Chapter 572: Take the royal capital directly

After receiving news of Houjin's reinforcements, Lin Dan Khan, who was vainly trying to annex Karaqin, did not want to confront Jiannu head-on, but hastily retreated, and the siege of Geljurgen was lifted.

It can be seen that Houjin's military strength is stronger than that of Lin Dan Khan, and the combat effectiveness of the Chahar cavalry is stronger than that of the Karaqin tribe, and Oba's men and horses may be relatively bad in the grassland.

The city of Gelezhurgen, the royal capital of Karaqin, was threatened again, and they still wanted good things and asked for help from Dajin again, and of course they also asked the two Karaqin Taiji Wukeshan and Manzhu Xili who participated in the attack on Jinzhou to return to their division quickly.

The cavalry of the Ming army is overwhelming, and it stands to reason that the cavalry that runs long distances does not have the ability to attack fortifications! But this so-called city located in the upper reaches of the Nenjiang River is not worth mentioning, and it is not a city at all in Daming, at most it is just a larger earthen wall.

Karaqin, who was so poor that it clanged, did not have firearms at all, and of course there were no artillery to defend the city, and of course, even if they had artillery, it would not be possible to fire it at the head of the city.

The artillery of this era is not to pull up the city wall can be fired, you need to build a special battery to fire, otherwise a few shots, whether it hits the enemy is not easy to say, the strong recoil force of the rammed earth city wall collapsed eight or nine times out of ten.

The reason why the Karaqin warriors were not able to fight was also completely blamed on being too poor, not only did they not have decent armor, but even most of the arrows they used were not iron arrowheads, but bones.

Therefore, a sturdy set of armor is especially important for cold-weapon cavalry, why did Nurhachi not emphasize the number of men and horses when he started, but emphasized thirteen pairs of armor to raise troops?

This is because of the same skill of cavalry, a knight equipped with armor, a strong bow, and iron arrows may shoot several in a battle, and even a dozen enemy cavalry without armor is not uncommon.

Although the Ming army preparing to attack the fortification did not bring artillery, it brought a lot of gunpowder just in case, as well as hundreds of "Flying Thunderbolts".

The light cavalry that fled here after a series of defeats in the city of Gelzhurgen did not exceed 40,000 soldiers and civilians, of which less than 8,000 could be counted as warriors.

The Mongols defending the city was a joke, they just switched from soft bow cavalry to hard lunge shooting at the head of the city, not to mention any defense equipment.

The Ming army came to the city of Glejurgen, did not besiege the city at all, but chose to break through in the south of the city, the army prepared for a day, under the command of the army engineers, with the assistance of thousands of Han people, the Ming army made dozens of shield carts made of big trees.

The next day, at noon, the attack began, with 10,000 Ming cavalry in full formation, and 5,000 Nekhalkha cavalry galloping back and forth.

Han Kuan and Lu Chengzu commanded the Huang family's steel pulley archers and musketeers to dismount and hide behind the shield cart to approach the southern wall of Geljurgen, although the steel arrows were only mixed with more than 300 mini bullets, but it was enough to cause the Karaqin warriors who were vainly trying to use their mantis arms at the head of the city to be frightened.

Soon the head of the city could no longer see the Karaqin warriors firing their bows and arrows, their will to defend the city was not resolute at all, and seeing that the Ming army's muskets were very spicy, they immediately went down to the city to lead their horses and prepare to escape.

The Ming army calmly planted a large bomb with 300 catties of gunpowder in the city gate hole, and after the loud bang, the earthen city wall with more than ten steps in the city gate cave collapsed.

It's just an hour, the city of Geljurgen was breached, because the Ming army only attacked a little, no one in the Karaqin cavalry dared to fight again, and when they learned that the south gate was broken through by the Ming army, they fled from the other three city gates one by one.

The Ming army that attacked the city on foot began to cover up and kill unhurriedly, and the Karaqin Tartars who had been knocked out of their spirit were killed one by one, and basically no one dared to turn back to fight, and the city street fighting did not happen at all.

Qinggeltai, who was cruising in the lower reaches of the city, immediately led the cavalry of the Inner Khalkha and Ming armies to chase in three directions, and the Tartars were all competing in horsemanship and playing hurricane.

The Tartars really rode well, and they escaped with five or six thousand light cavalry, but unfortunately the old and young women and children in the city of Geljurgen could not run, and the young and strong who did not grab the war horses could not slip away, and they were blocked in the city by the outflanked Ming cavalry.

The Ming army captured nearly 30,000 Karaqin Tatars in this war, and rescued thousands of Han people again, many of which were captured by the Karaqin Tatars in the second year of Chongzhen, and the most people from Shuntianfu and Yongping Mansion.

Has been coerced to the far north nearly 3,000 miles away from the border wall as a slave for more than three years, many Han people could not bear the slavery and died in hunger and cold, unthinkable that Wang Shi went north 3,000 miles to smash the lair, all the rescued Han people wailed.

At this time, Huang Mingli has saved Han Ming from the dire situation many times, and he knows how to comfort these devastated compatriots.

Huang Mingli and Yan Yuese comforted everyone: "Fellow villagers, this official is the chief military officer under the command of the Ming 'God of War' Nanguo Gong, you are all saved, the Huang family will not abandon every Han person, you cheer up and eat and sleep well, and follow the army home in a few days!" ”

Go home? This scene, which often appears in sleep, always makes the devastated Han people cry until dawn, and today's dream has come true, and the Han compatriots are in tears.

"My lord, we have heard of the name of the 'God of War', and only the Huang family can fight three thousand miles out of the side wall."

"Adults, the small ones will follow the Huang family from now on, and the small ones will be good at farming and grazing."

"Adults, the small ones have the strength to ride horses, and the little ones want to follow the adults in the army." ……。

Huang Mingli laughed and said: "You don't have to worry about the future, the Huang family will properly settle everyone, and all women are no exception. ”

"'God of War' wins!" "Lord Huang wins!" "Nanguo Gong Wansheng!" ……。 The rescued Han people cheered thunderously, and at this time, it was not enough to describe their mood as ecstatic, and the reputation of Huang Sheng, the 'God of War', was deeply branded into the hearts of these Han people.

The city of Geljurgen was full of the smell of blood, and while Huang Mingli was appeasing the rescued Han Chinese, Qinggeltai, Black Tiger and others were being slaughtered. As long as it was a Karaqin Tartar, not a single man who was taller than the wheels remained, and four or five thousand heads fell to the ground, terrifying the entire city.

One or two thousand captives who had been captives of the Mongol tribes such as Inner Khalkha, Chahar, and Uliangha hurriedly said that they were not Karaqin people at all, and they all knelt at the feet of Qinggeltai and swore allegiance to immortality, begging this Taiji to take him in.

This can be had, the Qinggeltai tribe has more than these men, and it is more than enough to select a thousand soldiers from them, this Taiji has got thousands of boys, and has a ready-made source of soldiers, and the strength is destined to go to a higher level.