In the original battle of Ningyuan, Nurhachi took the opportunity of the easy handsome and hasty withdrawal of the Ming army in Liaodong to personally command the Eight Banners Army of about 60,000 people, known as 130,000.

In 1626, in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty and the eleventh year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven, the fourteenth day of the first month went out of Shenyang, and on the seventeenth, he crossed the Liao River to the west and approached Ningyuan.

At this time, the defenders of Ningyuan in the lonely city were less than 20,000, there was a strong enemy in front of them, and there were no reinforcements in the rear, and the situation was sinister.

Yuan Chonghuan was not afraid of danger, convened the generals to discuss the battle and defense, and decided to adopt the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness, and organized the whole city to defend the city together.

He stabbed blood in front of all the soldiers and swore to live and die with Ning Yuan, and the soldiers and people were moved by it.

Yuan Chonghuan Xuan guarded the east, west, south and north of the city with the general Mangui, the deputy general Zuo Fu, the general Zu Dashou, and the deputy general Zhu Mei, and supervised the whole city with Mangui.

Thirteen Western cannons were installed in the city.

The east and north sides and the west and south sides are respectively commanded by Peng Haigu and Luo Li.

Mobilize the merchants and people of the city to enter the city, burn all the houses outside the city, and accumulate them, so that the Houjin army will be exposed in the cold and wilderness.

Yuan Chonghuan also made good use of spies against Nurhachi, personally supervised and inspected the spies with Cheng Weihao, sent people to patrol the streets and alleys, and mobilized the people on the street to cooperate with the soldiers to search and arrest from house to house.

Ling Tong sentenced Jin Qiliang to send people to provide food for the soldiers defending the city. He also sent officials to lead the merchants and people in the city to prepare materials, transport arrows, stones, gunpowder, etc.

The soldiers and civilians also poured water and ice on the outside of the city wall to prevent the Jin army from landing in the city.

All preparations for defense were made on the 22nd day of the first lunar month, which stabilized the morale of the army and the people.

This time, the personnel changed, and the time was slightly earlier.

Today is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, and it has not yet reached the Lantern Festival.

The treasure army is only 6,000 people, and Ningyuan City is completely a treasure army, there is no Ming army, and there are no ordinary people.

The only thing that is the same as history is that the treasure army poured water on the soldiers to freeze the city walls.

Splashing water doesn't have to increase the cost, so why not.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the Houjin army entered Ningyuan, crossed the Shanhai Avenue five miles away from the city, set up camp and set up formation, cut off the connection between Ningyuan and Guannei, and set up large camps in the north and south of the city.

The big war is imminent, and the commander's every move will affect the morale of the army, and Wei Bao, who rarely participates directly in this kind of battle, is now the center of all the focus.

Wei Bao was dressed in a straight military uniform of the Marshal of the Bao Army, covered with snow-white fox skin, and wore a scarf of white fox skin, white on the outside and yellow on the inside.

Of the treasure army that went out this time, 500 people were the current President's Guard, and 500 were the new Guards non-commissioned officers who were about to become the President's Guard, and these two parts together accounted for 1,000 people.

The remaining 5,000 mixed brigades were all transferred from Weijiazhuang, and they had experienced less baptism in battle, so they were pulled out to practice.

Although this unit belongs to the garrison of Weijiazhuang, the level of training is there, and it belongs to the regular establishment of the Bao Army, more than half of which have gone to fight in southern Liaoning, and the level can be ranked in the middle of the Bao Army.

This mixed brigade is mainly a functional unit, and it has more skills, which is more suitable for defending the city.

The main army of the Jiannu Strikers rushed closer and closer.

A dragon with teeth and claws, and the Jiannu handsome banner with red and yellow as the main color appeared in the field of vision of Wei Bao and the soldiers defending the city.

Jiannu didn't bring any heavy engineering equipment, only a siege engine, a huge log, a kind of cart propelled by four wheels, and many soldiers pushed it and then slammed into the city gates.

Like what a stone thrower, it didn't bring, it was a cold day, the snow was too thick, and it was too troublesome to bring.

Similar to Wei Bao's expectations, Nurhachi came up and ordered a large-scale attack, but he did not attack from all sides at the same time, the main attack direction was concentrated on the west side of Ningyuan City, and the direction of attack from the direction of Shanhaiguan to the direction of Ningyuan City.

Seeing the scene of Jiannu charging in groups, Wei Bao, under the persuasion of Tan Maniac and other officers, retreated to the city with Cong Gulungege, Princess Zhenming and Wang Qiuya.

Cong Gulen Gege refused to leave, wanting to stay in the city to watch, Wei Bao asked Cong Gulen Gege to be forcibly pulled away.

"It's nothing to look at, I'll hurt you by mistake later." Wei Bao Road.

"I'm not afraid." Cong Gulenge said: "Back in the city, I only have to worry more! ”

"You're not afraid, but if you're injured, or if you're dead, and then Nurhachi thinks that what I did to you will only make the relationship between the two families worse, to the point that it can't be reconciled, do you want that?" Wei Bao's eloquence is very good, and he grasps the main point at once.

Tsung Gulen Gege stopped talking.

Nurhachi asked Mang Gurtai, who had been captured by the Bao army, to bring 5,000 men and make a tentative attack first.

The Jiannu side has not yet fully figured out what kind of troop deployment is in Ningyuan City, whether it is all the Ming army, or all the treasure army, or the Ming army is mixed with the treasure army, or there are more Ming troops, or there are more treasure troops.

Baojun knows himself and knows his opponent, while Jiannu only knows himself and does not know him.

Madman Tan only arranged seven hundred men on the attacking side of Jiannu.

Originally, according to the original battle plan, the infantry army of 5,000 people of the treasure army was divided into ten groups, and the 1,000 presidential guards served as reserves.

Originally, there were only 500 people defending the city, 100 people on each of the four walls, and 100 people were placed around Madman Tan as a reserve.

Now Jiannu is attacking on one side, so Madman Tan sent a hundred reserves over, and then mobilized five hundred people to defend together, so the south wall on this side that Jiannu is attacking now has a total of seven hundred people.

Madman Tan felt that it was enough, and he was afraid that if he sent too many people, Jiannu would not be able to fight at all, and he would lose his desire to attack.

This is very similar to fishing, if the troops on both sides are transparent, the 6,000 well-equipped treasure army, coupled with the cold weather and the freezing of the earth, and the tall and thick city wall of Ningyuan City, will make the more than 65,000 Jiannu have no idea at all.

If it feels like there are very few defenders in Ningyuan City, the situation is different.

When Jiannu approached to fifty meters, the treasure army released a few arrows, sent a dozen soldiers who could fire arrows, and also bombarded a few cannons with red-clothed cannons, and there were four cannons on the city wall on this side, and a total of less than ten cannons were fired.

This created the illusion that Nurhachi had few defenders in the city.

"How many defenders do you think they have?" Nurhachi asked.

No one dared to speak.

Nurhachi asked by name: "Bao Chengxian, you can talk about it." ”

"Maybe there are only fifty archers, fifty gunners, at most two hundred people in this section of the city wall, if you count the four city walls, there should be eight hundred people, if the Ming army leaves a hand, only send half of them to defend the city, and intend to fight with us for a long time, eight hundred and then double, but about one thousand sixteen, certainly less than two thousand. It's just that I don't know if there is a treasure army. Bao Chengxian analyzed.

The civil and military officials around Nurhachi all agreed with Bao Chengxian's judgment, and they all estimated that the Ming army might be less than 2,000, and definitely not more than 5,000, which was simply negligible.

"Such a small number of Ming troops, even if there is a treasure army, it is unlikely to exceed the number of Ming troops." Ning Wan added: "So the defenders in this city will not exceed 10,000 people, and the treasure army is unlikely to exceed 5,000 people. ”

After listening to everyone's analysis, Nurhachi was relieved a lot, and felt that with his superior forces, it was not a big problem to take Ningyuan City, which was the only military town of the Ming Dynasty outside the Guan, and if Ningyuan City was taken, Gaotai Fort and Qiantun Fort would be negligible.

When Jiannu came within fifty meters, a series of explosions rang out.

This is not a cannon fired by the treasure army, it is a mine.

The treasure army hasn't let go of a single shot.

The mines turned the charging Jiannu bombers on their backs.

Madman Tan looked funny: "Jiannu is Jiannu, I don't have any brains, how many times have I lost in the hands of our mines?" There is no way at all. ”

The officers and staff officers beside Madman Tan all smiled.

Jiannu threw down more than a hundred corpses and stopped the charge.

Mang Gurtai had no choice, so he asked everyone to retreat a hundred meters, and he asked people to rush back to ask for instructions.

There is really no way to do it but use livestock to clear mines.

Jiannu then sent people to use more than 100 carriages, lined up, and then tied firecrackers to the horse's tail.

Firecrackers were hung one by one, and then the horses rushed forward like crazy.

The effect of this demining is not bad, but only about half of the mines can be removed.

The key is that the cost of landmines is low, a horse is at least ten taels of silver, and a crockpot mine costs less, less than two taels of silver.

There is another item, tossing for a while, tossing a small half of Jiannu Ruhong's morale, and when he rushed again, he was in a trembling atmosphere.

Boom, boom, boom.

Mines plus four redcoat cannons that are constantly bombarded.

The Hongyi cannon, the prototype of which was a naval cannon manufactured in Europe around 1600, was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, and all artillery with similar designs were collectively called Hongyi cannons in China, also known as red-coated cannons.

Soon after the introduction of this type of artillery, the Ming Dynasty successfully copied it.

Compared with the artillery owned by the Ming Dynasty at that time, the Hongyi cannon has many advantages in design, such as long barrel, thick pipe wall, large caliber, and the overall shape gradually thickens from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which conforms to the principle of high to low chamber pressure when gunpowder burns.

There are cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, and the gun can adjust the firing angle with this axis and change the firing range according to the amount of gunpowder; It is equipped with a crosshair and a light gate, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, which is very accurate.

Most of the Hongyi cannons are about 3 meters long, with a caliber of 110-130 mm and a weight of more than 1 ton.

It can only be used to defend the city, and the weight of one ton has to be pulled by a troika, which can be pulled, but the speed is too slow, and it can only maintain the speed of walking, which is not suitable for mobile combat.

It has to be in good condition, otherwise it will be slower, even push and drag, and when the cannon is placed, Jiannu's iron horse will come to harvest corn in the morning.

But the role of defending the city is really good.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the shipborne cannon designed for warships in Europe was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, also known as the redcoat cannon. The so-called "red Yi" people are also the red-haired Netherlands and Portugal.

Therefore, many people believe that the Hongyi cannon was imported from the Netherlands.

In fact, at that time, the Ming Dynasty called all the front-loading smoothbore cannons imported from the West as Hongyi cannons, and Ming Dynasty officials often covered these cannons with red cloth, so they were falsely called "red clothes", and there is also a saying that the Qing Dynasty avoided "Yi", so it was renamed red clothes.

The first large-scale Hongyi cannon imports were naval guns salvaged from sunken warships in British waters off China, and according to the comparison with European artillery standards at the time, the Hongyi cannon prototype was the British ship-based 6-, 12-, and 18-pounder front-loading smoothbore cannons.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty urgently needed a large number of artillery because of the war, so it had a long-term artillery trade with the Portuguese in Macao, and Macao had the best artillery factory in the Far East at that time, "Bugarao Foundry Factory", and part of the artillery traded with the Ming Dynasty came from this artillery factory, and part of it came from the British artillery they salvaged and the artillery purchased from other channels.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, in 1626, the Hongyi cannon played a great role in the Battle of Ningyuan.

Under the heavy artillery fire of the Ming army, the siege of Houjin was the first defeat since Nurhachi became an army.

In 1627, in the Battle of Ningjin, the Hongyi cannon once again exerted great power, and the Ming army won a great victory.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, in the first month of 1631, Hou Jin used the captured craftsman Liu Han in Shenyang, and successfully imitated the Western cannon, named "Tianyou Cheering General", they used complex annealing and quenching procedures to deal with different parts of the artillery, because the word Yi committed the taboo of the Manchurians, the Hongyi cannon was renamed "Red Cannon".

Huang Taiji set up a new battalion "heavy army" in the Eight Banners Army, and later Tong Yangxing served as the chief military officer, and Cao Zhenyan served as an instructor, and began to use artillery on a large scale in the war.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, in 1639, the Qing army had 60 self-made red-coated cannons, which played a great role in the battle of Songjin, and even broke the two cities of Tashan and Xingshan defended by the Ming army.

In the first year of Shunzhi, in December 1645, in the battle to attack Tongguan, Li Zicheng's Dashun army lined up to meet the battle, the Qing army because the main force and artillery had not yet arrived, insisted on not fighting, in the first month of the following year, and hit Li Zicheng's Dashun army with red-coated cannons, Li Zicheng fled to Tongshan County, Hubei and was killed.

In the second year of Shunzhi, on April 24, 1645, the Qing army mobilized red-clothed cannons to bombard Yangzhou City. The next day, the city of Yangzhou was broken, and Shi Kefa became a hero.

In the eighth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, in 1669, the Qing government appointed the Belgian Nan Huairen to design a variety of cannons, which have three models: the light cannon "Shenwei General" type, the medium cannon "Shengong General" type, and the heavy cannon "Wucheng Yonggu General" type. It was included in the official book of the Qing Dynasty, "The Imperial Decree of the Qing Dynasty".

In 1840, during the First Opium War, the cannon of Humen Fortress weighed 8,000 catties, but the range was not as good as that of the British naval guns.

These guns seemed to be mighty, but their range and power were still inferior to the Armstrong guns of the British ships, and the lack of armament for many years caused them to suffer a lot in the confrontation with the British army.

The middle of the nineteenth century was a period of great changes in Western weapons, and artillery technology was greatly improved: the Industrial Revolution made the weapons manufacturing industry use power machine tools, which could perform precision machining of artillery bore; More standardized and precise production of various accessories and shells; Even the level of black powder processing technology, which has long been mastered by all countries, has been greatly improved; The theory and tactics of artillery firing received new developments in Napoleon's practice; As a result, the power, range, and rate of fire of the artillery at that time increased exponentially.

On the other hand, the artillery of the Qing Dynasty still used the most traditional hand-casting process, because of management and technology and other reasons, so that the Qing Dynasty's self-produced cannon body had a large number of trachoma, frequent explosions, and the processing of the inner chamber was also very rough.

Two hundred years ago, the Hongyi cannon is no longer in its glory after two hundred years, and it is too old to resist the invasion of Western powers.

The self-made large-caliber guns in the early Ming Dynasty were exactly the same as these Hongyi cannons in terms of basic principles, and they were all front-mounted smoothbore fire door ignition type, but the specific production was very different.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the artillery was mostly cast in copper, and the forged iron cannon appeared in the middle and late periods, and its inner chamber was trumpet-shaped, and the barrel was thin, and the barrel was too short for its caliber, and its appearance was basically the same as the earliest existing Yuan Dynasty "bowl mouth gun".

The Furlong cannon introduced in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is a small-caliber melee gun that pursues the rate of fire, although the design of the sub-gun greatly increases the rate of fire, but the problem of extremely poor breath-holding makes the Furlong machine lack the ability to threaten heavy targets and long-range targets.

Compared with the Hongyi cannon, these guns have a small amount of gunpowder loading, poor gas sealing in the cannon body, and a short acceleration distance, so the firing range is too close and the power is too small.

Hongyi cannon is mainly made of copper and iron, although it is not easy to blow up the chamber, not easy to appear pores, and even has a long life, but the cost is too high is a fatal problem.

Copper is a coinage metal, and China is also a copper-deficient country in general, so a significant proportion of artillery is cast in iron.

In China, the Ming Dynasty also creatively invented the design of the iron core copper body, which maintained a fairly high technical index while reducing costs.

In front of the Hongyi cannon, which weighed thousands of pounds at every turn, the artillery in the early Ming Dynasty was really "a small thing".

The Hongyi cannon is a medium-sized naval smoothbore gun in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries, and after being imitated by the Chinese, there are as many as 100 types.

Its technical characteristics are the heavier ammunition, which can range from several kilograms to 10 kilograms.

The projectile is mainly a spherical solid projectile made of stone, iron, lead and other materials, and it can also fire a hollow explosive projectile in field or water warfare.

It can also fire chain bullets, shotguns and other ammunition, and there are various forms and methods of use, and the purpose is to directly impact the target with the physical destruction of the shell.

However, due to its large diameter and high chamber pressure, the Hongyi cannon could not fire flowering shells, nor could it fire the grenade shotguns that appeared later.

The length of the barrel is 2-3 meters, which is thin in front and thick in the back, and the caliber is mostly more than 100 mm, and the double diameter refers to the ratio of the distance from the fire door to the muzzle and the inner diameter, and the ratio is mostly between 20 and 40.

The casting process is more complex, using the overall mud mold casting method, if there is a scientific process and French requirements, and there are new equipment, instruments and other auxiliary facilities to cooperate. The proportions of each part are appropriate, the probability of exploding the bore is low, and the quality of the cannon cast is improved.

Used as a land cannon, the Hongyi cannon is a heavy artillery, with three materials: bronze, pig iron and iron core copper, with a weight ranging from hundreds of catties to 10,000 catties.

The peak of the development of Hongyi artillery in China was in the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, when 201 of the 905 artillery pieces built at this time weighed more than 250 kilograms, and the rest were light cannons weighing less than 250 kilograms.

Hongyi ammunition is programmed and "cannon table" is used.

In addition, its tail is thicker, has tail beads, and has cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, which the gun uses as an axis to adjust the firing angle and change the firing range according to the amount of gunpowder.

The gun body is equipped with a crosshair, a light door, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, and the accuracy is relatively high. The Hongyi cannon was carried by truck, which required a large number of livestock to haul it.

The most prominent advantage of the Hongyi cannon is its range, which is an important part of the performance of heavy artillery, even today.

According to the data of the same type of artillery in the West at that time, the earliest batch of Hongyi cannons used in the Battle of Ningyuan had an effective firing range of more than 500 meters and a maximum firing range of less than 1.5 kilometers.

Later, it was continuously improved, so that the effective range reached 1500 meters, and the maximum range reached 2.5 kilometers.

But because it was a direct shot, Madman Tan only let the cannon go down to the elevation angle and bombard it within 50 meters, giving full play to the maximum power of the artillery fire.

The Hongyi cannon is well-forged and powerful.

Compared with traditional Chinese firearms, the power of Hongyi guns is really amazing in terms of the modulus followed in casting, the appearance of guns when casting, the equipment of auxiliary facilities, the diversity of shells, the range of ranges, and the weight of projectiles.

However, its limitations are not small, such as because it is too cumbersome, there is no suitable land artillery car, resulting in extremely poor mobility, long in siege, and clumsy in field battles. The rate of reload firing is not high.

Moreover, the cannon body is cumbersome and cannot quickly transfer positions, so in field battles, most of them can only bombard at fixed points before the start of the battle, and when the opponent's situation is reversed, they are often unable to maneuver and react.

The Hongyi cannon is a kind of recital front-loading smoothbore gun, and every time it is fired, it will seriously deviate from the original firing position.

According to the normal operating procedure, it is necessary to go through the steps of resetting, reloading, and setting the direction angle and elevation angle again.

Hongyi's rate of fire is relatively slow, because after firing once, the cannon must first be reset, and then it is necessary to use a brush with a hook to hook out the rags and other things that have not burned completely, and then use a water-stained brush to reach into the barrel to clean and extinguish the fire, and then extend the barrel wrapped in a dry cloth into the barrel to dry, so that it can be filled with gunpowder, put in the shell, and sometimes need to stuff something to fix, and finally use a red-hot iron drill to insert the fire door and put it, these actions are very cumbersome, not including correcting the gun position.

This was a common problem with front-loading artillery in that period, and it was good to be able to fire once every two minutes. Therefore, the Hongyi cannon is characterized by a slow rate of fire and a heavy cannon body, but it has a long range and great power, which is suitable for siege warfare and defensive warfare.

The gunpowder of the red-coated cannon was six taels of nitrate, twelve taels of sulfur, and four taels of charcoal.

Again, nitrate is a dendrum, sulfur summer month two two winter month two two money, charcoal three two seven money.

With a small number of grenadiers, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is a shell fired by a redcoat cannon or a shell fired by a grenadier.

Although the grenadier is much smaller than the redcoat cannon, it is actually more powerful than the redcoat cannon.

In order to create an illusion for Jiannu, as if there were only Ming troops in the city, Maniac Tan only let ten grenadiers assist in firing.

With rifles, too, no more than a hundred.

So, although there were 700 people on this wall, it actually felt as if there were only about 100 people.

When Jiannu passed through the mine area and the red-coated cannon and grenadier attack area, and arrived at the bottom of the city wall, a steady stream of grenades were dropped on the city wall, and the ice wall was slippery, and Jiannu's ladder was not built, and more than 3,000 people died.

At this time, less than an hour after the battle began, more than 1,000 of the 5,000 Jiannu attack troops had already died, all of which were the result of the 100 members of the Bao Army.

It should be said that mainly a hundred people, and a hundred people helped to hide behind the battlements of the city walls and throw grenades.

Although Jiannu suffered heavy casualties, he kept in formation and kept suppressing the treasure army on the city wall with bows and arrows, and the treasure army could not show its head.

"Division commander, do you want to let all the brothers in the reserve battalion go up. If they continue like this, they will be able to climb the wall. ”

Inside the city gatehouse, the chief of staff asked Tan Madman.

Of the seven hundred men on this section of the wall, only two hundred were working, and the other five hundred were either on standby in the gatehouse or on the stairs below the wall, all sitting and resting.

Madman Tan said with a smile: "It is to let them climb the city wall, remember, when they climb the city wall, they are all shot with guns, come up and knock out one by one, don't let them run." ”

"Yes!" The chief of staff stood up and saluted and ordered to go down.

The treasure army has not shown its head, only about 100 people have shown their heads, and the gunfire is not dense, it is indeed difficult for people to judge how many people there are.

It is easy to judge hundreds of people, the key is that now the Bao army sells guns everywhere, the Mongols and Jiannu all have hundreds of guns, and the number of grenades and mines is different, it is difficult to judge whether the Bao army is defending the city, or the Ming army itself is defending the city.

Finally, a Jiannu soldier attacked the city, and the Jiannu warrior brandished a scimitar, and was stunned when he saw it.

I saw a neat row of Baojun soldiers squatting on the city wall, and it could be seen from the clothes that they were the regular soldiers of the Baojun Army, the clothes were bright and neat, and the rifles were all bright new guns, with black muzzles.

The Jiannu warrior didn't know whether to continue jumping in or jumping back outside the city walls.

If you jump back outside the city wall, the wall is five or six meters high, and you will definitely break your leg, or you will fall to your death, so you still have to jump in.

Bang bang, bang bang.

The end came as scheduled, his chest was filled with bullets, and as soon as he landed, he fell straight down.

Then immediately there were soldiers of the Bao Army who threw the Jiannu soldiers off the city wall, not outside, but inside.

At the base of the city wall, there were several large fires.

Set fires, first, to facilitate heating, secondly, to burn the corpses of Jiannu, so as not to enter the city with too many corpses and block traffic, and thirdly, to create an illusion for the enemy outside the city.

The Jiannu outside saw that there was a fire in the city, and there was billowing smoke, and there were more and more Jiannu rushing to the city, who could figure out what the situation was now?

Mang Gurtai saw that there was a steady stream of Eight Banner warriors on the city, not to mention hundreds of people, just thinking that the city was broken in the blink of an eye, and in ecstasy, he hurriedly raised his sword and shouted: "Dajin soldiers, kill!" Give me all rush! ”

"Rush!"

"Kill!"

The Jiannu generals and soldiers beside Mang Gurtai roared wildly.

Until more than 1,000 people have made a fine light, the city gate has not been opened as scheduled.

This made Mang Gultai outside the city suspicious.

Mang Gurtai hesitated for a few minutes, but decided to return.

In fact, if the treasure army wanted to kill Mang Gurtai, he would have killed it a long time ago.

Mang Gurtai and a dozen of his entourage were less than 100 meters away from the city wall, and there was no shortage of snipers in the treasure army.

Mang Gurtai returned to Nurhachi's side in a hurry, and Nurhachi was also very anxious, seeing that the five thousand troops were sent away in less than half an hour, and he didn't know what the situation was!

"Is it the main force of the treasure army? How many people are there? Nurhachi waited for Mang Gurtai to come over, and then asked.

Sending Mang Gurtai to play the striker, first, is because Mang Gurtai has always been brave, brave and good at fighting, and Mang Gurtai has fought the most times with the treasure army, and has been captured by the treasure army, so it can be said that he does not know the treasure army.

Mang Gurtai said with a bitter face: "There are four or five hundred warriors who rushed into the city, but no one came out, listening to the sound of gunfire, at most one or two hundred people, and I can't tell whether it is the Ming army or the treasure army, so many guns, it is not as good as our guns." They have a lot of grenades. ”

Nurhachi was furious when he heard this: "Five thousand people have died, and you can't even tell whether the other party is the Ming army or the treasure army!?" If there are only one or two hundred men on the other side, are all your five thousand men and horses lambs to the slaughter? ”

Dai Shan couldn't bear it, and helped Mang Gurtai speak, "Father Khan, it's really not easy to distinguish clearly, listening to the movement, the other party seems to only have one or two hundred guns, grenades and mines, but these things can be bought, I heard that Zu Dashou is Wei Bao's concubine Wu Xuexia's uncle, Wu Xuexia is the daughter of Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, the relationship between the Ming army and the Bao army is a family, and it is normal for the Bao army to sell more weapons and ammunition to the Ming army. ”

In fact, Jiannu also has hundreds of guns, but Jiannu does not use them at all, and Jiannu also has mines, and there is no place to bury mines, so they can't be used.

Jiannu often uses grenades, and when Jiannu attacked the city just now, several grenades bloomed at the head of the city, and many treasure troops were killed.

Madman Tan wiped out 5,000 Jiannu with more than 20 casualties, needless to say.

Nurhachi poked his hands and walked around, now he is too contradictory, this is very much like gambling, if he loses five thousand, he definitely wants to turn it over, but he is afraid of continuing to lose.

It is absolutely impossible to stop here, and if you don't turn over the book, the 5,000 army will be thrown directly into the water.

In the past, he was commanded by his subordinates, but this time it was Nurhachi who commanded it himself, and he couldn't afford to lose this person.

"10,000, send 10,000 troops this time, now that there are no mines in this section of the city wall, there should be few shells left in the opponent's red-coated cannons! Who would dare to lead an army there!? Nurhachi asked angrily.

Mang Gurtai raised his hand without hesitation, the first time he went, and now that he is about to receive the results, there is no reason to give the credit to others, "Father Khan, sons and ministers are willing to go!" ”

The others didn't plan to raise their hands, they all knew that Mang Gurtai was definitely unwilling, and others were not sure that they would succeed, so they just let Mang Gurtai go.

Nurhachi actually didn't want to continue to let Mang Gurtai go, and wanted Huang Taiji to go, but Huang Taiji didn't say anything, and Nurhachi also thought that Mang Gurtai would definitely not be willing to let others continue to fight.

"Mang Gurtai, if you can't take Ningyuan City this time, what crime do you think you should be guilty of!?" Nurhachi asked.

"The son raised his head to see his father Khan!" Mang Gurtai said decisively.

"You lead my Zhenghuang Banner pro-army with 10,000 people!" Nurhachi was like a gambler who was in a hurry to lose.

In fact, Nurhachi has lost several times in the hands of Wei Bao, but he doesn't have a long memory, and he looks like he is in a hurry to lose.

Last time, Wei Bao's 2,000 men attacked the river near Shenyang City, which was such a way of fishing, so that Nurhachi lost more than 30,000 soldiers.

It was a humiliating failure.