Wu Sangui was full of confidence in his offensive plan, and since the Battle of Songshan, he has imitated Liu Jun's Chu army everywhere. He heard that the Chu army had a staff department, and there were many staff officers who praised and painted officers, and before each battle, these staff officers had to draw up a detailed battle plan, detailed to every step of the advance and retreat, and even they would have a backup plan that could be replaced at any time.

Wu Sangui also set up a staff department in his army and promoted a group of young officers to staff officers. Because many of his officers were children of Liaoxi and not many of them were educated, Wu Sangui recruited many talents from Ningjin and other places, raised people into his military camp, awarded them the official name of Zanhua, and asked them to assist the staff officers in formulating plans and drawing maps.

In this siege of Yizhou, Wu Sangui's staff also came up with a detailed battle plan, which was quite complete and detailed. The focus of the whole plan is that 20,000 of the 120,000 troops are stationed in more than a dozen castles on the outskirts of Yiju, responsible for intercepting and warning reinforcements of the Qing army, and also responsible for intercepting the escape of the Qing army after the city is broken.

Of the remaining 100,000 troops, 10,000 were stationed north of the Daling River, responsible for intercepting the Daling River and preventing the Qing army from breaking through and crossing the river.

The remaining 90,000, 20,000 horses were arranged on the east and west sides, and after the official siege of the city, the two sides launched a feint to attract the attention of the Qing army. The real main direction of attack is in Nancheng, where 50,000 soldiers and horses will be concentrated, which is composed of soldiers and horses from the two towns of Ningjin. Wu Sangui's Ningyuan artillery concentrated together, stormed the east corner of the southern city, and after breaking through the city wall, Zu Dashou's Jinzhou heavy infantry took the lead and seized the breach, and Ningyuan's firecrackers covered behind.

This is a detailed plan.

The sun had risen, and a red sun was in the sky, as if stained with blood.

The drums of war are sounding and the flags are waving. One after another troops are arriving at the designated positions according to Wu Sangui's battle plan.

"Woooooooooooo

The order to attack sounded, and the huge Ming army battle group began to attack according to their respective goals.

Thirty miles away, a cavalry army was hurrying towards Yiju, this cavalry army of about 5,000 people, wearing the uniforms and armor of the Ming army, waving the red flag of the Ming army.

They went north along the Daling River. Rushing in. The Ming army with a patrol tried to inquire about the identity of this cavalry, and received the reply that Governor Hong and Governor Sun had sent cavalry to reinforce Yizhou, and they also told the Ming army that the two governors of Hong and Sun were leading most of them to Yizhou.

In the southeast corner of Yizhou City, three hundred steps outside the city, on a high slope, Wu Sangui's Ningyuan artillery position is set up here, hundreds of artillery pieces of various types, and thousands of artillery are busy nervously. Final preparations were made before the shelling. On the edge of this artillery position, 3,000 infantry guarded the position, and another 3,000 cavalry stood by on both flanks, ready to intercept the enemy forces that might appear.

"Prepare to fire!"

The generals of the artillery battalion shouted the order, and the commanders of the artillery shouted in response, "Ready!" ”

The first cannon began to roar, the chamber of the nine-pounder cannon spewed flames, and the nine-pounder solid cannonball whistled towards the walls of Uiju. This cannonball is right in the middle of the city wall of Yiju. Smash down a piece of brick shavings.

After the first shell was fired, the commanders of the guns also gave the order to open fire. Countless cannons burst into their chambers and smashed into the city wall of Uiju with a roar.

At the head of the city of Yiju, the Qing army also discovered the artillery positions of the Ming army. They quickly reported to the authorities, and the commander of the Qing army quickly ordered several cannons to bombard the Ming artillery array.

A ten-pound iron ball roared and smashed into the Ming artillery array. However, the shell was fired too high, whistling over the artillery array, falling behind more than a hundred paces of the artillery array, and accidentally hitting several infantrymen.

The artillery on the head of the city fired a few more shots, but they were either high or missed. Not a single shot hit the Ming army.

Wu Sangui also saw the artillery counterattack on the city from a distance, and laughed, "The Hongyi cannon is not a catapult, it is good at attacking the city and clumsy at defending the city." The Tartar Hongyi cannon has a range of at least 500 paces, and our artillery array is less than 300 paces away under the city, and the Tartar Hongyi cannon is on the city, but it is difficult to hit us, hahaha. They can only be beaten, but they can't do it! ”

"Order, reduce the charge of the mortar cannon, aim at the city, and kill these cannons of the Tartars first." Wu Sangui shouted happily.

The ballistic trajectory of the Hongyi cannon is straight, the firing range is long, and it is not suitable for defending the city because it is erected on the head of the city. If you aim at the soldiers and horses in the distance, there is still some power, for example, when attacking the city, the besieging side will generally gather soldiers and horses in the distance, and at this time, bombardment with Hongyi artillery can destroy the assembly and break up the formation.

But like Wu Sangui, who relied on his strong soldiers and artillery, and arranged the artillery array to about 300 steps below the city, the Qing army's Hongyi was useless.

The cannons in Wu Sangui's artillery array also had a straight trajectory, and they couldn't hit the city, but when they got close to the city wall, they didn't have the slightest problem.

However, to deal with the artillery of the Qing army in the city, Wu Sangui still has a sharp weapon, and the mortar purchased from the Chu army in Hubei is specifically to deal with the city. These huge caliber mortars are actually equivalent to stone throwers that use gunpowder to fire stone projectiles, and compared with traditional wooden stone throwers, these mortars are lighter and easier to transport. And they are more powerful, being able to throw extremely heavy stone projectiles and throw them farther away.

When besieging a city, it is also quite sharp to deal with the defenders on the head of the city or to smash the houses in the city.

More than a dozen mortar cannons concentrated on bombarding the city, and the Qing army on the city found the stone bullets whistling.

"Disperse!" A Qing soldier shouted loudly, and a group of gunners hurriedly scattered and ran away. Two stone bullets fell from the sky.

Wu Sangui saw from the clairvoyant mirror that only two of the dozen stone bullets hit the city, one of the stone shells hit a gun mount, the gun carriage spread out, and the barrel of several thousand catties rolled off, and an unlucky Qing soldier was hit by the barrel and died tragically on the spot.

"If you fight well, give each of the gunners of that artillery group a reward of fifty pieces of silver, and the gunners a reward of one hundred dollars!"

On the upper floor of the southern city, Zilharang's severed arm was still tied with gauze. He held the clairvoyant mirror with his only remaining hand and aimed it at the Ming army's artillery array.

In that battle of Songshan, when Jierharang was defeated and retreated, he was hit by a handcuff of a Ningyuan cavalry at a short distance, and fell off his horse, although he had to be protected by armor, he still fell off his horse, and was chased by Wu Sangui and cut off one of his arms.

Thinking about it now, Zilharang still gritted his teeth and gritted his resentment.

"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui again."

"The artillery fire of the Ming army is very fierce, we must destroy their artillery array, otherwise the city wall will not last long." Dodor said, standing aside.

"But there are so many Ming troops outside the city, and we can't get close to the artillery array when we go out of the city."

The artillery of the Ming army continued to bombard, and Wu Sangui ordered the artillery fire to be concentrated as much as possible. But at the same time, he did not just wait for the artillery to blast through the city wall, the east and west sides also continued to attack, they only had a small number of artillery, but relied on shield carts, ladders, and attacked the city head in the traditional way of siege.

In the south of the key attack, the soldiers and horses of the two towns of Ningjin are also fiercely attacking the city, under the protection of the shield car, the soldiers and horses of the two towns of Ningjin are holding shields and waist knives, and they are rushing to the city, and the ladders are carried to the city and begin to be erected.

"Rush, rush, rush, rush."

"The first person to attack the head of the city will be rewarded with 10,000 silver dollars!"

The officers shouted a heavy reward, a heavy reward of 10,000 yuan, and the Ming soldiers who were attacking excitedly had red eyes, and shouted all the way to rush, kill, and rush.

Behind them, Wu Sangui was talking to his uncle and uncle, Zu Dashou.

"It has always been only the Tartars who have pressed us down, attacked our cities, and killed our soldiers. Today, our soldiers in Liaoxi have finally raised their eyebrows and come back. ”

The siege had begun for more than half an hour, and the 100,000 Ming army was attacking the city on three sides, and the artillery positions were also pouring thousands of shells towards the southeast of the city.

The strong cannon sound shook back and forth like thunder, the gray and gloomy sky was illuminated by artillery fire, and large clouds of black smoke filled the whole city of Uiju.

The Qing army in the city continued to release arrows to the city, and even Zilharang and Duoduo and others mobilized many archers to stand behind the city wall in a dense phalanx, and shot arrows at a 45-degree angle to the outside of the city.

Within a few dozen steps in front of the city, it was completely a death zone, and countless Ming troops rushed over, but more arrows rained down from the sky. The dense rain of arrows was like locusts, like torrential rain, as if it would never stop.

Even if there are shield vehicles, shields, and ironclad armor, under this dense rain of arrows, there are still countless Ming soldiers who fall on the way to attack from time to time.

The artillery group of the artillery position also continued to exert its might, throwing shells at the wall at the southeast end of the city. At the southeast end of the city, the bricks on the outside have been smashed countless times, revealing the rammed earth layer inside. Even a lot of rammed earth has been smashed down countless times.

More than a dozen mortars continued to shoot stone projectiles at the head of the city, destroying the enemy towers on them, and the archers in the enemy towers were often smashed along with the enemy towers.

The artillery group bombarded the walls with all its might, shelling almost every two or three minutes.

The artillery group in Ningyuan Town was intimidating, and the attacking Ningjin soldiers were even more courageous and morale-boosting in this continuous artillery sound. These cannons are like passionate war drums and war songs, urging their fighting spirit. For the Qing troops defending the city, this cannon fire kept suppressing their morale and weakening their morale a little bit.

At the head of Nancheng, Zierharang's face was pale, his heart was trembling, and he couldn't understand how the combat power of the Ming and Qing armies was completely reversed in the blink of an eye. When was the cowardly Ming army able to suppress them.

He didn't understand that the use of artillery in the army was not a day or two, and the Qing army itself also had Hongyi artillery, but why the artillery of the Ning Yuan army was so powerful and used so powerfully.

"I finally understand why Kong Youde's Han army has been afraid of the war and dare not fight the Ming army in southern Liaoning. I also finally knew why the defenders of those city fortresses on the coast of Liaodong for thousands of miles were swept away by Liu Jiye like autumn wind sweeping leaves. Which city can stop such a bombardment of artillery, and which army and horses can withstand it? (To be continued.) )