The red-coated cannons were so powerful that even the soldiers of the Ming army who had seen the miserable situation in the city on the high platform couldn't help but be frightened - you must know that this is only ten red-coated cannons, if there are a hundred, wouldn't it be able to bomb the entire city to ashes?

The Tartar soldiers, Mongolian soldiers, and Western Regions soldiers in the city were even more frightened, as if they had seen the end coming. This kind of incomparably powerful psychological shock is unmatched by any other way.

Inside the city, Mang Gurtai is also under tremendous pressure.

In the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Ming army, the generals, including Hauge and Azig, demanded that they immediately lead their troops to fight to the death with the Ming army, even if they die in battle, it is better than such a nest death!

And the people of the Eight Banners in the city are even more indignant, now they don't even have a home, and there is no hope of living, so it is better to fight with the Ming army!

Mang Gurtai knew very well that Qin Shuhuai's biggest purpose in bombarding Ash Niulu was to force him out of the city to fight.

But what's the difference between going out of the city now and looking for death? Do you think the 60,000 Ming army outside the city is still the 60,000 Ming army a few years ago? That's 60,000 wolves!

If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and the reckless Gurtai who is rational enough will never go out of the city at this time!

He was not worried, because all the grain in the granary had been moved to another secret cellar a few days ago, and this grain was enough for him to last for a month.

And he has bigger plans!

In the evening, Qin Shuhuai ordered the shelling to stop, and then sent people to throw the letter of surrender on the city.

In addition to persuading him to surrender this time, he also proposed that the Ming army could retreat one mile and allow the old and weak women and children in the city to leave the city and be properly resettled by the Ming army.

Unleash kindness again and make a gesture that you don't want to kill them all.

But how could the people in the city believe it? They didn't want to reject the proposal outright.

So the next day, the Ming artillery bombarded the city again!

It's been another day!

Now, Ash Niulu has really been basically razed!

All the bannermen in the city only dared to stay in the cellar and did not dare to come out at all.

Mang Gurtai still can't hold out.

At the same time, in Kaesong.

The 50,000-strong army led by Zhao has also arrived smoothly.

It was Dolgon, who had withdrawn from the front, who was guarding the city.

Zhao Shujiao and Qin Shuhuai adopted the same strategy, first bombarding the city with five red-clothed cannons, which lasted for a whole day, causing the city to burst into flames and thick smoke.

In the evening, Zhao Shujiao ordered the siege of the city.

He chose to attack the city, firstly, because the city wall of Kaecheng was relatively low, and Zhao Shujiao felt that he should be able to take it. The second is because he wants to occupy Kaesong as soon as possible, so that the Ming army will completely grasp the initiative - as long as Kaesong is occupied, Huangtaiji's way to escape from Mongolia will be blocked, and he will either go north to the wild land for the winter, or go east to jump into the sea.

Therefore, the strategic significance of Kaecheng is extremely great, and Zhao Shujiao must take it as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of Kaesong were extremely stubborn and extremely well equipped, ranging from firearms, bows and arrows, and artillery to oil, asphalt, and even thunderbolts - Tartar's thunderbolts could not be mass-produced, but that didn't mean there weren't any.

Under the cover of night, the Ming army attacked in three echelons.

It took an hour for the Ming army to capture a small section of the city wall in the south of the city.

Just as Zhao Shujiao was about to add troops there, suddenly the horse whistle came to report that a large force of Tartar cavalry was found in the north, and they were killing here!

Zhao Shujiao had already prepared, and immediately sent 8,000 shield-grabbing soldiers to resist the horse formation and pull them to the north to block the cavalry.

But when the opposing cavalry arrived, he realized through the strong light of the flare that it was a vast field of cavalry!

The number of visual inspections is at least about fifteen thousand!

He was shocked.

According to estimates, he believed that the cavalry that the Tartars could draw out now would not exceed five thousand at most.

Why?

In the previous two battles, at least nearly 20,000 Tartar cavalry had been annihilated, and according to the Ming army's assumption, there were at most 8,000 to 10,000 cavalry left in the Tartars to die.

And it is impossible for all of these cavalry to be used in one place in Kaecheng, right? Huang Taiji is not equipped with cavalry in Shenyang? Not in Ash Niulu?

The Ming army obviously underestimated Huang Taiji's determination to counterattack, and also underestimated the number of Tartar cavalry.

Before the war, there were 38,000 cavalry in the Tartars, and now there are 18,000 left, and in this 10,000 miles, except for the 3,000 guards of Shenyang, the other cavalry are all here.

As for Ash Niulu, there is not a single cavalryman!

This is the strategy proposed by Mang Gurtai.

He led 40,000 soldiers to guard Ash Niulu and dragged Qin Shuhuai's army.

The rest of the troops were all concentrated on attacking the relatively weak Zhao Sect!

In order to achieve this strategy, he almost evacuated the soldiers and horses in other places - now the Yellow Muddy Valley Fort is almost empty, and there are only 5,000 soldiers standing at the head of the city, and the elite soldiers in it have already been transferred to the vicinity of Kaesong.

Even among the forbidden army, fifteen thousand were transferred!

The Tartar elite, which is now concentrated near Kaesong, has reached fifty-two thousand, of which fifteen thousand are elite cavalry!

And the elite of Gongwei Jinggi Shenyang is only 10,000 people!

I have to say that Huang Taiji is gambling.

He bet that Qin Shuhuai would not dare to go deep alone, he bet that Zhao Shujiao would definitely take the strategic city of Kaicheng at any cost, and he was also betting that this last elite of the Eight Banners would be able to defeat Zhao Shu's sect in one fell swoop, and then move eastward to lift the siege of Ash Niulu!

He had to bet.

Because once Qin Shuhuai breaks through the second line of defense, he can besiege Shenyang to death, even if he has tens of thousands of forbidden troops?

It is said that after the arrival of a large force of Tartar cavalry, they immediately divided into several groups, some bypassing the Ming army's horse rejection formation from the outer edge, and some trying to pass through the gap between the horse rejection formations.

Eight thousand Ming troops grabbed shields, naturally it was impossible to block fifteen thousand cavalry!

On the side of the Ming army, there were only 5,000 cavalry.

Zhao Shujiao did not hesitate to send all of them out to block the opponent's cavalry.

A fierce battle ensued outside the city.

At the same time, the gates of Kaesong were opened, and a large number of Tartars rushed out of it.

There were as many as 40,000 soldiers and horses in Kaesong, and more than half of them were pure Eight Banner soldiers.

As a result, the Ming army suddenly fell into the trap of the inside and the outside.

If we talk about field warfare, the Ming army is not afraid of Tartars now.

But this sudden change really surprised the Ming army, and because of the siege, the various departments were originally scattered around the city, and it was impossible to organize a group counterattack for a while, so the only way to organize resistance was to organize resistance on their own.

In this way, the battle will be difficult to fight.

What's more, the 15,000 elite cavalry of the Tartars are not vegetarians, and in the case of the insufficient anti-cavalry strength of the Ming army, it is simply a harvesting machine.

One after another Ming soldiers fell, this was the fiercest attack of the Ming army since the Northern Expedition.

Zhao taught such veterans, looking at how sharp the situation is, and knowing at this situation that he can't take Kaecheng today, and it's hard to say if he can even go back alive!

So he immediately sent a signal: all to the west, to break through to Qin Shuhuai's department!

It should be said that by this time, Huang Taiji had already bet half right!

Because of the other half, it depends on whether Mang Gurtai can keep Ash Niulu!

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