On the 23rd day of the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin army entered the city of Ningyuan, cut off the Shanhai Avenue five miles away from the city, set up camp and set up a formation, cut off the connection between Ningyuan and Guannei, and set up a large camp in the north of the city.

Seeing that Ning Yuancheng didn't go out of the city to face the battle, and he didn't make a lot of noise, just quietly pestle, which made Nurhachi a little puzzled.

"Yuan Chonghuan is no one, but he is a scholar, and he dares to defend the city and refuse to surrender."

Nurhachi said contemptuously: "Although I am old, I don't mind teaching this scholar a lesson, letting him know what it means to 'play a big knife in front of Guan Mafa'." ”

He was ready to order the army to attack the city immediately.

Huang Taiji persuaded: "The army has come from afar, and it is not too late to rest for a day and attack again." Moreover, the Han people say that they salute first and then soldiers, so it is better to write a letter to Yuan Chonghuan in the city to persuade him to surrender. ”

Nurhachi felt that it made sense, so he wrote a letter and handed it to the Han captives to send him to Ningyuan City.

The new content is roughly as follows:

To Er Yuan Chonghuan, Ben Khan besieged the city of Erxiao Ningyuan with 200,000 troops, and the city could be broken. I heard that you have not contributed an inch in Liaoxi for several years, and it is estimated that you are a person who has no ability and acts entirely on blood.

Ben Khan wants to be lenient and rewarding, as long as you and the generals and officials in Ning Yuanli surrender, Ben Khan will give you additional officials and knights.

When such a letter was sent to Ningyuan City, the generals in the city were so angry that they wanted to kill the person who delivered the letter, and then hang the person's head on the city tower, so as to inspire the soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand and said, "He's just a messenger, killing him won't do much." Moreover, he is also a pitiful person, so why add another layer of pity to make his family even more sad. ”

After speaking, Yuan Chonghuan picked up his pen and replied to Nurhachi.

The letter reads as follows:

Your Excellency Tong Nurhachi, the commander of the Jianzhou Wei of the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon and Tiger General, what are you coming here for, you defeated Wang Huazhen before, and Ning Yuan and Jinzhou are already in your pocket. Now that you have lost it, but you want to bring it back without much effort, how can it be so easy in the world.

I have recovered this place for the Ming Dynasty, so naturally I want to defend this place for the Ming Dynasty, how can there be any reason to surrender.

Your Excellency's red mouth and white teeth opened your mouth to open your mouth to 200,000 soldiers, this is a big joke. And whether you have 200,000 or 130,000, you have more soldiers and horses than me, so why scare me.

If you want to fight, you can fight, and if you don't want to fight, you can go back.

The reply letter was sent back, making Nurhachi so angry that she almost broke her defenses.

However, there is also a "big gift" waiting for him.

At the same time as the letter was delivered out of the city, Yuan Chonghuan called Raleigh over.

"General Luo, how far is the Hongyi cannon?"

"Two to three miles, but the farther you go, the lower the head."

"It doesn't matter, we just want to scare people."

Yuan Chonghuan's chicken thief's smile made Raleigh a little confused.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Chonghuan asked Luo to use the Hongyi cannon to fire a cannon in the direction of Nurhachi's camp to give Nurhachi a greeting gift.

Raleigh said that he understood, he went behind a Hongyi cannon in the north, simply adjusted the shooting angle, calculated the shooting distance, and then ignited and fired.

Bang!

A cannon smashed directly into the outpost camp of the Houjin Army, killing and wounding more than ten people on the spot.

The subordinates reported the injuries to Nurhachi.

Nurhachi frowned and said, "Grandma's, there are also artillery cannons used by Yang Chengying in Ningyuan City. He ordered the camp to move further away, and warned the besieging troops to be careful not to be hit by artillery.

Huang Taiji looked at Ningyuan City and thought to himself, when Ningyuan City is captured, I must be the first to capture that batch of artillery, this is really useful.

In fact, Huang Taiji privately asked the craftsman to imitate the artillery on Yang Chengying's capture city, but because there was no real thing, there was no way to get it out.

Later, he tried to send people to infiltrate Jinzhou Town, hoping to spend a lot of money to hire artillery troops and craftsmen.

However, the city was well guarded, and the spies who came into contact with the artillery units were caught.

The Ordnance Bureau was even more outrageous, and before he could contact the craftsman, he was arrested by the person in charge of intelligence in Jinzhou City.

Later, I learned that not to mention Houjin, even Jinyiwei and Dongchang's fans don't want to enter and exit easily in Jinzhou Town.

Just because Jinzhou Town has a set of armor protection system similar to that of a military tun, it is particularly vigilant against those who inquire about intelligence.

However, after a day of observation, Nurhachi finally discovered that the weakness of Ningyuan City was in the southwest corner.

So, in the early morning of the 24th day of the first lunar month, Nurhachi personally commanded the army to storm the southwest corner of Ningyuan City.

For a time, the entire southwest corner was plunged into war.

The soldiers pushed a thick wooden cart wrapped in a layer of cowhide and a layer of iron as a cover, and behind the cart a small cart pushed a large amount of earth to fill in the trench.

It was followed by the archers of the Eight Banners, as well as the elite foot soldiers.

This old-fashioned method of warfare is not that Nurhachi lacks innovative spirit, but it is really easy to use.

The ancient city walls, especially Liaodong, which is known for its "poverty", were not all bricks and stones, but mainly rammed earth.

Push the cart to the bottom of the city, and then chisel it with an axe, and it is invincible.

Nurhachi knew that this method of play was useless against the capture of the city, even if the cart was pushed under the city, it would not be able to penetrate the wall. So I chose Ningyuan City, thinking that it would go very smoothly.

The artillery commanded by Raleigh, one cannon and one cart, directly dumbfounded the cart soldiers of the Houjin Army.

Nurhachi saw it from a distance and took a sip: "It's really unreasonable, this guy has also learned Yang Chengying's shooting skills!" ”

Huang Taiji looked at it, and his heart itched, what a good artillery.

In fact, the primary artillery shooting technique is not particularly difficult, what is really difficult is to be able to bombard a little bit with several guns.

This technology Raleigh will not, only Yang Chengying's army will be.

Still, it was enough to deal with Nurhachi's chariot.

After all, Nurhachi had been on the battlefield for a long time, and immediately judged from the sound of artillery fire that the Ming army did not have many artillery, which was far less powerful than the artillery in Zhenyucheng.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Khan led his army to attack Ningyuan, and he will never go back until he wins."

Nurhachi ordered: "Whoever ascends first, carry the flag, the reward, the field, and give it to the mother-in-law!" Give me a storming of the southwest corner of the enemy, and whoever retreats will be slain on the spot. ”

Stimulated by the radish and stick, the Houjin army stormed towards the southwest corner.

As soon as He Kegang of the Chinese army saw that the situation was not right, he immediately reported to Yuan Chonghuan that the enemy had increased his troops to the southwest corner.

Yuan Chonghuan personally led people to the southwest corner, and saw the enemy surging like a tide.

The Ming army rolled wood and stones together, smashing back wave after wave.

To make matters worse, the enemy's carts had been pushed under the city and began to carve into the city.

Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and bring up the gunpowder and cotton cloth and burn them with fire." ”

Before the words fell, a wolf's tooth arrow came towards Yuan Chongwan.

Yuan Chonghuan subconsciously squatted down, but before he squatted behind the female wall, he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder.

"Your Excellency."

Several shield soldiers immediately erected several shields to block Yuan Chonghuan's body.

The military doctor bent over and shouted, "Bear with me, my subordinates will draw arrows for you." ”

Yuan Chonghuan nodded.

The military doctor pressed his shoulder with one hand, pulled out the wolf's tooth arrow with the other, and then hurriedly wrapped the bandage.

In a very short time, many enemies have already flocked to the city.