The Rakshasa soldiers above the city climbed the city in a panic and looked into the distance.

In the distance, a group of Ming cavalry lined up in a huge phalanx outside the city, just a rough estimate, there are no less than seven or eight thousand troops, and artillery to help, there are only more than 1,000 people in their own city, how can they withstand the attack of the Ming army?

Boom Boom Boom ......

The artillery of the Ming army rang out again, and there were three shells, which fell in the southern city of Irkutsk, but, Manmeng New Town, after all, it is Manmeng New Town, this artillery technology, and the Tianwei Army is really incomparable, and the cannonballs can only ensure that the direction is not wrong, but where the shells fall, it is not something they can master, one of the three shells fell under the city, one fell on the city, and the other shot went straight to the fortress, the Rakshasa soldiers were scared to death, outside the city, Duan Xuan was angry to death, a group of fools who did not open their mindsIt's so stupid! Where the hell did the shells go?

"Bastard! You guys are aiming at Lao Tzu and then fighting, and they will all hit your grandma's house! A bunch of useless rubbish! ”

Duan Xuan jumped off his horse, pushed an artillery soldier aside, and shouted: "Cai Zheng, Wu Liu, a few of you come over to Lao Tzu, personally master the artillery, and carry out artillery bombardment!" Aiming at Lao Tzu, Dong Bixian, instead of Lao Tzu, commanded the army, ready to attack, and today Lao Tzu personally carried out the shelling! ”

These are all a few cadres brought by Duan Xuan from the Tianwei Army, although they are not as professional as the professional artillery of the Tianwei Army, but they are also veterans of the battlefield, and they are very familiar with the flowering artillery, even if they are not very good at fighting, but they are always much more accurate than these two knives.

The rest of the artillery has now become the one who carries the shells and fights, and several generals personally took over the artillery and launched an artillery bombardment on the city of Irkutsk again, and shells continued to fall on the head of the city, blowing up a section in the middle of the southern city of Irkutsk beyond recognition!

Ergüv was completely dumbfounded and went out of the city to fight? He only has more than a thousand troops, and most of them are bandits, and they have not experienced formal training, so let them fight against the thousands of elite cavalry outside the city, that is, to hit stones with eggs; Just nestled in a fortress? But blindly being beaten passively is not much better, General Tubazov took all the artillery away, leaving not a single one, what should I do now?

Ergüv was so anxious that he turned around, but he couldn't think of any way, so he could only watch the Ming army carry out indiscriminate bombardment, Duan Xuan's artillery rang from noon to evening, bombarded for more than two hours, fired more than 400 shells, all of which were concentrated on the short city wall of less than 20 zhang, even if the city wall was strong, it could not withstand such a fierce bombardment, and it was still a concentrated bombardment......

"Order, stop the shelling, the army will rest for the time being!"

Duan Xuan shouted coldly, there are only two white hairs of the shells around him, these shells are used for emergency purposes, all of them are shot, once there is any new situation, if you want to use the shells, there will be no more.

Returning to the tent, Duan Xuan looked at Dong Bixian, Cai Zheng and the others, and said in a deep voice: "How long do you think we can take this fortress?" ”

Dong Bixian smiled bitterly: "My lord, this is very difficult to say, if our Tianwei army is here, it will be a matter of one night, but now Manmeng Xinzhen has not been defeated for a long time, the morale is not high, and the opposite Irkutsk is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I want to take it in a short time, but it is very difficult, the most important thing is that we have no infantry, they are all cavalry, and it is too ...... to attack the city directly with cavalry."

"Humph!"

Duan Xuan snorted coldly: "It doesn't matter what kind of infantry he is, it's still cavalry!" Three days, just three days, if you can't take Irkutsk, let's all wait for the embarrassment, you are all old men of the Tianwei Army, when you return to the Central Plains in the future, you can still hold your head up when you see the old brothers? ”

A few people's faces became ugly, what is the future, now the brothers can't raise their heads.

"But, my lord, it's really hard to fight now, morale is low, and they are all newly recruited Manchurian soldiers and Mongolian soldiers, how can they fight?"

Duan Xuan took a deep breath and replied: "Pass the order, the third battalion and the fifth battalion have a thousand troops, all give up their horses, fight on foot, and attack the gaps in the city wall, these gaps, the shortest place is only half a zhang, only one vertical leap, the brothers can jump on the city wall, we can't leave the Rakshasa soldiers a chance to repair the city wall, the order, the musketeers are ready, give me turns to shoot, until midnight, the third battalion and the fifth battalion are ready, this time I personally lead the army to fight, Cai Zheng, You lead the cavalry in the rear to cover and respond, and we attack the Rakshasa in the middle of the night! Attack the city in one fell swoop, as long as you rush into Irkutsk, with our strong forces, take Irkutsk, no problem! ”

The Rakshasa soldiers in the city of Irkutsk are already panicking now, but they don't know that the Ming army has not many shells, such a fierce offend, I am afraid that in one day, the city wall will collapse, and the power of artillery is really far better than solid bullets......

The most terrible thing is that although the artillery of the Ming army has stopped, the muskets have sounded, just listening to the intensity of this gunshot, there are at least thousands of muskets, constantly shooting towards the city, and even the cavalry began to rush to a distance of less than fifty steps from the city, such a close distance, it is simply a naked demonstration!

The Rakshasa soldiers also have muskets, but the number of muskets is far from enough, together, they are only one hundred and ten arquebuses, the wind and sand in the north of the desert are very large, the arquebuses are not easy to ignite, and the power has been reduced to the minimum, just with one hundred and ten arquebuses, it is far from enough to resist the attack of the Ming army!

"Colonel, now the Ming army's attack is too fierce, we don't even have time to repair the city wall, if it is at dawn, the Ming army will continue to launch artillery bombardment, and when the time comes, the infantry will charge again, how can we defend Irkutsk City?"

An ensign on the side asked.

Ergüv smiled bitterly: "Yakoxinki, you ask me, who do I ask?" Now we can only hope that General Tubazov can return in time to help, the battle in Mobei has subsided, and General Tubazov should return to Irkutsk according to the schedule, as long as our main force returns, the current Ming army can't help us......"

(End of chapter)