There was a loud bang, and a red cloud exploded under the mountain, and two figures were thrown into the air in the glittering fireworks. The cannon flames flashed on the earthen wall, and there were some scattered muskets, and then someone threw torches out of the barrage, and the Houjin soldiers who reflected their figures were shot and killed by the Ming troops in the barrage.

Xingna lay on his stomach on the ground, and there was a shout from the Ming army on the mountain, and several torches rose and fell down the mountainside in the air, and hundreds of Houjin hunters were quietly hidden in the dark, and no one spoke.

This is Xiguan Mountain, in fact, Huang Taiji has been paying attention to this place, but he deliberately let this place go after the temptation, hoping to let the Ming army on this mountain relax their vigilance. The three Hongyi cannons on Xiguan Mountain shoot at the bottom of the mountain every day, each fires nearly 100 shells every day, and the top of the mountain can hit a radius of more than two miles with artillery fire, so that the Houjin soldiers have to extend the camp to the north, if they can conquer Xiguan Mountain, Huang Taiji can observe the defense and mobilization of the Ming army at the top of the mountain, and the barracks do not need to be placed so far.

And it is almost impossible to capture this hill during the day, and the night attack is placed on these armored soldiers who can walk at night. They are all the best hunters.

The place where China was was a small pothole, covered with a camouflage of branches, and there were two ambushes in it, if it wasn't for one of them coughing quietly, Chinagan would not have noticed it, and now one of them was turned into a corpse, and the other was captured alive by him, and at this time he had been sent to the rear.

He sent a message to the person behind him, no matter how the Ming army tossed, so that everyone could not move, the people behind him passed the word to the back layer by layer, and the fight under the mountain was very lively, Xingna took this opportunity, bowed and trotted up for a while, and suddenly felt a pain under his feet, Xingna knew that he had stepped on the thistle. He endured the pain, pulled out the four-pointed thistle, and then stopped and listened to the movement around him, which was only more than twenty steps away from the first trench of the Ming army, and after making sure that there was no ambush army, he began to grope to eliminate the other thistles on the ground.

At this time, there was a sudden dog barking next to him, and fortunately he barked badly, but he didn't expect the Ming army to even use dogs.

Several sparks immediately rose on the mountain, and the voice of a Ming army roared. Those sparks rose into the sky, and Xingna thought it was a fire pot, and immediately lay on the ground, but who knew that the sparks soared on the ground and bounced again. Descending from Kona's side, he descended the mountain.

"What's that?" Kona thought puzzled.

There was a loud bang, and the spark exploded into a ball of fire, shaking Kona's eyes white in the darkness, followed by other sparks exploding.

There was a roar from above, a volley of muskets rang out, and more sparks were thrown down. Cinna knew that they had seen it by the light of the fire, and it was completely out of his purview to attack or not. A horn sounded behind his fingers, and the Houjin soldiers shouted in unison, rushing towards the mountain like a tide, the point they attacked. is an acute angle to the top.

"Why rush!" Xingna shouted in his heart, the thirty steps ahead were probably full of traps, the most dangerous section, and his eyes were glazed. The root couldn't see clearly, and at this point rolled to the side. So that the people behind him could pass guò, and under this roll, he was stabbed by several iron thistles that were not excluded.

The dense crowd rushed past Xingna's side, and the mountain threw torches and that kind of spark one after another, illuminating the figure of the Houjin soldiers, and the horn of the Ming army sounded on the top of the mountain, and they also began to gather reinforcements, and there was a kind of military horn under the mountain in response.

The muskets rang out one after another, the Houjin queue screamed repeatedly, and the explosives thrown down exploded one after another, and the dense Houjin soldiers were blown up to the ground, and the people behind continued to surge, their formation was chaotic, and the flames of the explosion also dazzled them, and many people couldn't tell the direction.

"Don't rush!" Xingna finally couldn't help it, shouted loudly in Manchu, and by the light of those torches, he could finally see the figure of the Houjin soldier in front, and a ball of fire suddenly exploded under the man's body, throwing him into the air, and the Houjin soldier behind him fell down in a bang.

It was another 10,000-bomb mine cannon, the horn of the attack was still blowing, and a group of armored soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades, and in a short time they lost more than 100 people, but they could not stop these armored soldiers, because there was the same vicious Bayala behind them, and all those who retreated would be killed, and after stepping on two more mine cannons, the armored soldiers rushed to the bottom of the trench, and many of the first ones who went down were pierced by the iron thistles inside, and they howled and cut down the sharp wooden stakes inside, and then the armored soldiers who arrived began to find a way to climb.

Muskets also began to fire volleys on both sides, and someone in the crowd of Houjin soldiers fell at any moment, and they could not find a dead end. Rows of ladders were erected, and the soldiers braved the net of muskets, and the fire and ash canisters were constantly thrown on them, and the trenches were filled with smoke and dust, and the flames of explosions were constantly flashing.

The Houjin soldiers under the mountain began to contain the zuò battle, the Hongyi artillery was also firing at the Ming army's earthen walls, and the largest night battle broke out in Lushun.

The sound of killing in front of Xingna was shocking, and the ladders were overturned, and then set up, the agile Houjin soldiers desperately climbed up, and the armored soldiers behind began to cover with bows and arrows, throwing indiscriminately at the Ming army's defense line. The first group of armor soldiers climbed the earthen wall on the mountain, and the spears of the Ming army stretched and retracted on it, and the stabbed Houjin soldiers fell down screaming.

The follow-up armor soldiers came up in a steady stream, and there were more and more armor soldiers in the trench, they were crowded inside, but the gap on it was not opened for a long time, and a sense of danger in Xingna's heart became stronger and stronger, and there would definitely not be only sharp stakes in that trench. He hoped to find Zilharang, who was in command of the battle, and persuade him to tear it off.

In the darkness, he had just taken a few steps when a series of explosions suddenly occurred at the trench, drowning all that section of the trench in the light of fire, countless stones and scrap iron pieces swept across the trench, almost all the ladders to the city were blown up, and they fell into the trench, screaming into the sky, and almost all the soldiers in the trench were spared.

The Ming army's pull thunder is also a 10,000-bullet mine cannon, they use a bamboo tube to bury it in the earthen wall, the rope passes through the bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube is also a method of setting up mines in the Fire Dragon Sutra, and the 10,000-bullet mine cannon in the trench can be pulled from behind the earthen wall, waiting for the Houjin soldiers to fill the trench.

Xingna listened to Mingjin in frustration, and at this time he had lost two or three hundred elite armor soldiers, half of whom were in the final round of explosions. In the face of the Dengzhou soldiers behind those trenches, Xingna felt powerless like never before......

The Houjin Khan tent was brightly lit, and it was full of flags and banners and Gushan, and Huang Taiji was holding a bamboo basket-like thing in his hand, which was what the Ming army threw down from the mountain, and this did not explode. The gunpowder had been pulled out, and there was a row of small stones and thistles on the table, all of which were found from this bamboo basket.

This is a kind of 10,000 enemies, which was used by the Ming army in Changli and also used by Zhu Wannian in Laizhou. After collecting this information, Dengzhou Town began to experiment, this bamboo basket-style 10,000-strong enemy was gunpowder and thistle terrestris, wrapped in a layer of cloth, and then a bamboo basket. The outside of the bamboo basket is tied with hemp rope, which is not easy to break after being thrown, and it comes with fragments of thistle terrestris inside, which is not worse than the power of the stone ten thousand enemies. Ideal for throwing down hills, the elasticity of the basket allows it to jump farther. Dengzhou Zhenzhen adopted this method after it was realized. This 10,000-strong enemy can be made on the front line, and the strips can be transported from the rear, and gunpowder can also be used in the types provided by the imperial court.

The advantage of Dengzhou Town's system is that it can be continuously studied and improved, and these are not adopted by Chen Xinti, but the Military Affairs Department organizes experiments based on intelligence or military opinions, and informs the chamberlain of the results of the tests. Finally, after being confirmed at the joint meeting, you can add the outline or promote it on the front line.

"Great Khan, minions are incompetent! Please punish the Great Khan. Zilharan knelt on the ground. More than half of the more than 500 Bayala and A soldiers led by him lost more than half, and most of them did not even recover their bodies.

"You said they had dogs in front of the trench?" Huang Taiji asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, all the troops on the road have been quietly killed, and the white flag of Xingna has already touched the trench twenty paces away. Suddenly, there was a dog barking, and then torches and this kind of enemy were thrown from above. ”

The other Houjin nobles all frowned. They didn't think that the dog could be used for this, but now that they think about it, if there were really dogs guarding the trench, it would be almost impossible to touch the camp at night.

Yue Tuo said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, there are not many of us who can walk at night, and this batch of injuries is so heavy, it is better to attack hard during the day." ”

"Great Khan, the minions ask for battle, and attack Naxiguan Mountain tomorrow."

Huang Taiji turned his eyes and saw that it was that Duoduo, who didn't seem to have any fear of Dengzhou soldiers, but wanted to try it very much.

Huang Taiji denied Duoduo leading the troops in his heart, fighting is not child's play, so the generals who have experienced a hundred battles can't do anything, how can he, Duoduo, the youngest Baylor, reassure him. The Niu Lu in Duoduo's hand is Nurhachi's strongest Niu Lu, the largest has more than five hundred dings, far more than other banners, Huang Taiji has always wanted to weaken him, but this is not the method, after all, the real Manchuria is the mainstay of the Houjin.

"Erke Chuhu is loyal and brave, if you attack Naxiguan Mountain, you will definitely be allowed to lead the troops."

When Dolgon heard this, he knew that Huang Taiji had given up his attempt to attack Xiguan Mountain.

Huang Taiji looked at Abatai, this brother from the concubine is actually more reliable in fighting, and he can be regarded as brave and strategic, but he doesn't seem to have any good methods, so he doesn't say anything there.

"Abatai!"

"The minions are here."

"You are the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and now the earthen wall built by Lushun Nikan is difficult to overcome, what method have you come up with?"

"Minions...... No. The gray-haired Abatai replied helplessly, he was extremely depressed when he heard this Ministry of Works, he was the seventh son of Nurhachi, but he was a serious concubine, born in a partial house, and he has always been unwilling to treat Nurhachi, and he has no share in good things, and it is his turn to find Li Yongfang as a son-in-law.

Even if Abatai's military achievements are great, he still only sealed a Baylor, and finally mixed the Gushan Ezhen with a white flag, but Huang Taiji ascended the throne, and the two whites were changed to two yellows, and his Gushan Ezhen was also lost, and the title was also a grade lower than that of the various flag owners, among which Yue Tuo and Zierharang were all juniors. Especially even Duoduo, a thirteen-year-old who became the flag master, he was nearly forty years old, and he was not as good as this little brother after many years of fighting, and the seats in the dinner row were all behind the juniors.

And he couldn't even express any dissent, when Huang Taiji had just ascended the throne, even the two Mongolian Baylors who had taken refuge were ranked before him, Abatai was unhappy, and he didn't come to the banquet under the pretext that he didn't have leather clothes to wear, and was criticized by Huang Taiji and the masses, and then he didn't dare to disobey again. In the end, Huang Taiji gave him a Ministry of Works, Abataigen didn't know what this book was for, and at first he went to sit in the place where he did things, but then he didn't go at all, and was scolded by Huang Taiji for not learning and not knowing, and the depression in his heart can be imagined.

Huang Taiji's expression was calm, and he said in a calm tone: "Abatai, you boldly say it, how do you think you should fight?" ”

Abatai saw that Huang Taiji was not angry, thought about it and said: "Great Khan, we can't fight a place every day, especially between Xiguan Mountain and Golden Mountain, Nikan has a road connection, we are slow to deploy troops, but they are fast to transfer troops, the servants look carefully, there must be a road behind their earthen wall, and they will transfer artillery from him in a moment's time, and we may only have five or six cannons when we are deploying troops, and when we wait to move our troops, it will be more than ten cannons, how can this be defeated." If you want to fight in one place, you will attack the tiger tail platform, no matter how many people die, you can finally cut off the way to retreat. If we want to fight on all fronts, let's start a fight, put tens of thousands of people at a time, and attack the whole line together, don't be afraid of death and injury, and make sure they can't free up. ”

Everyone hesitated when they heard this, they all knew that Lushun was not easy to fight, and the current small-scale attack was within a controllable range, and the casualties would not be too large, and once the whole line attacked, it might cause heavy casualties.

Huang Taiji looked at Yue Tuo, "The tiger's tail is easy to attack?" ”

Yue Tuo shook his head, "There are many sailors in the Ming Kingdom, especially the Dengshui Battalion, which is particularly accurate in fighting, the position of the tiger's tail is narrow, and the men and horses have not yet lined up, the Ming Navymen on both sides have opened fire and fired rockets, and the minions have tried twice, and the formation is chaotic before they start to attack." ”

Dai Shan, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke: "It is not appropriate to fight the city after all, it is better to fight sooner rather than later, if you know that you can't attack, or withdraw your troops or besiege it, it's better than this." ”

Huang Taiji smiled and said: "What the second brother said is that how we should attack is to be discussed." ”

Hearing the attack on all fronts, Duoduo jumped up excitedly and said, "Then repair the shield cart, and dispatch more than a thousand at a time, and always push it under the earthen wall, and then dig up the earthen wall." ”

Mang Gurtai said angrily: "What's the use of going under the earthen wall, last night a basket was thrown down, killing hundreds at once, you are white flag and there are many people, then you will go." ”

Zilharang also persuaded: "Little Belle, attacking under the earthen wall is actually useless, the Dengzhou soldiers do not hesitate to gunpowder, the 10,000 enemies are like rain, men and horses are piled up in the trench, and 10,000 bullets of mine artillery are buried on both sides of the trench wall. ”

Duoduo said dissatisfiedly: "How can you do if you are afraid of the dead in a war, then how do you say to fight, Seventh Brother, you are very good at fighting, you say." ”

Abatai was silent for a moment, and said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, if we want to attack, we also have to dig trenches, in fact, it is just like what the Great Khan did in the Great Ling River." ”

Huang Taiji raised his eyebrows, "You elaborate." ”

"Every day we waited to attack the earthen wall, filled the pit during the day, and after being beaten back, they dug the pit again, and every day was useless, and the next day we came again, and some people died in vain. Because the artillery of the Dengzhou soldiers is powerful, the shield car resists not long after, or to dig a trench there to defend, the soil dug out is an earthen wall, no matter how powerful the cannonball is, the earthen wall can not be penetrated, so that the people and horses can stay behind the earthen wall, saving the second day and a cannon in vain. ”

Dodor wondered, "Just digging all the way through?" ”

"Exactly, let's also learn from Dengzhou Town, digging all the way around, his Dengzhou artillery can't hit the ditch, send Baoyi to take the trench at night, step on those mine cannons one by one, pull the hair, and dig up the stones and gunpowder, even if Nikan blows up, it will only die some coating."

"Didn't you say that it was useless in the trench, then we got to the trench, and it was the same." ”

"Little Baylor forgot a little, the Ming army's earthen wall is only more than one zhang high, and the width of the trench is only more than one zhang, the attack method is naturally different from the siege, we do not attack the city from the bottom of the ditch, directly build a wooden plank through the trench, and then set up a short city ladder, it is very convenient to carry. My Dajin has the advantage in numbers, so naturally they will attack everywhere, and as long as thousands of city ladders are erected, their firearms will naturally not be enough. ”

Mang Gurtai laughed and said: "This is a good idea, then ask Lao Qi to lead the vanguard tomorrow." ”