"Gu Gu Gu Gu..."

Late at night on the first day of February in the second year of Tianqi, when the ice and snow in Liaodong completely melted, the cool season also arrived.

However, the cool season cannot be associated with the Alkali Field Fort in eastern Liaodong.

Jianchang Fort is located in the northeast of Fenghuang City, northwest of Kuandian, on the north bank of the Taizi River. Twenty miles to the north is a wall fort built by Lu, Songshukou.

After passing a wall and the mouth of a pine tree, and walking along the Shangtaizi River, you will reach the Crow Falcon Pass, an important pass in Liaodong.

The distance from Crow Falcon Pass to Hetuala, Xingjing of Jianlu, is less than eighty miles.

In other words, the distance from Jianchang Fort to Hetuala is actually only one hundred and forty to fifty miles, and it is the forefront of the Ming army's direct threat to Hetuala.

After Sun Yingyuan, Qi Yuanfu, and Qi Yuangong sent their troops to conquer such a place, naturally a large number of troops were left behind.

At this moment, there are three thousand Ming troops stationed in Jianchang Fort, and there are seventy-two two-pound furlong machine guns at the top of the city.

According to Qi Yuanfu's arrangement, after the artillery from Yanshan Institute arrived in Kuandian, Jianchang Fort would have at least forty five-pound cannons and ten ten-pound cannons.

The Gushan Fort, thirty miles behind Jianchang Fort, must also have at least thirty five-pound cannons and ten ten-pound cannons.

However, since the time has not yet come, Yanshan Institute's artillery is still floating on the sea, so the Ming army stationed at Jianchang Fort can only concentrate on garrisoning.

It's a pity that strong cities are often breached from the inside...

When the moon rises above the branches, inside the Alkali Castle, the alley and courtyard not far from the city gate are dark, with only the candles burning in the main house.

The candlelight flickered, and the sound of "thumping" stones began to be heard in the house.

When the long stone slabs were lifted up, what was exposed was not compacted soil, but a large hole five feet long and wide.

There was a clear sound of water at the bottom of the opening, and at this time, a fire appeared inside the dark opening.

"Put down the ladder!"

A Liaodong accent sounded. Under the command of a businessman in a brocade robe, the three people who were prying the stone slabs assembled the wooden ladder next to them, tightened the wedges with a mallet, and then lowered them little by little.

Not long after, the ladder was completely placed, and after the ladder also trembled, a short and stocky man with armor on his back, shirtless, and two ugly money rat tails climbed up from the darkness.

"Didn't the Ming army discover this place? (Jurchen language)"

The short and stocky man spoke while taking off the armor on his back, and put it on with the help of three Han men next to him.

As for the merchant, he nodded and said:

"They didn't find anything. They only knew that it was a canal built during the reign of the Great Khan. After seeing that the canals in some streets in the city were narrow and inaccessible to people, they gave up on patrol. They didn't know that the canals became wider as they went toward the Taizi River."

As the merchant answered, the prisoners climbed out one after another, and soon they filled the room.

The Jianlu put on his armor, and at a glance he could identify him as Jia La Ezhen from Houjin.

"Baylor has already led people to roam five miles outside the north city. Now we only need to capture the city gate. Do you have a city defense map?"

"Yes, here." The Han merchant said as he took out the city defense map from his pocket.

Najia La Ezhen took the city defense map and looked at it, then asked five Niu Lu Ezhen to go to the side room to discuss how to capture the city gate.

As time passed, the house, barn, and courtyard of this courtyard were filled with people.

The Ming army patrolling the street heard something moving in the courtyard, so they walked to the door and knocked:

"Li Xiucai, why are you making so much noise inside?"

There was a knock on the door, and for a moment there was silence in the courtyard. When the merchant named Li Xiucai heard the sound, he immediately looked at Jia La Ezhen who had just walked out of the house.

"..." Jia La Ezhen didn't say anything, but his face darkened, and he motioned Li Xiucai to go to the door to deal with it, and then looked at the ten white Jia La Ya in the room.

Needless to say, these ten people understood what the other party meant, and immediately took out their bows and arrows and climbed up to the roof quietly.

Six of them followed the screen wall behind Li Xiucai. Through the holes in the screen wall, their eyes were fixed on the crack of the door, and their bodies were always ready to follow the door panel.

As carefully selected "hunters", they know that avoiding the gaze of humans is the same as avoiding the gaze of animals.

When the prey is nervous, his eyes will take in everything in front of him, but if he finds that there is no danger, that is when he is most relaxed.

"squeak……"

"Li Xiucai, I said you..."

The door bolt was pulled open, and eleven Ming soldiers stood at the door. A small flag officer noticed something was wrong the moment Li Xiucai opened the door.

There was no one in sight, but a premonition made Xiaoqi Guan unconsciously touch the handle of the knife at his waist.

"Master Liu? What's wrong?"

Li Xiucai asked the flag officer with a smile, but the next second he suddenly squatted on the ground.

In a flash of lightning and flint, six arrows were shot out of the pitch-black courtyard. In just a split second, they hit the cheeks of six Ming soldiers. When the arrow shafts were mostly immersed, four figures sneaked up from behind the Ming soldiers in the darkness.

The cold knife cut their necks, and hot blood rolled out. The four Ming soldiers wanted to speak, but they felt that their throats were like bellows, and they could not utter a single word.

"Beep!"

The wooden whistle was blown, and the flag officer dodged the sneak attack of six arrows. He squatted on the ground and rolled over. He blew the wooden whistle and ran away at the same time.

Four or five arrows were shot at the same time, but hitting the armor only made the flag officer feel his back sinking, and he was successfully resisted by the armor.

The little flag officer was still happy that he could run and even delivered the news, but the moment he ran out of the alley, an iron bone hit him head-on, knocking him over in an instant, his face was bloody and bloody, and he couldn't die any more

Already...

"Start towards the north gate and be fast!"

‘…’

There was no sound. Dang Jia Lazhen wiped the iron bones on his hands and gave orders to the men and horses in the alley.

After hearing the order, all Jianlu nodded, and the large group, no longer trying to conceal themselves, rushed toward the city gate.

But the wooden whistle finally alerted the Ming army. Soon, the golden sound of the bell sounded at the same time, and the city suddenly burst into flames.

With a "boom", more than ten fireworks were fired in the direction of the General's Mansion, and the fireworks almost illuminated the Alkali Field Fort, which was less than one mile long and wide.

On Beimen Avenue, a sentry of more than 500 Ming troops came in full force to support them, and collided with Houjin Jianlu who were continuously pouring out of the alley.

"Kill the thief!"

"Mengktu, you lead people to seize the city gate tower, build the suspension bridge, and open the wooden gate!"

The Ming army's garrison leaders collided with Houjin, who had a similar number of people. They were trained by Qi Yuanfu and skillfully used the Qi army's left and right divisions to form a two-five mandarin duck formation.

Relying on their formation, they blocked Hou Jin's troops in various alleys, but they had no idea that entanglement was not Hou Jin's intention.

While they were still entangled, Mengtu led three hundred captives to attack the city gate.

The Alkali Fort with 3,000 people was divided into two groups. There were only 1,500 people at night, and they were divided into five groups, which meant that there were only 300 people at each city gate.

When the Ming army, which had been trained for less than a year by the Three Hundreds, collided with the elites carefully selected by the Jin after the Three Hundreds, there was no doubt about the result.

The city gate fell and the city gate tower was breached...

"Open the door!" Looking at the corpses of the Ming army lying on the ground, the leading Mongolian Tu called to the Jianlu in the corridor, and they directly lifted the city gate bolt.

squeak……

The city gate was opened, revealing a solid iron gate.

But before Mengtu and the others could make any move, the builders of the city gate tower began to turn the winch, and the thousand-pound gate was lifted and returned to its position. After Mengtu led others to open the outermost city gate, the suspension bridge was also closed.

Put it down in response.

"Set fire!" Mengtu shouted to the people on the tower. After a prisoner heard this, he immediately lifted a heavy oil tank from the corner of the turret.

He carried the can of kerosene to the female wall of the city wall, poured the oil inside onto the wall, picked up a torch and threw it towards the place where the kerosene fell.

Suddenly there were fires under the city wall. Although it was not big, it was very conspicuous at night.

"That's it!"

On the low hill five miles away, when a man on horseback saw sporadic flames appearing under the city of Jianchang Castle, he immediately turned around.

The moment he spoke, countless sparks appeared in the darkness, and then the torch was lit, illuminating his face.

This person is obviously Huang Taiji, who was arranged by Nurhaci to have more important matters.

"Set off!"

When the army got the news, Huang Taiji immediately signaled the army behind him to prepare to enter the city.

Suddenly, from the dark forest behind him, thousands of cavalrymen and thousands of infantrymen holding torches filed out.

Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, they rushed to the Alkali Field Fort five miles down the mountain.

For the cavalry, the distance of five miles was only half an hour. When half an hour passed, Jianlu, who was guarding the city gate, immediately saw the torrent of galloping cavalry.

At the same time, Jia La E Zhen also led his men to retreat while fighting, and retreated towards the north gate where the city gate opened.

All the Ming troops in the city rushed to the north gate, but at this time, some Han merchants who had been hiding in the city began to set fire to the city.

For a moment, the commander of Alkali Field Fort couldn't tell how many enemies there were in the city.

When the "rumbling" sound of horse hooves sounded, the general immediately grabbed the guerrilla general next to him and roared:

"Take the men to burn down the gunpowder warehouse and granary, and withdraw the entire army from the Alkali Field Fort!"
To be continued...