From a distance of 400 steps to 1,000 steps, the Ming army's 76 guns of various calibers were violently vibrated according to the echelons, the muzzles of the guns spewed out tongues of fire in turn, and the whistling flowering shells smashed on the city wall, raising a ball of fire, and the rising columns of white smoke soared straight into the sky in different postures. The city head of the city was in shambles, and although the city walls were splashed with water and covered with a layer of hard ice, the Qing troops at the head of the city could not withstand such shelling, and the Qing soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Even the Russian army suffered casualties, and a Russian artillery position was destroyed.

"Fire!" The officers of the Russian artillery let out a hoarse roar.

The remaining five Russian artillery pieces on the front roared, and the shells smashed into the Ming artillery positions. However, the Russian artillery is too small, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun itself is not high, and the Ming army has piled up snow to protect the artillery position, and the Russian army only has solid shells, smashed in the snow, which did not have much effect.

The counterattack of the Russian army was immediately suppressed by the fierce fire of the Ming army, and the Ming army concentrated more than ten artillery pieces to bombard one Russian artillery, even if the smoothbore artillery was not so high, but more than ten guns concentrated on bombarding one artillery, or all five Russian artillery pieces were destroyed within a few rounds of shelling.

"Well fought, the Rakshasa artillery is all over!" Zheng Xun shouted excitedly.

The Russian army has other artillery, but under the fierce fire suppression of the Ming army, the Russian artillery cannot be moved at all.

Prince Gong Aixin Jueluo Changning stood in the fortress and observed the formation of the Ming army. He found a problem, so he turned to Hetuo beside him and said, "General Hetuo, you can see that although the artillery fire of Minggou is fierce, their infantry formation is very thin, they only have only 5,000 infantry, and there are no pikemen. If we go out of the city to attack the Minggou artillery team, there are 5,000 iron cavalry and 8,000 infantry out of the city, braving the Minggou artillery bombardment and sacrificing hundreds of people, we will definitely be able to defeat the Minggou infantry in one fell swoop. ”

He Tuo picked up the binoculars and looked at the infantry guarding the two flanks of the artillery position of the Ming army, because the distance between the front and rear of the artillery position of the Ming army was more than 500 paces, and the infantry of the Ming army had only 5,000 people in total, scattered on the front of 500 steps, and could only stand in two very thin rows.

"Minggou is too big, right? Just two rows of infantry, can you resist the impact of our iron cavalry and infantry? "And Tuodao.

Nuomin, the son of Tuhai, said: "Don't underestimate the enemy! Although the enemy's infantry is thin, they have a trench to stop our Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, who knows if there is a stumbling rope in front of the trench? I heard that the tripping rope made of a kind of wire of the dog was extremely poisonous, and the wire was covered with barbs, and the war horse crashed into it, and even the man and the horse hung on it. If you rush hard, I don't know how many Eight Banners Iron Riders you will lose! Now there are only so many flag-bearers left, and they can't be sacrificed easily! ”

Chang Ning sneered: "What are we doing with more than 20,000 coated infantry? Let them come out and break the Dog Infantry! When they break through the barbed wire formation of the Ming Dog infantry and rush into the trench, their formation will inevitably collapse! We'll chase them down with cavalry! ”

"But the father didn't let the child send troops, so we couldn't hold out." Nuo Min said embarrassedly.

Chang Ning snorted: "Is it just a turtle with a shrunken head and beaten here for nothing?" This king said that he would send troops, and if something happened, this king will bear the blame! The Ming Dog's formation is weak, if we don't seize the opportunity to attack, when they break through the city wall and the infantry attack the city, our cavalry will be useless! As for the coated infantry, hum! Those minions don't feel distressed when they die, it's a big deal to arrest people again. ”

"That's right! We rushed out, we can't afford to be shot here in vain! "And Tuodao.

"Hetuo, let's immediately order the 5,000 cavalry of the headquarters, and then take 10,000 clothes out of the city! Go out of the city from the west, come in a circle, and don't go to the front to charge the dog's artillery position. Chang Ning ordered.

"Wow!" And Toto knelt on the ground and hit a thousand.

Seeing that Chang Ning couldn't be dissuaded, Nuo Min had no choice but to leave the fortress. Nomin got out of the castle and hurried to the prime minister's yamen, ready to report the matter to his father. He had just walked into the Prime Minister's Yamen, but he heard that Tuhai was not there.

"Has anyone seen my father?" Nomin pulled over a soldier and asked.

"Back to Lord Nomin, the scholar has entered the palace." The Eight Banners replied.

Nomin didn't dare to stop for a single step, and went straight to the palace in a hurry. A guard at the gate of the palace stopped him, and Nuo Min showed his waist card and shouted anxiously: "Let me enter the palace quickly!" There is something important to report to the emperor! ”

"No one is allowed to enter the palace without being summoned by the emperor! If the son wants to enter the palace, he will be humiliated. The guards at the gate stuck to their duties, stopping Nuo Min while sending someone into the palace to report it.

This back and forth dragged on for a lot of time. At this time, Chang Ning and He Tuo had already ordered the west gate to be opened, and 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 clothed infantry marched out of the city from the west gate, which was not attacked by the Ming army, ran on the snow, and detoured up to the flank of the Ming army.

"Report to the commander, the Tartars have gone out of the city to fight back! About 15,000 people came, including 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry. "A sniper who was serving as a sentry mounted came back to report to Zheng.

Zheng Xi laughed: "Great! The clan is waiting for the Tartars to leave the city! No matter how many Tartars come, they will never want to break through our defenses! Show the Tartars how good we are today! ”

Although the Ming army only had 5,000 infantry, all of them were rifled gunners, including 3,000 mini rifles, 1,000 breech-loading rifles, 100 mini sniper rifles, 300 high-powered mini rifles, and knife men equipped with six-wheeled pistols. Coupled with the trenches dug in the position, a barbed wire fence arranged in front of the trenches, and artillery, it can be said that the Qing army did not want to break through the seemingly thin defense line at all.

Xiao Gongchen stood in front of two bangbang guns and a bangbang cannon arranged on the left flank, these three big killers were covered with canvas and were still placed on the sled, and Cao Lei, who was the shooter, stood behind a bangbang cannon, with a loader and two ammunition handlers by his side. This thump cannon has a fast rate of fire and is extremely powerful.

Wu Bin and Zhao Peng stood behind a bang-bang gun, a hand-cranked, four-barreled machine gun with two platoons of twenty-round metal cartridges inserted above the bolt, one platoon feeding the two barrels. This gun requires two loaders to ensure the continuity of fire.

The Qing army had already left the city and stood five hundred paces away from the left flank of the Ming position.

"Look, that's Minggou's position! Let 10,000 coated infantry go up first, we will wait for the opportunity, and when the coated infantry sticks up, we will outflank it from both flanks, and we will be able to break the formation in one fell swoop! Hetuo pointed to the Ming army's position five hundred paces away.

On the position of the Ming army, the gunners turned their muzzles one after another, aiming in the direction in which the Qing army appeared. Under the orders of the artillery commander, the gunners loaded the flowering shells, waited for the Qing troops to approach, and immediately ignited the artillery.