Chapter 995
Zhao Ming was full of confidence, and the Ming army soldiers regarded the Rakshasa people as grass, which made the heads of the Jurchen tribes feel a little confused.
They were bullied by Rakshasa people and attacked the Rakshasa people's fortress together, knowing how powerful the Rakshasa people are.
Although the leaders also acknowledged the power of the Ming army, everyone still felt a little unbelievable after conquering the fortress in half a month.
This strange castle is hard to capture with brute force and people. They have already learned a lesson from pain.
Facing the doubts of the people in the head, Zhao Ming did not explain too much, but let them see the true strength of the Ming army.
Killing all the Jianzhou Jurchens is a warning, and attacking and arriving at sea ornaments is a stage made of heaven and earth. This battle has reached its level. The Jurchens and Mongols in the entire Northeast, the outside of the Northeast, and the Mongols will completely surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhao Ming made a decision, he returned to the camp and immediately began to arrange for Li Ponu to lead a thousand cavalry to detour to the north of Hailanpao, block the Black Dragon General's waterway, cut off the connection between Hailanpao and the two Russian strongholds upstream Yaksa and Nibchu, and then the army began to attack the city.
The Ming army rested in the city overnight. The next morning, after breakfast, the soldiers had their soldiers, the artillery began to set up red-clothed cannons, while the infantry carried hoes and shovels and assembled outside the camp.
"Let's start!" Zhao Ming stood in front of the team and smiled.
Then he saw the commander of the artillery team in the distance, waved the order flag suddenly, and shouted loudly, "Fire the artillery!"
"Boom boom boom" The gunner ignited the lead, the cannon roared, and the cannon body retreated sharply, and the shells weighing more than ten pounds roared and smashed towards the city wall.
With a few loud bangs, the shells hit the tilted stone wall, and many shells were directly bounced away by the wall.
Zhao Ming nodded slightly: "It's worthy of being a bastion!"
The Jurchen heads on the side were restless and talked a lot, "It's over, the cannons have no choice but to fill the castle of the Rakshasa people, they can only fill it with their lives."
This made the heads panic. According to the convention, the only person who was going up was the one who could fill it up.
After all, the siege was full of casualties, so the Ming army could not have been on its own from the beginning. Many leaders moved quietly to stay away from the Regent to avoid being the generals.
Zhao Ming looked at the heads’ thoughts, but just smiled slightly. Today I will let you know what a military power is and what a responsible big country is.
On the city wall, the Russian commander was shocked to see that the enemy had heavy artillery, but when he saw that most of the shells were bounced off by the anti-aircraft wall, he calmed down.
How could the backward and ignorant Tatars break through the empire's brink of the brink?
"Boom boom boom" smoke rose from the top of the city wall, and the Russian artillery on the bastion launched a counterattack.
With a "bang", the shells landed a hundred steps ahead of the military formation, splashing a mud pillar.
Huge heavy artillery was difficult to transport from Moscow to the Far East. The artillery on the Far East strongholds were all cast on site by Tsarist Russia.
Because the opponents were mainly backward Mongols and Jurchens, the caliber and weight of Tsarist Russian artillery were not as good as the heavy artillery of the Ming army, and all the shells fell in front of the Ming army's formation.
At this time, Zhao Ming observed the landing point of the cannons in the city, and then waved his hand and said, "Let's start."
The leaders of various Jurchen departments saw the Ming soldiers carrying shovels and hoes stepping forward to the point where they landed. They raised their hoes and shovels and began to attack the city and do their jobs.
This made the people who were about to be named, gritted their teeth and led their tribe members to rush forward. When the Rakshasa people in the city fired their guns, they felt a fog.
On the city wall, Baharov looked at the Ming army far away from the city and began to dig soil, and he was also confused.
This way of digging trenches and attacking the battalions has just appeared in the West, and Tsarist Russia, as a marginal country, still doesn't understand it.
At this time, the Ming soldiers first dug a horizontal trench along the cannon shooting range on the city, and then the soldiers jumped into the horizontal trench, digging the "Zhi" trench and advancing towards the bastion.
This kind of trench is not a straight line, and the trench is bent forward, so even if the shells fall into the trench, they will not hit a straight line, causing heavy casualties in the entire trench and minimizing the damage of the artillery.
The Russian army on the city did not care about it when the Ming army dug crossing trenches, and the artillery could not be fired. However, when digging the trenches of "Zhi" and advancing to the city, they immediately felt the threat. The artillery on the city began to fire, but the Ming soldiers were under the ground, and the artillery basically caused no casualties.
At this time, the Jurchen heads reacted that the Ming army wanted to dig the trench below the city so that the soldiers could avoid artillery attacks and go directly to the city.
In fact, the Qing army had done this when it attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou, but they were not the Jianzhou Jurchens. Many people just heard that they did not really participate in the war that year.
"The Regent is so wise!" The leader of the Sauron tribe couldn't help but sigh.
All departments knew that they did not need to be cannon fodder, and they also praised the Ming army's fighting style.
Zhao Ming was quite proud and said condescendingly: "Remember, you need to use more ideas and wisdom in war!"
After saying that, Zhao Ming pulled his horse back to the camp and left his soldiers to continue his attack on the city.
Next, what the Ming soldiers did day by day were to dig trenches, intending to dig the trenches directly under the ridges so that the soldiers could advance to attack the city wall.
This dig lasts ten days, and there are only five days left before the half-month period mentioned by Zhao Ming. The army has not yet begun to attack the city, so how can it be possible to capture the castle when it expires?
The Regent was invited by us to drive away the Rakshasa people for us Jurchens. We should be grateful for the Regent's kindness and not let the Regent fail to come to Taiwan.
Seeing the Ming army busy, the people of Jurchen heads could no longer bear to see.
The Regent's slander broke the city with half a month. Now there is only five days left. The Ming army has no intention of siegeing the city, so the heads discussed and expressed their willingness to help the Ming army dig trenches or directly attack the city.
Zhao Ming shook his head and rejected the head's kindness, confidently saying that they didn't have to worry about siege, and the Ming army promised to break through the fortress of the Rakshasa people within half a month.
Of course, if you are really idle and feel sorry for you, aren’t the Jurchens very good at shooting birds? You can hold a hunting conference to improve the food for the Ming army soldiers.
This made the heads a headache and were worried about the Ming army's siege. However, when Zhao Ming spoke, they could only watch the Ming army continue to dig trenches and then ordered their tribe members to go hunting.
On the thirteenth day of the excavation of the trenches, several trenches with "Zhi" had already entered the castle city. The Ming army was about to dig horizontal trenches and connected the "Zhi" trenches under the city so that the soldiers could move between the trenches, but the soldiers who were excavating discovered the situation.
At night, in front of the Ming army camp, soldiers were tying torches and forming a circle, with hundreds of corpses covered with white cloth.
Zhao Ming stood in front of the body with a mask made of white cloth.
At this time, a group of Jurchen heads rushed over and stared at the corpses all over the ground.
Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "What the soldiers discovered when they dug to the city should be the Jurchens who were caught by the Russians and built the fortress. After the fortress was repaired, they were all killed by the Russians."
Sasubu heard the sound and his body trembled. He squatted down and opened a piece of white cloth. When he saw the rotten corpse in Jurchen costume and unrecognizable face, he immediately knelt down.
The Jurchens looked at the massacred tribe members and were filled with righteous indignation. The head of the Soren tribe said with red eyes: "Your Highness Regent, let's attack the city."
Sasubu realized that his tribe and his wife might have been killed by the Rakshasa people, and cried bitterly: "Your Highness, let the slaves attack the city!"
Chapter completed!