"drive!"

On the first day of July, in the drizzle, 30,000 cavalry rushed into the Great Wall and entered the Liaodong territory east of the Liaohe River via Changsheng Fort.

The cavalry was running wildly, and the splashing rain made people feel a little irritated, and the cold state after being soaked in the rain made people feel hungry even more.

"General Soldier, His Highness sent someone to deliver a handwritten letter!"

While galloping, a general and Tangqi rode up and handed the handwritten letter to Mangui. When Mangui heard this, he immediately raised his hand and said:

"The army stopped marching, rested for a quarter of an hour, and then sent someone to inform Lord Wang's camp commander to prepare 300,000 kilograms of beans for the army and meals for 30,000 people!"

"That's your order!" The deputy general next to him agreed upon hearing this, and then arranged for the army to rest.

Man Gui also took the handwritten letter, opened it and read it ten lines at a time.

When he saw Zhu Youjian speculating that Nurhaci's target might be his own side this time, Man Gui's heart sank.

If he encounters an ambush, Zhu Youjian's instructions are to hit the old slave hard at all costs.

In other words, Zhu Youjian would rather use 30,000 cavalry to be severely damaged than to exchange for enough heads of the Jin Army.

Nurhachi thought that Zhu Youjian would attack the Wuwei guards while the iron was hot, but he didn't know that for Zhu Youjian, Jianlu had always been just his third opponent.

His first opponent was natural disaster, his second opponent was civil servants, and his third opponent was Jianlu.

He did not want to expand the results of the victory because he did not have time to go to Wuyewu Guard to hunt down Nurhachi after the battle of Fu Liao.

Nurhaci thought that Zhu Youjian's most important thing was to deal with him and the Jin army, but Zhu Youjian's really important thing was to use his military exploits in the first battle of the Liao Dynasty to return to the capital with power and dismantle the world's defense posts, troops and horses.

This is a side of Nurhaci's political shortcomings that cannot be seen. If Huang Taiji was mature in history, he would never want to focus on destroying the Ming army at this moment, but would start from other aspects to interfere with the Ming army.

As for Man Gui, when he understood the meaning of the letter, he subconsciously looked at the soldiers around him, feeling a little unbearable in his heart, and then raised his head and glanced at the sky.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, unlike the thick ink-like rain during the previous days, which means it will soon clear up.

If the rain can stop at this time, the Ming army's cavalry guns can be used.

With the cavalry gun, it would be much easier to cause casualties to the Jin army in a sudden attack.

"well……"

"General, did your Highness say anything?"

Man Gui sighed, and the deputy general asked curiously, but Man Gui shook his head and said nothing.

He led the army to rest for a quarter of an hour, and then continued to lead the army towards Master Wang's camp.

Just when they were approaching Master Wang's camp, Tangqi of the Jin Army saw their traces, and then reported the news.

"Great Khan, thirty miles to the southwest, a large number of cavalry appeared, bearing banners with Manchu characters on them. It should be King Qi of the Ming Dynasty who sent Man Gui to lead the cavalry. Do we need to withdraw?"

Tangqi told Yangguli the news, and Yangguli told Nurhaci who was sitting there.

But when Nurhaci heard the news, he was not as panicked as the generals imagined, but said:

"Send Xinying and Tangqi to go out and tell Daishan and Manggurtai to launch troops to harass Shenyang. Xiong Tingbi and Huang Taiji are going to make a detour to attack Mangui from behind."

"The army broke out of camp, bypassed Wu Jing camp and crossed the Hun River to the north to break out of the encirclement."

"Yes!" After hearing Nurhachi's order to cross the river to break out, all the Jin Army generals became energetic.

When the exhausted Jin army received the order to break out of the encirclement, their morale immediately recovered, and then the army began to break out of camp.

When Wu Aheng outside the south gate of Wu Jingying saw this, he immediately frowned and said:

"I want to break camp and inform General Sun at Zhangyi Station on the other side of the Hun River!"

"Yes!" The deputy general next to him received the order. At the same time, Tang Qi from Wu Jingying also rode his horse to a ferry in the Hun River. After getting on the boat with his war horse, he arrived on the other side of the Hun River in a quarter of an hour and galloped towards Zhangyi Station.

Informed Sun Yingyuan of the news.

After receiving the order, Sun Yingyuan immediately commanded the army to set off and go north along the Hun River, waiting for Nurhachi's troops to find a place to cross the river.

Half an hour later, Nurhachi broke camp and headed north, with Sun Yingyuan following closely across the Hun River. Wu Aheng from Wujing Camp also sent Tangqi to send troops and horses to Liutiao Village, Hupiyi, Fengjibao, Wangdarentun, Shenyang and other places.

intelligence.

This made Mangui, who had just arrived at Master Wang's village and had just a mouthful of hot rice, not want to rest and quickly ordered:

"Send an order to the whole army. The soldiers who have exhausted their horse power will leave their horses to rest, and mount the horses that still have horse power to pursue the old slave!"

Master Wang's camp was already close to the battlefield, and Mangui led his army to attack for more than 200 miles. Most of the horses in the hands of the soldiers had exhausted their power. If they were forced to ride on them, they would die from exhaustion. It was just right to rest them in Master Wang's camp.

On the next road, we can only rely on one or two horses to chase Nurhachi.

More than 30,000 horsemen and armor marched, without any worry that Nurhachi would escape.

Nurhaci has only one way to escape now, which is to sneak around Xiong Tingbi and attack him, but Xiong Tingbi is not a fool, he will definitely double-team the old slave!

In the drizzle, Mangui tightened her grip on the horse's reins. At this time, the rain on the sky was getting smaller and smaller, and the sky was getting brighter.

"The rain is going to stop..."

Almost as soon as this scene appeared, this idea came to the minds of all the Mingjin generals who were observing the sky.

What does the rain stop mean? Needless to say, before the rain stops, if Nurhachi has not evacuated, he will have to face the indiscriminate bombardment of three thousand artillery pieces in northern Liaoning.

"put!"

"Boom boom boom——"

Along with the waving of the flag, the first person to experience the artillery hit was not Nurhachi, but Huang Taiji.

Starting at 9 o'clock in the morning, the Ming army's artillery arrived. Seven hundred five-pound cannons and three hundred ten-pound cannons were put into position and aimed at the top of the city.

Behind the artillery position were mountains of stone bullets, 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder covered by rain shelters and tents, and the camp of 60,000 Ming troops.

The God of Thunder is furious, God is angry, even if the rain pours down, it cannot withstand the Ming army's bombardment.

The five-pound stone bullets and the ten-jin stone bullets spanned a distance of two and three miles, and they aimed at the platform at the top of the city and poured the stone bullets.

Every stone bullet that fell was enough to smash down the wooden fence prepared by the Jin army. For a time, the Jin army suffered many casualties.

"Clean the chamber and load it!"

On the artillery position, Yang Wenyue gave the order calmly, and more than 6,000 gunners began to clear the barrel of the artillery, waiting for the barrel to cool down, and then continued to reload.

During this process, water can be used to cool the barrel. Although this will shorten the life of the artillery, this is one of the practices that Zhu Youjian stipulated.

The Yanshan Ordnance Institute has long figured out how much the life of artillery is shortened by using water. If a rag soaked in water is used to cool the barrel of the artillery in every battle, the life of the Yanshan General's artillery is 230 to 260 rounds.

.

This lifespan is enough for them to participate in many battles. Once the lifespan reaches the limit of 230 times, the artillery will be transported to Yanshan Ordnance Station and re-cast iron cannons.

With a clay mold, the cannon forging only takes a few days.

Therefore, under the huge production capacity, the soldiers of the Ming Army skillfully wiped the gun body with cloth. After waiting for cooling, the gunpowder fixed in oil paper was taken out of the tent. After confirming that it had cooled, the gunpowder was stuffed into the inside of the gun.

As the oil paper was punctured, the match rope was inserted, and the artillery position was ignited again...

"Boom boom boom——"

A steady stream of gunfire and smoke appeared, and at the same time thousands of stone bullets fell from the sky above the Jin army.

The sound of "Peng Peng Peng" continued to sound, and screams could be vaguely heard during this period. Huang Taiji saw that the fortifications he had made could not withstand the Ming army's artillery, so he could only reluctantly give the order:

"The army exits the platform!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the Jin army retreated impatiently. When the Ming army saw the Jin army retreating, they immediately stopped shelling.

"I finally know why His Highness cares so much about Huang Taiji..."

Putting down the binoculars, Xiong Tingbi murmured, while in his right hand he was still holding the eight-hundred-mile express sent by Zhu Youjian.

Xiong Tingbi had read the above meaning, and his confusion was gradually clarified when he saw Huang Taiji, who knew how to advance and retreat.

Huang Taiji, compared to Nurhaci, has a bit more cunning and something inexplicable about him.

"Jing Lue, let me lead the army to surround and annihilate them!"

When Xiong Tingbi understood everything, He Shixian took the initiative to ask for help. However, Xiong Tingbi glanced at the terrain of Chengzi Mountain, then shook his head and said:

"This terrain is not good for me if I attack from the bottom up."

"The artillery advances three hundred steps and continues the bombardment!"

With a wave of his hand, he finally decided to use artillery to solve the problem in this battle.

Looking at the thousand artillery pieces in front of the battle, Xiong Tingbi burst into laughter. He had never fought such a rich battle since he came to Liaodong.

He finally understood, Zhu Youjian told him in the letter the meaning of "washing the ground with stone bullets".

There is no need to use the lives of the Ming army to solve problems that can be solved with artillery.

How much money did gunpowder and stone bullets cost? A thousand artillery salvos only cost more than a hundred taels of silver, but the pension for the soldiers killed in one attack was much higher.

"put!"

"Boom boom boom——"

Thousands of artillery pieces moved forward three hundred steps as they passed by, then cooled down and continued to fire, sending the Jin army on the hilltop flying.

Huang Taiji and Du Du were trembling with anger when they heard the number of casualties reported by Gu Shan Ezhen.
To be continued...