Looking at the Qing army dancing excitedly at the head of the city, Yang Feng squinted his eyes and did not speak, and after a while, he said to the herald beside him: "Order, the artillery battalion will fire immediately!" ”

"Understood!"

On the position of the artillery battalion, Qiu Disheng was standing in front of a row of artillery, these artillery pieces were different from the twelve-pounder and six-pounder guns used by the Jiangning Army in the past, they were much thicker in terms of gun carriage and barrel, and the shells piled up behind the artillery were the size of a sea bowl, just looking intimidating, these guns were the twenty-four-pounder guns that had just arrived in the battalion a few days ago.

After receiving the order, Qiu Disheng personally came to a 24-pounder gun, personally checked the firing angle and charge of the gun, and then shouted to the gunner next to him: "Start testing the gun!" ”

After a gunner left, he grabbed the sound of the cannon and pulled it hard, and suddenly the fire door flashed, and then there was a loud bang, and the thick muzzle of the gun spewed out a large thick cloud of gunsmoke. In the firelight, the cannon body shook violently, and a black iron projectile the size of a sea bowl rushed out of the cannon chamber and flew quickly towards the head of Shengjing City in the distance.

On the position of the Qing army, Haoge was still immersed in the joy of the Jiangning army's evasion, and he laughed and said to Du Du: "It seems that the Jiangning army is nothing more than this, we are just a little frightened, and these cowards are so frightened that they stop driving my people to attack the city. ”

After all, Du Du is much older than Hauge, so he is naturally a little more reserved, he nodded: "Having said that, but the eldest brother still has to be careful, I am afraid that the Jiangning army will attack the city later, and we still have to order the warriors to strengthen the ......."

Suddenly, Goshha next to him shouted loudly: "Master, be careful, the Ming army has fired!" ”

With the voice of this Goshha, they only heard the sound of artillery in the Ming position, and a shell roared through the air.

Seeing the Ming army firing artillery, Hao Ge, who was still laughing at Yang Feng's kindness just now, screamed: "Hide!" ”

Soon, Hauge was hiding behind a nearby bunker made of stones and turning heads, and Dudu was not slow, and he also hid behind a battlement and crouched down. At this time, the Qing army on the entire city wall scurried around like a cat and mouse, whether they were officials or soldiers, they all flashed behind all the bunkers that could be dodged and hid.

I only heard the sharp whistling sound of cannonballs piercing the air and flying past the city wall, smashing heavily on a house a mile away, just smashing the roof of that house to pieces, and the Qing army on the city wall seemed to be able to hear a faint dull sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Seeing the direction in which the shells fell, Hauge laughed loudly, pointed to the Ming army position in the distance of the city wall and scolded: "Those Ming people seem to have withered, and they can't even shoot artillery!" ”

"Hahaha......" Seeing that the artillery of the Ming army was empty, the Qing troops on the city wall also laughed, and the laughter and scolding became a burst for a while.

Just when the Qing army on the city wall was laughing at the Ming army's artillery empty, the gunners of the Jiangning Army outside the city began to adjust the angle of the artillery, to be honest, the accuracy of the artillery in these years was generally not good, but with Yang Feng from the modern society after the artillery mirror, the artillery accuracy of the artillery battalion immediately rose several levels, after observing the landing point of the first shell, Qiu Disheng personally adjusted the angle and direction of the artillery, and began to issue an order for a comprehensive artillery bombardment.

As the trumpeter blew a sharp whistle, a sharp and high-pitched sound resounded over the artillery battalion, and more than a hundred artillery pieces on the artillery battalion position began to emit a deafening roar, and thick white smoke erupted in large streams, covering the artillery positions in front.

And on the head of Shengjing City, the smiles of the Qing soldiers who were originally loudly laughing at the Ming army's artillery were not good at the end of the year also immediately stiffened, and they watched the countless huge projectiles flying towards them in front of them, and some people were so frightened that their bodies stiffened, and the young men who were pulled up to the city to help defend the city were even more unbearable.

"Ahh

Many young men screamed in fright.

"Boom ......"

A large iron ball weighing more than twenty pounds roared and smashed heavily into a battlement.

As the capital, the Manchurians still attached great importance to the defense of Shengjing, and the city walls were all made of blue bricks and stones, which could be said to be quite strong, but it was still too fragile in the face of artillery, a weapon that existed specifically for destruction.

With a loud bang, the battlements collapsed with a bang, and the few Qing soldiers hiding behind it were buried under the collapsed bricks and stones.

Because the Qing soldiers were in a squatting position to dodge, when the green bricks and stones collapsed, they were crushed into pieces of flesh before they could let out a desperate scream, followed by several muffled noises and wails, and finally a pile of internal organs and blood continued to flow out of the pile of stones.

After these days of shelling, the gunners of the Ming army also realized that when attacking local fixed targets, especially the city wall, the effect of using flowering shells is not very ideal, due to the lack of power, the destructive power of flowering shells on the city walls and solid targets is not as good as solid bullets, so in this shelling the artillery battalion returned to the most primitive solid bullets.

In the face of the attack of one after another, or more than five or six catties, more than ten catties or even more than twenty catties, these seemingly strong city walls had a crumbling feeling, Haorge and Dudu did not dare to stay on the city wall any longer, they ran towards the city wall under the escort of dozens of Goshha and the most elite Bayala soldiers.

As soon as they returned to the Tibetan Soldier Cave, they heard a tremor overhead, a cannonball whistling, a thunderclap-like explosion, heavy iron balls continued to smash on the city wall, the rumbling sound of collapse was endless, the city wall was constantly hit by iron balls, and in some places the blue bricks on the outside of the city wall were destroyed and even exposed the clay inside.

It's okay for these projectiles to hit the clay, but if they hit the stones and the young and strong, it will be an extraordinary disaster, and after the cannonballs hit the hard target, they brought a shower of stones, and the broken stones and broken bricks flew everywhere, and any Qing soldiers who were hit by these green bricks or broken stones were either dead or wounded, screams, exclamations, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall were in a mess, and they didn't know what to do.

Du Du grabbed Haoge's arm and said urgently: "Big brother, hurry up and withdraw all the people, otherwise our people will die before the Ming army comes!" ”

"I know." Hauge didn't talk nonsense, and hurriedly asked the two Goshha to convey the order for the Qing army to quickly withdraw the city wall to avoid artillery bombardment, even at this time, the Jiangning army wanted to attack the city.

After giving the order, Hauge noticed that the guards beside him were all disgraced, and many of them were covered in blood, and they didn't know where they had been hit.

Under the bombardment of the artillery battalion, the entire Shengjing City was full of chickens and dogs, looking at the messy city, Yang Feng nodded slightly, it seems that the opportunity to attack the city has arrived, he just wanted to order the whole army to start attacking, but the walkie-talkie on his waist suddenly rang, Yang Feng pressed the answer button and put it in his ear and listened to a few words, his expression immediately changed slightly, and he adjusted the walkie-talkie to another channel without thinking.

"I am Yang Feng, I order all troops to stop the siege and immediately form a hollow phalanx!"

"What?"

There were several exclamations from the walkie-talkie.

Yang Feng said sharply: "Didn't you hear clearly, all the troops immediately stopped attacking the city and formed a hollow phalanx." ”

"Understood!"

There were a few reluctant voices from the walkie-talkie.

Orders and prohibitions are the most basic requirements of an army, and after an order, the Jiangning army, which was slowly approaching and preparing to attack the city, began to change its formation, and the originally dense array began to become evacuated, and soon formed a hollow phalanx.

"What...... The Jiangning army has changed formations, and it is still a hollow array? ”

Haoge and Du Du, who were still hiding in the hiding cave, looked at each other, and the two of them said almost simultaneously without thinking: "Our reinforcements are here!" ”

Yes, the two of them were right, their reinforcements came, and just a few minutes ago, the remote-controlled plane controlled by Zheng Tuniang and Xianniang spotted a cavalry that was rushing towards Shengjing. There are tens of thousands of cavalry in number, and it is only less than fifty miles away from Shengjing, the second daughter did not dare to slack off and immediately notified Yang Feng, this is the reason why Yang Feng ordered the troops to switch from offensive to defensive, in the face of 10,000 cavalry with strong impact, and use the siege formation to deal with them, they can only find death.

The person who came was the 10,000 cavalry led by Yue Tuo, composed of the Zhenghong Banner and the Red Banner, whose mission was to rush to Shengjing before the Jiangning army broke through Shengjing, and they finally arrived after four days of continuous marching.

As the third son of Dai Shan, although Sakhalian is not famous, he is a very capable person, and he is also deeply valued by Dai Shan and Huang Taiji, otherwise Huang Taiji will not let the task of rushing to Shengjing to him and Yue Tuo this time.

After learning that the reinforcements of the Qing army came, the Jiangning army immediately converted into a hollow phalanx, and the five thousand cavalry were also guarded on both sides of the team, and it was not a simple matter for the troops to change the formation, although with the assistance of walkie-talkies, the commanders of the infantry battalions did not need to issue orders to the thousand generals below through drums, flags, etc., but after more than 20,000 people changed the formation, the 10,000 cavalry led by Yue Tuo and Sakhalian were already less than three miles away from Shengjing, Jiang Ningjun's lookout hand could already clearly see the other party's flag.

"Woo...... Woowoo woo ......"

With the sound of the desolate horn, groups of cavalry, either wearing red armor or red and white armor, began to appear in everyone's sight.

Looking at the cavalry that appeared in the distance, the Qing soldiers on the wall of Shengjing City looked at the reinforcements in the distance, and many people were so excited that they cried loudly......