The houses on both sides of Ximen Avenue in Zunhua are much better than those on both sides of the streets on the north and south sides of the outer city, not only are the houses on the street used to open shops mostly two-story wooden buildings, but also some sturdy warehouses used as warehouses, which have a spacious front yard for parking vehicles, mules and horses.

But now the front yards of these warehouses have become hiding places for the Ming army, and each courtyard has 2 or 30 sergeants, half of whom are holding arquebuses of the Ming army, and the other half are spearmen wearing double armor. In the more than 10 frontage yards behind the first and second barricades, at least 150 musketeers and 150 spearmen were arranged.

In other houses facing the street, there were about the same number of firearms soldiers and Ming soldiers. Since discovering the movements of the Houjin army, Wednesday Wei gathered the backbone of the Ming army in the two nearby areas here, preparing to teach the Houjin attacking troops a hard lesson and demoralize the enemy, lest those panicked civilians be beaten by the forward troops of Houjin in a battle without morale.

As long as these civilians can be made to know that as long as they obey his orders and fight against houses and walls, they can inflict harm on the Houjin soldiers, then these militias will not completely collapse because of the fear of the Houjin army. Only the battle plan he envisioned could be effective.

Wednesday was ready for a tough battle, but he didn't expect that Houjin's generals would dare to enter so rashly, and he was completely unprepared for ambushes in the houses on both sides. Of course, since the Houjin soldiers entered the customs, they had never encountered anyone who dared to stay in the house and fight with them.

As the main force of the Right Route Army of the Later Jin, the two red flags had captured five cities in one day, and even the two or three zhang high city walls could not stop their attack, so they naturally did not worry about any ambushes of the Ming army in these houses with no defensive capabilities.

And the performance of the militia behind these barricades really made these cavalrymen with red flags not vigilant, although the performance of these militias was better than the civilians, but it was far worse than the Ming army they had encountered. The first team of Niu Lu quickly broke through the barricade regardless of it, while the second and third teams followed by Niu Lu began to be busy catching prisoners.

When Wednesday Wei ordered the Ming troops in the houses on both sides to start attacking, the second and third teams of Niu Lu, which were supposed to be closely connected with the first team of Niu Lu, had almost stopped.

From the wall of the courtyard facing the street, from the second floor of the house facing the street, or from the window of the first floor, the Ming army fired at the Houjin cavalry who were hovering the street and ordering the militia to lay down their arms. When these Ming soldiers were shooting, they did not pay any attention to the militia who were still standing in the street in a daze.

Although the official road of the west gate of Zunhua is spacious, it is only about 20 steps, and the three-eyed gun, which is the least powerful used by the Ming army, has an effective range of about 3 or 40 steps. And among Wednesday Wei's subordinates, there are dozens of heavy arquebuses, these heavy arquebuses are at this distance, even if the Houjin cavalry wears triple armor, they can't defend themselves, not to mention that these Houjin cavalry also have unloaded their iron armor.

Those who were hit by the heavy arquebus guns of the Ming army basically fell on the spot, and they didn't even have the ability to struggle, and some bullets even passed through the two people side by side in a row. Of course, because of the width of the street, some of the bullets that did not hit the human body even passed through the wooden wall opposite, injuring their own people in the house. If there is an earthen wall or a brick wall on the opposite side, it will still be able to block these bullets.

Among the Jurchen Eight Banners, the status of the Two Red Flags is second only to the Two Yellow Flags led by Nurhachi, and the number of people in the Two Red Flags is almost as sufficient as the Two Yellow Flags after years of conquest. Therefore, the number of Niu Lu who fought in the two red flags this time was basically between 40 and 50 people, and the number of armored soldiers also accounted for more than one-third.

The attack launched by the Ming army from both sides of the street killed more than 20 Houjin cavalry and more than 30 horses at one time, and more than 20 people of the Ming army themselves were injured by mistake.

Although they were suddenly attacked by the Ming army, the cavalry who were not injured, or the cavalry who were not suppressed by the fallen mounts, quickly attacked the militia around them, preventing these militias from reacting, and assisting the Ming troops who were sneaking up on both sides to attack themselves.

Quite a few Houjin cavalry tried to rescue their fallen comrades; Others desperately shouted at their companions who had crossed the fifth barricade, hoping that they would return as soon as possible and escape from the Ming trap; There were also some brave people who rushed towards the houses on both sides, trying to kill the Ming army with firearms.

However, as these cavalry were driven back into the street by the spearmen of the Ming army, the Ming troops in the houses on both sides loaded their muskets and opened fire again.

As soon as someone starts running away on the battlefield, someone will inevitably follow. The two red flags were originally not very enthusiastic about the expedition, and now they can obtain the necessary living materials through trade with the Ming Kingdom, and they do not need to use their blood and lives to loot these materials as before.

Huang Taiji changed the expedition to the Mongolian Chahar Department to a detour to attack the Ming State, which was a better choice than fighting the Mongolian Chahar Department for these proud soldiers of the two red banners. First, there is no need to travel so far, and secondly, the people of the Ming Kingdom are much richer than the Mongols on the steppe.

Under the leadership of Yue Tuo, the two red flags that broke through the pass from Da'ankou received the most loot, and when they arrived at Zunhua City, these soldiers and horses of the two red flags were almost full of bags around them. At this time, it is obviously a bit embarrassing for them to work hard.

The five Niu Lu with red flags originally thought that they had received a relaxed and freehand temptation mission, but to drive away some militia on the streets of the outer city, clear the way for the army to officially attack the city, and by the way, they could also loot the people in the outer city.

But now it has become a battle in the streets with a superior number of Ming spearmen, and they have to endure the musket fire of the Ming army from both sides, which is simply more dangerous than siege warfare. During the siege, there was only danger in front of the city, but now it was attacked by Ming troops from all sides.

The Red Banner Cavalry, who was completely unprepared, suddenly didn't even care about the Niu Lu who rushed to the front, and turned around and fled on his own. Those who have horses are better, and the Houjin cavalry, who lost their mounts, handed over their backs to the Ming army and fled, which was almost equivalent to handing over their lives to heaven.

Mel Zhangjing Hongnika, who led these 5 Niu Lu, saw that three Niu Lu were lost to the Ming army at once, and almost lost his soul. Even if Dai Shan protects him again, it is estimated that the Great Khan and Yue Tuo will not spare him.

The two red flags have not fought any hard battles in the later period of Nurhachi, firstly, Nurhachi is a little jealous of the strength of the two red flags second only to his own two yellow flags, and does not want the two red flags to continue to make meritorious contributions;

The second is that after Dai Shan established himself as the first person under the Great Khan of the Later Jin, every time the two red flags went into battle, they were responsible for the lightest task, but they would not be much less when they divided the spoils.

Under such circumstances, the combat effectiveness of the two red flags began to decline somewhat. And the Hongnika army was not strict in governance, which led to the fact that these Niu Lu under the red flag encountered unfavorable battles and escaped.

Hongnika's first reaction was to ask the two Niu Lu around him to step forward and pick up the three Niu Lu who were surrounded by the Ming army, especially the complete Niu Lu who ran to the front.

In his opinion, only Niu Lu at the front turned around and returned, coupled with his response here, under the front and back attacks, he could rescue the remaining people in the trap.

Although he gave the order, the two Niu Lu beside him refused to rush forward. A Niu Lu Ezhen desperately persuaded Hongnika: "The width of this street is so large, now the Ming army and our army are entangled in a mess, if we rush up again, it will be a mess, and we can't move."

When the Ming army arrives, they will continue to shoot from the heights on both sides, and we will all become targets, not only will we not be able to save them, but we may all fall into them. Please ask for help from the rear, we will answer with bows and arrows on the outside, and we will save as much as we can..."

Honika looked at the other Niu Lu and nodded his head, while the others also looked at him, not daring to look at him, knowing that these subordinates were timid.

Unable to drive the remaining two Niu Lu forward, Hongnika suddenly said angrily: "Since you don't want to rush up to answer, then hurry up and shoot in formation, you can't let them all get trapped inside, right?"

Five Niu Lu can't even deal with hundreds of Ming troops and some civilians, and you have to ask the little master for help, do you think your head is too stable? Or do you think Lao Tzu's head is too stable?

If you can't answer, Lao Tzu will cut off the heads of the two of you first, and then lift your own heads to ask the old master for guilt. ”

Seeing that Hongnika's eyes were red, the two Niu Lu Ezhen suddenly didn't dare to delay any longer, one stepped forward and dismounted to shoot at the tribesmen in the trap, while the other was still on the horse, ready to choose the right time to charge.

Standing at the head of a courtyard wall southeast of the first barricade, Wednesday Wei has been paying attention to the changes in the situation on the battlefield.

After two blows by the Ming army, there were less than 50 people left in the encirclement after the eighty or ninety cavalry. In addition to the three or four cavalry who had escaped from the barricade area, the remaining Houjin cavalry, with more than 20 cavalry as the lead, and more than 20 Houjin soldiers who had lost their mounts as the rearguard, were trying to maintain a basic formation and flee to the west.

After the Houjin soldiers formed a formation, it was difficult for the spearmen of the Ming army to attack, and some of the spearmen of the Ming army who were too impatient attacked rashly, but were killed by these Houjin soldiers who formed a formation.

Then the Ming troops standing around the Jin soldiers also blocked the view of the musketeers in the houses on both sides, but they looked helpless to take these Hou Jin soldiers for a while.

At the same time, 30 paces away from the west side of the first barricade, dozens of Houjin soldiers dismounted and lined up to shoot at the Ming troops in the barricade, which immediately opened a gap for these surrounded Houjin soldiers.

Wednesday looked at the more than 40 Houjin soldiers who were breaking through, and then looked at the Houjin strikers who were turning around in the east and wanted to rush back, and suddenly made a decision.

He ordered the Ming troops at the first barricade to the west to get out of the way, and then let the musketeers in the houses on both sides go up the street and shoot at the fleeing Houjin soldiers.

He himself, with his spearmen and several other groups of musketeers, formed a phalanx and headed for the Houjin cavalry, who wanted to return.

The Houjin cavalry, which was originally surrounded by the spearmen of the Ming army, was fighting desperately, when they suddenly saw that the spear array in front of them suddenly dispersed, leaving a passage for them.

These Houjin cavalrymen had not yet come to a conclusion in their minds, and their legs had unconsciously clamped their mounts, and they rushed out of the passage let by the spearmen of the Ming army.

As soon as the 20 or so horsemen who opened the road ran away, they immediately left the infantry behind. And when the horses had rushed through the barricades, they disrupted the array of their archers. Niu Lu Ezhen, who commanded the archers to shoot, suddenly saw that the remaining 20 or so clansmen were suddenly overwhelmed by the Ming army on the street, and he couldn't do anything now.