In the middle of December 15, Jiannu's army entered Zhuozhou, and in the midst of Jiannu's possible fierce retaliation, Zhao Lie did not send it out and did not collect it at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The bloodline of a lord of a country, the royal family of Dajin Kingdom died here, he believed that Jiannu would take revenge fiercely, Zhao Lie didn't want to lose his precious manpower, Zhuozhou spent countless money, food and painstaking training in the first battle of the night and cavalry were extremely bad, which made Zhao Lie feel distressed.

When Li Heng, An Yongde, Zhao Lie and others received a report that the Jiannu army was several miles away from the city, they hurriedly got up and went to Beicheng.

Standing on the gatehouse of Tongji Gate in Zhuozhou, looking from a distance, the cold light of the armor flickered everywhere, the Jiannu cavalry spread all over the north of the city, and the dazzling cold light of the armor was everywhere, and the nearest cavalry came to a place more than half a mile away from the city, and their hideous faces were faintly visible.

Li Heng was sweating through his clothes at this time, it is said that the winter clothes are not thin, but he can't stand Lord Li's sweat like pulp, and he doesn't know where so much sweat comes from, and even his forehead is covered with beads of sweat.

The momentum of the Jiannu army formation is not comparable to the upper Tabai department, the military array of more than 20,000 people is cavalry, the plain north of the city is crowded, the banners of each Baylor, Gushan Ezhen, Meler Ezhen, Jiale Ezhen, Niu Lu Ezhen flutter in the wind, more than ten bright yellow flags and canopies are erected in the rear of the military formation, that is where Huang Taiji is.

Zhao Lie raised the monocular and looked at the canopy, and faintly saw a tall figure wearing bright light armor surrounded by a group of Jiannu generals, thinking that it was the current Golden Khan King Taiji.

Zhao Lie estimated the distance, it had to be five miles away, and his own six-pounder and nine-pounder guns didn't need to think about it. Insufficient range.

"Francisco. Can this cannon hit there. Zhao Lie asked.

The ten cannons brought by the Portuguese were mostly twelve-pounderers. There were only two eighteen-pounder guns, and in order to hold Zhuozhou, they were now placed on four walls, of which two eighteen-pounder guns, two twelve-pounder guns, and five nine-pounder and six-pounder marching guns were placed at the north gate.

"Lord Zhao, the eighteen-pounder cannon and the twelve-pounder cannon can bombard the enemy chieftain, but there is no crosshair." Without waiting for Francisco to answer, Lu Ruohan replied in his odd Cantonese.

Zhao Lie also didn't expect any crosshairs from the smoothbore guns of this era. However, we must not let Jiannu be comfortable.

He ordered the Portuguese gunners to shell the canopy, these cannons are the treasures of the Portuguese, in order to further open the Ming market, the Macau Council decided to donate to the Ming court, therefore, the Portuguese attach great importance to it, and do not let Zhao Lie's gunners handle it, and can only be operated by Portuguese gunners.

After a stick of incense, the Portuguese gunners finally finished aiming and loading. Artillery bombardment.

A dull boom spread, and puffs of smoke rose over the city. Four projectiles rushed into the air under the firing of the projectile, followed by a whistling sound of cracking air.

Huang Taiji was discussing the siege of the city with Mang Gurtai, Azig and other Baylors, and suddenly heard the roar of artillery on the city, and all of them were stunned, you must know that the giant cannons consume a lot of pig iron, even the Ming Dynasty did not have too many artillery, most of them were in the naval division, and the vast majority of the land were in Jiubian, especially Liaozhen and Jingshi.

Since they entered the customs, they have met the Ming army's big Franco machine in Sanchatun, and most of the other cities are just small Franco bronze cannons and tiger squat cannons, they are now five miles away from the city, of course, they didn't expect a small state city to have a giant cannon, and they were silently surprised for a while.

Four projectiles landed two hundred steps behind Huang Taiji, and in the neighing of the men and horses, more than ten Mongolian men and horses fell to the ground and struggled for their lives.

Huang Taiji's internal guards were shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly stepped forward to guard Huang Taiji, waiting to turn backwards, joking, if the lord of Dajin was hit by a cannon shot by the Ming army, even if most of them were meritorious, they would not want to live.

Huang Taiji sneered and faced the head of Zhuozhou City, well, he really dared to fight, since entering the customs, many Ming army guards as long as the Dajin army did not attack the city first, they didn't even dare to make a sound, Zhuozhou City couldn't wait for the Jurchen army to set up camp and couldn't wait to start the shelling, and it was really good.

Huang Taiji stubbornly did not turn backwards, hundreds of breaths later, the second artillery fire, this time there were three projectiles behind Huang Taiji and others nearly 100 steps to the ground, and more than ten people and horses struggled and howled, the sound was extremely harsh.

This time, the guards on both sides dragged the halter of Huang Taiji's black war horse to turn the horse's head, rushed backwards, and when they returned to more than a mile, the head of Zhuozhou City was roaring with artillery, and four projectiles were chasing after them, and this time they fell a hundred steps behind Huang Taiji and others.

The projectile stumbled to a distance of forty paces from Huang Taiji, and even knocked the two Ouchi guards off their horses, which was the most dangerous moment, and Mang Gurtai sighed how Nikan could fight so inaccurately.

After that, the people hurried their horses and whipped their horses, and did not stop until they had fled ten miles away. Huang Taiji's face sank like water, if he hadn't taken care of the face of the lord, he would have already burst out.

Huang Taiji suppressed his anger and ordered a large camp to be set up here, and he did not plan to attack Zhuozhou until he found out the truth about the Gu'an Denglai army.

It's not that he's worried about Gu'an's aid to Zhuozhou, and that a large number of cavalry on the Gyeonggi Plain will come to die when they encounter Jurchen cavalry, but he's worried that the attack on Zhuozhou will be too heavy, and the Ming army of Gu'an is also as strong as the Ming army in Zhuozhou, so I'm afraid something will happen.

The Zhuozhou guards on the head of Zhuozhou City cheered, and the kings of Dajin Kingdom were all bombarded away by cannons, and the huge cannons were really powerful, and the original nervous mood was relieved.

Even Li Heng and Li Zhifu, who were like a little white in battle, were smiling and twisting their beards to look around at this time, looking at the scene of the soldiers cheering, and they were in a good mood.

Zhao Lie, Huang Han and other soldiers below the Broken Army were silent, and they had experienced many fierce battles with Jiannu, which was really not worth mentioning, and this cannon was just like that, it was not too high, it was still a solid bullet, and its destructive power was limited.

As for cheers, it's better to be exempted, where is this, if only a few cannons can repel Jiannu, why was Liaozhen, which has many artillery, beaten by Jiannu, and lost the city, it can only be said that the soldiers of Zhuozhou Wei have really not seen the world, and they are all the first brothers on the battlefield.

At noon, both armies began to bury pots and cook rice, Zhuozhou and outside temporarily quieted down, Li Heng also returned to the official office, and there were many gentry in the city who needed to be settled.

They knew that if they built slaves and broke the city, their silver money women would not be good, and now they gathered together to discuss the payment of the labor army, so as to keep the city from loss, and they all waited outside the official office to wait for the prefect Li Heng.

In addition, whenever there is chaos, some snakes and rats take the opportunity to make trouble, and the officials in the city are also busy everywhere, which requires Li Heng to return to the official office.

After lunch, the Jiannu brigade began to build a large camp ten miles away, because the Ming army almost never dared to take the initiative to attack, the camp of Jiannu is so-so, the tower is a must, the trenches are dug by the coat, that is, one person to the deep, the width is only a zhang, if the Ming army has the courage to come to attack, this is exactly what the Jiannu wanted.

Nurhachi sent ten Niu Lu to capture the Ming people around, which was already an old routine for the Jurchens to attack the fortified city, driving the Ming people to attack the city, consuming the defenders' baggage, shaking the morale of the defenders, and finally the soldiers went down with a drum.

Fang Ximen scolded a group of Han soldiers to dig deep trenches, this is the work of being a slave, every time they set up camp, the Han army and Baoyi have to pack these most tiring jobs, in the words of the Jurchens, Nikan is timid and cowardly, and he is not waiting for the battle formation, is it not even good to dig the trench, what is the use.

Fang Dongmen and Lu are struggling to dig the frozen soil, fortunately, as long as the three feet of frozen soil are dug up, it is much easier to dig below, of course, it is extremely laborious to dig the frozen soil, the two of them only dug for half an hour and were already out of breath, but they only dug half a person deep.

Fortunately, Fang Ximen ordered to rest for a while, and the two of them sat down in the ditch with their butts, panting, and they were also sweating all over their bodies in winter, and the rising sweat came out of their heads, and the entire Han army was like this.

"Brother Fang, how can the Jurchen masters be so short-tempered in the past two days, whipping them at every turn, and slashing people with waist knives, it's really scary." The road has a heart and a lingering look around.

The Jurchens encountered in the past two days were very tyrannical, and the people in the Han army were waiting for a little unsatisfactory, and they were whipped at the lightest, and they were slashed and killed, and several Han soldiers were killed for no reason, and dozens of Han soldiers were whipped, and now everyone in the Han army is in danger.

"Hiss, silence," Fang Dongmen looked around cautiously, "What do you kid know, the sixth son of the old Khan King died a few days ago, this big army has come here to take revenge, you kid be careful, don't let the Jurchen master catch the mistake, hum, if you don't get it, you will shed your skin if you don't die." ”

Lu You's small triangular eyes stared at the largest, and looked at Fang Dongmen in disbelief, who is the sixth master, this master is the sixth son of the old pigskin, who has been commanding the troops in Liangxiang, and died in battle after not seeing him for a few days, no wonder the Jurchens jumped violently.

Lu Yi shrunk his neck, and in recent days, he tried to walk around the Jurchens, so as not to be angry at his own body.

"Boy, don't talk nonsense, this is what my brother told me secretly, you know." Fang Dongmen stared at Lu You.

"Brother Fang, don't worry, I have always been strict-mouthed and never spread nonsense." Lu You sneered.

Fang Dongmen nodded, Lu You's mouth is quite strict, otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned this kid, but seeing that this kid is extremely good, he doesn't want him to be ruined for nothing.

After resting for a while, the Han army continued to work, digging trenches in this winter, their bodies were hot, their hands and feet were cold, and this was where this work tortured people.

In the evening, one after another, the Han people escorted back, wailing and crying echoed on the road, some Jiannu soldiers were impatient with children crying and adults screamed with knives and guns to kill things directly, the bloody atmosphere spread, the crying was almost gone, and the blood and blood intimidated everything.

Fang Dongmen and Lu You bowed their heads to work, they didn't want to see the miserable situation of the Han people, although they have seen a lot of such a scene since entering the customs, but they still haven't adapted to it, how to say that they are also Han people, seeing the Jurchens wantonly slashing and killing Han people, they really can't bear it, they can only not see or listen, out of sight and out of mind.

Of course, they have another job at night, guarding the Han people, which is not only a rich job, but also a ruthless work, after all, the Han people in order to eat enough food, keep warm, and not die of cold and starvation, those who secretly hide some silver money are used to bribe the Han army, and those who have no money and food are exchanged for women, like Han Lao Liu and others can be like fish in water. (To be continued.) )