"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

When the counterfire began, the stone projectiles fired from the north and south sides of the battlefield intertwined in the air, and then fell into the opposing army.

Compared with the simple trebuchet that threw rays and had a range of only two or three hundred steps, the Ming army's ten-pound cannon with a range of three miles and a five-pound cannon with a range of two miles showed an advantage.

Each cannon was aimed at the trebuchet at the head of the city, and the sound of the cannon was like thunder and white smoke burst out......

"Bang ......"

"Uhh

"Squat! Squat behind the female wall! ”

The stone bullets of the two armies fell into the army like meteorites and smashed on the head of the city, and both the Ming and Jin armies suffered from the enemy's attack, but compared with the casualties of the Ming army's foot soldiers, the Jin army's losses were greater.

Dozens of trebuchets were smashed by stone bullets, and even the slingers were killed by the flying pieces of wood.

The battlefield was filled with wails and cries of pain, and the Ming army's infantry was stoned to death and wounded dozens of people, which was only a negligible death or injury for the army.

"Beep-"

When the Ming army entered the range of 200 steps, the commander-in-chief blew the wooden whistle one after another, and all the foot soldiers began to prepare.

The 3,000 sword players and pikemen in the army also began to change formations and took the initiative to walk to the first row.

The entire team of the Ming army began to change from a straight line of long snake formations to a U-shaped formation with a huge arc, similar to a goose-shaped formation that surrounded most of the Jin army camp at a distance of 200 steps in front of them.

At the same time, the five-pound artillery positions in the rear also began to move forward.

All these changes made the Jin army, who was hiding in the broken wall of the barracks, nervous, and swallowed their saliva one after another.

The ten-pound cannon almost destroyed most of the hundreds of trebuchets at the head of the Jin army, making it impossible for them to effectively attack the Ming army's Xiandeng army, which was more than 200 steps away from the city wall.

Finally waited for the sound of the artillery to stop, and when Dai Shan stretched out his head again, he saw only the five-pound artillery carts that had advanced for a mile, and they were only less than five hundred steps away from the camp.

This distance is only a cup of tea for the horses that pull them.

The Ming army and the Jin army maintained a distance of 200 paces from the camp outside the city, and the two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and Dai Shan also said:

"Where's the trebuchet!"

Baylor ...... This...... There are only seventeen of these trebuchets left. Jia La's forehead, who had just returned from counting on the side, really looked ugly, and Dai Shan was a little depressed when he heard this.

The artillery of the Jin army was originally inferior to the Ming army, and the failure of the battle against the Ming army in the battle of Fuliao, Fushun and other cities were taken away, and there were only about 300 inferior iron cannons in the army.

At present, the elite artillery of the whole army is still a lot of Franc machine guns that were snatched from the Ming army before the Battle of Fuliao, and these cannons were also taken south by Mang Gurtai to knock on Daning Mansion.

It's just that Mang Gurtai, a fool, has been gone for so many days, and there is no news at all......

"The army of the barracks is the first to withdraw!"

Helplessly, Dai Shan could only give up the camp outside the city, and Gushan Ezhen next to him also quickly gave an order.

Soon the Jin army in the camp began to retreat continuously, retreating into the city little by little through the stone bridge of the moat.

In this regard, the Ming army Xiandeng was indifferent, but watched them retreat into the city, without the idea of pursuit.

There is no gap, and it is impossible to simply storm the city gate, and even if it is taken, the dead and wounded soldiers will not be able to bear Xiong Tingbi.

"Jianyu, this is to abandon the camp outside the city." Sun Yingyuan put down his binoculars clairvoyance and opened his mouth with some regret.

"The camp outside the city has been disabled, and now the five-pound artillery is pressing the formation, and their camp fortifications can't stop the flat fire of so many five-pound guns, and it is normal to retreat."

Xiong Tingbi saw it very openly, he knew that it was impossible for Dai Shan to let the Jin army die, after all, the battle of Fuliao directly beat the men of Jianjiao to the fault, and now he was naturally reluctant to sacrifice too many real prisoners.

If it really comes to the point where something can't be done, Dai Shan will definitely abandon Yidong River City, and he will not gamble his life with six thousand taels of red flags.

Without the two red flags, he would have no capital to fight against Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji.

It was under his self-preservation idea that the Ming army easily occupied the camp outside the moat, and at the same time, the Ming army's five-pound cannon also pushed forward to a distance of 200 steps from the city wall.

"Fixed Shot, Northeast Corner Opening, Prepare ......"

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

With the sound of the wooden whistle, hundreds of five-pound cannons began to bombard, aiming at the gap in the city wall and began to shoot stone bullets continuously, and at the same time, the ten-catty cannon positions also began to move.

Along with the movement of the gunners, they also brought siege equipment such as cloud chariots and Lu Gong chariots.

Standing on the tower of the city gate, looking at the artillery of the Ming army that stopped after the shelling, as well as the cloud car and Lu bus that the Ming army kept pushing, Dai Shan's forehead was full of sweat.

He struggled with the dilemma of retreating and holding on, and finally felt that it was better to retreat first.

"Arrange for the women and children in the city to ride horses and retreat back to Yimihe City." Dai Shan turned around and ordered a Jia Lae Zhen, and the other party immediately went to do it.

"Hold on for half an hour, and after half an hour, the whole army will withdraw to Yimihe City!"

Dai Shan pulled out the long knife at his waist and gave a loud order to the generals of the Jin Army around him, and his words also made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

There is no arable land in Yidong River City, and the old and weak women and children are only a few Jin Jun's family rolls who are in charge of logistics.

As long as this group of families withdraws, they can completely abandon Yidong River City and retreat to Yimi River City.

The distance between the two was close to two hundred miles, and unless the Ming army was ready to go four hundred miles north, it would be impossible to hit there.

If they really hit there, it means that Xiong Tingbi is not a sheep attack, but the main force.

Dai Shan thought very well, but he underestimated the siege ability of the Ming army.

"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang-"

The piercing whistle sounded, and the Ming artillery launched another shelling, which made all the Jin troops subconsciously squat behind the female wall.

During this period, many unlucky eggs were smashed through the female wall by stone bullets and were stoned to death, but many more escaped this catastrophe with their heads down.

Finally waited for the sound of artillery to stop, and when they got up, the vanguard of the Ming army had already crossed the moat with a cloud cart, and began to set up a cloud cart and a Lu bus to prepare to attack the city.

They are seasoned veterans who know how to climb through gaps and protect themselves as much as possible.

But Rao is so, the danger is still very high.

The Jin army who got up immediately discovered the Ming army's move, and when the cloud chariot's ladder was set up in the gap of the female wall, the Jin soldiers and soldiers moved one after another, smashing the rolling stones and sassholes piled up on the city's head down.

"Minggou, Lao Tzu invites you to have a good meal!"

These rolling stones and sassals are light thirty or forty pounds, and the heavy ones weigh fifty or sixty pounds, even if they are wearing triple armor, but they are smashed like that, they are not something that ordinary people can resist.

But at such a time, the power of the Ming army's rifles was revealed.

According to the siege map drawn by Zhu Youzhen, when the 3,000 sword players stepped on the ladder to attack the city, the 6,000 foot players of the Ming army aimed at the gaps in each female wall, and concentrated shooting at one gap for every four people.

Among them, it is natural to accidentally injure your own comrades, but war is not a game, and some accidental injuries are inevitable.

Therefore, when the war began, some Jin troops did not counterattack at all, and only raised the stone and prepared to smash it at the moment, and were strangled by the Ming army's infantry men.

"Bang bang bang" gunshots rang out in an endless stream, representing a group of harvested Jin troops.

Under such an attack, the Jin army could not even do melee combat, so they could only raise a shield to defend and a counter-attack with a sandalwood and stones.

It's just that the strength of such a counterattack is as incomparable as a drop in the ocean compared to the number of Ming troops.

In the counterattack, they could only watch as the Ming soldiers climbed the city wall and drew out their hand-to-hand combat with them.

But even so, on the frontal battlefield, Xiong Tingbi, who was riding on horseback and watching the battle with his double-barreled clairvoyance, could also see the soldiers of the Ming army injured from time to time.

Some of the stones smashed straight into the heads of the Ming soldiers.

After the severe pain, some Ming soldiers instantly lost consciousness and fell down the ladder.

The robes looked at it silently, then topped the vacancy and struggled up the ladder.

Many of them know each other and are brothers who have known each other for many years, but the battlefield did not give them time for remembrance and heartache, and every minute and second of hesitation was irresponsible to themselves.

What's more, they know that there will be professional people to treat the fallen robes......

Due to the medical school established by Zhu Youjian and the teaching of Chen Shigong, a master of surgery in the late Ming Dynasty, the number of surgical students in the Ming Army was not large.

A surgical student can teach ten military doctors, and the number of military doctors is quite large in the military.

Therefore, the Ming soldiers who fell down were immediately dragged to the rear by others and treated by the Ming army doctors hiding in the barracks.

Just as Zhu Youzhen said, first-class armies often fight for two things: logistics and will to fight.

The Ming army's will to fight was determined according to the reward of silver and the pension field, and the logistics were also the largest in the world at the same time.

The wounded soldiers dragged to the rear were immediately treated, disinfected with high-concentration distilled spirits, and then stitched up the wounds, wrapped in special herbs and gauze, and a large number of Ming soldiers who fell due to external injuries were saved.

Due to wearing an armor stomach, most of the injuries on the body are external injuries and fainting or internal injuries, such as people who lose blood due to the cut of arteries are rare.

Fortunately, they are rare existences, otherwise with the current surgical strength of the Ming army, the problem of blood transfusion would not be overcome.

Under such medical logistical support, many Ming soldiers and soldiers attacked the city under pressure, and with the resounding of Ming artillery, the gap that was originally blown open was expanded again.

Stones fell, rammed earth collapsed, and the impregnable walls of the Cold Weapon Age finally fell in front of the artillery, and many Ming saber players who were waiting to siege the city also poured towards the gap.

"Go down to the city, plug the gap!"

Dai Shan's response was very timely, and he kept an eye on the gap.

After discovering that the gap had been blown open, he immediately led two oxen to record the city wall, blocked the gap as soon as possible, and ordered the people at both ends of the gap to plug the gap with wood and stones.

The two Red Banner Jin troops in Yidong River City were well-trained, and even in the face of the elite soldiers and horses of Liaodong, they did not panic at all, but carried out the established steps in an orderly manner.

The gap became a meat grinder, and the two heavily armored foot soldiers began to collide head-on, constantly squeezing, and people were constantly injured and dragged out.

The gourd hammer, mace, and axe have become the favorites of both sides, and people fall down with blood on their faces every minute and every second, and Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan, who are in this formation, watched all this silently, without the slightest fluctuation in their emotions.

As soon as the success is achieved, the war is bloody, and those who cannot bear it will go home honestly, instead of dragging their comrades on the battlefield.

If a general cannot calm down, he will not be able to avoid greater casualties......

"Bring some more stones and timber to the city, and if they are not enough, they will demolish the houses!"

In the rear of the gap battle, seeing that the two armies were caught in a scorching offensive and defensive battle, Dai Shan also noticed that there was a shortage of materials to repair the gap.

He scolded those generals sharply: "How to use the preparation materials, do you still use me to teach you?" ”

As the battle deepened, the rolling stone and sassalwood stored at the head of the city were in a hurry.

Dai Shan obviously still underestimated the combat effectiveness and execution of the Ming army.

In the face of such a tight defense, the military spirit of the Ming army did not waver in the slightest.

This kind of will and combat power did not appear a few times in the Battle of Fuliao, and even the Shanxi soldiers in Weining Yingbao only began to retreat after suffering less than one percent of the casualties.

Looking at the casualties of the Ming army and the vanguard army, they are already about one percent, but they are still attacking without fear of death.

"Huang Taiji is right, the Ming army should not be given time......"

At this moment, Dai Shan remembered Huang Taiji's words after the Battle of Shenyang that year, and he only felt extremely regretful at this moment.

At that time, if the Jin army could endure the dead and wounded and take Liao Shen in one go, even if there were 20,000 or 30,000 Jurchen warriors killed or injured, it would be much better than now.

With the Liaodong Peninsula, they can't be so passive.

Given enough time for the Ming army to train, now they are inferior to the Ming army.

Gritting his teeth, Dai Shan turned his head to look at the rear, only to see some Jin troops nervously driving mules and horses along the horse road to carry some city defense equipment to the city.

He is still very satisfied with this, but no matter how many equipment there are to defend the city, the current Jin army's casualties have reached one percent, according to the previous practice against the Ming army, at most two percent, their own side will be defeated......

Thinking of this, Dai Shan's heartbeat began to accelerate, his brain was congested, and he kept thinking of countermeasures, but the dull sound of artillery interrupted him all the time.

He didn't wait for him to come up with a good idea, but the person he had been looking forward to made a merit......

"Drive! Drive! ”

The Ming army's main formation, accompanied by the Tang cavalry rushing from the side, Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan, who were observing the battlefield, and other generals looked sideways.

This pond rode forward, and then turned over and dismounted in one go, and handed over the military information in his arms.

"Jingluo, this is the military situation of Daning Mansion!"

"Huh?" Hearing that there was a military situation in Daning Mansion, all the generals frowned, realizing that something bad was happening.

Sure enough, when Xiong Tingbi grabbed the military information and opened it, the military information on it was not bad from what he guessed.

"Mang Gurtai led 12,000 troops to knock on Daning Mansion."

Xiong Tingbi turned his head and said this to Sun Yingyuan, and some of the generals behind him also showed surprised expressions.

They didn't expect that at such a time, Jianyu would dare to play the means of encircling Wei to save Zhao.

However, for this news, many generals did not show any panic, just because Xiong Tingbi had made all preparations and arrangements before the expedition.

"Daning Mansion has He Shixian garrisoning three cities with six battalions of troops, and Guangning Mansion also has three battalions.

Closing the military newspaper, Xiong Tingbi didn't say much, but continued to watch the situation on the battlefield.

Time passed little by little, and Dai Shan, who was in charge of defense, saw that his army was about to lose more than 20% of the casualties, so he could only stubbornly order:

"The whole army retreats to Yimihe City!"

"Beep-" The piercing wooden whistle sounded, and with the sound of the wooden whistle, the Jin army began to retreat from the city, retreating step by step.

On the battlefield, the most difficult thing for the army is not how to go up to fight, but how to withdraw.

Many battles and wars throughout the ages have been defeated by retreat, both in the East and the West.

"The whole army stops, and the poor don't chase!"

When the three generals of the vanguard army of the Ming army saw the withdrawal of the Jin army step by step, they immediately ordered the whole army not to pursue.

This made the Ming army, which was red-eyed, red-eyed, and watched the Jin army slowly withdraw.

After the Jianyu withdrew more than 100 steps, the three staff generals ordered to continue the pursuit, and at the same time passed the news to the main formation in the rear.

"The army settled in Yidong River City, rested well with the soldiers and civilians for three days, waited for the follow-up grain and grass to arrive, reclaimed the cultivated land, and transmitted the news back to Liaodong, and forwarded it to His Highness, asking His Highness whether he would continue to march."

After getting the news of the retreat of the Jin army, Xiong Tingbi understood very well the truth of accepting it when he saw it.

After taking Yidong River City, he continued to reclaim it and make it an outpost for the Ming army to sweep in the future.

They are always sheep attackers, not the main force, and he is not the commander of the sweeping north, but a partial division, so naturally he cannot make a decision on whether to pursue or not.

Although the supplies of the Ming army could support their more than 30,000 people to attack Yimihe City, the baggage line was too long, and Mang Gurtai was on their flank, so there was a risk of being cut off.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi decided not to go north for the time being, but to prepare to eat the 300-mile plain between the Great Wall and Yidong River City first.

Xiong Tingbi wanted to conquer Yidong River City for the sake of eating the 300-mile-long, nearly 30 million acres of plain, to settle Shandong refugees, otherwise he would at most follow Zhu Youzhen's stalemate.

Now that the territory is down, all that remains is development.

Thinking about everything clearly, Xiong Tingbi began to lead the army into Yidong River City, and when they entered Yidong River City, a lot of war broke out in the Changbai Mountain Range, which was more than 600 miles away from them.

"Beep!"

"Bang bang bang-"

In the Changbai Mountain Road, with the sound of the wooden whistle, the familiar five-jin cannon sounded again, but unlike the plain battle of Xiong Tingbi and others, the five-jin cannon at this moment is fighting in the narrow river valley.

The sound of "booming" cannons and "banging" stone bullets hitting the city wall constantly echoed in the river valley, and the target of their attack was one of the countless stone forts on the 300-mile mountain road from Jianzhou to Huifa City.

"According to the inspection, this captive is like a mouse, building forts everywhere, and the stone fort will be withdrawn as soon as it is blown down, just like a kraft candy, it is hateful!"

On the mountain road in the river valley, when the voice of the king pet sounded, a lean general beside him also spoke:

"It is also beneficial for this stone fort to be laid, it can be regarded as recovering one barrier after another for my Jianzhou County, just look at the appearance of their ten miles and one fort, I am afraid that before the end of the war, we will only travel one or two hundred miles at most."

When this general dressed in armor opened his mouth and looked carefully, wasn't this Lu Xiangsheng, who was originally transferred by Zhu Youzhen to the deputy envoy of Liaodong.

It's just that Lu Xiang has been promoted to a civil official, and if his appearance in armor is seen by the group of civil servants in the court, he will probably be ridiculed.

In the eyes of the Chinese officials of the DPRK, the wearing of armor by civilian officials is simply an act of being willing to be inferior.

In their eyes, the civilian officials leading the troops are the scenes of sitting in the Chinese army, lupine scarves, talking and laughing, and the overall situation is in control.

People like Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, who are civil officials and still wear armor to kill the enemy, but they fall behind, and they don't like it, they don't say it, and they have to be ridiculed by them.

However, that was also the previous scene, and now Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, as the Qi Wang Party, estimate that the group of civil officials who will ridicule them can only laugh in the face of them now.

"After this battle is over, you should be promoted as well."

Wang Chong, who had a hideous injury on his face, smiled at Lu Xiangsheng next to him, and some of the generals behind them also laughed.

In this battle to sweep the north, anyone with a discerning eye can see that King Qi is deliberately giving Lu Xiangsheng military merits.

Otherwise, according to the official position, such an important matter as attacking Huifa City should be handed over to He Shixian or Sun Yingyuan to personally lead the troops.

Even if it wasn't the two of them, it should be You Shigong, who was stationed in Jingcheng, North Korea, and it was not Lu Xiangsheng's turn.

Lu Xiangsheng was able to get this good errand, which was obviously deliberately done by King Qi.

This can be seen by Wang Pet and others, who have been with Lu Xiangsheng for two and a half years, so they will celebrate Lu Xiangsheng's ascension in advance.

For their celebration, Lu Xiangsheng did not feel very happy, but felt that the pressure on his shoulders was heavier.

King Qi's care for him led to him being a Jinshi born in the second year of the Apocalypse, and in just four years, he jumped directly from Jinshi to the deputy envoy of the fourth grade.

You must know that in the second year of the Apocalypse, there were a total of 409 Jinshi, and Wen Zhenmeng, as the champion, was just a six-rank official who was still working as a cultivator in the Hanlin Academy.

The others who entered the court with Lu Xiangsheng and were admitted to the Jinshi were mostly from the seventh rank and the seventh rank.

From this, it is not difficult to see how much Zhu Youzhen has grace for him.

However, it was this kind of grace that made Lu Xiangsheng feel pressured and wanted to make some merits to repay Zhu Youzhen.

After this battle, no matter how bad he is, he can be promoted to the next order, and become the envoy of the fourth grade, without having to bear a deputy name.

For the twenty-six-year-old Lu Xiangsheng, becoming an envoy of a province at such an age is indeed a great honor and grace.

It's just that personally, he doesn't want to be promoted in this way, he really wants to play something in this battle.

But when he looked up at the stone fort that stood in front of him between the river valleys, he knew that such an idea was impossible.

From Jianzhou to Huifa City, there are high mountains on both sides of the road, and there can be no ambushes, and some only have stone forts that are difficult to bite.

However, for the Ming army with artillery, these stone forts were only a matter of time before they were conquered.

Lu Xiangsheng is steady and steady, and every stone castle will be his merit.

It can be said that Zhu Youzhen chose the safest and easiest path for him to get credit, but this road is not the path he wants to take......