Mang Gurtai was a little flustered at this time, his eighth brother has always liked to read Han books, but his wisdom is recognized by everyone, since he thinks that the current situation in Dajin is not good, it is also very possible. However, Mang Gurtai thought about it, when his father Khan raised troops against Ming, the situation was not as good as it is now, didn't he come over.

So he smiled and said, "Did the eighth brother think too much of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?" Maybe he was scared, so he cowered in Shanhaiguan. Father Khan raised troops with thirteen pieces of armor, and after so many difficulties, he defeated the Ming army to the ground. The small Xin'an Fort, with the current strength of our army of more than 30,000 troops, can't it be captured? ”

Huang Taiji understood that he had said it in vain, he shook his head, but he was thinking about what method to use to defeat Xin'anbao with the least damage. But the weapons of the Ming army encountered on Juehua Island made him know that no matter what, a large number of armor soldiers would have to be killed and wounded before it was possible to take Xin'anbao.

On 12 February, Houjin began an attack on Xin'anbao. Nurhachi sent men to persuade him to surrender, and a messenger on horseback and shook a scepter to indicate that he had no weapons, and when he came to a hundred paces from the wall, he stopped, and shouted: "I am a great gold...... Yes. "Fell off the horse and died.

Xue Boling looked at the rifled firearm in his hand and smiled with satisfaction: "It's really good, it's far and accurate." With that, he put another long bullet into the barrel.

Another messenger came on horseback, and this time he had learned to be obedient, and when he had gone a hundred and fifty paces, he stopped, and cried out in a loud voice: "Do you not call yourselves the nations of etiquette if you do not fight the two countries?" ”

Xue Boling aimed another shot, knocking him off his horse. also shouted: "You are just rebels, what about the two countries, you really give yourself a long face." ”

Lu Qin said with a smile: "Brigade Commander Xue is really worthy of the name of a marksman, and the first merit in this battle belongs to the first brigade." ”

Xue Boling said: "This is the credit of the rifled firearm, and this merit should be recorded on the head of the Ordnance Bureau." It's a pity that there are too few of us, and if we were all this kind of rifled firearms, Jiannu would not be able to get close to the city wall at all. ”

Lu Qin nodded: "That's true, but next time we will have enough rifled firearms, and when the guards are equipped with such firearms, Jiannu will not have to worry." ”

Xue Boling said with a smile: "Yes, the Guards have doubled their army, and they are all equipped with such weapons, not to mention Jiannu, where are there opponents in the world." ”

Ruchin laughed: "No opponent? Don't worry, the Holy One said that there are still a lot of places in this world waiting for us to conquer. From the North Sea to the north, to Batavia in the south, and many other places we have never heard of, they will all become the territory of our Ming Dynasty, and they will all need to be occupied by our guards. ”

At this time, the Houjin soldiers directly began to attack. In front of him was the Han army who was cannon fodder, and Lu Qin said fiercely: "Whoever sentences me to China can be punished." As a slave, I will be beaten to death. ”

The artillery began to roar, and the Han army wanted to retreat after being hit, but was killed by the overseers behind, and had to continue to tremble and move forward.

Xue Boling lay on the city wall with 500 rifled musketeers and kept firing. Not only the Han army in front, but also the overseer team behind can sometimes be hit.

Xue Boling said with a smile: "This is the best opportunity to improve your shooting skills, the target will not move on weekdays, where is the enemy here." Sons, come on, all of them become marksmen and join the marksman battalion in the Guards. ”

The rifled firearm has the advantages of long range, high shooting accuracy and fast loading speed. A well-trained soldier can fire four to five rounds in a minute. So under the double blow of shells and bullets, at least more than a third of the Han army fell on the way to the charge.

And the Han army has a warlord team behind it, and there are cannonballs and bullets in front, so they can only move slowly and passively, hoping that they will not hurt themselves before and after. Some of the Han troops in front shouted: "Han people, don't fight Han people, we are willing to surrender." ”

Xue Boling smiled coldly: "It's as if you haven't beaten the Han people, just by relying on you, you are also worthy of calling yourself Han Chinese!" Beat hard, kill these dogs who don't want ancestors. ”

In order to build a nation-state, Zhu Youxiao first conducted nationalist education in the army, instilling in soldiers the best theories of the Han Chinese, so as to enhance their national pride and national self-esteem. However, the Han civilization is indeed the most advanced civilization of this era, and there is no exaggeration.

The cannon fodder of the Han army was quickly consumed, and the Houjin soldiers who were mixed in the middle of the Han army and prepared to rush to the city wall were also slaughtered mercilessly, yes, it was a massacre, until now, the two armies were still nearly a hundred steps away, and the Houjin had killed and wounded nearly a thousand people, and the Ming army had no casualties.

At this time, the gold-armored soldiers hid under the cowhide siege engine, and approached the front city wall. This siege vehicle was made of wood and covered with raw cowhide, which was very effective against bows and arrows, but unfortunately had little effect on artillery shells.

The cannonballs landed on the siege engines, scattering them and taking a few lives along the way, while the remaining gold-armored soldiers were exposed to the guns of the guards, and the bullets scrambled to pounce on them, harvesting lives in a terrible scream.

Behind the siege carts were Houjin's archers, whose heavy arrows were ineffective against ordinary musketeers on the city walls, because there was no way to break through the defenses, but they were a certain threat to rifled musketers without armor.

Xue Boling assigned two shield soldiers to each rifled firecracker, which was specially protected on both sides. There is no way to do this, if there are more rifled musketeers, there is no need for such protection, because in any case, the range of bows and arrows is far inferior to rifled muskets.

There were more and more siege vehicles of the Houjin soldiers, and a large number of archers also poured out, which had the momentum of capturing the city in one fell swoop. Lu Qin was not in a hurry, and ordered the soldiers to shoot in an orderly manner, with the firepower of the Ming army, it was very difficult for the Houjin soldiers to attack under the city wall.

Under the blow of superior weapons, it is difficult for the side with only backward weapons to win, as in the later battle between the British rifles and the Manchu cavalry, which is a clear example. Now that the battle has been going on for about an hour, more than 2,000 Houjin soldiers have been killed and wounded, and only more than 30 Ming soldiers have been wounded by bows and arrows.

In this case, if the Houjin army wants to break the city, the only way is to send almost all of them to attack at the same time, so that some people may climb the city wall, but too much density will greatly increase the hit rate and damage ability of artillery and firearms, even if the Houjin capture Xin'anbao, the price paid is something Nurhachi is unwilling to face.

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