At the east wall of the fort, after putting on his armor with the help of his slaves, Hadad Fort guard Zena looked around and asked: "How are our warriors gathering?"

"Sir, we are still gathering. Because the enemy is setting fire everywhere, the city is in chaos, especially near the west city gate. Many warriors there can't even notice the sound of ringing gold here." A subordinate reported.

"How many people have we gathered?"

"There are about five or six hundred people gathered so far, but most of them don't have armor. Only the two or three hundred warriors who live near the east gate have complete armor."

"It's enough. As long as there are two to three hundred Jurchen warriors in armor, these sneak attack Ming troops can be driven out of the city."

"But sir, we don't know anything about the situation of the Ming army. If the opponent has a large number of people..."

"Impossible! If the Ming army mobilizes a large number of troops, our informants will definitely send news, and Shengjing will also send people to remind us to take precautions. Moreover, I have observed the speed of the Ming army setting fires at the top of the city before. Obviously there are not many cavalry.

Counting the number of people who stayed at the gate and responded outside the city, there were only one to two thousand, or at most about three thousand."

Zina analyzed confidently, "The Ming army of three thousand people bypassed our large army gathered in the Ningjin area. They must not have carried baggage. I am afraid they only carried dry food for a few days of march. These Ming soldiers

You are brave, it’s not easy for them to come out and bite them in the middle of winter, so we’d better send them back to their hometown as soon as possible.”

After that, he took his long sword from his entourage and walked towards the bottom of the city tower.

"All warriors follow me to fight and repel the Ming army! Those wearing armor go first, and the rest follow behind. Gather your companions along the way, look for soldiers and armor, God bless the Jurchens!"

"God bless the Jurchens!"

Under the leadership of the guard general Qina, the Jurchen soldiers went west from the east gate, and the team became stronger and stronger. When they arrived to the west of the walled city, the number had exceeded a thousand, and the number of those wearing armor exceeded 500.

On the west gate tower, Zhang Jin looked at the Jurchens gathered in the city's firelight and said calmly: "Let the cannon team prepare. When they get closer to fifty steps, they will open fire!"

In the previously formulated attack plan, Zhang Jin divided the 3,000 men into three equal parts. The first group of Ming soldiers were responsible for ascending to seize the city first. Three hundred of them followed him into the city to set fire, and the remaining Ming soldiers were responsible for following.

Move forward and deal with the Jurchen soldiers who are alone.

In the second part of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers were musketeers. As the main force of the second round of encirclement and suppression attacks, Zhang Jin lured the Jurchen soldiers gathered to the ambush circle in front of the west city gate and shot and killed the enemies with muskets.

Zina led his troops to the street opposite the west gate and chased the Ming cavalry all the way, making them underestimate their opponents even more. They felt that these Ming cavalry just took advantage of the night attack to catch them by surprise, and there was nothing they could do.

Fight them head on.

"Catch up and drive these Ming troops out of the city!" Zina raised his sword and shouted.

"kill!"

The Jurchen soldiers, who were deceived into high morale by the Ming army's cavalry tactics of showing weakness and luring the enemy, did not think too much about whether there might be an ambush or trap by the opponent, and charged towards the city gate with great momentum!

Seeing that the Jurchen soldiers were about to rush to the city gate, Zhang Jin gave an order, and the Ming army gunners who were ambushing at the city gate got up and opened fire!

Bang bang bang!

Continuous gunshots rang out, and three hundred gunmen on the wall of the city gate took turns shooting in three rows. The bullets were shot at the crowd of Jurchen soldiers like a heavy rain. The unsuspecting Jurchen soldiers were shot one after another, and they fell instantly like cutting wheat.

Blockbuster.

The sudden blow caused the Jurchen soldiers to panic for a while, but they quickly stabilized their position under Qina's loud shouts and hid on both sides of the street, leaving hundreds of corpses on the street opposite the West City Gate.

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"Sir, maybe we can approach the city gate through these alleys." After hiding on both sides of the street, a Jurchen chief suggested.

"What a great idea!" Zina immediately adopted his suggestion and gritted his teeth, "I must kill these cunning and despicable Ming soldiers to vent my hatred!"

In the shooting just now, he was also hit by a bullet, but the bullet got stuck in the armor, so he escaped by chance.

On the top of the city, a householder said: "As expected, the Jurchens hid in the alley."

Zhang Jin said with a smile: "These Jurchens are more obedient than dogs. Notify the other two teams to launch an attack. You also blocked the streets and alleys for me. Don't let them escape casually."

"Yes, sir!"

Just as Zina in the alley was leading people towards the city gate, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the roof next to him. He looked up and saw that the Ming army had climbed onto the roof at some point and was carrying a gun.

The gun was pointed at them.

The next moment, gunfire broke out!

There were wailings and screams in the alleys. One by one, almost none of the Jurchen soldiers could escape this close-range attack. The top-down projectiles faced their weakest defensive zone, and there were many people who had brains.

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There was no escape in the narrow alleyway. The smoke mixed with the smell of blood stimulated the brains of the Jurchen soldiers. All that could be heard was the sound of gunfire and the pitiful howls of their companions. This round of attacks made people feel more emotional than the previous ones on the street.

Despair and fear!

Zena dodged quickly and immediately broke through the door and hid in the nearby house. However, he was still shot in the calf. The bullet penetrated his fur boots and got stuck in the bones and muscles, which was shocking.

Feeling uncomfortable outside!

"grown ups……"

Zena turned his head and looked behind him in shock, only to see the deputy general following him lying at the door, reaching out to ask for help. But before he could respond, there was another burst of gunfire, and several bullets hit the deputy general who was at the bottom.

If you carry it on your back, you will be completely dead.

Zena calmed down, quickly climbed up from the ground, supported his body with his long knife, and began to look for a way to escape.

He no longer had the ambition to kill the Ming army. He only hoped that he could escape from here and go back to Shengjing to report the news. Let Shengjing send troops to destroy these Ming troops and avenge the Jurchens who were killed in a sneak attack by the Ming army tonight.

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After several rounds of cannon fire, not a single Jurchen soldier was still standing whether on the street or in the alley.

Under the leadership of Baihu, the Ming army formed a team and began to clear the streets and alleys, killing all those who were injured and survived and those who were lucky enough to escape the attack of bird cannons!

Seeing a team of thousands of people fleeing desperately, Zhang Jin handed over the finishing work to his subordinate Baihu, and he led a cavalry team of 300 people to the east gate of the walled city again, wiping out all the troops along the way.

There were many sporadic counterattacks.

Seeing that the situation was over and there was no general to step forward to take command, the remaining Jurchen soldiers either fought alone and were cut down by the Ming cavalry, or they seized their horses and fled through the east gate, hoping to return to Shengjing to report the news.

However, the fleeing Jurchen soldiers would not have thought that a group of hunters had already been ambushed in the darkness outside the east gate.

In the third Ming army, Zhang Jin arranged for a thousand cavalry to ambush outside the east gate to cut off the Jurchens' escape route. If any fish slipped through the net, they would be responsible for killing them all!

Fortunately, the Jurchens' fortress only had gates on the east and west sides, which saved them a lot of effort.

Most of the Jurchen soldiers who escaped from the east gate were unarmored. Even though the Jurchens were warriors proficient in foot and horse warfare, they were still mortal bodies and could not fight with more than less. They encountered the Ming Dynasty who were prepared to attack the unprepared.

Military cavalrymen would either be knocked off their horses by bows and arrows, or stabbed by spears and fall to the ground.

The encirclement net of the Ming army cavalry was very wide, and no one of the Jurchen soldiers who fled in all directions could successfully break through.

When Zhang Jin led three hundred cavalry through the city wall and arrived outside the east gate, all the Jurchen soldiers who escaped had been killed.

"My lord, I am fortunate to have fulfilled my mission!" Several households came forward to salute and report.

"Let's go and fight back from the east gate!" Zhang Jin turned his horse and led a 1,300-meter cavalry force to fight back to the city wall.

The Ming infantry at the west gate cooperated with the cannons to advance step by step and searched every house in every area, leaving the Jurchen soldiers with nowhere to hide. They were either killed on the spot or had no choice but to flee to the east gate.

At the east gate, Zhang Jin took the lead, like a god of death descending to earth. Thousands of cavalry behind him entered the city and killed the Jurchen soldiers who had no organization and morale even more easily.

Raging fires burned through the entire fort, turning half of the night sky red. Blood stained every piece of land in the fort, and the bodies of Jurchen soldiers were everywhere.

The ashes were pushed high into the air by the heat wave, and then blown around by the cold night wind, as if a gray night snow had fallen.

The clatter of horse hoofs echoed in every street and alley of the fortress. Any Jurchen soldiers who resisted even slightly would be defeated by the Ming army with cannons, and then the cavalry charged into the formation and assassinated them.

Under attack from two sides, no one of the 1,500 Jurchen soldiers in the fort was spared.

Guardsman Qina was hit in the back by a cannonball while escaping, and his head was beheaded by a Ming army cavalry.

Zhang Jin walked around the walled city on horseback. Seeing that the situation was determined, he ordered his subordinates to quickly replenish dry food and drinks, then evacuate at night and find a hidden place to hide and repair.

All the Jurchen soldiers in Hada Fort were killed, but hundreds of slaves were left behind. Zhang Jin could not arrange a place for them, let alone take them away, and could only let them escape on their own.

After Zichou met, Zhang Jin and his men left Hada Fort and headed toward the mountains and forests in the northeast. When they arrived at the hiding place found by the veteran guide, the soldiers dismounted and rested, while Zhang Jin convened a meeting of hundreds of households to discuss.

In the battle of Hada Fort, the Ming army had already managed to catch it unprepared. It planned thoroughly and wiped out 1,500 Jurchen soldiers in the fort. However, it also suffered dozens of casualties, all of which were killed when the remaining Jurchen soldiers who resisted were cleared.

It was caused by the opponent's desperate resistance.

The fierceness in the bones of the Jurchens who grew up among the white mountains and black waters broke out in despair of life and death, leaving the Ming soldiers who had made preparations somewhat unprepared.

Fortunately, most of the dozens of people were slightly injured, and only a few soldiers who were seriously injured and difficult to treat were cruelly given up. Weapons were left for them, so that if they encountered Jurchens, they could fight to the death and fulfill their last wish.

Glory.

Everyone thinks it is cruel, but no one will object to this. Anyway, they will follow the footsteps of these brothers sooner or later, but the difference is that they die sooner or later.

Night ends and dawn dawns.

The sunshine in early winter is not rare. Facing the rays of the morning sun, a small group of people galloped towards Hada Fort. When the pair of people walked through the unguarded east gate and entered the walled city with doubts on their faces, they were immediately attracted by what they saw in front of them.

The sight was shocking!

The fire burned all night, leaving only ruins in the entire Hadaburg Fortress, with burned-out houses, collapsed tile roofs, and charred wood covered with a layer of ashes and fine snow, mixed with gray and white, giving it a decadent and dilapidated look.

Strange beauty.

The corpses of Jurchens were everywhere. They had not been cut off or gathered in the capital. They were just scattered everywhere like garbage. Some of them were half-scorched by house fires, exuding a disgusting and unpleasant smell.

More corpses were covered in ashes and snowflakes, frozen into strange postures, and their gray-blue faces were either ferocious or panic-stricken, indescribably oozing!

The team was frightened and angry. They walked through the entire city. What they saw were ruins and corpses. Not even a living person could be seen.
To be continued...