The sudden rounds of artillery bombardment of the Crazy King's army really made the Liaoyang City defenders panic for a long time, but the casualties caused by the several rounds of explosions were not very large.

Shang Kexi is not a good deal. Anyone who can be named king by Jiannu has many brushes. He also has a lot of knowledge about the performance of artillery. His immediate boss Sun Yuanhua was the most powerful artillery expert in the Ming Dynasty.

This guy didn't learn from Hong Chengchou that he dug ditches everywhere outside the city. He mainly wrote some articles on the city wall.

For example, he had ordered people to split all the squash and make giant shields taller than people, and put them on the stack of arrows obliquely, just like a row of eaves. In this way, when the shells are bombed, as long as they dodge under the giant shield, no matter whether they are bursting bombs or solid cast iron bombs, they will basically not hurt people.

For example, he also used the rolling stones and built rows of small protective walls, so that there were more places for defenders on the city wall to avoid shells.

He knew quite well that with the large number of enemy firearms, old city defense facilities such as Rolling Stones and Mumu were no longer useful. Even if the enemy rushed to the city wall, there was no chance of leaving them. It would be better to use them as cover to block artillery shells.

Zhuqizi didn't expect that Shang Kexi would have so many tricks, because the giant shield and small protective wall were behind the arrows, so he couldn't see it at all. His purpose was not to hurt the defenders on the city wall. He just wanted to see if the giant red-clothed cannon had a correct head when his vision was blurred.

As a result, what Sun Chuanting said was correct. The enemy could not see the target clearly at all at a distance of five or six miles. In this case, the red-clothed cannon was not accurate at all!

Now he was finally relieved. He wanted the enemy's giant red-clothed cannon to be as accurate as theirs, which would be troublesome.

After all, people are hiding behind the city wall. Even if the fire rate of the red-clothed cannon is very low, even if there are only more than ten giant red-clothed cannons on each city wall, it is quite terrible when the head is extremely high.

You know, it will take at least half a day for them to flatten the female wall and the stack of arrows. In this half day, they can fire at least dozens of rounds of shells. If they all fall near the cannon, it will be troublesome. Cannon trucks, shells, and even artillery soldiers will be smashed into pieces.

Now that the enemy's shells are not accurate at all, he doesn't have to worry at all.

However, he did not organize an attack immediately because this time he wanted to encircle and annihilate the defenders of Liaoyang City and catch Shang Kexi!

If you want to surround a heroic city like Liaoyang City, the 120,000 elite soldiers and Sun Chuanting brought 50,000 infantrymen is not enough. You should know that the defenders in the city alone are more than 100,000, and there are at least 50,000 Jiannu cavalry and 50,000 Mengyuan cavalry outside the city waiting for an opportunity to move.

If he could not wait to disperse the 170,000 troops and surround the Liaoyang City, he would be able to dispatch 40,000 troops on each side. If the 100,000 defenders and 100,000 cavalry caught one side and attacked them on both sides, it would not be as simple as breaking through. It is very likely that the 40,000 troops in that direction would be wiped out.

At this time, he had no need to take risks, so after testing several rounds of explosive bombs, he brought the Imperial Guards, Qi's army and the Imperial Guards back to the camp.

In the next few days, the Southwest Army and the Huguang Army continued to gather in Liaoyang City. The more and more his men gathered, the more they gathered, and soon exceeded 300,000.

That's it, he still doesn't feel it's enough.

He adopted Sun Chuanting's suggestion and ordered the 50,000 defenders in Zhenjiang City to distribute 30,000 to the Dingliao Right Guard to take over the defense. The 50,000 defenders of the Dingliao Right Guard were transferred to the Haizhou Guard to take over the defense, and transferred the Zhendong Army, Zhenxi Army, Zhennan Army and Zhenbei Army to outside Liaoyang City.

In this way, more than 400,000 troops gathered outside Liaoyang City, which is enough to siege the city.

Question: How to allocate 410,000 Southwest Army, 150,000 Huguang Army, and 160,000 elite troops?

To be honest, the focus of this siege was not the 100,000 defenders in Liaoyang City, but the 50,000 Jiannu cavalry and 50,000 Mengyuan cavalry who were wandering outside.

Since the giant red-clothed cannon was extremely accurate, the defenders in Liaoyang City were no longer a problem. As long as they surrounded the city, they would catch turtles in the jar and could not escape.

The main problem is that once they rush up from behind while siegeing the city, it will be a huge threat. The 100,000 Southwest Army or 150,000 Huguang Army may not be able to stop these 100,000 cavalry units, because these legions are not equipped with combat vehicles and artillery, and only 160,000 elite troops equipped with combat vehicles and artillery can block these 100,000 cavalry units.

Zhu Qituo discussed with Sun Chuanting and his generals for a few days, but decided to disperse the 160,000 elite troops and surrounded the Southwest Army and the Huguang Army.

In the four directions of Liaoyang City, the north is the most dangerous, because the north is close to Shenyang, and Shenyang is only more than 100 miles away from Liaoyang. Once the battle situation is in a stalemate, the Shenyang defenders are likely to rush over to join the war. At that time, the north will not face 100,000 cavalry, but 200,000 to 300,000 troops!

Therefore, Sun Chuanting volunteered to lead 100,000 Southwest Army, Zhendong Army, Zhenxi Army, Zhennan Army, and Zhenbei Army to be responsible for besieging the north.

In the other three directions, Ma Qiancheng led the Pingdong Army, Pingxi Army, Pingnan Army, Pingbei Army and 50,000 Huguang Army to besiege the east, Qi Jin led the Andong Army, Anxi Army, Annan Army, Anbei Army and 50,000 Huguang Army to besiege the west, and Zhu Qizhi personally led the Imperial Guard Army, Qi Family Army, Imperial Guard Army and 50,000 Huguang Army to besiege the south.

After the siege was settled on all sides, the siege began immediately. This time, the Crazy King army launched a fierce attack from four directions without any hesitation.

However, the formations on all sides are quite unique, with four hundred cannons in each direction constantly bombarding in front of each direction. There are dense formations of carriages on the left, right and rear, surrounded like city walls, and the back of the carriages are covered with tiger squatting cannons.

This is clearly to prevent cavalry from launching sneak attacks. Ajig could not help but be discouraged when he saw this formation from a distance.

He has 100,000 elite riders under his command, but there are almost 100,000 people in each direction, and the car array has been set up in advance. How can he rush?

What cavalry fear most is chariots, not to mention that they have muskets and cannons, so they really can't do such stupid things as rushing up to be targets.

As for mobilizing the defenders of Shenyang City to attack together, it is basically impossible, because there is no such move in the tactics formulated by Dorgon.

He could only watch more than a thousand cannons in Liaoyang City blasted, without any help.

About a day and a half later, the battlements and women's walls on the four walls of Liaoyang City were almost flattened. The next afternoon, when the time came, the army of Crazy Kings in four directions launched a charge at the same time. In each direction, 50,000 people carried the ladder, pushed the siege cars and the well railings to swarm towards the city wall.

However, the infantrymen of the Southwest Army and Huguang Army were launched this time, and no one of the 160,000 elite troops moved, and they were all strictly preventing the sneak attack of the Jiannu cavalry.

Seeing that there was no chance, Ajige could only shake his head helplessly, then gritted his teeth and waved his hand, and headed straight for Chenyang with a hundred thousand cavalry.
Chapter completed!