On the evening of November 1, Wednesday sent men to rebuild the outlying positions, and even the burned houses in the north were selected to take advantage of the favorable terrain.

On the morning of 2 November, Houjin dispatched about 30 Niu Lu, which were still divided into three attacks: east, north, and west, but the intensity of the attack on the east and north was not large, and Houjin still used the direction of the main attack to the west.

This time, the Houjin army, which was dispatched from the west, had apparently learned the lesson of yesterday, and no longer tried to attack under the city walls at once, but adopted a strategy of advancing layer by layer. Nearly 20 Niu Lu of the Houjin Right Route Army were divided into 4 teams, and after each chose a direction to break into one or two streets and alleys in the west of Zunhua, they spread out to the left and right, and then cut off the connection between the residential area behind them and the residential area in the west, forming an independent area surrounded by the Houjin army.

Then the follow-up troops began to clean up the Ming army or civilians hidden in this independent area, and Wednesday Wei called this tactic of Houjin a meat-cutting tactic. Although Wednesday Wei gave Houjin a name for this tactic, he didn't think about how to deal with it for a while.

After being cut off from the rear retreat, even the defending Ming troops in the independent area lost the courage to hold on, and desperately rushed to the Houjin blockade line, trying to run back to the area under their own control. Leaving the cover of the house, these Ming troops immediately became the target of the Houjinbu archers.

And the performance of those civilians and militia was even worse, after the Ming soldiers who dared to flee from the house were shot dead or captured, as soon as the Houjin army sent people up to shout, these people threw down their weapons and came out to surrender.

Wednesday Wei suddenly realized that although these organized young men could rely on walls or shelters under the command of Ming soldiers because of their family connections in the city, they were still a group of civilians after all, and once they encountered a dead end, it was easy to lose the courage to continue fighting, especially the people of Zunhua who were captured yesterday when the Houjin sent out to shout.

The Ming soldiers around them were not there, and Hou Jin gave hope for life, so they naturally would not have the idea of begging for death. The Later Jin army also encountered some obstacles when breaking through the Ming army's defense area, and once it successfully bypassed the back of the Ming army's defense area, these divided defense areas immediately collapsed.

The combination of armed attack and surrender of the Houjin army completely broke the house-to-house resistance plan discussed by Zhou Wei and others, and such a Houjin army could not inspire the determination of tens of thousands of people in the surrounding cities of Zunhua City to fight to the death.

"If this continues, it is estimated that it will not take more than two days for the western defense area to collapse. Don't these bastards think about their families in the city? If Houjin really broke through the city, would he still be as easy to talk as he is now? An officer complained to the side, somewhat indignant.

Su Ran also shook his head and said, "Lord Zhou, if the defenders don't have the determination to fight to the death, even if we build a good fortress, it will be useless." ”

Wednesday watched the Houjin army attacking from the west advance all the way, and occasionally some Ming firearms were lying on the wall to shoot at each other, but they were also quickly cleared by the Hou* arrow soldiers, and they did not cause much damage to the Houjin soldiers at all.

After staring at him for a long time, he finally turned back to the officers beside him and said, "These Tartars are indeed very cunning, but they still have a weakness, that is, they do not have enough troops.

Their attacking team in front is less than 2,000 people, and the number of people in the rear is only 2 or 3,000 people, so as long as they lose another one or two hundred people today, they may not dare to send the True Jurchen Tartars tomorrow.

As long as they begin to drive the surrendered army and the people to rush to the city, breaking their promise, then the people outside the city will put out the idea of surrendering and fight with these Jurchens. ”

Several Ming army officers glanced at each other, and then asked Wednesday suspiciously: "What do you mean?"

Wednesday walked back to the sand table at the back, pointed to the location below Ximen Avenue and said: "This street is about 1,500 meters away from the outer perimeter of the city, with a solid warehouse area to the north and the Shahe embankment to the south.

The weather has been dry in recent days, and in order to prevent the Tartars from setting fires here, we have also set up a number of fire escapes here. We continued to resist on the north side of the avenue, then let go of the defenses on the south side of the avenue and evacuate all the men in this area to the warehouse area. Let these Tartars enter the street, and then set them on fire by surprise. ”

Su Ran frowned and said, "It's okay to set fire, but how to persuade the civilians who live here?" If it is not handled well, I am afraid that those Tartars will use this torch to win over the people of Zunhua. ”

Wednesday said disapprovingly, "So you have to be careful, pick reliable people, and set up an arson zone here." And as soon as the fire starts, it makes people shout: the Tartars have set fire again. The Tartars had already set a fire in the north yesterday, and it would not be unacceptable to set another fire today. ”

He glanced at the silent officers around him, and then ordered his two most trusted officers, Huang Guoxian and Li Xin, to handle the arson.

The two officers hesitated for a moment, then took the order, went down and ordered their own soldiers to set off. About half an hour later, Huang Guoxian, who was standing on the second floor on the edge of the fire that was about to be ignited, watched a large group of Tartars running after the Ming army running through the street below, and then prepared to let the soldiers behind him set fire to block the street below.

Li Xin hurriedly grabbed the soldier who was about to throw the fire out of the window, and said to Huang Guoxian in a panic: "Light the fire now?" There are still our people in the fire. ”

Huang Guoxian looked at him and said helplessly: "If they don't take advantage of the fact that they are entangled by our people and set fire, as long as they turn around and flee before the fire gets bigger, they can still rush out of the fire."

Once all of our people have withdrawn from the fire, what is the need for those Tartars to set fire? When the time comes, there will inevitably be people who set the fire, and do you want to be blamed for the private arson and destruction of people's houses? It's really going to be a big fuss, and Lord Zhou can't protect us either. ”

Although Li Xin was still a little hesitant on his face, he slowly let go of the hand that was holding his own soldiers. Huang Guoxian nodded to the soldier holding the fire, and saw that the soldier threw the fire out of the window and landed on the barricade where the fire was placed in the street below.

Huang Guoxian stood at the window and waited for a while, watching the flames rise from the barricade before he said to the soldiers behind him: "We can go down, let's order this place when you leave." Send the signal out and let everyone else do it, and after half a quarter of an hour they start shouting that the Tartars want to set us on fire and make everyone go up and fight these Tartars..."

After this day, when the Jin army's offensive began, Yue Tuo, who was sitting in the main position of the right army, was still in a very happy mood. Although the Ming army made a turtle formation that had never been seen before, armed a group of civilians, and built a fortress in the streets of the city outside the city wall to defend against the attack of the Houjin army, it also made the red flag suffer a big loss.

However, under the arrangement of the Great Khan, the method of armed attack and surrender was adopted at the same time, and the attempt of the Ming guards to use civilians to consume the lives of the soldiers of the Eight Banners was quickly broken. Looking at the hordes of Ming people driven out of the streets of the city, Yue Tuo felt as if the war had returned to the rhythm he was familiar with.

Yue Tuo watched his four attacking troops advance with great momentum and no hindrance, so he handed over the task of the main formation to his younger brother Sakhalian, and then returned to the big tent with the main generals of the right army such as Zilharang to discuss how the next siege battle should be carried out.

When Yue Tuo and the others were discussing the order of the siege of the various armies, Sakhalian, who was sitting outside, hurriedly walked into the big tent. Yue Tuo, who was discussing siege affairs in front of the rudimentary model of Zunhua City, suddenly stopped, he looked up at his younger brother and asked, "Is there something going on outside?" Is there anything unusual about the Ming army? ”

As Daishan's favorite son, Sakhalian is now only 27 years old, and he is fluent in not only Manchu but also Mongolian. Because he was raised with Yue Tuo since he was a child, he was raised by Meng Gu Zhezhe's side, so he had the best relationship with Huang Taiji.

After Sakhalian glanced at the generals in the tent, he calmly said to Yue Tuo: "Our army's attack is still going well, but brother, I think something is not quite right, do you want to ask my brother to go out and have a look." ”

Yue Tuo dropped the wooden stick in his hand, walked around the table towards the door of the big tent, and asked by the way, "Ao, what's wrong?" ”

Sakhalian accompanied Yue Tuo to the outside of the big tent, and replied: "The two armies on the south side of our army seem to be advancing too quickly, and I doubt that the Ming army has any plans. ”

Yue Tuo walked up to the viewing platform set up outside the camp, and only then did he take a look at it and said with a frown: "What's wrong with Arzin?" How dare you advance so lightly. Isn't yesterday's lesson of Honnika a light enemy enough? Blow the trumpet, let Arzin retreat, let Lausa bring two Niu Lu to come forward to answer, don't let the Ming army intercept their rear road..."

Sakhalian suddenly lost his voice and shouted: "Fire, the Ming people set fire, Arzin they are in danger." ”

After doing so, the general of the Jin Right Route Army stood on the high platform with a black face and looked at the southeast, only to see several black smoke quickly rushing into the air, and at least half of the 10 Niu Lu commanded by Arzin were lost in the fire. Looking at the fire, it would be nice to be able to get half of the people out.

These generals couldn't help but feel a little frightened in their hearts, "After the loss of 2 and a half Niu Lu yesterday, is it difficult to lose 2 or 3 Niu Lu today?" This didn't even touch the city of Zunhua City, so they lost five or six Niu Lu, and if they wanted to capture Zunhua City, how many Niu Lu did they have to fill in?

And Zunhua City is just the first city that can be called a city since entering the customs, and I heard that the more you go west, the taller the city of the Ming people becomes. If they continue to fight, how many girls can they bring home? ”