Towards evening, the Ming army completed the construction of fortifications and began shelling.
I don't know if it was because of the fear of death. The artillery positions were built a bit far away. The iron bullets that bombarded the top of Ningyuan City had basically no effect.
"Haha, I think Duke Xingguo is out of his mind. Let's see when he can blast away Ningyuan City!" Turge said with a sneer.
After hearing this, his men all agreed.
"At first I was worried that the artillery of the Ming army would be as weird as their muskets, but I didn't expect that there was none at all!"
"Based on this, the Ningyuan city wall will be blasted open in the Year of the Monkey! Haha..."
"..."
The artillery on the top of the city also fired back, but the Ming army only had one artillery position in the east and one in the west. The targets were too small. On the Jianlu side, after firing a few shots and missing, Turg stopped them.
Gunpowder is limited and must be used sparingly.
After watching for a while, he issued another order: "Guard the city gate. In other places, dogs can attack them as they please!"
The city gate is a weak point. Although the Ming artillery is far away, it will still collapse if it is hit.
Sure enough, the Ming army also discovered this situation, so they stopped the bombardment and started to move the Hongyi artillery again, trying to bombard several gates of Ningyuan City.
When Turge saw it, he simply had people block the city gate. In this way, there was no need to worry about being bombed. Anyway, it will take three days for reinforcements to arrive. After the reinforcements arrive, they can remove the earth bags blocking the city gate and attack from both inside and outside. It is also possible.
It may be that the road on the side of Ningyuan City close to the sea is not easy to walk. The Ming army was not interested in bombarding the city gates here.
The sky is slowly getting dark and the day is coming to an end. This also means that it is one day closer to the arrival of reinforcements.
Thinking like this, Turg looked at the Ming army's commander's flag on the top of the city and sneered again: I thought the Ming army had become more powerful, but it turned out to be just a bunch of pigs. Yesterday's grudge will be recovered sooner or later.
But one thing that annoyed him was that after nightfall, when he returned to the Yamen to rest, he heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom" again.
Hearing this movement, Turg had to rush to the city to observe the enemy's situation, but found that the Ming army was holding torches and shelling under night cover. Although the speed of each shelling was very slow, the shelling continued.
"Haha, are you worried that our Qing reinforcements will arrive, so you don't even miss the night to launch a bombardment?" Turg saw it and couldn't help but sneered again, "Just bomb if you want. Anyway, you have a lot of gunpowder. Let’s see how far you can go!”
After saying that, he didn't care. Anyway, there were people on duty on the city. It was impossible for the Ming army to blow open the city wall, and now it was even impossible to even open the city gate, because it had been blocked with mud bags.
But what made him a little annoyed was that the Hongyi cannons outside the city were ringing one after another, and he couldn't sleep peacefully.
First, the sound of the Hongyi cannon is very loud. Second, Ningyuan City is the defender after all. What if something unexpected happens and the Ming army blasts something? What if the Ming army invades the city in their sleep?
He was like this, and so were the other prisoners in Ningyuan City. In short, they couldn't sleep well.
It was a stressful day yesterday, and today I don’t want anyone to sleep well. Enough of these Ming troops outside the city!
So, they all cursed the Ming army for making noise at night! They all thought that when the reinforcements arrived and caught Ming Gou, they would drag them to death one by one, just like they dragged Meng Qiaofang to death!
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On the Ming Army side, the Ming Army soldiers who had received military orders in advance fell asleep after getting used to the sound of artillery bombardment. Especially the infantry army to which Ma Xianglin belongs, they don't have to worry about anything else, they eat and go to bed early.
In the early morning, at the infantry camp, with the help of the dim moonlight, Ming army soldiers began to go from tent to tent, quietly waking up the infantry soldiers in each tent.
Because they had already informed them before going to bed last night, even if there were soldiers of the Ming Army who had not yet woken up, as soon as they were woken up, they immediately thought of what they were going to do, so none of them said anything. As for those who have already woken up before screaming, let alone it.
In each tent, the Ming army soldiers who woke up would be given two hot steamed buns. After eating, they would quietly leave the tent and begin to assemble.
At this time, it was still dark.
Zhang Mingwei has already gotten up, accompanied by Ma Xianglin, Yan Yingyuan and Wu Sangui who returned to camp yesterday evening.
Seeing that the army assembly area was almost there, Zhang Mingwei looked up at the eastern sky. After estimating the time, he said to the three generals around him: "Let go and kill, we don't need Ningyuan City!"
"General, I obey!" After hearing this, Ma Xianglin and others immediately clasped their fists and accepted the order, responding in a low but powerful voice.
Then, the three generals, their personal guards, and the 10,000 infantry troops disappeared silently into the dark night.
Yan Yingyuan led the way and made a circle, arriving at the sea side of Ningyuan City and stopping a stone's throw away from the city. He looked up at the rotating guards on the top of the city, then moved a rock away, revealing a hole.
Without saying a word, he got into the hole first.
Seeing Wu Sangui behind him, he couldn't help but feel speechless.
It's really insidious. When the tunnel is dug, it's just waiting to be trapped!
The bombardment of those Hongyi cannons was all to attract the attention of Jianlu. The bombardment at night was also to cover the trump card of passing through the tunnel!
Thinking of this, he became a little excited again, now he could achieve military success!
Ma Xianglin was equally excited. In the previous battle, his infantry actually did not kill many Jianlu. This time, his infantry became the main force in the siege, and there were Jianlu to kill.
Moreover, Duke Xingguo has made it clear that Ningyuan City will not be wanted anyway, so there is no need to worry about destroying Ningyuan City. You can use various means to kill him!
Thinking of this, he wanted to be the first to get into the tunnel.
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The seaside side of Ningyuan City has not always been the focus of Ningyuan City's defense. The buildings here are mostly private houses and places where livestock are kept. In one of the dirty pig pens, several sows were sleeping soundly. Suddenly, their trough moved, then moved, and then rolled. The heavy trough unexpectedly rolled to one side.
The sows just grunted and continued to sleep.
Then, a man crawled out from where the food trough was. After looking around, he quietly pulled out a sharp blade and cut off the pig's head one by one. He could sleep for the rest of his life without even a groan.
The man then went to the door, looked out for a while, and then returned to the pigsty. Then, the people waiting in the hole came out one by one. Soon the whole room was full of people, about 100,000 people. About thirty.
Then, these thirty or so people quietly went out and began to disperse to both sides. Inside the pigsty, people began to appear one after another.
After about five hundred soldiers of the Ming Army emerged, the sky in the east turned white, and the morning light shone on the earth, signaling that a new day had arrived.
A large area nearby was cleared by the Ming army's masters who were the first to come out of the tunnel. It's possible that those Jianlu people fell asleep very late at night. They were still asleep when they were killed by the Ming army's masters.
Wu Sangui had also entered the city and met Yan Yingyuan who was the first to come in. After a low-spirited discussion, Yan Yingyuan continued to clean up Jianlu before Jianlu was discovered.
On Wu Sangui's side, he led his personal guards and began to capture the city gate.
The Hongyi artillery outside the city continued to bombard intermittently, and everything seemed normal. Jianlu naturally did not expect that the Ming army had already dug tunnels for siege.
Unprepared, when the Ming army attacked the city, they were discovered by the Jianlu on the city.
The Ming army originally tried its best not to alert Jianlu, so they were all timid. But when they found out that Jianlu had discovered it, they relaxed their hands and started going to work immediately.
Faced with Jianlu's panic, the Ming army was like a tiger, rushing to kill Jianlu unstoppably.
There are about 15,000 Jianlu to defend the huge Ningyuan City. There are not many troops in each place, let alone the side of Linhai where there is no Ming army.
Therefore, the Ming army here had a partial strength advantage and came well prepared. They immediately captured a large area of the city. The city gate was opened, and more infantry soldiers poured in through the city gate in a steady stream. to join the battle within the city.
"kill……"
The cry of killing suddenly rang out from the city at the moment Jianlu discovered it. All the Jianlu were suddenly awakened by fright.
Turge, who was sleeping with his arms folded, was woken up. He stood up from the bed and immediately shouted: "What's going on? Is the Ming army attacking the city?"
His personal guards rushed in almost at the same time, with a look of panic on their faces, and reported hurriedly: "It's not good, the Ming army has entered the city!"
"What?" Turge couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, "How is this possible? How could the Ming army attack the city?"
Of course, he attaches great importance to city defense and has all arranged it. Logically speaking, it is absolutely impossible for the Ming army to steal the city.
Naturally, his personal guards didn't know what was going on. Anyway, when they found out, the Ming army had already captured a large area of the city.
Turge left the yamen and ran to the street. He saw that a large area in Ningyuan City was full of fire and the shouts of killing were loud. All he could see were the Ming troops forming formations and attacking sporadic men.
Most of his men panicked and ran away when faced with this situation. Only a few of his men were still trying to resist.
As soon as he saw this situation, he understood that Ning Yuancheng was doomed.
Thinking of this, he didn't care, it was better to escape first.
However, when he was about to escape, he discovered that the city gates had been blocked by his own order yesterday.
On the city wall as far as the eye can see, the Ming army is advancing step by step in formation, and has captured most of the city wall. The dazzling white spears, under the cover of the muskets, have pierced bloody paths.
At the same time, he desperately discovered that the Ming cavalry had also entered the city.
