Mangultai sat on his horse, his hands clenched into fists with the reins clenched, his lips pursed tightly, and he stood on a hillside, staring intently southwest.

I saw a cloud ladder leaning against the city from a distance, and I just breathed a sigh of relief, and when I looked again, I found that the cloud ladder had been overthrown by the Ming army at the head of the city.

"Anyway, it's close to the city!"

Mang Gurtai secretly cheered himself up in his heart, he didn't know when it started, just approaching the head of the Ming army, which was a very simple thing in the past, suddenly became so difficult.

Not to mention the newly built cities with protruding forts outside the original city walls, why are they so difficult to approach even the traditional city walls that don't have the kind of forts that come out of the front?!

Is it because the combat power of his own Jurchen army has decreased, or has the combat power of the Ming army, which has always been weak and timid, become stronger?

Seeing that Oba Khan of the Brain Wen Korqin and his general Aduqidar Khan Taiji were still commanding the men and horses under their command to attack the main gate of Bauhinia Pass like a tide, Mang Gurtai thought that the time for the Blue Banner army to attack was up, and then shouted for a while, and then took the lead in riding his horse and rushing forward.

The Jurchen phrase that Mang Gurtai used to boost the morale of the Zhenglan Banner army was to the effect: "The Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible!" Break the gate in front of you, and the flower world of the Southern Dynasty is yours! Baturu of the Blue Banner, follow me to kill all your enemies! ”

The fort on Baishi Mountain on the south side of Wulonggou has the mission of blocking the enemy's large influx into Wulonggou.

It is a pity that the great general cannon of this fortress mountain, from the rebuilding of the fort in the Wanli period to the present, decades have passed, the wind and the sun are exposed, the rust is serious, and five or six out of ten are no longer usable.

The most ridiculous thing is that there are more than 10 general cannons in Baishi Mountain Fortress Mountain, several of which could have covered the course of the Juma River, but in the following decades, the Juma River has undergone repeated diversions in the valley where Wulonggou is located, and the forts that have been fixed for a long time cannot adjust the firing angle of the muzzle.

After Wang Fu was ordered to come to Bauhinia Pass, he dispatched five Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore mother guns from the second town of the Guards Army, but after all, because the caliber of this improved Franc machine gun was small and the projectile power was insufficient, it did not play a big role.

Mang Gurtai's cavalry of tens of thousands rushed through, except for dozens of fallen war horses left in the valley mouth, almost without any impact or impact, and rushed into the Wulong ditch along the frozen river of the Juma River.

Almost all of the Jurchens in this era were born hunters.

In particular, Mang Gurtai and the people around him, such as Tunbulu, Weng Adai, Leng Seng Ji, and Aibali, are all characters who have grown up in a hundred battles in the process of the rise of the Jurchens in Jianzhou.

Mang Gurtai led these people to the Bauhinia Pass to take a look, and these people immediately keenly discovered the weakness of the Bauhinia Pass.

The reason why the troops withdrew before was because the Juma River did not freeze, and they were willing to attack the fortified city.

Now that Huangtaiji has ordered a strong attack, then let the men and horses led by Oba Khan of Brain Wen Korqin drive the Han people to attack the front of Bauhinia Pass, and he personally led the main army of Zhenglan Banner to go straight to the Juma River along the frozen river and pass through the water gate under the Bauhinia Ridge, which has become the only choice for Mang Gurtai.

So when he got up early in the morning, the first thing Mang Gurtai did was to have people rush to the Juma River to see how thick the ice on the river was, and whether it could hold up the galloping of his ten thousand horses.

Riding a horse on the ice, it is not the first time for Mang Gurtai, who followed Nuer Hachi to capture Juehua Island and burned down the grain and grass transfer place in Liaodong Town, and he had the "credit" of Mang Gurtai.

From the Ningyuan seashore to the twenty or thirty miles wide sea surface of Juehua Island, when it is frozen in winter, it can support the gallop of thousands of iron riders of the Jianzhu captive, so the Juma River, which was already due to the drought and lack of water and the silting up of the river, once frozen, is it not a God-given shortcut to attack the Bauhinia Ridge?

And today it is really beautiful, and the Juma River is frozen from the water surface to the riverbed.

Mang Gurtai, who galloped on the ice of the Juma River, under the cover of the blue flag guards scattered all over the front and back, was extremely happy, full of the belief that one blow would win and a strong desire for victory, constantly shouting slogans, running in the direction of the Lihuajian Water Gate a few miles away.

The army of Zhenglan Banner, all dressed in heavy armor, galloped on the Juma River, which was as wide and flat as a jade belt, and the momentum was extremely terrifying.

Chen Hongfan, the chief soldier of Baoding, who was ordered to defend the city wall of the Water Gate section, stood on top of the head of the Water Gate City, looking at the roaring Jianyu Iron Cavalry, his heart was worried, and he shuddered.

This Baoding general Chen Hongfan was in the border barracks of Yansui Town a few years ago, and because of Zhang Xianzhong's extraordinary appearance, he privately released his staff general Chen Hongfan.

In a few years, Chen Hongfan, the Yansui staff general of that year, has become the chief military officer of the town.

Of course, all this is not what Emperor Chongzhen is doing now, but it is the reality that he must accept and the burden he has to carry.

Just from Chen Hongfan's article that Zhang Xianzhong, who was beheaded illegally because of his extraordinary appearance, we know the characteristics of his management of the army and leading the troops, at least the implementation of military discipline will not be very strict.

At this time, seeing that the main force of the enemy army suddenly rushed along the river, and the target was the water gate guarded by himself, Chen Hongfan panicked in his heart and shouted at the soldiers around him:

"Jianyu is here! Go and ask for help from Wang Dutong! Go and ask for help from Wang Dutong! ”

A pro-soldier leader ran in a panic along the undulating city wall to the main gate of the main road north of Bauhinia Pass, a few miles away.

And Chen Hongfan can mix from a general of the Northwest Frontier Army to the position of the general army of Baoding, of course, it is not all a rice bucket, at this time knowing that the big war is inevitable, he immediately drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Jianyu is here!" Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle! ”

After Chen Hongfan said this, a dense burst of gunfire crackled from the city wall of the Water Gate section, and at the same time, bows and arrows also flew out from the city.

The muskets of the Baoding soldiers are all arquebuses.

And the bow and arrow were fired a little earlier.

Wearing several layers of cotton armor and galloping in front of the Blue Flag Melle Ezhen Weng Adai, when he saw this situation, his heart was immediately overjoyed, and all doubts were swept away, this is the familiar Ming army!

The distance of three miles and five miles is simply a blink of an eye for a high-speed galloping war horse.

The water gate of the Juma River under the Great Wall of Bauhinia Ridge is a five-hole round arched water gate, in which the arched water gates on the left and right wings have been silted up.

The arched three in the middle, because of the siltation over the years, the space is not large, and in addition to the freezing this time, the gap left in it can no longer accommodate a person to pass through.

To get through, you either have to cut through the thick ice or storm the top of the wall more than two feet high.

At this juncture, Weng Adai, who was the first to come here, naturally chose to storm the city.

Soon, under the command of Weng Adai, a rain of arrows shot by the Jianyu cavalry covered the city, shooting the Baoding soldiers under Chen Hongfan's command in a mess and unable to raise their heads.

Wang Fu, who was far away on the battlefield of the main gate of Zijing Pass, did not need to receive a report from Chen Hongfan's own soldiers to already discover the danger here.

At the same time, as a veteran of the battlefield, the leader of Oba Khan, who is a veteran of the battlefield, also noticed that the critical moment to decide the victory or defeat had arrived.

Looking at the Horqin people under his command, in addition to hiding in the distance and casting bows and arrows to force the decreasing Han people to attack the city, everyone is afraid of attacking the fortifications, and they are already a little old and tired.

Oba Khan knew that this would not work, so he grabbed the belly of his horse and rushed forward, waving his scimitar and shouting as he rushed forward:

"Warriors of Korqin! The moment for the final blow has arrived! Success or failure in this move, stand up like a warrior for me! Rush at me! ”

Oba Khan himself rode his horse with a shield and rushed through the arrows laid by the Korqins, and Oba Khan's guards and Aduqidar Khantaiji once again led their troops into range of the city's cannons.

All of a sudden, the cannon fire at the head of the city roared again, and the fiery projectiles fired from the general cannon and the Franc machine cannon passed through the body of a Korqin man.

When they rushed along the hillside, five or six hundred paces away from the city wall, and had just come to the bottom of the city, what was waiting for them was the sound of thumping muskets!

A large number of men dodged the fist-sized solid projectiles fired from the artillery, but they could not dodge the rows of musket projectiles fired from the city.

The second town of the Guards Army was also divided into five bids, the front and the back, the left and the right, and the two associations, and a total of five pure musket battalions were allocated.

The power of the 5,000-pole Chongzhen flintlock musket fired in a concentrated manner was not something that the Mongol soldiers of Brain Wen Horqin, who wore only a layer of cotton armor at most, could resist.

After rushing unscathed into the artillery-covered corner, Oba Khan dismounted and fought in the cover of the crowd, now holding a shield in one hand and wielding a sword in the other, shouting in the chaotic crowd under the city walls: "Siege!" Besiege! ”

Taking advantage of the gap between the musketeers of the Ming army and the first round of muskets, Oba Khan strode out of the crowd and ran towards a ladder that was pushed by the Ming army at the head of the city with a wolf mill.

Although the Horqin Mongol soldiers behind him were killed and wounded, they were still under the command and command of Aduqidar Khantaiji, and kept shooting arrows towards the city.

The arrows were struck on the iron helmets and plate armor of the Ming army, and from time to time someone was shot in the face and fell on his back on the city wall.

The grenadiers of the second town at the head of the city also took advantage of the time when the musketeers were loading ammunition to throw down the thunderbolts and fierce fire bombs that were equipped for them by the armament institute.

Soon, the Mongol soldiers who had gathered under the cloud ladder were blown up.