"Fire artillery, don't save your artillery, just bombard them hard."
At the top of Yongning City, the guard was a captain of a thousand-man team from the First War Division. He and his team of more than a thousand people stayed in Yongning.
The four-pounder cannon on the city wall, under the control of the gunner, continued to fire outside the city.
Except for the first shot that missed, most of the subsequent shots hit the crowd of enemies rushing towards Yongning City.
"It seems that the thieves have been prepared for a long time. There are at least eight sharp cannons on the city." Jiang Yingzhao calculated the number of cannons on the city through the sound of cannons.
Man Gui frowned on the side and said worriedly: "Since the bandits have already prepared in Yongning City, it may not be as easy as you thought before to capture Yongning City."
"There's nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter if the thieves in the city are on guard. They want to stop us." Jiang Yingzhao snorted contemptuously.
"hope so!"
Man Gui was not as confident as Jiang Yingzhao. The eight cannons on Yongning City gave him a very bad feeling, and he always felt that things would not go so smoothly.
"We have already rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and we are just around the corner to capture Yongning City." Jiang Yingzhao saw General Chen Shen rushing to the bottom of Yongning City with his troops, and ladders were erected one after another.
The soldiers and horses below the city climbed up the ladders and began to climb towards the city wall.
At this moment, rows of muskets were fired on the city wall, and the shields in the hands of several officers and soldiers who had climbed halfway were pierced, hitting the officers and soldiers below, and they fell down from the ladder with their shields.
Under the blow of the fire cannon, the officers and soldiers on the ladder fell to the ground like dumplings.
Not only the officers and soldiers on the ladder were hit by fire cannons, but many officers and soldiers near the city wall were also hit by fire cannons, leaving dead and wounded everywhere.
The officers and soldiers behind stepped forward and continued to climb the ladder.
boom! boom! boom!
Soon another row of firecrackers was fired on the city wall, and dozens of officers and soldiers were attacked in an instant. They were killed and injured, and the momentum of the attack was blocked.
Many officers and soldiers who were injured by gunshots also lost their combat effectiveness for a while.
After several gunshots were fired, these Guanning soldiers and horses from Liaodong finally could not bear the casualties. Some began to hesitate and some retreated. Upon seeing this, General Chen Shen knew that it was time to act and immediately ordered the retreat.
There were more than 2,000 officers and soldiers when they attacked the city, but only 1,400 to 500 were left when they retreated.
"The general is incompetent, please punish me." General Chen Shen, who returned, knelt under the horses of Jiang Yingzhao and Man Gui.
Only the commander-in-chief of the army has the authority to order the army to retreat. However, he did not receive the order to retreat, so he took the siege officers and soldiers back with him, which was a disobedience to the military order.
"Come here, take this guy who doesn't respect orders into custody, and deal with him after Yongning City is captured." Man Gui glared fiercely at General Chen Shen who was kneeling on the ground.
Two people walked up from the side, picked up Chen Shenjiang and took him away.
During the whole process, Jiang Yingzhao remained expressionless.
He was Man Gui's subordinate. Although he was very angry, he could not go beyond Man Gui to deal with this person. Now Man Gui took him under custody. No matter how he dealt with it, he was given an explanation.
In fact, he also knew that it was impossible for Man Gui to kill the next general for such a small thing, and it was impossible for him to do so.
So when people were taken away, an explanation was given to both parties.
"It seems that Yongning City is more difficult to deal with than we thought. We should retreat first and prepare more siege equipment before attacking the city." Man Gui said to Jiang Yingzhao.
When the officers and soldiers returned from Yongning City, all the ladders were left behind.
At this time, the defenders in Yongning City had poured kerosene on the ladders outside the city and burned them.
"Retreat." Jiang Yingzhao gave the order to retreat expressionlessly.
The army arrived in a hurry and did not carry many siege equipment. Once a few ladders were burned, they were temporarily without siege equipment. They could only wait for the siege equipment to be re-prepared before launching another siege on Yongning City.
On the city wall of Yongning City.
Yang Fan, the city guard, held up a telescope and watched the officers and soldiers outside the city begin to retreat. He said to the people around him: "The officers and soldiers are retreating."
He Qianyou, the deputy captain of the Thousand-Man Corps, leaned against the female wall, watching the flags gradually receding outside the city, and said: "This army is not simple, they can actually rush to the city despite our shelling. If the officers and soldiers we encountered before would have been beaten by artillery and fled, they would have had no chance to get close to the city wall."
"They should be soldiers and horses from Liaodong. I saw a commander's flag with the word "jiang" written on it. Doesn't it mean that two general soldiers came from Liaodong, one named Jiang and the other Mangui." Yang Fan said.
At the same time, he handed the monocular telescope to He Qianyou next to him.
"The officers and soldiers retreated so quickly. Firstly, they were not well prepared. Secondly, they thought they could take Yongning City in one battle." He Qianyou reached out and pushed back the monocular telescope handed to him, "I won't look at it."
Yang Fan took back the monocular and said, "I have sent someone to deliver a message to Shi Zheng. What we have to do is to delay this army under Yongning City."
"I hope Shi Zheng and the others will arrive soon. The enemy has tens of thousands of troops. We only have more than a thousand soldiers and two thousand peasant soldiers in the city, and the total number of people defending the city is only more than three thousand." He Qianyou said worriedly. .
Yang Fan said: "No matter what, we must hold on. The longer we hold on, the more hope we have of victory. The biggest threat to our Tiger Flag is the soldiers and horses from Liaodong."
"Damn it, the emperor in the capital can't be more honest. He sends troops here every now and then. If he doesn't bother me, I'll be annoyed." He Qianyou cursed.
Three thousand versus fifty thousand, no one knows how long Yongning City can hold on.
Yang Fan looked outside the city quietly.
He understood in his heart why He Qianyou wanted to scold the emperor in the capital.
The only hope that Yongning City can hold lies in when the reinforcements will arrive. Without reinforcements, Yongning City will be attacked by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and it will be a matter of time before the city is breached.
More than 50,000 soldiers and horses of the army were encamped not far from the river.
As soon as Jiang Yingzhao and Man Gui came back, they were taken to the big tent where the supervisor army was located.
"Looking at the faces of the two generals, we know that Yongning City has not been taken!" The supervisor glanced at the two men with a pair of smiling eyes.
"The general will be incompetent."
Jiang Yingzhao and Man Gui both bowed their heads and admitted their mistake.
The supervisor took the pipe that his servant had filled with tobacco and said, "It's useless for you two to brag about how powerful the soldiers and horses under your command are. You can't even take down a small Yongning City. It really disappoints our family. "
As he spoke, he picked up his pipe, and the servant next to him handed him a fire break to light his cigarette.
He held the pipe in his mouth and took a puff. The tobacco in the pipe emitted sparks and white smoke after the tobacco was burned.
The smoke circled around his stomach and finally came out of his mouth.
