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The first to enter the city were dragoons, who were actually musketeers on horseback compared to ordinary cavalry, and they were more suitable for street fighting in the city. After entering the city, these dragoons first controlled several important intersections to ensure that the follow-up troops could enter the city smoothly and spread out their formation.

Jinzhou City was once the nest of the Guanning Army. Since the matter of Jin was exposed after Zu Dashou killed He Kegang and surrendered in the Battle of Daling River, Zu Dashou, who fled back to Jinzhou, never left Jinzhou for fear of punishment from the imperial court, and has been operating Jinzhou as his nest since then. Under the management of Zu Dashou, the city of Jinzhou is majestic, and there are many residents and troops.

But after the Battle of Songjin, the original population of Jinzhou City died a lot, and the rest were divided by the Eight Banners, and now, in Jinzhou City, in fact, except for the garrison and craftsmen and the like, there are not many residents in the city. So the dragoons, having occupied several intersections, did not disturb any of the inhabitants.

The dragoons entered the city immediately after the infantry, and they soon took over the defense line of the dragoons, and began to continue to advance under the light of the rising sun, under the guidance of the Guanning army guide from Wu Sangui, and it was only at this time that the Qing army in the city found that they had actually been attacked, and the enemy had actually entered the city.

To say that the Qing army of that era was really quite good in terms of combat quality, under the command of some low-level officers such as Niu Lu Zhangjing, the Qing army launched some small-scale tentative attacks on the model army that entered the city. Of course, such an attack could not have any decent results, and the Model Army easily repelled them. However, their actions still delayed the pace of the model army, so that the Qing generals in the city had more time to react.

Originally, Zheng Sen and Wu Sangui both estimated that the Qing army in the city would not exceed 2,000 people, and the most that could really fight among them was only a few hundred. But after the battle began, Zheng Sen soon discovered that the number of Qing troops far exceeded his estimates. In the battle for some lots, the model army was even attacked by the artillery of the Qing army!

"How can there be so many tartars?" This unexpected situation made Zheng Sen hesitate a little. Speaking of which, this is not the first time that Zheng Sen has commanded a battle, and it is not even the first time that Zheng Sen has commanded a battle on land. But after fighting like this, it was the first time that it was found that it was so much worse than the pre-war prediction.

"Major General, according to the Tartars captured by our army, they are the people of the Heavenly Blessing Army." An officer said.

"Heavenly Bless Army? How are they here? Zheng Sen said, "Could it be ...... Did it just happen? ”

The so-called Tianyou Army is the army of the great traitor Kong Youde. After the Dengzhou Rebellion that year, Kong Youde crossed the sea and surrendered to Huang Taiji, and his army was called the "Heavenly Blessing Army", and Kong Youde himself was named King Gongshun. The reason why this traitor was so valued was because he brought artillery technology to the Manchus, which they had been lacking before. Dengzhou was originally the artillery production base of the Ming Dynasty, and Kong Youde took the artillery craftsmen of Dengzhou in the Dengzhou Rebellion and brought them to Huang Taiji, so that Houjin also had the ability to produce artillery, which greatly improved the ability of Houjin and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to attack fortifications. Today, the Tianyou Army is still the most important siege artillery unit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"It must be Huang Taiji who sent them to attack Shanhaiguan. Their cannons are heavy and they go slowly, so they're only here now. Wu Sanfu said.

"That's what General Wu said." Zheng Sen nodded and said, "Probably so." If it's just the Heavenly Blessing Army, plus Nikan's little Eight Banner Soldiers, it's actually nothing. After thinking about it again, he ordered the cavalry troops to search outside the city and prepare to attack the retreating Qing army. In this operation, the model army was able to invest no more than 10,000 troops, and many of them were cavalry and sailors of the river fleet who were not suitable for use in urban street battles, and the army that could really be put into street battles was actually only 5,000 people. And if the main force of the Tianyou Army is here, then the number of their combat personnel will probably not be less than that of the Model Army. However, Zheng Sen still felt that the Model Army was enough to defeat them in street battles. It's just that the number of model troops may not be enough to encircle and annihilate them, so the cavalry needs to be prepared to pursue.

"In addition, immediately activate the No. 3 battle plan, let the troops slow down for a while, temporarily switch to defense, and wait for the artillery to enter the city." Zheng Sen ordered again.

The "No. 3 Operational Plan" was the third set of action plans drawn up by the staff group before the start of this operation. For this operation, the Staff Group developed several sets of action plans based on different assumptions. Action No. 3 was aimed at a situation where the number of defenders in the city far exceeded what was expected.

If Zheng Sen still has a plan for reference, today's battle is completely unexpected for Kong Youde. Kong Youde's Tianyou Army has been in Jinzhou City for two days, and this is not because he is neglecting the military order again, but waiting for a batch of newly cast Hongyi cannons in Jinzhou City and replacing his original cannons with a new set of gun mounts.

In their dealings with the Tessie, the Jans were not able to get the new artillery they had been dreaming of. However, in the battle with the Ming army, they captured two "new artillery" sold by the Zheng family to the Ming army. Using these cannons as a template, Jianxuan has been working hard in Jinzhou to copycat these cannons. However, they soon ran into the most common obstacle when it comes to copycat weapons – material handling.

Most of the cannons sold by the Zheng family to the Ming Dynasty were captured Spanish artillery at first, but these cannons were sold out long ago because of their limited quantity. Later, they were all monkey versions of their own guns. Of course, these guns are much worse than the genuine ones used by the model army itself, for example, they do not use double-barrel technology. Even so, the performance of these Monkey guns with forged barrels was significantly higher than that of the old cast guns. For example, the two 24-pounder guns captured by the Qing army, because of the forged drilled barrel, it was almost a quarter lighter than similar guns, and the power was even greater.

Such a good thing, I Qing Dynasty naturally want to copy, but because there is no manufacturing technology for forging and drilling, and I don't even know the existence of this technology, so I Daqing according to the size of the reverse mapping, but because of the strength of the barrel, as long as the cannon is fired, it will explode, so I have to thicken the barrel again. As a result, this round of cottages not only failed to build qualified cannons, but consumed a lot of money and time.

However, although the most important light gun barrel did not come out of the copycat, it still achieved good results for the copycat of auxiliary equipment such as gun mounts. Although the weight of the barrel was not reduced, the total weight was reduced a lot because the weight of the gun carriage was reduced. In the past two days, Kong Youde has been waiting for these things.

The sudden attack greatly surprised Kong Youde's expectations, and the strength of the enemy army was far beyond his expectations, for a while, his first reaction was to quickly abandon the city and flee, so that Nikan was on the top of the tank. If he was still a Ming army, maybe he would have given such an order. However, he hesitated, but did not dare to give such an order, because he was now not a Ming army, but a Qing army. The military discipline of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not stricter than that of the Ming army in terms of provisions, but the intensity of enforcement was not comparable to that of the Ming army. In my Ming Dynasty, the situation is not right, leave the friendly army and run away, play something like "dead friends do not die poor road", the court is at most to remove the official position, as long as your soldiers are still there, you can always "wear the guilt and make meritorious service"; However, here in the Qing Dynasty, the consequences of fleeing without a fight can by no means be solved by "making meritorious contributions." And Nikan is a royal family, if he dies in Jinzhou and he runs away, then he will almost definitely lose his head. Because of this, there was a strange phenomenon in the original history, that is, after the Ming army surrendered to the Qing army and became a traitor soldier, its combat effectiveness seemed to have increased a lot. In fact, there are no other mysteries in this, and the most important point is that they no longer dare to casually play the trick of "dead friends do not die poor way".

Out of fear of military law, Kong Youde suppressed the urge to flee immediately, and began to order the organization of local resistance, while sending people to contact Nikan to discuss the current countermeasures.