Huang Qi looked through his monoculars and found that after three rounds of firing from Houjin's Franc machine gun, the Jurchen Tartars who were supervising the battle on the side may have felt that the power of the artillery bombardment was not ideal, so they ran to point fingers and threaten several Ming gunners.

Next, after the surrender, Jin's Ming gunners finally added the weight of *, and the lead bullets that could only hit the outermost trench and the outer wall of the fortress could now finally hit the wall of the fortress.

However, the Franc cannon itself did not have a fixed aiming device, and could only rely on the gun gauge and firing table for aimed shooting. However, it is obvious that these post-surrender gunners failed to master such a sophisticated shooting method, and could only shoot roughly according to the previous estimation method.

Therefore, the people who can be hit by these lead bullets can basically be regarded as extremely unlucky. But even so, under the constant fire of the Houjin artillery, there are always unlucky Ming soldiers who will be hit.

When Huang Qi continued to observe the movements of the Houjin army, Zang Tiaoyuan, the garrison of the Ming army stationed in the North Fort, hurriedly ran up to the wall of the Inner Fort, and before he could stand on the city wall, he had already shouted loudly: "Why don't you fire the cannons, aren't those Tartar cannons within the range of our cannons?" ”

Huang Qi put down the binoculars, turned around and greeted Zang Tiaoyuan behind him, and then said: "Zang Zhongjun, it was my order to prohibit all artillery above six catties from firing. ”

As Zhao Shujiao's most trusted cronies and the Chinese army beside Zhao Shujiao, Zang Tiaoyuan is in charge of Beibao, which also shows that Zhao Shujiao attaches great importance to the location of Beibao.

However, unlike other forts, the fort relied mainly on a variety of firearms, and among these firearms, artillery was the most important means.

The Liaodong army led by Zhao Shujiao was good at cavalry combat and hand-to-hand combat, and its use of artillery was obviously inferior to that of specially trained artillery units. Therefore, the army in the North Fort was divided into two groups, forming a dual leadership.

Although Zang Tiaoyuan was the garrison of the North Fort, all the artillery in the fort was under the command of Huang Qi, and he obviously couldn't understand what Huang Qi meant, "What do you mean by this?" Why is it forbidden to open fire? As long as we bombard the Tartars' cannons, we won't be bombarded by the Tartars' cannons. ”

Huang Qi pointed to the location of the lead bullet on the opposite side and said, "Just these days of lead bullets like scattered flowers, even if they fight until tomorrow, they may not be able to hit many of us."

But since these Tartars have not yet figured out the range of our artillery, why should we expose the range of our cannons for the sake of a few cannons that cannot reach us?

I think it's better to wait a little longer, and when those Tartars line up to attack, give them a hard blow, so that I can teach them a lesson. Only by beating these Jurchen Tartars can we make them feel awe and defend Zunhua City.

If we don't let these Tartars feel awe, they will drive our own people to storm the city, and eventually drain our ammunition with the blood of our Ming people. ”

Zang Tiaoyuan stared at Huang Qi's eyes for a while, and finally said: "What you said had better be right, if your order causes the Tartars to rush to the city wall, I will definitely settle accounts with you." ”

Huang Qi didn't answer Zang Tiaoyuan's words, but pointed to the east and said, "The Tartars have started to attack, Zang Zhongjun, let's still keep our duties." ”

Zang Tiaoyuan looked in the direction pointed by Huang Qi's arm, and sure enough, a group of men and horses began to assemble at a position 50 steps behind the artillery position, as if they were ready to start charging the city.

The east of the North Fort, which was attacked by the Later Jin Left Route Army, was just the area between the two corners of the fortress. The base edge of the bastion is about 300 meters, and the distance between the two corners of the bastion extending outward is more than 600 meters.

That is, when the Houjin army attacked, the front line on their front would become narrower and narrower, which would automatically compress the formation of the attacking army.

The Jurchen relatives who commanded the army to attack the North Fort were the Dolgon brothers, and the 18-year-old Dolgon was on the battlefield for the second time. His first expedition was last year when he followed Huang Taiji to conquer the Chahar tribes left behind, so he was awarded the title of "Murgen Daiqing".

Although he was only 18 years old, Dorgon was as steady as an adult, without any youthful vigor. However, his younger brother Duoduo, who is two years younger than him, kept revealing that he wanted to go into battle to kill the enemy in person.

Dordor's eagerness to prove his prowess on the battlefield was firmly suppressed by Dorgon, who kept his young brother by his side, fearing that something might happen to him himself.

Although after Nurhachi's death, the two yellow flags and the current two white flags, because of the unity of the soldiers in the flag, were not divided by the four major beylers, and still belonged to their three brothers.

But Azig has a violent personality and is not liked by the Jurchen and Belle. The four Baylors forced the eldest concubine Abahai to be martyred, and only the adult Azig could help at that time, but because Azig's popularity was too poor, he was finally succeeded by the four Baylors.

After his mother was forced to be martyred, he did not want to take care of his two younger brothers, but asked to take the inheritance that Nurhachi left to his two younger brothers, trying to take the banner alone. This caused Azig to lose the hearts and minds of the two white flags, and forced Dorgon to take refuge in Huang Taiji in order to preserve his and his brother's inheritance.

Dolgon's health was not very good, and he was often sick, so he was not as strong as his brother and brother, and although he was tall, he was quite thin, like a scholar of the Ming Kingdom.

In contrast, Duoduo, who was two years younger than him, had a somewhat developed figure because of adequate nutrition.

The two brothers, with a team of white-armored soldiers, stood on the hill behind the artillery position and watched the fortress of the Ming army in the west.

When Dolgon was looking at the fortress of the Ming army, Duoduo, who was standing beside him, said disapprerovantly: "It seems that these so-called invincible general cannons of the Ming people are not very good?" It's been more than ten fights, and the rudimentary city wall on the opposite side hasn't cracked.

In my opinion, let's let those Han troops start attacking. When those Han troops attracted the attention of the Ming defenders, I supervised 3 Niu Lu to rush up, and maybe I could break this fortress. ”

Dorgon didn't pay attention to Duoduo's words, he nodded to one of the generals behind him, and said softly, "Let's begin, let Inordai lead 3 Bull Lu to standby." ”

Li Sili, a Ming general who was awarded the post of general by Hou Jin, took his brain, which had just shaved off his hair and was a little blue, and after receiving the order to siege the city from Beiyu Ying Ordai, he took a group of cronies and went to the Xinfu Han Army to command the siege.

The surrendered soldiers and civilians of the Santun camp were divided into a team of 1,700 people to join the Han army, of which 300 old and weak were used as auxiliaries to fill in the ditch with negative soil and erect ladders, that is, to establish a passage for the army to go out, and the remaining 1,400 people were the main force of the battle.

Li Sili divided the attacking Han army into four teams, the first team mainly rushed to the bottom of the trench with six ladders and erected it, so that the rear army could rush up the trench and start the battle.

The men and horses behind were divided into three teams and attacked in three batches. Of course, this also has the meaning of mutual surveillance operations, these newly formed Han troops may not all really want to surrender to Houjin, if they are not supervised and deterred, maybe they will flee halfway, or they will not be able to work.

Li Sili, who had just surrendered to Jin, in order to be able to show his value to the new master, was quite hard at work for this siege battle, much more attentive than when he served as Luo Wenyu's garrison.

Under the spur of Li Sili and his own soldiers, 300 Han soldiers carried the 15 ladders that had just been made, and slowly rushed towards the North Fort. As they ran with ladders, they recited the names of the gods and Buddhas in their mouths, hoping that they would bless them through the battle.

These Han troops, who were still dressed in the costumes of the Ming people, ran all the way to the bottom of the trench, and the defenders of the North Fort did not attack, and only when they erected a ladder to climb out of the trench and prepare to erect a second ladder on the outer wall of the fortress, the Ming army in the city began to warn these Han troops.

These Ming troops guarding the city shouted to the Han army below, telling them to bypass both sides of the fortress, and then climb over the ditch in the west and flee directly into the city in the east of Zunhua, so that they could survive, and those who continued to work for Houjin would be attacked.

The flexible brain and the courage were a little bigger, and they threw down the weapons in their hands and bent down to flee in the direction indicated by the Ming army, and some Han soldiers who were not flexible enough and still held the ladder to the city wall, were immediately shot by the Ming army on the two city walls.

In addition to the dozens of Han soldiers who fled first, the Han soldiers who wanted to flee behind were quickly shot by the second team of Han soldiers who caught up. At this point, the Houjin Left Route Army and Beibao launched the first fierce contact battle.

Dolgon, who was watching the battle from behind, soon realized that there seemed to be something mysterious about the Ming fortress. Since the slope of the trench near them is a 60-degree slope, the personnel can directly rush into the trench, and naturally there is no need to fill the trench to fight.

The trench near the fort is at an almost vertical upward angle, so a ladder is required to climb. In this way, the speed at which the soldiers in the rear entered the trench was much greater than the speed at which the soldiers in the trench climbed over the trench, and this was a steep slope of 60 degrees, resulting in a steady stream of soldiers rushing down when the trench was full of people, unable to stop.

The two corners of the Ming fortress protruding outwards made the soldiers in the trench suffer three blows, and the crowd in the trench was so dense that there was no need for the Ming soldiers on the city wall to aim, whether it was a firearm or a bow and arrow, as long as they shot down, they could hit one or two people.

In this situation, the trench in front of the Ming army fortress suddenly became a hell of flesh and blood, except for a few soldiers who climbed over the trench, most of them were just trying to avoid the attack from nowhere.

And those soldiers who climbed over the trench were not much better than the soldiers in the trench, they were not only besieged on three sides, but also attacked by the Ming army's archers at the head of the second city, and in only half an hour, this group of new Han troops was almost completely submerged under the outer walls of the trench and the Ming army's fortress.

This kind of efficient killing speed, even the battle-hardened two white flag generals around Dolgon looked at it slightly. Duoduo, who had been jumping and wanted to command the siege of Niu Lu under his banner, also quieted down.

Dolgon subconsciously looked to the south, and he found that the situation in front of the southern fortress was no different from that in front of him, and the first attack of the left army was broken in front of two strange-looking fortresses.

Thankfully, Dolgon was fortunate that it was all Ming people who died now, and if it was his own people, he didn't know how to explain it to those family members when he returned.

Dolgon was silent for a while, then raised his horsewhip and summoned a Jurchen general beside him and ordered: "Go and call the gunners of the Ming generals, Ying Ordai and the Ming people, and ask them to suspend the siege first." ”