When the Qing soldiers attacked the city, Lanzhou City was in panic. Everyone ran around like headless flies. Song Xiance's arrival quickly stabilized people's hearts.

"Enter your own defensive position, hurry up! Jiannu is about to attack. Enter your own defensive position and listen to my orders!"

The soldiers of the Eastern Palace Guard quickly took over the command of various places. When everyone was in a panic, they heard that the general of Jingtailai had taken the prince's order to dispatch troops. In the crisis, no one thought much, so they followed the orders.

The arrows fell like rain, and Huang Taiji began to launch a fierce attack.

The Qing army was overwhelmed by the sound of killing outside the city, and everyone who heard it was disgusting.

No one has seen such a large formation. It swarmed like a tide. The Qing soldiers under the city wall set up a ladder and started to attack the city with screams.

At the same time, the Qing archers under the city kept suppressing them with bows and arrows. Once the Ming army poked their heads out, they would easily be shot to death.

"Blast it for me!"

With the orders of the soldiers of the Eastern Palace Guards, the Ming army on the city wall began to fight back.

The most effective way to deal with a siege is to throw stones. This thing is made of materials locally, without any cost. Huge stones fell from the city, and the Qing soldiers under the city were wailing.

When the Qing soldiers attacked the city, what they hated the most was not the Ming army's bows and arrows, or even the Ming army's cannons. But the throwing of such stones and stone throwing chariots.

How difficult it is to capture a city? "The Art of War" says: "The superior army attacks the plan, then attacks the diplomatic relations, then attacks the troops, and then attacks the city."

Siege battles are prone to causing large casualties to the attacking party, and may even cause a chain reaction due to a strong city that cannot be attacked for a long time, causing a reversed battle situation.

To decide to attack a city, you must first determine the value of the city to the entire battle situation, that is, whether it is at a strategic impetus, whether it is the enemy's capital, whether there are resources that the attacking party must obtain, etc.

This is in line with Huang Taiji's requirements. Lanzhou is a strategic location in Shaanxi and the gateway to the entire Shaanxi. As for the city, there is a large amount of military pay, food and grass hidden.

The second is to determine the personnel and food and military strength of this city. The so-called "judging the strength of the enemy and us, and measuring the number of oneself is small." If the city has less food and more people, it cannot attack forcefully to avoid unnecessary casualties and only siege can win; if the city has more food and fewer people, then it is necessary to launch an attack without hesitation and win in battle.

Judging from the information we have obtained so far, there are only more than 10,000 people in Lanzhou City. The Qing soldiers who are ten times more likely to take a strong attack.

In addition, it is siege equipment. "The General Yao of Wu Jing" has included as many as 72 types of siege equipment maps, covering eight categories: long-range attack equipment, reconnaissance and observation equipment, connection equipment, obstruction equipment, digging equipment, destroying equipment, arson equipment, and climbing equipment.

The siege equipment used by Huang Taiji is a ladder, which is a convenient and effective tool.

Of course, the ladder here does not refer to the kind of ladders that we repair workers carry. They rush on the rack, and such ladders can only be used as live targets.

I am afraid that you will be shot into a hedgehog before you can reach the city by carrying the ladder, or you will be smashed into pieces by stones on the city wall.

The cloud ladder is a huge siege equipment. It is similar to a tank body with soldiers hidden at the bottom. The wide cloud ladder spans over the city wall like a moving step.

Dozens or even hundreds of soldiers moving from below were pushed and moved slowly. Moreover, the soldiers had wide wooden boards in front of them, making it impossible for the enemy's bows and arrows to shoot.

A moving step was against the city wall. Then, soldiers under the ladder flocked out, stomping on the ladder with shields in hand, rushing upwards with howling.

It’s okay to say that a cloud ladder is aligned, but it’s the same as if it’s on the city wall and it’s on the earth slope to strike you.

If the siege relies on the advantage of the number of people to cover up, what can you resist?

Also, the weak point of a city wall is the city gate. The defenders in the city naturally have strict defenses. For attacks on the city gate, a car crash requires a car crash. However, the car crash cannot protect the soldiers who are pushing forward. Therefore, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a pointed wooden donkey appeared, that is, a protective wooden board was built on the siege car, and the outer Mongolian cowhide was raw.

The war is fierce. If the enemy climbed the city wall and was broken, Lanzhou City was broken at least seventeen times on this day.

On and under the city walls, there were corpses everywhere. The Ming army in Lanzhou City witnessed the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers with their own eyes.

Song Xiance was even more frightened. After all, we underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers. These Qing soldiers were no less than the Hu Ben Army when fighting.

What’s bad is that Huang Taiji’s subordinates, each of the 100,000 troops, had an extremely strong combat power. However, the Ming army had only Zhu Cilang’s three thousand Tiger Army.

How to fight such a battle can only be filled with human lives and the corpses are piled up. Logically speaking, Huang Taiji, the siege's battle loss rate should be the highest.

However, from the situation of the war, the casualties rate of the Ming army was at least three times that of the Qing army. Moreover, the Ming army was still the guardian of the city.

Of course, the main reason is that the people who participated in the city were the most casualties. These people who had never fought a war and had never taken up weapons to fight back, they paid a heavy price for this battle.

However, from the panic at the beginning, to now, every person participating in the war has a resolute face. The brothers, relatives and friends around them have all died in this battle. All those who are alive are left with anger, and they want to take revenge!

Compared with the major casualties in Lanzhou City, Huang Taiji outside the city was even more frightened. Since the Qing Dynasty launched its rebellion, they had never encountered such a crazy stubborn resistance.

I thought that Lanzhou City was not easy to capture when a hundred thousand troops came over it. However, judging from the current offensive, Lanzhou City was as solid as a sacred place.

If he could not capture the city, it would be extremely unfavorable to Huang Taiji. If it were not necessary, he would not want to adopt the strategy of siege and attack the Ming Dynasty reinforcements.

The second plan is just a last resort unless it is necessary to do so. But now it seems that it is not that simple to conquer Lanzhou City.

Huang Taiji fought with the Ming army several times in Liaodong, and had his own unique characteristics in siege. He learned from the tactics of the Mongolian Yuan army's siege and came up with an extremely cruel method.

At this time, the two reinforcements from Sun Chuanting and Zhu Cixuan had arrived in Lanzhou. Sun Chuanting had arrived in Gongchang Prefecture, while Zhu Cixuan's Hu Ben Army had arrived in Huining.

Both armies rushed to Lanzhou without stopping. At the same time, Pingliang, Fengxiang, Xi'an, Hanzhong, Long'an and other prefectures also began to gather troops. All the troops in Shanxi gathered urgently and rushed towards Lanzhou.

Thanks to the Crown Prince and Sun Chuanting, it was them who quelled the bandits in Shaanxi, which allowed the officers and soldiers from all over the country to gather together.

Otherwise, even the gods in Shaanxi would not be able to save the Qing Dynasty and the bandits were in trouble.
Chapter completed!