Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 439 The Savage and the Mongolian Dog

"Boom bang bang-"

The artillery fired again, and the cannonballs were fired like a rainstorm of pear blossoms. All the shield vehicles were beaten to pieces, and many Jianlu were shot and fell down.

The crossbow on the bed was knocked down, and a thick and long crossbow pierced through the shield chariots, crashed into the air, and stabbed to death countless Jianlu with red flags.

It's just that the artillery and bed crossbows of this era cannot be used as the main attack to suppress the enemy, or the number of artillery of the Beishan Jurchen Army is far from enough to form a suppression.

Therefore, in their counterattack, the Jin army still walked like flying, pushing the shield cart to attack the fortress of Shiqiao in the ancient city of Harbin.

The defenders of the ancient city of Harbin established two camps at both ends of the stone bridge. Each camp stationed a sentry horse, totaling 540 people.

The horses and horn walls were knocked down by the golden army's shield chariot one after another, the trap was exposed, the shield chariot sank suddenly, and the Jianlu retreated behind him.

It can be seen that Jianlu's method of attacking the city and fighting in the field is undoubtedly an enhanced version of the Ming army. These methods they used are all methods used by the Ming army to attack Jiaozhi, India and other places.

Using the means of the Ming army to fight Beishan Jurchen and the Ming army is the most important reason why the old slave can start a family.

Although most of them were injured, more than a thousand people were killed on the spot.

But now the ancient city of Harbin can not only retreat, but also use the boats at the ferry north of the city to retreat.

It took less than a stick of incense for the two armies to face each other, and the Beishan Jurchen army had already suffered hundreds of casualties, and two or three out of ten of the entire army were killed or injured.

Right now, there are two sentry horses in the camp at the end of the bridge, totaling [-] bird gunners and less than [-] sword players.

When they came, there were 31 people, intact, but when they retreated, there were only less than 2000 people left, which was a loss of one-third.

After receiving the order, the golden soldiers in triple armor rushed towards the city wall pushing the newly built ladder.

"Stay in a stalemate first, and if it doesn't work, retreat to the city."

"Fire! Fire!"

The remaining more than 200 sword players are waiting in full battle, and they will cover the bird gunners and retreat only when the battle is unfavorable.

Shooting at such a close range, these people basically couldn't survive, so the people behind chose to kick them off the narrow stone bridge, and rushed to the camp at the end of the Beishan bridge.

That is, the grassroots army can fight in an orderly manner, but the middle and high-level troops are not very good at it.

"The artillery can't shoot, it will hurt our people."

"Raise the shield! Raise the shield!"

For them, killing one-tenth of their troops is enough to shake their morale.

Right now, after defending the city several times, more than [-] soldiers were killed, and basically one-tenth of the soldiers and horses went in.

"put!"

Looking at the situation on the battlefield, Huang Taiji on the hillside had to marvel at Guo Sangdai's dexterity.

Their stopping action gave Jin Jun time, the cloud carts were pushed forward, the moat was filled with sandbags, the river water was fixed in several spaces, and began to freeze.

"Stay for another quarter of an hour, and take the artillery away!"

The ancient city of Harbin finally fell. After all, the Beishan Jurchen army was not the current Ming army. They were besieged by Huang Taiji with ten times as many troops. It is not bad to last a whole day.

It's just how the Beishan Jurchen army would give them a chance. The cannons on the top of the city roared, and countless shotguns shot at them.

It is impossible for all the Beishan Jurchen soldiers in the ancient city of Harbin to be like the elites of the sixteen guards of Shangzhi and the governors of the five armies, who can endure a death rate of [-] to [-].

No unified dynasty can survive 300 years continuously, so there will definitely be chaos in Ming Dynasty.

Jianlu climbed over the sandbag earth wall, held up his knife, and rushed forward with a cruel smile. At this time, the bed crossbow at the top of the city broke out again, and a crossbow shot into the red flag array.

"I can't withdraw. If we withdraw now, the savages in the city will have time to adjust. The fewer people there are, the harder it is to fight. The more people, the easier it is to fight. The Ming army is like this, and the Beishan Jurchen is the same."

Taining Prefecture has gathered twelve guards, nearly 7 people.

"Yes!"

"kill--"

The narrowest part along the river from Shangjing City to Udolun City is less than four miles, and Huang Taiji only needs to build forts on two mountains, even if the range of the artillery is only two miles, it is enough.

As long as there is trouble, Dajin will have a chance.

Two catties of stone bullets pierced Lu Gong's chariot, turned into ricochets and killed many siege prisoners. Some Mongolian rangers also carried twenty or thirty catties of sandbags, running back and forth, in an attempt to accumulate soil for mountains and fill Hargu. moat.

The defense at the head of the ancient city of Harbin was right, and the general next to him spoke, and the general's face was not good-looking.

After saying that, he turned sideways, and Huang Taiji also saw the wreckage of the Yanshan five-jin cannon being pushed on a cart.

At the same time, it is impossible to command each army thousands of miles apart to fight in this era. Even if it does, it can only be a rough command like Zhu Youjian, which gives the generals great autonomy.

"Bang bang bang-"

What they were facing was more than 2000 soldiers flocking inlaid with red flags, and all they could rely on was the narrow fortifications.

If these four points are connected together, the circumference of the encirclement of the Jin Kingdom will be more than six thousand miles long.

They have cannon-casting craftsmen. As long as they get a few Yanshan five-jin cannons and roughly figure out what the Ming army's cannons look like and how thick they are inside and outside, they can imitate them.

"Babe!"

More than 200 knife and poker players took advantage of the narrowness of the stone bridge to fight and retreat, and there were many people who fell into the water.

Seeing that Azig was thrown into the air, Jia Laezhen with the red flag pushed away the people next to him and jumped off the cloud car to check.

"Guo... Sang... Dai!"

In general, Zhu Youjian plans to launch an enhanced version of "Chenghua Liting" in Beishan, which spans nearly 30 miles. The scale of troops will range from [-] to [-].

The crossbow on the bed at the top of the city also kept firing crossbow bolts, but they could only penetrate the wooden bridge, but could not knock it down.

Huang Taiji understood all this because he analyzed Zhu Youjian's policy towards Jin Guo.

Dorgon, who commanded the battle, roared, and Duoduo, who was next to him, also blew his wooden whistle vigorously.

"withdraw!"

The general yelled towards the defense below, and kept waving the command flag in his hand to pass on the semaphore.

"kill--"

That is to say, Huang Taiji didn't know that these methods of defending the city were given to Guo Sangdai by Zhu Youjian, otherwise he would probably be depressed for a while.

"Kill Menggou!"

Normally speaking, there is still a severe drought in Daming Shanshan right now, and tens of millions of people are affected.

Under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire, the nine thousand and eight banner soldiers who took the lead began to fear.

As the medical officer at the time said, although he was still able to have sex, his kidneys were weak and his essence was weak. Although he had worked hard for several years, he failed to give birth to an heir.

"rush!"

"continue!"

The Ming army used Zhu Youjian's resources like pigs to fight back, but Beishan Jurchen couldn't do it.

Relying on the favorable location and firearms, the Beishan Jurchen Army continued to repel the red-flagged soldiers. At the same time, Huang Taiji also issued an order:
"Let the Mongolian rangers block both sides of the southern moat with sandbags."

Seeing that the cannon was ignited, the general led the people to retreat immediately.

But before they were afraid, tens of thousands of Mongolian rangers rushed in, giving them great courage in an instant, and the Mongolians also got off their horses, and followed the built cloud carts and Lvgong chariots to kill them.

Daming has been established for 260 years, while Huang Taiji is only 38 years old.

They started to build a bridge, but the defenders of the stone bridge could only stop them with their bird guns.

The walls of the ancient city of Harbin are too short, so it seems that the artillery fire is really fierce, and there are corpses of fellow robes all around.

If Zhu Youjian felt that Dajin was not important, then there was absolutely no need to pursue them fiercely, and even risked a severe drought in two provinces to start a war against them.

There are many cities similar to the ancient city of Harbin. Although the loss of artillery will increase the strength of the Jin army, it is what they have to do to preserve their combat power to hold back Jianlu.

His eldest son, Hauge, has a bad temper and a bloodthirsty temperament, and he is not a wise master.

Thinking of Zhu Youjian's mobilization of soldiers and horses in the north, Huang Taiji touched his leg subconsciously.

"put!"

For a moment, the entire defense line was filled with shouts and screams, sparks flew, and after a few rounds of slashing, the long knife in his hand was already full of gaps.

The forty-foot-wide moat was drawn from the Heilongjiang River, and it was bitterly cold, and those who fell kept thrashing about. Although they did not drown, they could only flee back to their own camp after landing.

Whether it is a surprise attack on Taining Mansion to retreat, or a counterattack on Liaodong, in short, as long as you wait, you will have a chance.

Huang Taiji stood up suddenly on the hillside, with a bad premonition in his heart.

At the head of the ancient city of Harbin, following the order of the general, fifty Yanshan five-jin cannons aimed at the siege equipment that was constantly pushing in front of the ancient city of Harbin, and white smoke bloomed and stone bullets were fired.

The defense was ordered in an orderly manner, Beishan Jurchen showed the same embarrassment as the Ming army at this time.

Seeing their retreat, the Jin army chased them even more fiercely.

Huang Taiji's idea was to create a fort with a range sufficient to clamp down on Heilongjiang, and as long as he built a fort on Yilan Mountain on both sides of the river, the Ming army would be bombarded by the Jin army no matter whether it used ships or land.

Even if the imitation is unsatisfactory, it is still much better than their current inferior artillery.

Compared with other cannons that were blown up to the point of being unbearable to look at directly, this cannon was only blown into three pieces. Perhaps after patching and repairing it, the craftsmen of the Golden Army could imitate it.

Just retreat to Youtie City, which is only [-] miles away from Nuergan City, Guo Sangdai will definitely punish them.

In his opinion, there were few generals in the Ming army who could command more than 10 people, so Zhu Youjian divided the war zone into three.

You Shigong in Jingcheng has gathered [-] troops, and Xiong Tingbi, Sun Yingyuan, and He Shixian in Liaodong have also gathered [-] troops, and they are still going on.

"Sand! Sand!"

If the Kingdom of Jin moved north in the future and he died, then he had to choose a wise master to lead the clansmen who moved north to live.

The mountains were covered in heavy snow, and Huang Taiji also chose to launch an attack in winter because the ancient city of Harbin was too far away from Youtie City, and Xishen City was close to the ancient city of Harbin.

Jingcheng, Liaodong, Taining, Nuergan...

It doesn't matter if the bridgehead camp is discarded, the main thing is to kill and injure the Jian captives as much as possible. This is Guo Sangdai's biggest military order for the participation and defense of the cities.

In other words, if they really want to retreat and are willing to abandon their artillery, they can withdraw from the ancient city of Ha'er in as little as a cup of tea, and they can reach Youtie City in the north after about two hours down the river. .

The Beishan Jurchen general at the head of the city and the guards talked with each other, their tone tense.

The two sides began to fight hand to hand, Tie Guduo collided with the pumpkin hammer, and the Yanling knife and the waist knife slashed at each other.

"General, Menggou has a lot of people, and we can't last long if we go on like this."

The shield car fell into the trap, but gave Jianlu a springboard, and the Beishan Jurchen gunmen behind the disaster-stricken wall immediately lit the matchlocks in their hands when they saw Jianlu's exposed head.

Fortunately, Azig didn't expose his whole body, nor was he hit by the iron block after the artillery exploded, so although he passed out, he was still breathing.

"Clap clap-"

The battle on the stone bridge came to an end, because the Beishan Jurchen at the head of the bridge jumped into the camp at the end of the bridge one after another, and the gunners who had been prepared in the camp fired one after another, causing a large number of soldiers and horses with red flags to fall.

Right now, among the three, apart from Beishan Jurchen's slight lack of organizational power, the other two are not much different from each other.

They don't have rich resources, so they can only fight and retreat.

It's just that his current methods are basically scrapped due to the increase in the number of artillery in the Eastern Army's Governor's Mansion, but they are still effective for fighting Beishan Jurchen.

The fort is already under construction, and now the artillery is missing. As long as the fort is successfully built, they can still retreat to the Sanjiang Plain and continue to fight a protracted war with the Ming army.

Even if they make it through, there will be chaos inside.

In order to prevent the Fourth Army from being wiped out, Zhu Youjian had to increase his troops, as can be seen from the recent troop deployment.

As long as Guo Sangdai dies, the Kingdom of Jin will have a way to survive. Even if there are no survivors in the north, the blood will be preserved after all.

Suddenly, there was an explosion sound, and a fire oil tank suddenly exploded, and the fire oil spread all over the city, and the surrounding Jurchen soldiers were splashed with gunpowder and burned themselves.

Jierhalang agreed, and the Jin army also began to clean up the battlefield.

As a result, when he had just climbed to the top of the city, the fifty Yanshan five-pound cannons piled up on the top of the city suddenly exploded:

"kill!"

"Keep the stronghold!"

The five-jin cannon was heavy and could not be shot down, and the battle situation gradually became unfavorable for a while.

After being hit by an iron boned gourd hammer, even the iron man would have to groan and fall down.

Originally, there was only a battalion of 31 people in the ancient city of Harbin, but it was attacked by Huang Taiji and killed hundreds of Tangqi.

"The sword player covers, the bird gun player retreats!"

They ran to the ferry outside the city and boarded the boat. After cutting the fixed rope, they escaped along the river in dozens of small boats.

"The intensity of the siege is too great. Do you want to take a break temporarily?" Ji Erhalang glanced at the battlefield, listening to the sound of artillery from time to time, a little worried.

"what sound?!"

Of course, they were miserable, but Huang Taiji's side was even worse.

In the ancient city of Harbin, thousands of miles away from the capital, the muddy snow was covered with blood. At this time, the two white flags led by Dorgon also arrived on the battlefield.

Most of the people were killed or injured in the red flag, more than a thousand people were killed or injured in the two white flags, and hundreds of Mongols were killed or injured. The number of casualties was close to 3000, which was three times that of the Beishan Jurchen army.

The Yanshan five-jin cannon fired again, and the Jin army under the ancient city of Harbin attacked the city violently. They tried to climb the city wall with cloud chariots, but the Jurchen soldiers forked them down with forks.

The torrential rain pear blossoms beat a large area of ​​Jin Jun to blood.

Seeing the retreat of the Beishan Jurchen army, Azig immediately led his men to prepare for the first climb.

The faces of the soldiers at the head of the city were covered with blood, corpses were strewn all over the city, and a smell of meat filled the air, making people sick.

Seeing this, the other Jurchen soldiers using the high-fire oil tank stopped their actions one after another, for fear that the high-fire oil tank in their hands would explode.

Huang Taiji estimated that Zhu Youjian wanted You Shigong and Guo Sangdai to be the assistants, and Taining and Liaodong to be the main ones.

"Bang bang bang-"

The Jin army suffered a lot, but the Beishan army suffered heavy casualties.

He didn't believe that he could live another 38 years, but he also didn't believe that Daming could get through the 300-year period without any trouble.

The garrison responded, and the deer department and the dog department were the messengers in winter. Their speed was not slow, but Beishan was too big.

The distance between the two sides was less than fifty steps, so while they were raising their shields, some unlucky guys were still pierced through the iron wooden shield and fell down after being shot.

However, the deaths and injuries of these people were not important to Huang Taiji. He was most concerned about the Yanshan five-jin cannon. However, when he came to the top of the ancient city of Harbin, his face turned livid.

"General! I can't keep it!"

"How long has the helper been sent?"

He thought of the appearance of his own Khan Ama, but more importantly, he also thought of himself.

Standing in the camp, Beishan Jurchen continued to defend with flags, and the three hundred bird musketeers in the camp also counterattacked according to the three-stage attack of the Ming army.

It will take another three or four days for the reinforcements from Youtie City to go south by boat and go upstream.

Seeing this, the garrison below nodded, turned around and directed the men and horses to fight with the inlaid red flag.

From the ancient city of Harbin to Youtie City, there are four hundred miles in between. Even if the deer department keeps changing at the middle station to transfer reindeer and snow dogs, it will take four hours to reach Youtie City.

The number of musketeers was always too small. Faced with the charge of the three thousand red-flagged Jianlu, most of them turned around and retreated after shooting five or six rounds.

In this way, even if one siege does not make meritorious service, it will do meritorious service next time.

"After the beginning of spring, we will take advantage of Zhu Youjian's unresponsiveness and take the lead in defeating Guo Sangdai!"

Some Jin Jun who rushed to the top of the city along the cloud chariot were shot at close range, their whole body was pierced, blood started to rain, the pupils of the Jin Jun below were constricted, their legs trembled uncontrollably, but they were stiff The scalp launched another charge.

The guard yelled to use sand to put out the fire oil, and the others pushed down the burning man and poured the sand on it.

"Then blow them all up!" the general shouted as he confronted the enemy.

"Yes--"

"Go away!"

Lu's bus tried to move forward, but was hit by artillery, and then the Jurchen soldiers used the original fierce fire oil tank to spray flames, and violently burned Lu's bus.

"Guo Sangdai's layout is good. He actually used the Blackwater River as the moat. It is difficult to freeze under the running water, otherwise we have already reached the city wall."

Seeing this cannon, most of Huang Taiji's anger dissipated, but in order to avoid being unable to imitate it, he still gave an order to Jierhalang beside him:
"Have someone collect all the fragments of the other cannons, and prepare to transport food to the ancient city of Ha'er."

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji squinted his eyes, and asked Jierhalang next to him:
"How long has it been since the siege?"

In fact, they don't need to say that the Eight Banners soldiers who have suffered a lot from muskets under the Ming army all the year round raised their shields when they crossed the trap.

"Boom--"

In the sound of "chi chi", the matchlock burned out, and then white smoke came out of the camp, and then there was the sound of "crack, bang, bang".

Seeing this, the garrison immediately led people to fill the fifty Yanshan five-jin cannons with gunpowder, and then lit the long fuses.

Seeing that the line of defense was in danger, and Jianlu was overwhelmed by [-] Mongols, the general who had never experienced such a battle at the top of the city could not help being a little scared, but he still remembered Guo Sangdai's words:

He will do this, which means that in his opinion, the Kingdom of Jin is the biggest variable in the future of Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the general like this, other Jurchen soldiers on the city wall also bravely killed the enemy, shouting "Kill Menggou!"

Seeing his side being massacred like this, Azig also became angry. He commanded the army to kill Beishan Jurchen's sword player, but Beishan Jurchen's own skills are not weak.

Under the city wall, a Golden Army Niu Lu Ezhen roared and ordered his soldiers to charge.

"It can't be transported, it's too heavy!" The guard shouted.

Huang Taiji always believed that the emergence of Zhu Youjian and the New Deal only delayed the aging cycle of Ming Dynasty.

The flames disappeared, but people were burned a lot.

"Commander!"

"put……"

"About two hours..." Jierhalang replied after looking at the time, Huang Taiji also pondered for a moment and said:
"The reinforcements from Youtie City won't come too soon, we have about three days."

"Boom—"

Although it is easy for the whole city to die when defending the city, it is a situation where there is no chance to retreat.

They are also people raised in Baishan and Heishui. In the past, Jianlu was able to beat Beishan girl because of his excellent equipment, good food for soldiers, and strong organizational skills.

Suddenly, the generals at the head of the city led people into battle, raising their swords and shouting while facing the enemy.

With such a short distance, the crossbow arrows basically did not stop, piercing through one to three people in an instant, and took away the lives of dozens of Jianlu embroidered with red flags in just one stroke.

Looking at the fragments of the Yanshan five-jin cannon on the ground, Huang Taiji clenched his fists tightly. Fortunately, Dorgon trotted all the way over to report:
"Brother, one of the cannons was not seriously broken."

The less than ten feet stone bridge became a life-saving straw, and the bird gunners lined up to retreat, while the sword players also began to form a half-moon formation to protect the bird gunners from retreating, and followed the retreat by themselves.

Dorgon and Duoduo also rushed over, and when they saw Azig's miserable state, they couldn't help but feel a little glad that they didn't follow Xiandeng.

The number of the auxiliary army is about [-] to [-], and the number of the main army is about [-] to [-].

The fortress at the end of the bridge is connected to the city wall, just like a miniature version of the urn city. They are not afraid of the Jin army on the left and right sides attacking them at all, as long as they hold the bridge head is enough.

He hurriedly got his men on his horse and prepared to go down the mountain, but the unlucky Azig was blown away by the blast of the artillery, fell from the top of the three-foot-long city, and passed out on the spot.

"what!"

Huang Taiji is not a fool, he can't just sit and watch Zhu Youjian form a circle to encircle and suppress them. What he has to do is to launch an attack on the sparsely populated north, and it is best to destroy Guo Sangdai before the Ming army realizes that they are doing something.

Huang Taiji wants to block the moat and change the moat from running water to stagnant water, and then the weather in Beishan can freeze the river surface.

Huang Taiji didn't know that the Ming army had been engaged in large corps operations overseas, so he still used the Battle of Fuliao and Zhu Youjian's second Northern Expedition to infer the overall organizational strength of the Ming army.

"It's been two hours. According to Shi Lubu's speed, it's estimated that he has run about two hundred miles."

Looking at the group of fellow clansmen who died in battle, many people couldn't help sighing.

Who would have thought that Amin could capture tens of thousands of Beishan savages with a few thousand people back then, but now, three thousand Beishan savages actually caused such casualties to them.

The Beishan savages who have been trained by the Ming army for several years are like this, but what about the Ming army...

　There is one more at ten o'clock

　　
　
(End of this chapter)