Chapter 320: Falling Short

The sound of guns and cannons rumbled, the sound of roaring and killing shook the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed out, filling the sky over the entire Jinzhou City.

The Jin army's siege of the city is no longer a feint, but the north, south and west three city gates have launched a strong attack, the north city wall successfully collapsed, once let Huang Taiji see hope, put in elite cavalry and elite infantry crazy attack, in order to contain the Ming army defending the city, he also launched a strong attack on the southwest two city gates, causing pressure on the Ming army, creating opportunities for the elite to attack the north city gate.

In fact, because Huang Taiji did not invest in the elite troops, the Han army banner that served as cannon fodder had already lost two-thirds of the battle in the feint and strong attack in the front, and it was completely disabled, and what remained was that the morale had fallen to freezing point, and they could no longer fight, and then forcibly ordered them to attack, for fear of triggering a mutiny, so they could only be moved to the rear camp to rest.

Dense tribal warriors rushed to Jinzhou Jiancheng like a tide, they risked their lives to cross the death blockade line constructed by the Ming army's Buddha Lang machine gun, rushed to the city, and had to face the dense rain of bullets, as well as the terrifying thunder and thunder bombardment, and then they could put the ladder on the high city wall and climb up with the ladder.

As for those siege engines, rushing towers and other heavy siege equipment are advancing or destroyed by the Franc cannons, or collapsed by the thunder, these heavy siege equipment is too bulky and slow, and several Franc cannons can be destroyed by locking on to the target at the same time.

The tribal warriors who besieged the city were the elite of a hundred battles, they charged bravely and fearlessly, one after another, and the Ming army defending the city resisted bravely, and many recruits grew up quickly in the fierce battle, or they were numb, just mechanically obeying the officer's command, repeating the simple actions of shooting, retreating, loading, forward, and shooting.

The soldiers on both sides are fighting bloodily, fighting for a courage, it depends on who can't support the collapse first, however, the Ming army relying on the defense of the fortified city is basically to respond with dense guns and thunder, suppress the archers of the Jin army, and kill and injure a large number of Jin soldiers who are besieging the city, only a few unlucky soldiers were shot by stray arrows, and the Jin army as the attacking side suffered heavy casualties. This gave him hope of breaking the city.

The most tragic battle was in Beicheng, where groups of golden soldiers bravely rushed into a large gap more than 20 meters wide, but they were all bombarded by the soldiers defending the city with platoon guns, and bombarded with thunder, killing and wounding heavily.

Hong Chengchou ordered the soldiers and the people to raise the fortifications made of the second sandbag by several layers, and set up a wooden frame below, so that the musketeers could stand on it to assist the soldiers of the first line of defense to shoot the enemy, and throw thunder when necessary, and the explosive package with huge lethality was disabled, he was afraid that the fight would be too hard, so that the Jin army was timid and did not dare to attack the city again, he used this gap as bait to kill and injure the Jin army in large quantities, and then fill the gap after dark.

A large gap of more than 20 meters piled up several layers of thick corpses, basically all of them are Jin Jun's, the Jin soldiers who rushed in stepped on the corpses of their companions, as long as they accidentally fell, they would be trampled into meatloaf by countless feet, and it was precisely because of these corpses that they formed an obstacle that the elite cavalry had lost their role and had to retreat to the back to rest, after the inventory, let Huang Taiji hiss and breathe in the cold air, more than half of the 10,000 elite iron horsemen were injured, and many wounded soldiers who were shot did not know whether they could survive the ghost gate is unknown, even if they can survive, Some people are also crippled, not counting the battle-damaged infantry army, this time it is really a bit nerve-wracking.

If you can break through Jinzhou City, it's okay, you can't take it, you can't rob all kinds of materials to be charged, but it's really a bit troublesome, he, the Great Khan, is difficult to explain to the tribes, of course, as a generation of heroes, he already has a way to transfer contradictions and replenish materials in his heart, but that is a desperate strategy, that small empire is too poor, and the super fat sheep of the Ming Dynasty is the difference between heaven and earth.

"Warriors, rush me, Nanban can't hold on, rush...... Ah......h

Under the northern city, a tribal officer with a few colorful feathers on his golden helmet rode on the horse's horse, brandishing a scimitar and roaring loudly, inspiring his subordinates to rush and kill, but before he finished shouting, he suddenly felt a sharp shock in his neck, and his huge body fell off the horse, and at the moment of losing consciousness, he couldn't figure out how the musket of the Ming army shot so far? He was obviously in the blind spot of the Franc cannon, outside the range of the musket, but why was he still shot?

A sniper cowering behind the battlements turned around and reloaded his ammunition with his back against the battlements, he couldn't remember how many Jin officers and armored warriors he had shot, but the ammunition had already been replenished twice.

There is an auxiliary soldier squatting in the battlement next to him, who is grinning and searching for the next valuable target with a monocular, helping the sniper finger to lock on to the target, the battle lasted for several hours, he did not fire a shot, his task is to assist the sniper, the monocular is his weapon, the reason why he laughs so happily is because the sniper's combat exploits also have his share, the greater the sniper's combat exploits, his combat exploits also increase, who is not happy?

There are many tribal officers and armored warriors who died under the cold guns of snipers in a daze, and the whole battlefield is full of gunfire, roaring and killing, resounding and chaotic, and who will notice that in this chaos, there are almost 100 snipers hiding in the dark and putting cold guns for roll call?

Even if a few people found that there was a musket in the Ming army with a long range and could shoot targets more than 500 meters away, but all the people who found it were locked by snipers, and they only understood it after being shot, so they could only bring this secret into the underworld and report it to Lord Yama.

"Kill."

Hordes of tribal warriors, shield-wielding swords and shouting, rushed into the gap, only to be knocked down by musketeers on the front and sides of the broken wall with a platoon of guns.

"Warriors, rush."

Immediately afterwards, more than 20 tribal warriors rushed in, and there were six or seven tribal warriors wearing heavy armor inside, and among the warriors of the tribe outside the Guan, those who could wear heavy armor were all warriors who blocked a hundred, and the elite of the elite, often a dozen warriors in armor could defeat a group of Ming troops.

However, after the reorganization, the Ming army no longer plays with you the sword and this kind of hand-to-hand hand-to-hand combat white-knives, all greeted with muskets, and some soldiers thought that the muskets were not powerful enough, and directly threw the thunderbolts, six or seven thunderbolts with green smoke were thrown into the crowd, blowing up a ball of fire and billowing gunsmoke, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown everywhere, and the screams were endless.

A few streams of arrows roared, a few musketeers who had not had time to shoot fell with a scream, and the tribal archers who were standing in the distance shooting arrows were then knocked down by the rain of bullets from the city, and they lay in a pool of blood and struggled and screamed.

The tragic offensive and defensive battle lasted until the evening, the sky was getting late, the Ming army defending the city began to fill up the big gap of more than 20 meters wide, Huang Taiji had to order the collection of troops, today's strong attack suffered heavy losses, not to mention the heavy losses, the long-term attack was not overcome, the sharp spirit was frustrated, and then ordered the soldiers to forcibly attack the city, increasing casualties, and could only wait for tomorrow to start the war again, but it was a pity that the big gap, the success fell short, let him beat his chest and pause, and scolded God for not helping.

Although Hong Chengchou boldly used this gap as a bait to kill and injure a large number of Jin troops, his character was more conservative after all, worried that the Jin army would use the night as a cover for a sneak attack, for the sake of complete safety, he still ordered the soldiers and people to start throwing debris at the gap, dumping cement slurry mixed with sand and gravel, and filling up the big gap little by little.

The Jin army retreated like a tidal wave, the officers of the city let out earth-shattering cheers, and some of the exhausted soldiers sat on the wall buttresses against the ground, gasping with their chapped mouths open, for them it was lucky to survive.