Chapter 160: The Great Defeat of Duoduo
This was a premeditated massacre of the Eight Banners Army outside the city.
Just after the hour, under Duoduo's order, in addition to Duoduo's personal soldiers in the position of the Chinese army, the 10,000 Eight Banner Army took over the position of the surrendering army and launched a fierce attack on the city wall along the Qingchun Gate.
With the first four days of fighting, the Tartars were almost already familiar with the combat habits and style of the defenders.
The offense is very methodical and familiar.
Almost at the cost of only a hundred men, the vanguard of the Eight Banners Army smoothly approached the city wall and began to climb the ladder to climb the wall.
At this rate, at most one pillar of incense, the two sides will be on the city wall, and high-intensity hand-to-hand combat will break out.
Duoduo, who watched from the telescope, put down the telescope elegantly and gracefully, and said to Bolo: "This king bets with you, today's Qingchun Gate will definitely be breached." โ
Bolo agreed with Duoduo's judgment and said: "The strength of the defenders is far inferior to our army, and the morale and physical strength of the defenders have reached the limit after four consecutive days of strong attack. And these 10,000 Eight Banners are a new force, morale and physical strength are at the peak, and it is indeed not difficult to win. โ
Duoduo nodded and said, "After resisting this king's army for four days, the young Nanban on the city tower is not bad." On weekdays, this king can be recruited to be used for him out of love for talent. But this day the king will reproach him and take his head, that he will avenge my hatred of my left foot. โ
Bo Luo said: "Don't worry, once the city is broken, I will go and bring Wu Zheng to see the prince, and let the prince fall." โ
As soon as the words fell, I only heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom" cannons.
Dodor frowned, "Who ordered the cannon?" โ
The vanguard of the Eight Banners Army has begun to climb the wall, and the follow-up army is charging, and the two sides are already stalemate.
If it is an attack by surrendering the army, there are many people in the south, and it is not important to die some Duoduo.
But the Eight Banners Army is one dead and one is missing.
The Eight Banners Army was not sent to attack for four consecutive days, which can be seen from Duoduo's caring heart.
Bolo heard that there was something wrong with the sound of the cannon, and used the telescope to check urgently, and hissed: "No, the sound of the cannon is coming from the city, Lord Wang, the Ming army has artillery." โ
Shocked by this, Duoduo snatched the telescope and looked at it.
Dense fires and smoke rose from the city walls, and the Eight Banners Army was already covered in artillery fire in the area close to the city wall, and there were almost no human figures visible.
Countless Eight Banner Corps were in disarray and disappeared without a trace under the cover of artillery fire.
It was an asymmetrical slaughter.
Sure enough, as Bolo said, the Ming army had artillery.
Not only artillery, but many, several times the number of artillery on his own, the realization that Dordor shivered all over his body, and he began to tremble.
Dodor suddenly realized that there must be deception in this.
The Ming army has not used so many artillery pieces, and even the city was almost broken two days ago, but it was not used, so it is today.
No, a throbbing twitch flashed in Dรณrd's heart.
He asked Bolo urgently, "How is today different from the previous days?" Why did the Ming army use artillery today? โ
Bolo replied casually in shock: "Today is the siege of the Eight Banners Army. โ
Duoduo was struck by lightning and shouted: "Quick, there is a change in the army, and the pro-army camp is on guard." โ
Then he shouted: "Pass on the king's order, stop the attack, and the whole army will withdraw to the Chinese army for alert." โ
But it was already too late, and there was an urgent report from the soldiers, "Lord Wang, there is an abnormal movement of the Han army on the west side of the Chinese army, and it is pulling out the camp to come to the Chinese army." โ
There was also an urgent report from the pro-soldiers, "Lord Wang, there is an abnormal movement of the Han army on the east side of the Chinese army, and it is pulling out the camp and coming to the Chinese army." โ
"Lord Wang, there are thousands of Ming troops out of the city to attack my right flank at the Genshan Gate in the north."
"Lord Wang, there are thousands of Ming troops out of the city to attack my left flank at the Qingtai Gate in the south."
Duoduo reacted quickly, and he quickly ordered: "Pass on the king's order, the front team of the siege army will become the rear team, and the whole army will retreat to Jiaxing Mansion." โ
When Bolo heard this, he was in a hurry and said, "Lord Wang, the vanguard of the Eight Banners Army has already landed on the wall, and he can't withdraw for a while. โ
Duoduo shouted, "No matter, it's important to protect the main force first." โ
Breaking his arm to survive, Duoduo is not only ruthless to his enemies, but also ruthless to himself.
But this decision was brilliant and saved at least half of the Eight Banners.
The artillery of the Ming army covered the area of one mile in front of the city wall without interruption, and Chen Shoujie held back for four whole days, not more than a year of grievances, at this moment was relieved, and the artillery fire cut off the connection between the Tartar forward and the rear army, and there were almost no living creatures standing within a radius of ten zhang.
At this time, the retreat of the entire Tartar army was tantamount to abandoning thousands of forwards.
Although he was unwilling, Bolo knew that Duoduo's order was correct, so he gritted his teeth and turned to carry it out.
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The name of Jiangning Mansion was changed after the occupation of the Qing army.
This is not an original creation of the Qing court, in fact, in the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was called Jiangning Mansion.
From ancient times to the present, there are too many names for this place, such as Jinling Mansion and Yingtian Mansion, which is actually Nanjing.
The garrison of Jiangning Mansion has been exhausted, with only 3,000 Eight Banner Army and 10,000 Dominion Army.
In fact, this is not a strange thing, today's Jiangning Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, Fengyang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Huai'an Mansion are firmly under the control of the Qing court, plus Duoduo led 60,000 troops south, almost as stable as Mount Tai.
There is no need to hoard heavy troops.
But who would have thought that a Ming army of 600 people would land from Haining.
If it was 6,000 people, I am afraid it would have been discovered by the Qing army a long time ago, and 600 people, it would be like a large fishermen's fleet, which is too inconspicuous.
It's just 600 people, but it's not a big deal, like elbows and armpits, and it doesn't do much.
At most, it is to harass the small town and village, and it cannot cause harm to the city.
But who would have thought that this small army would join up with a rebel army, and this rebel army was a native of the land?
This is not too dangerous, the most important thing is that the leader of this rebel army, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, is actually Xia Yunyi's son Xia Wanchun.
Xia Yunyi Wanli raised people in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, Chongzhen Jinshi for ten years, and formed a "few societies" with Chen Zilong, Xu Fuyuan and others in the same county, one of the founders and leaders of several societies.
He is the author of "Private Policy", "Survival Record", etc., because of several societies, he is as famous as Chen Zilong, and is known as "Chen Xia".
The Qing army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and Xia Yunyi forced Xia Wanchun, who was just fifteen years old, to get married in a hurry, and then pulled into the rebel army, and the father and son worked together to resist the Qing.
Xia Yunyi contacted his student Wu Zhikui, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiangnan, and prepared to join forces to capture Suzhou, then regain Hangzhou, and then march into Nanjing, in order to keep half of the rivers and mountains south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.
It's a pity that Wu Zhikui has no long-term strategy, and the generals are more slack, and Suzhou City is not only not captured, but these remnants of the rabble are also defeated.
Xia Yunyi was disheartened and decided to commit suicide and martyrdom.
The villagers persuaded him to take advantage of the chaos to cross the sea to Fujian, where he had been a magistrate, to recruit soldiers and horses, and then try to recover.
Xia Yunyi thought about it again and again, but did not agree, for fear that he would lose again, so that he would be humiliated for eternity.