In the sound of the loud trumpet, the towering siege vehicles were getting closer and closer to the head of Jining City, and the officers and soldiers in the middle of the city were even able to clearly see the hideous faces of the Tartar soldiers, and an officer licked his chapped lips, turned his head and asked Scarface: "General, the Tartar soldiers have entered the firing range, can they fight?" ”

"Wait."

Scarface waved his hand, his expression solemn.

The hit rate of the musket is the closer the distance, the higher the hit rate, the greater the lethality, if you shoot two hundred steps away, of course, you can kill and injure the Tartar soldiers, but the hit rate will be very low, and the killing effect is also very limited, the Tartar soldiers outside the city are enough to have twenty or thirty thousand people, and the central army does not have so much ammunition to consume.

"Hey...... Hey drink ......"

The trumpets of the Tartar soldiers became more and more urgent, and the siege vehicles that were slowly moving forward actually began to accelerate, and suddenly, they had entered within a hundred paces, and this distance was already within the attack range of the Tartar archers.

There were 4,000 Tartar soldiers attacking the north gate of Jining, and soon 2,000 Tartar soldiers were arranged in a scattered shooting formation, and began to draw their bows and arrows to the head of the city.

Scarface also shrank down and hid under a thick door panel, and the sound of sharp arrows piercing into the wooden board was endless, and in less than a moment, the piece of door panel used to block the arrow was already full of feather arrows in the wind, and from a distance, it looked like these door panels suddenly grew a body of needles, which was spectacular.

The rain of arrows from the Tartar archers lasted for about a pillar of incense before it stopped, because by this time the Tartars in charge of the siege had already rushed under the city walls, and thirty siege engines had crossed the moat along the horizontal ladders and approached the city walls, and the hanging drawbridge above the battlements was slowly descending.

There was a suffocating depression on the top of the city, and one hundred and fifty musketeers held their breath and raised their muskets to aim at the thirty siege vehicles, the muzzles of the black holes emitted a palpitating glow, like the eyes of demons, and three hundred musketeers lined up on the tower with indifferent expressions, waiting to be shot.

There were more than a dozen Tartar soldiers crowded in the fighting room on the top floor of the siege car, these dozen Tartar soldiers were all warriors from a hundred, with a strong physique and a fierce expression, and they were not holding scimitars, but sabers! The heavy panting of the Tartar soldiers intertwined in the small space, and the intense killing intent filled the room!

"Quack quack...... Mutter! ”

The siege carter's suspended drawbridge suddenly stopped halfway down, and it was in the air.

Because the drawbridge blocked the view, the Ming army on the head of the city could not see the Tartar soldiers in the fighting room, and the Tartar soldiers in the fighting room could not see the Ming army on the city, but the Ming soldiers and Tartar soldiers knew that the last moment was coming soon, and it would be a life-and-death battle, a bloody battle!

"Boom Boom ......"

The suspended suspension bridge fell suddenly, resting heavily on the battlement, raising a small piece of smoke and dust, and before the suspension bridge finally stopped, the Tartar soldiers crowded in the fighting room rushed out like sharp arrows, and the Tartar soldiers who rushed out of the fighting room had a hideous expression, and their eyes stared fiercely at the Ming soldiers on the head of the city, like a beast that chose people to devour.

"Fire!"

At this time, a cold voice resounded through the city of Jining.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A dazzling red light flashed, and the violent gunfire rang out immediately, and the Tartar soldiers who were stepping on the drawbridge and rushed to the city immediately fell down like a leaf in the wind, due to the close distance, the Ming army musket team was loaded with scattered sons, and the barrage formed by countless iron sand did not have any shooting dead angles at all, and all the Tartar soldiers who grabbed the drawbridge were all shot.

In the midst of the tragic wail, the Tartar soldiers fell from a height of more than ten meters, and even if they were not killed by the scattered shots fired by the Ming army's muskets at such a high height, they should have been seriously injured.

In this era, in this cruel era of cold weapons, serious injuries on the battlefield mean death, even if they are rescued back to the camp by their companions, they still can't escape the fate of death, at this time there is no field hospital, and the medical skills of the witch doctors in the army are even more crappy and terrifying, and it is impossible to rely on them to save thousands, or even tens of thousands of wounded soldiers.

In less than a moment, the first group of more than 300 Tartar soldiers who launched an attack on thirty siege engines had been killed and wounded, and only a dozen Tartar soldiers barely rushed to the battlements, but they were stabbed into a sieve by the spears of the Ming army and civilians, but the thirty siege engines still set up thirty lines between the city head and the ground.

On a hillside in the distance.

Man Zhu Xili slammed the festival and said: "Okay! Although the first attack failed, none of the thirty siege engines were damaged, with these thirty passages, the Mongol warriors continued to kill the city, how many Nanming barbarians could there be in the city? Even if you find a life, you can annihilate them! ”

Duoduo on the side was also a little confused, he didn't expect that thirty siege engines would approach the city wall so easily, even if the Ming army didn't have Hongyi cannons, but didn't they still have dragon king cannons? They can use the Dragon King Cannon to blow it up, even if they can't blow up the siege vehicle, at least they can blow up the Mongolian soldiers crowded under the siege vehicle, right?

However, soon, Duoduo knew why the Ming army did not use the Dragon King Cannon to bomb the siege vehicles, and Zhu Xili on the side was not happy, and the excitement on his face was gradually replaced by surprise and shock.

The reason why the Ming army did not use the Dragon King Cannon to blow up the siege vehicle is very simple, because as long as there is a siege vehicle, the Tartar soldiers will no longer attack the city through simple ladders, but will choose the siege vehicle with a higher "safety surname" to kill the city, therefore, the Ming army only needs to block thirty siege vehicles to block the attack of the Tartar soldiers.

This is the same reason as when Wang Pu deliberately let the Tartar soldiers blow up a gap in the city wall during the Battle of Datong.

The siege vehicle seems to be powerful, but in fact it is the biggest weakness of the Tartar soldiers, it is the Jedi of the Tartar soldiers, Scarface followed Wang Pu for a long time, and learned some of Wang Pu's tactical essence, and now the Mongolian Tartars have suffered a big loss! In less than half an hour, more than half of the 2,000 Tartar soldiers who entered the siege suffered casualties.

The remaining Tartars finally lost the courage to continue the attack, threw down the siege engine and ran away.

The Tartar archers who were a hundred paces away finally shot at the city to retaliate for the rain of arrows, but the lethality was very limited, and only a few people were killed because they were negligent and forgot to raise the door panel to block the arrows.

Man Zhu Xili was so angry that he couldn't accept this result, especially in front of Duoduo!

"Go." Man Zhu Xili Huo Ran turned his head and roared viciously at the herald behind him, "Pass on the order of the king of this army, send five thousand troops to go up, this time no matter what, we will break Jining City!" ”

"Wow!"

The herald answered with a bang and took the order.

Suddenly, the low horn sound of the horn rose again, and the Mongolian Tartars in the distance moved again, and more Tartar soldiers separated from the large formation, and slowly approached Jining City in a scattered formation.

Jining City Head.

Scarface's face suddenly became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Good girl, send five thousand people to attack the city at one time?" The Tartars are going to fight hard! It's really evil, the advantage of the Tartar soldiers is cavalry field warfare, siege infantry has never been their strong point, is Dolgon's brain burned out? Or do you think you have too many cavalry under your command to raise them? ”

An officer chimed in: "I heard that the Jiannu outside the gate likes to drink soju, and Dolgon probably drank too much and burned his brain." ”

"This thing is evil." Scarface shook his head and said in a condensed voice, "It seems that the Tartar soldiers are really planning to fight hard, immediately notify Ma Gong, He Mazi, and Wang Huzi and them, let them pay attention to saving ammunition, and try to put the Tartar soldiers as close as possible before fighting!" His grandmother's, if he hadn't saved a little, would have run out of ammunition in less than two days, and the brethren would have had to fight with bayonets and Tartars. ”

The herald took the order and departed.

As Scarface feared, Ma Gong, He Mazi and Wang Huzi had no intention of saving ammunition at all, and the Tartar soldiers had just entered a distance of two hundred paces, and the musket team at the head of the city began to open fire, and as a result, the battle was lively, and more ammunition was consumed, and the total number of Tartar soldiers who could be killed and wounded was less than two thousand.

By the afternoon, Scarface was forced to blow up the thirty siege vehicles.

Because the Tartar soldiers learned to be obedient, while sending people to attack from the siege vehicles, and on the other hand, they set up simple ladders to capture the city, the central army could take care of this side but couldn't take care of the side, and almost let the Tartar soldiers rush to the city, and finally Scarface had no choice but to order to blow up the siege vehicle with the cluster dragon king cannon.

As the sun set, it finally darkened.

In the continuous sound of bull horns, the Tartar soldiers began to dim and then retreated, and the Tartar archers a hundred paces away shot the last few arrows towards the tower, and also retreated, and the shouts of the soldiers of the two armies, the dense gunfire, the explosion of the dragon cannon, and the whistling of sharp arrows passing through the sky came to an abrupt end.

The autumn wind blew away the smoke and smell of blood in the air.

The tumultuous battlefield finally fell silent, and nothing could be heard from the battlefield except for a few dying wails from time to time from the wounded Tartars lying under the walls.

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In the city of Jining, the general army marched.

Scarface, Ma, Wang's beard, He Mazi are relatively silent, just now they have reported the battle situation of each door to Scarface, because of the advantage of muskets, the casualties of each door are not large, the veterans have almost no casualties, only a few veterans were slightly injured by arrows, and the casualties of Minzhuang are not large.

However, the consumption of ammunition is very large, especially the consumption of paper shell shells, which consumes almost a third of the total stock of ammunition!

After a long time, Scarface said with a solemn expression: "In other words, today we consumed 50,000 rounds of ammunition and 2,000 Dragon King Cannons in one day?" At this rate of attrition, in three days we will have to fight the Tartars for bayonets! ”

Ma Zhu said: "If you fight bayonets, you will fight bayonets, will our Central Army still lose to the Tartar soldiers?" ”

Scarface said: "Of course the Tartar soldiers are nothing, they are just herdsmen on the grassland at best, they are good at herding horses and sheep, they are far from fighting and killing people, but have you ever thought about it, this is just a Tartar soldier, and the Jiannu has not yet appeared!" ”

They stopped talking.

Compared with the Mongolian Tatars, Jiannu is more than twice as powerful? The Mongolian Tatars are all herdsmen, but the Jiannu are all veterans of a hundred battles, and the central army and the Jiannu fighting bayonet will not have any upper hand at all, once the Mongolian Tatars really run out of ammunition, and then Jiannu takes advantage of the weakness to attack the city, then Jining City will definitely be lost!

Wang Huzi pursed his lips and scolded: "The Jiannu of the dog is really cunning, and he actually let the Mongolian Tatars block the guns. ”

He Mazi also said: "These Mongolian Tatars are stupid enough, so they are willing to be called by Jiannu as livestock." ”

"Alright, don't say anything." Scarface said in a deep voice, "Immediately divide half of the existing ammunition inventory, a few of you listen to Lao Tzu, this half of the ammunition is specially reserved for Jiannu, if Jiannu does not appear, even if the Tartar soldiers rush to the city, they are not allowed to use it, do you hear clearly?" ”

"Hear me clearly!"

"Boss, don't worry, even if there are no muskets and dragon king cannons, the Tartar soldiers will still not be able to get into the city."

"That's right, take a step back and say that the Tartar soldiers are really going to kill the city, and the brothers are biting with their teeth, and they will never use the half of the reserved ammunition if they have [***] picks!"

Ma Pole, Wang Huzi, and He Mazi agreed with a bang.

"Hmm." Scarface nodded, and said in a deep voice, "Also, immediately report the situation of Jining City to Hou Ye with a flying pigeon to know that Dolgon launched a Mongol Tartar attack on Jining at the cost of casualties, this thing is a bit weird, Lao Tzu can't tell what Dolgon's slave thinks, so he can only report the situation to Hou Ye truthfully." ”

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The Mongol camp, the Duoduo line.

Duoduo sat on the main throne, his expression was calm, Chahan, Banktu, Sogar, and Manzhu Xili sat on both sides, but the expression on their faces was a little gloomy, in fact, whoever was in their position would not look good, and after a day of fierce fighting, the casualties of the Mongolian cavalry were as high as more than 10,000 people!

That's more than 10,000 cavalry!

There are only 100,000 cavalry in the entire Horqin Division, and according to this kind of consumption, after ten days, all the strong men of the entire Horqin Department should all die on the battlefield, and the old and young women and children left on the prairie will inevitably become slaves of other tribes, so that the Horqin Department should also be removed from the prairie.

To be honest, Banketu and they have begun to regret it now, regretting that they shouldn't boast about Haikou in front of Duoduo, saying that they would capture Jining at all costs to avenge Sonam, they knew that this Jining city was so difficult to fight, even if they borrowed ten guts, they didn't dare to boast about such a Haikou.

Of course, Duoduo knew what they were thinking, so he said with relief: "The four princes don't have to be discouraged, although the firearms of the Nanming barbarians are sharp, but their ammunition is not inexhaustible, if this king is not bad, after a fierce battle today, the ammunition of the Nanming barbarians should almost be exhausted, and if they fight again tomorrow, the firepower of the Nanming barbarians will never be as dense as today." ”

(To be continued)