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After learning from Wang Pu that the eight Jin Shang families were hiding their men in Guihua City, Li Zhi immediately dispatched 5,000 cavalry of the Xuan Feng Division to attack. 5,000 cavalrymen set out from Tianjin with 7,000 grain and grass wagons, all the way to the west, and finally arrived at the Mongolian Naturalization City on the ninth day of the first lunar month, which was later known as Hohhot.

The city of Guihua was occupied by the Mongol Chahar tribe at this time. The Chahar tribe has a long history, and was a direct tribe of the Mongol Great Khan in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and the lords of its various tribes have always been the descendants of the "Golden Family", and it is a powerful tribe in the Mongolian steppe.

Of course, the days when the Mongols rode the world are long gone. Originally, this Chahar department was also defeated by the Manchus and co-opted. However, after the defeat of the Manchus in the Jinzhou War to the Ming Dynasty, the Chahar Department raised its banner and stood on its own, and was no longer under the control of the Manchus.

The Chahar tribe sat on the cornucopia of the city of Guihua, and was a relatively wealthy Mongol tribe with tens of thousands of warriors in the steppe. However, the Mongols were half-herding and half-soldiers, and they usually had to graze horses and sheep on the steppe, and there were only more than 1,000 Mongols guarding the naturalized city. In the face of the 5,000 cavalry of the Xuan Feng Division led by Xue Sanku, the city defense of Guihua City was very weak.

Generally speaking, even if the enemy raids the city of Guihua, it will take a certain amount of time to capture the city, and other Chahar warriors on the steppe will be able to rush back to attack the invaders.

But what they encountered was the Tiger Ben Army's selection division, and they had no chance to return to help.

Twenty cavalrymen, divided into two teams, north and south, rode around the city wall and shouted to the Mongols on the wall:

"Listen to the barbarians in the naturalized city, we are the tiger army of the Ming Dynasty, and we are under the orders of the Duke of Jin to arrest the enemy Jin Shang. Now there are 416 Jin merchants in the Naturalization City, and you should wait for the barbarians to hand over these 416 people quickly, otherwise the cannon will be fired and the jade will be burned. ”

Hearing the shouts of the cavalry of the Selector Division, Jin Liangyu's legs trembled on the city wall. Who leaked the news and told the matter of Naturalization City? The more than 400 chambers of commerce in this naturalized city can all know the details of the Jin merchants' collaboration with the enemy, if they are captured by Li Zhi's army, it is estimated that they will all be confessed after a little interrogation!

Originally, he thought that Guihua City was the territory of the Mongols, and Li Zhi's soldiers and horses did not dare to pretend. Who knew that Li Zhi's army was so terrifying that even the Mongol cities were said to be beaten. If Abunai, the khan of the Chahar tribe, handed over all his people, then these eight Jin merchants would be finished.

Jin Liangyu looked in the direction of the center of the city in horror, worried that Khan Abunai would give up his Jin merchants.

However, Jin Liangyu's worries were actually unnecessary, because Xue Sanku's shouting was just a show, and Khan Abunai had no chance to hand over the Jin Shang men at all. There was no time for the Mongols to react, and Xue Sanku had already set up twelve heavy cannons in front of the east gate of Guihua City and began to bombard the walls of this Mongolian city.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The cannonballs that the Mongols had never seen were like heavy hammers, and they smashed hammer after hammer on the gates of the city of Guihua. It didn't take long for the east gate of Naturalization City to be smashed, revealing a large doorway.

The moat of the Naturalization City is not wide, and the moat outside the east gate is only three zhang wide. The baggage soldiers erected a pontoon bridge over the river, and the cavalry jumped on horseback and rushed into the city.

At first, there were Mongol Tartars who resisted stubbornly, hiding on the city walls and shooting arrows at the cavalry of the Selector Division, but they soon discovered that the bow and arrow were no match for the Firearms of the Selector Division. Each of the Selectors was equipped with two short guns, which were loaded with bullets long before the battle, and they could be picked up and fired during the battle. If you hit the target within 20 meters, you will be hit by a bone and immediately broken.

The Selector also carries a standard rifle on his back. For enemies at a distance, it is also a one-shot solution.

And the Mongols' bows and arrows were limited in their lethality in front of the elite full-body plate armor of the Blade Selector. Unless the shot was fired within fifteen meters, the Mongols' bows and arrows could not be effective at all.

Some of the cavalry of the Selective Division rushed into the city and rushed straight to the Khan's palace in the center of the city, while the other part dismounted and attacked the defenders on the city wall.

Those Tartars on the city wall are already few people, where can they withstand the firepower of the Election Strike Regiment? The Mongols were no match for the Manchu Iron Cavalry, and they could not face the elite sprint of the Elite Selection. In the crackling sound of gunfire, the elite cavalry of the Frontier Division continued to advance, and the Mongol Tatars on the city walls fell one after another.

Most of the Mongols had never seen such a terrible firearms unit, and they were stunned and ran away with their heads in their hands. A small number of Mongolian Tatars who had participated in the Battle of Jinzhou and had seen the firepower of the Tiger Ben Division were even more frightened by that battle, and they were about to tremble when they saw these firearms. The Election Regiment only rushed for a while, and as soon as it occupied the fifty-meter city wall, more than a thousand Tartars on the city wall were defeated.

By the time Xue Sanku took control of his horse and slowly entered the Naturalization City, the entire city had completely fallen under the control of the Elite Division.

Khan Abunai was pulled out of the Khan's palace and pressed in front of Xue Sanku with a pop.

A cavalryman got a stool from nowhere and sent it to Xue Sanku's back, Xue Sanku sat down and looked curiously at the Mongol Khan in front of him.

Xue Sanku looked at it for a while, and then snorted, the Mongols are nothing more than that.

"Barbarian! The four hundred and sixteen Jin merchants hiding in the Naturalization City can be in your city? ”

Abnay still doesn't understand what this is all about. It took only half an hour for the cavalry and artillery of the Xuanfeng Regiment to capture the city, and he did not know why this terrifyingly strong Ming army had come. At this time, when I heard that the army was a man who wanted to be a Jin merchant, not for his life, nor for his city, I was immediately overjoyed.

"Yes, it's all in town!"

"Where?"

Abnai kowtowed like garlic and said, "They are all in the courtyards of the major shops on Camel Street, and more than 400 people are there. ”

Xue Sanku waved his hand and shouted, "Go to Camel Street and arrest people!" ”

It didn't take long for Jin Liangyu, who was trembling all over, to be caught and escorted to Xue Sanku to kneel. At this time, he was so frightened that he couldn't control his pee, and his pants were wet.

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On the nineteenth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Xing took 5,000 recruits from the trapping regiment and 7,000 guards and battalions from Wanquan Zuowei, Dining Fort, Xinkaibao and Ningyuan Station Fort to confront Yaojiaping, fifty miles south of Zhangjiakou.

After Xue Sanku raided Guihua City, Chahar Khan Abunai did not hesitate to hand over four hundred and sixteen Jin merchant men. After a night of interrogation, these guys gave up resistance and confessed to the eight Jin merchants who communicated with the Manchus, resold military funds, and even provided the Manchus with intelligence on the customs and interior.

So far, there has been a breakthrough in the collection of evidence, which has been sluggish for two months. With these more than 400 buddies as witnesses, Li Xing could directly raid the eight major Jin merchants, behead the traitors, and deprive them of their illegal gains.

However, the seven Jin merchants who were about to be confiscated were unwilling to be arrested.

They mobilized the soldiers and horses of the three towns of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, and tried to stop Li Xing's beheading by force.

These Jin merchants are too naïve.

Even the soldiers and horses of Yang Guozhu's "main barracks" are here, and they can only be beaten in front of the Tiger Ben army. These ragged and poorly equipped battalions, even the guards, mobilized by the Jin merchants could only be live targets in front of the cannons of the Tiger Army.

These vulnerable opponents just happened to be used to train the hands of newly recruited soldiers who had never seen blood.