However, under Yuan Chonghuan's defensive strategy of "fortifying the city and relying on cannons", the soldiers defending the city poured down like a torrential rain with cannons, firearms, crossbows, and wooden equipment.

However, until the night retreated, except for a large number of armored slaves and serf soldiers corpses filling the trenches outside the city, the Jiannu army, which screamed like beasts, did not make any effective progress.

In addition to the loss of a large number of equipment defending the city, the loss of soldiers in the city was almost small compared with any previous Mingjin battle.

Looking at the Jiannu army that had faded like a tide, the defenders of the four cities were all thunderous, although they were tired, their morale was greatly boosted, and they were full of predictable hope for the next big war.

While Yuan Chonghuan was happy with the soldiers, his heart was full of bitterness.

Huang Chongzhen held the first Hongyi cannonball that was imitated by the Ming state-owned firearms workshop in turn, and smiled helplessly - this is an inferior high-quality imitation, similar in appearance, but it is golden and jade, and it is ruined.

Zhou Ji's mind was indeed extremely sharp, and he was familiar enough with Huang Chongzhen, so he leaned up and asked in a low voice, "Why aren't you so happy?" What's wrong? ”

Huang Chongzhen looked at the artillery crew that thought he had made a great achievement, and asked him rhetorically: "Do you think Peng Hairpin Luo's firing skills are really good?" ”

Zhou Ji spread his hands and said, "How do I know this?" I won't shoot again. ”

Huang Chongzhen threw the fake and shoddy cannonball he was holding in one hand into the basket, and said as he walked: "It's okay, I can get my hands on the cannon tomorrow, and then you can just observe and study it up close." ”

Zhou Ji chased after him and asked excitedly and worriedly, "Really?" But why? ”

"Because tomorrow's battle will be ten times more tragic than today's, and the high-spirited artillery crew will also usher in huge casualties."

"Why? Didn't we play well today? I can't fight like this tomorrow! ”

Huang Chongzhen sighed lightly, turned around and hugged his head and said: "Let me tell you the truth, those shells in the basket are all of inferior quality, the pass rate is too low, and the operation is not good, and the explosion is not bluffing." ”

"Wouldn't it? Da Shuai was pit by Hongyi? Zhou Ji exclaimed.

"No, Hongyi's shells are very exquisite, but the number is too small, and those bastard gunners don't know how to save a little, so they poured into the most useless and dense serf army formation, so it was only a day, and the rest of these and the ones full of warehouses are all imitations of our own firearms workshop."

"I'm a ......," Zhou Ji roared.

"Remember to snatch the big iron shield assigned to the artillery crew for self-protection as soon as possible tomorrow."

"I am a dignified Chinese ......," Zhou Ji exclaimed sadly.

"In addition to a close auxiliary, I need a few battlefield observers, who do you think is the most suitable?"

"If you have the ability to understand the situation on the battlefield, there is no one better than the three old dogs, because what they are best at is how to survive on the battlefield, especially the old king dog.

When he pretended to be dead under Liaoyang City, he accidentally chopped off a finger, and he couldn't even count the addition and subtraction within ten on weekdays. But estimating how many meters away the enemy's cavalry was from us was as accurate as a dog.

Even if you don't see with your eyes, you can accurately distinguish the direction and distance of the enemy horse by just listening with your eyes. This was confirmed in the first meeting with you. ”

"Good brothers don't know each other if they don't fight, so let's hand over the few little broken shields in the team to these old brothers."

"What about the five recruit eggs? You can't leave them alone, can you? ”

"Those few little fritters monkey spirits, you tell them, and the job of snatching the iron shield will be handed over to them."

"Where's Scar Ting?"

"He doesn't need us battlefield novices, he's a real special operations elite."

"Okay. I don't really like to talk to him, he seems to have only you in his eyes. ”

The two of them were talking to themselves, and they were about to go down to the city.

But Zhou Ji's babbling had already alarmed Zu Dashou, who was laughing happily, and roared: "Stop! Where do you two want to go? ”

Yuan Chonghuan, who came to inspect in person, also came up and said: "Chongzhen, it seems that you didn't make much effort today!" The brothers are tired! Then the heavy task of repairing the supplementary equipment of the city defense will be handed over to you! ”

"No! It's an honor to mark it! ”

Huang Chongzhen "snapped" a straight upright, and suddenly performed a standard modern military salute, solemn and powerful.

Yuan Zu and the others were startled, thinking that this kid finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to take the opportunity to assassinate him.

When I saw his behavior clearly, although I didn't know why, I subconsciously returned a salute, which was quite human-like and dog-like.

Huang Chongzhen corrected the small mistakes of the two of them "with a click", and then ran to carry out the task, and Zhou Ji naturally led the team to follow.

"Show this guy to Lao Tzu!" Yuan Chonghuan looked at his back meaningfully, glanced at Zu Dashou and walked down the city, surrounded by a group of soldiers, and went back to Ningyuan Mansion.

As soon as he entered the palace and locked up in his study, his elegant and confident smile collapsed, and he sat down on the Taishi's chair, and said to himself in a daze: "I didn't expect that the battle on the first day would be so fierce, and the Western cannonballs would be so unbeaten.

A certain has done everything he can, and the slave chief has become familiar with the tactics of our army. Tomorrow's battle will be very different from today's, and Jiannu's marksmen and white-armored soldiers will definitely be powerful...... What should I do with a certain army? ”

The shouting and killing that lasted for a day finally stopped for a while.

There was nothing to say all night, and the night attack of Jiannu, which Ning Yuan's soldiers were vigilant and guarded against, did not happen.

A cold night, a rare purity.

However, before dawn on the 26th, Jiannu stepped on the hazy dawn star light and launched a fierce attack on Ning Yuan again.

The battle situation is indeed as expected by Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Chongzhen, and today's battle is very different from yesterday.

The Slave Chief changed the tactics of yesterday's intensive siege of the city, and instead ordered his command to form a group of three or five people in the most basic squad.

In this way, Jiannu relied on his strong ability to fight alone and cooperate with squads, and the threat to Ningyuan's offensive and the defenders of the city did not decrease slightly, but greatly weakened the counterattack of the defenders at the head of the city.

The imaginary heavy shelling did not appear for a long time.

The Jiannu who besieged the city thought that this was a trick by the defenders to lure the enemy to show weakness, and at first they were cautious, until a large number of armored slaves and serf soldiers touched the heel of the city wall, and they did not see them fire for a long time.

Although the slave chief did not know why, he was keenly aware of the reason, so he decisively ordered the whole army to storm it.

Seeing that more and more armored slaves were already climbing the city wall with agility, Zu Dashou was anxious, and the soldiers who urged the artillery crew to fire the cannon were dispatched wave after wave, and all the answers were affirmative, but the cannon was not heard for a long time.

"Boom!" There was a muffled sound, and the city trembled.

Zu Dashou was overjoyed, only to see one of the Hongyi cannons spitting white smoke, looking extremely difficult to spit out a black bump, although the lack of energy was very different from yesterday's spirit, but it still made him overjoyed, and couldn't help but shout and cheer for the artillery crew.

"Whoosh!" A powerful arrow struck, Zu Dashou was shocked, and subconsciously skimmed his head at the last moment, this killing arrow almost grazed his rough cheeks, bringing up a string of blood beads.

Zu Dashou was shocked, knowing that the Jiannu marksman, who was disguised as an ordinary armored slave and specialized in shooting his own generals, was targeted, and hurriedly changed the position of the commander under the escort of his own soldiers.

The sound of the cannon raised the morale of the slightly anxious defenders, and then fell silent again.

When I heard it again, there was a trembling and muffled sound, and a pungent smell of gunpowder spread.

Even ordinary soldiers who didn't understand artillery knew that something was wrong, and when they turned their heads to look in a hurry, they saw that thick white smoke was surrounding one of the cannons.

The members of the artillery crew who controlled it either lay upright on the city wall, or sat on the ground with frightened faces, and let the nearby allies shout and scream without responding, as if they were directly shocked into fools.

"Blown up!"

In the hearts of all the soldiers, whether they saw it or not, this terrible thought arose, and their morale plummeted in an instant, and the panicked mood began to spread.

Without the deterrence and long-range strikes of the Hongyi cannon, the power of the firebolt and the strong crossbow will also be greatly reduced, and the rolling stone and wood gold juice are just ordinary means of defending the city, which cannot cause too much psychological deterrence to Jiannu.

The morale of Jiannu rose sharply in an instant, and he shouted to kill the sky.

Whoosh ......

Jiannu's archers no longer had any scruples, and the rain of arrows flew up the city wall like locusts, causing great damage to the defenders who were stunned for a short time, and even the artillery slightly behind was greatly affected.

The group of artillerymen who had managed to fire their cannons, even the main gunner and auxiliaries, were mercilessly shot.

"Steady! steady! Counterattack! All to Lao Tzu to fight back! ”

Zu Dashou pulled out his sword and roared to cheer for his sons.

Sou!

A wolf-toothed arrow swooped down, knocking out all his helmets.

Zu Dashou's personal soldiers were shocked, and hurriedly pressed his huge head, wanting to protect his own master.

Zu Dashou pushed it away, and the waving war knife happened to knock off the second wolf's tooth arrow, and continued to roar angrily to command the battle, like a mad demon, and the low morale only then rose.

However, Jiannu's attack has become more violent, and many city walls have been broken through by armored slaves, and the perfect defensive system on the city walls is gradually being broken.

If you want to stabilize the precarious situation, you have to continue to exert the power of the Hongyi cannon.

"It's our turn!" With Huang Chongzhen's roar, Zhou Ji immediately rushed forward with the five new members of the team and snatched several large iron shields scattered on the ground in his hands.

Huang Chongzhen himself used a special tool placed on the side to open the tail button of the tail of the Hongyi cannon, quickly cleaned up the barrel that was about to be blocked by inferior shells, and stuffed a pre-selected cannonball into it.