According to Huang Taiji's original plan, he besieged Jinzhou and Songshan and other forts without attacking, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty to encircle and send reinforcements.

Although the Eight Banners are elite, the total number of adult bannermen in the entire Dajin Kingdom is less than 100,000, and according to the three dings, 20,000 or 30,000 bannermen will be recruited for each expedition, and the others are the remaining bannermen who voluntarily participate, and the clothed slaves who belong to the bannermen.

For Huang Taiji, whether it is a conscripted escort battalion, or an unarmored infantry banner, or even a clothed slave, it is a valuable asset to the sparsely populated Dajin, and he is not willing to use it in the storming of the castle for nothing.

However, the attack and burning of the grain team completely angered Huang Taiji, although he was not shocked on the surface, but in his heart he was actually very angry, and he must return to the field with a tooth for a tooth!

Jinzhou City was fortified and defended with many soldiers, and Huang Taiji did not have the confidence to storm it, so he decided to attack Songshan Fort, which was twenty miles away from Jinzhou.

Under the orders of Huang Taiji, the Eight Banners launched a strong attack on Songshan Fort.

Thousands of archers of the Eight Banners stood under the city wall, shooting round after round of arrow rain at the city, under the cover of the arrow rain, the clothed slaves carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall frantically.

As long as he can climb the city wall, he can be relieved of his status as a slave and carry the flag into the Han army.

On the city wall, the soldiers of the Ming army returned fire with guns and artillery, and from time to time the clothed slaves were shot and fell.

However, the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners are too powerful, and there are too many marksmen, although they shoot from the bottom up, they still overwhelm the Ming army at the head of the city, and from time to time there are Ming soldiers who are shot from the head of the city.

In this era of alternating hot and cold weapons, to be honest, the power of the firearm is not even as powerful as that of a bow and arrow, and the slow reloading speed is its biggest drawback. The Eight Banners are all soldiers, all of them have practiced bow and arrow martial arts since they were young, and they are professional soldiers when they become adults, and most of their archery skills are very exquisite.

Although most of the soldiers of the Ming army were also military households, the time spent farming far exceeded the training, and most of the soldiers did not know how to use bows and arrows, and the rate of fire of the fire gun was too slow, so although it was protected by the battlements of the city wall, it was still inferior in shooting against the Eight Banners. Rounds of arrows rained down on the city, killing and wounding many soldiers, forcing other soldiers to fight with shields.

However, under the leadership of the commander-in-chief You Shilu, the soldiers of the Ming army braved the rain of arrows to fight with Jiannu, thwarting Jiannu's attacks again and again.

Feathered arrows flew, guns roared, and people fell all the time.

"General, the east side is lost, and Jiannu has climbed the city wall!" Suddenly, one of his subordinates exclaimed.

"The family team comes with me!" The chief soldier You Shilu roared angrily and led the family team to kill Dongcheng.

paid the price of dozens of casualties, and finally drove the Jiannu of Fengcheng down. Looking at Jiannu who was retreating like a tide, You Shilu frowned, the intensity of Jiannu's siege exceeded his imagination, completely ignoring the rhythm of his own casualties. Without reinforcements, how long can Matsuyama Fort be held?

"General, the brothers lost four hundred and seventy-eight killed and five hundred and sixty-two wounded, more than thirty percent of the casualties." In the evening, the adjutant general said with a bleak face.

"In just one day, more than three percent of the casualties were lost?" You Shilu gasped.

With such a large number of casualties, if it weren't for the city wall, his subordinates would have collapsed a long time ago.

"If there are no reinforcements, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for a few days." The adjutant general said sadly.

Reinforcements, will there be reinforcements? Looking at the night sky outside the city, You Shilu was silent. Obviously, Jiannu adopted the strategy of besieging the city to send reinforcements, and the purpose of attacking Songshan was to attract the Ming army in Jinzhou or Ningyuan.

"With or without reinforcements, I'll just fight to the death!" You Shilu gritted his teeth and said.

In the Eight Banners camp, in the big tent, listening to the casualties reported by his subordinates, Huang Taiji was also silent. In the one-day siege, there were more than 1,000 casualties, although most of them were coats, but the bannermen also lost three or four hundred people.

It would be nice if there were Hongyi cannons like the Ming army, looking at Songshan Fort in the darkness in the distance, Huang Taiji thought to himself. With the Hongyi cannon, you can use artillery to blast through the city wall, and you don't have to fill it with the lives of the Eight Banners warriors.

"Tomorrow, send the military battalion to fight, be sure to take Songshan Fort, and slaughter the soldiers and civilians in the fort!" Huang Taiji said lightly.

"Wow!" Mang Gurtai and other Eight Banner generals responded one after another.

The Guardians, also known as the White-Armored Soldiers and the Red-Armored Soldiers, are the most elite existences in the Eight Banners Army, each wearing two layers of three-layer armor, which even the guns cannot easily shoot through. The use of the guard camp shows that Huang Taiji has made up his mind to take Songshan Fort.

The next day's battle was even more fierce than the previous day, and You Shilu was shocked to find that the Eight Banners soldiers who were besieging the city seemed to have changed people, and on the ladder, many Eight Banners soldiers were obviously hit by the fire and there were no one, still climbing up with weapons. Some of the Eight Banners soldiers were thrown down the ladder by stones, and they actually got up from the ground to continue the attack.

"With gold juice!" You Shilu roared angrily.

The Ming soldiers picked up the boiling cauldron, scooped up the boiling liquid in the pot with a spoon, and poured it towards the bottom of the city wall, and immediately a miserable cry sounded below.

However, even though their faces were seriously injured by boiling water, many of the Eight Banners who climbed the ladder still ignored it and continued to climb upward.

Looking at this situation, You Shilu gasped, knowing that he was in big trouble, and Jiannu should have sent the most elite guard battalion.

The soldiers of the Ming army were still fighting bravely, but they could not stop Jiannu from climbing the city, and finally, the sound of fighting sounded at the head of the city, and one after another the white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, and the Ming soldiers fought together, and from time to time the Ming soldiers were cut down to the ground.

In terms of individual combat strength, ordinary Ming soldiers simply cannot be compared with the most elite Jiannu Protectors.

"General, we can't beat it, let's descend." The lieutenant pleaded.

You Shilu didn't speak, he raised his hand and slashed the deputy general to the ground.

"Whether there is an enemy or not, I, Songshan Fort, would rather die in battle than surrender!" You Shilu roared angrily and rushed towards the white-armored soldiers in Fengcheng with his family team.

On that day, Songshan Fort fell, and more than 3,000 Ming troops from the general soldier You Shilu were all killed and martyred.

In order to conquer Songshan Fort, Jiannu also paid nearly 2,000 casualties, of which more than 100 people were killed in the battle by the white-armored and red-armored guards, and the slave chief Huang Taiji was furious and ordered to slaughter Songshan City, and more than 8,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were slaughtered.

After capturing Songshan, Huang Taiji ordered to attack Xingshan, Wu Xiang, the defender of Xingshan Fort, was frightened by the tragic situation of Songshan, and led his Ming army to abandon Xingshan Fort, retreating towards Ningyuan, halfway was caught up by the Jiannu cavalry, thousands of Ming troops were defeated, Wu Xiang fled on horseback under the protection of the family, leaving thousands of soldiers and civilians behind.

Jiannu took Xingshan lightly, captured thousands of Ming people, and the military rations were also replenished to a certain extent, Huang Taiji ordered to attack Lianshan Fort, and there was a great posture of capturing all the fortresses in Ningjinjian.