196 Ruthless
Under the capital of the Qing Dynasty, there were countless camps densely packed, and with the team led by the two generals of Geng Kong rushed to meet Shang Kexi, it was already surrounded by the Qing kings who were several miles wide.
"It is estimated that the Jurchen barbarians would never have imagined that one day they would have such a day, this is really a turn of feng shui!!"
Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Kong Youde, all of whom were old men who followed Mao Wenlong's supervisor to establish Dongjiang Town, had extremely complicated feelings towards the Jurchens.
"Who's to say it isn't! If this time the little Jurchen emperor Shunzhi and their kingdom god of war Dolgon can be strangled here in one fell swoop, then the end of the Jurchens will not be far away! ”
The more excited Shang Kexi was in his heart, the more calm the expression on his face became, and he felt a heavy pressure in the face of the great thing he had wanted to accomplish in his heart, which was about to come true today.
"The artillery of the artillery regiment has been erected, I suggest that we concentrate all the artillery to attack a city wall, completely destroy the city wall and city gate, and open the gap before launching an attack!"
Geng Zhongming just sighed for a moment, and then began to pack up his mood and discuss with Shang Kexi about the upcoming siege battle.
At this time, Geng Zhongming sighed in his heart, in fact, he was fortunate at night, he was fortunate to judge the prospect of success on the battlefield, and he was not bought by the Qing people to take refuge in them, otherwise there would inevitably be his own figure among the Han generals who were besieged in the city at this time.
In addition to rejoicing in my heart,
"Yes, but we need to consider whether the ammunition we have for logistical supplies is sufficient, and the opponent will inevitably counterattack."
Shang Kexi nodded, expressing his agreement with Geng Zhongming's tactics, as the Hongtang army has more in-depth tactical innovation for artillery, artillery has replaced the ancient siege vehicles, arrow towers and other bulky siege weapons, becoming the best choice for the Hongtang army to attack the city.
"Rest assured, the range and accuracy of our artillery are far greater than those of the Qing people, and this time we have not only brought artillery, but also baffles made of special steel of the R&D Institute, as well as special cement, and when we arrived, the engineer battalion had been arranged to work overtime in front of the fort."
"Not to mention whether the gunners of the Qing Dynasty have our gunner expertise, even if they blindly bump into the dead mouse and shoot our battery, it is impossible for them to penetrate our fort defense with the power of their artillery."
In view of the reflection and experience brought about by the actual operation of artillery siege during this period, the R&D Institute and Hongtang gunners focused on solving the loss caused by the enemy's artillery bombardment, in addition to the artillery loss caused by high-intensity shooting.
The day after the officers and men of the 3rd Division and the 1st Division of the Hongtang Liaodong Theater who had come from the rear to support, the most boring but shocking artillery attack of the Honghongtang Army arrived as scheduled.
In addition to the gunner's design accuracy is extremely high, there is no technical content of artillery bombardment, has long become the Hongtang army now siege action standards, after giving up the bulky and other siege equipment, the Hongtang army's artillery siege, in addition to the need for a little luck, the rest of the most important thing is patience, and do not need money to shoot.
After the Shengjing City Wall, the Jurchen army of the Qing Dynasty, which was once able to organize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight at one time, was now called by Dolgon with the Shunzhi Emperor's decree, but the Jurchen Eight Banners, Mongol soldiers and Han Chinese troops were just over 100,000.
Among these 100,000 soldiers, most of the children of the Jurchen Eight Banners were either old and weak people who were originally auxiliary soldiers, or they were just adults, or even young soldiers who were not yet minors.
Countless wars, and the rebellion and difficult winters of the Eight Banners tribes, have already exhausted the heritage accumulated by generations of the Qing Dynasty. The warriors of the Eight Banners tribe, who did not have many people, fell on the battlefield, on the sickbed, and even in hunger and cold in the battle again and again.
In order to raise this army, Dolgon, Hauge, and Daishan were several powerful princes, and they forced the banner owners to loot all the men of the Eight Banners tribe under their control at the cost of losing the future foundation of the tribe.
Now the Jurchen tribes scattered in the primeval jungles and grassland merchants of Liaodong are only a few women and children left, and if any nomadic tribe on the grassland wants to do something to these Jurchen tribes at this time, they can take down these Jurchen tribes almost without damage.
Fortunately, in order to allow more people to survive last winter, the Jurchen tribe cleared out all the tribes within hundreds of miles around their territory, but at this time, they had a little less to worry about and were able to use all their strength to resist the invasion of the Hongtang army.
Dolgon, Hauge and other princes, this time there is no way back, they know very well that if they Jurchens take a step back this time, then the foundation they have laid down from their ancestor Nurhachi, the ambition they have established, will also be in vain, and there is almost no possibility of turning over.
Especially the dominance of their Aixinjue Luo family, if they lose Shengjing City, the children of the Eight Banners who have no backbone will inevitably fall apart and become a plate of scattered sand.
And the Jurchen tribe's rule of advocating respect for the strong will be because they love the decline of the Xinjue Luo clan, but they will be taken advantage of by the Ye He clan, who has a very strong strength on the side, to dominate the future direction of the Jurchen tribes.
It is precisely because of such a wise understanding that Dolgon, Daishan, Hauge and Zilharang, several members of the Aixin Jueluo royal family, really put their hearts together and return to the era of unity when Huang Taiji was still alive.
In fact, at this time, the owners of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty had already had different intentions, and the selfish nature of human nature made it impossible for them to watch their clansmen bury the Aixin Jueluo family.
Maybe before, everyone would obey it because they were afraid of the status and strength of the royal family of Aixin Jueluo, but with the fight of the wars, the prestige and strength that Aixin Jueluo has built up over the years have been consumed, and it is almost impossible to imagine calling the tribes like before.
Originally, several banner lords and nobles had already begun to secretly connect to discuss the next choice, but what they didn't expect was that the people of the Aixin Jueluo family were far more insidious and ruthless than they thought.
Before the nobles and banner owners of the Jurchen Eight Banners were still hesitating and did not reach a tacit understanding, Dolgon and Haoge had already taken the lead and controlled the patriarchs and nobles of the various tribes who stayed in Shengjing, closely monitoring their every move.
The next thing is naturally simple, Dolgon threatened the lives of these nobles and their families, and coerced them to issue instructions to their respective tribes, and deceived all the men and materials of the children of the Eight Banners to Shengjing City, and took them into their own hands for their own use, so that they had the combat power that can withstand a battle in Shengjing City today.
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