Zheng Chenggong tried to bombard the city gate with artillery, but knowing that there was an enemy coming, Haicheng's general soldier He Wenxing had already ordered someone to block the city gate with horizontal stones.

Seeing that he couldn't pry open the city gate, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to let the artillery suppress the archers of the Qing army, and ordered Gan Hui to lead 800 soldiers to tentatively attack the city.

The vanguard soldiers raised their shields above their heads one by one under the leadership of Gan Hui, and then rushed towards the city wall in the form of skirmishers.

A hundred or so soldiers followed closely behind with dozens of newly made ladders.

On the city wall, He Wenxing, the chief soldier of the Qing army, saw that the Zheng family army had entered the range of attacking the fortification, and waved his hand, "Release the arrow." ”

Zhang Gong ...... Put! Several officers of the bow battalion shouted in a lengthened voice.

Under the shouting and reprimand of the officers, the Qing army bent their bows and arrows, and sharp arrows shot down from the wall.

The Qing military commander waved his arm, the drum sounded, the order was issued, the bow and arrow were shot, and in such a rhythm, in a short period of time, five or six rounds of arrow rain had been shot!

Sharp arrows suddenly rained down from the sky with a scream of death, and with the powerful inertia of falling from a high altitude, the sharp arrows easily shot through the shield.

Zheng Jiajun, who rushed ahead, suddenly fell to the ground like dumplings, and his forward speed was a little slower.

From time to time, Zheng Jiajun soldiers were shot, let out a terrible scream, and fell to the ground dying in a pool of blood.

A few of the recruits couldn't stand the bloody scene and turned and fled.

As soon as the recruits came back, they were killed on the spot by the gendarmes.

The gendarmes carried their heads and shouted loudly in front of the battle, "Those who retreat from the battle, behead!" ”

The freshly beheaded head was dripping with blood, and in the face of this bloody lesson, the soldiers of the Zheng family army were deeply impressed by the ruthlessness of military law.

Rushing through the rain of arrows with difficulty, the soldiers of the Zheng family army ran under the city wall, and the ladders had just been erected.

There were non-commissioned officers leading the soldiers to climb up.

Before he was halfway there, there were already stones falling heavily on the city wall, and luckily his head blossomed and he died on the spot.

Unfortunately, he broke his hands and feet, and let out a dying wail under the city wall, which made people listen to the creepy.

He was about to climb to the city wall, and was pushed away by the ladder with bamboo pipes and iron guns by the Qing army.

The soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell to the ground into patties.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zheng Chenggong's face was still indifferent, but his heart was heartbreaking.

These are the soldiers who watched them join the army and trained with them!

Now, because of his own orders, he sent them to the battlefield and embarked on the path of death.

They all died because of me!

Watching the familiar faces fall, Zheng Chenggong bit his lip stubbornly, and the horse rope he was pulling in his left hand had already made several blood marks because he was too hard. Zheng Chenggong endured and did not order Mingjin to withdraw because

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers!

Mercy is never needed on the battlefield, and false mercy will only make the army's casualties worse.

Some soldiers on the battlefield sacrificed in order to allow more soldiers to survive and to achieve the ultimate victory.

And there is only one way to keep more people alive, defeat the enemy and win.

Zheng Chenggong forced himself to look up at the battlefield, he was the commander, he needed to calmly observe the situation and find out the enemy's flaws.

After attacking several times and having a general understanding of the defensive deployment of Hayden City, Zheng Chenggong ordered Mingjin to retreat.

Zheng Jiajun heard the sound of the retreating soldiers, and the striker supported the lightly injured and suddenly retreated like a tide. Those who did not return will never return.

After the war, the Zheng family army suffered heavy losses, 800 soldiers, in an hour, almost 200 people were injured.

Listening to the numbers, Zheng Chenggong was heartbroken.

If he could sneak attack, Zheng Chenggong would definitely not choose to attack the city.

Since its death, the siege has been the hardest and deadliest of the city. The army is plotting, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is to attack the city, and the law of attacking the city is a last resort.

It's just that since Hayden has been prepared, he must have also sent out to ask for help.

Zheng Chenggong wanted to capture Haicheng before the arrival of Manchu reinforcements, so that it would be possible to occupy Haicheng.

What Zheng Chenggong lacks now is time.

How to get out of this situation? Zheng Chenggong thought with a headache.

It can be estimated from the number of defenders of the city wall that there are about four or five thousand Qing troops in Hayden City now, and the generals of the Qing army are also good defenders.

It seems that when the general of the expedition to the south returned to Beijing, he not only took most of the Qing army with him, but also took a large number of firearms.

There is clearly no trace of artillery on the city walls, and there are few fire systems on the city walls.

However, among the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the most popular fire commander was the troops of Kong Youde, the king of Sanshun, and now the king of Sanshun is still attacking Huguang.

The Manchu Eight Banners attached great importance to artillery, but they were very disdainful of fire, and they believed in archers even more.

Hayden's lack of artillery is some good news, but those archers are a trouble, and they are the ones who bring the greatest casualties to the Zheng family's army.

After finding out this information, Zheng Chenggong garrisoned and set up camp in preparation for a long-term siege of Hayden.

But that night, Zheng Chenggong sent a thousand soldiers to try to attack the city in the middle of the night under the leadership of Yu Kuan.

Hayden's commander-in-chief, He Wenxing, is a good general, even if he easily guards during the day, he still does not relax at night, and personally leads the troops to patrol. happened to encounter Yu Kuan's siege, and he responded calmly. Faced with the darkness and night, he couldn't see the situation in the city, he ordered the collected oil to be poured down, and then burned the Zheng Jiajun under the city in one hand.

Yu Kuan returned in vain.

The night attack was unsuccessful, and Zheng Chenggong adopted Lin Xishan's strategy and launched fatigue tactics.

Divide the soldiers into three teams, and send troops every few hours to pretend to be a siege to harass the Hayden guards.

After Hayden's chief soldier He Wenxing was teased twice, he was no longer fooled, and he divided the soldiers defending the city into three teams, one team stayed on the city wall to guard, and the other two teams slept under the inner city wall, without He Wenxing's order, just sleep, and ignored it.

Zheng Chenggong saw that the guards on the city wall were still full of spirit the next day, and he knew that fatigue tactics had no effect.

That night, Zheng Chenggong turned harassment into a real assault, except for more than 1,000 soldiers guarding the camp, the remaining more than 4,000 soldiers were all put into the attack.

Hayden was caught off guard by the Zheng family's army for a while, and was almost captured by the Zheng family's army.

However, after Hayden, the two teams climbed the city wall, and with the support, the Zheng family army was finally driven off the city wall, and the siege failed again.

After two days of repeated and four failed sieges, although Zheng Chenggong had avoided storming Hayden, the casualties of the soldiers were still in the thousands.