The city of Hetuara is a mountain city, built on a high hill plateau, and without enough archers and infantry, as well as enough siege equipment, it will not be easy to capture the old city of Hetuala, which is built of earth and stone, in the era of cold weapons.

However, for Shang Kexi and others today, this matter has become much easier.

Because they were followed on the expedition, not only Ban Zhifu, a graduate of the third phase of the Martial Arts Artillery Department, but also the thunderbolts, fierce fire oil bombs and large bags of gunpowder of the Arsenal that everyone carried.

The mountains, forests, roads, and villages of the Hetuara generation were covered with fog, but more than 2,500 horses galloped in, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves still disturbed the calm of the mountain city of Hetuala.

Wu Dahai and others, who assisted the youngest son of Nuer Hachi and Huang Taiji's younger brother Fei Yangguo, who stayed behind in Hetuala, quickly noticed the abnormality and mobilized the remaining bannermen living in Hetuala, a total of three Niu Lu armored soldiers and hundreds of old and weak servants in some of the city, and hurriedly went to the city to defend.

Hetuara is divided into the inner and outer cities, and the Eight Banners Protectors who lived in the outer city in the Nuer Hachi period have long followed the banner owners of the Eight Banners into Shenyang City, and they have soared.

Those who are still here now, except for the unappreciated branch clan Jueluo, are the coated servants of these clan members.

Therefore, although Hetuala's status at this time was already extremely respected, there were not many garrisons, only the three cattle left by the old slave to his youngest son Feiyango.

And these three Niu Lu, who had not participated in the conquest for many years, were awakened by the sudden command in their sleep, and under the leadership of Wu Dahai, the son of Nuer Hachi's younger brother Murhaqi, they rushed to the north gate in a panic.

The city of Hetuara is not large, but there are government offices, garrisons, houses, wells, granaries, and large areas of flat land for farming.

And it is dangerous on three sides, only the slope on the back is slightly gentle, and a city gate is opened.

If there are enough men in the city, it will be fine to hold on for three or five years.

However, this time, Aixin Jueluo Fei Yangguo and Aixin Jueluo Wu Dahai and others did not hold on for even an hour.

After Shang Kexi led the army to the north gate of Hetuala, he immediately ordered the whole army to dismount, and together with his brother Mao Kejin, he personally led the main force to attack the city against the rain of arrows at the head of the city.

Under the cover of hundreds of musketeers and hundreds of longbowmen behind them, they approached the city wall step by step, ignited the thunderbolts or fierce fire oil bombs in their hands, and then threw them hard at the city wall.

At the same time, Shang Kexi sent Ban Zhifu to lead another group of more than 100 men and horses to detour through the south gate in the morning mist, and quietly approached a high city wall along the steep hillside and dense forest.

At the same time as the increasingly fierce siege battle outside the north gate began, Ban Zhifu asked his soldiers to smash one by one fierce fire bombs on the frozen city wall, and then set it on fire.

When the fierce fire oil sprinkled on the base of the city wall burned out, a group of Ming soldiers and soldiers held the bones and iron axes that were also prevalent in the forward cavalry of Dongjiang Town, and fought hard to hit the burned city wall roots, and soon chiseled a few bricks and stones on the roots of that section of the city wall.

After the masonry loosened and fell off, holes were exposed, large or small.

And those old and weak bannermen who heard the clatter and rushed to the city shouted, shooting arrows and throwing stones from the city wall, killing many of Ban Zhifu's men on the spot, and those who dodged the arrows, as well as the Ming soldiers who were shot or injured by the shots, kept rolling down the steep hillside until they were blocked by the trees on the hillside.

But all of this could not stop the fate of this section of the wall.

When groups of soldiers were stoned to death and wounded, and some of them retreated and dodged in confusion, Ban Zhifu personally stepped forward with a shield, covering his head and chest while stuffing a leather bag full of gunpowder into the hole formed by smashing stones from the wall.

Dusi Ban Zhifu's personal demonstration soon drove those panicked Dongjiang Town soldiers.

Then, one after another, leather sacs filled with gunpowder were stuffed into the holes in the walls that were almost connected.

Soon, dozens of leather bags were inserted into short bamboo tubes containing medicine twists one by one in the chaos, and dozens of long medicine twists were also screwed together by Ban Zhifu himself and ignited by a torch.

After lighting the medicine twist, Ban Zhifu shouted: "Stand back!" Back off! ”

The dozens of people who were still following him retreated, crawling under the trees not far below the hillside.

With a loud bang, the ground trembled, and the dead leaves on the trees that had not yet fallen fell together with the earth and stones in the sky.

Immediately after that, there was another loud bang, and the most precipitous section of the wall east of Hetuara collapsed, forming a gap more than a foot long.

The old and weak people who had been standing on this section of the city wall to shoot arrows and throw rolling logs and stones down to defend the city fell from the top of the castle, which was more than three feet tall, and were killed and injured by the earth and stones formed by the collapse of the city wall.

Although there were only a few dozen people left around Ban Zhifu, at this moment, there was no reason, leading the only dozens of people to stand up quickly, first lit and threw a grenade, and blew down a piece of the old and weak Jianyu who rushed to the gap after hearing the news, and then rushed to the pile of earth and rocks with a knife, and rushed towards the city quickly.

The outer city of Hetuara had only one gate, built on a relatively gentle slope to the north of the hill.

The city of Hetuara Mountain is divided into an inner city and an outer city, but between its inner city and the outer city, it is not the relationship between the outer city and the inner city, but the relationship between the inner city above and the outer city below.

The first walled city built on the top of this hill was inhabited only by members of the wild boar skin family and their relatives, which is the inner city of Hetuala.

Later, as the power of the wild boar skin family continued to expand, in order to protect his family, Nuer Hachi built an outer city on the relatively gentle northern slope of this hill.

The two cities are connected, but it is not a way to set one ring and one ring, but a way to spread the pie.

The construction of the outer city, on the one hand, expanded the scale of Hetuara City, and on the other hand, provided a place for its standing armor bannermen to camp and stay.

But on the whole, the scale of the old city of Hetuara is not very large, even including the outer city in the north, the circumference of the entire city is only about 4,000 steps, and the inner city of Laozhai in the southeast direction, the circumference is about 2,000 steps.

Ban Zhifu used gunpowder to blow up the most steep and tall section of the eastern wall, and led dozens of people straight into the inner city.

This news soon spread to the outer city in the north, and soon caused chaos among the Jurchen soldiers at the north gate.

After receiving the news, Wu Dahai personally led hundreds of men and horses to rush to the place where the inner city wall collapsed to reinforce it.

And the two loud noises from the east also made Shang Kexi and others, who were commanding the men and horses under his command to attack the north gate of Hetuala, be very angry, and when they learned that the great work was about to be completed, everyone rose up and rushed up first.

Shang Kexi left Mao Kejin to continue to attack the north gate, while he took a large number of his men to the east.

Not long after, just after midnight that day, Shang Kexi led the main force under his command to rush from the collapsed city wall into the inner city of Hetuala.

At the same time, the huge and thick wooden city gate of the north gate was also burned by the soldiers of Mao Kejin's department who attacked the tower of the city gate with fierce fire oil bombs, and more than 1,000 Ming soldiers who gathered at the north gate shouted and rushed in against the already sparse rain of arrows.

Fierce battles soon ensued in the mountain city of Hetuala.

On the one hand, the Shang brothers and their subordinates who came to fight for hundreds of miles to become famous in a war, and on the other hand, they desperately resisted and wanted to stop the Ming army from destroying and slaughtering in the city.

No one has room to retreat, and naturally no one will show mercy.

The three Niu Lu guarding bannermen who followed Wu Dahai and the others to resist the Jurchen clan tried their best and refused to give in.

However, in the face of the Dongjiang Zhenming soldiers who were nearly equipped with iron plate armor, flintlock muskets, three-eyed guns, thunderbolt shells, and fierce fire oil bombs, and were three times as numerous as them, the personal courage to fight to the end only increased the casualty figures of both sides at the same time, and could not change the final outcome.

At about midnight, Ban Zhifu led the remaining 20 or so people under his command to find the ten-year-old Fei Yangguo and his mother Ilgen Jueluo who had stayed behind in Hetuara to guard the ancestral industry behind the throne of the Great Yamen of the former Khan's palace in the old city of Hetuala.

In the midst of Fei Yangguo's crying and pleading, Ban Zhifu did not hesitate to swing his knife and cut off the head of the Fucha clan, and then took Fei Yangguo to Wu Dahai, who was already surrounded but still resisted desperately.

Under Feiyango's crying and persuasion, Wu Dahai, who was in a dilemma and ashamed and self-reproachful, knew that the city of Hetuara was gone, and immediately killed himself with a knife.

The remaining hundreds of armored soldiers and the old and weak members of the clan dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground in surrender.

If these people met a general of the Ming Army in Dongjiang Town like Chen Jisheng at this time, maybe they could really leave a life if they surrendered on their knees.

But unfortunately, they met people like Shang Kexi and Ban Zhifu.

As soon as they dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground begging for their lives, Shang Kexi sneered and swung his palms like knives at his subordinates.

More than 2,000 Ming soldiers rushed forward in a hurry, and in the cry of Feiyango, they hacked to death those Jianlu soldiers who had lost their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg to surrender, and a group of idle clans who had been ordered to settle in Hetuala.

In addition to some of the Jianlu's children and clothed minions who climbed over the city wall and jumped outside the city to escape, the three Niu Lu Qingzhuang bannermen belonging to Feiyango in Hetuara City, as well as hundreds of idle clan elders and their families, as well as a large number of more than 1,000 Baoyi slaves of various ethnic groups living in the city, regardless of men, women, old and children, were all killed.

At about midnight on the 4th day of the 11th month, Shang Kexi, who did not dare to stay in the city of Hetuala, ordered the remaining 2,000 people of the army to set fire to the hundreds of fierce fire bombs left in the battle and threw them on the storage houses of the government office in the city of Hetuala, and then led the army out of Hetuara in a thick smoke of fire.