Among the 30,000 Ming troops outside the city, there were only more than 10,000 Praetorian Guards, and the rest were Dongjiang soldiers. There were many firefighters and artillerymen in the Praetorian Guard, who were responsible for suppressing the Jiannu at the head of the city with firepower, and they also had to be vigilant against the Jiannu attacking out of the city, climbing the ladder to attack the city, and the drudgery of climbing the ladder to attack the city fell on the Dongjiang soldiers.

The original Dongjiang soldiers were very weak in combat power, and they could not afford the heavy task of siege warfare. But since Lu Xiangsheng led the Praetorian Guard to Liaodong, it has been more than two months now. After Lu Xiangsheng's reorganization, sufficient food and wages were issued, and a large number of weapons and armor were transported with the ship. After the retraining, the spirit of the Dongjiang Army was much stronger than in the past.

The most important generals who lead the troops have changed, Mao Wenlong's adopted sons and grandsons have been deprived of the right to command, and they are following Lu Xiangsheng as a guard, and now the Dongjiang Army, except for Liu Xingzuo's brothers, the remaining generals who lead the troops are all transferred from the Praetorian Guard, and the officers below the middle level are all selected from the Dongjiang Army. For the sake of their own future, these newly promoted officers were all determined to fight against Jiannu and make meritorious contributions.

In addition, since the invasion of Liaodong, the Ming army has won consecutive battles, captured the old nest of Jiannu, and recovered most of Liaodong, which made the morale of the army extremely high!

And they all know that the main force of Jiannu is fighting in the territory of Daming, and those who stay in Liaoyang are ordinary bannermen, and fighting with such bannermen, even the Dongjiang soldiers have no pressure!

Before the battle, Cao Bianjiao announced the reward and punishment measures, the first person to climb the city wall will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and the official will be promoted to three levels, and those who attack the city wall will be rewarded, and those who will not dare to attack the city will be killed on the spot!

For this reason, Cao Bianjiao sent a thousand Praetorian Guards to serve as a supervising team, and really killed more than a dozen Dongjiang soldiers who did not dare to climb the ladder.

Under the double stimulation of heavy rewards and severe punishments, the Dongjiang troops who were responsible for the siege of the city roared and climbed along the ladder, and under the double cover of the firecrackers and earth mountain artillery under the city, they quickly climbed the city wall, but what awaited them was the heavy attack of Jiannu.

As we all know, the defenders of the city occupy an absolute geographical advantage, even if they are suppressed by the Ming army's guns. After all, the Dongjiang army can only climb the city along the ladder, and at most dozens or hundreds of soldiers will come up at a time, but what awaits them on the city wall are thousands of guards!

Near each battlement, there was a banner and two or three Han soldiers to defend it. These Han soldiers have surrendered to Jiannu for more than ten years, and most of their families are in the city, so they are deeply trusted by Jiannu. Of course, there is no way to distrust it, after all, the number of bannermen is too small, and without the help of these Han soldiers, the troops defending the city are simply not enough.

At each battlement, at least three or four people defended to deal with a Dongjiang soldier who landed in the city, what consequences can be imagined......

The dozens of Dongjiang soldiers who landed in the first batch were killed on the spot without accident, and their bodies fell under the city.

A flag man was about to overturn the ladder, but was stopped by Amin. First, the Ming army was very cunning, and the ladder did not show the battlements at all, and if you wanted to overthrow the ladders, you had to emerge from the battlements, and if you showed your head, you could not avoid the shooting of the firearms under the city. In addition, Amin hopes that the Ming army will continue to attack the city, after all, only the Ming army will continue to climb the city wall, and the Ming artillery on the mountain will not be fired for fear of accidental injury, and the defenders can use the Ming army to give it a major blow, if the ladder is destroyed, there will be no more Ming troops to climb the city, and then the city wall will usher in the baptism of Ming artillery again!

Groups of Dongjiang soldiers climbed the city wall and were easily killed by the bannermen and Han soldiers who defended the city, but the Dongjiang army went forward one after another as if they were crazy, bravely climbing to the city wall.

Stupid Ming Dog, if you want to capture Liaoyang City by this means, it's a pipe dream! Amin thought secretly, and was very disdainful of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Now, as long as Ele rushes to the Ming army array and attacks from the flank, he will definitely be able to kill these Ming troops besieging the city, if he can take the opportunity to destroy the Ming artillery, the Ming army outside the city will no longer pose a threat to Liaoyang City!

However, at this moment, a strange change protruded on the city wall, and I saw a Han soldier dressed up and shouting: "Kill slaves!" ”

The shouts were so loud that they overwhelmed the roar of the guns and the fighting in the city.

With this shout, many Han soldiers on the city wall suddenly turned their guns and killed the bannermen on their sides.

The elbows and armpits changed, and many bannermen were concentrating on dealing with the Ming army who had ascended the city, and they did not pay attention to the Hannu "comrades-in-arms" on their sides at all, and in just a moment, nearly 100 bannermen were killed on the spot, and there was a great chaos on the city wall.

"Brothers of the Han army, the Ming army has killed the city, the time has come for us to return to the Ming Dynasty, kill Jiannu!" Shen Tong roared, and the spear in his hand was pulled out of the body of one of the bannermen, and pounced towards the next bannerman.

"Kill Jiannu!" A number of Han soldiers shouted and rushed towards the bannermen in the city.

In the past few days, together with the other brocade guards who infiltrated the city, relying on various means, Shen Tong successfully persuaded hundreds of people to return to the Ming anyway. Among these hundreds of people are Han soldiers, and there are also coats from the bannermen.

The Ming army invaded Liaodong, won successive battles, and even captured the old capital of Jiannu, Hetuala, and the soldiers were outside Liaoyang, and Amin in the city did not even dare to go out of the city to fight. In the eyes of discerning people, Jiannu is indeed the general trend.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, millions of troops, and hundreds of millions of people, how can the strength be comparable to that of Jiannu with a population of only hundreds of thousands? At this time, smart people naturally know how to choose.

So without wasting much effort, Shen Tong successfully said that hundreds of people were surrendered. It's not that he can't convince more, first, the time is urgent, and then for the sake of safety, he can't look for any kind of person, Shen Tong is mainly looking for people who have enemies with Jiannu and have been killed by Jiannu, and are dissatisfied with Jiannu's rule. Although there are only a few hundred people, and there are not even two hundred people on the walls of this southern city, it is enough!

Nearly two hundred Han soldiers each had weapons, launched a fierce attack on the bannermen, the other Han soldiers in the city were stunned, they didn't know what was happening, the living bannermen were all furious, and they were full of vigilance against all the Han soldiers around them, they didn't know how many Han soldiers were persuaded to surrender by the Ming.

For their own safety, many bannermen even killed the Han army around them without thinking, not caring whether the other party was a spy of the Ming army. As a result, many Han soldiers were forced to raise their arms and resist the bannermen who killed them. More Han troops were at a loss and didn't know who to help.

On the city wall, the Han soldiers and the Jiannu bannermen were fighting, and no one went to intercept the Ming army who had ascended the city. In a short period of time, several groups of Dongjiang troops successively climbed the city wall, gathered on the city wall, and easily controlled a section of the city wall.

The clothes worn by the Han army are not very different from those of the Eight Banners, and these Dongjiang troops can't distinguish between friend and foe, and they don't know who their own people are for a while.

At this moment, Shen Tong killed the bannermen who were entangled with him and came to the Dongjiang army.

"Shen Tong, a hundred households in Xia Jinyiwei, was ordered to sneak into Liaoyang as an internal response. In the fighting, the one with a white towel tied to his right arm is his own person who is persuaded to surrender, and those wearing cloth armor and various armor are all Jiannu bannermen! ”

The style of clothes is similar, but it is still different, the officers of the Han army will have a pair of leather armor, and the clothed soldiers will not have armor at all, while the Jiannu bannermen will almost all wear armor. Occupied Liaodong for more than ten years, defeated hundreds of thousands of Ming troops before and after, and won countless victories, the current Jiannu bannermen, in terms of equipment, far better than the Ming army, even if it is the remaining bannermen, most of them have armor!

So, under the guidance of Shen Tong, the Dongjiang army that landed in the city and the Han army anyway joined forces and went towards the Jiannu banner. And more Dongjiang troops are constantly climbing the city wall through ladders.

Amin and a dozen guards resisted with all their might, full of anger and fear, he never expected that so many Han troops would be persuaded to surrender by the Ming army. In the entire Liaoyang City, the Han army has nearly 20,000 soldiers, and the number is twice that of the bannermen.

The current Amin, except for the banner people, has no trust in the surrendered Han army, and is full of suspicion about anyone.

There are still 3,000 bannermen guarding the southern city, but Amin knows that in this case, the bannermen will not be able to exert their original strength at all, because many bannermen are panicked, and most of the bannermen are mixed with the Han army's soldiers, and they can't form a joint force at all.

Even if the Ming people sent a fine work to Liaoyang, it was impossible for there to be too many people, after all, some time ago, he had ordered an investigation of the population in the city. In other words, although there are many Han soldiers on this city wall, there are not too many who really rebel. If Erli can successfully break through the Ming army besieging the city, most of the Han army will not dare to follow the chaos, and the situation can be recovered, Amin secretly calculated.

While the guards around him were resisting the attack of the Ming army, Amin looked out of the city, and then his heart suddenly cooled.

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Because they knew that they didn't have many troops in their hands, and Liaoyang City was too big, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji didn't try to besiege the city, and they only attacked one side when they attacked the city. In order to prevent Jiannu from attacking from other city gates during the siege, Cao Bianjiao only ordered the Dongjiang Army to be responsible for the siege, and the artillery and more than 1,000 Janissaries were responsible for suppressing the Jiannu on the city wall, while most of the Praetorian Guards did not join the siege, but were on guard on the side.

When the three fireworks rose in the city, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji knew that Jiannu had been killed from Xicheng. Cao Bianjiao continued to command the siege, while Zhou Yuji led 5,000 Praetorian Guards to defend on the west side.

When he led 3,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to rush out of the west gate and go around to the southern city, he saw the Praetorian Guards waiting under the city walls.

The 5,000 Praetorian Guards, distributed inside and outside the moat, firmly blocked the path of the Eight Banners' advance, and without breaking through the interception of the Praetorian Guards, Erli would not be able to deal with the Dongjiang Army that was besieging the city.

Under normal circumstances, the Praetorian Guards should not be lined up like this, because next to the city wall, they will inevitably be attacked by the defenders from the city, and the defenders only need to throw bricks and lime bottles down to defeat the Praetorian Guards under the city. But now the Jiannu banner on the city wall is too busy to take care of himself, and it is difficult to protect himself under the attack of the Han army and the Dongjiang army on the city wall, and he can't pay attention to the Praetorian Guards under the city at all.

"Mondo, you lead a thousand cavalry to make a detour to attack the Ming army's Tushan artillery position and destroy the Ming army's artillery!" Looking at the intercepted Ming army array in the distance, Airley commanded in a loud voice.

"Wow!" A man named Mondor's name answered, and led a thousand cavalry out of the city wall and around into the distance.

"The others followed me to break through the Ming army's interception and kill all the Ming troops besieging the city!" Elley shouted, and rushed towards the Ming army array not far away.

All along, Elley wanted to fight the Ming army in the field, rather than passive defense, but Amin had not been allowed, and now that he finally had the opportunity, he naturally wanted to kill.

Damn Minggou, let me show you how powerful the Eight Banners Warriors are! Elley roared in his heart.

"Boom Boom"

At this moment, a series of cannons suddenly sounded, and one after another cannonballs roared and fell into the Eight Banners Cavalry array, turning the Eight Banners Cavalry on their backs.

The city wall fell into a scuffle, and the artillery on the earth mountain was temporarily useless, and under the order of Cao Bianjiao, they began to bombard and kill the Jiannu who went out of the city.

The artillery seemed ferocious, but in fact, the casualties caused to the Jiannu cavalry were not too large, but it forced the Jiannu cavalry to attack quickly.

Two thousand Jiannu cavalry, along the banks of the frozen moat, swooped down on the Praetorian Guards. It stands to reason that cavalry storming infantry formations is not a good choice, but Elley can't take much of it anymore.

Only by quickly breaking the Ming interception can the Ming troops besieging the city be slaughtered, and if the speed of the cavalry is lost, it is easy to fall into the siege of the Ming army.

However, just as the Jiannu cavalry was about to crash into the Praetorian Guard array, many black dots suddenly flew out of the Praetorian Guard array, and then exploded into countless fragments with a "boom".

Produced by the Royal Arsenal and named by Emperor Chongzhen himself, hundreds of grenades were thrown into the Jiannu cavalry queue!

This kind of grenade is made in imitation of the "10,000 enemies", each weighing two catties, containing one pound of gunpowder, and detonating with a fuse. Because it is too heavy, it can only be thrown more than ten steps away, and after the explosion is opened, the shell is blown into seven or eight pieces, and the coverage is not large, and many grenades will be extinguished when they fly, and the explosion rate is only more than fifty percent, but the number is unbearable, more than two hundred grenades were thrown, and at least more than one hundred grenades were exploded, which caused great damage to the Jiannu cavalry at that time!

Almost all the cavalry horses that rushed to the front were blown to the ground, and the Eight Banners on the horses were either killed or fell to death on the spot. And the huge explosion sound at close range made countless war horses frightened and crazy, and they were no longer controlled by the cavalry on the horse, many of the war horses did not dare to run forward, and galloped towards the south far away from the city wall, and some war horses jumped up and down, and the Jiannu cavalry on their backs fell to the ground.

The war horses of this era have not been trained for explosions at all, and in the face of violent explosions, people will still be afraid of war horses? As a result, the cavalry full of confidence in Elli broke the formation, and it instantly became a joke.

And Elley herself, fortunately escaped the explosion of the grenade, and was trying to fight the crotch-mad war horse, and was unable to effectively command the living cavalry.