Chapter 884: Enough is enough
Tu Yuan and Hao Shaoqi are the kind of charging generals who take the head of the enemy in the ten thousand armies, but the two armies are fighting in a team, and the Ming army can't beat the Qing army at all under the condition of considerable strength, not to mention that they have to cross the river and land on the shore, let Tu Yuan and Hao Shaoqi charge how they were stopped by the Qing army, and they didn't rush over several times!
At this time, Qingzhou City also reached the most intense moment, the fire outside the four gates was raging, and Qingzhou City was like a pan that was set on the fire, and the people and defenders in the city were suffering from the torment.
The Qing army's long-range suppression of bows and arrows caused great damage to the defenders, and also made their own men and horses easily rush to the city, but it was not so easy to break the city in a short time.
The artillery of the defenders in the city has not been extinguished, which has also caused great trouble to the Qing army, and there are rocks and debris obstacles outside the city gates, and the siege vehicles cannot be approached for a while, not to mention that the top of the city gate is the most heavily defended place......
In addition to the city gate, the city wall everywhere, but where there is a Qing army ladder, is the most tragic place, the city is like rain, the golden soup is pouring down, the flesh and blood under the city are blurred, and the smell of meat is overflowing......
Although the Qing army is not well armed, its troops are strong, the morale is high, and the attack power is strong enough, but although the defenders in the city have suffered heavy casualties, they are panicked and not chaotic.
Not all doors have a Dinghaishen needle!
The north and south gates are the strongest places for the Qing army to attack, but there are Jia Waixiong and Lao Jiu each leading their brothers to sit in the town, and the two battalions are veterans of a hundred battles, whether it is combat experience or psychological quality, they are strong!
In addition to the Song brothers and sisters in the east and west gates, there are also Li Shiyuan's eight hundred old drivers with these novices Xiangyong, they are not the first time to defend the city, the last time was also with the Tartars, although the experience is not as good as the two battalions of the East Factory, but they are quite calm to deal with the current situation.
The two armies of Beiyang River are still fighting, and the battle is raging outside Qingzhou City, and the little eunuch on the mountainside a few miles behind the Qing army in Ximen has an unobstructed view of the battle situation on both sides of the southwest, and his face is solemn and he does not say a word.
In the mountain road at the foot of his back, Lu Xing, Duan Wuhu has already led 3,000 officers and soldiers out of the mountain pass, only a few miles away from the mountain pass, as long as the little eunuch gives an order, he will immediately kill out of the city and give the Qing army outside the southwest gate a chrysanthemum and turn it into a sunflower!
Hou Ling!
Who knew that Chang Yu did not give the order to send troops out of the mountain, but asked Guo Ren to pass the order to let the troops rest and recuperate on the spot in the narrow mountain road and wait for the order!
At such a critical moment in Qingzhou City, he wanted to die and not save him!
Li Muxian panted and climbed halfway up the mountain to Chang Yu's side, and he didn't have time to speak, looking at Qingzhou City in the distance in the war, he couldn't help but sigh, it was the first time for him to overlook the siege like this, and the visual impact was too great.
"Why didn't the factory governor send troops, Qingzhou City is in danger!" Li Muxian said in a deep voice.
Chang Yu sneered: "Don't just look at the excitement, watch the doorway!" Saying that, he handed him the clairvoyant mirror, Li Muxian was stunned, took the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it for a while before exhaling.
At first glance, Qingzhou City seems to be in danger of being surrounded by fire, but if you look closely, you will find that the Qing army's formation is large, and the atmosphere is also exaggerated to the extreme, and its attack power is also beaten The city defenders can't raise their heads, but there are no actual results.
Although the soldiers also rushed to the city, but the siege vehicles were never close to the city gate, and even several were smashed to pieces, and then carefully looked at the escalators leaning on the city wall were really few, sparse, for example, there were only thirty-four in the west, and the defenders of the city could still cope with it even if they were suppressed by the Qing army's firepower.
The Qing army didn't have wings, and it couldn't fly up without a ladder, and this siege ladder wanted to break Qingzhou City, which is undoubtedly a dream, simply put, the Qing army has the strength to break the city, but it's just that the guy is not enough!
Therefore, such a hasty siege is obviously a temptation, try the catty of Qingzhou's city defense and put pressure on it.
That being the case, Chang Yu didn't need to expose the ambush soldiers in the mountains at this time.
But even if it was a temptation, Shang Kexi also used his strength, wouldn't it be better for him to break the city in one fell swoop during the temptation, so the Qing army's offensive was fierce from beginning to end, which caused great damage to the defenders of the city.
But when Shang Kexi figured out the details of the defenders and found that he was fully capable of breaking the city, he ordered the withdrawal of his troops!
If you continue to fight, you will only increase your own casualties.
Prepare everything in two days at most, and the city will be broken in half a day! Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming and Nikan looked relaxed, and they were settled in Qingzhou City.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, the Qing army withdrew, Jia Waixiong stood at the head of the city and looked at the Qing army that was receding like a tide, he didn't feel a little relaxed, he knew that a bigger storm would give Qingzhou City a fatal blow at any time!
Even he knew that the reason why the Qing army did not enter this wave was not because they did not have strength, but because they were not well prepared, there were too few ladders to climb the city, and the target became too big, and they were smashed as soon as they were erected.
This battle lasted for nearly an hour, the Qing army finally did not break through Qingzhou City, and Tu Yuan and Hao Shaoqi on the bank of the Beiyang River did not break through Kong Youde's blockade to cross the river successfully, seeing the Qing army retreat outside Qingzhou City, they also immediately retreated for several miles, and Kong Youde did not have the courage to chase over.
Chang Yu on the mountainside in the west of the city was lying on a boulder blowing the mountain breeze and looking at the night sky in a daze, Li Muxian was sitting next to him with a dust plate and a pair of fairy wind bones, and the soldiers around him looked silently at Qingzhou City in the distance, and the three thousand officers and soldiers in the mountain road had been ordered to withdraw to the mountain col to rest.
The Qing army flaunted its might and walked away, leaving behind a messy Qingzhou City, with corpses all over the city walls, to say the least, nearly seven or eight out of ten are cannon fodder.
The city wall guarding the city is also miserable, the dead are roughly as many as four or five hundred, and the wounded are countless, but when they hear that the city is miserable, the families of the village warriors who died in the battle are overwhelmed with grief and indignation, and the corpses are crying bitterly!
Dolgon, who was dozens of miles away, was very satisfied after receiving the battle report, and had tried out that the defensive strength of Qingzhou City was not worth mentioning, just waiting for the guy to break through the city in a snap of his fingers.
The premise is that as long as the Ming army outside is stopped and they are not allowed to get close to help, Qingzhou City will not be able to fly away.
In the handsome tent, Dolgon couldn't help but raise a glass with Duoduo to celebrate, and Qingzhou City would be in the pocket for two days at most, but in front of this fat head, the three brothers should have congratulated together, but the boss Azig went to the imperial capital as a guest, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
"Brother Twelve has not had any news since he was captured, isn't it a little wrong with you" Duoduo raised his eyebrows, Dolgon was also an accident, it stands to reason that the court should have captured a Manchu prince to negotiate a long time ago, he even thought of a response, but it was silent What is the reason, and he can't help but have some gains and losses in his heart.
"No matter, when Qingzhou City is broken, the old twelve will be replaced by King Heng as a hostage," Dolgon made a wishful thinking: "Maybe you can raise the price by the way."
Duoduo laughed: "But I don't know if the twelfth brother is worth or the king is worth it."
Dolgon smiled, and then ordered those cannon fodder to rush to make siege equipment overnight, requiring that five hundred siege ladders, eight siege vehicles, and several stone throwers be made by dusk the day after tomorrow at the latest......
Just imagine, if there were hundreds of siege ladders on the Qingzhou city wall in the battle just now, at this time......