After a night of fierce fighting, the low walls of Ningyuan City were once again revealed from the light mist. Thousands of corpses of soldiers fell within a hundred meters of the city. Ownerless horses hang low reins and roam the area of death. The ground had been bombarded by artillery and mines, leaving pits and depressions, and the blood that had gathered in them had frozen and turned black.

The early morning glimmer lit up, and a buzzing biplane flew into the southern sky and landed in Ningyuan City. The plane unloaded several hundred kilograms of supplies, took seven or eight wounded with them, and then flew away quickly. After an hour and a half, it will fly again.

Nurhachi stood seven or eight hundred meters away from Ningyuan City, clutching a telescope from Tessie. He looked at Ning Yuan's defensive layout for a long time in a daze, and remained silent. He was followed by several guards, and seeing that he didn't seem to be in a bad mood, he hurriedly reported something important.

"Great Khan, the 30,000 people who set off from Jinzhou the day before yesterday have all arrived in Ningyuan, and they are all currently arrayed three miles away. There are still 30,000 people who will leave today, and it is estimated that they will all arrive before dark tomorrow. The Great Belle was urging his minions to bring the cannons, saying that they would definitely arrive today, and that they would not delay the Great Khan's war. ”

Nurhachi pounced from Jinzhou. However, in these years, there were no highways, and the road capacity was limited. In addition, there are bulky things such as artillery to be transported, and the road is crowded. The tens of thousands of troops of Jiannu can only arrive in batches. He went to Ningyuan yesterday to survey the terrain, and launched more than a dozen rounds of fierce attacks at night, thinking that such an offensive must be sharp and unstoppable, but the little Ning Yuan actually withstood it.

"What the hell is flying in the sky?" Nurhachi lowered his binoculars and asked.

A few guards looked at each other, but they didn't know how to answer?

Nurhachi waited for a long time without getting an answer, looked back, and said, "Don't know? ”

"The minions are ignorant and don't dare to speak indiscriminately." Several guards hurriedly bowed their heads and confessed.

Nurhachi snorted twice and said faintly, "Ben Khan doesn't know either. The Han people can always make some strange things, and the ones flying in the sky are only about the same as our crane emissaries, or even more useful. ”

Speaking of the crane rider, several guards couldn't help but look at a corpse that fell from the sky not far away. That is the apprentice who piloted the flying crane puppet, flew to the head of Ningyuan City after dawn to investigate, but was pecked to death by the flying puppet of the Han people. The Jurchens lost two flying cranes in a row, so they didn't dare to send people anymore.

This time the sky became Han Chinese.

In addition to flying in the sky, the Han people on the ground are not easy to deal with. When Nurhachi arrived in Ningyuan yesterday, he felt that this small city was a little strange, and after careful investigation, he found that the Han people had built more than a dozen forts outside the city wall - the Wehrmacht who rushed to Ningyuan had no time to repair the large forts, so they could only hastily repair the forts. These forts, jutting out of the city, constituted the firepower of the defense.

The artillery of the 'revolutionary army' was very accurate, and the battalion artillery could attack a target at a certain point within an effective range of 700 meters. Last night, Nurhachi dared to get close to Ning Yuan within 500 meters and personally command, but as soon as dawn he got the bad news - his fourth son, Tang Gu, was killed in battle.

Although Tang Gu is not as famous as Daishan, Mang Gurtai, and Huang Taiji. But he is also a fierce general under Nurhachi, and it is not a problem to attack the city, but today he died very unjustly.

When it was dark, the Wehrmacht in the city could not see far, and could only wait for the enemy to get closer. As soon as the morning dawned, he found that Jiannu was actually under his nose. When they saw hundreds of Jiannu gathering three or four hundred meters away to attack, the Wehrmacht was very happy to hit the artillery - Tang Gu was killed by the artillery in such a daze.

Nurhachi didn't have time to think that he had another son dead, so he confirmed that the opponent's artillery fire was really sharp, not only fast, but also particularly accurate. Five hundred meters away, an observation car was erected, but the car was only half erected, and the artillery fire on the opposite side smashed the minions who arranged the observation car to pieces, along with the observation car—fortunately, Nurhachi had not yet gone up, otherwise he would have been beaten together.

If you want to fight a war, you must assemble a team, and you must have command and organization. Since the Han artillery was fierce, Nurhachi could only order the distance of the assembly to be farther away. But after retreating and retreating beyond the effective range of the 700-meter artillery, Dakin's soldiers and horses felt that it should be safe for them to retreat far enough, so they prepared to assemble a large wave to make a group charge......

As a result, rockets were launched in Ningyuan City to engage in covering shooting.

Hundreds of rockets flew out of a distance of a thousand meters in one go, blasting an area about the size of two football fields into the sky. This time it was Nurhachi's guards who were assembled, and a full 2,000 elite soldiers with the Yellow Banner were ready to set an example for the whole army. As a result, they were beaten up just by making a rally, killing four or five hundred people on the spot and injuring countless others.

After a large number of people died, Nurhachi summed up a lesson - they would be hit by fire within 200 meters, if they gathered more than 300 people within 700 meters, they would be hit by artillery, and if they gathered more than 1,000 people within 700 to 1,500 meters, they would be bombarded by rockets. More than 1,500 meters, probably the Han people at the head of the city couldn't see clearly, so they didn't care.

But if you want to charge from 1,500 meters away, Jiannu will be tired to death even if he is beaten with iron.

Don't even let people assemble, how can people fight this battle?

Only then did Nurhachi understand why Mang Gurtai was stopped in front of Shanhaiguan, why Amin was defeated and lost on the Mongolian steppe, and why his important ministers persuaded him to shrink and sue for peace, this is really because the way of fighting on this battlefield has changed. Now he could only take a few guards and sneak close to a few hundred meters outside Ningyuan City to snoop.

This kind of prying eyes have to be taken very seriously. Once your identity is revealed, the Han artillerymen at the head of the city will feel that you are a big fish, and they will not hesitate to bombard you. As for the power of this cannonball, even if Nurhachi's cultivation is already shocking, there is no intention to resist.

Several guards were frightened, hiding for fear of attracting the attention of the Han army on the other side. From time to time, they begged Nurhachi not to stay at the front line, but to retreat. After all, now the tens of thousands of Jurchen troops are three miles away, and they are easily unwilling to approach. This has never been the case before.

"Either send 20,000 or 30,000 people to stare at the Han army in this Ningyuan City, or you can only wait for dark before attacking." Nurhachi thought about it in his heart, and felt that this was not a solution. He finally ordered: "Bring out all the clothed minions in the army, and drive them to the front of the battle to fill the trenches of the Han army." ”

Trenching?

This is clearly to drive people to death.

It's just that at this critical juncture, the slave owners themselves are all in battle to kill, how can they cherish the minions below?

Jiannu is pondering how to crack the hard walnut of Ningyuan, and Ningyuan City is also actively preparing for war. Sang Quanlai's platoon played all night, and dozens of people were tired and sleepy. They were replaced by the city's reserves and rested, and the soldiers had eaten a feast and then found a place to sleep.

Sang Quanlai was also sleepy to death, but he had to fight hard to make a statistical report. Last night, Jiannu continued to launch a wave-like attack, and launched a strong attack under the limited capacity of the battlefield. At least three or four thousand people died outside the city in one night, and his militia also lost four dead and six wounded, a reduction of more than 10%.

Handing over the wounded and supplying the quartermasters. Sang Quanlai saw that the biplane, the treasure of the town army of the 'revolutionary army', was actually arranged to deliver supplies and transport the wounded. He was so surprised by this, it is said that Ningyuan is close to the sea, isn't it better to transport it by ship? The direction of the seaside is controlled by the Han Chinese, and the frozen sea surface can also be blown up with explosives, and boats of several hundred tons can easily come over.

Although the biplane is fast, it can only transport a few hundred kilograms at a time, which is too little for the intense battlefield consumption. A rocket can shoot a ton or two of ammunition in a single salvo, and it can't be delayed by biplanes?

Unless it can't be transported by sea.

Sang Quanlai was shocked by his own speculation and broke out in a cold sweat, and now the Han army relies on strong firepower to control the battlefield. In broad daylight, he used overwhelming rockets to beat Jiannu and did not dare to approach. But although this rocket is good, it consumes too much ammunition. If the logistics can't keep up, Ningyuan's 10,000 people will be miserable.

Sang Quanlai saw the tragedy of Jiannu's bombardment, and even saw Jiannu's dying struggle like a trapped beast. If the firepower is not enough, let those barbarians who are not afraid of death really rush up, and he will definitely die on the front line.

Sang Quanlai didn't dare to talk nonsense, but when he went to the logistics department to lead the army, he couldn't help but ask: "Can you give some more explosives?" ”

"Why do you need so many explosives? Only sappers use explosives. The officer in charge of logistics refused without hesitation.

Sang Quanlai froze suddenly, his eldest brother Sang Wenlai was a sapper, and he himself had secretly learned some blasting skills. Usually, he asked the logistics for explosives to be used to strengthen the defense, and he could get some anyway. Not today.

A puppet bird happened to fly out of the logistics office and heard the conversation between Sang Quanlai and the logistics officer. It took the initiative to shout: "Don't worry, it will be fine in two days." Two days, two days at most, will give you a big surprise. We've got a new gadget that's guaranteed to keep the boar skins out of town happy! ”

The puppet bird fluttered its wings and flew away, but Sang Quanlai's heart was tightly grasped. He knew that the days in these two days were going to be sad, but these two days were the time when Jiannu desperately broke through - when the battle was fierce, let alone two days, every minute and second was torment.

Back in the camping tents in the city, everyone else hurried to rest. At present, the battle situation is not bad, last night's battle exchange ratio is very good, and everyone is very confident in holding Ning Yuan next.

But Sang Quanlai couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning. He remembered the night he was mobilized in Tianjin, when everyone sang songs and rushed to the battlefield with tears in their eyes. He thought of the old mother he didn't know, and remembered that the other party cried and took his hand, asking him to go home safely.

"Sleep, sleep! How can you fight without energy? The company commander came to inspect and saw Sang Quanlai staring at him in a daze, "Tartar has a lot of people here today." What are we blocking them, and the three Baylors are going to be annihilated, and those dogs are desperate. ”

Sang Quanlai was very scared at the moment, he was afraid that he would not be able to return home, and he was worried that he would never see his parents again. He suddenly got up and grabbed the company commander's clothes, lowered his voice, and asked uneasily: "Company commander, are we alone?" ”

"What do you kid think?" The company commander scolded angrily, and said in a low voice: "If you talk nonsense, you will be punished by military law." When a soldier goes to the battlefield, he must face life and death, and don't make trouble for himself. Go to sleep! ”

As soon as the company commander left, Sang Quanlai almost cried. He realized more and more that he had guessed correctly, this Ning Yuan was a Jedi, and he was going to die here.