Zhang Xianzhong is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield. In a short time, he calmed down and began to mobilize troops to organize defense. Novels.

Judging from the number of Qing troops, it is only twice that of the Daxi Army in Baoning City. This number is not enough to gain a crushing advantage.

As long as the Western Army fights steadily and does not make mistakes, the Qing army will not get any good opportunities.

By then, when the reinforcements from Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Nengqi arrived, Zhang Xianzhong could go out of the city to fight back and take down the Qing army in one fell swoop under the attack from front and back.

In Zhang Xianzhong's opinion, Hong Chengchou was too confident, and even too confident.

He thought it was simply a delusion to be able to win Baoning with just 40,000 to 50,000 people!

Zhang Xianzhong stood on the city wall in silver armor and supervised the battle, and the soldiers suddenly felt a sense of pride in their hearts.

Even the emperor they beloved, Daxi, can fight on the front line, how can they be afraid of death?

Zhang Kewang stood beside Zhang Xianzhong, his eyes full of determination.

This is the first time that the Tartars fight.

But he is not afraid. If he wants to seize the world, he cannot be afraid of any opponent.

If the Daxi regime wants to finally decide the world, it will confront the Qing Dynasty sooner or later, now it is just a little bit ahead of the showdown.

The Tartars are also humans, but they don’t have three heads and six arms. What’s so scary?

"Father, do you want to take a break? This Tartar will be afraid that it will not be able to fight for a while."

In order to make the atmosphere relaxed, Zhang Kewang said half-jokingly.

Zhang Xianzhong was also amused and laughed: "When did you learn to be so slick at that time? But the Tartars really don't mean to launch an attack immediately. Let's see, they want to play tricks."

Zhang Xianzhong pursed his lips and said, "Look, do they want to use a hole to attack?"

Zhang Xianzhong pointed to a pile of high soil mounds and said in a deep voice.

The method of acupoint attack is not special, and even anyone has used it.

However, the disadvantages of this method are too obvious and are not a good method of siege, and can only be used as an auxiliary to cooperate with frontal attacks at most.

The biggest disadvantage of acupuncture is that it takes too long and it takes a lot of time to dig tunnels. In this case, it is easy to be consumed by the defender.

Reinforcements come as they consumed, and the advantages are gone.

So when Zhang Xianzhong saw that the Qing army began to dig tunnels to prepare for attack, he was in a very good mood.

OK, Tartars are also stupid.

You can dig out the tunnel, and our army will come and go to help soon!

The Qing army was digging the tunnel slowly, and Hong Chengchou sat calmly in the formation to command.

The Qing army seemed to be in a hurry at all, as if it didn't matter if it was dug for ten days and half a month.

The only thing they care about is that they will never let go of the cavalry who came out of Huaiqing City to report to the news and ask for help.

These cavalry obviously wanted to go to Daba Mountain to ask for help from the main force of the Daxi Army stationed there.

This is absolutely not allowed in Hong Chengchou's plan.

He calculated the surprise attack at this time. If the Daxi Army in Daba Mountains returned to aid, the Qing army's advantage would be gone.

Time, time is the most precious.

In fact, the reason why Hong Chengchou is so confident is that he discovered a very useful new tactic.

Strictly speaking, this tactic was first invented by the Ming army.

That is to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall.

Gao Jie used this tactic many times when he led his troops north, and it has been tried and tested.

The Green Camp Army often hadn't realized anything before the Ming army led by Gao Jie exploded the city walls and rushed forward to quickly resolve the battle.

Later, Hong Chengchou became interested in this matter.

After asking about the Green Camp soldiers involved and Hong Chengchou observed the scene, he felt that it might be a problem of gunpowder.

He ordered people to dig down the section of the city wall that collapsed, and found fragments of the coffin.

At that time, Hong Chengchou sighed that he had put the gunpowder into the coffin and ignited it, and used an explosion to blow up the city wall?

Hong Chengchou decided to give it a try.

Anyway, those city walls have been blown up and there is no need to worry about blowing up more.

He ordered people to dig out the tunnel first and then put the coffin full of gunpowder in a vertical manner.

The result was unexpected. The wall facing the opposite side was really blown up with a gap. Although it was not completely blown up, the effect was already very good.

As if he had obtained a treasure, Hong Chengchou immediately wrote this tactic into his memorial and ordered someone to send it to the Beijing Newspaper to learn about it with the Regent Dorgon.

With Dorgon's vision, he would definitely order the Qing army to vigorously use this tactic.

The Qing army itself had strong combat power, and the only thing they lacked was their ability to attack.

After all, it is impossible to equip the red cannon everywhere. Moreover, using the red cannon to deal with ordinary small towns has the feeling of killing chickens and using a ox knife.

And if the tactic of bombing the city by coffin was adopted, the Qing army would be more at ease when sieging the city.

Liu Jinzhong and Shuozhan had never seen such a tactic before, and even Tong Yanghe, who has always been known for his knowledge, was surprised.

"Hong Duxian, what are we doing to dig tunnels? Now we should conquer Huaiqing City in one go!"

Tong Yanghe was impatient, but he was very dissatisfied when he saw Hong Chengchou digging the tunnel slowly.

"It won't take much time to dig the tunnel."

Hong Chengchou said lightly while stroking his beard.

“It doesn’t take much time to dig a tunnel?”

Tong Yanghe widened his eyes: "Are Hong Duxian joking? It's not a ten-day or half a month old, can this tunnel be dug?"

Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "What the governor said is that it only requires digging a very narrow tunnel, and it only requires digging under the city wall, which does not take much time."

"ah?"

Tong Yang looked at Hong Chengchou like he looked at the monster: "What's the use of the tunnel dug out like this? The tunnel is used to transport soldiers into the city!"

“No, no.”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "This supervisor digging tunnels is not to transport troops into the city, but to blow up the city wall."

hiss!

Tong Yanghe gasped when he heard this.

"How is this possible when the city wall exploded?"

"How is it impossible?"

Hong Chengchou raised his eyebrows and said, "Did you see that coffin? I used it to blow down the city wall."

Tong Yanghe was desperate inside.

Governor Hong is not a confused person, right?

If the coffin could blow up the city wall, the sun might have come out from the west.

Tong Yanghe swallowed and said, "Governor Hong should not believe in the strange powers and chaos!"

Hong Chengchou glanced at him: "Who said that this supervisor is so powerful that he is in chaos? This supervisor depends not only on the coffin, but also on the gunpowder filled in the coffin!"

"Pharm?"

Tong Yanghe vaguely felt that he understood something.

Both cannons and muskets require medicine. As for firecrackers, they rely on medicine to exert their power.

However, gunpowder itself has limited power, and it is more of a boost from the injection of lead.
Chapter completed!