"Whoosh..."

An exploding unknown object with a whistling sound suddenly landed not far from the somewhat confused Prince Dorgon of Jiannu Rui:

"Hurry and protect the master..."

The soldiers beside Dorgon shouted and hurriedly stepped forward to protect their master with their bodies. Many white-armored soldiers also quickly moved closer to Dorgon.

"Rumble..."

There was a violent explosion, and the limbs of the dozen or so Jiannu who were surrounding Dorgon were flying around. With the sparks flying everywhere from the explosion, the cloaks of several Jiannu were instantly ignited.

Under the loyal protection of the slaves, Dorgon was safe and sound. Dorgon turned pale with fright and hurriedly shouted to Jiannu Scouting Cavalry:

"Look what's going on? Aren't the main forces of the Ming army in Rufeng Mountain?"

Hearing his master's question, Rausa, the leader of the small flag of Jiannu Zhengbai Banner, hurriedly stepped forward to salute:

"Reporting to my master, the reconnaissance cavalry sent out today have not returned so far. They may have been attacked by the Ming army at night..."

Dorgon was shocked and angry when he heard this, and couldn't help but cursed:

"You must have encountered a strong enemy before the scout cavalry returned. You idiots? Why didn't you report it earlier? They are all useless. Immediately send an order to stop attacking Data Mountain. Everyone must retreat and form a formation to prepare for the enemy!"

"twitter!"

Tong Hanbang and the others were already unable to resist. If there were no reinforcements to rescue them in time, he was prepared to light explosives and perish together with the slaves who entered the city.

Just when the defenders were fighting the most difficult time, unknown explosives suddenly attacked the Jiannu army formation, and then the Jiannu troops who attacked the city retreated like a tide.

The city's defenders and people all knew that the reinforcements had arrived, but before they started cheering, a UFO crashed into the city:

"Rumble..."

This explosion caused the casualties of more than a dozen Ming army officers and civilians, but fortunately no one was killed. Most of them were burned by flying sparks...

The defenders were confused at the time. Aren't they coming with reinforcements? Why did they still bomb Tashan City?

Tong Hanbang quickly guessed that the explosion just now was probably an accidental explosion and hurriedly shouted:

"Soldiers, it must have been an accidental bombing just now. Don't panic, everyone, continue to hold on to the city. I will go up to the city to take a look..."

He didn't know how many reinforcements would come. If there weren't many reinforcements, it would only be a drop in the bucket to rescue Tashan, but having reinforcements was better than no reinforcements.

Ordering some soldiers to continue to guard the gap in the city wall, he quickly ran up to the top of Tashan City with several hundred of his confidants. Tong Hanbang wanted to see how many reinforcements there were.

As soon as he walked to the top of the city, Tong Hanbang saw the defenders and people cheering on the top of the city. He hurriedly followed the gaze of the cheering soldiers on the city and suddenly exclaimed:

"Your Majesty is wise. So many reinforcements have arrived. It seems that they are still the National Guard Army. The soldiers and people of Tashan can be saved..."

When Tong Hanbang saw the National Protectorate coming for reinforcements, he wanted to say a few words of encouragement to his soldiers, but Yue suddenly choked up and was so excited that he couldn't say anything...

It turned out that a large number of Ming troops appeared three miles southwest of Tashan. Judging from the high-flying dragon flags and tiger flags, they should be the strongest national defense army of the Ming Dynasty.

Soon the leading cavalry reinforcements arrived about a mile below the city, and then the infantry appeared in everyone's sight.

This time they finally saw clearly that the one coming to the rescue was the Longteng Army led by Sun Yingyuan, one of the National Guards.

Seeing that the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty was coming, many defenders on the city wall hugged each other excitedly, crying and laughing...

The strong army was indeed unparalleled. Whether they were cavalry or infantry, they all lined up and moved forward quickly. What shocked Tong Hanbang was that the Longteng army always maintained a neat formation while moving quickly...

It was the Longteng Army led by Sun Yingyuan who came to help. When the army left Ningyuan, it sent out many troops to stay at night. Although Sun Yingyuan had not yet arrived at Tashan, he knew the battle situation in Tashan clearly.

The army was about three miles away from Tashan, and he received a battle report that Tashan was about to be breached.

In order to ease the Jiannu offensive, Sun Yingyuan immediately ordered the artillery to fire rockets in the direction of the Jiannu army formation. Now only rockets can deter the Jiannu.

Regardless of whether the rocket can land in the Jiannu army, as long as it can delay the Jiannu attack rhythm, this is also the main reason why a rocket got lost and fell in the city.

When the artillery fired the rocket, Sun Yingyuan deliberately left two thousand generals to defend the rocket in case the rocket was attacked by Jiannu. He personally led the Longteng Army to quickly advance towards Tashan.

Dorgon ordered the Jiannu Army to stop the attack and quickly retreated five miles to regroup and reorganize. The leading troops of the Longteng Army quickly arrived at the foot of Tashan City.

Soon Sun Yingyuan personally led the main force of the army to arrive and quickly formed a formation in the city. Since the Longteng Army lined up to enter, it only took half a stick of incense to complete a large square formation.

Jian Nu hurriedly retreated and organized their formation. It took them nearly an hour to complete their formation again. By the time they marched towards the foot of Tashan City again, Long Teng's army was already ready.

Since it was a positional battle and he was facing the Ming Dynasty Protector's Army, Dorgon was well prepared this time. He decided to test how powerful the Protector's Army was first.

If it is true that the Protectorate Army is an invincible force as Duduo said, Dorgon will immediately lead the army to retreat to preserve his strength. In order to compete with Hauge for the throne, he will never fight with the Protectorate Army to the death now.

Seeing that the Ming army only had one large square formation, Dorgon immediately ordered the Mongolian cavalry to test the firepower of the National Guard Army first:

"The Mongolian cavalry of the White Banner, charge into the formation!"

Dorgon gave an order, and five thousand Zhengbai Banner Mongolian troops took the lead in charging towards the Longteng Army. Five thousand war horses rolled up smoke and dust and quickly rushed towards the Longteng Army's formation.

Sun Yingyuan's rescue this time was not to help Tashan defend the city. Their purpose was to eliminate the Zhengbai Banner of Jiannu on the spot and cripple Prince Rui, the most powerful Jiannu.

Seeing the Mongolian cavalry taking the lead in charging, Sun Yingyuan waved the command flag in his hand, and the musketeers in the front rows of the phalanx quickly withdrew to the two wings.

After the musketeers withdrew to the two wings, fifty field guns of different sizes and thirty Franco machine guns were revealed in the front of the square formation.

"fire!"

Sun Yingyuan waved the command flag in his hand again, and thirty field guns and twenty Franco machine guns immediately spurted out bursts of fury.

Solid bullets of different sizes quickly hit the Mongolian cavalry.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The charging cavalry formation of the Mongolian army was relatively dense, and the fifty shells basically bombarded their cavalry formation.

Suddenly there was a bloody storm, and the Mongolian soldiers and horses screamed and fell in large numbers...

"fire……"

"Rumble..."

The second wave of artillery made a deafening roar again, and thick white smoke spurted out in large streams, covering the artillery positions in front.

Such a loud noise startled the herds of horses and cattle in the Jiannu army formation to bray, and even the Ming army on top of the city started a big commotion.

The charging Mongolian cavalry were instantly stunned. They had no idea that there were so many artillery pieces hidden in the Ming army's formation.

Seeing countless huge cannonballs coming towards them, they had no choice but to lie tight on their horses and charge forward...

"Rumble..."

A large iron ball weighing more than ten kilograms roared towards the Mongolian cavalry.

Several Mongolian cavalrymen who charged in the front row were killed, including their men and horses, leaving only muffled sounds and cries, as well as internal organs and blood flowing out.

"Rumble..."

The sharp and piercing whistling sound came again, it sounded like a kettle boiling water, and it was still boiling extremely hard, which made people feel upset...

"Boom!"

A dozen large iron balls weighing five to six kilograms instantly crashed into the Mongolian cavalry with a sweeping momentum.

"Puff puff.!

As streams of blood mist shot out in front of, behind, or above their heads, the Mongolian cavalry was frightened when they were bombarded by field artillery during the charge...

"Charge, spread out and rush..."

Seeing that his men suffered heavy casualties, the Mongolian Army's Jia Laerzhen hurriedly ordered his men to disperse and charge.

"Rumble..."

But before he finished speaking, a cannonball suddenly hit his horse.

The war horses and their lower bodies instantly turned into a mass of blood mist, and only one bloody head fell to the ground.

The real head and the helmet almost fell off together, revealing the slender money rat tail pigtail on the back of the head...

A little leader of the Mongolian army felt uncomfortable in his stomach, so he stretched out his hand and pulled out a lot of large intestines and small intestines...

After several rounds of artillery attacks by the Longteng Army, the Mongolian army suffered at least a thousand casualties.

Some cavalrymen who were not hit by the shells were shot dead by muskets as soon as they entered a hundred paces distance.

Five thousand Mongolian cavalry suffered heavy casualties due to artillery shelling and gunfire from the Longteng Army, and Dorgon felt his heart bleed.

He knew that he could not let the Mongolian army continue to charge, otherwise the Mongolian army might be surrendered under Xiaoxiaotashan City.

"Quick, Ming Jin, let the Eight Banners Mongolian cavalry come back..."

Seeing that the Mongolian army suffered too many casualties, Dorgon hurriedly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops. Before he could finish his words, the Jiannu Army immediately sounded the sound of gongs:

"Dangdangdang..."

The Mongolian troops who were charging in fear heard the sound of the gong, as if they were hearing the most beautiful music in the world. They hurriedly changed from the front team to the rear team and quickly retreated.

As expected of a nation on horseback, the Mongolian army was not defeated when they retreated. Sun Yingyuan saw this and did not order the Longteng Army cavalry to pursue it.

"Han troops and shield chariots, charge for me!"

After the Mongolian cavalry withdrew, Dorgon immediately used Jiannu's trump card against the Ming army's firearms, which was to charge with a shield car that had been prepared in advance.

During the attack on Tashan, the shield car could not function. The shield car was mainly used in positional warfare and field battles. When Jiannu fought with the Ming Army's firearms troops, the shield car was basically used.

Of course, during the siege, if there was a heavy concentration of artillery cannon fodder on the city, shield vehicles were also used many times to provide cover, allowing the slaves to safely approach the city wall...

Whenever the history of Jiannu Longxing Liaodong and taking control of the Central Plains is mentioned, people can't help but think of the Jiannu Eight Banners Army, which was still in its prime combat effectiveness.
To be continued...