Although the soldiers were brave, each ladder could only go up to the city for one person at a time, and after going to the city, they had to face the attack of more than a dozen spears and muskets, and few people could survive for a moment and a half. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info were either stabbed under the city with a spear or died under the pellets of the musket.

One by one, the Manchurian warriors ascended to the city, but half an hour passed, and there were at least more than 100 Manchurian soldiers who climbed to the top of the city, but none of them could gain a firm foothold, and the city head seemed to be a bottomless pit, completely devouring hundreds of Manchu warriors.

There is a cloud in the art of war, "ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it twice", now there are only more than 1,000 troops in Manchurian, but they have to attack the city guarded by more than 4,000 people. Maybe it's because the full army has won successive battles, and they have never looked at the Ming army in their eyes, which is why they are so arrogant.

But any arrogance has to pay a price, once the Ming army has the heart to fight to the death, even if most of them are recruits who have only been in the army for less than a month, even if their combat strength is extremely poor, they will make the invaders pay the price.

Watching one by one's subordinates join the ants and then disappear behind the tall city wall, Li Shutai's face was clouded.

Hundreds of warriors have climbed the walls, but none of them have been able to gain a foothold. Li Shutai knew that he couldn't go on like this, after all, there were only more than 1,000 people under his command, and he couldn't withstand the consumption at all.

Although the city wall of Jiaozhou is not high, the city is not large, and it is not so easy to capture it.

If only there were a dozen red-coated cannons! Li Shutai secretly said in his heart that if there were more than a dozen red-clothed cannons, he could completely blast through the city wall of Jiaozhou.

"Withdraw!" Seeing that another group of full soldiers who climbed to the head of the city could no longer gain a foothold on the city wall, they were either killed and thrown under the city, or they jumped off the city and fell with broken bones and broken legs, Li Shutai could only order the withdrawal of troops.

The horn of the withdrawal sounded, and the soldiers who were clinging to the ladder breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been amnesty, and retreated down the ladder.

Seeing the enemy retreat, the Ming troops in the city also breathed a sigh of relief, and jumped up one by one with cheers.

"Don't run around, get your shield ready to guard against enemy bows and arrows!" Huang Fengwu, who was in charge of the command of the city head, hurriedly shouted.

Hearing Huang Fengwu's words, the Ming army at the head of the city hurriedly picked up the shield on the city, and those without a shield raised the wooden pot lid above their heads and necks.

They were impressed by the covering projectile of the Manchurian soldiers just now, and at least more than a hundred recruits died under the arrows of the Manchurians.

Sure enough, Huang Fengwu's words didn't last long, and the sound of "buzzing" sounded, and a rain of arrows fell head-on.

This time, the Ming army at the head of the city had already prepared, hiding under the battlements one by one, and protecting their heads with shields and planks.

The muffled sound of "poof" sounded, the sound of feathered arrows falling on the planks of the shield.

Round after round of arrows were fired at the city, and the walls were full of arrows, many of which crossed the city and fell into the city, and were planted on the roofs of the people.

Eventually the manpower will be exhausted, and the men who are as strong as a man can shoot twenty or thirty arrows at most, and then their arms and shoulders will be tired and sore.

The feather arrows were finally sparse, and the city was full of arrows, but there were very few Ming troops who were wounded and died under the arrows, and only a few particularly unlucky soldiers were not well protected and were shot.

In just a few hours, many recruits have learned to protect themselves. Sure enough, the battlefield is the best place to train!

It was already noon, and while the Manchurians were attacking the city, the Ming army at the head of the city began to eat. Baskets of steamed buns and buckets of porridge were loosened from the city to the city, and the white steamed buns and sweet porridge made every soldier have a great appetite and eat with a smile.

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Under the city, the soldiers were also having lunch.

Holding the roasted golden leg of mutton in his hand, Li Shutai had no intention of swallowing it. The defeat in the siege in the morning made him irritable, and then he vaguely felt that he was a little overly supportive.

After receiving the order of Prince Rui Dolgon to quell the rebellion in Shandong, Li Shutai was not concerned at first, in his opinion, the only enemy of the Manchu Qing was the Shun army, and the Ming army's army had long been broken by the Manchus, as long as the army arrived, there was no Ming army at all to dare to fight against the Manchus.

The facts are the same as he thought, after he arrived in Qingzhou with 1,500 full soldiers, only 300 cavalry was shocked, and the rebels in Qingzhou were defeated, and he then came to the city of Qingzhou, and the Ming army in Qingzhou did not dare to defend the city at all, and abandoned the city and fled.

Hundreds of miles from Qingzhou to Jiaozhou, all the towns encountered along the way surrendered in despair, and there was no need to bother to attack the city.

Until he arrived in Jiaozhou, he met this Ming army from the south.

"Lord Ezhen, we can't fight like this anymore, the loss of the sons and daughters is too great." Jiala Ezhen Abu quickly approached Li Shutai and said cautiously. Originally, in the face of Li Shutai, a Han man who surrendered, Absu was very disdainful, even if Li Shutai was above him. However, the defeat in the previous battle made Abusu's head lower, and he was afraid that the siege would be unfavorable to Li Shutai, so he would take the remaining 100 Zhenman soldiers to attack the city, so he made a suggestion to Li Shutai.

"What do you say?" Li Shutai asked as he looked directly at Abu Su.

"In my opinion, we sent men to feint against the city walls, and then tried to break down the city gates with ramming logs. As long as we can break the city gate, the Ming army in the city is not at our disposal! ”

Li Shutai thought about it carefully, but he couldn't think of many good ways, so he had to agree. The Manchurian army is good at field warfare, but there has been no good means in attacking the city, and most of the cities that have been conquered since the Ming Dynasty are the defenders surrendering, or relying on artillery to break through the city walls, and then trap the city. In decades of battles with the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus captured many cannons, and there were many surrendered Ming gunners, and the sharpness of their artillery was not under the Ming army.

Now, because he came to Shandong lightly to quell the rebellion, Li led the Thai army without artillery, and he couldn't think of any other way, so he had to agree to Absu's siege proposal.

After lunch, the Qing soldiers gathered again. Hundreds of archers now fired covering the city, covering the siege of the besieging troops.

Dozens of ladders were erected on the city wall, and hundreds of full soldiers began to attach themselves to them.

Elite full-soldier archers stood under the city walls, armed with bows and arrows, ready to strike at the Ming army that dared to show their heads.

A crude crash car crossed the filled moat and reached the city wall, pushed by more than twenty full soldiers, towards the southern gate.

Under the cover of bows and arrows, no Ming army dared to attack, and the Ming army at the head of the city just blindly threw wooden lime bottles under the city, which did little damage to the full soldiers.

The crashing car was quickly pushed under the south city gate, and more than a dozen full soldiers pushed the giant tree hard, slamming into the city gate.

The only remaining hundred horsemen were outside the moat of the garrison, waiting for the gates to be broken down and swarmed in.

ps: My brother-in-law accidentally injured his hand with a chainsaw while working in Zhengzhou, and it almost broke. I am the closest relative to him, and I went to visit and take care of him yesterday, and I couldn't update it, so forgive me. (To be continued.) )