When the morning sun shines on Zunhua City, the red clouds in the sky indicate that the bloody battle is about to begin. The defenders of Zunhua City seemed to have felt the approaching danger. Thick smoke rose from the walls of Zunhua City, and the stench of golden juice drifting in the wind made the Jurchen army who were about to attack the city creepy. This was the Ming army guarding the city using iron pots to melt lead juice and boil golden soup. The cannons guarding the city have also loaded ammunition. The bundles of arrows were piled up behind the city. The rows of soldiers on the city wall dragged arrows into the city wall with ropes. The young and strong in Zunhua City piled arrows behind the battlements. The Ming army archers untied the thin wire ropes tied to the arrows and placed the arrows into the wooden barrels filled with shit and urine.

The defenders did this to make the arrows full of poisonous feces and urine. Once they were shot into the enemy's body, the enemy would die in pain even if they were not seriously injured. The Ming army guarding the city knew that they were fighting for survival. If they wanted to survive, they had to keep the city wall. They still had their relatives in the city. As long as they were still breathing, they would not let their wives, children and parents be slaves to the Jurchen Jiannu. As the backbone of Zunhua City, the governor Wang Yuanya patrolled the city wall with sweat.

Although Wang Yuanya was a civil servant, his uncompromising and resolute resistance gave the soldiers guarding the city great confidence. After the war meal, the Jurchen army came out of the camp to form a formation. Under the escort of dozens of white-armored personal soldiers, their Khan King Huang Taiji rode a horse to the small mountain coaching platform four miles away from the east gate of Zunhua. At the foot of the mountain, hundreds of war drums were arranged in three rows, and more than thirty numerators were divided into the commanding platform. Twenty numerals on the north side of the war drum were placed. When Huang Taiji entered the commanding platform, they immediately lit the brazier beside the gun, and several iron drills were inserted in each brazier.

Today, the main attacking army was the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army, and Beletabai was the main general of the attacking Zunhua. The Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army dispatched half of the infantry, and 20,000 soldiers arranged a thousand men to form an attacking square formation, three miles away from the east gate of Zunhua. The twenty thousand-man square formations were divided into two fish scales, and the front row was placed with unicycle shields for defending artillery live ammunition, and hundreds of siege ladders in the array were neatly interspersed in the formation. The two thousand female real red flags were now entering the center of the two horizontal formations in front and back of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army. Today, they mainly covered the siege of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army.

Although the Khan of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, also attached importance to muskets, the reloading speed of Han military flags was too slow, and their range and shooting accuracy were not very high. The Han military flag fighting in front did not dare to let the companions who didn't know where the lead bullets hit the city after the muskets were fired to cover their siege. The Jurchens were good at shooting bows and arrows since they were young. In their opinion, the Jurchens not only had a long range but also had accurate shooting. Therefore, bows and arrows were still the main equipment of Jurchen cavalry, and using bows and arrows to cover siege warriors also became Huang Taiji's inevitable choice.

To say that breaking the border of the Ming Dynasty was the long-cherished wish that the Qing Dynasty had always dreamed of since its establishment, it was enough to make Huang Taiji feel very proud. Originally, the Jurchen Han military flag had already been mixed into Zunhua City after being made up, and the Qing army could fully win the city inside and outside. However, yesterday, a team of thirty people, suspected to be a slave army, broke through without any damage from the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing Dynasty. This unexpected move changed Huang Taiji's original idea.

Nowadays, although the Jurchen army has attacked the Great Wall, the female cavalry still lacks aura of devouring mountains and rivers. The reason for the decline of the female cavalry spirit is of course the Jurchen enemy, the Jurchen army. If you want to restore the Jurchen spirit, you must use flesh and blood to add the courage to win the sword. Therefore, Huang Taiji did not choose a strategy of cooperating inside and outside, but used the most primitive and bloodiest ants to attach siege to the city to best stimulate the bloodiness that the Jurchens retained in their hearts.

Huang Taiji stood on the commander's platform and observed the battlefield with his eyes. The cavalry of the Jurchen flags had arrived at the battlefield. The flags were like seas, swords and guns, and hundreds of thousands of troops were as powerful as rainbows. Zunhua is a mountain city with a flat area. It is said that the people are boundless, and more than 200,000 troops are crowded on the battlefield for more than ten miles. The messenger and scout cavalry were shuttled around the battlefield. When Huang Taiji, wearing golden armor, raised his right hand to greet the soldiers on the battlefield, the entire battlefield broke out: "Tasha! Tasha! Tasha! (Author's note: Jurchen tiger or tiger.)"

Inspired by the soldiers' fighting spirit, Huang Taiji issued a sweating order: "The first person to attack Zunhua City, no matter whoever is, he will be rewarded with two futures! He will break Zunhua for three days without a knife!"

The military merit future system mentioned by Huang Taiji is the reward system that was just established in the Qing Dynasty this year. Huang Taiji is learning the military merit system of Shang Yang in the Spring and Autumn Period. Anyone who is a slave in vain can get the title of the first-class Duke of the Qing Dynasty as long as he can accumulate twelve futures. With a first-class duke, there will be a large number of slaves with a thousand acres of land. Therefore, all soldiers attach great importance to the rewards of the future of military merits. The Qing court was very cautious in rewarding the future of military merits. Usually, a reward that a leader of the army can only give half a future.

As the Khan of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji gave more privileges to the future of military merits. Today, the Khan Huang Taiji immediately gave two rewards for the future of military merits and mobilized the morale of the entire army. In addition, the Khan Huang Taiji gave the Khan order to capture Zunhua for three days without a knife, which was equivalent to telling everyone that they could rob the city after Zunhua broke through. This was extremely tempting to the less wealthy lower-level officers and soldiers. They were eager for money to make them give up their lives. Therefore, the Khan order caused the entire Jurchen army to be restless, and they cheered like a tsunami to respond to the orders of Khan Huang Taiji.

Seeing that the morale of the army was available, Huang Taiji ordered the Han army to launch an attack. As the low and desolate horn sounded echoed over the Zunhua battlefield, the commander's commander's stage was filled with excitement. As the army's Zhengbai led the army to Beile, Tabai, although his eyes were red by Huang Taiji's reward, he did not lose the calm that a chief general should have. The future of military merits was no longer meaningful to him, Beile. He valued more the wealth in Zunhua City. As long as his subordinates attacked Zunhua City, he could obtain 30% of his wealth.

However, Tabai did not rush to launch a general attack, but sent three thousand warriors to conduct a test attack. With the order of the Han army's Zhengbai Banner Beletabai, the three thousand warriors, led by their respective Jialaerzhen, pushed the shield cart to approach Zunhua City. The Jurchen army fought against the Possess Army many times, and knew that the shield cart filled with sand bags could effectively resist the attack of live artillery ammunition. This time, there were thirty two-wheeled shield carts in the shield cart. This was mainly because Huang Taiji wanted to try out the shield cart's best defense against artillery.

When the Han army soldiers who were pushing the shield cart approached Zunhua carefully, the defenders on the city wall suddenly took action, and the sound of cannons was heard. The Zunhua defenders lit all the artillery on the east city wall. The continuous sound of cannons on the Zunhua wall scared the attacking Han army Zhengbai Banner formation so that they dared not move forward. However, the Han army Zhengbai Banner soldiers who were old at war soon came back to their senses. The Ming Dynasty's official army was too nervous and had little combat experience, so they shot out all the shells from a distance.

The Ming army defended the city not only fired the young general, but also fired the tiger guns together. The tiger guns ranged only about ten feet, and the enemy was still more than one mile away. The tiger guns could only scare people at most, and they didn't even touch the enemy's side. About five live ammunitions hit the shield chariot of the Han army's Zhengbai Banner. Two of the two-wheeled shield chariots only spit out a burst of earth pillars and dust. The Ming soldiers who were pushing the cart were even injured. However, two live ammunitions hit the unicycle shield chariot, which not only overturned the shield chariot, but also killed two chariot soldiers.

The Jurchens and Qing dynasties were only killed in the Qing Dynasty, which gave the attacking Zhengbai Banner Han Army great courage. They all knew that the loading speed of the Ming gunners was not comparable to that of the Blao Nu Army gunners. They pushed the shield chariot to a position that was only thirty feet away from the Zunhua City Wall. The Ming defenders on the city wall were still loading ammunition. The two thousand female real red flag archers ran quickly to the shield chariot, and they used the shield chariot to shoot arrows at Zunhua City.

The Jurchens are worthy of being good at using bows and arrows. The arrows they shot were both fast and accurate. The Ming defenders on the city wall were suppressed by the Jurchen arrows so that they could hardly raise their heads. Taking advantage of the period when the Ming army was suppressed, the Han soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner quickly cleared the wooden pile obstacles outside the city wall. The obstacles outside the Zunhua city were not prepared enough. The wooden sticks were not buried deep, which also caused the Han army of the Zhengbai Banner to clear the wooden sticks area that was a hundred feet wide in a very short time. In dealing with the Zunhua moat, the Han army of the Zhengbai Banner also had a way. They used wooden boards three meters wide and seven eight meters long to set up six or seven passages, and used wooden piles to reinforce the bottom of the wooden boards.

The water of Zunhua City's moat in winter has frozen, and its protective effect has been greatly reduced. When the wooden passage is repaired, the Han army soldiers carrying the long ladder on their shoulders hold a shield and put a sword on their backs, shouting that they began to put the long ladder at the battlement entrance through the wooden passage. Facing the Jurchen arrows like locusts, the Ming army guarding the city was frightened, but they did not retreat. The Ming army wearing thick gloves ignored the arrows and poured gold juice downwards on the long ladder. The hot gold juice poured on Ming Tseng, who was escorted under the city wall. The pain in the bone marrow made the siege of the long ladder fall.

The Han army soldiers under the city were scalded with gold juice and exposed facial skin, and many Ming traitor soldiers' eyes were even blinded. At this time, the arrows shot by the female real red flag archers were even more dense. When the Ming army holding the iron pot had just exposed half of their body, they were shot and killed by the female real red flag archers. The soldiers of the Han army's Zhengbai Banner who came from behind pushed away their injured companions while reinforcing the long ladder to prepare for the first wave of siege dead soldiers to lie on the ladder. At this critical moment, the artillery of the Ming army guarding the city was finally loaded.

This time the defenders had experience. They loaded the cannons of generals and aimed at the real female red flag archers who were still shooting bows and arrows on the city wall. Only when a firecracker was heard, tens of thousands of cannons loaded by dozens of large and small cannons were shot at the Jurchen archers thirty feet away. They saw the Jurchen archers arranged in three rows under the city, about one mile long, surrounded by a large metal storm, and then burst into blood mists at the archer's position. (To be continued)
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