"Fixed-shot reloading, the height remains the same, the direction remains the same, the pre-firing is twelve rounds, and the ...... is ready Put! ”

"Peng Peng Peng—"

In the early morning of March 18, when Huang Taiji commanded women and children to cross the Duoerbi River, it was already the ninth day that Shangjing was besieged by the Ming army.

In the course of nine days, Shangjing City suffered hundreds of thousands of stone bullets every day, and millions of catties of stone bullets were baptized.

Such a ferocious artillery bombardment filled the moat under the city with a full load of stone bullets.

Tens of thousands of people quarried nearby stones to make stone bullets, and the craftsmen of the army began to build enough siege equipment.

However, in the face of the dilapidated Shangjing City, Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng never launched a general attack, but just blindly shelled the city wall.

Such shelling, even if Nurhachi was sluggish because of his old age, gradually reacted.

"The Ming army is going to catch Huang Taiji and them first, and then deal with me, Zhu Youzhen...... You're so ruthless! ”

Nurhachi leaned back in his wheelchair, breathing heavily, like a torn bellows, just being alive made him exhausted and sweating profusely.

The situation he was facing at the moment was not good, the moat was filled with stone bullets, and the originally thick outer city walls had been torn apart and crumbling everywhere.

It is estimated that in a few days, the walls of the outer city will collapse, and tens of thousands of people of the Ming army are still preparing stone shells.

The most stocky exterior walls could not withstand the artillery of the Ming army, not to mention the inner city and the palace city.

"Great Khan, the outer city is no longer repairable......"

The sound of footsteps appeared in the humble palace, and the old Huerhan and Nurhachi stayed behind to serve as Nurhachi's ears and eyes, guarding the capital for him.

It's just that Huerhan's vision is not as good as Nurhachi's one-tenth, and he only feels that the situation in front of him is a little ridiculous.

The Ming army held the absolute initiative, but they sat back and ignored the capital, even if they only needed to pay a few thousand lives to take the capital, but Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng still stubbornly let people shell, as if they didn't want to take the capital.

Only Nurhachi saw through Zhu Youzhen's thoughts, and he gasped and said to Huerhan:

"The Ming army wants to defeat Huang Taiji and them first, and then attack the city......"

"If Huang Taiji they ...... They were defeated, all the women and children were killed, and the defenders of the cities were demoralized, and it was easy to take the walls. ”

"For Zhu Youzhen's child, he feels that it is the thousands or tens of thousands of lives that have besieged the city, you and me...... Hehe...... It's already a trapped beast, but it's too old to know. ”

Nurhachi was clearly saying pessimistic things, but he could still laugh, which made the same old Huerhan feel embarrassed.

Unlike other ministers of the Jin army, Huerhan was adopted by Nurhachi as an adopted son by Nurhachi since he and his father led his troops to Nurhachi, and was carefully cultivated by Nurhachi.

It is also this kind of training, so that in order to repay Nurhachi's nurturing grace, Huerhan must be the vanguard in every battle, follow Nurhachi to destroy Wula, the Jurchens of the Haixi and East China Seas, and take charge of the white flag as the founding minister, participate in the battle of Sarhu, defeat Ma Lin and Li Rubai, and set up an ambush to completely annihilate Liu Ling's three divisions.

It can be said that he witnessed the era of Nurhachi's high spirits, but with the change of the Ming Emperor and the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen came to power, Nurhachi was no longer beautiful.

The era that belongs to him has passed, but the era that belongs to Zhu Youzhen has arrived.

The once high-spirited and high-spirited Dajin Khan rode his horse and whip, but now he is like a candle before the wind, sitting in a wheelchair and breathing.

Thinking of Nurhachi's kindness to himself, and then thinking of all this thanks to Zhu Youzhen, Huerhan grabbed the handle of his sword, gritted his teeth, and said:

"I read the history books of the Han people, throughout the ages, as long as the outer city was broken, the inner city basically surrendered, and most of the emperors in the palace either surrendered or committed suicide."

"If the outer city is broken, then I will take the whole city with soldiers and horses, mobilize elite cavalry to attack Zhu Youzhen with all my might, and I will definitely take him down and accompany the Great Khan on the road!"

"Hehe......" Listening to Huerhan's words, Nurhachi had a smile on his face, although he knew that it was impossible, but Huerhan had this heart, and he was very happy.

In the last years of his life, all his sons were vying for the throne, and only his two younger sons, Dorgon and Dord, could make him feel a trace of affection.

Now they are breaking through with Huang Taiji, although they don't know if they can succeed, but if they fail, Nurhachi will not watch them die in front of him, but will take the first step himself.

Hu Erhan knew him, so he said that he would take Zhu Youzhen down and accompany him on the road.

It's just that these words can only serve as a comfort.

The two were silent for a while, but as time passed little by little, the rumbling cannon sound sounded outside the palace again, and it was obvious that the artillery of the Ming army had restarted.

"Ready...... Put! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

On the position of the Ming army, accompanied by stone bullets fired from the muzzle of the black hole, the stormy cannon sound became a symphony on the battlefield at this moment.

The Jin army in charge of defending the city actually did not suffer too many casualties, but in the face of such "indiscriminate bombardment", even if their bodies were not injured, their spirits were hit by the spirits, lying behind the female wall in a dementia, sitting in the corner tower, stupidly looking at the messy horse road in front of them, and the unkempt comrades......

"500,000 catties of gunpowder, distributed among each Jianlu, enough for them to die ten times...... Ha ha! ”

On the position of the Ming army, Sun Shoufa, who was the vanguard officer at this moment, was strolling on the cart, and in front of him was gunpowder transported from Shenyang.

A whole 500 carts of gunpowder were placed in front of Sun Shoufa, they were all wrapped in oiled paper, some were the fixed propellant of the artillery, some were the propellant of the musket, in short, they were well kept.

Behind the five hundred carts of gunpowder were hundreds of grain carts that had been placed.

Only these more than 100 grain trucks were enough for the whole army and the people of the Ming army to eat for a day, and looking into the distance, on the plain in the south, the Ming army's baggage convoy was long.

A man wearing a mandarin duck jacket and a waist knife, two sturdy horses, fourteen stones of fragrant rice, and one stone of bean feed, this is the configuration of the Ming army's baggage car.

Such a heavy cart was pulled from Shenyang to Shangjing, and the road was unimpeded for 1,000 miles, with 60,000 mules and horses, 20,000 people, 420,000 stone of rice, and 30,000 stone of beans going north.

Although when they arrived in Shangjingxia, the baggage transported at first was only 12 stone meters and half a stone bean, it also shows the extent of the logistics support of the Ming army.

"Leave two stone rice and half a stone bean, send money tickets to the people, and let them go back to Shenyang to exchange money."

"Yes!"

Sun Shoufa withdrew his leg and looked happily at the truckload of food and gunpowder that arrived.

With these things, the army can surround the old slave to death.

He looked happily at Shangjing, and the sound of artillery stopped at this time.

When he turned over and ran towards the front army for more than 100 steps, Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in armor in the distance, rode his horse with Li Dingguo and others, and watched the gunpowder cart and grain cart from afar.

Sun Shoufa saw that Zhu Youzhen was coming, and hurriedly went to make a move: "Your Highness, this place is dangerous, you have to stay away." ”

"It's a hundred steps away, what's the danger?" Zhu Youzhen looked at the cart of gunpowder, and while responding to Sun Shoufa with a smile, he also looked at the group of people who were carrying gunpowder and food, and couldn't help asking:

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"What is the wage of these people? How do I pay? ”

"The wage is a fixed price, the political envoy provides rations, beans, horses, the people run back and forth, a trip of one or two silver, the front-line military quartermaster Sima issued money tickets, the people returned to Shenyang to exchange, the political envoy found silver."

Sun Shoufa said about the system promulgated by Yuan Yingtai, and this system is basically an imitation of Zhu Youzhen's food stamp system.

A thousand miles away, for a person with two horses pulling a carriage, a round trip is about a month, and he earns one or two taels of silver a month, which is already a proper high income in Liaodong.

Therefore, even though it is dangerous outside the border, there are still many people who sign up to become people's husbands, especially after Xiong Tingbi captured Yimihe City and the road from Shenyang to Shangjing was completely safe, the people enthusiastically signed up.

"How many tickets have been issued by the ministries?" Zhu Youzhen turned his head sideways to look at his uncle Liu Xiaozu.

Liu Xiaozu was appointed by him as a counselor of Pingyu, and to put it bluntly, he was a notekeeper beside Zhu Youzhen.

For the Han people who had the "Ninety-Nine Multiplication Table" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "Arithmetic" is a topic that cannot be avoided, and although Liu Xiaozu's family background is ordinary, he has read it in private school, and there is no problem with arithmetic.

"By 16 March, the Fourth Army had issued a total of more than 276,000 money tickets."

Liu Xiaozu quickly responded to Zhu Youzhen's words, although his action of rummaging through the document book was a little rusty, but it was much better than at the beginning.

"That is, more than 276,000 taels of silver? It's a good deal. Zhu Youzhen bowed slightly when he heard this.

"Counting the grain and horse feed consumed, it is almost 500,000 taels spent on the people." Liu Xiaozu specifically mentioned the expenditure of rations and horse materials for the people, but even so, it was very cheap.

In the past, the people were all conscripted into forced labor and had no wages, and for the current imperial court, the cost of hundreds of thousands of taels of baggage is not much.

"Is there any news from the north?"

Zhu Youzhen did not respond to Liu Xiaozu, but asked Sun Shoufa, but Sun Shoufa shook his head:

"The news is still the news five days ago, counting it, if there is really news, it should be Lao Cao and Huang Taiji bumped into it."

"Hmm......" Zhu You replied, turned his head and glanced at Shangjing: "Keep fighting." ”

With that, he rode away towards his Chinese army.

In the same way, as time went on, by the time it was noon, more than 200,000 people had gathered on the north bank of the Duoerbi River in Beishan.

"All of them have successfully crossed the river, and now it's up to us."

In the camp formed by the baggage carts, when Zilharang came and went, Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and others were sitting in front of the campfire, holding a bowl of hot porridge in their hands.

After listening to Zilharang's words, he glanced at the women and children who had successfully crossed the river, and then at Cao Bianjiao, who had not moved, before frowning and saying:

"This young general surnamed Cao is estimated to be related to Cao Wenzhao, he is here, Cao Wenzhao should also lead troops to support soon, and then our pressure will be great."

"Then it's better to take advantage of this time to break through quickly." Dai Shan took a sip of meat porridge, looked around vigilantly, and looked very uneasy.

"No......" Huang Taiji sighed:

"The Ming army has not moved, because they want to divide our two troops and horses, and then they will attack, and now their goal has been achieved......"

"Woo-woo-"

Sure enough, when Huang Taiji's voice fell, the sound of horns came from the low slope in the distance, and at the same time, the sound of horns was heard around the camp on the south bank of the Jin army, as well as the three different directions of the Mang Gurtai army on the north bank.

Since most of the Beishan are river valleys, Huang Taiji chose to take a river valley with a very gentle altitude difference around it, less than 100 zhang.

This is one of the best river valleys to walk, but at the same time, because there are only a few mountain roads in the river valley, each road has been arranged by the Ming army with a large number of stone forts.

Stone forts were built high in the hills of each river valley, and the range of artillery strikes was basically to the extent of crossing.

Originally, after the trees were cut down, the river valley became much calmer, and the risk of being attacked was reduced, but without the cover of trees, it also meant that the Jin army was exposed to the sight of the Ming army.

Mang Gurtai had already sent Mongolian rangers yesterday to find out the range of each stone fort, and he knew that he had not yet entered the range of the stone fort, but he also knew that three miles further, he would see a stone fort standing in the middle of the hills.

Along with this stone fort, there were also stone forts on the hills on both sides, and the sound of the horn seemed to come from the direction of the stone fort.

There are actually quite a few roads on both sides of the valley that can be walked despite being in a hilly and low-lying area.

The reason why Mang Gurtai did not choose was because the Ming army built a stone fortress that was easy to defend and difficult to attack on almost any road.

For the moment, they have to force their way over a stone fort anyway, so why not choose the road with the widest road?

"Keep marching!"

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Mang Gurtai gave the order with a whip, and the army began to move on.

At the same time, the two armies of Huang Taiji and Daishan, who were on the south bank, also saw the cavalry pouring in from the forest, as well as the main cavalry force constantly pouring out from the low hills.

Within the range they could see with the naked eye, a total of six Ming cavalry corps appeared.

Some of them appear outside the forest, and some of them hide in the forest, giving people a sense that they don't know how many of them.

It's just that this trick is too inferior, for Huang Taiji, he has already pinched the amount of only 20,000 cavalry of the Ming army, so no matter how much Cao Bianjiao pretends to be a suspicious soldier, he can't attract his attention.

"There are more than 49,000 people in the Chinese army and the rear army, and there are only 20,000 cavalry in this general surnamed Cao, I want to see if they dare to charge into battle!"

Huang Taiji's face was gloomy, and then he issued a military order to the people around him: "Take the baggage cart as the battalion, and cross the river to the north step by step!" ”

In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking half-crossing, Huang Taiji chose to use a baggage cart to camp north and step through the ice of the Duoerbi River, which is still thick.

This tactic was originally a car battalion developed by the Ming army to deal with the Mongolian cavalry in the north, but now it is used by Huang Taiji to defend the cavalry of the Ming army.

With his order, the army began to move, but in the same way, the Ming cavalry was also moving closer to them little by little.

The dense iron cavalry of the Ming army stood behind Cao Bianjiao, spreading from the bottom of the slope to the slope, giving people the illusion that there were no iron cavalry in the rear.

"Beep!"

Cao Bianjiao blew the wooden whistle in his mouth, and then the Ming cavalry behind him began to step forward and put him in the middle of the front army.

20,000 cavalry came to besiege nearly 50,000 horse infantry, which is indeed dangerous, because if the horse infantry really spread their feet to break through, the 20,000 cavalry may not be able to stop it, and can only bite the opponent to the death, and wait until the opponent's horses are exhausted, and then harvest with iron horses.

Huang Taiji also understood this truth, so he didn't want to consume horsepower too early, but used baggage trucks to cover the army going north.

However, the baggage chariot formation was only beneficial to their side in the plains, and once they reached the river valley mountain road on the north bank, then they had to change from a tortoiseshell formation to a long snake formation.

What the Long Snake Formation is most afraid of is being attacked by cavalry from the middle.

If it is in the plains, the head and tail can be divided into forces, like a pincer.

But right now in the river valley, the head and tail are destined not to move at will.

Therefore, after carefully crossing the river valley, Huang Taiji immediately divided the Chinese army into Qianye, Zhongye and Houye.

He gathered the two yellow flags with the largest number of people in the center, and then gathered the two red banners of Daishan in the back, and arranged the two white flags led by Zilharang and Dolgon in the front.

That is, to interrupt the heavy troops, the front is light and the rear is heavy.

In this way, if the Ming army wants to raid, it can only choose the two white flags with the least number of people to raid, and the two yellow flags can support the two white flags, and the two red flags can support the two yellow flags.

The reverse is true for the three departments, which are each other's horns and support each other.

When they reached the north bank, the three or four hundred paces wide of the valley road was enough for them to spread out the march without huddle together.

The low hills on both sides were very suitable for cavalry attacks, but Cao Bianjiao only led cavalry to surround them, four cavalry teams monitored them in the two hills, and Cao Bianjiao led 10,000 cavalry to follow the road behind.

In this way, there is a stone fort in front of the Jin army, an iron cavalry of the Ming army in the rear, and a ranger as a jackal on both sides.

Such a bag, although it has not yet launched an attack, has always allowed all the Jin troops to see the Ming army as far as their eyes can see, which is very depressing.

"Ahem!"

Last night's stay up and the cold of camping on the riverbank made Huang Taiji cough uncontrollably.

Then, he only felt a stream of heat gushing out of his nose, which made him subconsciously reach out and touch it.

"Blood ......"

Huang Taiji, who touched a touch of blood red, was flustered, and at the same time, there were Nikan, Haug, Azig and others who were clustered around him.

"It's too bitter cold in the north, and my nose is too dry."

Huang Taiji said this, pulling out the knife on his leg, cutting a section of his cloak, and covering his mouth and nose.

He was calm on the surface, but in his heart his mood plummeted after he found that the nosebleed could not be stopped.

He had known that he had epistaxis, but he didn't expect it to break out today.

Although he had been forcibly calming himself, the movement of his mouth and nose that he had been covering still made the hearts of the generals who followed him uneasy.

It's just that because the Ming army followed closely, no one dared to show this uneasiness until ......

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The roaring sound of artillery rang out, coming from the front and from the hills on both sides, exploding like thunder.

If it weren't for the fact that the horses of the Jin army had been trained, I am afraid that the camp would have been bombed by now.

"The front army has entered the range of the stone fort, after this shelling, there is half a cup of tea time to pass, hurry up!"

Huang Taiji covered his mouth and nose, and calmly commanded the generals around him, and when he heard his order, everyone couldn't help but speed up.

Along with them, the cavalry of the Ming army heard the sound of artillery, but Cao Bianjiao only glanced at the sky in front of him, and continued to focus on the rear soldiers of the Jin army, who were on guard.

The river channel more than 300 steps wide allowed the Jin army to arrange a horizontal formation of 300 people walking from east to west, stretching it for half a mile.

The front of the Chinese army can clearly see the women and children in the front of the front, and the rear army can see the Ming army following in the rear.

Coupled with the rangers on both sides, in case the Ming cavalry launched an attack, it was obvious that the Jin army would suffer heavy casualties, but Cao Bianjiao did not do this, because he was waiting, waiting for his uncle to appear.

In this way, half a cup of tea passed, and the Jin army walked a full mile, and after they finished walking a mile, the artillery of the Ming army began to attack again.

"Peng Peng Peng—"

The dull sound of artillery was like a heavy hammer, constantly pounding on the chest of the Jin soldier.

Although they knew that they would be given half a cup of tea for safe time after this round of shelling, that sense of unease had already been created.

As the commander-in-chief, Huang Taiji could feel that the generals around him couldn't help but speed up their pace after the cannonade stopped.

He understands that this is not a good performance, which means that the current Jin army is like a taut bowstring.

It's good that the bowstring is taut, but if it is taut for too long and suddenly relaxes, it is very vulnerable to surprise attacks.

Thinking of this, he involuntarily looked at the Ming army rangers on the hills on both sides.

Their eyes were like goshawks soaring in the air, staring at the Jin Army with eyes that were staring at their prey.

Huang Taiji can guarantee that as long as the Jin army relaxes for a while, as long as the young general surnamed Cao of the Ming army gives the order, this group of rangers will become iron cavalry, and they will repeatedly attack the Jin army's military formation.

"The Bird Gun Team and the Cavalry Cavalry are both in the Chinese army, right?"

Huang Taiji subconsciously asked Nikan beside him, and Nikan also nodded:

"Six hundred cavalry, six hundred cavalry, and ten thousand birdmen are in the army."

Huang Taiji was not a fool, after discovering that the Han people were unreliable, he had already taken the captured cavalry and infantry guns, as well as the bird guns forged by the craftsmen of the Jin Army.

The use of bird guns by Liaodong cavalry is actually a very common thing.

The reason why the Liaoxi and Guanning iron cavalry in the period of Tianqi and Chongzhen used the three-eyed gun was because the quality of the bird gun was not up to standard.

If the quality of the bird gun is passable, no cavalry will be unwilling to use the bird gun to face the attack, just like in the Korean battle, the Liaodong iron cavalry led by Li Rusong only carried less than 100 three-eyed guns, and the number of three-hole (three-eyed arquebus) and bird guns reached more than 1,500.

Huang Taiji asked the Jin army to use a bird gun, in order to be the same as the Ming army in the face of the sudden attack, not to care about the head, just to bombard the past.

An arrow can only hurt a person if it is lost in the face, but a bird gun can hurt a person as long as it is fired within ten steps.

Only a surprise blow can make the Ming army suffer heavy losses and break through successfully, as long as nothing changes......

"Peng Peng Peng!

！ ”

Suddenly, the sound of dense artillery rang out, and all the Jin troops stopped in place, and Tong Kong contracted.

Even Huang Taiji couldn't help but panic in his heart, clutching the reins of the horse in his hand, and Azig, who couldn't hold his breath next to him, shouted to the sentry horse:

"What's going on?! Didn't the artillery of the Ming Army's Stone Fort have only one round, only a few dozen?! ”

"What's going on?!"

No one could answer Azig's question, because everyone's minds were blank at the moment.

It's just that compared to them, Cao Bianjiao, who heard the sound of the cannon, smiled:

"Uncle...... Nephew waits so hard for you......"