Chapter 184: Abandoning Tai'an (Part II)
"Bring a gun!" Ji Feng raised his eyebrows and said.
Immediately, the soldiers of the Ying Long Army beside him handed their flintlock pistols to Ji Feng.
After Ji Feng took it, without saying a word, aiming at the Qing cavalry was a slam shot.
There was silence under the city immediately, and the Qing soldier on the horse was stunned, looked at a wisp of white smoke rising from the Tai'an city wall, and touched his head for some reason.
In fact, this is a routine of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because since entering the customs, almost everywhere their army goes, they surrender without a fight, and over time they have developed the affairs of persuading the Manchu army to surrender first when attacking the city.
"Bring another gun!" Ji Feng's old face turned red, and he handed the flintlock pistol in his hand that had been fired to the Ying Long Army soldier next to him, and took a flintlock pistol again.
"Bang!" Raise your hand and shoot again.
The neighing of the war horse under the city wall actually hit one of the eyes of the war horse, and the war horse was in pain, and the Qing soldiers on horseback were lifted off the horse, and four hooves were spread and galloped under the city wall.
"Damn, I didn't hit again, the accuracy was too bad." Ji Feng's face turned a little blue, it was too embarrassing, he remembered that he was obviously aiming at the body of the Qing soldier on horseback, but he didn't expect to hit the horse.
And the Qing soldier under the city wall just opened his mouth again, and before he could say anything, he heard a gunshot on the city wall again, and before he could react, he was unsuspectingly taken off the horse by the war horse, and his open mouth ate a mouthful full of mud.
"Despicable, even sneak attack!" Shame and shame, this Qing soldier originally thought that with the distance between him and the Tai'an city wall, even if he shot arrows at him on the city wall, he would be sure to dodge, but he didn't expect the Ming army to be so despicable, not using bows and arrows, using muskets, which made him accidentally lose his hand for a while!
However, in the end, he got the response of the Ming army, and his task was completed.
After the Qing soldier got up, he didn't know where the helmet had rolled, spit out the dirt in his mouth, scolded angrily and turned around and fled back to the camp, looking very embarrassed.
"Hahahaha!" A soldier of the Ying Long Army on the city wall of Tai'an took the lead in pointing at the Qing soldier who fled in embarrassment and laughed, and then, all the soldiers of the Ying Long Army laughed together, and those ordinary Ming soldiers who were originally afraid of the Qing Army were infected by the Ying Long Army soldiers, and they also laughed, and the fear was suppressed a lot.
Ji Feng didn't expect that he was hit by the Qing soldier, but it had such an effect, and he immediately stopped being angry, and nodded with satisfaction.
"The Ming army is stubborn, I just said, it's just too much!" In the camp of the Qing army, Azig snorted coldly with a gloomy face.
Knowing Azig's temper, Dordor didn't want to argue with him, pretending not to hear.
Dolgon faintly heard the laughter of the Ming army, and his eyes flashed with murderous intent: "Since you are looking for death, this king will fulfill you!" Push the red-clad cannon forward! Boom Tai'an! ”
The Qing army pushed more than a hundred huge red-coated cannons up at one time, and the muzzles of the cannons exuded a terrifying sense of oppression.
"Damn, it's a red-clad cannon!" Ji Feng screamed.
"Boom, boom, boom" deafening cannon sound, more than 100 shells pierced the air and hit the city wall and the city of Tai'an.
Except for a few solid bullets, all of them are precious flowering bullets.
In Tai'an City, including 20,000 Yinglong troops, there are a total of 60,000 Ming troops, which is the limit that Tai'an City can accommodate, and the other 40,000 are in Laiwu, east of Tai'an County.
The ground shook and the mountains shook, and with only one round of shelling, the entire city of Tai'an seemed to be shaking.
"Ah" a flowering bomb exploded in a group of Ming troops, killing and wounding more than 20 people on the spot, with stumps and broken arms, extremely miserable, and at the same time, another flowering bomb exploded among the people.
The gunners of the Qing army controlled it very well, and almost all the solid bullets hit the city wall, and all the solid bullets entered the city, resulting in heavy casualties and heavy casualties among the Ming troops of the people in the city, and hundreds of people shouted in fear in the city.
There were originally nearly 100,000 people in Tai'an City, although more than half of them were consciously evacuated before the war, there were still tens of thousands of people who could not leave their homeland and refused to leave anything, which is why this tragedy happened.
When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs last year to chase and kill Li Zicheng, they had obtained more than 70 million taels of gold and silver looted by Li Zicheng, plus the Manchu Qing Dynasty had robbed more than 20 million taels of gold and silver from entering the customs several times, and the Manchu treasury had more than 100 million yuan.
"Qingyu actually used so many flowering bombs at one time, what a big deal!" Ji Feng gritted his teeth and said.
"General Ji, I didn't hesitate to bombard the city with flowering bombs, and the people and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, what should I do, do I still defend it!" Lu Yanshou asked Ji Feng.
"Withdraw from Tai'an and block along the road!" Ji Feng looked at the people in the city who had suffered heavy casualties, suppressed the unwillingness in his heart and ordered.
He originally planned to defend Tai'an County for at least two days, but the Qing army used so many red-coated cannons that they would only be slaughtered by artillery fire if they were in the city, and it was not worth it.
As long as they withdraw from Tai'an and set up ambushes along the way, they can still delay the progress of the Qing army and kill and injure the Qing army.
Immediately, Ji Feng led all 60,000 troops, including Ying Long's army, to withdraw from Tai'an County, and at the same time ordered the Ming army in Laiwu to abandon Laiwu and retreat in the direction of Yanzhou and Jining, and join his 60,000 army.
"Fourteenth brother, you see, all the Ming troops on the city wall have disappeared, and they must have abandoned the city and fled." Azig sneered.
"Stop shelling! Besiege! Dolgon's expressionless order that the Ming army would retreat had long been expected by him, after all, no army could withstand the bombardment of countless powerful flowering shells.
The siege of "killing" was naturally carried out by the Han Banner Army, and tens of thousands of Han Banner troops rushed towards the Tai'an City Wall without encountering any resistance.
After a while, the gate of Tai'an County was opened by the army attacking the city.
From the arrival of the army in Tai'an County to the capture of Tai'an County, it took less than an hour.
"The army enters the city, and the cavalry pursues the Ming army!" Dorgon ordered.
The cavalry of the Qing army led the advance into the city, did not stay in the city for half a moment, about 30,000 Manmeng iron cavalry under the commander of Aobai, non-stop through Tai'an towards the direction of the retreat of the Ming army all the way to pursue.
The 60,000 army led by Ji Feng was caught up almost before he had run ten miles.
"Xie Zepeng, the commander of this army will leave all the war horses for you, you take the soldiers of the headquarters to block here, and the commander of this army will lead the remaining men and horses to Dawenpo thirty miles away to set up an ambush." Ji Feng ordered to one of the generals of Ying Longjun.
This is a plan that has been drawn up a long time ago, for this reason Ji Feng also asked Zhu Cihong to transfer war horses, a total of 5,000 war horses, and the 5,000 soldiers of the Yinglong Army under Xie Zepeng are just one each.
If there were no these war horses, the Ying Long army that stayed behind to block the attack would inevitably be wiped out.
"The last general obeys the orders of the general! The pursuing Qing army will pay a heavy price! Xie Zepeng patted his chest and said.
"Don't be careless, saving the lives of all soldiers is the most important thing."
"Yes!"
After leaving Xie Zepeng's 5,000 Yinglong army, Ji Feng led the remaining army to Dawenpo thirty miles away to set up an ambush.
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