Dear Andreas,

You must not know where I am now, I have arrived at the second capital of the Tatars of Jianzhou, under the city of Hetuala. The first capital of the Tatars was called Feiala, and Hetuara was founded by the former Tatar chieftain Nuerhachi after he unified the two Tatar tribes of the Western and Eastern Seas. The old chieftain established his state in this city and established his era name.

The city was built in a mountain forest, and there are large and small mountains nearby, and the woods are dense and there is very little land to cultivate. After the Jianzhou Tatars occupied the Liaozhong Plain of the Ming Kingdom, most of the Tatars migrated to the plains, and few remained in Hetuala, mostly old people and young people who were not good at fighting, and some of them also settled in cottages in the mountains and forests.

In order to destroy the capital of the Jianzhou people, the grandfather of the current emperor of the Ming Kingdom sent a large army to attack, but was defeated by the Tatars. From decades ago, the Ming army was forced to flee westward, farther and farther away from Hetuala. Unexpectedly, an army came from the south and crossed dozens of kilometers of mountain roads to its city. Even more miraculous is that I, a Germanic from the Netherlands, came here with this force.

When the vanguard of the Dongjiang Army appeared in front of the Jianzhou people, many Tatars were still collecting fruits and wild vegetables in the mountains. In the past few years, the soldiers of the Australian and Song dynasties have repeatedly invaded the southern Liaoning Plain to attack the Tatars, and the agricultural production of the Tatars has been greatly affected, and the famine has spread to Hetuala, and many old people and young people have to go to the forest to find food.

Deng Jianshan told me before that the Tatars near Hetuara were familiar with the Dongjiang Army. Before I came to the Dongjiang Army to do business, the guerrillas of the Dongjiang Army regularly attacked the Jianzhou people in Liaodong, and even General Mao personally led a large army to surround Hetuala. The Tatars who remained in Hetuara had long since lost the courage to fight back.

Sure enough, as he said, when the banner of the mountain battalion of the Dongjiang Army appeared, the Tatars fled with a scream like rabbits at the sight of wolves, and the hillsides were full of enemies with butts against us.

There were quite a few Tatar boys who carried hunting bows, which could pierce the thin armor of mountain camps at close range. But only a handful dared to stop and fight back, and most of them fled as fast as their elders did. I heard many old people shouting something, and Deng Jianshan told me that it was "Dongjiang Island Kou is coming, come down the mountain"!

The mountain was in a hurry, the elders were calling for children, the hunters and fruit pickers were rushing down the mountain, and some of the baskets were lost and no one paid attention. These Tatars were accustomed to being in the mountains and forests, and they fled so quickly that only the unlucky ones would be killed and wounded by the mountain battalions.

When the fleeing Tatars came to the main road, they were met by some Tatar soldiers in armor and carried them inside the walls. People kept running out of the mountains and forests in all directions, and guards with weapons appeared on the city walls. Trumpets sounded throughout the city, and the defenders of Hetuara closed all the gates.

Ten minutes later, the flag of the Dongjiang Army fluttered on the road to the southeast, and thousands of Dongjiang Army soldiers trotted close to Hetuala, and then dispersed under the leadership of their officers, completely surrounding Hetuala.

Deng Jianshan told me that the besieging troops were two regiments of the Korean vassal army, and the most elite Dongjiang Army Guards Regiment occupied Zaotu Mountain to the west. This is a high mountain near Hetuala, and it is possible to occupy this place to monitor the Suzi River. If the Tatars from the west came to their aid, the Dongjiang army could spot them from here.

Today's date is July 1. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of this day, the battle to attack Hetuara officially began.

To my surprise, this decades-old former capital was so vulnerable to the attack of the Dongjiang Army... As fragile as a cookie that has been hit with a hammer.

The artillery of the Dongjiang Army first fired the unconscionable cannon - a very large-caliber artillery, modified from iron barrels. The artillerymen fired out several medicine packs, which emitted a lot of white smoke after they hit the ground, covering a radius of more than ten meters. The artillery of the Dongjiang Army fired more than a dozen medicine packs at a time, covering the range from the forward position to the eastern wall of Hetuala.

Then, the cannon fodder soldiers from Japan carried explosive bags on their backs and quickly passed through the area shrouded in white smoke. There were also Japanese men with muskets and knives who followed their companions, who would protect those who carried bags of explosives.

The Tatars on the city walls quickly spotted these Japanese. They shot arrows at the white smoke, and more than a dozen Japanese were inexplicably shot by bows and arrows, and fell into the smoke screaming. But they soon won't be able to scream, because they will quickly suffocate after staying in the smoke for a long time.

The artillerymen continued to fire the medicine packets, and the smoke that covered the land did not disperse. The Tatars had the audacity to let some of their soldiers down, and they engaged the Japanese with knives in the smoke, shouts of killing and gunfire coming through the smoke.

During this period, I asked Deng Jianshan why the Japanese were arrested as cannon fodder.

"Because they are religious." Deng Jianshan told me, "The Great Song Dynasty had a war with the Japanese government a few months ago, and this war has not ended until now. During the battle, we captured many prisoners, some of whom were stubborn followers of Chezhidan and rejected our materialist education. The other captives were sentenced to re-education through labor, and the cultists had to fight to their freedom in dangerous battles. ”

I saw that the man who led these Japanese cannon fodder troops was a priest who also wore a cross around his neck. So I quietly asked Deng Jianshan, "Is Chezhidan Christian?"

Deng Jianshan looked at me with a smile, and his eyes had already told me the answer.

It is mad, my lord, that the people of the Otto-Song should persecute your lamb so cruelly. In order to better protect myself and save more believers after leaving the Song Army, I found an opportunity to throw my Bible into the fire. I'm sure you'll forgive me.

Having said that, under the cover of other cannon fodder, those Japanese finally rushed to the city of Hetuala. They drilled small holes in the walls with bows and arrows that could easily have taken their lives due to the reluctance of the Otors to equip the cannon fodder with the most basic armor. After that, they would stuff explosive packets into those holes.

When everything is done, the cannon fodder army can retreat.

In less than half an hour, more than thirty explosive packs were installed on the eastern walls of Hetuala. When the smoke cleared, the Tatars looked at the packages on the city walls in confusion, and their officers seemed to have sent someone down to check it, but it was too late.

The artillerymen changed the type of ammunition, they fired a yellow explosive, which was of the same category as the one on the city walls.

I've never seen such a terrible explosion, my friend. This yellow explosive is completely beyond my imagination. No matter how exaggerated the language I use, no matter how precise the words, I can't describe the scene of the explosion. It was like a volcanic eruption, or a thunderbolt falling from the sky, and the exploding fireball swept upwards for more than thirty meters, and the thick black smoke was like Satan's breath. Even from a distance of more than 300 meters, I could feel the shaking of the earth.

After a few minutes, the smoke and dust that filled our eyes finally cleared, and we saw the completely collapsed city walls. The walls more than 100 meters wide fell, and the ruins of the city that had been blown down appeared before our eyes.

The North Koreans, who had long been poised for a fight, raised their voices. There will be no more enemies to stop them from charging, and all the Tatars who stand on the walls or stay behind the walls are reduced to ashes. At the forefront were still the Japanese cannon fodder troops, who had to take on the most dangerous tasks, because the Koreans in the rear were given orders that everyone was free to shoot them if they refused to obey the order.

There were less than 800 Tatars in the city of Hetuala, of whom about 200 were hors de combat in the explosion. In the past battles, the Dongjiang Army, which was very poorly equipped, was never able to break through the walls of Hetuala. The Tatars probably thought it would be the same this time.

Deng Jianshan laughed at this, "Jiannu is still the Jiannu of the past, and the Dongjiang Army is no longer the Dongjiang Army of the past." ”

The Tatars are a very brave people. After the walls were blown up, they also organized a counterattack, and the first Japanese to storm the city were repulsed. These Japanese are generally only about 1.4 meters tall and have no armor, so they are really unable to resist in the face of Tatars who are a head taller than them and wear iron armor.

There were more than 200 Japanese involved in the fighting. They won only a single-digit victory, but more than a hundred were killed by the Tatar warriors. It was a completely one-sided massacre. I am sure that the Dongjiang Army was reducing the number of cannon fodder troops by this means, because the Koreans who attacked more easily eliminated the Tatars who dared to counterattack - those Tatar warriors were killed by a continuous volley of guns without even a chance to fight hand-to-hand.

From the launch of smoke grenades to the complete capture of Hetuala, it took less than four hours for the Dongjiang Army. After the battle, many soldiers of the Dongjiang Army who did not participate in the battle still felt incredible. According to their expectations, they had to spend at least a week under the city of Hetuara before they could break the city.

Of course, it took only such a short time, with so few casualties, to occupy the former capital of the Jianzhou people, and no one would be dissatisfied with this. The soldiers of the Dongjiang Army poured into the city in high spirits, each taking out the white cloth stuffed in his helmet and tying it around his arm.

The number of prisoners captured in this battle was 0. Well, who cares? I guess the ancestors who watched the Dongjiang Army fight in the sky would have been happy.