Early in the morning, as the first rays of dawn appeared in the east, the entire Liaoyang City completely woke up from its sleep.

A group of bannermen drove out of the camp in the city, and as soon as they walked up to the city to replace the guards on duty at night, they heard a faint drum sound from the camp of the Ming army outside the city, and another day of siege began.

Standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, I saw a group of Ming soldiers out of the camp, lined up in a neat queue and slowly approached the southern city of Liaoyang.

The total strength of the Ming army was only 30,000, and it was impossible to completely surround Liaoyang, and it was afraid that the division of troops would be attacked by the eight banners in the city, so it did not choose to attack the city on all sides or three sides, and only attacked one side of the southern city all the time, and it is the same today.

Seeing that the Ming army continued to attack the city, the bannermen who had rested all night, the clothed soldiers who were recruited to assist in the defense, and the Han army officers also gathered one after another, or climbed the city wall to assist in the defense, or transported bricks, lime bottles and other materials to the city with the strong woman.

Outside the city, the Ming army lined up a stone's throw from the city wall and began to prepare for the siege, while the artillery was transported up the earth hill again, and the gunners began to set up firing angles and load gunpowder projectiles, which looked no different from the past.

But in the eyes of those who care, it is different from the past.

"The number of artillery dispatched by the Ming army today is a bit too much?" Counselor Muto muttered.

In the past, the Ming army used more than ten artillery pieces at a time, but now, Muto can see clearly that there are as many as forty or fifty artillery pieces on the earth mountain, which is densely packed, and the earth mountain is almost a few feet square.

Muto could see hundreds of Ming gunners on the hill nervously adjusting the angle of fire and loading the projectile gunpowder.

"Boom, boom, boom......" Finally, dozens of artillery pieces opened fire one after another, shooting projectiles at the head of the city.

In the loud crash, bricks and earth flew, the battlements were smashed and shattered, and the city walls trembled faintly.

Cannonballs hit the city walls, smashing out a crater with a large bowl mouth; Cannonballs fell to the top of the city wall, rolling between the hard ground and the female walls on both sides, and all the flags and coats that were touched by the cannonballs let out a miserable scream; The cannonballs crossed the city walls and fell into the city, shattering the roofs and collapsing the houses!

This time, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was much more fierce than in the past, and the power was extraordinarily great!

"That's not a Franc machine!" Amin hid behind a female wall, looked at the opposite earth mountain through the battlement, and saw that more than a dozen new artillery pieces appeared on the earth mountain, which were not as huge as the red-coated cannons, but each one weighed hundreds of pounds!

This artillery does not have the same rate of fire as the Franc machine, but it is much more powerful than the Franc machine.

And these cannons are also made by the Royal Arsenal, each of which is more than 300 catties, and is called "broken cannon". The artillery is not too heavy, it is all mounted on the gun truck, compared to the red-coated cannon that weighs thousands of pounds, it is most suitable for the army!

In addition to more than a dozen "broken guns", the rest of the Franc machines on the earth mountain are Franc machines, some of which are loaded with solid shells, and the rest are loaded with loose shells.

Broken cannonballs can't break through the city wall, but they can collapse the female wall where the battlement at the top of the city wall is located, the solid bullet of the Franc machine can shatter the shield, and the scattered bullets can slaughter the unobstructed Jiannu at the top of the city wall.

In a short period of time, a large section of the battlement was blown down, and the Jiannu hiding behind the female wall was exposed, and then it was covered by countless bullets, and the Jiannu on the city wall within dozens of zhang of the earth mountain suffered heavy losses!

The Ming army did not try to send troops to climb over the cloud ladder to attack the city, but relied on artillery bombardment to kill the Eight Banners at the head of the city.

And the Eight Banners had nothing to do about it!

The earth mountain was beyond the range of the bow and arrow from the city wall, and there was no way to build the artillery on the city wall.

Is there any artillery in Liaoyang City? Naturally, there is, or the Ming army left behind was captured when Jiannu broke through Liaoyang.

But the problem is, no one in the city will use it right now!

When Nurhachi was alive, he didn't pay much attention to firearms, thinking that firearms were not as good as bows and arrows, and although artillery was powerful, it could only be used to defend the city, and the Eight Banners had always attacked in the face of the Ming army, where did they need to defend?

After Nurhachi's death, Huang Taiji inherited the throne of the Later Jin State and attached more importance to firearms than Nurhachi. Huang Taiji deliberately transferred the Han army, which knew how to use firearms, and formed a 5,000-strong Han army battalion firearms, which were handed over to Li Yongfang Tong Yang Commander.

These Han army banner firearms soldiers are following Huang Taiji to fight in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and most of them were killed by Huang Degong, and the Han army that stayed in Jiannu's nest did not know how to operate artillery, which also caused Liaoyang City to have one or two dozen cannons, but no one could use them.

In the face of the bombardment of the Ming artillery, the Eight Banners had no way at all!

"Amma, you give me a team of cavalry, I will go out of the city to rush and kill for a while, rush up the earth mountain and destroy Minggou's artillery!" Alli reached Amin's side with a shield and shouted.

Amin didn't agree, but asked rhetorically: "Erli, think about it, since the Ming army has so many artillery, why didn't they take it out before?" ”

Allie was stunned, how did he know.

"This shows that the Ming army was clearly tempting and confusing us a few days ago, and only today did it show its full strength to launch a fierce attack." Amin sighed, "In that case, how could the Ming army not have imagined that we would go out of the city to attack its forts? Maybe the Ming army is waiting for us to get out of the city. ”

"But are we just going to let Minggou's artillery rage? Now the bannermen in the city have suffered nearly 100 casualties, Amma! Elley exclaimed.

Amin was silent and ordered: "Send the order down, leave the people who are guarding and watch, and the others will go to the city for a while." ”

"Alas!" Elley sighed angrily and turned to give the order.

Soon, the bannermen on the city wall and the young men of the Han army came down the city wall one after another, and only dozens of sentries were left in the entire section of the city wall to monitor the movements of the Ming army.

The movement of Jiannu on the city wall naturally could not be hidden from the eyes and ears of the Ming army, and after Cao Bianjiao heard about it, he immediately ordered the siege of the city.

Under the cover of artillery fire, groups of Ming troops rushed across the frozen moat with ladders and rushed towards the city wall.

"Damn Minggou, he didn't care about his own casualties!" Seeing this, Amin scolded angrily, hurriedly issued an order, and ordered the bannermen to go to the city to defend.

As a result, the soldiers of the Eight Banners who had just left the city ran up the city wall one after another.

The artillery continued to roar, firing countless projectiles at the city wall, and one by one, the bannermen who had just run back screamed and fell to the ground.

Because of the good shooting angle, most of the shells either fell into the city or smashed on the head of the city, which basically had no effect on the Ming army outside the city wall.

As a result, the soldiers of the Eight Banners had to brave artillery fire, shoot arrows under the city through the battlements, and throw bricks and stones to beat the ash bottles to prevent the Ming army from landing the city.

At this time, under the city, on the inner side of the moat, there were thousands of Ming army firearms standing tall and long, and the loaded firearms were all facing the city.

The sound of "bang, bang, bang" fire guns rang out one after another, and gradually sounded into a one, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air outside the city wall.

With the sound of firecrackers, the Jiannu who shot arrows and stones downward were shot one after another, some screamed and fell from the battlement into the city, and some lay on the battlement without saying a word.

The Ming army gunners were in groups of four or five, aiming at a battlement at the same time, and firing at the same time, very few outcropping Jiannu could avoid the volley of firearms.

Amin was shocked to find that the Eight Banners, who had always had an accurate rate of fire, were forced by the Ming army to dare not show their heads from the city wall. Amin realized that he had just made a mistake, and he shouldn't have let the Eight Banners defending the city be removed from the city wall because of casualties. And the Ming army gunners took advantage of the retreat of the archers of the Eight Banners to successfully cross the moat and line up outside the city.

Now, every battlement is targeted by the Ming army's gunners, forcing the Eight Banners to dare not show their heads at all.

Don't dare to show your head, you can only blindly throw brick and lime bottles under the city, how much damage can be brought to the Ming army climbing along the ladder, think about it, it's not optimistic!

For a long time, it was the defenders who occupied the absolute geographical advantage, but Amin now found that the defenders of the city had no advantage over the Ming army attacking the city.

Moreover, under the artillery bombardment of the Ming army on the earth mountain and the shooting of the Ming army under the city wall, the Eight Banners soldiers on the city wall suffered heavy casualties, and the guards were shot and died tragically every moment, which made Amin very angry.

"Amma, I can't go on like this, it's too many casualties!" Ellie shouted again.

It can't go on like this!

The losses of the defenders were too great, and it seemed that they were unable to prevent the Ming army from landing on the city. Once the Ming army successfully captures the city wall, their morale will drop sharply, and Liaoyang City may be in danger at that time.

Amin suddenly found that he should not give up the advantage of the Eight Banners and fall into the rhythm of the Ming army.

The Eight Banners have always been fierce and fierce, how could they have ever defended aggrieved?

The Eight Banners are not damn Ming dogs, defending the city, they are not good at it at all!

"Erli, you take 3,000 cavalry out of the city from the west gate, attack the Ming army along the city wall, kill its firearms, cut off its ladders, rush up the earth mountain and destroy its artillery!" Amin commanded in a deep voice.

It is necessary to take the initiative to attack, so that the Ming army has no traps outside the city, and it is impossible to care.

If we want to change the current passive situation, we must take the initiative to attack. However, for the sake of prudence, Amin did not dare to order the opening of the gate of the southern city, after all, the Ming army was attacking the southern city, but let Erli lead the cavalry to bypass the west gate.

"Yes, Amma!" Elley shouted happily, finally there was no longer a need to defend the city with grievances.

Ellie quickly descended the city, and immediately began to give orders to gather the cavalry. A cavalry of the Eight Banners rushed out of the camp and lined up in the open space under the city walls. When the 3,000 cavalry gathered, Elli made a whistle and led the team towards the gate of the West City.

Under the city wall, at the entrance of the street, Qian Guang, an officer of the Han army, looked at the Jiannu cavalry of the brigade running towards the west gate, silently pulled out three fireworks from behind his waist, put them on the ground, and lit them with a fire sickle.

"Chirp...... Tong! ”

"Chirp...... Tong! ”

"Chirp...... Tong! ”

Three fireworks were shot into the air one after another, exploding in the air, blowing up three colors: red, green and blue.

For a while, on the city wall, outside the city wall, countless pairs of eyes looked into the air.

"Let's find out who set off the fireworks!" Amin instinctively felt that it was not a second, and commanded sharply.

"Wow!" Commander Muto agreed, and rushed to the city wall with a few bannermen.

After getting off the city wall and walking a few steps to the place where the fireworks exploded, I saw my own servant Qian Guang standing on the street with a few Han army officers patrolling the streets.

"Qian Guang, did you see the fireworks rise from?" Muto hurriedly asked.

"It seems to have risen from that yard, and I'm wondering, what kind of fireworks are you setting off every year?" Qian Guang pointed to a courtyard road next to the street.

"Idiot, it must have been put by the Ming army's spies, so that he could spread something to the Ming army outside the city!" Muto scolded and ran towards the courtyard, "Dog minion, follow me to catch the Ming army spies!" ”

"Okay." Qian Guang agreed, pulled out the steel knife on his waist casually, and ran over with Mu Tuoji's two subordinates, and several Han army officers under Qian Guang also picked up their weapons and followed Qian Guang's side.

"Dog minion, you're banging on the door!" Muto stood outside the courtyard gate and turned back to Qian Guang and commanded.

Qian Guang agreed, walked forward with a smile, and when he walked to Muto's side, he suddenly slashed at Muto's neck, Muto didn't have time to react, and Douda's head was cut off to the ground. Muto, who was dressed in armor, only had a weak point around his neck.

As Qian Guang moved, several of his Han soldiers rushed towards the two bannermen who were following Mutuo, slashing and stabbing with knives and guns, and killing the two bannermen who were completely defenseless in a few strokes.

"It's time to do it, let's go, go set fire!" Qian Guang's eyes flashed with excitement, and he rushed to a nearby shop with a few of his subordinates, broke down the door, and began to light a fire.

It was a grocery store, filled with all sorts of items, and as soon as the fire was lit, it grew bigger and bigger, and soon flames came out of the doors and windows, and the flames were accompanied by billowing smoke, and the whole store burned into a huge torch.

After setting fire to the shop, Qian Guang did not stop and ran out of the street to find the next place to set the fire.

Set fire to create chaos, create panic in the city, and help the official army to attack Liaoyang City, this is Qian Guang's task now!

Outside the city, looking at the three fireworks that exploded in the air, Cao Bianjiao frowned slightly. The fireworks are a pre-agreed code, representing that Jiannu has been killed from the West Gate.

Is this unbearable? Cao Bianjiao sneered, and then gave an order, asking Zhou Yuji to lead the army to defend in a formation facing the west, and at the same time ordered a general attack.

At the beginning, although dozens of ladders were set up on the battlements of the city wall, the Ming army did not rush to the city, but relied on firearms and artillery to kill and injure the living forces of the city. Because once the Ming army attacked the city, it would fall into brutal hand-to-hand combat, and in order to avoid accidental injury, neither the guns nor the artillery could continue to shoot.

Now, Jiannu sent troops out of the city to attack, and the troops defending the city must be weak, and the time for a general attack has finally arrived!

The rousing drum beat of "Dong Dong Dong" represents the order for a general attack.

"Kill!" One by one, the Ming soldiers shouted, climbed up the ladder, and soon climbed the city wall.

"Drive all the dogs down!" Amin did not panic and commanded the defenders to attack the Ming army that had ascended the city.

With Amin's order, the Eight Banners soldiers who were originally hiding from the Ming army's guns jumped up one after another, rushed towards the Ming army who had landed in the city with weapons in hand, and prevented the Ming army from landing the city.

In terms of hand-to-hand combat, the Eight Banners are not afraid of the Ming army at all! In Amin's opinion, there was no problem in driving these Ming troops off the city.

"Brothers, kill Jiannu anyway!" At this moment, a strange protrusion appeared on the city wall!