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Chapter 139 Bombarding Shengjing City

"3000 troops? Commander Chu's tone is so loud. Does he want to treat our Koryo army as cannon fodder?" Zhang Wan couldn't help but nervously said when he saw that Chu Yun wanted to borrow [-] troops.

"Master Zhang, don't be nervous. I don't borrow your troops to let them be the vanguard to attack the city. I just want them to help with civil engineering, and we will take care of the food." Chu Yun said.

"civil Engineering?"

"In layman's terms, it's digging tunnels."

"Oh, Master Chu said earlier, let alone 3000 people, I'm fine with 5000 people." Zhang Wan laughed.

"Then let's borrow 5000 people."

"...I'm just being polite..."

Amin, the owner of the Xianglan Banner, and Yue Tuo, the owner of the Xianghong Banner, are in charge of the defense of Shengjing City.They have just experienced the battle of Haizhou with the Liao army, and they are more or less familiar with the Liao army's routines. They have twice the number of troops last time, and they still have some confidence in this defense.

"Push the artillery to the city wall, pay attention to the position called 'fort', don't let the artillery of the Liao army be destroyed easily. Let the Liao army have a good taste of the power of our artillery this time." Amin said on the city wall On the patrol, I focused on the Tianwei cannons placed in the four-corner bastion of the city wall.

These dozens of cannons are old and new, and some of them are even old-fashioned cannons cast when the Ming Dynasty was at war with the Tartars one or two hundred years ago.

However, Amin and others, who knew the power of the artillery, regarded the artillery in the arsenal as a life-saving straw.

"According to the urgency of the Liao army, it is estimated that they are trying to open the situation with artillery, and then the infantry presses up. We can first form a small team to monitor the movements of the Liao army on the city wall. When the Liao army approaches, we will defend The soldiers below the city wall climbed up to the city again, and killed them with artillery, stones, and bows and arrows." Amin said to the officers who followed him with blue and red flags.

"Pay attention to the wind direction, adjust the angle, and each artillery battalion will bomb its own target according to the original plan." Dong Dawei, the commander of the artillery brigade, gave the shelling order in the artillery position.

In each small position, the gunner received the combat order, used the quadrant to determine the firing angle, and adjusted it with the sight.

"Load the artillery!" The gunner loaded the ammunition under the supervision of the gunner, and some gunners prepared the ammunition and moved the ammunition from the carriage to the vicinity of the artillery.

"emission!"

boom!boom!boom!Billowing black smoke billowed from the artillery positions, and pieces of artillery shells howled to bombard the city of Shengjing!

A corner of the battlement was hit head-on by a mortar, and it was torn apart!The Hou Jin officer who was on patrol was startled, and shrank his head in unison.

Dozens of shells hit the wall one after another, and the gravel flew. Some of the gold soldiers who were unfortunately hit were smashed into meat sauce before they even had time to scream!
"The Liao army has started shelling, everyone, hurry down to the city!" Amin shrunk his body pale and pressed against the thick city wall.

Fortunately, Shengjing is an important city, and the walls are so thick that the artillery of the Liao army cannot be smashed open for a while.

Under the leadership of Amin, the officers of the two banners carefully evacuated down the city, leaving only one army responsible for defending the city wall.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" An Eight Banners officer who was about to withdraw from the city wall was pierced through his lower body by a flowering bullet that fell and exploded.

He fell into a pool of blood, the arteries in his thighs were cut by rough shrapnel, and the severe pain made him scream.

"Banner owner...help...help me..." The Eight Banners officer crawled on the ground with his hands, struggling to ask Amin for help.

"Take him down." Amin immediately asked several Niu Luerzhen to drag the shot Eight Banners officer down to the city.It's just that he knew that most of his subordinates would die.

The fierce artillery fire of the Fu Liao Army plunged the soldiers and civilians of Shengjing City into endless panic, especially the Minister of the Later Jin who had heard of the Fu Liao Army's name for a long time, but had never met the Fu Liao Army.

In the palace of Shengjing City, almost all the civil and military ministers who stayed behind in Shengjing were anxious.From time to time there was the sound of artillery bombardment in the distance. Although the sound was not loud from a distance, it was no less than thunder on the ground in their ears.

In the palace, it is Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hauge who is also in charge of the Yellow Banner, who maintains the overall situation.But Hauge is only [-] years old, and he belongs to a group of lower status among many Baylors. It is too difficult for him with lower seniority to stabilize the situation in the autumn of life and death.

Outside the palace, Daishan, the flag owner of the red flag, came in with a group of military predators.

"Big Baylor, the Liao army has already approached the city, and their artillery is killing our soldiers and civilians. Has Your Majesty not returned to the army yet?" A group of civil servants asked anxiously when seeing the oldest Da Beile Daishan appear.

"A bunch of trash! The Liao army is outnumbered by us, so why not be afraid! Even if His Majesty doesn't come back, can't we rely on us to deal with it?" A young man who followed Dai Shan asked disdainfully.

"Baylor's lesson is..." the civil official who was questioned said ashamedly.

Although this young man is only 45 or [-] years old, his status in Houjin is extraordinary. He is the son of Nurhachi, one of the "Four Little Baylors" after the "Four Great Baylors"!

"Look at you, you are not as brave as Dorgon, but you still have the face to hold a high position." Dai Shan couldn't help mocking.

When Daishan said this, the civil servants couldn't hold back their faces, "I don't know what the Big Baylor has to do?"

"The Han people have the art of war called the strategy of delaying the army. We can send envoys to negotiate a truce with the Liao army outside the city, and promise them various conditions to hold them back. When Your Majesty and Mang Ergutai return to the army, we will attack from inside and outside. The Liao army will not stop." Attack yourself!" Dai Shan said fiercely.

"This plan seems feasible..." A group of civil servants nodded after hearing this.

"Haug, do you think it is possible to send an envoy to negotiate with the Liao Army?" Dai Shan turned to Hauge and asked.

"Your strategy is excellent, so I will do as you say. As for the candidate..." Hauge was also in awe of this uncle whose status was no less than that of his father, Huang Taiji.

"Li Sizhong, you are the son of Li Chengliang, the Liaodong general of the Ming Dynasty. I think Chu Yun will sell your ancestors' face. This time, you will bring a few people as envoys to negotiate with the Liao Army. Whether they want Haizhou City , Xining Fort, still want money and food, as long as they don't have to capture our Shengjing City, any request can be granted to them for the time being. Do you know everything?" Daishan ordered to a subordinate in court.

"What? Me?" The general known as Li Sizhong asked in surprise, why did he seem to be a negotiator before he recovered?

A group of civil servants in the imperial court looked at him with pity, alas, this poor child is going to negotiate with the Liao army who cannibalize people without spit out their bones.

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