In the safe passage area chosen by the Tiance Army on the position of the Qing army in Liaoyang, it was like a lightning storm, and the all-round bombing operation without dead ends completely cut off the vitality of the Qing army in the area.

The earth was collapsing, the tunnels were buried, the earthen forts were blown up into the sky, and a large amount of earth was constantly lifted into the air along with the dead bodies of the Qing army. When the body hit the ground, it was torn apart by the subsequent explosion, and the stumps were severed, and the mud and blood were like hell.

In the city of Liaoyang, Prince Li Daishan led the yellow flag master, Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu and the generals of the Qing army and his two sons to the city to watch the battle.

The ferocity of the Tiance Army's offensive and the fierceness of the artillery bombardment made everyone stunned and dumbfounded.

The fortifications of Liaoyang took two years and more than 100,000 people to build.

Different from the Gaizhou defense line, Liaoyang fortifications used a large number of bricks and boulders, and the key positions were reinforced and compacted at any cost, Huang Taiji personally inspected and believed that Liaoyang could at least withstand the attack of the Tiance army for more than three months, and Daishan and other princes and ministers also agreed with Huang Taiji's point of view.

However, the facts are undoubtedly a slap in the face, whether it is a 155-millimeter howitzer or an air attack by a Z-18 transport plane that has raised its suspension to a height of 1,200 meters, dealing with these non-reinforced concrete fortifications is tantamount to destroying and decaying.

Taking the 155-mm howitzer as an example, it directly hit the steel-reinforced concrete fortifications with a thickness of about two meters that were common in the fifties and sixties of the previous life, and the heavy grenade can also cause serious damage or complete destruction under a single shot, and even in granite, it can blow up a funnel pit with a radius of 1.22 meters, not to mention this kind of partially masonry fortification.

Gushan Ezhen Baituyin exclaimed: "The position outside Liaoyang City can no longer stop the attack of the Tiance Army, we should consider meeting the enemy inside the city." ”

As soon as his words fell, the sound of breaking through the sky roared, and then dense explosions sounded one after another at the head of the city and in the city, and several shells also fell near their positions, killing and injuring dozens of Qing soldiers immediately, including several Qing army generals.

"Father, it's not safe here, get out of here." After all, the fourth son of Daishan, Belwakda, was young and reacted quickly, and immediately pulled Daishan to run down the city.

Who knew that Dai Shan ran two steps, but one of them fell to the ground, "Father, father!" Dai Shan's seventh son, Man Dahai, came from behind, hurriedly helped his father Dai Shan to take a look, and shouted anxiously: "Fourth brother, my father is injured." ”

I saw blood gushing from Dai Shan's thigh, and it turned out that a shrapnel had scratched the flesh.

"Seventh, take a hand." Wakda crouched down in front of Daizen and beckoned Manda Kaido.

Man Dahai understood and helped to help Dai Shan on Wakda's back, and the two sons personally escorted Dai Shan down the city wall.

"Alas, old, when I was young, this little injury was nothing." Dai Shan, who was lying on Wakda's back, said in a heroic tone.

"Father, you hold on, and when you get to a safe place, I will bandage you." Wakda comforted as he ran with Daishan on his back.

The so-called safe place is, of course, not the Liaoyang Mansion, but the underground command post built by the Manchus in advance.

Since the attack of the Tiance army, the Manchu Qing has also learned a lot, in order to deal with the eyes of the Tiance army in the air and long-distance shelling, Liaoyang City built a dozen underground command posts, such fortifications, Shengjing also has a lot, because Huang Taiji was suddenly captured, Shengjing's has been completely abandoned.

Wakda descended the city wall, and his own soldiers, Goshha, helped Daishan to his horse and ran towards the city.

They did not dare to delay, because the artillery fire of the Tiance Army continued to drop into the city, and explosions were happening everywhere, and rubble and tiles accompanied by dust flew everywhere.

Soon after the carpet bombing outside Liaoyang began, the shelling of Liaoyang City was also launched, focusing on the Qing army at the head of the city and the military strongholds in the city.

Originally, there were two plans for the shelling of Liaoyang City, one was to devastating the shelling, such as incendiary bombs or rockets, or to use fire trucks to spray gasoline or diesel fuel into the city, directly burning or destroying the entire city of Liaoyang.

However, there are still more than 100,000 people in Liaoyang, and it is understood that there are 70,000 or 80,000 Han people, which makes the Tiance army a little jealous. The population of this time and space is an important resource, especially compared to the sparsely populated Liaodong, so the Tiance Army adopted the second artillery plan, that is, targeted elimination.

After a long period of reconnaissance by the Air Force, the barracks, government offices, and hidden military caves under the city walls in Liaoyang City were all the key objects of care. Because the Tiance army had the ability to conquer Liaoyang in a short time, the granary of the Qing army was not within the scope of the artillery bombardment.

At the same time, based on the experience of the defense of Moscow in World War II, Wang Yue destroyed the houses and facilities in the city by large-scale shelling, which would produce a large number of irregular ruins, which would instead become hiding places for the enemy and increase the difficulty of the attacker's clearance.

But the war was cruel, accidental injuries were inevitable, and the Qing army in order to engage in street battles with the Tiance army, scattered many garrison strongholds in Liaoyang City, mixed with the dwellings. Most of the houses on this plane are brick and wood structures, and the continuous shelling has caused multiple fires to ignite.

Liaoyang struggled under 160 mortars of two calibers, and after three hours of shelling and bombardment outside the city, a safe passage with a width of one kilometer and a depth of nearly three kilometers had been formed. Almost every inch of the land in the safe passage of about three kilometers has been subjected to artillery fire, and the earth seems to have been plowed over, and the soil is soft and floating everywhere.

More than fifty bulldozers appeared on the scene, roaring and pushing the floating earth on the ground with huge shovels, heading towards the moat of Liaoyang City. Due to the full shelling, a large amount of floating earth and gravel will replace the work of the Zhouqiao battalion, and the moat located in the southern section of Liaoyang City will be filled.

The mud and sand carried the broken corpses of the Qing army, which were ruthlessly filled in by bulldozers and several trenches, and then filled into the moat.

The Qing army in Liaoyang City was almost invisible, and the mortar bombardment made the city head untenable at all, and the Qing troops on other positions outside Liaoyang City were even more cowered in the fortifications, not daring to take their heads, because the artillery bombardment of the Tiance Army was too much, and also because after the safe passage was opened, the artillery fire was extending and expanding to both sides.

The bulldozers worked selflessly on the battlefield of the two armies for a long time, and then the six Type 99 tanks drove straight to the city of Liaoyang with the roar of the motor and the creaking of the tracks.

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