Mang Gurtai, the fifth son of Nurhachi.

Among the existing banner lords of the Houjin Baylor, Mang Gurtai is the first in combat power.

Just as famous as his combat power is the temper of Mang Gultai. Mang Gurtai's artillery temper, even Amin, who is known for his arrogance and domineering, did not dare to collide with Mang Gurtai head-on.

Nurhachi died, and perhaps only Mang Gurtai was truly sad among all the people in Houjin.

Mang Gurtai is sad that there is no Nurhachi, how to fight the battle in the future.

Everyone recommended Huang Taiji as the new Khan, and Mang Gurtai had no opinion.

Mang Gurtai knew that his popularity was not good, and no one would elect him as the new Khan.

Compared with the other banner owners Baylor, the relationship between Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai is not bad.

Choosing Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai can still accept it.

Anyway, the four major Baylors sit together, and let Huang Taiji continue to do a good job in logistics and internal affairs, and it is good that everything remains as it is.

But this expedition completely shattered Mang Gurtai's illusions.

In this campaign, Mang Gurtai has a lot of opinions.

In Mang Gurtai's view, the three strongest flags of Houjin (inlaid with white flags, inlaid with blue flags, and inlaid with red flags) have all gone to Korea, so the Zhenglan Banner and Zhenghong Banner should not go out again.

The remaining 5 banners of Houjin must be stationed in the Liaoshen area, twisted into a rope, and focus on preventing Ning Yuanming's army from advancing eastward.

This should be the most basic tactical common sense, right?

But Huang Taiji somehow made sense of several other flag owners, Baylor, and had to take the risk of pulling out the Zhenglan Banner and Zhenghongqi to fight Lushun and Jinzhou.

In order to encircle and annihilate Shen Yourong's troops, such an uncertain goal, Huang Taiji even strengthened part of the cavalry of the Zhenghuang Banner and the Zhengbai Banner to the Zhenghongqi to go on the expedition together, but he ignored the fact that Liao Shen's mobile forces were seriously insufficient.

In case Ning Yuanming's army marched eastward, the situation in Houjin would become a mess.

Such a risky way of using troops, how can Mang Gurtai accept it?

Mang Gurtai's level of use of Huang Taiji was directly full of question marks.

However, Nurhachi died, Huang Taiji took over, and Houjin has become different. Mang Gurtai could only come to Lushun City helplessly.

Coming to Lushun with this mentality, how dare Mang Gurtai attack the city with all his might.

Without Lao Khan, the hearts of this golden people are scattered.

Mang Gurtai sighed deeply.

For the sake of Dajin, he can't lose too much of the positive blue flag here.

This city must not be attacked.

What's more, the Ming army has already received reinforcements.

However, even if the Ming army has new artillery, field warfare should still be the weakness of the Ming army.

Let's try to see if we can transfer the Ming army out to fight.

Hopefully, Zhang Pan will get carried away.

Looking at the dead Guza, Mang Gurtai made up his mind in his heart.

"Someone, blow the trumpet and gather the generals."

Head of the city

"Your Highness, can you take a look at this musket?"

Seeing that His Royal Highness King Xin finally put down the long tube in his hand, it was difficult for Zhang Pan to suppress the urgency in his heart.

The juvenile guards must have been armed with muskets.

Seeing the teenagers reload and shoot again, Zhang Pan has already judged the nature of the weapon.

It's just that Zhang Pan can't figure it out, why does King Xin's musket have such a long range and such a high accuracy?

That's a hundred steps away!

That Tartar stood a hundred paces away, and let the Shin King's guards take down with a single shot (in fact, it was a volley of guns)?

It's too easy, isn't it?

The most powerful bird gun in the Ming army generally exceeds 70 steps, and most of the bullets don't know where to fly.

These are the same muskets, how can this difference in power be so big?

And what made Zhang Pan even more puzzled was that King Xin's musket could be fired without ignition.

There is no arquebus, no arquebus, there is really no arquebus!

Zhang Pan did not find any fire rope on the boy's body, and this discovery directly broke Zhang Pan's conventional cognition.

After the second salvo of muskets wounded two Tartars and two horses again, the urgency in Zhang Pan's heart had reached the point where it was difficult to suppress.

Such a magical musket, if it weren't for the identity of His Royal Highness King Xin, Zhang Pan would have directly grabbed a shot to study and study it well.

Seeing Zhang Pan's excited appearance, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but chuckle.

"General, let's take a look at this first, right?"

Zhu Youzhen pointed to the camp of the Blue Flag and handed over the telescope in his hand.

"It's ......"

Zhang Pan took the telescope and lifted it up in Zhu Youzhen's posture.

In the footage, the camp with the blue flag in the distance becomes clearly recognizable.

"Oh my God!"

Zhang Pan exclaimed, took away the telescope in disbelief, and carefully distinguished it with the naked eye for a moment before putting the telescope in front of him again.

In the shot, the camp scene that is barely visible to the naked eye becomes clearly recognizable.

"Your Highness, this—this is simply a divine object!"

Reluctantly to put down the binoculars, Zhang Pan let out a surprised exclamation while carefully observing everything in the Zhenglan Banner camp.

Zhang Pan keenly felt that compared with the musket, this artifact in his hand should be of greater help to the battle situation.

With this telescope, Zhang Pan only needs to stand at the head of the city, and everything in the blue flag camp will be exposed to his eyes.

The allocation of troops, the structure of the camp and the dispatch of the Zhenglan Banner, these secrets that were difficult for spies to find out clearly even if they paid their lives in the past, are now all easily displayed in front of Zhang Pan's eyes and let him snoop on.

That's their big tent of the Chinese army, that's where their elite soldiers are stationed, where it should be their firehead army, where is their stable, there......

Carefully distinguishing the various plans of the Zhenglanqi camp, Zhang Pan's heart became more and more excited.

Hey!

In the shot, Zhang Pan found that the cavalry of the Blue Flag Array quickly ran to the Chinese military tent and dismounted, some people entered the tent, and some people stood outside the camp tent.

This is Mang Gurtai gathering generals, what is the blue flag going to do?

Looking at the other party's actions, Zhang Pan's curiosity increased.

In the military tent

Mang Gurtai glanced at the gathered generals majestically, and arranged in a loud voice: "Tun Blu, release all the scouts for me, and sweep the ears and eyes of the Ming army for me." ”

"Wow."

Zhenglan Qixiao didn't say a word to Tun Blue, and turned around and left after receiving the order.

"Love Bari, go down and prepare, and when Tunburu clears the eyes and ears of the Ming army, you will lead the army to Qingni Cave first. Remember, the whole army is not allowed to raise fire, and not to leak a single rumor. ”

"Wow."

Mang Gurtai's personal guard Ai Bari was slightly stunned, and then understood.

"Derge, let's go attack the Ming army, try the defense of the Ming army, and cover Aibari's departure."

"Wow."

Mang Gurtai's younger brother Derge responded excitedly, he had long wanted to attack the earth city and try it. It was the first time for Derge to come to Lushun, and he had no fear of Lushun.

With the military order of Mang Gurtai, the camp of the Blue Banner of the Later Kim Jong began to be active.

After a team, the Jin Tan cavalry rushed out of the camp, like a net, and carried out strict clearance in all directions.

The Ming army's night (spies) were forced to shrink towards the city under such a big movement of the Houjin detectives.

As Mang Gurtai and Derge led the main force of the Blue Banner out of the camp, the Ming army's sirens began to sound in a row.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.