Chapter 52: The Capture of the City

Where did the pursuers come from? It is not surprising that the Ming army loves to fight favorably.

When those officers saw that the Ming army had won, they were willing to give up their capital and grab the credit, and personally took their families to drive their horses to chase after the Jiannu cavalry who had fled in a hurry.

It is advisable to chase Yu Yong after the remnants, and at this time, when will he not take advantage of the high morale to seize the city in one fell swoop?

Liu Zhilun waved the order flag, issued an order for the whole army to pursue and take Zunhua City, and shouted that the first person to ascend the city was promoted to three levels and rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver.

Although more than 1,000 people have been eliminated after a long journey, and now there are less than 10,000 people and horses, there are no old and weak people here, and all of them are existences that can run and cannot run.

"Kill slaves! Kill into Zunhua and get promoted to make a fortune! The running Ming army let out a cry from the bottom of his heart, although it was not too lofty, but it was quite inspiring.

The Ming army, who was running wildly on a wheelbarrow, shouted: "In order to marry a wife and buy a field, brothers fight!" This slogan is even more unbearable, but what does it matter?

As long as they work together to kill Jiannu in the end, they will end up in the same way.

At the head of Zunhua City, Fan Wencheng was trembling with fright, and he fooled the children of the Eight Banners to fight in order to fight the military power and avoid the Ming army from rashly attacking the city.

Jiannu's two Niu Lu are really arrogant, they despise the Ming army from the bottom of their hearts, and they also think that it is more cool to take advantage of the Ming army coming from afar to rush over for a while, so they rushed out of Zunhua City with their subordinates without saying a word.

Who knew that the four hundred elite horsemen who went out only ran back to about 20 horses, and none of the two Niu Lu who went out to fight were able to come back alive.

Fan Wencheng made a mistake in command, and now his sin is too great.

Seeing the Ming army coming overwhelmingly outside the city, the old traitor waved his sword and trembled: "Resist, quickly resist the official, block the door, what are you waiting for?" Hurry up and block the hole in the city gate! ”

A certain Jiannu said: "What is that old man dog talking about? If you want to block the city gate, why don't you prepare early? ”

Traitors are not human beings in the eyes of Jiannu, even if they look like dogs and become Houjin officials, the children of the Eight Banners will not have a trace of respect.

Another Jiannu scolded: "Han Dog just didn't have a good heart, damn, the city gate is blocked, aren't my Eight Banners disciples also blocked in the city?" ”

One of the baba said, "Your mother, where did you get so many complaints, go and resist the grain bag to block the door." ”

The Jiannu in Zunhua City is arrogant! The looted grain was piled up, and the grain bag was used as a sand and gravel bag at this time.

The Houjin army, who was panicked by the sudden attack, coaxed in a chaotic manner, if you want to do this, he wants to be like that, the nominal master general is a traitor and traitor whom they despise in their hearts, and the efficiency can be imagined.

In fact, in addition to the 800 armored people in Zunhua City, there are also 4 or 500 bannermen and clothed minions, but they have to manage tens of thousands of Han people who are ready to go to Liaodong to be Aha, and they can't be transferred to the city to assist in defense.

Fan Wencheng didn't have the courage to drive the captured Han Chinese to defend the city, because that would be counterproductive.

The newly captured Han Chinese are not yet servile, and they have not resigned themselves to their fate, and they have been looking for an opportunity to escape.

The Han people are not stupid, they found that the Houjin army was only a few hundred, there were more than 10,000 Ming troops outside the city, and there were tens of thousands of Han people in the city.

Liu Zhilun led the army to chase the defeated soldiers of Jiannu to the city, and in a hurry did not bring any siege equipment, and found that the Jin army hurriedly closed the city gate, knowing that the city gate hole was not blocked, and ordered the soldiers to charge regardless of casualties, and strive to knock the city gate open.

Huang Han took the cavalry to shoot arrows near the city gate to provide cover for the siege of the city, and found that there were as many as two or three hundred Jiannu at the head of the city, obviously because the Ming army suddenly began to attack the city, and it was an attack a little, and the Houjin army had no time to react, and also concentrated here to counterattack.

Seeing that the Ming army was surging more and more, and the cavalry was already a little unable to show here, Huang Han took his subordinates to the west gate, and he sent a person to report to Liu Zhilun that he would take his men and horses to attack the west gate, which should not be defended by the Jin army.

Liu Zhilun was very busy, and he had to personally command the army to set up wooden cannons to bombard Zunhua City.

But he humbly accepted Huang Han's proposal that he could not use solid bullets, but could only fill lead and fire scattered bullets.

Because firing in this way, the air tightness is not good, and the danger of exploding will not occur until at least a few shots have been fired.

Otherwise, as recorded in the history books, the cannon exploded as soon as it was fired, and the story of the Jin army scaring their own people half to death would appear again after the cannon was fired.

Who knew that the Ming army was eager to seize the city, and in a hurry could not find the giant wood that hit the city gate, several cannons were carried away by the Ming army, and at this time the Ming army was in a state of excitement, and there were already more than 100 people shouting the trumpet with thick wooden cannons to hit the city gate with "crunch, crunch".

Liu Zhilun received a report that Huang Han was leading cavalry to attack Ximen, waved his hand to indicate that he knew, and continued to try to command the chaotic siege team.

He believed that at the very least, it was necessary to concentrate the archers and gunners and shoot at the Houjin army at the head of the city to provide cover for the siege troops.

There were too many unnecessary casualties in such a melee, and some Ming troops didn't know how to hold up their shields and put them together for common defense, and the effect of fighting separately was too unsatisfactory.

Fortunately, there are really not many defenders at the head of Zunhua City, and it is not a mess, otherwise such a chaotic siege will soon have huge casualties, and then it will affect the morale of the Ming army.

All in all, there is no absolute bad thing, even the wood cannon has a specialty, this thing is ten times lighter than the cast iron cannon, easy to install, Liu Zhilun is not afraid of this worthless cannon being destroyed, so that the gunner can get close to the fight, to prevent the range of scattered bullets from reaching the city,

The gunners also knew the severity, and set up a cannon about 50 paces away from the city wall to take the lead in bombing a guy, but luckily they did not explode, and half of the more than 150 buckshot shots hit the city wall, and half of them were scattered within five paces of the battlements of the city wall.

The effect is so good, it is absolutely invincible, seven or eight Houjin troops were almost defeated, this cannon knocked out the prestige of the Ming army, and lost the confidence of Jiannu to defend the city.

There are also garrison artillery in Zunhua City, but unfortunately the children of the Eight Banners are all barbarians, and no one will play this thing.

Now that it was found that such a tall thing was easily transported by the Ming army, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to fiddle with it, causing a death or injury among the children of the Eight Banners defending the city, and then the Jin army was instigated, and some people began to flee.

At this time, Huang Han moved to the west gate, and there were really not many Houjin troops here, and Huang Han ordered all the archers to suppress the enemy army at the head of the city with cavalry.

Twenty or thirty Jiannu in the enemy tower were attacked by two or three hundred arrows, and there was no chance to show their heads at all.

Huang Han ordered Wang Zhanpeng and Wang Zhicheng to take 20 people to cover their bodies with leather shields and approach the Xicheng Gate as quickly as possible.