Huang Qi looked up in the direction pointed by the adjutant beside him, and found that nearly two hundred horsemen had run towards them from the Jurchens' camp. They dismounted 50 paces from the trench, leaving fifteen men to guard the horses, while the others marched toward the trench with bows and arrows in hand.

He quickly counted the number of tartars coming to the trench, which was more than 150 men. Huang Qi immediately shouted to the adjutant beside him: "Except for the armor No. 1-5 guns, continue to aim at the artillery positions of the Tartars.

The guns on the other arm-mounted guns were aimed at the No. 3 target area, and the Tartars began firing as soon as they stopped. Guns from the 1st-5th gun positions of the armor, fire after the fire of other guns ...

Ying Erdai was ordered to take the three Niu Lu armor soldiers forward to cover the Han army to the city with foot shooting, and the three Niu Lu under him were not without complaints. They were not complaining that they were going into battle, but that these Han troops were too incompetent to be worthy of their cover.

After seeing the power of the Ming army's firearms, they were a little worried that the Han army's siege was too delayed, which would cause the Ming army at the head of the city to aim at them. Although they wore heavy armor, they had a slight psychological advantage over the firearms of the Ming army, after all, they had fought with the firearms of the Ming army many times when they were in Liaodong, and they knew that these firearms had no ability to break armor if they exceeded 30 steps.

However, after all, they can't be covered with armor, and if they are hit by stray bullets, they will also be injured and killed. Therefore, these Jurchens hoped that the besieging army would work harder, preferably to distract most of the defenders at the head of the city, so that they could be safer.

However, Yingordai is usually a good person and has won the support of his subordinates, so although these Jurchen soldiers complained a little, they did not show it obviously, and they still obeyed the order and followed Yingordai to the front.

Among the three Niu Lu, one is the Niu Lu led by him, and it is also the Niu Lu composed of his family and township. His family lived in Zakum, and during Nurhachi's expedition to the Jurchen tribes, his grandfather Daitu Kuhari was captured by Nurhachi, and became Nurhachi's inner cow, that is, domestic slave.

Neiniulu is the private soldier of the Jurchen Eight Banners and some high-status Jurchen nobles, which is a product of the Jurchen tribal alliance era before Nurhachi established the Eight Banners system.

After Nurhachi established the Eight Banners system, he began to vigorously reduce the internal bull records around the Jurchen relatives and nobles in order to weaken the power of these Jurchen relatives and nobles. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he tried his best to suppress the number of internal cattle records around the owners of each banner, and tried his best to enrich these private soldiers into the eight banners.

As a clothed servant inherited by Dolgon, Ying Erdai can also be regarded as a relatively outstanding young general of the Zhengbai Banner, and he is therefore valued by Huang Taiji as a pawn used to divide the Zhengbai Banner.

Inordai did have political talents that ordinary Jurchens did not have, and he had always had a good balance between Huang Taiji and the banner lord Dolgon, neither disappointing Huang Taiji nor incurring Dorgon's jealousy.

But today he encountered the second crisis in his life, when he commanded three oxen to march to the outside of the trench, and was about to let the team unfold, but suddenly saw more than a dozen artillery pieces on the top of the upper and lower layers of the fortress.

The location where Yingordai was located was only about 80 meters away from the farthest city wall, and from his position, the muzzles of those black holes were really clear. "It's a trap." The thought quickly flashed through Inordai's mind.

Ying Erdai, who was pointed at by the Ming artillery, suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head, and he immediately reacted, and when he opened his mouth to shout retreat, the Ming army's artillery on the wall had already fired, and the roar of * suddenly covered his shout.

Ying Erdai only saw a burst of fire flash from the muzzle of the cannon, and watched as more than a dozen black dots larger than a fist flew in the sky. In his sight, these black dots were not flying fast, and even some were slow, as if they could be blocked by reaching out.

But until these black spots swept past his side and burst the head of one of his own soldiers next to him, his body didn't have time to make a dodge movement.

The Ming army placed 19 artillery pieces on the upper and lower fort walls, and to the good fortune of Ying Ordai, the five largest caliber guns on the top fort wall were not aimed at them, but flew directly towards the artillery positions behind them.

But even so, 9 of the 14 shells fired by the more ** guns on the lower layer hit the team around him.

The least of these shells also hit two people, and the most were 3 shells that entered the team at an angle, and these 3 shells killed 11 people at a time, and also caused 3 serious wounded.

The artillery that the Ming army had been concealing before blasted half of the Niu Lu under Ying Ordai in the first round of firing, and in the process of these Jurchens escaping from the range of artillery, they were shelled three times in succession.

At the beginning, the Jurchens still maintained a basic formation when they fled, but after being shelled again, they finally understood that the Ming army's shells were aimed at densely populated areas, so they began to completely abandon the formation.

The first and second rounds of artillery bombardment by the Ming army were aimed at the Jurchen teams in front of the trenches, and the third and fourth rounds were aimed at the settlement points of these Jurchen mounts. It wasn't until Yingordai, who had fled to the rear by two pro-soldiers, began to come to his senses and began to gather the fleeing subordinates, that he realized that there was less than one Niu Lu around him, and only a small half of them were his personal Niu Lu.

Ying Erdai suddenly felt a little cold in his hands and feet, he felt that he really couldn't explain to Dolgon or Huang Taiji after losing so many people at once, this can be regarded as the biggest defeat suffered by the two white flags in recent years, and the families of the dead still don't know how to make trouble after they go back.

It seemed that he saw that Ying Erdai's face was like ashes and he had the idea of looking for death, and a personal soldier from a clan beside him hurriedly persuaded him: "Don't be too anxious, my lord, some of us haven't come back?" I've just seen a lot of people fleeing to both sides, and I guess I'll have at least one Niu Lu coming back in a while.

These Ming people are so treacherous that they actually hide so many cannons. When the others have returned, I ask you to continue to lead us up to the siege, and we must hang all the gunners who fired the cannons, so as to comfort the dead people. ”

After listening to the words of the soldiers, Ying Erdai's expression finally eased a little, he took a deep breath, and then got up and said: "You take people to both sides to collect the remaining personnel, I will go to the master to ask for guilt first, this time I was careless." ”

When Ingordai shook off the support of his own soldiers, and was walking in the direction where Dolgon was standing, he found that a group of cavalry had already charged towards him viciously, and at the front was Duoduo, who had been given the name Erkechuhur.

The three Niu Lu led by Ying Ordai, in addition to the Niu Lu he led himself, one of them was Niu Lu under the name of Duoduo, and he saw that his Niu Lu was beaten by the Ming people and had no power to fight back, and the leading Ying Ordai fled.

Duoduo, who was not very good-tempered, suddenly ran to Ying Ordai to settle the score. Before he could salute himself, Dodor had already struck him with a whip and a slash on his head.

Ingordai closed his eyes and did not dare to dodge, so he was brutally whipped by Duoduo. It wasn't until Dolgon in the rear drank his younger brother that he rescued Ingordai.

Dolgon didn't even look at the bloodstained Yingordai, so he reprimanded sharply: "The Ming people hide the artillery, and they will catch you off guard." How dare you leave your team behind and flee back on your own, don't you think that Ben Baylor will not be able to enforce your military law? ”

Ying Ordai hurriedly knelt down in front of Dolgon and said: "The slave is guilty of capital crimes, it is really indistinguishable, and I also ask the master to be merciful and let the slave lead people to this city first, so as to wash away the shame of the past." ”

Listening to Ingordai did not distinguish for himself, but honestly admitted his sin, so that Dolgon's tense mood finally relaxed a little.

The strategy of this siege operation was all arranged by him, and even Ying Erdai took Sanniulu to cover the idea of the Han army landing in the city. As a result, he fell into an ambush by the Ming army and lost so many Eight Banner soldiers.

Dolgon reacted immediately, and wanted to find a scapegoat, and he couldn't let the blame for this defeat fall on his head.

As the owner of the White Flag, Dolgon, who had just come of age, initially took over the flag affairs of the White Flag, and because Duoduo had always been close to him, most of the soldiers of the Two White Flags began to accept him, and he was in charge of the two White Flags as the representative of his younger brother Duoduo.

If this defeat spreads, it will not only greatly damage the prestige he has erected in the hearts of the soldiers of the Two White Flags, but also Huang Taiji will seize the opportunity to delay the time for him to personally receive the affairs of the Two White Flags.

Therefore, when Dodor came to settle accounts with Inordai in a fierce manner, Dorgon did not stop him in time, but took a few steps slower, and asked Dodor to take the blame for the defeat on Inordai before standing up to stop his brother.

And Ying Ordai, who has always been valued by Huang Taiji, did not speak out to refute Dolgon's statement, although Dolgon breathed a sigh of relief, but also had a headache how to deal with him.

Before Dorgon could finish his thoughts, he heard a screeching sound, and two buckshot shots were flying over their heads, heading behind them. Looking at the landing point of these two lead bullets, this god-girl Zhenqin suddenly felt a little numb, it turned out that they had been standing within the range of the Ming people's shelling.

Several white-armored soldiers beside Dolgon hurriedly came up and grabbed the reins of the Dolgon brothers' horses, trying to pull them out of this place that could be threatened by the Ming army's artillery fire.

A Jurchen general looked at the fortress in the distance and said: "We are 600 steps away from the fortress of the Ming people, these cannons can actually hit a distance of 8 or 900 steps, could it be the Hongyi cannon of the Ming people?" ”