Chapter 1039: The Decisive Battle of Zhending Mansion (3)
Today's Zhending Mansion is full of ruined walls, the most terrible thing is that it was originally less than two years, of which there were more than three months, or even four months, Zhending Mansion was out of the war, it can be said that Zhending Mansion was the most seriously damaged city in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there was no one, even if the Daimyo Mansion has always been the center of the war, but most of the time, because the two sides are equal, no one has eaten the opponent's grasp, but has been in the calm of the time more, did not receive much damage, as for the city of Beijing, it was because of the rebellion of Chen Yan and others, so that the Qing army was taken down without blood.
Zhending Mansion, which was the most severely damaged by the war, is now not only seriously damaged by the city wall, but also has a sharp decrease in population, from the original 230,000 to less than 70,000 or 80,000 today, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and almost all the food in the city has been lost. Sun Chuanting only received a batch of military rations from the direction of Taiyuan, and was forced to retreat in the city of Zhendingfu, passively responding to the battle, plus the military rations of the army, it would be good to be able to support half a month, and the people in the entire Zhendingfu city were panicked, and they had long since lost Qin Mufeng's high fighting spirit in Japan.
Two days, just two days, the city wall in the west of Zhending Mansion has collapsed most of the time, the city wall has become a high platform, but more than a zhang high, the scattered bricks and stones will directly turn the city wall into a dirt slope, the cavalry can even follow the soil slope, directly attack the city, as for the south city and the east city, now it is not much better, it is also dilapidated!
The Manchurian elite and the Mongolian cavalry besieged on all sides, constantly launching a surprise attack towards the city of Zhendingfu, which brought huge pressure to the Ming army, in order to be able to take Zhendingfu as soon as possible, Duoduo even ordered that the army launched an attack day and night, without stopping, if it were not for the Ming army sitting on three multi-military towns, full of eight musket battalions, relying on the remnants of the wall, constantly launching a blockade to the cavalry, the current Zhendingfu is only afraid that it has already been burned.
Even so, according to the current strong offensive momentum of the Manchurian elite, I am afraid that the Ming army will definitely not be able to support it for too long, and even with the collapse of the city wall, the artillery of the Ming army will not be able to play its combat power normally because of the falling dust, and the Ming army in the city can only passively accept round after round of artillery bombardment by the main force of Manchuria, and the casualties of the troops have risen sharply!
Gao Jie and the others jumped up and down in a hurry, and even Sun Chuanting could only sit at the head of the city in person, not daring to be careless for a moment.
"Master Inspector, if the battle continues according to this trend, we will definitely not be able to support it for ten days, the attack of the Manchurian elite and the Mongolian cavalry is too fierce!"
On the fourth day, Gao Jie said to Sun Chuanting in an astringent voice.
Sun Chuanting is also worried, he really underestimated the combat power of the Manchurian army and Duoduo's determination to take Zhending Mansion, the current Manchurian elite is completely fighting against the water, Manchuria's life and death, all pinned on this battle, Duoduo has already killed red eyes, in just three days, the Ming army's casualties have been close to 20,000 people, difficult, if you want to hold on for ten days, it is really too difficult, once the main force of Manchuria rushes into Zhendingfu, the 50,000 troops under your own command are absolutely unbearable, It is even possible to be surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army in Zhending Mansion!
Just when Sun Chuanting was worried, outside the city of Zhending Mansion, the sound of artillery sounded again, the Qing army launched an attack in Du, and a group of cavalry charged again under the cover of artillery!
"Holy shit, here it is again!"
This time it was the southern and eastern cities that launched the attack, and the thirty or forty thousand cavalry continued to launch assaults towards the city, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
Gao Jie shouted: "Master Inspector, this battle is handed over to me!" I'm going to organize an army to fight! ”
Gao Jie turned around and went down to fight, Dongcheng, gathered the troops of Nanjing Houzhen, it was Gao Jie who commanded it, however, the combat power is very average, after all, the time of establishment is still a little short, this time, the Qing army's attack was more fierce than the previous two days, a team of cavalry, from two hundred steps away began to release arrows, while advancing, while releasing arrows, although most of the feather arrows fell under the city, it was difficult to hurt the soldiers of Nanjing Houzhen in the city, but it also brought a certain threat to the soldiers is, as the cavalry continued to advance, Soon, they came to a distance of less than 100 paces from the city wall.
The two muskets in the back town of Nanjing have already all entered the big battle, but only with a thousand musketeers, it is necessary to block the assault of one or two thousand cavalry, it is obviously a little powerless, after all, now the Manchurian elite has gradually adapted to the tactics of the musketeers, all the cavalry began to disperse the assault, rather than lining up in a dense formation, although the formation is scattered, the impact of the cavalry can not be revealed, but it can minimize casualties.
Soon bands of cavalry came under the city walls and began to ram on the broken bricks and rammed earth towards the city.
The cavalry and infantry in the back town of Nanjing had to stand on top of the city and began to stop the advance of the cavalry with the swords in their hands!
War!
When we meet on a narrow road, no one dares to take half a step back!
In the face of the assault of 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry, I have to say that the pressure on the rear town of Nanjing is too great, under the impact of the Manchurian cavalry, the Manchurian cavalry is repelled step by step, and it is not easy to repel the impact of the Manchurian cavalry?
Gao Jie wielded a big iron pestle in his hand, constantly smashing at the head of the Qing cavalry, and every time, the Manchurian cavalry would be broken to the bones, but he was brave alone, and it was impossible to defeat the Manchurian cavalry in front of him!
At this time, to the east of Zhending Mansion, the sound of artillery rang out again!
Gao Jie was stunned, the Qing Army's artillery department in Dongcheng was powerful, but just listening to the sound of this artillery, there were at least thirty or forty artillery pieces, or even more!
It is clear that this is not Manchurian artillery!
Sure enough, the artillery came from a farther distance, and one shell after another came from a distance, and smashed straight into the camp of the Qing army in Dongcheng not far away, and was caught off guard, and the formation of the Qing army was thrown into chaos!
Oh haha......
Gao Jie laughed and wiped it, needless to say, the reinforcements arrived, it was not Xu Yifan's main force of the Tianwei Army, it was the Jingying army that came from Jianghuai, the dog's day, it finally came in time, if in three or five days at night, Zhending Mansion fell, even if they came, it would be useless!
Yes, the reinforcements arrived, and in the past three or four days, Duoduo put all his energy on besieging Zhending Mansion, and relaxed the enemy detectives around him, but it was Song Jiaxing and Zhao Zhenghang, who came to the aid with all their might, led an army of 50,000 people, killed them directly from the east, and launched a fierce attack directly on the Qing army in the east city!