On November 4, the second year of Chongzhen, outside Zunhua City, Houjin Camp.
Huangtaiji, Daishan, Mangguertai, Altaic, Azig, Dorgon, and Duoduo gathered together to discuss the attack on Zunhua.
Yesterday, Yuan Chonghuan's General Zhao Shuaijiao led 10,000 Guanning soldiers to Zunhua.
If they relied on the city defense to defend and wait for reinforcements, it would be more troublesome.
In addition, they had suffered a lot at Yuan Chonghuan's hands in the past two years.
They were very cautious about attacking Zunhua, which was guarded by Guanning Army.
"Daishan, lead 20,000 soldiers to the south of the city and prepare siege weapons.”
"Manggu Ertai, you will lead your troops to Gushan and station at the east of the city…"
Just as Huang Taiji was arranging the formation, the shout of a messenger came from outside the tent.
"Report to Shengjing 800 Li urgent."
Everyone's heart skipped a beat when they heard this.
At this time, Shengjing Sect sent an urgent message from eight hundred miles away. Something must have happened, and it wouldn't be good news.
"Let him in!"
Huang Taiji frowned and said.
"Reporting to Khan, Shengjing has sent an urgent message. Guangning City has fallen and has been occupied by an elite Ming army. Gushan Ezhen Dege Lei and Meile Ezhen have all died in battle.”
"What?"
Azik, the Banner Lord of the True Yellow Banner, suddenly stood up and exclaimed.
"Bastard, what exactly happened? I gave him ten awesome records, and this is how he defended the city for me?”
The messenger looked at Azik, who was like a furious lion, and his heart trembled.
"Reporting to Lord Baylor, this Ming army has many firearms and cannons. Lord Dege Lei went out of the city to fight, but he was ambushed."
After the messenger soldier recounted the course of the battle.
Instantly, the entire camp fell silent.
Huang Taiji slammed his palm on the table.
One could imagine how furious he was right now.
Guang Ning City was the core city that controlled Liaoxi. Losing Guang Ning was equivalent to losing Liaoxi.
Moreover, this was an important channel for them to contact the Mengyuan Plains.
Losing Guang Ning was equivalent to cutting off the passage to Meng Yuan.
Unless he went around the Greater Kaxing 'an Mountains and the uninhabited area, but was that possible?
Of course, there were still roads, but they were all rugged or narrow roads, which were not suitable for large-scale marching.
After taking a few deep breaths, Huang Taiji finally spoke.
"We can't lose Guang Ning City. Losing Guang Ning means cutting off our retreat.”
"Let Shengjing Sect take back Guangning at all costs.”
"We have to speed up. We can't stay in the pass for long.”
This time, Zhu Heng hit Huang Taiji's seven inches.
It made him feel uncomfortable all over.
Therefore, he could only vent his anger on Zunhua.
"After taking down Zunhua, kill all the Ming people inside.”
Huang Taiji said coldly as he suppressed his anger.
However, before he could prepare to attack, Zhao Shuai Jiao of Zunhua City led more than 10,000 people out of the city.
They were prepared to fight the main force of Huang Taiji at the city gates.
It was obvious that after relying on the city to win a few battles, Zhao Shuai Jiao had already drifted so far that he could not find the north.
Thus, he left very peacefully, and Zunhua fell on the 5th.
The Ming court also received this good and bad news.
"Haha, the heavens are helping our Ming Dynasty. The fall of Guangning City is really a display of our Ming Dynasty's military might. Who took Guangning this time?”
After Emperor Chongzhen heard this good news, his mood was lifted.
"Your Majesty, the one who led the army to take down Guang Ning is a centurion under Overseer Yuan. His name is Zhu Heng.”
"I heard that this person was very brave during the Liaodong war and killed hundreds of Slave Jian.”
Chong Zhen couldn't help but be interested after hearing this.
"Good, as expected of the son of my Ming Dynasty. This time, Zhu Heng has made such a great contribution and killed thousands of Jian Slaves. He should be rewarded.”
"Pass on my decree, Zhu Heng will be appointed as the commander of Guangning. He will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold and 1,000 bolts of Shu brocade.”
Although the commander had no rank, his power was not small.
Zhu Heng was just a small centurion, but he was directly promoted to the position of commander. This reward was not small.
Of course, Zhu Heng's contribution this time was worthy of this reward, so the ministers could not say anything.
He was just a small commander of the border army, and these scholars of the Donglin Party did not take him seriously.
Naturally, Zhu Heng didn't know that he had been promoted to the rank of Chief Soldier of Guang Ning.
Even if he knew, his heart wouldn't be too moved.
He did not have any sense of belonging to the Great Ming Dynasty at all.
If he had transmigrated to the early Ming Dynasty, he would not have thought of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.
"How is the situation outside the city now? How are the city defenses?"
" Master," Zhu Wu cupped his fists and bowed." Slave Jian is currently stationed in the outer area of Zhong An Fortress and Tranquil Fortress.”
"According to the scouts, Slave Jian dispatched about five to six thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry.”
"Other than the First Infantry, I've also gathered all the young and middle-aged men in the city.”
"Weapons and armors have been distributed. They are now undergoing the most basic training to defend the city.”
Zhu Heng chuckled and said,"It seems that Wild Boar Skin was really anxious this time. They actually managed to gather so many soldiers to deal with me."”
"The city must be strictly guarded.”
"Yes, sir, you can rest assured. You can leave the city to this subordinate. I wonder how Zhu Zhen's preparations outside the city are? He better not let me off the hook."
Zhu Heng shook his head helplessly. Zhu Zhen and Zhu Wu were the only two generals under him.
The two of them often competed secretly, and Zhu Heng was clear about this, but he did not stop them.
Sometimes, healthy competition was necessary.
The two of them walked up to the tower and saw a 32-pound Napoleon field cannon.
Zhu Heng walked to the side of the emplacement and patted the bronze cannon body, saying,""This time, you have to work harder. If Slave Jian can still take advantage of such an advanced cannon, I will crush you to the end.”
The M1841 32-pound field cannon had a caliber of 162.25 millimeters, a barrel weight of 870 kilograms, and an effective range of 1.3 kilometers.
It could fire solid bullets, grenades, grapeshot, grape bullets, and so on.
Although its power and range were not as good as the Hongyi Cannon, it had the advantage in terms of mobility. Eight horses could even drag it and run.
The Hongyi Cannon could only be used for defense, and could not be used for mobile combat.
This time, under the situation where they were at an absolute disadvantage, they could only rely on these cannons to defend the city.
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