Let's say that Qin Shuhuai's side bombarded Ash Niulu for two days, although it was almost razed to the ground, but Mang Gurtai in the city still stood still, calmly sitting in a bunker in the city.

During the night, the artillery fire of the Ming army finally stopped.

A large number of flag men ran out of the cellar, some came out to breathe, some went to look for the bones of relatives who were killed by the bombing, and many more wanted to come out to find something to eat.

The streets are full of corpses, not every household has a cellar, and there is a high probability that a person without a cellar will die in the shelling.

In the bleak moonlight, a group of ragged people moved silently, shuttling between the abandoned bricks and tiles, each with despair written on their faces.

and anger.

It's like the scene of Kannai Han after being ravaged by the Tartars.

War is a monster that eats people. No one likes it, but it always accompanies human beings and never lingers.

A relatively quiet night was a good time for the soldiers and civilians in the city to rest.

They didn't know that in the night, a large number of Ming troops had begun to gather and set up formations, and they were ready to attack.

At three o'clock, a loud noise suddenly came from the south of the city, causing the mountains to shake for a while!

"Boom, boom!"

It's like the gates of hell have been opened, and like a bloodthirsty beast opening its bloody jaws and swallowing everything on the ground!

The city wall in the south of the city, including the south city gate, the city wall more than 20 meters wide collapsed!

Underground, there was a pungent and strong smell of gunsmoke.

There is no doubt that this is a masterpiece of the joint efforts of the Thick Earth Banner and the Flame Banner.

It turned out that Qin Shuhuai bombarded Ash Niulu for two consecutive days, not only to deter the defenders in the city, but also to cover the thick soil banner digging a passage underground!

In the rumbling sound of cannons, the Tartars in the city could never hear the slightest sound of digging.

In this way, the point where the explosive is planted can be closer to the ground, and therefore more destructive.

This time, a total of 400 Demon Sect Thick Earth Banners and more than 350 Jianghe Gang Cottage Thick Earth Banners were invested, and more than 700 people fought for two days and two nights in a row with the camp tent as a cover and the sound of artillery as a cover, and finally completed an outstanding performance.

Do you think they only dug a secret passage under the South Gate?

No, they also spawned a branch from that passage that led directly into the city!

In the darkness of the night, flickering flares rise.

For many old Tartars who have fought with Qin Shuhuai, they will chuckle in their hearts when they see this kind of flare.

Because Qin Shuhuai likes night battles, count them with his fingers, how many battles of the Ming army were fought at night? Every time the Ming army took the initiative to launch a night battle, the Tartars did not have good fruit to eat.

"Kill!"

In Nancheng, the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded, and a large number of Ming troops killed from the collapsed place.

Most of the Tartar soldiers who were originally guarding the collapse were buried, so at this moment, the defense there was a vacuum.

When the Tartar guards at the South Gate urgently transferred troops to plug the gap, many Ming troops had already rushed in.

The gap of more than 20 meters wide was enough for the Ming army to pour in hundreds of people in an instant.

After these hundreds of elite soldiers entered the city, they quickly occupied the gap, allowing more Ming troops to pour in in a steady stream.

At this moment, under the wartime rotation system, about two-thirds of the Tartar soldiers are on standby, and a third are sleeping soundly - the siege is the siege, and people always have to sleep, right?

In other words, of the 42,000 soldiers and horses in Mang Gurtai's hands, only 28,000 were on standby. And there are only more than 7,000 people deployed in Nancheng.

And the Ming army attacked Nancheng, there were 20,000 troops!

Now the gap of more than 20 meters is like a dam that has opened the floodgates, and countless Ming troops are pouring over like a flood.

On the uncollapsed walls of the southern city, about 500 Tartar archers, more than 300 firebolts, more than 200 crossbowmen, and four Franc cannons rained bows, arrows, projectiles, and cannonballs into the gap like crazy!

The Ming army at the impact gap is naturally extremely dense, and the Tartars can easily sweep one Ming soldier after another without aiming!

In the blink of an eye, the gap was filled with the corpses of the Ming army, and it was stacked several meters high!

However, the charge of the Ming army did not stop at all, but became even more crazy!

The Tartar crossbowmen, musketeers, and gunners gritted their teeth and desperately increased the rate of fire, but at this moment, the high platform of the Ming army, driven by a large number of soldiers, finally entered the firing range!

The crossbowmen and archers of the Ming army on the high platform, as well as the Flame Banner and the Qingshui Banner, immediately launched a suppression, and for a time the bows, thunderbolts, and green Gongshui were overwhelming towards the Tartar long-range attacking troops, just like a basin of cold water, completely extinguishing the flames of the opponent's counterattack.

At the cost of hundreds of men, the gap was finally regained in the hands of the Ming army, which ensured that the follow-up troops could enter the city undisturbed.

Soon, the Ming army that entered the city reached several thousand, and they not only gained a foothold, but also quickly spread to both sides, killing the city walls, preparing to seize the commanding heights.

The entry of 20,000 troops into the city is a foregone conclusion!

After receiving the news, Mang Gurtai in the city was so shocked that his head was buzzing!

He has a total of 42,000 troops in his hands, and if he can't hold on, he is still a little sure, but if he is allowed to work directly with the Ming army, he is not sure at all!

Why?

It's not that he doesn't have confidence in the Eight Banners under his command, but he doesn't have confidence in those Mongols and people from the Western Regions! In the first two battles, the battle reports he received all mentioned how these soft bones collapsed at a critical moment, and how they used their heads to mess up their positions.

Half of his hands are now such waste!

But can he not use them? Without these people, he has more than 20,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and he will die faster by then!

In any case, these soldiers are always a hundred times stronger than the soldiers, at least at the beginning, they still dare to fight, after all, the people from the grassland and the desert are somewhat bloody!

Let's hope their blood will last a little longer this time! What follows is street fighting, and in the end, it's all about who fights harder!

I don't believe that Qin Shuhuai's subordinates can all be men, and he is a little cowardly, right?

For a while, all kinds of strange thoughts came flooding his head, almost bursting his head.

Headache!

That's right, he was indeed shocked, and it can even be said that he was frightened.

"Lord Belle?"

After a personal guard beside him shouted, he came back to his senses and hurriedly arranged the arming.

He ordered 3,000 troops and horses to be transferred to the east, west, and north of the city to rush to the south of the city, and at the same time asked the troops who were resting and sleeping near the center of the city to immediately get up and stand by and go to the south at any time.

The troops in the city who took turns sleeping were now a little embarrassed.

Because the red-coated cannons almost flattened Ash Niulu, if these soldiers dared to sleep in the open air in the winter, they would have to freeze to death and frostbite, so some of them looked for shelter from the corner of the broken wall and lit a pile of fire to sleep, and some hid in the cellar to sleep - the cellar was warm and could avoid the black cannons that the Ming army fired from time to time, it was simply a top-level sleeping holy place.

Moreover, the number of cellars is very limited, because many cellars have been buried by the remains of buildings, and the two cellars that store military rations are very large, but they can accommodate three or four thousand people at most.

As a result, sleeping in the cellar became the privilege of the Tartar elite, and most of the Mongol and Western Regions soldiers, except for some leaders, all slept in the open.

Of the 18,000 soldiers and horses, about 7,000 elites slept in various cellars, large and small, and the cellars were stuffed to the brim, but they were also warm.

The remaining 10,000 nodded and slept outside, trembling while scolding their mother.

Besides, after the violent explosion in the south of the city, most of the soldiers and horses who were resting in turn woke up.

The soldiers on the ground quickly stood up and clenched their weapons, but the soldiers in the cellar were still dazed because of the lack of oxygen, and they were still a little stunned when they woke up - you need to know that the cellar at that time did have the function of making people hide from the war, but its hidden exhaust holes could not be everywhere, otherwise wouldn't the enemy be able to find them casually? There are few exhaust holes, and there are many people, so it is strange that there is no lack of oxygen.

Just as they were stunned underground, they suddenly heard a faint sound of shouting and killing on the ground.

They were even more confused.

The Ming army was killed in the city so quickly?