In the early morning of the third day of November, Zhao led the army to arrive eight or nine miles outside Daankou. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the darkness, the four post-golden horse sentinels looked at the long fire dragon in the distance with an expression of disbelief. After being stunned for a long time, he finally reacted and immediately turned the horse's head, two of them galloped towards Da'ankou City, while the other two galloped towards Zunhua!

At that time, the Azig army arrived in Zunhua and rendezvoused with Huang Taiji.

After an hour of repair, at 7 o'clock in the morning of the third day of the 11th lunar month, Huang Taiji led nearly 23,000 Houjin elite soldiers, plus more than 4,000 Mongolian soldiers, to launch a fierce attack on Zunhua City.

Zunhua City is a strong city, the city wall is as high as 178 meters, the wall is 5 meters thick, there are battlements on it, and there are firearm shooting holes under the battlements, which can not be said to be unsolid.

Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua, who defended the city, personally climbed the city tower to supervise the battle, in order to show his determination to live and die with the city!

However, there were 6,000 defenders in the city, but they were besieged by more than 27,000 Manchurian and Mongolian coalition troops, and the battle situation was extremely tragic.

Because Houjin has been preparing outside the city for a long time, there is no shortage of siege tools.

More than a dozen high platforms nearly twenty meters high, pushed by hundreds of soldiers, slowly approached the city wall. Each platform could accommodate ten Houjin archers, and the high platforms had battlement-like structures to protect the archers. Hundreds of Houjin archers relied on their height advantage to almost suppress the Ming archers on the city wall.

At the same time as the archers suppressed, Houjin's cumbersome ladders also leaned against the city wall. These ladders have iron hooks at the tops, and after they are fastened to the city walls, it is difficult to knock them down. Countless Tartar soldiers rushed up on the ladder.

At this point, the firearm holes under the battlements come into play. Behind these holes was a hollow space filled with firearms. These firearms crews used more stable bird guns, with each two firearms crews responsible for a firing hole, one quickly recoiling and reloading after firing, and the other immediately following the shot.

The location of the shooting hole was just right, about five or six meters away from the head of the city, because the ladder could not be attached to the city wall, but had to be at a certain angle to the city wall, so once the Houjin soldiers climbed to this position, their bodies were about three or four meters away from the shooting hole, and they could not reach the firearms soldiers, but the firearms soldiers could easily hit them -- within this distance, no matter how bad the crosshairs were, the musketeers could almost hit them with a hundred shots.

"Bang, bang, bang", thick puffs of green smoke came out of the shooting hole, and after each puff of green smoke, there was almost a burst of blood. The Tartar soldiers who were shot in the head were killed on the spot, and many of those who were hit in the legs and arms fell down the ladder and fell to the ground to die without dying.

The existence of firearms soldiers caused great casualties to the Houjin army.

However, one big problem with the Bird Gun is that it is very slow to reload. To fire a bullet, it has to go through N processes such as pouring medicine, charging, pressing fire, loading, loading door medicine, and loading the fire rope, even if two people rotate, the firing rate of each hole is only two or three rounds per minute, which is far less than the speed of the Tartar.

So Wang Yuanya thought of another way, that is, to stuff some spearmen into the space behind the shooting hole. While the musketeers are reloading, the spearmen use their spears to stab the enemy on the ladder. Because the walls of Zunhua City are five meters thick, it is not a problem to plug in spearmen. In this way, the utility of these shooting holes was used to the fullest, as if they constituted a death zone, and countless Jin soldiers died in front of the shooting holes.

At the head of the city, three Franco cannons also exerted their power. These cannons all used flowering shells at first, but after the Houjin soldiers gathered under the city, because the city wall was too high and the depression angle was too large, they couldn't hit the Houjin soldiers, so the gunners immediately replaced them with solid bullets and stared at the high platform of Houjin.

This style of play was quickly retaliated against by the archers on the Houjin high platform, and the rain of arrows poured down on the gunners, and the gunners' auxiliaries raised large shields to resist the rain of arrows for the gunners.

The battle was fought fiercely from morning to noon, from the head of the city to the bottom of the city, the smell of gunpowder was everywhere, and everywhere lay corpses and the stumps of soldiers.

Wang Yuanya personally stood at the head of the city and waved his flag and shouted, and accidentally hit an arrow, but he did not retreat, but he also had a bit of backbone as a Ming civil official. The soldiers defending the city were greatly encouraged and fought to the death, but the Houjin army had no choice.

It wasn't until midnight (nine o'clock) that a fire broke out in the city!

"Lord Governor, the grain depot is on fire!"

"Your Excellency, the powder magazine is on fire, and there is a big explosion!"

"My lord, the fire is spreading, what should I do?"

"Lord Qiqi, we found a group of spies arson everywhere, about forty or fifty people, very skilled, it seems to be people in the rivers and lakes!"

Wang Yuanya was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time, and her face turned pale!

I suddenly remembered that a few days ago, it seemed that a Jinyi Wei Qianhu had told me that there were spies in the city, and I had to take strict precautions against it. But he ignored it completely!

Sitting weakly on the chair, Wang Yuanya's head went blank.

The governor has the responsibility to guard the land, if he loses Zunhua City, he will not escape the death penalty!

Why don't you believe in Jinyiwei? Hehe, snake and rat factory guard, snake and rat factory guard, as a civil official, naturally need to draw a clear line with the factory guard, and naturally have to decide that there are no good people among them, otherwise what will his colleagues in the DPRK and China think of him......

Woohoo, alas?

It's not sad, it's just ridiculous!

"My lord, are you fighting fires?" asked one of the lieutenants.

Fire?

Wang Yuanya smiled bitterly in despair in her heart, such a big fire, I am afraid that all the soldiers defending the city will go to put out the fire, and it will definitely not be extinguished.

Said weakly, "Send a hundred soldiers to save the grain depot, save as much as you can." Leave anything else out of your body alone. ”

The deputy general was ordered to immediately organize manpower to save the grain depot.

When the soldiers defending the city saw that there was a fire in the city, their morale immediately plummeted. How can these soldiers not be distracted when they have all their wealth in the city? Moreover, when they see the raging fire in the city, they know that it will be difficult to extinguish, and they will be able to turn around and lose all their ammunition, food, grass, and even the tiles that cover them.

Outside the city, Yue Tuo, who was in charge of the full command of the siege, saw the smoke billowing in the city, and knew that Neiying had made a move, so he immediately ordered, in addition to the 8,000 men and horses of the Chinese army who came to the rescue, the whole army attacked from all sides of Zunhua City, and whoever was the first to set foot on the city will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold, 100 cattle and sheep, and the title of Baturu!

For a while, countless Houjin soldiers surged up like a tide, and their shouts resounded through the sky.

On the side of the Ming army, many soldiers began to remove the city wall under the pretext of fighting fires and secretly ran away. At first, the officials were in charge, but when they saw that more and more people were fleeing, they couldn't control it, so they simply ran away in the name of arresting deserters.

Wang Yuanya stood at the head of the city, and when she saw this scene, she knew that the general trend had gone, so she entered the city tower, took out a white silk horse, and tied it to the beam.

If you want to die left and right, then choose a decent way to die. If he dies for the country, his colleagues in the DPRK and China will always say a few good words for him, and his children and grandchildren will not suffer too much sin.

He was just about to put his neck on the white silk when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside.

"The Tartars are back! The Tartars are back!"

Wang Yuanya trembled, thinking that she had misheard.

Listen closely, and this time it's clear.

"The Tartars are back!"

PS1: The Battle of Zunhua is simply written because the protagonist does not participate. In fact, the siege of the ancients was very exciting, if there is a protagonist involved, it will be well described, and show you a real siege war of the Ming Dynasty.

PS2: Because there are some logical problems in the manuscript, in line with the principle of respecting the reader's IQ, I have been making revisions today, so the third chapter is a little late. There will be a fourth chapter in a while.,If you have a vote, please continue to vote.,Let the city lord's tiger body shake again and again.,Hehe~~