Salhu, Jilin Cliff.

Juniper's insistence put the Ming army in a dilemma.

Staff General Chai Guodong and guerrilla Wang Hao continuously led their troops to assault the Jin soldiers on the cliff, but they suffered setbacks one after another, with more than 1,000 dead and wounded.

There was news from the Salhu camp that a large group of Jinmen soldiers and horses had come south from the Zhalkha Pass behind Jiefan Mountain, and it was very likely that it was the main force of Jiannu who had retreated a few days ago.

If the news is true, the juniper department that is attacking Jilin Cliff is very dangerous, and it is impossible to attack or retreat.

Juniper also attached great importance to the Jin army that came out of the south of the Zarkha Pass, and sent many teams of scouts to risk the danger and have close contact with the Jin army to find out the truth of this Jin army.

Soon, the news was confirmed that Jiannu, who came from Zarkha Pass, was indeed its main force, led by the four sons of the slave chieftain, Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai, and Abutai, with a strength of no less than 20,000 troops.

However, it is difficult to judge the target of this Jiannu soldier and horse.

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Whether to hit the camp of the Salhu Ming army first or attack the juniper headquarters of Jilin Cliff first, Dai Shan and Amin are also in trouble, and in the end, Dai Shan decided to attack the juniper headquarters first, which is to capture the thief and capture the king first.

After the decision was set, Dai Shan first sent 2,000 soldiers up the mountain to assist the defenders on the mountain to attack down, and then sent the four banners on the right flank to cooperate with the mountain soldiers to attack the Juniper army, and monitored the camp of the Salhu Ming army with the four banners on the left flank.

When the banners of the Jin army were about to carry out this order, Nurhachi led the rest of the main force to arrive, and after knowing the deployment of Daishan, Nurhachi immediately reprimanded: "Confused! This style of play, although it can weaken Juniper's headquarters, but it is a war of attrition, and it takes a long time, once the Ming army of the Salhu battalion abandons the camp to reinforce Juniper, this is to make the rice into a sandwich rice, can you eat this kind of deployment? ”

"Amma blames!"

Dai Shan hurriedly reviewed his mistakes, admitted his mistakes in deployment, and then asked his father Khan to deploy like this.

Nurhachi was satisfied with the attitude of the second son, and Yu Zhu said: "The previous fighting method could not shake the foundation of the Juniper Department, nor could it mess with their military morale. Only by gathering the main force to break through the Ming army of Salhu first, so that the Ming army of Jilin Ya will lose its support, so that the military heart will go, and the people's hearts will be shaken, how long can Juniper last! ”

Zhu Beile and Minister Qi claimed to be.

The next day, Nurhachi immediately led more than 45,000 elite soldiers and horses of the Six Banners to attack the camp of the Salhu Ming army. The strength of the army was more than three times that of the Ming army.

After the Ming army detected that the main force of Jiannu did not attack Jilin Cliff, but came towards the camp, the commander-in-chief Wang Xuan and Zhao Mengxuan immediately presided over the defense.

The Ming army defending the camp dug trenches outside the camp, and the camps were lined with guns and cannons, and they were ready to fight with the Jin army with their might.

The battle soon began, and the Jin army launched an assault on the Ming army camp with two banners.

"Listen to me and fire together!"

As the command flag in the hand of Wang Xuan, the chief soldier of Baoding, waved out, dozens of artillery pieces transported from the pontoon bridge to the camp shook violently at the same time, and the muzzles of the guns erupted fierce firelight, and thick smoke rose from it.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

In the deafening cannon fire, dozens of iron balls smashed viciously towards the Jin army. As the shells fell and jumped, the charging Jin army was swept down, and the severed limbs and stumps were thrown up from time to time.

A solid cannonball jumped up and down as if it had eyes, swept forward nearly a hundred paces, and took the lives of more than a dozen golden soldiers along the way. The head, the body, the arms, and the thighs and calves of many people, like gadgets in the hands of jugglers, kept rising and falling. It wasn't until the bullet was exhausted that the shell stopped peacefully, and the whole body was blood-red, leaving a long and mournful howl of blood and weeping.

Many Jin soldiers were frightened by the tragic situation caused by the Ming army's artillery shells, and the charging team was in a mess, and the first round of attacks did not even touch the Ming army's camp gate.

After that, the Jin army organized two more attacks with two yellow flags and red flags, but they were both repelled by the Ming troops defending the camp with firearms.

Seeing that the Ming army was so tenacious, the Jin army was surprised, didn't the intelligence say that the Ming army stationed in the Salhu camp was only a third-rate member of the Ming army, except for the general's family, they were all helping the old, weak, sick and disabled, how could they be so good at fighting.

"King Khan, the Ming army defending the camp is not elite, and it can't hold artillery, as long as our army is willing to suffer casualties, the Ming army will not last." Fan Wencheng offered advice.

"If I can't take this Salhu camp, my Dajin is in danger of losing the country!"

Nurhachi agrees with Fan Wencheng's opinion that this Salhu camp must be launched. He immediately ordered his direct subordinate iron-clad white swinging teeth to cooperate with the red-armored soldiers of each banner to attack the Ming army camp again. He also strictly ordered all banner owners not to retreat without military orders, otherwise military law would be involved.

The ironclad swing tooth is the most elite soldier of the Eight Banners, and Nurhachi will really do whatever it takes to gather the banners and swing the teeth together.

The participation of the tooth in the war increased the combat effectiveness of the Jin army, and there were strict orders from the military law, and the Jiala Zhangjing and Ezhen of each banner also went into battle in person, and Li Yongfang, the forehead of the West House, also led the Han army to participate in the battle.

After enduring the huge casualties caused by the Ming artillery, the Jin army finally approached the Ming army's camp, and the Ming army defending the camp was forced to engage them with a short blade.

The Ming army, which lost its artillery to help the battle, soon began to be overwhelmed, especially the large number of casualties of the generals who were the backbone of the Ming army, so that the rest of the soldiers lost their souls at once, and they could not fight with those Jiannu who rushed in with iron armor and rushed in at the risk of death.

In order to defeat the enemy in one go, Nurhachi personally went to the battlefield to command. Just after noon, the Abatai tribe took the lead in attacking the Ming camp.

"It's broken, it's broken!"

The flags of the Jin army invariably sounded the earth-shattering cheers, and the Ming troops guarding the camp heard that they were all colorless.

"The elite of the Eight Banners soldiers, the slave has never seen it in his life!"

Fan Wencheng couldn't help but admire, the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners who were not afraid of death were really the strongest army in the world, how could they be compared to the Ming army that couldn't even eat enough.

"In this battle, you should remember Abatai's first merit!"

Nurhachi was also indescribably excited, and as soon as the Ming army camp was broken, it would not be far from its collapse.

After the Abatai Department broke into the camp of the Ming army, the Daishan Department and the Mang Gurtai and Tang Ancient Divisions also broke through.

At this time, the Ming army had fallen into extreme panic, and the Jin cavalry who rushed into the camp galloped on horseback, broke through the trenches, and completely disrupted the camp.

Although some of the generals' soldiers and horses were still stubbornly fighting back, under the impact of the galloping iron cavalry, the Ming army's position was simply insufficient.

The cavalry of the Jin army repeatedly attacked, slashed and ravaged, invincible, some were hacked to death by knives, some were trampled to death by horses' hooves, and the Ming army suffered countless casualties.

"My lord, defeated, defeated!"

Zhang Guodong, the deputy general guarding the east side of the camp, looked at Zhao Menglan, the chief soldier beside him, in horror, and his teeth trembled a little.

Zhao Menglan's face was pale, he gritted his teeth and said nothing, and the wrinkles on his forehead were deep enough to stuff a copper coin. But he was not as flustered as Zhang Guodong, just gritted his teeth and looked at the Jiannu who broke into the camp without moving.

At present, the situation is already a dead end, Jiannu cut off the connection between the camp and Jilin Cliff, and there are no reinforcements here except for the defensive battalion set up by Zhou Tiexin, the supervising army more than 20 miles away.

And Zhou Tiexin was a civil official, greedy for life and afraid of death, and his subordinates only had more than 3,000 people, most of them were burdens, where could they have the ability to save the camp.

So, this battle is really lost!

Zhao Menglan secretly regretted that he should have told Juniper to the death, if the army did not divide the troops, how could the Jin army concentrate the main force to attack the camp without any worries.

Once the camp is defeated here, Juniper is not far from defeat.

This road is defeated, and the other three roads are probably not optimistic, and if you don't get the four-way march of the Lord Jinglu, it will become a four-way defeat!

Zhao Meng's heart was dripping blood, he knew that the soldiers and horses in the battle of Liao were put together by the imperial court, so if they were all buried in Jianzhou, the sky outside the Ming Pass would completely collapse!