After an initial exploratory attack for half a month, the army of the Great Qing Dynasty Dolgon and the army led by Hongtang Wu Jie finally began to send their main forces to fight.

The Qing army, which was advancing step by step, had already reached Phoenix City, where Hongtang and Wu Jie were commanding, but fortunately, the stronghold of Hat Helmet Mountain, which was built on the west wing of Phoenix City, was still in the hands of Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, two general soldiers.

The 30,000 troops in Liaoyang City are still surrounded by the 50,000 troops of the Qing Dynasty, and the two sides have fought each other, but because each other's main forces are still in the tentative stage, their combat degree can only be regarded as restraint.

With the nail of Liaoyang City, and the cavalry division of An Xianguo made trouble in the rear, the battle of Dolgon, the main army of the Qing Dynasty, was quite restricted, and the strength was abnormal.

Even so, their Qing Dynasty can be regarded as steadily regaining nearly 1/3 of the land occupied by Hongtang's army, but because the frontal battlefield has been deadlocked, there are still many dock forts that have not been broken by the army in the land they have recaptured. Since most of the forts were just a group of newly liberated Han and Korean slaves, the threat to the Qing army was insufficient, but Dolgon temporarily could not divide his forces and manpower to attack this fort.

After reaching the front of Phoenix, the resistance of the Ming army was more than a step stronger, and in front of the stronghold of Hat Helmet Mountain in the west, the Han army relied on its geographical advantage and resisted the attack of the 40,000 army of the Qing Dynasty with only about 10,000 people.

Compared with the bridgehead of Liaoyang, the Qing army wanted to completely recover the territory along the coast, but it could no longer bypass the two Han territories occupied by Phoenix City and Maojiashan.

For a time, the engagement between the two armies gradually became fierce and frequent, and most of the previous battles were between tens of thousands of people, but now there are many battles on the scale of tens of thousands of people in half a month.

In the head-to-head battle, Dolgon was finally willing to use the elite troops of the Eight Banners in his hands, and the invincible soldiers of the Eight Banners in the south were still in the upper hand in the face of the Hongtang army, although they were still in the upper hand in the battle of the same scale, but the overall size of the Hongtang army was much larger than that of the Chinese Eight Banners of Dolgon, so that Dolgon also needed to use the second-rate troops mixed with Manchu and Mongolia to assist the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

In several encounters, it seems that the Qing Dynasty has a certain advantage in the overall strength of both sides, but because of the constraints in the rear and other problems, it is very difficult to regain the territory they occupy.

Advancing the army under Phoenix City was not a surprise to Dolgon and the main Qing forces led by him, but when their army arrived at the foot of Phoenix City, which was no more than two feet high, they had an advantage in the field battle, but they were at a disadvantage in siege operations.

On the city wall that the Hongtang army had already prepared, the powerful artillery and muskets, relying on the advantages of the city wall, were able to fire unscrupulously, instead of facing the powerful charge and fancy array of the elite of the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry as they did in the grassland wilderness.

"This king has released his words today, who can be the first to break through this city, the position of the lord of the Han Eight Banners is chosen by you, and the gold and silver officials are also indispensable to you!!"

In Dolgon's military tent, a group of Qing generals gathered together to discuss the battle plan for the next battle, and Dolgon now did let go of the discrimination against the Han army and gave a great temptation.

The strengths of the Jurchens and Mongols of the Qing Dynasty lie in their riding skills and killing skills, as well as their indomitable will to fight, but in siege warfare, most of their strengths are useless.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the Qing people themselves are not good at attacking cities and are sparsely populated, even if the Qing Dynasty is now fighting with the Hongtang army, the main force of loss is still the Han army soldiers, but in terms of overall scale, the Han army still occupies the vast majority of the army in the Qing Dynasty.

"Whoa!!"

The generals of the Han army seem to be very excited and enthusiastic, but who in their hearts is not complaining bitterly and wailing all over the field!

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, although at this time Prince Dolgon's status and even the status of the auxiliary prince began to crumble, but in the face of these Han generals, it is still the prince who is ruthless and looks down on the Han people in his heart.

Don't look at how rich the promises he made now, that is, he needs the generals and soldiers of the Han army to use their lives, in order to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Han army, he gave these rich rewards. But if the Han generals present dare to have a trace of hesitation or disagreement, then they will experience what it means to turn their faces as fast as turning a book, see the iron-blooded methods of Prince Rui Dorgon, and use the heads of these Han generals to boost the morale of the army.

But to be honest, the strong number of the Han army, and the fact that they surpassed the siege experience of the Jurchen Mongols and the proficiency in the use of siege equipment, made it the main military force to attack Phoenix, which was also something that the generals present had been prepared for.

At least what everyone didn't expect was that in order to stop the Han generals from cheating and cheating, Prince Rui Dolgon would spend such a lot of money to take out the reform of the Han Eight Banners military system that Huang Taiji only had some ideas about before his death, but it also made everyone in the Han army generals present happy.

If they can really become the leaders of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, then these Han army generals will not be as embarrassed as they are now, at least when facing the Jurchen and Mongolian generals.

Because of the intentions and efforts of the generals of the Han army, the siege actions of the Han army and other sieges gradually became fierce, putting a lot of pressure on Wu Jie's more than 30,000 troops guarding the city.

For Wu Jie, who has been learning how to better arch the acropolis since he went north from the beginning, his experience in guarding the city is not too rich.

Even if Phoenix City at this time was far less majestic than the Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Zunhua and other cities he had defended before, he still had strong confidence and competed with the main forces of the Qing Dynasty outside the city.

On the other side, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, the general soldiers in the stronghold of Hat Helmet Mountain, faced the continuous attacks of the Qing people, but began to struggle in their hearts, fighting to the death with the two equally attractive ideas in their minds.

(End of chapter)