The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 299 Ant Attached to Dengzhou
On September [-], all the rebels retreated to Dengzhou, and the official army surrounded Dengzhou.

Dengzhou City is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on the north. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

On the same day, the governor Zhu Dadian, the guardian Gao Qiqian and others called all the generals to discuss the strategy of breaking the city.

Originally, there were nearly [-] officers and troops besieging the city. In addition, Mou Wenshou, the general of Gubeikou, and Yang Yupan, the deputy general of Tongzhou, led troops to encircle the city from Laiyang. The total number of officers and troops exceeded [-].

Gao Qiqian saw the ten-mile company battalion of the government army with countless soldiers and horses, and he couldn't help but feel very confident. When the Chinese army was discussing affairs in the morning, Gao Qiqian insisted on attacking the city.

The army first recruited craftsmen and peasants from all over Laizhou, and then collected folks from all around.

But the rebel army was raging in Denglai, and there were ten rooms and nine empty spaces. There were really no strong people in the vicinity. After ten days of grinding, more than 2000 people were gathered, and another [-] were collected from the surrendered army, and then the siege equipment was built. Prepare for ants.

Ding Yi took advantage of this time to let Xu Fuzuo use his boat to send the horses he got to Lushun.

Because Xu Fuzuo still has more than 30 naval warships brought from Pidao, which were in Laizhou Bay before, and there are [-] Pidao sailors on it.

After they besieged Dengzhou, Ding Yi knew that the siege would take several months, so he found Xu Fuzuo and asked him to send the navy to send his more than 3000 war horses in Chengguo Town back to Lushun.

Originally, the transfer of the navy had to be reported to Gao Qiqian, Zhu Dadian and the others, but Ding Yi patted his chest and said, the siege will take several months, brother Xu, don't worry, there will be no delay.

Of course, Xu trusted Ding Yi unconditionally, and did not report to his superiors. He immediately arranged for a navy to help Ding Yi transport the spoils he had captured earlier, a large number of horses and weapons and armor, back to Lushun.

Ding Yi thanked Xu Fu with [-] horses.

It takes less than a few days to travel from Laizhou Bay to Lushun, and it takes only four or five days to go back and forth against the wind.

But because of the number of horses, it took five times to send all the horses back. Ding Yi simply sent back [-] captives from the short-distance Guo Town to Lushun, some of whom were former Dongjiang elite soldiers.

These people are not born after surrendering, they are of the same origin as Lushun. After returning home, with a little training and payment of money, they can immediately become their own people.

He also asked Xu not to kill any surrenders after breaking the city, and he would exchange one tael of silver for every surrendered soldier he captured.

After hearing this, Xu Fuzuo was furious and said, "Everyone is brothers, how can you insult me ​​with money (of course I won't talk about insulting me with money before), I don't want any money, just help you arrest people."

In mid-September, the official army was ready and began to attack the city.

On the same day, I went up and dived, then promoted to the main account of the Chinese army, and began to order.

Because only the south of Dengzhou is the best terrain to attack, Chen Hongfan, Liu Zeqing, Liu Langzuo, Deng Qi, Mou Wenshou and others were ordered to lead the infantry to attack first.

Wu Xiang, Zu Dabi, Zhang Tao and others led cavalry to guard against the rebels in the city.

Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo's troops stationed in the central army.

After this order was issued, all the generals around were secretly dissatisfied.

In the previous few battles, neither Ding Yi nor Xu Fuzuo's Dongjiang soldiers contributed anything. Often after the official army won a big victory and the rebels were defeated, the Chinese army would let Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo come out to hunt for meritorious service.

It's all right now, even the siege didn't let Lushun's soldiers go up.

But if you don't accept it, you won't accept it. The military order is as above, and everyone has no choice but to hold their noses and admit it.

The weather was very hot that afternoon, and the officers and soldiers waited until after dinner at five o'clock, when the sun had set, and began to attack.

Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo followed Gao Qiqian and Zhu Dadian to leave the camp of the Chinese Army to inspect the battlefield outside.

At this time, on the huge battlefield, there are clear layers, Dengzhou City is in the distance, and the government army camp is in the southwest of the city, and there are long fences surrounding Dengzhou City.

Behind Lanshan were the camps of the officers and soldiers. The camps in the front row were all the town commanders with mainly infantry, Guan Ning cavalry on the two wings, and the camps of Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo guarded the Chinese army.

The Ming army had already set up artillery positions in front of the formation. These artillery pieces were transported from Laizhou, Changyi, etc., and there were about 70 artillery pieces.

Following the order of the former army.

Boom, the cannons of the Ming army blasted first.

Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo looked at each other. It is useless to attack the city with artillery in this era.

Both Huang Taiji and Kong Youde tried.

Kong Youde once had three or four hundred cannons in his hands, which was the most cannons in the history of the Ming army, but he still couldn't help Laizhou.

The only function of the artillery here is probably to provide morale for the siege troops and remind them that they also have artillery.

But Ding Yi later found out that the Ming army's artillery had another effect. Once the artillery fired, the air would be filled with smoke. If it happened to be covered by the enemy's artillery, sometimes the enemy might not know whether he had hit or not.

After Ding Yi heard it, he felt that it made sense.

Dozens of guns rang out from the officer's side soon, and the front of the cannon was full of smoke. Standing on the flat ground, Ding Yi and others couldn't see the front, so he quickly found a high slope with Gao Qiqian and others to watch.

The shouts of killing in front were loud, and the officers and soldiers used knives to force the civilian husband and Jiang Jun to push the wheelbarrow forward first.

Ding Yi was dumbfounded when he saw it. The shield chariots used by Houjin all had two wheels, but the Ming army still used one wheel.

Moreover, the shield vehicles of Houjin are more protective, while those of the Ming army have almost no protection, and are completely used for transporting soil and sending people to death.

A large number of farmers and surrendered troops pushed their carts forward, but the formation was still relatively scattered to prevent shelling.

Kong Youde had a lot of good gunners under his command, so they were not in a hurry. After the officers and soldiers entered the area for a mile, there was a bang, and the cannonballs on the city wall were fired again and again, and the continuous shells poured down the city.

Ding Yi found that the shield chariot of the Ming army is also good, that is, it is much smaller than Houjin's shield chariot, and the probability of being hit is also theoretically small.

But once it hits, with a thud, you can see that the shield car is torn apart on the spot from a distance, and sometimes the shell bounces again, hitting the civilian husband, and the civilian husband is killed on the spot.

In comparison, Houjin's shield car has strong protection. Sometimes there are enough sandbags in the soil, and it may not be able to destroy the shield car with a single shot.

But the rear Golden Shield car is heavy, and if the ground is bad, it will be difficult to move forward.

While watching the battlefield, Ding Yi compared the sieges of the Houjin and Ming armies, looking for gaps and countermeasures.

Of course, every leading coach may have a different method of attacking the city, but for Ding Yi, it is always beneficial to look more.

At this time, as the artillery of both sides rang out at the same time, the war entered the most brutal siege battle.

At the beginning of the design of Dengzhou City, it probably did not expect that someone would attack here, so the moat is shallow and narrow.

Although the rebels occupied the rear, they also digged and built, but they were short of manpower and time.

In less than an hour, the officers and soldiers completely filled the moat.

But there are also countless corpses piled up under the city, and a large number of civilian husbands and surrendered soldiers were shot and killed by the rebels on the spot.

Especially in the last half hour, the civilian husband and the descending army were directly smashed by the artillery fire and bows and arrows on the city, and fled in all directions.

The officers and soldiers had no choice but to massacre their own citizens, so they could only push the remaining shield carts forward by the infantry battalion, and finally filled up the moat.

But the more tragic ants have finally begun.

(End of this chapter)