In the middle of the night, the losses of the Ming army in the siege of the city were summed up, and the strong attack on the seventh day caused more than 8,900 soldiers and 3,162 wounded in the various departments of the Wehrmacht, and in just half a day, the Ming army suffered more than 10,000 casualties!

In the fierce battle of more than six days before, the casualties of the Ming army were more than 40,000, and today they reached more than 10,000 in half a day.

The casualties of the Qing army cannot be counted at all, because it was a siege battle, so the heads brought back by the various departments of the Ming army were very few, only a few hundred.

At this time, Liu Yan also calmed down, Chen Xun, Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, and Wang Bo also sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the soldiers under the command of several people also suffered a lot of casualties during this time, and the faces of several people were not very good-looking.

"We can't storm anymore, the casualties of the soldiers of the various departments are too great!"

After Liu Yan finished speaking, he looked at a few people and said, "Now that the Beiyang Fleet has sent another batch of ammunition, our army's next attack can be found from this." ”

Chen Xun said: "What does Elder Ge mean, blasting and attacking the city? ”

Zhang Yi frowned slightly, and said: "During today's attack, there were also many soldiers who used earth-shaking thunder to blast the city gate holes, but the Tartars used to block the city gate holes were all large stones, and they couldn't be blown up at all!" ”

Liu Yan said: "Then dig a tunnel!" ”

"Digging tunnels??"

Liu Yan said: "The order goes down, starting tomorrow, the armies will continue to bombard the Shenyang city wall with artillery to attract the attention of the Qing army. ”

"At the same time, I ordered all the troops and soldiers and civilians to dig tunnels, start digging from a few miles around Shenyang City, dig all the way to the foundation of the Shenyang city wall, and bury a large number of earth-shattering thunder and gunpowder in the tunnel, and directly blow up the city wall!"

Chen Xun, Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, and Wang Bo were taken aback when they heard this, and Liu Yan was very hands-on.

It's just that Wang Bo said: "Ge Lao, isn't the distance of these few miles too close, and there are also clairvoyant mirrors in the Tartar army, which is enough to detect the actions of our army digging tunnels." ”

Wang Yue next to him said: "But it can't be too far, if it's too far, the amount of work to excavate the tunnel will be too large, not only will there be the danger of collapse, but it will also be difficult to dig in place in a short time." ”

Liu Yan said: "The place where the tunnel is excavated is behind the artillery arrays of each department, and sandbag walls and other facilities are piled up in front of the artillery arrays, which can not only protect the artillery arrays, but also block the sight of the Qing army, killing two birds with one stone." ”

Several people agreed.

That night, the various units of the Ming army began to mobilize, and the baggage soldiers of each department and a large number of soldiers and civilians began to pile up sandbag walls in front of the artillery array overnight, all of which were built to the height of two people, like many sections of the city wall, but left a small gap in the sandbag wall to allow the cannon barrel to stretch out and completely cover the situation behind.

In the second half of the night, the sandbag walls of the artillery positions of the various units were completed one after another, and a large number of baggage soldiers and soldiers and civilians began to light torches and dig tunnels behind the artillery positions of the various departments.

Fortunately, at this time, there were more than 100,000 people in the Ming army, these people who were provided with food and wages by the imperial court were full of energy, and in the excavation of the tunnel, they were responsible for transporting soil, making supports, making retaining plates and other work, and there were many people who went underground with the army's baggage and heavy soldiers, and with the deepening of the project, they continued to go deep into the tunnels, and excavated in the direction of the Shenyang city wall little by little.

On the city wall of Shenyang, Prince Yu Duoduo frowned and looked at the Ming artillery array in the west, only to see that there were torches and bonfires everywhere, shining very brightly behind the artillery array, but Duoduo raised the clairvoyant mirror, but could not see the situation behind, due to the problem of angle and distance, Duoduo's vision was completely blocked by the reinforced sandbag wall in front of the artillery array.

"What are the Ming army doing? Is it reinforcing and reinforcing the artillery array?? ”

Somewhat unsure, Dordor hurried to the Chongzheng Hall and reported the situation outside the city to Dolgon.

At this time, Dolgon sat haggard on the Chongzheng Palace, the fierce battle, the slim prospects, so that Dolgon had not closed his eyes for three or four days, and the whole person stayed in the Chongzheng Hall excitedly, constantly commanding the battles of the various departments.

After Duoduo entered the main hall, he reported the situation outside the city, but Dolgon did not pay attention to this, but said with vicissitudes of life: "The news that just came, Nexus was seriously injured and died. ”

Duoduo's heart sank when he heard this, and now the banners of Manchu, Mongolian, Han, and Chao outside the city have all been finished, and the banner owners of each banner and Gushan Ezhen have all died in battle. In the dignified Qing Dynasty, there was only one person left in Manchuria, and only two people, Dolgon, the owner of the two yellow flags in Manzhou, and Duoduo, the owner of the two white flags in Manzhou, were left.

Nexai is just a slave to Duoduo, but when he heard the news at this time, Duoduo couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, and he stood on the main hall with a sad expression, and he was speechless for a while.

After a long time, Dolgon said: "The movement of the Ming army outside the city is very strange, the battle has been several days, and the Ming army has not reinforced any fortifications in the artillery position, and there is no need to strengthen anything, our army's artillery fire can't hit that far at all!" ”

"So, Liu Yan must have a conspiracy!"

A cold light flashed in Duoduo's eyes, that Liu Yan was really a bad star sent by God, if it weren't for Liu Yan, how could the Ming Dynasty "come back to life", and how could the Qing Dynasty "flourish and decline" all the way to this point!!

Thinking of this, Duoduo couldn't wait to cut Liu Yan with a thousand knives, but in reality, there was no way to do it, which made Duoduo feel resentful.

"Your Majesty, what should the minions do?"

Dolgon couldn't make up his mind for a while, after all, the situation he knew now was too little, and it was impossible to guess anything directly, so he said: "Arrange people, use the clairvoyant mirror to keep an eye on the movements of the Ming army outside the city, don't let go of any details, and report to me at any time!" ”

"Huh!"

Although the Manchus did not have the ability to make clairvoyants, they also captured some clairvoyants in previous battles against the Ming army, and Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others defected from Dengzhou to Liaodong, which also brought a large number of military equipment and artillery to the Manchus, including a lot of clairlooms.

After Duoduo came out of the Chongzheng Palace, he immediately deployed manpower, selected more than 20 henchmen from the two white flags in Manchuria, and distributed clairvoyant mirrors, and ordered these more than 20 people to observe the movement of the Ming army on the four city walls.

The night passed, when the morning light of the eighth day was sprinkled on the earth, the movement behind the artillery arrays of the Ming army was still continuing, and the soldiers and horses of the Qing army on the city wall of Shenyang were also nervously observing for a long time at this time.

Suddenly, the Ming army's artillery array sounded one after another, followed by earth-shattering artillery sounds, and the Ming army bombarded Shenyang City again.

Rumble!

As the shells continued to fall all over the city defense of Shenyang, more than 20 "observers" arranged by Duoduo also dodged in a hurry, and several of them were killed by the Ming army's artillery fire, and the rest were also terrified.

Soon, the only remaining more than 200 Qing artillery pieces on the city wall began to counterattack, but these firepower could not compete with the artillery fire of the Ming army at all, and most of the shells could not hit the artillery of the Ming army, and could only threaten the soldiers of the Ming army who did not collect the night before the Ming army, and the lethality was almost negligible.

At this time, in the east of Shenyang City, Li Dingguo personally came to an underground entrance behind the third line of defense.

Since receiving Liu Yan's order at night, Li Dingguo mobilized a large number of manpower to begin to deploy sandbag walls, and then began to dig tunnels, the Ming army on the eastern front dug a total of 29 tunnels, and now the progress is so fast that it has dug near the fourth line of defense in front of it, and the slowest has also dug the position between the third line of defense and the fourth line of defense.

Li Dingguo personally went down to the tunnel to check it, and saw that it was not very wide, and only one person could pass smoothly, and it was very difficult for the two to pass through staggered.

It's no wonder that, according to estimates, these tunnels will be excavated for miles away, and naturally it is impossible to dig how wide they are, as long as they can pass people.

A moment later, Li Dingguo came out of the tunnel, patted the dust on his body, and frowned slightly.

Although the progress of the tunnels was rapid, it revealed a problem: the amount of excavated soil was too large to dissipate in a short period of time.

At this time, a lot of mounds of soil have been piled up behind the artillery array, and if they are not transported out in time, I am afraid that these mounds can be observed in the direction of Shenyang City.

Therefore, Li Dingguo directly transferred more than 5,000 officers and men from the Ninth Army of the National Defense Army to assist in transporting a large amount of soil out here.

At the same time, in order to cover up the movement of transporting soil here, Li Dingguo also ordered all artillery arrays to continue to fire to disturb the sight of the Qing army on the city wall as much as possible.

For a whole day, the artillery fire of the Ming army did not stop, and the soldiers and horses of the Ming army did not storm the city wall again.

This day's artillery bombardment consumed a large amount of ammunition of the Ming army, and also made the Qing army units in Shenyang miserable, not only did the city fortifications that had been repaired with great difficulty overnight be completely destroyed by artillery fire again, but the soldiers and horses of the two yellow flags of Manchukuo and the two white flags of Manchuria also suffered many casualties, and there were at least 2 or 3,000 casualties in one day.

This figure made Duoduo and Dolgon worried, although they knew that the artillery fire of the Ming army could not continue to bombard like this every day, those artillery could withstand such a high intensity of fire, and the Ming could not afford to pay more than 10,000 artillery salvos day and night.

But Dolgon and Duoduo are still very uneasy in their hearts, after all, Liu Yan will never disappoint his enemies, and will always come up with ruthless tricks, what if the Ming army really has the ability to bombard like this every day?

At dusk, the artillery fire of the Ming army in the south of Shenyang City was the first to weaken, and then the artillery fire of the Ming army in various places weakened one after another, and finally stopped one after another.

Duoduo hurriedly went to the city wall under the protection of a large number of Bayala soldiers, and raised his clairvoyant mirror to look at the Ming artillery array in the distance.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, I saw a large number of people behind the artillery array of the Ming army, what was being transported to the west, and there were so many people, what was being transported?

With this question, Duoduo turned around and rushed directly to the Chongzheng Hall in the city.

(End of chapter)