After watching the Jurchen Tartars retreat and not launch another attack today, Huang Qi began to record and summarize the course of today's war, which was a regulation issued by the General Staff to officers at all levels at the beginning of the year.

After recording in detail the offensive of today's operation, Huang Qi began to review the gains and losses of today's operation, and he concluded: Compared with the power and range of artillery, the rate of fire and accuracy of artillery are obviously more important, especially so that artillery of the same caliber can be fired according to the same calculation angle, which will inevitably greatly speed up the speed of artillery firing.

On November 8, the results of the battle of the Left Route Army were quickly received by Huang Taiji, and he did not care much about the loss of the two white flags, but he was very uncomfortable with the fact that the Left Route Army had lost most of its * and artillery.

Although the Left Army handed over half of the artillery, *only 10 barrels were delivered, and as a result, they refused to surrender* and were blown up into the sky by those Ming troops. It's very difficult to replenish the *, and once you run out of *, the guns become a useless bunch.

Most of the artillery obtained from the Left Army was Furlong machine guns, and although these artillery sieges were insufficient, they were more than enough to attack ordinary houses.

On the day when the Left Route Army was frustrated under the two fortresses, Huang Taiji ordered the artillery and gunners obtained from the Left Route Army to be organized into a separate army, and selected personnel familiar with firearms from the surrendered Ming Army to enrich them, and then let Li Guohan, a Han guard beside him, lead the firearms army of more than 200 people.

On the afternoon of the 8th, Huang Taiji asked the firearms army to start an attack from the northwest corner of Zunhua, attacking the houses on the northwest corner with artillery, and then ordered the Xinfu Han army to come forward to occupy the shelled area and demolish the houses and structures in the area occupied by the Houjin. The elite soldiers of the Eight Banners protected both sides of the firearms army and supported the Han army demolishing houses as appropriate.

Although the new tactics that Huang Taiji came up with were a little slow to advance, he only opened up a field 30 steps deep and 300 steps wide in one afternoon. However, the casualty rate of the newly attached Han army dropped rapidly, and the morale of some Han soldiers was finally saved.

Let these Han soldiers go up to demolish the house instead of fighting with the Ming people on the opposite side, and their enthusiasm has also increased a lot. Moreover, the demolition of the houses is also the most effective guarantee, so that the Ming people cannot reoccupy the area. Even if Houjin returned to the camp to rest in the evening, the Ming people would not be able to build such strong fortifications in a short period of time in a clearing.

As for the Ming people who were defending the houses, they were soon forced to flee from the houses under the bombardment of artillery, and then were shot and killed one by one by the archers of the Houjin army.

In this war, not only were the Ming people learning how to use everything available to them to fight as much as possible, but the Jianzhou Jurchens were also adapting to a new mode of warfare.

In the field, the Jurchen Eight Banners combined the combat methods of the Ming army with the hunting methods they were accustomed to, and had established a set of effective field combat tactics. However, the way of fighting to attack a fortified city has always been stuck in several fixed modes of buying off large families or officers in the city, or sending spies into the city to fight for the door.

If the above two methods failed, then the Jurchens could only dig trenches around the city and engage in long-term siege warfare. By depleting the food in the city, the soldiers and civilians in the city were forced to go out of the city and surrender. Therefore, a pawn with a white flag first climbed the wall of the Santun camp in the siege battle, and made the first contribution to the capture of the Santun camp, which would arouse Huang Taiji's special attention.

Before there was an effective way to break through the Ming Dynasty's cities, the bloody battle was naturally the most effective way to capture the city, but the battle always required the greatest courage of the soldiers to achieve results for the attacker. Samhatu's courage undoubtedly inspired the Jurchen army's fear of siege warfare, and he was naturally rewarded by Huang Taiji.

But on the other hand, Huang Taiji has also been looking for a way to directly break through the city wall. After all, Guannai is different from Liaodong, Liaodong only has a few strong cities, and Guannai has hundreds of strong cities, if each city has to use the first way to attack the city, then even if all the population of the Houjin Kingdom is buried under the walls of the Ming Kingdom, it may not be able to capture the entire Ming Kingdom.

So the firearms used by the Ming army fell into his eyes, and the results of the shelling of the Ming people's houses on the 8th and 9th made Huang Taiji feel that if he imitated the artillery captured from the Ming army to cast larger artillery, would even those city walls be able to collapse.

Huang Taiji personally watched the battle of the firearms army on the 9th, and when he saw the appearance of those Ming people who were powerless to fight back, he finally nodded with satisfaction. In his opinion, yesterday afternoon's and today's battles proved that it was indeed a feasible tactic to disperse the defending defenders in the houses and alleys with artillery, and then demolish the houses that stood in front of the Houjin army in pieces and reach directly under the walls of Zunhua.

The only thing that made Huang Taiji a little regretful was that because of the number of guns, these artillery pieces could only be used for attack in the northwest corner of Zunhua, and he was a little annoyed by the left army's disregard for the overall situation. Intercepted so much*, it was destroyed by the Ming people before it was used.

On 9 November, the attack of the Later Jin Third Route Army finally stabilized, and the Eastern Route Army never found a way to bypass the two fortresses and directly allow the Left Route Army to attack the Zunhua City Wall during this day's tentative attack. At the same time, the Right Route Army and the Central Route Army cooperated to carry out a key attack in the northwest corner of Zunhua City, and the results were very good.

The news that the Jurchen relatives of the Left Route Army received was that it would take about four or five days for the Right Route Army and the Middle Route Army to open up a passage directly to the northwest corner of Zunhua City.

The soldiers of the two white flags no longer have any leisure and elegance to comment, the siege methods adopted by the right army and the middle route army are too cowardly, and they have completely lost the name of the Jurchen Eight Banners and other words. What they are most worried about now is whether they can survive Liaodong and not be beaten to pieces by the artillery of the Ming army.

Now that the other two armies had found a way to attack the city, the Left Route Army quickly switched to a diversion-based attack and no longer attempted to forcibly capture the two forts.

The new tactics adopted by Hou Jin have achieved miraculous results, and even Zhao Shujiao has begun to strengthen the defense of the northwest corner of the city, he obviously thinks that Zhou Wei and the others can't think of any good way to fight against this new tactic, and the next step is to enter the real battle to defend the city.

However, Zhao Shujiao felt that the officers had done quite well on Wednesday, at least they had bought Zunhua City an extra half a month of garrison time, as long as the imperial court could send troops to support as soon as possible, then Zunhua City could still be defended. The only thing that worried him was that Houjin's sentinels had cut off the perimeter of Zunhua City, leaving them ignorant of the outside world, and there was a sense of anxiety among the soldiers and civilians in the city.

When Zhao Shujiao felt that the defensive battle outside the city had ended, and the next time he was going to prepare for the battle to defend the city wall, Wednesday Wei still did not give up his battle.

He was discussing with his subordinates how to deal with the new tactics of the Houjin army when an officer happily ran in and shouted to everyone in the room: "Deputy Commander Su, they have withdrawn, and they are almost in the lobby." ”

Wednesday suddenly dropped the papers in his hand and ran out first. A soldier was holding a torch to guide a group of people into the courtyard gate, and the current person was Su Ran. Wednesday Wei observed him for a while, and found that he had no other wounds except for some more dust, so he said with peace of mind: "Fortunately, you are not injured, otherwise I really don't know how to explain to the division commander, how did you escape from those Tartars and escape?" It was a fluke. ”

went to the front line to check the state of defense, but Su Ran, who was unexpectedly trapped, replied quite excitedly: "Brother Zhou, I finally thought of a new tactic on how to deal with the Tartars." ”

"Huh?" Wednesday was still a little unresponsive. Su Ran had already begun to gush and said: "Cellar, this northern land has a long winter, in order to store some vegetables and grains for the winter, basically every family will dig a cellar to store these vegetables and grains.

Most of the residents in the northwest of Zunhua City are single-family households, so basically every family has a fairly spacious cellar. I was trapped on the front line this time, and I was able to escape by hiding in the cellar.

If we find out these cellars, and then connect them, hide in the ground when the Tartars bombard, and wait until the Tartars attack, and then come out to meet them, won't we be able to break the new tactics of the Tartars? ”

Wednesday was afraid for a long time before he patted Su Ran on the shoulder fiercely and said, "In this battle of defending the city in Zunhua, junior brother, your credit must be ranked first." Let's all go in, and we'll all discuss what this cellar tactic is going to do..."

The officers had all studied in the barricades, but how to dig cellars and dig a passage through the ground was not their specialty.

However, Zunhua is the most important government-run iron factory in the north, and there are naturally many people who are familiar with mining and digging wells. On the evening of the 9th, Wednesday Wei and others found a group of skilled workers who were digging tunnels, and then worked with them to preliminarily determine which areas of cellars should be connected, and excavated some side openings, so as to prevent the Tartars from breaking and sealing the cellars after they found them, so that they could not use these tunnels.

On the 10th and 11th, plus one night, the Ming were busy building a network of underground passages to avoid the Tartar attacks from the ground.

Huang Taiji and other Jurchen generals also clearly felt that the resistance of the Ming people in the northwest corner was in a state of weakening, and these Jurchen relatives and nobles did not have too much suspicion for a while, and thought that the Ming people defending the city were demoralized because they could not resist their new tactics, and began to lose their willingness to resist.

Huang Taiji felt that when he had broken through the Ming people's defensive position in the northwest corner of the city, he might as well try to send someone to recruit the soldiers and civilians inside and outside Zunhua City.

For these Ming people who dared to resist the Later Jin, and also used various means to cause rare casualties in the Jurchen Eight Banners in recent years, Huang Taiji cherished it a little. If these soldiers and civilians of Zunhua City can surrender to Houjin, they will undoubtedly greatly increase the strength of Houjin, which makes him feel more happy than capturing a Zunhua City.

As for whether these Zunhua soldiers and civilians were forced to surrender helplessly, or whether they surrendered with ulterior motives, Huang Taiji didn't care much about it. As long as they are sent back to Shenyang to disrupt the households, and then lure them to benefit, treat them with sincerity, and move them with affection, most people will slowly give in.

When they were willing to accept the conscription and join the army of the Later Jin, they naturally lost their loyalty to the Ming Emperor. In some ways, the corrupt rule of the Ming State and the corrupt army were really the best helpers to help the Later Jin gain the loyalty of the Ming people.