The bombardment of the head and face completely stunned Abatai.

Although the damage caused by the Furlong cannon is not too great, the problem is that the deterrent power of this thing is too great, and the blow to morale is too great.

And the most important thing is that in the middle of the night, with the presence of the Fran cannon, it is difficult for them to organize an effective attack, let alone take the Yellow Cliff Pass directly.

After waiting for all the men to be withdrawn, Bolo counted the casualties, and then walked over with a very ugly face.

"Amma, I just roughly counted that our army has suffered about 6,000 casualties."

"Six Thousand ......"

Abbatey's heart ached when he heard the casualty figures, and he couldn't breathe.

You must know that the casualties are all the warriors of his Eight Banners Army, and after a battle on weekdays, the loss of a few thousand is a lot.

As a result, before the battle was fought, six thousand had already been lost, plus the casualties caused by Bai Guangen's harassment before, the number of casualties had approached the 10,000 mark.

You must know that there are now a total of 60,000 elite soldiers under his command, and now there are 10,000 directly, which is equivalent to losing one-sixth of the people without starting the war.

And most importantly, Abatai can't figure it out now, where did so many Franc cannons come from in Huangya Pass?

From the beginning, there must be at least seven or eight hundred artillery pieces out of the city, but when he wanted to attack the city, he found that there were still artillery pieces above the city, and the number was at least two or three thousand.

You know, artillery is not a cabbage, and you can't get it if you want to.

The fundamental reason why various forces don't build more cannons is that the cost of this thing is extremely high, and they can't afford to build it at all.

In an important place like Huangya Pass, there are generally only about a few hundred artillery pieces at most.

But now, Huangya Pass actually directly showed thousands of cannons, so many quantities, how did Emperor Ming conjure them up? It can't be demolished from Beijing, right?

Looking at the bright Yellow Cliff Pass, Abatai's heart was full of sorrow, the Yellow Cliff Pass, which has so many artillery, is now like an iron hedgehog, how can this city be fought.

Just when Abatai couldn't sleep, Lao Zhu was in a good mood.

After rewarding the soldiers, and then arranging for people to take turns on duty, Lao Zhu, I don't know what Abatai is thinking at the moment, if he can know, he will definitely say to Abatai, he guessed correctly.

Because a small half of the artillery pieces brought by Lao Zhu were dismantled from Beijing, and the other half was built by the Ordnance Bureau working overtime in the past few months.

And the number is not the thousands of doors that Abatai guessed, but tens of thousands.

Probably influenced by the evaluation of artillery in the history books, Lao Zhu attaches great importance to artillery, and after learning about the power of artillery a few months ago, he directly made up his mind to develop firearms with all his might.

If the troops are not enough, then the firepower will make up.

In order to cast these artillery, Lao Zhu has nearly 10 million taels of silver before and after.

In fact, according to the process of the Ming Dynasty, it was very difficult to cast a qualified cannon, and in just a few months, even if there was more money and not enough craftsmen, it would not be possible to make so many cannons.

But fortunately, Lao Zhu has hanging.

Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang, according to the annotations on the Tiangong Kaiwu and the armory diagram, came up with a lot of advanced craftsmanship.

For example, the optimized steelmaking process, the standardized casting method, and the assembly line production process, etc......

These processes have greatly simplified the difficulty of casting, if it were not for the limitations of raw materials and time, and by the way, a lot of them were given to Sun Chuanting, then what appeared in Huangya Pass at this time was not just tens of thousands of cannons.

To tell the truth, Lao Zhu really wanted to say to Jiannu, the times have changed, and the set of cold weapons will not work.

If it weren't for the fact that the artillery was too cumbersome, even if there was an artillery car, it would not be able to fight the cavalry in the field, so at this time, Lao Zhu would not be guarding the Yellow Cliff Pass, but directly dispatched to attack it.

In addition, Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang are still researching some new firearms according to the annotations of later generations.

According to the two men, when those new firearms are developed, the strength of the armed forces will change dramatically.

Lao Zhu was looking forward to the scene at that time, but he didn't know if Huang Taiji, who was about to die in a year, could see this scene in his lifetime.

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After knowing that there were so many artillery pieces in the Yellow Cliff Pass, Abatai became much more cautious.

He directly retreated the camp three miles back, so that if Huangya Pass attacked at night again, he would have enough time to react.

And the artillery moves slowly, if the defenders in the pass dare to carry the artillery out of the pass for a night attack like last time, then he can directly lead the army and leave the artillery of the Ming army.

After settling the camp, Abatai did not mean to send elites to attack the city, but issued some weapons to the people who transported the baggage, and asked them to go up to attack the city, and use their lives to consume the arrows and gunpowder of the Ming army.

As for his remaining 50,000 elite troops, they are building siege equipment while waiting for the opportunity.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

After all, the firearms of this era, whether they are artillery or firearms, have one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, they are afraid of water.

As long as the rain comes and the firearms in Huangya Pass are destroyed, then he will immediately attack.

As for the people who are besieging the city now, in addition to consuming the materials of Huangya Pass, they are more of a sheep attack, hoping to make the defenders in the city relax their vigilance as much as possible.

Anyway, with the emperor here, he doesn't have to fight in the Ming Dynasty at all, as long as he can win the emperor, it will be his biggest gain.

Therefore, there is no need for these people who are responsible for the burden, and if they die more, they can consume grain and grass with fewer people, which is a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone.

The siege battle, which was supposed to be fierce, began to become tepid while Abatai waited, and those people who went to siege the city also knew that Abatai was sending them to death.

But under the coercion of the Eight Banners Army, they had no other choice but to attack the city, and the daily casualties could be thousands.

In order to put enough pressure on the city, Abatai also sent some Mongolian elites to attack the city from time to time.

It's just that the defense of Huangya Pass is too tight, and these sneak attacks have not achieved too good results, but have lost thousands of Mongolian elites.

Lao Zhu guessed Abatai's plan after seeing the intensity of Jiannu's attack, but there were enough supplies in the city, so he was not in a hurry, since Abatai wanted to wait for the rain, then let him wait, but I don't know if he could wait until the day of heavy rain.

Lao Zhu quietly transferred troops in the city, and from time to time he would take the initiative to send troops out of the city to attack and kill those people who were besieging the city, which was regarded as military training, so he accompanied Abatai so unhurriedly.

And just when the two sides were at a stalemate, in the Beijing Ordnance Bureau, Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang researched something new.