Chapter 156 Offense and Defence (8)

"Kill!" The sounds of shouting and killing reappeared at Ningyuan City three days later. Tens of thousands of Jin soldiers launched a new round of attacks on Ningyuan City. However, this attack seemed to be much worse than before. Of course, this was caused by that great defeat. Although the Jin army is rushing forward, they have no belief in victory. Some people are still thinking about how to retreat when the time comes. After all, what they have to face is amazing artillery and flames that will suddenly pop up from somewhere. Knowing that it is a charge to die, even the Jin army, who is not afraid of death, cannot face it calmly.

On that day, Nurhaci was really angry, accusing them of being cowardly and unable to face difficulties and losing the prestige of the Jurchens. Then Nurhaci issued another order to die, unless the Ningyuan City was captured by them and all the people in the city were slaughtered, otherwise they would not continue to go south. Seeing that the Khan had already said something, the generals Beile also had no other thoughts and had to attack Ningyuan City after a few days of rest. However, after the lessons from the last time, they did not dare to put a large number of troops in and become targets for the Ming army artillery, so they seemed to be in full force, but the momentum of the Jin army in attack was not as good as when Dai Shanchu attacked Ningyuan that day.

The stones and feather arrows kept greeting the city. The Ming army hid again. Looking at the already broken city, Tang Feng felt very uncomfortable. Now, even if he bombarded the city with cannons, he could not hurt too many people. With the sweetness of the last time, he was already very fond of the effect of killing more than ten people in one cannon. Of course, what is more important is that he also relied on artillery as the last barrier to shock the enemy. If all the cannon shells were used, these cannons would become scrap iron. Therefore, seeing that there were not many people coming to attack this time, he did not order the cannons to fire.

Yuan Chonghuan and Tang Feng had the same idea. He firmly believed that his defenders would not be distracted when facing Wanxu's enemy, and it should be no problem to stop their attack. Moreover, after discovering that the Jin army had transported many stones from a distance, the stone wood that had been piled up on the city for a long time could be smashed again. In this way, under the attack defense of the Ming army, the Jin army's tentative attack was quickly repelled, and hundreds of corpses were left behind.

Huang Taiji looked at Nurhaci's face and looked increasingly ugly, and he was also very anxious. Obviously, Dahan was dissatisfied when he saw that the Ming army could retreat without even using artillery. If this situation continued, they would really lose all their energy. Moreover, as time went on, the army would not bring much food. Although some food and grass could be transferred from the Northeast, for the current Jurchen tribes, food was necessary. When they came out to attack the southerners, they not only could not bring trophy, but they would ask them for food, which would make others dissatisfied.

After anxiously thinking for a while, Huang Taiji said to Nurhaci: "Khan, I can see that the Ming army relies on defending the city with sharp cannons, and the other is the city wall that extends outside. It is precisely because of the abrupt city wall that the Southern Barbarians can repeatedly repel our attacks, but the artillery has less effect. I think in a small city like Ningyuan, there should not be too much gunpowder that can be reserved, so they cannot always use artillery to deal with us. So as long as we knock out that section of the city wall, the Southern Barbarians will lose the most important reliance."

Nurhaci looked at the city wall as he said, and indeed he saw hundreds of Ming troops shooting sharp arrows at the Jin army that had faced him sideways, smashing down wood and stones, and immediately many people fell to the ground. Seeing this scene, Nurhaci's eyes were red again, and he looked at Huang Taiji and said, "Do you have any way to get rid of this city?"

Huang Taiji looked at the squirting slap outside the camp and said, "We can send people to risk killing under the city wall, dig out its foundation, and make it collapse, so this city wall will naturally be no problem."

"Okay, please give orders quickly. Within two days, I must dig this section of the city wall!" Nurhaci immediately nodded and ordered. With Huang Taiji's order, all the people retreated first, and then drove the lane with the remaining chariots, followed by the bow and cavalry. After a burst of arrows, they killed the Ming army on the protruding section of the city wall so that they could not stick their heads out.

Taking advantage of this gap, several sprinklers rushed straight to the base of the city wall, and under these cars were hundreds of Jin soldiers holding tools. Sprinklers were a siege operation vehicle with strong protection and one of the important tools in siege battles. It is used to cover siege personnel to dig the city wall and avoid damage from enemy arrows, stones, arson, wooden bells, etc. When they were in the city, they could operate under their cover. In fact, with the Jurchens' skills, they could not create this thing, but in several wars, they seized a lot of such equipment. Huang Taiji attached great importance to these equipment of the Han people, so he brought them here, and it was just right now.

Seeing the dozen or soccer rushing to the city, the Ming army on the wall immediately knew the intention of the Jin army, and immediately someone attacked down with rockets, muskets and stone wood. However, the cowhide covered on these soccer storms was exactly the same as the ones covered on the car. Even muskets were difficult to penetrate, let alone other things. Therefore, the Ming army above had a long time to hurt the Jin soldiers who were digging the bottom of the city wall.

At this time, Tang Feng and Yuan Chonghuan also knew about this. Yuan Chonghuan's first reaction was to bombard the cannons and destroy all the spray guns. Tang Feng had a different view on this. He said: "If these small spray guns had to be dealt with with our cannons, the load-bearing cannons would be gone in the long run. The Jin army would also begin to get used to its existence as we used artillery many times, so I thought it would be better not to use it."

"But this section of the city wall is of great use. If Si doesn't care, I'm afraid..." Wang Kai hurriedly said.

Tang Feng smiled confidently and said, "It's not a must-have to deal with this spray. We can use tincture oil to break him. Go and find some of the tincture oil stored in the city, pour it onto those sprays, and then throw it on torches. I want Jiannu to taste the taste of being barbecued by fire again!" After hearing this method, Yuan Chonghuan repeatedly stroked his palms and said, "It's a good plan, go and do it quickly."

Several cans of tincture oil fell down the city, and then several burning torches. The sprays made of wood and cowhide quickly started to burn. At this time, the Jin soldiers who were squatting under the car and digging hard also felt the heat on their heads. It was already a little late when they wanted to get out. Many people screamed and ran out again, but they could not escape. The archers on the top of the city were already pulling their bows and waiting for them to appear. More than a hundred Jin soldiers who wanted to dig the city wall were all shot and killed, and the dozen sprays also turned into ashes in the flames with most of the Jin soldiers below.

Huang Taiji seemed to be tight after seeing this scene. Although it was not a big loss for the Jin army, his plan was broken by someone. "Who is this general who guarded the city? He actually defended Ningyuan City like an iron barrel. Just as the Ming army lost its generals after Sun Chengzong, it seems that I still underestimate them too much." Huang Taiji's eyes showed an excited expression, and he felt that he had finally found a real opponent.

Although the attack ended in failure, Huang Taiji did not find anything. At least he could be sure that the Ming army attaches great importance to this piece of city wall. Since it is impossible to dig from the bottom, then attack from above. Thinking of this, Huang Taiji ordered people to concentrate all the stone throwers together and continuously shoot stones at the section of city wall. He wanted to completely destroy the section of city wall with constant blows.

But the situation was beyond Huang Taiji's expectations. Although the stones that hit the city wall from the air made the city wall mess and stone chips splashed everywhere, the damage to it was not very enough. Except for the city wall being much broken, there was no intention of falling down. Huang Taiji did not know that when Yuan Chonghuan ordered people to build this section of the city wall, he had considered this a long time ago, so it was more sophisticated than the real city wall, regardless of its foundation or material.

On the contrary, Tang Feng was uneasy when he saw this scene. He looked at Yuan Chonghuan with a relaxed look and said, "Brother Element, is it really okay for this city wall to be attacked like this?"

"Don't worry, Yizhi, I spent several months to build this wall, and it wouldn't be so easy to collapse." Yuan Chonghuan said confidently, "I don't think it will take long for Jiannu to lose confidence."

Sure enough, after half an hour of shooting, Huang Taiji finally lost his patience. In desperation, he had to order his troops to kill him again, trying to capture the city wall. But how could the Ming army make him happy? When the Jin soldiers came to the city, the arrows and stones on them fell down like raindrops again, and there were constant attacks from the city wall behind him. After breaking some of the troops, the Jin army retreated again.

After that, every day, the Jin army always tried new methods of Hongcheng. Most of them were from Huang Taiji, but the Ming army on the city could always be easily resolved, which once again damaged the morale of the Jin army. In the end, Huang Taiji had to offer Nurhaci the most helpless method - besieging the city, trapping the Ming army in the city to death in Ningyuan City.

At this time, there was indeed not much grain reserve in Ningyuan City. The attack and defense in recent days have made the city consume more food. Now the biggest problem of the Ming army is no longer the Jin army outside the city, but when will the food be transported?

Tang Feng looked at the calm sea behind the city and began to feel uneasy, wondering if the letters sent to the capital could work.
Chapter completed!