At this time, in the middle military department of the Ming army, a piercing sound of metal impact sounded.

Mingjin retreats!

Hearing the sound of gold, countless Ming troops suddenly retreated like a swarm, but under the command of the Chinese army, although they were not panicked.

Soon tens of thousands of Ming troops withdrew from the battlefield, leaving only hundreds of immobile wounded soldiers wailing under the city walls, and hundreds of corpses of Ming soldiers killed on the spot.

On the city tower, Jiang Shizhong and several people watched the Ming army retreat, turning a blind eye to the wounded soldiers of the Ming army who were wailing, on the battlefield, it is also a kind of happiness to be able to die on the spot, otherwise once they are seriously injured and cannot escape back to the camp by themselves, then the end will be bleeding to death.

Of course, there are some generals who defend the city and will ask the enemy to bring back the wounded soldiers after the battle, but there are also some people who will use the wounded soldiers as bait to shoot those who come to the rescue.

As the sun set, the afterglow made the sky half bright, and dozens of Ming soldiers pushing wheelbarrows slowly approached the city wall, none of them wearing armor or carrying blades, indicating that there was no hostility.

"Governor, do you want them to take the wounded soldiers and corpses?"

At this time, a hundred households on the city wall came to Jiang Shizhong to ask for instructions.

"Let them take them."

Jiang Shizhong said calmly, it's not that he is kind-hearted, but he doesn't want to ruin the reputation of Daqi, now in this part of Shandong, Daqi's reputation is even better than that of Daming, not plundering the gentry, not leviing harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, in the eyes of the people and squires, even if Daqi wins the world, there is nothing bad about it, if the other party is prevented from rescuing the wounded soldiers, there must be a cold-blooded and ruthless reputation.

Of course, the main reason is that even if these wounded soldiers are rescued, more than half of them will survive, and they will not become a threat in a short period of time, and will become a huge burden for the Ming army.

With Jiang Shizhong's consent, the Ming army under the city wall quickly moved more than 100 wounded soldiers to the wheelbarrow, and then headed towards the Ming army camp, and at the same time, more than 100 Ming soldiers pushed the cart towards the city wall.

The camp of the Ming army.

Guo Qin, Deng Kui and other generals looked at the wounded soldiers transported back, and their hearts sank one by one, in fact, they preferred that the rebels in the inner city would prevent them from rescuing the wounded soldiers.

If you can't save it, you will have to pay a pension of a few taels of silver at most, but if you save it, in addition to the monthly salary, you must also be given food, and it will take at least three months to recuperate from the wounded.

The cost of supporting a wounded soldier is much greater than a pension, and more importantly, the wounded soldier may not be able to save him, and sometimes he dies after half a month and a month, which consumes a lot of medicine.

But now that they have been rescued, they have to pinch their noses and admit it, if they are rescued and killed, the army's spirit will be scattered.

After a day of repairs, Guo Qin gathered his army again and waited outside the west gate.

At this time, outside the west gate, thousands of horses and antler piles replaced the moat and became a new barrier.

Looking at the dense horses and antler piles under the city wall, Deng Kui frowned, if he wanted to get close to the city wall, he had to dispose of these things first, but under the city, every time he stayed for an extra moment, he would pay a huge price, and he didn't know how much time it would take to dispose of these things. ….

And there is no guarantee that there are only these things in the city, these rebels have been fighting for nearly half a year, and no one knows how many defense equipment they have prepared.

Dispatching masters can easily solve these things, but the masters are not cabbages, a guard, at most, there are only three or five second-rate martial artists, all of them are high-level military attaches of the guard, and those Jinyi Wei masters transferred from all over the country are also party figures, and it is not appropriate to mobilize these people in order to clear these barriers.

After all, these people are the real trump cards of the army, not cannon fodder, under the rain of arrows and artillery, even if they are all wearing heavy armor, it is difficult to complete the block, and the other party is not without masters, if there are heavy casualties, once the other party goes out of the city for a decisive battle, they will definitely not be able to stop it.

"Commander, why don't you go to the governor and bring the Hongyi cannon."

After thinking for a moment, Deng Kui opened his mouth and said, The power of the Hongyi cannon is also the

Knowing it, naturally I won't miss it, when I was in Xuzhou, I cast more than 40 Hongyi cannons, but the Hongyi cannons were too heavy, often two or three thousand catties, too much to slow down the marching speed, they didn't bring it this time.

"Let's test it first."

Guo Qin said in a deep voice: "And when attacking the city, the other party also has a Hongyi cannon, and it is in a high place, and the range is far above us, which is very unfavorable to us, a Hongyi cannon is extremely difficult to cast, we can't afford to waste it, and the effect is not great."

It takes hundreds of craftsmen to cast the Hongyi cannon, it needs a special workshop, it is impossible to move with the army, the nearest workshop is still in Yanzhou City, once it is damaged, it can basically only be pulled back to Yanzhou City, and it cannot be recast in a short period of time.

More importantly, the power of the Hongyi cannon at most smashed the daughter wall and the stomping wall on the city wall, it is impossible to collapse the city wall, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the state capitals are building the city wall, especially the dangerous city of Linqingzhou, it is built as solid as gold.

Soon, the drums of war were beating!

A large and small cannon was pushed to the front of the battle, and the siege ballista also slowly moved forward, this time in addition to the wooden curtain chariot, there were also siege ramming, chariots, ladders, rushing carts, arrow towers, and door-breaking hammer carts......

With the beating of war drums, the Ming army slowly advanced, but the formation was a little messy, and most of the soldiers hid behind various chariots.

On the city wall, Jiang Shizhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and then ordered: "Pass the order, all Hongyi cannons aim at those cloud ladders and arrow towers."

The thickness of the city wall of Linqingzhou City is four or five zhang, even if those Ming troops break their heads, it is impossible to have much serious impact on the city wall, the only thing that can threaten the city wall is the ladder, the arrow tower, and other siege equipment, including firearms, can only hurt the soldiers on the city wall.

After receiving Jiang Shizhong's order, all the Hongyi cannons immediately pointed their muzzles at the moving ladders and arrow towers, and the next moment, more than a dozen Hongyi cannons ignited at the same time.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Twenty-pound solid cannonballs blasted towards the largest arrow tower.

Syllable!

Katsa! Katsa!

With a crisp sound, the arrow tower was hit head-on by a cannonball, and a large hole was smashed in an instant, while the smaller ladder was not lost at all.

[In view of the general environment,

"Get on the rocket!"

Looking at the cloud ladder and arrow tower that were getting closer and closer, Jiang Shizhong ordered again.

The next moment, thousands of rockets fell like a rain of fire, and each ladder and arrow tower were more or less hit by rockets, and the arrows were already tied with gunpowder and other combustibles.

And the Ming army, pushing the ladder and the arrow tower, did not hesitate, picking up the soil on the ground to extinguish the fire.

At the same time, the tiger squat cannon on the urn city ignited at the same time, the archers also shot arrows and missed, thousands of stones and iron beads accompanied by sharp arrows scattered like a rain curtain on the army outside the city, and another scream sounded!

As the Ming army got closer and closer to the city wall, the casualties became heavier, and in front of the rejection of horses and sharp piles, thousands of Ming troops approached the city wall under the cover of shields, trying to pull away the rejection horses and antler piles to clear the way for the ladder.

Syllable!

Katsa!

A hundred zhang away from the city wall, an arrow tower was smashed by the Hongyi cannon to shatter the load-bearing column, suddenly collapsed, dozens of archers on the arrow tower suddenly fell like dumplings, nearly four zhang high huge arrow tower pressed dozens of Ming troops to the ground, screaming again and again for a while.

At this time, thousands of soldiers with firearms rushed out of the wooden mantle chariots and chariots of the Ming army, and for a while, all kinds of firearms and crossbow chariots hit the Qi army on the city wall and could not lift their heads.

The next moment, a door-breaking hammer truck smashed all the horses and antler piles in front of the city gate under the impetus of hundreds of Ming troops, and then slammed into the city wall!

Bang!

There was a muffled sound, and the entire city gate shook.

The soldiers on the urn city were shooting arrows more desperately, and the Ming troops pushing the door-breaking hammer car were hit by arrows one after another, but the next moment more Ming troops made up for it, pushing the door-breaking hammer car and bombarding the urn city.

After moving the horses and antler piles, the Ming army

The ladder finally reached the city wall, and at the cost of more than a dozen arrow towers were either shattered by Hongyi cannons or ignited by rockets, becoming a large torch, and only three or four remained intact.

"Those who make the first contribution to the city will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and a hundred households will be sealed!"

A small flag officer of the Ming army shouted loudly.

"I'm on!"

A majestic man said loudly, then held a large shield in his left hand, and bit by tooth he gritted his knife, and climbed little by little along the ladder towards the city wall.

The next moment, dozens of large stones fell from the city wall and smashed on the shield, making a muffled sound of winter.

At the same time, on the protruding horse-faced wall of the city wall, the archers also shot at the Ming army on the ladder, and one by one the soldiers were shot and arrows planted down the ladder.

Dahan only felt that his hand holding the shield seemed to be broken, but he didn't dare to let go, in this case, there was a shield to cover and a chance to live, without the shield, he would definitely die.

Just then, a stream of black liquid poured down from the city wall, drenching the big man squarely, not only the shield was full of black liquid, but even the big man's clothes were stained a lot.

Menghuo oil!

Seeing this, Dahan's face changed instantly, and the next moment, several rockets were shot at Menghuo oil, and the fire was ignited!

Dahan hurriedly threw away the burning shield in his hand, jumped off the ladder with reluctance, and then threw himself under the cover of the ladder.

Not only was the ladder where the Han was located being attacked by Menghuo oil, but other ladders also began to catch fire, and at the same time, on the city wall, the defending Qi army also pushed the city defense car to crash, and the long ram knocked a cloud ladder away from the city wall. ….

"Mingjin retreats!"

Seeing that all the soldiers were blocked by the rebels on the city wall, Guo Qin sighed and said, only in less than half an hour of attacking the city, at least two or three thousand people were killed and wounded, and if the fight continues, I don't know if the city can be broken, but the collapse of the soldiers is certain.

Soon, the piercing sound of gold sounded from the middle army of the Ming army, and when the sound of gold was heard, countless Ming troops slowly retreated with the remaining siege equipment.

The camp of the Ming army.

"Chief soldier, the casualties have been counted, this time there are more than 4,000 casualties, and many wounded soldiers are still under the city wall, do you want to send someone to rescue them?"

Deng Kui arched.

"Pie."

Guo Qin nodded, now the rebels don't stop it, if they don't send someone to save it, the army's heart will be scattered.

After a pause, Guo Qin continued, "You take some people to the governor to bring the Hongyi cannon."

In this siege, the rebels on the city walls suffered hundreds of casualties at most, and they lost nearly ten times the opponent's losses.

"The last will go."

Deng Kui nodded, and then stepped back.

………

The battle situation in Linqingzhou City has fallen into a stalemate, and on the side of Jinan Fucheng, Su Hao ushered in an unexpected figure.

Mao Chenglu!

Mao Wenlong's righteous son!

"See His Majesty Emperor Qi!"

Mao Chenglu saluted respectfully, although he looked down on Su Hao in his heart, but he was under the eaves and had to bow his head.

Looking at Mao Chenglu, Su Hao's eyes were full of strange colors, Mao Chenglu's arrival was really unexpected by him, Mao Wenlong's official residence was a product, he held the sword of Shangfang, and he was alone in Dongjiang, it can be said that he was a warlord, and logically speaking, he didn't need to come to his side at all.

"General Mao doesn't have to be polite."

However, if he didn't understand, Su Hao still smiled and said, "I don't know what is the matter with Shuai Mao sending General Mao over?"

"Your Majesty Emperor Qi, my father sent me here to ask, I wonder if Great Qi is interested in trading with us?"

Hearing this, Mao Chenglu still said respectfully.

Have trade relations?

Hearing Mao Chenglu's words, Su Hao raised his eyebrows, Mao Wenlong's business, he naturally knew that many businessmen in Shandong had business dealings with Mao Wenlong, but after he took down Denglai Erfu before, he controlled all the wharves and confiscated all the merchant ships.

now

Shandong is surrounded by enemies on three sides, don't think about it if you want Daming to do business, so he is ready to open up maritime trade, although he still has enough money and food to support nearly 200,000 troops, but he can't always sit on the empty mountain, and he must reopen up the way to get money.

And the sea trade is just right, Shandong is close to North Korea and Japan, since ancient times is the main force of trade with the two places, and the sea trade can also establish a strong navy, and when the strength is enough, whether it is north to Tianjin, or south to Nanjing, the navy is a powerful help.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Hao pulled his thoughts back to reality and began to consider Mao Chenglu's words.

"General Mao, I don't know what you can give us? And what do we need to give?"

After thinking for a moment, Su Hao asked.

"We have a medicine collection team in Changbai Mountain, and we have all kinds of precious medicinal materials."

Mao Chenglu arched his hand and said, "Whether it is silver, food, or weapons, as long as His Majesty Emperor Qi can take it out, we can exchange it for medicinal materials."

Grain? Armament?

Hearing Mao Chenglu's request, Su Hao's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, Mao Wenlong has the support of Daming on his side, there should be no shortage of food and weapons, how could he come to him to buy these things?

After thinking for a while, Su Hao opened his mouth and said, "General Mao, we have 200,000 troops to support here, and we don't have a lot of silver and grain here, so we can only draw out 60,000 stone of grain, I don't know how many medicinal materials can be exchanged for these grains?"

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