The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 250 Siege, Ming Army Siege

Whoosh, whoosh.

The Ming army took big strides, with the infantry in front and the artillery pushing the carriages and cannons behind, slowly approaching Gaizhou City.

A thousand people followed them to the left with sacks on their backs, and the cavalry also looked at the people from the left.

After entering two miles, following Ding Yi's order, the whole army stopped.

The people put down the sacks filled with soil one after another, turned around again, and soon came over with another sack on their backs. After doing this twice, each person put three sacks filled with soil in front of them.

At this time, Zhang Jing rode a horse to the people and said, "General Wu means what he says. Everyone can go home after throwing three sacks."

The common people looked at each other in blank dismay, some people were secretly cursing Wu Sangui and these Ming soldiers for being inhumane.

"Qi Afu, Duan Sanshui."

"The grassroots are here, what orders does General Zu have for you?"

The two village chiefs asked with smiles on their faces.

"You all know the request just now? If you don't throw it well, don't mess with us and don't show respect." Zhang Jing said coldly.

"Of course, I hope the general will keep his word. After we throw away, let us go home."

"They are all fellow Ming people, how could we lie to you, go at ease." Zhang Jing said with a smile.

Everyone cursed again in their hearts, what a fellow, the big gold master is not as cruel as you.

Zhang Jing came back to report to Ding Yi, Ding Yi nodded, the carts and cannons remained, and the whole army moved forward.

More than 6000 soldiers and horses continued to move forward.

Soon within 500 meters.

Gu Burqi and the others on the city gate looked a little dignified, obviously feeling that the Ming army really wanted to attack the city.

But I still don't believe it. The Ming army didn't even have a ladder. How could they attack the city?

At this time, some iron general cannons on their walls could reach this distance.

But they didn't fire.

There are few soldiers and cannons in Houjin, so this distance is also inaccurate, and it is a waste to hit them.

The Ming army also seemed to know that they would not fight, so they continued to move forward and soon entered 400 meters.

At this time, they could see that behind the large formation of the Ming army, there were many carts left behind the original kilometer.

Those cars were huge, and because they were too far away, they couldn't see what was on them, nor could they see the guns trailing behind them. After all, there must have been many artillerymen blocking the front.

But Tong Puhan had already guessed that it might be a cannon.

"Do you want to fight?" Tong Puhan asked Gu Burqi, do you want to fire?
This distance is still a bit lethal, of course, it depends on luck.

"Wait a little longer." Gu Burqi was not in a hurry, he wanted to see what the Ming army would do next.

At this time, the Ming army stopped 400 meters away, and a large number of people went back to carry sacks. After running for three rounds, each of them put three bags in front of them.

"To actually drive Ming people's own people to fill the ditch, this Ding Yi is really nothing, inhumane." Tong Puhan looked and cursed.

Few of the Ming generals dared to do this, and let the court censors know that verbal criticism can kill them.

"Ding Mouse is really shameless and unscrupulous." Gu Burqi also scolded.

Then he glanced at Tong Puhan, the people outside the city are the people of our Dajin right now, not Ming people.

Tong Puhan said at this time: "Hurry up and get someone to block the city gate, I think the Ming people definitely want to enter through the city gate."

Gu Buer felt that it made sense, otherwise why the Ming people didn't bring ladders, he immediately ordered the Mongols to find something to block the city gate.

Lu Dabuhua was a little upset, but there was nothing he could do. He quickly turned around and talked to someone, and arranged for people to find something to block the city gate.

At this moment, the Ming army under the city gave an order.

A hundred Ming people carried city sacks on their backs and ran forward frantically.

After this wave of people ran for 50 meters, the second wave of one hundred Ming people also ran forward with sacks on their backs.

"Fire, fire—" Guburzi ordered immediately.

"Boom, boom" the cannons on the top of the city fired one after another.

Most of these cannons in Houjin were captured by the Ming army before, and there were none of the newly cast Hongyi cannons, or they would have fired a few miles away.

And before Ding Yi came, Houjin did not send troops outside, and the Ming army in Lushun wanted Amitabha. Thank God, thank God, they dared to come and attack them.

Therefore, there are less than fifty artillery pieces in Gaizhou City, such as big bowl guns, tiger squat guns, and Franji guns, and they are still scattered around.

Now that the Ming army is coming to attack the south gate, Gu Burqi hastily ordered the artillery from other directions to be moved over as well.

Most of these guns have lethality within two to 300 meters or even 100 meters.

Cannons rang out from the top of the city, and when the people ran 200 meters away, they threw down the sacks one after another.

Naqi Afu and Duan Sanshui stood on each side, about one meter apart.

Then the common people dropped sandbags along the positions where the two stood, and stacked them up.

Turn around immediately after stacking.

The three people on the city wall looked confused, not knowing what they wanted to do.

Without the Hongyi cannons, the cannons on their city walls would have limited damage to a distance of 200 meters. The first round of fighting only hit a few ordinary people, and then the second round of ordinary people arrived soon, stacking according to the previous position .

A thousand people were divided into ten batches, and a semi-circular simple artillery position was quickly piled up, leaving two one-meter positions in the middle for firing gun barrels.

When the people finished running ten batches, Gu Burqi's cannon had only fired two rounds. Seeing that it had no effect, he immediately ordered not to shoot.

I watched helplessly as the people below piled up artillery positions.

At this time, Ding Yi gave another order, and the people carried the second sandbag again.

This time, a group of 200 people rushed towards the city gate.

This time it was thrown directly into the moat.

Guburqi immediately panicked and ordered to fire again.

Hey, hey, hey.

At this time, the people entered the range of the cannon, and some people were hit and screamed from time to time.

After approaching the gate of the city, the bows and arrows above also fell down one after another.

"Ah!" The people screamed incessantly, and some people kept falling down.

The first wave of 200 people rushed over, and about 150 people came back in the end, nearly a quarter of them fell on the road and under the city.

The second wave and the third wave rushed up.

Right now they have no choice.

There is still a chance to survive if you charge forward. If you don't charge, these Ming soldiers will not be polite.

The defenders in the city were not polite to these own people, they would shoot with cannons if they were far away, and shoot with arrows if they were close.

Since ancient times, siege has been the most tragic battle. Human life is worthless here. Those who carry the soil can only rely on luck to take care of them, rushing forward and running backward non-stop.

Standing behind, Ding Yi watched these former Ming people (now called Dajin people) charge forward wave after wave with a telescope, without the slightest fluctuation in his heart.

If he didn't use these later Jin people, he would have to use his own soldiers and horses, which was a loss he couldn't bear.

What is it for me to sacrifice 2000 people for the sake of the billions of people of Ming Dynasty?He quickly found a suitable excuse for himself.

After the first round of civilian rushing, about 1000 of the 700 people are still alive.

From the road to below the city gate, there are people everywhere, most of them are not dead, they can only scream on the ground.

The people who were intact trembled, looked at Zhang Jing and the others in horror, and felt that this Ming army was ten times more cruel than the empress gold master.

"Hey, the last wave, you can leave after throwing away, the position is still the same, folks, go home, go up, go up." Zhang Jing made the final mobilization.

This time, 100 people are divided into seven batches.

Charge again.

At this moment, Ding Yi turned around and asked, "How many rounds of artillery fire have been fired from above?"

"Eight rounds." Zhao Dashan hurriedly said.

"God is also helping us today, we are on the wind, we can go." Ding Yi ordered, and the Lushun army attacked.

(End of this chapter)