Dalai Tush said: "Since we want to take advantage of the darkness to attack, we might as well press forward with the army again. The Beijing camp on the city can't see clearly anyway. Since we can't see it, we can't attack it."
Hara Hucai said: "I heard that many Han people have night blindness and are blind at night. Let's just fight at night and try to conquer Jiuyuan City in one go."
Gushi Khan lowered his head and considered the pros and cons. They were in bad luck from the beginning when they sent out troops. First, Linhe City was burned to death by a broken boat, killing 20,000 people. In addition, they were strafed by Gatling cannons, and they were burned to death.
The heavy artillery bombardment killed four to five thousand people. Today, another five to six thousand people were lost under the city.
Although they have a large number of people, the losses are all Oirat's elite forces, and they cannot afford it.
"We have been fighting for a day. Let the new troops from the four tribes of Guanxi, Tumut, and Tumut from Qinghai and Haixi, Yongxiebu, and Alxa be ready to mount up. We will hold down the formation from behind, and we will provide trebuchets at the same time.
and camel cannon cover.”
Several other people also nodded. This time, the Oirat Alliance came in the name of revenge for Monan Mongolia. It is impossible to keep losing men and horses on its own. It is time to let them shed some blood.
The Taijis quickly reached a consensus and prepared to continue the attack after dark.
They had so many people that they withdrew the 50,000 people they had invested during the day and brought in a new group of troops to fight the Ming army at night.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize were no longer planning to get off the platform, so they placed a camp bed in the east and west of the tent. They stayed here. Although they defeated the Mongols today, there was no guarantee that they would not attack at night.
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At this time, it was already dark, and the two of them were sitting cross-legged on the floor, with wine and food on the small table in the middle. The two of them were chatting.
"The Oirat people are indeed much more fierce than the tribes in Monan. If there was not enough molten iron today, I'm afraid the casualties would have been huge. However, these group training can be considered as training, and today's performance is also remarkable." Zhang Shize took a slice.
Sauce beef, he took a sip of wine and said.
"We rely on the fortified city, and I have plenty of iron materials. As long as we don't let them get close, we can defend the city. Without siege weapons, they can't defeat such a fortified city that can neither cut off the water source nor water transportation.
"Yang Fan said.
Zhang Shize looked at Yang Fan and said: "Then they can only follow us and fight a war of attrition. But it is difficult to consume us. Our people just don't leave the city, and it is difficult for their weapons to hit our people. It is easy for us to hit them.
Very. Their people are exposed in the wilderness."
Yang Fan said: "We are not in a hurry, Gushi Khan is in a hurry. If it snows, they will have to retreat if they don't."
Zhang Shize said: "We are not in a hurry, but we are afraid of His Majesty who is really anxious. Spending money is flowing like water now, and Your Majesty definitely doesn't want to delay it."
Yang Fan couldn't help but think of the Battle of Songjin. It was because Chongzhen forced Hong Chengchou to fight, and the result was a complete defeat. Otherwise, if it were delayed for another six months, Huang Taiji would be dragged to death.
Many times in wars, the competition is about the endurance of both sides, the endurance of the governments and people on both sides. Those who persevere will eventually win.
Zhang Shize smiled bitterly and said: "Don't worry, His Majesty asked me to take the Beijing camp back. Now there is a rumor that the cabinet is preparing to send you all the prisoners from the northern provinces, so that you can form a prisoner army to defend the city."
With the Beijing camp gone, military expenses are naturally saved, and the prisoners do not need to receive military pay. They only need to take care of the food. Yang Fan's corn is cheap, costing three pounds per penny. The food expenses for one hundred thousand prisoners are only 40 guan a day. That's not enough for a year.
It’s less than 15,000 taels of silver. Including weapons and other baggage, it’s probably the cheapest spear in the world, and the armor is also saved. What kind of armor does the prisoner want? 50,000 taels is enough for a year.
Yang Fan shrugged indifferently and said: "Whatever. If His Majesty really does this, I won't have any emotions. He can do whatever he wants. In the past two years, he has done a lot."
Zhang Shize said: "Your Majesty doesn't know the military, but he still likes to command blindly and is self-righteous. This will lead to bad things. Those people in Donglin don't understand military affairs at all. They are just fooling around. This time, they disbanded five towns and sent elite soldiers to the army.
If they all go to Rehe, I wonder if their hundreds of thousands of people can really stop the Jiannu."
While the two were talking, suddenly there was light outside the north city wall.
Countless burning fireballs flew towards the city wall. Then they hit the city wall one after another.
These fireballs are 40 to 50 kilograms of stone, wrapped in hemp rope soaked in kerosene, forming a spherical shape. This is because the stones found by the Oirat people were only suitable for trebuchets due to their weight.
However, they were impatient and did not have the manpower to polish the stone balls.
They simply soaked hemp rope in kerosene and wrapped it up to form a ball. Because only spherical bullets have the most controllable wind resistance and the most standard and accurate ballistics.
This is equivalent to adding a fairing to the irregular rocks.
They lit the stone with torches and projected it against the city wall.
Because the stone used for the city wall is gray-white, the city wall can still be clearly seen in the dark. They secretly transported the trebuchet to 150 meters in the dark and started shooting at the city wall.
Around them, a large number of soldiers carried ladders, preparing to bombard them for an hour before launching an attack on the city wall. It was dark now, and it was a good time for a night attack if the city wall could not see clearly what was happening below.
With the roaring sound, a large number of stone bullets formed a cross-fire, and a large number of stone bullets fell on the city wall. There was a chaos on the north wall. The soldiers were running around to avoid the attack of the stone bullets.
Yang Fan put down his chopsticks and said: "I really guessed that they are not done yet. If they see losses during the day, they will come at night."
Zhang Shize said: "These unlucky children, they think we only have molten iron as a solution."
Yang Fan said: "Don't worry, we will deal with them when they start to climb the city. It would be bad to scare them now."
Zhang Shize smiled and said: "You are still as sinister as ever. You are afraid that if they run away, there won't be enough results."
As of now, the Beijing Camp still has a few useless trump cards. Now to bring them in to fight is to let their army press on them. Then try to have a dense crowd within the fire coverage area.
These things are not cheap. Since they cost a lot, it is natural to achieve the maximum cost-effectiveness ratio.
"Are you going to use your rockets or gunpowder ejector?" Zhang Shize asked.
"Use the trebuchet first to shoot napalm bombs," Yang Fan said. "Don't they just think we can't see them in the dark? Napalm bombs can burn for a long time. Throw out a few hundred, and it will be as bright as day outside.
.When the time comes, we won’t be able to fight however we want.”
"Also, since I have prepared so many gunpowder jars weighing ten pounds each this time, I have to test the effect."
