Chapter 166: Frozen Ningyuan

Without the threat of the amazingly powerful artillery, without the sudden killing of the raging fire, the Jin soldiers were very skilled in the face of the Ming army's most ordinary resistance. Many people braved the sharp arrows and wood and stones all over the sky and kept climbing towards the city, although they were actually a little cautious in their hearts.

Seeing that today it was so easy for someone to attack the city and climbed to the wall, Huang Taiji was a little surprised if the Ming army in the city could no longer use the cannon to deal with him. Since he had the opportunity, he naturally would not let it go. He had missed a great opportunity because of his excessive caution. This time, he could not repeat the same mistakes anyway. Therefore, after Huang Taiji gave an order, more Jin soldiers attacked and killed him, and his momentum was already the same as before.

Seeing that the most favorable city wall had lost its due effect under the bombardment of the Jin army's stone throwing machine, the Ming army guarding the city looked bad, but because the city had just passed the most difficult level, even if it encountered this trouble, it did not hurt the morale of the soldiers. Since the people at the city wall could not play a role, then defend the city in the most conventional way! Under the orders of some generals, the soldiers kept smashing stone wood towards the Jin army, and the musket team and archers were always paying attention to the situation of the Jin army under the city wall, so that the enemy could not have any gaps. There were also soldiers carrying steel swords and spears waiting on the side, waiting for the Jin soldiers to poke their heads out and then sucking cold ones for them.

In this way, with the wholehearted defense and fearless courage, although facing the fierce Jin soldiers, even though the gap in the military strength was very large, the Ming army still defended the city wall, so that the Jin soldiers who came to attack this time could not climb up to the city, but instead lost a lot of people. Seeing the sky gradually darkening, the Jin army had to retreat. However, Huang Taiji was not discouraged. On the contrary, he felt that he had gained a lot in this battle today.

Because this battle revived the Jin army, which was originally a little loose and fearful, without the threat of artillery, they had less scruples when attacking the city and became much more flexible. The method they had conceived to deal with the special terrain of Ningyuan also worked. The city wall that had damaged many people and lost its power today finally lost its effectiveness. At the same time, for the whole day, no matter what the situation was, no matter how it was, Huang Taiji could guess that the cannons in the city should be almost useless. These situations created good conditions for them to break the Ningyuan city as soon as possible. Now they are just waiting to finally collapse the Ming army and capture the city as the Jin army continues to attack.

Because of this confidence, even though the weather became even colder the next day and the bitter north wind blew on people's faces like a knife, Huang Taiji still asked the Jin army to continue to attack Ningyuan. However, due to the weather, after heavy snow fell at noon, the Jin army's attack had to stop temporarily. When it was snowing all over the sky, it was too difficult to avoid the arrows mixed in the wind and snow. Anyway, Ningyuan City was broken this time, so there was no rush.

At this time, the defenders in the city felt very glad that if there were no such timely wind and snow, the Jin army's attack would have been dark again today. The Ming army had only 20,000 troops. When facing the Jin army, which was constantly coming in as a wheel battle, they could only defend without rest, which also consumed a lot of energy. Without the blockage of artillery, they would naturally be even more tired. It would be a very happy thing for them to rest for a long time.

Tang Feng also understood what the soldiers were thinking, and was a little helpless. He used to think that the artillery was enough to deal with the attack of the Jin army, but he forgot that the ammunition would be insufficient, so he could only take one step. He only hoped that the court could send reinforcements to deal with the Jin people outside the city as soon as possible, otherwise he would have to try to learn what happened in history and use artillery to bombard the central army of the Jin army with all its might to see if he could injure Nanurhaci and get rid of the siege.

"I hope the snow will last longer so that we can guard for a few more days." Tang Feng thought before going to bed at night. But when he woke up at dawn, he found that the snow outside was much smaller. Although it was still falling, it was far less than when it was just falling yesterday. Seeing this, Tang Feng was a little worried about the defense at the city. After putting on a cotton coat and a cloak, he rushed straight to the city head against the biting cold wind. The snow fell one day yesterday. The entire Ningyuan City was covered with white, and even the city head was covered with thick snow, covering the city walls that had been damaged by the Jin army over the past few days.

The Jin army camp outside the city was completely surrounded by endless snow. Tang Feng felt much happier when he thought that the Jin army in the tent must have been out of date last night. After looking for a while, he found that the Jin army had no plans to attack the city, he went down the city and went to check everywhere in the city to prevent any houses from being crushed by snow or other disasters.

While walking along the way, Tang Feng felt that the weather was particularly cold, and it was almost minus twenty degrees below zero. Why was the weather so cold that night? Tang Feng sighed at the unexpected situation in the sky, but thought about how to continue to guard the city. At this time, a voice came: "Yizhi, you got up so early, I heard that the sea surface was covered with thin ice. In order to be afraid that Jiannu would make a decision, he was about to go over and take a look, so you can go with me, right?" The person who spoke was Yuan Chonghuan.

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Okay, I just went to the top of the city to see. Jiannu had no intention of attacking my city today. He wanted to prevent them from taking another way to kill us and caught us off guard." He said that, and walked towards the beach with Yuan Chonghuan.

After looking at the thin layer of ice, Tang Feng and the others felt relieved. Even people could not stand up, let alone the cavalry in the Jin army. Looking at the layer of ice, Tang Feng seemed to have thought of something in his mind, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't grasp the key points, so he had to ignore it for the time being.

After another day of light snow, the snow finally stopped, but the north wind blew even tighter, and the weather was colder than before. But since the snow had stopped, the Ming army had to cheer up again to prevent the Jin army outside the city from attacking again.

The Jin army did not disappoint the hope of the Ming army. On the third day, as soon as the snow stopped, they launched a fierce attack again, and this attack was even more fierce than the previous two times. Because the temperature suddenly dropped sharply this time, the Jin army, who were unprepared, felt very uncomfortable. Many people were still sick, which made them more eager to capture Ning Yuan. In addition, when they siege the city, they found that the artillery on the top of the city was already dull, so the Jin army became even more fierce. They just wanted to break the city as soon as possible and avoid the cold climate here.

By noon, the Jin army had already been on the top of the city several times. If the Ming army had not been united and tried to block it to the death, the city might have been broken. Seeing the critical situation, Yuan Chonghuan had to order the war to start in the afternoon to use the artillery to fight the enemy again. If he was still stingy with this little ammunition now, he would not have the chance to use them again in the future.

Tang Feng knew that this was the last solution, so he stopped insisting. After using the meal, all the cannons were ready and they were about to teach the Jin army a lesson again. Tang Feng walked to the cannons and looked at the ammunition equipment carefully. At this time, he found something, that is, the bases of the cannons exposed were frozen on the ground by the ice melted from snow. People needed to smash the ice below before they could move to the city wall. He immediately ordered people to do things, and was glad that he discovered it early. If he did this after the war started, he would give the Jin soldiers a chance.

When the soldiers used their knives to smash the thick ice, an idea flashed through Tang Feng's mind again, this time it was much clearer than yesterday's thoughts. He immediately turned around and said, "Everyone can quickly let everyone in the city use containers to hold a large amount of water, whether it is sea water or well water." Everyone looked at him strangely, but Tang Feng knew that he had no time to explain more, so he immediately issued a military order.

Seeing that the entire city, both soldiers and the people brought water to the city, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but look at Tang Feng with some surprise and said, "Have you thought of any way to defend the city?"

Tang Feng smiled and said, "Yes, Brother Element still remembers the defense battle of Beijing during the Jingnan period that day? It was also mid-winter at that time. They relied on the wall to splash ice on the wall to block the attack of the Southern Army, which was several times higher than that of them. Now we can use the same trick again and use ice to resist the attack of Jiannu!"

"This is indeed a good idea. It would not be so easy for Jiannu to put on the ice of the skater to attack!" Yuan Chonghuan immediately reacted, and was busy and forced to do things. Immediately, countless water poured on the city wall and flowed down the bricks and stones of the city wall. Under the blow of the north wind, they quickly formed ice. But the people on the city were still pouring water outside the city wall. In just half an hour, there was a layer of thick ice outside the city wall, and even the damaged city wall could not be seen.

The Jin army first looked at the Ming army's behavior on the city wall with some confusion, but soon they discovered the other party's intention. When they reacted and came up again, they knew it was too late. Because it turned out that it was unstable to get on the ladder at the city wall, and the hook ropes could not be hung. Now the Jin army really had no idea about Ningyuan City.
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