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early morning.

Mulima, covered in blood, stood on the wall of the inner city of Sarhu and angrily scolded Tuhai outside: "You traitor, the goddess will punish you and kill you!"

Tu Hai smiled and said: "The goddess only cares about Changbai Mountain. I come from Beishan (Wai Xing'an Mountains)."

In the Jurchen myth, the three sisters of heaven and earth descended to earth to bathe in Bur Lake. The youngest fairy ate the red fruit sent by the divine bird and became pregnant and gave birth to Bukuli, the ancestor of the Jurchens.

In fact, this legend comes from the Heilongjiang River Basin and has a certain influence throughout the Northeast.

Huang Taiji's contribution to the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not only all-round reform, but also brought the Manchu Qing regime back to life. He even forcibly created the "Manchu". He ordered people to forcibly merge with the ancestors of Aisin Gioro based on myths and legends. The full name of Bukuri, the son of the Goddess, the ancestor of the Jurchens, and the mythical hero, also became "Aisin Gioro Bukuri".

Whether it is Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, or some wild Jurchen, they are all descendants of Bukuli, the son of the goddess of heaven.

The Aixinjueluo family is the direct descendant of Bukuli. Other Jueluo families, such as Irgun Jueluo and Shushu Jueluo, are descendants of Bukuli. The Jurchens whose surname is not Jueluo are the more distant descendants of Bukuli.

Since they all have the same ancestor, they belong to the same race, called "Manchu"!

The concept of Manchu, under Huang Taiji's deliberate propaganda, gradually became the consensus of more and more Jurchens. If they continue to win militarily, the fake Manchus will turn into real Manchus, and finally truly become a nation.

Mulima was so angry at this time that she cursed Tuhai in the name of the goddess.

Last night Tuhai led his troops to dedicate the city. In the chaos, Mulima abandoned the outer city and hurriedly fled to the inner city to defend it.

It's daybreak now, and the Datong Army has occupied the outer city.

In the inner city guarded by Mulima, there are only more than a thousand Jurchen soldiers from Jianzhou left, and there are also many family members of the soldiers.

The inner city of Sarhu is in the shape of a rhombus. The west wall is directly outside the river cliff, and the east wall is made of rammed earth along the ridge. The inner city covers an area of ​​about 1,200 acres.

Hu Dinggui's troops have been dispersed to take over and occupy Hetuala, Mardun, Jiefan City and Gule City. At this moment, Li Zheng, Lu Xiangsheng, and Xiao Zongxian each led their troops to besiege three city walls. Only the west wall next to the cliff did not invest troops.

"Everyone who can move in the inner city, come and defend the city!"

Mulima also called the old, weak, women and children, and said to them: "The Han people are very cruel. These southern barbarians will kill us all if they break the city wall. If you don't want to die, just defend the city with all your strength!"

The events last night had frightened these Tatars out of their wits. If they were not afraid that they would be killed if they surrendered, it is estimated that even the officers and soldiers would have surrendered.

After being intimidated by Mulima, the remaining Tatars plucked up the courage and refused to listen to the Datong army's persuasion to surrender. They stood on the inner city wall and prepared to defend with their lives.

"Stubborn!"

Li Zheng was the one who loved to learn the most among the generals who were born in Huangjia Town. Over the years, he has mastered the Four Books. He likes to imitate Guan Yu in reading the Spring and Autumn Annals. He also specially invites his husband to lecture on the classics for him. He often uses idioms in his daily conversations.

The outer city wall is difficult to bombard, but if you want to bombard the inner city wall, it is easier to set up forts.

The artillery pieces of several divisions were all carried to the south and fired volleys at the south wall.

"Boom boom boom!"

Mulima mobilized the few cannons in the inner city, all mounted on the south wall, and fired against the artillery of the Datong Army.

At the end of the day, the Datong Army lost four artillery pieces and nine artillerymen were killed or wounded.

Continue the next day.

The bombardment continued until the fifth day. The Datong Army lost a total of thirteen artillery pieces, killed and injured more than thirty artillerymen, and finally destroyed the southern city wall.

"Siege the city!"

Li Zheng ordered.

In this broken place, the ladder with hooks and baffles makes it difficult to move forward normally. The sergeants of Datong held up large wooden shields in the front row to block arrows, and covered the soldiers in the rear row carrying ladders as they advanced.

The attacking troops in the gap were all melee infantry wearing three layers of armor.

Attack from three sides.

Some of the Tatar women and children also went up the city wall, while some stayed in the city to carry supplies.

Golden juice, hot oil, etc. were originally stored in the outer city, but they are no longer needed at this time. Only during the few days of shelling, the freshly defecated feces and urine were boiled into golden juice and poured down.

I saw the Tatar archers shooting arrows downwards, the Tatar spearmen overturning the ladders with all their strength, and the Tatar women and children lifting the golden juice and falling down.

"ah!"

The hot golden juice was poured on the Datong army attacking the city. Even if they were not burned to death, the subsequent bacterial infection would be fatal.

The non-Jianzhou Jurchens who surrendered with Tuhai were also asked to attack the city together. They bravely climbed the city wall, and the casualty rate was no less than that of the Datong Army. It was considered a true desperate effort.

The gap in the southern city wall.

The melee soldier wearing three layers of armor, holding a large makeshift wooden shield, moved forward bit by bit.

When we reached the gap, we did not immediately set up the wooden ladder. Instead, the grenadiers behind the shields struggled to throw ten thousand enemies into the gap. The bombs passed over the wooden piers and landed on the gap, causing the Tatar defenders there to be thrown into chaos.

"Build a ladder!"

Outside the gap is a slope, and the gap is also nearly two meters high.

The wooden ladder could not be fixed and had to be held down by someone. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the bomb, a ladder was quickly put up, and the grenadiers climbed quickly with their war hammers.

The melee weapons of the grenadiers have also been changed. Like the emperor's plate armor guards, they all use the standard war hammers of the Ming army.

This kind of war hammer has been tested for a long time and can continue to exist, which naturally has its reason.

It's not heavy and can break armor!

When the cavalry division attacked the city before, if they were equipped with a large number of these weapons, they would definitely save many lives. Unfortunately, this kind of warhammer is not suitable for horse fighting, and it is impossible for cavalry to equip it in large numbers.

The grenadiers, which have been replaced with warhammer weapons, obviously have new functions.

For melee combat, throw the bomb first, then charge with the warhammer. They were all powerful and strong men, and they were wearing heavy armor. They took advantage of the chaos caused by the bombs and smashed their war hammers randomly, easily tearing apart the enemy's formation.

The tactics of the Datong Army have been improving based on experience!

With this tactic in place, the Ministry of War is already considering whether to increase the number of grenadiers in each division.

Hundreds of burly grenadiers were seen swarming towards the gap. The first few people to go up, regardless of whether the friendly forces could keep up, rushed into the Tatars with their war hammers.

Forty, forty, forty...all small hammers.

Before the Tatar soldiers could recover from the chaos of the explosion, they saw these fierce men rushing towards them and subconsciously raised their weapons to fight.

The grenadier in heavy armor raised his left arm to protect his neck, letting the spear stab him and the waist knife slashing him. They don't care and smash the hammer every chance they get.

Being hit on the body by a war hammer, even if he was wearing armor, he would at least get bruises. If the force is right and the position is right, the internal organs will be damaged, the bones will be broken, or the brain will be damaged.

More and more grenadiers rushed forward with war hammers.

The spearmen also threw away their big wooden shields, followed with their weapons, and stabbed in with their guns from the air strikes of the grenadiers in front.

"ah!"

Miserable screams rang out, but three grenadiers and a Tatar were drenched by the golden juice from above.

In spite of the pain, the injured grenadier continued to hit people, even swinging the hammer harder and harder as if to vent his pain. They also wore three layers of armor and suffered only partial burns. Except for those who suffered large areas of their faces, they still had a chance to survive, and they might have to have their limbs amputated.

Immediately, the city walls on both sides of the gap pushed stones down frantically.

These stones were obtained by demolishing houses. There are many stone houses built with rubble in the inner city.

In an instant, more than a dozen grenadiers were killed and injured on the spot by falling rocks, and a few unlucky Tatars who got too close were also hit.

On the remaining city walls, there were already Datong soldiers climbing up one after another to fight.

For the Tatar general Mulima, it can be said that everything is in crisis at this time. His commanding ability was much better than that of Mandahai's son, and he kept dispatching reserves with unusual calmness.

Unfortunately, the troops he could mobilize were only more than a thousand Tatar soldiers, and the rest were all old, weak, women and children in the city.

With the troops stretched thin and faced with the gap in the southern city wall that was about to collapse, Mulima could only bring her own soldiers to support.

Before Mulima could kill them, the Tatar defenders here had already collapsed.

First they were bombed, then hit with hammers by a group of strong men, and occasionally stabbed with cold spears. How could the Tatar defenders withstand it?

"Don't retreat, retreat means death!"

Mulima, who came to support, was not the first to kill the Datong army, but hacked to death several Tatar troops.

After being hacked by Mulima for a while, a few Tatars retreated and followed him back to fight again.

However, the grenadiers had already occupied the gap and jumped into the city one after another, running into Murima's reinforcements head-on.

Murima hit the grenadier's shoulder with a knife, not even cutting through the first layer of armor. Then, he was hit by the hammer, narrowly avoiding his head, and was hit hard on the left shoulder by the warhammer.

Although the cotton armor counteracted the force, Mulima was still in excruciating pain and felt like the bones in her shoulders were about to break.

The bones were not broken, and cotton armor was better at defending against blunt objects than iron armor.

When Mulima struck out for the second time, the war hammer swept over. He quickly leaned back to avoid his temple, but his cheekbone was hit by the war hammer.

This time the bones were really broken, half of the face collapsed, and one eyeball was bulged forward.

Mulima's head was dizzy and her eyesight went blank. She didn't even faint yet. She barely managed to hold her body up and didn't fall down.

"Boom!"

The third hammer swung and hit Mulima's forehead, probably the brain inside was damaged.

Mulima collapsed and went to the underworld to meet his brother Obai.

When the Tatar general died, the place exploded instantly.

Some Tatars rushed to kill them desperately, as if they were crazy. Some Tatars turned and fled, even throwing away their weapons.

The grenadiers who rushed in first did not continue the pursuit. They still remembered their mission. One after another, they fought from inside the city to the city wall, and cooperated with the friendly troops who boarded the city to attack the Tatars on the wall from both front and back.

The enraged Datong soldiers didn't care about the old, weak, women and children. They only knew that the city was full of enemies.

Sometimes, they didn't even care about surrendering and continued to use their swords against the Tatars who were kneeling and begging for mercy. In such a situation, military regulations are useless. Rigid use of military laws will be detrimental to future military management.

Tu Hai, who was covered in wounds, also led his troops to attack the city wall. This guy was even more ruthless. He led his troops to chase the Tatars all the way to the city, and when they saw the Tatars who were injured and couldn't move, they had to kill them.

The Tatars in the city are old, weak, women and children, and it is estimated that not many of them will survive.