Huang Taiji was paranoid that the Jurchen warriors should get up from where they fell, as long as they captured Ning Yuan, stabbed Yuan Chonghuan, and even slaughtered the city. Not only was his father's great revenge revenge, but the majesty of Tiancong Khan could also be established in an instant.

"Only Ning Yuan's blood can wash away the shame of the Jurchen!" Huang Taiji yelled in his heart!

He sat up and stood up, ignoring the fierce opposition of Azig Fan Wencheng and other military generals, he led the whole army to withdraw from the south gate of Jinzhou, and marched straight to Ningyuan, without even camouflage and feints.

This extremely ruthless general immediately made Zu Dashou as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and scolded Huang Taiji for being insidious and cunning even worse than his father.

Wu Sangui was furious, and his bearded uncle Zu Dale was clothed all over his body, ready to follow Zu Dashou to the outside of the city at any time, pursue Huang Taiji, and prevent him from attacking Ningyuan.

The rest of the soldiers, including the calm general Zuo Fu Zhu Mei who defended the city, and the warrior general Zhang Ji Puzu Dabi, were mostly frightened and panicked, lest Ning Yuan would be caught off guard and lost.

At that time, just as Huang Taiji thought, all the walled fortresses of the Ming Dynasty outside Shanhaiguan will no longer have a foothold, and they will be self-defeating, and the soldiers and civilians of Jinzhou will be even more wolf because they are the farthest away from the pass.

Fortunately, there are still some sensible people in Jinzhou City, in addition to Huang Zongxi's best admonition, the great eunuch Ji Yong, who has never shown the authority of the supervising army, is also one of them.

However, as usual, he did not tell the Guanning Army Jinzhou Guard General Zu Dashou what he could do and what he should do, and he didn't even say a word.

just ceremoniously put on the clothes that the emperor ordered him to go out of the customs to Jinzhou to supervise the army, and took a few Dongchang fans brought from the capital, and stood on the wall of Yong'anmen in the south of Jinzhou.

From beginning to end, he stood with his head held high, standing with his hands in his hands, without sorrow or joy, letting the sparse but bean-sized raindrops fall on his face, and on his body that has found the value of life because of the exploration of new crops, he did not hesitate.

Ji Gonggong's grotesque quiet behavior conveys a signal of "you just keep Jinzhou well, and the emperor will have his own father-in-law to take care of it".

Seeing this, Zu Dashou, who was rough on the outside and shrewd on the inside, finally calmed down from his anxious and irritable state, and the soldiers in the city quickly recovered from their fear.

Wu Sangui, who almost interpreted his anger into anger, finally added a layer of brain circuits.

Zu Dashou habitually turned his cannibalistic inquiring gaze to Chongzhen, who always didn't say a word, but always followed him closely.

Chongzhen knew that the time for admonishment had finally come, so he immediately explained to Zu Dashou in detail the other purpose of Huang Taiji's move - that is, to lure Zu Dashou to lead the army out of the city to pursue.

After Mang Gutai and Ah Shan learned about it, they would definitely attack the city, and even sent troops to cut off Zu Dashou's way back to Jinzhou, while Huang Taiji turned around to attack.

At that time, no matter whether Yuan Chonghuan of Ningyuan is prepared or not, Jinzhou will be in danger.

Zu Dashou learned that he almost fell for Huang Taiji's tricks, and while scolding angrily, he sweated like pulp.

Chongzhen asked someone to bring a dry cloth, and persuaded Zu Dashou to take off his armor on the grounds that "the general alone is responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou", and personally wiped all the sweat on his body and put on a dry lining.

Zu Dashou re-draped his whole body with the help of Chongzhen and Huang Zongxi, and then he exhaled a long breath of depressed turbidity, but his worries about Ning Yuan were still not relieved, so he spread his hands and asked, "What can I do about it?" ”

Chongzhen and Huang Zongxi glanced at each other, and under the encouragement of the former's nod, the latter said: "General and relieved, although Huang Taiji's plan is both vicious and unexpected, the marshal must be on guard, and Ning Yuan must be foolproof." ”

Zu Dashou said unconvinced: "How do you know? ”

Huang Zongxi said: "Because as early as when Huang Taiji led the army to attack, the marshal personally sat in the town on the grounds of 'Ningyuan cannot afford to lose', instead of rushing to Jinzhou as others expected, going to the front line in person, and commanding in person." ”

"You mean, the marshal had long expected that Huang Taiji would make such an insidious move?"

"Yes." Huang Zongxi nodded heavily.

"How so?"

Faced with Zu Dashou's questioning again, Huang Zongxi no longer spoke, but set his eyes on Chongzhen.

Zu Dashou's gaze, which was never completely reassured, was finally fixed on this young man.

I saw Chongzhen smile confidently and said: "Actually, there is only one reason for it, and that is - Ning Yuan, it is the death of Houjin." You and I can expect it, let alone Yuan Shuai? ”

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure!"

Zu Dashou confirmed again and again and received an affirmative answer, and finally took a deep breath.

persuaded himself that he was no longer worried about the battle situation that Ning Yuan would face, and only sent a large number of scouts in the direction of Ning Yuan, and put all his thoughts into the battle to defend Jinzhou.

When Ah Shan, who was staring at the east gate of Jinzhou with squinted eyes like a poisonous snake, and learned that Huang Taiji didn't even say hello, he personally led the Chinese army to retreat and rushed straight to Ning Yuan, he suddenly jumped up in anger and scolded.

But after the jump, after the scolding, he still has to wipe the ass for the wayward and paranoid old eight - no matter whether Zu Dashou will be successful or not, the eighth child's retreat cannot be cut off.

In his proud cognition, no matter how much Tiancong Khan of Houjin has, but the Great Khan is the Great Khan after all, and it is about the glory of the Eight Banners, so he should have the pride of the Great Khan.

If the way back is blocked by Zu Dashou, even if it is only blocked for three days or five days, it will be the greatest shame since the slave chieftain raised his army to attack the Ming Dynasty with the "Seven Great Hatreds", which is infinitely close to the Ming Yingzong being captured by Wara Yexian.

Ah Shan, who strives to maintain the dignity and stability of Houjin, will never allow such a thing to happen.

In order to put pressure on Zu Dashou and make him unable to spare his troops to block Huang Taiji's retreat at all costs, Ah Shan, who is like a good man, finally issued the most stringent military order in the name of Jin Dabeile - to attack the city with all his might!

He even did not hesitate to go to the battle line himself, and commanded his army to attack the city very close to the range of the red-coated cannons.

As a result, the two Red Banner soldiers teamed up with the 10,000 serf army, and hardly gave Zuo Fu, the guard of the East Gate, any respite.

The only outer city in Jinzhou outside the Ningyuan Gate, its walls themselves are weaker than the four main city walls, and they have to be attacked on three sides because they are alone and protruding.

Therefore, under the more frantic and fierce offensive commanded by Dai Shan than Mang Gurtai, Zuo Fu tried his best, but the outer city was still lost.

When the defenders of the outer city were in a tide and retreated in panic and retreat to Ningyuanmen Urn City, Zuo Fu felt deeply entrusted by his ancestors, and suddenly became angry.

He led his guards to sword immediately, but he didn't even kill a single of his subordinates who swept past the horse, but just stared at the Houjin serf army that broke through the outer city gate and poured in like ants.

The situation has taken a turn for the worse and is extremely critical.

Seeing this, Zhang Jipu, who was temporarily transferred by Zu Dashou, saw that it was too late for rescue and could not squeeze through, and if he dared to shoot with a strong crossbow or bombard with a cannon, he was afraid of hurting his own people.

With a roar, he took off his armor and, bare-chested, snatched the mallet from the sluggish drummer, and beat the drums with a loud bang.

The young war drummers woke up from a dream and beat the war drums one after another.

They were thin and strong, and they did not have the power of shouting while beating drums like Zhang Jipu, so they gritted their teeth and only used all their strength through the drumsticks to beat on the thick drum surface.

Knock knock......

The heavy sound of war drums seemed to hit people's hearts, and the defenders of the outer city who were panicked and defeated finally regained a trace of their senses, and when they turned to look, they saw that General Zuo Fu was personally leading the army to fight bloodily, not giving an inch, just to buy the young soldiers behind them a moment more time to retreat to the inner city.

One hundred and ten guards, under his leadership, forced a Jurchen foot soldier who followed the serf army to the middle of the long street, which was not very wide.

However, more and more Jurchen foot soldiers jumped on the roof of the house like leopards, and while bending their bows to shoot arrows at the Guan Ning soldiers who were crowded and fleeing on the long street, they pounced on them fiercely.

These Jurchen foot soldiers finally found the pleasant feeling of slaughtering the Ming soldiers again, and they couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar, enjoying it extraordinarily.

Zuo Fu was anxious and angry, roaring and leading the remaining fifty or sixty personal guards to attack bravely instead of advancing and retreating, so that more Jurchen soldiers who had invaded the outer city had to concentrate on taking the lead in dealing with them.

In an instant, Zuo Fu was already covered with more than ten wounds, and his personal guards were even more deadly and wounded, but they were still fighting endlessly.

Seeing this, Zhang Jipu, who was playing the drum, turned his head and paid close attention to the occupied, his eyes were about to split, and his arms were piercing and struggling to swing the drumsticks and beat on the war drums, making a denser and thicker drum sound.

The lanky war drummers no longer cared about anything else, beating the drums and roaring without a head, just hoping that these drums, which still converged into the same drum beat, could replace themselves and go into battle to kill the enemy.

The Guanning soldiers on the Yong'an city wall also roared angrily, cheering for the old general who fought bloodily, and they only hated to have their wings on their ribs and flew to the old general's side to resist the enemy from the flank.

But no one has ever aimed the crossbow or firearm in his hand at his own people on the long street under the city.

"For the sake of victory, shoot at me!"

When there were only more than a dozen guards left by Zuo Fu's side, who was covered in blood, he cut off the neck of a Jurchen foot soldier with a knife, turned around in a hurry, and roared sadly at Yong'an Gate with a bloody face.

Zhang Jipu couldn't control his anger anymore, and slammed the drumstick on the war drum, and actually hammered the thick drum surface, and then his hair was all open, and he roared angrily with a red face and a thick neck: "Open the cannon!" ”

Rumble!

The only red-clothed cannon at the head of Yong'an City sent out a cannonball, rushing towards the outer city gate with a hot spark.

The grief and anger of the tough guy Zhang Jipu who was about to melt his chest finally turned into a drop of hot tears, which slowly slid down his cheeks that were extremely rough by the wind and frost.