The Jin army retreated and left more than 500 corpses in front of the castle, including more than 100 corpses of Zhengbai Banner Ding, and the rest were corpses of Han people who surrendered to the Great Jin Dynasty.

Looking at the strange-shaped castle ahead, Huang Taiji, who had just lost, was hesitant whether to launch another round of attack on the castle.

Although most of the people who died in this round of defeat were Ming army surrendered soldiers, Han army flag and Baoyi Aha, and the lost bannermen were Zhengbai Banners that they did not like, and that was Dorgon's people. Huang Taiji had been deliberately weakening Dorgon's strength. Therefore, the defeat just now had no effect on Huang Taiji. But then again, if such defeats occurred a few more times, it would have a great impact on the morale of the Jin army, especially the Ming army surrendered soldiers, Han Eight Banners and Baoyi Aha. These people would have fought with the invincible Jin army and won the battle all the way, and their morale was high. If they were defeated a few times, the morale of these people would be collapsed.

Huang Taiji had the ambition to enter the Central Plains. He also knew that relying on the Great Jin Kingdom, which had only 200,000 bannermen, to swallow the Ming Dynasty, which had tens of thousands of people, could only use the heroes to set the forefront for him. If there were no Han people who charged for him, it would be a delusion to want to annex the Ming Dynasty with the 200,000 bannermen.

In order to enable the Han people to serve themselves, Huang Taiji not only ordered the Later Jin army to treat the surrendered Han people well, but also ordered the Mongols of the Korqin tribe who followed him to invade: Those who kill the Ming people with their own powers will be punished to kill the murderers to pay their lives; those who plunder money will count the number of things they have taken to pay their masters.

Huang Taiji also ordered the Mongols that if they kill Ming surrenders, they would be the same as being enemies of the Great Jin Dynasty and would be killed without mercy.

On the 29th, the Khan ordered Kalaqin and Tumote's tribe, "You will go to war with the workers and encounter people who reject me when they encounter people from Ming Dynasty who reject me. If someone kills Ming surrenders and plunders his clothes, it is my enemy and will be killed without mercy."

Through the edict sent by Huang Taiji to the Mongols, it can be seen that Huang Taiji has tried hard to summon the Han people. Only when the more Han people surrendered, the more chance the Jin Jin has to enter the Central Plains.

Therefore, the Ming army surrendered troops were cannon fodder, but cannon fodder should not be wasted at will.

Dorgon, who had lost more than a hundred flag managers, was dissatisfied and stepped forward and knelt down and beaten up: "Shank you! Let the surrendered Nikan soldiers attack again! This city is behind our army, like a thorn in his throat! It will be a disaster after all!"

"Fourth brother, the surrendered soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, is also a subject of my great Jin Dynasty! How can you die at will!" Huang Taiji rebuked.

Jin Youguang, Fan Minliang, Jiang Jinqiao and other surrendered generals of the Ming army knelt down after hearing this: "The Khan waited for the great generals and others to be as kind as a mountain. The Khan should repay the Khan for his death!"

Huang Taiji said just now, not only scolding Dorgon who he didn't like, but also bribed the hearts of surrendering to the Ming army, making these surrendered generals and soldiers devoted themselves to doing things for Huang Taiji, which was a killing of two birds with one stone.

Dorgon said: "But this city is only a hundred feet in a radius, and there are no more than a thousand people guarding the fort. As long as you attack again, you will be able to defeat it in one fell swoop! If you keep this disaster, you are afraid that the Mingdog in the city will make trouble behind our army."

Huang Taiji pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll attack again!"

Although Huang Taiji did not name a name to let a surrender general attack, Jin Youguang, Fan Minliang, Jiang Jinqiao and others knew that they had to play for Dajin in order to gain Huang Taiji's trust. So Jin Youguang walked forward, beat a thousand, and knelt on one knee and said, "Shan! The general is willing to lead more than a thousand men under his command to break through the front city for Dajin!"

Fan Minliang and Jiang Jinqiao also stepped forward and said, "I am willing to go!"

"Okay, you take people to attack; if you can't conquer, there is no need to force them." Huang Taiji said. He felt that there was no need to let these Han people fight to the death. If they were to suppress the surrendered Han people and force them to die, then they would consider whether the Han people would surrender in the future.

The more polite Huang Taiji spoke, the more Jin Youguang and others felt that they should do their best.

So Jin Youguang turned his head and ordered: "Take people to cut down wood first and build siege weapons! When siege the city, bet all the elite servants!"

These Ming army surrendered generals were also very hardworking, and even the Dajin Baoyi Aha was not needed. A group of servants in fine iron armor drove away the Ming army surrendered soldiers wearing tattered battle jackets to act as auxiliary soldiers, waving whips, asking them to cut down wood, build shield chariots, trench bridges and simple siege ladders, and even built several large siege ladder cars!

It took a lot of time to build large-scale siege weapons. The Ming army surrendered soldiers were busy all afternoon. After dark, they continued to be busy in the camp of the Later Jin army and created various siege weapons.

Li Laoer and Han Dashan lit a bonfire at the top of the city and roasted horse meat. A large piece of roasted horse meat was cut out, and Han Dashan took a bite: "I didn't expect this horse meat to be quite fragrant."

"Boil it in water first, add a lot of ingredients to the water to remove the flavor, then pick it up and bake it, which will remove the flavor." Li Laoer said.

Han Dashan stood up and looked at the brightly lit camp of the Later Jin army: "Jiannu was busy all night, it seemed that he was building some siege weapons!"

"Not afraid!" Li Laoer smiled confidently, "The soldiers come and the generals block the water and the soil! They have no cannons and cannot conquer our city at all. The only way is to siege for a long time. But Huang Taiji invaded just to rob, and they cannot spend their time on us."

The next morning, Zhang Wei, who was in charge of observation at the city wall, suddenly shouted: "Jiannu is attacking again! The one who came was fake Jiannu!"

Li Laoer climbed up to the city and went down the city. On the open ground in front, a large group of surrendered soldiers wearing eight-petaled iron helmets, with a brand new red battle jacket covering black mountain armor, and holding an iron round shield, walked out of the camp of the Later Jin army and formed a formation outside the camp of the Jin army. This group of people seemed to have about 200 people. Li Laoer looked at the posture and understood in his heart that it must have been the surrendered generals who had bet on their most elite servants!

Although these Ming army surrendered soldiers were all Han people, Li Laoer had no favoritism for them. Usually they bullied the people and even killed good people to make contributions. However, when the Tartars came in, they turned around and surrendered to the Tartars. Li Laoer asked these Han people who betrayed their ancestors, but there was no pressure at all.

Then, another group of Ming army surrendered soldiers wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets and red tassels and hats walked out of the camp of the Later Jin army. These Ming army surrendered soldiers knew that they were ordinary soldiers when they saw their clothes. Now these surrendered soldiers are used as auxiliary soldiers. They shouted labor horns and pushed shield chariots one after another, and pushed forward in the direction of the city wall. Li Laoer estimated that there were fifty shield chariots in total, and the carts were more than 500 ragged Ming army surrendered soldiers.

Following the ordinary soldiers were a group of Ming army surrendered soldiers wearing mandarin duck war jackets and red tassels and hats on their heads, but there were blue armors outside the mandarin duck war jackets. There were about 300 of them, and they carried simple ladders on their shoulders.

Finally, there were more than two hundred servants wearing mountain literary armor and eight-petaled iron helmets.
Chapter completed!