Wu Sangui was full of confidence in his offensive plan. Since the Battle of Songshan, he imitated Liu Jun's Chu army everywhere.☆→☆→, he found out that the Chu army had a staff department and many staff officers praised the painting. Before each battle, these staff officers had to formulate a detailed combat plan, detailing every step of advance and retreat. They even had a backup plan that could be compensated and replaced at any time.

Wu Sangui also established a staff department in his army and promoted a group of young officers as staff officers. Because many of his officers were children of Liaoxi and not many were educated, Wu Sangui recruited many scholars from Ningjin and other places, and entered his military camps, awarded them the title of a praising official, asking them to assist the staff to formulate plans, draw maps, etc.

In this battle of Yizhou siege, Wu Sangui's general staff also came up with a detailed combat plan, which was quite complete and detailed. The focus of the entire plan was 20,000 out of the 120,000 army, stationed in more than ten castles on all sides of Yizhou, responsible for interception, early warning and reinforcement of the Qing army, and also responsible for interception of the Qing army's escape after the city was broken.

The remaining 100,000 troops were stationed in the north of Daling River, responsible for intercepting Daling River and preventing the Qing army from breaking through the river.

The remaining 90,000 people were arranged on both sides of the east and west sides. After the official attack, both sides launched a feint attack to attract the attention of the Qing army. The real main attack direction was in the Nancheng, where 50,000 troops would be concentrated, and the two towns of Ningjin were composed of troops. Wu Sangui's Ningyuan artillery gathered together and attacked the east corner of the Nancheng. After breaking through the city wall, the heavy infantry of the Jinzhou in Zu Dashou took the lead and seized the trench. Ningyuan musketeers were behind to cover it.

This is a detailed plan.

The sun has risen, and a red sun is in the sky, as if it is dyed with blood.

With the sound of war drums and the flags waving, troops were reaching the designated position according to Wu Sangui's combat plan.

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The order for attack sounded, and the huge Ming army battle group began to attack according to their respective goals.

Thirty miles away, a cavalry was rushing towards Yizhou. The cavalry was about 5,000 people wearing the Ming army's uniform and armor, and holding the Ming army's red flag.

They rushed north along the Daling River. The Ming army, who had a patrol, tried to ask about the identity of the cavalry, and the reply was that Governor Hong and Governor Sun sent to reinforce the cavalry in Yizhou. They also told the Ming army that the two Governors Hong and Sun were leading most of their troops to Yizhou.

In the southeast corner of Yizhou City, three hundred steps outside the city, on a high slope, Wu Sangui's Ningyuan artillery position was located here. Hundreds of artillery types, and thousands of artillery soldiers were busy and making final preparations before the artillery attack. On the edge of this artillery position, there were three thousand infantry guards as positions, and there were three thousand cavalry on both wings, ready to intercept possible enemy troops at any time.

"Prepare to fire!"

The artillery battalion general shouted loudly, and the artillery commanders of each artillery shouted, "Prepare is completed!"

The first cannon began to roar, and the nine-pound long cannon chamber spewed out flames, and nine-pound solid cannonballs roared towards the Yizhou city wall. The shell hit the Yizhou city wall and smashed a piece of brick chips.

After the first shell was bombed, the gun captains of each cannon also issued orders to fire. Countless shells were out of the chamber and roared at the Yizhou city wall.

On the top of Yizhou City, the Qing army also discovered the Ming army's artillery position. They quickly reported to the top, and the Qing army commander quickly ordered several cannons to be transferred and bombarded the Ming army's artillery formation.

A large iron ball weighing ten kilograms roared at the Ming army's artillery formation, but the shell was shot too high and flew over the artillery formation. It fell behind more than a hundred steps of the artillery formation and accidentally hit several infantry soldiers.

The artillery on the top of the city then fired several more shots, either high or missed, and none of them shot the Ming army.

Wu Sangui also saw the artillery fire counterattack on the city from afar. He laughed and said, "The red cannons are not catapults. They are good at siege cities and are not as clumsy as defending the city. The red cannons of the Tatars have a range of at least 500 steps, and our cannon array is less than 300 steps below the city. The red cannons of the Tatars are mounted on the city, so it is difficult to hit us. Hahaha. They can only be beaten, but they can't get the hands!"

"Tell me, reduce the amount of medicine for the mortar cannons, aim at the top of the city to kill the Tartars' cannons first." Wu Sangui shouted happily.

The ballistics of the Red Barbarian Cannon are straight and have a long range. They are placed on the top of the city and are not suitable for defending the city. If you aim at the soldiers and horses in the distance, it is still powerful. For example, when siegeing the city, the siege side will generally gather troops and horses in the distance. At this time, bombarding with the Red Barbarian Cannon can destroy the assembly and break up the formation.

But like Wu Sangui, who relied on his many soldiers and strong artillery, placed the artillery array at about 300 steps under the city, the red barbarians of the Qing army were useless.

The cannons in Wu Sangui's cannon formation were also straight and could not hit the city head. However, when they approached, they directly bombarded the city wall, but there was no problem.

However, Wu Sangui also has a powerful weapon to deal with the Qing army artillery at the city entrance. The mortars purchased from the Chu army in Hubei are specifically designed to deal with the city entrance. These huge caliber mortars are actually equivalent to stone throwers that use gunpowder to fire stone bombs. Compared with traditional wooden stone throwers, these mortars are lighter and easier to transport. Moreover, they are more powerful and can eject extremely heavy stone bombs and throw them farther away.

When siege, it is also quite sharp to deal with the defenders on the top of the city or to smash the soldiers in the city.

More than a dozen mortar cannons concentrated on bombarding the city, and the Qing army on the city found the whistling stone bomb.

"Disast away!" A Qing army was divided into Bashiku and shouted loudly, and a group of gunners quickly ran away. Two stone bullets fell from the sky.

Wu Sangui saw from the Qianli Miles that only two of these dozen stone bombs hit the city. One of them hit a gun mount. The gun mount spread out and the gun barrel weighing thousands of pounds rolled down. An unlucky Qing army was hit by the gun barrel and died tragically on the spot. When the gun barrel rolled, it pressed on the foot of a Qing army and rolled into meat sauce.

"Well, I'll give each gunner to the gun team fifty yuan in silver, and the gunman is one hundred yuan in silver!"

On the southern city tower, Jirgalang's broken arm was still tied with gauze. He held the Qianli Mirror with his only remaining hand and aimed the Qianli Mirror at the Ming army's artillery formation.

In that battle in Songshan, Jirgalang was defeated and retreated for a short distance by a Ningyuan cavalry's pistol. He fell off his horse. Although he was protected by armor, he still fell off his horse. Wu Sangui chased him and cut off one of his arms. If his personal soldiers had not tried to save him, he would have died outside Songshan City that day.

Thinking about it now, Jirgalang still gritted his teeth and couldn't calm down his anger.

"Wu Sangui, it's Wu Sangui again."

"The artillery fire of the Ming army is very fierce. We must destroy their artillery array, otherwise the city wall will not last long." Duoduo stood aside and said.

"But there are so many Ming troops outside the city that we can't get close to the artillery array even if we leave the city."

The Ming army's artillery continued to bombard, and Wu Sangui ordered the artillery to concentrate as much as possible. But at the same time, he did not just wait for the artillery to break the city wall, and continued to attack on both sides of the east and west. They only had a small number of artillery, but they relied on shield cars and ladders to attack the city head by traditional siege.

On the south side of the key attack, the soldiers of Ningjin and the two towns were also launching fierce attacks towards the city. Under the protection of the shield chariot, the soldiers of Ningjin and the two towns held shields and knives, rushed down the city with their shields and swords. They carried ladders to the city and began to be set up.

"Roll, roll, roll, roll."

"The first person to attack the city will be rewarded with 10,000 silver dollars!"

The officers shouted heavy rewards, 10,000 yuan, and the Ming soldiers who were thrillingly attacking their eyes turned red, shouting all the way, rushing and killing.

Behind them, Wu Sangui was talking to his uncle and uncle Zu Dashou.

"Only the only Tartars have suppressed us to attack, attack our cities, and kill our soldiers. Today, our Liaoxi soldiers finally stood up and came back."

The siege had begun for more than half an hour, and the 100,000 Ming troops attacked the city from three sides, and the artillery positions also poured thousands of artillery shells into the southeast of the city.

The strong sound of cannons was shaking back and forth like thunder, and the gray and gloomy sky was illuminated by the cannon fire, and large clouds of black smoke were filled with all over Yizhou City.

The Qing army on the city kept firing arrows down the city, and even Jirgalang, Duoduo and others mobilized many archers to stand behind the city walls in dense formations, and shot archery rain outside the city at a forty-five degrees.

Within a few dozen steps in front of the city, there was a completely death zone. Countless Ming troops rushed over, but more arrow rain fell from the sky. The dense rain of arrows was like locusts, like heavy rain, and seemed to never stop.

Even if there are shields, shields, and iron armor, under such dense rain of arrows, countless Ming soldiers still fell on the road to attack from time to time.

The artillery group at the artillery positions continued to show their power, throwing shells to the city wall at the southeast end of the city. The bricks outside the city wall at the southeast end of the city had been smashed countless times, revealing the rammed earth layer inside. Even a lot of rammed earth was smashed countless times.

More than a dozen mortar cannons kept shooting stone bullets onto the city, destroying the enemy towers on the city. The archers in the enemy tower were often destroyed by the enemy towers.

The cannon group tried hard to bombard the city wall, bombarding it almost every two or three minutes.

The artillery group in Ningyuan Town is intimidating. The attacking Ningjin soldiers are more courageous and have a strong morale amid the continuous sound of cannons. These artillery sounds are like intense war drums, war songs, urging their fighting spirit. For the Qing army guarding the city, the sound of artillery is constantly suppressing their morale and weakening their morale bit by bit.

On the top of Nancheng, Jiergalang's face was pale, and his heart was trembling. He could not understand why the combat power of the Ming and Qing armies had completely reversed in an instant. When, the cowardly Ming army could even suppress them.

He didn't understand even more that the use of artillery in the army was not for a day or two. The Qing army itself also had red artillery, but why the artillery of the Ningyuan Army was so powerful and used so well.
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