Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 559

[Chapter 559 The Underground Way]

“Hahaha, cool!”

Qin Shan clapped his hands on the wall of Ningcheng and laughed.

Under the threat of hot air balloons, there was a lot of chaos in the North City camp.

This is exactly what he expected.

After staring for a while, he went down the city wall, ready to go back to rest.

When passing through the gap in the city wall, the soldiers were following his order to set up more refusal horses within 200 range of the gap.

Last night’s battle made him feel that there was no need to repair the gap.

Beidi soldiers rushed in through the narrow gap, but instead became the target of the Musketeers.

If there were no rifled guns as before, they could only let the heavy infantry come forward and fight the soldiers of Beidi with swords.

In this way, facing Beidi’s superiority in numbers, Ning Cheng is really in danger.

“But the ammunition you’re carrying won’t last long. General Mo, you have to arrive in time.” Qin Shan suddenly sighed again.

Just as he was about to leave, he remembered something and asked the general beside him, “How many people were killed or injured in Beidi this time?”

“General, there are more than 16,800 people.” The general replied.

Beidi launched an attack from the four walls, and invested a lot of troops at one time.

Therefore, the casualties they caused in one night’s fighting exceeded those of Yanguan.

“What about us?”

“Two thousand and eight casualties.” The general said again.

Qin Shan couldn’t help sighing.

This is a battle loss ratio of almost eight to one.

If it fell on the other troops of Da Song, they would almost go crazy with joy.

But to him, this is a normal battle loss for the royal family’s troops.

“Do your best to treat the wounded soldiers.” Qin Shan confessed.

Among the more than two thousand people, wounded soldiers accounted for a larger proportion.

If they can survive, the battle damage ratio between the two sides will be even higher.

This time when he came to Ningcheng, he was also accompanied by medical officers, and they brought a lot of secret medicines from the palace.

This saves soldiers’ lives.

After giving these instructions, Qin Shan went back to rest.

He also asked the soldiers to take turns to rest and prepare for the night’s battle.

Night falls.

Beidi launched an attack again, just like last night.

This time Beidi moved out the gunpowder barrel again, and the city wall of Ningcheng was blown out three more gaps.

However, thanks to their experience, Qin Shan and Guan Tong quickly dispatched soldiers to the gap and set up refusal horses.

For them, the city walls of Ningcheng, like the chariots of Cheying, played the role of hindering the Beidi cavalry.

Even if the city wall collapsed, it was like a high mound.

The cavalry could not charge straight in from outside the city.

As for the Beidi infantry, they were fearless at all.

Under the dense formation of riflemen, as many Beidi soldiers rushed in, they died.

What’s more, the gap is very narrow, and the number of Beidi soldiers rushing in at one time is limited.

At the gap, they have a complete advantage over Beidi in terms of strength. After all, Beidi cannot rush into the gap with thousands of people at once.

It would be nice to have hundreds of them coming in at a time.

“Blow it up, if you have the ability, blow up all the walls of Ningcheng.” Qin Shan sneered.

Under observation, he found that the casualties of the soldiers on the city wall were greater than those at the gap.

But he had to guard the city wall.

After all, let the Beidi soldiers occupy the city wall, and their attack will change from a point to a line, and they can enter Ningcheng from any place, and it will be difficult to defend at that time.

After five days of fierce fighting, both sides were exhausted.

Because of the disparity in strength, the royal family’s army could only be exhausted, so they were in trouble.

Beidi soldiers continued to attack at night, and they couldn’t sleep well during the day.

On the sixth day, the casualties were counted, and Mu Le Hongzhen’s face was ashen.

During these few days of fighting, they gave up 20% of their troops.

“Iron Wooden Pagoda, let Jincheng’s 50,000 soldiers come to support immediately.”

Originally, he was worried that King Yan’s soldiers would take the opportunity to attack Jincheng.

So 50,000 people were reserved to deal with emergencies, so as not to lose Jincheng.

But after such a long time, Jincheng is safe and sound.

He thought maybe he was redundant.

At present, both the soldiers and horses under his command and the soldiers and horses under Gurtu and others are very tired.

He needed this energetic soldier to deliver a fatal blow to Ningcheng’s King Yan soldier.

“Yes, Father Khan.” Tie Muta frowned.

After so many days of stalemate, it was finally time to launch a surprise attack on King Yan’s troops in Ningcheng.

After Mule Hongzhen gave the order, he left the camp and looked at a position 300 meters away from Ningcheng.

At that location there is an artillery emplacement of sandbags.

This fortification has long been destroyed by the Yanwang artillery in Ningcheng.

There are still many straws in it.

It’s just that he knows that there is something hidden under this damaged fortification.

Taking advantage of the night attack, he took the opportunity to send soldiers to dig tunnels under the fortifications, and transport the newly dug up soil to the camp for hiding.

During the day, straw is used to cover the hole.

And in order to cover up this secret operation, he deliberately did not send soldiers in this direction.

Therefore, during night battles, King Yan seldom threw explosive shells at this position.

Even if thrown, the sandbags would shield soldiers from digging.

When the tunnel got deeper and farther away, he didn’t worry even more.

King Yan’s soldiers and horses couldn’t even find the soldiers digging in the tunnel.

“We’ll be able to dig into Ningcheng in one day.” Mu Lehong really narrowed his eyes.

The gap in the city wall that was blown up in the past few days made him very disappointed.

Many Beidi soldiers died, but they were still unable to break through these gaps.

And through the tunnel, a large number of soldiers can enter Ning City in the dark and kill King Yan’s soldiers by surprise.

“At Yanguan, I also used this method, but when I dug to the root of the city wall, I bumped into the new wall of Yanguan. That damn King Yan didn’t know what was going on in his head. The wall is so deep that the tunnel we dug has failed,” Guertu said.

When encountering the new city wall, his soldiers tried to cut through the new city wall and continued to dig into Yanguan.

But he didn’t know why he was discovered by Yanguan soldiers.

Yanguan soldiers kept bombarding the ground with artillery.

His soldiers were so frightened that they fled back.

If Zhao Xu heard Gurtu’s words, he would definitely laugh.

In contemporary times, building construction technology can be described as very mature.

He also gave Zou Rong a lot of guidance when he built the outer wall of Yanguan.

Because the outer wall of Yanguan is very tall, it is also a concrete structure.

He purposely asked Zou Rong to dig a foundation five meters deep. After all, if the potential was not dug, the city wall would easily collapse.

As for being discovered by Yanguan soldiers, it is also normal.

Concrete conducts sound very well.

Renovation in the same building, as long as the concrete is smashed, the whole building can hear it.

Beidi soldiers chiseled the root of the wall, and it is impossible for Yanguan soldiers not to find out.

“Hmph, Yanguan is Yanguan, and Ningcheng is Ningcheng. The city walls here are incomparable.” Mu Lehong really gritted his teeth, turned and returned to the camp.

At noon the next day, many cavalry came from the north.

Mule Hongzhen immediately let these soldiers take a rest.

The next morning, the soldiers in the tunnel came to report.

The tunnel is already three hundred and eighty steps long.

Nodding his head, Mule Hongzhen was going to let the soldiers rushing to enter Ningcheng through the tunnel at night to fight.

Just when he was proud, suddenly a cavalry came from the south, knelt down on one knee in front of him and said, “Khan, it’s not good, a soldier of King Yan appeared on the south side.”

(End of this chapter)