Chapter 35

After the two banners of Jiannu and the Karaqin cavalry entered the city, they were immediately shot by the Ming army's gunners, and while shooting back, they threw the wind and fire and thunder to blow up the Tartars, and the Tartar cavalry was blown up to the inch.

The Ming Fei County Counselor next to the street was very worried that he hurriedly dispatched a platoon of gunners to shoot at the steps of the castle, but the Karaqin soldiers rushed up to the city tower with shields and maces to beat the Ming army.

The Ming army who was attacked by the sneak attack turned around and drew their swords to resist, but the mace was really so powerful that the Ming soldiers wearing cloth armor fell to the ground one by one and died! The cunning Karaqin soldiers threw their maces and smashed them into the face, stabbing most of them to cover their eyes and roll on the ground.

Seeing that the city was about to fall, the general of Mingfei County swung his knife and slashed two Karaqin soldiers, walked up the steps and shot two guns at the Jiannu cavalry under the city, and continued to slash and kill the Manchu and Mongolian saber players who rushed over on the city tower.

Brave and fearless, he picked up the big knife on the ground, knocked the enemy to the ground with a hard bang, and slashed three enemies to death, jumped on the top of the fort, loaded and picked up the torch and fired, just as the cannonball hit the Manchu Qing Dynasty inlaid with the blue flag Niu Lu Ezhen and exploded his limbs, the Jiannu soldiers in the city were very angry and got up and stabbed to death with a spear to the general of Mingfei County!

The Ming army pursued to the area of Lian Qingshan, and constantly heard the news that Jiannu Gong had fallen into the city, and Wu Junzhen, who was slightly better injured, was revenge for His Royal Highness the King of the County, and he advocated that he was willing to crusade against Jiannu for the vanguard, and the commander of the eastern capital of the Ming Dynasty decided to divide the troops to the right of the Ming Army Department and the right of the Ming Imperial Palace, and the governor of Ming Baoding led an army of 40,000 to the west to intercept Jiannu.

The remaining Ming Yongping governor and Ming Shuntian governor led 50,000 troops to the east to intercept Jiannu, and the two sides met in Hanzhuangtun and Tancheng County respectively.

The right squire of the Ming army department ordered all the firearms team to change to a range of 300 paces, and a swarm of bees, a hundred tigers rushing arrows, (a group of leopards running arrows) such firearms with a long range and relatively strong lethality began to install rockets, because the leopards were running arrows with a hundred rockets, so this kind of firearms were first installed.

After the preparation was completed, the governor of Baoding ordered the Baoding Left Guard, Baoding Right Guard, Baoding Middle Guard, Baoding Qianwei, Baoding Rear Guard, and Maoshan Wei under the rule of the Daning Dusi of Baoding Prefecture, and the Ming Army of the Six Guards was responsible for stabbing and cutting the Jiannu Tartars in close combat.

After the order was issued, I saw the right attendant of the Ming army holding a hand (iron whip) and quickly shooting the Manchu Xiao cavalry captain on horseback: Huifa Tunheldai, after hearing the sound of the gun, the Ming army fire team fired long-range fire arrows at the Jiannu soldiers, like a rain of arrows, a swarm of bees, hundreds of tigers rushing arrows, and a group of leopards running sideways arrows shot out continuously, so that the Jiannu soldiers did not dare to approach the Ming army and had to use strong crossbows to return fire.

However, the Ming army was not weak, and knew that Jiannu would definitely shoot arrows, so when the musketeers of each team finished shooting the arrows, they would change their positions to load and shoot again, causing the Manchu ministers to mistakenly think that they had been ambushed and felt that there were Ming troops on all sides? Frightened, he ordered a retreat into Picheng County, Nanzhili, and was very happy to see the Jiannu soldiers being beaten back, and he continued to order the Ming army to chase and kill Jiannu and be sure to capture and kill the commander.

On the other side, when the commander of the eastern capital of Ming Dynasty marched to the official road of Tancheng County, Wu Junzhen, who was in the forward, found a large number of iron horse prints on the road, and Ma Wei saw that Wu Junzhen was not leaving, so he walked up and just wanted to ask, and also found horseshoe prints.

Wu Junzhen pinched a handful of dirt and called the coachman behind him, Ming Jun asked, "Do you recognize the smell of the earthy iron horses in the north?" "The driver is a perennial driver, he is familiar with this kind of smell, and when he takes it and smells it, he notices that the smell of horses' hooves is different? He told Wu Junzhen that the smell of dirt when the horses in the south stepped on it was very foul, after all, the horses in the south were fed hay and miscellaneous grains, so the smell of horses' hoof prints was a bit stinky.

After learning this news, Ma Wei and Wu Junzhen basically believed that it was the Jiannu cavalry, and they immediately ran to the back to report to the commander of the Shandong capital and said, "Qiyu is the commander of the envoy, the small one found a large number of horseshoe prints in front, do you think you want to fight the Jiannu with the garrison of Tancheng County?" ”

This is in line with the mind of the commander of the eastern capital of the Ming Dynasty, he waved his hand and motioned for the soldier to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write a letter in person, and the flying pigeon passed the book to the magistrate of Mingtan City: Yu Jiankun, who was drinking tea, saw the soldier walk in and reported, "Lord Qi Zhixian, the small one found that there was a carrier pigeon outside, and asked the adult to look at it." ”

Thinking that it was a good thing, he took the letter from the pigeon's foot and was surprised when he opened it, only to see that it was written that he wanted to unite against the Jiannu army, but he needed to use Tancheng County as a bait to attract the attention of Jiannu, so that the Ming army in ambush could kill and surround Jiannu from behind.

This made the magistrate of Mingtan City hesitate for a moment, and he decided to serve the imperial court and try to escape from the back city.

Soon the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces came to the edge of the moat, the Manchu Dynasty Doro Rao Yu Beile glanced at Mingxin Taizhi County, this time he went up to persuade the Ming army to surrender to the city to try his loyalty, timid and afraid of things, he was frightened on the spot and his legs were weak, and he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and said, "Lord Belle, you don't let the lower officials, oh don't you go to the slave to die?" ”

However, the Manchu Dora Rao Yu Baylor didn't care, pulled out his sword and shouted, "Jurchen language: why don't you go quickly?" Want to die? The Manchu interpreter couldn't bear it, so he persuaded him to go up and shout twice.

Mingxin Taizhi County tried to muster up the courage to step forward step by step, and shouted to the city wall: "Brothers defending the city, listen to the advice of this official, put down your arms and open the city to surrender, the Great Qing Belle Lord will not be afraid of you, don't worry, just like this official, come down quickly!" ”

When the Ming army defending the city heard a traitor shouting, everyone immediately raised their guns and aimed at his head, shot a few shots in the head, and the lead bullet shot out the brain, and the magistrate fell to the ground and died instantly.

The Ming army, which was suppressed by the artillery fire, only used earth-shaking thunder to blow up Jiannu, and did not launch rolling stones and artillery, which seemed to be deliberately luring Jiannu, and the careless Jiannu cavalry kept firing arrows under the city, while the Manchu rattan players pushed siege engines and hit the city gates.

The situation was very critical, and the magistrate of Mingtan City felt that it was almost time to fight back against Jiannu, so he asked the soldiers to hold high (the Xuanwu flag) and shake it back and forth on the top of the city tower, and the forward Ming army immediately prepared to act when they saw a code.

Wu Junzhen raised the bird gun and hit a bang (bang) to hit the charging Jiannu cavalry, and the firecrackers next to him also shot one after another to catch the Jiannu cavalry off guard, and the Manchu Dora Rao Yu Beile found that there were ambushes on the flanks and let the Karaqin Daru Huachi go to block, and the Karaqin Karaqin Iron Cavalry wearing heavy iron armor was replaced with a spear, and quickly rushed over to assassinate some of the Ming army's gunners.

At the critical moment, the Ming army on the tower of the city began to send artillery support, and put down 10,000 enemies to bombard the city and build slave soldiers, and gave the Ming army time to lurk on both wings to deploy the formation.

Chose the high ground to erect and adjust the gunpowder at the mouth of the gun to pull the line of fire, and the general flag of Mingshan Haiwei: Mo Yuanhai, waved the flag and shouted, "Release!" "In an instant, I saw that the rotating thirty-six barrels of fire were extremely powerful, and they could shoot continuously with a lethality of no less than a hundred tigers rushing arrows, and shoot through the armor of the Karaqin cavalry wearing heavy iron armor, and slash at the right guard of the horse, the dragon and tiger guard, and the Yingwu guard, which were held by the three guards and the Ming army holding a 2-meter-long (Qijia knife).

The sharp Qi family knife pierced the heavy iron armor and killed the Karaqin cavalry, and Wu Junzhen, who was watching the battle, looked carelessly and said to the soldiers: "Brothers, look, what a powerful firearm?" It seems that my Ming Dynasty is really a country of firearms! And Ma Wei said, "Brother Wu, let's rush now, right?" ”

So Wu Junzhen led the forward Ming army to kill the fleeing Karaqin cavalry like a wild horse, and after forcing back the Karaqin cavalry, he encountered the Jiannu knife player, and the two sides fought most of the Ming army for revenge, so the offensive was fierce, Ma Wei stabbed two Jiannu and fought with it.

Ma Wei pinched the neck of the Jiannu soldier, hit the Jiannu soldier's eyes with a flying saucer hat and cut his throat with a knife, Wu Junzhen on the side was also furious, ran over and kicked the Jiannu soldier sideways and cut off the head of the Jiannu.

Seeing that the three Jiannu spearmen stabbed over, they were caught by Wu Junzhen's arm and forcibly snatched the spear, stabbing them straight in the chest and killing the Jiannu soldiers.

At this time, the commander of the eastern capital of the Ming Dynasty also waved his sword and ordered the whole army to attack, and all the Ming troops rushed to the second banner of the Jiannu cavalry to kill, because the artillery fire on the city was always covered by the Manchu army, so the Manchu Duoluo Rao Yu Beile felt particularly at a loss in the fight, I am afraid that it will be surrounded and annihilated? In order to prevent accidents, he decided to let the army retreat south into the official road.

The 50,000 Ming troops behind them were in hot pursuit, especially the forward Ming army of Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei kept raising their guns and shooting at the back, shooting about 400 people at the retreating Jiannu infantry, and the corpses of the Jiannu who were shot and killed could be seen everywhere on the official road along the way.

Leaving a team of Niu Lu Ezhen lined up to shoot with shovel arrows, used to block the pursuing soldiers of the Ming army to buy time for the Manchu army to retreat, Wu Junzhen, who was charging in front, was suddenly attacked by arrows! Ma Wei immediately asked the Ming army to stop and look around.