Shangyuntai Pavilion or something, it's still relatively ethereal, but these officials and generals in Ningyu and Ningyu do have some spiritual pillars. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

People, I'm afraid that my spirit will collapse.

It will definitely not work without a spiritual pillar.

In fact, the situation was much better at this time than at the beginning, when there was chaos and people were panicking, now the food does not need to be considered for the time being, and the connection with the south has been established, the emperor has also fought a series of victories, even the most terrible Manchurian iron horse, the emperor has beaten his head all over the city wall, and Taizu also gave food and magic medicine from heaven......

Especially the latter.

This has a huge impact on the morale of the army, even if it was slightly injured in the past, there is a large part of it may be fatal, if you do a surgical amputation, it is basically not to mention the death penalty, you must know that even in the nineteenth century when the Franco-Prussian War, 13,000 amputated French wounded, the final result was 10,000 deaths, but since there is Taizu's miracle medicine, the mortality rate of wounded soldiers has plummeted, and the most terrible septic blood has basically been eliminated.

Don't underestimate this.

The change in this ratio minimizes the fear of the soldiers, and for an army in the feudal era, the courage of soldiers to fight can almost be equated with victory.

In such an era, don't think that there is really any invincible elite, this is actually a worse era, let the volunteers replace the big sword and spear like grinding the eight banners, purely from the soldiers themselves no one has an overwhelming advantage over whom, if you talk about physical fitness, the gap between the Ming army and the Qing army, can there be a big gap between the volunteers and the US army? The Eight Banners are indeed strong, but they are not so strong that when they are desperate, one Eight Banners fights several Ming troops, in fact, it is really desperate for two Ming troops to kill one Eight Banners without pressure, in the era of cold weapons, it is the courage and will of the soldiers. The Yue family army, which shook the mountain and shook the Yue family's army, was not much stronger than other Song armies, they were all heavy infantry, they were all the same training and the same race, but the Yue family's army was strong with a will, and everything that was in these years was nothing.

Courage is the most important thing.

And the current Ming army, at least the 10,000 people in Ningyuan, really has no shortage of courage and will, which even those officials and gentry know.

In other words, Ning Yuan can hold on.

You must know that even before, the Qing army had never captured Ningyuan, let alone the current situation.

As for Shanhaiguan......

Think of the hapless Wei Shoufu.

That is, if you can't hold it, you have to hold it!

In short, after being convinced that the emperor could not be coaxed away, the entire civil and military generals who were on the line were afraid of Li Zicheng, the trust in the emperor, the expectation of Yuntai Pavilion, and the illusion of reinforcements from the south.

Of course, they don't have much time left!

April 20.

The main force of the Qing army reached Ningyuan.

"This is the first batch!"

On the Weiyuan Gate, Yang Feng crossed Erlang's legs and looked at the Qing army walking in the distance and said.

"Your Majesty, this is already the twelfth batch, and with this batch, the number of Tartars has exceeded 30,000."

Wang Chengen said.

"Humph!"

Yang Feng snorted very casually, then picked up the knife on the table in front of him, inserted a piece of raw meat in a large copper basin, put it in his mouth and chewed it bloodily.

Now that the war is coming, his nutrition is indispensable, this is a tiger he ran out to hunt nearby yesterday, poor this Siberian tiger in the mountains and forests that can be regarded as a king and hegemon, but he was beaten by a fist and bled to death, and then a body of tiger meat became a good thing for him to tonic, as for the problem of eating raw, this, the legendary fierce people are not all good at this mouthful! Anyway, the soldiers around him looked at the dead tiger head on his table, and then looked at the pot of raw tiger meat in front of him, it was the same as watching the brainless fans of idols.

Anyway, this is called momentum!

Eating too much this year is called swallowing mountains and rivers!

It's not like shelving the future generations can only be called rice buckets!

"What's that called!"

Yang Feng pointed to a tall wooden shelf in the Qing army and said.

"Your Majesty, that's a ladder, what they're carrying is a flying ladder, the former can be folded and erected, and it can be built directly on the city wall for people to climb, and people can also stand on the car, and shoot at the city wall from behind the guard, this time the Tartar is well prepared, and I don't want to come as hastily as last time."

Li Yutian said.

"That's it!"

Yang Feng pointed to another one and said.

"It's used to rush the car, hit the city gate, if you keep crashing, you can also crash the city wall, but after you have a cannon, this thing is rarely used, and the Tartars are afraid that they are also worried that Your Majesty's divine cannon will destroy their cannon, so they simply bring this."

Li Yutian said.

"Why aren't there trebuchets?"

Yang Feng then said.

"Your Majesty said with a smile, who still uses that if there is a red-clothed cannon, and that thing will not be able to hit a mile away, and it is extremely cumbersome, and when it is pushed to the battlefield, it is enough for the red-clothed cannon to smash it several times, since there is this cannon, those siege weapons in the ancient books in the past are basically gone, even if it is something like the Lu bus, it is impossible to push it to the city wall under the bombardment of the red-clothed cannon."

Li Yutian said.

"A pile of garbage!"

Yang Feng said disdainfully.

Of course, he can only say this, no matter whether the siege weapons of the Qing army are garbage or not, the 30,000 troops that have arrived around Ning Yuan are real, just looking at the seemingly boundless banner in the air, with a huge sense of oppression. This time, because the Qing army had enough troops, it didn't play any fancy games with him, and directly blocked the north and east sides, and the 30,000 army with a large number of siege weapons, including forty red-coated cannons, lined up one kilometer away from Ningyuan, as for the south and west directions, there were Ningyuan River blocks, and the distance between the river bank and the city wall was too short to line up in these two directions.

Among them, facing Weiyuan Gate is the main attack surface, and there is also a small river blocking in the direction of Chunhe Gate, although it does not hinder the attack, but it is difficult for large siege equipment to move, only the direction of Weiyuan Gate is the most convenient to attack.

"Is that Dolgon?"

Yang Feng looked at the direction of Shoushan and said.

On one of the slopes of the first mountain, you can see a striking yellow crank cover, which is obviously Dorgon, although he is not the emperor, but it seems that when he goes on the expedition, he does not know whether it is a son or a nephew, and usually gives him a guard of honor for the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty, please forgive the minister's lack of eyesight!"

Li Yutian said.

Well, it's three kilometers away, so how can he see it here?

"Let's go, say hello to him!"

Yang Feng said with great interest.

Then he got up, mounted his horse, and went straight to the northeast corner of the city as fast as he could.

There is a watchtower similar to a fortress, on which there are four red-clothed cannons, which are now captured in Ningyuan City, plus a total of thirty-two cannons removed from the Huang Fei warship, of which twenty-four are counted as red-clothed cannons, and the remaining eight are relatively small, in addition to thirty Furlong cannons, and the cannonballs and gunpowder are very sufficient, thanks to Huang Fei's warships, he dismantled all the naval guns and left, so Ning Yuan is also quite strong in terms of cannons.

"Your Majesty, the red-coated cannon can't reach there!"

Li Yutian panted and followed, then took a brass telescope that he didn't know who to borrow, looked at the yellow crank cover at least five miles away, and said.

"Enough is able to arrive."

A Du Si next to him said: "But you have to aim at Your Majesty's magic cannon personally." ”

"I'm fine, but I can't stand this thing, it's too big!"

Yang Feng said lying on a cannon.

"At such a distance, the probability of hitting will not exceed one-tenth, the gap between the shell and the inner wall of the barrel of this old-fashioned smoothbore gun is too large, and the inner wall is not smooth enough, and the shell itself is not cast standard enough, accuracy can be guaranteed within five hundred meters, and no matter how far it is, it is not possible to solve the problem of aiming, and the maximum launch angle can indeed hit two thousand six hundred meters, but only God knows where the shell will fall."

Xiao Qian said in his mind.

"Then concentrate the artillery."

Yang Feng said.

In addition to the four here, there are six more on the Weiyuan Gate, and four more on the Chunhe Gate, these cannons all have mobile gun mounts, and soon after receiving his order, these ten cannons were all transferred over, together with the original total of fourteen cannons, all pointed in the direction of Shoushan. Then Yang Feng began to lie on the cannon and aim carefully, under his command, those soldiers quickly adjusted the angle and elevation angle, by the way, Yang Feng also taught them this modern artillery aiming method, of course, it is basically a chicken and a duck, these soldiers don't even know how to understand parabolic calculations.

Instead, Li Yutian took a small stone and scratched it around behind him, like a scientist.

The aim of the fourteen cardinal cannons was quickly completed, and the center of all the muzzles was precisely aimed at Dolgon's yellow crank cover, as to whether it was Dolgon......

Yang Feng's eyesight is not so strong.

What he could see was that there were a lot of Qing officers gathered there, and a large part of them were white armor, even if it wasn't Dolgon himself, it was also the supreme headquarters of the Qing army on the battlefield, and their banners were there, and there were constantly waving flags, and the 30,000 Qing troops on all sides of Ningyuan were arrayed according to the orders transmitted by these flags, and this Jingxu and the yellow crank cover below were also the spiritual pillars of all the Qing troops on the battlefield, even if they couldn't beat Dolgon, defeating this thing would also be a serious blow to the morale of the Qing army.

"Ready!"

Yang Feng roared.

All gunners picked up the ignition lever and aimed the burning fire rope at the ignition hole.

Yang Feng stood behind the fourteen cannons, staring at the Jingxu in the distance and the yellow crank cover below, and then waved his hand and shouted, "Fire!" ”

The burning fire ropes on the fourteen ignition rods entered the fourteen ignition holes almost at the same time, and suddenly the fourteen cannons with the smoke spewed out of the ignition holes, like fourteen monsters, fiercely fell backwards in the earth-shattering loud noise, and at the same time the blazing flames erupted from the muzzles, and the fourteen cannonballs rushed straight to the target with a whistle that broke through the air.