The rain kept falling for several days, and the temperature in Niuzhuang dropped significantly. It was July, and Zheng Zhilong felt a sense of coldness.

This small glacier climate is also admirable!

Niuzhuang City was quiet, and the Qing army camp outside the city was also quiet. The two armies had been in battle for two or three months, and the morale of the Qing army had obviously declined.

It is a helpless and normal thing. When the army is stationed under a strong city and cannot be defeated for a long time, no one can keep the morale of the attacking side as high as ever.

After Duoduo arrived in Niuzhuang, he took advantage of the opportunity of Zheng Zhilong sending his fleet south to launch several fierce attacks.

He used a series of red cannons to smash the chest wall in front of the city and wiped out the western wall of Niuzhuang.

It is a kind of mutual harm, a fight that only warriors can initiate.

The battle between the city and the city is a kind of beast cannon. The gap is not as big as that of crossbows, because the accuracy of the cannons in this era is very problematic.

But the city is always in an advantage. The Qing army under the city, the Qing army, which is in the position of challenger, is important to suffer some losses.

The two sides compare who lasts longer.

In other words, it means that there are more cannons than who have more cannons and more powerful gunners.

As a result, Zheng Zhilong's blood was obviously thicker.

Not to mention that the Qing Dynasty artillery was not all concentrated in Niuzhuang, then Zheng Zhilong obviously did not, but Duoduo obviously could not consume Zheng Zhilong in the battle in Niuzhuang.

Although the artillery battles over several days also caused considerable losses to Zheng Zhilong, such as the destruction of fortifications outside the city being destroyed, and the female walls on the top of the city being severely damaged.

Although the battle was a bit miserable, compared to the losses of the Qing army, this loss was completely worth it.

Duoduo stopped for a few days, and another plan came out if he failed. During the dozens of days of confrontation between the two armies, it was not only raining now, and there was no such drought outside the pass.

Duoduo’s idea is to attack during the rainy night!

Why the night attack?

Because night attacks have obviously greater side effects on guns and cannons.

He would not fight during the day. Zheng Zhilong installed a ceiling for the battlemented women's wall after repairing it. Of course, at this time, this was called a battle shed.

China has had such guarding tools for a long time. It uses long wood to resist the female wall, which is generally similar to the enemy building. It can be separated and merged. It can be set up in an instant to prevent the city tower from being destroyed or the place where there is no building to be attacked. Then, a war shed is urgently placed to face it.

In short, it is a detachable or assembled shed to repair the city defense after the battlements are damaged so that they can be quickly erected and counterattacked by condescending forces.

Zheng Zhilong now considers it as an expansion, which can cover the entire city wall. At first glance, he added a cover to the city wall.

In this way, the impact of rain on guns and cannons on the city was minimized. Naturally, Duoduo would not ask his soldiers to get guns and cannons in vain in the daytime. He would only let the Baoyi and Aha in his hands try their best to fill the moat and act like he was going to attack and attack hard. In fact, there was a loud thunder and little rain in the daytime.

When night falls, this is the highlight.

A sneak attack on a city on a rainy night is also a technical job. Although the sound of wind and rain can cover up the sound of movements in the distance, it is troublesome when you get close. There are too many potholes, and if you step into a puddle, the sound is enough to alarm Zheng Jun who is on the night.

It is not clear where Zheng Jun came up with a strange move. He actually set off fireworks in the night. The flash-sky light was enough to illuminate the large open space in front of the city. Although it could not allow people to scan the entire venue in an instant, if there was a large-scale sneak attack, it would not be able to hide it. Before coming to Niuzhuang, Duoduo had never encountered such a strange move. Who made it happen that Zheng Zhilong saw in his novels in his previous life?

Therefore, Duoduo didn’t play sneak attacks at all, they were attacking at night!

He only wanted to catch the Ming army off guard. A large number of infantry soldiers rushed to the city as fast as possible, leaning on the ladder, and ants came up. Then some small Fran machine cannons were transported from the rear to harass the defenders on the city.

Duoduo has absolute confidence in the cold weapon hand-to-hand combat ability of his own soldiers.

In his mind, Zheng Jun was just sharp guns and guns, and his ability to fight was not shown at all. That mentality was very similar to Suvorov, a famous Russian general in the 18th century - bullets were fools, and bayonets were heroes!

In fact, Zheng's army is indeed not as good as Jianlu's elite in hand-to-hand combat. But the key is that there is a city wall.

I only talk about how much advantage the defending city can have in the cold weapon war. With the gunman who reacted, Duoduo made up his mind to attack for only half an hour before he retreated his troops and returned to the camp.

Helplessly, the casualties were too great.

Whether it is the lethality of guns or the lethality of grenades, the Qing army could not bear it.

The darkness blocked the eyes of the strong gunners, greatly weakening the power of the guns and cannons. But if they don’t shoot from a distance, they can always shoot from a near distance, right?

The Iron Army is not a waste like tissue paper. It is served with delicious food and drinks and is treated well. After winning several battles with Zheng Zhilong, his body and mind were tempered. Standing on the top of the city and condescending, how could the Eight Banners Blades easily tear apart?

With a strong defense, even if the power of guns and cannons was less than half of its power, it would make the Qing army vomit blood.

Duoduo thought he was very strong and could withstand the pressure. He had expected that he would have to pay a heavy price to succeed in this night attack. But he didn't expect that the number would increase so quickly. The pressure would probably be as cool as the author looked at the backstage collection for a long time and didn't see any movement.

Duoduo could not withstand such a fast casualty speed. The battle lasted only about half an hour before being stopped. Tu Zi left a large number of corpses on the battlefield, leaving hundreds of heads for Zheng Zhilong.

Then, the Niuzhuang battlefield was completely quiet.

Zheng Zhilong didn't know whether the Qing army opposite would change its commander, and there were no large number of reinforcements coming. In fact, the attention of the Qing Dynasty was shifted to Shengjing City after that.

How could Huang Taiji easily let go when he caught Duoduo's handle?

However, good and evil will be rewarded, and the way of heaven will be reincarnation. If you don’t believe it, look up and the sky will spare anyone. Just when Huang Taiji was proud and claimed to be sure to win, Haoge outside Songshan City suddenly put a big satellite for himself.

Not only did he escape Hong Chengchou and thousands of Ming troops in Songshan, but he even asked Wang Tingchen to lead two thousand remaining troops into Xingshan City. When the latter broke out of the southern gate of Songshan, his military strength was nearly 4,000. After a fierce battle overnight, only half of the powerful people successfully broke into Xingshan with him, and the losses were huge. But this can be said to be a victory!

Because there are two white flag soldiers led by Ajige outside Xingshan City.

Together with the troops taken away by Hong Chengchou, more than 10,000 Songshan Ming Army escaped seven or eight thousand. Although there were a lot of losses, it was already a successful siege defeat. Not to mention that the army killed and injured many Eight Banners soldiers during the siege defeat.

The pain of the miserable defeat is ten times better than Duoduo?

Huang Taiji was even caught off guard.

But Huang Taiji quickly stabilized his feet. He cut off Haoge's title and confiscated Haoge's Niulu, silver, armor, carved saddle horse, plain saddle horse, etc. But is this important?

unimportant.

Because even though he cut off Haoge's title of Prince, Haoge, who was left with only Heshuo Beile, was still his eldest son of Huang Taiji.

He confiscated Haoge's Niulu, and the Niulu would not fly away or fall into the hands of others. It fell into Huang Taiji's own hands. What's the difference?

At least in Huang Taiji's eyes, there is no difference at all.

So he made a ruthless move and beat Haoge, and then turned around and naturally he would have to cut a knife at Duoduo.

But Duoduo is not stupid either. Dorgon is even smarter. He has already given his brother an idea, asking Duoduo to bite Haoge and completely link the two!

Because Duoduo's defeat was far worse than Haoge, how could Huang Taiji deal with Haoge? No matter how cruel he was, he could still seize the position of Haoge's Zhenglan Banner? If he couldn't seize the position of Haoge's banner, there would be only three or five Niulu at most. If there were more, it would shake the foundation of the Zhenglan Banner led by Haoge.

This is not something Haoge can accept, nor is it what Huang Taiji is willing to see.

Among his sons, Haoge was decent and could become his helper. In the early years, Huang Taiji found a reason to mix the two yellow flags with Zhenglan flags and distributed them to him a group of Niulu.
Chapter completed!