Li Laoer stood at the top of the city and observed the movements of the Jin army camp opposite. Huang Taiji's army had been away from his city for three days. A few days ago, Li Laoer sent Ye Bucheng out of the city every night in a hanging basket to go to the vicinity of the enemy camp to spy on the enemy situation. He had roughly understood what kind of people were left here by Huang Taiji to be responsible for watching him.

There were no real Jin soldiers left in the camp opposite, only the Mongols of Dorji and Sonom, as well as a group of Ming army surrendered by Jin Youguang, Fan Minliang and Jiang Jinqiao. After careful observation at night, I learned that there were a total of 4,000 people guarding the camp, including two thousand Mongols and two thousand Han surrendered soldiers.

Dorji is the son of Beleborjit Ming'an, the Ulut tribe of Korqin, Mongolia. Sonom is the third son of Mangus, Taiji, and Wu Keshan's younger brother. In the eyes of Li Laoer, these two Korqin Mongols are just native chickens and tiled dogs.

As for the surrendered generals of the Ming army, Jin Youguang, Fan Minliang and Jiang Jinqiao, who surrendered to the enemy, they were even more of a bad guy in Li Laoer's eyes. It was useless to eat it.

"The camps built by the Tartars and fake Tartars are still well built, just like a city." Li Laoer said, pointing to the Jin army camp five hundred steps away opposite.

The camp left by the Jin army set up a temporary wooden wall around the camp to form a defense circle. The method of making this kind of wooden wall is to cut two rows of tree trunks first, one long and one short row, burn the bottom of the trunks, and buried half into the soil. The long trunks are arranged in a tight row outside and the short trunks are arranged in a row inside. Wooden boards are set between the two rows of trunks and divided into two layers, so that the part of the long trunks grows into a guard wall. A trench that is one meter wide and six feet deep is also dug outside the camp.

If it is necessary to attack the Jin army camp, it is similar to attacking a city for Li Laoer who has no artillery.

To defeat the enemy, the best solution is to attack the stealing camp at night, rush in with cavalry, step on the camp, and take advantage of the chaos to annihilate the enemy.

However, the Jin army camp had a solid camp gate, and the cavalry would definitely not be able to break through the thick wooden door, and could only use gunpowder to blow up the door.

The black gunpowder of this era is relatively small, and the black gunpowder itself will not explode. It must be sealed tightly before it can explode before it can explode. If you simply use a pack of canvas to make a gunpowder bag, because the seal is not tight enough and the explosion power is too small, it is impossible to blow up the fortification walls like the later explosive bags.

Li Laoer had experimented with the gunpowder tank he made before. Because the charge was insufficient and the power of the explosion was not ideal, a can of turbulent oil tank was thrown on such thick wooden doors, and it was impossible to explode the wooden door.

If the crypt attack method is adopted, as long as the seal is tightly sealed, even the city wall can explode. However, Li Laoer does not need such great power. All he needs to do is to put gunpowder into a large wooden box, seal the wooden box tightly, leaving only a small hole to insert the fuse, and after ignition, it is guaranteed to blow the wooden wall and the wooden door to pieces.

The key is how to launch an attack and how to blow up wooden walls and wooden doors.

Li Laoer was not sure if he wanted to remove Huang Taiji's camp, but he was still confident that he could do it if he wanted to remove the camp of the Mongolians and surrendered generals of the Ming army.

Cave Attack, digging a hole under the Jin army camp and burying a few coffins filled with gunpowder, which can easily send such a small camp of 4,000 people to the sky. However, Cave Attack is Li Lao Er's trump card, and it must be used to deal with big bosses such as Dorgon, Haoge, Yuetuo, etc., and it is not cost-effective to deal with goods such as Dorji, Sonom, Jin Youguang, etc., not to mention that Cave Attack takes a long time, and Li Lao Er does not have that much time.

It was dark, and bonfires were lit in the Jin army camp, illuminating the camp for daylight. Teams of Mongolian soldiers and Ming army surrendered soldiers patrolled back and forth in the camp. Torches were inserted on the tower outside the camp, and sentries standing at night stood on the tower, looking vigilantly at the dark fields outside the camp.

In the second year of Chongzhen, it had already entered the Little Ice Age. The temperature in November of the lunar calendar was very cold. The Ming army surrendered soldiers standing behind the wooden walls wrapped the cotton mandarin duck battle jacket tightly. Most of the surrendered soldiers' cotton coats were already torn and could not resist the severe cold at all. The cold air poured in from their necks and cuffs, making the surrendered soldiers tremble.

In the tent of Dorjibele's central army, wooden boards were laid on the ground to block the cold air rising from the ground. There were red carpets on the tent, and there were basins of fire braziers. The charcoal inside the brazier was burning, and the inside was as warm as spring.

"They all went to Da'ankou. Once the Da'ankou and attacked the pass, they could rob the capital. But a few of us stayed in this miserable place to accompany these hateful horse thieves to blow the cold wind! I'm really unwilling to think about it!" Dorji picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

"Yes, the Ming Dynasty capital is a wealthy place. I went to rob, including food, livestock, gold, silver and treasures, and slaves. I can still catch a few barbarian women to enjoy it! But such a good opportunity is not our turn." Sonom also sighed.

These Korqin Mongols followed the Jin soldiers to invade this time, all came to dream of getting rich, but they were left in this remote country to guard Li Laoer, and they felt extremely disappointed.

"Two masters, there are still opportunities to enter the customs. Maybe in a few days, the Khan will let us in." Jin Youguang said with a flattering smile on his face.

"A lowly barbarian dog! It's not your turn to talk here! Get out!" Because his brother Wu Keshan was arrested, he was thrown here to guard Li Laoer this time. Sonom roared.

"Yes, I'll get out of here." Jin Youguang nodded and bowed to leave the tent while slapping himself.

"Come back!" Dorji called out.

"What are the instructions for your master?" Jin Youguang lowered his head and turned back.

"The lowly barbarians! Let me tell you! You barbarians are not qualified to call themselves slaves! Do you think it's so easy for a slave who is quite big?" Dorji yelled.

"Yes! Master has taught me a lesson!" Jin Youguang kowtowed his head as if he was pecking at rice. "The villain remembers the words of Master! He will never dare to call himself a slave anymore!"

"Get out!" Dorji yelled.

Jin Youguang rolled and crawled out like a mangy dog.

"These cowardly dogs! I really don't know what Dahan thought, why should he keep these wastes of food and clothes and cloth!" Sonom looked at Jin Youguang's back and cursed.

"Yes! These wastes are useless! If it were me, they would have killed all these dogs long ago!" Dorji echoed.

Sonom turned his head and pointed toward Li Laoer's walled city: "Master Beile, our army has more than 4,000 people, and there are probably only more than 1,000 Han dogs in the walled city? Why didn't Khan let us attack the city?"
Chapter completed!