Zhao Peng personally led the 500 Jinyiwei, one man and three horses, and rushed to the road overnight. Among the remaining Jinyiwei, a thousand people marched along with the new army infantry, and another three hundred people were responsible for the mission of not quitting the whistle at night.

The Five Hundred Jinyiwei, who was one man and three horses, was very fast. In just two days, he walked 400 miles from Yingzhou to Suizhou. The speed of such a marching was already very fast.

When they arrived in Suizhou, Zhao Peng met Shi Kefa, Li Chengdong and others.

"I didn't expect that the old thief of Xu Dingguo had only a few people on hand, and he was fighting so tenaciously. Our army had been attacking for three and a half days in a row, and there was no progress at all." Li Chengdong said.

After inquiring about the casualties, he learned that more than 4,300 auxiliary soldiers of the Gao family army suffered casualties and more than 2,600 casualties.

"The small Suizhou, the city wall is not high, only one zhang, and there are not many defenders, only ten thousand. How can I cause such great losses to the tiger minister?" Zhao Peng asked.

Li Chengdong lowered his head in shame: "It's all my fault, I'm eager to avenge my Lord. The soldiers under his command were all indignant, so they didn't build enough siege weapons, so they couldn't wait to attack the city. As a result, the old thief of Xu Dingguo resisted so fiercely! The thief also threatened our army, saying that the Jiannu army would cross the Yellow River to save him soon. If we knew the truth, we should withdraw our troops."

"Retreat the troops? The old thief Xu who harmed Xingping Bo cannot receive the punishment he deserves. Are you willing to withdraw your troops?" Zhao Peng asked.

"I'm not willing!" Li Chengdong was the first to yell.

"I'm not willing to give up! I'm not willing to give up!" The soldiers of the Gao family yelled in unison.

"Terror us with Jiannu? Humph! Jiannu also carried a head on both shoulders. He killed with a gun. He cut his head off with one knife, and still cut off his head. He shot a shell on him, and he still beat him to pieces! They are not real soldiers and generals, and they are also mortals! As long as we dare to fight with them, we can kill them! Brothers of Tiger Minister, you can rest assured to attack the city. Jiannu is here, and I will block them!" Zhao Peng opened his voice and said loudly.

"Thousand Victories! Thousand Victories!" The soldiers of the Gao family cheered.

Zhao Peng turned to Li Chengdong again and said, "Tonight, I ordered the auxiliary soldiers to build siege weapons overnight. It would be possible to use the ships in the river. Raise the boats and turn the bottom of the ship to be turned up to form chariots. In addition, the auxiliary soldiers will build shield vehicles to fill the trenches and build several large ladder vehicles to attract the attention of Xu Zhejun on the front."

Filling a moat is to allow large siege weapons to cross the moat. When filling the moat, you are attacked by condescending long-range weapons on the top of the city, and a large number of auxiliary soldiers may be injured and killed, which requires shield vehicles to protect them.

Originally, Zhao Peng wanted to wait until his main army arrived before siege the city, but considering that Li Chengdong wanted to use his army to break the city and avenge Gao Jie, Zhao Peng just gave a tip on how to break the city. What's more, even if the main army arrived, it would be very difficult for the twenty-four-pound mortar cannon in his hand to break the city. Although the twelve-pound field can break the city, it would take several days to break the city. It would be better to use a chariot to send the gunpowder box up and use the blasting method to break the city.

Under the command of Zhao Peng, the Gao family army auxiliary soldiers fished the boats in the river ashore. They first used thick wooden boards and wood to create a solid rack with ten wheels, and then placed the boat with the backwards facing the sky on the rack. The bottom of the boat was covered with felt and applied with wet soil, which created the simplest cart.

It is also simple to build a shield car. Xu Dingguo's defenders lack artillery. At best, only small cannons such as tiger squat cannons, light Franchise machines, bowl-mouth guns and cub-mouth guns. As long as the shield of the shield car is thickened, they can block the attack of these small cannons.

Shield trucks need to be strong, but not limited to careful construction. They are made of thick thick wood and crooked thick wood wheels. As long as the connection between the axles is stronger, they will not fall apart halfway. Such a shield truck is not troublesome to build. More than a dozen auxiliary soldiers can build one in one night. Gao Jiejun has tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, so he can build a shield truck with his hands and feet, and he can build thousands in one night.

The most time-consuming and labor-intensive manufacturing is the large ladder truck. This large ladder truck is also covered with iron sheets. In addition, when used, it is covered with mud. There are buckets that can be used to extinguish fires at any time. This large ladder truck can resist rockets.

However, when a large ladder truck approaches the city wall, it is still susceptible to attack by turbulent oil tanks. Even a large ladder truck with iron will be destroyed when attacked by turbulent oil tanks. However, the large ladder truck is just a means to attract the attention of the defenders. The real method of breaking the city depends on blasting to break a gap.

There is also the Wanglou car, which is a relatively simple siege weapon. It is a flat four-wheeler as a base plate, with a thick wooden pillar standing on it and a pulley at the top, which can lift and lower a platform with a wooden fence. Archers or bird gunners stand on it and suppress the defenders at the top of the city.

After three days and three nights of efforts by the auxiliary soldiers, six carriages, twenty tower cars, four large ladder cars and one hundred shield cars were built. Then Gao Jie's army began a new round of fierce offensive.

Before the Gao family army began to attack, the Ming New Army also arrived in time.

The silver-shining plate armor was as numerous as ox-haired cannons, which made Li Chengdong envious: "What an elite army, with such excellent weapons and armor, countless cannons and small cannons. Such elite ones, even if they meet Jiannu, they are not afraid of them."

"Huchen, if you want to attack Suizhou yourself and avenge Xingpingbo, my elites will not participate in the siege, but I can let the artillery battalion help you." Zhao Peng said.

"Since that's the case, I'm so grateful to Uncle Zhongyong!" Li Chengdong was overjoyed.

"But let the siege battle beside Benblai command, so as not to sacrifice the lives of his brothers in vain." Zhao Peng said again.

Li Chengdong agreed: "Since the Zhongyong Bo dispatched the artillery battalion to assist the last general, the general is willing to hand over the command. Anyway, our troops will break through the city and capture or kill Xu Dingguo alive, which will avenge the Lord Gong."

After Zhao Peng replaced Li Chengdong's command, the Gao family's attack became much smoother.

The new army used field artillery to bombard the female walls at the head of the city wall. The auxiliary soldiers of the Gao family army piled up piles of earth in front of the position. Then the new army's twenty-four-pound mortar cannon was placed behind the pile of earth and launched a fierce shelling at the head of the city.

The shield car was loaded with a bun, pushed by the auxiliary soldiers of the Gao family army, and pushed towards the direction of the Suizhou city wall. The Wanglou car followed the shield car, and the Wanglou car was followed by a hundred archers carefully selected by Li Chengdong. When the Wanglou car arrived, there were only one hundred steps left from the city, Zhao Peng ordered the Wanglou car to stop moving forward.

Twenty archers stood on the platform, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Gao family pulled the rope and drove the pulley to raise the platform. This kind of tower-watching car was three meters high, while the Suizhou city wall was only one meter high. The tower-watching car could shoot arrows at the top of the city from a high place.

The Gao family army archers who were shooting arrows from a high place from the car on the tower were shot without any error. Almost every arrow was shot, they could shoot a soldier of Xu Dingguo army who was fighting stubbornly on the top of the city.

After each archer shoots ten arrows, the auxiliary soldiers pull the rope, lower them from a high place, and replace them with another group of twenty archers. Continue to climb up and shoot archers to suppress the city. In this way, the rotation of archery can give the archers a rest. The limit of each archer's archery is twenty arrows, but Zhao Peng will not let them shoot twenty arrows, but will take a rest and replace them. After one round, they will climb up and shoot archers in the next round, and they will not be unable to pull the bowstring.

Under the suppression of artillery, bird gunners and archers, the auxiliary soldiers of the Gao family pushed the shield cart to approach the moat and threw the sandbags on the cart into the moat. One morning, the Gao family filled out four passages on the moat that allowed large siege weapons to pass through.

Then the large ladder truck attacked head-on, attracting Xu Dingguo's attention, and then let the car carrying the gunpowder box approach the city wall. The auxiliary soldiers pried open the rammed earth to expose the rammed earth inside, digging the rammed earth, and then pushed the gunpowder box into the dug hole. After the auxiliary soldiers completed the work, they immediately pushed the cart to evacuate and ignited the fuse at the same time.
Chapter completed!