Text Volume 2 Dawn Morning_Chapter 641 Siege Battle VIII

For the Jurchen relatives of Houjin, it was really a normal thing to set fire to the houses of the Ming people, kill the people of the Ming people, and seize their belongings.

So even Huang Taiji did not suspect that this fire was not set by the Jurchen Eight Banners themselves, in fact, the back road of setting fire to the two red flags by mistake with the blue flag was much more reliable for Huang Taiji than the statement that the Ming people set traps and set fire to the attacking Eight Banners.

If the Ming people had the courage to set fire to their own people, it would be impossible for the Houjin to drive the Ming people to attack the city in Liaodong, and the Ming army could not bear to attack their own people, and took the opportunity to attack the city.

Before entering the customs, Huang Taiji ordered that he should not plunder the property of the descendants, nor should he slaughter the surrenderers at will and burn down the houses of the descendants. He also wanted to avoid arousing the resistance of the people in Guannai, so that this war would become a unilateral battle between the Houjin and the Ming ** team, rather than really to protect the civilians of the Ming Kingdom.

It was the Jurchen Eight Banners that really set fire to the houses of the Ming people, such as the houses captured on both sides of the street before the retreat of the Yellow Banner yesterday, and he could only simply reprimand the leader of the team.

For the Jurchen relatives, if it weren't for the fact that nearly 4 Niu Lu of the two red flags were caught in the fire, they didn't care who set the fire at all.

Although the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners Baylor wanted to understand this matter, they were unwilling to make a big deal about it, whether it was Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, or Mang Gurtai. Although Huang Taiji had the opportunity to suppress the prestige of the other three Baylors, he had always focused on easing and eliminating the contradictions among the internal disputes between the Jurchen Eight Banners.

As for Dai Shan, he didn't want to pursue it, but also to maintain the relationship with Amin that he had just reconciled. Since Huang Taiji took over the position of the Great Khan, his power has expanded too quickly, from the last of the four Baylors to the existence that can overwhelm the other three Baylors.

For example, in this expedition, when they were in Shenyang, everyone set a crusade against the Chahar Department, but halfway through, Huang Taiji wanted to change the target of the crusade, and no one among the little Baylors below stood on his side and Mang Gurtai.

This situation naturally made Dai Shan very vigilant, and he was unwilling to make trouble with Amin at this time because of this trivial matter, and then give Huang Taiji a chance to divide and suppress the three of them.

As for Mang Gurtai, he was completely convinced, and this arson was entirely the responsibility of the blue flag. After Nurhachi's death, the two blue flags formed an alliance to resist Daishan and Huang Taiji, although Amin suddenly got very close to Daishan last year, Mang Gurtai was dissatisfied with this, but for the alliance of the two blue flags, he still has to try his best to defend it, so he wants to suppress this matter.

The attitude of the three major Baylors is like this, and the incident of setting fire to the two red flags and burning the two red flags by mistake will be over. According to the instructions of the three major Baylors, several questioning little Baylors quickly pushed the arson on Mingren's head.

However, Huang Taiji then asked the blue-flaged bulls of the Middle Route Army to replace several blue-flaged bulls of the Right Route Army, and transferred Arzin to his side. His original intention was not to let the Three Banners of the Right Route Army continue to make trouble because of this incident, but in the eyes of other Jurchen relatives, it undoubtedly confirmed the fact that the blue flag set fire, so the Great Khan transferred the Niu Lu led by Arzin back.

Although Yue Tuo and Jierharang were reprimanded by Huang Taiji, they finally resolved the contradictions within the Right Route Army, which can be regarded as a relief to the two.

The battle under the city on November 2 ended in vain for the Houjin army. When Yue Tuo and the generals of the Right Route Army ascended to the viewing platform outside the camp early the next morning, he found that the Ming people had taken advantage of their withdrawal and return to the camp last night to occupy the outlying houses that they had captured yesterday and rebuild the defensive line.

Although the actions of the Ming people made the achievements of the Right Route Army yesterday come to naught, Yue Tuo also found that these temporarily repaired defensive lines were much more crude than before.

Therefore, he didn't care, and asked his subordinates to continue to attack according to yesterday's tactics, but this time he increased the attacking force to 30 Niu Lu, and arranged 10 Niu Lu to support in the rear, in case the Ming people set fire again.

But today, the attack of the right army was very difficult, and it was still as easy as yesterday to break through the rudimentary defense line of the Ming people, but the surrenderers they sent into the houses to recruit surrender were either driven out, or shot with firearms by the people in the room, and some simply fled back.

The inability to surrender was successful, although Yue Tuo and other Jurchen generals were a little unhappy, but they didn't care too much. Even Yue Tuo himself thought that as long as he captured a few mansions and beheaded the Ming people who held on, the remaining Ming people would soon succumb.

Under Yue Tuo's personal command, the Red Banner General Rausa, who was known for his bravery and good fighting, took two Niu Lu to attack the outermost houses to deter other Ming people.

This battle, which made the Jurchen relatives and nobles think that they could be captured, quickly turned into a battle that made them feel terrified. The combat effectiveness of the Ming people in hand-to-hand combat is still not worth mentioning, but the fighting will of the Ming people is very different from before.

The two Niu Lu led by Rausa chose two adjacent houses to attack, which were two fairly ordinary northern courtyards, in addition to a small vestibule, there was also a backyard for growing vegetables, and each house was guarded by about sixty or seventy people.

Under the command of Raussa, the two cattle were divided into two teams and attacked from the vestibule and the backyard. The group that rushed in from the backyard was fine, but the group that rushed into the vestibule was caught off guard by several three-eyed guns sticking out of the windows of the main room and the wings on both sides.

From this moment on, these Jurchens found themselves confronted with a pattern of war that they had never encountered before. In their eyes, these cowardly Ming people suddenly became crazy, even if they rushed close to their side, no one knelt down and begged for mercy, either rushing up desperately with truncated spearheads, or ignoring the other companions in the room, and directly firing the three-eyed gun at close range.

The battle lasted about half an hour, but the two Niu Lu killed 13 people on the spot, 24 others were seriously wounded, and more than 10 were slightly injured. Most of the casualties were caused by the Three-Eyed Guns, and in order to increase the effect of killing at close range, each of the Guns used two or three leads.

And some Ming people even reload double* in order to increase their power. These three-eyed guns are not all qualified products, and some of them were produced before the reform of the Ordnance Supervision Department, and they are more shoddy. And because of this, the release of these three-eyed guns in a small room is even more terrifying, and the debris caused by the explosion of the gun tube is unguardable.

Of the more than 130 Ming people in the two mansions, it is estimated that one-third of the casualties were at the hands of the Ming people themselves. The corpses and wounded of the Jurchens carried out from the two mansions made the Jurchen soldiers who saw this scene a little frightened.

Rausa personally examined his wounded, and found that most of the seriously wounded were injured by lead, which had been driven into their bodies at such a close distance, and if they were not removed, they would not survive. Only those who were lightly wounded had only some flesh wounds, and they could still be treated.

Whether it was Rausa or other Jurchen generals, everyone knew very well that there were no Langzhong in their own army who could treat these seriously wounded, only some shamans who treated simple external injuries and illnesses. These seriously injured people who were driven into the body by lead are basically equivalent to dead.

Yue Tuo hoped that Rausa would lead people to deter these Ming people, and then make them give up resistance, but this battle turned out to be the opposite, and it was the Jurchens themselves who were shocked.

After hearing Rausa's return, Yue Tuo, Zilharang and other generals of the Right Army were silent for a long time, and finally Yue Tuo made a decision, determined to take out two more Niu Lu to continue to clean up these separated houses.

The next battle still did not change, seeing the tragic situation of the previous two Niu Lu attacking the house, the two newly transferred Niu Lu suddenly became a little restrained when attacking.

These Jurchens are naturally not afraid of these Ming people when they fight in the field, but in such a small room with nowhere to dodge, even the most skilled warriors can react completely less than the impetus of the explosion, even if they are wearing double armor, they can't completely protect against these leads. What's more, there is more than one three-eyed gun shooting in each room.

When these Jurchens lost their indomitable will to fight, the pressure they put on the recalcitrant Ming people was greatly reduced, and even these Ming people successfully repelled an attack by the Jurchens.

Although the losses of the Jurchens in this attack were less than the last time, the battle was quite ugly. It seemed as if the Jurchens were not fighting civilians, but rather fighting an evenly matched enemy.

Fighting to this extent, even Yue Tuo knew that such tactics could not continue. From the periphery of the city to the bottom of Zunhua City, there are at least thousands of houses, even if one person dies in one house, the right army will be finished.

He hesitated for a moment, then instructed Rausa and the others to adopt the tactics used by the Ming people yesterday, set fire to the house, and no longer tried to capture the Ming people hiding in the courtyard.

Although the actions of the Right Route Army accelerated the speed of cleaning up the city west of Zunhua, it confirmed in the hearts of the Zunhua soldiers and civilians that yesterday's fire was indeed set by the Tartars, and the so-called rumors that the Tartars would wash the city after capturing Zunhua were even more credible.

After a day of fighting, the forward position of the Right Route Army advanced 300 meters to Zunhua City, and there was still a distance of about 1,200 meters from the west gate of Zunhua. At the end of the day, the attacking forces of the Houjin Right Army did not retreat, but set up a row of camps enclosed by wooden fences in a field of ruins, as if preparing to serve as a starting point for tomorrow's attack.

The Jurchen Tartars' tactics of fire attack did make the Zunhua soldiers and civilians who were defending outside the city feel a little headache. Although they have set up fire escapes and put in place various fire prevention measures, this can only ensure the safety of the neighborhoods under their own control, and cannot be implemented in the blocks separated by the Tartars.

Wednesday Wei and other Ming army officers realized that if the Tartars' meat-cutting tactics could not be thwarted, then these Tartars could be burned street by street, and they could not do any harm to the Tartars except for slightly delaying the siege of the Tartars.

Wednesday Wei went back to investigate the military supplies in Zunhua City, trying to find some useful equipment. In the end, he found * and Tiger Squat Cannon, two kinds of equipment, which were still the military supplies that Qi Jiguang had stored when he governed Jizhou Town.