Chapter 31 The situation is critical because of the hole in the wall
It turned out that it was the slave chief who suffered a big loss in front of the Hongyi cannon and learned from the pain.
At the suggestion of Fan Wencheng, he selected some shells from the Daming firearms captured in the past and tried to use them in siege warfare.
It's just that Houjin is notoriously repulsive about firearms, and never properly preserves captured firearms, and this time he came to attack Ningyuan, and he only brought some symbolically.
In addition, Jiannu's ability to use firearms is extremely low, so he secretly tried many, many times, and paid a great price, but he was unsuccessful.
Even this successful one was by accident, and almost with human life, and a lot of large siege equipment was scrapped.
There are even dozens of soldiers of the Eight Banners who are not afraid of death, and they are shattered by this occasional success.
The Slave Chief is an extremely ruthless tyrant, so he does this to his enemies, and he never shows kindness to his subordinates.
Therefore, he didn't care about the loss.
As long as he can capture Ningyuan, save face, maintain the majesty of his Houjin Heavenly Mandate Khan, and continue to hit the confidence and morale of the Ming soldiers to resist, he will not hesitate to suffer no matter how big the damage is.
After all, after the victory of Sarhu, the Liaoshen region of Guangning, which was the key strategy of the Ming Dynasty, was defeated by him, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the former suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty were ruthlessly slaughtered by him.
With such a reputation and a record of war, Xiao Ning Yuan, with only 20,000 soldiers, is also trying to use his mantis arm as a car?
From this point of view alone, even as soon as they arrived in Ningyuan, they were bombarded and fell into a bitter battle during the siege for two consecutive days, not counting the armored slaves and serf soldiers, there were already 2,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, who had been damaged, and they also thought so.
And this thunderbolt-like explosion in the clear sky, as well as the giant hole in the city wall that was gradually becoming clearer, pushed the fighting will of this group of humanoid brutes to the peak.
"Long live the Great Khan! Long live Destiny! ”
"The city is broken! The city is broken! ”
"Rush! Rush in and kill all the dogs! ”
But all the soldiers of the Eight Banners, whether they were fighting in front of the battle or supervising the battle in the back, all rushed and squeezed towards the entrance of the cave with a scream.
In front of their eyes, there was a scene of slaughtering the Ming army and the people in the city as before, and four or five people like brutes to peel those Han women who were crying and wailing into white lambs, and then wantonly destroy.
The armored slaves were also very excited, waving all kinds of weapons in their hands, and gave up the original siege point with a roar, only to rush to the entrance of the cave, and even the half-dead serf soldiers were excited.
Only Jiannu's archers and light cavalry, due to their battlefield habits and duties, wanted to continue to wander around the battlefield, and took the opportunity to inflict maximum damage on the panicked Ming army on the city wall.
But to his horror, he found that even they were wrapped up in a dense crowd, and the water ripples were undulating, and he couldn't help himself.
The original group of Jiannu army formations gradually became dense again.
The defensive pressure at the entrance to the wall immediately multiplied, and the rest of the city decreased with the momentum.
"The city is broken! The city is broken! Jiannu is here! Jiannu is here! ”
Although the armor slaves who climbed the walls and the rain of arrows that were suppressed by them were greatly weakened, the meaning and psychological pressure caused by the destruction of the walls was too great.
The soldiers defending the city were all flustered by it, and many of the newcomers who had not been in the army for a long time screamed anxiously and began to scurry like headless flies.
Even the relatively calm generals and veterans, screaming and trying their best to suppress, were powerless to stop the spread of panic.
Yuan Chonghuan's carefully formulated strategy for defending the city was disrupted in an instant, and it was in danger of collapsing.
The situation reversed abruptly, and it was true that at the last moment, the lonely city of Ningyuan was already in danger almost instantly.
At this time, if the general of the town guard is not strong-willed, or the machine is insufficient, it is really possible that the embankment of thousands of miles will be destroyed in the anthill.
A few miles away in front of the Great Khan's tent of Jiannu, the slave chief has been riding on a tall horse to watch the battle since the beginning of the war.
But seeing this situation at this moment, the slave chief instantly felt that the victory was in his hands, and the corners of his mouth finally pulled out a murderous sneer.
But at the same time, the military formation that had become dense again also made him a little nervous, feeling that the situation of the battle seemed to be developing in the direction of his loss of control, and he felt that he was worrying about the sky.
So, the slave chief pretended to point at Ning Yuan with a halberd, and laughed in a deep voice: "Ning Yuan, the small city is also; Yuan Chonghuan, a nobody. He even tried in vain to block my Eight Banners chariot, which was really beyond my strength. ”
The Baylor generals and ministers behind him all echoed each other.
But they didn't know that Yuan Chonghuan's fame at this time was indeed not as loud as Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong and other former Ming ministers, but he was just a newborn calf who was not afraid of the tiger.
As he said to Gao Di: Ning Yuan was originally built to resist Jiannu, and every soldier in Ningyuan enlisted in the army for the purpose of fighting Jiannu.
As the saying goes, those who are horizontal are afraid of the flute, and those who are afraid of the flute are not dead.
Jiannu, who has been in Liaodong for more than ten years, encountered an eight-dignified army led by a two-dignified commander.
Zu Dashou is a well-known Erheleng in history, not to mention that there is no dictionary in the real sense in Huaxia at this time, even if there is, it is impossible to find out how to write the word "panic" from his dictionary.
Seeing that he was in danger, he drew his war knife and strode forward in defiance of the guards' obstruction, waving his war knife at will with his thick arms, knocking scattered arrows away, and personally killing several panicked soldiers who were scattering in all directions.
Then, he slashed to the sky with one hand, and raised his arm with the other and shouted: "I'm afraid of him!" Just kill Lao Tzu! ”
After saying that, he quickly bent down and grabbed a huge rolling stone with one hand, and gently and quietly threw it down to the city.
I heard that the city quickly remembered two short screams, and some guards who were not afraid of death leaned over to look.
I saw the heads of the two armored slaves who were crowding towards the hole bloom, and the strong slaves lay on the ground with their bodies twitching, obviously dying soon.
"The general is mighty!" This pro-soldier immediately roared and cheered, and the rest of the pro-soldiers also cheered angrily, lining Zu Dashou like a mortal god of war.
Zu Dashou laughed angrily: "See? The enemy formation is so dense that it is a good time to kill the thief! All the soldiers and listen to Lao Tzu's orders, and smash everything that can be smashed in his hands!
Da Bi, you lead the people of the headquarters to go down to the city immediately, block the Jiannu dog who enters the city, and defend the entrance of the cave to grandpa! Come one and kill the other! Let's kill a pair!
You, lead a team of soldiers to take the opportunity to destroy those hooks and ladders to Lao Tzu!
Kennu dogs with firearms? Hahaha, laughing at Lao Tzu too! This is simply throwing up a stone to shoot yourself in the foot! Soldiers, Jiannu Dog is already at the end of the crossbow, and Lao Tzu will kill it hard!
You! Hurry up and report to the marshal, just say that Lao Tzu is killing Jiannu dogs in Yongqing City, tell him to come over quickly, maybe he can kill a few with his own hands!
Gunner! What about Lao Tzu's gunner? Huang Chongzhen! Lao Tzu's slave dog, you are firing at Lao Tzu! Kill! Kill them all! In the evening, Lao Tzu invites you bastards to eat meat!
After killing all the Jiannu dogs, there will be no vicious dogs that dare to invade the Ming Dynasty again! ”
As the saying goes, if a soldier bears, there will be a nest of bears, and vice versa.
Zu Dashou's madman-like composure and mad-like series of military orders finally stabilized the army's heart.
The soldiers defending the city immediately went crazy, and smashed all the heavy objects that could hurt the enemy under the city as if they didn't want money, and when they were done, they quickly grabbed the spear and big knife, and jumped around looking for Jiannu dogs to kill as if they were not dying.
But the hooks and ladders were all destroyed, and the Jiannu dogs couldn't climb up, and they wouldn't be stupid enough to climb up the city with hail-like rolling stones and trees, but they all wanted to get into Ningyuan City through the dog hole that had just been blown up.
The veterans were still able to maintain a certain amount of composure, but Xinding was already roaring like a tiger and rushing down to the city.
That desperate Saburo-like posture, even if the beast-like Eight Banners soldiers saw it, they were afraid to avoid its edge.
There were also some Jiannu archers who threw arrows high into the sky, and then the heavy arrows fell on the walls of the city due to gravity, killing and wounding the brave but scattered defenders.
So, the older generation of crossbowmen and musketeers poured their fire down the city, and quickly clinged to the walls, or hid under the battlements to reload their ammunition.
After a while, I got up again, fired again, and so on, racing against time, without stopping at all, and almost every time I fired, I would have a hit.
However, the rain of arrows turned into sparse raindrops, and the threat to the defenders of the city was greatly reduced.
Under the advantages of the other, Jiannu's superb archery skills that he relied on to look down on Liaodong gradually lost his advantage.
As Zu Dashou said: Jiannu Dog is a sacrifice to the end, lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot.
Zu Dashou only issued military orders like a madman, and the military orders were like a mountain, and those who violated the order or disobeyed it were undoubtedly killed.
As for how to kill the enemy and where to kill the enemy, the hard-trained Ning Yuan soldiers have their own rules, especially for the carefully selected gunners.
said that it was too late, and then it was fast, and the rapid changes in the battle situation were all taken into account by Huang Chongzhen.
It is conceivable that the defenders of Nancheng on the inside of the hole, under the leadership of the elite of the ancestral family, will definitely try their best to stop the enemy.
However, there are still a large number of Jiannu on the outside of the hole, which are pouring into the city.
At the beginning, the hole was not so big, but the beast-like Jiannu was obviously not satisfied, and actually used a knife to chop and axe, at the cost of a large number of knives and axes, and finally split more than a few feet.
Inside and outside the hole, shouting and killing shook the sky, blood splashed, and it seemed to have become the focus and key point of the offensive and defensive battle in Nancheng.
When Huang Chongzhen saw this, he was naturally anxious.
Because every time one more Jiannu pours in, it means that the pressure of the soldiers defending the city will increase.
And with the influx of soldiers of the Eight Banners, the pressure on the defenders will increase exponentially.