After six consecutive days of siege battles, Li Laiheng tried everything he could, but they were all defused by the defenders one by one. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The invading army pushed the shield cart and used sandbags to fill the moat, and the artillery and trebuchets at the head of the city bombarded the shield cart, and the shells and stone bullets that were constantly smashed smashed the shield cart to pieces. Sandbags were easily dropped, and the defenders opened the sluice gates and let the water wash away some of the sandbags, making it more difficult for the intruders to fill the river.

The Chuang army used archers and bird gunners to suppress the firepower of the city, but the defenders of the city condescended to shoot arrows, and the defenders were protected by the female wall battlements, and they shot arrows from high to low, and it was much easier to shoot arrows. The attacking archers had to shoot their arrows across the moat more than ten zhang wide, and they also had to shoot arrows on the city wall more than three zhang high, which was very physically demanding for the archers. Although the Bird Gunner did not use much strength, the range of the Bird Gunner who fired the gun to the height was not as good as the archer at the head of the city, and he obviously suffered a great loss in the counter-shooting.

Li Laiheng also had watchtowers and nest cars built, allowing archers and bird gunners to climb high and shoot arrows. The defenders of the city blocked it with shields, piled sandbags at the top of the city, and bombarded the watchtowers and nest carts with artillery.

The Chuang army did not have rifled guns and pulley bows like the Qiongzhou army, and the watchtowers and nest cars had to be within fifty paces to attack the targets at the head of the city. At such a close distance, the artillery of the Wu army defending the city can be said to be accurate by a dozen.

At this time, the Qing army in Hanzhong City had already taken off the banner of the Qing court and replaced it with the flag of the Ming army, but they played the flag of the Wu army. The defenders at the head of the city and the attackers under the city all played the banner of the Ming army, and the Ming army was on both sides, and they started fratricidal battles.

In the rumbling cannon, the nest car and watchtower of the intruding army were broken and collapsed one after another.

The artillery of the invading army was aimed at the head of the city and bombarded it, but the city of Hanzhong was quite strong, and the artillery of the invading army was not powerful enough, and it took half a day of shelling to blast open a small section of the female wall battlement. The Wu army guarding the city immediately blocked the gap with a wooden female wall car and temporarily used it as a battlement. After that, the auxiliaries and the people filled the gap with sturdy bricks and sandbags.

The Wooden Female Wall is a kind of garrison vehicle that can be temporarily used as a battlement to protect the soldiers defending the city.

Li Laiheng had no choice but to let the archers and bird gunners approach, relying on the advantage of numbers, desperately suppressing the firepower of the city. After paying a great price, the invading army barely filled a section of the moat.

Due to the high city walls, the intrusive army could not build a Yuliang Road to attack the city; The moat is deep, and it is impossible to dig tunnels. After filling in a section of the moat, the invasion army could only adopt the method of ant-attached siege and large ladder trucks to attack the city.

Needless to say, the ants attached to the siege of the city, the invasion army did not have the super firepower suppression of the Qiongzhou army, and the soldiers of the ant attachment siege were attacked by the defenders with oil cans, wolf tooth slaps, yaksha slats, car foot slats, lime bottles, tiger squat cannons, grinding stones, and gold juice, and the invading troops who climbed up from the improvised ladder fell to the ground one after another. A raging fire was burning under the city, and the soldiers who were on fire cried and struggled in the fire, some jumped into the moat, and some were burned to death under the city.

The defenders at the head of the city also smashed the improvised ladder with iron against wood, burned molten iron with a furnace and poured it down, sprayed flames into the city with fierce fire oil tanks, and threw them at the city with 10,000 enemies.

The large ladder cart of the invading army approached, and the artillery of the city head bombarded the auxiliary troops who pushed the ladder cart, and fired the ladder cart with rockets. When the ladder truck approached, the city dropped a canister of fire oil and set the ladder truck on fire. Dozens of saber and shield breakers braved the raging flames, jumped from the ladder cart, and climbed to the top of the city.

As a result, the defenders concentrated swordsmen, shields, and pikemen at the head of the city, and the large square shields blocked the way, and the spears, bows and arrows and birds fired at the back, and all the intruders who climbed the city were killed in a short time. The ladder truck, which was easily built by the invasion army, was also burned down soon after.

It took five days to build more than a dozen ladder cars, but within an hour, all of them were destroyed, and the more than 300 elites who climbed the city were all killed in the city.

"Handsome! The main force of Wu Dog has arrived! General Liu is doing his best to stop the enemy! Wu Gou's offensive is very ferocious! The person sent by Liu Tichun reported to Li Laiheng.

At this time, Wu Sangui and the main army had rushed to the area of Yangping Pass.

After Wu Sangui arrived, he immediately launched a fierce attack. Wu Sangui's army opened artillery bombardment on Liu Tichun's defenders, after which Wu Sangui sent infantry to attack from the front. At the same time, Wu Sangui's most elite mountain soldiers, Wu Jun's Qiyi soldiers, made a detour through the mountains and paths, and launched an attack on Liu Tichun's flank.

The soldiers are also a kind of native soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is quite strong, on a par with the wolf soldiers in Guangxi.

Fortunately, Liu Tichun had already taken precautions, and when Wu Sangui's soldiers appeared from the side path, the defenders who had already prepared to break into the camp relied on the terrain to climb the path above the dangerous terrain and cast rolling wooden stones and shoot random arrows.

Although the soldiers were very strong, the terrain was really unfavorable, they were originally preparing for a sneak attack, the sneak attack was unsuccessful, the opponent had already prepared, and as a result, the soldiers were in an unfavorable terrain where they could not fight back in vain, and they could only retreat. No matter how brave a person is, it is impossible for him to survive when he can only be beaten in vain and cannot fight back.

After getting the news of the failure of the sneak attack of the Qiangzi soldiers, Liu Xuanchu suggested to Wu Sangui: "Marshal, now that the Tartars have not been destroyed, we are fighting with the camp, isn't this cheaper Tartars?" In the opinion of the students, we should negotiate peace with the camp, otherwise if our army wants to fight hard, the terrain will be unfavorable and the losses will be very large. ”

Wu Sangui said: "The thief killed the king's father and killed the king's family, how can this revenge not be avenged?" ”

In fact, it was not Wu Sangui who opened the Shanhaiguan Pass first and led the Qing army into the customs, which led to Li Zicheng killing Wu Sangui's father and Wu Sangui's family. It's just that Liu Xuanchu can't say this kind of thing to Wu Sangui.

"Everyone, the thieves are stationed in a dangerous place, what can be done to defeat the thieves in front?" Wu Sangui asked.

Fang Guangchen, another of Wu Sangui's strategists, offered a plan: "We sent the elite to ambush at the foot of the mountain overnight, and hide as close to the enemy as possible." When dawn came, our main force took a detour from the path and emptied the camp. The thieves must think that we will attack in a roundabout way! The thief will divide his troops to defend the path, and we will make a feint during the day to contain the thief in the evening. The elite of the ambush waited until the evening to suddenly attack from the front, and the thieves could be destroyed in one fell swoop! ”

"Brilliant plan! If the camp is empty, Liu Thief will think that we will go all out from the path to the past! It is inevitable that the flanks will be strengthened. In this way, our ambushed soldiers can take the opportunity to attack the thief camp! Wu Sangui touched his beard and smiled.

The Wu army made arrangements, and after nightfall, the Wu army camp was brightly lit, and a large number of Wu soldiers and soldiers were carrying torches, pretending to attack overnight. After that, the Wu army began to feint overnight, so that Liu Tichun transferred troops to defend. A rolling log stone was smashed, and the Wu army retreated, and then launched another feint.