"Hurry up, go up to Lao Tzu!!"

"If you dare to take a step back, Lao Tzu will cut off your heads!"

On the city of Liaoyang, a general with a Han face was angry at the soldiers who shrunk their heads and tails on the female wall, and did their best to keep the city wall still in their own hands.

It has been six or seven days since the Ming army of Dongjiang Town, which suddenly came over, arrived at the city of Liaoyang, and the city was full of the smell of gunsmoke, and at the same time, there was a complex smell of rotting corpses and charred flesh and blood.

Even if it is a gateway like Liaoyang, which is the gateway to defend Shengjing, in fact, the number of Jurchen warriors is actually not too much, for example, there are only more than 7,000 Jurchen and Mongol warriors in Liaoyang City as the main garrison army, and its subordinate is from the blue flag of Feili.

Therefore, in fact, those who really stood in Liaoyang City to help guard the safety of the city were more from the hands of the Han army who returned to the Qing Dynasty, such as the current Wu Laiqiren, who fought day and night with the largest number of 30,000 soldiers of the Han army in Liaoyang City, and only then persevered in the fierce attack of Shang Kexi's troops.

Wave after wave of steel bullets rained outside the city, smashing the blue bricks on the city, and a single piece of flying fragments could kill a soldier if he was not careful, and even the scars on Wu Lai's own face that were oozing a faint blood stain were also from the accidental injury of the gravel.

The Jurchen Mongol warriors in the city were not responsible for the front-line confrontation, they were limited in number and more than a step stronger than the Han army, so they were more of a supervisor of the battle and a firefighter who supported everywhere in battle.

There is also such a garrison army loyal to the Qing Dynasty that keeps an eye on the soldiers of the Han army, otherwise in the tradition of the soldiers of the Han army, they would have thrown away their Chinese weapons and surrendered to the Ming army below with their hands raised.

are also Han people, how could Wu Lai never think that this group of Han brothers who are not afraid of death can be so fearless and heroic, you must know that there is only one life, and if you lose it, you will turn into a rotten body, and you will no longer be able to feel all the things that are not in this world.

However, in this group of Ming soldiers in Dongjiang Town under Liaoyang City, there may still be a few people who will take care of their lives, and there are still people who take the lead in escaping the city when the siege is unfavorable, but overall, more Han soldiers are showing a fearless spirit, and they are indomitable in the face of all kinds of dangers on the city wall, even before they die, they still want to bite the Qing defenders, like a devouring beast.

The city is already crumbling, and the Qing generals and local officials have been cheering for the Han soldiers, saying that reinforcements are already on the way, which is also an important reason why Wu Lai and them are struggling to support. After all, Liaoyang, as the western gateway of Gongwei Shengjing, if it was occupied by the Ming people, then they would no longer have any scruples, and they would go straight east and attack the capital of Shengjing in the Qing Dynasty, which was a heavy setback to their pride and self-confidence for the Qing people.

However, Wu Lai didn't know that although the reinforcements they were waiting for had already left Shengjing City, in addition to the 50,000 troops left in Shengjing, the remaining 80,000 troops were personally led by Prince Li Daishan, but they were heading towards the place under Qingxi City, and instead temporarily abandoned Liaoyang City.

Prince Li Daishan and they made the choice to support Qingxi first instead of Liaoyang for two reasons:

One is that the Ming army attacking Qingxi was less, and the Hongtang headquarters army led by Wu Chao was only 20,000, which was more suitable for a quick battle in terms of quantity. After all, the army that the Qing Dynasty has gathered this time is all the forces they can use for the time being, whether it is to relieve the siege of Qingxi, defeat the Ming army with a division of troops, or for the sake of safety, attacking Qingxi is a suitable choice.

Second, the news that Jinzhou and Ningyuan fell into the hands of the Ming army came back to Shengjing, although Prince Li and others could not know where such a large army was pulled from Dongjiang Town in the Ming Dynasty, but they were also worried that the Ming army of Jinzhou and Ningyuan would come to support the Ming army in Liaoyang, and secretly set up a plan to let Prince Li, a Qing army, fall into the trap.

If this is the case, Prince Li and the others chose to save Qingxi first, and then reverse the plan to return to Liaoyang.

It's just that Prince Li and they underestimated Wu Chao, a pro-army with all the staff from the headquarters of Hongmen Dayuan Island, and the reason why Wu Chao dared to divide his troops to attack the Great Purge was to do his best to destroy the Qing Dynasty, in fact, it was also out of confidence in the strength of their own army.

Don't look at the Hongtang army in Nanyang over the years, there have been fewer challengers, and everyone thinks that their actual combat ability is not good.

In these years, the high-level commanders of Hongtang led by Li Tianyang and Wu Jie, in addition to strictly training the soldiers to basically be capable, they also sent the Hongtang fleet and army soldiers out to cruise between the major routes to eliminate those pirates who still did not give up or were desperate.

At the same time, in the face of the chaotic situation in the north of the Ming Dynasty, a dart bureau formed by the backbone of the Hongtang army also came into being to provide protection for the merchants who came from the south to the north, especially the merchants who had a good relationship with Hongmen.

First, the Hongtang army can make up for the heavy burden brought by the Hongtang army since the expansion of the army through the income of the dart game; secondly, they can pass the dart game at night and provide a pension job for those comrades who are disabled in the battle; Thirdly, the activities of the dart bureau to go south and north also facilitate the Hongmen guards to infiltrate and understand the intelligence of various places, and to install personnel in the local area.

Not to mention that because of the establishment of the dart bureau, the soldiers of the Hongtang army also have the opportunity to fight, and dealing with the green forest heroes, mountain bandits and bullies is a small scene, but fighting with those who are anxious to snatch everything is a combat team of thousands of people, for the dart bureau with a maximum of more than 100 people, it has become the norm for the Hongtang soldiers to fight more and less, and it may not be less than the real battlefield flash marriage.

There are also mercenaries in India and Africa, and they fought against local natives in the New World of America, all of which have no trace of Hongtang soldiers, making at least half of the backbone of Hongtang's army definitely not junior brothers without actual combat experience.

And when more than half of an army is veterans with actual combat experience, then for the remaining recruits, it is like a guiding light, under the leadership and teaching of veterans, the growth rate of recruits will definitely become extremely fast.

After Wu Chao's troops came to Qingxi City, they did not launch an offensive against the Qing army in Qingxi City on the spot, and in terms of the number of troops, Wu Chao's 20,000-strong army did not have many advantages.

In addition to first placing the artillery carried by the army and bombing Qingxi City every day, Hongtang's army was more, but groups of scouts were dispatched and scattered over a land area of dozens of miles centered on Qingxi.

(End of chapter)