Nuerhachi saw more than a dozen things hanging from the top of Juehua City from a distance, and he didn't realize it was a little strange and asked, "Who do you see clearly what is hanging on the top of the city?"

Ah Fei said with sharp eyes: "Father Khan is the head. ■→,ww≌w..c⊙om The barbarian hung the head on the top of the city."

Nuer Hachi didn't care. Although dozens of cavalry in the Qing Dynasty were killed by artillery, the Ming army did not dare to leave the city and did not cut off the heads. Since it was not the heads of the Qing Dynasty, it was the heads of the Barbarians themselves. In this way, even if the heads were hung all over the city walls, he would not frown, but would be full of joy because the barbarians had internal strife.

Huang Taichi trembled and almost fell off his horse.

Nuerhachi frowned and asked, "Old Ba, what's going on? More than a dozen people scared you into this. You really don't look like the descendants of Aisin Gioro."

Huang Taiji pointed to the city with a trembling finger and said, "Father's Sweat, that... that's our fine work."

Huang Tai Chi's tremor was transmitted to Nuerhachi, and Nuerhachi asked, "That...that means..."

"The city gate will never open."

Nuerhachi suddenly seemed to be over ten years old, and turned his horse's head powerlessly and said, "Get back to the camp."

In order to prevent the invasion of Jiannu, Yuan Chonghuan resolutely implemented the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, demolishing or burning all the houses within a radius of fifteen miles outside Ningyuan City. Nuerhachi did not act as a military camp for the Ming people, so he could only set up a tent. Although his golden tent was gorgeous, his warmth was very average. It was not until a carbon pot was lit inside that it warmed up a little.

"What should I do?" Nuerhachi asked his sons.

This time he went out, he brought four sons with him, namely the third son Abai, the fourth son Tang ancient times, the fifth son Mangguertai, and the eighth son Huang Taiji. The second son Daishen had a stable personality. He stayed in Shenyang and guarded the capital.

Ah Bai was the most impatient and said, "Let's fight. But how could our Qing warriors be afraid of their bad city? As long as the father Khan ordered the city to be broken and not sealed for three days, we would be able to take down Ningyuan City."

In ancient Tang Dynasty, Mangourta didn't speak, waiting for Nuer Hachi's decision.

Huang Taiji saw Nuer Hachi looking at him with inquiring eyes, hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to tell the truth: "We have 60,000 people surrounding Ningyuan City. It would be a lie to say that it would not be taken down. But as far as I know, the total number of soldiers and people in Ningyuan City before the war was about 20,000. I don't know much about the current population, and it's probably not much different. Sixty thousand is fighting 20,000. It seems easy, but in the siege, the best casualty ratio between the offensive and defending sides was only controlled one to one, and killing a Ming army, and the Qing Dynasty might lose a warrior. Although Mongolia is defeated by us, its strength is still there. If we suffer too much loss when siege the city, we may not be able to suppress Mongolia's counterattack in the second half of the year."

Huang Taiji didn't know. Because Ningyuan City became a benchmark for resisting orders, many troops and people retreated to Ningyuan City. Ningyuan's current population is more than 30,000.

Nuerhachi knew that Huang Tai Chi was justified, but when he returned to Shengjing without getting any benefits in Ningyuan, it would seriously undermine the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers. They would not be willing to follow themselves to fight again in the future. More importantly, the food in Shengjing has bottomed out, except for the Jiannu nobles. Others can no longer eat. Although they can still eat the meat of the barbarian slaves now, the number of barbarians is limited. Where can they find food after eating?

Nuerhachi felt a burning heart, so he lifted the curtain and walked out. Outside there were endless tents. Dim lights were lit inside. Seeing the neat military tent, Nuerhachi couldn't help but feel confident, but when he thought of the terrifying cannons in Ningyuan City, he became frightened again. Here are elite soldiers, 60,000 elite soldiers, the foundation for his dominance of Liaodong. Once the losses are too great, his kingly map and dominance will become a mirror flower and water moon.

He remembered a sentence that Li Chengliang once said back then, "I am willing to give up, and only with giving up can you gain." He nodded and couldn't help but admire the old master's vision (Nuerhachi was once a personal soldier of Li Chengliang, so he called him the old master). After thinking for a while, he decided to give up Ningyuan and retreat to the west of the Liaohe River.

At this moment, he heard a whimpering cry coming from a tent.

He asked casually: "Who is in charge of the military tent? Who is crying?"

No one answered behind him. Nuerhachi looked back and saw that his sons were twisting into a ball in the golden tent. However, the fight was a fight. What was strange was that there was no sound, so Nuerhachi, who was worried, knew nothing about it.

"What are you doing? Are you in a hurry to divide the property before you die?" He was defeated in front and his son in the back. He was furious and even said the words of the property.

The four sons hurriedly separated and each tidied up their clothes. The other three sons were fine, but the more miserable one was his eighth son Huang Taichi, with one eye blue and blood bleeded at the corners of his mouth.

The third son Abai said indifferently: "Father Khan, it's okay, we are teaching the eighth son a lesson."

"Why?"

The fourth old Tang Dynasty said: "It's not because of what he said just now in front of his father Khan."

The old fifth mangurtai said: "If what he said is wrong, it's just that. But he is right. We can't argue, so we have to beat him up and vent our anger."

"Jealous?"

The three sons shook their heads together.

Seeing that he couldn't find out the truth, Nuerhachi stopped exploring it. He left the matter behind and pointed to the military account where crying sounds came and asked, "Who is in charge of the military account? Who is crying?"

Ah Bai glanced at it, his expression became very bad, and he whispered: "It's my military account. I'll go and see who is confusing the morale of the army."

As he said that, he rushed out with a whip like a gust of wind and rushed straight towards the military tent. After a while, there were shouts and whips coming from the military tent.

Then Ah Bai ran back and forth and reported: "Father Khan is the elder brother of a soldier who was killed by artillery. Originally, Shi Ding was the elder brother, but when he heard that he was here to steal the good things from the barbarian this time, he squeezed in and died under the barbarian's artillery."

Nuer Hachi's face was gloomy. It was not because the Jiannu officers did not strictly select soldiers according to the "Ten Dings Ding" standard, but thought of a very serious problem. Since defeating the Ming Dynasty in the Sarhu battle, he has won every battle. He led the Jiannu soldiers to rob one Ming family after another, raped one Ming woman after another, and killed one Ming people after another. With the accumulation of victory, the Jiannu people were proud of being a soldier. He heard that he went to war, his eyes shone, and knew that he would make money.

The opportunity came again. For example, the younger brother of the two brothers, even if he didn't get the draw, he would have to squeeze in. This time he returned in a defeat, which was his first defeat. The blow to Jiannu's morale was unprecedented. The next time he recruited soldiers, it would probably not be so easy. Moreover, even if recruited, they were not so sure whether they could win. The reason why Jiannu's soldiers advanced bravely on the battlefield, and the soldiers' losses reached 50% but were not defeated was because they were sure that Nuer Hachi could lead them to victory.

The four sons fought just now, not necessarily because of jealousy that Huang Taiji made the correct suggestions, but because of the vent of failure. During victory, many contradictions were covered, and once they failed, the contradictions would appear. The reason why he did not conquer the Ming Dynasty for two years was that he seized too much land and population of the Ming Dynasty, and it took time to digest these contradictions. If he returned with a great victory this time, then all contradictions would definitely disappear invisible; and if he returned with great defeat, or even without defeat, he would return without success, Jiannu would definitely fall into chaos, and the Han and barbarians who had been suppressed would rebel again.

Nuerhachi pondered for a long time, and slapped the table and said, "We cannot retreat, we must break through Ningyuan City. I announce that after breaking Ningyuan, we will not seal the sword for seven days."

The four sons came forward to persuade him, of course, not to persuade him to take back the order of not sealing the sword for seven days - killing and stabbing the people of the Ming Dynasty was their happiest thing. They were persuading Nuerhachi to withdraw his troops. They could see the situation of today's battle very clearly and knew that it would be better to capture Ningyuan City.

Nuerhachi explained the reason to them, and the four sons quickly understood what he meant and took action.

They drove all the craftsmen in the military camp out and asked them to make hook ladders and chariots on site. The so-called hook ladders are upgraded products of siege ladders. The upper end is curved and can hook the city wall and not easily be pushed down. The chariots are made of logs, covered with raw cowhide, so that arrows cannot be shot through, guns cannot be penetrated, and soldiers can hide inside and can safely approach the city wall.

There were many trees around Ningyuan City. Jiannu dispatched soldiers to cut down the trees and transported them back to the military camp. Because he knew that after the city was broken, the bloodthirsty Jiannu robbers had no sword sealing for seven days, and the murderous Jiannu robbers had no complaints when cutting the wood. Under the threat of Jiannu's butcher knife, the craftsmen were also very fast. In one night, twenty-seven hook ladders and sixty-three carts had been prepared. Nuerhachi did not expect to attack the city, so he did not carry raw cowhides. The craftsmen killed horses and took horse leather and wrapped carts. The horse skin was not as tough as cowhides, so the craftsmen used double-layer horse skin instead. The more powerful consequence of the cart was that the horses lost more. Fortunately, Jiannu came here this time, they were all one person and two horses, so the number of horses was sufficient, with a few hundred less, which had no impact on Jiannu.

When Chen and Si changed in the morning (about 9 am now), the siege equipment was ready. Looking at the tall and majestic Ningyuan City, the Jiannu sneered. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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