Next, Yuan Chonghuan asked the mortar to raise the angle and shoot at both sides of the city gate, still five rounds of shelling, and when the shelling was over, the Ming army began to attack the city according to the formation of lining up to shoot. When Bu Shitu Taiji heard that the two city gates were broken, he was frightened enough, and immediately organized the soldiers to fight back, so a large number of soldiers pressed near the city gate hole.

The plan was arranged, and the Ming army did not panic in the face of several times the enemy, and in the middle of the road was guarded by five hand-cranked machine guns, and on both sides were five rows of musket soldiers of varying heights, and they did not panic to attack inward, and shot a large number of soldiers who dared to rush over near the city gate hole. In order to maintain a continuous suppression of fire, the musketeers immediately retreated after firing five rounds each, and then replaced a group of soldiers, so as not to injure themselves by the hot explosion of the barrel. Bu Shitu Taiji was afraid that the Ming army would rush into the city, so he kept sending troops here, and the Ming army would kill a large number of people near the city gate, and both sides were at a stalemate here according to their own intentions.

After a day of tug-of-war, the sky gradually darkened, and the Ming army withdrew outside the city gate according to Yuan Chonghuan's instructions, but they still surrounded the city gate hole, just not letting anyone rush out. At night, in order to prevent the men and horses of Bu Shitu Taiji from coming out of the west and south gates, Yuan Chonghuan withdrew all the men and horses to the camp, after all, there were more than 50,000 people in Bu Shitu Taiji, and he only had 8,000 people, so it was better to be careful.

In fact, during the day, Bu Shitu Taiji wanted to outflank the Ming army from those two directions, but unfortunately none of the generals dared to lead the team out, and when the sight was not good at night, Bu Shitu Taiji organized 20,000 people to outflank from both sides, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's shooting sight to attack, but the Ming army had withdrawn to the camp and attacked the camp? It's better to save some effort and save some troops, that's looking for death.

The second and third days were still a copy of the first day, and the Ming army still killed and wounded a lot near the city gate, but did not enter the city to fight street battles, so that Bu Shitu Taiji had no choice. In the three-day siege battle, according to the normal siege battle, the death of the attack and defense was twice as high as that of the defender, but Yuan Chonghuan's way of attacking the city made the defender's Bu Shitu Taiji suffer more than 100 times more casualties, and the Ming army itself had no casualties, this is the advantage of weapons and tactics, and it doesn't matter if there are many people.

On the fourth day, Yuan Chonghuan still attacked as he had done in the previous three days, but found that the opponent's men and horses were getting fewer and fewer, and he was crushed with one blow. It turned out that after three days of fighting, Bu Shitu Taiji's men and horses were less than 20,000, and the soldiers were completely frightened. Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan adjusted his tactics, leaving 1,000 people at each of the two city gates, and the remaining 2,000 people slowly advancing along the streets and alleys, and the place where they passed must be no man's land, so as not to prevent the enemy from counterattacking.

There will be no counterattack, Bu Shitu Taiji is already ready to escape, he has lost his ambition, and now the idea is to save his life and talk about the comeback. Three days of flesh mill-like battle, grinding to death were all his own soldiers. Bu Shitu Taiji has completely lost his fighting spirit, just when the Ming army entered the city gate hole again, Bu Shitu Taiji has already led people to the west and south of the city gate to escape, so the Ming army is getting weaker and weaker counterattacks, and when the Ming army completely occupies Xining, there is no living person in the city except for the Ming army, except for the escape, Bu Shitu Taiji is forced to block the eye.

Bu Shitu Taiji, who escaped from the West City Gate in a hurry, led his men with less than 10,000 men, and the others had already fallen and scattered. Less than ten miles out of the city, I met Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin's men and horses, and a burst of artillery bombardment and shooting, Bu Shitu Taiji's men and horses immediately scattered and fled, Li Hongji and Liu Zongmin stared at Bu Shitu Taiji's big sweat banner, this guy still hasn't thought of throwing it away. Seeing that he couldn't rush ahead of him, Bu Shitu Taiji led the remnants of the defeated army and fled southward, and his men did not even have 5,000 people until now.

Fled south for a long time, when people were sleepy and horses were lacking, a row of small * flew from the front, after three rounds, Hao Yongzhong rushed over first, followed by him is thirty personal soldiers, Hao Yongzhong held * in his left hand, held the "Xuefeng knife" in his right hand, and went straight to the banner of Bu Shitu Taiji, invincible all the way. Bu Shitu Taiji's personal soldiers also fought, the hundred-person squad rushed head-on, and there were less than 30 people left after staggering, except for Hao Yongzhong's left arm was cut by a knife, the rest was fine, this is also the cunning captain of the personal guard who used a left-handed knife to sneak attack, and was also beheaded by Hao Yongzhong's personal guard. The ensuing battle was like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and in the face of the vigorous Ming army, the remnants of the Bu Shitu Taiji people and horses had no ability to resist at all.

When Hao Yongzhong's personal soldiers stood in front of Hong Chengchou with Bu Shitu Taiji's head, Hong Chengchou asked with a smile: "Who did it?" The reward of five hundred taels of silver, I will pay it myself. ”

Hao Yongzhong: "He is the captain of my personal soldiers, and he ...... Bu Shitu Taiji with one sword." ”

The captain of the pro-soldier didn't dare to fight for merit: "No, no, it's an adult's ......." ”

"Tom, plop" twice, Hao Yongzhong kicked the captain to: "Do I still have to compete with you?" Recognize........ ”

"Tom, plop" and two more sounds, "Hao Yongzhong, you bastard, tell you not to lead the team to charge," Hong Chengchou scolded, "If you don't charge, you will die, five hundred silver is none of your business, the captain took it away, gave it to the brothers, punished you for a month, and also gave the brothers to drink, calling you a bastard disobedient." ”

Hao Yongzhong left with his own soldiers holding five hundred silver, and Hong Chengchou took the soldiers to Xining City and Yuan Chonghuan.

Seeing that the battle was too bad, there were too many dead, and he was afraid that there would be a plague infection when he turned around, so he transferred the people from Pingrong City to help clean up the corpses, and it was not in vain, one or two silver per person, and the corpses were disposed of in less than two days.

In the original Bu Shitu Taiji's mansion, Yuan Chonghuan was discussing with Hong Chengchou and Qiyawen Tusi how to conduct the next war. Qiyawen Tusi means to leave a part of the men and horses stationed in Xining City, while adapting to the climate on this side of Qinghai, while continuing to attack the south, and when they reach the south of Qinghai, if they attack Uszang, they must change to Tibetan horses, otherwise the war horses will die, and the personnel will also get sick due to the climate. Yuan Chonghuan also had a headache for the direction of the attack at the beginning, Qinghai was too large, his soldiers and horses were too few, not to mention fighting, even the march was tired enough, and now Qiyawen Tusi's suggestion was just in line with his intentions, so he decided to let Hong Chengchou's troops expand, and if possible, recruit some soldiers on the spot, after all, local soldiers can adapt to the environment, so as to avoid unnecessary losses. Leaving Li Guo and 5,000 infantry, and telling Li Guo to discuss more with Qiyawen Tusi in case of trouble, he will also report these situations to the emperor to see what the emperor's will is.

Yuan Chonghuan left Li Guo to guard Qinghai, and he took Hong Chengchou and Li Hongji to prepare to march southwest along the west side of Qinghai Lake. Qiya Wen Tusi suggested that Yuan Chonghuan change horses, Yuan Chonghuan looked at Qi Yawen Toast in surprise: "Do you want to change anything?" Do I need to change horses to go southwest? ”

Qiyawen Tusi said: "Transfer to the local Menyuan horse, maybe adults don't know, the local Menyuan horse is a new horse breed of the Western Regions sweat blood horse and the original local Xiliang horse cross-breeding, it concentrates the advantages of the sweat blood horse and the Xiliang horse, endurance and speed are very good, because the sweat blood horse is produced in Dawan country, so these horses are also called Xiliang Dawan horse, the Xiliang iron horse in the Three Kingdoms period is used in this kind of horse. Our ancestors were given the title of Tusi here by Emperor Hongwu, so we know about it, but I only have a thousand of these horses for you, and you can buy some near Menyuan to ration the elite cavalry. ”

Yuan Chonghuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "Lord Tusi is so generous, I will definitely ask the emperor to ask for credit for your lordship." ”