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At six o'clock on the second day, when Concubine Yuan Xi woke up, only the headlamp was left in the bed, and Zhu Youzhen, who lingered last night, was missing.

She stood up, a little comfortable, and a little uncomfortable.

"Niangniang, Your Highness has gone down to deal with the music, may I ask Niangniang to sleep again, or is she ready to get up and eat?"

Yang Yuanai's voice came from outside the bed tent, Yuan Xi Concubine learned etiquette in the palace, and naturally knew that Yang Yuanai was the number one female official in the Qi Palace.

In addition to her, her niece Yang Ru and Li Dingguo in the mansion are the golden boy and jade girl of the Qi Palace, and there is no contempt for the people in the upper position to the lower people in her heart, but a gentle and soft response:

"How long has Your Highness been down?"

"About six quarters of an hour......," Yang Yuanai responded, standing outside the tent, and continued:

"Your Royal Highness has explained that today's breakfast is mainly for Niangniang, if you feel that you are still lacking, you can rest and rest."

"No need, I'll get up now." Yuan Xifei's voice came out, and the sound of dressing came from the tent immediately after.

By the time Yuan Xifei stretched out her white arm and opened the bed tent, she had already put on her middle clothes, and Yang Yuanai and the other four maidservants stood outside the window.

They carried a golden basin and towels, toothbrushes, toothmedicine, and a kettle for hot water on the shelf next to them.

Seeing Yuan Xifei get up, Yang Yuanai moved a stool, while Yuan Xifei sat there, watching the palace maids wipe her cheeks and comb her hair.

"I'll do it myself." Seeing that a palace maid was going to rinse her mouth, Yuan Xifei was a little unaccustomed to it, and took the toothbrush herself.

After washing up, Yang Yuanai instructed the palace maid next to her to pass the meal, and then took Yuan Xifei to the glass vanity mirror and began to draw her eyebrows and makeup.

But speaking of which, the six concubines are all the same kind of beauty with makeup and without makeup, so after painting for a long time, it can only be said that it makes the complexion better.

After finishing everything, Yang Yuanai took Yuan Xifei to a cloakroom, and Yuan Xifei looked at the clothes placed out and felt very novel:

"Is this a room dedicated to clothes?"

"Yes, it was His Royal Highness who knocked on it, Niangniang can see what to wear today, what hairpin jewelry to use" Yang Yuanai responded with a smile, and opened a long hidden drawer.

The drawer was filled with ornaments made of gold, silver and jewelry, and Yang Yuanyuan took out a small pear flower stick and handed it to Yuan Xifei, motioning for her to guide herself.

Yuan Xifei looked dazzled, and after choosing for a long time, she chose a relatively simple hosta and some earrings and pendants.

In terms of clothes, she chose a set of crimson jacket skirts, which are more suitable for daily travel, probably because according to the etiquette system, she and Zhu Youzhen went to the inner court to meet the emperor and empress.

"Do the other sisters have these jewelry?"

After putting on the clothes and jewelry, Yuan Xifei glanced at the cloakroom, and Yang Yuanai shook her head:

"There are some, but less than a tenth of the mother."

"Then take some and send them to the five maidens in the name of His Highness."

Concubine Yuan Xi was very willing, and she also knew that the atmosphere in the inner court and the help of Zhu Youzhen were good, perhaps this was the reason why Zhang Yan chose her as the princess.

"Niangniang's meal is ready, is it to go to the Heart Hall or Changchun Palace?"

Yang Yuanai had just responded to Yuan Xi's words, and saw Yang Ru trotting all the way to the door of the dormitory.

"If so, you must know the etiquette in front of the mother." Yang Yuanai looked at Yang Ru who was trotting all the way, frowned and scolded her softly.

"It's okay, I'm at home at my age, I'm more lively than her, this palace is too big, it's good to have more lively people."

"As for breakfast, let's go to His Highness's Heart Hall."

Yuan Xifei knew that this girl was Yang Ruis yesterday, so naturally she would not scold her, she has a more moderate personality and likes to be quiet, but she likes to watch others play lively.

"Xie Niangniang!" When Yang heard this, he liked Yuan Xi even more in his heart.

To put it bluntly, unless it is contaminated with the same man, under normal circumstances, women prefer to look at beautiful women than men.

Yuan Xi's concubine looks a little bit like a bearded woman in the Western Regions, although it is not a goose egg face that conforms to the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty, but her facial features are beautiful no matter how you look at it.

Yang Ru likes Yuan Xi's concubine, and as for the other five maidens, she also went to take a peek, and they are all beautiful, and she also likes them.

"If Niangniang gives birth to a son with His Royal Highness, the son must be very cute."

"Promise your good words."

Walking around Yuan Xiconcubine, Yang Ru's original poisonous tongue disappeared, and her words were full of praise for Yuan Xiconcubine.

Yuan Xifei was very amused by her, and also stretched out her hand to hold her hand, as if she was holding a cousin at home.

Yang Yuanai couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she looked at this scene, after all, Concubine Yuan Xi was the mistress of the palace, if she was not easy to speak, then their life would be relatively sad.

Now it seems that Zhang Yan chose Princess Qi for the Qi Palace, and most of the people in the palace are relatively satisfied.

With the acquaintance, the palace maids have also let go a lot, and they are no longer as restrained as they were at the beginning.

They talked and laughed all the way, chatting about the past interesting things in the house, until they came to the palace of Cunxin, Yuan Xi concubine and Yang Ruis and Yang Yuanai walked into the palace.

"Your Highness! It's time to eat! ”

As soon as he entered the hall, Yang Ru shouted towards the Qindian Palace, and Zhu Youzhen, who was dealing with the music inside, also put down the Zhu pen with a smile, raised his head and explained to Wang Chengen:

"After these are processed, they will all be distributed, and the rest will be dealt with when I come back from the palace after breakfast."

"Slave maid takes the order......" Wang Chengen responded with a smile, and the reason why he laughed was because he felt the joy in Zhu Youzhen's heart.

It's normal that Zhu Youzhen's joy can't be hidden, after all, he doesn't know the taste of meat for ten years, and once in a while, it is inevitable that he will have an aftertaste.

He got up and walked to the left side hall of the Cunxin Palace, and when he walked out of the Qinqin Palace, he saw Yuan Xi Concubine and others waiting at the door of the left side hall.

Perhaps thinking of what happened last night, Concubine Yuan Xi bowed her head slightly after saluting.

But Zhu Youzhen was bold, stepped forward and took her hand, and asked knowingly: "How was the rest last night?" ”

"Your Highness sleeps quietly, and the concubines naturally sleep quietly......" Concubine Yuan Xi replied with a red face.

"It'......s very quiet," Zhu Youzhen said in his words, and then without waiting for the people next to him to reminisce, he walked into the left side hall.

When the rest of the people saw entering the hall, they also went in with him, but Zhu Youzhen didn't see Li Dingguo after entering, so he sat down and asked, "What about Dingguo?" ”

"I was sent by the prince to practice horsemanship." Yang Ru smiled and waited for Yuan Xiconcubine to sit down, and then sat down.

Yang Yuanai and Wang Chengen also sat down, which made Yuan Xifei a little surprised, but she soon regained her calm.

"There is no kneeling in the house, just make a gesture." Zhu Youzhen turned sideways and approached Yuan Xi's concubine, explained a sentence and leaned back.

Yuan Xifei nodded slightly to indicate that she understood, and then asked Zhu Youzhen:

"Do you want to wear a dress to see Banzai and the Middle Palace today?"

"Brother Huang said that there is no need, you just have a good rest." Zhu Youzhen took a sip of soy milk, and then added two spoonfuls of sugar.

When Yuan Xi Concubine heard that there was no need to enter the palace, she also relaxed.

Then she began to try to blend in with the atmosphere of this dining table and the Qi Palace, until she finished breakfast, she did not leave, but said to Zhu Youzhen:

"Although the prince has to accompany the princess for ten days after the wedding, the affairs of the inner court cannot be carried out according to the etiquette system."

"After all, Concubine Wei and Concubine Li in the East Third Palace are related to Xungui and the vassal kingdom, if Your Highness is not tired, you can go to accompany them first in these two days."

After all, it was Zhang Yan's chosen person, Yuan Xifei was very knowledgeable, and she also knew that for the prince, a woman was not enough, so she consciously asked him to go to Wei Pingyang and Li Shaoxi.

"We'll talk about that later." Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly, neither agreeing nor refusing.

He wanted to taste other people's meat, but too often was not good.

It's nothing today, maybe it's been held back for too long, but if it's a flute every night, I'm afraid I'll soon follow in the footsteps of his cheap dad.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen felt that his waist was tight, and he couldn't take care of eating, so he turned back to the Qindian Hall to deal with it.

Concubine Yuan Xi did not follow, but was ready to learn about the inner court of the palace.

The husband and wife divide labor, one outside and one inside, but they also complement each other.

It's just that they are a young couple living comfortably, but compared to them, Huang Taiji at the moment is anxious......

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

Almost on the same day, as if to "celebrate" Zhu Youzhen's wedding, Huang Taiji led his troops north and joined forces with Zierharang, Azig and others.

Azig led 3,000 people with red flags, and 6,000 Mongols were the front army.

Huang Taiji took 6,000 taels of yellow flags and 6,000 Mongols as the central army.

Zilharang had 6,000 taels of white flags and 3,000 Mongols as the rear army.

Three armies of 30,000 troops launched an attack on the ancient city of Ha'er in the north of Xishen City in the middle of the night of October 30.

Although the 3,000 Beishan Jurchen soldiers here were taken by surprise and killed hundreds of horsemen before and after, after the Jin army arrived at the city, they quickly reorganized themselves under the command of the generals, and relied on the city wall to use artillery to counterattack the Jin army.

Although Zhu Youzhen had restrictions on Guo Sangdai before, the number of their artillery pieces was still about 400.

The small ancient city of Ha'er, with a circumference of no more than two miles, with the fifty Yanshan five-jin cannons in the city, and a thousand bird guns eliminated by the Ming army, they effectively organized a counterattack and thwarted the Jin army's offensive.

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It's just that compared to their counterattack, Huang Taiji, who was watching from afar, seemed confident:

"This group of people has never fought, although there are rules and regulations for fighting, it is obvious that they are all Zhu Youzhen's set."

"Copying one board at a glance, you can't play the flexibility of Zhu Youzhen."

"Hang them like this, wait until they run out of gunpowder, and then send the dead soldiers to the ...... first"

Huang Taiji wore white armor, sat in front of the yellow tent, captured it with his hands, and spent an unknown number of years clairvoyant observing the battlefield.

He could clearly see that the Jurchen soldiers in the ancient city of Har were firing their cannons indiscriminately, and those stone bullets did not hit the Mongol cavalry cruising around the periphery at all.

In this case, Huang Taiji knew very well that he only needed to let the Mongol cavalry run towards the city wall repeatedly to exhaust the gunpowder of this group of savages.

Next, it's a hand-to-hand fight.

"Dolgon, build siege equipment, they shouldn't have much gunpowder."

Huang Taiji turned his head to a young white-armored general next to him and ordered, and this five-foot-tall and three-inch young general was the regent of the Qing Dynasty in history, Aixin Jueluo Dolgon.

"Yes!" Dolgon replied, he was only eighteen years old at this time, and he was accompanied by an even younger general.

It was his younger brother Dord, who was only sixteen years old this year.

Ordered by Huang Taiji, Dorgon and Duoduo turned and left, and began to order the Han craftsmen of the rear army to build siege equipment.

After they left, Zilharang, who was sitting next to Huang Taiji, asked:

"Brother, how do you know they won't have too much gunpowder?"

"It......'s very simple," Huang Taiji took off his helmet, revealing his ugly money pigtail, and said against his fat body:

"I'm in front of Dajin, and even if Zhu Youzhen relies on this group of savages, it is impossible to give them enough food and gunpowder."

"With so many cities, how much gunpowder can this city get?"

Huang Taiji asked Zilharang rhetorically, and Jierharang also frowned: "But this is the closest city to us after all. ”

"It's the closest city to us, and it should have the most gunpowder and the most artillery." Huang Taiji said, and couldn't help squinting his eyes:

"This city is the most difficult city to gnaw except for Nuergan City, but as long as it is gnawed, the other cities will not be a problem."

"I don't want food and cities, I just want artillery!"

Huang Taiji's words exposed his ambition, artillery, which can be said to be the pain of the Jin country.

Due to Nurhachi's personal preference, after the capture of Fushun in the 46th year of Wanli, although a large number of craftsmen were obtained, Nurhachi did not use them to forge artillery, and even Fushun's artillery was cast into weapons.

It was only when Nurhachi was beaten on the head by Qin Bangping's white-pole soldiers under Shenyang City that he remembered the benefits of artillery, but due to Zhu Youzhen's improvements, the artillery of the Ming army reached the power of Western cannons.

At this time, the inferior iron cannon cast by ordinary craftsmen in Fushun could not bring him back to any situation on the battlefield.

When the battle of Fuliao was over, the Jin State was defeated and retreated outside the Guanwai, and then Nurhachi fell ill, the regime was in turmoil, and Huang Taiji suppressed Daishan and Mang Gurtai, and the gap between their artillery technology and the Ming army was even greater.

In the years that Huang Taiji was in power, Nurhachi recovered from his illness, but the power was actually in the hands of Huang Taiji.

Although Huang Taiji encouraged craftsmen to forge artillery, the quality of their gunpowder and artillery did not improve much.

For example, at the moment, Huang Taiji simply abandoned his inferior artillery that could attack the city from a distance to surprise the ancient city of Har, and the method used was also the most stupid attrition and short-range combat.

What he wants is not the food of the ancient city of Ha'er, nor is it to kill people, what he wants is the dozens of Yanshan five-pound cannons!

"Stop!"

"Beep-"

At the head of the ancient city of Har, when the Jurchen generals found out that something was wrong, he immediately blew the wooden whistle, and at this time their artillery had been shelling repeatedly for two hours.

During this period, they destroyed many of the shield carts of the Mongols, but did not kill or injure many people.

"How much gunpowder is left in the city?" The general turned around and asked the garrison next to him, and the garrison looked at the barrel where gunpowder was stored under the city, and immediately replied: "Less than 30,000 catties!" ”

Gunpowder was a rarity before the 19th century, and those like the Ming army and the Beishan Jurchen army were unscrupulous, using dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard indiscriminately for several hours.

Counting the present, if both the Ming and the Mughal choose to cut off the saltpeter trade, then only the Ming and Mughal can put out thousands of artillery pieces in the world, and continue to bombard for dozens of days.

It's not that the Europeans don't want to play like this, but their production of saltpeter and artillery does not allow.

Artillery production depends on whether gunpowder can keep up, so gunpowder is the top priority.

But now, after hearing that he only had 30,000 catties of artillery, the generals of the Beishan Jurchen Army immediately showed embarrassment.

Fifty artillery pieces and 30,000 catties of gunpowder are only enough for two and a half hours of non-stop fire at most.

"Save a little, unless they reach fifty paces outside the city wall, they must not light a fire!"

"Yes!"

The general hurriedly gave the order, and the garrison also hurriedly responded, and ordered the sentinels.

Their artillery stopped, and Huang Taiji, who was on the top of the mountain, saw this scene with clairvoyance, and he said to Zilharang without looking back:

"It should be that there is not enough gunpowder and I want to save the fight, but this is not a problem."

"On the herald shield wagon, if they don't open fire, we will attack the city."

"Yes!" Zilharang responded, and had the order passed to Azig of the former army.

When Azig received the order, he immediately frowned, because the shield cart needed a person with a red flag to do it, and the Mongolian rangers could not do such a thing.

"Push!"

Thinking of Dajin's current predicament, he finally chose to accept the order.

Perhaps because of the different times and the different situations they faced, Zhu Youzhen put too much pressure on them, so the current Jin nobles are much more united than in history, and there are many fewer fights.

Faced with the ancient city of Har, which had to be conquered, Azig commanded the red-flaged armoured soldiers to push the shield cart forward, and the Mongol rangers followed.

Similarly, Dorgon, who had assembled the siege equipment, saw this, and together with the sixteen-year-old Dordor, he led the armor of 3,000 taels of white flags to suppress the formation, and once the front gained an advantage, they would not hesitate to attack the city with siege equipment.

The pressure of the black pressure pressed nearly 10,000 people to sweep the formation, which put great pressure on the Beishan Jurchen soldiers who had only trained and had not fought a thousand-person battle.

They don't have the immovable spirit that the Ming army has now, but this is not shameful or surprising.

Even if they have not experienced a major war, they are actually much stronger than the Ming army ten years ago.

If you have to give them a grade, then they are the same as the Ming army battalion soldiers who defended the city ten years ago.

Maybe in the field, they will be defeated by Huang Taiji, but in terms of defending the city, there is no betrayal of the inner ghosts, and they can hold on as well as the Ming army.

"Put!"

Seeing that the shield cart was less than three hundred steps away from the moat, the general at the head of the city raised his sword and shouted, and the five guards next to him blew the wooden whistle one after another.

The sound of the "snort" arquebus continued to sound, and when the arquebus burned out, the Jin Army shield car approached a distance of twenty paces again.

At this time, on the wall of the southern city of Hargu, which was about 200 paces, fifty cannons at intervals of four steps rang out in unison!

"Bang bang bang-"

The dull roar of cannons, and the stone bullets were fired at the predetermined height, grazing the moat with a piercing whistling sound, and Peng rumbled to the ground.

It's just a pity that in the face of the Jin Guo shield cars with dozens of paces apart, their scattered artillery bombardment did not hit too many shield cars.

Of the fifty two-pound stone bullets, only six hit two shield carts, and only hit the shield carts, and finally got stuck in the layers of partitions of the shield carts.

Such a trauma did not hurt the shield cart much, and Jin Jun still pushed the shield cart forward.

"The artillery of the savages is the same as that of Ming Dog, seize the time of this half cup of tea and beat the drum!"

Azig watched the Ming artillery sound, and immediately raised his hand to let the drum car beat the drum in the army.

"Winter Winter ......"

The drum cart was pulled by two horses, and the drums were beating as they marched towards the ancient city of Har.

"Let's go too!" Hearing the sound of drums, Dorgon immediately gave orders to the left and right, and marched towards the ancient city of Har with siege equipment.

Lv bus, cloud car, flybridge......

All kinds of siege equipment were pushed onto the battlefield, and in the face of them, the Beishan Jurchen general at the head of the city also turned around and shouted:

"Crashes, forks, wolf's tooth slaps, yaksha beats, rolling logs, knife carts!"

"Yes!"

With his order, more than 30 pieces of various city defense equipment were pushed from the city onto the road, and finally on the city wall.

Although Guo Sangdai had no experience in commanding a large army, he had some letters written by Zhu Youzhen to him to defend the city, as well as various materials transported by the Ming Dynasty.

After Yingzhou was recovered, Yang Wenyue even sent Guo Sangdai more than 300,000 stone cement and more than 100,000 catties of pig iron.

According to the book of war, he thickened, widened, and heightened the walls of each city, and did not care about all kinds of etiquette.

Although the ancient city of Ha'er is small, it has also been piled up by Guo Sangdai with pig iron and cement into a "copper wall and iron wall" with a height of three zhang from top to bottom, four zhang wide at the base, and two zhang and six feet wide on the upper floor.

Although the southern section of the city wall is only 200 steps, there are ten arrow towers, and each arrow tower is placed with artillery, crossbows to defend the city, fire dragon out of the water, Menghuo oil tank and other defensive weapons.

In general, Guo Sangdai couldn't fight, let alone command the army to fight in the field with the Jin army, but he was obedient, and he made turtle shells completely according to the military book given to him by Zhu Youzhen.

Therefore, the current ancient city of Ha'er is like a King Kong porcupine, and anyone who bites it has to bite out a mouthful of blood.

The three Azig didn't know, they commanded the army to come forward, thinking that they could break through to the base of the city wall while the artillery was interactive, but they didn't think that at this time, the Beishan Jurchen army was completely prepared.

"Guard it all for me, don't let this group of Mongolian barbarians enter the city!"

"Even if they can't hold it, let their teeth break!"

"Kill these Mongol barbarians!"

"Kill, kill, kill—"

A funny scene appeared, the Jin army, who called the Beishan Jurchen a savage, was called a Mongolian barbarian by the Beishan Jurchen at the moment.

The two dislike each other, but in terms of blood, it seems that compared with Nurhachi's branch, the original three Jurchens of Haixi, Donghai, and Beishan can better represent the Jurchens.

"Set the fire dragon out of the water!"

"Peng—"

With the shouting of the general of the North Mountain, the soldiers above the arrow towers lit the fire dragon out of the water.

This kind of multi-stage rocket recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Wubei Zhi" is often used for water attacks, and the range can reach two and a half miles.

With a little picric acid, it can reach a range of three miles, and after exploding over land, it shoots out iron sand, which is very useful for interfering with enemy formations.

Therefore, when the ten fire dragons were released out of the water, they quickly crossed three hundred paces and disintegrated with the first-stage rocket, and exploded after the second-stage rocket rushed out a few dozen steps.

The sound of "Peng Peng Peng" continued to sound, and the Mongolian rangers whose curiosity had raised their heads were strafed by the flying iron sand, which could not pierce the armor, but could burn the bare skin of them and the war horses under their crotch.

For a while, the war horses neighed, and the northern captives screamed.

Although this did not cause any fatal damage, it still left the Jin army in disarray.

"Keep marching, don't look up, it won't hurt you, rangers retreat!"

Azig, who followed behind the drum cart, kept giving orders, and the sentinels kept running to alert the ministry.

The Mongol rangers who received the order retreated one after another, leaving behind the Jianzhou Eight Banners dressed in three-layer heavy armor.

In the face of them, the fire dragon water will no longer work, and what will really come in handy will be the bed crossbow and artillery.

The artillery of the Ming army has cooled down, and seeing the Jin army approaching, General Beishan immediately waved the order flag and shouted:

"Change the shotgun! Bed crossbow ready! ”

At the sound of a command, the shotgun was loaded, and the bed crossbowmen swung their mallets and smashed the mechanism open.

Ten bed crossbows were fired, but when I heard the sound of "Peng", the bed crossbow with a long zhang and a thin arm missed a shield cart, and at the same time as piercing the shield cart, it instantly knocked away the two Jin soldiers who pushed the cart.

They flew out for several feet, and the nail pieces on the chest of the stomach flew wildly.

Looking up, the seven orifices had begun to seep blood, his eyes were red, and blood foamed from his mouth, and he was no longer alive.

"It works! Shoot again! ”

"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot-"

Seeing his own bed crossbow meritorious service, the general of Beishan shouted, excitedly walked to the drum and grabbed the drumstick, and beat the drum vigorously, and many soldiers on the city wall heard this, and also shouted this somewhat shameful words.

"Go on!"

The general raised the drumstick in his hand and shouted into the sky while waving it heavily.

"Beep-"

With his command, and the wooden whistles of the guards, the bed crossbowman reloaded the crossbow again, stirred the plate, and then raised his mallet to smash down......

"Winter!"