Chapter 633 Kexing Mountain Wai Song Mountain (I)
The surrender of the defenders of Tashan without a fight doubled the confidence of the new Jiliao Governor Sun Zhi, and he relied on the 100,000 soldiers of His Royal Highness King Yan behind him, so the troops were divided into two routes.
One way, with Huang Degong as the president, he commanded Liu Zeqing's troops to attack Xingshan, and the other way was to personally lead Liu Liangzuo's troops and Xu Dingguo's troops to take Songshan, and passed down orders to all departments to break the city before His Royal Highness King Yan arrived at the front line, and completely isolate Jinzhou.
Xingshan Fort is about 30 miles southwest of Jinzhou, because it is backed by Xingshan, it is called Xingshan City, because it is located in the highland, by the mountains and rivers, the situation is extremely dangerous, so Gang Atai faced Huang Degong's surrender, turned a blind eye, and issued a manchurian life is a Manchurian, death is a Manchurian ghost, vow to live and die with Xingshan.
"If you don't surrender, you will attack the city."
In order to take Xingshan City as soon as possible, Huang Degong and Liu Zeqing drove more than 2,000 Han troops with the Blue Banner in Tashan anyway and continued to attack the city.
Cloud ladders, rushing cars, gunpowder, and all the siege equipment that can be used are all used, and they are all used on the Xingshan defenders like crazy.
Xingshan Qing Army doesn't know what the situation in Jinzhou is now? They only knew that the Ming army was frantically attacking them.
And for Gang Atai, the defender of Xingshan, this kind of lifeless attack of the Ming army, completely ignoring the attack in the rear, only shows one thing, that is, the main force of the Ming army gathered in the Ningyuan area has been launched, otherwise the Ming army forward would not be as desperate as if it was a chicken blood.
Hold on, hold on! As long as it survives, the reinforcements of the King of Wuying County will come, and maybe Prince Yu's horse team has outflanked the back road of the Ming thief. ”
Gang Atai is not unwilling to surrender, but unable to surrender, although he has changed his full name, but he is still a Han, and he is also the youngest son of the big traitor Li Yongfang.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, he can only use the nonsense that the reinforcements are going to help, to cheer up the Han army defending the city, fortunately, the Han army in his department is the old man who has surrendered to Manchuria for a long time, although the people of Jianzhou look down on them, but they have already regarded themselves as Manchurians, they really hate, hate the sudden rise of the little Li thief, broke the myth of the invincibility of the Manchurian soldiers, and hate the Han army of the Zhenglan Banner that has just retreated from under the city wall is a white-eyed wolf that cannot be raised.
The Jingbei army's offensive continued, and the Qing army demolished almost half of the houses in the city and used them as defense equipment, constantly throwing them under the city, or chopping them into dry wood, pouring a pot of boiling gold juice from the battlements.
Those who were driven to attack the city were unable to say whether they were suffering or not, neither entering nor retreating, The spears and firearms of the Jingbei Army Inspectorate behind him were even sharper, and they wanted to climb up, and those former comrades above were also ruthless, just like rats in bellows, angry at both ends of the city.
"All the heavy artillery will cover the right side of the north city wall for Lao Tzu, push all our mortars up, put on thunderbolts, don't care about those troops, attack indiscriminately."
In the siege battle for two consecutive days, Huang Degong lost more than 1,500 people by the troops brought from Tashan, and the officers and soldiers of Jingbei under his command also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and Xingshan still stood still, although Huang Degong was quite dissatisfied with Li Xingzhi's monopoly on the government, but he was also extremely resentful of the Jianzhou Jurchens, and in the case of the siege of the city, he brazenly took out the siege weapon mortar cannon.
As a close-range siege weapon, the mortar naturally needs to reach the Xingshan city wall, but the artillery of the Manchurians in the city is not less than that of the Jingbei army, and even more than the Jingbei army in number.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
In the dense sound of artillery, dozens of shield vehicles were launched in front of the Jingbei Army's formation, and behind the shield vehicles there were not only a large number of Jingbei Army guns, but also the mortar artillery of the last resort that Huang Degong relied on to attack the city.
"Don't care about their front team, the heavy artillery continues to bombard the artillery positions of the Ming thieves, and all the artillery weighing less than 1,000 catties will adjust the muzzle of Lao Tzu, and bombard their shield vehicles for Pontus."
Gang Atai has been in the army for more than ten years, and the artillery of the Jingbei Army concentrated on bombing the right side of the city wall, and he was faintly uneasy, he had already guessed that the Ming army's attack weapons must be hidden behind this shield car.
In order to completely strangle the offensive of the Jingbei Army in the cradle, Gang Atai resolutely adjusted the strategy of defending the city.
"Boom, boom......!"
Without the suppression of the artillery on the city of the Qing army, the artillery of the Jingbei Army became more and more fierce, countless large and small cannons rained down on the Songshan city wall, and the city wall of direct bombing was full of splashing bricks and wooden squares, and even seven or eight artillery pieces that were being adjusted were hit by the cannons, not only bombarding the heavy barrels off the fort, but also killing dozens of Han gunners.
The Qing army on the city wall suffered heavy losses, and the Jingbei army besieging the city under the city wall also paid heavy casualties, and more than ten Jingbei army artillery trucks that rushed to the front were smashed to pieces by the artillery, and even the Jingbei army soldiers and mortars behind them were also smashed into human shape.
Fortunately, the Jingbei Army had troops to cover it, and after nearly 100 casualties, more than 20 shield carts were finally pushed to an area about 500 steps away from the city wall.
"Fire!"
With the officer's order, dozens of thunderbolts flew out, and those cannons fell on the wall of Songshan North City like a parabola, and the moment the cannons hit the wall, the white lime mist suddenly spread.
The lime mist mixed with arsenic is obviously not something that the defenders of the city can bear, and all the Manchurian soldiers in the dense fog can't open their eyes when they are smoked, and those who accidentally suck the lime mist containing arsenic Qing army only feel that their abdomen and throat are as if they have been scalded by boiling water, rolling on the ground in pain, and wailing in pain from time to time.
At the head of the city, in addition to the Qing soldiers, there were many young men who were driven to the city by the Qing soldiers.
These young men were all used by the Qing army as cannon fodder to offset the firepower of the Jingbei army, and the purpose of this was to reduce the consumption of the Qing army's own troops as much as possible.
It's just that the young men were already dissatisfied with the Qing army, and when they saw that the Ming army outside the city was strong, where were they willing to defend the city for the Qing army.
Although they did not dare to disobey, they knew that they could not do their work, so they all hid behind the city wall with their heads shrunk, and no matter how the Qing soldiers threatened, kicked and beat them, they always refused to get up and lift the rolling wood and stones to fight to the death.
"There is no retreat in the face of war, no one can patrol the front, and there is no forgiveness for killing."
After seeing a young man trembling in the corner of the wall, Gang Hatai was furious, and let's fight for you to the death, you new Manchurian Dingkou are not willing to let go of the rolling wood and stone to fight with the Ming army, really don't know whether to live or die, and immediately kill eleven Xingshan Qingzhuang who are afraid of the enemy and avoid the war.
"The Qing soldiers have killed ......!"
"The Qing soldiers have killed ......!"
In the face of the bloody butcher's knife of the Manchurians, although the young men did not dare to resist, they all knew to escape, looking at the knife head still dripping with blood, nearly 100 young men and women were scared to hug their heads and rats, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping on the city wall.
Huang Degong and Liu Zeqing are also battle-hardened generals, seeing the chaos of the Qing army on the city wall, they hurriedly ordered the front army to step up the attack, taking advantage of his illness to take his life and take Xingshan City in one fell swoop.