For Hauge now, if he ordered a retreat, seeing that his army had broken through the outer wall and climbed to the top of the city, ordering a retreat would be a bit unwilling.

However, if we do not retreat, the power of the firearms on Songshan City is really unbelievable. If we continue to fight, we will probably suffer heavy casualties.

It would be fine if Niu Lu, the Han army with a white flag, suffered heavy casualties. However, Manmeng Niu Lu, his direct descendant with a yellow flag, had already rushed to the city. If there were many casualties, he would not be able to explain to Khan Amma in Shengjing.

Hauge looked around and saw no one he could discuss, so he had to weigh the pros and cons, then raised his telescope and continued to observe.

Bai Yintu, the assistant minister with the yellow flag, has already asked Hauge to send him back to Shengjing City to report the situation.

Ying'erdai with the white flag, and Ye Keshu and Aobai with the yellow flag have also led their troops to charge into the city. At this time, only the two yellow flags Gushan's forehead and the real horse Guangyuan are accompanying them.

Of course, Ma Guangyuan was a good man. When he saw that the situation in front of him was somewhat reversed, and he saw Hauge looking around with a worried look on his face, he immediately stepped forward and bowed to Hauge and said:

"Your Majesty, although this servant has never fought against Yang Zhen before, judging from his tactics when he first rescued Songshan, then raided southern Liaoning, and not long ago he ambushed Prince Yu, this man likes to take a sideways approach in battle. I'm afraid he should not be underestimated.

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"My slaves started shelling from the morning. The whole morning, there was no response from Songshan City. We allowed us to take turns bombarding. Now that I think about it, it is a bit unreasonable. Since Yang Zhen is confident, he must have made arrangements and is not afraid.

We stormed the city, and even entered the city."

Having said this, Ma Guangyuan shook his horse sleeves, then knelt down in front of Hauge, and said: "If the prince is worried about fraud, why not order the withdrawal of the troops and come back. If the army can't attack Songshan, what?"

Let’s take a long-term approach to attacking Songshan.”

Ma Guangyuan was originally opposed to such a forceful attack on Songshan City. Now looking at the situation, I am afraid that the truth is just as he expected. Songshan City is indeed a trap.

So when he saw that Hauge also had doubts, he immediately admonished Hauge at every opportunity, hoping that Hauge would withdraw his troops in time and make long-term plans.

In his opinion, there are several peripheral strongholds outside Songshan City. He can attack those peripheral strongholds first to see if he can lure the people in the city out.

General Ma Guangyuan, who was a Ming general, believed that once there was no strong city to rely on, the Ming army in the city would never be a match for the Qing army with only firearms.

However, when these words he said fell into Hauge's ears, Hauge was very unhappy.

"Withdraw your troops, withdraw your troops, withdraw your troops. If you withdraw your troops as soon as you encounter a fortified city, what is the use of our Qing Dynasty in raising heavy Han troops like you?! You Ma Guangyuan has heavy artillery under his command, as many as twenty, and how many more are at the top of Songshan City?"

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With an angry look on his face, Hauge raised his finger and pointed at the bastion and urn city outside the west gate of Songshan City, and then scolded: "The only thing that can reach you in Songshan City is one heavy cannon, but it scared you so much that you asked for orders to retreat. You Ma Guangyuan

Ask yourself, what is the use of our Qing Dynasty raising heavy troops like you in the Han army?! Huh!"

Hauge's words made Ma Guangyuan blush, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, not daring to suggest withdrawing the troops.

Just when Ma Guangyuan was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, Hauge raised the telescope in his hand and saw a new situation.

The men and horses with yellow flags who rushed towards Songshan City jumped into the ditch outside the city to hide under the counterattack of the Songshan City defenders. When the "shaking thunder" falling on the city exploded, these men and horses

He jumped out of the ditch again and continued to attack the city.

When Hauge saw this situation, a thought suddenly arose, and he secretly shouted in his heart: "Hey, how did I just think of this!"

Regarding Ma Guangyuan's words of advice, Hauge had not listened to his heart at first. At this time, he had a new idea, and even threw the idea of ​​withdrawing the troops out of the sky. The small eyes on the big plate's face suddenly looked at him.

Jiongjiong stared at Ma Guangyuan who was kneeling on the ground and said:

"Fire the cannon, fire the cannon, go and continue to fire the cannon. You have only half an hour to completely destroy that section of the city wall for me! Go quickly!"

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Ma Guangyuan was shocked when he heard Hauge's vicious words. Then he said to Hauge: "Your Majesty, our men and horses are attacking the city. Please note that the projectiles have no eyes. If we fire at this time, we may hurt our own people!"

However, Hauge was very satisfied with the idea of ​​"infantry and artillery coordination" that suddenly emerged in his mind. When he saw the latest group of Han troops with white flags attacking the city, they were repelled by the Ming army at the city. He stared fiercely.

Di said to Ma Guangyuan:

"The projectiles have no eyes, do you also have no eyes?! Let me aim at the top of the city and knock down the Ming troops on the city!"

"Your Majesty——"

"Ma Guangyuan, are you going to disobey orders in front of the battle?!"

The Tatar military law was cruel, so how could Ma Guangyuan dare to disobey Hauge's orders face to face?

Seeing that Hauge was determined, he immediately kowtowed, stood up and left.

Hauge asked the Han army with yellow flags led by Ma Guangyuan to rearrange the artillery array and bombard Songshan City again. At the same time, he was not so reckless that he didn't care about anything at all. He immediately sent a team of Bagalas with his attendants.

Run to Songshan Castle to deliver the order.

Hauge wanted to ask them to use the trenches dug by the Songshan Ming Army outside the city to hide temporarily. After Ma Guangyuan and others fired artillery to suppress the Ming army at the top of the city, they would then jump out and take advantage of the situation to capture the city.

Are these ideas good?

The idea itself is of course a good one, as is the synergy between infantry and artillery.

However, it is a pity that the red cannons of this era do not have much accuracy at all. It does not mean that you can hit wherever you want.

Its impact point is different every time. The specific location depends on experience and luck.

Moreover, artillery and infantry are separated by such a long distance, and there are no modern communication tools to use. It is tantamount to wishful thinking to achieve true infantry-artillery coordination.

But Hauge has already said that. How can brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui dare to say another word?

The two brothers returned to the heavy artillery formation and immediately conveyed Hauge's order. Since there was an order from the summit, and the men and horses rushing to the city in front were not themselves, neither did the gunners of the Han Army Wu Zhenchao Ha Niulu with the yellow flag.

People dare to meddle in so many things.

Soon, the heavy artillery position filled with Tatars outside Songshan City started roaring again after a pause of half an hour.

However, after the previous retreat, Ma Guangyuan's heavy artillery could no longer reach the west wall of Songshan City. None of the projectiles fired directly hit the city wall, and none of them could hit the head of Songshan City.

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The sudden rumbling of cannons outside the city startled Yang Zhen, and also startled the soldiers of the Songshan army gathered on top of the city.

However, when they discovered that the range of the Manta heavy artillery could not reach the Songshan city wall or the head of Songshan city, but instead killed several Manta people below the city, the morale of the city was even higher than before.

Waves of cheers reached Haug's ears.

"You bastards, you bastards, push the heavy artillery forward quickly and hit the city wall, hit the city wall!"

Hauge was originally quite satisfied with his previous idea, but after a round of shelling, the effect was far from expected. None of Ma Guangyuan's heavy artillery hit the city head, or even the city wall.

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This result made Hauge suddenly furious, so he rode a horse from behind the heavy artillery position and whipped the gunners head and face with a horse whip.

The first round of artillery bombardment since the retreat of the artillery array was originally a test firing and positioning. After Hauge's actions, brothers Ma Guangyuan, Ma Guanghui and many of their gunners naturally did not dare to neglect, and immediately followed his order to move the artillery array.

Push forward.

It takes time to adjust the Mantatar artillery formation, and the Mantatars who have gathered under Songshan City have also been ordered by Hauge to wait under the city to attack the city and cannot retreat.

Fortunately for the Manchu Tatars who were further away from the city, they were relatively safe hiding in the criss-crossing trenches.

However, the situation of the Manchu Tatars who had rushed to the base of the city became even worse. Even if they jumped into the ditch to hide, they still could not escape the fate of being killed.

The muskets, grenades on top of the city, and the explosive shells constantly falling from the sky can almost cover the entire battlefield.

Those Manchu Tatars hiding in the trenches could not escape the lead bullets from muskets, the explosive shells falling from the sky, or the grenades dropped from the city.

Many of Li Lu's old grenadiers were more accurate at throwing grenades than ordinary musketeers, and much more accurate than ordinary gunners at firing shells.

However, it was said that the heavy artillery team under Ma Guangyuan, under the personal command of Hauge, faced the threat of the red cannon at the top of Songshan City, moved dozens of steps towards Songshan City, immediately loaded the ammunition, and roared again.

This time it turned out to be much better. Twenty red-coated cannons were lined up in a row. Most of the projectiles fired hit the roots of the city wall, and a few of them hit the exposed rammed earth section of the collapsed outer wall.

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Projectiles weighing more than ten kilograms hit the rammed earth wall. Each projectile was like a big brick, causing earth and rocks to fly. The Tatars who were still alive below the city immediately cheered when they saw this.

Hauge saw this situation with a telescope, and his mood improved a little, and he felt that his idea was feasible. However, when he thought that there was still no projectile hitting the city, and he could not suppress the counterattack of the Ming army on the city, he felt bad again.

He got up, angrily dismounted, stood near a red heavy cannon, and scolded the gunners:

"Add more gunpowder, add more gunpowder, you losers, if you can't hit the top of the city, I will kill you!"

The reason why Hauge was so angry was because Ye Keshu and Obai who were in front repeatedly sent people back to ask for orders, suggesting that he should either press all the Han troops with yellow flags in one go and continue to attack the city with the gap, or simply simply

He ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and the Han troops with the White Banner and the Yellow Banner troops under the city to be withdrawn first to rest and recuperate, and then make a long-term plan.

At the same time, Hauge could see very clearly in the telescope. If he stayed behind for a while, more people would die in the front.

Under Hauge's beating and scolding, many gunners under Ma Guangyuan couldn't help but load gunpowder into the red cannons they were in charge of.

Seeing that a cannon next to him had been loaded, the anxious Hauge snatched the torch from the hand of Han Army Wu Zhenchao Ha Niulu Zhangjing with a yellow flag, and personally stepped forward to light the fuse inserted in the fuse hole of the gun chamber.

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The fuse was emitting thick smoke and burning brightly, directing sparks into the medicine chamber of the Hongyi cannon.

Upon seeing this, Haug took two steps back, threw away the torch in his hand, and followed the example of other gunners, covering his ears with his hands and opening his mouth, waiting for the cannon to be fired, hoping that this projectile would hit the city wall as he wished.

Go up and drive down the Ming army gathered on the top of the city.

However, he was destined to never see this moment.

Soon enough, as soon as Hauge retreated, he saw a flash of fireworks in front of his eyes, a thunderous roar, and in an instant, a wave of hot air, like an invisible wall, hit him hard.
Chapter completed!