Ling Jingyang also made some preparations during the day, ordered Wang Mu to organize the grain, grass and baggage, and discussed with Li Guo and other generals of the Dashun Army to go to reinforce Ninghua City tonight.

When Li Rufeng sent tens of thousands of Qing troops, Ling Jingyang immediately ordered the whole army to set off to reinforce Ninghua City.

Wang Mu asked Ling Jingyang who would defend Ningwu Pass, Ling Jingyang never had the idea of defending Ningwu Pass, he believed that the Qing army in Shuo County would not be stupid enough to divide troops to occupy Ningwu Pass, giving the Dashun army a chance to break it.

"Lord Wang, the people in the city are enough to defend it, wait for us to come back."

But in order to reassure the soldiers and civilians in the city, he still ordered Wang Bao to lead half of the direct troops to defend in the pass, and he brought Zhang Shun, Li Rufeng, Shi Tie, and half of the direct army, with a total of 6,000 troops to support Ninghua City.

Li Guo also led the whole army to Ninghua City with him, and the army advanced lightly, but it took two days for more than 10,000 troops to reach Ningcheng, but fortunately, the Qing army reinforcements did not arrive in Ninghua City in the evening of the same day, but camped in an open space south of Ninghua City.

After dawn the next day, the 5,000 Qing troops besieging the city began to attack the city, and the Qing army thought that there were only more than 1,000 Ming troops in Ninghua City, but they did not know that there was a Ming artillery unit in Ninghua City.

After the old steamed bun was appointed as the chief soldier of the artillery battalion, he practiced artillery in Ningwuguan, some gunners who were unwilling to serve the Ming army and wanted to return to the Qing army were all cut off their heads, and the remaining gunners either followed the Ming army with all their hearts, and they didn't dare to run if they wanted to run the door.

When I arrived at the Governor's Mansion, I didn't see Wang Chengyun, and I found out that Wang Chengyun went to various places to recruit subordinates half a month ago, and the old steamed bun had to go to find other things, and asked them to come with some information, and reported to Ling Jingyang, asking to select gunners from among the various armies, and Ling Jingyang generously agreed to his request.

In this way, the old steamed bun found more than 100 soldiers who used to be artillery in the various armies, and recruited more than 200 young men who were willing to become gunners, greatly diluting the captured Qing army gunners, he took 20 red-coated cannons, as well as 50 small and medium-sized artillery such as tiger squat cannons, and arrived in Ninghua City under the escort of Gao Ding.

The Qing army outside the city despised the Ming army in the city too much, and the reinforcements were in the rear, and before the siege of the city, they also deliberately assembled into a phalanx, and the force was prominent under the city.

Gao Ding saw it and muttered in his heart, this old steamed bun was renamed Huang Steamed Bun, and when the old steamed bun reached the climax of the Qing army's demonstration, an order was given, and the gunner behind the battlement quickly pushed the red-clothed cannon forward, and the tiger squat cannon gunner lifted the red cloth covering it.

Under the commander-in-chief of all levels of artillery, the gunners quickly loaded their ammunition, then lit the fuse and opened fire on the Qing army.

The Qing army under the city only heard a loud bang, and then the shells bloomed in the ten phalanxes of the Qing army, and the Qing army was blown up to cry wolf.

The generals of the Qing army were beaten stupid by the artillery fire of the Ming army, a leader of the Eight Banners couldn't believe his eyes, how could the Ming army have so many red-coated cannons?

Gao Ding looked at the death of the Qing army under the city, the wounded, the Qing army's first siege of the city had not yet begun, and the Ming army took away the lives of many soldiers with artillery, and the formation was also bombarded by artillery.

At the same time, the Ming army on the city wall began to launch for the second time, this time it was to bomb the Qing army camp, the Qing army was staggered, and was led by Gao Ding to charge, 5,000 Qing troops were suddenly scattered, the Qing army saw that the situation was not good, and withdrew with the troops, the Ming army chased and fought fiercely, annihilated more than 2,000 Qing troops in a war, and captured more than 100 Qing soldiers.

Gao Ding drove the captives to the city, suddenly heard the gongs and drums on the city wall, looked back, the Qing army reinforcements killed, immediately led his subordinates to run into the city, many Qing prisoners ran back from the crowd, and so Gao Ding withdrew to the city, half of the captives ran back, so angry that Gao Ding wanted to kill the remaining captives.

The old steamed bun did not let him kill the prisoners indiscriminately, pushed the soldiers to the city wall, and shouted with the Qing army under the city, and slaughtered these prisoners if they dared to attack the city, but the result was that the old steamed bun did not need to start, and the Qing army under the city killed these prisoners with artillery and bows and arrows, and also injured dozens of Ming soldiers.

The Qing army was cruel and made the old steamed bun smack his tongue.

In the afternoon, the Qing army finally began to attack the city, and before the siege, the Qing army tried to persuade the Ming army to surrender, because they had come all the way from Pingyang and persuaded several cities to surrender, and after each city surrendered, they were slaughtered cleanly.

The old steamed bun did not verbally respond to the Qing army's persuasion to surrender, but responded to the Qing army with artillery, the Qing army failed to persuade to surrender, and began to attack, the city wall of Ninghua City was not tall, the Qing army was overwhelming, after paying hundreds of casualties, it was easy to attack the city wall, and the Ming army handed over the short army, Gao Ding and the old steamed bun tried their best, and finally repelled the Qing army's first siege, but also lost nearly one-fifth of the troops.

After the Qing army retreated, it launched another strong attack in the evening, this time it still did not break the city, but took away a quarter of the strength of the Ming army, the Qing army was very confident in breaking through the city of Ninghua, and the morale of the Ming army in the city declined to the extreme.

There are more than 200 soldiers in the city began to descend, gathered to open the east gate to surrender to the Qing army, in the middle of the night, the rebels raided the east gate, the old steamed bun with the Baoyi army stationed at the city gate, he and the Baoyi shouted: "Chop this group of cheap seeds." ”

The robbers also roared, holding weapons and killing the rebels, Gao Ding took his subordinates to support the old steamed buns, slashed and killed, and finally eliminated the rebels, and the Qing army outside the city saw the chaos in the city, and also launched a strong attack.

In order to retaliate, the Qing army also bombarded the city wall with artillery, killing many Ming gunners and destroying several artillery.

The Qing army did not expect to be a stronger opponent in Ninghua City, they were ordered by Azig to destroy the Ming army in Pingyang Province in Yicheng, and then continue to the north to get in touch with the Duoduo Department in Shuo County, which is also what Dolgon asked Azig to do, Azig ordered this army to go north to Taiyuan Province and open up the passage to Shuo County.

This Qing army swept the Ming army and large and small counties along the way, and also burned and plundered a lot of gold and silver, but did not expect to be blocked by the Ming army in Ninghua City, and the generals of the Qing army sat together to discuss how to divide the people in the city after the city was broken tomorrow, and torture and kill the Ming army prisoners in the city.

That night, Li Rufeng once again arrived in Ninghua County, and saw that Ninghua City was still in the hands of Gao Ding and Lao Mantou, so he asked his subordinates to rush back and report to Ling Jingyang, and he continued to obtain information about the Qing army.

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