In the past, the Mongols used to attack cities and villages, often using huge cavalry, rushing over to ride and shoot a wave, killing and injuring the enemy with an overwhelming rain of arrows to deter the enemy, but this time they crashed into the iron plate.

In fact, with the development of firearms, the range and rate of fire of firearms have increased, and the tactics of mounted shooting and harassment will inevitably withdraw from the stage of history.

A very simple truth, the musket shoots 200 paces, the effective range of the bow is generally within 70 steps, the musket is much farther than the bow of the bow, and the musketeers in three rows form a continuous fire more fierce than the bow and arrow.

In this way, the range is inferior to that of people, the continuity and power are inferior to people, and the cavalry shoots around the cavalry, isn't it a target for the musketeers?

At this time, in addition to the direct surprise attack, approaching the fight as soon as possible, outflanking the artillery array, and ramming the enemy in a dense formation, the power of cavalry shooting can be said to have been greatly reduced.

The cavalry under the city fell down one after another, and the cavalry that rushed to half of it pulled out their horses and withdrew in a hurry.

Wu Keshan was taken aback when he saw the sudden change, and everyone looked at each other with a confused expression.

In the First World War in the Central Plains, most of the Mongolian Eight Banners, which had fought for the Qing Dynasty for many years, were destroyed at the Mengjin Ferry.

Before the Ming army reached Beijing, the remaining Mongol soldiers in the north fled back to the steppe.

That is to say, not many of the Mongols on the steppe are familiar with the tactics of the Ming army, nor do they understand the changes in the weapons of the Ming army.

Like Wu Keshan, most of the Mongol princes he brought with him were lords who enjoyed happiness in the steppe, unaware that the times had progressed.

This is also the sorrow of nomadism, and it is about this time that the nomads who once made the Eastern and Western worlds tremble went into decline almost at the same time period.

This is the rolling forward of the times and history, and the rise of firearms is destined to gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

"Father Khan, it must be a self-generated firebolt!" Wu Keshan's third son, Biertahar, suddenly spoke.

He was ordered to envoy to the Jin State and saw a firearm in Chang'an.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, some officials and fine workers who originally worked for the Qing Dynasty, fearing the pro-calculations of the Ming Dynasty, fled into the Jin State, bringing a lot of things to the Jin State.

The Qing army occupied the north, and there were not a few Han people who worked for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible for them to go out of the customs to Shunzhi under the fence, so they could only switch to the Jin State to avoid the liquidation of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the drawings of the self-made fire gun were brought into the Jin Kingdom by Fu Youchun, the son of Fu Shangrui, and he even persuaded more than a dozen craftsmen to go to Chang'an.

After Beijing was captured by the Ming army, the Ming army copied out a large number of secret agent information, but because of the internal political turmoil in the Ming Dynasty at that time, the arrest was not timely, so many Qing court meticulous works fled into the Jin State.

Fu Youchun not only fled, but Fu Younian, who was active in Nanjing, also lost his well-developed business name and fled into Jinguo with the money.

The addition of these people actually made the Jin State inherit part of the Qing inheritance.

Haoge can proudly give Horqin 5,000 bird guns, and it is also because of the weapons of the Jin Kingdom that he has made a breakthrough and is gradually eliminating bird guns.

Biertahar once saw this kind of firearm with fast rate of fire and long range in the weapons workshop of Jin Guo, and he was very shocked at that time, and wanted to buy this firearm to equip Horqin, but Jin Guo had just produced it for a short time, and he had no equipment, so he naturally would not give it to Horqin, but Haoge first gave 5,000 bird guns, saying that he could sell some to them later.

Wu Keshan didn't know what a self-generated fire gun was, but it was a fact that the plan to ride and shoot around the city failed, and now the cavalry around the city was equivalent to death, so he could only grimace and wave his hand: "The army will camp first, build equipment, and prepare to attack the city!" ”

Hearing the order, Biltahar behind him hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Stand back and go to the camp!" ”

At present, the 45,000 Mongol army began to camp in the field, and countless white yurts began to appear outside Shenyang.

The Mongols came from afar and did not have siege equipment or artillery, but the Mongols quickly cut down trees and made many ladders, battering rams, and dozens of trebuchets.

The battle was unfavorable, so Wu Keshan became cautious, he attached great importance to this battle, the purpose was to take the Mongolian tribes to grab a wave in Shenyang, so that the Mongolian tribes had confidence in him and could live a good life in the future.

His main purpose this time was to rob and then plunder the population.

Of course, it is a good thing to be able to occupy the Liaohe Plain, if he can't occupy it, the Ming army will raise troops to take it, then he will retreat to the grassland, and wait for the heavy snow to come in the coming year, when the Ming army is inconvenient to move, he will come again, and the Ming army will not look at the attack and withdraw from the Liaohe Plain.

The purpose of the Mongols was mainly to plunder, coupled with a small population. So you can't die too many people, so Wu Keshan tried to be as well prepared as possible.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, just after the Shangyuan Festival, the sound of horns in the Mongolian camp outside the city suddenly made the atmosphere over Shenyang tense.

Xie Qian and the others came to the city and watched the Mongol army move in the camp, and after a while, three armies rushed out of the camp.

Two of them, numbering more than 5,000 people, went to the east and west walls, and the other group, with more than 10,000 men, surrounded by weapons, attacked the north side of the city.

"Looking at the distribution of the Mongols' forces, it should be a feint attack from the east and west, and the main attack from the north." Xie Qian analyzed: "They stayed in the south and did not attack, it seems that they want us to take the initiative to give up Shenyang. ”

Zhang Jiayu nodded, "Wu Keshan is called Khan in Horqin, he urgently needs a victory to inspire people and stabilize the Mongolian tribes, but he made the wrong opponent first, he shouldn't come to provoke Daming, he wants to take Shenyang It is wishful thinking." ”

"If I were Wu Keshan, I would definitely stabilize the Ming Dynasty first, and then conquer the Mongolian tribes that were not convinced, and after unifying Mongolia, I would then contend with the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't start the unification of the weak Mongolian tribes, but he came to provoke our Ming Dynasty first, which is really dead and stupid!" Xie Qian echoed, and then waved his hand: "Beat the drum and prepare for battle!" ”

The generals behind him clenched their fists, and after a while, the war drums of the Ming army in the city were beaten, and more than 4,000 Ming troops quickly assembled in the city, and 10,000 people also entered their respective positions.

This time the Ming army was not very well prepared, there was no heavy artillery in the city, and there were not too many defensive equipment, but gunpowder and firearms were very sufficient, but fortunately, the Mongols came from afar, and there were not many weapons, and they were not very good at attacking the city.

Xie Qian felt that as long as the firearms in the city were not exhausted, there should be no problem in keeping it for a month.

The Ming army in the city has a battalion plus four divisions, and there are more than 70 old cannons such as the Buddha machine.

Xie Qian only put a division of 337 people to guard the city gate in the south city, and there were 5,000 Mongolian soldiers on the east and west sides to attack, then there were 1,012 people on all sides, and the north city was the direction of the main attack of the Mongols, and there were 10,000 people attacking from there, so put a plus a division of troops, a total of 1349 town guards, seventy percent of the artillery was arranged in the north city, and the remaining two divisions of 674 people were used as a reserve to support the city head at any time, and another 10,000 people would assist in the defense.

At this time, when the Ming army was properly arranged in the sound of war drums, outside the northern city, 10,000 Mongolian troops had lined up outside the city, and the battle was already about to break out.

(End of chapter)