On the Houjin side, Sukh Saha didn't know that the Xuan army had detected their movements, and in order to prevent the Xuan army from discovering it, they were still slowly carrying out small-scale movements at night. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis gave the Xuanjun logistics department a little time.

The transport ships of the Xuan Army have entered a state of full mobilization from the previous semi-mobilization state, that is, all the commercial ships of the Xuan Army have also been withdrawn, and all commercial activities have been stopped to transport grain to the front line.

Of the 15,000 people in the headquarters led by Chen Xin and the 35,000 people in the detachment, at least one-third of the personnel began to use wheelbarrows, two-wheeled vehicles, and other tools to transport food and war materials to the front line.

On the second day of the second month of February, when the Houjin side was almost gone, the food and materials transported to the front line by the militia and hired laborers of the Xuan Army were finally able to meet the needs of the front line.

On the next day, Chen Xin did not wait any longer, 1,000 armed police female cavalry, plus more than 500 rangers, and 6 cavalry companies drawn from various mixed brigades, a total of 2,300 cavalry quickly advanced, quickly cut off the connection between the remaining enemy troops in the Houjin camp and their large forces, and crushed several enemy breakout operations, firmly trapped the enemy army in the vacant camp they were going to use to confuse the Xuan army.

Subsequently, the remaining more than 10,000 mobile troops quickly followed, and dug a siege network composed of foxholes outside the Houjin camp.

The next thing is that all kinds of artillery continue to bombard the enemy's camp, and the Houjin army left in the back is used by Sukh Saha to confuse Chen Xin, they just need to come out every day to hang around, and then grab some slaves, and make a posture of attacking the city, it's okay, there is no need to undertake combat missions at all, as long as they wait for Suke Saha's troops to quickly defeat the troops divided by the Xuan army, they can wave their troops north again and find a way to eliminate Chen Xin.

Therefore, in addition to the 600 Jurchen cavalry, the remaining 2,000 or so are servant troops.

Of course, this was Sukh Saha's wishful thinking, he didn't know that his quiet deployment of troops had already been detected by the Xuan army.

The Houjin army in the camp was confused by the sudden blow of the Xuan army, which was different from what was said. A group of servants began to talk among themselves.

"Doesn't it mean that as long as you stay the same, you can cheat by going out for a walk every day?"

"yes, what the hell is going on? Why was it that the white flag had just been finished, and it was knocked on the door? ”

"I counted just now, there are at least tens of thousands of people, including more than 2,000 cavalry, I saw that group of Jurchen cavalry wanted to run away, and they were beaten back."

"These grandsons aren't authentic, they didn't tell us when they ran just now."

"The Jurchens don't treat us as their own at all."

"This rotten battle has been fought for more than three months, and we haven't even fought this small wooden city in front of us, and now it's surround us, what a bird thing."

"It's not an ordinary wooden city, after a few months of fighting, I can understand it, looking at the fence twisting and turning, in fact, there is a lot of knowledge in it, no matter which side you attack from, you will be counterattacked from at least three places."

"Hey, don't say it, this Chen Xin is not a fuel-efficient lamp, look at the equipment of those soldiers under his command, let's look at the equipment he sold to the former king of the dead, at this time he has already had a heart of disobedience."

"That's a matter between a group of people from Houjin, it has nothing to do with us, how do you get through this now?"

"Yes, now the key is what to do with the problem, every time we talk about it, the topic is crooked."

"It's not you yet, it's you who led the topic to Chen Xin just now."

"If you hadn't led the topic to the recent bad battle, would I have been able to mention Chen Xin?"

"It's still you, the Jurchen mentioned first is not in the same group as us, so you deviated the topic."

An older servant officer next to him couldn't bear it anymore, and finally went berserk, "You two shut up for me, no one is allowed to talk about irrelevant topics, no matter what you do, you must organize a defense first." ”

"Okay, then let's defend first and see what happens."

At this time, the artillery of the Xuan army had been arranged, and the specially designed light gun carriage was quickly reached to the gun position, and after the shooting was ready, the first gun was test-fired.

A 10-pound iron bullet smashed on the fence of Houjin Camp, easily picking up a piece of sawdust, and then continued to advance, and finally the steaming iron bullet landed in the center of the enemy camp.

After seeing the firing effect, the artillery unit no longer hesitated and began to fire a salvo, preparing to smash the fence around the enemy camp first, give up the field of vision, and then carry out an accurate artillery roll call.

The 3,000 centaurs inside already felt that they had been deceived and abandoned. After two rounds of artillery bombardment, remembering the tragic situation of those who had died under the fire of the Xuan army in recent months, all the servant troops immediately made a decision and sent people out to surrender.

Seeing that the servant army brought the Xuan army into the camp and led a large number of enemies towards themselves, the remaining hundreds of Jurchen cavalry in the camp were furious and shouted, "I have known for a long time that you minions are unreliable. ”。“ Kill these aha" and other words, and rushed over.

At the forefront were the 1st Mixed Brigade, which had been replenished with point-to-head bullets, of about 200 men, and in the open camp they immediately gathered into two horizontal formations in accordance with the tactics of dealing with cavalry encounters in the field, and fired a salvo when the enemy had rushed to 300 meters.

The 8.5mm caliber pointed bullet hit the horse, no matter how strong the horse was, it was killed on the spot, and this round of salvo directly killed 50 enemy cavalry, which was far lower than the average shooting training score of the Xuan army, just think about facing a fast-moving target, this hit rate is also acceptable.

The Houjin cavalry on the opposite side was also in a state of fear at this time, they were all veterans of Rong Ma for half their lives, when they were in Houjin, they fought with the Ming army equipped with a large number of firearms, and when the Xuan army raised the musket and shot at this distance, these cavalry were disdainful, and what they imagined in their minds was "another group of cowards, this time they can break through." ”

However, when this round of salvo was completed and their own side fell by more than 50 horses, these Jurchen cavalry were really a little frightened, and they had fought for half a lifetime, where had they ever seen such an accurate musket at such a distance.

They were surprised, the war horses under the crotch were not so smart, these war horses that had been trained for a long time to ignore the sound of guns and cannons continued to rush forward, and a few Niu Lu were the first to reflect and began to cheer up the people below.

One of the more brave Niu Lu said loudly, "Don't be afraid, although the firearms on the opposite side are sharp, but at such a short distance, at most two shots, when we rush to their queue, these burning sticks are useless, Jurchen warriors, follow me." So saying, the horse rushed to the front.