Of course Nurhachi didn't want to withdraw his troops so soon.
They looted outside Guangshun Pass, and although they gained a lot, when they returned to Hetuala, they were given one point for each banner, but it didn't show much.
The five flags and more than 20,000 people who were pulled out this time must have greatly delayed Daikin's farm work. If Kaiyuan Tieling is not taken down, the gain will really outweigh the loss.
Fortunately, I tried the words myself, and the morale of my children and grandchildren was lifted.
Nurhachi then asked the sentry lying on the ground: "Does Marin's team have firearms?"
The head of the sentry took out a dirty wig with a bun and said: "Back in the Great Khan, the slave disguised himself as a hawker and approached Marin's army to investigate. There were three-eyed blunderbuss, but the Ming army didn't like to use them.
.They definitely don’t have the long guns and small cannons like our Daikin.”
Nurhachi sneered: "It seems that he did leave all the good things in Kaiyuan."
Old Khan turned to Mu Zaohua and asked, "How many of our cannons have been broken?"
Mu Zaohua said: "Back to the Great Khan, the eleven small cannons we transported can all be fired. That day, when I saw the cannons in Kaiyuan City, I quickly discussed with General Obai and pushed our cannons aside.
Go up. Although only a few piers in Kaiyuan were destroyed, at least the cannons on the city can't hurt our small cannons."
Nurhaci nodded: "So, we just had trouble attacking the city in the past two days, but if Marin's reinforcements come back and we start fighting in the field, with small cannons, muskets, bows and horses, I would like to take a look.
Can they still lift out the iron lump on Kaiyuan City and blast it?"
All the big and small Baylor and Baya La fierce generals agreed one after another.
Nurhachi listened to the battle losses reported by each banner again, calculated the total number of white armor, red armor and cotton armor, plus the combat strength of Dudu, who had arrived with the white banner, he no longer hesitated and ordered each banner to go around Kaiyuan City
Set up camp and prepare to siege the city and bring reinforcements.
"Tell the warriors of each banner that the grain we brought, the fat sheep we robbed, and the supplies that Ye He's tribe will send are enough to last for a month. And it is not the season for harvesting wheat in the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much
Food is sent to various big towns. Kaiyuan City is not small, and there are more mouths to eat. If the Ming army cannot last for half a month, they will be trapped by us. As long as we cheer up and kill all their reinforcements, Kaiyuan City will be
We have a lot of gold. According to the order of this Khan, whoever takes the head of Ma Lin will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, five horses with carved saddles, and twenty wrappers."
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Under the setting sun, Ao Bai gnawed on the fragrantly roasted rabbit leg, but there was no trace of satisfaction and joy on his face as he finished eating the delicious food.
His eyes vigilantly followed the two figures, one tall and one short, passing between the cannons.
Fourteen Beile Dorgon, among the half-brothers, the closest one is Four Beile Huang Taiji. As the family general of Four Beile, young Aobai has also taught Dorgon several times about riding and shooting since last year.
He often told him about the fierce battles he had fought with his father in conquering Hurha, which made Dorgon very interested and even praised Obei in front of the old Khan.
But during this expedition, Obai clearly felt that Dorgon paid more attention to artillery and muskets, "and even liked to stick to his forehead and ask questions."
Oboi threw away the rabbit leg bone, strode up to a row of artillery pieces, and asked Dorgon with a smile: "Why doesn't Fourteen Beile go to eat? Do you have anything else to tell the slaves?"
Dorgon was squatting down, using the clever angle of the westward sunlight to observe the structure in the cannon barrel. After seeing enough, he stood up and said to Obai: "Tomorrow, don't push these cannons into Kaiyuan City."
"Ah? Why is this?"
Dorgon put on a young man's slightly jerky and funny master's dignity: "Obai, didn't you say that you have fought many battles, and you can't understand this? Since the Great Khan has decided to fight Marin head-on, these cannons,
We have to use it sparingly. We are so fierce in attacking those mounds and earthen walls. What if when the time comes to attack Marin’s men and horses, they fail to fire?”
Ao Bai had a rough and upright temperament, and in his heart he did not regard the little Belle, who had yet to grow a decent beard, as the real authoritative master as he did with Huang Taiji, so he blurted out: "This cannon is not the three-eyed blunderbuss of the Ming army.
, will it be broken? Isn’t it true that Zaohua forehead is made of fine copper from Japan?”
Dorgon's displeasure became somewhat clear.
When he fought at Guangshun Pass, he discovered that Oboi treated Mu Zaohua like a master to a slave, and he did not take Mu Zaohua's titles of deputy commander-in-chief Ezhen and Wuzhenchaoha into his eyes.
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Dorgon was not familiar with Mu Zaohua at first, but in the spring of this year, after Wu Zhenchaoha's copper-iron cannon was built, when the Great Khan took his sons to watch the test of the cannon, Mu Zaohua was very familiar with Dorgon.
He answered the questions he asked patiently and did not treat him like a child and fool him casually.
Later, Dorgon visited the artillery field several times, and Mu Zaohua asked him if he wanted to go on an expedition with the Great Khan to see the artillery smashing down the city walls of the Ming army, or the scene where the Ming soldiers were turned upside down and blood was flying everywhere.
, Dorgon nodded naturally.
On that day in late spring, when Dorgon returned from hunting outside the city, he heard his mother-in-law Abahai say that Zaohua Ezhen was almost fed to a dog by the Khan. He was frightened, thinking that this Han female official would be heartbroken from now on.
Disheartened.
Unexpectedly, Zaohua Ezhen not only still braced himself for the expedition, but before setting off, he also asked to see Abahai and suggested that Dorgon go with him. Fortunately, in the crucial battle when Da Jin directly took the important town of Ming Dynasty, he and several
Like the banner lord's brother, he taught the Great Khan to take note of his heroism and bravery.
Abahai thought it was reasonable, so he asked Nurhaci to bring Dorgon with him during the wine-offering ceremony.
Zaohua'e was really good-natured and trustworthy. During the siege, he even let the young man stand by his side, telling him the details of loading ammunition, brushing and boring, and cheering for the collapse of the enemy's city with him. Dorgon
My closeness and admiration for Zaohua Ezhen, an adult, has inevitably increased a lot.
At this moment, Dorgon, who thought Obai was disrespectful and stupid, choked him without hesitation: "Obai, didn't your sword cut through the enemy's armor? Didn't it block the enemy's mace? The sword has been used too much.
The blade is also curled. How come the artillery won’t break down if you hit it too much? Are you really stupid, or do you just think of blasting a few beacon towers as military merit?”
Mu Zaohua hurriedly stood up next to another cannon and smoothed things over: "Fourteen Baylor, General Obai will not think so. After all, General Obai has told the gunners today that if our Wu Zhenchaoha can
Killing more of Marin's elites is the military merit most appreciated by the Great Khan."
Dorgon rolled his eyes at Obai and muttered: "That's right, I can't even calculate this account clearly."
The anger of the ordinary man in Aobai was about to rise. After hearing Mu Zaohua's reversal of words, the fury of the anger was smoothed down, and he smacked again. It was indeed the case.
He then endured the scorn towards Dorgon, this stupid boy, Baylor, and showed his respect: "Fourteen Baylor taught the slave a lesson. When Yue Tuo Baylor was busy arranging his troops with the red flag, we were so good at it.
You have to listen to Fourteen Baylor."
Dorgon waved his hand to Obai: "Please step back first, and I will look at these artillery pieces for a while."
Neither of these two aristocratic Tatars expected that while they were exchanging words, Mu Zaohua, who was nearby, had quietly taken out a glass bottle, and under the cover of the hazy twilight, she poured out a mysterious
Xu Guang, a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, poured the bright liquid into the barrel of the cannon.
