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After a long time, Zilharang said: "Your Majesty, now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, how can we resist the enemy?" ”

Huang Taiji grabbed the handle of the dragon chair and said slowly: "This decisive battle in Jinzhou is invincible. If the war is defeated, the Mongol vassals and Korea will have different hearts and will fall to the Ming Kingdom. ”

Hearing Huang Taiji's words, all the generals were stunned. Although the Mongol vassals and Korea were now subject to the Qing Dynasty, they were not willing to do so. In particular, there is a faction in North Korea known as the pro-Ming faction, which has a wide influence. As long as the Qing Dynasty weakens slightly, it may be that North Korea will rebel against the Ming Kingdom.

If both Mongolia and Korea had rebelled, how much would the territory of the Qing Dynasty have shrunk? How much will the national power be weakened? I'm afraid that the Qing Dynasty will return to the blue wisps of the road when it was first founded.

This decisive battle was fought by the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Kingdom, and neither side could afford to lose.

Huang Taiji pressed the handle of the dragon chair and said word by word: "The national mobilization, all men over the age of sixteen in Manchuria and Mongolia are recruited, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely be defeated!" ”

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After sending off the crown prince and the two Shangshu, Li Zhi and the generals returned to the big tent to discuss the military situation.

Now that Li Zhi is already a marquis, Hong Chengchou didn't dare to hold it up, so he let Li Zhi sit at the top and sit with him below. Although Hong Chengchou is the governor of Jiliao and has the authority to command the generals, Li Zhi's title is too big, and Hong Chengchou can't suppress Li Zhi now.

Hong Chengchou sat down, coughed and said, "Now that Dabi Mountain can't be attacked for a long time, what are your plans?" ”

The generals looked at each other for a while, but did not speak. The Dabi Mountain fortifications are so complete, Cao Bianjiao can't attack them, what can other generals do? The crowd thought about it, but no one spoke.

Li Zhi really didn't bother to see the Ming army wasting time under Dabi Mountain, so he nodded and said: "Tomorrow, General Cao's troops and horses will be withdrawn, and Benhou will lead the army to attack the mountain." ”

Although Hong Chengchou received the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, he easily did not let Li Zhi go out. But now that Li Zhi is in a high position, where does Hong Chengchou dare to command Li Zhi? Since Li Zhi said that he was going to attack the mountain, Hong Chengchou did not dare to stop him.

Stroking his beard, Hong Chengchou said: "Since this is the case, I will wait in the rear to watch the Marquis of Xingguo attack the mountain." ”

Li Zhi smiled and did not speak.

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Early in the morning of 29 February, Li Zhi dragged out 70 heavy cannons, each of which was pulled by 12 healthy horses, and quickly descended towards Dabi Mountain.

Although Li Zhi's eighteen-pounder cannon could shoot three miles, the cannon could not hit that far when firing from the top. Li Zhi had to bombard the fort on the top of the mountain with artillery, and he had to rush to the bottom of the mountain for two miles before he could shoot on his back.

Dorgon placed thirteen cannons on the hill, seven of which were small and six of which were heavy. Seeing Li Zhi's artillery carriage marching to the foot of the mountain, the five heavy guns on the top of the mountain opened fire.

Before the artillery took off the artillery positions on the hill, the firing position in front was too dangerous. Li Zhi did not rush to the foot of the mountain, but stood a few miles away and commanded with a command flag. The artillery at the front was commanded by Xue Sanku.

Li Zhi heard a rumbling sound coming from the top of the mountain, and then six shells were fired down from the top of the hill and fired at Li Zhi's artillery. However, the first round of artillery fire of the Qing army was not accurate, and not a single shell hit the target.

Li Zhi's artillery carriage quickly maneuvered forward, and after walking two miles, the six heavy guns on the mountain fired two more rounds. The second round of artillery bombardment by the Qing army was empty again, and it was not until the third round of artillery that Dolgon's heavy artillery hit one of Li Zhi's artillery carriages, smashing the artillery carriage and killing two pack horses and one artilleryman.

Li Zhi scolded the bastard and said loudly: "Order, fight back with a flowering bomb!" ”

The Qing army was very particular about the forts built on the top of the mountain, making full use of the mountain, in fact, digging several shallow holes on the top of the mountain and placing the cannons in the holes. As long as there are correctors on the mountain, the cannons can take advantage of the mountain to hide the cannons and shoot down the mountain in shallow holes. When the cannon under the mountain attacked the battery, the shells would be stopped by the ground outside the battery, and it would not be able to shoot directly at the battery.

Of course, for Li Zhi, this is not a problem. Since you can't shoot a solid bullet directly, it's better to throw a flower bullet.

The artillerymen calculated the position of the battery based on the shells fired from the top of the hill, raised the muzzle of the cannon high, and began to throw flower shells towards the top of the mountain. Only a rumbling sound was heard, and sixty-nine cannons spat out tongues of fire, firing sixty-nine flowering catapults towards the top of the mountain.

The cannonballs shot into the platform on the top of the hill and exploded one after another, sending out sparks on the top of the mountain. Although the Qing army's fort was hidden behind the mountain and Li Zhi could not see it with a telescope, Li Zhi could imagine the spectacular scene of seventy flowering shells exploding on the platform.

Dolgon, the king of Manchu Qing Rui County, was standing in the enemy tower on the top of the mountain, looking down on Li Zhi's artillery who was rushing over, but suddenly saw the cannon muzzle at the foot of the mountain spewing flames, and seventy flowering shells were shooting towards the mountain. The speed of the sound was much slower than the light, and it took a few seconds for Dorgon to see tongues of fire erupt from the cannon as it was fired, before he heard the rumbling of cannon at the foot of the mountain.

Seventy shells whizzed and hurled towards the battery. As soon as Dorgon turned around, he saw that flowers had exploded inside the fort.

The gunner can dodge the flowering shell after it hits the ground, but the cannon can't. In just one round of shelling, four of the six heavy guns were blown up.

Not only were the heavy artillery destroyed, but the two light Hongyi cannons were also damaged by the indiscriminate flowering shells. A light cannon of several hundred pounds was also overturned by the explosion of the flowering shell and turned over to the outside of the fort.

Dolgon's face turned pale, and he secretly said that this plum plant's flowering bomb was too fierce.

A white flag beside Dolgon, Mel Zhangjing, gritted his teeth and said, "Lord Wang, Li Zhi's cannon is too fierce, I'm afraid this big mountain can't be defended!" ”

Dorgon frowned and didn't speak.

The only two remaining heavy guns on the hill counterattacked, firing two shots down the hill without hitting any targets.

After a minute, sixty-nine more flowering bullets flew up. This time the shells were fired more accurately, and at least a dozen shells landed in the battery where the two heavy guns were. Dolgon's gunners were in a mess and ran wildly, running to a place where there were no shells and lay down to take refuge.

Only a rumbling explosion was heard, and more than a dozen shells exploded inside the battery.

The powder keg of a heavy cannon was ignited by a flowering shell. I only heard a loud bang, and the dozens of catties of black powder in the powder keg all exploded. The huge wave of air created by the explosion lifted a heavy cannon that had been blown up. The heavy artillery cart disintegrated in the air, and various parts flew everywhere, frightening the nearby gunners to dodge in panic.

The barrel of the heavy cannon, which was several thousand pounds high, was swept away by the air wave and slammed into the enemy tower where Dolgon was, and the northeast corner of the enemy tower was smashed into powder.

That Melerjangjing was frightened by the impact of the cannon barrel, and fell to the ground in a panic. When the damage caused by the cannon barrels had stabilized, he realized that Dorgon had not even hid. He got up and said flatteringly: "Lord Taishan collapsed in front and did not change color, and he was really calm and brave. ”

Dorgon frowned and looked at the northern part of the collapsed enemy tower, silent.

The six precious heavy Hongyi cannons were destroyed by Li Zhi at once, and Dolgon felt a little heartache.

The artillery under the mountain fired two rounds and eliminated the heavy artillery on the mountain, and Li Zhi's artillery dominated the battlefield and could shoot at the target on the mountain at will.