Hong Chengchou originally thought that with the city of Tashan Fort and the Daxing Fort where the Mongolian soldiers were stationed, the Mongolian soldiers could come to support at any time, and it should not be too difficult for them to resist the attack of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the siege of the city, no matter how far you hit it, it will not be useful.

But he didn't expect that in addition to rifles, Daming also had cannons.

The artillery shells that can explode developed by the Ordnance Bureau can be regarded as the strongest firearms in the Ming army at present, before the expedition, Lao Zhu covered up the news of the artillery very much, and after obtaining the artillery, the entire Beijing camp was almost isolated, so until this war, Jiannu did not know that the artillery of the Ming Dynasty had been upgraded to this point.

And because of the sufficient number of artillery, Sun Chuanting did not mean to use the artillery as a secret weapon, so he directly came up and began to blow up.

When the powerful cannonball exploded above the city, the entire soldiers of Fort Tower were frightened.

In the past, when those solid shells were smashed, as long as they hid behind the battlements, there was basically no danger.

But now, this cannonball can explode, how can they hide?

And the most serious problem is that many of the firing methods of these guns developed by the Ordnance Bureau are different from the previous direct firing methods, and now they have been changed to a projectile similar to mortars.

In this way, the shell falls from the sky, and it can explode when it lands, so it is even more impossible to resist.

In a war, only when you attack back and forth between the two sides is called a war.

If only one side attacks, and the other side can't fight back, it's not a war, it's a massacre.

The artillery, which had a range of nearly 1,000 meters, bombarded Songshan Fort indiscriminately, and Songshan Fort did not have any means to return fire at all except for a few limited Hongyi cannons that could sound twice from time to time.

After all, the distance is too far, and there is simply no weapon that can reach such a range, except for heavy artillery such as the Hongyi cannon.

Moreover, because the Hongyi cannon was too heavy, there was no way to move its position at all, and it basically couldn't fight back a few times, and it would be destroyed by the artillery of the Ming army.

With a range of more than 1,000 meters, it can still have accuracy, although the accuracy is not too high, but it is enough to be fatal.

Hong Chengchou felt that this battle could not be fought at all.

And in fact, it was exactly as he expected.

Sun Chuanting's artillery washing the floor, in addition to deterring the defenders in the city and damaging their morale, is more to see the effect of the artillery, otherwise he would not have used so many shells to wash the ground with such extravagance.

After all, Daming Industry has not yet started, and it is not too easy to make artillery shells, and now the artillery shells provided to them by the Ordnance Bureau are still said to be not so large that he can waste them casually.

At this moment, after determining the effect of artillery, Sun Chuanting stopped the artillery offensive and began to attack the city.

It's just that his siege methods are different from the traditional way of climbing the wall and erecting ladders, he directly asked the soldiers to carry the huge shield, and then rushed to the city wall under the rain of arrows, and directly blew the city gate open with explosives.

In front of the yellow powder, the strong city gate was as fragile as paper, but once it happened, the city gate was directly gone.

The morale of the soldiers of Tashan Fort, who were originally bombarded by artillery, was already extremely low, and they had a deep fear of artillery and the Ming army outside, and they didn't dare to fight at all.

And at this moment, with the city gate broken, the Ming soldiers entered Tashan Fort like a tide, and the entire city did not hold on for long before it was declared broken.

After the city was broken, Hong Chengchou, who had already betrayed the country once, did not have such a thick skin to betray the lord twice, so he directly chose to hang himself.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were also very simple, and after confirming with Sun Chuanting that they would not embarrass their soldiers, they also chose to let their soldiers surrender.

As for themselves, they knew that Sun Chuanting would definitely not let them go, so the two of them directly left themselves a decent person, and also chose to cut themselves.

At this point, the tens of thousands of defenders of Tashan Fort could not even hold out for a day, and they were directly broken by the Ming Dynasty.

Because it was broken so quickly, the Mongol soldiers didn't even react, they came from Daxing Fort to support the reinforcements of Tashan Fort, and just after they arrived, they were washed by a round of artillery.

Then the new Shasebo rifle equipped by the Ming Dynasty gave Mongolia a big surprise.

With a rate of fire of more than a dozen rounds per minute, there is no need for any three-stage shooting at all, just hold the gun and shoot at the opposite side.

For a while, all the battlefields were raining bullets, and they relied on the scimitars in the hands of the Mongolian soldiers to fight with the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and these Mongolian soldiers didn't even touch anyone, and their side was almost gone.

A good cold weapon war has made the Ming Dynasty evolve the era of hot weapons in advance.

The 30,000 Mongolian elites who originally came to aid finally fled back less than one-third, and the casualties on the Ming side did not break through the triple digits at all.

This can no longer be called a war, it can only be a one-sided slaughter.

After Sun Chuanting captured Tashan Fort, he did not rush to send troops, but let the army rest in Tashan Fort for several days.

It is worth mentioning that because the Ming army basically had no casualties, Sun Chuanting's main thing to do in the past few days was to deal with the prisoners of Tashan Fort.

After the matter of the prisoners was settled, the Mongolian soldiers of Daxingbao had already run away.

After all, those Mongolian cavalry knew very well the strength of the army under Hong Chengchou's command, and many of those soldiers were the elite soldiers of the original Ming Dynasty, but they surrendered before they could survive a day, and the Ming Dynasty also wiped out more than 10,000 of them.

This kind of terrifying strength is simply not something they can resist.

They are here to fight, not to send them to death, and they will definitely not be able to defend the city that Hong Chengchou can't hold.

Therefore, the Mongolian generals stationed in Daxingbao naturally made a decision, that is, they directly led the army to withdraw to Jinzhou City.

If Azig and Dolgon dared not let them go back, then they would dare to surrender directly to the Ming army.

But fortunately, neither Zilharang nor Dolgon were stupid people, and after learning that Hong Chengchou was broken in one day, they did not hesitate at all, and directly let the Mongol soldiers enter the city.

The firearms of the Ming army were too strong, and they had to concentrate all their forces on the defense of Jinzhou.

As for testing the strength of the Ming army, let's wait until they keep Jinzhou City first.

According to the information they know so far, the Ming army's firepower is a little foul.

Although Jinzhou is a big city, and they have concentrated the vast majority of the troops of the vanguard army, they have no bottom in their hearts about whether they can hold Jinzhou City, whether it is Zilharang or Dolgon.