He Luohui personally led the army away, leaving Li Shuitai, the master of the horse, to lead an army of 20,000 to bland here, but the Ming army in Liaocheng still found out the news, they monitored the enemy's movements day and night, and the formation of 60,000 or 70,000 people and 10,000 or 20,000 people was completely different.

At noon, He Luo will come to Liaocheng under the banner of his own Great Qing Dynasty horse, he is wearing cotton armor, ready for sufficient defense, and there are eight banners around him to guard, and the Qing soldiers behind him are also sharpening their knives, looking like they are ready to try, even if Jin Shenghuan really surrenders, he has to let him see his majesty, if he does not surrender, then start fighting directly.

The head of Liaocheng City was quiet, the soldiers of the Ming Army on duty stood there, without a trace of panic, He Luo would order someone to come to Liaocheng City and shouted: "Jin Shenghuan, the appointed time has come, it's time to descend!" ”

There was no response from the city, just like just now, the sergeants on the guard didn't even respond to a word, as if he was a person who didn't exist, and there was no one who even looked at him, and the man shouted twice, still responding like that, silently, just when he was about to go back, suddenly an arrow hit the city, carrying the momentum of breaking the sky, right in the back of the man's heart, and fell to the ground on the spot, only the lonely horse went back, and the person on horseback had fallen under the city of Liaocheng.

"He Luohui, what you think is beautiful, this general is a general of the Ming Dynasty, how can he surrender to you and the thief of the Eastern Captives? It's just a fool's dream, this general is loyal to the country, and what the barbarians can know is not what they can know, retreat quickly, otherwise this Liaocheng city is your burial place. ”

A middle-aged general dressed in black iron armor and holding a saber appeared above the city, although he was almost fifty years old, and his beard was already a little gray, but he was heroic, like a green pine, and he was full of infinite vitality, it was Jin Shenghuan, the chief soldier of Xuzhou. Jin Shenghuan came out of a group of thieves, called "Yidousu", had been following Gao Jie before, and was later transferred to serve in Lu Zhenfei's Caoyun army, and was promoted by Cao Bianjiao to be a general military officer, and was promoted and appreciated by Cao Bianjiao, and was highly respected by Cao Bianjiao.

Although He Luohui had been mentally prepared for a long time, when he saw Jin Shenghuan shooting his envoys and laughing at them unscrupulously, he still couldn't hold back his mood, pulled out the saber on his waist, raised it high, and immediately ordered: "Kill me!" ”

"Kill the ......" under the military order of Li Shutai, the soldiers of the Eight Banners behind him began to attack in an orderly manner, first the chariot opened the way, this is the Qing army's self-made siege weapon, similar to the van car, is to cover the use of the nurse to attack the city, the shield on the chariot is made of thick wooden planks covered with cowhide, iron composite composition, so that the chariot made of "small bricks and stones do not move, large masonry and stone hit and roll down, firewood is not burned", even if it is a firearm, it is difficult to penetrate, has a very strong defensive force.

There are also eight banners good archers behind the chariot soldiers, they use the cover of the chariot to fight back against the Ming army above the city pass, the Manchurians are good at riding and shooting, much stronger than the Ming army, the Ming soldiers can only shoot sixty steps, the Manchurian soldiers can shoot eighty steps, and the accuracy is also higher.

......Under the command of Jin Shenghuan, a thousand musketeers aimed at the Qing soldiers outside the city and began to counterattack.

The moat outside Liaocheng blocked their way forward, but it didn't matter, one after another sacks were thrown down and filled into the moat outside the city. ”

"Whoa!" After Chen Ding, who had been in military uniform all his life, heard the military order, he also hurriedly rushed to the fort and began to command the firing of artillery.

"Put!" Under Chen Ding's shouting, five red-clothed cannons and ten Francophone cannons above the Liaocheng Pass were fired together, shooting at the Qing soldiers outside the city, only listening to the sound of cracking outside the city, the landslide and tsunami were shocking, falling among the Qing army knights cruising outside the city, and suddenly the men and horses were split, the people and horses howled, after each shell burst open, the people and horses were blown up to the sky, and after falling, they smashed into the crowd, and the casualties were huge.

Firearms, this is the biggest advantage of the Ming Dynasty, although in the quality of individual soldiers, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are worse, but firearms can make up for it, and the strategy of the Ming Dynasty is the main defense before this, relying on the high strength of the city, the sharpness of firearms, and the Qing army, frontal fighting, they do not do these things, is to bully the Qing army in the firearms slightly inferior to them.

He Luo will see a few rounds of scattering of the red-coated cannon, and he is also shocked, he has not seen firearms, but this time the cannon is more powerful, much stronger than the previous one, this is a new type of red-coated cannon, all of which were transported from Taiwan, and the power is more than the previous one, that is, the range is more than ten or twenty steps, which does not seem to be much, but the gap can be fatal on the battlefield, and the follow-up offensive was cut off in front of the red-coated cannon, and Li Shutai was also angry for a while.

"Bang bang...... the rolling wood and stones above the city head have been thrown down, smashed into those soldiers who have rushed over from the filled out path, the filled out of the trail is not spacious, the car can not rush over, these Qing soldiers are also hit by artillery, wood and stone at the moment, * bursting, broken bones and tendons, can be described as a piece, less than half an hour of attack, Li Shutai lost hundreds of athletes, and his heart is also very painful.

"Keep attacking!" The short-term setback did not discourage Li Shutai's offensive, but instead invested more men and horses to cover outside, looking for other weak points to attack, he is not a person who will give up easily, and the tragic battle has just begun.

From noon to night, Li Shuotai commanded seven or eight rounds of offensives, but still failed to climb the head of Liaocheng, lost six or seven hundred men and horses in vain, it can be said that the losses were heavy, Manchuria is different from the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has a population of 10,000, and can gather a million troops at any time, but Manchuria is only 3 million people, and 120,000 troops are already their limit.

On the same day, the Qing army could not attack the city, suffered heavy losses, retreated five miles and set up camp, Li Shutai was angry, and began a soft offensive, no longer with Jin Shenghuan, but sent people to surrender, Li Shutai naturally knew that such a success rate was minimal, but it didn't matter, he just dragged Jin Shenghuan is, because He Luohui's army has gone to Yanzhou, as long as the danger of Yanzhou is solved, he will have a turnaround here, and then Liaocheng will still be a piece of fat on their lips, and sooner or later it will fall into their mouths, and there is no need to rush for a moment. In fact, when this trick was in Jinzhou, Zhao Shujiao and Huang Taiji had already staged it, this time it was just a repetition, but history is such a coincidence, when Huang Taiji was counting on breaking Jinzhou after conquering Ningyuan, and now Li Shuitai is counting on breaking Liaocheng after solving the crisis in Yanzhou.

In the face of Li Shutai's boring tricks, Jin Shenghuan also had a relationship with him, and the people sent by He Luohui were in vain, he didn't know what Li Shutai's purpose was, but he knew that his purpose was to hold Liaocheng, and he had no ability to take care of the rest, as long as he held Liaocheng City, then his task would be completed, as for Yanzhou, maybe the Qing army was interested, but there was Yuan Shu in charge, plus Li Yuanyin, Liu Wenxiu, Wang Guangtai and a group of fierce generals, plus Yuan Shu had nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses, and there were 100,000 Yuyuan troops around, which is much more advantageous than him here, he doesn't believe that Yuan Shu can't deal with them.