"What about the remaining two teams, what if they rush up while we're playing that team?"

"Isn't there still a little twenty who is injured and can't ride a horse? It's always okay to hide behind the wall and put arrows and firearms, there are antlers outside, and they don't know how many people and horses there are, and they won't be able to get in for a while! Speaking of this, Ah Gui smiled: "It's really not good, just let the firewood by the wall be poured with oil, as well as the luggage or something, and the brain will burn, just top it for a while!" “

"Luggage package? What will everyone eat if they burn it? “

"Won the war, the Tartar stuff is everyone's, lost the fight!" Speaking of this, Ah Gui sneered: "Everyone doesn't need to wrap their luggage!" “

Perhaps it was fear, or it was the inertia of obedience to their superiors, the soldiers of the Ming army moved all the flammable things to the walls on both sides according to Ah Gui's request, and left the wounded soldiers who could not ride behind the stone walls, and the remaining forty or so cavalry came out of the wall and hid in a bush near the gap, waiting for the arrival of the Jurchen soldiers.

Compared with the first attack, the group of Jurchen soldiers led by Ilden walked very fast, which was mainly the result of his urging, and in the face of Ilden's black face like the bottom of the pot, no one dared to speak out at the risk of being a bird. When he reached a gentle slope outside the wall, he was about to order the soldiers to pause for a moment to take a breath, when a rapid sound of horses' hooves could be heard from the side.

"Kill slaves!" Ah Gui patted the back of the mount with the barrel of his gun, and behind him, the Ming cavalry had been lined up in two columns, with an interval of about thirty or forty meters between them and taking turns to attack, although there were only more than forty horsemen, and they looked extraordinary. Faced with an unexpected attack, the Houjin army was a little flustered, but Ilden still used the back of his sword and fists to make his men line up as quickly as possible towards the enemy's down.

"The archers let go of their arrows, the spearmen stepped forward, the sword-bearers followed, and the gunners halted the barbarian cavalry. The knife player goes up and cuts off the head! Ilden shouted loudly, he stood in the first row and shouted, and several of his goshkhas tried to get in front of the head of the family so that he would not be harmed.

In the panic, the Jurchen archers basically shot high, and most of the arrows flew over the heads of the cavalry. Ah Gui fiercely threw the short spear in his hand at the Jurchen archer not far away, he was pleased to see that the spear pierced through the opponent's chest and nailed it to the ground, and then Ah Guile turned his horse's head and swept the right side of the Jurchen formation in the oblique stab, and the Ming cavalry behind him also followed his action, throwing spears or arrows at the enemy. Then turn sideways and sweep the horse's head.

"Bastard!" As for the tactics of the enemy's cavalry, Ilden can be said to be extremely familiar, but there is nothing to be done. This is an extremely common tactic of the ancient cavalry against the infantry, sweeping the weak links on both sides, repeatedly assaulting, advancing if it is advantageous, and retreating if it is not profitable. If any of the reckless Jurchen soldiers dared to rush out of the formation in pursuit, they would be cut down by the second column of cavalry hidden behind, and the infantry that lost their formation was very vulnerable to the cavalry. The only way to deal with this tactic is to stay in formation. Cover your wings with crossbowmen and wait for change.

"Hold my ground, and kill the reckless!" Ilden didn't care about the target of the Ming army, and ran to the front and shouted: "The archers aim at the horses of the southern barbarians." As long as you hold on a little longer, the other two teams will be able to take down the enemy village! ”

But Agui was much smarter than Elden had imagined, and the Houjin infantry had just had to shrink their formation in order to resist the repeated onslaught of the Ming cavalry, and Iilden was suddenly surprised to find that the enemy's cavalry suddenly scattered to the sides. He was thinking about whether it should be the two teams responsible for the detour, whether the Jin army had already begun to attack the enemy camp, but suddenly found that the scattered enemy knights revealed a tiger squat cannon, which was only more than twenty meters away from him. The muzzle of the black hole is like the huge mouth of a fierce beast, choosing people to devour.

"Get out of the way!"

Almost at the same time as Ilden shouted, the fire rope of the Tiger Squat Cannon was burned out, and even though the cannon body had been firmly fixed to the ground by the iron claws, the huge recoil still made the cannon jump backwards. Ilden felt himself being pushed hard and flew backwards, and the whole person suddenly lost consciousness.

"Kill slaves!" On horseback, Ah Gui could clearly see the effect of the shelling, and hundreds of thumb-sized lead bullets fired at close range rained down on the surface of the thick phalanx of the Houjin army, and the phalanx immediately sank into a large chunk. Even those who were lucky enough not to be injured in the shelling were frightened by what they saw, and the man who was still strong and lively in a few seconds has now fallen to the ground in agony, in the face of this weapon, martial arts, courage, and armor have lost their original power, and death has come to everyone equally.

Iirden held the ground with his hands and tried to get back up, but his legs seemed to be in a large ball of cotton, and he couldn't exert his strength, and when Iilden saw one of his goshkha standing aside, he stretched out his hand to him and shouted: "Come and help me!" But the Goshha's eyes widened in astonishment, and as if he had seen some terrible expression on his face, he quickly turned and fled.

"Bastard!" Ilden subconsciously reached out and pressed his abdomen, only to feel that the place where his fingertips touched was full of warm and viscous liquid, and when he looked down, he found that his lower abdomen had been honeycomb by several lead bullets, and the blood had mixed the armor and muscles. At this time, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and his eyes were dark and he suddenly fainted.

"Kill slaves!" Ah Gui made a comeback with the cavalry, and the Houjin soldiers, who had lost their main general, could no longer bear the onslaught of the Ming army, knowing that even if they were able to repel the enemy's cavalry this time, they would only face another artillery bombardment (this gap was enough to complete the reloading of the Tiger Squat Cannon), and this firearm would be devastating to the infantry in dense formations within thirty meters. Hordes of Jurchen soldiers threw down their weapons and shields, turned and fled, taking off their armor as they fled, so that they could outrun their companions, even if they could outrun the pursuing cavalry. The cavalry of the Ming army even pursued all the way down the mountain, and the more than 200 batches of war horses and all the baggage left by the Jin army at the foot of the mountain all fell into the hands of Ah Gui. The other two detour Houjin troops had to withdraw quickly, they had no horses, no baggage, not even enough rations, and lacked everything necessary, and when they met the main force led by Yue Tuo, it was already noon the next day.

"What, defeated by the defenders of Oxhorn Hill?" Yue Tuo's eyes widened: "What about Ilden?" Where are the others? ”

"The villain doesn't know, but I heard from the rout soldiers who escaped that Yierden has been hit by the firearms of the Ming army, and I'm afraid that it will be more than lucky!" A cow told the truth.

"Can you tell me what happened?" Yue Tuo's face became extremely gloomy.

"Yes!" The cow really responded. Carefully recounted the incident from beginning to end, Yue Tuo listened and asked him to stand aside, and invited several Jurchen soldiers and officers to ask one by one, and sure enough, the story of the incident was generally consistent with what Niu Lu Ezhen had narrated at the beginning.

"So, the number of Ming army guards on the mountain is not large?" Yue Tuo asked.

"If the general's estimate is good, there will be no more than a hundred people, but they are all elite soldiers!"

"Damn Ilden!" Yue Tuo couldn't bear it anymore at this time, and scolded in a low voice: "First I underestimated the enemy's carelessness, and then I knew that the Ming army had firearms and divided the troops in front of the enemy, I was really blind." Let such a fool lead the troops alone, and lose so many soldiers in vain. “

"Then do you want to send troops to Oxhorn Hill?" The lieutenant next to him asked in a low voice

"it, that group of Ming Jun is not a fool, how can they still stay there and wait for death?" Yue Tuo waved his hand irritably: "The most important thing now is to return to the division with the Great Khan at Dalinghe Fort as soon as possible, and cut off his connection with Jinzhou. ”

"Yes, sir!" The adjutant general remembered the strictness of the law in Huang Taiji on weekdays, and couldn't help but shudder: "I'll go to the front team to supervise the march!" ”

"Don't worry. You go to the gentleman in the study first, and ask him to fix the book for this time to the Great Khan, and ask for punishment, after all, Ilden is a Jueluo. Now that the person is dead, what to do with it has to be decided by the Great Khan! ”

"Wow!" The adjutant general hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, he knew very well that Yue Tuo did this to exonerate Ilden, and Houjin's military law was extremely cruel to the defeated. In particular, a man like Ilden, who had the upper hand in force and had lost a battle, often had to deprive all his farm and livestock even if he was killed on the spot. It was distributed to the families of the soldiers who died in battle. Yue Tuo's decision to Huang Taiji is equivalent to one more opportunity to be extrajudicial and benevolent.

Three days later, more than 20,000 people under the command of Yue Tuo and Azig joined the main force led by Huang Taiji and the Mongol allies under the city of Dalinghe, and since then the Jin army has completed the encirclement of Dalinghe Fort, and the total strength of the Later Jin army has exceeded 50,000 people, including an artillery team consisting of 40 imitation red-coated cannons. In the encirclement, there were Zu Dashou and his eldest son, seven adjutant generals, more than 20 guerrilla and staff generals, 7,000 horse troops, 7,000 infantry, and more than 7,080 city builders and merchants.

"Congratulations to Mr. Qian, please say hello to Mr. Qian!" A red-faced Ming soldier intervened in the salute to Ah Gui, and the smell of wine in his mouth was full of people who could rush several meters away.

"Excuse me!" Ah Gui waved his hand a little unaccustomed, he only returned to Dalinghe Fort with the remaining sixty people two days ago, and the more than 200 heads and war horses he brought back caused a sensation in the city, and the Ming army in western Liaoning had not achieved such a hearty victory in the battle with the Houjin army for a long time, not to mention that he had killed a Jueluo. The excited Zu Dashou was even ready to ask the court for credit, as for the victorious hero Ah Gui needless to mention, Zu Dashou immediately rewarded him with three hundred taels of silver, sent him to be promoted to the head of a thousand, and the documents for the promotion of a thousand household officials were immediately sent. Everyone recognized that he had a bright future in the army, and several Liaoxi generals who had disdainful of this Mongolian mongrel in the past hinted to him at the breakfast table that there were still a few unmarried Huanghua daughters in his family, completely ignoring that Ah Gui had a daughter-in-law in Ningyuan.

But Ah Gui, who was in this whirlpool, was not so excited, and even looked a little depressed, always hiding on the city tower and looking into the distance on weekdays, and was not social. Many people think that he has not recovered from that life-and-death fight, and it would be good to get drunk and a few more **s**; Of course, there are a few colleagues with malicious intentions who say behind his back that he pretends to be an official and puts up a fight. But Ah Gui knew that he was just afraid, and the premonition that he had saved himself many times reminded him in the dark how dangerous it was to stay in this central and left-handed city. He looked to the west, there was the road to Jinzhou City, but at this time it had been cut off by the Houjin army, and the dense dark clouds blocked the sun, although it was still daytime, but there was only a gray patch as far as Gui's eyes could see, only the neighing of horses and the rumbling of cannons with the wind proved the existence of the Houjin army.

"That's the Jurchens attacking our pier! I can't believe that they learned to use cannons so quickly! Ah Gui sighed, reached out and rubbed the dog's neck: "If they had a cannon that day, then I'm afraid we would have lost, right, An'a?" ”

As if answering the master's question, the black dog barked a few times, and his almond-shaped eyes stared at Gui. Ah Gui smiled: "Yes, but they didn't that time, our luck is really good, but how long can our luck be better this time?" ”

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps downstairs in the city, and as soon as Ah Gui stood up straight, he saw a panting lieutenant running up, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ah Gui: "You are here, let me find it for a while!" The Chief Soldier wants to see you right away! ”

"The chief soldier wants to see me?" Ah Gui was stunned when he heard this, at this time, the general army in Dalinghe City would only represent one person, that was Zu Dashou, but what did he want to do when he saw himself at this time?

"Come with me, I've been looking for you for a while, I can't let the chief soldier wait for a long time!"

Ah Gui followed the lieutenant to the General Soldier's Mansion, and when he entered the door, he felt a kind of tense atmosphere that was unique to before the war was about to break out, and everyone's faces were serious. Ah Gui didn't dare to do much, and as the captain came to wait under the festival hall, the captain went in to pass the message, and after a while, he heard the sound of the pass inside, he hurriedly walked up to the hall, walked two steps and then knelt down and saluted: "The last general will see the chief soldier!" ”

"Well, get up!" Zu Dashou is a middle-aged man in his thirties, his ancestor migrated to Ningyuan Town as early as the fifth year of Xuande, and has been a hereditary officer in Ning Yuanwei in the Ming Dynasty for generations. Like most of the generals' disciples, Zu Dashou had a very high starting point in the army and was promoted quickly, but in his thirties, he became one of the two highest generals under Sun Chengzong, which can be described as a prosperous official. Because of his two later surrenders to Houjin, many authors believe that he was already a traitor of Houjin at that time. But if you have all the knowledge of the power contrast between the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty at that time and the situation outside the border, you will understand that this is nothing more than nonsense. (To be continued.) )