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 were 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 guarded Hupiyi Station with thousands of households, was not afraid at all. He was from Benxi, but his whole family was massacred by Jiannu a few years ago. If he hadn't been on duty at Hupiyi Station, he would have been
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 only stabilized its position and could not cause effective damage to the siege 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 checked 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 those 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 in chaos.
"General, general, the main force of slave building is here, at least tens of thousands of people!"
Zhu Wanliang was even more heartbroken. 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, and he didn't want to die.
"What I'm saying is, hurry up, defend the city with me, general. If anyone dares to escape, I'll kill them all!"
Mang Gurtai rushed to the city and quickly looked at the Ming army and the city walls 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 Baya La. The Ming army calls them white-armored soldiers. All of them are carefully selected from among the bannermen.
With layers of heavy armor and no fear of death, they were a nightmare for the Ming army, with nearly a thousand Bagaras in one banner.
Below Ba Ya La are the bannermen, which can be understood as professional soldiers. To become a bannerman, you need to pass various assessments. They are 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, Baoyi Aha, Aha are slaves, but they can also be considered as Eight Banners soldiers, doing the most painful, tiring and dangerous things, while Baoyi Aha have no human rights, they are cannon fodder.
The reason why Mang Gurtai became the mainstay of Zhenglan Banner from the beginning was naturally to capture Hupiyi as quickly as possible and show off himself in front of his father Khan, so that his father Khan could 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 of Jiannu and Yu Ding were called armored soldiers by the Ming army because they were all wearing heavy armor. At the same time, they were the ones who made the Ming army fear Jiannu.
"What, Armored Soldier?"
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 send two thousand troops to join me in the west to defend. These armored soldiers will surely be killed below the city."
"Okay, Wang Qianhu, I will mobilize you two thousand troops, and I will allocate another three hundred servants to you. You must hold on."
"General, don't worry!"
Gu Tu, who was at the foot of the city, took the lead and shot down a Ming army gunman on the city with one arrow, shouting:
"kill!"
The slave soldiers behind followed Gu Tu closely, and the charge of thousands of war horses made the Ming army on 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 a few 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 he certainly 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 begun to flee in large numbers, but the result was that these Jiannu slaves on horseback chased them 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."