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More than 300 rifled gunners, more than 200 of whom followed the shield cart, and more than 100 rifled gunners with the most accurate marksmanship boarded the watchtower cart. The auxiliaries approached the city wall with their watchcar carts and stopped a hundred and fifty paces away. The rifled gunners on the watchtower were condescending from a hundred and fifty paces away, and they opened fire one after another.

The accuracy and power of the rifled guns are quite large, the rifled gunners are all experienced sharpshooters, almost guns bite the flesh, a few rounds of shooting, the armored men at the head of the city have suffered heavy casualties, and even the full eight banner sharpshooters have been killed and injured a lot.

In addition to rifled gunners, more than 4,000 smoothbore gunners also joined in the shooting, and the roar of muskets came and went, and bullets continued to shoot at the head of the city, causing the Qing soldiers at the head of the city to fall one after another. Although the Qing army's 300 full-length Eight Banner archers can be said to be a hundred steps through the Yang, a hundred shots, but rifled guns in terms of range and accuracy, far more than bows and arrows, some archery skills are very accurate Eight Banner archers with heavy arrows straight shots, shoot down auxiliaries or smoothbore gunners, and in a blink of an eye are killed by rifled gunners.

Seeing the Eight Banner Divine Archers who kept falling around him, Peng Chun was heartbroken: "How is it possible! These are our bravest Manchurian fighters! They have been archery and horseback since childhood, they are the best cavalry when they get on the horse, and they are the best archers when they get off the horse, but they die in the hands of the pseudo-Ming barbarians, which is really sad! ”

The Qing army in Chengtou originally had four Hongyi cannons, but these four cannons were all destroyed in the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, and only more than ten small cannons remained. Those small cannons such as Tiger Squat Cannon and Little General Cannon have a short range and low power, and even the shield car cannot penetrate it. Just now, when the Ming army auxiliary pushed the shield car forward, several small cannons once fired and hit the shield car, not only did it have no effect, but it attracted the retaliation of the Ming artillery, and several small cannons were destroyed.

"The Tartars of the city are suppressed, keep going!" Zheng Xi asked his soldiers to pass the order.

In the formation of the Ming army, a behemoth rose into the air, rose to a height of 100 zhang, and hovered in the air.

Suddenly seeing a behemoth appear in the sky, whether it was the Eight Banners in Ningguta City, or the armored people, or the Korean Ahha, they were all so frightened that they knelt on the ground and prayed to the sky. Especially the armoured people, everyone chanted words and prayed to the shaman god who had descended into the earth.

"Hurry up! Don't worship! Peng Chun's personal soldiers shouted, "That's not the shaman god, that's the Kong Ming lantern of the Han barbarian!" It's a large Kong Ming lantern! ”

Zheng Xi did not let the hot air balloon rise for reconnaissance before, because the climate was relatively harsh, the visibility was not high, and the wind and snow were heavy. Now that the weather was clear, he immediately ordered the hot air balloon to be lifted into the air.

The hot air balloon rises into the air and scouts the city.

The shield cart slowly advanced up to the city, and the armored man at the head of the city and the Korean Aha shot arrows desperately, but the feather arrows could not penetrate the front of the shield cart at all, and the hanging arrows were tied to the canvas at the top like rain, and the outer canvas was shot like a hedgehog, and the feather arrows kept falling. The closer you get to the city, the louder the sound of arrows falling on the canvas. Park Jimin secretly prayed in his heart: God bless! Blessed by the shaman! Bodhisattva bless! Don't die here!

However, the anti-arrow curtain is very strong, the outer curtain is sparsely shot by random arrows, and there is a layer of cloth curtain inside to block it, except for a few auxiliary soldiers who were unfortunately killed, most of them are safe and sound.

Approaching the city wall, Park Jimin took down a sack full of broken ice from the shield cart and was about to walk forward, but heard the sound of feather arrows and various weapons defending the city hitting the shield cart, and Park Jimin was too frightened to take a step. At this moment, someone from behind shouted: "If you don't retreat, cut off!" ”

Park Jimin was so frightened that he gritted his teeth, turned his heart sideways, picked up the sack and rushed out quickly. Leaving the shield cart, he quickly threw away the sack and immediately turned around and fled back behind the shield cart.

The frightened Park Jimin only heard a few heart-rending screams around him, he turned his head to look, and saw that several companions who had not had time to run back were either shot through the back by feather arrows or hit by the large ice blocks smashed down by the city.

The Ming army used ice to create siege weapons, and in the same way, the Qing army also used ice to create siege weapons. After all, there are only a few stones in the city, not a lot, and the Eight Banners and the Armored Men are not good at making reusable weapons to defend the city, such as yaksha rings and wolf tooth swatters, so they mainly rely on stones to defend the city. In the winter, ice cubes are made to be used as stones.

Feathered arrows shot from the head of the city were mixed with ice, and many of the auxiliaries were hit by arrows or were hit by ice.

The musketeers of the Ming army all pressed up, thousands of muskets roared in turn, and the defenders of the city continued to be shot and fell. Under the cover of the musketeers, the auxiliaries accelerated their operations. Sackbags filled with crushed ice were constantly thrown out by the auxiliaries and gradually piled up on the ground.

Park Zhimin's shield cart was pushed back, and after going back, he found that the anti-arrow canvas on the top of the shield cart was densely packed with hundreds of feather arrows, and the outer canvas was already sparse and completely unusable, completely relying on the inner canvas to block the light arrows thrown by the Qing army in the city.

After the Ming army changed the canvas, Park Jimin once again pushed the shield cart with his companions and pushed it towards Ningguta City. Because more than 100 Korean auxiliaries had just been killed, Zheng Xi pulled up a group of Buryat Mongols who had been captured before and asked them to act as auxiliaries to assist the Korean captives in pushing the shield cart to attack the city.

The Buryat Mongols were the first Mongols to defect to the Russians, and Zheng Xi used these people as cannon fodder, just as he used the Koreans as cannon fodder, without any guilt.

As the shield carts advanced, the artillery of the Ming army continued to bombard the city walls. The auxiliaries arrived at the city with shield carts and dropped sacks filled with crushed ice. As the shield carts traveled back and forth, the sacks piled up higher and higher under the walls.

"Listen to the sound of the barbarian throwing the sack, it seems that it is not sand, but ice! As long as we drop the canister of fire oil and ignite it with a rocket, we can melt the ice. The leader of the Eight Banners offered advice to Peng Chun.

"Burning ice cubes in a canister?" Peng Chun was stunned, "How much oil does this need to burn?" What if the oil runs out and the barbarian's ladder comes up? ”

In the end, Peng Chun still gave up the method of throwing oil cans to melt the ice, after all, there was not much fire oil in Ningguta City, but the ice outside the city was inexhaustible, and it was not a good deal to use fire oil to burn the ice.

In winter, it gets dark early in the Northeast, and it gets dark before the first hour in the afternoon, that is, before five o'clock.

"When it gets completely dark, send death squads out of the city and burn the ice that the barbarians have piled up with firewood." Peng Chun ordered.