Early the next morning, the army of slaves and thieves prepared breakfast half an hour in advance.
After dinner, Tong Yangxing led the Han generals Jin Yuhe, Wang Guoguang, and other Han generals to appear outside Jinzhou City.
Jierhalang took the soldiers and horses with the blue flag and a small number of Han soldiers as a sheep attack, and also set out for the other walls of Jinzhou City.
"Wang Guoguang, take your people to fill in the moat." Tong Yangxing said to one of the Han generals in front of him.
This Han Jiang looked bitter when he heard Tong Yangxing's arrangement.
Filling the moat is the most dangerous thing. Not only do you have to bear the attack on the city, but you also have to carry heavy soil and throw it into the moat. Then you have to go back and continue to carry the soil to fill the moat again.
Originally, filling in the moat was a dangerous job, and he had to make countless trips. By the time the moat was filled in, he didn't know how many of his men would be killed or injured.
"General Bing Tong, do you think we should find some people to fill in the moat?" Jin Yuhe stood up to speak for Wang Guoguang.
It wasn't that he wanted to stand up and help Wang Guoguang, but that he knew that if Wang Guoguang's men couldn't fill the moat, they would definitely be replaced by Han generals like them.
No one was willing to take on the job of filling in the moat.
In the past, he used common people or civilian husbands to do this kind of thing. Anyway, these people are just consumables, and they don't feel bad even if they die.
"Where are you going to find the people!" Tong Yangxing glanced at Jin Yuhe and said immediately, "The nearest people have to be brought from Fuzhou. There is no time. Dabeile will not give you such a long time. You two Instead of grinding your teeth with me here, it is better to do things early, and when Jinzhou City is captured, there will be no shortage of people to fill in the river."
Upon seeing this, Jin Yuhe and Wang Guoguang knew that they could only fill the river.
For this reason, Jin Yuhe glanced at Wang Guoguang with pitiful eyes.
If they want to fill up the moat outside Jinzhou City, Wang Guoguang's subordinates may not have many men left, but they don't know if they will be able to replenish Wang Guoguang's troops after this battle.
"Okay, go quickly!" Tong Yangxing urged.
He also knew that filling in the moat would cause a lot of casualties, but he had no choice. Mang Gurtai would never give him any room for bargaining.
And there was one thing he didn't say.
In his mind, these Han soldiers were no different from civilians. They were all expendable consumables. After this batch was used up, the Ming army would still have many that could be used.
"Hey!" Wang Guoguang took the order and left.
No matter how reluctant he was, he did not dare to disobey military orders.
This is not the case in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, as long as you take good care of yourself, no one will say anything even if you disobey military orders. However, Han soldiers who have become slaves and thieves will only die if they dare to disobey military orders.
"General Jin!" Tong Yangxing looked at Jin Yuhe again.
"Here!" Jin Yuhe stood up bravely.
Nothing good will ever come of being called by someone's name on the battlefield.
Tong Yangxing said: "You and your people should be prepared. As soon as the moat is filled, you will immediately lead people to kill Jinzhou City. I don't want to see what happened yesterday without even reaching the city wall."
"Don't worry, general. The general will definitely lead his men to kill the city wall of Jinzhou City and seize the city gate in front of the army." Jin Yuhe said, patting his chest.
As for how credible it is, I'm afraid only he himself knows.
Tong Yangxing also knew that there was a lot of water in his words, but saying such words at this time could boost morale. Naturally, he would not do anything to hurt morale, so he asked Jin Yuhe to prepare aside.
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Several other Han generals nearby looked envious when they saw Jin Yuhe taking the errand to attack the city.
With the errand of attacking the city, there is no need to fill in the moat.
As for those of them who have no errands, don't look at it now. Once the moat on Wang Guoguang's side cannot be filled, it will be them.
boom! boom!
Cannon fire rang out from other directions in Jinzhou City.
Tong Yangxing understood that this was Jierhalang's sheep attack.
"Go tell Wang Guoguang and tell him to move faster. If he delays again, I will kill him directly in front of the formation." Tong Yangxing asked one of his personal guards to urge Wang Guoguang.
A person next to him ran to convey the order to Wang Guoguang.
The soil used to fill the river has been prepared long ago. Even if it is insufficient, it can be dug from the ground temporarily. After all, it is not winter and the ground is not that hard.
Soon, Wang Guoguang began to move out.
Either carrying sacks or carrying baskets of soil in their hands, they began to rush toward the moat outside Jinzhou City.
However, the things in my hands were relatively heavy and I couldn't run too fast. Especially the people carrying the hemp bags couldn't run at all and could only walk in small steps all the way.
As the general of this army, Wang Guoguang did not go to fill the river himself. Instead, he stared at the situation on the other side of the moat where the dirt was piled.
boom! boom!
The cannon on the city head fired immediately.
Several cannonballs accurately landed among the Han soldiers who went to fill the river, leaving corpses one after another.
And those Han soldiers filling up the river were carrying such heavy things that they had no place to run. Even the Han soldiers carrying sacks could hardly use the sacks to block the cannons.
"Go tell Da Beile that I need the support of cannons." Seeing that this was not possible, Tong Yangxing asked someone to urge Mang Gurtai to use their Dajin cannons.
The only ones that can suppress the cannons on the city wall are your own cannons.
Mang Gurtai also knew that the moat could not be filled, and Dajin's soldiers and horses could not get close to the wall of Jinzhou City, so the twelve cannons left behind were quickly pushed up.
Cannons were deployed one after another, so many cannons were designed to suppress the cannons in the city.
boom! boom! boom!
Suddenly, the sound of a cannon was heard on the city wall.
The direction in which the cannons were fired was exactly where the cannon of the slave and traitor side was located.
"No, I was deceived. The tiger thieves deployed more than six or seven cannons on the city." Tong Yangxing's expression changed.
From the sound of cannons just now, he could hear the noise of at least a dozen cannons.
There were more than a dozen cannons, even if they were farther away, a few of them still landed on the cannons that had just been pushed up by the slave thieves outside the city.
The mounts of the two cannons were destroyed on the spot, causing the cannons above to roll to the ground, temporarily losing the ability to attack the city's defenders.
If it were the gunner of the Ming Army, he would have abandoned his cannon and fled for his life.
But here, they don't dare.
Even though he knew that he had become the target of the city's artillery attack, he still did not dare to leave the cannon and began to load gunpowder and cannons in preparation for fighting back against the cannons defending the city.
After all, the gunners of the slave thieves are still the foundation of the Ming army, and are far inferior to the gunners of the Tiger Flag in all aspects.
The medicine here has not yet been installed neatly, but the gunner of the Tiger Flag on the city wall has already fired the second shot of the cannon against the slave thieves.
With the experience of the first time, the accuracy of the second time was obviously much better.
Several more slave gunners' cannons were destroyed, and even the explosives next to the cannons were detonated, killing and injuring many surrounding slaver gunners.
