When Yuan Chonghuan arrived in the south of the city, the Jin army had already launched an offensive, the scene of the cannon rumbled, the sound of killing shook the sky, both sides invested a lot of artillery to bombard, this kind of scene the Ming army had never encountered before.

"Your Excellency, you see, Nurhachi is there, and he has his sweat banner!"

Zu Dashou, who was looking into the distance with a thousand miles on the city gate tower, handed the thousand miles to Yuan Chonghuan, and then pointed to the distance and said to himself, "No wonder Jiannu is desperate this time, it turns out that Nurhachi is in charge himself." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly raised the Qianli Cylinder in the direction that Zu Dashou pointed, and saw a middle-aged man in a yellow robe in his fifties riding a tall horse, surrounded by a group of Houjin generals.

Yellow is the color of the emperor's clothing, and the same is true of Hou Jin, so the person who can wear yellow clothes in Hou Jin must be Nurhachi.

Not only that, but behind Nurhachi there is also a sweat banner representing the Great Khan of the Later Jin, which is suspected to prove his identity.

At this time, Nurhachi also looked in the direction of the city gate tower with a thousand miles in his hand, and saw Yuan Chonghuan who had climbed the city gate tower, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He had already recognized Yuan Chonghuan's identity, which meant that the generals of the Ming army in Ningyuan City must have been concentrated in the Nancheng City Gate Tower, if they could put on a good show in front of Yuan Chonghuan and others, then it would undoubtedly make them believe that Houjin was unable to capture Ningyuan City and retreat.

"General Zu, if you use the Hongyi cannon, can you hit there?"

After the initial stunned, Yuan Chonghuan showed an excited look on his face, put down the Qianli tube in his hand and asked Zu Dashou on the side.

Zu Dashou learned superb artillery skills from the gunners sent by Portugal, and he knew the performance of Xiyi cannons very well.

"Although the distance is a bit far, it should be able to hit there, but the accuracy is not guaranteed." Zu Dashou immediately understood what Yuan Chonghuan meant, stretched out his thumb and gestured in the direction where Nurhachi was, and then said to Yuan Chonghuan in a deep voice.

"It's good to be able to hit that far!"

A look of disappointment flashed on Yuan Chonghuan's face, but this was also good news, and then he solemnly said to that Zu Dashou, "General Zu, you personally handle the cannon, even if you can't hit, let Nurhachi know the power of the Hongyi cannon!" ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best!" Zu Dashou was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said to Yuan Chonghuan, he naturally knew the importance of the situation, if he killed Nurhachi with one shot, then the Houjin army would flee without a fight.

In other words, even if Nurhachi is wounded, then the Houjin army will panic and retreat.

Yuan Chonghuan frowned slightly when he heard this, and then ordered the soldiers to push out a Hongyi cannon from the fort at the corner of the city and carry it to the top floor of the city gate tower.

The generals of the Ming army at the scene knew that Zu Dashou was going to shell Nurhachi, and his heart suddenly hung up, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, they naturally knew the importance of this matter, once Zu Dashou succeeded, then the siege of Ningyuan would be solved, and Zu Dashou had only one chance.

Once the Hongyi artillery starts to attack, then Houjin will know the power of this new artillery, and it will be even more difficult to kill Nurhachi again.

At this moment, Nurhachi did not know the power of the Hongyi cannon in Ningyuan City, the Hongyi cannon had never been used on the battlefield since it arrived outside the Guanwai, and the Ming army had not used it when they attacked Ningyuan City before.

This made him very confident about his position now, because this distance was the farthest distance that the Ming army's artillery could hit.

Although he has experienced a hundred battles, Zu Dashou's mood is extremely nervous now, and sweat stains oozed from his palms when he was debugging the artillery, he naturally knows the importance of his shelling this time, and it is related to whether the crisis in Ningyuan City can be successfully resolved.

"My lord, the range has been adjusted." After some busyness, Zu Dashou carefully checked it three times, and then reported to Yuan Chonghuan with a serious expression.

"Fuck the son of a bitch!" Yuan Chonghuan's eyes flashed coldly, he clenched his fists, and couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, this time was the perfect time to kill Nurhachi.

"Obedience." Hearing this, Zu Dashou bowed to Yuan Chonghuan, walked quickly to the artillery, took the torch from the gunner on the side, took a deep breath, and lit the fuse on the cannon.

Zizizi......

Under the gaze of everyone, the flaming cannon fuse flew outward and splattered sparks, and everyone's hearts lifted.

"God forbid!" Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but pray secretly in his heart, this cannon was very likely to decide the fate of the soldiers of Ningyuan City and relieve the siege of Ningyuan City.

Bang!

Soon, with a loud muffled sound, a ball of visible flames suddenly burst out of the muzzle of the artillery, and a black cannonball came out of the muzzle like a meteor, flying towards the Houjin army in front.

The generals of the Ming army on the tower of the city gate looked at the cannonball that fell into the distance with concern, and Yuan Chonghuan picked up the Qianli tube and looked nervously at Nurhachi who was talking and laughing with the Houjin generals around him on horseback.

"What a big cannon!"

Although the sound at the scene was noisy and the shouting and killing were shocking, Nurhachi and the others still heard the muffled sound coming from the city gate tower, Nurhachi couldn't help but look at Ningyuan City in front of him in surprise, and from the sound of the cannon, he could know that this cannon must be a powerful heavy artillery.

Just as Nurhachi was looking at Ning Yuan City, he saw a small black dot flying in the sky, coming in his direction.

"Not good!"

Because he was outside the range of Ningyuan City's artillery, Nurhachi didn't react at first, and when the small black dot was getting closer and closer to him, he came back to his senses and knew what was happening, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Nurhachi had already realized that the small black dot was the face of the shells fired by the Ming artillery, and he never expected that the Ming artillery's artillery could hit so far.

Rumble!

At the next moment, the shell landed forty or fifty meters in front of Nurhachi's left, and there was an explosion with a bang, and the earth flew everywhere, and several Houjin soldiers standing there screamed and were blown up.

Although Nurhachi was unaffected by the blast, and the Houjin soldiers guarding him became a natural barrier, the horses on which he sat were frightened, with their two front hooves raised high.

Nurhachi was defenseless and fell off his horse with a thud.

"Quick, save the Great Khan!" Because of the suddenness of the incident, no one knew what happened to Nurhachi, and the people around panicked when they saw this, and rushed forward to support Nurhachi.

"The chief was hit, the chief was hit!"

Seeing Nurhachi fall off his horse, the soldiers of the Ming army on the tower of the city gate first went through a short silence, and then cheered in unison, and from a distance, Nurhachi seemed to have been knocked off his horse by a cannonball.

"Did you hit?" Yuan Chonghuan stared closely at the chaotic Houjin soldiers in the distance with a thousand miles tube, his face full of excitement.

Due to the long distance and the limited visual distance of the thousand mile, he only saw Nurhachi fall from his horse after the shell exploded, and it was not clear whether Nurhachi was hit.

"My lord, the chief has been hit, and if he doesn't die, he will be seriously injured!" At this time, a general pointed to the Houjin soldiers who were guarding Nurhachi in the distance and said excitedly, if Nurhachi was fine, the situation of the Houjin soldiers would definitely not be so chaotic.

"Pass the order, let the Hongyi cannon fire, and hit the official hard!" Yuan Chonghuan put down the Qianli cylinder in his hand when he heard this, he didn't have time to wonder if Nurhachi was hit now, and the top priority was to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, so he said loudly after a deep groan.

"Yes!" A military attache standing on the side bowed to Yuan Chonghuan, picked up a military flag and waved it at the forts in the southeast and southwest corners.

Bang bang bang......

Soon, a deafening roar came from the southeast and southwest corner batteries, and it was finally time for the Hongyi cannons placed in the batteries to appear.

Because the fort protruded from the city wall, a crossfire was formed to strike the Houjin army outside the southern city, and the fire covered a large area of land in the southern city starting from the root of the city wall.

This made the Houjin soldiers who rushed to the front of the city and gathered together to prepare for the siege of the city become live targets, and every shot was shattered and blood flew everywhere.

The Houjin soldiers were stunned by this sudden artillery bombardment, scurrying around like headless flies, dodging the shells falling from the sky, they originally thought that they could avoid the Ming artillery by rushing under the city wall, and never imagined that the Ming artillery could hit them.

Just when the Houjin soldiers besieging the city were panicking, the order to retreat came, so the Houjin soldiers fled backwards in a swarm, scrambling one by one for fear of being entangled by the artillery of the Ming army.

"Oh~~"

Seeing the retreat of the Houjin soldiers, the Ming soldiers on the city wall suddenly burst into deafening cheers, and no one expected that they would defeat the Houjin, who was outnumbered.

Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Houjin would definitely not come to send him to death after tasting the power of the Hongyi cannon, and besides, Nurhachi's life and death are unknown now, where does the Houjin army still have the heart to attack the city.

As far as he knew, there was a fierce fight within Houjin around the heir to the Khan, and if something happened to Nurhachi, the magnates of Houjin would first have to compete for the Khan position of Houjin, and they would not care about Ningyuan City at all.

In the camp of the Houjin Army, in the tent, Nurhachi, who was lying on the bed, coughed violently and the towel in front of his mouth was stained with a large amount of blood.

Although Nurhachi was not hit by the Ming army's shells, it was now freezing cold, and the ground was freezing hard, and he fell off his horse unsuspectingly and fell heavily to the ground, not only falling dizzy, but also immediately oozing blood from the corners of his mouth.

In the past two or three years, Nurhachi's physical condition has deteriorated, and he was not in good health, but now he has suffered a heavy fall and coughed up a lot of blood.

After a while, Nurhachi stopped coughing, and after drinking a bowl of decoction, his face turned from pale to ruddy, which made Huang Taiji and other senior generals of Houjin in front of the bed breathe a sigh of relief.

"Father Khan, Erchen will lead the troops to capture Ningyuan City, and kill all the people in the city to vent your anger!" Mang Gurtai couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, and said to Nurhachi in a gloomy voice, ready to slaughter Ningyuan City.

"Do not act recklessly."

Nurhachi stopped Mang Gurtai, and then ordered the high-ranking generals of Houjin in front of the bed, "Pass on the order of Ben Khan, set off at night and return to Liaodong." ”

"Father Khan, did you just let those people in Ningyuan City go?" Mang Gultai's brow furrowed, and then he asked rather unwillingly.

"Ben Khan's goal has been achieved, there is no need for us to stay here any longer, the top priority is to take advantage of the ice on the sea to attack Juehua Island and pull out this nail."

Nurhachi shook his head when he heard this, and then said solemnly to Mang Gurtai, "Ben Khan will give you this task, and you must capture Juehua Island!" ”

"Erchen obeys the order, and he will definitely take down Juehua Island." Although Mang Gurtai was unwilling, since Nurhachi had already given the order, he could only obey it, bowed behind him and said in a deep voice, ready to take the defenders of Juehua Island angry.

Nurhachi breathed a sigh of relief, waved to the people in the room, motioned for them to stand down, and closed her eyes and took a nap.

After today's toss, he has felt extremely tired, after all, Nurhachi is very old, and he has reached the age of sixtieth, and it is difficult to have the same abundant energy to deal with all kinds of sudden situations as when he was young, after all, people are inevitably born, old, sick and die, and it is time to consider the heir to the throne.

(End of chapter)

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