Huang Taiji watched the entire execution process calmly, without any expression on his face.

He turned his head and explained the burial matter to the guards next to him, then turned around and returned to the central army tent, and never looked back.

Huang Taiji did not punish Shi Mingxiong's Han army, but re-arranged the original deputy commander of the Han army to replace Shi Mingxiong. Therefore, although the Han army was panicked for a while, it finally calmed down.

However, Huang Taiji, who returned to the central army tent, couldn't calm down for a long time.

He did not feel any regret for Shi Mingxiong's death. Now it was under his heart. It was like a heavy stone that made him breathless. It was how he would take down the inner city of Vladivostok, which was guarded by the Tang army.

Is it really only the only way to attack the Ant Support City?

Huang Taiji could imagine that in this well-defended inner city, the Tang army also had poisonous crossbows and hand-throwing thunder to help. Even if he forced himself to attack, then there would be many casualties even if the inner city was down.

Thinking that the Qing army had to capture this small Vladivostok fort with 100,000 troops, it took so much effort to achieve his full efforts. Huang Taiji was extremely confused.

If it is so difficult to attack such a small Vladivostok, and it will take such all efforts to greatly damage the vitality, wouldn’t the Qing Dynasty still want to seize Li Xiao’s Miaojie Fort, Yakutsk City, Sakhalin Island, and Heiyi Island again? Wouldn’t it be even more difficult or impossible?

What's more, Li Xiao also occupied the entire Shandong and the vast and vast Nanyang. If the Qing Dynasty wanted to occupy all Li Xiao's territory and completely destroy Li Xiao, it seemed that this might be a task that would never be completed.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji was confused and couldn't help but sigh.

Huang Taiji sat there for a long time, and a military soldier came to report that Prince Rui Dorgon asked for a meeting.

Seeing that Dorgon came to see him, Huang Taiji frowned without realizing it.

Now he was upset and was in a very anxious state. He didn't want to see anyone again, but he was stunned for a moment and agreed to let Dorgon enter the account to discuss.

When Dorgon got into the tent, he saw Huang Taiji sitting on a tiger-head chair with a worried look on his face, and he didn't feel a sigh.

Even though there are many conflicts and intrigues between Dorgon and Huang Taiji, they are all powerful and powerful families in Manzhou. Knowing the existence and stability of the Qing Dynasty is the cornerstone for the interests of these powerful people to maintain. For example, now, the Qing army is in such a dilemma under Vladivostok Fort, Dorgon is also very anxious.

Therefore, whenever he had any ideas or ideas in his heart, he would still report to Huang Taiji urgently.

"Old Fourteen, it's so late, you're still here, but what do you want to say to me?"

After Dorgon came in, Huang Taiji did not look at him, but his eyes were still staring at the map on the wall.

Seeing Huang Taiji being so cold to himself, Dorgon felt a little nervous, but he sighed softly and quickly replied: "Master, now our army cannons have been destroyed. How to attack the inner city next, I have some ideas."

Huang Taiji said oh, turned his head to look at him, and whispered: "Old Si Si, what do you think, please do it one by one."

Dorgon responded and replied: "Emperor, in the opinion of my brother, the only way now is to have the only way to attack the city with ant, but..."

Hearing this, Huang Taiji's face turned bored and interrupted him without hesitation: "Dorgon, I have already thought of this method, so why do you need to say it?"

Dorgon said in a deep voice: "Emperor, although this ant is the only feasible method to attack the city, I think this method needs to be improved more to change less casualties and more comprehensive."

After hearing Dorgon's words, Huang Taiji's eyes lit up and he asked anxiously: "Oh, 14th brother, what are your good plans, but please tell me clearly."

Seeing that Huang Taiji was interested, Dorgon stepped forward, lowered his voice, and told Dorgon his method.

After hearing this method, Huang Taiji nodded frequently and finally exclaimed: "Yes, my 14th brother is really smart and can afford the word "rui" I gave me. Just like you think, go on and prepare quickly."

Seeing that Huang Taiji agreed to his suggestion, Dorgon responded urgently: "Yes, please don't worry, my elders, I will do this as soon as possible, so that I will not let anyone misunderstand the siege."

...

Before time knew it, six days passed.

In the past few days, Li Dingguo, the chief guard of Vladivostok Fort, has been patrolling closely at the top of the city, but what surprised him was that the Qing army had been very quiet these days and had no siege at all.

Li Dingguo originally thought that the Qing army, whose artillery was blown up, would be very angry. After dawn the next day, they would start siege in anger to avenge the Tang army's night attack. However, they did not expect that after six days, the Qing army had no movement to attack the city, but they just continued to siege the inner city.

What's going on?

Did the Qing army not want to attack the city, but just wanted to continue to siege for a long time, and to trap all of their troops and horses in the inner city and die of starvation?

However, there is still food and fodder in this inner city that can afford to spend a year, so how can this army be consumed so easily?

Besides, the weather is getting colder and colder now. Although there has not been heavy snow in the past few days, the dripping water has turned into ice. The snow on that day has not melted. The longer the Qing army stayed here, the more difficult the logistics supply will be, and the morale will fade. If you want to attack this well-prepared inner city, you will have to pay more and more.

Li Dingguo was a little confused for a moment. The Qing army's extraordinary behavior made his keen head a little twitch. However, even so, Li Dingguo still ordered the entire army to pay close attention to the movements of the Qing army, do a good job in garrison work, and strictly prevent the Qing army from suddenly starting to attack the city.

It was not until the morning of the eighth day that the rumbling drums and the continuous and harsh swan horns suddenly sounded in the Qing army formation.

The Qing army, who had been silent for seven days, finally began to attack the inner city of Vladivostok.

Li Dingguo was surprised to see that under the urging of war drums and horn sounds, countless Qing troops were pushing many strange and strange objects out of the Tartar formation, surrounding the four sides, slowly pushing towards the entire inner city walls.

Seeing these strange things, all the guards of the Tang army were full of shock.

Damn, I haven't seen each other for a few days, what did the Qing army get?

As the Tartars pushed closer and closer, the Tang army guarding the city finally saw clearly what the strange thing pushed by the Qing army looked like.

They saw that this strange thing was made of four plaques used by the Tartars, which were assembled together at the ends and two tails, and a large open space was empty in the middle to hide in it. On the plaques, thick wooden boards were nailed, and the wooden boards were covered with cowhide and wet quilts. The whole thing looked a bit like cars from later generations.

"What's the reason why this Tartar made these things?" Deputy General Zu Kuan looked at the Qing army's pushing closer and closer, with a very surprised expression on his face.

When the Tang army guarding the city was very surprised, after the Qing army formation, Dorgon looked proud and said to Huang Taiji with a look of gratitude: "Your Majesty, look, the joint chariot designed by me is composed of four chariots in one place, which can contain more troops than a single chariot, and can better guard against the soldiers in the attack. Your Majesty, because of the cowhide and wet quilt, if the Tang army throws lightning with his hands, it can be bounced away by the surface chariot, which greatly reduces the power of the explosive throwing lightning with his hands. If the Tang army shoots crossbow arrows, the defense area of ​​the joint chariot is expanded, and because of the thick wooden boards, the Tang army's crossbow arrows cannot be shot through even at close range, so it can greatly reduce the casualties of our soldiers."

Dorgon paused, and said with a ruthless look on his face: "As long as our army can use this joint car as a cover, attack the inner city of Vladivostok all the way, dig the bottom of the wall, fill the explosives, and use the explosives to blow the city wall down. Our army will attack again, and this inner city will not be difficult to break!"

After listening to Dorgon's proud narration, Huang Taiji's face also relaxed. He nodded and said, "Old Fourteen, your plan to join forces is very good. If the inner city is broken, you should remember the first merit!"

"Thank you for yourselves." Dorgon immediately bowed his hands and replied.

In fact, this kind of car was not a sudden invention by Dorgon, but a method that the Qing army had already used when attacking Jinjiazhuang Fort. However, because of the defeat in this battle, the car was buried in the dust of history. Since Dorgon later learned about the process of this battle in detail, he had a deep impression of the car. Now that the siege was not smooth, he suddenly recalled this way of siege and used it immediately.

At this time, after seeing these joint cars getting closer and closer, Li Dingguo's face suddenly felt cold.

No wonder the Qing army has not been moving these days. It turns out that they have been making this thing. The Qing army's actions were completely beyond their expectations.

After seeing the structure of these joint chariots and the direction of the Qing army, Li Dingguo immediately tightened his heart.

With a keen mind, he thought at this moment that what the Qing army would do to the inner city of Vladivostok next.

Humph, these dogs and Tartars simply wanted to use this strange-shaped car to sneak to the corner of the inner city wall, and then use explosives to blow up the inner city wall, so that there will be gaps and loopholes in the inner city's garrison, allowing the Qing army to take advantage of the situation, so as to lead the surface with the point and rely on the advantage of military strength to attack the inner city.

Such a vicious plan is very deceitful!

Sure enough, the situation that followed was not as expected by Li Dingguo. These strange-shaped things were hiding from countless Qing troops below. You could vaguely see that the Qing troops were holding various excavation equipment in their hands, and they could also vaguely see that they were nailed by wooden boards, which contained harsh turtle oil and explosives.

Li Dingguo, who was born into a bandit, was naturally very familiar with such explosive wooden boxes.

During the Ming Dynasty, such explosive wooden boxes were used to knock down the city walls. The Ming army and the bandits were both commonly used. In order to save trouble, they even used coffins to fill explosives. In the early sixth year of Chongzhen, in the battle of the Ming army's counterattack on Dengzhou, the martial arts top scholar Wang Lai Pin was used to blow down the city walls of Dengzhou by the explosion wooden boxes made of such coffins. Although he was shot to death by the rebels, the Ming army finally successfully attacked Dengzhou and wiped out the remaining rebels of Kong Youde's troops who had no time to withdraw.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo punched hard and hit the pile.

"The Tartars! They want to dig out the city walls and then use explosives to blow up the inner city walls!"

Li Dingguo's loud shout made all the fort guards shocked.

Dig up the city wall and then use explosives to blow up the city wall?

The enemy's army actually had such tricks?

"Mr. Li, what should I do if this is the case?" Zu Kuan, the deputy general next to him, asked anxiously with an anxious look on his face.

Li Dingguo didn't think too much and immediately shouted loudly: "What else can this be done? Arrange the military soldiers immediately to target these strange things developed by the Qing army and fire crossbow arrows, throw pitchers and thunder. We must prevent the Qing army from approaching the base of the city wall!"

"Get orders!"

After listening to Li Dingguo's orders, the Tang army guards on the city wall immediately began to get busy.

The first thing to be fired was the crossbow soldiers. They loaded crossbow arrows and aimed at the United Vehicles that were getting closer and closer.

"Prepare, let it go!"

With the continuous sound of bangbang, continuous crossbow arrows were fired from the magic crossbows. The poisonous crossbow arrows formed a dense network of death. Nearly ten thousand poisonous crossbow arrows whistling out, shooting towards the United Cars that were strange and still step by step towards the inner wall of Vladivostok Castle.

A scene that made Li Dingguo and all Tang army very worried happened.

They saw that after these crossbow arrows were shot out, they were basically blocked by the United Vehicles, shooting these United Vehicles as if they were porcupines.

There are also many crossbow arrows, whose firing rate is weakened due to the influence of wind, and even the thick layer of cowhide on the United Vehicle cannot penetrate and are immediately bounced open.

Only a very few crossbow arrows were lucky enough to hit the Qing army that had not been hidden under the car in time, killing about seventy or eighty Qing soldiers.

Seeing that the crossbow arrows had no effect, Li Dingguo immediately stopped the second round of volleys.

Then, he shouted loudly: "The crossbow soldiers retreat, and the auxiliary soldiers immediately throw their hands and thunder. We must blow up all these strange things!"

"Get orders!"

At the top of the city walls on Li Dingguo's order, the crossbow soldiers retreated one after another, while the auxiliary soldiers all stepped forward. They lit the fuse and, with the captain's order, they shot hard towards the United Car not far from the city.

An even more scene that made Li Dingguo and other Tang troops guarding the city stunned.

They saw that these fuses were burning and thunderbolts, and after being thrown on the United Car, they were immediately bounced away by the obtuse-angled surface leather like a roof, because the cowhide on the surface of the car was soaked in water, and there was wet underneath, and many thunderbolts were extinguished, like a small iron ball, bounced to the distance and there was no movement.

Although a few hand-throwing thunderbolts were bounced away, they still had luckily exploded. However, because they were far away from the Qing army that was siege and had car protection, the Qing army was killed and killed very limited. In this round of throwing pitchers, the total number of thunderbolts only killed or injured more than 200 Qing troops.

But in the distance, seeing this joint cart, the Tang army's crossbow arrows and hands were helpless. Dorgon strode his palm and laughed, and said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, I'm a good plan. Look, the Tang army is helpless, but our army just rushed to the base of the city wall to dig open and blow the inner city wall!"

After hearing Dorgon's words, Huang Taiji also looked happy and said loudly: "Okay, thanks to the good strategy of the 14th brother, my Qing Dynasty's attack on the city has finally been proud."
Chapter completed!