A distance behind these archers and archers, there were Jianlu carrying simple ladders and more than ten huge ladder cars, advancing steadily in the dust.

The benefits of being condescending to the city were revealed. In the initial contact battle, the sharpshooters were relatively agile. They hid behind the battlements and suddenly shot an arrow under the city. Occasionally, they were not lucky because they just had an arrow shot at the head and were unlucky. However, the horse-riding Jianlu had more casualties, and the casualties rate on both sides reached at least 1 to 1.

After the carriage in the distance approached the cannon range, Man Gui's military order was passed down, and the servants on the top of the city were commanded by two to three cannons aimed at one carriage and opened fire. The reason for this was that the Ming army's artillery was too poor.

It was not until this time that Hu Guang suddenly discovered that there were many Westerners who were operating artillery strokes on the top of the city, but they had never noticed them before because of their full body armor.

Li Fengxiang's attention was mostly focused on the emperor. When he saw Hu Guang's face showed a hint of surprise. He followed his eyes and explained with a charming smile: "Your Majesty, those Western barbarians were begged by Xu Guangqi, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites."

"Oh?" Hu Guang asked curiously when he heard this.

Seeing that he was interested, Li Fengxiang became even more excited and immediately replied: "In the early October, when Jianlu first arrived at the capital, Minister Xu begged these Western barbarians to pass by the city. However, later, these Western barbarians seemed to have some conditions. There were troops outside the city to support the king, so they did not stay at the city again."

When Hu Guang heard this, he pondered for a moment and said, "It is said that Mr. Xu will meet you!"

"Abide by the order!" Gao Shiyue next to him heard this and quickly agreed.

At this time, a person came up from the arrow tower. Everyone looked at it. It was Cao Huachun, the admiral of the East Factory. He came to report the situation in the city to Emperor Chongzhen.

Some people went to the streets, which mansions have drawn how many people have been, how much people have been prepared for now, how much money and grain are paid by each mansion, etc.

After hearing this, Hu Guang nodded and asked, "What are the abnormal movements of the Shanxi merchants in the city?"

Liu Xingzuo had a reminder before, because he was afraid that the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce in the city would take the opportunity to make trouble. Therefore, Hu Guang asked this question.

"When you go back to your Majesty, I have already sent someone to secretly stare at the Shanxi merchants in the city, and have not found any abnormalities!" Cao Huachun hurriedly replied.

Hu Guang nodded after hearing this and said, "Okay, you have done a good job in the logistics in the city. You must communicate well with Man Qing for the follow-up work. There are also wounded people removed from the city. You must deal with it properly. Do you understand?"

"I obey the order!" Cao Huachun agreed and went down the arrow tower to continue his work.

At this moment, a "boom boom boom" sounded. Hu Guang looked up and saw the sound, but the cannons on the top of the city fired.

About twenty iron bombs shot out, flew in a very small arc and fell to the ground and began to bounce.

Although the Jianlu Cavalry was dispersed in order to avoid more casualties caused by artillery on the city. However, it is inevitable that the Jianlu Cavalry could not avoid it, and the people and horses were ejected at high speed and the flesh and blood were flying everywhere and broken.

However, the Jianlu Cavalry seemed to have not seen it and was not affected at all. It turned out that they would do whatever they should do. The broken limbs and wreckage were soon submerged in the cavalry's ocean.

Even if there were Western artillery guns, only one of them hit a car with about twenty iron bombs. The "bang" sound was vaguely audible with the rumbling horse hooves.

The shield surface of the cart was obviously tilted and there was a large groove. However, the cart was fine after all, and it could be continued to be promoted. However, after the cart left the place, several Jianlu who were pushing the cart fell to the ground. It was obvious that he was shocked when he was pushing the cart just now.

Hu Guang felt a little regretful to see it. The distance was a bit far, and the bouncing of the shell after it landed on the ground also consumed a lot of kinetic energy, so he failed to destroy the car.

Suddenly, he saw that many of the Jianlu cavalry dismounted not far from the moat and inserted torches into the ground.

On the top of the city, Man Gui's servants made loud orders again, and then they saw more musketeers starting to approach Duo** and attacked. The sharpshooters also gave up the Jianlu who rode horses and instead called the Jianlu who dismounted horses.

Hu Guang saw it a little confused and didn't know what Jianlu was trying to do. But he soon realized that after the Jianlu lit the torches inserted on the ground, Jianlu's cavalry approached, they first extended arrows and lit the fire-burning objects tied to the arrows, becoming rockets, and then they did not shoot directly, but shot at the top of the city. And the focus of their shooting was the top of the city where the cannon was just firing.

"So cunning!" Hu Guang sighed, trying to ignite the gunpowder on the cannon position on the city wall. At least after using the rocket, the cannon's firing speed will be much slower.

There are spears and shields. Military orders are quickly passed down, and one by one, the battle sheds were assembled and pushed to the artillery position. After the rockets fell, they were all blocked by the battle shed. Because of fire prevention measures, these rockets could not ignite the battle sheds.

The war continued, and the cars outside the city were getting closer and closer, covering countless Jianlu approaching the city wall. Finally, artillery began to make contributions and hit the cars.

With a loud "bang", the seemingly solid car was split into pieces like paper and suddenly scattered. The Jianlu pile hiding behind was affected, and all was killed and injured.

However, even so, Jianlu did not retreat. Even without cover, he continued to advance towards the city wall.

Thousands of people following Jianlu were following the car with shields. At the beginning, these shield soldiers landed behind the car, but slowly, closer to the city wall, and when they entered the city, they began to surpass the car and accelerated to rush under the city.

From Hu Guang's perspective, outside Desheng Gate, at this time, countless Jianlu were flocking to the dust. The scale was so large that it felt like the outside of the city had been filled with Jianlu.

Jianlu's archers were almost approaching the moat under the cover of the car and shield. In the distance, the ladder trucks had already moved slowly. Looking at the itinerary, it was time for Jianlu archers to suppress the city, and the ladder trucks could reach the city. In the middle of the ladder truck, there were also several collision cars.

Huang Taiji looked at the battle under the city, and seemed a little satisfied, and was within the scope of acceptance of the current casualties.

"Ama, the defense of the Ming Dynasty's capital is far inferior to Ningyuan outside the pass. The child is willing to be the vanguard and be the first to climb the city to be the top of Ama Yangwei!" The twenty-one-year-old Haoge looked excited and asked for the battle loudly.

When Huang Taiji heard this, he glanced at him, and seemed a little displeased, and said coldly: "When can you stabilize your temperament? Look at it first!"

Although he was satisfied with the casualties at this time, it did not mean that he felt that the city was so powerful. He always remembered that the Ming emperor had just said a few words, which not only made him return in vain, but also encouraged the morale on the city.

At this time, Huang Taiji had something to be sure of: the Emperor of Ming Dynasty should not be underestimated!
Chapter completed!