"Stop - raise the gun!" The officer ordered loudly, and the musketeers stopped, raised the gun and pointed it at the top of the city.

"Let's fire!" As soon as the words finished, a roar sounded, thick white smoke rose, and countless lead bullets roared towards the city.

Within the range, the power of a musket is greater than that of a bow and arrow. This is an indisputable fact. With the same armor protection, the lethality of lead bullets is definitely stronger than that of a bow and arrow.

The advantage of bows and arrows lies in their speed. A skilled shooter can shoot continuously in a very short time; while a musket can shoot two or three shots in a minute, which is almost the limit.

If it is a fixed ammunition, the fastest can only reach five rounds. This is only theoretical, two or three rounds are the norm for musketeers' shooting speed.

However, under reasonable tactics, it is a historical trend to eliminate bows and arrows by muskets and is a powerful weapon for the farming nations to defeat nomadic and fishing nations.

The Chahar tribe wanted the Ming army to see its own combat power, but it failed and the siege failed, which was embarrassing. The Ming army also wanted to take the opportunity to shock their temporary allies so that they would not be disobedient.

Row after row of muskets were shooting, and the Ming army was advancing steadily.

The lead bullet shot hit the city wall made of rammed earth, splashing dust and dust. In addition, the suppression of the bows and arrows of the Zarut tribe made the defenders of the Korchin tribe in the city unable to lift their heads.

Firepower suppression is just the beginning. Now, the Ming army has begun to perform real siege technology.

With the shield, more than a dozen Ming soldiers covered each other and ran forward with an iron cabinet. Looking at their appearance, this iron cabinet was at least 180 kilograms.

Needless to ask, the iron cabinet is naturally filled with granular gunpowder. There is enough restraint to make the gunpowder burst out with great power. In addition to tunnel blasting, this external blasting similar to explosive packs is also quite powerful.

The key is that the city built by the Korqin tribe is not tall enough or strong enough. The city gate is very narrow and has a height of only more than two meters.

According to the standards of the Central Plains, Grejurgen City is equivalent to the level of a fortress, and it is not even up to the county level. But on the grassland at that time, it was already a very awesome city.

Ming soldiers held their shields and iron cabinets, crossed the filled trench, ran dozens of meters away, and entered the narrow city gate hole.

If it's just an iron cabinet that's put on the ground and it's done, it's too technical. Don't underestimate this iron cabinet. It's also under the guidance of Zhu Youxiao, and it's been tested by the Gunpowder Weapons Bureau!

The Ming soldiers pressed the iron cabinet against the thick gate and the wall on one side, took out a few thick iron drills, waved a large iron hammer, and firmly fixed the iron cabinet to the ground through the thick iron ring welded on the corner of the iron cabinet.

Then, the Ming soldiers inserted the lead wire more than one meter long into a small hole at the bottom of the iron cabinet and sprinkled a small bucket of gunpowder into the lead wire, and then they were all completed.

Raising the shield again, the Ming army soldiers went into battle lightly, well, retreating lightly and running back to their own camp. The Ming army's battle formation began to retreat until it was seventy or eighty meters away.

"Let someone come!" Ma Chengfei held a big bow in his hand and smiled and took a long arrow wrapped in oil cotton. A soldier stepped forward and lit the arrow with a torch.

Ma Chengfei took a deep breath, opened his bow like a full moon, aimed at a pool of gunpowder on the ground in the city gate, exhaled and shot out.

The arrow with flames landed on the ground, ignited the gunpowder on the ground, sparks flashed, and a cloud of smoke rose. The lead was ignited, sparks flashed, and rushed into the iron cabinet quickly and entered the cabinet.

A moment later, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out in full view of everyone.

A monster suddenly appeared in the city gate hole. The narrow place accommodated its huge body, which broke through the earth wall, broke through the city gate, and then burst out.

The earth was trembling violently, and the broken pieces were mixed with dust, wrapped in thick black smoke, soaring into the air. The monster continued to expand rapidly and roared into the air.

In the eyes of the Mongolian coalition and the Ming army full of shock and fear, smoke and dust covered the city wall of the city gate, and could not see anything clearly. Except for the screams and screams coming from the smoke and dust, they came into their ears.

"Good guy--" Man Gui's big mouth opened for a long time before he closed it. I don't know how to describe it, so he muttered with his big eyes.

The tiger's power and fierceness were as powerful as the tiger's throat, and he swallowed his saliva at the same time, and then looked at each other and saw the other's shock.

Ma Chengfei narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, turned his head slightly and asked Xiao Rongzhe, "One is enough, right?"

Xiao Rongzhe was willing to boast, but he still said in a low-key manner: "If you can't do it again, I brought three iron cabinets and three hundred thunders!"

"A waste!" Ma Chengfei rolled his eyes and turned to the messenger beside him and said, "Go and tell Ang An and prepare to attack!"

The smoke gradually dissipated, from blurred to clear, and the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces saw it clearly. The city gate hole had been blown up and turned into a pile of ruins of gravel, with clothes, swords, guns, bows and arrows buried among the ruins.

The sound of war drums rumbling, and Ann Ru Ru woke up from her dream. His son Nuke had already waved his scimitar and howled and led his men to rush forward.

The sudden thunder explosion not only collapsed the city gate, but also affected the city wall next to it, forming a gentle slope of nearly two feet that you can climb through with your bare hands.

More importantly, the defenders were stunned by this incident, and those close to the explosion site were even more shocked and injured, losing their combat effectiveness.

The people from the Zarut tribe rushed up, with bows and arrows on both wings to suppress and cover; the people on the middle side rushed to the front and abandoned the horse, walked, stepped on the ruins of the earth and killed them, and rushed into the city.

The city was blown up and the guards suddenly collapsed. In addition, the Mongolians believed in gods and Buddhas, and after the thunder, many people had kneeled down to pray to the sky.

Moreover, although the internal struggles of the Mongols were also cruel, "those who obeyed and those who refused to the enemy killed them" was also an unchanging rule.

After all, their war was not to kill a certain tribe, but to annex the tribes and expand the grasslands that could be grazed.

Therefore, as soon as the city was broken, the soldiers of the Korqin tribe knew that the defeat was decided, and they would just change the leader, and they would not fight to the end with the same clan.

After a short battle, Nuuk led his men to defeat the defenders who tried to block them and entered the city, which also means that the battle ended and victory could not be changed.

The special minister Sirhunakduling looked a little ugly. After two days and two nights of attack, the Ming army only broke through the city in an instant. The gap really made people blush.

Of course, the two-day and two-night siege cannot be said to be useless. At least it killed and injured many defenders and made them tired. But the facts are there, you cannot yet explain that the army is picking peaches with opportunity.

Fortunately, the Ming army was just powerful in siege, so it was not the case that they rely on to fight on the grassland. Du Ling thought about this and got some self-comfort.

Now, although the Ming army intends to favor Zarut's troops and let them attack the city through the gap, and the property they seized is naturally owned by it, Du Ling is not very annoyed by this.

Speaking of Sirhunakduling, he is actually the leader of the Uziyet tribe, one of the five tribes of the Neikhalkha.

At that time, the young Lin Dankhan appointed Du Ling as the special minister who managed the 30,000 households on the left, and in exchange for the Neikhalk Alliance to get closer to the Khanate.

Du Ling was very loyal to Lin Danhan at first, but now he is very dissatisfied. The reason is very simple. Du Ling opposed converting to the Red Cult, which is the same as many nobles in the Eight Camps of Chahar.

In other words, the Chahar tribe was facing the danger of division, but Lin Danhan didn't know it.

For the nobles who believed in the Yellow Sect, there were only two places to go out of the Chahar tribe. One was the Later Jin Dynasty, and the other was the Khalkha outside the Mobei who believed in the Yellow Sect.

If it were a year ago, Du Ling would have chosen to join the Later Jin Dynasty (this was what he did in history); but now the Later Jin Dynasty has been defeated and has been suppressed by the Ming army. Wouldn’t it be blind to join the Later Jin Dynasty and to destroy itself?

It is a last resort to seeking Khalkha outside the northern desert. On the one hand, it is very likely that the tribes will be swallowed up and become powerless people when they go.

But during this expedition, Du Ling gradually had other ideas.

In particular, the Ming court pointed out that the state and Tuanshan Fort were the locations of Tongshi City in the Chahar tribe and Neikhalka respectively, and Neikhalka had another opportunity to grow and develop.

You should know that trade with the Ming Dynasty was the only channel for Mongolian tribes to obtain materials. If they were cut off, they would have difficulty living and scarce supplies.

Why were Tumote, Ordos, Yongshaobu and other tribes in the right-wing Mongolia rich? In addition to the abundant water and grasslands occupied, there were also huge benefits obtained from the exchanges with the Ming Dynasty.

Why did the Chahar tribe move westward and return eastward? It was not that it wanted to resume direct trading with the Ming Dynasty and no longer compete with other Mongolian tribes for reward amounts.

Since Lin Dankhan did not dare to go to war with the Ming court, so as to cut off trade between the two countries. Can Neikhalkha get the protection of the Ming court, which makes Lin Dankhan dare not take action easily?

With these complex ideas, Du Lingjudged the performance of Zalut's troops should be able to satisfy the Ming army and receive the reward and care of the Ming court.

He is also one of the five tribes of the Neikhalkha, and he may be able to establish a relationship with the Ming army through the Zarut tribe.

The entire Zarut army had already entered the city, but it had not opened other city gates and allowed the Allies to come in. Obviously, they robbed more cattle, sheep and property, and gathered more of the Korchin tribes.

At the same time, the Zalut tribe was also very concerned about capturing the nobles of the Korchin tribe. These nobles would hand over to the Ming army for disposal, which was also the previous agreement with the Ming army.

Du Ling was not in a hurry. Anyway, he had completed Lin Danhan's mission. The collapse of the Korqin tribe was a foregone conclusion. As long as he captured Oba back or took his head, it would be enough to get the job done.

The Zalut tribe was not too extreme. He snatched away the Korqin tribe and property in the city, and always kept some for the Mongolian Khan, although it was only nominal.

In fact, it was useless to be anxious. The Ming army was still in a formation, with two thousand musketeers surrounding the gap at the city gate. The people of the Chahar tribe who were stunned in the shock did not dare to rush over casually.

When a deafening explosion sounded at the city gate and the earth and the city walls were trembling, Wu Keshanzheng was ordered by his father to place two sisters at home.

The so-called resettlement is to hide. There is a cellar in the house, which is very hidden. Of course, this is for outsiders. If someone in the house informs you, it will definitely not be hidden.

Wu Keshan only brought his loyal servant Daerhan. Although he was old, Daerhan ran across Fushun, Chenyang and other horse markets when he was young. He was very smart and could speak some Chinese. That was the case before the Jurchens rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother, why do you want my sister and I to hide?" Fifteen-year-old Hai Lanzhu blinked her big eyes and asked with a worrying look: "Does the city not be able to be defended? What should I do with you, father, mother, and you?"

The eleven-year-old Bumubute pulled Wu Keshan's sleeve and refused to let go, begging him, "Brother, you can hide in too! Let Darhan go find his father and mother."

Wu Keshanqiang smiled and said, "The city wall is strong, so it is not so easy to be broken. Let you hide just in case. If it's okay, you can hide it first. I'll call my father and mother."

Daerhan knew that the situation was not good, so Wu Keshan secretly stuffed him some gold, silver, pearls and jade in his leather pocket, which were made on temporary clothes, and it was obvious that he wanted to take good care of the two ladies as much as possible.

He also knew that Zaisang-bu and his family were not hiding together. As an important figure in the Korqin tribe, he would definitely be indispensable for the search after the city was broken, and it would be very strict.

By then, this not-so-hidden cellar will most likely be exposed and no one can escape.

So, Daerhan also helped to persuade him, and finally let the two girls enter the cellar. Just as Daerhan had just entered half of his body, a loud noise came into his ears, and the ground trembled, which shocked Daerhan down the ladder.

Wu Keshan looked in shock at the direction of the loud noise, and a thick stream of black smoke was rising.

Could it be that Wu Keshan hadn't thought about it, so he bent down to cover the cellar, and hurriedly placed some debris on it, running out to find his father in a hurry.

The cellar was pitch black. Hai Lanzhu hugged her younger sister Bumubutai. She felt her trembling and hurriedly comforted her in a low voice.

She was old and could guess the situation outside was very critical from her brother's performance. Hiding her and her younger sister in the cellar was definitely not as simple as her brother said.

"Darhan, you come back with your brother. Do you know the situation of defending the city?" Hai Lanzhu finally remembered to ask Daarhan after comforting her younger sister.

Daerhan's old arms and legs were hurt because of the fall. Fortunately, his bones were broken and he sat on the ground and rubbed his legs with grin.

Hearing Hai Lanzhu's inquiry, he hesitated for a moment and said slowly: "There are many enemies outside the city, including Chahar, Neikal, and the Ming army."

"The Han army?!" Bumu Butai interrupted, "Are they very cowardly? They can't even beat the Jurchens, and they lost all Liaodong?"

Daerhan said aloud, and was silent for a while before speaking, "That's what happened before. Over the past year, many tribe members who wanted to make a fortune fled back with the Jurchens and also talked about some things. The Jurchens even defeated the war, but the situation was not good, and even many tribe members who followed them died."

After pausing, Daerhan sighed, "The Ming Dynasty is very big; the population is many, many..."

A scream and scream came in from outside, mixed with heavy footsteps, clanging sounds of weapons attacking, and powerful shouts and hissings.

Daerhan hurriedly let out a "shhh" and closed his mouth.

Hai Lanzhu and Bumubutai were so scared that they hugged each other and shivered.

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Chapter completed!