The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 34 The Iron Wall (1)

"My lord, what should we do?" Everyone on the city wall looked at Ding Yi.

"Do you want to open the door and let them in?" Yang Yong couldn't bear it, these are the people of our Daming, anyway Ding Yi wanted to let the Houjin soldiers in to fight.

"Of course not, as soon as we rush in, all our traps will be destroyed." Seinfeld was furious.

Everyone nodded in unison.

"Let them fill it in." Ding Yi waved his hand: "It happens that we also need time."

The work inside them is not complete, and when the trenches are being filled outside, they are also digging trenches inside.

So, soon a strange scene appeared.

Outside Xu Dabao, a steady stream of Ming people were digging and filling ditches, while the Ming army above remained motionless, neither firing cannons nor firing.

The Ming people below always ran back after throwing a bag of soil at first, for fear of being shot.

Then everyone quickly discovered that the Ming people above were very moral and didn't shoot them, so some courageous people took the bags to the vicinity of the castle, dug soil on the spot, and filled them.

What's more, no bags are used, and the nearby soil is directly filled in.

An hour later, the people below the castle were full of Ming people and surrendered troops. They filled the ditch desperately, and saw that the ditch became shallower and shallower.

"Weird." Zaba looked at the Ming army on the city wall with a puzzled expression.

He has fought with Hou Jin for many years and conquered countless castles. He has never seen such a defensive castle.

So far, the ditch is nearly filled, and Mingren has not even fired an arrow.

An inexplicable bad premonition faintly formed in his heart. This person named Ding Yi might not be so easy to deal with.

"Meiba, tell your people to be ready and listen to my orders at any time." Zaba turned his head and said to Meiba in a deep voice.

Mei Ba looked disapproving, and responded lightly: "Oh."

Zaba resisted the urge to whip him, thinking, if this battle is not fought well, I will behead you.

The Ming men in the front were desperately filling the ditch, and the Tartars in the back were not idle either. Ha Qisuo, a Niulu man, was preparing his troops and horses, tidying up his armor, and from the rear of the army formation, he rolled out more than a dozen chariots. .

The chariot is a necessary thing for the Hou Jin army to attack the city now. It is covered with several inches thick wood, leather and cloth, and some have sand in the middle, which is used to resist the artillery fire and bows and arrows at the top of the city and protect their soldiers.

Probably fearing that there would not be enough caravans, they waited for a while, and pushed a few more caravans from another direction, adding up to more than twenty cars.

These chariots are about three to four meters long and about two meters high, and seven or eight, or even a dozen, people can stand behind them densely at the same time.

Hatzisuo's people got off their horses one after another, each found a chariot, and after a while, most of them hid in the chariot.

The remaining twenty or so followed the soldiers on foot, and each of them took a simple wooden ladder and followed the chariot.

The whole army is ready to go, waiting for Khazisuo's order.

Just when his whole army was ready, someone in front stepped back and cheered loudly: "It's done, it's done."

Ha Qisuo smiled knowingly: "You can step back and go home."

Ming people were wildly overjoyed, everyone looked at each other in disbelief, turned around and ran back.

As soon as he ran to the back of Ha Qisuo's cow, there was a loud sound of rumbling horseshoes, and another cow on the right ran out of a vest.

"Kill." After the Jin army swung a knife and slashed, the Ming people suddenly cried and howled.

"That adult told us to go home." Someone yelled in pain.

"The lord agreed, but our lord didn't agree, we all knelt down." After this movie, the golden army chopped down more than a dozen Ming people, and all the Ming people who wanted to go home all fell to their knees obediently.

The scene was bloody, everyone was busy for nothing, and more than a dozen people died.

The crowd gathered together, crying constantly.

Ha Qisuo didn't care about what happened behind him at all. Now he stood on his horse, waving his whip, and said sharply: "Whoever enters the city first will be rewarded with two cows, ten sheep, and a hundred taels of silver."

"The one who kills the most Ming dogs will be promoted to Dadan, and reward five Ming dog slaves, male and female."

"Warriors of Daikin, break through the castle without leaving any dogs behind."

"Follow me—kill."

Ha Qisuo drew his saber and roared angrily.

"Kill." Hou Jinjun yelled frantically as the chariot rolled up.

finally come.

All the Ming soldiers on the castle also looked down with serious faces.

Everyone waited for Ding Yi's order without saying a word.

The chariot moved forward very slowly, and after walking for a long time, it finally got within two hundred steps, which was considered to be within the firing range of the Fran's cannon.

"My lord." Xu Wei was a little impatient.

"Let's fire." Ding Yi left a Fran cannon at the top of the city, and unloaded three of them into the fort, just to make a show.

Immediately behind him was an orderly waving a command flag.

"Fire." A Ming soldier on the north side of the city shouted.

Not long after, boom, an iron ball roared out.

Plop, the iron ball fell to the ground, bounced, and rolled.

The head of the city shook its head.

The first shot missed.

The twenty chariots on the opposite side were lined up in several rows in an open space of hundreds of meters, and it was not easy to hit them with one shot.

When the second cannon was installed, the chariots were already close to about 150 paces.

The closer the distance, the denser the cars will be.

But the Tatars are also very experienced, the formation is divided into several rows, and the distance in front is also wide.

Boom, the second cannon rang again.

The cannon missed the first time, but after landing, it rolled onto a wagon behind.

With a splash, a corner of the car was smashed to pieces.

Ah, there are Houjin soldiers screaming inside, and I don't know if they were injured or killed.

The car stopped for a while and then continued on.

There was a little excitement on the city wall, although it was not smashed, but it finally hit, and everyone shouted, which can be regarded as boosting the morale of their own people.

The third shot still missed, Song Fei and Zhao Dashan were half dead, what level is this Ming army gunner?I heard it was still the navy gunner.

Ding Yi looked at the bottom of the city. The chariot had entered within a hundred steps. At this time, there were already golden archers trying to throw bows and arrows from behind the chariot to the city wall.

"Ready to go."

"All the cannons fire at the same time, and withdraw after firing." After Ding Yi finished speaking, he turned around and walked back.

Everyone cursed and turned around and left.

There are also two Second General cannons on the city wall, with a range of only one hundred steps.

This will fire at the same time as the Francois machine.

Boom boom boom, three cannons blasted out.

These three cannonballs were fired in a hurry, and naturally one of them missed, and then everyone ran down the city wall as if fleeing for their lives.

In the Houjin army in the distance, Ha Qisuo looked smug. The captured Ming army said that there were more than a dozen cannons in it, and they only fired one or two. It turned out to scare us Houjin warriors.

With so few Ming army artillery on the opposite side, he was a little more sure of attacking the castle.

And Zaba was also puzzled. The captured Ming army said that there were more than a dozen cannons on it. Why did they only have one or two cannons after fighting for a long time?

His face became more suspicious, and his uneasiness became stronger and stronger.

(End of this chapter)