In Gaoyang City, the Guanning Army and 50,000 soldiers and horses from the six towns of Xuanda stood the walls of Gaoyang City to the brim.

Normally, the besieging side needs more than three times the number of people on the defending side, but at this time, Gaoyang City is the opposite, and the defenders are three times as large as the besieging side.

Even so, the various departments of the Ming army were still very nervous, and no one expected that there was really something wrong with the Tartars' brains, and the Tianwu Army, which did not fight the same mouth, singled them out.

Facing a large area of Qing troops under the city, Ma Ke, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, no longer cared about Duoduo's head, he hurriedly shouted: "Quickly put the dragon flag of the Tianwu Army on the city tower, and bring it on both sides!" ”

Seeing that the two dragon flags were fixed in the most conspicuous place on the city tower, Ma Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief, and all the generals of the Ming army were also relieved.

However, the next moment, the Qing army's attack was even more fierce! All the Qing troops concentrated their forces on one side and kept coming.

Everyone in the Ming army stationed in Gaoyang was stunned, what was going on? What's the situation??

After the last offensive and defensive battle, Gaoyang almost became an empty city after Sun Chengzong's death, even if the Qing army knew that it was an empty city, they had to fight, not to mention that the Ming army defending the city was still holding the dragon flag of the Tianwu army.

If you want to take Baoding Mansion, the Ming army around Baoding must be defeated, especially this kind of Ming army with tens of thousands of people gathered together, once you bypass the attack on Baoding, the back road will be copied and it will be troublesome.

The city plays a very important role in the war, it is a traffic fortress and a reserve station for grain and grass and military supplies, so most of the cities have a perfect defense system, especially in Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang and other large cities, as long as the defenders are willing to defend, the enemy is difficult to defeat.

However, the Ming army did not dare to fight, even if there was a good defense system, it was in vain, which also created the saying that there is no city in the world that cannot be attacked.

The inexplicable actions of the Qing army made the various departments of the Ming army also angry, and they specially bullied our men and horses on the nine sides, right? Lao Tzu killed you turtle son!

The smoke of gunpowder shrouded in the head of Gaoyang City has not yet dissipated, and the artillery of the Ming army on the head of the city is continuing to fire, and the shells and projectiles hit the Qing army like hail raindrops, and the open space outside the city is full of the corpses of the Qing soldiers.

Suffering from the fierce resistance of the Ming army, the Eight Banners Han Army and the Mongol soldiers dared to continue to advance, and they were a little timid.

In the main formation of the Qing army, Prince Yu Duoduo looked at the Han army Jia Lazhangjing and the Mongolian Jia Lazhangjing who knelt down in front of him to plead guilty.

The ferocity of the Ming army's firepower was somewhat unexpected to Duoduo, but the cowardice and incompetence of the Han and Mongol soldiers angered Duoduo even more.

"Rubbish!" Duoduo kicked over the Han soldier Lazhangjing, and shouted, "Let me be a warrior with a white flag, and this city must be taken before dark!" ”

Before sending out the Manchurian soldiers with white flags, Duoduo ordered the beheading of all the hundreds of people who had retreated in defeat, which frightened the soldiers of the banners.

The two Jialazhangjing, who were in charge of the siege, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying bitterly and said, "Prince Yu, spare us this time." ”

Duoduo sneered and said: "Since the Taizu uprising, my Qing Dynasty has always been invincible, invincible, all in the order to prohibit, soldiers use their lives, anyone who does not obey military discipline should be immediately killed, people like you who are greedy for life and afraid of death, what is the use of staying, today this king will use your head to serve as a police officer!" ”

As he spoke, he drew his saber and hacked the two to death on the spot, and then said: "If there is no one who retreats, all of them will be beheaded!" ”

The Qing soldiers also moved together, and in the midst of hundreds of begging for mercy, they were pushed out and beheaded one by one, and the other Han soldiers and Mongolian soldiers were also frightened one by one, their legs and stomachs trembled, and they were scolding this group of Manchurian dogs in their hearts for being really cruel.

On the walls of Gaoyang City, the generals of the Ming army saw the affairs of the city very clearly, and they were horrified and forbidden to discuss one after another.

Chen Xinjia frowned and said, "Good guys, this group of Tartars is really ruthless!" ”

Yang Sichang shook his head and said: "Although it is said that the Tartars are a little cruel, but the military discipline is strict, and it is the correct way to govern the army. ”

Ma Ke, who was not far away, whispered to Bai Guangen: "Tartar is going to fight, let's run!" ”

Bai Guangen leaned over and whispered: "We made a military order, and we will be killed if we run away!" ”

Ma Ke said: "I'm afraid of a bird, let's run together, can the court really kill us?" ”

Bai Guangen nodded and said, "That's not bad, let me count it!" ”

As he spoke, he flipped his fingers, and his demeanor was like that of an impostor old fairy.

Ma Ke asked urgently, "What about the hexagram?" ”

"Don't make a sound, it will affect the luck of the heavens!" Bai Guangen said lightly, and then muttered a lot of professional terms.

After a while, Bai Guangen spoke: "Fierce hexagram! ”

Ma Ke said: "That's not nonsense, if the Tartars break the city, we will still have a living head, of course it is a murderous hexagram, is your fortune-telling ability an ancestral heirloom?" ”

"Believe it or not!"

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After cutting off hundreds of heads, Duoduo gathered all the men and horses of the Qing army, Manchu and Han, and launched another attack on Gaoyang.

The Qing army did not dare to be sloppy, and struggled to attack the city, no one dared to take a step back, but the artillery of the Ming army was not vegetarian, and there were more bows and arrows.

However, no matter how desperate they tried, the flesh and blood could not compete with the gunpowder, and the Qing army was beaten to the ground with corpses all over the city, and blood flowed like a canal.

The Qing army attacked for two hours in a row, killing thousands of men and horses, and the Han army and the Mongol army of the Eight Banners were almost all killed, attacking the city wall many times, and being repulsed by the Ming army many times.

Although the loss is not small, but there is also a huge gain, the Ming army on the city wall firepower is almost exhausted, the Ming army's city defense is not sufficient, can only rely on the tactics of the sea of people, but in terms of courage, it is much worse than the Qing army.

The various departments took turns to defend the city, and when it was the turn of the Xuanda people to guard the city, someone suddenly reported to Chen Xinjia: "Governor, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan Ma Ke and the chief soldier of Jizhou Bai Guangen led the men and horses to run away from the west gate!" ”

"What!" Chen Xinjia was shocked, as if he had been struck by lightning.

Not long after, someone reported: "The governor, Gao Gonggong and Miyun's chief soldier Tang Tong also led the men and horses to run!" ”

"They....... They! Chen Xinjia was speechless for a long time.

Yang Sichang, who was patrolling the city tower, had a dark eye in his eyes and almost fainted.

Yang Sichang didn't understand very much, as long as the army held on for half a day, the Tianwu army would be able to arrive, and then the two sides would attack, and the Jiannu of more than 10,000 people would become the Ming army's probe, and the earth-shattering achievement was close at hand, why did the Guanning army run away?

"Governor, the Tartars have stormed the wall!"

The news of the escape of the Guanning army soon spread throughout Gaoyang City, and the people and horses of the three towns of Xuanda learned that the friendly army had run away, and they had no heart to fight.

Seeing that Gao Yang couldn't hold on, Chen Xinjia was shocked and hurriedly said: "General Yang Bing, quickly escort Yang Ge Lao out of the city!" ”

Yang Guozhu received the order and led his own superintendent battalion to urgently escort Yang Sichang to the west gate, Hu Dawei was escorting Chen Xinjia, and Jiang Xiang, the general soldier of Datong, had long since disappeared.

After the leaders ran out, Xuanda abandoned the city and fled after only a little resistance, and the Qing army took advantage of the situation to capture Gaoyang City.

After entering Gaoyang, Duoduo knew that it was not the Tianwu Army stationed in Gaoyang, he was so angry that he almost spurted blood, losing a lot of elites of the Eight Banners Army, and confidently thought that he had defeated the Tianwu Army, but it turned out that it was all stinky fish and rotten shrimp for half a day!

Duoduo asked viciously, "Where is the Tianwu Army?" ”

A Qing army general reminded in a low voice: "It should be in Tongkou, only these two places within dozens of miles nearby have the heavy troops of the Ming army......."

Duoduo slammed the table and said angrily: "Leave 3,000 people to garrison Gaoyang, and the rest of the army will march to the same mouth!" ”

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