The victory in the southern resistance battle outside Dongchang City during the day made Sun Yingyuan, who was originally a little shaken, temporarily give up his plan to fight against the water. Especially when the news of successive victories in Xuzhou and the south also came one after another.

In the past, Sun Yingyuan and many of his cronies felt that the real elite family around the Son of Heaven was too few, and the chances of winning the world with more than 10,000 elite soldiers and tens of thousands of ordinary armed confrontations were almost all opposed. However, the victory outside the city of Linqing, which captured a lot of heavy artillery and firearms, seems to have improved the hole cards and strength to a certain extent. Let the situation seem to be less bad for the time being, especially now that the elite in the north is contained by a strong enemy outside the pass, the elite really used by the entire Ming court seems to be simply not enough to make the forces led by Emperor Chongzhen at this time fall into a situation where they can only be trapped in a lonely city.

Of course, he knew that some of the deviant declarations of the Holy Lords a few months ago had completely offended many people in the world, but the class theory preached by the Son of Heaven did seem to have some truth. Now that he is a close confidant and a powerful force to rely on by the Son of Heaven, if he can finally win, then the wealth that he can win in the end is obviously not something that can be obtained by being a person who should be against the water.

The failed breakthrough made Zhu Xieyuan and many officers around him regret their retreat in Linqing. Obviously, the consequences of giving up some artillery were serious, but no one expected that the team around the Son of Heaven in Shuntianfu would be able to exert artillery fire that was not inferior to those Westerners' archery skills in such a short period of time.

Even more worried were the missionaries from the West. At this time, there were two key technologies in the West that were regarded as top secret to the blockade of infidels, one was the real use of the gun gauge that was determined by adjusting the amount of gunpowder used to determine the firing range. The other is some tricks that the Arabs have summed up in saltpeter purification. With these two points, although there was little difference between the types and nature of firearms used in the late Ming Dynasty between the East and the West, the actual effect was clearly reflected in many land and sea conflicts. The pro-army around the emperor of these eastern powers, who did not believe in God at all, could have such a level of use of firearms, which made many Western mercenaries feel that they were out of place. Thinking of such news, it is necessary to make the Holy See understand as soon as possible, and these people are also very much in favor of the plan to break through at night.

When night fell, with the use of a lot of civilian materials seized along the way, the entire Dongchang city was lit up with fire, as if a lit fire dragon was tightly besieging the entire city.

In desperation, Zhu Xieyuan ordered all his troops to break through at night, first focusing on the junction between the east and north directions, and the elite main force led by himself was responsible for finding the last opportunity.

Originally, I thought that there should be no big problem with such a deployment, but it was obvious that the aiming and firing of the artillery at night would undoubtedly be greatly disturbed and affected, and it was not impossible for the opponent to turn defeat into victory when the opponent's biggest reliance did not play much role.

However, only a moment after the breakthrough battle began, when the entire direction of the attack remembered the violent explosions and the moans and even screams of many people, Zhu Xieyuan realized that he had made a big mistake. I forgot some of the rumors about the Battle of the Imperial Horse Warden. Shotgun attacks at night using explosives are one of the specialties of the team led by the Son of Heaven in Shuncheonfu from the very beginning.

The blasting attacks launched at night were also greatly discounted because they could not effectively judge the enemy's situation, and only killed and wounded only one or two thousand enemy troops who broke through. But even so, it caused the opponent, who was not very capable of bearing losses, to fall into chaos when he broke through at night. The stragglers approaching the vicinity of the defensive line did not pose much of a threat even if they faced not very fierce bows and arrows, or even individual firearms.

However, just when Sun Yingyuan had a premonition that he was very likely to perform a rare feat of annihilating tens of thousands of enemies in the encirclement with more than 10,000 people, the continuous explosions that seemed to be like torrential rain came from the defense line in the direction of due north.

Thousands of elites of the Ming army led by Zhu Xieyuan continued to launch a gourd and thunder attack at night with the column tactics that seemed to be loose but in fact the attack direction was very concentrated. The power of the gourd thunder was not much stronger than that of the large two-kick, and the drop on the side of the armored and shielded hoplites did not pose much of a real threat of killing, but the violent explosion shook many officers and men of the newly formed infantry brigade. Under the cover of sound and smoke screens, the concentrated attack of the southern elite, skilled in hand-to-hand combat, quickly broke through the defenses of the remaining troops in the north, at the cost of hundreds of casualties in the night's rain of bullets and arrows.

The breakthrough of the elite Ming army in the city made Sun Yingyuan finally make up his mind to besiege and pursue in the night battle, but because many of the remaining forces were explosives and baggage soldiers, there were not many elite cavalry and horses in the field of the real teaching brigade, and in the end, there was still no way to catch up with the elite main force of the Ming army, which was very good at long-distance running in this summer night.

After the elite Ming army broke through, the defenders in the city, who had been suffering heavy losses one after another, seemed to have completely lost their morale after dawn, and many officers and soldiers went out of the city to surrender. However, in order to save gunpowder resources to the greatest extent and there was still a shortage of troops, Sun Yingyuan did not make up his mind to attack the city after all.

When Xiao Xuan and even Zhou Yuji and others returned with a full load of the mighty fleet, they also heard about the previous Dongchang war. Xiao Xuan didn't blame Sun Yingyuan much. Because it's obvious that I'm a little sloppy. Although a lot of firepower was given to the remaining team, the lack of troops still made it expected for the elite Ming army in the city to break through.

The news of the failure of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army on the Southern Road also quickly spread to the nine sides, and even the importance of espionage was significantly greater than that of the Ming Dynasty's Guanwai Jianzhou and other places. Whether it was Yuan Keli or even Sun Chengzong and others who were stationed in the border army, or the upper echelons of Jianzhou in Hun Tai Jihei and Bolie and even in Shenyang City, they all caused a lot of controversy.

In Shenyang, many Manchurian nobles felt that this was an opportunity. Some advocated that the Ming court should enter the customs and plunder to expand the power of Manchu when the Ming court was mired in internal strife, while others advocated launching another military operation against North Korea to completely turn the millions of people on the Korean Peninsula into a core that could provide money and food.

Of course, Hun Taiji paid more attention to the opinions of Fan Wencheng and other Han officials in this regard, and asked Fan Wencheng and others for their opinions after communicating in front of many banner owners during the discussion: "Some people advocate going south, and some people advocate taking the opportunity to subdue North Korea in the east." You might as well share your views on this matter... ”

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