Huang Taiji didn't know that Zhang Bin sent muskets and artillery, he only thought that the Ming court had transported grain and grass to Yuan Chonghuan, and he knew very well that there was a Ming sailor on the side of Dengzhou Wei, and it was not once or twice that the Ming court had transported grain and grass to the Ming army in Liaodong through the sailor.

With the support of grain and grass, it is impossible to make the 100,000 Ming army collapse without a fight, but he is not in a hurry, as long as the ravines in front of him are filled, and the 60,000 Jin Tie cavalry rushes up, the 100,000 Ming army will also be defeated, and the Jin Tie cavalry has not encountered an opponent after the field battle, and it is absolutely impossible for the Ming army to repair Xining Fort in five or six days.

Because he misjudged what Zhang Bin sent, he did not take any countermeasures, and the next morning, it was still Qierharang who urged Meng Yuan's foot soldiers to fill the trench, although the Meng Yuan troops were extremely reluctant, but when they thought of the consequences of disobeying the order, they had to gather people and horses and continue to fill in with human lives.

After two days of exploration, they also summed up some experience, the most threatening thing for the Ming army is nothing more than the last round of flat shooting, at that time they have to sprinkle soil into the ditch, but also to guard against the arrows falling from the top of their heads, there is no way to defend against the arrows from the chest, so they have thought of a lot of ways, for example, stuffing a piece of cooked cowhide in the chest, or simply tying a wooden board in the chest, anyway, as long as the chest is not penetrated by the arrows, they will basically be fine.

The method they came up with seemed to work, and in the first round of filling, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were shot and killed, the others basically ran back, and the casualties were almost negligible.

Seeing this scene, the generals of the Mengyuan tribes couldn't help but show ecstatic expressions, and Qierharang and Huang Taiji also smiled, after all, the Mengyuan Eight Banners had already surrendered at this time, and it was not good to force them to die, and it was naturally best to reduce casualties.

If they see the scene inside Xining Fort, it is estimated that they will not be happy, at this time, behind the south wall of Xining Fort, ten rows of mounds have been erected, a hundred thousand catties of Buddha Lang machines are neatly arranged on the mound, the muzzle of the cannon is upturned in front of the camp of the Houjin Coalition Army in the distance, the artillerymen of the Qi family army are explaining to the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army how to load ammunition and how to control the artillery, and Yuan Chonghuan and Qi Yuanbi are standing behind a repaired arrow stack on the south city wall and secretly observing the camp of the Houjin Coalition Army with binoculars.

At this time, a herald of the Qi family army behind them suddenly said loudly: "Report, Lord Yuan, General Qi, the artillery is all in place." ”

When Yuan Chonghuan heard this, he looked at Qi Yuanbi with a look of hope, how to control this new type of Franc cannon, he really didn't know very well, and he hadn't tried much to aim the cannon at a fixed position, so this time, he handed over the command to Qi Yuanbi, wanting to see how he commanded first.

When Qi Yuanbi heard this, he immediately ordered: "One door in the middle of the first row and the last row, load the gun, and test shoot one shot." ”

There was a wave of the order flag, two "booms", and two shells flew out of Xining Fort and smashed into the camp of the Houjin army.

The camp of the Houjin army was one or two miles away from the periphery of the ravine, that is to say, their camp was only about three or four miles away from Xining Fort, and the firing range of the thousand-jin Franc machine was about five miles, so Qi Yuanbi would let his subordinates set up the artillery on the mound behind the city wall and adjust it to a certain slope.

Huang Taiji was taken aback by the sudden roar of artillery, he has seen the power of artillery many times, this thing is simply an artifact of defending the city, the nemesis of the siege party, their only few siege failures are almost all because of artillery, once a city is equipped with more than ten artillery, the difficulty of attacking the city immediately doubles, this is the experience summed up by the lessons of many times of blood, and he also has a little headache when he sees artillery.

It turned out that yesterday the Ming army also transported a batch of artillery, how many guns will it be?

If there are more than ten guns, it will be a big trouble, 100,000 troops plus more than ten artillery pieces, if they are dragged to the city to repair, this Xining Fort may not be able to be attacked.

Fortunately, only two shells fell, one fell on the flat ground between the ravines in the distance, rolled twice and fell into the ravine, splashing a little water, and the other smashed directly into a ravine, splashing a column of water.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief, the two cannons were nothing, it seemed that the range was not very far, and the threat was not very great.

Qi Yuanbi on the city wall said with embarrassment: "This, the muzzle of the cannon is too high!" ”

He used his telescope to roughly estimate the distance, and then ordered: "Order, lower the middle two guns by twenty degrees, and try to fire one more shot." ”

Twenty degrees? Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but ask, "General Qi, what do you mean by twenty degrees?" ”

When Qi Yuanbi heard this, his face was embarrassed, this is what he learned in the Navy Martial Arts Hall, he has been studying this degree for several days alone, how can he tell people clearly this time.

He thought for a moment and summed it up: "This is the unit of measurement set by our Lord Governor, which divides a circle into three hundred and sixty parts, each of which is one degree. ”

With his explanation, Yuan Chonghuan was even more dizzy, what unit of measurement, how can a circle be divided into three hundred and sixty parts?

At this time, the soldiers of the Qi family army below were also asked a little dizzy, the thousand catties of Franc machine sent over this time were actually with a gun car, but the scale on the gun car was only fifteen degrees, because the general cannon is flat fire, and the angle of the projectile is at most fifteen degrees, but the military camp of the Houjin Army is obviously about three or four miles, and the angle of fifteen degrees must not be shot, so Qi Yuanbi asked people to build ten rows of earth platforms, one is to increase the angle, and also to prevent the cannonballs from smashing on their own city walls.

They couldn't explain this degree clearly, but the artillery of the Qi family army adjusted the muzzle of the gun quite quickly, they fixed a reference object to align the scale mark, and then dug out a little soil in front of the gun truck, first lowered it by ten degrees, and then put down the fixed reference object to ten degrees, and then dug out a little soil in front of the gun truck, lowered it by ten degrees, and adjusted it at twenty degrees.

The order flag that was ready was raised, and Qi Yuanbi immediately ordered: "Open the cannon." ”

"Boom", two more cannon shots, and Huang Taiji's face turned green at this time, because the two shells flew into the camp of Houjin Baqi.

At this time, the battle has not yet begun, it is just to fill in the ravine, so Huang Taiji did not order all the elites of the Eight Banners to wait outside the camp, but one banner at a time, one rotation every half day, guarding behind him, and the other horses are still resting in the camp at this time, and I don't know if these two shells hit the elite of the Eight Banners resting in the camp tent.

This Ming army is really vicious, specially according to their camp behind the Golden Eight Banners, if they bombard day and night, it will be really troublesome, there may be shells falling from their heads at any time, who still has the heart to rest, he even has the plan to move the camp back a few miles.

The Ming army was even more vicious than he imagined, a hundred cannons, all targeted at the camp of the Houjin Eight Banners, and it was not two shells that were bombarded down, but a hundred!

Yuan Chonghuan and Qi Yuanbi are both thinking about it, first give Huang Taiji a lesson, and then talk about the golden iron cavalry after smashing him to death, this is still Huang Taiji's luck, he didn't gather all the more than 60,000 Houjin cavalry outside the camp, if the more than 60,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry are all neatly lined up, and the five rounds of cannonballs go down, he must be killed by tens of thousands of elites!

Huang Taiji didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, the filling of the trench had just begun, he didn't want to move the camp to cause a commotion, he thought, just let the Ming army bombard a few cannons is not a big deal, it's a big deal to let the people at the place where the shells land a little bit.

So he said lightly to a guard beside him: "Go, see if the shell hits anyone, let the people in the camp near the shell dodge, and don't go back to the camp for the time being." ”

They also have artillery, although there is no history of those Liaodong Army officers who can cast artillery to surrender and build artillery for them, but they still have some artillery in Shenyang and Liaoyang and other important towns, in his opinion, this artillery is very heavy, and it is quite troublesome to move a position, the Ming army should not bother to move the artillery around, and the shells have bombarded into the camp at this time, and they should not move the artillery again.

His stupid decision to take it for granted directly killed thousands of Houjin Tieqi, the Ming army seemed to have no movement, in fact, it was adjusting the angle of other artillery, loading the gun, Qi Yuanbi saw that the landing point was almost over, and he had already begun to order people to adjust all the remaining ninety-eight artillery pieces by twenty degrees.

There was a burst of dust in Xining Fort, and soon, the prepared flags were raised one after another, and when all the flag-bearers next to the artillery raised the flags, Qi Yuanbi gave the order without hesitation: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom", there was a loud bang, and a hundred huge cannonballs rose into the air, covering the camp of the Golden Eight Banners behind, and Huang Taiji saw a cannonball flying over, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

It's over, it's the way of the Ming army, it turns out that they have more than two artillery, looking at the number of shells, there are at least hundreds of artillery!

He hurriedly shouted: "Quick, order everyone to leave the camp and retreat five miles." ”

Qi Yuanbi on the opposite city wall ordered unhurriedly: "Lower it by one degree, load the gun, and prepare to launch." ”

There is no need to dig the soil below within a few degrees, just adjust the tight parts on the gun truck directly, "Click", a rhythmic metal collision sound sounded, and the flag-bearers of each artillery position quickly raised the order flag in their hands, Qi Yuanbi ordered without hesitation: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom", there was another loud bang, and a hundred shells once again covered the camp of the Golden Eight Banners.

Qi Yuanbi looked at the effect, and then ordered: "Turn it down by two degrees, reload the gun, and prepare to launch." ”

"Click", another rhythmic metal collision sounded, and the flag-bearers of each artillery position quickly raised the order flag in their hands again, and Qi Yuanbi once again ordered without hesitation: "Open the cannon!" ”

At this time, the camp of the Houjin Eight Banners was called a chaotic army, there were screams and neighing of horses everywhere, countless elites of the Eight Banners ran out of the camp tent, stepped on the war horses, and ran frantically to the back of the camp, the road in the middle of the camp tents was crowded into a pot of porridge, all kinds of shouting and scolding were endless, the more they wanted to run faster, the more they couldn't run fast, and even the war horses were frightened, rampage in the crowd of people and horses, making the scene even more chaotic.

Qi Yuanbi saw this scene in the telescope, and excitedly ordered: "Turn it down one more degree, load the gun, and prepare to launch." ”

"Click", another rhythmic metal collision sounded, and the flag-bearers of each artillery position quickly raised the order flag in their hands again, and Qi Yuanbi once again ordered without hesitation: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom", there was another loud noise, and the camp of the Houjin Eight Banners suddenly splashed with a blood flower, and everywhere the shells passed, there were stumps dancing everywhere, and there was a blur of flesh and blood within a radius of dozens of zhang, and I don't know how many people and horses died tragically.

This is already the fourth round, only the last shot, it takes time to reload the gun, it is estimated that the reload is completed, and the golden eight banners have also run out, Qi Yuanbi quickly swept it with a telescope, and then ordered: "Adjust the five degrees, load the gun, and prepare to launch." ”

The target he aimed at this time was Huang Taiji and the cavalry phalanx behind this guy, at this time he already regretted it a little, he should have chased Huang Taiji from the beginning, if he could be bombarded to death, this battle would basically be won, and the Houjin army would definitely retreat in a hurry.

Soon, the flag-bearers of each artillery position quickly raised the order flags in their hands again, and Qi Yuanbi once again ordered without hesitation: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom", there was another loud noise, Qi Yuanbi stared at Huang Taiji nervously with a telescope, but unfortunately, Huang Taiji didn't have anything to do, but a blood splash was splashed not far behind him, and the cavalry phalanx was like being bitten by a terrifying giant beast, and a huge blood ball appeared in the middle, at least thousands of people were bombarded on their backs, and they didn't know how many died.

Qi Yuanbi smashed his fist on the arrow stack in front of him, and said with annoyance: "It's a pity! ”

Seeing this, Yuan Chonghuan said in surprise: "General Qi, what's wrong?" ”

Qi Yuanbi shook his head and sighed: "It should have been aimed at Huang Taiji from the beginning, as long as we can bombard him to death, we will win this battle, I am also obsessed, I want to make a mess of their camp, but I have never thought about the reason that the thief wants to capture the king." ”

It turned out that this was the case, Yuan Chonghuan held the binoculars and looked at it, and then comforted: "It's useless, unless you hit it with a bombardment, otherwise he will run away, you see, he is not running at this time, and even his shadow is gone." ”

Qi Yuanbi raised the binoculars to take a look, and sure enough, except for a blur of flesh and blood in front of the camp of the Houjin Eight Banners, there was not even a figure in sight of the place where it had just hit, and Huang Taiji had already run away with people.

The reason why Huang Taiji didn't run at the beginning was mainly because the shells fell to the back camp, and as the commander, he couldn't run away in embarrassment as soon as the cannon sounded.

Therefore, he has been holding on there, just sending people to the big camp to inform people to retreat.

He was thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him, but unexpectedly, the Ming army suddenly smashed a bunch of shells over, directly smashing a huge blood pit out of the yellow flag array behind him, he suddenly woke up, and ran around the camp with the rest of the yellow flag and ran to the back.

At this time, he didn't care about the chaos of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, if he was killed by the Ming army, it would not be as simple as the chaos, until he ran four or five miles behind the camp, he stopped to reorganize the team, and sent someone to send an order to let the Eight Banners of the Meng and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty withdraw five miles and set up camp successively.

Meng Baqi and Han Baqi are already a bit chaotic at this time, because the coach Huang Taiji has run away!

At first, they didn't have any panicked feelings, because the Ming army bombarded the camp of the Houjin Eight Banners, which had little to do with them, and Huang Taiji had been calmly beating horses and standing in front of the formation, making them mistakenly think that the Ming army's bombardment did not cause many casualties, so they just gathered there and waited for orders, and there was no chaos.

However, at the last burst of cannons, a snowflake suddenly splashed near Huang Taiji, and then, there was a rush of soldiers, and the Huang Taiji who was supervising the battle there, even the army with the yellow flag ran away, and it was strange that they were not afraid.