"Bang bang bang-"

The artillery rang out again, and the shotguns fired like a torrential rain of pear blossoms, and all the shield carts were shattered, and many of the prisoners were shot and fell.

The bed crossbow was smashed down, and the thick and long crossbow arrows pierced through the shield carts, crashed into the air, and stabbed countless red flag prisoners to death.

It's just that the artillery and bed crossbows of this era cannot be used as the main attack to suppress the enemy army, or the number of artillery of the Beishan Jurchen Army is far from enough to form a suppression.

Therefore, in their counterattack, the Jin army still walked like a fly, pushing the shield cart to attack the camp of the stone bridge in the ancient city of Har.

The defenders of the ancient city of Har set up two fortifications at both ends of the stone bridge, each garrisoned a sentry horse, a total of 545 men.

The rejection of horses and the sheep's horn wall were collapsed by the shield cart of the Jin army, the trap was exposed, the shield cart sank suddenly, and the rear Jianyu retreated.

It can be seen that the way of building captives and attacking cities and field battles is undoubtedly a strengthened version of the Ming army, and the methods they use are all the methods used by the Ming army in attacking Jiaozhi and India.

Using the means of the Ming army to fight the Beishan Jurchen and the Ming army, this is the most important reason why the old slave can start a family.

It's just that these methods he has at the moment are basically scrapped because of the increase in the number of artillery in the Eastern Army's Governor's Mansion, but they are still good to use to fight the Beishan Jurchens.

The shield cart fell into a trap, but it gave Jianyu a springboard, and the Beishan Jurchen Bird Gunners behind the disaster-stricken paper wall immediately lit the arquebuses in their hands when they saw Jianyu showing his head.

In the sound of "snorting", the fire rope burned out, followed by white smoke rising from the camp position, followed by the sound of "popping" birds.

"Raise your shield! Raise your shield! ”

Dolgon, who commanded the battle, shouted, and the Dordors next to him also blew the wooden whistle vigorously.

In fact, there is no need for them to say that the Eight Banners soldiers, who have suffered too much from muskets under the Ming army all the year round, raised their shields one after another when they crossed the trap.

The two sides were less than fifty paces away from each other, so while they raised their shields, some of the unlucky ones were still shot through the iron shields and fell down.

"Go on!"

Standing in the camp, the Beishan Jurchen garrison continued to wave the flag, and the three hundred birds in the camp also counterattacked according to the Ming army's three-stage attack.

The remaining 200 or so sword players were on standby, waiting for the battle to turn against them before covering the bird's retreat.

It doesn't hurt to abandon the bridgehead camp, the main thing is to kill and injure the prisoners as much as possible, which is Guo Sangdai's biggest military order for the generals and garrisons of each city.

There are many cities like the ancient city of Har, and although the loss of artillery will increase the strength of the Jin army, it is their job to preserve their combat power to drag the captives.

"Kill—"

The number of bird-slingers was always too small, and in the face of the charge of 3,000 red flag-studded captives, most of them began to turn and retreat after firing five or six rounds.

"The knife player covers, the bird player retreats!"

The garrison ordered in an orderly manner, and the Beishan Jurchens showed the same embarrassment as the Ming army at this time.

That is, the grassroots army can fight in an orderly manner, but the middle and high-level troops are not very good.

The Ming army was fed by Zhu Youzhen with pig-like resources, and he fought his skills in a battle, but the Beishan Jurchen couldn't.

They don't have the resources to do so, so they have to fight and retreat.

The less than a foot stone bridge became a lifesaver, and the Bird Players retreated in formation, and the Sword Players began to form a half-moon formation to protect the Bird Players from retreating, and followed the retreat themselves.

Jian Yu climbed over the sandbag wall, raised his knife, and rushed to kill with a cruel smile, and at this time, the bed crossbow at the head of the city attacked again, and one crossbow bolt after another shot into the red flag array.

At such a short distance, the crossbow bolts basically did not pause, and they penetrated one or three people in an instant, and they took the lives of dozens of Red Flag Jianjiao in one fell swoop.

"Kill—"

Seeing his own side being slaughtered like this, Azig was also angry, and he commanded the army to kill the sword players of the Beishan Jurchen, but the Beishan Jurchen's own skills were not weak.

They are also all people raised by Baishan and Heishui, and Jianyu was able to beat Beishan Nu in the past because of her well-equipped, well-fed soldiers, and strong organization.

At present, these three, except for the slight lack of organizational strength of the Beishan Jurchen, the other two are not much different.

More than 200 sword players took advantage of the narrowness of the stone bridge to fight and retreat, and the people who fell into the water continued.

The four-foot wide moat was drawn from the Heilongjiang River, and it was bitterly cold, and the fallen people kept fluttering, although they did not drown, but after going ashore, they could only flee back to their own camp.

"Guo Sangdai is well arranged, he actually uses the Heishui River as a moat, it is difficult to freeze under the living water, otherwise we will reach the city wall now."

Huang Taiji, who was on the hillside, looked at the situation on the battlefield and had to sigh at the flexibility of Guo Sangdai.

That is, Huang Taiji didn't know that these methods of defending the city were all handed over to Guo Sangdai by Zhu Youzhen, otherwise it is estimated that he would be depressed for a while.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang-"

The battle on the stone bridge came to an end, because the Beishan Jurchens at the head of the bridge jumped into the camp at the end of the bridge, and the birds and gunners who had been prepared in the camp shot one after another, causing a large number of soldiers and horses with red flags to fall.

With such a close-range shot, these people basically couldn't survive, so the people in the rear chose to kick them down from the narrow stone bridge, and killed them one after another to the camp at the end of the Beishan Bridge.

"The artillery can't shoot, it hurts our people."

"Let's stalemate for a while, and if it doesn't work, we will retreat to the city."

The Beishan Jurchen counselor and the garrison at the head of the city talked to each other in a tense tone.

At present, there are two sentries and horses in the camp at the end of the bridge, totaling 600 bird players and less than 500 sword players.

They were faced with more than 2,000 people who were inlaid with red flags, and all they could rely on was the narrow fortifications.

"Kill!"

"Get out of the way!"

The two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, the iron bone duo and the golden gourd hammer collided, and the goose feather knife and waist knife slashed each other.

For a while, the entire defense line was filled with shouts and screams, sparks splashed, and after just a few rounds of slashing, the long knife in his hand was already full.

After being hit by an iron-boned golden gourd hammer, even the iron man had to snort and fall.

In this ancient city of Har, thousands of miles away from the capital, blood was stained with mud and snow, and at this time, the two white flags led by Dolgon also arrived on the battlefield.

They began to build bridges, and the defenders of the stone bridge could only stop them with the help of birds.

The bed crossbow at the head of the city also continued to shoot crossbow arrows, but they could only penetrate the wooden bridge, but could not break it.

The five-pound cannon was heavy and could not be fired downward, and the battle situation gradually became unfavorable for a while.

"Hold the barracks!"

The general shouted to the garrison below, and the command flag in his hand was constantly waving, passing the flag.

Seeing this, the garrison below nodded their heads, turned around and commanded the men and horses to fight with the red flag.

The barracks at the end of the bridge are connected to the city wall, like a miniature version of the urn city, and they are not afraid of the Jin army on the left and right sides of the city at all, as long as they hold the bridgehead.

Relying on the advantages of geography and firearms, the Beishan Jurchen army continued to repel the soldiers with red flags, and at the same time, Huang Taiji also ordered:

"Let the Mongol rangers block both sides of the southern moat with sandbags."

"Yes!"

Huang Taiji wants to block the moat, so that the moat will turn from living water to stagnant water, and then the weather in Beishan will be able to freeze the river.

In this way, even if you don't make meritorious service in one siege, you will make meritorious service in the future.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

At the head of the ancient city of Ha'er, with the order of the general, fifty Yanshan five-pound cannons aimed at the siege equipment that was constantly pushed in front of the ancient city of Ha'er, and white smoke was released, and stone bullets were fired.

Two catties of stone bullets pierced through the Lu bus and turned into ricocheting bullets to kill many siege captives, and some Mongolian rangers also carried twenty or thirty pounds of sandbags and ran back and forth, in a vain attempt to accumulate soil for mountains and fill the moat of Hargu.

"General, there are many Menggou people, and we won't be able to last long if we go on like this."

The garrison at the head of the ancient city of Ha'er was right, and the general next to him spoke, and the general's face was not good-looking.

Originally, there was only one battalion of 3,000 and 31 people in the ancient city of Ha'er, but it was raided by Huang Taiji and killed hundreds of Tang cavalry.

At present, after several times of defending the city, more than 200 soldiers were killed, and basically one-tenth of the soldiers and horses were put in.

It is impossible for everyone in the Beishan Jurchen soldiers in the ancient city of Ha'er to be the same as the Shangzhi Sixteen Guards, as well as the five armies and the elite of each province, and they can endure a casualty rate of twenty-three tenths.

For them, the death of a tenth of their men and horses was enough to shake their morale.

Although defending the city is prone to the death of the whole city, it is a situation where there is no chance of retreat.

But at present, the ancient city of Ha'er can not only retreat, but also use the ships at the ferry north of the city to retreat.

In other words, if they really wanted to retreat, and were willing to discard the artillery, they could withdraw from the ancient city of Har in a cup of tea at the earliest, and in an hour they could reach the city of Youti in the north.

It's just that they retreated to Youtie City, which is only six hundred miles away from Nu'er Gancheng, and Guo Sangdai will definitely punish them.

"How long has it been since the people asking for help were dispatched?"

"It's been two hours, and according to the speed of the deer, it is estimated that it has run for more than two hundred miles."

The garrison responded, and the deer department and the envoy dog department were used as heralds in winter, and their speed was not slow, but the northern mountain was too big.

From the ancient city of Ha'er to Youtie City, there are four hundred miles in the middle, even if the deer department keeps changing reindeer and snow dogs at the middle post station, it will take four hours to reach Youtie City.

It would take another three or four days to wait for the reinforcements from Youti City to sail south and swim upstream.

The snow was all over the mountain, and Huang Taiji also saw that the ancient city of Ha'er was too far away from Youti City, and Xishen City was close to the ancient city of Ha'er, so he chose to attack in winter.

They have craftsmen who cast cannons, as long as they get a few Yanshan five-pound cannons, they can probably figure out what the Ming army's artillery looks like and how thick it is inside and out, then they can imitate it.

Even if the imitation is not satisfactory, it is still much better than the inferior artillery they have now.

Huang Taiji's idea was to make a fort with a range sufficient to clamp down on the Heilongjiang River, and as long as he built forts on Yilan Mountain on both sides of the river, the Ming army would be bombarded by the Jin army regardless of whether it was by ship or land.

The narrow part along the river from Shangjing City to the city of Huduolun is less than four miles at the narrowest, and Huangtaiji only needs to build forts in the two mountains, even if the range of the artillery is only two miles.

The fort is already under construction, and now the artillery is missing, as long as the fort is successfully established, they can still retreat to the Sanjiang Plain and continue to fight a protracted war with the Ming army.

Huang Taiji always firmly believes that the emergence of Zhu Youzhen and the new policy only delayed the aging cycle of the Ming Dynasty.

No great unified dynasty can survive three hundred years in a row, so the Ming Dynasty will definitely be in turmoil.

The Ming Dynasty has been established for 262 years, and Huang Taiji is only 38 years old.

He didn't believe that he could live another thirty-eight years, but he also didn't believe that Da Ming would be able to survive the three-hundred-year period without chaos.

Even if they can get through it, there will be chaos inside.

As long as there is chaos, then Daikin has a chance.

Whether it is a raid on Taining Mansion to retreat, or a counterattack on Liaodong, in short, as long as you wait, you will have a chance.

Huang Taiji understood all this because he analyzed Zhu Youzhen's policy towards the Jin State.

Normally, there is still a major drought in Daming Mountain and Shaanxi, and tens of millions of people have been affected.

If Zhu Youzhen felt that Dajin was not important, then there was no need to chase them and fight them fiercely, and even risk a major drought in the two provinces to launch a war against them.

He will do this, which means that in his opinion, Jin Guo is the biggest variable in the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji narrowed his eyes and asked Zilharang next to him:

"How long has it been the siege?"

"About two hours......" Zilharang replied after looking at the time, and Huang Taiji also muttered for a moment:

"Reinforcements from Youti City won't come too soon, we have about three days."

"The intensity of this siege is too great, do you want to withdraw and rest for a while?" Zilharang glanced at the battlefield and listened to the sound of artillery from time to time, a little worried.

"You can't withdraw, withdraw now, the savages in the city will have time to adjust, the fewer people the more difficult it is to fight, the more people the better it is to fight, this is the case with the Ming army, and the same is true for the Beishan Jurchen."

Huang Taiji did not know that the Ming army had been fighting overseas with large corps, and he still used the Battle of Fuliao and the Battle of Zhu Youzhen's Second Northern Expedition to infer the overall organizational strength of the Ming army.

In his opinion, there are few generals in the Ming army who can command more than 100,000 people, so Zhu Youzhen will divide one war zone into three.

Jingcheng, Liaodong, Taining, Nuergan......

These four points, if connected, the circumference of the encirclement of the Jin Kingdom is more than 6,000 miles long.

It is impossible to command each army thousands of miles apart to fight at the same time in this era, and even if it does, it can only be a crude command like Zhu Youzhen, giving the generals great autonomy.

In order to prevent the four armies from being completely annihilated, Zhu Youzhen had to increase his troops, which can be seen from the recent troop transfer.

You Shigong of Jingcheng has gathered 30,000 troops, and Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, and He Shixian of Liaodong have also gathered 60,000 troops, and they are still continuing.

Taining Mansion has gathered twelve guards, nearly 70,000 people.

Huang Taiji estimated that Zhu Youzhen wanted You Shigong and Guo Sangdai to be supplemented, and Taining and Liaodong to be the mainstay.

The number of auxiliary troops is about 30,000 or 40,000, and the number of the main army is about 70,000 or 80,000.

In general, Zhu Youzhen is preparing to launch a strengthened version of the "Chenghua Plough Court" in Beishan, which spans nearly 6,000 miles, and the scale of soldiers and horses will range from 200,000 to 300,000.

Huang Taiji is not a fool, he can't sit back and watch Zhu Youzhen form an encirclement to encircle and suppress them, what he has to do is to launch an attack on the sparsely populated north, and it is best to destroy Guo Sangdai before the Ming army notices that something is happening.

As long as Guo Sangdai is dead, then the Jin Kingdom will have a way to live, even if there is no one in ten who move north, but after all, the bloodline will be retained.

Thinking of Zhu Youzhen's mobilization of troops and horses in the north, Huang Taiji subconsciously touched his legs.

He thought of what his Khan Ama looked like, but more importantly, he also thought of himself.

As the medical officer said at the time, although he could still have intercourse, his kidneys were weak and weak, and although he worked hard for several years, he could not give birth to an heir.

His eldest son, Hauge, was short-tempered and murderous, and was not a master.

If the Jin Kingdom moves north in the future and dies himself, then he must choose a master to lead the people who move north to live.

"Putting ......"

"Bang bang bang-"

The five-pound cannon of Yanshan sounded again, and the Jin army under the ancient city of Ha'er attacked the city fiercely, and they set up a cloud chariot to try to climb the city wall, but were forked down by the Jurchen soldiers with forks.

The Lü bus tried to advance, but was hit by artillery, and then the Jurchen soldiers used the primitive fierce fire oil tank to spew flames and burn the Lü bus violently.

The faces of the soldiers at the head of the city were covered with blood, the corpses under the city were all over the field, and the smell of meat filled the air, making people sick.

"Boom—"

"Sand! Sand! ”

"Firefighting! Fire! ”

Suddenly, an explosion sounded, and a fierce oil tank suddenly exploded, and the fire oil was all over the city, and the surrounding Jurchen soldiers were splashed with gunpowder and burned themselves.

The guards shouted for sand to extinguish the oil, and the others knocked down the people on fire and poured the sand on.

The flames were gone, but the people were burned a lot.

Seeing this, the other Jurchen soldiers who used the fierce fire oil tank stopped their actions one after another, for fear that the fierce fire oil tank in their hands would explode.

Their stop gave the Jin army time, and the cloud carts were pushed forward one by one, and the moat was filled with sandbags, and the river was fixed in several spaces and began to freeze.

"Kill the dog!"

Suddenly, the generals at the head of the city led people into battle, raising their swords and shouting while facing the enemy.

Seeing that the main general was like this, the other Jurchen soldiers on the city wall also fought bravely to kill the enemy, shouting "Kill the Menggou!" ”

"Rush!"

Under the city wall, a Jin Jun Niu Lu really roared and ordered his soldiers to charge.

After receiving the order, the Jin soldiers in triple armor pushed the ladder that had just been erected and rushed towards the city wall.

It's just that how the Beishan Jurchen Army will give them a chance, the cannons at the head of the city roared, and countless shotguns shot at them.

"Ahh

The rainstorm pear blossoms beat a large area of the Jin army to the point of blood splashing.

Some of the Jin soldiers who rushed up to the city along the cloud chariot were hit at close range, the whole person was pierced, and the blood fell like rain, and the Jin army's pupils below constricted, and their legs trembled uncontrollably, but they launched another charge.

The walls of the ancient city of Har are too short, so the artillery fire is really fierce, and the corpses of comrades are all around.

Under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire in the sky, the 9,000 Eight Bannermen who took the lead began to be afraid.

Just before they could be afraid, tens of thousands of Mongolian rangers rushed in, giving them great courage in an instant, and the Mongols also turned over and dismounted, and killed along the cloud chariot and Lu bus that had been built.

The Jin army was miserable, but the casualties of the Beishan army were not light.

In the time that the two armies were short of each other, the Beishan Jurchen army had already suffered hundreds of casualties, and the entire army had suffered two or three out of ten casualties.

"General! Can't hold it! ”

Seeing that the defense line was in jeopardy, and Jianyu pressed 10,000 Mongols, the generals who had not experienced such a battle at the head of the city could not help but be a little afraid, but he still remembered Guo Sangdai's words:

"Hold out for another quarter of an hour and transport the artillery away!"

"I can't carry it, it's too heavy!" The guard shouted.

"Then blow them all up!" The general shouted as he confronted the enemy.

Seeing this, the garrison immediately led people to fill the fifty Yanshan five-pound cannons with gunpowder, and then lit the long fuse.

"General!"

"Withdraw!"

Seeing that the artillery was ignited, the staff general immediately led the people and began to retreat.

When the Jin army saw them retreating, they pursued them more fiercely.

When Azig saw the retreat of the Beishan Jurchen army, he immediately led people to prepare to ascend first.

As a result, when he had just climbed to the top of the city, the fifty Yanshan five-pound cannons stacked at the head of the city exploded suddenly:

"Boom—"

"What sound?!"

Huang Taiji, who was on the hillside, got up suddenly, with a bad premonition in his heart.

He hurriedly led his men to turn over and prepare to go down the mountain, but the hapless Azig was swept away by the air wave of the artillery explosion, fell from the head of the city, and fainted on the spot.

"Beizi!"

The red-flag-inlaid Jiala'e really saw that Azig was lifted away, and immediately pushed away the people next to him and jumped off the cloud car to check.

Fortunately, Azig did not show his whole body, nor was he hit by the iron after the explosion of the artillery, so although he fainted, he was still breathing.

Dorgon and Dodor also rushed over, and when they saw the tragic situation of Azig, they couldn't help but be glad that they didn't follow the first.

The ancient city of Ha'er finally fell, and the Beishan Jurchen army was not the current Ming army after all, and it was besieged by Huang Taiji with ten times the number of men, and it was not bad to be able to hold out for a whole day.

They ran to the ferry outside the north of the city to get on the boats, cut the fixed ropes, and fled the place along the river in dozens of small boats.

When they came, they were three thousand and thirty-one, a complete whole, but when they retreated, there were less than two thousand left, and a third was lost.

Of course, they were miserable, but Huang Taiji's side was even worse.

Most of the dead and wounded in the red flags, more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded in the two white flags, and the Mongols also suffered hundreds of casualties, and nearly 3,000 people were killed and wounded, which was three times that of the Beishan Jurchen army.

Although most of them were wounded, more than 1,000 were killed on the spot.

It's just that the deaths and injuries of these people are not important in Huang Taiji's opinion, what he is most concerned about is the matter of Yanshan's five-jin cannon, but when he came to the head of the ancient city of Ha'er, his face became iron-blue.

"Guo... Mulberry... Dai! ”

Looking at the fragments of Yanshan's five-pound cannon in that place, Huang Taiji's fists clenched, but fortunately, at this time, Dolgon trotted all the way over to report:

"Brother, there is a cannon that is not very badly broken."

After saying that, he turned sideways, and Huang Taiji also saw the wreckage of the Yanshan five-jin cannon that was pushed by someone on the board cart.

Compared to the other artillery pieces that were blown up so much that they couldn't bear to look at it directly, this cannon was only blown into three pieces, and perhaps after patching it together, the craftsmen of the Jin Army could imitate it.

Seeing this cannon, Huang Taiji's anger disappeared by half, but in order to avoid not being able to imitate it, he still ordered Jierharang beside him:

"Let people collect all the fragments of other artillery, and prepare to transport food to the ancient city of Har."

"After the beginning of spring, we will take advantage of Zhu Youzhen's inability to react and take the lead in defeating Guo Sangdai!"

"Yes—"

Zilharang responded, and the Jin army began to clean up the battlefield.

Looking at the group of people who died in battle, many people couldn't help but sigh.

Who would have thought that Amin would be able to capture tens of thousands of Northern Mountain Savages with a few thousand people back then, but now, three thousand Northern Mountain Savages actually caused such casualties to them.

The Beishan savages who have been trained by the Ming army for several years are still like this, but what about the Ming army......

There is a shift at ten o'clock

(End of chapter)