Just when Huang Taiji and other Jurchen relatives and nobles held a military meeting to adjust the battle plan for Zunhua City, Mang Gurtai was sitting on a small hill 800 steps west of the Santun camp, watching the two white flags line up to attack the city from the north and west.

He didn't know that Huang Taiji was convening the Jurchen relatives to discuss the battle, so he wanted to capture the Santun camp as soon as possible, or prove that he could not capture the Santun camp as soon as possible, and then return to Zunhua as soon as possible to discuss how to withdraw the troops with Dai Shan.

In addition to the yellow flag behind the middle route army, the four flags on the left flank besieging Santun camp are the three flags of the blue flag, the white flag, and the white flag. As the owner of the Blue Flag, Mang Gurtai would not care how many people would be killed or injured in the siege of the two White Flags.

Under his arrangement, the two white flags became the main force of the siege. Santun camp city is 3 zhang high, 7 miles in circumference, there are 5 corner towers and 9 enemy towers built on the city, two water passes face each other from east to west, there is a bell and drum tower built in the center of the city, it is said that there are 72 alleys. The expansion of the city river, the forage field, the military drill hall and the military parade ground are all available in the three camps.

Located on the south bank of the Luan River, Santun Camp City is actually one-fifth larger than Zunhua City, but the defenders in the city plus the people are less than 10,000 people. The seat of the town of Jizhou was originally the foundation of the Jizhou Sanxie.

However, because of the rapid development of Zunhua City and the reorganization of Jizhou Town after Chongzhen ascended the throne, Jizhou Sanxie was reduced from 120,000 soldiers in the sixth year of the Apocalypse to more than 67,000, and the garrison strength of the Santun Battalion also changed from 7 or 8,000 on the roster to more than 3,000.

After the Jin detoured into the pass, Zhu Lai, the deputy general of the Santun camp garrison, went to support the passes of the Great Wall, which reduced the garrison in the Santun camp to more than 1,000 people. After that, Zhu Lai abandoned the army and fled, and only seven or eight hundred of the 3,000 men and horses he led fled returned to the Santun camp.

After Zhao Shujiao heard the news, he asked his deputy commander-in-chief Liu Yuan to take 300 people to pick up the soldiers and civilians who had retreated from Luo Wenyu to Santun Camp, and then preside over the defense of Santun Camp.

Although Liu Yuan received the men and horses withdrawn by Luo Wenyu and Li Sili on the way, they encountered an outpost led by Yang Guli, the left route army of the Later Jin Dynasty, on the way. Liu Yuan took 300 people from his headquarters to deal with the aftermath, but was shot and wounded by Yang Guli, and was finally desperately snatched back by his subordinates.

As a military town in Jizhou, the pattern of Santun Yingcheng has long been figured out by the secret agents sent by Huang Taiji. Mang Gurtai had a sketch of the Santun camp in his hand, and he knew that there was a town hall similar to the inner city in the Santun camp city. Even if the outer city fell, the Ming army could still rely on the town government to hold on.

For a fortified city like Santunying, Mang Gurtai did not think that it could be easily captured. However, it is possible to use the Ming army's fortified city to consume the power of the two white flags. If the two white flags can't bear the cost of life in the siege, they will naturally have one more reason to withdraw their troops, and they can also destroy the relationship between Huang Taiji and the two white flags by the way.

The strength of the attack on the Santun camp was about 5,000 people, mainly the strength of the two white flags. After Mang Gurtai arrived at the front line of the Santun camp, he ordered the north and west to attack with heavy troops at the same time, and there was no more cautious and heavy attitude in the previous two days. On this day, from the morning to the afternoon, the white flag pawn Samhatu took the lead in climbing the west city wall, and the outer city of Santun Camp, which had been held for three days, was immediately broken.

Liu Yuan, who was already wounded, was shot dead by Samhatu while leading people to try to recapture the lost western city wall. As soon as Liu Yuan died, the Ming army, which was still fighting, finally began to flee. After capturing the western city wall, the Jin army opened the western city gate, and the Santun camp fell immediately. The Ming army, which had hidden in the town, under the leadership of Li Sili, the garrison of Luo Wenyu, finally surrendered to Mang Gurtai.

The swift victory of this siege was a surprise even to Mang Gurtai. He didn't expect that the Santun camp city, which looked extremely strong, would not be able to hold out for even a day. Of course, the two white flags still paid a lot of casualties for this, and about 300 people completely lost their combat effectiveness.

However, the harvest of capturing the Santun camp was enough to make up for the loss of the two white flags, in addition to the more than 1,000 Ming troops who surrendered in the city, there were also nearly 4,000 military families. The various military supplies stored in the warehouses in the city are enough for the men and horses of Houjin to go on this expedition until the beginning of spring next year.

Most importantly, the Houjin army also captured 20 or 30 Franc cannons, as well as thousands of catties of * and artillery shells from the Santun camp. With these firearms, it seems that you can try to attack Zunhua City. Although this ending was a bit disappointing to Mang Gurtai, he finally did not forget his identity, and still collected these firearms and transported them back to Zunhua.

The railway between Santunying and Zunhua was originally used to transport iron ore developed near Santunying, but after the Houjin discovered the use of this railway, it became a channel used by the Houjin army to transport military supplies in Santunying.

At noon on November 7, Mang Gurtai returned to Zunhua City with the main force of the Left Route Army, and the news of the fall of Santun Camp was also immediately spread by Huang Taiji, and he once again proposed surrender to Zhao Shujiao, the defender of Zunhua City.

Huang Taiji also promised that as long as Zunhua City surrendered to the Later Jin, the Later Jin army would never harass the soldiers and civilians in the city, and Zhao Shujiao could retain his original official rank and his own army.

On the afternoon of the 7th, in addition to Mang Gurtai arriving in Zunhua with the main force of the Left Route Army and the soldiers and civilians of the Santun Battalion of 8 or 9,000, the Tabu Bag, who had closed the 36th Division, finally arrived in Zunhua with 3,000 cavalry from his tribe and 2,000 cavalry from other tribes.

The leader of the 36th Department of Guanmen finally couldn't resist Huang Taiji's persuasion and the temptation of the Houjin army to send people back to Shenyang to transport the Dingkou property, and finally chose to stand on the side of the Houjin, ready to take this opportunity to enter the Ming Dynasty and plunder.

Hearing that Tabu Nang, who was not bound, led the troops into the customs, Huang Taiji personally led the Jurchen relatives out of the camp to greet him, and gave the leader of the 36 departments of the gate a very high courtesy, and did not reproach him for violating the covenant at the beginning, and did not mean to enter the customs with the Houjin army. Seeing Huang Taiji's approachable appearance, he was very moved, and swore to Huang Taiji on the spot that in the future, his clan would definitely advance and retreat with Houjin, and would not dare to act half-heartedly.

The fall of Santun Camp, coupled with the arrival of 36 reinforcements from Guanmen, suddenly boosted the morale of the Houjin army, and the Houjin army under Zunhua City also reached nearly 50,000 people, including 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers, 6,000 Mongolian soldiers, and about 20,000 Xinfu Han troops.

The surrendered soldiers and civilians of the Santun camp were also organized into six teams of the new Han army, and after deducting the four teams of the new Han army consumed in two days, the new Han army still had 12 teams.

There were originally more than 70,000 young people outside Zunhua City, but after seven days of fighting, they were almost reduced to more than 50,000. In the first few days, the Qingzhuang outside the city of Zunhua suffered the most losses, but when the Jurchens retreated and let the Xinfu Han army go into battle, the proportion of casualties among the Qingzhuang guarding the city outside the city began to decline steadily.

After the battles outside the city these days, the Zunhua Garrison Command, which had just been established not long ago, was finally no longer an empty shelf. The commanders of the various defense districts sent outside the city on Wednesday quickly matured in such fierce battles, and also established certain contacts with the military and civilians in the defense areas. They finally knew who their men were and what the environment was like in the place they were defending.

According to the agreement between Wednesday and the soldiers and civilians guarding outside the city before the battle, if one enemy soldier is killed, he can be immediately transferred to the rear and become an officer and soldier under the garrison command. And the people who dare to fire at the enemy or use their hands will be transferred to assist the officers and soldiers in the battle.

And those who have experienced a battle and have not fled, they officially become a militia, and after each battle, they can be transferred to the rear to rest for a period of time. As for the others, they are considered to be strong people, and they can only obey the orders of officers and soldiers and volunteers to defend in a limited area, and those who escape from the defense area are regarded as deserters.

The four levels of people, militia, volunteers, and officers and soldiers divided the military and civilians outside Zunhua into a hierarchical military organization. At the beginning, there were only 600 officers and soldiers and 800 volunteers in the hands of Zhou Wei, but as the war continued to develop, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were absorbed into the name of the garrison headquarters, and there were 5 or 6,000 volunteers.

These men have either killed an enemy soldier or have left their own attacks on an enemy soldier. Compared to ordinary people, they can be regarded as veterans. With the assistance of these officers and soldiers and volunteers, Zhou Wei finally divided the southeast, northeast, northwest, southwest, and the city into five large garrison areas, and firmly controlled the other garrison areas except the city in his own hands.

Houjin distributed the news that the Santun camp was captured and the 36 reinforcements of the closed gate arrived, which not only greatly boosted their morale, but also dealt a heavy blow to the Zunhua soldiers and civilians defending the city.

However, this emotional panic was quickly suppressed by the strict control of speech by the Fear, who asked some of the officers and men of the garrison headquarters to serve as a full-time gendarmerie to arrest spies, capitulationists, soldiers, and officials and civilians in the city.

Huang Taiji's plan to use these two good news to induce Zunhua City to surrender without a fight failed, and the war under Zunhua City continued. Regardless of whether it is the Houjin or the Ming army, both sides are learning in this siege battle, learning how to fight a street battle dominated by * weapons.

On the 8th and 9th, Houjin took the Xinfu Han Army as the main force, and placed the main offensive direction on the east and west, and only made some feints in the north. The right army to the west attacked for several days, and except for advancing its position to a distance of 1,100 paces from the wall of the western city, the other results can be described as lackluster.

In fact, in the eyes of the Jurchen generals of the Right Army, the enemy opposite them was growing at a rapid pace, from standing behind the barricades with a wooden spear and trembling at the beginning, to now being able to reload ammunition under the threat of bows and arrows without hurry, and refusing to give up their weapons until they died.

In their eyes, these Ming people now finally look like some soldiers. As long as you survive this war and don't die, you are the best soldier seedling.