Zhu Shou then bent his bow and shot an arrow.
This arrow almost hit Xi Ning who was shouting.
He whirred and led Zhu Qizhen's horse back.
Before the attack on Datong, Xi Ningke still had illusions. If he held Zhu Qizhen hostage for Ye Xian's grand master and obtained Datong, Xuanfu and other frontier cities, he would definitely get promoted and make a fortune in the Mongolian Ye Xian army and become Ye Xian's right-hand man. .
But the current script obviously doesn’t work that way.
Zhu Qizhen became the Supreme Emperor, even if he was the Supreme Emperor, others said it was fake and refused to admit it.
How should I tell Grand Master Ye Xian about this when I get back?
Xi Ning led the horse back to the Central Army in despair.
"First of all, Grand Master, those warriors of the Ming Dynasty do not know etiquette. When the Grand Emperor passed by, they insisted that it was a lie." Xi Ning reported truthfully.
After listening to Xi Ning's words, Ye Xian's face changed slightly: "What kind of emperor?"
"The Prince Consort Jingyuan once went to the city to meet Zhu Qizhen and told us that the Crown Prince had succeeded to the throne a month ago and respected Zhu Qizhen as the Supreme Emperor."
After listening to Xi Ning's words first, he clenched his fists tightly and glanced at Zhu Qizhen again: "Take this useless thing down. I will know what we Mongolians want to get." , we can only rely on our fast horses and scimitars, the twists and turns of your Han people are not suitable for us."
Xi Ning was ignored and did not dare to say anything, so she could only lead the horse and walk downstairs.
"March."
The drums were beating loudly, the Mongolian cavalry waved their scimitars, carried the ladders and charged towards Datong with loud shouts of killing.
Against such a tall city wall, if the Mongols continued to charge on horseback, they would be looking for death.
The first are infantry, used for climbing city walls.
The archers in the middle formation would bend their bows and shoot arrows to suppress the Ming army on the wall when they were within shooting range.
During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Mongolian soldiers attacked the city. They first used Huihui chariots, which were the catapults of the Ming army, to launch flints at the city wall for a round of suppression. Then they drove out the armies of other ethnic groups and attacked the city. At the end, there was no Elite Mongolian cavalry carried out the harvest.
But times have changed, and if they want to regain the glory of their ancestors, they must first pay the price in blood.
He first rode his horse and looked at the Mongolian troops swarming towards Datong City. He felt no pride in his heart, but on the contrary, he felt a little anxious.
A siege war is a war in which soldiers' lives are gambled.
Ye Xian marching is quite experienced. He knows that using Zhu Qizhen to affect the morale of the Ming army has not been done. They and the Ming army are still on the same starting line. It depends on who can't hold it first.
Zhu Shou was the commander-in-chief of the city defense.
"Blow the drums to meet the enemy." Under his command, the drums began to sound, and the commander's flag kept shaking at the top of the city to send out signals.
Marching with drums and retreating with gold is not as simple as described in the play.
Drum flags, drum carts, drum horses, drum disciples, drum soldiers, drum soldiers. During combat, the commander will use a non-stop drumming sequence, or a special drum sound to specifically give orders to a single unit.
Under the sound of drums, the soldiers of the Ming army looked at the dark Mongolian siege army and calmed down.
"catapult."
The Mongolian siege troops have reached the attack range of the trebuchet.
The commander's flag kept waving, passing the signal to the slinging troops in the city.
When the captain saw it, he shouted: "Stones, stones."
After hearing this, the soldiers below quickly lit the flints and cut off the ropes. The huge flints flew out of Datong City with great power and hit the Mongolian siege horses directly.
There are more than a hundred trebuchets installed in the city. If each trebuchet is to be operated quickly, hundreds of soldiers are needed.
After the flint flew out, dozens of soldiers worked together to install the stone on the trebuchet, and there were also a dozen people fixing the rope. They had to cooperate with each other to complete the installation.
Hundreds of fast flints, carrying fierce flames, hit the Mongolian army.
Every time a piece of flint fell, dozens of Mongolians died.
After the first round of flint attacks, there was a pause, and then the second round of flint attacks came again.
Although the Mongolian soldiers were timid, they could only step on the corpses of their companions and keep moving forward.
They could only continue to charge against the extremely lethal flint.
The operation of the trebuchet is slow. Unlike the siege, it can only be used for a maximum of three rounds when defending the city.
After the third round of flint dropping was over, under the command of the general, they all put on their armor, pulled out their long swords, and waited for the commander's second order.
If tens of thousands of them are used, it will mean that the Ming army fighting on the city wall has become somewhat unbearable.
After suffering huge casualties, the Mongolian army's archers also came within attack range. They bent their bows and fired arrows one after another, trying to suppress the Ming army at the top of the city, but they were attacked by the Ming army's artillery.
Boom, boom, boom
Under a burst of roaring cannons, the archer formation that had been lined up was severely hit. Hundreds of Mongolian soldiers were killed in one round of shelling. After a period of panic, the Mongolian soldiers began to shoot arrows into the city.
The soldiers beside Xungui put up shields to protect Zhu Shou and others.
Thousands of arrows were fired, hitting the walls of Datong City like raindrops.
The Ming army had long been prepared to defend the city, and their shields were well prepared. They raised their shields to block the arrows.
The sound of the drums changed again.
The soldiers who raised their shields to defend made no other moves, but the Ming army hiding under the shield began a new round of attacks. Some Ming soldiers held three-eyed blunderbuss, barrel blunderbuss and other firearms towards the Mongols who were crossing the moat. The soldiers started shooting, and some Ming soldiers bent their bows and shot arrows.
The wide moat can only be lowered from this end with a ladder, fixed at the other end of the moat, and then climbed over. This moat also further weakened the mobility of the Mongolian soldiers.
Under the firearms attack, thousands of Mongolian soldiers were injured and fell into the moat.
Being injured and falling into the moat is the same as death.
Because there are no antibiotics in this world. As long as you have a wound on your body, fall into the river, and bacteria enter the body, it will never be cured. Even if you are lucky enough to survive, it will be no different from death. ŴŴŴ.BiQuGe.Biz
The Mongols were good at riding and shooting, and their ability to bend bows and shoot arrows was better than that of the Ming army.
It still had a certain effect on the suppression on the city wall.
Four to five thousand Mongolian infantry finally approached the city wall. After fixing the ladder on the city wall, they began to climb towards the city wall.
At this time, the Mongolian soldiers were holding shields, and arrows and firearms were useless.
The Ming army above also began to use stones.
The huge weight and impact of the rocks are particularly effective against them.
Mongolian soldiers were constantly being hit by rocks and falling from ladders.
The Ming army on the city wall was not idle either. They used crowbars to pry the ladder to the iron hook fixed on the city wall. As long as there was a little looseness, the Ming army could push the ladder down completely.
Under active defense, thousands of Ming troops were hit by Mongolian arrows. Some died on the spot, while others nestled against the city wall and kept groaning.
As the battle progressed, the first Mongolian soldier also climbed onto the city wall.
But as soon as they stood firm, they were picked and killed on the spot by the Ming army who had prepared in advance. The corpses were treated as stones and thrown at their companions.
He first looked at the miserable situation of the siege, and then launched the second wave of attacks.
Tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers then poured into Datong City.
We must first conquer Datong in one go.
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