Qi Jin just fired three rounds of cannons and stopped because they didn't carry much ammunition, and although the city walls were full of new recruits, Jiannu's masters, were not.

It is obvious that people know how to avoid the bombardment of artillery, so there is no need to continue bombing.

He just thought for a while and ordered the soldiers to start taking turns to make rice. They hadn't eaten lunch yet. No matter what, they still had to eat this rice. After all, they had the strength to attack the city after eating.

So, a strange scene appeared outside the last capital of Jiannu. The Ming army soldiers were burying pots and making rice just one mile away from the city wall!

This is simply intentionally humiliating them!

Dai Shan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he had no choice. Because he was so powerful, he led his army out of the city to fight with him, which would be a death sentence!

He thought the Ming army was deliberately using the method of provoking him to lead his army out of the city, and then took the opportunity to take down Hetulala.

Because he didn't see the Ming army bringing any siege equipment.

Without siege equipment, then naturally, you can only use tricks to break the city.

At least that's what he thought.

Unfortunately, he was wrong this time.

At this moment, Deputy General Zhang Dadou is leading people to cut down trees and build ladders in the mountains that he cannot see.

The cloud ladder can be said to be the simplest siege equipment, and it is not difficult to build. That is, cut two trees according to the height of the city wall to make frames on both sides, and then cut some thick branches to make cross-loads for stepping, then drill a rectangular hole in the frames on both sides to make every foot or so, and then knock the cross-load into them.

The walls of Jianzhou Acropolis are not high, and they are only about two meters tall. This length of ladder is not very hard to make.

Nowadays, veterans who have fought a few battles basically can build ladders, and they can basically use hammers, chisels, axes, saws and other tools for making ladders several times. The soldiers of the Shenji Camp have undergone special training, so it is not too fast to build ladders.

Ten thousand people made five hundred cloud ladders, that is, twenty people made one, and the manpower was easy to distribute.

With the order of Zhang Dadou, tens of thousands of people quickly divided into five hundred groups and twenty people in groups, finding two trees about the thickness of a calf, ten people surrounded one, and took turns to cut it down. The tree could be knocked down in less than a quarter of an hour.

Then ten people were responsible for cleaning the branches and cutting the cross-bursts. The other ten people caught the main trunk as the frame and chiseled them. In less than half an hour, the cross-burst and frame were processed.

Finally, knock the crossbar into the bracket on one side, then knock the bracket on the other side and then knock the ladder on it.

Ten thousand soldiers of Shenji Camp here were a smooth operation. In less than an hour, five hundred ladders were built, and 20,000 soldiers of Shenji Camp there also took turns to finish the meal.

Seeing that the ladder was coming, Qi Jin immediately ordered without hesitation: "Get onto the cannon, move the car forward, reaching the city wall two hundred steps!"

"Crash", 20,000 soldiers immediately lifted the cannons into the car, and then pushed the chariots neatly forward. In a short while, the car formation was only about two hundred steps away from the city wall.

Qi Jin ordered again: "Driving the Thunder God Cannon, the musketeers stepped onto the front row of chariots, half-squatted, aiming at the gaps in the battlements of the city walls."

Soon, four thousand chariots climbed into the front row, squatted neatly, and the muskets were also aimed at the gaps between the battlements of the city walls. Four thousand gunners quickly arranged neatly artillery arrays.

Qi Jin then ordered: "Zhang Shijie, bring 10,000 chariots and soldiers to carry the ladder, with the sword and shield in front and the spearman behind."

"Crash", ten thousand chariot soldiers quickly divided into five hundred groups and lifted the ladder on the ground.

Seeing this, Qi Jin shouted without hesitation: "The ladders line up in front of the car array, preparing to attack the city, and Thunder God Cannons are ready."

"Crash" Ten thousand soldiers immediately carried the ladder and rushed up, neatly lined up behind him.

Dai Shan on the city wall saw this posture and his face showed despair again.

It's over, Hetuala can't hold on anymore.

He just hesitated for a moment and ordered decisively: "Dorgon, Duoduo, hurry up, take your personal soldiers to shout all the families in the city, and go out of the west gate and go north immediately!"

ah?

Dorgon and Duoduo were both stunned when they heard this.

This hasn't started yet, why run away?

Alas, what do you know!

Dai Shan sighed helplessly: "Sarhu, Jiefan Village, Gule Village, and Maerdun Village have all been lost. The Khan led 30,000 cavalry to sneak attack the Ming army's retreat, and only more than 10,000 cavalry left to escape. More than 10,000 Ming troops on the west side will rush over in at most two days. Hetuala cannot defend it!"

What?

When the three Dorgon brothers heard this, they were stunned.

Seeing this, Dai Shan couldn't help but shout, "Go quickly, why are you still standing there?"

Dorgon and Duoduo then reacted and hurriedly stepped down the city wall with their personal soldiers.

At this time, Qi Jin had already drawn his sword and shouted: "Five rounds of artillery fire, fire! Ladder, go!"

"Boom boom boom", a roar of cannons sounded, and Zhang Shijie drew his sword without hesitation and shouted: "Roar!"

Seeing this, Dai Shan could only sigh helplessly: "Ajige, go and notify the infantrymen on the other three walls, and all go outside the west gate to gather, ready to block the Ming army's pursuit."

this!

Is this how the battle is fought?

Ajig was stunned for a moment, then stamped his feet in annoyance, and finally ran under the city wall with his personal soldiers.

Dai Shan looked at the ladder that was approaching without saying a word.

At this time, nothing was useful. The Ming army's muskets and artillery suppressed the defenders on the city walls and could not emerge at all. They could die if they emerged. They could only stand up and fight back when the Ming army climbed up the city walls.

He had already suffered a great loss in Shenyang City, so he naturally would not let the infantry on the city walls rise and fight back.

Alas, there is no way to know how long it will last for more than two thousand people on the city wall.

Soon, five hundred ladders were densely laid on the city walls, and tens of thousands of Mingjun rushed up like ants.

Dai Shan immediately shouted: "Send the order and prepare to fight back."

As soon as several commander's personal guards ran out of the city gate tower, he waved his hand and took the remaining personal guards straight to the city wall, rode his horse and ran!

He can no longer save this situation, and escaping is important.

Although Qi Jin knew that there were some new recruits on the city wall, he did not expect that these new recruits were so careless. Zhang Shijie led the soldiers to climb the city wall less than half an hour before he ordered people to come and report the victory. The east city wall had been completely taken down!

What's going on?

This is Jiannu’s lair!

If you took down a city wall so easily, what else can Jiannu guard?

Why don’t these guys fight to the death?

Something is wrong!

Thinking of this, Qi Jin immediately turned over and got off the horse, climbed up the city wall quickly, climbed to the highest point of the city gate tower, took out his telescope and scanned it westward.

Sure enough, these guys ran away, and countless Jiannu infantrymen, men, women, young and old were fleeing towards the Ximen!

He just frowned slightly and ordered decisively: "Hurry, order Zhang Dadou to lead his men to pursue him quickly outside the West Gate."

Unfortunately, it's a little late.

Dai Shan suffered a big loss last time and didn't have time to call the family members of the Man Eight Banners in Chenyang City out of the city, so that most of the elite members of the Man Eight Banners had lost their families, and Nurhaci almost cut him down!

If Huang Taiji hadn't had to have his support for the Khan throne later, he would have been imprisoned in the mansion now.

This time he naturally remembered the lesson. At the beginning, he ordered Dorgon and Duoduo to take their families to run outside the west gate. Therefore, the west gate was not blocked and everyone escaped from the city.

When Zhang Dadou rushed to the west gate with tens of thousands of people, all the Jiannu family members had fled north, only Ajige and thousands of people were behind.

After Qi Jin arranged the city defense, he came to the west gate to see that Jiannu's family had already run away, and thousands of infantry Jiannu's infantry also fought and retreated, gradually retreating into the jungle in the north.

He thought about it and ordered: "Send an order, let Zhang Dadou stop chasing him."

There is no way. There is no avenue in the mountains to the north. It is difficult for the soldiers to push the chariots inside and they cannot catch up.

He could only sigh slightly, and then said to the remaining guards: "Hurry up, you all go to the river to find a boat and let the Jinyiwei report to the emperor that we have taken down Jianzhou Acropolis, and thousands of Jiannu infantry are fleeing to the north with tens of thousands of Jiannu's family."

Although Taichang was extremely happy when he received the news, he was helpless because they were more than a hundred miles away from Jianzhou Acropolis, and there were tens of thousands of Jiannu defeated soldiers in the middle, and the cavalry of the Shenwu Camp could not rush over for a while.

After thinking about it, he ordered the Jinyiwei to send an order, asking Qi Jin to lead 10,000 chariots to block the passage from Maerdunzhai to Jianzhou Weicheng. Then he ordered Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao to lead the cavalry of the Shenwu Camp to chase them from behind and attack tens of thousands of Jiannu infantry on both sides.

Now he can eat up the tens of thousands of Jiannu infantry. As for the Jiannu infantry who fled north and the Jiannu family, he can only wait until the cavalry is quick to find out the situation.

Amin, Zirgalang and Degele were also in trouble. Just as they started to flee, the Shenji Camp arrived at Hetulala, and Daishan ran away without any resistance.

They became the targets of the Ming army inexplicably!

It was not a big deal for the Shenji Camp and Shenwu Camp to siege and beat the tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, but the Jiannu infantry and Jiannu family who fled north could not chase them.

Because Huang Taiji received the news that he had brought more than 10,000 cavalry to cut off the rear, in the familiar mountains and forests, even the scouts riding fast horses could not escape their eyes and ears.

In the next few days, the scouts of the Jinyiwei, Shenwu Camp, Shenji Camp and Liaodong Army flocked to the north and explored thousands of miles away, but they still couldn't find traces of Jiannu's infantry and Jiannu's family.

Taichang just looked at the map and understood that Jiannu must have escaped to the Korqin grassland thousands of miles away.

At this moment, he did not have enough cavalry, and he would definitely suffer a loss when he went to the vast grassland to fight with others. Moreover, Jiannu had only had less than 20,000 young and strong people left, and he would definitely not be able to develop in just a few years. There was no need for him to chase the grassland to fight with others when there was insufficient cavalry.
Chapter completed!