"Fixed-shot loading, the direction is not four quarters and three minutes, ready to ...... Put! ”

"Boom, boom—"

When the time came to the early morning, when the grassland was filled with fog, 1,500 gunners of the Ming Army's Sanwei controlled 100 five-pound Yanshan General Cannons and launched an artillery bombardment on the city of Geljurgen.

The sound of "Penglong" continued to sound, and stone projectiles flew in the mist, bombarding the rammed-earth city of Grejurgen into a mess and splashing dust.

The black-gray rammed earth city raised "gray smoke" that contrasted with the white fog.

The fog was so thick that it was almost impossible to see anything else from ten paces away, and all that could be vaguely seen was the constant flickering of artillery fire in the dense fog.

"In mid-March, there is often a thick fog in the early morning in the Horqin grassland."

When the gunners shelled the city of Geljurgen, Ma Dayong, who was in charge of acting as a guide, was explaining the weather to Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in the saddle.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen had no shelf, so he sat down after putting the saddle on the ground, while Ma Dayong sat on the grass.

In accordance with Zhu Youzhen's military orders, Man Gui and Sun Shoufa commanded the front army and the rear army.

Regarding Ma Dayong's words, Zhu Youzhen also asked: "Is it because of Liaoze?" ”

"Yes, Your Highness......" explained Marthaus:

"Liaoze is 200 miles from east to west and more than 700 miles from north to south, and the water vapor is abundant, so every morning, there is a dense fog in the southeast of the Horqin grassland, which is surrounded by the Taer River and Liaoze."

"Well......" Hearing Ma Dayong's words, Zhu Youzhen bowed his head slightly and said that he understood.

Through some books in the imperial palace's collection, Zhu Youzhen knew very well that compared with the dense forests of the Sanjiang Plain in this era, Liaoze, which actually covered most of the Songnen Plain and the Liaohe Plain, was the most difficult to deal with.

Although Liaoze brings black soil rich in trace elements, if you want to get this black soil, you have to develop the swamp into a plain.

However, even in the later generations of scientific and technological progress, Liaoze did not disappear completely, but turned into a small lake dotted with stars, existing in the vast Songnen Plain and Liaohe Plain.

In the vast swampy area, water vapor can form such a scale every morning, which can be regarded as nourishing the Horqin grassland in disguise.

"Peng Peng Peng—"

Suddenly, a dull cannon sound appeared, and Zhu Youzhen, who had a keen sense of hearing, immediately heard that something was wrong, and immediately said:

"What's going on? Was it blown up or was it too much gunpowder? ”

Zhu Youzhen did not think about whether this would be the enemy's artillery, the reason is simple, the Mongols did not have the technology to cast artillery.

"Your Highness! There were fires and artillery at the head of the city of Grejurgen, and our positions were shelled, but there were no casualties. ”

After a long time, the Tang of the former army rode back and forth, and Zhu Youzhen heard that artillery appeared at the head of the city of Geljurgen, and immediately commanded:

"The artillery of the front army moved back three hundred paces, and sent people to patrol the battlefield to see the range of the enemy's artillery."

"Yes!" As soon as the Tang cavalry arrived at Huiyu, he turned around and rode his horse to convey the military order.

After a while, a different pond rider ran back, dismounted, and said:

"Your Highness, the enemy's artillery range is less than a mile, about three hundred and fifty paces......"

"......" got the reply, Zhu Youzhen stood up and said to the commander of Yu Linwei beside him:

"The surrounding pond cavalry has increased the exploration range to sixty miles, and see if there is any trace of Jianyu in the four places."

"The artillery of more than 350 steps, as well as the sound of this cannon, should be the iron cannon craftsmanship of Jianyu."

"Since important armaments such as iron cannons have arrived in the city of Glejurgen, there is no reason why Jianyu did not send troops to garrison them."

"In addition, he sent a message to Zhou Yuji, the commander of Long Xiangwei, and told him to garrison the post road mountain pass, clean up the miscellaneous trees, and make a firebreak on the spot according to the formation map to prevent the enemy from attacking."

"Tell Zhou Yuji that as long as he guards the mountain pass well, he will be credited with a great achievement!"

"The last general commands!" When the commander of Yu Linwei heard this, he immediately sent Tang to ride a fast horse to spread the news to the post road mountain pass more than 300 miles away.

After seeing the other party's arrangement with his own eyes, Zhu Youzhen calmed down.

Zhou Yuji was found and elected by Sun Yingyuan from the recruited soldiers, and he had already participated in the Battle of Hetao in the army in obscurity, and was promoted to Longxiang Wei Qianhu.

Before the expedition, Zhu Youzhen saw his name from the list of generals who went out to the expedition, and this time he needed people to supervise the baggage line in the Guannei, so Zhu Youzhen transferred the original commander of Long Xiangwei to the rear and let Zhou Yuji serve as the commander of Long Xiangwei.

However, this does not mean that Zhou Yuji is the fixed commander of Long Xiangwei, he is only temporarily replaced in name.

In view of Zhou Yuji's historical record of garrisoning Ningwu Pass, and he also participated in the Battle of Hetao, Zhu Youzhen was relieved to leave the post road pass to him to garrison, giving him military exploits in disguise.

It's just that this arrangement is used to deal with Horqin and Oba, but at present, the opponent may be transformed into generals such as Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai, or Daishan among the captives, and Zhu Youzhen has to take extra precautions.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The dense sound of artillery rang out again after a lap of incense, and the thick fog of the early morning began to slowly dissipate as time passed.

When five rounds of shelling had passed, three quarters of an hour had passed, the fog had completely dissipated, and the entire battlefield had appeared in front of thousands of Mongols at the head of the city of Geljurgen.

One and a half miles away, a hundred black holes and five-pound Yanshan General guns were aimed at the city of Gelejurgen, and behind them were tens of thousands of Ming troops.

After the release of the Tang cavalry, there were still 13,000 people in the headquarters of the Ming army.

Dressed in mandarin duck battle jackets, cotton armor, cloth face armor, arm armor, armoured armour, wearing a hood, a back step, and a long sword and a golden hammer across the waist, the Ming army lined up neatly, and more than 200 red flags waving in the wind stood among them.

In the Horqin grassland in spring, these more than 200 banners are hunted by the spring breeze blowing.

Perhaps compared with the endless Horqin grassland, this point of soldiers and horses is insignificant.

But what makes many Mongolian nobles unable to breathe more than the entire Horqin steppe is the Ming army's military array, which is constantly blown by the spring breeze......

"Qi?"

"Zhu Youzhen is here?!"

"How dare he come!"

"This is the main force of the Ming army, Zhu Youzhen and Man Gui are here!"

When Zhu Youzhen's Daxu appeared, for a while, many Korqin nobles at the head of Geljurgen City began to panic.

They had never fought with Zhu Youzhen, but many of them had learned about Zhu Youzhen from Bo Huang.

In addition, they have an understanding of the strength of Chahar and Karaqin, and Zhu Youzhen looked like he wanted to clean up Chahar and Karaqin before the war.

The fact that Zhu Youzhen is here now can only mean that the combined forces of Chahar and Karaqin have been defeated or repulsed.

Both coalition armies, which had three times the number of troops and horses of Korqin, were repulsed or defeated, so what about them?

For a time, the people at the head of the city of Geljurgen were panicked, and even the leader of the Korqin League, Oba, heard the news of Zhu Youzhen's arrival, and hurriedly took advantage of the end of the shelling to run from the root of the city wall to the city.

"It's over......"

When he saw that the big silk with the same characters on the face really appeared, only these two words appeared in his mind, and the rest was blank.

He was not afraid and afraid of Zhu Youzhen, but he knew that if the news of Zhu Youzhen's arrival appeared, some tribes in the Horqin tribes who wanted to come to support would definitely stop.

The three major parts of the Hetao have been swept away, who will touch this mold?

What's more, Zhu Youzhen arrived, who knows how many soldiers and horses in the rear of the Ming army did not rush to the front line?

The Horqin tribes, Taiji and Baylor had not fought against the Han for too long, and they did not know much about the cost and requirements of the expedition that the Han people needed.

In their opinion, the Ming army sent 20,000 troops to an expedition of 2,000 miles, at most it was more than 100,000 people, and they couldn't imagine that the Ming army could fight here was already the limit of 300,000 people and more than 30,000 herdsmen.

Zhu Youzhen only brought ten days of military rations, and he had to take the city of Gelezhurgen within four days, and this time was more than enough for Shangzhi.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

Artillery roared, and rammed earth splashed at the head of the city.

Due to the lack of distance, the artillery at the head of the city of Grejurgen was basically useless, and the one-foot-thick city wall was constantly collapsing.

Pieces of rammed earth were slid down by the shelling, and the walls became more and more dangerous.

As the leader of the alliance, Oba watched this scene, and while he was anxious, he couldn't help but feel resentment towards Huang Taiji.

If the Horqin tribe could hold out under such firepower for six days, he Oba would have dominated the grassland long ago!

"Great Khan, or we surrender? I heard that Saihan of Tumut surrendered and obtained the title of Earl of Yinshan, and if you surrender to the Great Khan, you may be able to obtain a marquis. ”

At the critical moment, unexpected words appeared, and some Mongolian nobles had already begun to think about how to surrender, and such a move made Oba speechless.

He wanted to stop his subordinates, but when he thought that Huang Taiji had asked him to defend for six days, he instantly wavered again.

Of the 9,000 Mongol cavalry in Oba's headquarters, only 5,000 were dressed in triple armor, and the remaining 4,000 were ordinary chain mail.

In the face of the siege after more than 10,000 soldiers and horses broke the city, can he stick to the city of Glejurgen?

"Withdraw!"

Kudhi and Oba suddenly gave an order and demanded that the army withdraw from the city of Grejurgen.

Obviously, although he did not obey Huang Taiji's military orders, he did not want to give up his identity as the lord of Horqin, and ran to the Ming Dynasty to be a bereaved dog with a wagging tail and begging for mercy.

He was ready to give full play to the Mongols' housekeeping skills and run ......

Anyway, Huang Taiji just asked him to hold off the Ming army for six days, and it was a drag to hold on here, and it was also a drag to go out of the city.

In this case, it is better to drag the Ming army in the escape, and then see how Huang Taiji's side is and whether he can defeat the Ming army.

If Huang Taiji can't do it, then it's not too late for Obata to surrender.

Anyway, there are many tribes on the Horqin grassland, there are cattle and sheep everywhere, he just needs to take people to run, don't bring cattle and sheep.

If many of his subordinates betrayed him, then he would take people to Shangjing to eat Houjin's grain.

With such an idea, Oba decisively ordered, and some Mongolian nobles who wanted to make Oba surrender and follow him into the customs seemed a little hesitant when they heard this.

However, after hesitation, they ordered many of the people in the city to prepare horses and enough food for ten days, and retreat east after an hour.

For a while, the head of the city of Glejurgen was crowded, and Man Gui, who was the commander of the former army, noticed such a change with his double-barreled clairvoyance, and immediately rode on the pond next to him:

"Go and tell Your Highness that Oba has signs of fleeing."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Tang Qi immediately rode away, and after dozens of breaths, he rode his horse to Zhu Youzhen and passed the news to him.

"The cavalry of the Chinese army and the front army blocked the south, north and east gates of Geljurgen City, and if he had the ability, he would lead people to break through from the west gate!"

The West Gate is the main gate of the Ming army, and Zhu Youzhen dared to say so, that is, it was expected that Oba would not dare to break through from the West Gate.

Therefore, as long as the other three gates were sealed, Oba would naturally be trapped and die in the city of Glejurgen.

However, after such a division of troops, the number of Ming troops also began to decrease rapidly.

After the 6,000 cavalry left, there were 7,000 people left outside the west city, and 1,500 of them were the elite of the cavalry who dismounted as gunners and mounted as cavalry.

The artillery shelled every other stick of incense, and from early morning to now, for a full hour, nearly 20,000 stone shells and 30,000 catties of gunpowder were consumed.

The Ming army did not bring many supplies, so this consumption left the Ming army's inventory of stone bullets with only a few thousand.

But even so, the city of Grejurgen will not last long.

The rammed earth wall was extremely vulnerable to artillery shells, and when the Ming army completely ran out of stone shells after half an hour, the western wall of Geljurgen was in ruins.

The rammed earth wall more than a foot high was only a remnant of the eaves that was less than a human height, and all the Mongols withdrew early, and when the Ming artillery stopped, the east gate of Geljurgen suddenly opened, and a steady stream of cavalry rushed out of it.

"Kill!"

Thousands of Mongols tried to pour out, and in front of them were two thousand cavalry.

However, in the face of the Mongol charge, they did not panic, but formed a square phalanx and raised their infantry on horseback.

On this uneven firing platform, the first platoon of cavalry calmly pulled the trigger.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The crisp sound of guns killed hundreds of Mongol cavalry in the lead, and after the shots, the first platoon also carried the rifles on their backs, while driving the horses to retreat to both sides.

Eighty paces was enough for the infantry to pierce the chain mail and give the cavalry time to retreat.

The cavalry team fought and fought each other, first emptying out the long-range rifles, then carrying the rifles, raising the loaded rifles and starting to retreat while fighting.

Their task was very simple, mainly to entangle the Mongol cavalry that broke through, and the fallen cavalry and war horses would become obstacles to prevent the Mongol cavalry from increasing their horse speed.

They were stalling for time, and the 4,000 cavalry of the north and south gates began to rush.

The number of people who broke through the siege was more than 30,000, of which 20,000 were old and weak, women and children, and less than 10,000 soldiers could fight.

Under the resistance of 2,000 cavalry, the speed of the army could not be raised, which made the very tormented Oba immediately order:

"The people scattered, each of them fled, and went to the confluence of Zhuoliktu!"

"Woo-woo-"

The horn sounded, and the tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry who heard the horn sounded like a school of fish that had been alarmed, and instantly began to spread to the left and right.

However, in this chaos, many soldiers are looking for their families and escorting them to retreat.

As a result, there were less than 3,000 cavalry who actually followed Oba's side.

At this time, the Ming army of the north and south city walls also rushed over, from the opening of the east city to the present, but in the time of a stick of incense, they have completed the task of supporting.

The number of cavalry of the Ming army was small, but the goal was very clear, and when the 6,000 cavalry of Horqin cavalry dispersed, they chased straight towards Oba's Daxu.

When the news came back to Xicheng, it was after two incense sticks, and Man Gui immediately prepared to lead the cavalry of the front army to pursue when he heard the sound.

"The whole army ......"

"Don't move, all the ministers! Passed on the military order of His Royal Highness, and the three armies rested for five hours. ”

"Five hours later, the rear army withdrew to the post road pass, and the Chinese army was stationed in the city of Geljurgen after capturing the cattle and sheep in the city of Geljurgen."

"The remnants of the front army gathered the sentry cavalry, and retreated to the mountain pass fifty miles away from the rear army!"

Before the Mangui military order was issued, the Tang cavalry of the Chinese army came with Zhu Youzhen's military order, interrupting his desire to pursue.

"The former army artillery entered the city, collected intact stone shells, and counted the seizures in the city."

Under Zhu Youzhen's military order, Man Gui began to calmly clean up the battlefield and count the captured arrangements.

However, after doing it, he still led people to the Chinese army, and met Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in the saddle and frowning with a map in hand.

"Your Highness!"

Almost at the same time, Man Gui of the former army and Sun Shoufa of the rear army arrived at the same time and saluted Zhu Youzhen.

"Scratch your tongue first, and ask Jian Yu if he has been here and who is leading the troops."

Zhu Youzhen had almost determined that someone from Houjin had led his troops to come, otherwise according to the strategy that Oba was currently showing, it would be impossible to stop the Ming army in the city of Geljurgen for an hour and a half.

If Oba was a reckless man, he would have held on to the city of Gljurgen, but after holding on, he would have a street fight with the Ming army instead of retreating.

If Oba was scheming and cowardly, then he should have quickly retreated north and east before the Ming army arrived last night, instead of staying to stop the Ming army.

Now his behavior is as if he is being controlled by someone and has some task on him.

After such awkwardness was detected by Zhu Youzhen, coupled with the artillery of the Jin Army at the head of the city, Zhu Youzhen could conclude that someone from Jianyu's side came.

It's just that due to the lack of intelligence, he doesn't know who the person who came and how many troops there are.

At present, it seems that it may be any of the four people of Mang Gurtai, Dai Shan, Huang Taiji, or Zilharang.

If it is Mang Gurtai, it means that the old slave has abandoned Yidong River City.

If it is Dai Shan, it will not have much impact on the battle situation, and Dai Shan does not have many soldiers and horses.

However, if it's Huang Taiji or Zilharang, then it's a bit unpleasant.

Although Zhu Youzhen does not know what scale Huang Taiji has developed in the past three years, judging from his historical methods, it is very easy for him to develop and win the hearts of the people.

According to his estimates, if Huang Taiji leads the troops, the strength will not be less than 10,000, and if Zilharang leads the troops, the strength will be about 5,000.

Among these four people, Zhu Youzhen is most looking forward to Huang Taiji.

As long as this old boy doesn't run, Zhu Youzhen will fight for the death and injury of Shangzhi, and he will also leave him in the Horqin grassland.

With such an idea, Zhu Youzhen began to lead the army into the city.

As they expected, the city was crowded with cattle and sheep, and the horses were taken away by Oba and others.

"Slaughter a thousand sheep and reward the three armies."

Seeing the scene in the city, Zhu Youzhen did not worry about the problem of military rations, and at the same time ordered the slaughter of sheep to reward the three armies.

After he gave the order, Man Gui, who had gone and returned, came back with a heavy face, and said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Your Highness and Jianguo did come to the city of Geljurgen, but they didn't show their big words, and some of the captured Mongols didn't know who they were."

"However, their number is less than 20,000, and there are still a large number of Mongol cavalry and Jian prisoners who deliberately did not wear four-color armor."

"It's smart...... "Hearing that the Jianyu generals didn't let the Jurchens under him wear four-color armor, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but praise.

In his opinion, although the color of the stomach can distinguish the trilogy, it is also easy for people to judge who the general of the trilogy is.

Zhu Youzhen was already familiar with the generals of the Eight Banners, and if the other party really came wearing one of the four colors, he could directly judge who his opponent was.

However, this is not to say that if the nail stomach is changed to a different color, Zhu Youzhen can't judge it.

On the contrary, judging from the capital and means of this exchange of armor, the soldiers and horses who went out to support Horqin this time were either Huang Taiji or Dai Shan.

The two of them did not have many prisoners of the two white flags and two red flags, and if they really wanted to support, it could not be ruled out that Nurhachi would mobilize a large number of Mongol cavalry to give them command.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can basically target his opponent as Dai Shan or Huang Taiji.

The reason why he was not sure that this person was Huang Taiji was because he felt that it was a bit incredible that Huang Taiji could gather nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in three years.

This possibility is not impossible, but it is very low, so he hesitated between Dai Shan and Huang Taiji.

However, although he is hesitant to choose, he is already clear about the style of play.

Whether it is Dai Shan or Huang Taiji, the two of them have been fighting for a long time, and unlike the reckless man like Mang Gurtai, it is best to deal with the two of them step by step to try to beat each other after finding out the other party's death hole.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen divided the rear army and the front army for fifty miles.

Sun Shoufa led the rear army to withdraw first, and if Jianlu saw their numbers, he would definitely not be able to help but eat.

At this time, the distance of fifty miles is enough for Man Gui to react, and Sun Shoufa's character and Shangzhi's combat power will inevitably be able to last for two hours.

As long as it can hold out for two hours, the support of the front army will arrive.

When the time comes, if Jianyu wants to flee north, it will not be easy.

To the east is the city of Geljurgen itself, and to the west is the mountain of Haravan and the dragon of Zhou Yuji.

Even if they fled north, the cattle and sheep captured in the city of Geljurgen would be enough for the Ming army to pursue for another seven or eight hundred miles.

Zhu Youzhen didn't believe that this generation of good or Huang Taiji could still lead people into Eastern Siberia.

Originally, Oba was the main dish, but now it's ready, and there is a roast suckling pig finale......