Chapter 304: The Siege of Fuzhou City
In the afternoon of the same day, the men and horses of the "Red Banner Army" besieging the city learned that the reinforcements sent by Gaizhou Jiannu were defeated by the cavalry brothers, losing more than 200 people, and immediately burst into bursts of cheers.
After watching the Ming army at the head of the city, the Jin army suddenly heard a huge movement from the Ming army, and one by one they tensed their spirits, they bowed and unsheathed, and silently waited for the upcoming offensive and defensive battle.
The Houjin army did not see the Ming army attacking, but only saw the excited Liu Zaiqi shouting with a large horn made of iron sheet and tin.
Liu Zaiqi exaggerated the fact that the Ming army had defeated the Gaizhou reinforcements threefold, and he told the Fuzhou defenders that more than 1,000 Jiannu who had come to Gaizhou's aid had been routed by the cavalry battalion of the "Red Banner Army".
Just when the defenders of Fuzhou were suspicious, about 300 Ming army bayonets with guns carried more than 200 bloody Jiannu heads, held two Niu Lu Ezhen banners, and carried 27 prisoners appeared.
Liu Zaiqi, who used to be timid as a mouse, straightened up at this moment and followed the team with a big horn to approach Fuzhou City, he pointed to the banner of Jiannu and shouted
"What is this, this is your Niu Lu Ezhen battle flag, if the Ming army does not defeat more than a thousand reinforcements, will it capture two battle flags?"
Liu Zaiqi picked up a head that was still dripping blood and continued, "This is the head of Niu Lu Ezhen, his name is Geerdugua, which belongs to the Zhenglan Banner, this is the head of Baya Lapa Shiku, the name is "
He gave a speech foaming at the mouth, and read the contents aloud from Jiannu's waist cards one by one, and the bloody facts were in front of him, not only the Han people in Fuzhou believed it, but even Jiannu was convinced, and Nahai was suddenly sad.
The twenty-seven Jiannu captives who were tied up in a string were led around Fuzhou City by the Ming army, and the small pigtails on the back of their heads swayed in the wind, which looked extremely funny. The Ming army was laughing.
The vast majority of the Han people had the idea of waiting for the Ming army to attack the city and fight back, and the Jiannu soldiers felt that the future was worrisome, and they were thinking that they must find their war horses at the first time at the most critical juncture.
Nahai didn't know that Fuzhou City was difficult to defend, and he had already regretted that he had not made the decision to abandon Fuzhou in time and concentrate his forces to hold Jinzhou. He is actually one of the main generals of the Jiannu garrison in southern Liaoning, and Fuzhou and Jinzhou are all under his jurisdiction.
Jiannu's food was scarce, and all the generals attached great importance to the autumn harvest, and Nahai was no exception.
Who would have thought that the hateful "Red Banner Army" would kill Fuzhou, which should belong to the rear, when the soldiers and civilians of Fuzhou were working day and night in order to grab the farms, and just after the autumn harvest was completed.
Originally, he still had the illusion that he would stick to the city of Fuzhou, and the garrisons in the direction of Jinzhou and Gaizhou should not be indifferent, and they would always have to make some moves, and it was not known that the Ming army would not be able to withstand the enemy on three sides and retreat from the sea.
This afternoon, such expectations were dashed, and the two Niu Lu Ezhen banners were captured by the Ming army, which means that the reinforcements in the direction of Gaizhou have suffered a lot of losses, and it is probably impossible to give Fuzhou support in the short term.
After receiving the news that the reinforcements were defeated by the Ming army, the Han army should have seen the strange moves. The defenders in Fuzhou City could not be trusted except for the children of the Eight Banners, and the number of these people was several times that of the Dajin Army.
In order to prevent the Ming army from launching a sneak attack at night, he ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners to keep vigil in person, and he couldn't trust those Aha.
Nahai did not sleep all night, he has been in battle for a long time, when the Dajin army seized the city of Liaodong, most of them used the inside and outside to attack the city at night, of course he was worried that the Han army would take advantage of the night to let the Ming army enter the city, and personally led the guards to patrol the night, and no one was allowed to make noise, and found that there were Han people walking around at night to kill without mercy.
Huang Han did not plan to launch a night attack at all, because the "Red Banner Army" gunners could shoot accurately, and the effective killing distance was far greater than that of Jiannu's infantry bow, and it was beneficial for our army to launch a battle to capture the city with a good line of sight.
The "Red Banner Army" was short of troops, and Huang Han was not prepared to besiege Fuzhou City from all sides, but chose to break through the Zhenhai Gate in the north.
The other two gates all adopted the method of setting up barricades in the hard village to prevent the Jiannu cavalry from escaping, and did not demand the total annihilation of the men and horses that broke through, so as to give Jiannu a large number of casualties on the premise of reducing the casualties of our army.
The total number of troops dispatched by the "Red Banner Army" was less than 10,000, and after subtracting the sailors, gunners, and accompanying laborers, and minus the cavalry that remained mobile, only two or three thousand people could participate in the attack during the siege.
Early the next morning, the Ming army still showed their prisoners and heads as they had done yesterday afternoon, and kept shouting to remind the Han and Yehebu Jurchens to fight back, and they always remained within 200 paces of their guns.
Due to the continuous movement of the Ming army with the captives, the two Hongyi cannons and several Franc machine guns arranged in the northern city wall section of Fuzhou could not be targeted, so although the Ming army was within the range of artillery fire, the artillery at the head of Fuzhou City did not fire.
Jiannu also knew that it was not easy to shoot artillery, and it was best to choose the time when the Ming army was charging intensively to strike, so he did not strictly order the Han gunners to open fire.
In fact, they are also a rat trap, after all, there are dozens of captured Eight Banners there, and the shells are not long-sighted, and if they really kill the clansmen, they are afraid that they will cause trouble, so they chose more than less.
Who knew that what Song Pengfei wanted was the result that the enemy would not easily open fire when he was paralyzed, he was the commander of the infantry battalion, and he often watched artillery training to understand the power and range of artillery fire.
He had already roughly estimated the approximate landing point of the cannonballs in case Jiannu fired the cannons by observing the position and elevation angle of the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city, but he and his subordinates actually did not stay within the range of the cannonballs.
Song Pengfei had been approaching the Zhenhai Gate of Fuzhou with three hundred first-class marksmen, and had also been closely observing the artillery positions at the head of the city, and found that Jiannu did not know how to order the Han gunners to adjust the elevation angle to aim at them.
Liu Zaiqi is very familiar with Song Pengfei, it was Song Pengfei who interceded for him last spring, and he was able to save his life, and Song Pengfei was one of the benefactors in his heart.
Seeing that Song Pengfei, who was already the commander of the imperial court's Zhengsanpinwei, personally led the team to carry out the psychological battle, Liu Zaiqi immediately understood that today is definitely not as simple as continuing to propagate and disintegrate the enemy army, and our army will definitely take action.
Liu Zaiqi behaved very actively, still holding a loudspeaker and running in front of the team to shout. The Jiannu defenders at the head of Fuzhou City all watched Liu Zaiqi's performance with cold eyes, and the Han people were driven away by Jiannu at this time, and few of them were able to watch the excitement at the head of the city.
At noon, the Ming army marching with the captives suddenly attacked, that is, more than 100 Ming troops with guns suddenly raised their guns and aimed at the direction of Zhenhai Gate, crackling, and more than 100 people ran quickly in the direction of the city gate.