In the past two years, under the "guidance" of Zhu Youzhen, the Royal Arsenal has produced a lot of firearms. Zhu Youzhen is not a traverser, he just has seen the powerful power of weapons in later generations, and he has no idea how to manufacture the principles of weapons in later generations. However, under Zhu Youzhen's attention, the Royal Arsenal still made certain achievements, and this miniature version of the 10,000-strong enemy grenade was one of the inventions.

However, this battle was the first large-scale use of grenades, and it relied on the explosion of more than 200 grenades to contain the attack of thousands of cavalry, and achieved such a great result, even Zhou Yuji did not dare to imagine it in advance.

Two thousand Eight Banner cavalry, the front cavalry was killed by the collective explosion of grenades, and the corpses of war horses and cavalry were everywhere, preventing the cavalry behind from continuing to advance, and the close-range explosion of the grenade made many war horses frightened, rampaging in the ranks, and they rushed into a mess.

Not too many were killed directly by the grenades, at most only one or two hundred horsemen, but the chaos caused made it completely impossible for the cavalry attack to continue.

Of course, there were occasionally a few war horses that were not frightened, and under the urging of the cavalry, they safely rushed through the grenade explosion range and rushed towards the Praetorian Guard array, but what awaited them was the front row of spears like a forest, and countless volleys of firearms, and they were shot off their horses before they could rush to the front of the Ming army.

The cavalry charge that Erli had painstakingly planned did not even have a chance to fight the Ming army head-on.

Elle always disliked his father Amin's conservative use of soldiers, and always asked to lead troops out of the city to take the initiative to attack the Ming army, but now that he really led troops out of the city, he found that the Ming army was not as weak as he imagined, and his own ability was not as strong as he imagined.

I have to say that in the third generation of the Jiannu clan, Aierli's ability is really mediocre, and even Yue Tuo, who died in Jibei, can't compare.

Seeing that the Jiannu cavalry was in chaos, Zhou Yuji immediately ordered the whole army to attack, and the five thousand Praetorian Guards surrounded the Jiannu cavalry.

The Praetorian Guards formed a small formation in small formations, with spears and bayonets on the outside, and ammunition loaded firecrackers in the middle, and when they encountered the Jiannu cavalry, the pikemen protected the small formation, or stabbed the Jiannu on horseback with spears and bayonets, or were shot at close range by the firecrackers.

The Jiannu cavalry, which fell into confusion, lost its speed, and the cavalry and cavalry were very open, unable to cooperate with each other at all, and there was no way to resist in the face of the attack of the Praetorian Guard's infantry.

Seeing a large number of his subordinates being stabbed off his horse by the Ming army, Erli's face turned pale, and he didn't know what to do.

"Master, quickly retreat." Seeing that the Ming army was surrounding, Goshha, who was beside Elli, shouted.

"Retire, retreat!" Alli came to his senses, quickly turned his horse's head and ran.

As soon as he ran, the Eight Banners soldiers under his command naturally did not fall in love with the battle, and urged their horses to follow and flee. The 2,000 Eight Banners cavalry, and now there are at least 1,500 left, they just fled, and there was no trace of the invincible momentum of the Eight Banners.

However, it is no wonder that the Eight Banners under Erli are not the main force of Jiannu, but are composed of the remnants of each banner, and their combat morale and combat perseverance cannot be compared with the main force at all. If a soldier instigates one, it can really be said that he will instigate a nest! Even the generals who led them in battle have fled, where do they still have the courage to continue fighting?

Fleeing all the way, forgetting to even inform the other cavalry, Erli ran back to the west gate first, seeing the cavalry returning from the city, the west gate of Liaoyang had already been opened, and Erli ignored it and rushed into the city on his horse.

There was another gate in front of it, but it was closed and blocked from Erli's way, but it was the inner gate of the city.

Liaoyang City is the first important town in eastern Liaodong, and the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and southeast are all built with urn cities. The urn city is not big, it is only dozens of zhang square, there are two city gates inside and outside, and now, the outer city gate is open, but the inner city gate leading to the city gate is closed.

"Open the door!" Elley raised his head and shouted at the city wall, but he was greeted by several feathered arrows, and Elley quickly turned his head to avoid the feathered arrows shot at the front door, but he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, and was shot into his left arm by one of the feathered arrows through his armor.

Several horsemen rushed forward, and the guards raised their shields to shield the sky above Elli, who hastily pulled his horse and looked up, only to see the sound of killing on the city wall, and countless people were attacking each other.

Could it be that the Ming army attacked the wall of the West City? Erli was so frightened that he almost jumped out, and he rode his horse back without thinking, but the cavalry behind him was entering the urn city one after another, and he couldn't retreat at all.

"Amin is dead, the imperial army has captured Nancheng, brothers of the Han army, don't give your life to Jiannu anymore!" On the wall of the west city, a brocade-clothed guard spy dressed as a Han army shouted loudly, leading many people dressed as the Han army to kill a few bannermen in the city.

The Ming army mainly attacked Nancheng, and Amin arranged the main forces in Nancheng, and there were less than 1,000 bannermen guarding Xicheng, and the main force of the defenders in Xicheng was the Han army and Baoyi. The Ming army attacked fiercely, and seeing that the southern city was not protected, Amin ordered the transfer of troops from each city, so that there were only two or three hundred people left in the western city, and on the wall of the western city, there were more than 100 Han troops who were rebelled by the Jinyi guard.

Seeing that Elli was defeated and fled back, the Jinyi guards in Xicheng couldn't bear it anymore, and killed the bannermen who were about to open the inner gate of the urn city, and led the Han army anyway to kill the bannermen.

In fact, at this time, the number of bannermen on the city wall was more than that of the Han army anyway, but the Han army was scattered everywhere, sandwiched in front of other Han troops and bannermen, and suddenly launched an attack on the bannermen, caught off guard, at that time, fifty or sixty bannermen were killed on the spot, and the remaining bannermen were all in danger, for the safety of their own lives, regardless of the Han army around them.

Seeing the chaos on the city wall, Erli thought that the Ming army had attacked the city wall at some point, and did not dare to stay in the urn city any longer, so he ordered his guards to break a road out of the city and flee towards the northern city, and the other Jiannu cavalry also fled after Erli's horse.

Seeing that Erli led his troops to escape from the urn city, the remaining two or three hundred Jiannu bannermen on the city wall were also afraid in their hearts, and they even fled one after another, not daring to go to the southern city where the fierce battle was being fought, and fled along the city wall in the direction of the northern city, throwing the western city to the Han army who had just gone anyway.

The southern city of Liaoyang was still fighting fiercely, Amin still swore to resist the attack of the Ming army, and the west gate easily fell into the hands of the Han army anyway, which no one expected.

At the head of Xicheng City, some of the other Han soldiers fled with the bannermen guarding the city, and the rest chose to return to the Ming Dynasty on the spot.

The Ming army attacked the southern city, and Erli was also defeated, and the city was full of fires, and I don't know how many Ming soldiers there were in the city, so how could these Han army soldiers not be afraid?

In the eyes of many people, the decline of the Dajin Kingdom has become inevitable, and there is a chance that Liaoyang City will fall, and most of the families of these Han soldiers are in Liaoyang City, whether it is for their own future and life, or for their own families, it is a matter of course to return to Daming.

These Han army coats used to be Ming people, and many people followed Jiannu to betray helplessly, and now they have returned to the Ming Dynasty, naturally there is no psychological burden, and few people are loyal to Jiannu.

The Jinyi guard secret agent headed by Xicheng is named Du Yong, who is a small banner of Jinyi Wei under Shen Tong, who immediately collected the Han army in the city and reorganized the city defense, and sent people to report to the Ming army outside the city, asking the Ming army to send troops to occupy Xicheng as soon as possible.

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Erli fled, and there was a Jiannu cavalry outside the city, which he had sent to attack the artillery positions of the Tushan Ming army.

Mondo led a thousand cavalry to break away from the brigade, first galloped south, bypassed the Ming army's interception, and penetrated the earth mountain from the southwest.

However, when he rushed to the front of the dirt mountain, Monerdo found that except for the south side, the terrain was relatively gentle, and the other directions were very steep, and the war horses could not climb it at all.

If you want to rush to Tushan and destroy the Ming artillery, you can only attack Tushan from the south.

However, in front of the Mengdo cavalry, there was an infantry formation composed of hundreds of Ming troops, and it was Cao Bianjiao who urgently dispatched five hundred Praetorian Guards to supervise the battle team and block the road of the Jiannu cavalry to attack the mountain.

In order to attack the mountain and destroy the Ming artillery, it was necessary to defeat these hundreds of Janissaries.

The Praetorian Guards were small in number, but they were lined up with their backs to the mountains, and if Jiannu wanted to attack, they could only attack from the bottom up.

However, it is not suitable to attack the earth mountain with cavalry, and even if the war horse can rush up, it will lose its speed. Mondo was a battle-hardened veteran who decided to attack in a row almost without thinking.

The number of Ming troops guarding the mountain was only a few hundred, but his subordinates had as many as 1,000 banners, and it was not difficult to attack Tushan.

Of course, in order to prevent the Ming army from drawing troops to support, the attack must be fierce, and the defense of these hundreds of Ming troops must be broken down at once, so that it is possible to kill the earth mountain and destroy the Ming artillery.

So, Mondo ordered all the cavalry to dismount, leaving not even a single reserve force, and launched a swift attack on Tushan!

As soon as they rushed to the bottom of the mountain, dozens of black dots fell from the sky, and they exploded one after another, or grenades of the Praetorian Guard.

However, the grenade that made a great contribution in front of the Jiannu cavalry did not have such a great effect this time.

Many of the attacking Jiannu had cavalry round shields in their hands, which could effectively block the fragments of the grenade explosion, and the Jiannu dismounted and fought, and no war horses were frightened, so they naturally would not fall into chaos by themselves. The grenade brought some casualties to the attacking Jiannu, but it was not enough to cause Jiannu to fall into chaos.

Mondo is a battle-hardened veteran who is far superior to Elli, who was born in the clan, in terms of command and combat ability. Under his command, more than 1,000 Eight Banners launched a fierce attack on the intercepted Ming army, completely ignoring their own casualties.

The sound of firecrackers rang out, feathered arrows flew in the air, and once the two sides clashed, it was a fierce hand-to-hand combat, and people fell to the ground at every moment.

The Ming army is the most elite Praetorian Guard, Jiannu is the Jiannu banner who stays in the old nest, if you talk about combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not much different, but the problem is that the banner in the hands of Mondo is twice as large as the Ming army.

At the moment of the battle, the intercepted Ming army could not support it, and had to retreat to the Tushan Mountain, almost retreating to the top of the Tushan Mountain.

At this time, Erli was defeated and fled, and the troops in Zhou Yuji's hands were freed up, and Cao Bianjiao was no longer worried that the siege army would be attacked by the Jiannu cavalry, and sent the last reserve in his hand to copy the back road of Jiannu to attack Tushan.

More than 1,000 Praetorian Guards killed from behind Jiannu and surrounded the remaining seven or eight hundred Jiannu under the dirt mountain, and on the top of the mountain, plus the gunners, there were still more than 200 people left in the Ming army, but they stubbornly guarded the road to the top of the mountain and did not retreat.

Waves of grenades fell from the top of the hill and landed in the queue of Jiannu, and exploded, killing and injuring a large number of people.

Monerdo suddenly found that there was no chance to rush to the top of the mountain, because the Ming reinforcements had been killed behind the buttocks, and the war horses under the mountain had fallen into the hands of the Ming army, and there was no chance to escape back to the city.

There is no way up the mountain, there is no way to escape, and the remaining hundreds of bannermen have fallen into a desperate situation.

"Kill the dog!" With a large knife in hand, Mondo rushed towards the top of the mountain, but he was greeted by a rain of bullets......

Seeing that Jiannu, who was attacking the artillery position, was completely annihilated, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji both breathed a sigh of relief.

Some of the Jiannu who left the city fled, and the rest were completely wiped out, and now it was time to concentrate on taking Liaoyang City as best as possible.

There was still a fierce battle on the city wall, and wave after wave of Dongjiang troops climbed up the city wall along the ladder, but Jiannu was still resisting, and the city gate could not be opened.

"Today is the best opportunity, if you can't win Liaoyang today, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult in the future." Cao Bianjiao smiled bitterly.

In this battle, all the cards in the hand have been out, and the Jinyi Wei secret agents sent into the city have moved, and they are all exposed, if they can't take Liaoyang, the Han army and Jinyi Wei secret agents in the city anyway will inevitably be purged by Jiannu, and it will be more difficult to take Liaoyang City if there is no internal response.

"Change the Praetorian Guard, I will personally lead the team to attack the city!" Zhou Yuji rolled up his sleeves and said solemnly.

After all, the combat strength of the Dongjiang army is not good, which is also the reason why it has been unable to take the city for a long time.

"That's all there is to it." Cao Bianjiao sighed. To be honest, he was reluctant to send the elite Praetorian Guards to fight this kind of war of attrition, but now there was no other way.

Just when Zhou Yuji was leading people to replace the Dongjiang army, a horse suddenly galloped from the west and brought back the news that Xicheng was taken by the Han army anyway.

"This, how is this possible?" Cao Bianjiao's first reaction was not to believe it, he couldn't take Nancheng with all his efforts, and he didn't send a single soldier to the west, could the Han army take Xicheng just anyway, why did it sound so mysterious? It's very likely that it's a trick of Jiannu!

"It's true, it's true, the little one came to report the news on the order of Lord Du Yong, the little banner of the Jinyi Guard, this is a token of Lord Du." As he spoke, the man handed over a waist card.

"It's the Jinyi Guard waist card, maybe it's true" Zhou Yuji said, "No matter what, you have to send troops over to take a look, you are still here to command the siege, I'll bring someone over." ”

"Okay, be careful!" Cao Bianjiao nodded.

Zhou Yuji led 5,000 Praetorian Guards to Xicheng quickly, and soon came to Xicheng, and sure enough, he saw the city gate open. Out of prudence, Zhou Yuji first sent hundreds of troops into the city to control the inner and outer city gates, and then led a large army to rush in.

The news of the loss of Xicheng quickly spread to Nancheng, and after hearing the news, Amin let out a long sigh, and his face suddenly aged a lot.

After resisting for so long, the Ming army still entered the city.

However, how can it be so easy to take Liaoyang!

There are still thousands of bannermen in Liaoyang City, and there are many clothed soldiers, not all Han army Baoyi will surrender to Minggou!

First give up the southern city and retreat into the city, control the northern city, and fight street battles with the Ming army in the city, even if Liaoyang is beaten to pieces, you can't let the Ming dog take it easily!

The Great Khan soon returned to Liaodong with his troops, and everything was still possible!