"Master Baylor, the moat has been filled in."
After the moat was filled in, Tong Yangxing immediately brought the news to Mang Gurtai.
Mang Gurtai nodded and said: "Let your Han soldiers bring their luck and chariots and attack immediately. I will take Jinzhou City today."
"Hey!" Tong Yangxing turned around to make arrangements.
Only some of his Han soldiers were filling up the moat, and some of the Han soldiers were not moved at all, just to be used at the moment of siege.
"Jierharang!" Mang Gurtai turned to look at Jierhalang and said, "As long as the Han soldiers stand firm on the top of Jinzhou City, you will immediately send reinforcements with blue flags. If you don't give up, An opportunity for the defenders in the city to counterattack."
"Hey." Jierhalang took the order and left.
Soon, the army started to move.
The first people to be touched were the Han soldiers under Luo Yangxing.
The leader of the Han general was Jin Yuhe, who led more than a thousand Han soldiers, pushing two pallet carts and several cloud carts, and rushed towards the filled-in section of the moat.
The carriages and cloud carriages are heavy and heavy things that don't move very fast, but they can stop arrows and artillery fire. Especially the carriages, the front is made of thick leathers of various kinds, stacked one on top of the other, so that the cannons can hit the ground. You may not be able to wear it on top.
The Han soldiers hiding behind the carriages were also very safe. It was difficult for Jinzhou City's artillery to hit them. The only drawback was their slow speed.
These few cloud chariots and marquee chariots alone could not protect the more than a thousand Han soldiers, and more Han soldiers had no choice but to rush down to Jinzhou City at the risk of being shelled.
The sound of cannons in the city continued, and the cannonballs continued to fall among the Han soldiers.
Every moment, Han soldiers died tragically under the muzzle of the cannon.
But there were still more Han soldiers rushing out of the firing angle of the shelling and approaching the moat during the gap between the shelling.
These Han soldiers were no longer greeted by cannons, but by cannons with tiger-shaped flags and fire that had been waiting for them for a long time.
Fireguns were fired either from the city wall, or from the shooting holes dug on the city wall, blocking the Han soldiers from approaching the city wall of Jinzhou City.
The reloading speed of the gun is much faster than the speed at which the gunner can reload the gun.
Round after round of cannon fire never stopped. If the Han soldiers wanted to get close to the city wall of Jinzhou City, they could only rush forward against the attacks of the cannons. The fire cannon attacks were intensive, like cutting wheat stubble, and the Han soldiers were in pieces. Fallen in pieces.
Every time the Han soldiers took a step forward, they had to pay a lot of lives.
If the Ming army had suffered such an attack, they would have fled away in a hurry, not even having food to eat and working for their lives.
These same Ming troops arrived in Dajin. Although they did not eat much when they arrived in Dajin, they did not have to go hungry as often. And with strict military laws, the combat effectiveness of these former Ming troops more than doubled compared to what they were in the Ming Dynasty.
Although the fear of death has not changed, he does not dare to escape easily anymore, because there are slave soldiers supervising the battle behind him. If he dares to run, he will be directly killed by the slave soldiers supervising the battle behind him even if he escapes back.
But as long as you stay and fight hard and win the battle, you will get part of the reward in the end. Unlike in the Ming army, there was no reward for winning the battle. Even if there was a reward, it would not fall into the hands of low-level soldiers like them.
Therefore, even if they knew that they might die, the Han soldiers were willing to stay and fight. After all, they would get benefits if they won, and they would definitely die if they escaped.
If you dare to fight hard, your fighting power will naturally be stronger.
However, the fire blunderbuss was far away, and the Han soldiers could not find the target even if they tried their best, so they could only passively take the blunderbuss.
More and more Han soldiers died near the moat, and the closer the Han soldiers got to the wall of Jinzhou City, the more casualties there were, because the fire cannons were more accurate from a distance.
"Tell Tong Yangxing and send some Han soldiers to participate in the siege."
Mang Gurtai, who was always paying attention to the direction of Jinzhou City, saw too many Han soldiers dying under Jinzhou City and had no chance to climb the city wall. He immediately sent someone to notify Tong Yangxing to increase the intensity of the attack.
As for the casualties of Han soldiers, he didn't care at all. As long as Jinzhou City was captured, it didn't matter to him how many Han soldiers died.
Someone from Zhenglan Banner went to convey Mang Gurtai's order to Tong Yangxing.
The army has more than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, among which the Han soldiers are several times more than the soldiers of the Two Blue Banners and the Eight Banners. This kind of consumption is naturally left to the Han soldiers.
This kind of thing has long become a consensus among the Eight Banners soldiers.
The Han soldiers themselves were already used to this kind of thing.
"Commander Tong, the master ordered you to send another Han army up." The white-armored soldier of Zhenglan Banner who came to Tong Yangxing said to Tong Yangxing.
"I understand." Tong Yangxing nodded.
Soon, another Han soldier was sent up.
Different from filling in the moat before, when the moat was filled in, the Han army generals could hold down the formation from behind, but now that the city was being attacked, the Han army generals had to lead the troops to fight in the front.
The sound of cannons, cannons, and various mixed sounds echoed outside Jinzhou City.
Although another group of Han soldiers were sent to support them, they were still unable to get close to the walls of Jinzhou City. Instead, there were more and more corpses near the moat, and the ground was already stained with blood and turned black and red.
This situation lasted until the arrival of the truck.
The Han soldiers used carts to block the front, blocking the cannon attacks on and behind the city wall.
Although the carriage could not guarantee the safety of all Han soldiers, it still broke the blockade of the area close to the city wall by the firecrackers in the city.
Two pallet carts and a cloud cart were pushed under the city wall.
A long ladder was erected on the cloud chariot, and several Han soldiers were carried directly to the top of the city.
Wow!
A pot of hot oil poured down the ladder, and then the soldiers on the city wall threw torches onto the ladder.
Although the cloud car had been treated with fire protection, the hot oil caught fire and burned directly.
Although the cloud car could not be burned down at once, the Han soldiers who were poured oil on the cloud car directly turned into burning men and fell from the cloud car.
Then basins of hot oil were poured down the city wall by the soldiers guarding the city, and torches were thrown onto the scalding hot oil.
Many Han soldiers were on fire.
Compared with being on fire, lying on the body with hot oil is the most uncomfortable. It is better to be exposed to less hot oil. Han soldiers who are exposed to a lot of hot oil are already burned before they start to burn. The air comes out more than the air in. not enough.
"Is there any hot oil left?" Zhao Wu asked Wang Ju next to him when he saw how effective it was in burning Han soldiers.
After hearing this, Wang Ju shook his head and said: "These hot oils are specially used to deal with siege equipment such as slave ladders, so I didn't prepare too much."
"This is experience! Our experience in defending the city is still too lacking in means." Zhao Wu said with a disappointed look on his face.
Although the defense of the city has gone very smoothly from the slave bandit's attack to the present, and many attacking Han soldiers were killed and wounded, the pre-battle arrangement was obviously relatively simple and relied too much on firearms.
Wang Ju, who was standing on the side, said: "We are indeed inexperienced in defending the city. In the past, we relied on the power of firearms to siege the city, and we thought we could easily defend the city with firearms. But when we started fighting, we discovered The means of defending the city are too simple, but fortunately we have more firearms, otherwise the slave thieves might have already attacked the city wall."
