Fan Fucui listened to the words of everyone who made their positions clear, and he was also very impressed in his heart. Ｘ

As the governor of Datong, he certainly had no reason to surrender.

At this time, Jianyu was not the Jianyu who swept the world more than ten years later, and for the civil officials who were born in Jinshi, there was still no sign that the Ming Dynasty was about to run out and the Mandate of Heaven was in Houjin.

It is precisely because of this that in the original history, when Huang Taiji led the Jianyu army to enter from Zunhua to break the border, Zunhua Governor Wang Yuanya and other cultural officials almost all chose to commit suicide when the city was broken, and few surrendered to Jianguo and became a puppet official.

Most of the literati who surrendered were dismissed from office at home or who had repeatedly failed to do so.

And how could a person like Fan Fucui, who was appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as the governor of Datong to seal the territory, surrender under the protection of Datong Jiancheng!

After a few people finished speaking, they heard Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, say: "Very good! What you are saying is in the heart of this Fuyuan!

"Jianyu has entered my Datong jurisdiction, and if you talk about any peace negotiations, you will be proficient in lies and fraud! This Fuyuan will definitely not negotiate peace with those who lie and deceive!

After saying this, Fan Fucui once again said categorically: "A certain minister, the minister of the feudal territory should die to seal the frontier, if the city of Datong is broken on a different day, wouldn't it be the time for a certain person to die!?" ”

After saying this, Fan Fucui called someone to bring the four treasures of the study, and wrote a reply letter on a few cases:

"You are the ugly prisoner of Jianzhou, and you are a wild man, how can you dare to be a big country in the world alongside my Ming Dynasty!?

"Your ugly captives have cunningly broken my border passes, and then destroyed my city, killed my people, and today they say that they have no intention of killing me, and they are willing to make good agreements with the money, especially the shameless ones in the world, isn't it the ugly captives of your generation!

"Datong City is here, and the ministers of our generation who defend the town and 100,000 soldiers and civilians are also here, and if you want to take the head of our generation, you can come quickly!"

This reply to Huang Taiji's letter was personally shot out of the city by Zu Dashou that night.

Huang Taiji, who has always been deep and generous, was also angry with the naked contempt of the letter after getting this letter.

The Dajin Kingdom, which the Jurchens had established in history, perished at the hands of the Mongols.

In the time before the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Mongol Yuan, the Jurchens had always been slaves of the Mongols.

Even for a period of time after the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Mongol and Yuan Empires, the Jurchens in the far northeast remained vassals of the Mongols.

Including the wild boar skin family to which Huang Taiji belonged, the ancestors were all vassals of the Mongols until the Yongle Emperor made five expeditions to Mobei and completely defeated the Northern Yuan Empire.

Speaking of which, it was the Ming army that defeated the Mongols and rescued the Jurchens from the brutal rule of the Mongols.

After that, the Ming Dynasty brought the vast areas of the northeast that were originally ruled by the Mongols under the rule of the guards, set up one after another guards and appointed the leaders of these Jurchen tribes as the commanders of the guards.

It was only at this time that these Jurchens, who had been oppressed by the Mongols, turned over.

Therefore, from Nurhachi to Huangtaiji, after thinking that the power of the Houjin Kingdom was strong, they all wanted to conquer Mongolia as soon as possible and become the masters of the Mongols.

Now that this has finally been achieved, Lin Dan Khan has been driven away, and the entire Monan Mongolia has been brought under the rule, which is enough for the Jurchen ancestors!

Therefore, Huang Taiji felt that he had fulfilled his ancestors' wishes, and it was the time when he was full of pride and pride.

However, at this time, those Han officials who they had always looked down on even more blatantly insulted themselves as foreigners and ugly prisoners in Jianzhou, and the anger in Huang Taiji's heart can be imagined!

Therefore, the next morning, the embarrassed and angry Huang Taiji once again convened the ministers of Beile and the leaders of the Mongolian tribes to discuss the matter, and regardless of the persuasion of Yue Tuo, Fan Wencheng and others, he put aside the original plan, and ordered Mang Gurtai to lead the army of the Zhenglan Banner, supervise the people of the Brain Wen Korqin Department and the Monan Mongol annexed tribes, build siege equipment, and prepare to storm Datong.

In the afternoon of the same day, Huang Taiji led the Jurchen Belle ministers and the leaders of the Mongolian tribes attached to him, set up a high platform three or four miles away from the west gate of Datong, and slaughtered cattle and sheep again to swear to heaven, and then launched an attack on the fortified city of Datong three miles away, mainly by Mang Gurtai and Oba Khan with Brain Wen Korqin as the secondary.

The Han Army's Niulu Artillery Team, which was incorporated by Yue Tuo, the Red Banner Lord, from Desheng Fort, was also seized by Huang Taiji at this time and included in the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion directly under him of the Great Jin State Tiancong Khan.

At that moment, Sun Degong and Alan Chai took the lead in urging the Wuzhenchao Ha Battalion of the Han Army Artillery, which Huang Taiji attached great importance to, and marched towards the west gate of Datong City.

On either side and behind them were a large number of Korqin and Mongol armies.

Behind these large armies of Mongol tribes were more than 30 Niulu of Manggultai's Zhenglan Banner cavalry archers and hoplites.

In the early afternoon, the drums in the camp of the Yellow Terrace were rumbled, and then the horns of the Oba Khan's army were whined.

Sun Degong and Alan Chai, who had already arrived about 300 steps outside the west gate of Datong City, immediately ordered to fire and open fire.

Huang Taiji's Wuzhen Chaoha battalion marched all the way east from Shuozhou, and all the cities were broken, and the large and small artillery in each city naturally fell into the hands of Huang Taiji, the so-called Wuzhen Chaoha battalion plus Yue Tuo's cannon dismantled from Desheng Fort, and now there are thirty-two general cannons, and there are hundreds of tiger squat cannons and various bowl cannons and cannons.

It's just that at this time, except for the general's cannon, which can play a role in siege warfare, other small artillery pieces are of no use at all.

The Uzhen Chaoha battalion, which did not have many gunpowder projectiles, did not pull out those small cannons with insufficient range to waste gunpowder.

However, even so, the more than 30 general cannons that Huang Taiji had high hopes for were dumbfounded by the artillery at the head of Datong City just after a few rounds of fighting.

Several general guns were destroyed on the spot, and dozens of rare skilled gunners in the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion were killed.

Even the artillery array of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion had to retreat hundreds of steps away in the panic of Sun Degong and Alan Chai.

Because the Hongyi cannon at the head of Datong City has a range far exceeding the general cannon under the city.

However, even in this situation, Mang Gurtai, who had always despised the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, still ordered the army, carried the ladder, pushed the building cart, and approached Datong City step by step.

After Sun Degong's artillery retreated, the officers and troops at the head of Datong City stopped shelling under the command of Zu Dashou and waited for Jianlu and the Mongol army to approach.

For Zu Dashou, the Jianyu army and their Mongolian servant army stormed a fortified city like Datong, completely to seek death, and not let them get close to fight again, it was simply sorry for the hard work and efforts he had put in Datong's city defense since he sat in Datong.

Datong City is boxy, and it has not had time to build a fortress, and it is still a traditional city.

However, because the strategic position of Datong City has been very important since ancient times, the four walls of Datong City are all tall and strong.

On the twenty-four forts distributed in the four sides of the city, there are twenty-four Hongyi cannons produced by the Armed Forces Academy, which are the Shenwei invincible general cannons named by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

All this made Zu Dashou very relieved.

Back then, Zu Dashou also assisted Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui in Ningyuan City to defend the city, and the Ningyuan City at that time was far from being comparable with Datong City at this time, and the number of Hongyi cannons on the city could not be compared with today.

It was in the situation of Ningyuan City that the defenders of Ningyuan won the battle to defend Ningyuan, not to mention Datong City today?

Therefore, everything now has given Zu Dashou great confidence.

As the cannon at the head of Datong City stopped firing, Mang Gurtai thought that the time was ripe for the siege, so he immediately ordered to attack.

Driven from behind, the leader of Brain Wen Korqin, Oba Khan, also shouted and commanded the Horqin archers, who had not fought such a siege battle for a long time, towards the city and fired arrows while galloping.

And the servants of the Monan Mongol tribe who had only recently annexed Houjin also shouted to cheer for themselves, while carrying the ladder and pushing the building cart, and rushed to Datong City.

When they got closer and closer to the city, countless ladders were laid on the moat that had been a little dry and silted, and countless people passed through the moat in a crushing manner, Zu Dashou, who was sitting on the west gate of Datong City, commanded the order, and the cannons at the head of the city roared, and the arrows rained down.

Killed a dense crowd of people who were galloping in the distance and nearby.

When a large number of men and horses had finally crossed the death zone covered by cannons and bows and arrows at the head of the city, and had approached the city wall, a batch of rolling wood and stones fell on the top of the city, smashing the Mongol servants who were busy erectile the siege ladder to the ground one by one.

After the Mongols had consumed a large amount of rolling wood and stones, Mang Gurtai ordered the Zhenglan Banner army under his command to oversee the battle, holding their shields high, holding sharp blades, rushing through the passage erected by stepping on the ladder, crossing the moat, approaching the city wall, and preparing to climb up.

At this time, Zu Dashou gave another order, and he had already prepared all kinds of light or heavy grenades and incendiary bombs that were just waiting for Jianyu to come to the city in person, and they were dropped into the city like rain and did not need money.

The sound of explosions sounded, and the flames burned, and the city of Datong suddenly became a dead place.

The braided soldiers of the Blue Banner were wearing layers of cotton armor, and the power of the grenade at this time was also small, as long as the pig iron fragments of the grenade did not happen to hit their head and face, then the threat to them was not too great.

But the incendiary bombs dropped at the head of the city were very different, the viscous fire oil that shattered on the ground burned with the torches thrown by the head of the city, and attached to the cotton armor of the captive army.