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Chapter 116 The Battle of Tongzhou (2)

Huang Taiji suppressed his anger, and still had a smile on his face, and said to Sun Degong, a good slave, with satisfaction: "Sun Aiqing, bring your people with you, and join forces with the four and fourteen belles to attack the west of Tongzhou! If you need to coat the shield, even if you open your mouth, you will provide you with how many coats Aha you need."

"Zhe!" Sun Degong retreated after a fight.

Sun Degong surrendered to the Later Jin during the Battle of Guangning. Before surrendering to the Later Jin, Sun Degong was a guerrilla general with more than 3,000 Ming troops under his command. Except for more than 1,000 who were killed who were unwilling to surrender, the remaining more than 2,000 people surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty and were engraved into the Inlaid White Banner.

There was no Han army flag at that time. Sun Degong's more than 2,000 surrendered soldiers from the Ming army were also incorporated into the Eight Jurchen Banners. They were once Han people, but today they are the true Jiannu!

Sun Degong was named Meleezhen. His more than 2,000 surrendered soldiers from the Ming army were his core capital in the Later Jin Dynasty. With these people, Sun Degong expanded his capital by raising the flags and naturalization for some meritorious Baoyi Aha and the Koreans. Now he has more than 5,000 people under his command. This time he invaded the Ming Dynasty, he brought more than 2,000 people.

Huang Taiji also ordered Dai Shan and Yue Tuo to lead two red flags to attack the east of Tongzhou; and ordered Jiergalang and Abatai to lead two blue flags to attack the south of Tongzhou. Huang Taiji himself led the two yellow flags and the Mongolian cavalry and waited in the north. Once the Ming army defended the city was defeated and withdrew from the city, the two yellow flags and Mongolian soldiers could cover up and kill the Ming army from behind and chase the Ming army all the way.

Baoyi Aha and his men drove away the captured Ming people and had cut back the wood. Later, under the supervision of Baoyi Aha, the looted people worked under the steel knives and whips of the Jin soldiers, built shield chariots and built camps.

Part of the long wood cut down was used to build camps. The plundered people and the robbed Aha tied the long and short wood on the outside and layed wooden boards on it to form a simple wooden city wall and built a tower inside the wooden city wall. Another part of the wood was used to build shield trucks.

The war drums rumbled in the formation of the Later Jin army, and the sound of low trumpets sounded. The formation of the Jin army separated to both sides. More than a hundred well-made shield cars slowly pushed out of the formation and pressed towards the position of the Ming army.

The shield chariot is made of thick wooden boards made of thick wood, and placed in front of the two-wheeled chariot. The front of the large wooden shield is wrapped with a layer of cowhide and a layer of iron sheet on the outside. In order to strengthen defense, the outside is also covered with wet quilts. The Ming army's small cannons such as the Bolang machine cannon and the tiger squat cannon cannot penetrate this kind of shield chariot at all. Each shield chariot is carried out by three people and can protect the attack of twenty heavily armored infantry.

Each Niulu who was responsible for the attack carried four shield vehicles, and the ten most elite white-armored Bayala soldiers carried strong bows and long-distance support. The melee weapons were three tiger spears, two long-handled axes, two long-handled page hammers, and three wolf-tooth maces. Each white-armored Bayala soldier carried a tiger-tooth knife. Among the Ming army surrendered soldiers brought by Sun Degong, Li Yongfang and other Han Jian, some of the superb artillery skills were incorporated into the Red Armored Bayala. Each Niulu had forty red Armored Bayala, carrying two Folang machine cannons, eight firearms such as bowl-mouth guns or turtledove-legged guns. Except for the firearms, the rest of the red Armored infantry were heavy armored infantry, half of which were elite archers, the rest were hand-to-hand combat soldiers; fifty infantry, half of them were archers, and the rest were spearmen and sword players.

Only the white-armored Bayala is the real Bayala soldier, and is affiliated to the Bayala camp; while the red-armored Bayala actually belongs to the Kabush Xianchaoha camp, which is a heavy infantry, which is more elite than the vest. The status of the invader is lower than that of the vest.

Even the lowest-ranking Infantry Armor among the Later Jin Banners was not comparable to the ordinary Ming army. Those Infantry Armors were elite archers and hand-to-hand combat soldiers, as well as a small number of firearm soldiers. There were also armored people, which were surrendered tribes in the northeast. They were all savages recruited by the Jurchens from the mountains and forests. Their status was lower than that of the Banners and higher than that of Baoyi Aha, but they were actually slave soldiers.

In fact, the proportion of firearms in the Later Jin army was not low, including Li Yongfang and Sun Degong. This time, the Later Jin army carried more than 200 light Folang machines, as well as more than 800 firearms such as bowl-mouthed guns, turtledove-legged guns, and three-eyed guns.

The proportion of archers in the Later Jin army was extremely high. Each of the white-armored Bayala soldiers was a dual-purpose army of hand-to-hand combat soldiers and elite archers. Half of the red-armored soldiers and infantry armor were archers.

More than 100 shield vehicles covered more than 20,000 attacks of the Later Jin army, including more than 10,000 archers. The light arrows shot at one time could cover the Ming army's positions.

There are also Mongolian archers who assist in the battle, and the Mongolians also dismounted to fight. Jurchen archers and Mongolian archers can shoot 15,000 arrows in one volley.

The trench that Li Laoer asked to dig was used to stop the advance of the rear gold shield chariot. The shield chariot's protective power was too strong. The main firearms of the Ming army, the Fran machine cannon and the tiger squat cannon, could not penetrate the shield chariot at all. The range of the bird gun and the three-eyed gun was not as good as that of the Later Gold archers. Only by blocking the shield chariot can the cannon be exerted.

The Later Jin army also carried a lot of artillery, but the Ming army hid in the fortifications. At present, the Sanshun kings such as Kong Youde have not yet surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Later Jin Dynasty has not yet established the Wuzhen Chaoha camp. The small cannons in their hands cannot threaten the Ming army with fortification protection.

The Later Jin army attaches most importance to archers. Under the protection of the shield chariot, the archers carrying strong bows can reach a distance of only ten steps from the Ming army, so they can shoot the front door with heavy arrows. At such a close distance, heavy arrows can tear apart thick armor. In several battles outside the pass, the Ming army was destroyed by the close-range direct shooting of the Later Jin army.

There are ten general artillery in Tongzhou City. These artillery hit the shield chariot and can destroy the shield chariot, but the number is too small and the accuracy of the smoothbore cannon is not enough. To destroy a shield chariot, you can only stop it and concentrate multiple guns to fire volleys to ensure sufficient fire density to destroy it.

Groups of Later Jin troops pushed shield chariots and approached fifty steps ahead of the Ming army fortification. The shield chariots were blocked by trenches and could not move forward any further.

"Fire the cannon!" Sun Chengzong roared decisively.

The personal soldiers around him waved the small flag and sent a flag-tongued signal to the heavy artillery team.

Ten general guns attacked the shield chariot with five concentrated firepower. Only a roaring sound of cannons was heard. Fire was emitted from the muzzle, and white smoke rose up. Two shield chariots blocked by the trench were shot. The shells penetrated the quilt covered by the shield chariot, and then penetrated the iron and cowhide. After entering the back of the shield chariot, more than a dozen carts were wrapped in blood and flesh.

"Let Baoyi take Nikan up and fill the trench!" Dorgon shouted.

Sun Degong said "chattering" and turned around and asked his soldiers to pull Baoyi Aha out, asking them to drive away the people of Ming Dynasty to fill the trenches.

More than 500 Baoyi Aha, holding machetes and whips, drove out more than 2,000 Ming people carrying mahogany, walked out from behind the Jin army shield formation, and walked step by step towards the trench.

"Supervisor, Jiannu drove us from the Ming people to fill the trenches. Will the artillery be fired?" Yang Guozhu ran back to report to Sun Chengzong.

"Order the fire!" Sun Chengzong hesitated for a moment, and then ordered decisively.
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