At a distance between 30 and 60 paces, the infantry bows used by the Jurchen Eight Banners clearly had an overwhelming advantage in firing with the Ming army.

At this distance, the Ming army's arquebuses were powerful, but they lacked accuracy and had a slow rate of fire; The infantry bow used by the Ming army was not strong enough, although it had accuracy and rate of fire, it could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Jurchens.

Therefore, when 300 heavily armored infantry archers with red flags pushed the chariot to the approaching trench, hid behind the chariot and began to shoot at the defenders on the wall of the Ming military camp, they suppressed the Ming army in a short period of time and did not dare to show their heads, so that the new Han army could calmly carry out the trench filling work.

Although Mao Yuanyi agreed with Sun Chengzong's strategy of showing weakness to the enemy, he hoped to attract the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty to attack the large camp built by the Ming army.

But this is by no means to say that these Jurchen Tartars should be allowed to wreak havoc on the defenders on the camp wall, so that these defenders will not even have room to fight back.

Therefore, Mao Yuanyi quickly ordered that the small cannons below 6 catties placed on the defensive line began to cross-fire at the enemy's flanks.

The use of composite materials such as wood, iron and cowhide is indeed quite impressive in terms of defensive power on the front. Whether it was a heavy arquebus or a tiger squat cannon used by the Ming army, it could not penetrate the frontal defense of the chariot at all.

However, there was no defense on the side of the chariot, and the military formations and city walls encountered by the Jurchens in the past were all straight lines, and there were no attacks on the sides, so no one paid attention to such a small shortcoming.

Today, however, the Jurchen people have encountered some new problems in their tried-and-true chariot tactics. The Ming camp was built into a polygon, so that no matter which direction the Later Jin army attacked, it was either faced with a sharp angle that was difficult to attack, or a defensive line similar to the shape of a deep V.

Naturally, the Houjin army would not choose to attack at sharp angles where it was difficult to deploy troops, so it could only choose the V-shaped defensive line between the two sharp corners to break through.

But as a result, the twelve chariots were divided into two teams and stuck to the two hypotenuses of the V-shaped, although they could block the Ming attack on the front camp wall, but their backs were equivalent to giving up to the Ming army on the other camp wall.

Although they heard from the two white flags that they had been frustrated under the two fortresses in the east of Zunhua City, Yue Tuo and his red-flag-inlaid soldiers felt that as long as they suppressed the Ming army on the camp wall in front of them, they did not have to worry about the Ming army attacking behind them.

However, when the Ming army used the artillery placed in the reserved artillery positions behind the defense line, especially a few * guns that could be curved to fire, and after marking the shooting Zhuyuan, the Houjin army could not even see where the artillery was, and a black iron ball flew out of the Ming army camp.

The soldiers with red flags, who had been shooting at the back of the cart in an orderly manner, were suddenly blinded by the sudden shelling, and it took a while to react and flee to the rear in a hurry.

Although the artillery of the Ming army marked the firing of Zhuyuan, it did not mean that every shell could hit the predetermined position. However, the missed shell was a great threat to the newly attached Han army, which was filling the trenches.

When the Jurchens lost the protection of the chariot, the Ming army once again stood on the camp wall and fired additional shots at the Jurchens and the newly attached Han army who fled below.

The six-jin cannon, three-jin cannon and small Franc machine gun fired with great momentum, but because it was a solid bullet, it did not cause great casualties to the Houjin army below, but only broke up the Jurchen firing array. But then the Ming army stood on the camp wall and fired an additional fire, but it gave the Later Jin army a profound lesson.

Due to the early flight of the soldiers with red flags, the Jurchen infantry archers dispatched were only more than 60 seriously injured and killed, and more than 40 were slightly injured. However, the Xinfu Han army was a little sluggish and lost more than 200 people.

Although he didn't go into battle in person, Yue Tuo, who was standing on the front line to supervise the battle, felt that there was nothing to say about the battle performance of the red flag.

In order to motivate the soldiers of his own banner to fight hard and set an example for the other flags, he himself stood less than 150 paces away from the Ming army camp to supervise the battle. And this attack with red flags was also decent, that is, there was no fear of the enemy, and there was no carelessness. Yue Tuo felt that even if he did it again, he would not have much room for improvement in the command of these subordinates.

After stopping the soldiers with red flags and the newly attached Han army who had fled back, Yue Tuo ordered them to repair and went to Huang Taiji to ask for guilt.

In fact, before Yue Tuo came back to report, Huang Taiji and other Jurchen relatives who were standing behind him had already watched the entire battle with a clairvoyant mirror captured from the Ming army.

After Huang Taiji entered the customs this time, he once said to the left and right that his biggest gain this time was to get three treasures.

The first is the clairvoyant mirror captured from the hands of the generals of the Ming army, ascending to the heights and looking into the distance, and the characters 2 or 30 miles away are also delicately discerned, which is really a necessary weapon for marching sentinels.

The second is a batch of maps seized from the city of Santun camp, although these maps still use the old system to depict the terrain near the Great Wall of Jizhou. But for the Houjin Kingdom, it is already an extremely accurate map. With these maps, they have a clearer understanding of the section of the Great Wall of Jizhou in the Ming Kingdom.

Third, some of the Ming army's regulations seized from the Santunying town government, as well as several regulations inquired about by the Ming army, all gave Huang Taiji, who was thinking about reforming the Eight Banners military system, a lot of inspiration.

However, at this moment, Huang Taiji seemed to have forgotten his extremely precious clairvoyant mirror before, and clutched this Ming Army clairvoyant mirror made of brass in his hand, as if he wanted to crush it.

The defeat in the first battle of the red flag suddenly put Huang Taiji, who had insisted on fighting a dozen Ming army camps, into an embarrassing situation.

Although Mang Gurtai, who advocated that the troops could be withdrawn, was not by his side, Huang Taiji still felt that this brother should be laughing at him under Zunhua City. ridiculed him for not listening to the advice, and he had to crash to death on the south wall before he came to his senses.

Although the battle had just begun, Huang Taiji had already seen a lot of things from the defense of the Ming army.

The strange-looking battalion built by the Ming army really brought into full play the advantages of the Ming army's firearms to the greatest extent.

Although firearms have a slow rate of fire and are difficult to fire accurately. But without the protection of the chariot, even the Jurchen warriors wearing triple armor may not be able to resist a projectile fired by the Ming army at close range.

Relying on the protection of the chariot, the Houjin army approached the front line of the Ming army, and then covered it with dense heavy armor archers to shoot, so it was naturally able to restrain the firearms of the Ming army.

But if in the current situation, the chariot could not protect the heavy armor archers of the Houjin, so that the artillery of the Ming army directly destroyed the array of the archers of the Houjin, at this time the firearms of the Ming army could give full play to their power and shoot continuously in rotation against the chaotic Houjin army, and the Houjin army fell into an embarrassing situation where it was difficult to fight back after being beaten.

What annoyed Huang Taiji was that he couldn't think of any way to deal with this tactic of the Ming army for a while. In this way, even if they filled in the trench outside the Ming army's camp, the Houjin army, which directly attacked the camp wall, would still be attacked from the flanks and rear.

Yue Tuo, who came back to report, looked at Huang Taiji's pale face, and couldn't help but say with a hot head: "Great Khan, please give me another chance." I will personally lead people up, and if I can't make a gap, I won't come back to you alive. ”

Huang Taiji's gaze shifted from the Ming army camp in the distance to him, and asked calmly: "Oh, then tell me how you plan to attack this camp?" ”

Yue Tuo pondered for a moment, then crouched down, picked up a dead branch from the side, and drew it on the dirt floor.

Huang Taiji looked at it for a while, and finally understood that Yue Tuo was painting the appearance of the Ming army camp in front of him.

After drawing the shape of the entire Ming army camp, Yue Tuo pointed to the corner of the pattern and said: "Originally, we planned to break through from this place shaped like a crane's wing, but the more we attacked, the more our flanks and rear were exposed to the Ming army standing on the wingtips.

If we want not to be pinned down by the two wings of the Ming army, we must arrange for men to attack these two wingtips. In this way, it is in a three-way offensive posture, with the middle army driving directly to the crane body, and the left and right armies attacking the wingtips.

If the three-way army echoes from end to end, it should be able to contain the guards on both flanks of the Ming army, or it can be tried. In addition, if you want to prevent the Ming army from attacking the flank and rear of our attacking troops, you may be able to try the tortoiseshell formation. Defend on all sides with chariots, and then the whole team moves forward. ”

Huang Taiji looked at the image on the ground and thought for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "Today's morale has fallen, you might as well let those newly attached Han troops withdraw and rest, and then fill in the trenches in the afternoon."

In addition, I will ask the artisan battalion to continue making the cart and allocate it to you tomorrow. You go back and observe the terrain and think about this battle plan in more detail. Try to attack again tomorrow morning..."

On the morning of December 6, three-quarters of the trenches on the Houjin offensive route had been filled, but the newly attached Han army was basically unusable.

Looking at the new Han army with less than a thousand people left in the end, Yue Tuo had an enlightenment. If his offensive plan didn't work, the battle would be over for Vaming.

Because the remaining number of newly attached Han soldiers in the army was no longer capable of filling another trench, neither the Jurchens nor the Mongols would accept this kind of task that could only be beaten and could not fight back.

After a night of careful consideration, Huang Taiji made further play on the battle plan proposed by Yue Tuo.

After summoning the Jurchen relatives and nobles, he said: "In this battle, our primary goal is not to capture this large camp, but to capture the Ming Emperor, or at least to force him to flee to the rear.

Therefore, in addition to Yue Tuo attacking the Ming army camp with two red flags, Jierharang and Haoge went to the rear of the Ming army camp with blue flags and yellow flags to attack, but don't block the road for the Ming army to retreat to Shimenxia.

The two white flags bypassed the camp of the Ming army and directly attacked the east entrance of Shimenxia, which should also be carried out with great fanfare, but do not really capture the east entrance of Shimenxia.

We have to make a big show to make the Ming Emperor feel that he is not safe in the camp, and that he can only be safe by escaping back to the west of Shimenxia.

As long as the Ming Emperor escapes, Dolgon, Azig, and Duoduo must intercept and take it down, but you must not hurt his life..."