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Chapter 117 is at stake
Originally planned to fill up the moat at the west gate of Jinzhou in one night, but because Young Master Zhang was like a blind cat, he learned the reasoning of Sherlock Holmes. It is expected that the slave army with an insufficient population base will choose to use it at night when there is insufficient light in order to reduce casualties. They secretly filled the river——the result was a pain in the ass for Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng who proposed this plan.In one night, more than [-] Jiannu soldiers were killed, and countless soldiers were injured, but the moat at the west gate of Jinzhou was only filled up to a small extent, and stealing chickens did not lose money.In a fit of rage, Nurhachi gathered the traitor soldiers in the army and ordered them to fill the river directly during the day, at all costs, to completely fill up the damned moat in Jinzhou that hindered the slave-building army!
Since they are traitors, their bones are generally not very strong. Asking them to fight against the wind and bully those corrupt and incompetent Ming soldiers can start to make a difference, but asking them to fight tough battles with their lives is a bit more difficult—— If some of the traitor Jiannu soldiers were not greedy for life and afraid of death, how could they be as willing as dogs for Jiannu like hardcore traitors like Fan Wencheng?Therefore, even with the cover of archers and bows and arrows of Jiannu cavalry, most of the traitor Jiannu soldiers threw down sandbags and turned around and ran away when the guns fired on the Jinzhou city wall, and then they were chased away by Jiannu's supervisory team with knives and leather whips. When they came back, they picked up sandbags and stones to attack again, and then the artillery rang again in Jinzhou City, and grape bullets fell overwhelmingly. , Resist the sandbag and charge again.This cycle is endless, and the progress is naturally not fast enough. In the end, Bao Chengxian, another hardcore traitor, suggested that the Jiannu army adopt a loose formation and keep a certain distance between each soldier and his teammates to advance, so as to reduce the possibility of being massacred by Ming army artillery. The progress of the river filling work has only gradually increased - the key is that the grape bombs in Jinzhou City can only be produced temporarily. Although the technical content is not high, the output is not too high, so Young Master Zhang is reluctant to waste it on these combat power On the heads of the not-so-strong traitor Jiannu soldiers, they just ordered to shoot with muskets, blunderbusses, and bows and arrows, trying to block the progress of the Jiannu army's filling of the river and weaken the enemy.

After another two days of fighting in such a piecemeal manner, on the afternoon of the fourth day of the first month of the second year of Tianqi, the Jinzhou moat, which was originally regarded as useless by some Ming army officials, was finally completely filled in by Jiannu after suffering heavy casualties, making Only the city wall was left as the last line of defense in Jinzhou City. At the same time, most of the main army of the Jiannu army began to detour towards the west gate of Jinzhou. Young Master Zhang, who had a keen sense of the battlefield, immediately concluded that Jiannu was about to start a general attack, and the main battlefield was the west gate of Jinzhou. , the time is likely to be tonight!Knowing this, Young Master Zhang also began to dispatch troops and generals, organized the army and the people to prepare for night battles, and arranged for the generals to guard the four gates in advance to prevent the four gates from attacking Jiannu in the dark night, so as not to leave any chance for Jiannu, Young Master Zhang I also moved the command podium to the tower of the west gate of Jinzhou, and prepared to personally command the main battlefield.

In winter, the day breaks, and just after Shenshi, the sky darkens quickly. Looking down from the sky, the city of Jinzhou is full of bright lights, and the crowds are surging, but the sound is not loud, and the air is full of strong meat. The rice was fragrant, and it was obvious that the Jinzhou garrison soldiers and Jiannu soldiers were eating and eating in time, preparing for the next bitter battle, and the battlefield fell into a brief silence before the big battle.When the gong of the first watch rang, the Jiannu army first started to move. Crowds of Jiannu soldiers lined up neatly, holding flaming torches, and silently flocked from all directions to the four gates of Jinzhou. It's like the boundless ocean of torches completely enveloping the lone boat in Jinzhou.The soldiers of the Ming Army in Jinzhou City also went to their posts silently, sorting out their weapons and armor, loading ammunition, and quietly waiting for the Jiannu to attack. Young Master Zhang even led Ximen guards Wu Xiang and Wu Liuqi to the first place. On the line, check the preparations of the soldiers of the Ming army and boost morale.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!" No one expected that the first attacking party was the Jinzhou defenders who were on the defensive—Master Zhang observed Nurhachi's handsome flag with a telescope. When he came to the front line in person, he immediately ordered the soldiers of the Ming army to shoot first, and use the fire dragon with the longest range to shoot out of the water first and shoot the knights under the banner of Jiannushuai.Thirty fire dragons came out of the water and flew out of the city wall, and 120 rockets flew out of the dragon's mouth, roaring and flying towards Nuerhachi and his party who were patrolling the army in person, scaring the Jiannu generals and guards around Nuerhachi There was a great chaos, rushing to the front of Nurhachi and blocking the rockets with their bodies. As a result, although none of the more than 100 rockets hurt Nurhachi, they shot to death a Jiannu Niulu'e and two Jiannu. The slave guards shot and wounded more than a dozen Jiannu soldiers, a small blow to Jiannu's spirit.

"You barbarian!" Nuerhachi cursed bitterly, knowing that Young Master Zhang was attacking the morale of the self-army.But Nuerhachi was not in a hurry, and continued to inspect the rest of the army, and then boarded the civil command platform with six blazing charcoal fires, and shouted: "Beat the drums, attack the city!"

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom...!" The eighty cowhide drums sounded rhythmically. Hearing the sound of the drums like landslides and ground cracks, thousands of Jiannu infantry pushed carts and bundles. The iron carts, carrying the siege ladder, flocked to the four gates of Jinzhou from all directions. The pace was slow but extremely powerful.As the sound of war drums became faster and faster, the advancing speed of the Jiannu army also became faster and faster, from walking to trotting, then from trotting to running, and finally evolved into shouting and sprinting with all their strength, like the rising tide of the sea, rushing wildly. To Jinzhou, an isolated island in the center of the ocean.

"Fire!" Young Master Zhang roared, and the torches of the Ximen Tower unleashed the flag, and the twenty Hongyi cannons from the four forts in Jinzhou roared angrily one after another, spraying iron grape bullets into the night sky, turning them into a rain of bullets. Poured on the heads of the Jiannu soldiers who rushed frantically, fist-sized iron balls rained and fell, blood splashed, but the sound of gold and iron colliding, bones breaking and the screams of Jiannu soldiers spread into the air.But the Jiannu team charged without stopping, and the speed was even faster——Jiannu had also learned how to behave, knowing that the Hongyi cannons fired shells at a slower speed.It was also at this moment that the Franco cannons, blunderbuss, bows and muskets on the city wall of Jinzhou fired together. Tens of thousands of flames bloomed on the city wall at night. A soldier was shot by an arrow and fell down, and the soldiers behind immediately made up for it, stepping on the corpses of their companions and continuing to move forward without hesitation.

The battle has been intensified from the very beginning, and the siege methods of Jiannu seem to be still old-fashioned. Groups of three or four bulletproof vehicles covered with rawhide form temporary bulletproof fortifications by the moat, and Jiannu archers hide from them. Feathered arrows were thrown from the back of the car to suppress the defenders on the city; iron-clad carts rushed to the bottom of the city and smashed into the city, and Jiannu soldiers hid under the car to dig the city; at the same time, there were countless ladders on the city wall of Jinzhou, Jiannu with sabers in their mouths The soldiers climbed wildly.The Jinzhou defenders have long been accustomed to Jiannu's actions, piercing chains with boulders to smash iron carts, giant trees hitting ladders to cooperate with elite troops to make up for leaks, and at the same time throwing landmines. Thousands of people are hostile to Jiannu. It's not big, only when the Jiannu soldiers near the car were densely packed, the Jinzhou defenders sprayed with kerosene, covered them with rockets, and killed people and cars together.The sound of slaughter on the city wall was loud, and the sound of guns and guns continued. Although Jiannu attacked fiercely, the Jinzhou defenders defended imperviously, without any sign of defeat. But only a few Ming army generals such as Master Zhang understood that Jiannu These sieges are just feints, the purpose is to contain the Jinzhou defenders, and the real killing is still behind!
"Boss, look at the front left, what's that?" Finally, Song Xiance on the tower was the first to notice the abnormality of Jiannu, and immediately issued a warning to Young Master Zhang.Young Master Zhang hurriedly took a few steps back and hid behind the shields of his soldiers. When he raised his binoculars to observe, he saw that in the southwest corner of Jinzhou, where Jiannu had not joined the army, there seemed to be something quietly moving under the cover of the wind, snow and night. Approaching the fort in the southwest corner of Jinzhou; and quickly turned to the northwest corner of Jinzhou to observe, and found that the situation there was similar. Jiannu deliberately did not deploy troops at that position, making room for cover under the snowy night, and it seemed that there was something Approaching the fort in the northwest corner of Jinzhou.Young Master Zhang didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly shouted: "As a banner, let the forts on the left and right of the west gate set off fireworks to the front!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Young master Zhang immediately understood I saw a large number of Jiannu soldiers pushing firewood carts as tall as two people, approaching the two Hongyi cannon forts in the northwest and southwest of Jinzhou, which are most vulnerable!Young Master Zhang grinned grimly, and said in his heart that he had finally come, using a firewood cart to burn the fort, the level of strategy was lower than I imagined.But the smirk turned into a smirk, and the always sinister and vicious Young Master Zhang still quickly ordered: "Let the left and right sides of the city wall near the fort, fire the rockets together, first set fire to Jiannu's firewood cart!"

"Fire the rockets! Fire the rockets! Fire the rockets!" The general of the Ming army quickly conveyed Young Master Zhang's order, dense rockets also rose from the wall near the fort, and fell in a disorderly manner into the dark wilderness. I don't know which ones. The archers made a contribution. In short, at least seven or eight Jiannu firewood carts were shot by the rockets. The firewood carts covered with kerosene and sulfur and covered with thatch immediately burst into flames, and the empty snow field that Jiannu deliberately left was destroyed. It was brightly illuminated, and the other slave trains hidden in the snowy night were also fully exposed.This time, there is no need for Master Zhang to order. The archers of the Ming army immediately drew their bows and arrows again, aiming at other firewood carts that were not on fire, and shot out flaming rockets one by one. , Dozens of Jiannu trains turned into dozens of huge burning torches, reflecting the left and right sides of the west gate of Jinzhou like daylight.

Surreptitiously planning to burn down the Jinzhou Fortress, but was discovered by Young Master Zhang in advance. Nuerhachi and his son were naturally furious. Push the firewood cart under the barbarian fort for me!" Jiannu messengers sent the order on flying cavalry, and the panicked Jiannu soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and push the huge burning train to the Jinzhou Fort.However, the Jinzhou garrison also quickly made adjustments. The small Franco cannons protecting the fort were replaced with solid shells, aimed at the huge torches and fired. Fortunately, there were two Jiannu firewood carts on the left and right. Hit by a solid shell, the pile of firewood tied into a tower with a log as the center scattered everywhere, and a lot of burning firewood fell on the heads of the slave soldiers who were pushing the cart. The screams like killing a pig also sounded.The artillerymen of the Ming army continued to fire, and soon destroyed seven or eight Jiannu firewood carts. The burning firewood scattered all over the ground, forming a sea of ​​flames on the ground. Call, the scene is very spectacular.

I have to admit that the courage and quality of the slave soldiers are really good. Although the tower train they are pushing may be destroyed by Ming army shells at any time, they will fall down and burn themselves alive. Although the ground is already a sea of ​​​​fire, the slave soldiers still fight Pushing the firewood cart desperately charged towards the Ming army fort.It's a pity that the Jinzhou defenders, who had been brought down by Young Master Zhang, had a variety of attack methods, and they were far and near in an orderly manner. When they rushed within a hundred steps of the fort, the Ming army's fuel-injecting fire dragons began to show their power again, and more than a dozen kerosene fell from the sky. It not only increased the intensity of the fire, but also poured it on the heads and bodies of the soldiers pushing the carts. In addition, there was fire everywhere. In the blink of an eye, countless slave soldiers turned into flaming firemen, screaming Rolling all over the floor, the Tazhuang train stopped moving forward again.

"Brothers, follow me!" In a critical moment, Fan Wencheng led a group of slave infantry into the sea of ​​flames, ignoring the billowing smoke and burning flames, gritted his teeth and pushed the handlebars that were already flaming, and rushed frantically. To the fort of the Ming army, although the Ming army tried their best to stop them with guns and guns, the Jiannu soldiers gritted their teeth and charged the cart crazily even though they were shot and their hair and eyebrows were on fire. Finally, the first and second tower-shaped firewood The cart landed on the fort in the northwest corner of Jinzhou, and the flames began to melt the ice on the top of the fort in the northwest of Jinzhou.Immediately afterwards, countless Jiannu soldiers rushed forward with firewood and thatch on their backs, and threw the firewood and thatch onto the fire to intensify the fire.Fan Wencheng, who pushed a firewood cart into the fire with his own hands, jumped up and down in the sea of ​​flames, crying and shouting, "Master, the slave has succeeded! The slave has finally succeeded...!"

The bean curd dregs fort in the northwest corner of Jinzhou was the first to be surrounded by raging fire and was in danger, but Young Master Zhang did not rush. He only ordered the soldiers to transfer the gunpowder from the northwest fort, and ordered the Hongyi cannons there to continue firing.As for the southwest corner, Young Master Zhang issued a deadly order, even if Jiannu's firewood carts had surrounded the fort, he would continue to fire and try his best to kill Jiannu.But at this moment, flames suddenly appeared on the fort in the southwest corner, and there was a loud noise, which caused the soldiers of the Ming army nearby to scream, "The cannon exploded! The Hongyi cannon exploded!"

"Oops, why did the bomb explode at this time?" Young Master Zhang cried out in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he shouted: "Don't panic, keep firing and rescue the injured gunner!"

Having said that, the most powerful Hongyi cannon suddenly exploded, and the morale of the soldiers of the Ming army and the people of Jinzhou was inevitably affected, while the morale of the slave army was greatly boosted. The echelon rushed up the city wall several times and almost seized to form a position on the top of the wall.At the critical moment, Young Master Zhang rushed to the front line again, shouted to boost morale, and ordered to throw thousands of enemies in large numbers to suppress the offensive of building slaves.The emergency reserve team led by Wu Liuqi and Wu Sangui also wandered around, fighting hard to make up for the leaks, and killed the Jiannu soldiers who rushed up the city wall and went down to the city again.But just when the battle line was about to be re-stabilized, there was a loud bang from the fort in the northwest corner of Jinzhou, and another Hongyi cannon couldn't withstand the high-intensity firing frequency, and it exploded on the fort, killing itself. A Ming army gunner.

"I hit a ghost today! Why did the Hongyi cannon explode continuously?" Young Master Zhang was a little panicked, but he didn't dare to show panic on his face, he just drew his sword and shouted, "Brothers, don't panic, continue to kill the enemy! The city is alive Here, the city is dead and we are dead!" The soldiers of the Ming army around shouted slogans to encourage each other's morale, but the gunners of the Ming army on both sides of the west gate were afraid of continuing to blow up their guns, so the speed of loading ammunition inevitably slowed down, and there was no heavy firepower. Suppressed, the Jiannu army with high morale rushed more fiercely, and the fort in the southwest corner was quickly surrounded by Jiannu firewood carts. The two forts covering the west gate were in emergency at the same time, and the main battlefield, Jinzhou West Gate, also had a major crisis.Fortunately, the people of Jinzhou also knew that if the city wall was breached, all the Han people in the city would not be spared, so most of the young and strong men in the city rushed to the west gate wall to fight the enemy side by side with the army, gritting their teeth to stabilize the defense line of the city wall.

"I can't help it, let's use that trick." Seeing the tide of slave-building troops rushing towards the west gate, he had no choice but to resort to the incendiary bombs he had prepared but was never willing to use, and ordered the soldiers to take them to the west gate. Cotton straw bales containing gunpowder and sulfur were ignited one by one and thrown down the city wall. When the straw bales spread out, there was a sea of ​​flames. Burning the Jiannu chariots under the city barely repelled the attack of the Jiannu army.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the sea of ​​fire to stop the Jiannu army, Young Master Zhang seized the time to rearrange the defense line, and ordered the transfer of the Hongyi cannons that had dared not fire. No matter how the slave burns, it is impossible to burn down the earth and stone fort. In the future, it can be used again if it is re-splashed with water and frozen.At this moment, Mao Yuanyi hurried over from the left, panting and said to Young Master Zhang: "Master Zhang, something is wrong, I just went to the Southwest Fortress to check the exploded Hongyi cannon, and found that the Hongyi cannon was from the first year of the Apocalypse. The first batch of Hongyi cannons cast!"

"The Hongyi cannon built in the first year of Tianqi? What do you mean?" Young Master Zhang, who had only traveled through Tianqi five years ago, asked inexplicably.Mao Yuanyi thumped his chest and replied, "That batch of Hongyi cannons is not good at all. Ten out of ten cannons were blown up. Originally, the Ministry of War has already recovered those problematic cannons and ordered the Ministry of Industry to recast them! I don't know what happened. These cannons It appeared in our hands again, but someone deliberately sealed the original engraved casting year with glue, and painted it to cover it up. In addition, the casting year engraved with the three-year apocalypse was engraved on us! The clay with a few words has been shaken off, and I can't see it!"

"Where did the ghost come from? Shanhaiguan? Or Ningyuan?" Young Master Zhang almost lost his temper. He bet his head in Jinzhou to hold back the main force of slavery and protect Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City, but someone stabbed him so hard in the back ?But right now is obviously not the time to pursue these matters, so Young Master Zhang could only yell and ask, "How many problematic guns are there in the Southwest Fort? Have you found them out?"

"Besides the one that has already exploded, there is another one." Mao Yuanyi replied wiping off his sweat.Young Master Zhang immediately shouted: "Immediately transfer the three guns that are okay to the new fort on the inner side of the city wall, and continue firing! The one with the problem, put it aside, and I will settle accounts with them later! Master Mao, you will come back immediately!" Go to the Northwest Fort to check, find all the problematic Hongyi cannons, and transfer the rest to the newly built fort in the city, so that the gunners can fire with peace of mind!" Mao Yuanyi responded, and Young Master Zhang captured two more soldiers. He shouted at them: "Go to the southeast and northeast forts immediately, and ask them to free up two cannons each to support the northwest and southwest forts. The west gate is the main battlefield, and fire suppression is absolutely indispensable!"

"Decree!" The two soldiers also took the order and left. Young Master Zhang, who was almost mad, snatched the water bag from Zhang Shitou's hand and poured it into his mouth. Observe the battlefield. ——To the astonishment of Young Master Zhang, the flames under the city were about to extinguish, but the Jiannu army not only did not take the opportunity to attack, but retreated and assembled into dense columns. The distance between each column was very large, as if Making way for follow-up troops.Cold sweat dripped down Young Master Zhang's forehead, and he shouted in his heart, "There must be a trick! There must be a trick! Jiannu destroyed the two fortresses at the West Gate at all costs, and retreated to regroup. There must be a trick!"

"Boss, come up quickly!" At this time, Song Xiance, the dog-headed master who had been holding a binoculars on the tower to observe the enemy's situation, yelled miserably, "Come up and have a look, Jianu pushed some weird things!"

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The time moved forward a little bit, back to the moment after the second explosion of the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army, seeing the soaring flames on the Jinzhou Fort, and hearing the thunderous explosion, since the start of the Jinzhou offensive and defensive war Nuerhachi, who had never laughed happily, laughed loudly, and said to himself triumphantly: "Zhang Haogu, little barbarian, now I know what it's like to be plotted against? To be honest, I really feel a little bit for you." It's a pity, if the Hongyi cannon in your hand is all right and genuine, I'm really not sure that I can take down the city you guard. But unfortunately, you are doomed to die in the hands of your own barbarians!"

"Great Khan, we succeeded!" Fan Wencheng, whose pig tail was burned off, also staggered back and said with a big smile, "Congratulations to Khan, congratulations to Khan, our fire attack has begun to burn the barbarians!" The ice on the fort has fallen, and the barbarian's red cannon has begun to explode. Listen to the sweat, the barbarian's red cannon protecting Ximen is afraid to fire. We have won! We have won!"

"Very good, very good, dog slave, you are the first to break Jinzhou this time!" Nuerhachi laughed and praised Fan Wencheng, and then ordered: "Order the front army to stop attacking the city and retreat!" Gather up, make room for the siege ramp, let our siege ramp ride, scare the savages out of their wits!"

"Great Khan, this slave dares to ask for a reward." Fan Wencheng knelt down on both knees, kowtowed to Nuerhachi and begged, "After the siege vehicle hits the city wall of Jinzhou, please give permission to the eighth elder brother Huang Taiji and the slave. First lead the charge, kill the city wall of Jinzhou, capture the barbarian Zhang Hao alive, hand him over to the Great Khan Ling Chi for execution, and avenge the ten princes and the sacrificed Dajin soldiers!"

"Slave dog, you are quite loyal to your main palace master. You always think of him if you have any good fortune." Nuerhachi, who was in a good mood, laughed, first whipped Fan Wencheng, and then shouted: "Okay, I promise you, go and prepare with Eighth Brother."

"Thank you, slave!" Fan Wencheng kowtowed heavily, jumped up and laughed wildly, and went to look for Huang Taiji.After a while, fifteen huge siege ramp vehicles were pushed out, surrounded by countless Jiannu infantry, and with a loud rumbling noise, they drove side by side towards the city wall of the west gate of Jinzhou, which had lost the cover of heavy artillery.Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng led the Zhengbai Banner cavalry to follow behind, and waited until these siege vehicles that could be trampled by men and horses hit the city wall of Jinzhou, Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng would lead the cavalry to rush to the city, attracting troops for their mistakes. Young Master Zhang, such a perverted little plague god, redeemed himself...

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