Because of the unfavorable siege war, the Later Jin army held a military meeting with the participation of Jurchen relatives and nobles on the afternoon of the 4th. The meeting was held until the evening, and when the meeting ended, not only the Gushan Ezhen of the Four Banners on the right flank was replaced, but even the previous siege plan was changed.

Although this meeting failed to shake Huang Taiji's control over this expeditionary army, the relatives and nobles of Daishan and Mang Gurtai, who had been suppressed before, finally regained some of the right to speak.

Those Jurchen relatives and nobles who have always been dissatisfied with Huang Taiji's change of Nurhachi's precedent, such as strict military discipline of the Eight Banners, strictly prohibiting private looting when going on expeditions, and protecting the surrendered Ming people; The establishment of the Eight Banners Gushan Ezhen was divided into the control power of the Eight Banners Banner Owners, thus strengthening the control power of the Later Jin Khan over the Eight Banners and the people of the Eight Banners.

The most important thing is that after this expedition, Huang Taiji changed the old custom of fighting in Houjin, and did not use the vassal army and the surrendered Ming army as cannon fodder, but let the Jurchen Eight Banners bear all the hardest battles, and the Mongol vassal army and the Ming army were assigned to the easiest tasks on the periphery, and those Mongols could still get a rich trophy, which is really not in line with the Jurchen tradition.

Taking advantage of the ineffective attack on Zunhua, Dai Shan and others took the opportunity to contact these noble generals who hoped to restore the old customs of the Jurchens, and regained some discourse power from Huang Taiji.

At this time, Huang Taiji also had to make a compromise and agreed to let the Mongol vassals and the Ming state surrender people to clean up the periphery of Zunhua, those Ming people who were not high in combat power but always hid in dark corners and created traps for the Houjin offensive troops from time to time.

On 5 November, the Houjin army, which surrounded the east, north, and west sides of Zunhua City, did not launch an attack, but repaired in the camp for a day and rearranged the battle sequence.

Prior to this, the two Mongol battalions and the conscripted Horqin and other Mongol vassal armies were mostly placed in the control of the Great Wall passes, the westward advance of the fort village, the Shimen village key roads, and the attack on Qian'an and other secondary combat missions. Most of the soldiers and civilians who surrendered in the Ming Kingdom, except for some young men who were brought out as auxiliaries of the Later Jin army, were placed in place to maintain order, and used them to levy grain and straw to support the army.

Now the nobles of the Eight Banners have decided to let these Mongolian vassals and Ming countries surrender to the city of Zunhua to sweep away the resistance forces on the periphery of the city for the Houjin army, so they naturally want to transfer these people up.

The task of the Mongol left and right battalions was only to attack Zunhua City, after all, only by blocking the passage in the direction of Jizhou and Shanhaiguan could Zunhua City be isolated, so at the insistence of Huang Taiji, the two battalions did not move.

In this way, the only people who can be drawn are the Horqin Department and some Mongolian vassal tribes who defend the back road for Houjin. Tushetu Khan Oba of the Horqin Department sent 5,000 troops this time, of which 3,000 were stationed at various passes from Longjingkou to Da'ankou to monitor the local Ming surrender; Another 1,500 men were transferred to the Left Route Army to cover the perimeter of the Santun Camp and cooperate with the Left Route Army to attack the Santun Camp; Oba himself stayed with Huang Taiji with 500 men.

If you want to transfer these horses and horses up, and you can't lose control of the Ming Kingdom in the rear, even the Jurchen generals who have fought old battles want to formulate a proper plan, which is quite difficult.

Huang Taiji did not have a general staff to plan for him, and although the military command system of the Later Jin was more efficient than that of the Ming army, this efficiency was based on a rudimentary and incomplete organization. The meeting decided to transfer the Mongol vassal army and the Ming army to defend the rear route, but to ensure the safety of the rear route of the army, and this order was soon issued to the garrison generals at the key passes of the Great Wall.

But how to carry out this order depends entirely on the personal understanding of the general who receives it. Some Jurchen generals drew the Mongol army and the surrendered Ming army in proportion, abandoned some unimportant places, and gathered the soldiers and civilians of several secondary strongholds into a larger stronghold so that they could be controlled with fewer troops.

Others, who were stupid after all, simply drove the soldiers and civilians in the area out of their homes, turned them into auxiliary soldiers of the army, and took them to Zunhua together. Some generals were also worried that the Ming would flee home on the way, so they simply burned down the empty village before leaving.

The actions of the Houjin army suddenly sobered up the Ming people who were already at ease with the surrender life, except for those who were weak and did not dare to resist, a considerable number of Ming people who surrendered to the Jin Dynasty fled as long as they found an opportunity on the way to migrate. Some of the fleeing Ming people even began to attack the lone Houjin soldiers.

The original plan to transfer the Mongol army in the rear and the Ming army to the city of Zunhua within two days was also unrealistic because of the continuous resistance of these surrendered Ming people. Even in the Malan camp, because the Houjin generals ordered the surrendered Ming army to assemble out of the city without telling the destination, some Ming troops thought that the Houjin was trying to transfer them out of the city for massacre, so a whole small army launched a mutiny after leaving the city, attacked the Houjin cavalry who monitored them in the team, and then fled over the mountains and mountains towards Huangya Pass.

On November 6, the Later Jin army received news of the surrender of the Ming rebellion from all over the country, and some men and horses drawn from various places now had to turn back again and return to suppress the Ming rebellion.

In view of the fact that there were already more than 1,200 Mongolian cavalry, more than 2,000 surrendered to the Ming army, and more than 5,000 surrendered Ming people arrived at the city of Zunhua, plus the Jin army captured Qingzhuang in the villages near Zunhua and the siege battle, there were also 8 or 9,000 people. At Huang Taiji's insistence, the Jurchen nobles finally agreed to temporarily terminate the order to transfer men from the rear in order to appease the rear to surrender to the Ming.

As for how to control the vassal soldiers and horses, the Jurchen generals of the Later Jin were familiar with it. The master of the Eight Banners used the Eight Banners to monitor the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and then used the Jurchen Eight Banners to monitor the Mongolian vassals, who controlled the Ming generals and commanded the troops and men in front of the Ming to fight.

Once this level of command is established, it is enough to keep filling it with manpower. In Liaodong, Nurhachi used this sequence of battles to defeat the Jurchen and Mongol tribes in succession. Eventually, the Jianzhou Jurchens were unified and the Houjin State was established.

This tactic was especially effective when attacking the Ming fortress, and the defending Ming soldiers hesitated when they saw their own people rushing to the front. The Ming people who were forced to charge by the Houjin butcher's knife did not dare to stop their steps, once these people broke through the defense line, it was the result of the fall of the entire fortress.

In the eyes of those Jurchen nobles, this tactic invented by Nurhachi was indeed quite effective, and they had tested it hundreds of times during their time in Liaodong, and they had never failed a few times. Thinking about it, the Ming army in these passes, especially the defenders of Zunhua City, who were mixed with a large number of civilians, should be even more unbearable to do to their own people.

The Jurchen generals' guess was really good, and on the morning of November 6, the Houjin army, which had rested for a day, changed its tactics and drove the Ming people and the surrendered Ming army as the vanguard, and attacked the city on the outskirts of Zunhua.

The Later Jin army still made a feint attack on the eastern route, but it strengthened the offensive in the north, and thus became the main attack in the west and north directions. Most of the militia and Ming troops guarding various neighborhoods and houses hesitated to attack the villagers who shouted the sound of the countryside and did not fire the mines in time.

So the hardcore surrender faction and the Mongols mixed in with these Ming people successfully rushed through the minefield, seized the tiger squat cannons placed by the defenders in the streets, and successfully captured one block after another. Many of the surrendered Ming soldiers were already familiar with firearms such as the * and Tiger Squat Cannons, and they quickly found the fuses of * and cut them, and used the captured Tiger Squat Cannons to bombard the Ming people who were stationed in the room.

Fighting in such a cramped and confined space, these surrendered Ming troops were clearly more adapted than the Jurchens and Mongols. In just one morning, the Houjin army advanced 5 to 60 meters from the west and north to the Zunhua city wall, causing the Ming people guarding the two cities to lose more than 2,000 people.

After learning about Hou Jin's tactics, Zhou Wei immediately ordered to publicize the soldiers and civilians guarding in various defense areas, so that these Zunhua soldiers and civilians could understand how these surrendered Ming troops who worked for Hou Jin deceived the garrison soldiers and civilians and attacked the defenders at close range. And once again reminded everyone that in Zunhua City behind them, there were not only other Ming people, but also their families.

Once the city is broken, their families will become trophies of the opposing army. If they still want to protect their families, they should follow the orders of their superiors and attack their targets.

In addition, he also borrowed 300 Liaodong sergeants from Zhao Shujiao, which were used to enrich the defense areas and command the defenders to fight. The families of these Liaodong sergeants are not in Zunhua, so they naturally have less senseless psychology.

At the suggestion of some officers, Wednesday Wei also set up some security zones on the front line, and when the Houjin army attacked, they sent people to shout to these surrenderers, telling them to leave the team and flee to the safe zone, waiting for the Ming army to send people to screen and protect them.

Under these measures, Houjin's offensive to adopt new tactics finally slowed down. After the shouting steps, the defenders had much less psychological barriers to surrendering and firing at these charges.

Later Jin mixed more than 16,000 surrendered Ming soldiers and civilians, the same 1,600 Mongol soldiers, and 160 Jurchen soldiers into 10 teams. There were 4 teams for the north attack and 6 teams for the west attack, and these horses were called the Xinfu Han Army.

Later Jin organized the new Han army to attack Zunhua City, mainly relying on the compassion of the garrison. Once the defenders lost their compassion, the ensuing battle became a war of attrition between the two sides.

The Xinfu Han Army was originally a cannon fodder unit that was forcibly glued together by force by the Later Jin, and except for a few who surrendered completely, most of the Han soldiers had to obey the orders of the Later Jin army simply because they were too afraid. If the Ming defenders on the opposite side did not have the courage to fire at them, or if they were not resolute enough, these Han soldiers would not have thought of fleeing the ranks and looking for some safe area.

But as soon as the defenders on the opposite side used a merciless attack, these Han soldiers immediately remembered the shouts of the defenders on the opposite side, and fled from their own ranks to find the safe zone that the other side had said. Although many Han soldiers were shot and killed by the Mongols who were watching, with the defenders' skillful use of tiger cannons, *, and firearms, most of the Mongols who stood up to maintain order in the ranks were the first targets of the Ming defenders.

After the defeat of two new Han armies in succession, there were many fewer Mongols and Jurchens who dared to come forward, and the battle on November 6 was finally over.