"The Art of War" believes that when the attacker's force reaches ten times the defender's force, siege of the city is no longer a loss-taking action. With the continuous advancement of siege methods and weapons, some theory believes that the proportion of offense and defense suitable for strong attack has been reduced to three to one: that is, when both sides of the offense and defense have sufficient equipment, excellent equipment and correct training, as long as the attacker's force reaches three times the defender's force, then when a strong attack on the city is launched, the losses of both sides of the offense and defense will basically remain the same. If the attacker's force is further increased, the defender's losses will begin to exceed the attacker.

The Ming army's armored soldiers lined up in the distance to prepare for war. Some auxiliary soldiers kept loading rock-dropped chariots and threw stone bullets at the imperial camp. Deng Ming rode on the horse and carefully observed the effect of the attack.

Although the whistling stones were astonishing, most of them failed to cause casualties to the Imperial Guards. Many of them flew over the walls of the Imperial Camp, and most of the stone bullets hitting the walls also hit the bottom of the walls. Although they caused some shock to the Imperial Camps, they did not have much killing effect on the Imperial Guards soldiers on the walls.

"Wu Baoping and others have built the wall of the camp too strong." Deng Ming said, and reached out to pick up the gourd beside the saddle, raised his head and drank a few big mouthfuls of water. This complaint was just a casual mention. Deng Ming also knew that the wall of the imperial camp must be built very strongly. Although the Eight Banners were paralyzed, they were not blind. If the wall of the camp was vulnerable, they would never let Shunzhi move in.

The imperial guards on the wall kept shooting at the Mongols. Deng Ming saw that some Mongolians had fallen, but so far, he only saw a stone bullet hit the shield on the wall of the camp, knocking about two or three imperial guards away. It is still doubtful whether they were killed.

Smoke rose from both sides of the camp gate of the imperial camp. This was the bird guns of the Imperial Guards firing. Compared with bows and arrows, the bird guns pose a greater threat to the Mongolians wearing heavy armor and moving forward slowly. A few rounds of bird guns made four Mongolian soldiers fall to the ground.

At this time, the Ming army's bronze cannons also began to participate in the war. They made a thunder sound that was much louder than the bird guns on the opposite side, but Deng Ming did not see where the shells hit.

"It seems that I need to train special artillery." These catapults and cannons are operated by auxiliary soldiers. They were not transported to the Ming army camp for a long time, and the auxiliary soldiers did not have too long time to train. The limited training time is mostly spent on how to quickly dismantle them to keep up with the large army. Moreover, in the Ming army's view, cannons and catapults are obviously auxiliary soldiers, and are only used to break the walls. The main work is also strength work - dismantling, transporting, and loading - similar to the work of auxiliary soldiers rather than fighting armored soldiers. The requirements for courage are not as high as pushing the chariot, so they are all handed over to the auxiliary soldiers for cooking.

Although Deng Ming felt that artillery should not be auxiliary soldiers, there was no one in his armored soldiers who were proficient in artillery. Deng Ming used to think that there was no need to transfer a team of soldiers who were proficient in fighting tactics to serve these siege equipment, so he did not interfere much.

"After I return to Sichuan, I should train artillery and classify artillery as a standing army." Deng Ming re-tied the gourd on the saddle. The movement of the cannons was much more than that of the catapult cart, and it would undoubtedly attract more attention. However, Deng Ming knew that at least today was absolutely safe and could use the cannon without hesitation: "The battle must be over today, and it will be a bit unsafe to drag it until tomorrow. If Suksaha and Ebilon speed up, I might not be able to retreat to the riverside safely and smoothly."

In the enemy territory in the south of the Yangtze River, Deng Ming tried his best to avoid any battle that could cause major casualties.

Several other Mongolian teams were sent out to attack several other places in the imperial camp. As soon as they saw these Mongolians approaching the camp wall with firewood for catching fire, a large number of imperial guards immediately appeared on the camp wall opposite them, and began to block and shoot at these commandos.

"How many archers have the enemy dispatched? How many musketeers have they been?" Deng Ming turned around and asked the officers around him. The Mongol suicide squad attacked the imperial camp from several directions, so he could not see the number of enemies on each front.

The guards immediately reported to Deng Ming that the total number of imperial guards on the walls of various camps has exceeded 500, of which more than half of the shooters are taking turns to attack more than 100 Mongolian suicide squads approaching from several routes.

"Hmm." Comparing with the already known figures, Deng Ming knew that the suicide squad had attracted the main ranged attack forces of the Imperial Guards and dispersed them: "Let our shooters move."

Two thousand Ming army auxiliary soldiers were ordered to come forward. These days they also conducted basic shooting training, not requiring them to shoot accurately. As long as they could know how to shoot, how to avoid being bounced by the bowstring, how to shoot upwards. Each of these Ming army auxiliary soldiers brought a pot of grease-wrapped feather arrows wrapped around the arrow, holding a torch. They inserted the torch to the ground, ignited the feather arrows, and then put the bowstring on it.

"Prepare—release!"

With the order from the officer, two thousand rockets rushed into the sky and spread out to the imperial camp.

"preparation--"

"put!"

Another rocket flew away. With the shooting again and again, the Ming army archers surrounding the imperial camp gradually lost their synchronization due to inconsistent frequency. This synchronization became worse and worse with time, and finally completely lost order. Every moment, the rockets were shot into the sky, and every moment, the rockets fell into the camp.

Finally, the Ming army officer gave up his command. After each auxiliary soldier shot a pot of arrows in his hand, he would leave the torch on the ground, turn around and walk back to the rear with the bow. At this time, another auxiliary soldier would come forward with a pot of arrows, take the bow from his retreating companion, and walk to the position of the torch to start his ten shots.

"Don't let the thieves approach the wall!" Soltu screamed at the top of his lungs. Rockets fell from the sky at every moment. These rockets were neither neat nor blindly shot, so the threat was not very big. Just be careful and could easily avoid it. But what was terrible is that they were numerous and never stopped for a moment. The soldiers of the Imperial Guards could not see the six directions at all times, and people were hit by cold arrows from time to time. It would be fine if they were shot on the armor, but they were just frightened, but there would always be arrows that stabbed weak links without armor protection. The hot arrows shot into the human body with flames, making the injured Imperial Guards' soldiers feel in pain.

The imperial camp does not cover a large area, so sometimes there are rockets flying from behind. Soetu was shocked by the bows and arrows inserted into the ground in front of him several times.

Experienced front officers are very clear that for such enemies, the correct defense method is to concentrate a group of well-trained archers, use the cover of the camp wall to line up the inside, and then counterattack the enemy archers outside according to the command of the camp wall. Since the enemy does not know the position of the archers on the defender, the enemy's movements can be clearly seen by their own people on the camp wall. With such a shooting, the defense will have a great advantage.

But the problem now is that the Ming army has an overwhelming advantage in military strength, and the Imperial Guards have no extra troops to attack the opponent's archers. What's worse is that the imperial camp does not cover a large area, and the open spaces suitable for archers to attack in an array are also very limited. Just now, a former imperial officer wanted to organize 100 archers to counterattack, but he gave up before he started. A large number of rockets and stone bullets fell in several suitable open spaces. The Ming army, who designed the Qing army camp, knew very well about the Qing army's counterattack methods and knew the internal structure of the camp, so Deng Ming arranged 30% of the catapults and archers to keep on going to the scene.

These places greetings - of course, this is a great waste of firepower, and the accuracy of the attack teams composed of auxiliary soldiers is also very poor. But they can't help but have the overwhelming advantage of the number of Ming troops. The Ming army can not only tolerate this waste of firepower, but also basically ensure that arrows and stones are constantly falling on these available positions. In addition to those troops ordered to continue to suppress, the rockets that should have shot at the camp wall also frequently visited these locations due to the accuracy problem. After observing for a while, the Imperial Guards believed that this consumption was unbearable and had to give up the counterattack plan.

Soetu dodged another rocket coming towards him, and struggled to poke his head out of the camp wall, observing the battle situation outside the camp gate from the gaps in the shield. Dozens of Mongolians were lying on the ground, but new Mongolians were always sent forward, and the rushing car was pushed down by the Mongols who were continuing to fight, hitting the camp gate of the imperial camp.

"Arrow, shoot arrow!" Soetu roared loudly. Many of the imperial guards guarding the camp gate were newcomers who had just entered the flag, but they all bravely leaned out and attacked the Mongols who were ignorant of life and death.

"ah--"

When an imperial guard soldier was concentrating on attacking, he was suddenly hit by a stray arrow and screamed and fell from the wall with a backward green onion.

Another Imperial Guard soldier came forward without hesitation and leaned out without hesitation, continuing to attack the Ming army's suicide squad.

No matter what rumors were before, there are tens of thousands of Ming troops outside the camp. If this wall that blocked the defence between the Imperial Guards and the Han people was lost, no Manchu thought he could survive. They could not pin their hopes on those chats after dinner!

A cannon sounded across the opposite side, and the camp wall shook suddenly. The position of the camp wall hit by this shell was not far from Suo'u. He subconsciously reached out to hold the wall, so that he was not shaken down. At this time, another stone bullet roared. It did not fly over the wall or hit the ground like most shells, but swept to two shields and smashed them to pieces. The two guards who supported the shields were both bouncing out by this huge impact force, and their limbs were waving and landing behind.

"Arrow!" A hole was also wiped from Soetu's face, but he did not feel any pain at all. Seeing the archer's rotation appear, he flew forward without thinking, picked up the blood-stained iron bow from the ground, leaned forward, and shot a fierce arrow towards the rushing car.

However, Soetu's hard-working arrow failed to pierce the Mongolian shield, but only added another cowhide shield that had been inserted into feather arrows. The Imperial Guard did not expect a defensive battle here, so he did not prepare equipment such as stoves and oil pans in advance.

"Stone!" Soetu took a step back and turned around and shouted to the camp. The Mongolians were still hitting the door. He needed soldiers to find all the heavy objects to attack.
Chapter completed!