Chapter 188 [Let the Bullets Fly]

Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai, Yanguli and others led thousands of men and horses to stop outside the city. Yanguli asked, "Great Khan, it seems that there is something strange, should we still go into the city?" ”

Town? This is a bit like an empty city plan, in case there are not many enemy troops in it, don't I want to be ridiculed as a gutless bandit by the Han people for the rest of my life? My Emperor Taiji didn't even open a city gate, and he didn't dare to enter the city he had already taken, what else could he do?

Huang Taiji said coldly: "Enter the city." We don't have enough food and grass now, if we don't go to the city, will we go back to the grassland hungry? Now that it's dawn, I'm going to see what else they can do. ”

Mang Gurtai scolded: "This group of insidious dog thieves don't dare to compete with us head-on, so they will play yin." As long as they dare to show their faces, I will kill as many as they come."

Mang Gurtai killed many people during the night, but most of them were his own people. He finally arrived at dawn now, ready to enter the city and kill, but it was really unknown who would kill whom.

Huang Taiji led the remnants into the city. He had no confidence in his heart, he didn't dare to walk in the front, he was surrounded by guards, walked in the middle, and walked for a while after entering the city, and didn't see a single person. It seems that this is really an empty city, there are no Ming Dynasty soldiers, there is no garrison Eight Banners Army, and there are not even corpses, which is very weird.

Huang Taiji really hoped it was a nightmare. The invincible Eight Banners Army during the Nurhachi period did not win a single battle in his hands. The two attacks on North Korea were easily won, but they were not commanded by him. He personally took command of the attack on Ning Jin, and he had no confidence at all to take down Zhao Shujiao without heavy casualties. He couldn't do anything about Ning Yuancheng. This time he arrived in Zunhua, and it was the first time he led his troops to capture a fortified city. It didn't take a night to get excited, and it was a mess.

Where have all the people gone? Zunhua has become like this, does the enemy still have a follow-up move? If the enemy has a more powerful follow-up move, will I be able to go back alive?

It's not just Huang Taiji, everyone has similar thoughts.

The rest of the people in the city have been evacuated outside the city. The remaining Ming soldiers plus the Jinyi Guards were less than 2,000 people, and they were at a disadvantage in numbers. But they had chain crossbows, the first rifles that the Portuguese had helped produce, and some artillery, really fully armed.

With such equipment, the Ming army was confident that they would win more with less.

The Ming army received a carrier pigeon and reported back: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Eight Banners Army has entered the city from the south gate. Huang Taiji should be among them. The number of people who entered the city was about 4,000, and a small number of Eight Banners soldiers were left outside the south gate. ”

"With so few of them coming back, tens of thousands of people must have been annihilated. As long as this pair of people is destroyed, the main force of the Eight Banners Army will be almost completely annihilated. ”

The Eight Banners simply did not notice the hot air balloon floating above their heads. Their every move is under the control of the Ming army. The spies used binoculars to observe the enemy's movements. Then release carrier pigeons to inform the army in the city of the enemy's movements. This method of contact was invented by a low-level person in the Ministry of Industry who had not participated in the imperial examination, and he had already raised carrier pigeons. Knowing that this method would work, Ao Bai immediately gave the man a bounty and was promoted. This innovation has put the hot air balloon into practical use. Each hot air balloon carries six carrier pigeons, which can carry a message six times.

Huang Taiji sent spies to investigate the situation. These people went into the residential area, of course, and they died one by one, and many spies died without knowing how. Not a single one came back.

The battle had not yet begun, and the morale of the Eight Banners Army had begun to collapse. It's like they're in a ghost town. Huang Taiji felt that he had made another stupid move, and he shouldn't let people into the city. He was thinking about whether to get out of the city quickly, and when he came out of it from where, someone from behind him was in a hurry to report: "The Ming army arrived at the south gate, and the people at the south gate couldn't stand it." ”

The Ming army is chasing us? What's going on? Mang Gurtai said angrily: "What happened to our people? Why can't you beat the Ming army? At night they calculated with arrows, and now that it is dawn, why can't they be killed? ”

The soldier hurriedly said: "Back to Sanbeile, the weapon of the Ming army is a chain crossbow, the rate of fire is very fast, and it can fire hundreds of arrows in a row, and our cavalry can't get close at all." ”

Yanguli said: "Great Khan, if we can't go back to the south gate, let's go out of the city through the north gate as soon as possible." That's the fastest way back. ”

The situation is critical, Huang Taiji has no time to think about it, the south gate does not know how many people have been killed, their remnants are defeated, morale is low, it is not wise to go back and fight with the Ming army. The order was given: "Full speed ahead, leave through the north gate, and we will return to the grassland the same way." ”

The cavalry accelerated forward, and another pigeon was sent out. Report: "Lord Sun's reinforcements have arrived at the south gate to start a battle, and the Eight Banners Army will leave through the north gate, and will arrive at Baotong Road in half an hour." Set up an ambush as soon as possible. ”

Information received. Li Yan ordered: "Notify the person with a chain crossbow to set up an ambush at the north gate." Sun Yuanhua's people at the south gate are in charge, and when they come in, don't think about going out again. Let's catch turtles in an urn. Ambush them in the house, use the house as cover, and shoot them with a chain crossbow. ”

Although Wu Jun was not convinced by Li Yan, Ao Bai gave him the talisman, and here he was the person in charge of Jinyiwei. Hari Chagai knew what he was capable of and listened to his arrangements.

Without saying a word, the Ming army gathered on the road to the north gate. Everyone quietly entered the house, and as long as they removed a few pieces from the wall and turned their heads, they could see the outside, and they could shoot if they were aim. Under the cover of the house, the Eight Banners Army's war horse advantage, bows and arrows can not exert their power, only chain crossbows and muskets can play like this, if the Eight Banners Army rushes into the house to kill people with knives. Killing five people may not be able to kill a Ming army with a chain crossbow.

After the Eight Banners Army entered the city, the spies were *dropped, which was equivalent to being blind. The Ming army had an "Eagle Eye Radar". The importance of spies in warfare is on full display.

The chain crossbow is a group attack weapon, which is too suitable for street fighting. In last night, the Ming army had fully tasted the sweetness. Since Nurhachi unified the Jurchen tribes, they have never fought so well. In the past, the Ming army mentioned the Eight Banners Army and commented that "the Jurchens are full of 10,000 and are uncontrollable". Now it's "These people are nothing great, no matter how much they do, they can kill them." ”

The difference in attack distance between the chain crossbow and the sword is too great, of course, it is not a big deal.

The Eight Banners Army galloped all the way without any obstruction, but when it came to Bao Tonglu, the war horses suddenly fell several times. The horses are full of chain crossbows. The fate of falling off their horses in a high-speed gallop was very miserable, and several soldiers were suddenly trampled into pulp.

"There are enemy forces in enemy attacks." The Eight Banners shouted, but they didn't see the shadow of the enemy. Many of them were shot and fell, only to discover that the enemy was hiding in their houses and were attacking them against a few holes in the wall. The doors were locked, and if they wanted to deal with the people in the house, they had to slam them open. If this group of cavalry stops, it will hinder the advance of the people behind them, how can they have the strength to hit the door? The most tragic thing is that the width of the road is just the sum of the range of the Ming army's chain crossbows on both sides, except for the people in the middle, the people on both sides can be fatally hit.

This kind of fighting, the Eight Banners Army has never seen before, this is not a field battle, they can't give full play to the advantages of cavalry. All the arrangements of the Ming army restrained them to death.

If you stop fighting with the people in the house and face the opponent's chain crossbows, the Eight Banners Army will have no advantage. If they didn't fight, the people in front turned on their backs, blocking the path of the cavalry behind, and many people tripped and fell to the ground. Screams rang out, and the army was separated in the middle.

This gang of insidious Han Emperor Taiji is really going crazy. He was held back, not forward, not backward. The army that rushed to the front could not return. The army began to become as flustered as it had been last night. I thought I could take back a little advantage during the day. But it turned out that the Ming army was still not something they could deal with during the day.

Huang Taiji ordered the rear army to turn around and take the west gate instead. The Ming army was limited in number, and he did not believe that there were ambushes everywhere.

The Ming army immediately sent new information: "The middle road successfully separated the Eight Banners Army. The enemy chieftain fled westward. ”

Receiving this information, Li Yan laughed. He, Hari Chagai, Wu Jun and others are all in the west of the city, and there are not many people here, but they are all strong opponents.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners broke through in two ways, and the north gate was ambushed by a large army, fighting in the streets, and suffering heavy casualties. I want to run but I can't. What made them collapse the most was that they finally reached the wider road, and found a lot of iron barbed thick wires, tangled in a mess on the road. The Jurchens have also never seen this thing, this is the masterpiece of the Ministry of Industry, according to the idea of Aobai to make a barbed wire fence to limit the cavalry, effectively blocking the path of the Eight Banners Army's advance. Don't underestimate these things, it's not so easy to clean up. Not to mention that there are a lot of hangings in front. Or abandon the horse and walk. Or go back. If you retreat, you will have to face the Ming army hiding in the house and placing black arrows. If you abandon the horse, will you be able to go back to the grassland? Horizontal and vertical are a death. A group of Eight Banners soldiers shouted angrily, and many people had a nervous breakdown.

The Huang Taiji troops heading towards the west gate did not encounter any enemy attack until the city gate. People saw a glimmer of hope that the Ming army had concentrated its defensive forces at the north gate, but when they arrived at the gate, there was a cannon fire in front of them, and the cavalry was forced to stop again.

Huang Taiji roared: "Bastard, why did you stop? ”

"Great Khan, there are enemy troops at the door"

Li Yan ordered the Jinyi guards to place more than a dozen tiger squat cannons at the gate of the city, and then the guns began to shoot. The cavalry who rushed to the door were beaten and dismounted.

"Who says our technology is inferior to Hongyi? As long as the tactics are right, you can win the battle with domestic products. ”

"That's right, support domestic products, support tiger squat cannon"

Jinyiwei Feng Baihu and Captain Ge sang and said in harmony. These two people are the most cheerful in the brocade guards, and they are very pleasant, one is full of buckteeth, and the other is bowed. Boss Jiang Qianhu rushed up and kicked one of them, and scolded: "Have you two bastards watched too many advertisements in the capital? , hurry up and let the bullets fly."

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