Early the next morning, when the various departments were digging trenches and building fortifications to prepare for the siege, the Qing army on the city wall was very annoyed, and everyone stood on the city wall or fired cannons to obstruct the loyal and righteous army from building siege fortifications. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Seeing that the other side was like this, the regiments relied on the small hillside outside the city wall to establish a Franco machine gun position to launch a counterattack, and at the same time, Ma Mingluan led the mortar battalion to launch 20 mortar guns and rushed to the outside of the west gate.

Mortar cannon, is a kind of siege artillery, used when the soldiers besieged Chengdu, can fire more than 30 catties of stones to the city tower 100 meters away, in order to smash the loose city wall, to achieve the purpose of siege.

After half a day of firing artillery, even if the city tower was blown up, the entire city tower was seriously damaged.

Seeing that the mortar cannon was so powerful, Heluo would panic, and although he sent elite soldiers out of the city to fight, he was defeated by the soldiers of the loyal army in the trench.

In the next few days, Yang Xuan concentrated these ten mortar cannons to attack the West Gate continuously, and by the fourth day, the entire West Gate was crumbling.

Seeing that the city was about to be broken, Heluo would stand on the street below the city tower with his whole body draped, and there were heavy troops around him.

In order to block the siege of the loyal and righteous army, following Li Guoying's advice, the Qing army requisitioned the people in the city, demolished the surrounding houses, and built fortifications day and night, and now has dug a trench about 200 meters long inside the west gate, and rebuilt a stone wall of 200 meters outside the trench.

With a loud bang, dust rose into the air, and the tower collapsed, and a large gap of ten meters appeared around it.

At this moment, time seemed to stop moving, I don't know how much time passed, there was a continuous explosion of Fran machine guns inside and outside the city, and rows of dense bird guns appeared, followed by shouts and killings one after another, from far and near, slowly appeared at the collapse of the city tower.

The soldiers of the Qing army on both sides of the city wall desperately shot arrows at the collapse in a vain attempt to forcibly occupy the collapse, while at the same time, the loyal army launched a siege of the city.

Several siege towers approached the walls on both sides, and hundreds of ladders appeared around the walls on both sides.

Gao Mingzhan gasped, he couldn't imagine that the other party was secretly building so many siege equipment while besieging the city, and now in the face of the attack of the loyal army, the soldiers of the green battalion of the Qing army guarding the city walls on both sides took care of one or the other, and everyone didn't know whether it was better to block the gap first, or to block the siege soldiers first.

After fighting like this for an hour, Wang Shuji led his troops to finally control the city wall, and a team of men and horses entered through the gap and launched an attack on the trench temporarily built by the Qing army.

Heluo would lead the Green Battalion soldiers and horses to hide behind the temporarily constructed one-person-high city wall to counterattack, and seeing that the other party was about to be suppressed, the whole person felt refreshed.

After seeing that the attack was blocked, Wang Shuji dragged more than ten tiger squatting cannons to the city wall, and then bombarded them condescendingly, so although the Tartars suffered great casualties, it was still difficult to break through the simple city wall temporarily built by the Qing army.

Now that night is falling, what is surprising is that the other party has no intention of stopping at all, and takes this opportunity to bring several shorter ladders to prepare for the overnight attack.

Heluo will feel a shock in his heart, and constantly draw troops to prepare for the offensive of the loyal army.

And at this moment, there was a shout of killing behind him, everyone turned their heads to look, looking from afar, I don't know why the smoke was billowing from the east, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky.

Heluo will be shocked, let Li Guohan go to visit, it turned out that Yang Xuanming repaired the plank road to secretly cross Chencang, on the surface concentrated the main force to attack the West Gate, attracting all the main forces of the Qing army to transfer to the West Gate, so Cao Zhang led the department to secretly detour to the East Gate, took advantage of the night cover to attack under the city wall, and set up ladders to climb up the city gate one after another.

Because the loyal and righteous army has been attacking the west gate in the past few days, after the loyal and righteous army attacked the city wall, they sent many soldiers and horses to block it, so most of the people who stayed at the east gate were old, weak, sick and disabled.

Suddenly attacked like this, I saw the loyal army clinging to the ladder like ants, and then kept throwing the ignited earth-shattering thunder on the city wall, and the soldiers defending the city were caught off guard, and the headquarters were quickly defeated.

Cao Zhang took the opportunity to open the city gate, and the soldiers waiting outside the city swarmed into the city, and now they are killing from behind.

After hearing the news, everyone was shocked, and everyone fled one after another.

Ma Chao led the cavalry brigade to kill, pursued the Qing army for more than 40 miles, and stopped at Heluo Ferry.

In this battle, Li Guoying and Gao Mingzhan were killed one after another, and Heluohui and Li Guohan led 500 cavalry and 1,000 Han troops to cross the Han River with rotten banners and escaped, and the loyal and righteous army fled to the north of the Han River.

After occupying Hanzhong, Yang Xuan originally wanted to cross the Han River to continue the pursuit of the remnants of the Qing army, but the scouts came with the news, and after hearing Nikan's urgency, Duoduo led four thousand Manmeng Eight Banners to Hanzhong in the starry night, and now he has crossed the Fu Luo Road to the other side of the river.

Then the scouts came one after another, it was the Qing army that followed, and it was Wu Sangui's Guanning soldiers and horses, and they rushed to the front line in Hanzhong all the way.

Everyone carefully calculated the number of Qing troops on the front line, including Duoduo's 4,000 Mongolian defeated banners and 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, Shi Tingzhu's 2,000 Han army defeated banners, Wu Sangui's 1,000 Guanning iron cavalry and 30,000 Guanning soldiers and horses, 10,000 soldiers and horses under the Shaanxi Governor Meng Qiaofang, plus the Hanzhong defeated army, there were 15,000 cavalry alone and 60,000 infantry, and the strength was far above the loyal and righteous army.

And Yang Xuan can only command 5 towns (divisions) of soldiers and horses, less than 30,000 infantry, and more than 2,000 cavalry brigades in the formed cavalry.

Five days ago, Wang Fuchen led the navy to Cala County to establish a navy, and now the whole army is only more than 80 sampan boats cruising in the Han River, which can quickly cut off the retreat of the Qing army crossing the river.

However, most of the ships it stands on are ordinary civilian ships, and they are not as collision-resistant as deliberately built sampans.

Feeling that the disparity between the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides was too great, many people gasped, and some even suggested retreating.

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "On that day, Shu and Wei competed, Cao Cao led a large army to fight for the Han army, and Liu Bei laughed at Cao Cao for coming from afar to no avail. However, this is not because the Cao army is not good at fighting, but because the army has come from afar and it is difficult to transport grain.

Think about it, we transported grain to the upper reaches of the Jialing River by water, and then transported it to the front line by tricycle and wheelbarrow, and even then, only seventy percent of the people who went to the front line.

Although my four (Sichuan) have suffered military disasters in recent years, especially at the beginning of the year, the Tartars entered the customs to burn, kill and loot, and the entire cottage slaughtered the people of my four (Sichuan), but because of the joint efforts of everyone, especially since the beginning of this year, there are 100,000 people in Guangguantun, so although they have suffered military disasters, the place is still peaceful.

Shaanxi is different, its land is barren, and most of the wheat is planted, and the yield in the ground is not high, so there is a saying that Shu is rich and Shaanxi is strong.

Since the Chongzhen period, Shaanxi has suffered disasters year after year, and its people's livelihood fatigue is not much better than our four (Sichuan).

Now Duoduo and Wu Sangui led 15,000 cavalry and 60,000 infantry to confront our army on both sides of the Han River, and the number of people who only ensure the transportation of grain on the front line is probably 100,000. ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that it seemed that this leading troops to fight was not only determined by the impromptu disposal of the generals on the battlefield, but also by the temple.

Although it was concluded that the Qing army would inevitably retreat, Yang Xuan still did not dare to be careless, let alone wait for the Qing army to be replenished with food and not be able to retreat, but actively planned.

At present, the guard town (division) consists of three regiments, the 1-5 town (division) is two regiments and one supplementary battalion, and the 6-7 town (division) is completely composed of two regiments, and its establishment is far from the town (division) that it envisioned.

The enemy is strong and we are weak, and after thinking about it repeatedly, Yang Xuan decided to expand the army, and each town (division) added 1-2 supplementary battalions to ensure the rapid replenishment of battlefield losses.

Considering the importance of the Han River, it was decided to increase the strength of Wang Fuchen's naval army, arrange people to build a dock in Ningqiang Prefecture, build ships, and then transfer the naval army from Si (Sichuan) into Hanzhong, and increase the number of naval divisions in Hanzhong to 3 naval battalions in a short period of time.

Liaise with friendly forces, attack from the flanks, and cut off the Qing army's food routes.