Zu Dashou's face was pale, and he didn't say a word.

Zhang Cunren, the deputy general under his command, hurriedly ran in, wiped his face full of smoke, and said, "General, Ximen is in danger, please give another 3,000 elite soldiers to the last general!"

Zu Dashou nodded, took a warrant from the table, and said expressionlessly, "Let General Han go." Cunren, sit down. ”

Zhang Cunren was slightly stunned, but he still said immediately, "Okay, the last general will go to inform General Han first, and then come back later!"

As he spoke, he ran out like the wind.

After a while, he returned.

"General, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to hold out until dark if we continue like this! At present, the city wall of the west gate has lost one of the three, and the wall of the north gate is similar, but fortunately, we have fire oil and thunderbolts, so we can control the situation. However, according to this style of play, our fire oil and thunderbolt consumption are too great! The same is true for projectiles and shells!" Zhang Cunren said as if he were a cannonball.

Zu Dashou just nodded slightly and didn't say anything.

Zhang Cunren said again, "In this way, we can only prepare for a street battle with the Tartars! As long as we can drag on until dark, we can organize a breakthrough! It's a pity that our Santun camp is too small, and this street battle is not easy to fight, and the brothers can't spread it!"

Zu Dashou still just nodded and didn't speak.

Zhang Cunren couldn't help asking, "General, why don't you speak?"

Zu Dashou looked up at Zhang Cunren and said, "How many of us are there now?"

Zhang Cunren thought for a while and said, "There are probably thirty-five or six more." The last general of the East Gate and the South Gate has not yet been seen, but it is estimated that the casualties should be similar to those of the South Gate and the North Gate! General, these Tartars are stronger than when they were in Ningyuan!"

Zhang Cunren has been following Zu Dashou since the Battle of Ningyuan in the Year of the Apocalypse, and is Zu Dashou's henchman.

Zu Dashou said softly, "Thirty-five thousand, six...... Thirty-five or six ......" paused, and said, "Cunren, no matter what, we have to delay until dark! After dark, let's break through!"

Zhang Cunren nodded, and suddenly asked again, "By the way, where will we break through when the time comes?" There is an army led by Huang Taiji near Zunhua, and there are Tartar soldiers in Qianping. ”

To the west of Santunying is Zunhua, to the south is the lofty mountains, to the southeast is Qianping, and to the north is Xifengkou, all of which have been occupied by the Tartars.

Zu Dashou frowned, and had to admit that what Zhang Cunren said was a big problem. If you go south into the Mangmang Mountains, it will take at least a month to climb over them before you reach Fengrun. But when the army broke through, how could it bring so much grain and grass? Even if they were not chased to death by the Tartars, everyone would starve to death!

Zu Dashou's psychological defense line was hit again, and he thought that he was trapped in a lonely city and had fallen into a desperate situation!

And surviving in a desperate situation has never been his option.

Seeing that his face was extremely bad, Zhang Cunren said with relief, "General, we have sent someone to inform Inspector Yuan, presumably ......"

"Inspector Yuan won't come!" Zu Dashou rudely interrupted Zhang Cunren, "There are still as many as 30,000 elite Tartar soldiers around Zunhua, and there are also 30,000 soldiers, how many people do you want Inspector Yuan to send to rescue?

Zhang Cunren was speechless for a while, and he didn't know what to do.

At this time, he suddenly remembered something and said, "General, didn't you say before that Qin Shuhuai had led an army of 60,000 to Yongping and Qian'an?"

Zu Dashou's eyes suddenly lit up, and the scarred but indifferent young man appeared in his mind.

That's right, if he attacks Yongping and Qian'an, these two cities will fall!

His eyes gradually became colorful, and he hurriedly said, "Cunren! Order the soldiers to defend the Santun camp to the death! As long as you hold the Tartars, after dark, we will break through to the south, and then enter the mountains! Then turn around and march eastward to Qian'an! When we get out of the mountains, Qian'an will inevitably be captured by Qin Shuhuai!"

Zhang Cunren immediately nodded, "The general is wise!"

Zu Dashou picked up the waist knife beside him, stood up and said, "I am going to personally lead the supervision team to supervise the battle in front of the city, and those who retreat in fear of the battle will be killed!"

......

There are 10,000 Guanning troops and 10,000 Datong troops in the Santun camp, because the city is not large, and the Tartars can only send about 800 people at most for a charge, so on the contrary, the troops consumed by both sides in unit time are small.

The Guanning army has been defending fortified cities in Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places all the year round, and they have a lot of experience in defending the city, and they have their own set of tactics, plus the Santun camp itself is quite strong both in terms of the city wall and the city gate, so in this siege battle, it is not at a too obvious disadvantage!

Zu Dashou ordered one after another to let the city defense troops launch a fierce counterattack. First, he took out all the oil and ordered his soldiers to spray wildly at the area where the Tartars gathered on the city walls, and then set it on fire - whether they were among them or not, they would attack indiscriminately!

His frenzied style of play paid off immediately, and the sections of the city wall that had been taken by the Tartars were quickly burned to the ground, and both ordinary Tartar soldiers and Bayala soldiers wearing three-layer armor were burned to the ground in the raging fire.

At the same time, he transported all the thunderbolts in the inventory to the city walls, so that the soldiers could throw them openly, as many as they could!

As for shells, projectiles, and arrows, there is no limit.

He has moved all the stocks out, and he has no plans for tomorrow at all! All he wants is to drag it out until dark! As soon as it gets dark, he will break through and it doesn't matter who will fall into his hands tomorrow!

The firepower of the Ming army suddenly increased, and it was doubled!

There was a sea of fire everywhere above and below the city, not only burning the Tartars, but also burning the Ming army's own people!

The cannonballs frantically discharged and exploded like thunder! The thunderbolts rained down like a pothole, and the black and yellow smoke filled the air, and no human form could be seen from 10 meters away.

Under the frantic counterattack of the Ming army, the Tartar soldiers suffered heavy losses and had to suspend the offensive and discuss countermeasures.

In the afternoon, Dolgon and Haug came to an agreement that Dorgon would be responsible for the eastern and southern walls, and Haug and Azig would be responsible for the western and northern walls. At the same time, they changed their tactics, and according to the tactics of the Ming army's frenzied consumption of firearms, they adopted a feint attack with a loose formation to deceive the Ming army's consumption of firearms.

Zu Dashou was very experienced, how could this tactic be hidden from his eyes, so he ordered his soldiers to reduce the frequency of the use of fire oil, thunderbolts, bird guns, bows and arrows, and cannons. However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was difficult for the soldiers to grasp the scale of reduction, so he simply ordered the ordinary thunderbolts, archers, and birds to fire without firing, and the rest still fired casually. And the oil hand sees the opportunity.

In this way, the two sides were at a stalemate until it was about to darken.

After dozens of rounds of feints, the Tartar soldiers deceived the Ming army of a large amount of firearms. Both Hauge and Dorgon think it's time to attack!

And Zu Dashou also completed the deployment, he withdrew the 3,000 Guanning army, and at the same time gathered 7,000 Datong troops, preparing to use these 10,000 people to break through after dark. On the city wall, there are about 2,000 Guan Ning troops left, and the rest are all local guards.