The artillery fire of the Qing army defending the city was still very fierce, and the advancing shield carts were constantly hit, but these well-built shield carts were strong, and they were hit by a cannonball from the general cannon and the Franco machine cannon, and the shield carts were not destroyed, and there were at most a few casualties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info accidentally a shell fired by the Hongyi cannon hit the shield car, even if it was a double-layer wooden board and wet felt, it still could not withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery shells, the bombed shield car was immediately torn apart, the broken wooden plank was like shrapnel, and the auxiliary soldiers of the cart behind it overturned a large area, and the shield cart that was shot overturned in the middle of the road, and the sacks on the car were scattered all over the ground.

After all, the Qing army only had more than a dozen Hongyi cannons, and the accuracy of this kind of cannon at a distance of 500 steps was not so high, when the auxiliary soldiers advanced the shield cart to the obstacle, only two shield carts were destroyed by the Hongyi cannon.

There are a lot of shield cars that have been hit by the Fran cannon and the general's cannon, but there are very few shield cars that can be hit by two shells in succession, this kind of shield car that can withstand the impact of a cannonball, the survival rate is obviously much higher than that of those shield cars that were killed by one cannon, the vitality is doubled, and the survival rate is not doubled, but increased more than ten times! Because the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is not high, the probability of being hit once is very high, and the probability of being hit twice in a row is much lower.

"I didn't expect the thief's shield car to be built so strongly! If you can't destroy it with one shot, it's much harder to hit it again! A Qing guerrilla said dumbfounded.

Wang Jinbao said disapprenously: "After the puppet Ming auxiliary soldiers arrive close to the wooden stake, can they still push the shield cart forward?" They had to stop in front of the stakes, chop the stakes, and remove the big rocks, and then they had no shield to protect them, and we fired a few rounds of shells over, and how many people they had to die! ”

The auxiliaries pushed the shield cart and arrived at the obstacle set up by the Qing army. To Wang Jinbao's disappointment, the auxiliary soldiers did not swing their swords and axes to chop the wooden stake and deer, but removed bags of sandbags from the shield cart and threw them directly between the stake and the deer.

"Minggou wants to raise the outside!" Wang Jinbao finally understood what the Ming army was going to do.

"The general doesn't have to worry! The wooden stakes outside the city were more than a foot above the ground, and the thieves could not pass over the wooden stakes unless they piled up more than a foot of dirt! How long do they fill that high! Not a month! Baoji Zhixian said.

The Ming army auxiliaries kept removing sandbags from the shield carts and throwing them between the stakes and the deer, raising the ground. As long as the sandbags keep being thrown, sooner or later they will be higher than the wooden stakes. The artillery of the Qing army at the head of the city continued to spit out fire, and from time to time the Ming army auxiliaries were hit by shells, and even people with sandbags fell between the wooden stakes.

There was also an auxiliary soldier holding a sandbag who was hit by a cannonball, and the huge impact carried the person and the sandbag upside down. Although the sandbags blocked the shells, the powerful impact caused the auxiliary to burst his internal organs, fly upside down, and fall to the ground, a large mouthful of blood coming out of his mouth, and the auxiliary soon stopped breathing.

No one cared about the corpses of the auxiliaries who died under the stakes, and the auxiliaries behind followed up, holding the sandbags and throwing them down, burying the corpses in front along with the sandbags below.

The Loyal Battalion was busy all day, losing more than 30 shield carts and casualties more than 500 auxiliary soldiers, and only advanced two steps forward to the area where the cushion was raised.

The stake obstacle area is still four hundred steps away from the moat, and if it continues at this pace, it will not be possible to advance to the moat for two hundred days. The closer you get to the walls, the more accurate the artillery fire at the head of the castle becomes, and the more difficult it becomes to get shot by muskets and bows from the head of the city if you get close to the moat.

When it got dark, Wang Jinbao looked at the retreating Ming army, and said with a sneer: "The thieves are making such progress, don't even think about capturing my Baoji City for a year!" ”

But Wang Jinbao soon found that he had misjudged, and in the daytime siege battle, the Ming army auxiliaries, craftsmen and people behind built more than 200 shield carts. After dark, the Ming army auxiliaries worked all night, taking advantage of the cover of night, pushing shield carts to fill in the outer obstacles.

"Report to your lord! The thieves built Yuliang Road overnight! It was dark and we couldn't aim and fire! A personal soldier reported the situation to Wang Jinbao, who had just returned to the mansion and was about to rest.

Wang Jinbao got up from the bed and climbed to the top of the city to check the situation, but the sky was dark, there was only a crescent moon in the sky, and the visibility was not high. If the order is given to open fire, gunpowder and shells will only be wasted.

"It's really strange that the thieves didn't make torches, and the thieves' mud legs can see clearly at night?" Wang Jinbao felt very strange.

Most of the poor people in those days had night blindness and could not see at night. In Wang Jinbao's impression, the auxiliary soldiers must be composed of poor people, and poor people who do not have polished rice and white noodles and big fish and meat to eat cannot see clearly at night. But Wang Jinbao didn't know at all that the auxiliary soldiers who did not light torches and worked overnight were not the auxiliary soldiers who broke into the camp, but the auxiliary soldiers who belonged to the Qiongzhou Army. The auxiliary soldiers who have improved their lives naturally do not have night blindness, and they can work with a little moonlight.

"General, the thieves moved overnight, we might as well go out of the city and attack them!" A Qing army commander proposed.

Wang Jinbao thought for a moment, nodded and agreed: "Send a thousand horse teams to rush them!" ”

In the darkness, the Laiyuan Gate to the west of Baoji City slowly opened, and the Qing army horse team went out of the city. All the Qing soldiers held cotton cloth on their horses' hooves, tied ropes around their horses' mouths, took off their horse bells, and the cavalrymen bit the pins in their mouths to avoid making a sound. According to Wang Jinbao's plan, the Qing army's horse team first took advantage of the night to march slowly, approached a hundred steps away from the Ming army, and then suddenly lit torches and charged on horses, which could rush and kill a group of Ming army auxiliaries.

At night, the light is weak, and it is not clear to see the road without torches, but the cavalry walks slowly, which does not have much effect, and only needs to light the torches when charging.

But as soon as the Qing cavalry left the city, the Ming army secret post ambushed outside the city gate discovered the Qing army leaving the city. The Ming army had hidden posts in ambush outside the three gates of Baoji to observe the movements of the Qing army, so as to prevent the Qing army from going out of the city at night to counterattack.

"The Tartars are coming up! Get ready for the battle! Li Laiheng gave the order.

In night battles, the role of firearms decreases, and the best way to deal with cavalry charges is cavalry. There were still a lot of cavalry in the loyal battalion, but Li Laiheng did not plan to use cavalry to deal with the cavalry of the Qing army, but secretly replaced the Ming army auxiliaries who were working, but the shield car was not replaced. After that, Li Laiheng sent a group of pikemen and archers up, the archers hid behind the shield carts, and the pikemen formed a formation to meet the incoming Qing cavalry.