The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 52
Where did the pursuers come from?This is not surprising, the Ming army loves to fight with the wind.

Seeing that the Ming army was sure to win, those officers were willing to spend their capital to claim credit, and personally led their servants to drive the horses to chase the Jiannu cavalry who had touched their noses and fled in a hurry.

It's better to use Yu Yong to chase the remnants. If we don't take advantage of the high morale and seize the city in one fell swoop, when will we wait?
Liu Zhilun waved the command flag and ordered the whole army to pursue and capture the city of Zunhua. He also shouted that those who climbed the city first would be promoted to three ranks and rewarded with 1000 taels of silver.

Although more than a thousand people were eliminated after a long journey, and now there are less than [-] people, but there are no old or weak people here, and everyone can run without dying.

"Kill the slaves! Go to Zunhua, get promoted and get rich!" The Ming army who was running shouted from the bottom of his heart.

The Ming army running wildly pushing a wheelbarrow shouted: "To marry a wife and buy a field, brothers fight!" This slogan is even more unbearable, but what does it matter?

As long as they work together to kill Jiannu in the end, they will reach the same goal by different routes.

At the head of the city of Zunhua, Fan Wencheng was trembling with fright. He tricked the Eight Banners disciples into fighting in order to show their military prestige and prevent the Ming army from attacking the city rashly.

The two Niu Lue of Jiannu are really arrogant and arrogant. They despise the Ming army from the bottom of their hearts, and they also think that it is better to rush over while the Ming army is coming from afar. Just rush out of Zunhua City.

Unexpectedly, out of the [-] fine riders, only [-] or so riders came back, and the two Niu Lu'ezhen who fought in the battle did not come back alive.

Fan Wencheng made a mistake in command, and now he has committed a serious crime.

Seeing the overwhelming Ming army coming from outside the city, the old traitor waved his knife and said tremblingly: "Hold it, quickly hold it up for me, block the door, what are you waiting for? Quickly block the city gate!"

A certain Jiannu said: "What nonsense is that old man talking about? Why didn't we make preparations earlier to block the city gates?"

In the eyes of Jiannu, traitors are not human beings, even if they look like dogs and become high officials of the Houjin Dynasty, the children of the Eight Banners will not have the slightest respect.

Another Jiannu scolded: "The Han dog just has no good intentions, mother, the city gates are blocked, isn't my Eight Banners also blocked in the city?"

A Ba Yala stopped and said: "Your mother, where are all these complaints coming from? Go and block the door with grain bags."

The slaves in Zunhua City are so rich!The looted grain piled up like a mountain, and at this time the grain bags were used as sand and gravel bags.

After being panicked by the sudden attack, the Jin army made a fuss, you want this and he wants that, and the nominal general is the traitor and traitor they despise from the bottom of their hearts. The efficiency can be imagined.

In fact, besides [-] armored men, there are [-] to [-] bannermen and coated slaves in Zunhua City, but they have to manage tens of thousands of Han people who are planning to coerce them to Liaodong to be Aha, and they cannot send them to the city to help defend.

Fan Wencheng didn't have the guts to force the captured Han people to defend the city wall, because doing so would be counterproductive.

The newly captured Han people are not yet slavish, and they have not accepted their fate and have been looking for opportunities to escape.

The Han people are not stupid. After discovering that the Jin army was only a few hundred, there were over ten thousand Ming troops outside the city, and tens of thousands of Han people in the city.

Liu Zhilun arrived at the city with a large army in pursuit of Jiannu's defeated soldiers. He didn't bring any siege equipment in a hurry. When he found out, the Jin army hurriedly closed the city gate. The city gate burst open.

Huang Han led cavalry to shoot arrows near the city gate to provide cover for the attacking men and horses. He found that there were as many as two or three hundred Jian slaves at the top of the city. It was obviously because the Ming army suddenly began to attack the city, and it was attacking a little. It was too late to react, so he concentrated on counterattacking here.

Seeing that there are more and more Ming troops, the cavalry has been somewhat unable to use it here, Huang Han led his troops to the west gate, and he sent a person to report to Liu Zhilun that there should not be many Jin troops to defend with his own troops. Simon.

Liu Zhilun was very busy. He had to personally command the army to set up wooden cannons to bombard Zunhua City.

But he humbly accepted Huang Han's proposal, he could not use solid bullets, only lead shot shotguns.

Because the airtightness of this kind of firing is not good, it will cause the danger of blasting the chamber, at least after a few shots have been fired.

Otherwise, as recorded in the history books, the cannon exploded as soon as it was fired, and the story of the Jin army scaring his own people to death would appear again.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army was eager to seize the city, and in a hurry, they couldn't find the giant log that hit the city gate. Several cannons were carried away by the Ming army. The wooden cannon slammed the city gate into a "creak, creak" sound.

Liu Zhilun received the report and learned that Huang Han was leading cavalry to attack Ximen, he waved his hand to show that he knew, and continued to try to command the chaotic siege team.

He believes that at the very least, the archers and gunners should be gathered to shoot at the Houjin army at the top of the city to provide cover for the siege troops.

There were too many unnecessary casualties in such a melee, and some Ming troops obviously had shields but didn't know how to hold them up and join them together for defense. The effect of fighting each other was not ideal.

Fortunately, there are really not many defenders at the head of Zunhua City and it is in a mess. Otherwise, such a chaotic siege will soon cause huge casualties, and then it will affect the fighting spirit of the Ming army.

All in all, there is no absolute bad thing, even the wooden cannon has special features, this thing is ten times lighter than the cast iron cannon, and it is easy to install. Liu Zhilun is not afraid that this cheap cannon will be destroyed, so let the gunner approach it to prevent the shooting range of the shotgun Can't reach the top of the city,

The gunner also knew the severity, and set up a cannon about fifty steps away from the city wall to bombard the guy first. Fortunately, the chamber did not explode. Half of the more than 150 half-liang lead bullets ejected hit the city wall, and half of them hit the city wall. Sprinkle within five steps of the city wall crenel.

The effect was so good that it was absolutely invincible in front of the eyes. After seven or eight soldiers, the Jin army was almost destroyed. This shot brought out the prestige of the Ming army and destroyed the confidence of building slaves and defending the city.

Zunhua City also has artillery for defending the city, but it is a pity that the children of the Eight Banners are all barbarians, and no one will play with this thing.

Now it is discovered that the Ming army transported such a tall thing easily, and it started within a quarter of an hour after playing with it, causing many deaths and injuries to the Eight Banners who defended the city.

At this time, Huang Han moved to the west gate, and there were really not many post-Jin troops here. Huang Han ordered all the archers to suppress the enemy at the top of the city with cavalry and shooting.

The [-] or [-] Jiannu in the enemy building were attacked by two or three hundred arrows and had no chance of showing their heads.

Huang Han ordered Wang Zhanpeng and Wang Zhicheng to take 20 people to cover their bodies with leather shields and approach the west gate as quickly as possible. Their task was to pile seven specially brought gunpowder packs in the middle of the gate and tie them firmly before retreating quickly.

(End of this chapter)