Liaocheng is not big, and the location of Dolgon's line is located in the center of the city, close to the guns on the south gate warship, and it can still hit the vicinity of his line.

Seeing that shells fell nearby from time to time, Dolgon's face became even more ugly, the green tendons on his neck became thicker and thicker, and his breathing was almost like a cow's panting. He knew that the Ming army was getting closer and closer to the walls of Liaocheng, and their artillery was slowly advancing.

If the warships and artillery on the shore of the Ming army were allowed to approach Liaocheng, then under the continuous artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the city would become a mess, and many sergeants would lose their determination to resist because they had received too many shells.

The Ming army must not be allowed to force Liaocheng in this way, and Dolgon is ready to take countermeasures.

At this time, a horse galloped to Dolgon's side, but it was a bull who led the army at the head of the south gate city.

The Niu Lu rushed to Dolgon's side with a crawling voice, and reported with a crying voice: "Master, it's not good, the Ming army has tens of thousands of horses and horses have invaded the city, and their musketeers are very powerful, and our Qing army has suffered heavy losses, and there is no way to break through the position of the Ming army desperately." ”

"What?" Dorgon's face became more and more pale when he heard the news, and he knew that he had fallen in love with Cao Yue's Tao again. This guy's shelling for three consecutive days was nothing more than smoke bombs, and the careless Qing army, thinking that the Ming army did not dare to take the initiative to attack, hid in other places in order to avoid the shell bombardment, and finally the Ming army seized the opportunity, blew up the city gate, and they attacked the city.

The city of the South Gate was broken, and the war developed more and more in favor of the Ming army. If you don't concentrate your forces to recapture the South Gate, Liaocheng will soon fall into the hands of the Ming army as more and more Ming troops pour in.

"Gather all the troops and horses to counterattack, and you must annihilate the Ming army that has entered the city," Dolgon lost his mind a little, pulled out the saber at his waist, and swung forward viciously, "Follow this king, kill the light army." Anyone who dares to flee will be killed. ”

Dolgon wanted to personally lead his army to kill him and destroy the Ming army that had entered the city. His subordinates' own soldiers and other generals did not dare to stop them, so they could only obey orders. The matter had reached the point of great urgency, and no one dared to go against Dorgon's wrath.

However, the city was in chaos, and Dorgon's orders could not be conveyed intact, and the number of Jiannu who followed his orders to fight back was only one-third of his total number of men at most.

The Ming army's nearly 8,000 musketeers have occupied the first line of the south gate under the cover of nearly 10,000 cavalry and infantry troops, and they have relied on the favorable terrain to use the powerful power of muskets and countless grenades. Resist Jiannu's counterattack.

Follow-up reinforcements are also pouring in, and the men and horses behind them also try to transport some relatively light and easy-to-carry artillery such as Franc machine guns into the city, or push them not far from the city gate, and support the comrades who attack the city with artillery bombardment.

Cao Yue, like Dolgon, except for a group of men and horses left behind to defend the position and respond, the rest of the mobile forces were all put into battle, and the naval warships sailed to the canal closest to Liaocheng. The ship's artillery also bombarded the city incessantly.

The support fire of the artillery, as well as the fire of the musketeers, inflicted great damage on the counterattacking Jiannu.

The terrain in the city was not open in the first place, and it was not easy for the cavalry to deploy. Musketeers, on the other hand, can shoot from cover such as buildings. Although the number of musketeers who stormed the city was not very large, it was easy to block the alleys and walls leading to the city gates. The first musketeers to storm the city were veterans, who had undergone rigorous training and brainwashing. The will to fight became more and more tenacious, and he was not afraid of Jiannu's crazy counterattack, desperately holding the defensive line. Build a flesh barrier for the follow-up centaurs.

As wave after wave of Jiannu were shot and killed, the corpses piled up on the ground slowly became an obstacle to the subsequent counterattack on Jiannu. After half an hour of fighting, the Ming army that attacked Liaocheng finally held the line after paying thousands of casualties. As more and more Ming soldiers rushed into the city, Jiannu's counterattack was finally completely repulsed, and the Ming soldiers turned from defense to attack and entered a state of pursuit.

Most of the Jiannu in the city are the Ming Army, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the Eight Banners of the Korean Army. Dolgon left these horses outside the city to defend, originally to use them as cannon fodder and consume the Ming army's vital strength and ammunition. These people did serve as cannon fodder for the Manchus, but these servants, who suffered heavy casualties, soon lost the will to resist and surrendered in pieces.

The battle outside the city soon turned from fierce to moderate, and large swaths of Jiannu gave up resistance and surrendered to the attacking Ming army. Especially those Ming surrender troops, they were originally grass on the wall, and when they knew that they had no way to fight against Jiannu, they chose to surrender. Now that they were attacked by the Ming Dynasty, they also lost their willingness to resist early, and they chose to surrender without fighting too much with the soldiers of the Ming Guards.

The abandonment of resistance was contagious, and after suffering heavy casualties, more and more men chose to surrender to the Ming Guard. When the Jiannu in the city was still fighting desperately with the elite of the Ming Guards who attacked the city, the battle outside the city in the direction of the south gate had entered the final state.

Some of the slaves chose to lay down their arms and surrender, while many more chose to flee.

Fleeing, like surrendering, is a serious influence and can lead to a chain reaction. As more and more of the servant army chose to flee the battlefield, the Jiannu outside the city soon fell into disarray, with little to organize resistance.

And the Ming cavalry continued to cover the musketeers, advancing in a very orderly manner, destroying any enemy encountered in front.

The range of the musket was far from being comparable to the bow and arrow, and the Jiannu servant army outside the city as cannon fodder fell into chaos again, and the Manchu people who supervised the war had no way to control the situation, and the situation soon became one-sided, and the Ming army was lined up in several directions, holding muskets to chase and kill the chaotic Jiannu.

The Jiannu in the city, under the personal command of Dolgon, rushed a few times, but still couldn't break through the musket array of the Ming army, and finally lost its momentum. Dolgon himself was almost killed by a musket, and he was shot in the arm, knowing that the general situation was gone, he could only reluctantly order to retreat from Liaocheng according to the predetermined plan.

When he was forced to Liaocheng by Cao Yue's slow advance, Dolgon was also worried that he would eventually lose to the Ming army, so he arranged a retreat early.

More than 20,000 Manchurian elites and a Mongolian Eight Banners completely controlled the north gate and the two nearby side gates, and there were no servants in this direction, and the Ming army did not hit in this direction.

Just as the artillery of the Ming army began to bombard the camp of Jiannu in the city, Dolgon, surrounded by a group of guards, fled from the north gate in a hurry. (To be continued.) )