"Give me the order to wait until the Ming army is within 80 meters of the city wall before attacking. Firearms are not allowed without the general's permission.
Our goal is to hold on, not to destroy it. The defensive materials in the city are limited and cannot be wasted. The longer we hold on, the better it is for the overall situation. "
Saharian issued a military order, and the sergeants on the city wall started to move.
But the Ming army a mile away just watched quietly, as if waiting for something.
Half an hour later, a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats sounded and stopped in front of Sun Chuanting: "Commander Sun Du, the Jiannu garrison at Xinmin Ferry crossed the river directly after seeing us. Xinmin Ferry has been occupied by us."
"It saves us a lot of trouble!"
Sun Chuanting chuckled.
It is stupid to defend even though you know you cannot defend.
Sun Chuanting looked at Zhu Mei with a mysterious smile on his lips: "General Zhu, aren't you curious about how we attack the city? Today I will open your eyes."
"Sundu is commanding the envoy to only attack the east city wall? What if Jiannu escapes from the west city gate and the north city gate?"
"This is better. Our goal is to occupy Xinmin and Xinmin Ferry and prevent Huang Taiji's army from crossing the river from Xinmin. If we can achieve the same goal, why besiege the city and attack?"
Sun Chuanting chuckled: "Send the order, prepare according to the scheduled plan, and start the attack in a quarter of an hour!"
After a military order was passed, the troops quickly moved into action, carrying horse-rejecting stakes one by one and placing them 120 meters away from Xinmin City. They were placed every three meters, a total of ten rows, which was extremely messy.
Even if the war horse can cross the first hurdle, the place where it will land may be another horse-rejecting stake. The formation of the rejecting horse pile takes only half a stick of incense to take shape.
Seeing this scene, Hauge, Sahalian and others on the city gate tower were puzzled. They were not planning to leave the city, so what were they doing with the horse stakes?
And this distance is simply beyond the reach of bows and arrows.
Although Saharian didn't know what the Ming army was going to do, his inner uneasiness became more and more serious. He didn't care about the rules he had just set, and immediately roared: "Send the order, attack with firearms and trebuchets!"
But before the order was given, a group of three Ming troops were seen carrying the still smoking Tiger Crouching Cannon towards the Juma Zhuang.
boom!
boom!
boom!
As soon as the Tiger Crouching Cannon was lowered, jets of flames were ejected, accompanied by thick smoke and loud noises, and the lead shot through the air with a whooshing sound, covering the city wall.
Sergeant Jiannu subconsciously avoided, but by dodging, he completely lost the opportunity.
The tiger crouching cannons came one after another, followed by the Folang machine cannon. The Folang machine cannon was a combination of sub-cannons. Each sub-cannon contained as few as a hundred and as many as five hundred lead pellets, covering an extremely large area.
The roars were mixed with the screams of Jiannu. Almost no one on the city wall dared to show their head, so they could only hide in the crenellations and fight back with firearms.
Seeing this scene, Hauge, Sahalian and others were furious, but they were helpless.
Under the cross-bombing cover of the Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Folang Machine Cannon, a series of bow-shaped trebuchets were deployed in a row, a total of thirty of them, facing two hundred meters to the left and right of the city gate.
Although these trebuchets were placed on horse-drawn carriages, it was extremely difficult for the horse-drawn carriages to travel on the muddy roads. The heavy soldiers almost carried them for more than two hundred miles. Only those involved could understand the hardships involved.
Large boxes were unloaded from the carriage and placed next to the trebuchet. When opened, they were tightly packed black square objects wrapped in oil paper, but this object had a lead on it.
"The projectiles are in position!"
"Loaders in position!"
"The pyrotechnics are in place!"
…
A sharp bamboo whistle sounded, and a sergeant put the Hongtian Lei into the magazine of the trebuchet. The torch lit the fuse and was immediately ejected by the trebuchet.
Hong Tianlei drew an arc in the air and headed towards the Xinmin City Wall.
The black spots quickly grew larger and clearer in the eyes of the sergeant who built the slaves on the city wall.
boom!
boom!
boom!
Black dots fell on the city wall one by one and exploded suddenly.
Compared with the sound of the Folan cannon and the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and the sound of the thunderous explosion, it was like the heavens and the earth.
The solid city wall made of green bricks seemed a little fragile in the sound of this explosion. Along with the flames and thick smoke, the green bricks shattered, lead and gravel were scattered, dust suddenly rose, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.
Falling on the military road above the city wall, the impact of the explosion directly pushed the soldiers within ten meters of the city wall off the city wall, exploded into the air, and collapsed all the crenellations within three meters of the city wall.
The boiled gold soup, kerosene, etc. splashed and dripped on the body of the Jiannu sergeant who was hiding. It was so hot that he screamed. Most of it flowed along the city wall, causing flames and thick smoke to fill the sky.
What fell in the city exploded the reserves piled under the city wall to pieces, and what happened was that it also ignited some kerosene.
In the smoke and dust, it was vaguely visible that some soldiers were blown up into the air, and some were rushed directly off the city wall, with their broken limbs flying in the air.
Not to mention the slaves on the city wall who had been stunned by the bombing, even Zhu Mei and other Liaoxi generals in the Ming army had horror in their eyes.
They had heard that during the Battle of Longjing Pass, the Warrior Battalion and another army with unknown numbers had new firearms in their hands. Any one of them could injure several people, but that one was not even the slightest bit worse than the current one. What on earth was this? ?
The face of Saharian, who was lying on the ground on the city wall, was no longer as calm as before. Looking at the blasted city wall, the dismembered trebuchets, and the still wailing soldiers, his eyes were about to burst.
"Counterattack, counterattack..."
"Fight back, fight back..."
"Open the city gates, the cavalry charge, charge..."
He finally understood why the Ming army had set up a defensive horse formation outside the city gate, just to prevent them from charging, but now they had to charge.
Saharian roared angrily, rushed to the war drum that was set aside, picked up the drumstick, raised his arm and started hammering.
Listening to the sound of drums, a trace of helplessness flashed in Sun Chuanting's eyes. The trebuchet was easy to use, but it was damn inaccurate. None of the dozens of thunderbolts landed on the city gate tower.
He thought that while Jiannu was unprepared, a thunderbolt would fall on the city gate tower and kill Hauge and Saharian directly. But now he thought too much.
"Send the order, take advantage of the chaos to throw a few palm mines at the city gate tower, and then adjust the two trebuchets to concentrate on bombarding the city gate tower!"
The ordering soldiers roared angrily, and hundreds of people rushed out of the Ming army's position and rushed towards the city wall. When they were seventy or eighty meters away from the city wall, they started throwing things towards the city wall.
The next moment, super-large firecrackers went off continuously, once again bringing up broken limbs and broken arms all over the sky.
After this group of people retreated, dozens of reloaded Tiger Crouching Cannons were fired again, and the trebuchets were reset again to project thunder.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon and Folang Machine Cannon suppressed the counterattack of the sergeant on the city wall, the trebuchet launched, and then the sergeant came closer and threw palm mines.
After repeated alternations like this, seven or eight times, the entire Xinmindong city wall was covered with dense cracks, and several green bricks on the exterior facade collapsed, exposing the rammed earth in the middle of the city wall.
There were almost no Jiannu sergeants alive on the city wall. The sergeants were all crowded a few meters behind the city wall and in areas not under attack. They were not afraid of death, but this was a direct death penalty.
Looking at the exposed rammed earth, Sun Chuanting whispered to the general beside him: "It's almost time, start targeted bombing, and try to knock down the city wall in a quarter of an hour!"
