Under the city of Jinzhou,

After a round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army, the 2,000 Han troops besieging the city in Houjin were killed and wounded, and the whole army was wiped out.

Two thousand? It's just gone?

Looking at the bloody and extremely miserable battlefield under Jinzhou City, the entire Houjin army in the distance was dumbfounded.

2,000 people, but they were all in one battle. No, strictly speaking, this can't be considered a war.

In addition to filling in the moats, the long-range musketeers in the Han army only fired one shot in total, and the melee city climbers had not even fully erected the ladder to climb the city.

Looking at the bloody battlefield, the Houjin generals led by Huang Taiji felt like they had seen ghosts.

The Houjin generals who watched the battle, except for Dolgon, the others were all battle-hardened generals. They all knew that although the artillery sound of the Ming army at the head of the city just now sounded dense, no matter how dense the artillery sounded, it was actually just a round of shelling.

It's just one round of shelling, huh?

The Ming army only had one round of artillery bombardment, and there were only one hundred and ten living people left of the 2,000 Han troops who charged, and the power of this artillery bombardment was too terrifying, right?

Last year, Ning Yuan's artillery was not so powerful!

With the screams of the wounded in the wind, the Houjin generals looked at each other.

The artillery of Jinzhou City is so sharp, how can everyone attack the city?

The Houjin army suddenly lost its voice, but the Ming army at the head of the city also fell into a strange silence at this time.

Didn't you say that the Jurchen Tartars were brave and invincible?

Why did all the artillery come down in one round?

When did our Ming artillery become so powerful?

Looking at the flesh and blood hell under the city, regardless of the officers and soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city, all surging up in their hearts were a strong sense of unreality.

The Han army that rushed to the city fell with one shot, not to mention that the ordinary Ming army was difficult to adapt to this scene, even Zhao Shujiao, who personally designed the ambush plan, actually felt the same disbelief.

This wave of siege Tartars looks at the formation and density, how can there be two or three thousand people, right?

How come there are so many left?

With slightly dull eyes, he repeatedly scanned the miserable battlefield under the city, and the Han army retreating in twos and threes, Zhao Shujiao's heart was suddenly overwhelmed by great ecstasy.

There are only a few left, this Tartar is considered to have been wiped out by the old man, right?

After the annihilation of this establishment, the old man should be the first person in the Ming Dynasty, right?

A smile bloomed wildly on his face. At this moment, the wrinkles at the corners of Zhao Shujiao's eyes were obviously a little deeper.

Raising his eyes and looking at the conspicuous golden domed Daxu in the Houjin army, a strong regret surged in the ecstatic Zhao Shujiao's heart.

Knowing that the ambush would be so effective, then he should have endured more.

How good would it be to endure more and leave this blow to the new Tatar chieftain Huang Taiji?

It's a pity, what a pity!

Looking at the golden dome again with great regret, Zhao Shujiao suddenly stepped forward and raised his arms and shouted: "Daming, Wansheng!" ”

"Wan Sheng!"

Zhao led the loud voice to break through the strange silence of the battlefield. Hearing the shouting, the Ming army at the head of the city was stunned for a moment, and then shouted in ecstasy.

Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!

In the shouts of the Ming army at the head of the city, Huang Taiji tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, struggled to remove his eyes staring at the flesh and blood hell, and turned to look at the head of Jinzhou City.

In the cheers of the Ming army, Huang Taiji's face became more and more cloudy, and the eyes of Yin were about to drip water.

Jinzhou Mingjun hit him head-on, and it hurt him so much.

Since ascending to the throne of Khan, Huang Taiji has worked hard and painstakingly to realize his strategic plan step by step.

After the grain shortage in Houjin, Huang Taiji contacted the grain purchase channels everywhere, and bought much-needed grain and grass for Houjin at all costs. Internally, he also tried to calm the fierce contradictions between the Jurchens and the Han Chinese, and tried his best to restore agricultural production in the Later Jin.

Houjin was attacked on all sides, and its strategic situation was extremely dangerous. Huang Taiji also vigorously promoted the three flags inlaid with blue, red and white to conquer the Dongjiang River and North Korea, in order to solve the worries of Houjin.

When he first ascended the throne of Khan, although the nominal Emperor Taiji was the Great Khan of the Later Jin, the Later Jin was actually a situation in which the four major Baylors were jointly in power. In order to strengthen the authority of the Great Khan, Huang Taiji took the opportunity of the food shortage to quickly incorporate the Yellow Banner and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and first subdued the Great Bel Daishan and the Three Bel Mang Gurtai with an absolute advantage, and then decisively set aside the two Bel Amin who had the most enemies, which temporarily obtained the real authority of the Later Jin Khan.

Although the resumption of power was smooth, it seemed that the authority of the Great Khan was firmly in the hands of Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji knew very well in his heart that his Khan position was not yet secure. Because compared with the dead old Khan Nurhachi, he still lacks the 'military merits' that the Jurchens value most.

Military merits, the Jurchen Eight Banners have always been respected for military merits since the creation of Nurhachi. Without the military exploits of the shot, no matter how good Huang Taiji is in other aspects, the Jurchens will not be truly convinced.

Why did Huang Taiji just overhead the second Bel Amin, but he didn't dare to let Shulhaqi directly take over the blue flag?

It's not because his imperial Taiji's military exploits are not obvious and his authority is insufficient.

In fact, Amin was overshadowed after capturing several cities in Korea and looting a lot, which has greatly damaged Huang Taiji's reputation in Houjin.

If he wants to save his reputation, then Huang Taiji must win more than Amin.

Looking around Houjin, only by defeating the powerful Ming Dynasty will the military exploits be more dazzling than defeating the weak North Korea. Only by plundering the rich Ming will they get more than North Korea.

In order to break the dangerous strategic environment in which the Houjin was located, in order to plunder the Ming Dynasty to alleviate the food shortage in the Houjin, in order to obtain military merits, and in order to reduce the criticism he received in the Houjin, Huang Taiji could only launch an attack on the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Huang Taiji had already calculated. When Jinzhou was first built, no matter how hard the Ming Dynasty rushed to build it, it would be difficult to build a real fortified city in a few months, let alone build a real defense line.

In order to achieve the purpose of the surprise attack, Huang Taiji has always used superficial peace talks with Yuan Chonghuan and a large number of grain transactions with Zu Dashou in private to paralyze the Ming Dynasty.

In Huang Taiji's view, the peace talks were indecisive and the grain trade was continuous, and the Ming army would never have imagined that he would suddenly attack. This is prepared to attack unprepared, the reaction of the Ming army in the past, Huang Taiji felt that Ning Yuan was not easy to say, at least he attacked Jinzhou and plundered the Ningjin region, and he still had a considerable grasp.

But Huang Taiji never expected that after he sent troops this time, the reaction of the Ming army would be so strange (and fast).

First of all, in the report, all kinds of materials and many people who built the city outside Jinzhou City were all gone. Dolgon's light cavalry raid failed to yield anything. This surprised Huang Taiji.

Subsequently, there was another unprecedented shelling of Jinzhou City.

The two thousand Han troops dispatched by Houjin just now, a full amount of two thousand people!

With 2,000 Han troops to fight the vanguard, Huang Taiji just wanted to test the city defense of Jinzhou. But even if the combat power of the Han army is not strong, the Han army has not shown any combat power, and it was so easily annihilated by the other party, and there is still such a tragic scene. How does this make him move his troops forward?

Looking around at the generals, seeing that the generals looked at him a little dodgy, Huang Taiji couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Huang Taiji still remembered that when the old Khan Nurhachi was there, even if there was an occasional unfavorable battle, the Houjin generals (including him) at that time would rush to go out again. Is that like now?

Now...

His eyes swept over the flesh and blood hell again, and Huang Taiji found that he couldn't force the generals to step forward at all.

In the face of the devastating shelling, who still has the confidence to step forward?

Even these battle-hardened generals are a little frightened, so how can the morale of the army move forward?

"What do you have to do?"

In response to Huang Taiji's question, there was a deathly silence.

After waiting for a while, seeing that there was still no one to come forward, Huang Taiji had no choice but to order in a dull and lonely voice: "Order, collect the troops." ”