The military attache surnamed Dong before said: "If the Ming army outside the city does not have artillery to help, I am afraid that these tens of thousands of horses will not be able to pose a threat to Suzhou City." Therefore, to win this battle, there is only one word - drag. The last general thought that he would concentrate all his forces at the south gate and fight a war of attrition with the enemy. ”

The previous civil official said with sarcasm: "General Dong swears that he will fight a war of attrition with the enemy army at the south gate, and dare to ask how to consume it, whether it is to consume the men and horses under General Dong's command, or to consume the Eight Banners Army brought by the scholars?" Also, in the event that the enemy army divides its forces and attacks the city from the east, if the army is concentrated at the south gate as General Dong said, how will it be dealt with and captured? ”

Dong surnamed Wu was so angry that he couldn't speak, how could he answer? The answer is that it is to admit that it is necessary to consume the Eight Banners Army that brought Hong Chengchou, so what is the intention?

If the answer is no, okay, the war of attrition after tomorrow, just go to your department to consume, does he dare to respond?

Another military attache said: "In the opinion of the last general, the enemy army outside the city will not abandon the artillery and divide the troops because it is too difficult to transfer the artillery, and it is very difficult to capture the two city gates in the east with just ordinary soldiers, at least the Ming army cannot divide tens of thousands of troops to the east." Therefore, the last general thought that 3,000 people could be stationed at each of the two gates to the east, which was enough to deal with the worries of the Ming army. ”

Hong Chengchou nodded slightly and said, "This is reasonable, accurate!" ”

The military general surnamed Dong nodded slightly and thanked the general, and glared at the civil official fiercely.

These were all in Hong Chengchou's eyes, but he ignored them.

All he had to do was to defuse the attack of the Ming army outside the city, before Duoduo captured Shaoxing Mansion.

In this way, the credit for pacifying Jiangnan will not be absorbed by Duoduo and Bolo.

And the key to this is to consume the living force of the Ming army in the city of Suzhou.

As a result, he was able to move south, recover Songjiang, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou, and share the same color with Duoduo across the river.

As for this kind of filthy relationship between the officials under his command, Hong Chengchou does not want to participate, let alone care.

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But Hong Chengchou did not expect that the Ming army outside the city would show him the blood of the Ming people in such a strong way when they attacked the city on the third day.

From the beginning of the siege, the Ming army braved arrows and stones to approach the city wall and erect ladders.

The atmosphere of this battlefield is different.

Ascending the ladder was Wu Zheng's camp of dead soldiers.

They fight for money, but they don't just fight for money.

The convergence of interests makes them fearless of death.

This is important.

The morale and morale of the army lie in the unity of the upper and lower levels and the alignment of interests.

Any ideals and beliefs that are not supported by interests are hooligans.

This sentence is true in any era.

It's just that this interest is big and small, righteous and selfish.

The defenders on the city walls were unaware of the approaching danger.

They still used their usual methods, such as arrows, wood, stones, golden soup, and boiling oil, to prevent the Ming army from climbing the wall.

When the first explosion sounded, the defenders didn't have time to react at all, and a huge wave of air blew over anything within a radius of several kilometers around it.

And then, the sound of explosions continued one after another, accompanied by thick smoke, which could not be stopped when it poured up from the city walls.

Wu Zheng endured the sourness flowing in his eyes, and decisively ordered a general attack.

The south gate was immediately breached.

The Ming cavalry rushed into the city gate and engaged the oncoming Qing army in the city.

Countless Ming troops climbed the city walls from the ladder and rushed down the city, pouring into every street like a tidal wave.

Is the city broken?

No!

It's just that the gates of the city have been broken.

The Qing army in the city resisted in a planned manner.

In particular, the cavalry of the Han army with the yellow flag brought by Hong Chengchou is quite powerful, but fortunately there are only 3,000 of them, otherwise the nearly 6,000 cavalry under Wu Zheng's command will probably be wiped out.

But after breaking the city gate, the offensive and defensive disadvantage between the Ming infantry and the Qing army also disappeared.

In this bloody street battle in the city, the competition is tenacious and decisive.

Wu Zheng is not afraid.

For he brought here the army that passed through the city of Jiading.

The souls of the heroes who died in bloody battles and the souls of the people who died in that city will inspire the soldiers to fight hard and not be afraid of death.

Although Hong Chengchou was shocked, he was also not flustered.

He is also a battle-hardened Confucian general, and he is only shocked by the breaking of the city, and he never panics.

Hong Chengchou was shocked when did the Ming army have such a strong combat power?

You know, this is a big city defended by 38,000 men.

The Ming army outside the city not only had so many artillery pieces that it was enough to suppress their own artillery on the city walls.

What's even more incredible is that this kind of strong temperament is rare in Hong Chengchou's more than 20 years of military career, except for the initial suppression of the rebels in various places, occasionally at other times...... Hey, I'm old, and I remember the beginning.

Hong Chengchou quickly ordered the Qing army to resist according to the streets, and at the same time, he brought 5,000 infantry of the Eighth Banner Army and deployed it in the Yazhi south of the palace.

This is to prevent the Ming army from advancing in case it threatens the government office.

The second is also to protect the safety of the treasury in the northwest of the government office, which is the top priority.

Hong Chengchou arranged it in an orderly manner, and he still didn't believe that the tens of thousands of Ming troops who were barely breathing could really defeat him.

In fact, Hong Chengchou's estimation was correct.

The Ming army was indeed caught in a bitter battle.

The composition of the army under Wu Zheng's command was complex, and there was not enough time to train and fight, and it was difficult to form a unity.

There are more than 20,000 people under Xia Wanchun's command, and it is even more mixed, and the so-called righteous army, as the name suggests, can understand the composition of its constituents.

Fortunately, they rushed into the city and fought separately in this house and street, which really fit the style of this group of people.

This is the main reason why it can hold on.

Otherwise, it can be accurately said that attacking the city of Suzhou is the way to death.

It sounds like a lot of soldiers, but when encountering those regular Tartar troops brought by Shanghong Chengchou, 10,000 Tartars are enough to be invincible.

Not to mention the garrison guarding Suzhou.

Wu Zheng underestimated the enemy.

In his opinion, as long as the city gate is broken and the army rushes to the city, then the Suzhou city generals will be captured, which may be the reason for the successive victories in the previous few small battles, or maybe Wu Zheng is too eager to take Suzhou City and go back to pay tribute to his uncle.

The battle continued into the afternoon.

At this time, the strength of both sides has basically been put on the table.

Wu Zheng and Hong Chengchou have already seen each other's path and strength clearly.

Hong Chengchou was determined that as long as the battle lasted until night, the Ming army would definitely not be able to support it and would collapse.

The family was happy and the family was worried, and Wu Zheng began to panic.

These tens of thousands of troops are the foundation of Wu Zheng's survival, and if they are all lost here today, it may be difficult to turn over.

But the problem is that there is no way to withdraw at all, any army has been scattered, and it is stuck with the Qing army, how to withdraw?