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Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Poulah City

It is the last moment.Banners were planted all over the city of Ula, archers were lined up all over the city, and all the troops were gathered to defend the city. Bu Zhantai personally guarded the gate and sat in the tower.There was only half a sliver of hope left in his heart, it was a tiny fluke idea—— Because the original Ula tribe was a large tribe, the city built was very particular. The city wall was tall and strong, straight and steep, and it was not easy to attack. time. "Maybe after a while, Ye He's reinforcements will arrive and help me out of the crisis!" He seemed to be secretly praying to the sky, and murmured as if he was deceiving himself—but all the facts were clearly in front of his eyes.

When dawn broke, Nurhachi's army had already launched a strong offensive. This time, it was all done by the "veteran"—— The main attackers of the Chinese army are An Feiyangu, Fei Yingdong on the left, E Yidu on the right, and He Heli on the forward; The men and horses are Jianzhou's well-trained elite team, and any ordinary soldier is enough to stand up to ten. Bu Zhantai, who has lived in Jianzhou for several years, is of course no stranger to this group of people—he is even more aware of how powerful they are: "Oops! Only one of these few is overwhelming. This time, even The four go up together..."

He didn't dare to send troops out of the city to fight, but only ordered: "Close the city gate firmly, guard..." Before he could finish his sentence, the drums and horns of the Jianzhou Army, the shouts of killing, and the sound of horseshoes all sounded together. He poked his head to look, and in an instant, his heart was pounding like a battle drum—— The Jianzhou Army seemed to have a clear understanding of the tall and strong situation of Wula Bencheng, and had made full preparations—he could not help but exclaimed first: "The ladder car..." He knew for sure that this kind of siege weapon existed in the world, because he had heard about it from the mouths of the elders, but he had never seen it with his own eyes; because the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong had never used such a sophisticated siege weapon. arms--

"Where did Nurhachi learn it? Made this legendary ladder car?" He was so flustered that he almost cried. "No matter how high the city wall is, it can't stop it..." There are as many as ten ladder carts approaching Ula City, and each of them is equipped with hundreds of warriors holding shields and wearing heavy armor. Even shooting arrows can't stop their attack; what's more, the height of these ladder carts is like After precise calculations, it seemed that it was specially used to fight Ula City, and it was as high as the city wall of Ula City—the warriors on the cart stepped over as if they were walking on flat ground, waved their guns and spears casually, Can stab the samurai defending the city!

He was so anxious that he was sweating coldly. "how so?" However, as soon as this thought flashed by, he inadvertently lowered his head, but saw another thing that made him even more frightened. He finally had an eye-opening experience of the tactics of the Jianzhou Army—— Just below the city, a part of the Jianzhou army pushed forward quickly with carts filled with bags of soil. When they arrived at the city, the soldiers quickly piled up the bags of soil , and then climbed up the earthbag—— "The general trend is gone..." When the thought was passing by, there were screams one after another from the Ula army guarding the city——

He was not a stupid person, and he immediately made a correct choice: "You can't just get caught here—let's go!" Gritting his teeth, he immediately turned around and went downstairs; he didn't care about leaving behind many soldiers defending the city, and just ran for his own life; but when he saw his figure, there were less than a hundred people following him, so he couldn't care less—— The people rushed to the back of the city quietly, escaped through the back side door, and went straight along the mountain road in the direction of Ye He. Unexpectedly, after leaving the city, he walked all the way for a while and entered the rugged mountain road. He stopped to take a breath and thanked God secretly for letting him escape from the dangerous situation. Daishan led a group of people from the fork in the road Killed out.

All of a sudden, he, who was already frightened by the bow, almost fainted in panic - he didn't even have time to think about the challenge, he turned around and ran away - nine out of ten of the people who followed him fell into Daishan's camp. Net, only he escaped by chance. At the celebration banquet of the Jianzhou Army, Daishan asked himself to punish him: "The mountain road has many forks and many bends. Our army is not very familiar with the terrain. We made a few bends. In order to distinguish the direction, we moved slowly, but Bu Zhantai Take advantage of the opportunity to escape—please punish Father Khan!"

However, Nurhachi forgave him on this matter: "You are new to the back mountain of Ulab, and it is inevitable that you are not familiar with the terrain. This mistake can be forgiven!" At the same time, he also enlightened him kindly: "This time, I will not punish you; but you must keep the lesson of this time in mind. No matter where you go to fight next time, you must first familiarize yourself with the local terrain..." As he spoke, he also told the other sons: "Listen to all of you again—I used to tell you that wars don't depend entirely on force. You must take care of everything! Is it a story that I have loved to hear since I was a child? It said that Kong Ming borrowed the east wind and won a big victory at Chibi, isn’t it the best example? You have not forgotten this story, have you?”

However, when he said this, Dai Shan blushed and pleaded guilty again: "But, if it weren't for this mistake, Bu Zhantai would have become a prisoner of Jianzhou..." Nurhachi laughed and interrupted him: "It doesn't matter - he just escaped to Yehe, and didn't fly into the sky. He will still become a prisoner of Jianzhou after all! When we conquered Yehe, we It is up to you to capture Bu Zhantai, and it will be your fault!" His meaning is obvious, the use of troops against Ye He is a matter of recent days—— But after saying this, Daishan's discomfort disappeared, and he immediately responded loudly: "Yes——next time, my child must take care of the world, the earth, and people, and never let Bu Zhantai get away!"

Nurhachi nodded and said, "Very good - if you can learn a lesson, it's worth letting Bu Zhantai get away once!" Then, he began to reward the meritorious soldiers—— First, An Fei Yanggu, the general who attacked the city, announced loudly in public: "This time, we will defeat 30,000 enemy soldiers, kill 10,000, capture more than 10,000, and obtain 7,000 armor..." Then, the list of soldiers who were rewarded was read out one by one; and the food and wine were delivered one by one, and all the conscripts were rewarded-a feast did not end until late at night. However, tidying up the battlefield and dealing with the prisoners cannot be completed in one or two days. Therefore, he stayed in Ula City for ten days, allowing the army under his command to rest and calmly rectify; I made full use of the time of this stay, personally visited every place that originally belonged to the Wula tribe and now belongs to Jianzhou, observed carefully, thought carefully, and thought through every detail that should be thought of.

Then, his mind began to turn to the problem of Zheng Yehebu. He thought through all the pros and cons of using troops against Ula this time, and if he could borrow it as a reference when he conquered Yehe's tribe, he would not miss it, thinking over and over again—— On the way of triumphant return, the strategy of conquering Yehe tribe had already been formed in his mind.
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