On the first day of February in the first year of Longwu, the Qing army finally conquered the Qianshan defense line, which also benefited from the active retreat of Luo Rucai and Ma Shouyingge's left fifth battalion. You must know that even after the loss of the entire frontal defense line, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying still led more than 20,000 remnants of their troops to retreat into the vast mountains and forests, and held on for five days.

However, on the first day of the second lunar month, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying retreated safely to the south after completing the sniper mission, just near Huangshiji, and Zheng Zhilong, who was very surprised, also sent a sailor to take over the 5th battalion of the Gezuo to retreat to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

After taking the hidden mountain, Anqing is close at hand. "The Yangtze River is the throat of the Yangtze River, and Wu and Chu are the first states in Xinjiang", the important geographical location of Anqing can be seen. As long as Anqing is conquered, to the north, Nanjing is unobstructed; To the south, the army could swing straight into Jiangxi or Zhejiang.

At this time, after eliminating the remnants of the Ming army in Huguang, the Qing troops from all walks of life also gathered in the Anqing area. Rao Yu Belle Bolo, Han military camp Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming, Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi and other departments are among them.

The soldiers and horses of the Qing army from all sides gathered in Anqing one after another, and surrounded Anqing from both land and water. In this way, even Wu Sangui did not dare to pretend to be the commander of the first army. Naturally, Bolo doesn't need to say that he is the son of Abatai, a royal family of the Orthodox Emperor, and now he is also the identity of Lord Belle, and he is the number one general under the command of Duoduo. Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi were all old-timers in the army, and they were the pioneers in the Ming army who defected to the Qing court.

Therefore, Wu Sangui can maintain a humble face in front of these individuals. Bolo became the de facto commander of the Qing army on the southern route.

For Anqing City in front of him, Bolo didn't have too many ideas, so he naturally conquered it. Zheng Zhilong hastily returned to Fujian. The army threw off its armor and scrambled to flee for its life, and now in Anqing City, I heard that there are only more than 20,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and they are barely put together by various departments. Therefore, Bolo did not take the upcoming Anqing offensive and defensive battle to heart at all.

Early in the morning of the second day of February. Taking advantage of the Han family's custom of "the dragon raises its head", Bolo urged his subordinates to launch a fierce attack on Anqing early in the morning.

After a series of vicious battles, only Ma Degong, Zhang Xianbi, and Ma Jinzhong were left in the various departments of the Shun army, and the rest of the generals had completely become cannon fodder of the Qing army in the war.

Therefore, the originally powerful Shun army is now only 30,000 people left. They still had to act as a stepping stone for the Qing army to attack the city without the assistance of large-scale siege equipment.

The corpses soon piled up under the city wall, and all the troops of the Shun army wanted to cry without tears. But behind them were neatly aligned Qing swords and guns, and they finally tasted the sorrow, helplessness and resentment of driving the displaced people as siege soldiers at the beginning.

A day later, the ** of the various divisions of the Shun army became a barrier for the Qing army to approach the city wall. The horses and ditches under the city were all buried by corpses.

Bo Luo looked at the situation in the distance with satisfaction, put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand with a relaxed attitude, and completely ignored the unnatural expressions of Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and others around him. By this time, all the original Shun army units had been consumed under Anqing City, and even Ma Jinzhong, Zhang Xianbi, and Ma Degong had become part of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain.

"Almost!" Bolo nodded, "It's up to the three princes next!" Boluo's eyes fell on Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi. When this is said. Bolo didn't forget to dig a pit and go down. "King Pingxi's soldiers and horses have been attacking the city these days, and they have consumed a lot in Qianshan. This credit should also be shared with others, besides, the Guanning army of the king of Pingxi is mainly based on the horse army, and it will be of great use in the future, right! Hehe! ”

Wu Sangui's cheeks twitched and he didn't say a word. Kong Youde could only sigh in his heart. stepped forward and said: "It's all up to Lord Belle's orders, and the old minister will let Wuzhen Chaoha launch a bombardment attack on Anqing!" ”

This time, Bolo was followed south by Wuzhen Chaoha's left wing army, commanded by Shi Tingzhu, the eight commanders of the Han military camp. Shi Tingzhu was originally the Guangning garrison of the Ming Dynasty, and when Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was defeated and entered the pass, he led his troops to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Now he has become the flag man of the Eight Banners, and he has also been given the surname of "Guarjia". Shi Tingzhu was equipped with 200 artillery pieces, including 80 Franc cannons of more than 1,000 catties. The artillery was fired on all fronts, which was naturally earth-shattering.

The soil and stone of the Anqing city wall cracked, and a round of artillery bombardment came down, and the originally mottled city wall was full of gaps, but Huang Gongfu ordered the people to repair it in time, especially the city gate, which had already been sealed with stones.

Under the cover of artillery, the dead soldiers of the Qing army began to slowly approach the city walls. Huang Taiji created the Eight Banners of the Han Army and absorbed the wealthy families of the Han people in Liaodong to join, and over the years, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty have been almost the same as the regulations of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. At the beginning of the siege, the dead soldiers were in front, most of these dead soldiers were horse armor soldiers in each banner, wearing two layers of poor heavy armor, and the front was equipped with a shield cart to resist the fierce firearms of the Ming army. Usually, there were a large number of auxiliaries on the left and right of the dead soldiers, who operated the wheelbarrows, one to defend against bullets and arrows, and the other to fill the trenches.

But today, the corpse of the Shun army has already completed this task. Therefore, the auxiliaries also changed their armor and joined the ranks of the dead soldiers.

In fact, the shield cars of the Qing army were also made in a hurry. They are all made of tall and thick wooden planks, covered with thick leather quilts, which can effectively use low-grade Ming firearms and arrows, and are equipped with wooden wheels underneath, which can continue to move forward.

The city heads of Anqing are all equipped with bronze Buddha cannons for defending the city, and although the firing range is not far, it can reach a distance of five or six hundred steps. Coupled with the firearms of the defenders of the Beijing camp, when the Qing army had entered the approximate firing range, the city was full of ping-pong sounds.

The solid iron bullets shot out, and the more than ten shield carts in front were instantly shattered, and they even carried several dead soldiers of the Qing army next to the car, and the flying fragments and wooden thorns also injured many of the dead soldiers around.

But these casualties did not stop the Qing army Han battalion brigade from continuing to advance, dozens of shield wagons covered the dense footsteps of the soldiers and kept approaching the city wall.

When the Qing army entered the distance of 200 paces, the Ming army gunners scattered at the battlements of the city began to wield, and after the smoke of gunpowder filled, the soldiers of the Qing army fell to the ground with a wail, while the Qing army behind them quickly caught up. Projectiles flew sideways from the top of the city to the bottom of the city, the leather and quilts on the shield carts were thumping, and the banners of the Qing army were constantly hit and folded. But the damage to the Qing soldiers behind the shield car was not great.

As soon as they approached the walls, the archers of the Qing army began to fire their arrows. The sound of breaking the sky was loud, and the Qing soldiers and soldiers opened their bows and arrows and shot towards the battlement. These feather arrows and heavy arrows were accurate, ruthless and fast, and in the blink of an eye, many firecrackers in the Ming army were injured by arrows.

When the Qing army approached the city wall, the artillery of the Ming army lost its effect, and could only bombard the Qing troops in the rear.

Dozens of ladders climbed the city one after another, and the sharp soldiers in the Qing army began to speed up and move forward, leading the dead soldiers to climb the ladders agilely, and kept coming towards the city.

The Ming armor and red tassels of the sharp soldiers were very conspicuous in the battle array, and they became the best targets for the Ming army's musketeers. Huang Gongfu's army, including the Beijing camp built by Fang Yuegong and Shi Kefa, imitated the sequence of the Shandong army and set up shooters like snipers. But I have to say that the sniper guns in the Shandong army are not equipped by the defenders at the moment. Therefore, the effect of precision strikes is not ideal.

As the Qing army climbed the ladder, the rolling wood and stones that had been prepared were thrown down, and the siege soldiers of the Qing army fell down like dumplings, but the combat power of the Eight Banners of the Han Army was also extraordinary, at least much stronger than that of the Shun army. The huge casualties did not make them retreat timidly, but rushed forward more courageously.

Liu Zhaoji immediately beckoned his subordinates to prepare the golden juice. And the lethality of these boiling dung water is also extraordinary, which immediately made the Qing soldiers under the city howl miserably, even holding a huge shield, the Qing army was also poured with a face, one by one the skin and flesh fell down the ladder, and even the leather armor and iron armor on the body continued to rise white smoke, burning sound.

The Qing soldiers who fell off the city and survived by luck were also not lightly injured, and all the exposed places on their bodies were burned by gold juice and dung.

Liu Zhaoji's hand finally made the Qing army's attack slightly frustrated.

But after all, the amount of dung water is limited, and when the Qing army retreated slightly, as soon as they found that the dung water of the Ming army stopped pouring down, they attacked the city again.

This time, Huang Gongfu mobilized a 500-strong firearm team from the Beijing camp to garrison the city. When Fang Yuegong and Shi Kefa carefully built the Beijing camp, they renovated a large number of accumulated firearms of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry and Construction Bureau. Speaking of which, these firebolts made in the Apocalypse period are surprisingly sophisticated, out of a thousand Lumi guns, only a few dozen are flawed, and the rest are of no problem with quality. Coupled with the help of some spontaneous firearms, that is, the most primitive flintlock firearms, a concentrated and fierce firepower was formed, and a single photo made the Qing army who climbed the ladder again hold their heads and run away.

Bolo, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but scold, for the battle with the Ming army, in addition to being frightened in the battle of Julu, it also caused his Ama and brother to bury their bones in their hometown, until now, Bolo is disdainful of the combat power of the Ming army outside the Shandong army. Unexpectedly, today in Anqing is not a good teacher, in a blink of an eye, the Han military camp that attacked Ximen lost more than 2,000 people.

Bolo's indistinguishable scolding made Geng Zhongming a little unbearable. No matter what, the three princes of Liaodong who were present were also meritorious ministers who followed Huang Taiji to pacify Liaodong, and they were in front of Abatai several times, and they had never suffered such humiliation.

Geng Zhongming originally wanted to contradict two sentences, but Shang Kexi shook his head slightly and grabbed his arm.

"Lord Belle, why be anxious, Xiao Wang's sailors have already gathered outside Anqing's water gate, it is better to start attacking at the same time, one point of breakthrough, Anqing will be in no danger to defend!" (To be continued......)