Another day of siege battle is over, this day of siege battle, the loyal battalion again suffered heavy casualties, the frontal attack of Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun troops paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, the four large ladder cars on the top were all burned, and the more than 300 elite troops who climbed the top of the city were annihilated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Having learned the lesson of yesterday, Li Laiheng was reluctant to let the elite blue-armored veteran battalion soldiers enter the city, and only let some of the original Ming troops wearing mandarin duck battle jackets come to the city. Although these soldiers are surrendered soldiers, they can be regarded as elite veterans. As a result, after these soldiers reached the top of the city, the end was the same, and they were all killed.

Hao Shaoqi's troops who attacked the city from the west also suffered heavy losses, with more than 1,700 auxiliary soldiers and soldiers losing more than 600 people.

In Wang Jinbao's mansion in the city, the generals and magistrates of the Ganshan Green Battalion congratulated Wang Jinbao one after another: "Congratulations, sir! The thieves attacked the city today, and they suffered heavy losses! If the thieves attack for another ten days, I am afraid that all of them will die! ”

Wang Jinbao laughed and said: "Although Baoji is a small city, it is a strategic place!" If the thieves want to attack this city, I am afraid that they will not even want to take it even if they die fifty or sixty thousand! But we can't take it lightly! Beware of thieves digging tunnels to attack the city! ”

In the city, along the city wall, the Qing soldiers buried a large number of earthen jars, and there was a group of blind people with excellent hearing who were responsible for listening to the sounds. Several large pools were also dug in the city, and as long as the loyal battalion was found digging tunnels, the Qing army could dig a tunnel in the direction of the excavation tunnel and pour water into it.

"This dog Niang's Tartar is really stubborn in resistance!" After dark, Hao Shaoqi returned to the camp and scolded.

Liu Tichun was also depressed, and most of the losses in today's battle were his soldiers.

"Baoji City is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, we have used all the methods, but we still can't attack it, you tell me, how are we going to attack the city?" Lee Rae-hyung asked.

Hao Shaoqi made a suggestion: "Dig a tunnel!" Isn't it that the Qiongzhou Army has a new type of gunpowder? It's bound to blow up the city! Otherwise, if you continue to fight like this, it won't take seven or eight days, and Lao Tzu's people will be gone! ”

"Digging tunnels to attack the city, I'm afraid that Wang Jinbao, a dog thief, has already prepared!" Li Laiheng shook his head and said.

Chen Shuigen suggested: "There is a new type of gunpowder here, there is no need to dig tunnels, just dig a few holes in the city wall to blow up the city wall!" It was only difficult for soldiers with gunpowder to approach the city wall, and when the oil cans on the city were smashed down, the gunpowder was ignited, and it was impossible to approach the city wall at all. ”

"Capture people and attack the city!" Hao Shaoqi slapped the table violently, "Go around and arrest people!" Grab more people to attack the city! Drain the Tartar's oil canister and you'll be able to go up and blow up the walls! ”

"Yes!" The generals of the Loyal Battalion chimed in, "How did we attack the city before? What siege weapons are there? Isn't it about attacking a city and taking one? ”

"Coercing the people, outcasts attacking the city?" Chen Shuigen was taken aback, "We are waiting for the army to rise against the Qing Dynasty, to rescue the people from the Tartar butcher's knife, you are holding the people hostage, this is not appropriate!" ”

Hao Shaoqi laughed: "What's wrong? Didn't we capture the city like this back then? Now we have accepted the Ming court's recruitment, pulled up the banner of anti-Qing Dynasty, and attacked the Tartar city, if these people are killed, they are also my Ming martyrs! If you don't use this plan, how to capture Baoji City? ”

After all, Chen Shuigen's position was too low, and their Qiongzhou army only came to cooperate with the camp, and since he couldn't convince the people who broke into the camp, he didn't dissuade him again, but wrote a letter and asked people to send it to Nanjing.

Early the next morning, the loyal battalion sent cavalry to capture people in the villages outside Baoji City and in the nearby mountain villages. After five days, many people were arrested in the loyal camp.

Five days later, Baoji City. Wang Jinbao and a group of generals stood at the head of the city. In the past few days, the loyal battalion has temporarily stopped attacking the city, but Wang Jinbao did not feel the pressure lessen, because the loyal battalion did not withdraw its troops. As long as the army is not withdrawn, it must be thinking of other ways to attack the city, Wang Jinbao did not dare to take it lightly, the first thing that came to mind was whether the Ming army would dig tunnels to attack the city, he ordered, let people listen to the clay cylinder for twelve hours a day, so as not to dig the tunnels of the Ming army.

"My lord! Look over there! Suddenly, a general shouted in the direction of the Loyal Battalion in front of him.

Wang Jinbao looked in the direction of the general's finger, and saw that in the direction of the loyal battalion, a group of loyal battalion soldiers escorted a large group of ragged people into the camp.

"The thieves will attack the city with the people!" Wang Jinbao was taken aback.

Speaking of which, Wang Jinbao is also a ruthless person, he doesn't care how many innocent people he kills in the city defense battle, he is just worried that the loyal battalion uses the method of coercing the people to attack the city to consume their own city defense weapons and people's strength, if the loyal battalion captures hundreds of thousands of people to attack the city, then Baoji City may really not be able to hold it!

Just imagine, crowds of ordinary people pressed up, and the defenders at the head of the city fought or not? If you fight, you will consume feather arrows, ammunition, oil cans, and stones, and even reusable weapons such as the Yaksha and Yaksha will be consumed in defensive battles, and the fallen Yaksha and Yaksha may not be recovered, and the ropes may be cut by someone. Oil canisters and feather arrows are even more valuable, and it is difficult to replenish them when they are consumed.

What's more, when the displaced people are attacking the city, the veterans of the loyal battalion can hide behind and use various long-range firepower to hit the defenders at the head of the city, causing great casualties to the defenders. And the defenders can only waste their precious weapons to defend the city on the common people.

"If the outcasts come up, fight them! If you can keep one more day, you can keep one more day, and Wang is worthy of the court! Wang Jinbao gritted his teeth and said.

In the past few days, the loyal battalion has given full play to the methods they used to use when they were thieves, and has continuously looted the surrounding villages, robbing all the food and goods everywhere they go, leaving not a single grain of rice for the common people, and then coercing the common people to join the army of displaced people. The common people, who had lost all their food, had no choice but to follow the loyalty camp. When the people entered the camp, the camp took out a small amount of grain and boiled it into porridge for them to feed their stomachs, so that they would not starve to death.

The old method of coercing the people was adopted, and the ranks of the loyal battalion expanded rapidly like a snowball, and the surrounding bandits and bandits also came to defect.

The people who entered the camp, Li Laiheng, they did not let the people idle, but ordered them to cut down trees. Some people assisted auxiliaries and craftsmen in crafting siege weapons, while others sewed sandbags.

There were so many displaced people who were held hostage without weapons, but the Loyalty Battalion had a solution, and they had the people sharpen the wood and bamboo they had cut down and make improvised spears.

Seeing that there were more and more people being coerced outside the city, Wang Jinbao had a bad premonition.