Since ancient times, sieges have been nothing more than those routines.

Cloud ladders to attack the city, accumulate soil into mountains, dig tunnels to sneak in, dig down city walls, anyway, there are only a few kinds.

As long as there are enough troops to defend the city, as long as the soldiers and civilians in the city are united, even if the attacking side has ten times the number of troops, it will not be easy to break the city.

Therefore, siege warfare is often the most brutal battle. It is not uncommon for a city to besiege for a year or even several years.

Of course, the appearance of the Hongyi cannon changed this situation and made the siege much easier.

No matter how strong the city wall is, it can't withstand the continuous bombardment of the Hongyi cannons.

Cao Bianjiao did not have Hongyi cannons, but he had thousands of Lumi guns, but dozens of Francophone cannons, and his troops were more than ten times that of the defenders, so he could easily capture the city wall. After all, there are only five hundred Jiannu guarding the city, and the circumference of the Weining camp city wall is four miles.

And now, the Ming army has more than 5,000 troops, which is half of the troops, which is enough to defend every battlement, and the garrison is very rich. And the strength of the Dege class is only twice that of Cao Bianjiao, there are no Hongyi cannons, there are no large number of firearms, and there are only one or two thousand bows and arrows, so it is really difficult to break through the city.

But for the Derges, there is a reason to break through the city and destroy the Ming army.

And so the siege broke out.

The Eight Banners attacked the city in the same old way, using bows and arrows to cover the shooting, suppressing the Ming army on the city wall, and then the Eight Banners climbed the ladder to attack the city, and the Ming army launched a brutal battle to capture the city.

In order to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city, Derge sent hundreds of archers to climb the earth and stone mountain left by the Ming army during the siege of the city, and began to shoot arrows towards the city wall more than 20 steps away.

However, what awaits them is a dozen Franc machine guns!

The Ming army had already moved the Franc machine artillery to the nearby city wall, and more than a dozen guns had already aimed at the earth and rock piles, and the gunners operated the artillery under the cover of the shield and launched artillery bombardment towards the earth and stone mountain.

The Franc machine is a sub-mother gun, each cannon is equipped with nine sub-guns, the firing rate can reach two rounds per minute, the most important thing is that the sub-guns are equipped with scattered bullets, each sub-gun is equipped with dozens of irons, more than a dozen Franc machines take turns firing, just a moment of effort, hundreds of Jiannu archers on the earth and stone mountain were swept away.

The Praetorian Guards suppressed the earth and stone mountain that defended the city and captured the city wall, and it turned out to be a trap for Jiannu.

The archers of the Eight Banners on the mountain were shot out by the Ming army, and the other Jiannu archers did not fall well.

Among the 13,000 Jiannu, there are less than 2,000 archers, the proportion is really a bit low, there is no way, the good archery is the elite, most of them follow Huang Taiji to fight in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and most of the Jiannu bannermen who stayed behind are Yu Ding, the main business is not to fight, and there are not many good ones who can shoot arrows.

Although there were only more than 5,000 left in the Praetorian Guard, there were as many as 3,000 firecrackers, equipped with a large number of artillery, and they had a condescending momentum, which occupied a great advantage in the shooting, so that the Eight Banners could not suppress the Ming army on the city wall at all.

And Jiannu, who was besieging the city, could only brave the rain of bullets and bullets of the Ming army to carry the ladder to attack.

The Eight Banners soldiers are very brave, even if they are ordinary Eight Banners, although they brave the rain of bullets, they still bravely climb the city wall.

And for the Praetorian Guards defending the city, it is really simple to deal with the Eight Banners who climb the ladder. A "10,000-strong enemy" threw down the city wall, and with a "boom", the ladder was blown up, and a string of Jiannu climbing on it fell down screaming.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Weining battalion was safe and sound, and the Derge class reluctantly retreated to the camp, and when the troops were counted, they found that more than 700 people had been killed and wounded in a day's work.

Derge frowned in distress, if it goes on like this, even if it can break through the city wall and annihilate the Ming army, I don't know how many casualties will be killed?

However, since they want to attack, they have to do their best to break the city as soon as possible, and then return to the division as soon as possible to deal with the other two Ming armies, but there is no time to delay here.

On the second day, the army commanded by Derge to attack the city again, and the Eight Banners soldiers carried the ladder like a moth throwing fire, and swooped towards the city wall, and the scene was particularly heroic.

After a day of onslaught, with nearly 1,000 casualties, he had to withdraw his troops and return to the camp.

On the third day, the Derge class did not attack again, but rested for a day, and by the way, thought of a way to break the city.

However, in the afternoon, several horsemen galloped from Liaoyang City, bringing the bad news of Amin's defeat.

Hearing that Amin's 8,000 cavalry were defeated by the Ming army, Derge was shocked. Eight Thousand Eight Banners is already a very powerful force, and Amin is a habitual general who can fight well, so he was defeated like this, which simply made the Derge class unbelievable.

When was the Ming army so powerful that it was able to defeat the mighty Eight Banners head-on?

After careful inquiry, Derge realized that it was not that the Eight Banners had become weaker, but that Amin was too careless and fell into an ambush by the Ming army, and even let the heavy armored cavalry of the Ming army directly break through the array. If the sneak attack failed, it was sneak attacked, and only then did it fail.

However, Amin's defeat caused the Ming cavalry to rush into the hinterland of the Dajin Kingdom, and were killing everywhere in the vast plain, hundreds of thousands of banner people, old and weak, women and children lived on this plain, and it is not known how many people were slaughtered by the Ming army.

The Dergers were furious, angry at Amin's underestimating enemies. In addition to anger, I also have to think about the current situation.

This Weining battalion can't be attacked anymore, and it has to be retreated.

The more than 10,000 banners in his hands are already the last mobile force of the Dajin Kingdom.

However, for Amin's order to withdraw his troops back to Shenyang, Derge was hesitating, the people of the banner were being slaughtered by the Ming army, and he had more than 10,000 troops, so he ignored it?

Should they retreat to Shenyang, or should they lead their troops to hunt down the Ming army and stop the Ming army's atrocities?

When Derge hesitated, Amin sent a herald to come and once again ordered Derge to immediately lead the army back to Shenyang.

"You and I are only facing the Ming army's partial division, but the most elite army of the Ming army is in Fushun Pass, and it may soon break through the barrier of Fushun Pass, and it won't take long for the troops to come to the city of Shenyang. Shenyang is the capital of our country, and there is no room for loss. Derge, the troops in your hands are the last elite of my Dajin Kingdom at the moment, and they must be preserved, and they can't fight with the Ming army again! ”

In the letter, Amin can be described as bitter, begging Dege to return to Shenyang.

And the main force of the Ming army mentioned by Amin also made the Derge class vigilant! Yes, this Weining battalion is only five or six thousand Praetorian Guards, and it has already made itself helpless. However, there are more than 20,000 Praetorian Guards in Fushun Pass, how long can the thousands of troops in Fushun Pass withstand it?

The current city of Shenyang is extremely empty, if once the Ming army comes to the city, it must be captured. At that time, he will be the eternal sinner of the Dajin Kingdom!

I had to go back to my division, and Derge finally made up his mind.

On this night, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners left the camp and left the Weining camp at night and rushed towards Shenyang City.