When Zhu Youzhen was worried about Shaanxi officialdom, the Ningjin battle situation, which he was very concerned about, had entered a new situation.

Liaodong, Jinzhou

As soon as the sky was bright, the horns of the Houjin Jubing began to whine. At the sound of the trumpet, a team of post-Jin soldiers slowly walked out of the camp with a bitter face.

Suddenly, for some unknown reason, there were a few quarrels in the procrastinating Houjin soldiers, and then several soldiers pushed and tore up.

The battle just began, and several sharp trumpets sounded in the Houjin camp, and a group of horsemen rushed out. The horses of the cavalry that rushed out were fast, without regard to the safety of the soldiers along the way, and the horses galloped, so frightened that the soldiers along the way dodged.

In the cavalry, Mang Gurtai's face was terrifying.

Today is the seventh day of Huang Taiji's departure, and Mang Gurtai found that he really underestimated the Ming army of Jinzhou and really miscalculated.

Why did Mang Gurtai dare to say that he could capture Jinzhou in seven days?

It is not Mang Gurtai that Jinzhou was first built, compared with Ningyuan City, which was operated by the Ming army for several years, the construction time of Jinzhou city defense was short, and the walls of Jinzhou City were not high enough and thick enough; The armor at the head of Jinzhou City is also far less dense than Ningyuan.

Later, Kim's intelligence work has always been good. Before sending troops, Houjin had already discovered that the main force of the Ming army stationed in Jinzhou was from Qiantun, not from Ningyuan. Later Jin also clearly found out that the chief of Jinzhou was Zhao Shujiao, and among the several major generals in Jinzhou, only Zhu Mei participated in the battle of Ningyuan last year.

In view of Zhao Shujiao's performance when he defended Liaoyang, Hou Jin didn't say Mang Gurtai, in fact, even Huang Taiji didn't think that Zhao Shujiao would fight to the end.

After figuring out the secret of the artillery ambush of the Ming army in the first battle, in the opinion of Mang Gurtai, who had experienced the siege of Ningyuan, it was very likely that the Ming army in Jinzhou would be scared away as long as he was not frightened by the secret weapon of the Ming army, as long as he put on a desperate and decisive attack posture, there was a great possibility to scare the Jinzhou Ming army away.

Mang Gurtai thought that even if the Ming army in Jinzhou was not scared away, he could learn from the old Khan's strategy of attacking the city in Ningyuan, and use the Han army flag to destroy various city defense facilities in Jinzhou.

used the lives of Han soldiers to consume the arrows and gunpowder of the Ming army in Jinzhou; used the lives of the Han soldiers to wear out the physical strength and fighting spirit of the Ming army in Jinzhou; In the end, he used his blue flag elite to give the Jinzhou Ming army the final blow.

It is precisely because of this that Mang Gurtai made a promise to Huang Taiji to capture Jinzhou in seven days, and only then did he ask Huang Taiji for the command of 50,000 Han troops.

Mang Gurtai had already thought about it, and when he captured Jinzhou, he consumed Huang Taiji's Han army flag, and the credit was his Mang Gurtai. If he can't capture Jinzhou, it must be that Huang Taiji's Han Army Banner is not trying his best enough, and he has a way to retreat.

But a few didn't expect it, but now they have completely put Mang Gurtai on fire.

Mang Gurtai first did not expect that although the Jinzhou Ming Army did not have the extremely terrifying red-coated cannon of Ning Yuan, the Jinzhou Ming Army's use of artillery was more skillful and unique.

In the past six days, every time the Han army attacked the banner, the Jinzhou Ming army first used an unusually neat artillery salvo to cut off the attack line of the Han army flag, so that the attack formation of the Han army flag continued to appear.

When the Han army flags, which were broken up by the Ming artillery, rushed to the root of Jinzhou city in a scattered manner, without waiting for them to erect a ladder or dig the city, the Han army flag had to face a salvo of various close-fire firearms of the Ming army at the head of Jinzhou City.

The rhythmic firearm salvo of the Ming army in Jinzhou made the casualties of the Han army flag amazingly fast. In the six-day attack, the Han army paid nearly 20,000 casualties, but did not cause significant damage to the city defense of Jinzhou.

The morale of the Ming army in Jinzhou is still high, and the artillery of the Ming army in Jinzhou is still exploding neatly and calmly. This was something that Mang Gurtai had never imagined before the war.

The second thing that Mang Gurtai didn't expect was the improvement of the Han army's banner's combat power and will to fight.

After the six-day siege battle, Mang Gurtai admitted that the Han army had indeed done its best under the command of Tong Yangxing.

For six consecutive days, the Han army flags besieging the city every day were disabled, and the total casualties of the 50,000 Han army flags were nearly forty percent. After suffering such large casualties, the Han army banner has not collapsed, which makes Mang Gurtai have to admit that compared with the Nikannu army during the period of the old Khan Nurhachi, the Han army banner after the reorganization of Huang Taiji has indeed improved substantially.

Mang Gurtai admitted that the Han army flag in Huang Taiji's hands should not be underestimated now.

But...

His eyes drifted over Jinzhou City in the distance, and Mang Gurtai was even more depressed in his heart.

Compared with last year's battle in Ningyuan, the combat power of the Han army banner has indeed been greatly improved, but the improvement of the combat power of the Ming army in Jinzhou is even more terrifying.

In the past six days, nearly 20,000 casualties in the Han army banner have only filled in an extra section of the moat under Jinzhou City. Not to mention the Han army flag, not to mention attacking the head of Jinzhou City, and even the armor at the head of the city, now Houjin has not been completely destroyed.

Jinzhou's defense is so powerful, and now there is no hope for attacking at all, how can Mang Gurtai be willing to invest his elite of the Blue Banner to attack the city as originally planned?

But if you don't invest in the elite of the Blue Banner to attack Jinzhou with all your might, Mang Gurtai can't explain it to Huang Taiji.

After all, it was he Mang Gurtai who asked Huang Taiji for the command of the 50,000 Han army, and it was he Mang Gurtai who made a promise to Huang Taiji to capture Jinzhou in seven days.

50,000 Han troops, Huang Taiji gave.

Huang Taiji not only gave him the command of Mang Gurtai, but in the past six days, the Han army commanded by Tong Yangxing can also be said to have completely carried out any of his siege orders without the slightest discount. If it weren't for this, the Han Army Banner would not have suffered nearly forty percent casualties.

You must know that with a casualty rate of nearly forty percent, it is difficult to hold on even if it is replaced by his reckless Gurtai's positive blue flag. Mang Gurtai really can't think of what kind of spell Huang Taiji used, how could this Han military flag be reorganized for a few months, and it could withstand nearly forty percent of the casualties and still pull it out?

However, no matter what spell Huang Taiji used to mediate the Han army banner, 'seven days to capture Jinzhou' was said by him Manggultai himself.

Mang Gurtai is really hard to ride a tiger now.

In the past six days, the Han army banner has been fought to such a point, even if Mang Gurtai is reluctant, he has to admit that Huang Taiji has been benevolent to him.

Until now, can he capture Jinzhou and put it aside, but if he doesn't lead the blue flag to attack Jinzhou once, how will he face Huang Taiji and the important ministers and generals of Houjin?

In thought, the cavalry had rushed to the place where the Houjin soldiers were fighting. After a few shouts, several soldiers who were fighting had been directly circled by the cavalry.

"Pull it over, sacrifice the flag."

Seeing that the elite of the Blue Flag under his command had left the camp and lined up, a cold light flashed in Mang Gurtai's eyes.

"Order, the Han army flag is in front, the blue flag is behind, and the whole army is attacking the city!"

"Order."

With the issuance of the military order of Mang Gurtai, the horn sounded, and the sword flashed, and the heads of several Han soldiers who were fighting immediately fell to the ground, and blood splashed a large area of dark black earth.