However, at this time, the boiling water on Ningyuan City had also been poured out, and the pike soldiers once again guarded the battlements to prepare for the new battle. The soldiers who were responsible for boiling water quickly set up the iron pot again, lit the firewood, and started again.
Start boiling water. Every soldier in the department performs his duties and works step by step. Everything goes in an orderly manner.
The Qing army once again climbed on the city wall, while the stones, bricks, and rough wood from Ningyuan's army were thrown down from the city wall like raindrops, hitting the Qing soldiers. When the Qing army approached the battlements, the spearmen used
The spears were stabbing randomly, preventing the Qing soldiers from climbing up the city wall. Although the musketeers in the back row could not hit the Qing soldiers who were climbing the city due to the angle, they continued to shoot at the bottom of the city, attacking the people below the city.
The Qing army archers and the Qing soldiers waiting to attack the city. Only the artillery temporarily stopped firing.
Although the soldiers guarding the city were resisting the Qing soldiers' attack on the city, they were constantly attacked by the Qing's archers below the city and fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. However, they still defended the battlements without fear and fought tenaciously with the Qing.
The Qing army was fighting, but the Qing army was like falling leaves in autumn, falling from the ladder and the top of the city. And as soon as the water in the iron pot boiled, it immediately poured down the city. This
The power of this move is indeed quite powerful, and it can burn a large number of Qing troops every time.
Although many Qing soldiers learned the lesson and immediately raised their shields to cover their heads and bodies as soon as they saw boiling water poured over the city, the shields could never protect their entire bodies, and water was pervasive, so they still remained
It can burn many soldiers. Although the soldiers who were scalded by boiling water will not die, they basically lose the ability to continue fighting.
At the same time, many recruits continued to carry large baskets of stones and bricks to the top of the city to supply them to the soldiers defending the city. At the same time, they also carried the dead and injured soldiers to the city for treatment. The battle soon ended
Get into the intense atmosphere.
Although they encountered stubborn resistance from the Ningyuan Army, the military discipline of the Qing Army was extremely strict at this time, and no one dared to take a step back. At the same time, the fierce fighting also aroused the ferocity of the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers, so they also fought desperately towards the city.
The head launched a fierce attack.
Under their leadership, the Mongolian army and the Han army had to mobilize all their energy, and with rare fighting will, they cooperated with the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers to attack the city.
The archers of the Qing army who were covering under the city no longer hid behind the shield carts. They all stood up one by one and braved the musket fire on the city top. They also fired arrows at the top of the city. Even some people were shot by muskets.
He was beaten to death, but the others remained unwavering and continued to fire arrows at the top of the city.
At this time, under the city wall, Yi Jing began to pile up corpses again. Some of them were Ningyuan soldiers who fell outside the city after being killed in battle. The blood splashed on the city wall, flowed to the ground, and began to gradually spread.
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The siege battle lasted for more than half an hour, and the Qing army's losses exceeded a thousand people, but still no one could step on the city wall. Although Abatai and Turg were watching the battle from a distance, they could still feel the presence of the enemy on the battlefield.
A fierce and cruel atmosphere.
Moreover, wounded soldiers who had been withdrawn from the battlefield kept passing by in front of them. They suffered from falls, gunshot wounds, and burns. They were lying on a single shelf and kept screaming. The wounded soldiers
A considerable number of them are soldiers of the Eight Banners. And given the medical level of the Qing army, most of them may not be cured. These people are veterans with more than ten years of combat experience. I didn't expect that they would fall into trouble this time.
Falling in front of Ningyuan City, Abatai couldn't help but feel heartache in his heart.
However, the resistance of Ningyuan Army was also within Abatai's expectations. After all, this army was able to defend Muling Pass twice. If it hadn't been so few times, I might not have spent so much effort. Moreover, the war At this point, the Qing army could not retreat and could only hold on.
So Abatai ordered that five thousand more soldiers be dispatched to join the siege team. Because now it seems that it will not take a while to capture Ningyuan, and the armored soldiers who were involved in the battle in the early stage Yi Jing has reached 1,000 men, so this time, all Han and Mongolian troops are dispatched. Let them gradually consume the strength and energy of the defenders. When the time is right, they can launch a full-force attack on Ningyuan City. .
Although the people who joined this time did not have all the armored soldiers of the Eight Banners, they did add fresh troops after all. The offensive that had been gradually weakening suddenly became fierce. And after a period of offensive, the Qing army also learned They became smarter, because the Ningyuan Army's boiling water could only be dumped in certain places, so the Qing Army began to deliberately avoid these places, making the Ningyuan Army's boiling water attack gradually lose its effect. The Qing Army also took the opportunity to attack the city wall. Concentrating troops in other places and storming the city head suddenly increased the defensive pressure on Ningyuan's army.
Because although the Qing army mainly attacked the west gate, the Ningyuan army could not ignore the other three gates. They had to send a certain amount of troops to defend each gate. In addition, they had to set aside necessary reserve troops. Therefore, the number of soldiers defending the west city at this time was only There are nearly 4,000 people, but there are actually only more than 1,000 veterans with combat experience, and the rest are all new recruits recruited in Ningyuan Prefecture.
Although these recruits only received more than ten days of training, they all had a deep hatred for the Qing soldiers. Therefore, they had a strong fighting spirit and fought tenaciously without risking their lives. However, this was ultimately due to lack of combat experience and very sparse combat skills. , it was better at the beginning, but once the Qing army strengthened its attack power, it seemed a little weak. Once the Qing soldiers climbed to a position close to the battlements, the two sides started fighting across the city wall, although the Qing soldiers had many restrictions. , such as they can only fight with one hand and cannot move on wooden ladders. However, it is difficult for recruits to defeat Qing soldiers by their own abilities. Some recruits are not even the opponents of Qing soldiers, but are defeated by Qing soldiers. Many were killed and injured, and we had to wait for the veterans to come over to support us before we could reverse the situation.
Moreover, at this time, the live spearmen occupying the high platform and shooting stopped shooting at the bottom of the city. Instead, they paid close attention to the offensive and defensive battles on the city wall. Once someone climbed onto the battlements, they did not hesitate to shoot because they were too close. , so the musketeers were almost always hitting the target. Many Qing soldiers who stepped up to the battlements and were about to enter the city wall only heard the sound of a gunshot. They felt like being hit hard. Many soldiers were even shot by muskets. It was hit so hard that it flew out of the battlements, and then fell to the ground.
But despite this, after all, the defenders were still mostly new soldiers. Ningyuan City's defense line still seemed precarious, and the defense line was almost broken by the Qing army on several occasions.
Bai Guangen, Li Fuming and others who were watching the battle on the tower with Wu Sangui were also shocked. They were not timid people, but they had never seen such a fierce battle, so they all felt their heartbeats speed up and their lips became dry. Some people Wei Geng's face turned pale. He didn't dare to look anymore, but he forced himself to keep looking. Only Wu Sangui remained calm. He paid close attention to the entire city defense front and continued to issue instructions to adjust the city's defenses. defense.
At this time, Li Fuming said to Wu Sangui: "General Wu, the Tatar attack has become more and more fierce. Should we add more people to defend the city?"
Wu Sangui shook his head and said: "It's not yet time yet, we can still resist, let's wait until the Tatars send troops again!"
As they were talking, two battlements on the city wall were breached by Qing soldiers.
It turned out that the Qing soldiers put five ladders together, which could just be used to attack two adjacent battlements. They arranged five Qing soldiers in a row and attacked the top of the city together. They quickly climbed to the vicinity of the battlements, and the two Qing soldiers
The soldiers attacked a crenellation. A Qing soldier in the middle provided support on the left and right, and a battle started with the defenders across the city wall. However, it was just a few new soldiers guarding the two crenellations. Although they tried their best, they were helpless.
Their skills were inferior to those of others, so they could not resist the Qing soldiers. However, the two Qing soldiers covered each other and soon attacked the battlements of the city.
At this time, the two musketeers hurriedly fired, but at this moment, the two guns misfired at the same time. Just like that, the musketeer jumped down from the stack and fell to the ground.
On the city wall. This was an armored soldier. As soon as he stood firm, he immediately slashed with his sword, regardless of the soldiers of the Ningyuan Army around him. He killed four or five Shile of the Ningyuan Army in a row, but he was also wounded by more than ten people.
Although he was wearing triple armor, four or five spears penetrated the armor. He finally screamed and fell to the ground. He became the first Qing soldier to die on the wall of Ningyuan City in this battle.
Although this armored soldier died in battle, he bought some time for the Qing soldiers to attack later. Several more Qing soldiers passed through the crenellations and climbed onto the city wall of Ningyuan.
These Qing soldiers were all armored soldiers from the Eight Banners. Although there were only three or four of them, they were all extremely brave. Although there were more than ten Ningyuan Army soldiers who besieged them, they only killed two of them, and they themselves
But they killed five people. In just a short while, four or five more soldiers stepped onto the city wall and firmly guarded the battlements.
The Qing army finally broke through a gap in Ningyuan City's defense line.
Once the first gap was established, there would be a second and third one. Soon the Qing army broke through several more gaps. Although the Ningyuan Army continuously organized manpower to fight back, in the end it was due to the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers on both sides.
The disparity is too great. Even if the veterans of the Ningyuan Army come up, at most they will end up dying together with the Qing soldiers, and they still won't be able to drive the Qing troops off the city wall.
After a while, the Qing army broke through five gaps in the city wall. At each gap, there were more than a dozen people gathered in Yijing, and there were as few as five or six people. They all firmly guarded the gap and responded to the Qing soldiers behind.
He also continued to climb up the city wall. The fighting between the two sides became more and more intense, the number of corpses continued to increase, and the blood began to stain the ground on the city wall red.
At this time, Abatai and Turg, who were watching the battle below the city, couldn't help but be overjoyed. It seemed that they had great hope of capturing Ningyuan before sending out the last troops. Abatai was also a man who had experienced battles for a long time, and knew how to take advantage of the situation.
He immediately sent an order to advance, and sent out another thousand Eight Banners armored soldiers, two thousand soldiers, and their followers, a total of six to seven thousand people. They immediately sent reinforcements to capture Ningyuan in one fell swoop.
But Abatai did not know that just when he issued the order and the reinforcements set off, the fierce battle on Ningyuan City had undergone a dramatic change.
At this time, the first gap opened by the Qing army was surrounded by more than 20 Qing soldiers. Under the command of Niu Luzhen, they formed a semicircular formation and firmly guarded the gap. Around this semicircular formation, more than 20 corpses were lying down, including those of the Qing Army and the Ningyuan Army. The two sides were almost fighting to the death in a pool of blood. And that Niu Lu forehead really had any plans , if a few more people come up, they can start to launch a counterattack against Ningyuan's army along the city wall.
At this moment, the Ningyuan army that suddenly besieged them opened a passage to the left and right. Only three strange shapes were seen, a bit like a flat open umbrella-like thing, and each one supported ten Several black iron pipes were pointed at them.
Before the Qing soldiers understood what was going on, they heard a sound of "Boom!" and the three strange things spurted out tongues of fire almost at the same time. Because the distance was too close, there was no way to avoid them. Three Qing soldiers immediately appeared He screamed, blood splattered from his body, and he fell to the ground.
It was only then that Sun Zhongdou and other Jinyiwei personnel who were watching the battle on the tower breathed a sigh of relief and realized that Wu Sangui still had such a skill.
It was a small artillery blaster that could be used individually by the Ming army.
Due to the high cost, even the Ningyuan court only sent three.
However, Wu Sangui had no time to be happy at this time, because a new batch of Qing army reinforcements approached the city wall and prepared to attack the city.
Wu Sangui knew that the time for the decisive battle had arrived.
He took his sword from his subordinates and roared: "Kill the enemy!"
Wu Sangui, named Changbo, was from Liaodong. Wu Sangui was born in a prominent family in western Liaoning. Wu Xiang practiced martial arts since childhood and was good at riding and shooting. Wu Xiang heard and witnessed how the Ming Dynasty lost Guangning in the second year of Tianqi, and how Xiong Yanbi's strategy in Liaodong was passed down. In the first nine chapters, how Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was imprisoned and died. Wu Xiang married Zu Dashou's sister. Zu Dashou was a prominent family living in western Liaoning. Wu Xiang became Zu Dashou's brother-in-law, and Wu Sangui became Zu Dashou's nephew. Zu, The marriage of the Wu family enabled Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui and his son to find a strong backer, and also made the Zu family more powerful.
Under the instruction and influence of his father Wu Xiang and uncle Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui studied both literature and martial arts. He passed the martial arts examination when he was less than twenty years old. From then on, he followed his father Wu Xiang and uncle Zu Dashou and began his military career.
During the Battle of Daling River in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of the regiment, led more than 40,000 horsemen and infantry to aid Daling He Zu Dashou. As a result, Wu Xiang escaped and was dismissed from his post. In June of the following year, in order to pacify Dengzhou, Shandong General Kong Youde and others participated in the mutiny, and Wu Xiang accompanied his deputy Zu Dabi on an expedition to Shandong. Finally, Kong Youde took a boat from Dengzhou to cross the sea and defected to Hou Jin Dynasty. As Wu Xiang was restored to his post, Wu Sangui also served as a guerrilla at the age of 20. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui was promoted to the rank of deputy general of the forward right camp at the age of 23. In September of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, he was appointed as the deputy general of the forward right camp at the age of 26. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, and Gao Qiqian, the governor of the two towns of Guan and Ning, reported to the imperial court for approval, and Wu Sangui was promoted to the chief training officer of the Ningyuan regiment at the age of twenty-seven.
Wu Sangui's promotion from guerrilla to deputy general to deputy general to commander-in-chief was unusually fast.
At this time in Ningyuan, Wu Sangui will also fight bloody battles like his sworn brother Ding Yunyi! Piaotian Literature registered members recommend this work