The sun shines brightly.

The white clouds are lingering.

On the vast earth, there were dark clouds and black lines slowly moving towards the silent fortress ahead. The drums of war moved, people were excited, and the wind roared and the horses chucked.

At the same time, countless scouts wandered around Zhenbei City.

More of them are scouts sent by Tuboluo - war is definitely not just a head-on charge, you also have to beware of enemy reinforcements, so when fighting on the yellow sand, scouts from both sides wander around.

And in the distance, there were also some Ming scouts.

They are not from Zhenbeicheng.

From Guinan.

Guinan is about eighty miles away from Zhenbei City. If you rush to help, you can arrive in one day, but Guinan dares not send troops to support it because there are few troops. Once the support is supported, the city's defense will be empty and it is likely that the enemy will be lured out of the mountain.

After seeing the Oirat army begin to attack the city, these scouts who were far away from investigation immediately sent people back to report, and a small number of people remained around.

Anyway, if the scouts from both sides meet at this time, most of them will not fight to the death.

They are now only responsible for the investigation.

Of course, if both scouts encounter each other when they are marching and setting up formations on weekdays, in order to avoid the discovery of their strategic intentions, it is basically a life-and-death situation, and the other party will not bring the news back.

In front of Zhenbei City, Yu Yanliang and Tang Yang were a little confused.

In theory, the opponent can siege ten times his own troops, so that his side will have to disperse his already weak troops onto the city walls.

However, Oirat did not.

They gathered all their forces and attacked the Xicheng Gate with all their might.

This is embarrassing.

Fortunately, Yanliang and Tang Yang reacted very quickly and pulled the 600 people who were left to support, left 400 people to be spared, and added 100 Shenji Camp to the Ximen City Wall, and then used 100 people to defend the city gate. The remaining 400 people were wearing armor and swords to prepare for support at any time - the city wall was so big, you could not stand too many people.

At most, it can add one hundred Shenji camps.

But with too many people and too large the density, the damage will increase - although the bows and crossbows are far inferior to muskets, there are also things like bed crossbows in the Oirat army.

Yu Yanliang was a little depressed and said, "Does the enemy know the arrangement on our city wall?"

Tang Yang nodded, "It must have been sent to investigate in advance."

If it is a siege on all sides, there will be sixteen artillery on all sides of the city walls on all sides of Zhenbei City, which can bring the enemy the greatest group injury effect. However, now the enemy is attacking Ximen with all its might, which means that there are only four artillery that can play a role.

The key is that the troops on the other three walls dare not move - the full siege of the West Gate does not mean that there are no enemies under the other three walls, and there are enemies who gather in arrays outside the range of the artillery.

If you dare to draw the troops on these three walls, the enemy will take advantage of the situation to attack the city.

It has to be admitted that the enemy generals are talented.

It's approaching!

Getting closer.

When the black soldiers of the First Regiment were pressing into the place where they were looking, Yu Yanliang and Tang Yang were both a little confused. What was going on?

After this black army line, the Oirat army was equipped with cavalry and spread in a fan shape, not like to attack the city, but rather a little wary of the first army line of troops going to escape.

Or are you looking for opportunities to go to other city gates?

This unusual formation caught Yu Yanliang and Tang Yang off guard.

Yu Yanliang raised the "teleoscope" produced in his hand from the Times Trading Glass Factory, looked over carefully, and suddenly burst into cold sweat, and said in a solemn tone: "Old Tang, look!"

Tang Yang also raised his telescope - now among the great Ming Dynasty, from the commander to the commander of the capital to hundreds and thousands of households, basically everyone has telescopes, and the team serving as scouts are equipped with them.

This thing is not expensive.

Times Commercial Bank did not intend to make money on this, and it was sold to the Ministry of War at a cost price.

And the performance is better than what has been circulated overseas.

Tang Yang looked at it for a moment and his face became solemn, "No wonder the marching of the first regiment line is so chaotic."

Because it's not a soldier at all.

They are unarmed people - herders in the Tatar region.

And not a male.

All are women, children and elderly people.

Wala tried to use these women, children and elderly people to attack the city?

Yu Yanliang and Tang Yang looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes: You have to admit that Ola chose the most perfect tactic to attack the city this time.

Methods like this were not without precedents in ancient times.

But almost no good results.

However, the current situation is different. The Oirat army drove more than a thousand women, children and elderly people as frontline cannon fodder to knock on the city gate. How to deal with Zhenbeicheng?

Don't open the city gate?

Then there is no doubt that the cavalry guarded by the Oirat army will cavalry and shoot one round after another, shooting all the more than a thousand women, children and elderly people, and then continue to attack the city.

But once this is the case, the consequences will not only be reflected in this offensive and defensive battle.

These women, children and elderly people are all people in the Tatar area.

Once they are completely shot, the herdsmen in the Tatar area may hate the Oirat, but they will definitely resent the Ming Dynasty's endless death. The hearts of the Tatar people who have finally gathered together may collapse because of this incident.

The Tatars voluntarily joined the Oirat army to take revenge on the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty could not have imagined that the Tatars would cooperate with each other in the subsequent war.

But if the city gate is opened to help these women, children and elderly people, then the Oar cavalry can take the opportunity to attack the city. Once they are allowed to enter the city, the fall of Zhenbei City is inevitable.

Once street fighting is fought, the power of the musket will drop significantly.

Artillery is even more useless.

what to do?

Seeing more than a thousand women, children and elderly people getting closer and closer, and seeing the Oirat cavalry getting closer, Tang Yang and Yu Yanliang could clearly see what color of the war horse armor of the Oirat cavalry was without even using a telescope...

Tang Yang fell into silence.

Yu Yanliang was calm on the surface, but in his heart he was fighting against heaven and man.

On the one hand, the people's hearts in the entire Tatar region involve the overall situation of cultural assimilation, and on the other hand, it involves the defense security of the entire Yanping Municipal Centre.

It's hard to choose.

Tang Yang suddenly said softly, "Fortunately, I am smart. I have earned a lot of money for my family over the years. If I use military merits to exchange for power and official positions, even if my descendants are hereditary in the future, if a person is disabled, he will not be able to protect his huge family business even if he has power."

Yu Yanliang was stunned, "Have you thought about it?"

Tang Yang laughed and said nothing.

Do we have a choice?

But he did not affect Yu Yanliang's choice, because Yu Yanliang was the main general.

Yu Yanliang was silent for a long time and said to his personal soldiers around him: "Transfer our military orders and my Zhenbeierlang is ready to fight to the death. If the city is lost, if there is no hope of killing the enemy, be sure to destroy the cannons and muskets in his hands or around him!"

The firearms must not be left to the Oirat army for use.

Somewhatful.

No matter how high Zhenbei City is, no matter how difficult it is to overcome the natural barrier, it cannot stop the weapon of the hearts of the people.

Zhenbei City is in danger.
Chapter completed!