"The second platoon fired, the third platoon fired." The generals of the Ming army were a little anxious, but the flintlock pistol at a distance of 50 meters still did not have much destructive power against the wooden shield.

Jiang Beiming looked at it clearly on the city wall, turned his head and said to a general beside him: "Please tell General Wu that this phalanx against the Tartars will use cannons, and ask General Wu to pull out the artillery to bombard them." ”

Wu Sangui also nodded in his heart when he received Jiang Beiming's suggestion conveyed by the general, and he couldn't deal with these three phalanxes without artillery: "Order, the firecrackers withdraw and pull out the six-pounder cannon." ”

A gong sounded behind Wu Sangui, and the three rows of firecrackers collectively turned around and ran to the rear.

Seeing this scene, Abatai unconsciously admired the Taomin brothers: "In the end, it is a master, such a simple formation can block the Ming army's firearms." ”

"Command, drum attack!"

The sound of war drums sounded, and the three Korean phalanxes retracted their wooden shields and accelerated their forward movements.

Four six-pounder guns were pulled out of Ningyuan City, and the three Korean phalanxes were less than 200 meters away from Wu Sangui's army.

"Reload the shotshots, let's go!" The command flag in the hands of the Ming generals was thrown down quickly.

Hundreds of projectiles hit the phalanxes on both sides, and the Koreans fell one piece, but the people behind quickly filled the gap, and the three phalanxes quickly moved towards the Ming army.

Jiang Beiming's brows were tightly locked, the North Koreans had such a strong will to fight? No less than a hundred people were knocked down just now, and they didn't flinch at all, what method did Tao Min use to train.

Jiang Beiming didn't know that on this expedition, Tao Min promulgated a cruel joint sitting law in the Korean New Army. Those who retreat without an order will be severely punished, one retreats and kills the commander, and the other retreats to kill the commander. One out of every ten soldiers who were withdrawn was beheaded, and all those who escaped were to have their land confiscated and imprisoned in a concentration camp for life.

The loading speed of the six-pounder gun was obviously unable to keep up with the movement speed of the Korean phalanx, and rows of crossbow arrows were fired. At the same time, another war drum sounded in the camp of the Qing army, and more than 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners rushed out.

Wu Sangui also raised the command flag: "The firecrackers shoot, and the cavalry attack." ”

One thousand musketeers raised their flintlock pistols again, and with the six-pounder cannon, they fired at the Korean phalanx, and the three thousand Guanning iron cavalry rushed out from both sides to meet the Eight Banners cavalry.

The Korean phalanx had fallen no less than a few hundred people, but it was already less than 30 meters away from Wu Sangui's camp, and four artillery pieces and a thousand muskets were being loaded. Wu Sangui could only grit his teeth and raised the big knife in his hand: "Three army sons, kill thieves!" ”

The infantry behind Wu Sangui swarmed up, and the armies on both sides collided together, shouting and killing into the sky.

Jiang Beiming looked at the city for a while, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was not equipped with infantry cavalry guns, and used the previous three-eyed guns, and the Eight Banners Cavalry hedged for a while, and the casualties were not small. And the infantry did not have a good way to face the three Korean phalanxes, and the dense spears prevented the infantry from charging, and they could only use the method of projectile to fire crossbow arrows into the phalanx.

Jiang Beiming turned around and said: "Please tell General Wu that we will suffer heavy casualties if we continue to fight like this, and ask General Wu to withdraw his troops." ”

A gong sounded behind Wu Sangui again, and Guan Ning's iron cavalry slowly gathered together and began to retreat.

Abatai witnessed everything on the battlefield, and secretly admired the will of the Koreans to fight, even if they changed to the Manchurian Eight Banners, they would not be able to resist such an artillery attack.

"Collect the troops." Abatai also gave the order to retreat.

Jiang Beiming and Wu Sangui came to the General Soldier's Mansion together, and Wu Xiang was sitting in the room waiting for them.

"See the Chief Soldier." Jiang Beiming and Wu Sangui gave a salute together.

"General Jiang is hard." Wu Xiang said politely but looked worried, "The Tartars are menacing this time, I don't know if General Jiang has a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?" ”

"Lord Hui, Chief Soldier." Jiang Beiming replied, "In today's battle, our army suffered heavy casualties, and we are still not sure about fighting a field battle with the Tartars. Xia Guan believed that it was best to rely on the superiority of artillery to stick to Ningyuan. ”

"General Chiang." Wu Sangui asked, "Did those North Koreans take any medicine today, and our fierce bombardment didn't knock them back." ”

"I don't know about this official." Jiang Beiming didn't understand what Tao Min used to make these North Koreans play so hard, could the effect of land reform really be so great.

"Sangui." Wu Xiang said, "Don't go out to fight these days, let's see the movements of the Tartars." ”

Abatai also asked in the Chinese army's tent: "How are our casualties today?" ”

"Back to Lord Baylor." Jia Lae Zhen next to him said, "Our Eight Banners warriors have few casualties, probably dozens. But the North Koreans suffered more than 500 casualties. ”

"North Koreans." Abatai laughed in his heart, he didn't say it, the secret order given to him by Huang Taiji was to consume the strength of the new Korean army in Ningyuan. And the combat effectiveness and fighting will shown by the new Korean army today also made Abatai secretly surprised, if one day the North Koreans and the Qing Dynasty turn against each other, they may become the sworn enemies of the Qing Dynasty.

"The order goes down, and all the new Korean troops will be rewarded. After laying down Ningyuan City, they can give priority to picking things. The siege will continue tomorrow. ”

Abatai did not bring artillery this time, and all the artillery was taken away by Huang Taiji. Although Huang Taiji meant to consume a part of the new Korean army, it was useless to let these flesh and blood brave the artillery fire on Ningyuan City to climb the city wall. Abatai sat alone in the tent and thought of a way to attack the city.

Jiang Beiming was also smoking silently in his room. There was no problem in holding Ningyuan City, more than 30 six-pounder guns and 12-pounder guns could easily block the attack of the Eight Banners and the North Koreans, but Jiang Beiming thought about how to have a good way to annihilate this North Korean army to the greatest extent. Jiang Beiming even suspected that according to the combat effectiveness displayed by the Korean army today, once this army exceeded 100,000, Tao Min's strength might overwhelm Huang Taiji and become the biggest enemy in Yulin Bay.

But out of the city field battle, the Guanning Iron Cavalry had no certainty of victory at all, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not be stupid enough to fill it with human lives. How to inflict a heavy blow on this new Korean army, Jiang Beiming fell into deep thought.

The next day, 2,000 Manchu Eight Banners and more than 10,000 Korean troops were dispatched again. This time, before the Korean army could advance to the bottom of the city wall, it was brought down by several salvos of more than 30 cannons on the city, and Abatai withdrew his troops in time.

The two sides confronted each other for several days, and neither of them came up with any good solution. The Koreans did not come to climb the city wall, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry also hid in Ningyuan City and did not go out.