After several of Wang Guoguang's men rolled back from the moat, Wei Jin immediately asked his men to move and carry sacks to fill the moat.
With Wei Jin's people present, Wang Guoguang did not let his men continue to fill in the moat this time.
There are less than a hundred people left under his command.
Those who came back alive from the direction of the moat had basically filled in the moat twice, and their energy was almost exhausted. They had no energy to fill in the river again.
"Everyone, please have a rest!" Wang Guoguang looked at the dozens of subordinates in front of him with distress.
Before he went to fill in the moat, he was still a thousand households, but now he became the general sentry.
The sound of artillery in the direction of Jinzhou City was still roaring, and many of the men sent by Wei Jin to fill in the moat were killed by cannon fire on the way to fill in the moat.
As for the slave gunners, they have given up using cannons to attack the cannons on the city wall. In the end, only two cannons were saved from the dozen or so cannons. The remaining cannons were not destroyed by the cannons in the city, but because the gunners died. , was left on the battlefield.
The slave thieves had no cannon to contain the cannons in Jinzhou City, and the Han soldiers sent to fill the moat were even worse. Originally they only had to withstand the bombardment of a few cannons in the city, but now nearly twenty cannons were bombarding them.
For a time, blood and flesh were flying among the Han soldiers, and even the intact bodies of the Han soldiers who had been shot could not be saved.
"Master Beile, this won't work. The cannons in the city are even more powerful." Tong Yangxing found Mang Gurtai.
Although he didn't care about killing or injuring some Han soldiers, he didn't want too many casualties to seriously weaken the army's strength.
"We must persist. If we can't fill up the moat, we won't be able to get close to the Jinzhou City. You go and arrange some people to fill in the moat. Don't worry about casualties." Mang Gurtai said.
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In his eyes, as long as Jinzhou City is captured, it will be worth it even if thousands of Han soldiers are killed or injured.
He just wanted to capture Jinzhou City as quickly as possible and didn't care about how many Han soldiers were killed or injured.
Even if all the Han soldiers died, as long as they captured Jinzhou City, they would be able to replenish a lot. Moreover, he was only temporarily commanding these Han soldiers. In the future, he would still have to return them to Huang Taiji in victory.
Seeing that Mang Gurtai insisted on filling in the moat, Tong Yangxing sent two more Han soldiers to support Wang Guoguang and others.
Mang Gurtai, who was holding a monocular in his hand, always stared in the direction of Jinzhou City.
"Master, Jierhalang is back." A cavalryman from the Zhenglan Banner came to Mang Gurtai's side on horseback.
After hearing this, Mang Gurtai withdrew his gaze and looked at the other side of Jinzhou City.
I saw Jierhalang approaching the Zhenglan flag with his soldiers and horses with the blue flag.
"Bring me Jierhalang!" Mang Gurtai said in a cold tone.
"嗻!"
The person who reported the news turned his horse's head and rushed towards Jierhalang.
Not long after, Jilhalang was brought back.
"Jilharang, what's wrong with you? I didn't ask you to attract the attention of the defenders in the city from other directions. If you just come back, wouldn't it mean that the defenders would focus their attention on me?" Mang Gurtai said the shout.
Very dissatisfied with Jierhalang's behavior of making decisions privately.
After hearing this, Jierhalang said with an ugly face: "I have too few people to get close to Jinzhou City. Facing the cannons in the city, I have no countermeasures."
"Didn't you leave with a few cannons? If the tiger thieves use cannons, you can also use cannons to hit them." Mang Gurtai said with an ugly face.
Jirhalang shook his head and said: "It's useless. The tiger bandit's cannon can hit farther and more accurately than the cannon I brought, and it is also much more powerful. I just asked someone to pull the cannon out, but it didn't work." When we started, we were destroyed by the cannons used by the defenders in the city, and I found that there were more than a dozen cannons in Jinzhou City. It seems that all our attempts yesterday were in vain."
"More than a dozen cannons, huh, I have more than twenty cannons here alone." Mang Gurtai snorted depressedly.
There are dozens of cannons in one Jinzhou City, and they are all heavy cannons that are no less powerful than general cannons.
He can now say that a dog cannot bite a hedgehog.
"I think it's better to tell the Khan about the situation in Jinzhou City and find a way to raise more cannons, otherwise we will suffer too much." Jierhalang looked at Mang Gurtai.
After hearing this, Mang Gurtai's face sank and he said: "No need, I, Dajin, can capture the important towns of the Ming Dynasty without cannons, let alone a small Jinzhou City."
He didn't want to ask Huang Taiji.
To defeat a Jinzhou city, you need to ask Huang Taiji for support, which will only make people think that he, the big Baylor, is incompetent.
Huang Taiji was looking for an opportunity to deal with him, the only remaining big Baylor, and he would not give Huang Taiji this opportunity.
"The inability to contain the cannons in the city will be very detrimental to our siege. I think we should find a way to gather more cannons so that we can be more confident in the siege." Jilhalang wanted to persuade Mang Gurtai to change his attitude.
In his opinion, even if he asked Huang Taiji for support, it would still be better than losing the battle under Jinzhou City.
"I know in my heart that we can capture Jinzhou City without using artillery." Mang Gurtai once again rejected Jierhalang's suggestion to go back for help.
He had already decided in his heart that if there were no cannons to contain the cannons in the city, he would attack by force.
As long as the siege team reaches the city wall of Jinzhou City, the cannons in the city will not threaten them.
Jirhalang hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to give in.
However, he secretly decided that he would never let his Xianglan Banner take risks. Since Mang Gurtai insisted on using human lives to attack, it would be up to the people of Zhenglan Banner to bear the casualties.
"Where's Tong Yangxing! Find Tong Yangxing!" Mang Gurtai looked around and didn't see Tong Yangxing, so he asked his men to find Tong Yangxing.
Soon Tong Yangxing was brought over.
"Da Beile, what do you want from me?" Tong Yangxing came to Mang Gurtai.
Mang Gurtai asked: "Let me ask you, how long will it take to fill in the moat in front?"
"The manpower is not too small, and the time required is not short." Tong Yangxing said truthfully.
Mang Gurtai raised his eyebrows and said: "If you don't have enough manpower, go find someone. Aren't there still so many Han soldiers? Send all the Han soldiers there, and if you don't have enough manpower, let the Mongols come in. I don't believe it." This moat cannot be filled,"
"Hey, I'll make arrangements right away." Tong Yangxing turned and left.
There were still a lot of Han soldiers, so if it didn't work, just let thousands of Han soldiers fill in the moat. He didn't believe that they couldn't fill this part of the moat. Even if they used the corpses of Han soldiers, they would have to fill this part of the moat.
Mang Gurtai gave the death order, and Tong Yangxing ordered all the Han soldiers to move.
Even if only a quarter of the thousands of Han soldiers threw sacks filled with soil into the moat, it would be enough to fill up the front section of the moat.
Relying on this method of filling the moat regardless of casualties, a section of the moat was filled in, allowing the siege soldiers and horses to smoothly transport the cloud chariots and other siege equipment to the city wall of Jinzhou City.
