In the view of Li Dingguo, the chief general of the Tang army, the Qing army's attack this time was a grand but uninnovative battle.

He saw that the Qing army still attacked from all four walls, hoping to make it impossible for him to focus on defense through his military strength. Outside every wall in this inner city, there were endless Qing army shouting and rushing towards him.

If you look closely, you can clearly see that the main attack direction of the Qing army was still the north and south city walls with two huge gaps last time. The troops on the edge were even more dense. One by one, the joint chariots looked like huge cockroaches, slowly and quickly approaching.

In addition to the city walls on both sides of the north and south, the Qing army also launched an offensive on the east and west walls of the inner city. Li Dingguo saw dozens of siege ladders on the city walls on both sides of the east and west, forming a parallel shape and leaning towards the top of the city.

For a moment, Li Dingguo sighed.

The Qing army's attack on all sides seemed to have the momentum of winning, which really made the Tang army, which had only more than 3,000 people, feel stretched. However, now he can only do his best to complete the almost impossible task of guarding the inner city of Vladivostok.

Soon, under Duoduo's command, the Qing army outside the two north and south walls pushed a huge and heavy joint car and took the lead in approaching the city walls, preparing to explode the two north and south walls like last time.

"Quickly organize the troops on all the city walls to burn coal, mix tinder to help the fire, and then pour down the wall. Be sure to burn all the strange cars of the Qing army to this general!" Li Dingguo ordered loudly.

"Get orders!"

However, when they saw these huge cockroaches coming over like roaches, the Tang army had long lost the great fear of the first time they saw it. After Li Dingguo's order, they skillfully began to prepare for a counterattack.

In the square in the fort, the deputy general Zu Kuan brought the wounded soldiers who survived the last battle to ignite piles of coal. After each pile of coal burned, another army was packed in large iron barrels and mentioned on the city walls on both sides of the north and south.

In order to survive the winter smoothly, there were sufficient coal in the inner city of Vladivostok. During the last battle, the coal used was less than one-quarter of the storage capacity, so the Tang army did not have to worry about the insufficient amount of coal. Looking around, countless Tang army soldiers were like ants carrying items, running madly between the square and the city wall, repeating the movements of loading coal and dumping.

Zhang Ercheng, the only survivor who participated in the raid team last time, was one of the busy members.

He was still wearing splints on his chest, and he worked hard without hesitation, shoveling the burning coals all over the floor, shoveling them into the iron barrel, and then letting others take them away.

This nineteen-year-old boy, in addition to receiving a lot of rewards for successfully blowing up the outer city walls of the west, was also promoted to captain by Li Dingguo.

At this time, although Zhang Ercheng's chest ribs were finally found to be broken by the military doctor, and he felt that he had a heavy responsibility as the captain, but he did not dare to take a break. He worked very hard and sweat from his forehead was oozing out.

Zhang Ercheng knew that in this extremely dangerous battle, every effort was more hope to survive, even though this hope seemed so slim.

And beside Zhang Ercheng, there were also many wounded soldiers busying themselves, and Zhang Ercheng's figure was very inconspicuous among them.

These iron barrels filled with coal were taken to the city wall by the Tang army. Here, the Tang army mixed the burning coals with heavy tinder, causing the more burning coals in the barrel to pour down from the city.

All the Tang army guarding the city knew that whether these Qing army's joint chariots could be destroyed in time will become the key to whether they could successfully defend the inner city. Only by burning these joint chariots in time can they finally successfully protect the fort wall.

After these burning coal blocks with strong tinder oil kept pouring down the city, Li Dingguo saw that the trick Li Xiao used in Jinjiazhuang Fort and got married to the last time, and it began to have a significant effect.

These coal blocks that were overturned on the Union Cart, which were still burning violently, first quickly dried the cowhide soaked in water and the wet below, and then ignited the entire Union Cart, and the fire spread rapidly to the entire cart.

Because the fire point of the Union Car was on the top, the Qing army hiding underneath could not put out the fire in time. They could only watch the fire grow bigger and bigger, and eventually completely burned the entire Union Car to ashes.

Soon, as the Tang army kept pouring down such violently burning coal, more and more Lianquan trucks began to burn and catch fire.

However, even though the joint chariot began to catch fire and the Qing army was poaching the wall below, fearing the military order, no one dared to escape without authorization. The Tartar leaders who were escorting the formation inside were still calling for them to continue to move forward quickly to the foot of the city wall.

However, due to the continuous watering of the Tang army in recent days, the ground was severely frozen. The Qing army had to clear away the residual ice and approach the city wall, which led them to advance much slower than when they attacked the last time.

The slower they move forward, the more conducive it is for the Tang army to disperse the coal conductors soaked in turbulent oil and burning. The joint carts all started to catch fire, but they still kept moving forward, like a multi-legged monster with fire all over the body.

Soon, the Qing army's joint vehicles, one after another, came under the city wall.

At this time, every Tang soldier stationed at the top of the city could clearly hear the sound of ding-knit attacks from the inner city walls.

There are more than a dozen such joint carts under the four walls of Vladivostok. Behind the walls, the sound of the chisel is very harsh. Every Tang soldier seems to be able to feel the chisel sound as if he is hitting his heart, and the city walls under his feet are slight vibrations.

"Boom!"

While the Qing army was digging desperately, the United Vehicle, which had been burning continuously, finally burned down first.

With a dull explosion, such a joint car finally completely collapsed from top to bottom, smashing most of the Qing troops inside into meat pies. Only a few Qing troops who were burning like firemen ran for a distance in an extremely terrifying form, howling for a while, and then fell to the ground and twitched to death in extreme pain until they were completely burned into a ball of coke.

Soon, four such joint chariots were successively burned and collapsed by the abandoned coals, and the Qing army inside could not escape death.

What was particularly terrifying was that after many United Cars were burned down, the burning flames ignited the explosion box carried by the Qing army. Suddenly, the huge explosion that could almost shake the human eardrum sounded, and the entire collapsed United Cars and the Qing army under the car that were flattened and burned to pieces, becoming a large splash of fragments.

Seeing the Qing army under the city, being thrown away by his own coal-fired tactics, the Tang army on the city shouted cheers that ran through the sky, and everyone's face was full of joy.

However, they soon saw that the Qing army was as crazy as if they were not afraid of casualties. One was burned and the other was then on, as if its only goal was to dig and explode the city wall.

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Li Dingguo clenched his fists and his face was as cold as iron.

The Tartars are really fucking not afraid of death. Let’s just let it go, I will fight you to the death!

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth tightly, and his heart was secretly ruthless.

In the distance, when he saw the Qing army's joint car offensive, he suffered such great losses. Although Dorgon was anxious, his face was full of cruelty and ruthlessness.

After all, if you can't bear to leave your children and can't trap the wolf, this kind of flesh-and-blood siege battle will inevitably lead to death and injury in the army. If the army is withdrawn at this critical moment, the Qing army will be wasted all its efforts! For me, it will be severely damaged by prestige, which is something I will never accept.

After all, I have just taken advantage of Huang Taiji's opportunity to be in charge of the command of the entire army. If I don't take this opportunity to achieve results and win this Vladivostok Fort, how can I convince the public?

Therefore, in terms of emotion and measure the truth, no matter how many casualties are, the inner city of Vladivostok must be taken down by gritting its teeth.

While the Qing army was using joint chariots to attack the two north and south city walls of the inner city, the siege ladders that were moving on the east and west walls suddenly stopped outside the crossbow arrows.

"General Li, look, the Qing army attacked with carriages!"

A soldier in person pointed to the slowly advancing car outside the city wall west, shouting loudly to Li Dingguo.

"oh?"

Li Dingguo turned his head and looked west and saw that where the sound of war drums and the harsh Swan sounded, the Qing army on the city walls on both sides of the east and west made a beast-like roar, and continued to push the car forward.

Li Dingguo was shocked. He knew that the Qing army would adopt the last offensive method again, first use a cart to approach, and then fire bows and arrows to suppress the Tang army crossbow soldiers on the city.

Li Dingguo had not yet come up with an effective way to restrain the Qing army in this move. After all, the Qing army had car protection, so it was too difficult to shoot and kill them.

The cold clouds were thousands of miles away, and the north wind roared. The Tang army crossbowmen on the city wall looked silently at one Qing army car after another, pushing it squeakingly, getting closer and closer.

When they arrived at the moat that had frozen into a crystal ice belt, the Qing army's cars lined up and stopped slowly.

Like last time, after the car stopped, the continuous sound of bows and arrows suddenly burst out from behind the Qing army car. Countless sharp arrows shot into the air in a parabolic shape, and then drew an arc in the air, shooting towards the Tang army guards on the entire western city wall.

The collective shooting of nearly 20,000 Qing troops, dense arrows covered the sky, making crisp whistles, like a group of flying birds released by the god of death, pounced towards the Tang army crossbowmen who were caught off guard at the top of the city.

"Dingding Dingding!..."

This is the sound of an arrow shooting at the iron shield in front.

After the arrow hit the big shield, a flash of sparks appeared, and the missile was immediately splashed.

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

This was the sound of a few arrows that were lucky enough to cross the big shield and shot into the bodies of the crossbowmen behind.

Although the crossbowmen were wearing two standard breastplates, their faces and hands were still very weak, which made them unable to withstand such dense arrow attacks, although they were spared from being shot at the critical point.

Therefore, in the Tang army formation, there were Tang army crossbow soldiers screaming loudly from time to time, and there were even many crossbow soldiers who were caught in the arrow, who were shot backwards by the powerful momentum of the arrow and fell from the city wall, either dead or in ruins.

The Qing army's scattered arrows caused at least 200 Tang army crossbowmen to be killed or killed.

"All crossbowmen are careful! Squat down on the spot, avoid arrows, and the injured crossbowmen withdraw to the city wall, and the reserve crossbowmen will supplement their positions!"

Li Dingguo, a group of guards holding shields, shouted loudly at the soldiers who were sending orders.

Hearing Li Dingguo's orders, all the crossbow soldiers hiding behind the shield squatted down quickly, leaning on the shield soldiers who were holding the shield half-kneeling, curling their heads and avoiding the arrows falling from the sky as much as possible.

It turned out that when the Qing army hiding behind the cart, they saw that the Tang army crossbow soldiers had squatted down to avoid arrows, and there was only a row of dense shields left on the city, but they did not see the crossbowmen on it again, they immediately had no worries and walked out of the cart's protection area.

These Qing soldiers who were smiling loudly were filled with the pleasure of being released after being suppressed. They occasionally pulled the bowstrings and shot arrows. These sharp and heavy arrows were fierce and accurate, and would accidentally expose their hands, feet or faces outside and shoot them into one blow, causing these Tang army crossbow soldiers to be slightly or severely injured.

For a moment, the attack and defense between the enemy and us quickly changed, and the Tang army defending the city began to change extremely.

They knew that under the premise that the Qing army now had the initiative to attack, they could no longer stand up and fight back. Everyone could imagine that as long as they looked for opportunities, the Qing army that was eyeing the opportunity would immediately hit them with bows and arrows. What was waiting for them would be an extremely sharp arrow.

The current situation is almost exactly the same as when it was last battle. The Tang army crossbow soldiers were suppressed by Qing army archers and could not fight back at all.

Such a passive situation was naturally quickly exploited by the Qing army.

Long siege ladders were carried over by the Qing army like ants, and quickly approached the east and west walls.

These Qing troops carrying the siege ladder shouted loudly and laughed unscrupulously, as if they were not going to fight, but to participate in a relaxed and freehand sports meeting.

Perhaps, in their opinion, the Tang army guards, who had been firmly suppressed by the Qing archers, could only see them leaning over the siege ladder and allowing them to launch the siege ladder.

Moreover, the Tang army's hand-throwing thunder has been consumed and cannot conduct close-range sniping like last time. In this situation, it is almost one-sided to facilitate the attacking Qing army.
Chapter completed!