Li Yan's troops had already entered the city from the south gate and the southeast corner, and began to attack the Qing army inside the city. The soldiers marched along the streets, ahead of which a musket team opened the way under the cover of shields, followed by a cannon and several tiger squat guns. There were also crossbowmen on the roofs to provide cover for the troops in the streets.

As for the new city in the west of the city, it is estimated that there is no food in it, so the Qing army's defense there is very weak. After Li Yan's troops occupied the southwest corner of the city wall, they fired bombs and crossbow arrows at Xincheng, and the Qing army abandoned the not-so-small Xincheng and withdrew to the north. The Qing army outside the western city also had no intention of fighting, and they all hurriedly retreated outside the northern city.

It was more laborious to transport the artillery to the city walls, so it would take some time. The Tiger Squat Cannon was still firing projectiles at the Qing troops behind the bunker. However, the flowering bomb could not explode on the ground, and it did not have such a high accuracy, so some of the Qing soldiers hiding behind the cover were not affected, and continued to fire feather arrows at Li Yan's subordinates. The Qing soldiers' accurate archery skills still made Li Yan's subordinates, who were thirty paces away, stop their progress.

Although Li Yan's crossbowmen and musketeers could also shoot at the Qing army, the Qing soldiers hid immediately after firing a feather arrow, making it difficult for Li Yan's subordinates to aim, so most of the projectiles and crossbow arrows were empty. After a few times, there will be no waste of ammunition, just to prevent the Qing troops from rushing over.

Man Dahai led more than 600 cavalry to circle from the west, preparing to attack Li Yan's troops outside the city. Although Dorgon asked him to concentrate all the cavalry on the north side, the two yellow and two blue flags refused to send troops, and even the two red and two white flags were not active. are all ready to retreat north, who will let the elite cavalry go to death

The white flag is a subordinate of Duoduo, and even if the white flag is inlaid, half of the people are under the orders of Azig. So even the two white flags that Dorgon could control were not completely at his orders. Therefore, Man Dahai could only take these six hundred cavalry to attack Li Yan, and in order to avoid the cavalry arranged by Li Yan in the east, he could only bypass from the farther west.

But after bypassing, he found that he could not directly attack Li Yan's troops. Because the three ditches and low walls outside the city were still there, and Li Yan's troops had already entered the innermost low wall to pursue their infantry, he could only rush in from the southeast corner. But there were six guns there, specially designed to guard against the rear road.

Man Dahai scratched his head a little, he bumped into Dolgon, no matter what, he had to hit it, otherwise there was no way to explain. After all, the strength of the two white flags is the strongest, and his father Daishan doesn't seem to have any intention of confronting Dolgon, the two yellow flags have been weakened badly this time, and Hauge is locked up again, so he doesn't dare to have too many thoughts now.

Naturally, he would not go head-on to attack the gap guarded by the six guns, and even if he gave the order, the cavalry would not necessarily go. So he asked the cavalry to enter through the passage on the southwest side, intending to gallop outside the second trench to attract Li Yan's attention. If you have the opportunity, you can attack Li Yan's defenders here. There were only two guns here, and the defense was much weaker.

However, before they could fully enter the open space outside the second trench, Li Yan's two trebuchets began to fire pots, creating a sea of fire a hundred steps away from Li Yan's passage into the city. At the same time, the tiger squat cannons in the moat also began to fire flowering shells at them, and the rumbling explosion exploded around the horses, knocking the cavalry off their horses and blowing them over. They hadn't done any damage to Li Yan's troops, and they had paid for the casualties of thirty or forty cavalry.

Man Dahai had no choice but to let the cavalry withdraw from the small passage. He understood that Li Yan was well deployed, and there was really no chance. If you rush hard, no one wants to die, so you have to plan to go back the same way. Anyway, he did his best, and when he got back, Dorgon could do whatever he wanted.

But before Man Dahai and the others came out of the passage, they heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves. They looked up and saw that Li Yan's cavalry unit was rushing from the southeast.

The cavalry of the Qing army out of the trench did not care about anything, and hurriedly fled to the west, and those who did not come out also ran to the west. Because the number of the two sides was too different, there were two or three thousand cavalry under Li Yan's department.

Feng Taichu greeted and chased after the Qing cavalry outside with half of the cavalry, while Liang Zhenfang led the other half of the cavalry into the low wall and pursued the remaining cavalry of the Qing army from inside. They took advantage of their speed and quickly narrowed the distance between them and the Qing soldiers.

"Bang", "bang", the people in front have already begun to blow their handcuffs. This kind of pursuit warfare is the most familiar and favorite mode of combat for them. Although the cavalry of the Qing army could shoot on horseback, they were able to turn around and fire arrows while fleeing. However, their handcuffs were able to knock the Qing army directly off their horses, and the Qing army's feathered arrows were only painful to them, except for a few that could cause them casualties.

Li Yan's cavalry pursued all the way to the west side of Tongzhou before stopping the pursuit. There were many Qing troops not far away, and the main forces of the Qing army were concentrated outside the north gate, and they did not dare to rush over.

Li Mu watched the Qing cavalry being pursued from a distance, and sneered: "If you want to carry out a sneak attack, it's not so easy. ”

The artillery was finally transported to the city, but Li Yan did not let the artillery bombard the bunker established by the Qing soldiers on the north city wall, but directly asked the artillery to bombard the city gate tower in the north.

He saw people coming in and out of the city gate tower very frequently, and he knew that it might be the location of the commander of the Qing army. The so-called capture of the thief first captures the king, destroys the command system of the Qing army, plunges the Qing army into chaos, and blows a greater blow to the Qing army.

The artillerymen immediately placed their artillery on the east side of the corner, and the sword and shield men followed the artillerymen, holding their shields to protect the artillerymen. There are also infantry carrying sandbags to cover in front of the cannon, after all, the bows and arrows of the Qing army can also shoot over, and some protective measures must always be done first.

Although the artillerymen thought that these sword and shield soldiers were cumbersome, they were also protecting them, so they could only settle for a while. After a few moments, the artillery was ready. There was no target as large as the city gate tower that could not be missed, so the two guns soon began to fire.

Dorgon was reprimanding the cavalry generals of the banners. He received a report that Mandahai had only brought 600 cavalry to attack, and he knew that this attack had no effect.

"You don't respect the order, do you want to taste the national and military laws of the Qing Dynasty," Dolgon asked coldly.

The cavalry generals all knelt and did not speak. Their banner lord Baylor would not let them send troops, and they could only obey orders. And this time the losses were so heavy that Dorgon would certainly not escape punishment when he returned. They have the banner lord above to protect them, and they should not be guilty of great crimes.

"Regent, get out of here," Sukh Saha ran over and shouted anxiously.

"Panic, the sky can't fall," Dorgon snapped. He was about to give a punishment to these cowardly generals here, how could he tolerate his subordinates being so unprepared.

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