Just when Xiao Xuan and the officers and soldiers of the volunteer battalion who had experienced the bloody battle were celebrating the victory, in a large camp outside the capital, Zhang Shi, a prisoner from the volunteer battalion, was escorted up.

In the face of such a tough opponent, not only was he able to capture one of the core members, but he was also able to capture this core member without being seriously injured, and Sun Chengzong felt very lucky that he did not let the angry family members be killed before this person.

"Your Excellency did not see you at the place of torture, do you know what the reason is? It is because I feel that a strong dead soldier like Your Excellency, even if he has the opportunity to compromise for a short time under severe punishment, will not be used by the imperial court in the end. I would like to ask you if you would like to have a frank talk. If you don't want to, I believe that the adults will give you a good name, which can be used to inspire soldiers or set an example for our army, which will also benefit you... After seeing Zhang Shi's expression after being captured, a strategist beside Sun Chengzong thought that this was a hard bone who might not be able to compromise, and said without much hope.

"You underestimate you. I'm just a volunteer battalion soldier, not a meticulous or dead man, and I don't know what the key is. What is learned is also not very important. If you want to know something, I know it all ... The captive, who seemed to have a good character, said suddenly.

"Good! It's really fast. In addition, if my expectations are correct, I am afraid that Your Excellency was captured on his own initiative and planned to take refuge in the imperial court? Otherwise, after not falling behind, the remaining gunpowder on the battle array was so coincidentally detonated, and it happened to pass out just now; After that, I happened to meet the personal soldiers led by the adults themselves. Don't tell me it's all a coincidence ... ”

Zhang Shi suddenly smiled after a moment of silence: "You really guessed right, I was captured on my own initiative, but this was also arranged by the king. The king wants me to do something for you, and at the same time try to promote some things as much as possible, otherwise the king is worried that you may not know the situation you are going to face now, and the same is true for the Nanjing court... ”

At this time, Sun Chengzong's staff probably guessed a thing or two: This person said this, I'm afraid it's just to ask for some face. Whether it is death or sincere refuge, it is at least nominally intended to compromise.

"Hehe, your Excellency's words are a little incomprehensible. The monarch in your mouth is Emperor Chongzhen, right? Could it be that he was so confident just because of a victory last night? Even if he is confident, there is no one in this world who thinks that his advantage is not big enough and takes the initiative to help the enemy. I don't know what this is ... Of course, this staff member around Sun Chengzong knew that this person had something to say, and he also wanted to hear the reason.

"According to the king's statement, the remaining more than 200,000 troops inside and outside the capital, including tens of thousands of the main forces of the battle, should be the main family of the entire northern army, right? I don't know how many decent teams can be put together in other places besides the troops gathered in the northwest and Liaodong near the capital. If not, then your defeat is likely to be imminent. Our army in the city will defeat you with a devastating force, and then take over the world in a much easier process than the Battle of Jingjing. I don't know that the Ming Dynasty at this time has not yet had the national strength of Ping'an, Sheng Yong and others during the Battle of Jingyan and the Ming Court at that time. Your top priority now is to go to various places to train troops and organize resistance. If you lose too quickly, the volunteer battalion led by the king will not be able to get enough training and development in the domestic war, so the king does not want to clarify the sea and seize the world too quickly, you must have a sense of crisis! ”

"This big talk is arrogant to heaven! If it was as expected, the elite around Chongzhen also consumed a lot in last night's bloody battle, right? How can it be in a short period of time ... ”

"I just persuade your superiors to dismiss the team as soon as possible and go to various places for training, don't delay. I will teach you some of the previous secret techniques of firearms archery, which are not necessarily inferior to those of the Westerners, as well as a lot of tactics and some more tips from the king to select and build an army. It's just that I'm worried about the way it does the volunteer camp, so don't waste your efforts, and you won't be able to learn it. As for the situation, you may soon have a sense of it ... ”

For Zhang Shi's words, most of Sun Chengzong's staff members did not agree, judging from all kinds of news, especially those who died on the streets and were not recovered, the fierce elite of the defenders is also likely to suffer more than half of the casualties. Under normal circumstances, there is no longer any reason to invest in a war of attrition. At this time, although the besieging side of the city has lost a clear strength advantage and cannot effectively attack the city after breaking the city, it seems that it is not so easy for the defenders in the city to launch a counterattack without a strategic force advantage...

However, what the Ming army inside and outside the capital did not fully expect at this time was that at least more than 10,000 people, including the 1st and 2nd Brigades, including the supplementary troops in the past few months, a movement of "learning from the volunteer battalion" was launched. With a new batch of volunteer pioneers and death squads selected by each battalion with a total of 500 people as the core, five "volunteer death squads" with a total strength of about 6,000 people were formed. Lessons learned from the previous experience, some trolleys were equipped with iron plates and improved light vehicle shields were also put into the fierce battle.

However, it seemed to anticipate that the defenders would be likely to continue their counterattack after the night of 1 October, and the five attacking teams, numbering about 6,000 men, were met with heavy artillery fire at all street crossings.

At the beginning, the elite of the volunteer battalion could brave the fierce artillery fire of the opponent to crawl forward, and close to a very close range to launch efficient firepower, but for some reason, when the team organized by the teaching brigade launched a fierce attack, it seemed that it could not do so at all, and the team that desperately assaulted the front end of the opponent's artillery array several times was also largely contained because of the lethality of the firepower and even the loading of the battle, and even the lack of effective conversion of bayonets and firearms. In all five directions of the offensive, there were obvious setbacks in front of enemy artillery arrays.

The Ming artillery team, which had been terrified the night before, gradually got rid of the initial panic in the battle.

(End of chapter)