When Rausa arrived at Yaozhou City, it was a critical moment for the Ming army to violently attack the south gate of Yaozhou.

Although the surface of the city wall is not inlaid with blue bricks, the walls cut from local red sandstone are still not much less beautiful than the blue brick walls. As for the inside of the city wall, it is the same as the other city walls, which are all compacted loess.

The height of the city wall of Yaozhou City is close to four meters, and with those jagged city plates at the head of the city, it looks quite imposing. It stands to reason that a small city like this, even if it is surrounded by several times the number of enemy troops, is not easy to capture without a strong attack in ten days and half a month.

But it took less than half a day for the Ming army to gradually gain a foothold on the north gate wall. The reason why this is so is because the Qing army is completely unable to resist the Ming army's two 12-kilogram field cannons, these war weapons weighing about 1.5 tons, although they caused a lot of trouble to the Ming army during the march, but they played a more important role than a battalion of infantry in the siege war.

The 12-kilogram field gun can shoot a 6-kilogram solid bullet at a target 1400-1500 meters away at an angle of fire of 5 degrees with a standard charge of 1.5 kg. If the firing angle is increased to 10 degrees, then the range can reach about 1900 meters. The city gate tower and the enemy tower on the city wall of Yaozhou City have become the most obvious targets of these two artillery.

The wooden buildings on these walls were completely unable to withstand artillery fire, and the Qing troops hiding inside had already been severely damaged by artillery before the Ming army could attack the city. With the Ming artillery firing every 2 minutes, the Qing soldiers had to stay away from the destroyed city gate tower and the enemy tower.

The Qing generals stationed in the city were never able to find a way to resist the Ming artillery, and he could only watch the Ming army use artillery to dismantle all the obstacles on the city wall, and occasionally the cannonballs that flew over the city wall into the city became a nightmare for the residents near the south gate.

Turushh and Yaozhou guards looked at the way the Ming army attacked the city, and couldn't help but say with ugly faces: "How can this battle be fought?" The Ming army will continue to fight like this, and the city walls will be damaged before dark, and when they rush in, how can we stop it. ”

Yaozhou guard general also said with a dark face: "You don't have to wait until dark, they drive away the people on the city wall, and you can easily climb the city, we must not stay away from the city wall, wait until the Ming artillery stops, we will rush up again, as long as it is entangled with the Ming army, they will not dare to fire the cannon at will." The Khan had already issued an order that men would soon be sent to our aid. We can't afford to lose this city before the Khan's reinforcements arrive..."

The Qing generals thought very well, but Li You did not plan to fill the city with his life. He has not only these two 12-pound guns in his hands, but also 4 3-6-pound guns. Although these guns are not very powerful, they are lightweight, and they can be aimed at grenades at close range when pushed under the city walls.

He first arranged for a group of people to go to the city to make a feint, and once he found the figure of the Qing army, he pushed these light artillery up and fired grenades at the city wall, and as soon as he attacked, it was a large area. After suffering a few more losses, the Qing army's counterattack was quite weak, as long as they saw the Ming army sliding down the city wall, they couldn't wait to run down the city one by one, and they jumped directly if it was too late.

With a height of nearly four meters, good luck is just rolling on the ground, and bad luck is breaking your leg. For this rogue tactics of the Ming army, Turushh and other Qing generals couldn't think of any way except cursing in their mouths.

If it weren't for the Khan's previous order to hold Yaozhou City, Turushh would have wanted to run away a long time ago. After all, they are not the defenders of Yaozhou, and they are not obliged to defend the city.

It's just that Turush's Yingkou garrison has just been defeated, and even the main general has died. Although Hongnika died of illness and not died in the war, will the Shenyang side agree with their statement that these defeated troops are defeated?

Turushh felt that if they had done a little bit in the next battle, perhaps the Khan would have been blamed for the past. But if they leave Yaozhou City and flee again, King Khan may not be able to spare them.

It was only then that he felt that he had made a mistake. Since they have already run away, why not just go to Haizhou? I had to run to this small town on the edge of the camp and wait to be defeated by the Ming army again.

Just when the speed of the Qing soldiers in Yaozhou City to the south gate was slowing down more and more, Rausa finally arrived at Yaozhou City with 200 cavalry. Although the Ming army only attacked the south gate, they still placed a company in the west and northwest corners, one to contain the Qing army in the city, and the other to observe the movement in the city.

But unexpectedly, the Qing army in the city had not yet opened the city and fled, but a group of cavalry came from the north. And this group of cavalry also looked quite cunning, they did not directly attack the Ming army company in the northwest corner, but directly detoured to the east and rushed to the main battlefield outside the south gate.

The Ming company, which had only discovered the arrival of the enemy cavalry, hurriedly alerted Li You, but apparently they did not transmit the message as fast as the Qing cavalry.

Before the warning reached Li You, he had already discovered that a cavalry unit had appeared to the east of him.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Rausa barely thought about it, so he instructed his subordinates: "Send someone to send an order to Xingne, and tell him: The first Ming army is attacking Yaozhou City, with more than 1,000 people and less than 2,000 people, and our general will contain them, let him follow as soon as possible, and cooperate with us to defeat this Ming army."

Tong Gar, you take a Niu Lu to go around from the left and destroy the two artillery pieces of the Ming army. Zhu San, you take a Niu Lu from the right to attack the Ming troops in the rear. The remaining two Niu Lu followed me, rushed directly past the Ming troops in formation, and stabbed the ass of the Ming troops who were attacking the south gate.

Everyone changed horses, and when I counted to 20, Tong Gar attacked; When I counted to 30, the beads were three; When I counted to 50, everyone followed me. Do you get it? ”

The four guards surrounding Rausa immediately agreed in unison, and then turned around and beckoned their subordinates. Here, Rausa also dismounted with the support of two guards, and while changing the saddle of his other mount, he counted the numbers aloud.

These four Niu Lu had fought side by side with Rausa, and they were very familiar with each other, so when Lausa gave the order, they were very skillful in carrying out the orders of the commander, without the slightest hesitation or understanding.

By the time Lausa counted to 19, Tong Gar had already rushed out with Ben Niulu. When he counted to 30, Zhu San also set off as scheduled. By the 40th hour, Raussa was already sitting on his new mount and began to watch the reaction of the Ming army.

Although he still counted unhurriedly, without any emotional fluctuations, Lausa still had a trace of admiration in his heart for the Ming army in front of him. It had been a long time since the Mandate of Heaven had established the kingdom of the country, and he had not seen such a proper formation of infantry.

For a general like Laussa, who had been in war for many years, the last thing he wanted to encounter in his life was to attack such a well-formed infantry, which was a nightmare for cavalry.

When the Mandate of Heaven Khan started, he was famous for his infantry. The cavalry of the Yehnara tribe and the cavalry of Korqin were defeated in successive battles in front of the heavy infantry of the Mandate of Heaven Khan. However, this kind of elite infantry is extremely difficult to train, which not only requires a large amount of investment in equipment and training resources, but more importantly, it is necessary for generals to always train, eat, and live with these infantry, and fight together, otherwise when the situation on the battlefield is unfavorable, the infantry may not be able to obey a general who is not close to him on weekdays, and put his life on the line.

As long as you casually ask the veterans of the Eight Banners, everyone knows that the best battles of the Mandate of Heaven Khan in the early years were all abandoned to meet the enemy on foot with the soldiers. Because of this, the heavy armored infantry of the Jianzhou Jurchens were able to sweep through Liaodong and defeat the Haixi Jurchens and the Mongol tribes with many cavalry one by one.

But after the Mandate of Heaven Khan established the foundation of the country, the Eight Banners began to shift from infantry tactics to cavalry tactics. The reason why this is the case is because the infantry meets the enemy, either a big victory or a big defeat, and since the Manchus have successfully built the country, they are no longer the savages who died in the mountains and forests, so they naturally cannot afford to die.

In addition, not to mention that after the founding of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, there were very few exercises with the soldiers, even if the Beyler and the Gushan Ezhen were no longer able to eat, live and train with the soldiers as in the past. As for asking them and their soldiers to line up to meet the enemy, this is even more unlikely.

In the battle after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, although the children of the Aixin Jueluo family can still go into battle, they will never risk dismounting and fighting on foot. Even Huang Taiji, who is quite brave, every time he is in battle to boost morale, he is just riding a horse to supervise the battle under the protection of a large number of guards. Like in the early days of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, he personally led dozens of warriors to provoke in front of the enemy array, Huang Taiji would definitely not do it.

Elite infantry is difficult to train, but it degenerates quite quickly. On that day, Qi Jiguang of the Ming Kingdom trained 100,000 troops in Jizhou, but after only a few decades of hard work, only Qi Jin, a Zhejiang army of only 3,000 people, remained. After the Battle of Hunhe and the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies were killed, the Qi family army ceased to exist.

However, outside Yaozhou City today, Rausa saw such a strong soldier again. If it weren't for the fact that most of the Ming army was attacking the city, this was a good time for cavalry to charge, and Rausa was more willing to patiently go around with this man and horse, waiting for Xingne's troops to catch up, and it would be better to surprise this infantry with 400 cavalry.

Li You's heart also contracted suddenly for the appearance of the Manchu cavalry, but the long-term military training still kept him calm. There were four companies attacking the south gate, about a thousand men.

Two and a half companies were attacking, and one and a half companies were in his hands as reserves. That is, he had about 450 soldiers at his disposal that could be used against this cavalry.

Although it seems that his number of people is twice as large as that of the other party, Li You knows that the account cannot be counted like this. Without the infantry in formation, 10 of them may not be the opponent of a cavalry, and if the cavalry on the opposite side were allowed to rush into the siege troops, or the artillery positions, it would be a great defeat today.

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