The current situation of the Ming Dynasty, surrounded by enemies, and one of them least want to see the Ming Dynasty to become strong that is the Jurchen Huang Taiji, before the Ming Dynasty re-established the Songjin defense line, the Huang Taiji led his own soldiers to come to check, when the defense line has become, the Ming army is in full array, see that it can not take advantage, in desperation Huang Taiji had to withdraw the army. Later www.biquge.info Jin merchants were destroyed, and most of the eyes and ears they planted in the territory of the Ming Dynasty were emptied. Chongzhen, the border pass, mobilized elite soldiers and strong generals to strictly guard against death, and did not let any materials flow into the grassland.

Chongzhen's various arrangements made Huang Taiji feel like a fish in his throat, and the reintegration of the Songjin defense line made it difficult for Huang Taiji to sleep. Once the little emperor Chongzhen pulls the Ming back from the death line, and has the kung fu to free his hands, when the time comes, how can the hundreds of thousands of Jurchens who resist the more than 10,000 people of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is the land resources they occupy or the huge gap between the population, it is so desperate.

So after receiving the proposal of the group of magnates in the south of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji did not hesitate to agree, not to mention afterwards, the benefits that the group of people promised were no benefits, as long as it was something that could make trouble for Chongzhen to block him, Huang Taiji would not refuse. Only when Da Ming weakened in the constant infighting, did he have the opportunity to pounce on him and tear off a few pieces of fat to strengthen his clansmen.

In order to completely defeat Chongzhen and let the corrupt magnates in the south come to power, Huang Taiji not only mobilized the whole country to prepare for the south, but also persuaded the Horqin and Zalumu Mongolian tribes to send troops together in marriage. Among them, there were 100,000 Jurchen troops and 100,000 Mongol tribes. A total of 200,000 troops, and drove a large number of Jurchen savages and defeated Monan Chahar warriors as the vanguard.

"Captain, there is a large group of men and horses approaching in the north" There was a huge hot air balloon floating above the wall of the Songjin defense line, and a thick cable firmly tied the floating hot air balloon to the city wall. Since the hot air balloon was pounded out by Chongzhen, it was arranged on the city wall of important passes around the first time, as long as the weather is suitable, such as the Songjin defense line, such as the border pass, there are several hot air balloons floating all year round to detect the enemy.

"Bring it to me to see" After speaking, he took the telescope in the hand of the observer soldier, and soon an arrow slashed through the sky and pointed to the north, this arrow seemed to have begun, and the hot air balloons on the other city walls also found the enemy's traces, and the arrows were one after another with a terrible roar across the sky. With the sound of arrows, a large number of Ming troops began to climb the city wall, and countless logistics soldiers began to carry arrows, shells and other weapons to the city wall.

Preparations were active on the city walls, and the drums of dull war sounded in the major camps behind the defensive line. "Hurry up, this is the drum of the army, the drum sounds, no matter when and where, if you don't rush to the battlefield within a quarter of an hour, you will lose your head."

"Clean up the artillery hall and fill the gunpowder" "The trebuchet calibrates the direction, and the machine spring begins to accumulate" With the arrival of Huang Taiji's army, the entire Songjin defense line boiled in an instant. At this time, Huang Taiji's army was still more than ten miles away from the city wall.

Under the city of Jinzhou, Huang Taiji looked at the Ming army that had been waiting for him in front of him, and through the spy to penetrate out the intelligence, he had already learned that the big guy who could carry people to float in the air was called a hot air balloon, but how did the behemoth rise to the sky, and he didn't understand it until now, he only knew that people floating above could easily see the scene dozens of miles away, the Ming people had this sharp weapon, and in the future, they were thinking of a silent sneak attack on a certain city, which would become extremely difficult, after the little emperor of Chongzhen ascended the throne, all kinds of changes in the Ming Dynasty, In order to alleviate this uneasiness, Huang Taiji did not hesitate to go out again to touch the dust of the Ming Dynasty, and he must let the country decline in the continuous war.

"The herald army is ready to set up camp, and at the same time drive those savages from the Chahar Department and the group of primitive tribes to test the strength of the Ming army" Huang Taiji ordered the herald behind him, for the Jurchen savages mentioned by the Ming Dynasty, the Beishan savages, in Huang Taiji's view, it is simply a group of uncivilized beasts, which are usually used to use it, if you want to say that you agree with the group of wild people who drink blood as their own people, not to mention Huang Taiji, even those ordinary Jurchens do not agree, If it weren't for the last time Chongzhen used Beijing City to burn tens of thousands of troops, resulting in a shortage of his own troops, who would be willing to go to the deep mountains and old forests to find the group of wild people who were with wild beasts to enrich the team.

In order to let this group of rabble give full play to their combat power as much as possible, Huang Taiji not only distributed a large number of wooden shields, ladders and other equipment to this team, but also ordered that the first ten people who climbed the city wall would be rewarded with a thousand taels of money, and their tribe would be allowed to withdraw from the war and return to the grassland, so that they would not resist the rule of the Jurchens in the future, pay tribute on time, and the Jurchens would no longer pursue their crimes of helping Lin Dan Khan.

With this order, hundreds of thousands of defeated remnants for a while, the tribal warriors let out a large number of cheers, and looked at the walls of the Ming army with a blazing light in their eyes.

Qin Liangyu, who received the information and rushed to command the battle, stood on the hot air balloon in mid-air, looking at the battlefield below, and the soldiers in the distance were only a small dot with color in Qin Liangyu's eyes at this time. At a glance, the south is a long strip of defense composed of countless red dots, and the north is a black chaotic army, and behind the formation is a group of red, blue, yellow and hundred-colored troops, and the two sides are facing each other under the city of Jinzhou.

Under the threat and reward of the Jurchen sword, hundreds of thousands of displaced people, defeated tribal warriors, and Beishan savages were divided into several echelons and began to attack Jinzhou City.

Tens of thousands of troops were in a mess, holding ladder shields, holding swords, guns, swords, halberds, pushing the sky car, densely like an ant colony to charge the city wall frantically, for a time the earth shook, the cannon roared, and the gradually rising wind roared mixed with the crazy shouts of countless soldiers, making the heavens and the earth change color.

"Fire" was the first to attack the red-coated cannon arranged on the city wall, with the flash of the gun's muzzle, one by one the cannonballs flew out, ploughing out a blood channel mixed with human flesh in the crowd on the ground, although it looked terrifying, but in the face of the scattered crowd a cannon will kill three or five people, the killing efficiency of the solid cannonball is far less than the flowering shell, just hit by the solid cannonball, the death is extremely miserable. It can be said that the whole person turned into a cloud of blood mist. The shock to people's hearts and morale is still very big.

After the "release" distance was a little closer, a sound of machine springs was heard, and a large number of trebuchets fired new flowering shells with long fuses. The round cannonballs are the size of clay pots. Surrounded by bulging iron balls, which are pineapple-shaped cannonballs, made from molten iron pouring molds. The inside was filled with a large amount of black powder. Leave a fuse long enough, and after ignition, the trebuchet ejects, and the ground explodes. The power is comparable to that of later generations of high-explosive grenades.

Not to mention the complexity of the flowering shell technology used by the redcoat cannon, it is also extremely unstable. It is far less convenient and practical than the extended fuse of the pineapple deformation bomb poured from the pig iron, and it is not as convenient and practical as the trebuchet, although the range and accuracy are inferior to the redcoat cannon. But the victory lies in the simplicity of the method, the rate of fire is extremely fast, and it can be equipped on a large scale. With the money for dozens of cannons, Chongzhen can completely equip the army with a thousand such trebuchets and tens of thousands of pineapple bullets.