This time, the total number of Lufeng troops led by Ma Shiying was more than 20,000 people, but as Sun Yuan knew when he was in Nanjing, in fact, this was a rabble composed of military households and people, and the only ones who could really fight were more than 100 people under Governor Ma.

Fortunately, the ant-attached siege relied on crowd tactics and relied on human lives to pile up. Don't worry too much about the military quality of the soldiers. Just send them to the city, and things will be easy. Because as soon as they get on the city wall, the soldiers have no way to retreat, and there is only one way to go but to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

The problem is that more than 600 people were killed and wounded in just one afternoon, and after a few more days of fighting, the Lufeng army will collapse. In the feudal era, as long as an army suffered more than 10% casualties, it was basically possible to declare that the army could no longer fight.

Moreover, this siege was so fierce that the soldiers had to be prepared to withstand the mutiny.

As night fell, the smell of burnt human flesh lingered in the air, and the barracks were filled with the cries of wounded soldiers. Many people suffer burns, and the pain of such injuries is unbearable. Moreover, in the Ming Dynasty, where medical means were backward, many people did not live for two days.

"Liu Chao is a thief, it's really a little difficult to deal with. However, you would be naïve to think that you would be able to defend Yongcheng in this way. Sun Yuan sneered: "If you talk about siege methods, even if there is no artillery, a certain is much stronger than the people of this era." In a few days, my Sun Yuan will definitely set foot on the streets of Yongcheng with soldiers and horses. All that's needed now is time. And time ...... But it's so precious at the moment. ”

That's right, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the form of urban offensive and defensive warfare has indeed changed dramatically, and many new weapons and new means have also been put into battlefield practice, such as the centralized use of artillery. However, cannons are really expensive and extremely inconvenient to transport. Therefore, a new tactic of "digging tunnels and burying explosives to collapse the city wall" appeared, and the Taiping army used it very easily, and it played a huge role in the attack on Nanjing

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Now Sun Yuan also plans to come to draw a scoop according to the gourd and copy it all.

That night, Sun Yuan went to the old camp of the Lufeng Army, selected more than 30 soldiers who had been miners, and asked them to dig tunnels in the direction of the city.

At the same time, Sun Yuan found another coffin and put hundreds of catties of gunpowder in it.

However, digging tunnels is not so easy, and it doesn't take two days to get it done. In these two days, Sun Yuan could not be idle, and his attack on Yongcheng could not be stopped for a moment.

Early in the morning of the second day, the soldiers of the Lufeng Army carried the siege equipment that had been made overnight and went into the attack.

The intensity of the attack throughout the day was extremely strong, after all, Ma Shiying was the governor of Hecao, and he had plenty of funds on hand. Moreover, according to real historical records, he was extremely greedy and extremely attentive to yellow and white things, and in recent years, he has accumulated a large amount of gold and silver. He also knew that if he didn't defeat Liu Chao this time, once the Henan Campaign was over and the army came south, he was afraid that no one in the whole of Nanjing would be able to withstand the stormy attack of the thief army. He was also anxious, and copper coins and silver spilled out like flowing water.

The military households of the Ming Dynasty were all very poor, when had they seen so many yellow and white things. At that moment, Ma Shiying was encouraged to get up a taxi, took a sip of the wine in the bowl, scooped up a handful of copper coins, and rushed forward with a scream while carrying a knife.

Unfortunately, their courage was quickly crushed by the strong walls.

At this time, Sun Yuancai fully realized what a vicious opponent Liu Chao was, this field battle could not be successful, but defending the city was full of tricks, and he had already arranged many organs and facilities at the head of the city.

Usually, as soon as the Ming soldiers climbed to the top of the city, they were greeted by a burst of burnt lead and boiled human and animal dung; As for what nail boards and slap rods, there are countless ones.

Moreover, this birdman is not blindly stubborn. Usually the Ming army was attacking to the end, but this guy took the dead soldiers to sit in the hanging spleen and hang down from the city, and used his spear to poke and stab the soldiers of the Lufeng Army who were climbing on the cloud ladder without hindrance. The so-called hanging spleen is a small warehouse, hiding soldiers, hanging along the city wall, and assassinating the enemy army climbing the city on the side.

Lu Fengjun was really unbearable, and as soon as he was counterattacked, he retreated with a bang. Some of the soldiers panicked, forgetting that they were still climbing on the wall, turned around and jumped from mid-air, and could no longer stand up.

When the army was scattered, there was really no way, and even Chen Tieshan's supervising team was put into the battlefield, which was able to stabilize the situation

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In just two days, the Lufeng army suffered more than 2,000 casualties. The casualties were close to 10%, and the morale of the army was extremely depressed. Even on Chen Tieshan's side, there were more than a dozen soldiers who closed their eyes forever. As for the other soldiers of the Dudu Clan, the sabers in their hands were full of gaps because of the slashing and rout, and in the end, they couldn't bear to use the knives against their own people, so they looked at the retreating Lu Fengjun so weakly, and lowered their heads.

Fortunately, the tunnel was finally dug up, and Sun Yuan could already imagine what it would be like when the city wall collapsed once the gunpowder exploded. He had already ordered all the Lufeng troops to withdraw, and more than 2,000 cavalry lined up neatly on the edge of the moat that had been filled, only to wait until the city wall collapsed, and then they would enter the city like lightning.

But at this moment, there was a muffled sound, and a cloud of white smoke poured out of the mouth of the tunnel, and in an instant, countless panicked soldiers came out of it, shouting: "Enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

The leading officer knelt in front of Sun Yuan and cried loudly: "General Sun, General Sun, it's too miserable." We've just dug the tunnel, but, it's ...... But the enemy came out of nowhere, and lit the gunpowder that we hadn't yet buried, and more than thirty brothers, more than half of them were lost in it......"

It turned out that when Lu Fengjun was digging a tunnel, he was somehow discovered by the thieves in the city, and they also dug inside and outward, and then ignited gunpowder and blew up the entire tunnel.

It was only at the end of the battle that the mystery was solved. It turned out that Liu Chao buried a drainage tank behind the city wall, ordered people to listen day and night, and happened to hear the sound of Lu Fengjun digging tunnels.

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According to Ma Shiying, when Liu Chao was fighting An Bangyan and Yu Chongming in Guizhou, his main task was to sweep away the Tusi official villages of the two thieves in various places. Most of those Tusi official villages were built in dangerous places in the lofty mountains and mountains, and after several years of fighting, Liu Chao was simply proficient in this kind of urban offensive and defensive warfare to the point that he could no longer be proficient.

Now, the hearts of the entire Yongcheng people are on his side, and there is no pressure to guard this big city with a perfect urban abundance system and plenty of food and grass.

All means seem to have been exhausted, and Sun Yuan now only has to continue to drive the Lu Fengjun to continue to attack the city and use people to fill the tall city wall, and Ma Shiying seems to only know how to send money, this big traitor is really too rich.

At this time, Sun Yuan had to admit that he really underestimated Liu Chao, a little person who was unknown in history. The ancients, as long as they can be officials to a certain extent, who is not a top person, and who does not have a few means?

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