"Boom! Bang! ”

The sound of lightning and thunder pierced the silence after nightfall.

As early as when the sky was not completely dark, Hongtang's artillery fire had already targeted the two battered city gates at the south gate of Kaicheng.

The officers and men of the Han army who were still panicking in Kaecheng and colluding with each other to discuss how to deal with the siege of the Hongtang army during the day tomorrow were all very ugly in the sudden sound of artillery fire.

"What are you waiting for? If we don't quickly organize the soldiers to defend the city, if we lose even this only chip, then what will happen to our brothers next is really unknown!! ”

There is still that clever general, who slapped his thigh and jumped up and shouted at his colleagues to hurry up, lest the Hongtang army take Kaesong at night, even if they want to surrender tomorrow, they will have no bargaining chips in their hands.

The generals of the Han army took action one after another, and hurriedly began to run to the front line of the city wall, looking for the henchmen of the soldiers under their command, and organizing people to resist the siege of Hongtang.

"Squeak!! Squeak!! ”

"Bang !!"

The city of Kaicheng had experienced three or four days of siege and attack by the Qing army, and the damage to the city walls and gates was not small, and the Han army had not had time to repair the city during the day, but the Hongtang army suddenly killed it, and it was full of flaws in a hurry.

The power of the field artillery carried by Hongtang can only be regarded as acceptable, if it is faced with the original intact city defense gate of Kaicheng, even if it is bombarded more than ten times in a row, it may not have much damage, but now the Han soldiers defending the city are negligent in guarding, and the city gate is in tatters, only under the three or four rounds of artillery fire in Hongtang's field artillery, it is crumbling, and finally slowly falls backwards, making a huge roaring sound.

"Attack!!"

The city gate was opened, and the Hongtang soldiers who had been preparing for a long time made you jump up from their hiding places one after another after the commander's order, and three or five formed a battle formation and rushed towards the depths of the dark city gate.

"The gates are falling! The enemy has entered the city!! ”

Before the Hongtang army entered the city, the soldiers of the Han army guarding the southern city gate were already in chaos, taking the opportunity to slip away and fleeing, organizing people to prepare to recapture the city gate, and all kinds of actions.

The sporadic and unorganized resistance was quickly defeated in the face of the well-trained shock formation of the Hongtang army, and after a part of the men were divided to stabilize the defense line of the southern city gate, more Hongtang army soldiers went to the depths of Kaesong to cover the past.

Immediately the test of the Hongtang soldiers was the intricate street battles in the city of Kaesong, and in the face of the cold arrows that came out of nowhere in the dark night, the Hongtang soldiers slowed down a lot when attacking.

"My lord, why don't you let me wait a while?"

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, who had nothing to do and had been following Wu Jie and them from Jianghua Island, suddenly stood up at this time and asked Wu Jie and Shang Kexi for help: "The generals in this Han army, many people have some friendship with the two generals, and the overall situation has been decided at this time, it is better to send the two generals to surrender, and they will be able to make contributions!" ”

When they were enemies of Hong Tang, they couldn't see it really, and it wasn't until now that they became a part of Hong Tang that Geng and Kong were more and more able to see how powerful the Hong Tang they were loyal to now was.

The more carefully they observed, the more glad Geng and Kong were that their choice was correct, so although they had just been attached, they had already begun to rush to show their loyalty to Wu Jie and them and prove their ability.

"General Shang, what do you think?"

Before accepting the surrender of Geng and Kong, Wu Jie ignored the personal grievances between Shang Kexi and the two for the sake of the interests of the team.

"The last general thinks it's okay!"

When he accepted the surrender of Geng and Kong before, Shang Kexi did not express his opinion, but now that the other party has become a colleague and comrade-in-arms, it is reasonable that Shang Kexi will not do anything behind his back, nodding in agreement.

"Okay, then there will be two generals!"

"It's an honor for the general."

Geng and Kong received the military order and disappeared into the inner city of Kaesong in the dark night.

Geng and Kong recommended themselves, naturally because the two of them had confidence in this matter, and at this time, the Han army generals who were trapped in the Kaesong Han army had dealings with Geng and Kong. After all, the status of the Han people in the Qing Dynasty was not high, and if everyone could not report to the group for warmth, then their life in the Qing Dynasty officialdom would be even more sad.

Not to mention that Geng and Kong went to recruit the Han soldiers in the city, but said that in a valley a few miles east of Kaecheng, an endless black shadow quietly hovered in the valley, and the person led by it was the Qing general Dolgon, who had already led the retreat.

"Hmph, it's cunning!"

At this time, the location of the latent army of the Qing army was far away from Kaesong, at least at this time, the sound of guns and artillery bombardment and the sound of men and horses fighting and killing in Kaecheng could be heard more clearly by Dolgon, who was standing on the high post.

Where is Dolgon's hand a general who is willing to fail, he retreated decisively today, but behind the scenes, he has already made the next step early, wanting to use the mobility of his cavalry to attack the Hongtang army by surprise in the middle of the night.

I really thought that Dolgon was willing to give up the thousands of Han soldiers in the city, but in fact, this was also a trick for him, that is, he wanted to be able to cooperate with the outside during the night attack, and uproot this enemy, who was already regarded by Dolgon as a confidant for the first time.

There was a smooth road outside Kaejo, and it was already ten in the evening when Dolgon withdrew his army, and no matter how good Hongtang's hands and feet were, and how well supplies he had, it was impossible to build a foolish camp before dark.

Coupled with the naturally dim vision of the night, the most powerful artillery and muskets of the Hongtang army have been turned into ornaments, at least their power is reduced by seventy or eighty percent compared to when the vision is clear during the day.

In this way, Dorgon had full confidence to lead the last 3,000 cavalry under his command to crush this sudden enemy in one go.

However, the plan was beautiful, but the reality was cruel, Dolgon thought of too many variables, but he did not expect that he would be so decisive as an opponent, after a long day of trekking and fierce battles during the day, and finally in the dark there was enough combat power to launch an offensive against the Han soldiers in Kaesong.

What left Dolgon speechless the most was the group of Han soldiers who were abandoned, and although the expectations for them were not high, their thousands of troops could always drag the Hongtang army until the next morning, or even longer.

But who would have thought that in just one or two hours, the city of Kaesong would have been breached by the enemy!!

(End of chapter)