Nurhaci has always looked down upon the Ming Dynasty since the Battle of Sarhu. He indeed has this proud capital. Since he raised his army, he has been truly invincible.
In many battles such as Fushun, Tieling, Kaiyuan, and Sarhu, no less than 200,000 Ming troops died under his hands. He believed that the Ming troops were all idiots, just pigs and dogs waiting to be slaughtered.
"I thought it was a big deal that the bear barbarian caused such a big fight, but I didn't expect these Han dogs to be so incompetent!"
Li Yongfang on the side quickly flattered him and said:
"The Great Khan is so powerful that these Ming troops are frightened by the banners of my Eight Banners Warriors, let alone against the Great Khan!"
After Nurhaci finished teasing, he also became serious and ordered to Mang Gurtai:
"Press all the Zhenglan flags and capture Hupiyi as quickly as possible!"
"Father, don't worry!"
On the castle, Zhu Wanliang looked at the sergeant lying on the ground, his legs shaking. At this moment, he really wanted to drill a hole in the ground and run away.
"Quickly, reload the musket! Fire the crossbow!"
Although Zhu Wanliang was greedy for life and feared death, Wang Zhi, who was guarding Qianhu at Hupiyi, was not afraid at all. He was from Benxi, but his whole family was massacred by Jiannu a few years ago. If he had not been on duty at Hupiyi, he would not have been able to do so. Unable to escape, at this time he just wanted to kill a few more slaves to avenge his family.
"Alternate in sequence, fire the crossbows and fire cannons, and leave all the wild boar skins under the city!"
Under the orderly command of Wang Zhi, the Ming army quickly stabilized its position, but it was only stable and could not cause effective damage to the siege of the slaves, because neither their weapons nor their military quality were It was so bad that some people even held firecrackers and fired them into the sky.
The Jiannu who were responsible for testing the siege were very orderly. They formed a team of a hundred people and divided into six teams to attack in sequence. Their positions were very loose, so that the Ming army could not focus their fire on the city. They relied on the flexibility of their horses and galloped to the city. Under the city, just at the edge of the attack range of the Ming army on the city, they stopped and stopped based on the distance, and then used their crossbows, which were more powerful and had a longer range than the Ming army, to kill the Ming army on the city.
Although the Ming army defended and Jiannu attacked, the Ming army's casualties were several times that of Jiannu. Jiannu attacked for a quarter of an hour and suffered less than thirty casualties.
On the other hand, the Ming army, as the defender of the city, should have suffered fewer casualties, but it has already suffered nearly a hundred casualties. Because of the general's greed for life and fear of death, the sergeants and soldiers were distracted, and the nearly 10,000 defenders had just attacked when Jiannu attacked. It was already a mess.
"General, general, the main force of establishing slaves is here, at least tens of thousands of people!"
Zhu Wanliang was even more disheartened. Just as he was about to run away with his servants, he was grabbed by Wang Zhi.
"General, you must not run away from the battle. Even if the general survives for a while, what will happen? Jinglue has issued a death order. If the Tiger Skin Post is lost, the general will be punished with death if he returns!"
"There are still more than ten thousand troops in the city. The general must not be timid, otherwise everyone will die miserably under Jiannu's sword after the city is broken. Now we can only hold on to the city and wait for reinforcements from Liaoshen to still have a chance of survival!"
Zhu Wanliang also felt that it made sense. Only in this way could he save his life. He didn't want to die yet.
"What I'm saying is, hurry up, defend the city with this general. If anyone dares to escape the battle, I'll kill them all!"
Mang Gurtai rushed to the city and quickly took a look at the Ming army and the city wall on the city. He found that the Ming army's firepower distribution was not even at all, and the right-wing city wall was obviously shorter than the left-wing city wall, and it was still an old city wall, but the right-wing defenders More.
"Gutu, you lead a thousand banner men and more than two thousand men to attack the left wing. No matter what the cost, you must contain the main force of the Ming army."
"Order Bagala to wear armor, and after the main force of the Ming army is restrained, quickly attack the city from the right wing!"
"Ask Baiyin to prepare a hook for Bagala, and lead two thousand Aha to cover Bagala's attack on the city!"
The military system of the Eight Banners is also hierarchical. The one with the highest status, the best treatment, and the most powerful combat power is Bagala. The Ming army calls them white-armored soldiers. All of them are carefully selected from among the bannermen and wear three robes. With layers of heavy armor and no fear of death, they were a nightmare for the Ming army. There were nearly a thousand bagaras in one banner.
Below Ba Ya La is the flag soldier, which can be understood as a professional soldier. To become a flag soldier, you need to pass various assessments. It is the main combat power of the Eight Banners soldiers. They wear two layers of heavy armor and are as fierce as a tiger.
Yu Ding was a soldier who failed the examination, and was also a reserve member of the Banners. He was the grassroots soldier of the Eight Banners. Although he was not as good as the Banners, he was still more than enough compared to the Ming army at this time.
Under Yu Ding, there are Aha and Baoyi Aha. Aha is a slave, but he can also be regarded as a member of the Eight Banners Army. He does the most painful, tiring and dangerous things, while Baoyi Aha has no human rights and is a cannon fodder soldier.
The reason why Mang Gurtai became the mainstay of Zhenglan Banner from the beginning was naturally to capture Hupiyi as quickly as possible, show off himself in front of his father Khan, and let his father Khan see his Mang Gu. Ertai's military ability makes him the most outstanding son of his father Khan.
"General, the armored soldiers of Jian Nu are here!"
The bannermen and Yu Ding of Jiannu were both called armored soldiers by the Ming army, because they were all wearing heavy armor. At the same time, they were the ones who brought out the terror of the Ming army towards Jiannu.
"What, armored soldiers?"
Zhu Wanliang had personally seen the Ming army and armored soldiers confront each other. In his eyes, Jiannu's armored soldiers were invincible.
"General, please don't be timid. Please mobilize two thousand troops to join me in defending to the west. These armored soldiers will surely be killed at the foot of the city."
"Okay, Wang Qianhu, I will mobilize you two thousand troops, and I will allocate another three hundred servants to you. You must defend it."
"General, don't worry!"
Gu Tu, who was at the foot of the city, took the lead and shot down a Ming gunman on the city with an arrow, shouting:
"kill!"
The slave soldiers behind followed Gu Tu closely. The charge of thousands of war horses made the Ming army in the city feel the murderous momentum. Many people were frightened and even deserted.
"The general has an order. Anyone who retreats will be killed! Everyone go back and take up arms to fight the enemy. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
As soon as Wang Zhi arrived here, he saw some sergeants starting to flee. It was okay, so he quickly asked Zhu Wanliang's servants to supervise the battle, and he personally killed several deserters who took the lead in fleeing.
When these defenders saw this, they could only bite the bullet and go back. They no longer had any hope of survival.
Wang Zhi has been in the army for many years, and of course he knows the consequences of desertion. In many cases, it is not that he cannot be defeated, but that he has no desire to fight. As long as one person flees, the chain reaction will quickly spread to the entire army, even before the battle begins. His side had already started to flee, but the result was that these Jiannu slaves on horseback caught up and killed them effortlessly, just like chopping melons and vegetables.
"Divide into two teams with crossbows and firecrackers, alternate in turn, prepare stones and gold juice, follow my orders, don't mess up, and stabilize your position."
