Chapter 463: Hong Chengchou (3)
In the city of Jinan, after the collapsed city wall, Hong Chengchou also gathered 150,000 Qing soldiers in the city to make a last stand, he wanted to prove that the Ming army was not so strong.
"Kill, drive the Ming army out!" Hong Chengchou roared.
Although the soldiers of the Qing army had long been frightened and demoralized, they did not dare to hesitate in the face of Hong Chengchou's order and the thousands of warlords led by the Manchu behind them, and rushed forward to fight with the Ming army entering the city.
The two armies fought, on one side was the first wave of Shang Kexi and other surrendered troops who entered the city, and on the other side was Hong Chengchou's Han Banner Army Qing soldiers.
The two sides were still comrades a few days ago, but now they are their own masters, one side is the Ming army, and the other side is the Qing army.
Due to the fierce artillery fire during the initial siege of the city, and the nearly 300,000 real Ming troops behind them, especially the 100,000 Yinglong army, the morale of the surrendering army was extremely strong, and the Qing army in the city was defeated and retreated for a while.
"Kill" Shang Kexi took the lead, and after a while, he led the surrendered army to kill the area around the collapsed city wall, and continued to press into the city.
Among the 80,000 troops, although Shang Kexi's direct subordinates are only 20,000, and the 60,000 surrendered troops are under Li Yan's name, but they were Shang Kexi's army before, and now they are following Shang Kexi into the city.
On the side of the Qing army, Hong Chengchou couldn't believe what he saw.
Hong Chengchou had already seen that the first wave of Ming troops who entered the city were those who Shang Kexi brought over to surrender to the Ming army, or rather, this was not the real Ming army at all, and even a few days ago they were soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty.
But today, it was these people who, after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, defeated his 150,000 army one after another.
Hong Chengchou originally kept saying that he wanted to prove that the Ming army was not so strong to comfort his beliefs, but the real Ming army had not come up yet, and only sent one Shang Kexi, which made him almost unable to parry.
Hong Chengchou's throat was sweet, and he almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood.
Some Qing soldiers retreated without defeat, and Hong Chengchou's eyes were red.
"Don't retreat, no one is allowed to take a step back, otherwise you will be killed!" Hong Chengchou roared frantically, grabbing a retreating Qing soldier with a hideous face: "Rush up, don't retreat, do you hear it!" ”
Hong Chengchou's eyes were full of crazy killing intent, which frightened the Qing soldier who was caught by him and his legs weakened, and he was extremely frightened.
As soon as Hong Chengchou let go, the Qing soldier did not dare to retreat, gritted his teeth, and rushed up to fight with the Ming army.
A man not far from Hong Chengchou's side saw this scene and nodded secretly.
This person was sent by Dolgon to supervise the army in Jinan City, and he accompanied hundreds of Manchus to supervise the army.
Originally, this Manchu still doubted that Hong Chengchou would surrender to the Ming army as Shang Kexi was afraid of the strength of the Ming army, but now it seems that Hong Chengchou did not disappoint him, and he is worthy of being a good servant of the Qing Dynasty that the regent often praises.
In fact, don't look at Hong Chengchou's position in the Manchu court, in fact, in the hearts of the Manchus, Hong Chengchou is just a slave of their Manchurians.
"Assist Lord Hong in overseeing the army!" This Manchu also gave strict orders to his overseers.
Immediately, a part of the thousand-man supervising team directly under the Manchurian people rushed directly to the front line, urging the Qing soldiers on the front line to resist the attack of the Ming army, and if anyone dared to retreat, they would be killed on the spot.
Under such severity, the Qing army temporarily resisted the offensive of Shang Kexi's surrendered army, and the two armies advanced and retreated from each other.
Shang Kexi's face was a little unpleasant, just now the Qing army had obviously shown defeat and retreated, but now it has become so tenacious, so that he and the surrendering army can't take it for a while.
Shang Kexi has been looking forward to taking this opportunity to make great contributions, how can he tolerate the defeat of the Qing army without defeat.
You must know that the real Ming army such as the Ying Long Army behind him is about to be killed, and with the combat effectiveness of the Ying Long Army, he and the surrendered army are afraid that they will not even have soup to drink, let alone make great contributions.
"Soldiers, make meritorious contributions, loyalty to the emperor is right in front of you, kill" Shang Kexi roared, and once again took the lead and rushed to the front line.
Don't think that Shang Kexi is a little afraid of death and doesn't dare to take the lead, in fact, as long as the army does not show its defeat, or before the pro-soldiers around him are exhausted, relying on his not low martial arts, Shang Kexi often dares to rush to the front, which is also one of the reasons why Shang Kexi can encircle the generals under his command, speaking of which, in fact, Shang Kexi still has some merits.
With Shang Kegming's encouragement, the morale of the soldiers of the surrendered army was greatly boosted, and the offensive immediately became more violent.
The soldiers of the surrendered army also knew that they had originally surrendered from the camp of the Qing army, although they had already regarded themselves as a part of the Ming army, but in the end they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and their confidence was somewhat insufficient, and everyone wanted to make a contribution to eliminate the history of being a Qing army.
Shang Kexi and the brave fight of the surrendering army pressed the Qing army to defeat and retreat for a while.
Hong Chengchou's face was already black and red, extremely weird.
Right now, his heart was faintly filled with despair, not to mention proving that the Ming army was not so strong, he even betrayed the fake Ming army like Shang Kexi, not to mention the backbone of the army, Ying Longjun.
Although Hong Chengchou is still unwilling, he is already powerless.
"Kill"
At this time, there was another shout of killing from the direction of the city wall.
After a while, a group of Ying Longjun appeared, each armed with a brand-new gun with a bayonet on it.
"Bang Bang Bang"
After bursts of dense gunfire, after the soldiers of the Ying Long Army rushed to the front line, the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the places where there were many Qing soldiers and they opened fire intensively, and pieces of Qing soldiers fell under the guns of the Ying Long Army.
Because the new guns are shooting guns, using finished copper-shelled bullets, and the loading speed is extremely fast, so Ying Longjun no longer needs a three-stage strike formation, and the firepower is several times more powerful than before.
Soon, Ying Long's army swept away tens of thousands of Qing troops and stormed towards the dense Qing army at the forefront.
Shang Kexi's face was very ugly, Ying Longjun rushed up too fast, and now he and the surrendering army had even been left behind, if this continued, he and the surrendered army really couldn't even drink the soup.
"The soldiers of the surrendered army, we can't let the Ying Long army rob us of our credit! Kill," Shang Kexi yelled and led the Qing army around him to the most densely populated place of the Qing army.
At this time, Shang Kexi also let go, and if he didn't take advantage of this battle to make a little contribution, he would really not have much status in the Ming army in the future.
Shang Kexi took the lead, and the hard work of the surrendered army was not low, one by one they were not afraid of death, and Guagua shouted.
Soon, these people rushed past the Ying Long army in front, killed to the front, and directly attacked the most dense place of the Qing army.
Shang Kexi waited for the surrendered army's action to make the generals and soldiers of the Yinglong army turn black, and pointed their guns at the front one by one, where Shang Kexi and the surrendered army and the Qing army were mixed together, and they didn't shoot, and they didn't shoot.
However, although the Ying Long army temporarily stopped the attack because of the actions of Shang Kexi's surrendering army, with the overwhelming impact of the Ying Long army just now, coupled with the fierce fight of Shang Kexi and other surrendering troops now, the Qing army finally failed to resist and began to rout on a large scale.
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