At noon on 6 December, the various units of the Eight Banners finally arrived at the area where they were scheduled to attack, and then launched a huge attack at the same time according to the agreed time.

Under the personal leadership of Yue Tuo, the two red flags dispatched 2,500 armor soldiers, with 500 people in a team of 500 people. He divided the offensive area into five places, each team was responsible for one area, and he himself led the remaining two red banner men and horses as the backup of the attacking troops, trying to open the gap in the Ming defense line with a single attack.

According to Yue Tuo's experience in conquering cities and conquering places since he entered the pass, no matter how tenacious the Ming soldiers were in defense, as long as a gap was opened in their defensive line, the Ming army would quickly collapse.

In his eyes, although the large camp in front of him seemed to be cleverly constructed, it was not as dangerous as the several stone forts he attacked when he entered the customs. Therefore, as long as the Jurchen soldiers climbed the camp wall, the Ming soldiers guarding the camp wall were estimated to be defeated, and the Ming emperor would inevitably evacuate first.

Although the Ming army camp here was not a real city, Yue Tuo also regarded it as a city to attack. The first key to breaking the city is in the first attack.

Generally speaking, whether the defenders who rely on the city wall can hold on to it, in addition to whether the material reserves and various defense facilities in the city are complete, the most important thing is whether the defenders have the confidence to hold on. Trapped in a small city and allowing the enemy to attack constantly, this kind of defensive city warfare that gives the enemy the right to choose the battle is extremely stressful for the defenders.

If the defenders do not have the confidence to hold the city, then it is inevitable that the enemy will break the city. And there is no better way to build up the confidence of the defenders than to repel an enemy attack.

Siege warfare, if the city is not breached at the first attack, often drags on into a long siege. The defenders who have repelled the enemy's attack, after establishing the confidence to hold the city, can often exert the power of all defensive means normally, and deal a great blow to the attackers.

Therefore, when Yue Tuo attacked the Ming army camp in front of him for the first time, he almost used the power of the two red flags. In addition to the frontal chariot advances and the erection of side signs to cover the flanks of the attacking troops, each team was assigned 3-5 ladders as the main means of attacking the camp wall.

Although the yellow flag and the blue flag were only flanked and attacked behind the camp of the Ming army, there was no trace of stealing and slipping in their attack, although these two flags did not go all out like the two red flags, but at least nearly half of the men and horses were used to rotate to attack the camp of the Ming army.

All of a sudden, the Ming army camp resounded with deafening fighting sounds all around, and the camp near Shimenxia in the west soon sent out a beacon fire that was attacked.

The generals of the Ming army, who originally thought that they had a numerical advantage, were suddenly confused by this large-scale attack of the Jurchens, and some even began to wonder how many Houjin troops had entered the customs this time.

The officers and men of the new army, who were fighting head-on with the real Jurchen elite for the first time, felt great pressure in this scale of engagement, and began to make mistakes in the process of defensive operations.

Compared with those Jurchens who had experienced many years of war and had tacit cooperation on the battlefield, the officers and men of the new army who participated in such a large-scale battle for the first time were undoubtedly quite immature.

When the Jurchens launched an attack, urgent reports were issued from all the defense lines, which made Mao Yuanyi, who was in charge of the defensive battle of the big camp, immediately forget Sun Chengzong's entrustment to him, in this situation, he could do his best to hold the big camp and not let the soldiers of the new army on the defense line collapse, which had already occupied all his thoughts, where could he take care of other things.

The way this Ming army camp was constructed was a new kind of camp arrangement for the Later Jin army, which made them seem a little restrained when attacking.

However, such a large battalion is also a completely new thing for the Ming army. How to use the barracks set up in this way to deal a major blow to the enemy army, the Ming army was still relatively unfamiliar and unskilled.

Moreover, although the large camp built according to the bastion method has a considerable advantage over the old barracks in terms of defense, this is not a real bastion after all, but only a temporary barracks built in the field, so the means of defense are much less than the real bastion.

The attack launched by thousands of Jurchens on an entire line of defense soon overwhelmed the Ming army guarding the camp in momentum.

In the face of these Jurchen soldiers who ignored the shooting of the Ming army and directly attacked the camp wall, the soldiers of the new army who were charging at the Jurchens suddenly became a little confused.

After a round of guns were cast, many of the musketeers suddenly felt that their loading action was like that of a snail, and they always felt that the Jurchens had rushed to the wall before they could reload.

With this urgency, the action of these soldiers began to deform with ammunition in their hands, either some forgot to load*, some forgot to load the projectile, and some were nervous and even shot the putter together.

If it weren't for the fact that the new army had a barracks to rely on, the junior officers scattered throughout the camp walls used wooden battles and loud scolding to revive the soldiers and restore them from the tension on the battlefield.

Over the past year or so, the rigorous training of the officers and men of the New Army has finally borne fruit. Even though the soldiers' minds were not yet fully awake, their bodies had mechanically obeyed the orders of the officers behind them.

As the officers and men of the new army slowly restored combat order, the eastern defense line of the Ming army camp, which was originally precarious, began to stabilize.

However, taking advantage of the chaos of the Ming army just now, the end of the triangle stretched out to the northeast of the camp had already been successfully climbed by the Jurchens. The more than 30 defenders who defended the area were soon slaughtered by the Jurchens who climbed up one after another.

Niu Lu under the command of Wu Erkun was the first to climb the camp wall of the Ming army's camp, and he tried to show his martial bravery in front of Yue Tuo and the Great Khan, and he also climbed the ladder at the first time and stepped forward to support his subordinates.

The end of the triangle stretched out from the outside of this Ming army camp is shaped like an arrow, and the personnel who can attack head-on are only one or two Niu Lu at most.

When Wu Erkun slashed at the Ming army in front of him who refused to flee and was still trying to resist, he had time to look up at the situation nearby.

This protruding triangular camp occupies a small area, and as the two Niu Lu under his command continue to come up, he realizes that the more than fifty armor soldiers standing here are already a little overwhelmed.

After the Jurchen soldiers below found that this place had been broken through, they continued to climb up, wanting to attack the interior of the Ming army camp from here.

Wu Erkun immediately pushed away the subordinates who were blocking his field of vision, and walked towards the passage leading to the Ming army camp, and beckoned: "Don't stop, continue to rush inside." You stopped here, did you want to be targeted by those Nanban..."

Yan Yingyuan personally led the reserve team to block the end passage of the triangle that was captured by the Jurchens, and the reason why he was able to block it in time was also because the Ming army guarding the end did not flee and disperse after the Jurchens boarded the camp wall, but insisted on resisting in place for a few minutes.

Although the Ming army with firearms was not the opponent of the Jurchen armor in hand-to-hand combat at all after firing, their delay in the Jurchens' actions gave the Ming army in the rear an opportunity to adjust their defenses.

The passage became wider the closer to the camp, and the place Yan Yingyuan chose to intercept was in the middle of the passage, where 50 people could be lined up in a tight spear array, and behind the first row of spearmen, there were two staggered rows of Ming musketeers.

Yan Yingyuan, who was standing in the first position of the second row of musketeers, glanced at the Jurchen armor who had stayed more than 30 steps away and did not dare to continue to charge forward, so he raised his hand and clenched his fist and waved down vigorously: "Second row of muskets, shoot." The second row stepped back, the third row stepped forward, aimed, shot ...

Wu Erkun had just squeezed his head out of the crowd when he saw a Ming army officer directing the musketeers who formed an array, shooting at them. Seeing the Ming army officer waving his fist downward, he subconsciously stepped back.

After a sound that was much duller than the sound of firecrackers, the five or six subordinates who were blocking in front of Wu Erkun almost fell without making a sound.

Looking at the row of arquebuses at the flat end of the Ming army opposite, Wu Erkun subconsciously shouted: "Rush up with me, they are a pile of waste after they release the gunpowder, don't give them time to reload." ”

Wu Erkun's desperate efforts suddenly inspired the courage of more than a dozen subordinates behind him, and under his leadership, these Jurchen armor soldiers standing in the front row all pounced on the small phalanx blocked by the Ming army on the passage, trying to open a gap for their companions behind them.

Yan Yingyuan was unmoved by the Jurchen charge, he calmly commanded the musketeers' shots, and ordered the spearmen to raise their spearheads and point at the lower abdomen of the Jurchen armorers who rushed over.

Wu Erkun was more than 10 steps away from the Ming spearmen when he was hit in the chest by three projectiles and fell. Half of the Jurchen armorers who followed him also fell, and the remaining five or six people were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the Ming army one by one.

Seeing that the Jurchen armor soldiers who ventured to charge ahead were all wiped out, the follow-up Jurchen soldiers suddenly stopped. On the side of the Ming army, new musketeers continued to be replaced, and under the command of the officer, the mechanical ones stepped forward and then retreated.

Wu Erkun's death deprived the Jurchen soldiers who climbed the camp wall of their unified command, and another reserve officer also organized personnel to climb below.

These Jurchens, who had lost their command, were suddenly like a swarm of brainless flies, some felt that they should continue to charge towards the passage, some felt that they should withdraw first, some felt that they should transfer archers to shoot at the Ming army, and some felt that they should ask their own opinions on their own preparations.

While the Jurchens continued to waste time and gave way to their companions at the entrance of the passage as live targets for the Ming musketeers, the defensive lines on both sides of the passage were finally stabilized, and several artillery pieces on both sides intercepted and fired at the Jurchen reinforcements below the end of the triangle.

After realizing that these Jurchens who had climbed the camp wall had lost support, Yan Yingyuan immediately asked the soldiers in the rear to push out the two tiger squat cannons loaded with scattered bullets, and began to bombard the dozens of remaining Jurchens at the end of the triangle.

Except for a few sharp-eyed Jurchens who jumped over the camp wall as soon as they saw the Tiger Squat Cannon, those Jurchens who couldn't react were immediately covered by the Tiger Squat Cannon, which fired scattered bullets at close range.

The Ming army then recaptured the lost northeast corner and once again restored the defense line of the entire battalion. Yan Yingyuan asked people to strengthen the defense in the northeast corner, and at the same time looked towards the frontal defense line where the battle was fiercest in the south, wanting to confirm the situation of the battle.