Chapter 35: Morale

Huang Taiji smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip gently.

"You can hold your breath and don't help you figure it out." Dai Shandao.

Huang Taiji smiled: "So far, apart from the strong attack, what can I think of?" ”

"Guangning City is three feet high, there are artillery on it, and thousands of Ming troops are stationed to forcibly attack the city, I don't know how many girls and real athletes will be damaged." Dai Shan sighed.

"Second brother, Sun Degong said that there were only more than 1,000 Ming troops who fled back to Guangning from Xiping Fort, plus the soldiers who did not flee in Guangning City, and the defenders in the city were at most about 3,000 people, do you think Sun Degong's words are credible?" Huang Taiji smiled.

Dai Shan hesitated for a moment and said: "I think it's credible, how dare this slave talk nonsense about such a big thing!" ”

Huang Taiji nodded: "I also think it's credible." ”

"What do you want to say?" Dai Shan looked at Huang Taiji and wondered.

"Have you noticed that there are a lot of defenders in the east of Quang Ninh City?" Huang Taiji asked without answering.

Dai Shan nodded: "It is indeed quite a lot, I estimate that there are at least fifteen or six hundred people." ”

"There are only about 3,000 people in Guangning City, and there are 1,500 or 600 people in the east of the city, accounting for half, so how many people do you think will defend each of the remaining three sides?" Huang Taiji smiled.

"If it's evenly divided, there will be about 500 people on one side." Dai Shandao.

"The southern wall is nearly four miles, can five hundred people defend it?" Huang Taiji smiled.

After a pause, Huang Taiji continued: "Don't say that the south, even if the north is only two miles, can five hundred people guard it?" ”

Dai Shan said without thinking: "Although the barbarian's firearms are powerful, the rate of fire is extremely slow, far less convenient and fast than my Jurchen athlete's bow and arrow, and one person can defend a few steps, and he can't defend it at all." ”

Huang Taiji said with a smile: "There is always consumption in a war, so they have to arrange people to transport military funds, right?" If you remove some of the soldiers who are transporting supplies, how many people do you think will defend the other three sides? ”

"There is also a fart man, two or three hundred people on one side is considered to be the sky." Dai Shandao.

Immediately, Dai Shan frowned and said: "Now that the guard of Guangning City is Luo Yiyi, who escaped from Xiping Fort, this barbarian shouldn't be so stupid, right?" ”

"Luo has always been definitely not a stupid person, but he has limited troops, so he can only place most of his troops in the east, otherwise, the troops defending the city on all sides are not enough, and he will not have to defend this city." Huang Tai Chi Dao.

Dai Shan slapped his thigh: "Whether he is enough or not, let's attack the city from all sides and see what he has always done!" ”

"Don't worry, the spies have reported, the Ming army has placed several artillery pieces in the southeast corner of the city and the northeast corner of the city, the purpose of which is obviously to use artillery to block our army's access to the south and north of the city, let's be careful of their artillery." Huang Tai Chi Dao.

Dai Shan nodded: "It doesn't matter, we can divide the troops into small units, a group of dozens of people, so that the artillery of the Ming army will not cause much damage to our army." Wait until our troops have outflanked us before we begin the siege. ”

After a pause, Dai Shan continued: "I don't think we need to attack the city from all sides, just the east of the city, the south of the city, and the north of the city. ”

"Then the second brother will assign it." Huang Taiji smiled.

"You are a brother, you choose one direction, and the remaining two will be left to me." Dai Shan smiled.

Huang Taiji said with a smile: "The Ming army in the east of the city has the largest number of troops, so let me come." ”

Dai Shan said with a smile: "Although there are many troops in the east of the city, it is not our main direction of attack, we just need to feint to contain them and not send reinforcements elsewhere, my brother's calculation is good!" ”

"Then I'll choose the south." Huang Tai Chi Dao.

Dai Shan waved his hand: "Come on, I'm kidding you, you will lead the troops to feint and attack the east of the city." ”

"Then it's decided, I'll go back and organize the siege of the city." Huang Taiji smiled.

Dai Shan smiled and nodded.

……

Quang Ninh City.

The Black Cloud Crane closely followed the movements of the Jianyu on the other side.

Heiyunhe knew very well that after the plan to drive the people to open the city gate failed, the Jianyu had only one way to storm it, and once the Jianyu began to attack the city, it was bound to continue.

Quang Ninh City is different from Xiping Fort, Xiping Fort is a small city, only one mile around the city, 3,000 soldiers around the city wall even if one by one can not stand, when defending the city, 3,000 soldiers can be divided into several batches to fight in turns. If the food, weapons and ammunition of Xiping Fort are sufficient, even if the 50,000 troops are exhausted, I am afraid that they will not be able to capture Xiping Fort.

Although the city of Quang Ninh is high and the wall is thick, the east wall alone is more than two miles long, and relying on 3,000 soldiers to defend such a long city wall is far greater than that of Xiping Fort.

Because the number of defenders is several times that of the defenders, they can take turns to attack the city, and if the defenders do not rotate and rest, they will not be able to survive the construction, so the defenders cannot put all their troops into defense at one time, and must rotate and rest, so as to cope with the continuous siege of the city. That is, the defenders had to be divided into at least two groups, and only one and a half thousand fifteen hundred men could be put into defense.

If these soldiers are all soldiers with rich combat experience like the defenders of Xiping Fort, Hei Yunhe is not very worried, the key is that most of these soldiers are deserters from Guangning City, and the combat experience of these people is far inferior to that of the defenders of Xiping Fort. Relying on such soldiers to defend the city, Heiyunhe really didn't have any confidence in his heart.

"Sanrong, what do you want?" Yang He walked up to Hei Yunhe and asked.

Hearing someone talking beside him, Hei Yunhe turned his head and looked, seeing that it was Yang He, Hei Yunhe nodded, and then said: "I'm worried that those soldiers in Guangning City have no combat experience, and I'm afraid that they won't be able to stop the capture of the city." ”

"It's okay, haven't you been letting the veterans of Xiping Fort take them to train these days? As long as they can withstand the first few rounds of Jianyu's attacks, these people will know how to fight. Yang He smiled.

"You seem to have a lot of experience." Black Cloud Crane laughed.

"Hehe, Shen Rong, don't forget, in fact, I'm also a recruit, don't you think I'm learning quite fast?" Yang He said with a smile.

Hei Yunhe said with a smile: "If our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could be like you, they would have beaten Jianyu back to Grandma's house a long time ago." ”

Yang He waved his hand and smiled: "I don't have more hands and eyes than my brothers, as long as I am not afraid in my heart, thinking about how I usually train, I will be able to adapt quickly." ”

Turning his head to look at the soldiers, Yang He said loudly: "Brothers, do you remember those people who died tragically just now?" After a while, Jianyu came, and it was the time when we avenged them, and at the same time, it was also the time when we were ashamed. Tell me, do you want to avenge the villagers who died, and do you want to wash away the shame of being a soldier and not being able to protect the country and the people? ”

"Yes!" The soldiers shouted.

"After a while, one of us may die, maybe you, maybe me, tell me, are you afraid?" Yang He asked.

"With the Black Ginseng General and Master Qian, we are not afraid!" The soldiers replied loudly.

Yang He said loudly: "Even if we are not here, Jianyu has nothing to fear!" Does Jianyu have cannons? No. Do they have firearms? Nor did it. What do they have? They only have bows and arrows and sabers, and what are bows and sabers, those are things that we have had enough of not playing.

The only advantage they have is that they have horses, but what if they have horses? Could they still be able to ride their horses and fly up the city walls?

Therefore, compared with us, the Jianlu has no advantage at all, they shoot us with bows and arrows, we will bombard the damn with artillery, they send infantry to attack the city, and we will shoot the damn with firearms. ”

"Hahaha." The soldiers laughed.

Yang He looked back at Hei Yunhe and smiled: "Sam Rong, what do you think of the morale of the brothers?" ”

Heiyunhe stretched out his thumb: "Brother, you were born to be a general, and a few words will boost the morale of your brothers." ”

Yang He said with a smile: "I have won the award." ”

Suddenly, Yang He's expression froze: "It's here." ”

Heiyunhe turned around and looked outside the city, only to see a group of cavalry and a team of infantry slowly coming towards Quang Ninh City.

Hei Yunhe looked at it for a while, frowned and said: "No, the formation of Jianyu is a little strange, the middle lane is cavalry, and the two wings are infantry, what are they going to do?" ”

Yang He continued: "The siege can only rely on infantry, and it is impossible for cavalry to attack the city. ”

Heiyunhe pondered for a while and said: "I think Jianyu wants to use the cavalry who are good at shooting to contain our army, the speed of the cavalry is fast, and the artillery of our army poses little threat to the cavalry, so that Jianyu can suppress our army with bows and arrows and cover the infantry to attack the city." But why did they put the infantry on the two flanks? Normally, it should be arranged behind the cavalry, right? ”

Suddenly, a person behind him said: "The two wings may not be the two ends of the east of the city, but also the south and north of the city. ”

Hei Yunhe and Yang He hurriedly turned around, only to see Li Wei helping Luo Cheng to come behind the two.

"Dashuai, why are you here?" Black Cloud Crane and Yang He asked in unison.

"Jianyu is about to attack the city, how can I sit still?" Luo always sighed.

Shaking his head, Luo Yi continued: "No, I just came over, and I listened to you speculating about Jianyu's movements, in fact, what is there to speculate?" The captives must have been preparing to attack from the south and north of the city. ”

"Can't you see how many cannons we've set up in the corner?" Black Cloud Crane wondered.

Luo Cheng smiled: "It was because they saw that we had set up several artillery pieces in the corner of the city that they decided to attack from the south and north of the city. ”

"Why is that?" Black Cloud Crane Road.

Luo Yi smiled: "Under normal circumstances, artillery is erected on the front, what is the use of erecting it in the corner of the city?" It can only play the role of a blockade, and Jianyu will not even be unable to understand this. Now that the builders can see the usefulness of these guns, they will continue to wonder why we are blocking these two directions. Yunhe, if it were you, what would you think? ”

Heiyunhe said: "Then you don't need to ask, naturally I don't want them to pass." ”

Luo always smiled and said: "If the defenders have enough troops, do you care if they pass or not?" Let them pass, will they dare to pass? ”

Heiyunhe said: "Are you saying that Jianyu saw that we did not arrange soldiers to defend in the south and north of the city, so we put the main attack direction in these two directions?" ”

"They didn't expect us to dare not arrange soldiers for defense, but they must have seen that we didn't have many soldiers in these two directions." Luo always smiled.