The first attack of the Later Jin army on Beibao ended in a crushing defeat, and this one-sided massacre of war scenes had previously only appeared in the battles of the Later Jin against the Ming army.

This battle not only sent chills down the hearts of the generals of the Later Jin Left Route Army, but also frightened the defenders of Beibao, who were either busy loading or shooting with their bows in the battle just now, so they had no time to care about how many results they had made.

After Hou Jin Mingjin withdrew his troops, the white * smoke dissipated, and the Ming soldiers on the wall had time to look down at the city, from the outer wall of the fortress to the inside of the trench, the corpses in various postures were lying on the ground strangely, and the blood stained the original yellow-brown soil red, and in some places even accumulated small pools of blood.

In addition, there are still many people below who have not lost their breath for a while, and all kinds of voices shouting for help, this kind of scene like hell appearing in the world suddenly made the Ming soldiers at the head of the city feel sorry for it.

It was better to follow the Ming soldiers transferred from Liaodong by Zhao Shujiao, most of them had already seen such scenes when they were in Liaodong, and it was not uncommon for them to be more cruel than the scene in front of them. And those officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town, who have not fought in the local area for many years, many people can't help but turn their heads and vomit.

Zang Tiaoyuan, the garrison of Beibao, did not punish these Ming soldiers who turned around and vomited, and he was also deeply surprised by the result of the first battle with Houjin. Originally, in his opinion, it was not impossible to hold the fortress, but it would have to go through a hard battle.

In particular, the Houjin Tartar drove the Ming people and the army to be the vanguard, consuming the morale and physical strength of the defenders, although he expected it, but he didn't think of a solution, so he could only prepare for a hard battle.

There was a frontal line of defense between each diagonal corner of the north fort, divided into two layers, with 350 guards, including 150 firearms, 80 artillerymen, 120 hand-to-hand combatants, and one-third part-time archers. In addition, there are 50 auxiliaries for each line of defense.

The entire North Fort is designed to garrison about 2,000 people, and the specifications of the South Fort are the same. However, due to the lack of troops, only 1,500 garrisons are stationed in the two forts, and the other 500 are auxiliary soldiers and half of the military households.

According to the calculations of the fort construction engineers, the attacker can attack a defensive line in front of the north fort, and the maximum number of people who can carry out the battle is 250, and if this number is exceeded, the attackers will interfere with each other and give the artillery at the head of the city the maximum lethality.

For the defenders, the number of defenders involved in the attack could be increased to 500 because of the upper and lower walls. In the battle just now, Zang Tiaoyuan transferred 100 firearms and 50 archers from other directions. With more firepower than the number of frontal attacking enemy troops, the Ming army wiped out most of the newly attached Han army sent by the Left Route Army in one fell swoop, and won the first battle cleanly, while the casualties of the Ming army were negligible.

However, this victory did not make Zang Tiaoyuan excited, but because the defensive effect of the fortress was too good, he felt a little unsteady, as if everything in front of him was not real.

He instructed his lieutenant to arrange for his men to clean up the corpses on the periphery of the fort, in fact, to send the wounded who were not dying on the road, and by the way, throw these corpses into the trench, so as not to rot and affect the air in the fort. And he himself re-ascended the walls of the inner fort, wanting to talk to Huang Qi about how to deal with the next wave of Houjin's attacks.

As soon as Zang Tiaoyuan walked to the inner castle wall, he saw Huang Qizheng and a military doctor in a white coat talking fiercely, he got a little closer, and heard the conversation between the two.

After pausing and listening for a while, Zang Tiaoyuan stepped forward and said to the military doctor: "Doctor Lin, you can go down to treat those wounded, but we will not allow them to enter the fortress, and if we want to evacuate them to residential areas, we need to wait until after dark to notify those people to come and carry the corpses."

We're still fighting, and we don't have the manpower to help them. And we are not obligated to heal a group of traitors who will attack us immediately after surrendering. It is indeed your vocation to save lives, but please also share the occasion. ”

This young military doctor in his early 20s has a gentle temperament, even if he is arguing with Huang Qi, his tone is very gentle, like a reader who reads poetry and books. He also has a small silver cross hanging from his neck, apparently a Catholic.

At this moment, after listening to Zang Tiaoyuan's words, he immediately frowned and said: "Most of the people lying under the city wall don't even have armor, and at a glance, they know that they are ordinary people who were forced to rush to the city by Houjin. It was natural for us to fight back when they rushed to the city, but now that the Houjin army has retreated, we naturally have to go down to help our own people, how can we still do nothing?

According to His Majesty's statement, as a soldier, you must do your best to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty, and as a doctor, you must have the spirit of saving lives and helping the wounded. Now that I am a soldier and a doctor, do I have to see death for a group of people who are wounded and waiting to die?

This kind of weather makes them wait in the wild until it gets dark, and most of them will bleed to death. ”

Zang Tiaoyuan and Huang Qi glanced at each other, and both of them saw a little helplessness in each other's eyes. Before he practiced medicine, this military medical officer was indeed a showman. He had some twists and turns with Xu Guangqi, so he studied under Xu Guangqi, and under the influence of Xu Guangqi, he became interested in Western studies.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, with the help of the translation activities of Western studies, in the capital to promote new learning, this Lin Xiucai simply entered Beijing to study, he was originally going to enter Yenching University to study, but accidentally entered the medical school, and finally was transferred to Jizhou Town as a military doctor, to assist a medical officer to establish the military hospital system in Zunhua City.

Although this Lin military doctor was younger and a little pedantic, he had a good reputation among the people of Zunhua City, because he often treated those who were poor for free.

Even Zhao Shujiao has always been very polite when he sees him, and Zang Tiaoyuan naturally doesn't want to offend him. But at this moment, he had to refuse again: "Doctor Lin, as a garrison of Beibao, this officer must first be responsible for the safety of Beibao, I can't take Beibao to risk, if I lose Beibao, there will be no fortress to cover east of Zunhua, let those Tartars kill into the streets of the city, and the corpses that will fall at that time are only ten times what you see now?"

I can only send you 30 auxiliaries to move them from the east side of the trench to other places. And you don't have to come back after you get out of the fort, just go to the west of the castle, and then go back to the city. ”

Lin Shiheng thought for a while, and finally nodded and agreed to Zang Tiaoyuan, and then took the auxiliary soldiers out of the city wall and began to rescue those Han soldiers who had not yet died.

Finding that more than 30 people came out of the Ming Castle and walked down the trench, Duoduo couldn't help but hold his horsewhip tightly and said to Dolgon: "Those Ming people actually dare to go down the trench, why don't I take a team of people to arrest them and come back to ask, don't you know the truth in the castle?" ”

Dorgon straightened up and looked intently into the trench, looking at them for a long time before he could see what the men were doing. He then glanced up at the head of the Ming City, and saw that the Ming soldiers looked like they were facing a great enemy.

He shook his head and said, "First, this is probably a trap, I don't want you to send those Ming people to the door and give them a great achievement;

Second, those Ming people are treating the wounded of the Han army, no matter how the Han army is counted, it is now the army of our Houjin State. Taking advantage of the Ming people to treat the wounded of our army, and sending people to attack them, do you want the reputation of our two white flags? ”

After Dolgon rejected his brother's suggestion, he looked at the expressions of the people on the left and right, and then instructed Li Sili beside him: "You go and arrange some reliable personnel, don't bring weapons, bring stretchers, and ask those Ming people if they can let us carry the wounded back." This thing of buying people's hearts can't be done by the Ming army. ”

So Zang Tiaoyuan and Huang Qi, who were watching from the wall of the inner fort, saw a small group of Han soldiers carrying stretchers running to the edge of the trench, and nervously asked the Ming army in the trench if they were allowed to carry the wounded back.

Lin Shiheng casually agreed to this request, he didn't even raise his head, he was just busy treating the wounds of those wounded.

So there was a strange scene on the battlefield in front of the North Fort, outside the trench, both armies were hurrying to arrange their armies and prepare for the next wave of battles. However, the trench was very peaceful, and Lin Shiheng agreed that the Han soldiers would come down to carry the wounded, but they were not allowed to carry the wounded against their will.

These Han soldiers were mixed with a few personal soldiers sent by Li Sili, and they were naturally reluctant to carry those civilians, they just wanted to take this opportunity to see if there were any surviving personal soldiers, so that they could help them back.

Because of this, these people were finally carried back only by the bodies of more than a dozen wounded colleagues and some familiar soldiers, and none of the civilians were carried back.

In the end, Zang Tiaoyuan and Huang Qi did not give the order to let the defenders shoot and drive these Han soldiers into action.

After the two armies had eaten lunch, the second wave of attacks of the Left Route Army finally began today. The Han army, which was divided into two sides to attack in the north and east in multiple squads, finally put some pressure on the Ming army guarding the fort and distracted the Ming army from it.

But that's all, what really made Huang Qi feel a little threatened was that Houjin moved the artillery position forward again, moving the artillery position to a distance of 250 steps from the fort wall. At this distance, the Fran cannon could already directly threaten the defenders.

Huang Qi finally couldn't wait any longer, and at this time, he could only try to eliminate these Franc cannons with the fort artillery, so as not to make any mistakes and bring risks to the city defense.

Huang Qi ordered his subordinates to push the five 12-pounder guns at the head of the inner fort to the firing position, and at the same time prepared for the artillery in the triangular fort on the left and right corners, and he was ready to wait for the Houjin artillery troops to stop before giving the order to fire.

But before he could give the order, the adjutant beside him had already pointed to the rear of the artillery convoy and shouted, "My lord, the Tartar cavalry has also come up this time." ”