Ma Xi was a little surprised to find that the Qing army did not attack the city today.
In general siege warfare and siege warfare, there are certain strategies that must be adopted. The key point of the siege is not to stop, because once it stops, the parts of the city wall that were previously damaged will be repaired again. The previous casualties were in vain.
However, starting from the middle of the night last night, the Qing army stopped attacking. The two yellow flags were withdrawn.
Ma Xi calculated in his mind and estimated that ten days should have caused at least about 3,000 casualties to the Qing army. It can be said to be a heavy loss. The 5,000 Gansu soldiers in Chengli also suffered 1,500 casualties. This is still supported by the city wall. If we fight in the field, the whole army will be wiped out in one morning.
Ma Xi sighed. Catching a beaver is more than just like capturing a tiger.
Jiannu is not easy to fight. Their archery skills are amazing. These casualties were all killed and wounded by heavy arrows. Many of the heavy arrows of Jiannu had shovel-shaped arrowheads that could almost cut off an arm. Cum on the torso, cum on the neck, that's it. There was no way to stop the bleeding from such a large open wound.
It is estimated that apart from a small number of injuries that will cause disability, the rest will soon be infected and die.
This is the situation in this era. The vast majority of the people who died did not die on the battlefield, but died of wound complications after being injured. Infection is the biggest cause of death. Far more than those killed directly on the battlefield.
He didn't dare to sleep last night, as the Eight Banners attacked the city like crazy. Day and night.
However, from midnight yesterday to noon today, Jiannu's attack completely stopped. He was puzzled and didn't know what conspiracy Jiannu was up to.
At noon he couldn't bear it any longer and told the deputy general that he was going to take a nap. However, he was woken up within a quarter of an hour of lying down.
"Sir, the slaves under the city have been replaced by two white flags. Moreover, they do not attack the city. Instead, they use horse-drawn sledges to pull wooden barrels with water in them, and they splash them as they go. I don't know what it means."
Ma Xi was shocked, this was so weird.
This season, the weather is freezing, and on the grasslands outside Guanhai, dripping water turns into ice. If the water is splashed, it will freeze immediately. And it is not easy to get water. You have to go to the Laoha River to break the ice to get water. What is Jian Nu planning to do?
"Don't let them get close. If they get close, shoot them to death with bows and arrows, and kill them with muskets." Ma Xi said through gritted teeth. Anyway, no matter what they plan to do, just don't let them get close.
These people seemed to know this too. They poured water 150 meters away from the city wall and then turned around and poured water back. Hundreds of ice lanes were poured. Sparkling in the sun.
The snow was originally covered with snow, but now the snow was poured with water and it was all frozen into ice.
The defenders on the city wall watched them working outside the shooting range with cold eyes, but they were helpless. I had no choice but to let them get it and keep vigilant supervision.
"Boss, do you think these slaves were stunned by the cold? They poured water on the ground and it turned into ice. They were slipping and sliding, so wouldn't it be even harder to attack?" Hu Ergou wiped. Snot said.
It's too cold in Mongolia, much colder than Gansu. Especially when guarding the city at night, I can only keep stamping my feet, otherwise my feet will become numb from the cold after a while.
Xiao Qi Dong Ping frowned, but he felt a little uneasy and didn't feel funny at all.
Ma Xi didn't know what they were doing, so he could only make the officers and soldiers be wary. You are not allowed to sleep at night, and you keep your eyes open to avoid being attacked by them.
Soon it was getting dark. It's a cloudy day today, and you can't see the bottom of the city wall. Dorgon, Dodo, and Azig all came. The officials and assistants of the two white flags also came. Standing behind Brother Dorgon, he looked at the city wall in the distance in silence.
The crenels on the city wall were lit with torches, but they could only illuminate a range of three or four meters outside the crenels. The flames of the torches kept jumping and swaying in the cold wind.
Dorgon waved his hand silently, and more than three thousand slaves, under the supervision of the bannermen again, pushed the sledge and started watering. The water was poured all the way to the moat before being discovered by the defenders on the city wall.
Suddenly, bows, arrows and three-eyed guns were shot down one after another.
But it was too dark to see clearly, and the hit rate was very poor. The ice road thus extended to the bottom of the city wall.
Ma Xi was sleeping in the tower. He suddenly sat up and asked loudly:
"Have the slaves come up? Why are you firing?"
"Sir, Jian Nu took advantage of the darkness to pour water on the moat." A soldier came over to report.
Ma Xi's heart palpitated for no reason. His gut feeling was bad, but he didn't know what Jiannu was planning.
"Oops, there's ice pushing over, there's ice." A soldier shouted from the city wall in front.
Ma Xi quickly put on her fox fur coat and rushed out.
"Throw down the torch, hurry up." Ma Xi shouted.
The torches crossed the parabola and were thrown from the top of the city. Some fell in the moat, and some fell outside the moat. It illuminates many places at once.
Ma Xi lay down at the crenel and took a look, and took a breath of air.
I saw countless rectangular blocks of ice being pushed by soldiers and slaves, sliding along the ice path and pushing towards the city wall. Each of these ice blocks is one foot high, and dozens of people behind them use logs to push them forward. In front of these people were soldiers holding large shields to cover them. Behind the shields were archers, waiting for opportunities to shoot arrows at the city wall.
Jiannu's bow was powerful, its range was much higher than that of the defenders, and his archery skills were even better than anyone else's. The result of the crossfire was that the city wall suffered losses, and the torches at the crenellations exposed their target.
Ma Xi was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. He watched these big ice blocks sliding rapidly on the ice road. The bows and arrows and muskets on the city wall hit these ice blocks, but they had no effect except one or two strings of sparks. The small French cannon When it hits the ice, a corner of it will fly away.
Soon these ice blocks pushed into the moat, slid to the bottom of the ditch, and fell on the bodies that had died here during the siege of the city in the past few days. Ice cubes were pushed continuously and thrown into the moat. Soon, the moat was filled up.
Then the ice continued to push across the moat and under the city wall. Then more people threw small ice cubes under the city wall. Shield soldiers protected these people, and archers fired at the defenders on the city wall.
In order to increase visibility, the defenders kept throwing burning wood under the city, and then fired arrows and three-eyed muskets wildly. Under the coercion of Jiannu, the slaves in the city were still piling up the ice cubes sent by the ice road.
Before dawn, the ice finally formed countless slopes, and the city wall finally became undefendable.
"Let the White Tooth Soldiers take the lead, and the Red Tooth Tooth Soldiers to hold down the rear. Kill those who retreat, and kill those who retreat. Within an hour, I will take down the east wall." Dorgon said in a low voice.
"Zhe, please take a look at it, Master. The general will not be able to take down the city wall, so he raised his head to see me."
Before dawn, it was the darkest moment. The white-toothed warriors in white armor rushed to the front, very eye-catching, followed by the bannermen of the Eight Banners, and the red-toothed warriors were behind to supervise the battle. Anyone who dares to run will be killed with a knife.
Ma Xi saw the Eight Banners swarming on the city, her vision went dark, and she almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
He knew that the city could no longer be defended.
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