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Chapter 142: Preparing for the Siege

In the first month of the first year of Tianqi, Wild Boar Seed led a large wave of Jiannu to kill Jinzhou. From south of Liaoyang to Jinzhou, there was no rooster crowing, no smoke from cooking, and the land was deserted. △Small,...o&1t;/p>

The snow has not melted yet, otherwise you can still see bones everywhere on both sides of the road.&1t;/p>

Production on the Liaodong Peninsula has completely withered. There may be no household within a few hundred miles here. They are either killed or left their hometowns and escaped.&1t;/p>

This place has become a land that cannot create wealth, but the wild boar skin doesn't care. In his opinion, it is just to continue to rob the front line of Guangning where Han people produce. It doesn't matter whether there is Han people producing on the Liaodong Peninsula, but the Ming army cannot reoccupy the place, otherwise it will be more passive when robbery.&1t;/p>

The Ming army has regrouped on the front line of Guangning. If it wants to break through the Guangning defense line and rob, it must dispatch most of its troops. If it is attacked by the Ming army from Jinzhou and Pidao at that time, the robbery may be abandoned halfway.&1t;/p>

After all, this robber gang is also old and young, and the old, weak, women and children are left behind.&1t;/p>

This time, the wild boar siege led his troops to attack Jinzhou, bringing nearly 60,000 troops, while only more than 40,000 troops were left in Shenyang and other places. Obviously, he was not very afraid of the Ming army on the Guangning front line. If the Ming army on the Guangning front line attacked, he would have to retreat, but defeat them one by one.&1t;/p>

Even without retreating, the Ming army was already difficult to compete with them in the field. Therefore, the wild boar skin was relieved to lead the main force and kill to Jinzhou.&1t;/p>

After a march, most of the soldiers and horses of the Wild Boar Skin finally arrived fifty miles north of Jinzhou Pass. At this time, the Wild Boar Skin immediately sent three Niulu out of the Yellow Flag to try to attract the defenders in Jinzhou City.&1t;/p>

So Jiannu started the show. Three Jiannu from Niulu ran to the city of Jinzhou and swaggered around. As a result, the cannons on the top of the city were all together and arrows were raining. Hundreds of Jiannu were killed on the spot. The rest of Jiannu turned around in panic and ran away.&1t;/p>

As a result, there was no movement in Jinzhou Pass. The defenders in the Pass did not pursue them at all, so the group of Jiannu had to run back in vain and report to the wild boar skin.&1t;/p>

Seeing that the temptation failed, the wild boar skin had to give up the idea of ​​temptation, and took the main force to swagger towards Jinzhou, and stationed five miles away from Jinzhou. The wild boar skin didn't know that it was, but they had already entered the range of the heavy artillery at this time.&1t;/p>

Thirty heavy artillery. It has been installed on the city wall, but it is all covered with things. Jiannu's scout ran around the city, but could not see what was under it. It was only for some city-defying supplies, and the things were covered for waterproofing and sun protection. The guns just now were all three-pound cannons and one-pound cannons transported from the Royal Military Factory. These cannons have good performance, but they are light in weight and have a relatively close range, and belong to the category of field cannons.&1t;/p>

The defense line of Jinzhou Pass was quickly established due to the advantage of the terrain. The wall of Jinzhou Pass itself is very strong. Zhang Kuangtu, the general general of Jinzhou Town, quickly made this line of defense not worthy of being solid. In terms of military strength, it also expanded to more than 20,000 people. Another garrison army of more than 10,000 people was established. This garrison army was a well-dressed soldier selected from the Liao people. It has a deep hatred with Jiannu, and its morale is absolutely available.&1t;/p>

Not long ago, a large amount of supplies had been transported to Jinzhou Town. The supplies at Jinzhou Pass were enough for more than three months. Moreover, because Jiannu could not surround the back, the supplies could continue to be delivered to Jinzhou Pass.&1t;/p>

Even if Jinzhou Pass is lost, you can still retreat to the southern Pass, which can be said to be a double level.&1t;/p>

"Jiannu really dares to come!" Zhang Kuotu climbed to the top of the city and looked at the Jiannu army stationed in the distance with a telescope, looking very relaxed. While Jiannu was halfway, Zhang Kuotu had already received an emergency report, and it was roughly known that Jiannu was here to attack Jinzhou. So just now, the three Jiannu from Niulu were walking the catwalk under the city, and Zhang Kuotu did not pursue these Jiannu.&1t;/p>

"Sir General, Jiannu has entered our heavy artillery range. Should I give them a few shots first?" asked a staff officer.&1t;/p>

"No hurry, that will scare Jiannu away." Zhang Kuotu shook his head and said, if Jiannu had a large number of heavy artillery in the cash state, he would definitely be scared away. There is no doubt that Jiannu himself has poor attack ability, and it is basically impossible to let them attack the cannon to attack the city.&1t;/p>

The most common method of siege by Jiannu was to rely on the traitors in the city as their internal support. If this strategy did not work, they would find a way to lead the defenders in the city out to fight them in the field. If it still didn't work, then just surround the city and surround the city for several months or even more than half a year. If the Ming army dared to support, they would attack the reinforcements of the Ming army, and if they didn't dare to support, they would starve the defenders in the city to death.&1t;/p>

When Jiannu had not yet obtained a large number of artillery, Jiannu's siege methods did stay at this stage. Of course, Jiannu was not without whimsical intentions to attack the city. For example, in the first year of Chongzhen, he came to the capital and siege the capital, but he naturally had a huge head.&1t;/p>

At this time, Zhang Kuotu hoped that Jiannu would come to attack the tough head-on. As for internal support, there might be some Jiannu spies in the city, but they could not use them at all.&1t;/p>

Nearly 50,000 Jiannu and more than 30,000 traitor troops, their troops were nearly five times that of the Jinzhou Pass defenders. Wild Boar Skin ran around the city himself, but there was no good way. I just felt that this Jinzhou was very difficult. There should be no inside and it could not be surrounded. The defenders in the city were unwilling to come out for field battles.&1t;/p>

"Do you have a way to take this Golden State?" Wild Boar Skin asked the group left and right.&1t;/p>

"Father Khan, if you want to take down this Jinzhou Pass, you may have to attack hard." Big Bele Daishan said, "but I'm afraid the casualties will be a bit serious."&1t;/p>

"If you want to attack for a strong force, let the Han army fight first!" said the Sibeile Huang Taiji.&1t;/p>

"Since that's the case, we can only attack." Wild Boar Skin decided helplessly. As a wild boar Skin's thorn in the eyes, Jinzhou was willing to pay the price if he paid some casualties. So Wild Boar Skin immediately ordered Li Yongfang and other traitors to quickly build siege equipment and prepare to siege the Jinzhou Pass.&1t;/p>

Li Yongfang and other traitors knew that they would definitely be cannon fodder this time, but they didn't need to go into battle in person. Anyway, the big-headed soldiers below died, so they worked very hard to execute.&1t;/p>

The Ming army in the city also showed the intention of Jiannu. However, no one was panicked and his morale was still very strong.&1t;/p>

Before siege, Wild Boar Skin continued to send troops to the city as targets for artillery to test the range of artillery and the number of artillery.&1t;/p>

The Ming army in the city was not polite, with hundreds of three-pound cannons and one-pound cannons firing at the city. In terms of the number of new ones that have just been transferred, they were artillery. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>

ps: First update!&1t;/p>&1t;/p>
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