In the next few nights, the outside of Huai'an City has been surrounded by noisy musical instruments, such a noisy sound made the soldiers and civilians in the city almost collapsed, they almost closed their eyes not long after, the domineering sound of the suona outside the city penetrated the cloth blocking the ears into the ear canal.

"Ahhhhh!!h

"I'm going crazy!"

In the barracks, a soldier who couldn't stand it anymore sat up from the bed suddenly, screaming loudly, and his hysteria also drove other soldiers in the same barracks, and in just a few tens of seconds, the entire barracks was in chaos, and the out-of-control soldiers even jumped up from the bed, picked up their weapons and slashed towards the robe that had a gap with him, and blood was splashed in the barracks.

Until the soldiers on the night patrol heard the news and killed the out-of-control soldiers on the spot, or captured them on the spot, the whole barracks was like a purgatory on earth, lying down several soldiers' corpses, in the flickering firelight, the blood splattered around reflected in the eyes of the soldiers, and the firelight also reflected their frightened looks.

The incident was quickly reported to Nikan, and after being promoted by the Baoyi Aha who served him, Nikan, who had been sleeping particularly poorly for several days, was furious as usual, and continued to beat the Baoyi Aha to vent the anger in his heart, and only then did he meet with the Annan general Dasu, who came to report the matter, and Wang Wenkui, the governor of Caoyun, who heard the news.

The quality of sleep is also very poor, and if you look closely, you can see the blackness under their eye sockets.

After listening to Dasu's report, Nikan and Wang Wenkui's faces became heavy, and Wang Wenkui said: "The harassment of the Ming army in the past few days has been quite effective, the morale of the army is decreasing day by day, and the morale of the army is wavering, tonight's incident will only be the beginning, if this problem is not solved, similar things will happen more times."

"How did this king not think of solving it?" Nikan rubbed his swollen temples tiredly, and said, "It's just that the Ming army is heavily guarded, and rushing out of the city will only increase casualties, and even if it is destroyed once, the Ming army can still continue to harass."

Wang Wenkui thought about it, he began to have a headache again, rubbed the position of his temples, and said, "Then we can't just endure the harassment of the Ming army, right? If we continue like this, we will be able to destroy our army without the Ming army attacking the city."

Nikan fell into silence, he couldn't find a suitable response for a while, Dasu on the side watched the conversation between the two, gritted his teeth, and said: "Lord, governor, just break through, continue to stick to Huai'an will only wipe out the whole army, there is still a chance to break through, the Han people have a good saying, leave the green mountains without worrying about no firewood."

"Breakout?" Nikan repeated his words and asked rhetorically, "What if you break through? The transportation has been cut off, and the north is about to run out of food, and once we break through and give Huai'an away, it will be very difficult for us to take it back."

There is another sentence he didn't say, that is, if Caoyun could not be restored for a long time, without the Ming army's northern expedition, the foundation of the Qing court in the north would collapse by itself.

Although he didn't say it, Dasu and Wang Wenkui both knew this, which was why they didn't dare to propose a breakthrough.

However, Nikan still remembered Dasu's proposal, and if it really reached the point of no return, it would be a good decision to risk death to break through.

In order to prevent similar things from happening again, Nikan increased the number of patrols in the barracks and asked the soldiers to keep their weapons in one place, so that even if there was another camp roar, it would be difficult for it to turn into large-scale bloodshed.

No one knew that at the same time, under the cover of drums, gongs and suona on the ground, the auxiliary soldiers of the punishment battalion were working overtime to wield shovels and hoes in the tunnels to dig up the dirt in front of them.

After a few days of busyness, the Ming army successfully excavated the tunnel to only one-third of the distance, and the remaining amount of work could be dug in no more than two days at most.

The excavated soil was not transported outside the city, but piled up in nearby houses, because the Ming army was changing shifts in the dark at night, so the Qing army did not notice the movement of the Ming army from beginning to end.

Coupled with the sound harassment every night, the Qing soldiers were mentally exhausted, and the sounds made during the excavation were ignored.

The underground was working overtime, and the ground was not idle, and the Ming army cut down a large number of trees around the city and made a crowd

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It is mostly used to cover the attack of the shield cart and the siege equipment used in the siege.

Only wait for the tunnels to dig under the city walls and blow them down with gunpowder to launch an attack.

On October 22, the tunnel was finally dug up, and the auxiliaries took advantage of the night to transport a large number of wooden barrels filled with black powder into the tunnel and pile them at the end of the tunnel.

Considering that the tunnel is too long, if you ignite the lead at the entrance of the tunnel, there is a high chance that an accident will cause the lead to go out in the middle of the tunnel.

Therefore, the Ming army had to leave one person in the tunnel to ignite the gunpowder, and this person was more appropriately called a dead soldier - this task was nine deaths, and even if the gunpowder exploded, even if it was not blown to pieces, it would be buried alive by the collapse of the tunnel caused by the explosion.

This is not a problem, there must be a brave man under the so-called heavy reward, and under Su Yan's heavy reward, someone soon signed up for the dead and volunteered to become that victim.

This person is a green battalion soldier who surrendered in the Battle of Suzhou, according to him, he was originally a person from Beizhili, and his family died in the year of the catastrophe, and he was completely alone, so he would be the first to sign up when collecting the dead.

And his wish is very simple, there is a cemetery to be buried, and the bounty will be given to the robe that takes the most care of him on weekdays.

For his request, Su Yan naturally ordered Chen Ying to implement it, and the satisfied dead man walked into the tunnel with the determination to see death as home, in the admiring eyes of the soldiers outside the tunnel.

On the morning of the 22nd, the Ming army began to assemble and lined up outside the camp to make a siege posture.

It was already three moments, under the gaze of the soldiers in the north of the city, the ground first shook violently, and then only a deafening explosion sounded, and the city wall of Lanyuan Gate almost rose into the air, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall who were urgently preparing for war were sent to the sky together with the city wall.

"On that day, His Royal Highness dug a tunnel to blow up the Lanyuan Gate, within a radius of several miles, the thieves were all affected and died, their seven orifices bled out, their internal organs were shattered, and they died miserably, the Tatar puppet Annam general Dasu died, the thieves were terrified, and the northern city fell."

Guan Qiu, a scholar who watched the battle in the army, recorded this.

Although the real explosion did not "spread for several miles", this sudden explosion did send all the Qing troops within 100 meters of Lanyuan Gate into the sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion also shattered the internal organs of hundreds of Qing soldiers.

After witnessing the bombing of the Lanyuan Gate, the Ming army in the north of the city first paused for dozens of seconds, and then fell into a sea of cheers, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Then, Su Yan promptly ordered the horn of attack to be sounded, almost with this explosion as a signal, and the Ming troops on all sides of Huai'an also launched an attack.

The siege of Huai'an began.

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