A hundred Hongyi cannons and a hundred Francos roared at the city of Jinzhou, a scene similar to the Zheng army's attack on the Dashun army more than a year ago.

The rumbling artillery was deafening, and the 10,000 Zheng soldiers who were preparing for the first round of charges quietly waited for the order, and when the artillery bombardment was over, it was the time for them to rush to Jinzhou City.

Yang He took the lead, leading 3,000 troops at the front of the team, and they would also charge at the front, first entering Jinzhou City and fighting with the Eight Banners Army.

The blasted stones and bricks on the walls of the city flew all over the sky, making it clear that there could be no living people.

Zheng Jinhong, the commander-in-chief of operations, calmly watched all this, and the overall operational arrangements for attacking Jinzhou City came to mind.

In this operation, the operational deployment of encircling three and missing one was adopted, blocking the path of the Eight Banners Army in Jinzhou City to flee to the direction of Guangning, but one escape path was released, that is, the path to retreat to Ningyuan City.

This is a decision made by Zheng Xunrui, and he was secretly informed when Zheng Jinhong led the army to set off.

Zheng Jinhong also understood the meaning, after all, the attack on Jinzhou City was the first battle of the Zheng Army's official and comprehensive extermination of the Eight Banners Army, and it was necessary to ensure a complete victory, and the loss could not be too large, if the 40,000 Eight Banners Army was besieged in Jinzhou City, so that they had no way out, they would have to fight hard, and in that case, the losses of the front army would be very heavy.

Since there is a route that can be evacuated, in the case of poor strength, everyone will want to evacuate, unwilling to fight to the death, as for the process of evacuation, there will be major losses. That's a different story.

In charge of guarding the city of Jinzhou is the first-class Lazhang Jing Tan Tai.

During the Battle of Songshan, Tan Tai made a great achievement, when he followed the battle of Dolgon, the prince of Rui, and was responsible for conquering the granary of the Ming army in Tashan, Tan Tai led the 408 Banner Army sergeants and charged towards the city at the risk of death. And he was the first general to rush to the city wall, and later Tan Tai participated in the task of fighting against Hong Chengchou to lead the army, and he also made great contributions.

It is precisely because of this merit that Tan Tai was awarded the title of first-class Lazhangjing, second only to the banner master.

After Tan Tai arrived in Ningyuan, he was quickly arranged by Abatai to Jinzhou, responsible for leading the 40,000 Eight Banner Army sergeants stationed in Jinzhou to firmly defend the city of Jinzhou.

The importance of Jinzhou City is needless to say. It connects the city of Guangning, and the city of Guangning is an important stronghold of the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, in the words of Zheng Xunrui, Jinzhou City is indeed the center of the flat dan, but also the strategic hub of Liaodong.

After Tan Tai arrived in Jinzhou, he quickly adjusted his original deployment, concentrating the 35,000 sergeants of the Eight Banners Army in the Jinzhou city and placing 5,000 sergeants on the periphery. Among them, 2,000 are between Jinzhou and Guangning City, and 3,000 are between Jinzhou and Ningyuan City. These 5,000 people are responsible for the task of liaison and reporting relevant information to the outside world at all times.

When the Zheng army led by Zheng Jinhong arrived in Jinzhou, Tan Tai quickly learned the news, and he gave the order to fight, on the one hand, to close the city, and on the other hand, to ask the sergeants to quickly report the situation to Huang Taiji in Shenyang and Abatai in Ningyuan.

To say that Tan Tai is also a brave general. It is a little incomprehensible to choose to hold on to the city, but this is the order of Huang Taiji and Abatai, no matter what the situation is, when fighting against the Zheng family's army, you must stick to the city. Try not to start a fight in the field, after all, Zheng Jiajun's artillery is too sharp.

It can be regarded as Tan Tai's luck is very good, just arrived in Jinzhou, not yet fully familiar with the situation, he encountered a full-scale attack by the front army of the Zheng family, although he said that he was ready for everything, but Tan Tai was still a little in a hurry, just when the artillery began to roar, he was still in the mansion to arrange a comprehensive defense of the Zheng army.

The rumbling sound of artillery made Tan Tai suddenly go berserk, and he sensed his own mistake, a fatal mistake.

Concentrating most of the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army in the city is like a fixed target, being attacked by the artillery of the Zheng Family's army, but it cannot be killed, and if this lasts for a long time, the losses of the Eight Banners Army must be extremely heavy.

However, until this time, Tan Tai did not understand why Zheng Jiajun would suddenly attack Jinzhou, because Ningyuan, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and other places were very calm, and no trace of Zheng's army was found.

From this, Tan Tai made a judgment that it was not the main force of the Zheng family army that attacked the city of Jinzhou, because he learned that the main force of the Zheng family army was personally led by Zheng Xunrui, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it should have set off from Shanhaiguan on July 20, and it was only July 22 today, and it was impossible for Zheng Jiajun to march hundreds of miles in two days to attack Jinzhou.

Tan Tai gave the order to defend the city of Jinzhou.

Tan Tai would soon regret his order to defend the city of Jinzhou.

The artillery was too sharp, the sergeants stationed on the city wall suffered heavy casualties, a round of artillery came down, there were basically no living people on the city wall of the south gate, and the Hongyi cannon fixed on the city wall had already been blown away.

The order given by the commander Tan Tai was to defend to the death, that is, the Zheng army was not allowed to break through the city, and the officers who commanded the battle could only order the sergeants to continue to defend on the city wall, so the casualties caused would be greater.

After Tan Tai learned of the order given by the officer, he scolded angrily, and quickly issued an order that all the sergeants should avoid the artillery bombardment, hide in a safe place, and wait until the Zheng family sergeant began to attack the city, and then go to the city wall to hold on.

Tan Tai believes that his arrangement should be foolproof.

It's a pity that Tan Tai misestimated the ability of the Zheng Family's artillery battalion, cavalry battalion and Shenji battalion to work together.

Zheng Jinhong held a telescope and kept an eye on the situation on the city wall of Jinzhou's south gate.

At the moment when the south gate was blown up and collapsed, revealing the corridor, Zheng Jinhong gave the order to charge.

At this time, the artillery bombardment continued, but not as fiercely as it had begun.

That is to say, although the artillery is still bombing, the cavalry of the Zheng family army and the soldiers of the Shenji battalion have begun to charge, and at this moment the city wall is empty, and many soldiers can easily rush into the city and start a face-to-face fight with the Eight Banners Army, which is also a request made by Zheng Xunrui a long time ago, and this requirement is called coordinated combat.

The bombardment continued, and the soldiers of the Zheng family, under the leadership of Yang He, had already launched a charge.

The city wall was empty, Tan Tai's orders were carried out to the letter, and many sergeants took refuge under the city wall, hiding from the artillery bombardment, and only after the cannonfire stopped, they would go to the city wall again.

There were still sergeants who found out that the situation was wrong, because the city gate of the south gate was blown up and collapsed, and some sergeants found the charging Zheng family soldiers from the corridor.

It's a pity that they found out that the situation was wrong, and it didn't help.

The three thousand cavalry led by Yang He charged very fast, and they arrived in front of the south gate in the blink of an eye.

Just as the troops were about to storm the south gate, the artillery stopped bombardment.

The dense sound of horses' hooves quickly came to the fore.

This was followed by a dense burst of gunfire, and screams beneath the gunfire.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners Army who were waiting in the corridor did not fully react, they fell under the guns or were killed by the shining swords, and more soldiers of the Eight Banners Army turned around and evacuated in the direction of the city, they did not want to die.

Most of the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army were under the root of the city wall, and the cavalry of the Zheng family army rushed into the city and quickly fought with the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army.

Although compared with the number of sergeants of the Eight Banners Army, the number of cavalry of the Zheng Family Army is not very large, but their combat effectiveness is by no means ordinary, and most of their opponents are the sergeants of the Han Eight Banners, and the ability of these people to fight alone is obviously inferior to the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Meng.

This is also to blame Tan Tai's egoistic thoughts, stationed on the Jinzhou city wall, almost all of them are the sergeants of the Han Eight Banners, the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Meng, all arranged to be stationed in the city, once the battle starts, the biggest loss must be the sergeants stationed on the city wall, even if the loss of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty is heavy, Tan Tai will not be too distressed, but the loss of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Mongolia is great, Tan Tai will definitely not be able to bear it.

When the cavalry of the Zheng family army rushed into the south gate, the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners were not fully prepared, and after the battle began, the screams around them also made some of the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners begin to retreat, at this time, no one thought of recapturing the Yongdao of the South Gate, they did not know that a greater disaster was coming.

When Tan Tai received the report, his face turned pale instantly.

He never thought that the battle had just begun, and the Zheng family army sergeant rushed into the south gate, and the battle in the city replaced the battle of attacking the city, was the Zheng family army really so brave.

At this time, Tan Tai did not think of evacuating, the order he gave was still to defend it, in his opinion, this is not the main force of the Zheng family's army, but it is the army sent by the Zheng family army to fight the front station, and there are 35,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners Army stationed in Jinzhou City, and they will definitely be able to rely on the terrain in the city to defeat the Zheng family's army.

Tan Tai gave the order for a general attack, and the battle was about to be fully spread in Jinzhou City.

Zheng Jinhong, who paid close attention to the battle situation, was already wet in the palm of his hand, judging from the current situation, the tactics of encircling three and missing one had not yet produced any effect, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners Army who were evacuated from Jinzhou City were not found, and it was no wonder that the soldiers of the Zheng Family Army rushed into Jinzhou City in less than an hour, even if the Eight Banners Army wanted to evacuate, it was too late.

It seems that the fierce fighting in the city is about to unfold in full swing.

Zheng Jinhong no longer hesitated, and ordered the 20,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army in the second echelon to quickly plunge into the battle, the south gate had been controlled by the front army, and the fierce battle in the city had begun. (To be continued.) )