Chapter 873: Siege of Jining Prefecture (3)

Originally, Azig didn't want to talk about this matter, after all, this is not a glorious thing, he commanded more than 20,000 Manchurian elite cavalry, and fought with Song Jiaxing's more than 20,000 foot cavalry, not only was he able to defeat the opponent, but he was bitten by others, it was too embarrassing to say, shameful! In the battle on the battlefield, Azig has never lost to anyone when his strength is similar, Song Jiaxing, this is the first opponent who made him deflated!

From Dongchang Mansion to Jining, one person rides twice, fast horses and whips, and it can't be used for a day, and then there is the waterway dredging of the Grand Canal, even if it is slow, three or four hundred miles away, relying on the Cao boat to transport twenty heavy artillery over, it is not a difficult thing, and it will take four or five days to reach the sky.

As long as you have thirty or forty heavy artillery, if you launch an attack on Jining Prefecture, the effect will be completely different, and no matter how strong the city wall of Jining Prefecture is, it will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of thirty or forty red-coated artillery.

In just five days, Azig brought twenty red-clothed artillery, six thousand shells, and thirty-five artillery pieces from Dongchang Mansion by boat, the number is no less than that of the Tianwei army, and even a few more than the Tianwei army, after all, the artillery of Jining City is just some big general's cannons, Jining City is not a border fortress, and it is impossible for the imperial court to put a few red-coated cannons here.

Thirty-five heavy artillery, all of which were concentrated in the north city by Azig, launched a wild bombardment towards Jining Prefecture, this time Jining City was a little unable to support it, thirty-five red-coated artillery, too powerful. The four walls of Jining City are only a dozen miles together, and a northern city is only four or five miles long, and the city walls are much stronger and wider than Yuncheng, but compared with the Zhending Mansion or the Daimyo Mansion, it is dwarfed.

Azig bombarded more than 30 artillery pieces in an area of only one or two miles near the city gate, and in just one day, the outer skin of the city wall was knocked down in a large area, and the other areas were also full of bullet marks, densely packed with craters, and even the soldiers on the head of the city caused a lot of casualties because of the sudden intensive bombardment.

Song Jia's anger was like thunder, this Azig has been a little safe in the past two days, and he didn't expect to mobilize artillery to come to help, specially, it's too violent, this firepower is not ordinary fierce!

"Order, order all the musketeers to hide under the women's wall, don't show your head if you have nothing to do, cannonballs and gravel don't have long eyes, let the artillery battalion give me all my strength, bombard their artillery positions, damn it, Lao Tzu fought with them!"

Song Jiaxing roared angrily.

"Brother, if it goes on like this, it won't work, even if our brothers can withstand it, this special broken city wall will definitely withstand it, you see how many years have the walls of Jining City not been repaired? With so many pieces of red-coated artillery bombarding indiscriminately, it won't be long before the entire city wall will collapse! When the time comes, the jade will be burned! ”

Yang Chengzu is also in a hurry, once Jining City is lost, there will be a smooth road behind him, a smooth road, no one can stop the Qing army's iron cavalry, whether it is westward into Henan, or south to Jiangsu, the Tartar soldiers will no longer be hindered!

"Jining City lost?"

Song Jiaxing said ruthlessly: "Dream, unless Lao Tzu is dead!" Otherwise, Jining City is as stable as Mount Tai! ”

However, just saying cruel words, not the top use, the next big war is the most important, the victory is Nanjing City as stable as Mount Tai, defeated, needless to say, the entire Ming Dynasty, this time is dangerous, Song Jiaxing is a little overwhelmed by this mountain, sixty or seventy thousand troops, besieging a small Jining City, at most ten days, the entire Jining City will be turned into a ruin!

Under the city of Jining, Azig nodded with satisfaction, yes, thirty-five artillery, concentrated bombardment, this effect came out at once, far better than the previous attack!

"Send an order to send 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry to attack the city, mobilize archers to help shoot, and suppress the muskets at the head of the city!"

Azig shouted.

A team of Manchurian infantry cavalry rushed out of the camp again, towards the head of Jining City, this time, not only the foot cavalry, there are even siege rams, ladders and other siege equipment, all pulled from Dongchang Mansion, attacking a small Jining City, to use so many troops and equipment, Jining City is really unprecedented.

Under the cover of artillery fire and bows and arrows, soon, the Manchurian infantry cavalry pounced, and the artillery of the Tianwei Army also opened fire with all their might, concentrated firepower, and constantly bombarded the siege equipment in Manchuria.

Even so, the siege ladder was still set up on the wall of Jining City, and a team of infantry began to rush up towards the city, holding knives and guns in their hands to kill the soldiers of the Tianwei Army, the soldiers of the Tianwei Army also did not show weakness, the spears in their hands continued to stab down, blood splashed, and the Manchurian soldiers grunted down one by one like gourds.

Finally, the Tianwei military beat the Qing army back and won a chance to breathe.

Far EasRum, Azig flicked his horsewhip fiercely, and he was just a little bit closer to attacking the city, but in the end, all his efforts were wasted!

"Lord Wang, one or two ladders are too narrow, according to the will of the lower officials, it is better to combine several ladders, so that the area of our attack will be larger, at least more than ten soldiers can attack at the same time, so that the pressure on the Ming army at the head of the city will be greater!"

Wu Sangui said in a deep voice.

Azig nodded and shouted: "It is not enough to rely on the infantry of Shanhaiguan alone, give an order, mobilize an elite cavalry of Niu Lu, dismount and fight, and charge along the ladder, you must grab the head of the city for me to win time for the follow-up attack!" Order, then artillery bombardment for this king, and then fight, don't spare the shells, you must take Jining City in the shortest possible time! ”

The bloody battle between the two sides became more and more tragic, and even at night, the Qing army's attack still did not stop, Azig lit the artillery, continued to attack, a team of foot cavalry rushed up, and then was driven down by the Tianwei army like a tide, until the second half of the night, the two sides were still undecided, and even the head was numb, only to know that the knife and gun in the hand were waved, and constantly assassinated, chopped, and bleeding to the enemy!

(End of chapter)