Mulima, covered in blood, stood on the wall of the inner city of Sarhu and angrily scolded Tuhai outside: "You traitor, the goddess will punish you and kill you!"
Tu Hai smiled and said: "The goddess only cares about Changbai Mountain. I come from Beishan (outer Xing'an Mountains)."
In the Jurchen myth, the three sisters of heaven and earth descended to earth to bathe in Buer Lake. The youngest fairy,
After eating the red fruit sent by the divine bird, she became pregnant and gave birth to Bukuli, the ancestor of the Jurchens.
In fact, this legend comes from the Heilongjiang River Basin and has a certain influence throughout the Northeast.
Huang Taiji's contribution to the Qing Dynasty was not only all-round reform, bringing the Manchu regime back to life. It also forcibly shaped the "Manchu". He ordered people to forcibly merge with the ancestors of Aisin Gioro according to myths and legends. The son of the goddess of heaven, the Jurchen The full name of the ancestor, the mythical hero Kubuli, also became "Aisin Gioro Kubuli".
Whether they are Jianzhou Jurchens, Haixi Jurchens, or any other wild Jurchens, they are all descendants of Kubri, the son of the goddess of heaven.
The Aixinjueluo family is the direct descendant of Kubuli. Other Jueluo families, such as Yiergenjueluo and Shushujueluo, are the side descendants of Kubuli. Jurchens whose surname is not Jueluo are He is a distant descendant of Kubri.
Since they all have the same ancestor, they belong to the same race, named "Manchu"!
The concept of Manchus, under Huang Taiji's deliberate propaganda, has gradually become the consensus of more and more Jurchens. If they continue to win militarily, the fake Manchus will become real Manchus, and finally truly become a nation.
Mulima was so angry that she cursed Tuhai in the name of the goddess.
Last night Tuhai led his troops to dedicate the city. In the chaos, Mulima abandoned the outer city and hurriedly fled to the inner city to defend it.
It's daybreak now, and the Datong Army has occupied the outer city.
In the inner city guarded by Mulima, there are only more than a thousand Jurchen soldiers from Jianzhou left, and there are also many family members of the soldiers.
The inner city of Sarhu is in the shape of a rhombus. Outside the west wall is the river bank cliff, and the east wall is made of rammed earth along the ridge. The inner city covers an area of about 1,200 acres.
Hu Dinggui's troops have been dispersed to take over and occupy Hetuala, Maldun, Jiefan City and Gule City. At this moment, Li Zheng, Lu Xiangsheng, and Xiao Zongxian each led their troops to besiege three city walls. Only the one next to the cliff No troops were invested in the west wall.
"Everyone who can move in the inner city, come and defend the city!"
Mulima called the old, weak, women and children together and said to them: "The Han people are very cruel. These southern barbarians will kill us all if they break the city wall. If you don't want to die, just defend the city with all your strength!"
The events of last night had frightened these Tatars out of their wits. If they were not afraid that they would be killed if they surrendered, it is estimated that even the officers and soldiers would have surrendered.
After being threatened by Mulima, the remaining Tatars plucked up the courage and refused to listen to the Datong army's persuasion to surrender.
Standing on the inner city wall, prepare to defend with your life.
"Stubborn!"
Among the generals from Huangjia Town, Li Zheng was the one who loved to learn the most. Over the years, he had mastered the Four Books. He liked to read "Spring and Autumn" like Guan Yu. He also specially asked his husband to lecture for him, and he often jumped out of his mouth when talking. Idioms come.
The outer city wall is difficult to bombard, but if you want to bombard the inner city wall, it is easier to build a fort.
The artillery pieces of several divisions were all moved to the south and fired a salvo at the south city wall.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Mulima mobilized the few artillery pieces in the inner city and mounted them all on the south wall. After a day of bombardment with the artillery of the Datong Army, the Datong Army lost four artillery pieces and nine artillerymen were killed or injured.
Continue the next day.
The bombardment continued until the fifth day. The Datong Army lost a total of thirteen artillery pieces, killed and injured more than thirty artillerymen, and finally destroyed the southern city wall.
"Siege the city!"
Li Zheng ordered.
In this broken place, it was difficult for the ladder with hooks and baffles to move forward normally. The Datong sergeants held up large wooden shields in the front row to block arrows, and covered the soldiers in the rear row who carried the ladder forward.
The attacking troops in the gap were all melee infantry wearing three layers of armor.
Attack from three sides.
Some of the Tatar women and children also went up the city wall, while others stayed in the city to carry supplies.
Gold juice, hot oil, etc. were originally stored in the outer city, but they were no longer needed at this time. Only in the past few days of shelling, the freshly defecated feces and urine were boiled into golden juice and poured down. I saw the Tatar archers shooting arrows downwards.
The Tatar spearmen overturned the ladder with all their strength, while the Tatar women and children lifted the gold juice and fell it.
"ah!"
If the hot golden juice is poured on the Datong army attacking the city, even if they are not burned to death, the subsequent bacterial infection will be fatal.
The non-Jianzhou Jurchens who had followed Tuhai to surrender were also asked to attack the city together. They climbed the city wall with all their might, and their casualty rate was no less than that of the Datong army. It was considered a real desperate effort.
The gap in the south city wall.
The melee soldiers wearing three layers of armor, holding up large makeshift wooden shields, moved forward bit by bit.
When they arrived at the gap, they did not immediately build a wooden ladder. Instead, the grenadiers behind their shields threw ten thousand enemies into the gap with all their strength. The bombs jumped over the wooden pillars and landed on the gap, causing the Tatar defenders there to be thrown into chaos.
"Build a ladder!
Outside the gap is a slope, and the gap is nearly two meters high.
The wooden ladder could not be fixed and had to be held down by someone. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the bomb, the ladder was quickly put up and the grenadiers climbed quickly with their war hammers.
The melee weapons of the grenadiers have also been changed. Like the emperor's plate armor guards, they all use the standard war hammers of the Ming army.
This kind of war hammer has been tested for a long time and can survive forever. It naturally has its own reasons. It is not heavy and can break armor!
When the cavalry division attacked the city before, if they were equipped with a large number of these weapons, they would definitely save a lot of lives. Unfortunately, this kind of war hammer is not suitable for horse fighting, and it is impossible for the cavalry to equip it in large numbers.
The grenadier, which has been replaced with a warhammer weapon, obviously has new functions.
In close combat, first throw bombs, and then charge with war hammers. They are all strong and strong men, and are wearing heavy armor. With the help of the chaos caused by the bombs, they swing their war hammers and smash them randomly, easily tearing apart the enemy's formation.
The tactics of the Datong Army have been improving based on experience!
With this tactic in place, the Ministry of War is already considering whether to increase the number of grenadiers in each division.
Hundreds of burly soldiers were seen swarming towards the gap. The first few people to climb up, regardless of whether their friendly forces could keep up, rushed into the Tatars with their warhammers in hand.
Forty, forty, forty...all are small hammers.
Before the Tatar soldiers could recover from the chaos of the explosion, they saw these fierce men rushing towards them and subconsciously raised their weapons to fight.
The grenadiers in heavy armor raised their left arm to protect their necks, allowing themselves to be stabbed by spears and slashed by waist knives. They ignored them and smashed hammers whenever they had the chance.
If you are hit by a war hammer on the body, even if you are wearing armor and stomach, you will at least get bruises. If the force is right and the location is right, the internal organs will be damaged, or the bones will be broken, or the brain will be damaged.
More and more grenadiers rushed forward with their war hammers. The spearmen also threw away their big wooden shields and followed with their weapons. They threw one-handed air strikes from the front and stabbed in with their guns.
"ah!"
Miserable screams rang out, but three grenadiers and a Tatar were showered with gold juice from above.
Despite the pain, the injured grenadier continued to hit people, and even increased his strength and swung the hammer wildly as if to vent his pain.
They also wore three layers of armor and suffered only partial burns. Except for those who suffered large areas of their faces, they still had a chance to survive, and they might have to have their limbs amputated.
Immediately, the city walls on both sides of the gap pushed stones down frantically.
These stones were obtained by demolishing houses. There are many stone houses built with rubble in the inner city.
In an instant, more than a dozen grenadiers were killed and injured on the spot by falling rocks, and a few unlucky Tatars who got too close were also hit.
Datong soldiers were already on the remaining city walls, climbing up one after another to fight.
For the Tatar general Mulima, everything was in crisis at this time. His commanding ability was much better than that of Mandahai's son, and he continued to dispatch reserves with unusual calmness.
Unfortunately, the troops he could mobilize were only more than a thousand Tatar soldiers, and the rest were all old, weak, women and children in the city.
With the troops stretched thin and faced with the gap in the southern city wall that was about to collapse, Mulima could only bring her own soldiers to support.
Before Mulima could reach them, the Tatar garrison here had already collapsed.
First bombed, then hit with hammers by a group of strong men, and occasionally stabbed with cold spears, how could the Tatar defenders be able to withstand it?
"Don't retreat, retreat means death!"
Mulima, who came to support, was not the first to kill the Datong army, but hacked to death several Tatar troops.
After being hacked by Mulima for a while, a few Tatars retreated and followed him back to fight again.
However, the grenadiers had already occupied the gap and jumped into the city one after another, colliding head-on with Mulima's reinforcements.
Mulima hit the grenadier's shoulder with a knife, not even cutting through the first layer of armor. Then, he was hit by a hammer, narrowly avoiding his head, and was hit hard on the left shoulder by the war hammer.
Although the cotton armor counteracted the force, Mulima was still in excruciating pain and felt that the bones in her shoulders were about to break.
Bones are not broken, and cotton armor is better at defending against blunt objects than iron armor.
When Mulima made the second slash, the war hammer swept over him... He quickly leaned back to avoid his temple, but his cheekbone was hit by the war hammer.
This time the bones were really broken, half of the face collapsed, and one of the eyeballs was bulged forward.
Mulima's head was dizzy and her eyesight went blank. She didn't even faint yet. She managed to hold her body up and didn't fall down.
"Boom!"
The third hammer swung and hit Mulima's forehead, probably the brain inside was damaged.
Mulima collapsed suddenly and went to the underworld to meet his brother Obai.
As soon as the Tatar general died, the place exploded instantly.
Some Tatars rushed to kill them desperately, as if they were crazy. Some Tatars turned around and fled, even throwing away their weapons.
The bomb-throwers who were the first to rush in did not continue the pursuit. They still remembered their mission. They fought one after another from inside the city to the city wall, and cooperated with the friendly troops who boarded the city to attack the Dazi on the wall from front to back.
The enraged Datong soldiers did not care about the old, weak, women and children. They only knew that the city was full of enemies.
Sometimes, they don't even care about surrendering, but continue to draw swords at Dazi who is kneeling down begging for mercy. In this case, military regulations are useless. The rigid use of military law will be detrimental to future military management.
Tuhai, who was covered in wounds, also led his troops to attack the city wall at this moment. This guy was even more ruthless. He led his troops to pursue them all the way into the city, and when he saw the injured Tatars who couldn't move, they had to kill him.
The Tatars in the city are old, weak, women and children, and it is estimated that not many of them will survive.