wooden donkey carts shuttling back and forth, throwing down sacks one after another, the passage that kept moving forward ......, and a day passed.

In the evening, Hao Shaoqi transferred several new forces, replaced the troops during the day, rested, and the wooden donkey cart did not rest, and continued to fight at night. Fighting until the third watch, Hao Shaoqi finally ordered a temporary rest, these wooden donkey carts are modified in a hurry, not only to transport a large number of sacks of earth and stones, but also equipped with heavy guards, a lot of damage in a day, need to be repaired.

However, he placed an elite army in front of the city wall to guard the passage that was finally paved, which was necessary, otherwise the Ming army would go out of the city at night to sabotage, and all the fruits of the Dashun army's hard work for a day would be destroyed.

The torches were lit in the night, and the city and the city were filled with the fatigue of hard fighting, Wang Kefan had just taken off his helmet, and Lu Renqing hurriedly walked over.

"Brother Yuntai, this battle is not easy to fight!" Lu Renqing looked anxious, and pointed to the wooden donkey cart that was retreating in the distance: "Hao Shaoqi has brought so many turtle shells, I don't think I have good intentions!" ”

"What do you mean?" Wang Kefan asked rhetorically.

"Just to fill in the outer moat and moat, one or two hundred wooden donkeys are enough, I just calculated, the three city gates add up to five or six hundred, Hao Shaoqi built so many wooden donkeys, it seems that he wants to build Yuliang Road!" Lu Renqing's face was solemn, reminding Wang Kefan.

Yuliang Road, is to use hemp bag soil and stone to build a passage to the city, Chongyang city wall is only three zhang high, Hao Shaoqi first slowly clear the peripheral obstacles, slowly pave a passage above the ground, and wait until the moat is filled, hundreds of wooden donkey carts poured up together, together to throw down the hemp bag earth and stone, enough to put the Yuliang Road to the head of Chongyang City.

The biggest weakness of Chongyang's city defense is that the city wall is low, and Hao Shaoqi can come up with this method, which obviously uses his brains, and it also hits the weakness of the Gongyi battalion.

If the protection of the city wall is lost, the Gongyi battalion has more than 1,000 horses and more than 2,000 young people, and it is by no means the opponent of the more than 10,000 Dashun army!