The sudden acquisition of a large amount of steel by the Hongmen headquarters greatly eased the scarce steel resources, and made the factories and workshops such as the Gun Manufacturing Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau, which had originally been to reduce production, resume high-load production.

And with the hard work of the Hongmen base camp to produce cannonballs, bullets, knives and other resources, a steady stream of transportation to Phoenix City, and then to the Gongchangling, which has been holding on, also made the Qing people feel the suppressive power brought by hot weapons again.

In order to supply the materials of Gongchangling, especially artillery, some time ago, along with 20,000 new Hongtang soldiers, more than 40 artillery pieces were dismantled from the warships of the sea fleet, and 10,000 muskets were transported from Dayuan Island.

With the use of these sharp weapons, the Gongchangling Walled City, which had been silently burned for several days, once again let out an angry roar, which made everyone in the Qing Dynasty soldiers who continued to besiege the city change color when they heard it.

It is said that unless it is a long-term siege of a city, if you can't attack a city for a long time like the Qing people, you should retreat from the difficulties, or turn to other targets. It's just that the person who started in the Qing Dynasty Dolgon knew that now after losing tens of thousands of troops and then moving to other places, it would not only have an immeasurable impact on the morale of the entire army, but also give the group of Han troops in the walled city of Gongchangling a chance to breathe.

The other party's construction of the city defense is really amazing, so that Dolgon and they dare not easily give up this ruined castle that seems to be about to be breached, for fear that if one accidentally gives the other party a chance, the castle will be restored to its original state and repaired again.

The tenacity of the Hongtang soldiers, just like their Han style, did not surprise Dolgon too much, countless times the Jurchen warriors stood on the city wall, but countless times they were captured and defeated, but in the end, the defense of this castle was already crumbling, and it might be captured by their Qing warriors at any time.

At this time, the Qing army had fallen into the previous situation of riding a tiger, and thought that the previous several battles with the Hongtang army were hasty, making the strength of the Qing army unable to deploy, but Prince Dolgon was a little unconvinced.

However, after half a year of recuperation and a few months of preparation, the Qing Dynasty's more than 100,000 troops went south as a whole, but in the end, they were still under the iron wall of the Hongtang army.

"Otherwise, let's retreat first, shall we?"

Prince Zheng Nurharang was a little unconfident, as the brothers who had less military achievements but were more rational, Nurharang began to have other ideas: "Or, it's not bad for us to break through from the Hat Helmet Mountain in the southwest?" ”

Nurharang has this idea, which comes from the loss of their Qing army, as the Qing army soldiers who are besieging the city have suffered extremely heavy losses, and now the 170,000 army has lost 70,000, and more than half of them are the children of their Qing Jurchen Eight Banners, but it makes Nurharang and these Qing nobles feel distressed.

"Humph!!"

After the capture of Shanhaiguan, Prince Dolgon was about to capture Ningjin in one go, but he was forced by the nobles of the kingdom, and finally had to give up his previous plan and return to the country by detouring to the Mongolian steppe, until now Dolgon felt extremely angry and angry.

"Retreating now, doesn't it mean that the blood of our 70,000 athletes who died in battle has been shed in vain! Doesn't it mean that we are inferior to the army of the Han people, so we retreated!! ”

Before Dorgon could express his opinion, Prince Hauge, who was not on the same front as him, suddenly stood up and expressed his position clearly.

Among the sons born to Nurhachi of the Great Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, Haoge, and Dolgon are all veterans on the battlefield, and they have also personally watched the Qing Dynasty step by step to the current situation, for their Jurchen Eight Banners, they are all full of confidence and pride, and how can they want to see the defeat of the army one day become an indelible imprint on the children of the Eight Banners.

The confidence of the soldiers of the Eight Banners to be invincible was built up after decades of fighting with the Han army for land and fighting each other, and with the battle with the Hongtang army in the past two years, the confidence of the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the previous one began to collapse quietly, so that the sensitive Prince Dolgon was aware of it.

If this time in the Battle of Gongchangling, the Qing army has no more achievements and retreats because of this, then compared to the blow to the morale of the Qing Dynasty, it will not be short-lived, but long-lasting.

"But it's not a way to stalemate with the Han people like this, right? Most of our siege equipment has been damaged in the opponent's artillery, and the battle will be more difficult in the future. ”

Nurharang's words are not unreasonable, the Hongtang Gongchangling garrison, which has a geographical advantage, naturally lost more troops than the Qing soldiers, and even because of the strong artillery support, its losses were only more than 30,000 people, far less than half of the losses of the Qing army.

In addition to the fact that at the beginning, when the Qing Dynasty sent the main army to prepare to take Gongchangling in one go, Hongtang suffered heavy losses, and then the Qing Dynasty rearranged its troops and used the old siege methods, but the losses of Hongtang's soldiers were minimized.

Often, not long after the artillery fire of the Hongtang army roared, the Han and Korean soldiers of the Qing Dynasty and the Korean soldiers who climbed up the slope retreated downward, putting pressure on the Hongtang army on Gongchangling City that was even less than a quarter of the Jurchen and Mongol soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

Even counting the injuries and illnesses, there are still more than 20,000 warriors in the Hongtang army, which is enough to ensure the safety of the Gongchangling Walled City for a period of time.

"Lao Tzu put his words here today, which of you can climb the bow ridge and take this castle, Lao Tzu will give him a banner master!! But if anyone is unfavorable in battle, then don't blame Lao Tzu's subordinates for being ruthless!! ”

This was already the norm during the mobilization of the Qing Dynasty, but with the increase in the number of uses, these effects gradually became somewhat ineffective.

Of course, for the Han generals, the so-called high-ranking officials are certainly tempting, and they are even more frightened, but Dolgon, the demon king who kills people without blinking, has always treated the Han generals with a soft style, which makes most of them silent.

Another day's siege began, after the beating of Dolgon and Prince Hauge, countless Qing soldiers poured up the not towering Gongchang Ridge, and returned in embarrassment half an hour or an hour later, but there were many people who went up, but there were many fewer faces when they came down.

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