At the end of the day, the rumbling drums sounded, and the Houjin Tartars were ready to begin the siege.

A dense rain of arrows rushed towards the city wall, and only the whistling arrow feathers could be seen in the sky, even blocking the sunlight, and some bows and arrows were shot into the city wall, and the arrow feathers trembled and buzzed, which showed the power of these bows and arrows.

The soldiers of the Jiangning battalion on the city wall, few of them were shot by the rain of arrows, and they had already prepared shields to resist the rain of arrows, however, many soldiers were still a little strange, why the red-clothed cannons and general cannons on the city wall had not yet been fired, and it was said that these cannons would give the Houjin Tartars a heavy blow.

Five minutes later, a loud shout appeared, and the Golden Tartar began to shout and rushed towards Dalinghe City.

The rain of arrows is still maintained, this is the consistent siege tactics of the Houjin Eight Banners, using the rain of arrows to suppress the soldiers defending the city, in addition, they don't have many good ways, the vast majority of the cavalry led by Dolgon are cavalry, only a small number of foot soldiers, the siege is the weakness of the cavalry, but also the weakness of the Houjin, but this time, the situation is better, among the soldiers led by Dolgon, there is a large part of the Han Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners siege is still good, at this time to attack, the main ones are the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners.

Dolgon's Chinese military tent is about five miles away from the Daling River city wall, although this distance is within the theoretical range of the red-coated cannon and the general's cannon, but the artillery of this era is not so high in the crosshairs, even if Bi Maokang and others carefully study, it can only ensure that within the range of four miles, it can accurately hit the target.

The soldiers on the city wall looked at the charging Houjin Tartars, silently calculating the distance to see when they would be within range of the flintlock muskets, and at that time, I am afraid that it would be time to fire.

Just the sergeant of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. When he was trying to charge forward, the gate of Dalinghe City suddenly opened, and the cavalry of the Jiangning battalion wearing silver armor rushed out.

The charging team was suddenly a little chaotic. The soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who rushed to the front, were only five hundred meters away from the city wall.

The drums on the city wall also sounded, Hong Chengchou rushed to the front, shouting to kill the Tartars, and rushed towards the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners, like a tide, followed Hong Chengchou to rush over, silver-white armor, under the light of the sun. The dazzling light made the charging Han Eight Banner sergeants feel their eyes glaze.

Where can the foot pawn be the opponent of the cavalry, the charging team was instantly chaotic, Hong Chengchou took the lead in rushing into the Han Eight Banner soldiers, brandishing a steel knife, and cut down mercilessly, many soldiers. Holding the spear with both hands, he provoked the sergeant of the Han Eight Banners. Far away from the corpse, there were even some soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who were directly hit by the war horse and vomited blood.

This move by the Jiangning camp caught Houjin Tatars off guard.

When Dorgon saw this, his face turned blue with anger, even though the sergeant's bow and arrows were still being fired. But the two armies were already fighting together, and at this time, the crossbowmen could not shoot arrows, so as not to injure their own brothers by mistake.

After a moment's pause, a cruel smile appeared on Dolgon's face. The sergeants of the Jiangning battalion are also too big, and they dare to come out to meet the battle with only a few thousand people, I don't know if there are nearly 100,000 troops on the other side of the road.

The red flag waved, and soon, tens of thousands of cavalry with white flags began to charge forward, they would not give any chance to the Ming army that rushed out, and they were bound to kill all these Ming cavalry.

It was at this time that the artillery on the walls began to wield.

The cavalry with the white flag had already stormed the firing range of the artillery.

The officers and men of the artillery battalion, who had long been familiar with the artillery, could no longer be familiar with the artillery, and one shell after another whistled out and flew towards the Houjin Tartar, who was charging forward, and hit with absolute accuracy.

In an instant, the cannonball exploded, and the charging white flag sergeant was turned on his horse, and the scope of this wave was very wide, Dolgon ordered the cavalry to attack, and the cavalry was almost at a distance from each other, and the shock wave generated by the explosion of the cannonball made the Houjin Tartars with a radius of about four to five meters have no chance to dodge at all.

The sorrowful roar of the war horse made Sol Roll's body tremble, and he finally understood that the cavalry of the Jiangning battalion dared to rush out of the city, it turned out to be to create an opportunity for the artillery to kill and injure the elite cavalry led by him to the greatest extent, if this situation continues, I am afraid that the elite cavalry led by him will suffer a devastating blow before they start attacking the city.

The order for the cavalry to retreat was passed down as fast as possible, and the White Banner cavalry began to retreat, leaving corpses all the way behind.

The soldiers of the Han Eight Banners who rushed to the city wall, the situation was even more miserable, they could only run back desperately, hoping that they would not become the target of the Ming cavalry, all the sergeants who were cut down to the ground, moaning loudly, hoping that their companions could save them, some people were directly kicked and trampled by the war horses again, and the blood protruded from their mouths, seeing that there was no chance of survival.

Dolgon's face turned blue with anger, and he didn't expect that he had just started to attack, and he was counterattacked by the cavalry of the Jiangning battalion.

He was completely enraged, if he was beaten by a few thousand Ming cavalry, his prestige would be completely ruined, think about how many Ming troops he had killed, where he had been so embarrassed.

Dolgon walked out of the tent of the Chinese army, came to the front of the drummer, pushed away the sergeant who was beating the drum, personally picked up the drum hammer, and hit it continuously, the rumbling drum began to be dense, and the retreating Han Eight Banner sergeant, hearing this drum, turned his head and rushed forward, this is the drum of the attack, he must advance, otherwise he will retreat, and he may be shot to death by the crossbowmen behind.

Hong Chengchou's goal has been achieved.

He let out two long whistles and retreated in the direction of the city gates.

The artillery began to fire again, this time the shells, accurately concentrated the crossbowmen hiding behind the charging Tartars, Houjin Tartars had never experienced such sharp artillery, after each shell landed, it bloomed instantly, and none of the people around could be spared, many sergeants were blown up and cried wolf, regardless of any military orders, desperately running to the back, hoping that it was not within the range of the shells.

Hong Chengchou led the soldiers to retreat to the city, and after counting the number of people, only fifteen people were killed.

This charge, carrying the power of artillery, killed at least about 2,000 Houjin Tartars, and the cavalry killed more Han Eight Banner sergeants, and the artillery mainly killed some of the elite cavalry of the Zhengbai Banner.

When Hong Chengchou went up the city wall, the flintlock pistol had already begun to fire.

The drums did not stop, and the sergeants had to attack the city.

You must know that after the formation of the Han Eight Banners, they have not really fought with the Ming army, all the sergeants are holding their breath, and they have to fight desperately with the Ming army, no matter how much sacrifice they pay, they want to beat the prestige of the Han Eight Banners, so this time, the sergeants of the Han Eight Banners still charged with their heads despite heavy casualties.

Hong Chengchou on the city wall, nodded slightly, a strong opponent is always worthy of respect, and the momentum of the Houjin Tartar is the momentum that most of the Ming army lacks.

But courage can't change reality, the sergeant of the Han Eight Banner met the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, they were only unlucky, the sergeant who climbed the ladder was accurately hit by the flintlock pistol, fell backwards, and after landing, there was no movement.

Soon, under the city wall, the corpses of the Houjin Tartars were covered, and bursts of bloody gas spread under the city wall, and the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion above the city wall had almost no losses.

Dolgon ordered the cannon to be launched, but he did not expect that the cannon that was pushed out was quickly hit by the artillery on the city wall, and after the three redcoat cannons were blown away, Dolgon painfully admitted that the first round of attack failed.

Watching the Houjin Tartar retreat like a tide, Hong Chengchou smiled and laughed.

"Tartar, you can understand your grandfather's power, hmph, if it weren't for only ten heavy artillery, Lao Tzu would blow you up."

On the city wall, there was a joy of victory, and at such a fast speed, the Houjin Tartars retreated, which fully showed that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion was even stronger.

Dolgon is like a trapped beast, turning around in the tent of the Chinese army, many officers, standing aside, dare not speak, the first charge, actually paid the loss of nearly 3,000 people, the opponent is almost unscathed, such a situation, the warriors of the Great Qing Kingdom have never met Lu to see, everyone looked at the angry Dolgon, did not dare to speak at all.

A quarter of an hour later, Dolgon finally came to his senses, and he finally understood that the combat effectiveness of the Jiangning battalion was indeed extraordinary, especially their firearms, which were the nemesis of the siege sergeants, and if they continued to attack the city according to this pattern, no matter how much they paid, they might not be able to gain anything.

Dolgon was unwilling, but he would not take the lives of the soldiers and not count, at this time, Dolgon had to admit that he was afraid that his duty was to besiege Dalinghe City, just like Chongzhen's attack on Dalinghe City in four years, so that Dalinghe City was isolated from the outside world and could not be supplied.

An hour later, the second charge began.

This time, there were not many sergeants in the charge, and Dorgon was not reconciled, but after half an hour, only a third of the sergeants were able to return, and the rest were lying under the walls forever.

In time, the third charge began, and this time, there were more sergeants involved in the attack.

Unfortunately, under the power of artillery and flintlock muskets, the charging sergeants suffered heavy casualties.

And because of the continuous failure of the charge, among the sergeants, there began to be a feeling of fear, rushing forward is to send death, there is no hope, no matter who it is, they will be afraid.

After a day's attack, with the loss of more than 5,000 people, Dolgon finally made up his mind, the army surrounded Dalinghe City, temporarily stopped the attack, and waited for the arrival of the army led by Huang Taiji, as for the attack on Jinzhou, Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, don't even think about it, if the army entered the Guanning Jin defense line, and really entered the trap arranged by Su Tiancheng, such a loss, Dolgon could not bear it, and Huang Taiji could not bear it. (To be continued......)