The meeting of Bailong Mountain was the turning point of the Pingnu war. This meeting greatly strengthened the strength of the counter-rebellion troops, inspired the soldiers of the entire army to counterattack the reactionary division of the aristocratic group led by Nurhaci, and also played a decisive significance in promoting a large-scale counterattack on the whole line!

——Excerpt from the memoir of Zhou Tiexin in his later years, "Crossing the River, Crossing the River" by Duke of Liao and Governor of Ji and Liao.

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On the sixth day of the third month, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, mainly Ye He's troops and supplemented by the remaining troops of the Malin troops, met successfully in Bailong Mountain east of Shangjian Cliff.

According to the spirit of the pre-war instructions of Eunuch Wei, under the leadership of Zhou Tiexin, the Jianzhou Garrison Division and the Ming Army were temporarily merged and deployed in a unified manner. The land of the meeting was northwest of Heituara, and was called the Northwest Front Army.

In order to clarify the command system of both sides and ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, Xu Xianchun proposed to establish a temporary unified command system in the Northwest Front Army, namely the Front Committee, also known as the General Front Committee.

This proposal was enthusiastically supported by Yehe's troops, and it was proposed that the military supervisor Zhou Tiexin be appointed as the General Front Committee, who was the deputy front committee member, including Buyanggu, Wang Xuan, Zhang Daji, Xu Xianchun and Gong Niansui as members.

After rectification, the Northwest Front Army commanded more than 16,000 infantry and cavalry, including more than 5,800 cavalry in Yehe's army, more than 3,200 remnants of Malin, more than 5,600 remnants of Dusong, and more than 2,000 other Ming troops.

It is unified into the third brigade, namely the First Buyanggu Brigade, the Second Wang Xuan Brigade, and the Third Xu Xianchun Brigade.

In order to eliminate the reactionary reactionaries in Jianzhou as soon as possible, on the day of the meeting, Buyanggu led the First Brigade to attack Zalkha Pass in order to open up the passage to Hei Atura.

The Zarkha Pass, which was only a few Jiannu, could not resist the attack of the First Brigade full of revenge and anger. In just half an hour, the pass was lost. The defender Jinxianglan Banner Jia Lazhang Jingmachataiyan died in battle, and more than 290 officers and soldiers under the leadership of Wula were killed. At this point, the Northwest Front Army opened the first level to Heituara.

Subsequently, the First Brigade discovered more than 40 large and large artillery guns at Zarkha Pass. After inquiring about the captured Jiannu, he learned that these artillery guns were all transported to this place by Li Yongfang, the former Fushun guard general who surrendered to Jiannu.

It is said that Li Yongfang has suggested to Nuhaci that Tong Yangxing will form an artillery team for the Dajin, so that in the future, the Ming army such as Shenyang and Liaoyang will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort, effectively reducing casualties in the Eight Banners.

Nurhaci adopted Li Yongfang's suggestion, but because the main force of the Eight Banners wanted to advance eastward to deal with Liu Yu's troops, Li Yongfang and Tong Yangxing had no time to send people to transport these cannons to Heituara.

After learning that Buyanggu had seized a large number of artillery at Zarkha Pass, Xu Xianchun immediately asked the baggage gang general Gong Niansui to organize the disrupted gunners from various departments, and then called a large number of camel horses to transport these artillery from Zarkha Pass, and accompanied the army to attack Gulezhai, the last important Jiannu town leading to Heituara.

Because the large number of advancing teams sent by the Ming army to attack the Jiannu Pass Xundao in the Sarhu area, until the Ming army came to the city, Adahai, the son of Eyidu, who was stationed in Gulezhai, knew that the Ming army, who had been defeated by the Khan, had made a comeback.

Adahai, who had only 6 Niulu and more than 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers on hand, did not abandon the village and fled by the Ming army, but was determined to stick to it.

But he knew that it would be difficult to stop the Ming army from breaking the city with this little man, so he immediately sent a fast horse to report to the Khan, who was leading the main force to advance eastward, and requested reinforcements. Even if the Khan sent a flag or even half a flag, Adahai was confident that he could block the Ming army outside the wall.

The battle began soon.

The Ming army's artillery team conducted a tentative shelling attack on the wall of Gule Village outside the city. After obtaining the exact distance, the gunners adjusted the gun position, and then the dense sound of cannons began to come out.

The broken brick dust produced by the explosion immediately filled the entire city, blowing the walls up unevenly, and the gaps were as many as pockmarks on human faces.

Before the Eight Banners soldiers in the village came to their senses, they heard the deafening roar of the Ming army artillery formation opposite. White smoke rose again above the Ming army artillery formation. The roaring artillery shells made the Eight Banners soldiers in the city subconsciously tighten their bodies and hide behind the city wall.

Most of the artillery used by the Ming army's artillery were solid iron bombs. This kind of shell was not as harmful to people as the scattered shotguns fired from close ranges such as the tiger squat cannon. However, in siege battles, the damage to the enemy's city walls was tens of times stronger than that of the scattered ones.

Although several bullets fell behind the village wall, most of the iron bullets were still hit hard on the city wall. The Gule village wall, which was already destroyed by the burning of the Ming army more than 30 years ago, collapsed in large areas. Countless bricks and stones fell under the city in dust. Many braided soldiers did not die from Ming army shells, but were injured and killed by splashed flying bricks.

The soldiers who were left to guard were naturally unable to be the elite of each flag. Some of them had not even participated in the two battles between the monk Sarhu. After encountering such a blow to the Ming army, the courage of the braided soldiers would naturally be scared to dissipate a lot.

Seeing this, Adahai immediately ordered the people on the city wall to go down behind the wall as soon as possible. He knew that the Ming army would not be able to send troops to the city when the artillery was bombarded, otherwise their shells would kill his people.

The Ming army did not send troops to the city at this time, but Xu Xianchun wanted to do this, but considering that the Northwest Front Army was composed of Ye He's troops and two defeated Ming troops, and was not the main force of the Imperial Army. It had not been trained in the coordinated tactics of infantry and artillery, nor had it experienced a great war. If you force them to climb to the city, you might be backfiring.

However, the shelling obviously made the morale of the Northwest Front soldiers, especially when they saw the braided soldiers on the city, they did not dare to look at their heads, and the officers and soldiers had greater confidence in the capture.

Bu Yanggu was also excited. As long as he took down this Gule Village, his Yehe tribe would be just one step away from the final revenge!

"put!"

Before the Du Song tribe went to war, the gunpowder was obtained, and the gunpowder fell into the hands of the Jin army and returned to the Ming army. Xu Xianchun naturally would not be frugal.

He wanted to see no living person on the wall of Gule Village, and he wanted to completely defeat Jiannu's courage to defend the city. He even wanted to climb to the wall of Gule Village without losing one soldier.

The gunners, who were full of energy, even vented the anger of the cannons at Gule Village, making the entire Gule Village look like a fog below and could not see anything clearly.

Adahai, who had no artillery counterattack at all, could only grit his teeth and hide under the wall, hoping that the Ming army's cannons would be completed as soon as possible.

The Ming army's artillery continued to have a stick of incense before stopping. Adahai felt nervous and realized that the Ming army was about to attack the city. He immediately ordered his subordinates to quickly go up to the wall to stop the Ming army from entering the city.

Although the village wall was called the Ming army and the explosion was cracked and many places collapsed, the Gule village wall was the Jianzhou Jurchen royal city that year and was built strongly. Li Chengliang's people set fire to the fire for several days but did not burn the city wall. How could the Ming army's artillery be blown up and then completely collapsed!

The Han people's artillery was powerful, but the artillery could not help them take down Gule Village. The army led by the Khan advanced eastward through Gule Village three days ago, so as long as he Adahai could defend his life for five or six days, reinforcements would definitely arrive.

Under the city wall, the Ming army moved.
Chapter completed!