Seven or eight miles outside the east gate of Jinzhou City, the Jin soldiers of the brigade were driving the Han people who were captured along the way to dig trenches for them, and those who were a little sluggish in their hands and feet immediately summoned the Tartars who supervised the construction to be beaten with a fierce leather whip, and all the Han people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, no, maybe there were not even a few who dared to be angry.

Huang Taiji rode a tall and vigorous black horse in front of the formation, looking at Jinzhou City in the distance, and talking to the generals around him from time to time.

Huang Taiji was about thirty or forty years old, and he was in the prime of life, and his heart was full of ambition. Since he was a child, he followed his father Khan Nurhachi to fight in the south and the north, and made great achievements, so he was elected as Nurhachi's successor and led the Jurchen tribes.

On Huang Taiji's side, Dolgon, Yuetuo, Abatai, Mang Gurtai, Dege and other large and small Belle generals rode their horses and stood on both sides, with respectful expressions.

"Dolgon, how is the situation in Jinzhou City?" Huang Taiji observed for a while, then turned to Dolgon and said.

"Great Khan, the southerners of the Ming Kingdom closed the city gate early in the morning, and our spies couldn't get out at all, so I don't know what the situation in Jinzhou City is." Dorgon said, bowing his head. The weather in August was still a little hot, and he wiped the sweat from his forehead from time to time, and he didn't know if it was because of the hot weather or something else.

Although Dolgon is still young, he vaguely senses that Huang Taiji seems to have begun to restrain himself intentionally or unintentionally, and it is no wonder that whoever has allowed himself to rise too fast in the past two years has not had a small reputation and strength.

Huang Taiji remained silent, looked at it for a while, and suddenly said: "By the way, Ben Khan heard that you commanded the Eight Banners warriors to attack Jinzhou City once a few days ago, tell me what you think?" ”

"Great Khan, my brother should die!" Dorgon panicked.

"Dolgon, what do you mean by that?" Huang Taiji asked.

Dolgon said: "Great Khan, the younger brother should not be so happy that he tried to send troops to attack Jinzhou City, resulting in the loss of many warriors of the Eight Banners, Dolgon pleaded guilty to the Great Khan!" ”

Huang Taiji's eyes narrowed, waved his hand and said, "Fourteenth brother, isn't it just a failure in the siege?" Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and there is no need to take it to heart, and besides, the cities of the southerners are built tall and strong, and we now lack artillery to attack the city, so it is normal that we cannot take it. ”

"Yes! The firearms of the southerners were also very powerful when defending the city, so after this attack was frustrated, the courtiers remembered the teachings of the Great Khan, so they did not dare to attack the city again, but let people besiege the city, waiting for the arrival of the Great Khan's army to clean up these southerners. ”

"Well, the strategy of besieging the city is good, these southerners can defend the city with the high walls of the city, but it will not work with us in the field, and we have besieged their Jinzhou City, the Ming court will definitely send troops to rescue, and then we will send people to set up an ambush halfway, haha, let his reinforcements go and not return!" Huang Taiji said with great vigor and high interest, as if the Ming army was already a clay figure in his hand, and he could pinch it as much as he wanted.

"The Great Khan is wise!" Dolgon wasted no time in patting the sycophants and said: "Great Khan, in fact, a few days ago, the younger brother was almost able to lead our Jurchen warriors to attack Jinzhou City, but those southerners suddenly threw out black things, I don't know what it was made of, it would actually explode, killing and injuring many of our warriors, and the younger brother ordered the troops to be withdrawn." ”

"Oh? What is that? Huang Taiji frowned and asked.

Dolgon shook his head and said: "Brother Chen doesn't know, that thing looks like the size of a rice bowl from a distance, but it can hurt a lot when it is fried, Ao Bai has already killed the city, it is because this thing is too lethal, the brother has to order it to be withdrawn, and Ao Bai is also injured......

"Aobai? Oh, that warrior of the Guerja family? How was he hurt? Huang Taiji thought for a moment and asked.

"Great Khan, Ao Bai is very badly wounded, and it has been four days since today, and he has not woken up......," said Dolgon.

Huang Taiji pondered for a moment and said, "Let's surround Jinzhou City according to the established strategy, I think how long can he hold out?" Siege warfare is our shortcoming, so we will not fight siege warfare with the southerners in the future, and we will besiege him! Yuan Chonghuan is not here, what else are the southerners afraid of? ”

Mang Gurtai interjected at this time: "Great Khan, when our cannon is built, we can also bombard him fiercely!" ”

Huang Taiji laughed heartily and said, "Yes! Go back and let Tong Forehead hurry up and supervise our cannons! ”

Tong Eyu is Tong Yang, Kaiyuan people, originally thought he was a Han Chinese, and later learned that his ancestors were actually Jurchens, and later attached to Houjin, Nurhachi had been married to the daughter of the clan in Tong Yangsex, and managed Han affairs. After Huang Taiji ascended to the throne of Khan, he felt that the city wall of the Ming Kingdom was tall and difficult to attack, and it was really half the effort without artillery, so he asked Tong Yang to imitate the Hongyi cannon of the Illumination Country and supervise the construction of his own cannon.

The Jin army kept digging trenches outside the city to besiege Jinzhou City, and the Ming army also stepped up efforts to consolidate the city defense and develop weapons to defend the city.

After Sun Chengzong learned the news of the loss of the Daling River and the siege of Jinzhou at Shanhaiguan, after discussing with his subordinates in the middle of the night, he decided to send Zu Dashou, who was guarding Ningyuan, and Wu Xiangyi, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, to lead the army to the rescue.

In the early morning of the third day, the north gate of Jinzhou City suddenly opened quietly, and Mo Li led more than a thousand subordinates out of the city gate by moonlight, half cavalry, half infantry, and dozens of chariots. Behind the Moli Division, there were thousands of soldiers under the leadership of He Kegang, Zhang Cunren, Liu Tianlu and others.

The Jin army's ranger outpost noticed that the Ming army was out of the city, so they hurriedly blew the horn, and the thick and loud horn sound looked a little hideous in the silent night sky. The sleeping Jin soldiers got up one after another to operate their weapons, and the cavalry rushed to the stables with weapons, turned over and stepped on their horses, ready to meet the battle.

When Dolgon woke up, he hurriedly put on his horse and commanded his subordinates to fight under the escort of a group of white-armored fangs.

What's going on? Didn't the Ming army always dare to fight in the field with our Eight Banners warriors? Why did he take the initiative to rush out of the tall and sturdy city of Jinzhou to attack the camp today? Isn't this looking for death? Could it be that the commander of the Ming army lost his mind and went crazy?

Not only did Jin Bing think so, but even most of the Ming army, including many soldiers who followed Mo Li's charge on the front line, also had such doubts in their hearts, in their opinion, General Mo Shen's operation was simply crazy!

Mo Li was not crazy, he commanded seventy chariots to form a chariot formation and slowly rushed towards the Qing army camp opposite.

The chariot of the Ming army, usually dragged by four horses, the body of the car is made of thick wooden planks, one zhang five feet long, six feet five inches high, the front and rear left and right horizontal row of gun blades, there are several small holes in the front, used as a car soldiers to shoot the enemy with firearms, there is a big hole in the middle, install a Franc cannon, this is simply the prototype of the tank.

The chariots were placed together, able to withstand the onslaught of cavalry and arrows and swords, and if they were formed in a circle, it would be a mobile barracks.

Due to the inherent defects of early firearms, Ming soldiers did not have cover when using firearms to shoot at enemy troops, and they were always worried about being killed by enemy bows and arrows or trampled by cavalry horses. ”

The battalion of many chariots was built into temporary fortifications in the field, and it was mobile and flexible, not only able to resist the onslaught of the enemy, but also the soldiers could calmly shoot the enemy with firearms.

Of the seventy vehicles, twenty were modified by Moli, and the Franc cannon in front of them was replaced with a newly developed flamethrower. Although the soldiers have all seen the effect of this thing in the test, after all, this is the first actual battle, and no one knows what the effect will be.

Mo Li was also a little nervous, and he rode behind one of the chariots, sweat beading in the palm of his hand holding the musket.