The artillery battalion of the Pingyuwei was armed with a variety of guns, ranging from the 12-pounder Hongyi cannon, to the 6-pounder Franc machine gun, and the Tiger squat cannon.

It is possible to inflict heavy damage on enemy troops from a distance of 200-1500 meters.

At this time, the cavalry of the Yellow Banner was already very close to the artillery position of the Ming army, and everyone could already feel the vibration caused by the galloping horses' hooves.

After the enemy army entered 200 paces, it was the turn of the Tiger Squat Cannon.

Soon, the countless lead shots fired by the Tiger Squat Cannon once again caused great damage to the enemy.

As the explosion sounded, the cavalry with the yellow flag who rushed to the front row fell to the ground one after another.

Even if the Eight Banners wearing triple armor relied on the protection of the armor and were not directly killed by these leads, the war horses under their crotches could not resist the attack of the tiger squat cannon.

As the cavalry in the front row fell from their horses one after another, the momentum of the Yellow Flag charge was also curbed.

If it were replaced by ordinary troops, three or four percent of the casualties would have been lost in one charge, and they would definitely have immediately turned around and retreated.

But because they were outside the city, there was no way out for these charging Zhenghuang flags to retreat.

Even if you choose to retreat, it is difficult for the narrow city gate to pass through all quickly, and you can only become the target of the Ming army's artillery in the end!

In the face of the siege of the Ming army, they had no way to retreat, and only by rushing to the artillery positions of the Ming army at the cost of casualties did they have a glimmer of hope!

Now they are less than 200 paces away from the Ming army, and this distance can be said to be fleeting for cavalry.

Li Xianzhong, who was watching the battle in the rear, said: "Order the cavalry to attack and break the Tartars in front of the battle." ”

With the sound of a drum, the three thousand Liaodong iron cavalry on both sides of the position began to urge the war horses to advance towards the enemy.

At the same time, the musketeers in the frontal position had already begun to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The musketeers of the Ming army were divided into three groups and gave the attacking enemy cavalry a round of "three-stage blows".

The effective range of 120 steps of Lu Mi Gun made the cavalry of Zhenghuang Banner suffer a lot of losses before they were about to enter the Ming army's position.

Although many of the Eight Banners soldiers were not killed on the spot due to their heavy armor, at this time, the falling horse would definitely be trampled by the war horses of their companions behind them, which was actually no different from dying in battle.

Zhenghuang Banner is worthy of being the main force of Jianzhou, in the face of such a powerful firepower of the Ming army, in the case of more than half of the casualties, they still fought to the death and continued to charge.

Although he did not personally go into battle to kill the enemy, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and the others were already extremely nervous at this moment.

They didn't expect the Tartar cavalry to be so fierce, no wonder the 50,000 Ming army led by Juniper and Marin was defeated in just one day!

At this time, the Eight Banners of the Yellow Flag looked extremely excited, because they were less than 50 steps away from the Ming army at this time.

The cavalry in the front row raised their spears and prepared to attack the Ming army's infantry formation, while the cavalry in the back row began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, shooting arrows at the Ming army.

At this time, the big shield soldiers of the Ming army in the front row raised their shields one after another, blocking most of the bows and arrows of the Jianyu, and a small number of bows and arrows were shot at the Ming army in the rear.

These bows and arrows were not lethal for the Ming army wearing heavy cloth armor, and only a small number of Ming troops were wounded by the bow and arrow.

It didn't even have any impact on the formation of the Ming army.

At this time, the spearmen of the Ming army clenched their spears and were ready to meet the impact of the Jianzhou cavalry at any time.

At this time, the emperor Taiji in the city was also nervously looking at the Zhenghuang Banner fighting under the city, and after paying a huge price, they finally had the opportunity to attack the position of the Ming army.

However, with a loud bang, the ground soon collapsed, and the charging Zhenghuang Banner fell into the horse trap arranged by the Ming army with people and horses.

The sharpened wooden stakes in the pit pierced the horses and knights directly.

The battlefield is filled with the neighing of war horses!

The Ming army's traps were only arranged directly in front of the artillery position, and were not arranged on the sides, which also ensured that there was a passage for attacking the city.

"Bang, bang, bang"

At this time, the Ming army gunners, who had already loaded their ammunition, quickly started the second round of shooting, and directly took away a wave of the Eight Banners who were struggling in front of the horse pit.

However, the Tiger Squat Cannon stopped firing, because the Ming cavalry of the assault had already killed Zhenghuang Banner from both sides.

After the baptism of shelling, firecrackers, and horse pits, the cavalry of 2,000 men remained, but now there are less than 800 left.

At this time, they needed to face the most elite heavy cavalry of the Ming army, the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry".

Soon, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry wearing armor began to outflank the Zhenghuang Banner from both wings, and the Zhenghuang Banner was constantly blocked by the fire of the Ming army, and had already lost the advantage of cavalry impact.

And at this moment, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which was constantly speeding up, was like two sharp daggers, directly inserted into the Jianyu array.

As soon as the two sides fought, it was obvious that Zhenghuang Qi was at a disadvantage, and the spears of the Ming army continued to pierce Jianlu's chest with their impact, while there were not many Ming troops who fell.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted excitedly: "The Liaodong Iron Cavalry under the command of Ning Yuanbo is worthy of being the strongest heavy cavalry in my Ming Dynasty, even in the face of the most powerful Tartars, the Yellow Banner is also a huge advantage, and this batch of Tartars will not last long!" ”

Sun Chuanting's heart was full of doubts at this time, he said: "Although this batch of Tartar cavalry is powerful, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, at this time, you can easily defeat them with two thousand cavalry, I don't know why Ning Yuanbo sent the most elite 'Liaodong Iron Cavalry', shouldn't the ace troops be saved for the most critical time before use?" ”

After hearing this, Li Xianzhong couldn't help but cast an approving look at Sun Chuanting.

In fact, not only Sun Chuanting, but also many Ming army generals also had this doubt, but they did not dare to openly question their commander's decision.

Li Xianzhong said: "If I don't send my main force out, how can I lure out more Tartar cavalry? ”

"Although these two thousand people are the main force of the Tartars, I am sure that they are here to lure the enemy, if the 'Liaodong Iron Cavalry' does not cooperate with the appearance, I am afraid that the emperor Taiji in the city may not dare to make up his mind to send the cavalry in his hand to the city for a decisive battle."

If the Ming army did not use the flowering bomb, perhaps Huang Taiji still had the intention of defending the city by virtue of the fortified city.

With the flowering bomb thrown into the battlefield, Huang Taiji naturally understood that Hetuara City could not be defended at all, and it was only a matter of time before the city was broken.

In the face of the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong and Tiger squatting artillery, the main cavalry in Huang Taiji's hands could not play an advantage at all in the street battle.

Instead of waiting for death in the city, it is better to simply go out and fight, maybe there will be a miracle.

Speaking from the heart, if Li Xianzhong and Huang Taiji swapped positions, he should also choose to go out of the city to fight, and no matter how bad it was, he would be able to kill and injure some more Ming troops.

Sure enough, not long after, the main cavalry of the Tartars came out of the north of the city and was heading for here, with 5,000 people.

Soon, Li San, the commander-in-chief of Kaiyuan, led 5,000 "assault battalions" north to meet the Tartars.

Although this move is a bit risky, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry should soon be able to completely annihilate these Tartar remnants in the western city.

It will not cause an empty force.

After seeing Li Xianzhong's assault battalion heading north, Huang Taiji showed a smug smile.

Although many of the 2,000 Zhenghuang Banners he sent in Xicheng were elite main forces, the Ming army would definitely keep a hand.

After all, there were also a lot of cavalry in the Ming army besieging the city this time.

However, he believed that the 5,000 cavalry led by An Fei Yanggu would definitely be able to completely attract the remaining cavalry of the Ming army.

Even if Li Xianzhong was as cunning as a ghost, he would not have thought that in fact, whether it was the 2,000 people out of the west city or the 5,000 cavalry in the north of the city, it was just his own suspicious plan.

His real target was the Ming army's large camp outside Xicheng.

The Ming army's flowering bomb did change Huang Taiji's original intention, originally he was counting on using the strong walls of Hetuara to desperately resist the Ming army.

But the reality told Huang Taiji that this was just his own wishful thinking.

Now only by burning the grain and grass in the camp of the Ming army can it be possible to force the Ming army to retreat.

At this time, Huang Taiji was only desperate.

At this time, the white banner of Jiala Ezhen Suna was leading 3,000 cavalry with the white flag from the south to the Ming army camp west of the city.

Hetuara is a mountain city with a circumference of no more than 5,000 meters, so the distance between the gates is not too far.

After Suna left the city, he immediately led his army along Yangbi Mountain to the Ming army camp west of the city.

At this time, the main cavalry of the Ming army was either entangled with the Zhenghuang Banner of Anfei Yanggu in the north, or cleared the remnants of the enemy in Xicheng.

This sudden appearance of the positive white flag was indeed somewhat unexpected by Li Xianzhong.

He thought that Huang Taiji would use the main force of cavalry to attack, but he didn't expect that Tartar would actually dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry.

You must know that Hetuara has a total of only 15,000 defenders.

And he had already built a fortress south of Hetuala, and Huang Taiji had absolutely no possibility of breaking through to the south to join forces with Azig.

In the case of no hope of breaking through, he still dared to send tens of thousands of cavalry out of the city.

It seems that this opponent is really not ordinary, and he is also a person who does not play cards according to common sense.

Zhao Shujiao said: "The yellow flags in front of the artillery position have been almost wiped out, or hurry up and order the Liaodong Iron Cavalry to return to the reinforcement camp, although it may be later than the enemy, but it will definitely prevent the enemy from further raiding the artillery position." ”

The city of Hetuara was built on a piece of high ground, bordered by the Suzi River to the north and the Yangbi Mountain to the south.

In fact, the north and south gates were not conducive to the deployment of the army, so only the west of the city was suitable for attacking the city.

How could he concentrate his main force to storm Xicheng, how could he not guard against the attack from the north and south?

Li Xianzhong shook his head and said, "Let Ping Yuwei be on guard!" Don't worry, this batch of tartars won't run. ”

At this time, everyone looked at Li Xianzhong in surprise, the main forces of the Ming army were already here, and there were only more than 1,000 Pingyu guards in the camp, how could they block the 3,000 cavalry of the Tartars?

Suna's 3,000 positive white flags are coming all the way along Yangbi Mountain towards the Ming army camp.

Unexpectedly, a large number of arrows rained down on him.

Although he was wearing heavy armor, this sudden rain of arrows still caused a certain amount of confusion to the white flag.

The 3,000 cavalry led by Samtai suddenly slaughtered from the woods near the mountain pass.

Looking at these "Eight Banner Soldiers" wearing blue armor, Suna and the others seemed to have been struck by lightning.

Isn't the blue flag long gone?

Only then did he react, these people were probably the "Imperial Cooperative Army" recruited by Li Xianzhong!

Previously, the Ming spies of Hetuara had hyped up the matter of the "Imperial Cooperative Army", and those who were not from the Jianzhou Jurchen clan could be spared death as long as they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!

Coincidentally, Suna is not a Jianzhou Jurchen, he was originally from Yehebu.

When he discovered the rise of Nurhachi in Jianzhou, he took the initiative to abandon his father and brother in Yehe and led a small number of people to join Jianzhou.

At that time, the Haixi Jurchen tribes had not yet been attached, and Nurhachi directly married his daughter to Suna in recognition of Suna's act of surrender, so now Suna still has the identity of a heavy forehead, and he can be regarded as an old man with a white flag.

Although he is now barely mixed into the upper echelons of Jianzhou, if he follows Li Xianzhong's algorithm, Suna is not a native of Jianzhou at all, and if he surrenders, he can avoid death.

The most discerning people can see that Hetuara is now a lonely city, and they can't break out at all.

In a flash of Suna's effort, Samutai's blue flag had already rushed into their formation.

Half of the main force of the Zhengbai Banner was killed in the attack on Gule Village.

At this time, half of the 3,000 cavalry he led were Han army Niu Lu, and the remaining half of Jianzhou Niu Lu still had many Korean Jurchen people, and their combat power was seriously flooded.

Coupled with the surprise attack, it is clear that they are at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the blue flag.

At this time, Samutai shouted: "Suna, you are from the Haixi Jurchen Yehe Division, I'm afraid there are not a few serious Jianzhou Jurchens under your command, or join the 'Imperial Cooperative Army' together, right?" ”

"The main force of the two thousand Zhenghuang Banner outside the West Gate has been annihilated by the Ming army, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry will come over soon, and you will have no chance at that time!"

When he heard the words "Liaodong Iron Cavalry", Suna unconsciously shuddered, this gang of killing gods has never left a living mouth.

Soon he made the decision to surrender, after eliminating a small number of recalcitrant Zhenjianzhou Jurchens with the Zhenglan Banner.

Suna, together with his son Sukh Saha, led more than 2,000 white flags to join the Imperial Army.

After Suna defected, in order to invite merit, he took the initiative to attack the 5,000 Zhenghuang Banner and the Eight Banners led by Anfeiyangu together with the Zhenglan Banner.

Anfeiyangu, who could barely hold on to the Ming army, was besieged by more than 5,000 "Imperial Cooperative Army" and 3,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

Faced with the siege of 13,000 Ming cavalry, they were quickly divided into several pieces.

Li Sanshun saw the opportunity and stabbed Anfeiyangu to death with one shot.

Soon after, under Suna's appearance, more than 1,000 remnants of Zhenghuang Qi laid down their arms.

This scene made Sun Chuanting and the others stunned, and the murderous Jianzhou Tartars actually surrendered more than 3,000 people at once.

Li Xianzhong said: "The Jianzhou Jurchens originally didn't have many bannermen, and many of them were forcibly pulled into the Jianzhou Jurchens by Nurhachi from the Haixi Jurchens, where the savage Jurchens. ”

"With a large number of bannermen killed in battle, they have even used the Han army and the Koreans to make up the numbers! Now that the general trend of Jianzhou has gone, it is normal for those people to betray Jianzhou! ”

Sun Chuanting also said convincingly at this time: "Ning Yuanbo's 'Imperial Cooperative Army' is actually a method of attacking the heart, and it is indeed a faster division and disintegration of the Tartars, making them wary of each other internally, and people are panicking!" ”

Soon the surrendered general Suna was named the general of the Imperial Association Army by Li Xianzhong, and let him lead the two white flags that surrendered.

Li Xianzhong also made an exception and transferred his son Sukh Saha to his own personal guard battalion.

Suna understands that Li Xianzhong is taking his son hostage, who has already rebelled twice, and it is normal for people to be wary.

Soon he told Li Xianzhong the truth about Hetuala.

Huang Taiji's attack this time lost 10,000 main forces.

At present, there are less than 5,000 soldiers and 3,000 auxiliaries in the city.

After this battle, the Imperial Alliance army also doubled, and now there are more than 6,000 people.

Witnessing this scene under the city, Huang Taiji almost fainted directly.

He believed that if it wasn't late, the Ming army might have attacked the city directly on the spot.

He also knew that this was his last night in Hetuala.

As soon as tomorrow dawn, the Ming army will attack the city.

Now the morale in the city is completely low, and there is no way to hold on.

At this time, he began to regret that if he had withdrawn to North Korea with Dai Shan, it might have been a different situation.

Is it better to lose your sweat than to lose your life?

If only Fan Wenhuan and Mr. Fan were still around, with his resourcefulness, he would definitely be able to think of a way to crack it.

Now that it's time to get to this point, there's only a bloody battle to the end.

At this time, the Han army in the city was already panicked, and they were unwilling to accompany Huang Taiji to the funeral.

However, after hearing that Huang Taiji had transferred all the more than 2,000 Jianzhou Jurchens to the inner city, they were relieved!

Obviously, Huang Taiji was already wary of them, but it was okay that they could surrender directly to the Ming army.

lest you have to risk fighting these tartars.

In order to appease the people's hearts, Huang Taiji took out all the dried fish and salted meat in the city's reserves to reward the three armies!

After all, this is likely to be the last meal in the city, and there is no need for Huang Taiji to be stingy with these supplies.

Soon the Han army feasted, and some people even got mare's milk wine!

But soon they realized that something was wrong, and some of the Han soldiers began to foam at the mouth and convulsed, and some began to have diarrhea.

Many people began to react, this is the Tartars are going to attack them, it is estimated that all the poisons and laxatives are put in these foods.

Soon the Tartars armed with butcher knives rushed into the Han army's barracks and cut down anyone they saw.

At this time, the Han army was either poisoned and convulsed or ran out of stomach, and there was not much resistance at all!

In desperation, they had no choice but to set fire to the city, trying to escape for their lives.

The fires in the city soon light up the night sky!

The Ming army, who was in charge of the patrol, soon told Li Xianzhong the news.

Li Xianzhong said: "With Huang Taiji's ruthless character, when I see the Tartars outside the city surrender today, I will definitely take the first step to solve the possible hidden dangers in the city first." ”

"Inform the soldiers on the night watch to step up patrols and let them go dog-eat-dog, Benbo will not let the Ming soldiers risk attacking the city late at night."

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and in the end, nearly 6,000 Han troops in the city and the non-Jianzhou Jurchen war auxiliaries were all slaughtered.

Huang Taiji laughed and said, "These lowly minions actually want to betray their masters. Feeding you on the road is already the greatest grace that Benbel has done to you! ”

In the early morning of the next day, the Ming army occupied the outer city of Hetuara without bloodshed.

Soon Li Xianzhong ordered the Imperial Association army to enter the city to clean up the corpses of these people.

Although these people died miserably, Li Xianzhong did not have the slightest sympathy for them, and from the day they turned their backs on their ancestors and became lackeys of the Jianzhou Jurchens, they were already doomed to such an ending.

At this time, the Imperial Cooperative Army who carried the corpses was also apprehensive, but fortunately they surrendered in advance, otherwise they would probably be lying on the ground now.

In view of the atrocities of the Tartars last night, Li Xianzhong ordered that the surrender of these beasts would not be accepted, and that all the Tartars in the city would not be left alive, and the entire city of Hetuara would be slaughtered.

Soon the Ming army moved artillery to the outer city of Hetuala.

The city of Hetuara was not large, and the inner city was completely covered by the fire of the Ming army.

You don't even need Hongyi cannons, the Franc cannon can directly bombard the inner city!

Because the overall topography of Hetuara is high in the south and low in the north, the artillery of the Ming army is more concentrated in the southern city.

As the Ming artillerymen dropped the torches in their hands.

Soon a shell was fired into the inner city of Hetuala.

With a loud roar, the rubble on the city was blown away, and the smoke instantly enveloped the entire city wall.

The Tartars in the city were constantly overturned by the air waves generated by the cannonballs falling to the ground, and many people were even directly shaken down the city.

After a while, the city was full of stumps and broken arms, and it was very miserable.

Soon after, Samtai and Suna each led 3,000 "Imperial Allies" to attack the inner city of Hetuara from different directions.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, Li Xianzhong clearly saw that these Tartars used the ruins as a cover to constantly sneak attack the Imperial Alliance army that entered the inner city.

Li Xianzhong gave Huang Taiji's head a bounty of 1,000 taels of silver, so these imperial troops marched forward bravely and killed the palace in the inner city.

Saying that it is a palace is actually a wall built of stone on the basis of a wooden fence, and there is not much protection.

But after all, this is their last line of defense, so those Eight Banners soldiers still fought hard to protect Huang Taiji's safety.

Sun Chuanting said: "In fact, the inner city can also be bombarded with artillery for a while, which can reduce the casualties of the siege troops!" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "I'm afraid General Sun doesn't know the price of these flowering bombs, right? ”

"The production of flowering shells is much more time-consuming and laborious than solid shells, don't look at the earth-shattering sound of these shells, this is all silver!"

"The military bureau of the imperial court can't make flowering bullets at all, these are all hired by Benber himself with money."

"Our army relies heavily on these firearms these days, so it takes months to stock up on ammunition before every big war!"

Sun Chuanting thought about it, anyway, it was these Imperial Association troops who died, although he didn't say it, but this Ning Yuanbo definitely wanted to control the number of the Imperial Association Army in this way, and in the end, all the elites left should be the elites of the hundred battles!

On June 28, the second year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army conquered Hetuala, the capital of Jianzhou.

Ning Yuanbo and Li Xianzhong slaughtered more than 2,000 people, including Huang Taiji, who was stubbornly resisting in the inner city!

After that, the Ming army dug up Nurhachi's ashes in Yangbi Mountain in the south of the city, and sent them to Beijing together with the head of Huang Taiji to report the victory!

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