On the eve of the day when the Jin Coalition Army surrounded Ning Yuan, and on the eve of the upcoming battle, Chu Fan sent a letter to all the Qi family troops.

"All the soldiers of the Qi family army are enlightened. Our generation is the ancestor of the Han people, for thousands of years, standing in the forest of the world, but throughout the past, bullied by the wilderness, my generation has no outstanding essentials, but hidden invincible determination, by the style of the ancestors, including the backbone of the Han people, the flesh and blood of the whole people, what about Genghis Khan? What about the end of the fight? Why be afraid? Today, fortunately, he fought a decisive battle with the generals Ning Yuan, swore not to retreat, people were in the city, and people died

The city is dead, the city can be lost, the integrity does not fall, the spring breeze blows the war drums, see who is afraid of whom, and defend this city with me, until one soldier and one soldier. ”

Once the pre-war mobilization is over, it's time to face the battle.

The second wave army contracted the south gate and the east gate, and the Jin army contracted the north gate and the west gate, with a clear division of labor and the same pace of attack.

Tens of thousands of troops advanced towards the city gates.

Of course, the preparation of the Ming army was definitely not in vain, and the fifteen Franc machine guns at each city gate were already ready to launch and began to roar.

"Boom" With the sound of cannons, the vanguard of the Japanese-Kim coalition received the first round of blows.

The Franc cannon used by the Ming army this time was left by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, although the number was not large, but the weapons were very sophisticated.

This is Chu Fan's improved Hundred Franc machine on the Korean battlefield, with fast reloading speed, fierce explosion and damage, and is very effective for siege and defense.

When the second wave army occupied Liaodong, they saw these cannons, but they found a problem, they couldn't make explosives.

They were still at the stage of charcoal gunpowder, and they could not drive such a large-caliber cannon, and after studying for a long time, they could not make a sound, and finally gave up and threw them in the warehouse of the Liaodong military camp.

Later, after Wu Weizhong counterattacked to Liaodong, he discovered these artifacts and brought them back when he retreated.

Of course, I didn't think it would be usable, but I ushered in Comrade Chu Fan, the research founder of this cannon, in Ningyuan, and quickly prepared a batch of yellow explosives and hundreds of guns for the cannon, which came in handy.

The second wave army was under this kind of artillery, and it was relatively smart, and as soon as it saw the artillery attacking, it immediately stopped advancing, stood outside the range of the cannon, and hesitated.

On the other hand, the Jin army was obviously more brave in battle, and still charged forward in the face of artillery fire, killing and wounding many people, but it rushed to a place dozens of feet away from the city.

Of course, Chu Fan would not leave them a chance to enter the city, hundreds of three-eyed eyes shot in a volley, and countless people immediately fell to the ground.

However, the Houjin soldiers had a very strong sense of combat, and did not retreat, but stepped on the corpses of their predecessors and continued to charge forward.

The Houjin troops were similar to the Warats, they had been shot by the Ming army, but they had not been taken continuously, they were fired down with a salvo, and they were about to rush to the second round, but they immediately received another round of salvo from the Ming army.

In this way, hit down, charge again, hit down, charge again, and continue until the fifth time, the brave Houjin troops also began to be vague, when is this a head? The shells behind him were still falling, and the guns in front of him were round after round, and the volleys kept firing, and the Houjin army was also a little panicked.

In hesitation, Hauge, the commander of the front army, suspended the attack and ordered the whole army to retreat to a safe distance to observe the situation.

On the side of the second wave army, Konishi Yukinaga had a wishful thinking.

He is the commander who has fought the most battles with the Ming army, and he knows the routine of the Ming army very well, so he deliberately slows down the rhythm from the beginning of the artillery bombardment, does not charge to the death, and waits for the Houjin people to rush to the front desperately, and the Ming army only charges forward when it is caught off guard to reduce its own losses.

Although the losses caused by this round of attacks are not very large, but they have hit Houjin's confidence.

The Later Jin army was different from the Cibo army, and relied more on cavalry.

Generally speaking, the fighting of the backward troops is certainly not hand-to-hand combat with bare hands, but also at different levels, especially when several cities such as Fushun were captured in the early stage, and certain siege tactics were summed up.

They also knew very well that cavalry was not suitable for siege cities, so they divided their forces into three levels, the front army generally pushed wooden carts to resist the guns of the Ming army, and ordinary firearms and bows could not be penetrated.

The Chinese army is generally an archer, used to shoot at the enemy, covering the front and rear armies.

Finally, there is the cavalry, and when the top of the front goes up, the cavalry can rush to the front, and then build a ladder and climb the city wall, all in one go.

But this time I was a little confused.

When it was far away, the Ming army was bombarded by artillery, what kind of wooden car archers you had, you only had to be beaten, and it was easy to get closer, the Ming army fired, but the Ming army had a long range of this gun, and it was very powerful, and the archers couldn't reach people at all, so they were fired in a volley, and if they got closer, the wooden car couldn't stop the bullets, and they still shot through and injured people.

And the cavalry, before they could reach it, was tripped by the leg of the horse by the man who fell in front of them, and he fell more than he was knocked down by his spear.

So the first firefight, a little at a loss, looking at the hot yam, I don't know where to start.

Looking at the side of the second wave army, it is obvious that the charge is not so fierce, Hauge is still a relatively high-level general in the end, so he immediately adjusted his strategy, suspended the attack, and observed it. This observation does not matter, both sides turn off the fire and look at each other.

This is very interesting, Chu Fan stood on the top of the tall building in the center, looking at the enemy troops in all directions, and was also a little puzzled.

An army of 500,000 made a tentative attack, and then there was no movement?

It was quiet for most of the day, and it was still Konishi Yukicho who took the lead in breaking the deadlock and slowly launched an attack from the east gate, but this attack was different from the front, Konishi Yukicho, who had suffered enough from the Ming army's artillery, changed the tactical formation, and turned to a team of people every twenty meters, the so-called one team, it was really a team, lined up in a vertical line, and moved forward.

The reason is very simple, disperse the forces, avoid concentrated artillery fire, and consume the enemy's ammunition.

This trick really worked, and after a round of shelling, only a few squads were injured and killed a dozen people, and the rest were rarely killed or injured due to their special dispersion.

When it got closer, the Ming army began to fire a salvo, but because the Qi family army had just begun to train the shooting of the three-eyed eye, the accuracy was very average, and the enemy army was sparse, and it did not achieve very good results, and a lot of bullets were wasted, but the enemy army did not consume much.

In this way, the second wave army slowly approached the city wall in a small team, but after all, as soon as the people were sparse, the number of people who could get close to the city wall was very small, and when they reached the edge of the city wall, they did not dare to attack the city wall, after all, before you set up the ladder, you were overturned by the people above.

Therefore, the approaching sub-wave army could only hide under the base of the city wall, relying on a few covers, temporarily hiding, waiting for more people to approach.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, there were more and more people approaching the city wall, although many people did not have cover, but relying on the sky to get darker, the defenders on the city wall could not see the location clearly, so they hid under the city wall and did not move, and they were not shot.

Seeing this, Chu Fan immediately called Wu Weizhong and drew a map in front of Wu Weizhong.

Wu Weizhong, who was confused by the second monk, guessed that Chu Fan had a good way, and sat obediently on the side, silent.

Chu Fan drew a map of the city defense on the map, and compared it with Wu Weizhong: "General Wu, look at this map, is it consistent with the shape of Ningyuan's city wall?" ”

"Well, almost, pretty much the same"

"What about the proportions? Is the error big? ”

As a native of Zhejiang, Wu Weizhong has been exposed to more Western information since he was a child, and he understands the word proportion almost well, and silently pondered for a while, and said: It seems that the east and west are slightly longer than the north and south.

Chu Fan followed Wu Weizhong's description, and after making a slight modification, Wu Weizhong said happily: "Well, this is almost, it's probably like this." ”

Chu Fan looked at the picture almost, and on the map, more than a hundred zhang outside the city, he pointed out eight points, and said to Wu Weizhong, can you remember these eight points?

Wu Weizhong picked up the drawings, looked at them carefully, and said, "Lord Chu, for example, how far do you think it is from the city wall?" ”

"This point is about 110 zhang"

"Then this point is about one hundred and thirty zhang?"

Wu Weizhong is really smart, and he can understand it at all.

Chu Fan pointed to a point and said: "In this way, the drawing and the reality must not be too accurate, you and remember according to the law I said, you count from the first point of the east gate, this is according to one hundred and fifty zhang, and then count to the west gate, the second point is one hundred and forty zhang, the third point is one hundred and thirty zhang, and so on." ”

"Oh oh, I see, the closer I run, the closer I get, each point is about ten zhang closer than the previous one."

"Yes, the last point, about seventy feet from the city wall?"

"Well, I remember, what's next? Lord Chu? ”

Chu Fan hugged Wu Weizhong's shoulder, whispered, stuffed a pocket watch to Wu Weizhong, and said, "How much are you at the moment?" ”

"My lord, this is my ...... I won't see it. ”

"Oh oh oh, by the way, I forgot to teach you how to look at it. You see, this is the hour hand, and walking a square is half an hour, which is called an hour, and this is the minute hand, and walking a circle is half an hour, and a jump is called a minute, and this is called the second hand, and a turn is a minute, and a jump is called a second."

"When are you doing?"

"Lord Hui, this one of mine is...... 8:12:35. ”

Chu Fan took Wu Weizhong's watch as the standard, adjusted his watch, and kept the two watches every second.

After a while, the east gate was wide open, and a group of cavalry rushed out.

There were not many cavalrymen who rushed out, more than 500 people, with a hundred three-eyed eyes, more than 100 bows and arrows, and the rest were short scimitars and no heavy weapons.

The second wave army was also shocked to see that the Ming army actually took the initiative to attack.

But when he saw the number of enemy troops, Yukicho Konishi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, how dare such a few people provoke?

I saw these 500 cavalry, slashing and killing the second wave army approaching the city wall in threes and threes along the way, and the second wave army did not dare to resist at all because it was very sparse, and fled backwards one after another.

When they arrived in front of the camp of the second wave army, the cavalrymen suddenly raised their three-eyed mancuffs and began to fire a volley.

Konishi Yuki's is angry, grandma's, dare to run to my camp to provoke? Come on, chase me.

But Captain Konishi was very clever, after all, the five hundred cavalry was not far from the city, and instead of rushing out with the whole army, he sent a group of troops and a group of infantry to rush towards the five hundred cavalry.

Led by 500 cavalry, it was Wu Weizhong, but Wu Weizhong did not clash head-on with the second wave army, and when he saw the second wave of cavalry and infantry chasing, he immediately turned his horse's head and ran to the side. Wu Weizhong looked at his watch while running.

I saw that when the minute hand was about 8:50, Wu Weizhong suddenly turned again and ran backwards.

The second wave army was in hot pursuit, and followed Wu Weizhong's 500 cavalry about 30 zhang and chased after them.

The hour hand went to 8:50, only to hear Chu Fan's order: "Release"

"Boom, boom, boom" A series of artillery shots rang out, and dozens of Franco-machine shells hit the cavalry ranks of the Second Polish Army, blowing up people on their backs, and killing and wounding everywhere.

But the second wave army did not flinch, and the second wave army, which was notoriously able to fight hard, continued to chase closely, biting the five hundred cavalry.

Immediately afterwards, when the pocket watch reached 8:55, the cavalry of the Second Wave Army just stepped into the second point designed by Chu Fan.

Another burst of artillery fire once again hit the middle of the cavalry ranks of the Second Polish Army.

The flesh and blood flew down, but the second wave army still didn't react, thinking that the Ming army had hit by mistake and continued to pursue.

It wasn't until it was accurately bombed for the fourth time that the second wave of Chinese people woke up like a dream, what is this special precision strike? How can it be so accurate?

Just when the cavalry of the second wave country suffered heavy losses, thousands of dead and wounded, and was scratching their heads and wondering, the Houjin troops on the side saw this group of Ming troops and the second wave army chasing behind them.

The commander of the right wing of the Houjin army is Nurhachi's eldest son Chu Ying, although he is the eldest son, but there is a problem - his brain is not very good.

It is typical of well-developed limbs and a simple mind.

At this time, seeing that the second wave army was chasing the Ming army, for fear that others would rob the credit, he didn't ask for instructions or ask the people around him, and he shouted a sentence of rush with passion, and rushed up.

Chu Ying obviously didn't know how to tactics as Governor Konishi, Governor Konishi only sent 20,000 troops to chase and kill the Ming cavalry in a column, but Chu Ying couldn't manage so much, and when he saw the Ming army's eyes were red, he immediately mobilized troops to press on the whole line and chase down the Ming army.

On the huge plain, I saw a small group of Ming troops, leading the forty or fifty thousand Houjin troops to run all over the field.

Immediately afterwards, you don't need to ask to know that the Houjin troops accurately stepped into the bombing area of the Ming army, and the casualties were incalculable, and the Ming army, except for more than 50 people who fell out of the horse and died, almost did not hurt a single soldier, and returned to the city safely from the west gate.

The Japanese-Jin coalition army outside the city was more miserable, under the precise attack of the Ming army's artillery, the second wave army lost more than 5,000 people, and the Houjin lost 15,000 people.

Nurhachi stood in the camp, holding a long whip, and whipped Chu Ying is wildly, scolding while smoking: "Bastard, you can see it clearly and chase it again, five hundred cavalry, dare to kill in?" What are you chasing after him? ”

Chu Ying screamed when he was beaten, but Haoge on the side showed a sneer.

How could the second-wave army, which had suffered a loss, give up?

Although he lost several thousand troops, he took advantage of the gap between the Ming army's artillery and the Houjin troops, and suddenly attacked the city wall.

As soon as there were many attackers, the battlefield became denser, and the bottom was dense, so Chu Fan ordered full firepower.

Hundreds of three-eyed eyes were fired in a volley, and the second-wave army suffered heavy casualties, and the sound of bullets was endless, and it kept falling beside the troops.

This was followed by screams of being shot and falling to the ground.

But because it was completely dark, the Ming army on the city wall had completely unable to see below, basically by feeling to fight, the accuracy rate was still very low, the second wave army was desperately killed and wounded, a large number of second wave troops simply attacked under the city wall, and the second wave army hiding under the city wall in the afternoon converged, began to attack the city.

The so-called storming of the city is very simple, it is to fight the number of people, the people below set up ladders, the people above knock down, there are too many people who set up ladders below, the people above can't pull out, it's too late to grab the ladder, the people below climb up the ladder, and the people above will be smashed with stones and poured with hot oil.

The fight is who has more people and who moves fast.

The Ming army was not slow, but there was a relative lack of manpower.

After calculation, although the entire Ningyuan City is not too big, it is really not small, and it is four hundred zhang around it, not to mention that the city gate is still in the shape of a mountain, which increases the actual length.

The Ming army of 30,000 people, excluding logistics personnel and officials at all levels, can actually fight only 21,000, plus 5,000 cavalry, stationed in the city gates, ready to intercept the enemy troops rushing in from the city gates.

There were only more than 15,000 people who actually fought on the towers.

Calculated down, one zhang is three is the defense force of many people, with an average of one meter per person.

Therefore, when the number of the second wave army was overwhelmingly superior, ladders were constantly erected, and people were constantly climbing upwards.

Just as he was caught off guard, Wu Weizhong went up to the tower to find Chu Fan to report, suggesting that the troops in the west of the city be transferred to assist in the defense of the second wave army in the south of the city.

was rejected by Chu Fan, and only said one sentence: "The west side of the city will come soon." ”

Sure enough, Chu Fan's judgment was fulfilled, although the Houjin army in the west of the city suffered serious losses, but seeing that the south of the city had launched an attack, they did not hesitate to launch a general attack, and the west side of the city was also attacked under the city.

Although the enemy army is numerous, the Qi family army is very tenacious.

Encouraged by Chu Fan's pre-war mobilization and the five hundred cavalry playing with the enemy just now, the morale was unprecedentedly high, although the number was not superior, but the battle was very brave and very hard.

Dozens of pounds of big stones kept being thrown downward, and the logistics troops kept moving them up the city tower.

In particular, the troops that rushed into the recesses on both sides of the mountain were attacked from three sides, and suffered particularly heavy losses, and people kept falling off the ladders and falling to their deaths in the ground.

This is an extremely tragic battle, the second wave army, the Houjin army, are famous for their tenacious combat, but they met the same Qi family army that regarded death as home, the two sides fought extremely fiercely, and the wave of people rushed to the city wall, and the defenders of the Qi family army fought hand-to-hand, and then they were beaten down by the Qi family army, overturned the ladder, and fell to death countless times.

After a while, the Houjin army rushed up, slashed and killed dozens of Qi family army defenders, and then was forced to go down.

Under the walls, on the walls, there were dead bodies everywhere.

So much so that later, there was no need to set up a ladder, and the people under the city could directly climb up and fight when they stepped on the corpses of their companions.