Hetuara was more than 1,100 miles away from the capital of Lin Dan Khan, Chahanhot, but because the Boundary City and Tieling were occupied by the Ming army, the spies in Jianzhou could not walk in a straight line at all.

They had to bypass the Kaiyuan from the city of Chahanhot, head north from the Korqin steppe, venture through Yeh's territory, and finally make a large circle back to Hetuala.

Not only is it extremely risky, but the actual distance is more than 1,800 miles.

Fan Wenhuan's mission to Chahanhot City alone took 20 days on the way back and forth.

This is still because the sentinels of the Ming army "released water" all the way, otherwise he would not have been able to complete this mission at all.

In addition, Li Xianzhong deliberately rubbed under the city of Chahanhot for many days, and when Nurhachi led the elite of the Three Banners north to Gule Village, the Ming army had already repaired the fortress for a month.

Thanks to the help of cement and the hard work of tens of thousands of North Korean laborers day and night, the fortress defense system in Gulzhai has now been completely completed.

Although the Ming army did not formally attack the city, dozens of Hongyi cannons continued to bombard the walls of Gulzhai Village.

The walls of the eastern city have been almost completely destroyed.

At first, Mang Gurtai also organized people to repair the city wall at night, but he gave up within a few days.

The speed at which he repaired was not at all comparable to the speed of the Ming army's artillery bombardment, and now the entire city wall of Dongcheng was almost in ruins.

Although the artillery of the Ming army had destroyed the outer walls of the Walled City, Li Sanshun was not happy.

originally thought that Gurtai's fiery temper would definitely not be able to withstand the shelling, and finally chose to go out of the city to attack his artillery position.

But he didn't expect that he was still as steady as Mount Tai, and he cowered in the city and refused to attack.

Man Gui also said worriedly: "The Tartars have a lot of troops in Gule Village, they have been cowering in the city like this, if we attack it, I am afraid we will have to pay a lot of price." ”

Now that the news of Ning Yuanbo's victory over Lin Dan Khan in the grassland should also be about to reach Hetuala, if he can't hit the Mang Gurtai of Gule Village as soon as possible, he will inevitably be attacked by the Tartars on both sides.

Although this so-called fortress looks quite powerful, how long it can hold on, everyone has no bottom in their hearts.

In order to reduce the pressure on the fortress later, Li Sanshun decided to change his tactics.

Originally, Mang Gurtai was still very confident in the walls of the Gul Walled City, and the city built by the Koreans can be described as extremely strong.

Unexpectedly, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army directly collapsed the city wall, and the short-tempered Mang Gurtai wanted to lead the army to attack several times, but was persuaded by his subordinate Jia Lae Zhen.

After all, the Great Khan strictly ordered Gulzhai to hold on and not to attack.

In the end, Mang Gurtai, who really had no choice, simply came to a "out of sight is clean", letting the Han army Niulu stick to the outer city, and Jianzhou Niulu to stick to the inner city.

The depressed Mang Gurtai could only hide in the inner city and drink, anyway, the Ming army did not attack the city, but only used artillery and Lu Mi guns to wait for the opportunity to kill and injure his own bannermen.

With the passage of time, the Han army defending the city also learned to be smart, and never showed their heads easily so as not to be shot and killed by the Ming army's musketeers.

The daily casualty figure has come down.

Mang Gurtai had just fought 300 rounds with a few sleeping Korean women last night, and was sleeping soundly, when he was suddenly awakened by the roaring sound of shelling!

At this time, a Niu Lu ran in in a panic and said, "Master Qiqi, it's not good!" The Ming army began to attack the city! ”

This frightened Mang Gurtai, and he hurriedly put on his armor and led the Jianzhou Niu Lu with the blue flag to climb the wall of the inner city.

It should be that the Ming army advanced the artillery position a lot overnight, and originally they could only shell the perimeter of the outer city, but this time the shells fell directly in the city.

Some even exploded very close to the inner city walls.

What's even more terrifying is that the Ming army seems to have adopted a brand new artillery shell, which exploded directly after landing on the ground, generating a huge air wave and blowing up everything around.

The losses of the Han army Niulu in the outer city increased several times at once, and even the buildings inside the city were set on fire because of the artillery bombardment of the Ming army.

Fortunately, the fire was not large, otherwise there would not have been enough water in the cistern.

This made Mang Gurtai no longer calm.

Although there are still 7,000 defenders in the city at present, if the Ming army moves the artillery forward again tonight, it will be able to directly bombard the inner city tomorrow.

The power of this new type of artillery shell of the Ming army is amazing, and the space of the inner city is even narrower, if it is bombarded by the artillery of the Ming army for a few days, even if the whole army is not wiped out, there will be only a few living people left.

Mang Gurtai said sharply: "Kill the wounded war horses to reward the soldiers, we will go out of the city tonight to destroy the artillery of the Ming army." ”

Although he knew that the Ming army would definitely be on guard, he had no choice.

If you don't take advantage of the fact that the troops are sufficient now, the morale is not too low to go out of the city to fight, and if you are bombarded for a few more days, Gule Village will have no morale at all.

He knew that the Ming army's guns were sharp, so he directly chose to use the cavalry to attack and advance to the Ming army's artillery position as quickly as possible.

Now their position is only 2 miles away from Gule Village, and the cavalry is coming in an instant.

In order to motivate the reckless Gurtai decided to personally lead the troops to attack the camp.

However, the number of horses in the city was limited, and only 3,000 people could be gathered together.

Moreover, there is only this mountain road leading to the bottom of the mountain in Qinglong Mountain, and the only choice that Mang Gurtai can choose at this time is probably the time for a sneak attack.

If it were in normal times, he could still choose a rainy day, although the rain would make the roads muddy and not conducive to action, but it could also limit the use of firearms by the Ming army to a large extent.

But this year, the whole of Liaodong is in a severe drought, and even the rainy season in April and May in previous years has not rained, and it is impossible to expect rain.

In the end, he chose the time of the sneak attack at three o'clock in the morning, that is, around 1:45 in the morning.

This time the defenders are more tired than tired, so it is convenient to sneak attack.

At this time, the city wall of the eastern city of Gule Village was already a pile of broken bricks and stones and rammed earth in ruins.

After clearing some passages, the cavalry of the Blue Banner began to sneak out of the city under the cover of night.

Fortunately, the moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, there is no moonlight, and the visibility of the Ming army is very low.

Moreover, the Ming army had already filled in the two trenches he had arranged outside the city before, which made it much easier for him to get out of the city.

However, it was impossible for a large number of cavalry to leave the city without making a sound, after all, the artillery position of the Ming army was only 2 miles away from the city.

So he simply rushed towards the artillery position of the Ming army generously, after all, it was a blink of an eye.

Soon a ringing arrow left a long tail in the night sky.

As the fireworks burst into the night sky, the Ming army's Lumi guns began to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

Although the target could not be seen clearly, the Ming gunners divided into three groups and fired at the narrow front in turn.

Soon the bitter wails of the enemy and the neighing of the horses were heard.

Mang Gurtai shouted excitedly: "The place in front of the white fog is the position of the Ming army, and the warriors will charge me." ”

At this moment, the musketeers of the Ming army have completed a round of "three-stage strikes" and are nervously loading gunpowder and gunpowder.

And the big shieldmen and spearmen of the Pingyu Guard had already appeared in front of them.

The endless darkness made everything unknown, but the clear sound of horses' hooves told the Ming army that the Blue Banner should soon be in their trap.

Soon there was a loud noise, first the sound of the land collapsing in front of them, then the wails of the Jianzhou cavalry after falling into the trap and being stabbed by the trap, and the neighing of the horses.

In this dimly lit environment, the Ming army could only see the situation near the torches, so hearing became their main means of judging the enemy's position.

Man Gui shouted: "The enemy's cavalry has fallen into the trap, and the tiger cannon is ready to fire." ”

The Ming army knew that after they moved the artillery position forward, Mang Gurtai, who could not withstand the blow of the flowering shells, would definitely come to attack, so they had already adjusted the artillery position.

The big shield hand of the Ming army was actually not to prevent the impact of the Jianzhou cavalry, but to prevent the accidental injury of the tiger squat cannon lead.

These traps were located at a distance of about 50 paces from the Ming army's position. Although they have adjusted the shelling range of the Tiger Squat Cannon to about 100 paces behind the trap.

The distance of 150 paces should be safe, but no one can guarantee that the scattered bullets of the Tiger Squat Cannon will not accidentally hurt their side.

Soon, more than 30 tiger squatting cannons behind the position roared towards the Zhenglan flag.

The shots they fired were originally scattershots, and they didn't need to aim too accurately, as long as they roughly landed within this range, they could give a fatal blow to the densely formed Jianzhou cavalry.

Sure enough, after the tiger squat cannon was fired, the Jianlu in front let out a ghost-crying wolf-like roar.

A group of pro-soldiers stood in front of Mang Gurtai, and the lead shot from the tiger cannon even pierced their shields.

However, Mang Gurtai did not retreat, he knew that the tiger squat artillery of the Ming army must have adjusted the gun position in advance, and they could no longer aim when they rushed through here.

He drew his sword and shouted: "The warriors have crossed directly over the Ming army's trap, and we must destroy their artillery." ”

At this time, the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong sounded again, and this burst of guns directly took away the Zhenglan Banner that had fallen into the trap and survived by luck.

The unreckless Gurtai urged the frightened Zhenglan Banner to directly attack the artillery positions of the Ming army.

Although the huge casualties caused some hesitation on the part of the cavalry of the Blue Banner, in the end, the master's order overcame the fear in their hearts.

Under Mang Gurtai's constant urging, they still mustered up the courage to step on the corpses of their comrades and attack forward.

This time they succeeded, because by this time the Ming army had already methodically withdrawn from this so-called artillery position along the trench.

At this moment, Mang Gurtai found that there were no powder kegs or shells to be found on this artillery position.

How good is that?

Without gunpowder and shells, they simply have nothing to do with these iron guys.

The angry Mang Gurtai directly swung his knife and slashed at the Hongyi cannons of these Ming troops.

However, there was no sound of the machete cracking, but instead it was deeply embedded in the artillery.

Damn, these cannons are just inked wood.

At this time, Li Sanshun, who was a few miles away, said: "The brothers on the artillery heights should be safe now, so let's directly greet Mang Gurtai." ”

This time, it's not a tiger squat cannon, but a Hongyi cannon equipped with flowering shells.

The terrible scene in the city during the day reappeared, and the huge shock wave directly shook Mang Gultai off his horse.

Although nearly half of the shells missed, it was enough to hit the positive blue flag.

Mang Gurtai's own soldiers had all been killed at this time, and in the panic, they didn't even care about bringing his body back to Gule Village.

In the end, only the 3,000 people who attacked the blue flag ran back to the city with more than 500 people who fell behind.

Soon the Ming army found Mang Gurtai's body, but fortunately he was only pierced through by a flowering bullet in his chest, otherwise it would be really difficult to identify.

Man Gui said: "In this battle, most of the main force of the Blue Banner was annihilated, and even their three Bel Mang Gurtai were killed by us, and tomorrow we should be able to conquer Gul Village in one fell swoop." ”

Li Sanshun said with a smile: "No, there are still several higher mountains in the south that are under the control of the Tartars, if they find out that we have taken Gule Village, they will definitely not attack the fortress." ”

"Now that more than half of the Zhenglan Banner of Gule Village has suffered casualties, the threat to the flank of the fortress has been greatly weakened, and we can safely deal with the main force of the Jianyu in the direction of Hetuala."

Since there was only one way down the hill and the other three sides were cliffs, Nurhachi was ignorant of the specific situation in the city.

However, the news of the fierce battle outside the Walled City of Gule reached his ears last night.

Huang Taiji sighed and said: "It is not easy for Sanbeile to hold Gule Village for a month in the face of the main force of the Ming army; Now the walls of the outer city have been destroyed by the Ming army, but fortunately there is still an inner city there. ”

"Last night, Sanbeile took the initiative to attack for probably not long, so as to send us a signal for help!"

Fan Wenhuan took the opportunity to say: "Thanks to the Great Khan's clever calculation, the main force of our army arrived at Gule Village in time, otherwise it would be really dangerous!" ”

Nurhachi originally wanted to consume the strength of the Ming army by holding on to the city, but he didn't expect that now he has become an attacker again.

The city built by the Ming army at the foot of Gule Mountain is strange no matter how you look at it.

Although its main fort is not large, it is not made up of a main fort, but a pentagonal group of fortresses.

In addition to the main fort there is a large number of tunnels, defenses and small triangular bastices.

Nurhachi said: "I really didn't expect that in just one month, the Ming army could actually build such a huge fortress complex. ”

Du Du said: "Although this castle is built in a strange shape, you see, the Ming army actually left us a series of slopes to climb the city, which is much less labor-saving than us directly using a ladder to climb the city." ”

After Du Du finished speaking, the generals of Jianzhou laughed and asked to fight!

Huang Taiji said: "This fortress of theirs has three floors, although each layer is connected by a slope, but it is easy to be attacked by the small fortresses around, if the Ming army is equipped with a large number of musketeers, I am afraid that our casualties will be very large." Don't underestimate everyone! ”

Nurhachi said: "Sibeile is right, since Li Xianzhong dares to transfer the main force of cavalry to the grassland, then he must have something to rely on. We need to be careful! ”

Naturally, this kind of thing is handed over to the Han army.

Soon the 3,000 Han troops launched a tentative attack on the strange fortress of the Ming army.

Li Sanshun knew very well that this was just a tentative attack by the Tartars, so they didn't fire all the power.

The Hongyi cannons in the fort did not fire, but only fired some solid shells at the Tartars with the Franc machine guns.

Soon, these Han soldiers continued to push these carts to the moat about eighty paces away from the fortress.

Faced with the criss-crossed tunnels ahead, they had two options, either they started filling in the earth and filling them directly; Either jump into the pit and continue your progress towards the fortress.

At this moment, they had actually entered the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, but in order not to expose their firepower, the Ming army still directly chose to shoot with Lu Mi Gun.

In fact, as early as the time of Nanguan, the Ming army's Lu Mi gun shot through the Tartar chariot at a distance of 80 paces.

However, at that time, the number of Lumi guns equipped in the Ming army was limited, and it did not arouse the vigilance of the Tartars.

They did not think that the Ming army could completely shoot through the chariot at this distance.

However, these Han soldiers were soon dumbfounded, only to see that the Ming army's firearms easily pierced the thick wooden plank above the chariot, and then pierced their bodies.

In a short time, hundreds of people fell to the ground and wailed in pain!

The Han army knew that they could not retreat at this time, and since the chariot could not withstand the Ming army's firearms, he simply jumped directly into the tunnel.

The Han army, who jumped into the tunnels, soon discovered the benefits of these tunnels.

Although standing in the tunnel, there is still a certain angle that will be hit by the Ming army guns in the city.

But as long as they crouched down or lay on their stomachs, I could perfectly dodge the fire of the Ming army.

As a result, more and more Han troops jumped into the tunnels.

But they soon discovered the cunning of the Ming army.

These winding tunnels may seem long, but the final exits are narrow, and there are only a few.

The Ming army in the city could easily block the exit, and after a while, the exit of the kung fu tunnel was already full of Han corpses.

Fortunately, the Han army behind did not rush, and now they rushed up to death, and they would be killed by the Ming army's guns when they retreated.

On the contrary, squatting in the pit can save your life!

Of course, they can't raise their heads, as long as they raise their bodies a little, the Ming army's musketeers will kill them like "whack-a-mole".

Huang Taiji said: "The Ming army is very cunning, they dug the tunnel to 80 steps from the city, this distance our bow and arrow can't shoot them, but his fire gun can directly penetrate our chariot." ”

At this time, they found a problem, the car used to be used in Jianzhou before has completely lost its effect at this time, because as long as it is in front of the moat of the Ming army, there is no such thing to stop the Ming army's firearms.

After all, Nurhachi has rich combat experience, he said: "You can't attack the Ming army's fortress through the tunnel, first, the entrance to the tunnel is narrow and easy to be blocked by the Ming army's firepower; The second is that the troops in the tunnel cannot be used at all, so we cannot give full play to the advantage of a large number of people, and we will send heads to the Ming army in waves! ”

After listening to the words of the two, everyone gasped.

But the Ming army's guns could easily penetrate the chariot, and if they did not attack the fortress through the tunnel, but chose to fill the tunnel, how many casualties would they have to pay?

The nice thing to say is to fill the soil with human life, and the ugly thing to say is equivalent to filling the pit directly with corpses!

At this time, Nurhachi's eyes were unusually determined, and he looked at the people around him.

It was clear that the Great Khan had decided to fill it with his life, but he could not say it.

In the past, this kind of thing was usually done by the impulsive Sanbeile, but at this time, Mang Gurtai was in Gule Village.

Soon after, Nurhachi's eyes stayed on Fan Wenyu's body.

Fan Wenyu quickly understood, and he said with a smile: "We Han people have a saying called 'Relying on the king's words to seal the marquis,

How can there be immortals in war? ”

"For the sake of my Dajin's victory, it is inevitable to sacrifice some auxiliaries."

"The minion suggested that after dark, let the Korean auxiliaries hurry up and fill the pit, so that we can successfully capture the fortress of the Ming army tomorrow."

Nurhachi was originally a ruthless executioner, in history, he "killed poor ghosts" and "killed rich households" in Liaodong to carry out inhumane massacres against the Han people who had taken refuge in Houjin, how could he pity the lives of these North Korean auxiliaries?

But at this time, he was already called Khan after all, although he didn't have a little benevolence and righteousness, but he also watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and began to engage in fake benevolence and false righteousness.

He pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Won't this hurt the heavens?" ”

Fan Wenyu knew that Nurhachi was pretending to hesitate and was unwilling to bear this bad reputation, and there was no way for this wicked person to do it.

So he knelt down and said: "For the sake of Dajin, please don't hesitate to give the order to the Great Khan?" ”

Du Du and the others also hurriedly knelt down and said, "Please give the order of the Great Khan!" ”

The Han soldiers trapped in the tunnel finally waited until it was dark, so they quickly climbed out of the tunnel.

After all, the firing points of the Ming army in the city were limited, and the loading of the Lu Mi gun was still relatively slow, and the Han army still escaped after being shot and killed nearly a thousand people.

Nurhachi was really depressed about this result, and the 3,000 Han army was almost half lost, and as a result, he didn't even touch the walls of the Ming army's fortress.

That is, they ran in time, and some later North Korean auxiliaries would have buried them alive in the tunnel.

Soon, thousands of Korean auxiliaries pushed the carts and marched towards the tunnels of the Ming army.

Li Sanshun understood that they wanted to fill the pit at night, and soon the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong was a burst of output against them.

This kind of shooting can train the soldier's shooting speed, and familiarizing himself with the shooting angle on the fortress is definitely much better than the usual target training.

The moonlight was good tonight, and the Ming army could use the moonlight to roughly see the enemy's situation, and after a round of "three-stage strikes", hundreds of Korean auxiliaries fell in front of the tunnel.

Soon they were moving like a tidal wave, but behind them were the Han army's warlords.

The Later Jin army is now also hierarchical, and under the butcher's knife of the Han army, these Koreans have to return to the tunnel again.

At this time, the Ming army was not polite to them, and dozens of tiger squatting cannons in the city directly blew up his door and cried his father, and after a while, the three thousand Korean auxiliaries were completely reimbursed.

Just as the second batch of Korean auxiliaries was about to be sent, Huang Taiji stopped them and said, "There is no need to sacrifice the Koreans, I have already thought of a way to break this tunnel!" ”

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