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Chapter 109 Fight Again
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In the early morning of the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month in the fifth year of Ming Dynasty, the main cavalry of the founding slave army took the lead in crossing the Daling River. After the Shenshi, the infantry team transporting heavy siege weapons also arrived at Xiaolinghe Station. A total of 13 troops from the three groups joined forces, covering the sky and covering the sky. The graves are like rolling ups and downs, stretching as far as the eye can see.At night, the vast and boundless campfire was almost like an ocean. Even standing on the city wall of Jinzhou more than ten miles away, one could see it clearly. The tumbling flames made the eastern night sky red.At the same time, thinking that the vast and boundless fire was the enemy, all the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou trembled in fear, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians that Young Master Zhang had managed to inspire sank once again.

After four days and four nights of work without sleep, the last two rammed earth forts in Jinzhou were finally completed, and water was hastily poured on them to strengthen the forts with the help of the severe winter cold, filling the last loophole in Jinzhou's city defense—of course, Of course, the quality of the temporarily rushed forts was not as strong as the first two. Mao Yuanyi even worried that when the spring came, even if Jiannu didn't come to destroy them, the recoil of the Hongyi cannon alone could destroy these two bean curd forts.But Young Master Zhang was not worried at all, and told Mao Yuanyi confidently, "Don't worry, before the spring warms and the ice melts, Jiannu will definitely retreat!" Although Mao Yuanyi didn't know where Young Master Zhang's confidence came from, he had no choice but to believe it.

On the night when the main force of the slave-building army arrived, the slave-building envoy who surrendered last time came again. In addition to bringing a box of gold, silver and jewelry to Young Master Zhang, he also brought a gift from Nurhachi to save him from death. The iron plate, and told Young Master Zhang that as long as Young Master Zhang Kaicheng surrenders, Young Master Zhang can use this death-free card to avoid death three times in the founding slave army. This honor is currently only obtained by Li Yongfang among the Han people.And Young Master Zhang received the Enslavement Envoy very politely, set up a grand feast, and unceremoniously accepted the gold, silver and jewelry that Nuerhachi filially respected. At the end, Young Master Zhang said to the successful Enslave Envoy : "I would like to trouble your envoy to go back and report to the Great Khan. I have basically believed in the sincerity of the Great Khan to surrender, but among my generals, there are not a few people who have the blood of the Dajin people on their hands. They are very worried about retaliation after the surrender. , so I would like to ask the Great Khan to send a prince of Belor of sufficient weight to the city to proclaim the decree and pardon their sins, so that I can persuade them to open the city and surrender."

"Master Zhang, why do you insist on the Khan's son entering the city to negotiate? Can't I?" The enslavement envoy was a little anxious and said, "Although I, Tong Yangxing, was originally a Han Chinese, I have now registered as a Jurchen. It is also the first of the eight surnames in eastern Liaodong, and the first family of Conglong who followed the Great Khan to fight the world. It is also considered a noble status in Dajin. Can't you? Why must the son of the Great Khan go to the city to negotiate?"

"Master Tong, you misunderstood." Young Master Zhang shook his head and explained with a smile: "It's not that I insist on letting the Prince of the Great Khan enter Jinzhou to negotiate, but I want to invite the Prince of the Great Khan to enter Jinzhou City to announce the decree. There is no way to convince these generals." Then, Young Master Zhang pointed at Ma Shilong next to him, smiled and said, "If Master Tong doesn't believe you, you can ask General Ma now."

"Master Zhang is right." Although he didn't understand why Young Master Zhang insisted on letting Nuerhachi send his son as an envoy, out of trust in Young Master Zhang, Ma Shilong still chimed in and said, "We generals don't like Mr. Zhang is also a civil official, and his hands are stained with the blood of the people of Dajin. If he surrenders like this, even if the Great Khan does not hold us accountable, what about the parents and relatives of those Dajin soldiers who were killed by us? What if they seek revenge from us? "

"General Ma, don't worry about this. Our Dajin people are the most benevolent people in the world. As long as you surrender to the Great Khan, we will be one family. How can we care about those past hatreds?" Tong Yangxing continued to persuade him earnestly, trying to Let Young Master Zhang, Ma Shilong and others give up unrealistic fantasies, "Besides, Master Zhang and General Ma, you can also think about it. From ancient times to the present, have any coaches or the sons of coaches went deep into the enemy camp to persuade them to surrender? Even I, Tong Yangxing, believe in you, Dahan also has to worry about his son's safety."

"Who said there is no?" Young Master Zhang said confidently: "During the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Laoling, went deep into the Huihe camp alone to persuade him to surrender. The Huihe army was moved by Guo Laoling's courage. Surrendered? Nurhachi Khan is wise and powerful, far surpassing Tang Zong and Song Zu, so why can't he learn from Guo Ziyi and Guo Laoling and send a prince to the city to surrender?"

In terms of strong words and sophistry, a hundred Tong Yangxing are not the opponent of Young Master Zhang, and they have nothing to say when they are refuted by Young Master Zhang by citing scriptures.After gritting his teeth and thinking for a long time, Tong Yangxing simply resorted to the rogue trick of threatening force, threatening: "Master Zhang, your request is not realistic at all, and it is absolutely impossible to do it. But I, Tong Yangxing, also remind you, Da Khan's The 20 troops are just outside the city, if you continue to be obsessed with your obsession, and the Great Khan gives up the surrender, by then, Jinzhou City will be crushed to pieces by the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Gold, and your future will be very bad, Mr. Zhang!"

"It doesn't matter, just come if you want to fight." Young Master Zhang, who is playing a rogue, is not afraid of Tong Yangxing, shrugging his shoulders and said: "Actually, I also hope that Da Khan will try to attack the city first, so that Da Khan can see with his own eyes whether I am worth his money or not." Big bids to solicit."

Speaking of this, Tong Yangxing also knew that it was impossible to make Master Zhang change his mind, so in desperation, Tong Yangxing also had to leave angrily. When parting, Master Zhang took out a pair of gold-encrusted bongs and a large box of black ointment and handed them to him. Tong Yangxing smiled and said: "Master Tong, this thing is called hibiscus ointment. It has the miraculous effects of strengthening the body, relaxing the tendons and activating blood circulation, refreshing the mind, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is also effective in treating painful carbuncles caused by old battlefield injuries. Guibi Gold, I am troublesome to pass it on to Nurhachi Great Khan, Master Tong, it can be regarded as a return gift from the subordinate officials to the Great Khan."

As he said that, the very kind-hearted Young Master Zhang also specially taught Tong Yangxing how to inhale the panacea, so that Nuerhachi Khan would not be able to inhale it even if he held it.Tong Yangxing also knew that hibiscus ointment was a rare and precious medicinal material, so he thanked him and took it without thinking too much, and promised to submit it to Nuerhachi.Young Master Zhang personally sent Tong Yangxing to the city wall, commanded his soldiers to put Tong Yangxing down the city wall with hanging blue, and waved farewell to Tong Yangxing affectionately.As soon as Tong Yangxing left, Young Master Zhang yelled: "Come on, organize people to water the city wall overnight to strengthen it with ice. Jiannu may come to attack the city tomorrow!"

When Tong Yangxing returned to the Jiannu camp with the precious medicine of Young Master Zhang, it was already after the third watch, but Nuerhachi and Huang Taiji and other leaders of Jiannu were still awake, and immediately summoned Tong Yangxing to inquire. Surrender passed.After listening to Tong Yangxing's detailed story, Nuerhachi's brows could not help but frown into a Sichuan character, hesitating whether he should send a son into the city to surrender.And Fan Wencheng, who is quite trusted by Nuerhachi and Huang Taiji, shouted: "Khan, that little barbarian Zhang Haogu must have malicious intentions, don't be fooled by him. From the perspective of the slave, we should directly Let's attack the city, take down Jinzhou, cut that picky little savage into pieces, and put him to death!"

He was about to recruit Young Master Zhang to be his son-in-law, but his hot face was stuck on his cold ass. Nuerhachi was already a little annoyed, but after being encouraged by Fan Wencheng, Nuerhachi would inevitably be tempted. After a moment of pondering, he said, "Okay , I will personally go to Jinzhou city defense tomorrow, if Jinzhou city can be captured without spending a lot of money, then attack the city directly!" Fan Wencheng happily agreed, and then volunteered to accompany Nuerhachi to patrol the Jinzhou city defense, for Daijin The army attacked Jinzhou to make a plan, and Nuerhachi agreed without hesitation, and seeing the gift brought by Tong Yangxing, he yawned and asked what it was.

"Khan, this is hibiscus ointment from the West, it is a very precious medicine." Tong Yangxing was quite honest, not only did not embezzle Young Master Zhang in return, but also truthfully explained the hibiscus ointment and the method of inhalation.As soon as Nuerhachi was interested, he beckoned and said, "Bring it up for me to try. The old wound on my body is hurting badly these days, so it just needs to be used."

"Khan, please be careful, what if that little savage in Zhang Haogu poisons the hibiscus ointment?" Fan Wencheng exclaimed loudly.Nuerhachi scolded with a smile: "You dog slave, you think Zhang Haogu is as stupid as you, thinking that I won't let people test the poison, so just use his medicine?" After all, Nuerhachi really let the guards After trying the poison, he started to take the elixir. After taking two puffs, he felt nothing strange. Nuerhachi was about to give up, but after taking the third puff, Nuerhachi found that the intoxicating and thick smoke It really has the effect of relieving pain and refreshing, so he took a few more breaths, and said with a smile: "Yes, the old wound on my body really doesn't hurt much, that little barbarian Zhang Haogu should have given the medicine sincerely, it seems that recruiting him is still possible." hope."

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In the early morning of the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow fell, and the spirited Nuerhachi led the army to Jinzhou. He set up a formation five miles outside the east gate of Jinzhou. The natural podium looks towards the city wall of Jinzhou.It’s okay if you don’t look at it, but Nuerhachi couldn’t help but gasped when he saw it. In the snowflakes, the four city walls of Jinzhou City had been frozen into one piece, and it looked like a huge city from a distance. In the ice city, the ice on the city wall was more than a foot thick, slippery and difficult for apes to climb. On the city wall, more than [-] soldiers of the Ming army were already ready to fight, and their guns were aimed at their own army, obviously well prepared.Fan Wencheng, who was accompanying Nurhachi, continued to clamor: "Khan, don't hesitate, you are not ignorant of the virtues of the barbarian army. It looks majestic, but it is actually softer than tofu. Our army is only It takes a few rounds of bows and arrows to rush up, and the barbarians in the city can be shot to the point of crying and howling, and they will be defeated."

"Shut up!" Nuerhachi overcame Fan Wencheng's noise, turned to Tong Yangxing and shouted, "Go to the city again and give Zhang Haogu one last chance to open the city and surrender. If he still refuses, we will attack immediately." city!"

"Tie." Tong Yangxing agreed, and rushed to the city of Jinzhou to shout.Not long after, Tong Yangxing ran back to Nuerhachi against the wind and snow, and said with a mournful face, "Big Khan, Zhang Haogu still refused. He said we were not sincere, so let's not talk about it. If we want to fight, we will fight to the end!"

"You dog barbarian, just because you are worthy of telling me to fight to the end?" Nuerhachi snorted coldly, and ordered angrily: "Mang Gurtai, you lead the cavalry of your headquarters as the vanguard, rush to the east gate of Jinzhou and use your bow and arrow Suppress the barbarian defenders on the city! Fei Yangwu (nephew of Nurhachi), you lead [-] infantry to resist the sandbags and follow Manggurtai to fill up the moat! Tanggu, you lead [-] infantry and prepare a row of siege weapons Stand in front of the battle and wait for orders! Huang Taiji, Azig, and Darcha (Nurhachi's nephew), each of you will lead [-] cavalry to harass the other three gates of Jinzhou and contain the barbarian forces."

"Break!" All the generals of Jiannu agreed together.Fan Wencheng next to him was not happy, and tentatively said: "Khan, the servant thinks that we should attack from all sides at the same time, so that the little barbarian Zhang Haogu can care about one thing and lose another."

Before he finished speaking, Nuerhachi slapped him across the face, cursing: "I still need you to hand over my troops? There are moats on all sides of Jinzhou, why don't you find so many infantry to fill the river for me?" Fan Wencheng only promised, but secretly hated Young Master Zhang in his heart, "You barbarian, why are you draining the water from the moat when you have nothing to do? Like the moat in Ningyuan City, it would be better if the moat didn't drain water. Our siege vehicles can do it if it freezes. Just rushed over."

After the deployment of troops and generals was completed, the army quickly gathered out of the city. First, tens of thousands of fine cavalry from Mangurtai charged forward, drew bows and arrows and fired at the city wall, in an attempt to suppress the defenders on the city with bows and arrows. Prepared, just after Mangurtai rushed out for less than half a mile, the Hongyi cannons on both sides of the east gate took the lead. Amidst the loud rumbling sound, the flowering shells roared and fell into the Jiannu cavalry in a chaotic manner. The Dejian slave cavalry were flying with flesh and blood, but Mang Gurtai knew the weakness of the slow firing of the artillery, so he just charged and tried his best to get close to the Jinzhou city wall.But when they rushed forward again, more than [-] Fran cannons with a relatively short range on the east gate wall of Jinzhou began to show their power again. , It will also explode automatically due to the huge impact force, and the shrapnel arsenopyrite fired by the lasing hits the Jiannu cavalry again, causing Jiannu to cry and cry.The biggest advantage of the Fran cannon is that it is divided into sub-guns and mother guns. Multiple sub-guns are loaded and the mother gun is loaded. The firing speed is much higher than that of Hongyi cannons. Therefore, when the Manggur Thai army finally rushed to Jinzhou City , his tens of thousands of troops have been bombarded by Hongyi cannons and Franco machine guns to death more than a hundred people, and countless wounded--what's even more annoying is that he hasn't had a chance to fight back with a knife or an arrow.

"Fire!" Before Mangurtai's army could release their arrows, Young Master Zhang's hoarse screams could be heard on the city wall.With the waving of the vermilion flag, the city walls of Jinzhou boiled like a boiling pot again. Countless three-eyed blunderbuss fired in turn, and the overwhelming feather arrows also fell down. Although these weapons are difficult to penetrate Jiannu's body They were wearing cotton armor, but the Jiannu cavalry did not dare to raise their heads. There was no way, the firepower in the city was too dense, and if they raised their heads, they might be hit on the front door without armor protection, which was more dangerous than hitting other places.What made Mang Gurtai even more depressed was that Young Master Zhang even took out the landmines that should have been buried in the ground, lit them and threw them across the moat with a simple trebuchet. The explosion made the Jiannu cavalry jump like dogs, and several landmines exploded in the air. The flying cast iron shrapnel made the faces of the surrounding Jiannu cavalry burst into tears, screaming and falling off their horses.It also exploded to the point where Mang Gurtai wanted to yell loudly, "Zhang Haogu, do you want to be ashamed? Landmines should be buried in the ground, and the ground is frozen by ice and snow and cannot be blown out - why do you take them out and throw them on other people's heads?" ?"(Note)
Despite the ferocious firepower on the city wall, the extremely elite Jiannu cavalry still found time to shoot arrows above the city wall, somewhat suppressing some of the firepower of the Ming army, and the soldiers of the Ming army also began to fall from the arrows one after another. Standing at the head of the city with his sword in hand to direct the battle, ignoring the feathered arrows whizzing past his ears, he was calm and composed, so frightened that Zhang Shitou, who had been promoted to the captain of Young Master Zhang's personal army, held up his shield and stood by the side tremblingly to cover up and down, for fear of Suddenly a stream of arrows flew over and broke the root of the ten generations of the Zhang family.When the Jinzhou garrison soldiers saw the appearance of Young Master Zhang, their confidence and morale were greatly boosted. Regardless of the danger, they shot arrows and shot across the river with the Jiannu cavalry, which made the supervising team arranged by Ma Shilong not very effective effect.In the other three gates of Jinzhou, the guards of the three gates led by Wu Xiang, Zhao Ledjiao, and Man Gui also fought with the Jiannu containment troops, and the fighting was equally fierce.The eunuchs Ji Yong and Mao Yuanyi, who have a good reputation in history, commanded the civilians in the city to carry the defense weapons in an orderly manner, and greatly supported the battle on the city wall. Be able to show your talents.

Facing the fierce artillery fire from the Jinzhou defenders, the Manggurtai army on the main battlefield was a little bit overwhelmed, and the losses were extremely heavy. Seeing that the situation was not good on the command platform, Nurhachi quickly ordered the second wave of siege troops to spend more money. Yang Wu's team attacked and rushed to Jinzhou against the sandbags, trying to fill up the moat quickly.But Young Master Zhang waited coldly, until Fei Yangwu's infantry rushed to the moat, and only twenty or thirty steps away, Young Master Zhang coldly waved his hand back. In the blink of an eye, dozens of water jets flew up from the city wall of Jinzhou , It fell directly on the infantry of Fei Yangwu's army - the hundreds of water dragons that Young Master Zhang worked overtime to build were not just for spraying water and fighting fires.And Fei Yangwu, who was rushing to the front, was sprayed all over his face by a jet of water, but it didn't feel as cold as ordinary ice water. Fei Yangwu touched it with his hand depressedly, and immediately shouted in surprise: "Fire oil?!"

"Fire the rockets!" Young Master Zhang shouted hoarsely again from the city. Amidst the screams of the Jiannu infantry, more than a hundred rockets shot towards him. In order to protect oneself and keep warm, the Ming army's bows and muskets are difficult to penetrate.But the problem is that this kind of cotton armor is first poured with kerosene, and then ignited by a rocket, so the fun will be great.So in just a moment, countless Jiannu infantrymen burst into flames, screaming and crawling all over the ground, scurrying around. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Jiannu infantry quickly dropped their sandbags and ran away. The smell and smell of burnt wild boar.But the worst one was Nurhachi's nephew Fei Yangwu. He was not only sprayed with kerosene, but also shot by a rocket. In the blink of an eye, he became a burning man with his eyebrows and beard on fire. , crying for his father and mother, rolling on the ground trying to put out the fire, but he couldn't put it out no matter how much he rolled. Finally, when he finally remembered that he should take off his cotton armor, Fei Yangwu couldn't stand up anymore...

Note: The mines of the Ming Dynasty have been unearthed in kind, which proves that they do exist. The unearthed landmines are cast iron round, with shells and medicines weighing about 1.7 kilograms.

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