Chapter 1033 Take Gaizhou lightly
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Sun Chuanting had already completed the siege of Gaizhou City, but Su Tiancheng's order could not be launched after noon, which made Sun Chuanting a little incomprehensible, but Su Tiancheng's order needed to be executed.
At noon, Su Tiancheng sent a herald again, telling him that he would officially launch an attack and take Gaizhou City within a day, and when the time came, the army would be stationed in Gaizhou City, Su Tiancheng specially reminded Sun Chuanting to minimize the loss of the siege, and at this time, Sun Chuanting understood that Hong Chengchou led the army and set up an ambush to surround the army led by Duoduo, and was already about to defeat this army, Su Tiancheng led the army and prevented the reinforcements of the Houjin Tartars, and the victory was decided, and the reason why Sun Chuanting was asked to do it later, It was the Houjin Tartars who guarded the city of Gaizhou, who lost the confidence to resist after knowing these news.
Sun Chuanting thought carefully about Su Tiancheng's opinion, and he quickly understood that Su Tiancheng's request contained the meaning of surrendering without a fight, that is, asking the Houjin Tartars stationed in Gaizhou to surrender, because the people stationed in Gaizhou were not Manchu Eight Banners or Han Eight Banners, but Han Army.
The so-called carelessness loses all the games, and the major mistakes made by Huang Taiji in judgment are very clearly reflected in Gaizhou.
In the past, those who were stationed in Gaizhou were the soldiers of the Red Banner of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, but intelligence showed that the direction of the main attack of the Ming army was in Liaodong, so the Yellow Flag, the Yellow Flag, the White Flag, the White Flag, the Red Flag and the Red Flag were all transferred to Liaodong and stationed in Guangning and Xipingbao respectively. In this way, in the direction of Haizhou, there are only the blue flags and inlaid blue flags in the eight flags.
Gaizhou, Yaozhou and Haizhou, the three cities must be defended, since the direction of the Ming army's main attack is not in Haizhou, then the defense of the city. It's not the most important thing, not to mention that Huang Taiji also made a decision to launch an attack from the direction of Haizhou, besides, the army that stays in the direction of Haizhou must hold three places, and the distribution of troops is a little stretched, and it is impossible to completely balance.
After the adjustment of troops. The soldiers stationed in Gaizhou were mainly the soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty led by Jin Li, and this arrangement could have been possible, but because Duoduo led the army to conquer Fuzhou and Xuanzhou, all the soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner were transferred, and the task of guarding Gaizhou finally fell to the Han army.
So arranged. In the eyes of Zilharan and Dordor, there was no problem. Since the army has adopted an offensive posture, it is impossible for the Ming army remaining in Fuzhou and Xuanzhou to continue to attack Gaizhou, Yaozhou and Fuzhou, and the defense of Haizhou and other places is dominated by Haizhou, where the white flag and the blue flag are stationed in the eight banners. Li Guohan led the blue flag among the eight banners of the Han Dynasty and stationed in Yaozhou.
Duoduo's army was surrounded and most completely annihilated, and the reinforcements led by Li Guohan learned the news. Rapid retreat, Li Guohan didn't dare to go to Gaizhou, he had already sent scouts to detect, Gaizhou was surrounded by the Jiangning battalion's large army, if he retreated to Gaizhou, he would definitely be surrounded by the Jiangning battalion's army, and suffered the same fate as Duoduo.
So Li Guohan bypassed Gaizhou and went directly to Yaozhou, just like when he led the rescue army.
Jierharang, who was in Haizhou, after learning of these situations, had no choice, seeing that Gaizhou was surrounded by the army of the Jiangning battalion, according to the information that Fan Wencheng had, the army of the Jiangning battalion exceeded 100,000 people, and the attacking troops led by Duoduo were completely defeated and completely dispersed, and the garrison in the direction of Haizhou was less than 80,000 people, even if they exhausted all the soldiers, they may not be able to fight the Jiangning battalion. It can be compared with the Jiangning camp.
The Han army stationed in Gaizhou, only 6,000 people, these sergeants, all of them are Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming's old department, their masters have long been killed, and the Han army has been integrated and transformed many times, many Han troops have been integrated into the Han Eight Banners, there are not many Han troops left, before Kong Youde and others, led the army to surrender after the Jin, the main role of the Han army is to garrison the place, or in the middle of the battle, operate firearms to attack, and later participated in some battles, but did not experience much cruel fightingIt is impossible to compare the combat effectiveness with the Full Eight Banners.
The status of the Han army in the Qing Dynasty is very embarrassing, although they are also sergeants, they can not enjoy a lot of treatment, in terms of military salaries, there is also a lot less, the total reason is zero, so that the morale of the Han army is not very high, especially after Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming and others, all died, the morale of the Han army, is even more plummeting.
What's even worse is that the Han army stationed in Gaizhou was partially transferred by Duoduo, and this part of the transfer was regarded as the elite of the Han army, that is, these so-called elites, formed the vanguard and were cleanly wiped out by the Jiangning battalion.
From the moment Sun Chuanting led the army to surround Gaizhou, uneasy emotions appeared in Gaizhou City.
All the Han troops, including the officers, knew very well that it was impossible for them to resist the attack of the Jiangning battalion, and the prestige of the Jiangning battalion, they had long been clear, even the Zhenghong Banner in the Eight Banners was completely wiped out by the Jiangning battalion, and the banner owner Dai Shan was captured alive, not to mention the Han army, which was not in the Qing Dynasty.
But the Great Qing Kingdom is in the direction of Haizhou, and there are more than 100,000 troops stationed, so the Han army stationed in Gaizhou City still has a glimmer of hope in their hearts, and they have a strong support behind them, even if Gaizhou is attacked, as long as they can resist, Zilharang and Duoduo will definitely send a large army to reinforcements.
It's a pity that bad news keeps coming, some news is brought by some scouts when Sun Chuanting has not yet surrounded Gaizhou, and some news is that after Sun Chuanting surrounded Gaizhou, he ordered the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to shoot letters into the city.
With more and more news of Zhilu Dao, the defenders of Gaizhou City couldn't hold their breath, they couldn't believe the news they had gotten, Duoduo's army was completely surrounded by the Jiangning battalion soldiers, and the collapse was in the blink of an eye, and the rescue army led by Li Guohan bypassed Gaizhou and encountered the resistance of the Jiangning battalion soldiers, and I am afraid that they will also retreat.
These news were fatal to the sergeants guarding Gaizhou City, but they didn't know the truth of these news, so they didn't dare to act lightly.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Chuanting was ready to attack, all the preparations were ready, the artillery had been erected, the soldiers were ready to charge, and the vanguard troops carried the ladder, their eyes widened.
Sun Chuanting was already a little unconvinced, Su Tiancheng personally led the soldiers to block the attack, and was fighting viciously, Hong Chengchou led the army to encircle and suppress Duoduo's army, but the army he led surrounded the city and did not make any moves, which was very uncomfortable for the generals who led the army.
Sun Chuanting gritted his teeth and looked at the time, ready to attack.
At this time, the herald beside Su Tiancheng came again, and this time the order was to temporarily stop the attack and ask the Han army stationed in Gaizhou to surrender.
Sun Chuanting had no place to vent his grievances, so he let the soldiers fight, but Su Tiancheng's order came, and Sun Chuanting couldn't help but carry it out, he took the letter from the herald, and looked carefully, during the whole process, there was no expression on his face.
After reading the letter quickly, Sun Chuanting's face improved, stood up, and asked the herald to go back and restore his life.
After the herald left, Sun Chuanting quickly sent his own soldiers and shot a letter into the city of Gaizhou, which was a letter that had been prepared for a long time, demanding that the Han army in the city of Gaizhou surrender.
Half an hour passed, and there was no movement in the city.
Sun Chuanting, who had a tiger face, would not be polite now, and ordered the artillery to start firing.
The deafening sound of cannons rang out, and the cannonballs fell on the city walls, and inside the city, huge dust rose up, and such a formation was enough to make people feel frightened.
Sun Chuanting did not attack, and the firing of artillery lasted for about ten minutes.
After the artillery stopped, a white flag appeared above the city of Gaizhou.
A Han officer came out of the city gate and was quickly brought in front of Sun Chuanting by the soldiers.
Such an officer of the Han army actually made a request, saying that he wanted to see if the news he got was true, and if it was true, the Han army stationed in the city would open the city and surrender.
Sun Chuanting's anger was full of smoke, and he unceremoniously spoke to this Han army officer, the army waited for half an hour, if the Han army stationed in the city still did not surrender, then it was necessary to attack, once the attack began, the Jiangning battalion did not accept any form of surrender, and must take Gaizhou City.
The Han officer went back in disgrace.
Seeing that the time was about to come, at this time, Sun Chuanting had already made up his mind and was ready to attack the city.
Just as Sun Chuanting was about to give the order to attack, the gate of Gaizhou City opened.
The Han troops stationed in the city came out in formation, laid down their weapons, and stood in the open space outside the city walls.
When Sun Chuanting saw this scene, he shouted bad luck and was ready to fight, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance, and it was at this time that Sun Chuanting understood that Su Tian had repeatedly postponed the time to attack.
Before entering Gaizhou City, Sun Chuanting warned all the officers that after entering the city, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and if he violated the military order, no matter who he was, he would have to march the law.
When the army entered the city, Sun Chuanting was not happy at all, there was no joy of victory at all, and it was not what he hoped to take Gaizhou City so easily, after all, Sun Chuanting was not the boss, it was impossible to have Su Tiancheng's thoughts, and it was a problem that the boss had to consider to reduce casualties.
After entering the city, Sun Chuanting did not waste time, and immediately began to prepare, waiting for Su Tiancheng to lead the army to Gaizhou City. (To be continued......)