East Factory Governor

Chapter 146 Siege and Retreat

In the early morning of the third day of November, Zhao led the army to arrive eight or nine miles outside Da'ankou City.

In the darkness, the four rear golden horse posts looked at the long fire dragon in the distance with incredible expressions.After being stunned for a long time, he finally came to his senses and immediately turned his horse's head. Two of them galloped towards Da'ankou City, while the other two galloped towards Zunhua!

At Maoshi, Azig's army arrived in Zunhua and joined Huang Taiji.

After an hour of repairs, at Chenshi ([-]:[-] a.m.) on the third day of November, Huang Taiji led nearly [-] post-gold elite soldiers, plus more than [-] Mongolian soldiers, and launched a fierce attack on Zunhua City.

Zunhua City is a fortified city. The wall is seventeen or eighteen meters high and five meters thick. There are battlements on it, and there are firearm shooting holes under the battlements. It can be said that it is not strong.

Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua who guarded the city, personally boarded the tower to supervise the battle, to show his determination to live and die with the city!

However, there are [-] defenders in the city, but what they are facing is the siege of more than [-] Manchu and Mongolian allied forces. The battle is extremely tragic.

Because Hou Jin had been preparing outside the city for a long time, he did not lack siege tools.

More than a dozen high platforms nearly 20 meters high, pushed by hundreds of soldiers, slowly approached the city wall.Each high platform can accommodate ten rear golden archers, and there are battlement-like structures on the high platform to protect the archers.Relying on their height advantage, hundreds of post-golden archers almost pressed down on the Ming army archers on the city wall.

While the archers suppressed, Hou Jin's bulky ladders also leaned against the city wall.There are iron hooks on the upper ends of these ladders. After they are fastened to the city wall, it is very difficult to push them down.Countless Tazi soldiers rushed up on the ladder.

At this time, the firearm shooting holes under the battlements will play a powerful role.Behind these embrasures was a hollow space filled with gunmen.These firearms soldiers use bird guns with more stable performance. Every two firearms soldiers are responsible for one shooting hole. One shoots and quickly retreats to reload, and the other immediately catches up with the shooting.

The location of the shooting hole was chosen just right, about five or six meters away from the top of the city. Since the ladder cannot be attached to the city wall, it must form a certain oblique angle with the city wall. The hole was about three or four meters away, and they couldn't reach the firearms soldiers, but the firearms soldiers could easily hit them-within this distance, even a musketeer with a poor aim could almost hit a hundred shots.

"Bang, bang, bang", puffs of thick blue smoke came out from the shooting holes, and after each puff of smoke, there would almost be a burst of blood.The Tazi soldiers who were hit in the head died on the spot, and many of those who were hit in the legs and arms fell off the ladder, and fell to the ground and died without dying.

The existence of firearm soldiers caused a lot of damage to the Hou Jin army.

However, the bird gun has a big problem, that is, it is very slow to reload.To fire a bullet, you have to go through N processes such as pouring, charging, pressing the fire, loading the bullet, loading the door, and loading the matchlock. Even if two people take turns, the firing rate of each hole is only two or three rounds per minute. It was far inferior to the speed at which the Tartars came up.

So Wang Yuanya thought of another way, which was to stuff some spearmen into the space behind the shooting holes.When the musketeers are reloading, the spearmen use their spears to stab the enemies on the ladder.Because the walls of Zunhua City are five meters thick, it is not a problem to stuff the spearmen.In this way, the effectiveness of these shooting holes was fully utilized, forming a dead zone, and countless Jin soldiers died in front of the shooting holes.

On the top of the city, the three Frangler cannons also exerted their power.These cannons used flowering bullets at the beginning, but after the Houjin soldiers gathered under the city, because the city wall was too high and the angle of depression was too large, they could not hit the Houjin soldiers, so the gunners immediately replaced it with solid bullets. Follow Houjin's high platform fight.

This style of play was quickly retaliated by the archers on Houjin Gaotai. Arrows rained on the gunners one after another, and the gunners' auxiliary soldiers set up a large shield to resist the arrow rain for the gunners.

The battle was extremely fierce. The two sides fought fiercely from morning to noon, from the top of the city to the bottom of the city. There was a smell of gunpowder everywhere, and there were corpses lying everywhere, as well as the remains of soldiers.

Wang Yuanya stood at the top of the city, waving the flag and shouting. He was accidentally hit by an arrow, but he didn't retreat. He had the backbone of a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty.The guards were greatly encouraged and fought to the death, but the Hou Jin army had nothing to do.

Until Sishi (after nine o'clock), the city suddenly caught fire!

"My lord, the grain depot is on fire!"

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

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

"My lord, we found a group of spies setting fires everywhere, about 50 or [-] people, they are very skillful, they seem to be people from the Jianghu!"

Wang Yuanya was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time, her face was pale!
Suddenly remembered that a few days ago, a Jinyiwei Qianhu told him that there were spies in the city, and he had to take strict precautions.But I completely ignored it!
Sitting weakly on the chair, Wang Yuanya's mind went blank.

The governor is responsible for guarding the soil, if he loses Zunhua City, he will be condemned to death!
Why don't I believe in Jin Yiwei?Hehe, Snake Factory Guard, Snake Factory Guard, as a civil servant, he naturally needs to draw a clear line with the factory guard. Naturally, he must believe that there are no good people among them, otherwise, what will his colleagues in the court think of him...

Woohoo, what a pity?
Not sad, just ridiculous!

"My lord, do you want to put out the fire?" A lieutenant asked.

Fire fighting?

Wang Yuanya smiled desperately in her heart. With such a huge fire, I am afraid that even if all the soldiers defending the city went to put out the fire, they would definitely not be able to put it out.

Weakly said, "Send a hundred soldiers to rescue the grain depot, save as much as you can. Don't worry about other personal belongings."

The deputy general took the order and immediately organized manpower to rescue the grain depot.

Seeing the fire in the city, the soldiers guarding the city immediately lost their morale.All the assets of these soldiers are in the city, how can they not be distracted?Moreover, seeing the raging fire in the city, one knew that it was difficult to extinguish it. Looking back, no matter whether the ammunition, food, grass, or even the tiles covering the body would be gone, how could they fight?
Outside the city, Yue Tuo, who was in charge of commanding the siege with full power, saw the thick smoke billowing in the city, and knew that it was time to attack, so he immediately ordered that, except for the 8000 Chinese troops who supported him, the whole army would attack from all sides of Zunhua City, who would be the first? Set foot on the top of the city, reward a hundred taels of gold, a hundred cattle and sheep, and give him the title of Batulu!

After a while, countless golden soldiers rushed up like a tide, and the shouts resounded through the sky.

On the side of the Ming army, many soldiers began to withdraw the city wall under the guise of fighting the fire and sneaked away.In the beginning, the officials took care of them, but when they saw more and more fleeing, they couldn't control them anymore, so they simply ran away in the name of catching deserters.

Wang Yuanya stood at the top of the city. Seeing this scene, she knew that the situation was over, so she entered the tower, took out a piece of white silk, and tied it to the beam.

If you are going to die left or right, then choose a decent way to die.If I die for the country, my colleagues in the court and China will always say a few good things for me, and my descendants will not suffer too much.

Just as he was about to wrap his neck around Bai Ling, he suddenly heard someone shouting outside.

"The Tartars are retreating! The Tartars are retreating!"

Wang Yuanya trembled all over, thinking that she had heard wrongly.

Listen again, this time it's very clear.

"The Tartars have retreated!"

PS1: The battle of Zunhua is simply written because the protagonist does not participate.In fact, the siege battles of the ancients were very exciting. If the protagonist participated, I would describe it well and present a real Ming Dynasty siege battle to everyone.

PS2: Because there are some logical problems in the manuscript, in line with the principle of respecting the readers' IQ, I have been making revisions today, so Chapter 3 is a bit late.There will be Chapter 4 in a while, everyone who has votes, please continue to vote, let the city lord be shocked again, hehe~~
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