Of course, Zhou Huchen will not have a long-term confrontation with those few Jiannu cannon fodder, and the sunny weather after a light rain, just like this changeable weather, surrounded the Jiannu defenders in Liaoyang like 20,000 cavalry, and then the infantry of the brigade began to bypass Liaoyang.

Abahanar was powerless to stop hundreds of thousands of troops, even those cavalry were not something he could deal with, and Abahanar could only watch as the Ming army spread all over the mountains and fields slowly rushed towards Shenyang outside Liaoyang City.

The massive number of troops and supplies made Abahanar sigh at the abundance of the Ming army, and at the same time, the giant artillery that showed off his might made him tremble.

Fortunately, the Ming army did not bombard Liaoyang City with huge cannons, leaving some foot soldiers to surround Liaoyang, and the cavalry of the Ming army also left. But Abahanar also felt hopeless, because with these old and sick people, he did not dare to go out of the city at all, but not going out of the city to fight was equivalent to waiting for death in the city. Liaoyang City was the capital for a short time during the Nurhachi period, and the scale was not too small, but there were also many people in the city, not only these old, weak, sick and disabled, but also many people who had not been evacuated.

People always have to eat, and the Ming army has abundant supplies, so it just doesn't attack, so there is no problem surrounding it like this. But Liaoyang can't, Abahanar estimated that the food in his city was to save food, that is, to last for half a month, and after this half a month, in addition to going out of the city to die, he was left to starve to death.

The despair didn't seem to be over, and soon after the Ming cavalry withdrew, the Ming army besieging Liaoyang began to show that they had nothing to do, so they began to dig trenches and play boringly.

Very dangerous way to play, Jinzhou was played to the Jianzhou people in this way, that was Abahanar's personal experience, of course he couldn't watch the Ming army do anything, although Liaoyang City did not have artillery, but there were a lot of archers, so those Jianzhou soldiers and Aha who were good at opening bows and arrows began to practice arrows.

Liaoyang City has four city gates in the southeast, south, and northwest. The goal of the Ming army was in front of the drawbridges of these four city gates, and the task was completed by digging a semicircular trench in front of these passages and then bringing in water from the moat. For the Qing army, these roads were the way to escape, and once they were blocked, there was no chance to escape, so the Ming army must be stopped from digging trenches.

The Qing army played with arrows, and the Ming army naturally did not show weakness, and the firecrackers were sent.

The ancients paid attention to the place of one arrow in archery, how much is the place of one arrow?

One hundred and twenty steps.

This distance is very long, and one hundred and twenty paces is a standard range. This range cannot be required to be too precise, because there is no essential difference between the archery requirements of the past and the present era, and this range requires a range, not lethality. If you want to use a bow and arrow to achieve a certain lethality, its distance should be shortened, and by how much?

About double.

About double is a distance of about sixty or seventy paces, and with the condescending advantage of the city wall, there is no problem with this effective range of seventy paces.

The people of Jianzhou are a nomadic people and are very good at throwing arrows. And it is very skillful, and the lethality of the bow and arrow is the most threatening situation, there is cover, and it is condescending to be able to shoot.

In fact. This confrontation is a victory or defeat in one stone's throw, the Qing army in Liaoyang City can not stop the Ming army from digging trenches, so they can only wait for death in the city or come out to surrender, and the key to this temporary victory or defeat lies in the Ming army's musketoners.

The outer edge of the ditch was very close to the city wall, that is, a distance of more than forty steps. At this distance, the Ming army taught Abahanar and the defenders of the city a good lesson.

The first to come up was the shield bearer, and the shield of the Ming army was different from the round shield commonly used by the Jianzhou people. This shield has a very retro connotation. The shield is very long and wide, and a cat does not have to worry about the threat of bows and arrows at all when advancing behind a large long shield.

The tragic discovery of Abahanar found that bows and arrows were completely ineffective against this kind of shield, and the shield of the Ming army was an iron-clad shield, not to mention that it was difficult to shoot through, even if it was able to leave the arrows on it. Of course, the most effective tactic to deal with this kind of turtle is artillery, but unfortunately, the artillery of Liaoyang City was brought to Shenyang, and Abahanar remembered the firecrackers, but he just thought about it, and Abahanar was even more desperate when he thought of the range of those firearms.

In this way, they brazenly came to the moat, lined up, and the Ming army behind the shield poked their heads out.

Abahanar closed his eyes in despair, these Ming soldiers were all wearing iron helmets, and this iron helmet with visor could not be solved by bows and arrows.

In the white feather flying, the long shield of the entire row of the Ming army stood in front of the moat.

The mouth of the Black Hole Cave points to the city wall.

In fact, there were mortars, but the Ming army did not use them, because Zhou Huchen solemnly explained before leaving, the people in the city should try to live as much as possible, and the more prisoners the better, so the Ming army besieging Liaoyang adopted the most stupid method to besiege and then accept surrender.

The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the sound of fire was like a drum beating in his heart, and Abahanar was completely desperate.

No one could resist the attack of the projectiles, and the only thing the Qing army defending Liaoyang City could do was to hide behind the wall and listen to the sound.

The crackling sound of the city wall being hit by the projectile makes people tremble, and the whistling sound of the projectile passing against the city wall makes people dare not raise their heads at all.

Just like a free gift, the shooting of the Ming army has never stopped, just like a kind of drill, many soldiers who defend Liaoyang can't help but complain for a while about the behavior of these losers, I have already hidden, and I don't shoot arrows, is this interesting? Don't bring such scary!

Zhou Huchen's soldiers are good at digging ditches, this specialty can be said to have been tested for a long time, all kinds of trenches they dig handy, less than half a day, Liaoyang City's four city gates in front of the moat have appeared outside a huge semicircular trench and take water to fill it.

Abahanar knew that he was finished, and all the Qing troops in the city knew that they were finished, and there were not many cavalry in the first place, and now that there were cavalry with the trenches, it was already useless. The strength of the Ming army is obvious to all, and the Qing army in Liaoyang City no longer has to make any illusions, except for desperately breaking through and surrendering.

The trench itself is to prevent a breakthrough, but Shenyang is estimated to have been surrounded by the Ming army, where can the breakthrough go?

With the blockade of the Ming army, Liaoyang became a dead city, and of course this dead city will not really die, it is only a death on the surface, but it is a different scene inside. The people did not wait for death at first, and some began to take advantage of the night to buy the soldiers defending the city to escape from the city, and then the soldiers began to sneak along the city walls to swim across the moat and start to surrender.

The Ming army thought that they were happy to see it, and they were not embarrassed by these escapees, and they were also responsible for taking care of the food, but when Abahanar found out about this situation, he didn't know how many people escaped from Liaoyang City at night.

More drastic and harsh patrols began, and the consequences of this harshness were that some people began to resist and forcibly flee out of the city

(To be continued......)