Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 233
Qi Jin just ordered the artillery to fire three rounds and then stopped, because they didn't have much ammunition, and although the city walls were full of recruits and slaves, the master general was not.

People obviously know how to avoid the bombardment of the artillery, so there is no need to continue the bombardment.

He just thought about it for a while and ordered the soldiers to take turns to bury the pot to make food. They hadn't eaten lunch yet. No matter what, they still had to eat this meal. After all, only when they were full would they have the strength to attack the city.

Ever since, a strange scene appeared outside the last capital city of Jiannu. The soldiers of the Ming army were actually burying pots and cooking food at a position barely a mile away from the city wall!

This is simply deliberately humiliating them!
Daishan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do, because he was too powerful, if he led the army out of the city to fight with him, he would die!
He thought that the Ming army was deliberately using aggressive tactics to make him lead the army out of the city, and then took the opportunity to take Hetuala.

Because he didn't see any siege equipment brought by the Ming army at all.

Without siege equipment, it is natural to use tactics to break the city.

At least he thought so.

Unfortunately, this time he was wrong.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Zhang Dadou is leading people to cut down trees and make ladders in the mountains that he can't see.

The ladder can be said to be the simplest siege tool, and it is not difficult to build, that is, according to the height of the city wall, two trees are cut to make the frames on both sides, and then some thick branches are cut to make the cross-arms for the feet, and then the frames on both sides Dig a rectangular hole every one foot or so, and then knock the crossarm in uniformly.

The city wall of Jianzhou Acropolis is not very high, only about two feet by visual inspection. It does not take much effort to make a ladder of this length.

These days, veterans who have fought a few battles can basically build ladders, and the hammers, chisels, axes, saws and other tools used to make ladders can basically be used several times. Practice, it's really not too fast to build a ladder.

1 man-made 20 aerial ladders, that is, [-] man-made one aerial ladders, manpower is also well allocated.

With Zhang Dadou's order, the tens of thousands of people were quickly divided into [-] groups. A group of [-] people found two trees about the thickness of a calf, surrounded one by ten people, and took turns to chop fiercely. It took less than a quarter of an hour. The tree can be brought down.

Immediately afterwards, ten people were responsible for cleaning the branches and cutting the cross-arm, and the other ten people grabbed the trunk as the frame and chiseled it. In less than half an hour, the cross-arm and frame were processed.

Finally, directly knock the cross arm into one side of the bracket first, and then put the other side of the bracket on top of it, and the ladder is completed.

The [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion here worked smoothly, and within an hour, [-] ladders were built, and the [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion over there also took turns to finish the meal.

Seeing that the ladder was being delivered, Qi Jin immediately ordered without hesitation: "Get on the artillery, move the chariot forward, and get close to the city wall for two hundred steps!"

"Wow", the [-] soldiers immediately lifted the artillery onto the chariot, and then pushed the chariot forward neatly. After a while, the chariot formation was only about [-] steps away from the city wall.

Qi Jin ordered again: "Drive the Thunder God Cannon, the Musketeers get on the front row of chariots, squat halfway, and aim at the gaps in the arrow stacks on the city wall."

Soon, [-] soldiers climbed onto the chariots in the front row, squatted neatly, and aimed their muskets at the gaps between the arrow stacks on the city wall, and [-] artillerymen quickly formed a neat formation.

Qi Jin then ordered: "Zhang Shijie, lead [-] chariots and soldiers to lift the ladder, with swords and shields in front and spearmen behind."

"Wow", the [-] chariot soldiers quickly divided into [-] groups and raised the ladder on the ground.

Seeing this, Qi Jin yelled without hesitation: "The ladders are lined up in front of the car formation, ready to attack the city, and the Thunder God cannons are ready."

"Wow!" [-] chariot soldiers immediately swarmed up carrying the ladder, and lined up neatly behind him.

Daishan on the city wall saw this posture, and despair appeared on his face again.

It's over, and Hetuala can't keep it anymore.

He hesitated for a moment, and then ordered decisively: "Dorgon, Duoduo, hurry up, take your soldiers to call up all the family members in the city, and immediately go out of the west gate and go north!"

what?
Dorgon and Duo Duo were both dumbfounded when they heard this.

The fight hasn't started yet, why run?

Oh, what do you know!
Dai Shan sighed helplessly: "Sarhu, Jiefan Village, Gule Village, and Maerdun Village have all fallen. The Khan led [-] cavalry to attack the back of the Ming army and failed. There are only [-] cavalry left. If you escape, the more than [-] Ming troops on the west road will rush over in at most two days, and Hetuala can't hold it anymore!"

What?
The three Dorgon brothers were stunned when they heard the words.

Seeing this, Daishan couldn't help shouting: "Go quickly, what are you still doing?"

Only then did Dorgon and Duoduo come to their senses, and hurried down the city wall with their own soldiers.

At this time, Qi Jin had already drawn his sword and shouted: "The artillery fires five salvos, open fire! Ladder, go up!"

"Boom boom boom", there was a roar of artillery, and Zhang Shijie drew his sword without hesitation and shouted: "Come on!"

Seeing this, Daishan could only sigh helplessly: "Azig, you go and inform the infantry on the other three walls to gather outside the west gate and prepare to stop the Ming army from pursuing."

This!
Is this how the battle is fought?
Azig was stunned for a moment, then stomped his feet angrily, and finally ran down the city wall with his soldiers.

Daishan looked at the approaching ladder and said nothing.

At this time, it is useless to say anything. The defenders on the city wall suppressed by the Ming army's muskets and artillery can't stand up at all. If they stand up, they will die. They can only stand up and fight back when the Ming army climbs up the city wall.

He had already suffered a big loss in Shenyang City, so naturally he would not rashly let the pawns on the city wall fight back.

Alas, the more than 2000 people on the city wall don't know how long they can last.

Soon, five hundred ladders covered the city wall densely, and tens of thousands of Ming troops swarmed up like ants.

Daishan immediately shouted: "Command, prepare to fight back."

As soon as a few messenger guards ran out of the city gate, he waved his hand, took the rest of the guards straight to the bottom of the city wall, mounted his horse and ran away!

This situation is already irreversible for him, escape is the most important thing.

Although Qi Jin knew that the city walls were filled with recruits, he did not expect that these recruits were so ruthless. It took less than half an hour for Zhang Shijie to lead his chariot soldiers up the city wall before ordering people to report victory. The east wall was completely destroyed. Got it!

How is this going?

This is the lair of Jiannu!
It took down a city wall so easily, so what is Jiannu guarding?
Why don't these guys fight to the death?
Something is wrong!
Thinking of this, Qi Jin immediately got off his horse, quickly climbed up the city wall, climbed to the highest point of the city gate tower, took out his binoculars and scanned to the west.

Sure enough, these guys ran away, and countless Jiannu infantry, men, women, and children were frantically fleeing towards the west gate!
He just frowned slightly, and ordered decisively: "Quick, order Zhang Dadou to lead his men and horses to chase outside the west gate."

Unfortunately, it's already a bit late.

Daishan suffered a big loss last time, and he didn't have time to call out the family members of the Man Ba ​​Banners in Shenyang City, so that most of the Man Ba ​​Banners' elites lost their families. Nurhachi almost cut him off!
If Huang Taiji hadn't needed his support later in his fight for Khan's position, he would probably still be under confinement in the mansion right now.

This time he naturally remembered his lesson, and ordered Dorgon and Duoduo to run out of the west gate with their families from the very beginning, so the west gate was not blocked, and everyone escaped from the city.

When Zhang Dadou rushed to the west gate with tens of thousands of horses, all the Jiannu family members had already fled north, only Azige led thousands of horses behind him.

After Qi Jin arranged the city defense, he rode his horse and came to the west gate to have a look. Jiannu's family members had already run away and disappeared. Thousands of Jiannu infantry also fought and retreated, gradually retreating into the forest to the north.

After thinking for a while, he still ordered: "Send the order, tell Zhang Dadou not to chase after him."

There is no way, there is no road in the mountains to the north, and it is difficult for chariot soldiers to push the chariot inside, and it is impossible to catch up.

He could only sigh slightly, and then said to the rest of the guards: "Quick, all of you go to the river to find a boat, and ask Jin Yiwei to report to the emperor that we have captured the Jianzhou Weicheng, and thousands of Jiannu infantry are leading several Wan Jiannu's family fled to the north."

Although Taichang was overjoyed to receive the news, there was nothing he could do about it, because they were still more than 100 miles away from Jianzhou Acropolis, and there were tens of thousands of Jiannu routs in the middle, and the Shenwu Battalion cavalry would not be able to rush through for a while.

After thinking about it, he ordered Jin Yiwei to send an order to Qi Jin to lead [-] chariot soldiers to block the passage from Maldun Village to Jianzhou Weicheng. Wan Jiannu's infantry attacked from both sides.

Now he will be able to eat tens of thousands of Jiannu infantry. As for those Jiannu infantry and Jiannu family members who fled north, we have to wait for Kuaiqi to find out the situation.

Amin, Qierharang, and Dege were also unlucky. Just when they started fleeing, Shenjiying arrived in Hetuala, and Daishan ran away without any resistance.

Inexplicably, they became the targets of the Ming army's siege!
It didn't take much effort for Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp to besiege the tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, but they couldn't chase the Jiannu infantry and Jiannu family members who fled north.

Because after receiving the news, Huang Taiji had already brought more than ten thousand cavalry to stop the rear. In the mountains and forests they were familiar with, even the scouts on fast horses could not escape their eyes and ears.

In the next few days, scouts from Jinyiwei, Shenwuying, Shenjiying, and Liaodong Army swarmed up and explored thousands of miles north, but they still couldn't find any traces of Jiannu infantry and Jiannu's family members.

Taichang just glanced at the map and realized that Jiannu must have fled to the Horqin Grassland thousands of miles away.

He doesn't have enough cavalry under his command at the moment, and he will definitely suffer a loss if he goes to fight with others on the vast grassland, and at this moment, there are less than [-] young and strong left after all the slaves are full. If he can't develop, there is absolutely no need for him to chase to the grassland to fight with others when there is not enough cavalry.

In the end, he ordered to stop the pursuit, destroy the Jianzhou Acropolis, and then withdraw his troops!
(End of this chapter)