Chapter 634 Kexing Mountain, Waisong Mountain (II)
"Cover your mouth and nose and beat them down for Pontus."
Looking at the surrender of the Zhenglan Banner Han Army that swarmed up again, Gang Atai roared wildly, since the Jingbei army came to Xingshan, the large-scale attack has not been interrupted, two days of hard fighting, the military horses in the city have lost nearly a thousand people, Now the Ming army has obviously launched a general attack, he really doesn't know how long Xingshan City can last.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
In the sound of artillery, a group of heavily armed Jingbei troops joined the siege sequence, the number was only about 300 people, only after they rushed to the fort, they quickly pulled out the fire from behind, lit the clay pot grenade in their hands, and then threw it towards the city as much as possible.
The head of the city covered by thunderbolts, suddenly a series of explosions sounded, broken porcelain and iron nails were splashed everywhere on the city, and the Han troops defending the city were wearing thick cotton armor, and a large area was still blown down.
"Kill it!"
It is also strange to say that in the face of the siege of the Jingbei Army, the Han army of Zhenglan Banner surrendered without a fight, but when attacking the city wall of Xingshan Fort, it burst out with great courage, and jumped on the city head one after another while the city wall was covered by artillery fire, and then waved the sword and spear in his hand to pounce on the Eight Banners of the Han Army that had once made them fearful.
At the city gate, two rushing cars also took advantage of this round of offensive to be pushed into the city gate hole by the soldiers of the Jingbei Army, and then slammed into the thick fort gate.
"Bang, bang, bang......!"
With each impact, the gate shook with a deafening roar, and the wood, stone, and brick debris above the gate splashed everywhere like rain.
"Quickly block the city gate with stones, and the sons will set fire to the general, and set fire to it, and pour out all the fierce fire oil."
Hashku is Li Yongfang's youngest son, only sixteen years old this year, he thinks he is from Jianzhou, and he also gives himself a resounding name, this time he invited himself to go out of Jinzhou with the king of Wuying County, and he knelt in front of the palace of Liaoyang for three hours, just to avenge his brother Li Shutai.
Dolgon was also deeply moved by the blood and courage of Hashku, so he added Hashku as the deputy commander of the white flag of the Han army, and guarded Xingshan with Gang Atai.
Xingshan Fort is the former Jiliao Governor Sun Chengzong imitated the Da Leng River Fort built, the city defense is strong, during the battle of Songjin, the Manchurian soldiers stormed Yueyu, mobilized 30 Hongyi cannons, took turns to bomb, did not break the Xingshan city defense, this is also the confidence of Hashku, but he did not expect that the Jingbei Army only stormed for two days, the city defense was in danger, so he had to sacrifice the last hole card.
Bundles of hay were thrown down from the battlements by the Han soldiers on the city wall, and then they threw out countless torches and canisters of oil, and the September day was already hot, and the grass burned little by little, and soon a raging fire was ignited.
The siege equipment that the Jingbei army had finally pushed to the city was ignited in an instant, enveloping the entire northern wall of Xingshan Fort in a sea of fire.
As the saying goes, fire and water are ruthless, and the fierce fire made the soldiers of the Jingbei Army who were besieging the city confused, they were originally composed of troops who broke into the army, and they could try their best to attack the city all by relying on Li Xingzhi's mighty tiger, and now in the face of the fire attack of the Qing army, where did they still have the courage to continue the attack, and retreated to the rear like a tide.
"General Liu, follow the general to attack the city."
Looking at the soldiers swarming back, Huang Degong was furious, the Qing army in the city was obviously in chaos, and the city was about to enter the city, but it was blocked by a fire, he saw clearly under the city, although the city wall was full of fire, but some areas can still be put up ladders to the city, the only thing that needs to be guarded against is the billowing smoke.
"What General Huang said is that although the fire under the city is not small, the smoke will also block the view of the eastern captives in the city, and they will have to endure being choked by the smoke.
Liu Zeqing is the one who leads the troops, he has fought several tough battles in Linqing and Dongyu, although he has been idle for two years, but this insight is still there, and he also urgently needs military merit to show loyalty to His Royal Highness King Yan, so he agrees with Huang Degong's military order.
"What General Liu said is reasonable, go and cover your mouth and nose with a wet cloth, and follow the general to Xingshan Fort."
Huang Degong and Liu Zeqing had already made a decision, and immediately led the pro-army team to push more than a dozen ladders to Xingshan Fort again.
The Jingbei army, which originally fled, saw the main general personally falling, so he had to turn back and fight again, not desperately, as Huang Degong's flag moved forward, the Jingbei army in the rear was almost all pressed, and if he fled at this time, he would be slashed by the overseers who rushed over.
Under the cover of thick smoke, Huang Degong burst into smoke and fire, personally hung a cloud ladder to the head of Xingshan City, and then lifted a big shield and climbed to the city wall.
"Throw the stone, throw the stone......!"
The earth-shattering shouts of killing under the city made Gang Atai on the city gate clearly know that the Ming army did not retreat because of the fire, but reorganized the offensive, and kept roaring, he didn't understand how the brave Ming people in the past were like being reborn in just one year, and they became so brave that they even dared to break through the sea of fire.
The defenders of the city also knew that it was the most critical time, so they had to stiffen their heads, cover their mouths and noses with one hand, and push down the stones and rolling logs at the battlements with the other.
Constantly people were hit by stones, rolling down from the ladder, those rolling logs full of iron nails swept a large area, some of the Jingbei army who were hit by the stones fell on the haystack that had not been burned through with a bang, and they died in pain, and the wailing under the city wall sounded into a piece.
Everywhere there were wounded soldiers rolling and wriggling, and everywhere there were corpses with broken arms and thighs from stones, and some soldiers had their necks broken, and the headless corpses were still gurgling with blood, which was not horrible.
But the billowing smoke still covered a considerable number of Jingbei troops to climb the city, and the first to jump onto the city wall was Huang Degong, who would hold a big knife, like a demon god frantically clash forward, he must clear the gap as soon as possible, so that the follow-up Jingbei army can go to the city.
"The Ming soldiers have gone to the city, and those who surrender will not be killed."
"The Ming soldiers have gone to the city, and those who surrender will not be killed."
After cutting down several Han army flags that tried to move forward, Liu Zeqing also climbed the city head with more than ten personal soldiers, quickly controlled an area of the city wall, and then pounced on the Qing troops on both sides.
"Run...... run!"
"We've dropped ......!"
The city wall was broken through by the Ming army, the Han army of the red flag defending the city was suddenly chaotic, last year's battle of southern Liaoning and Shenyang, the two red flags were destroyed, the prince of Li Daishan, the emperor Huang Taiji was killed in the hands of the Jingbei army in succession, the Han army on the city wall lost the courage to resist, looking at Huang Degong and Liu Zeqing, who were like crazy tigers, they could not give birth to the idea of resistance at all, some people threw down their weapons in horror and turned their heads to run, and some people simply knelt on the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy.
With the Jingbei Army's arrival in the city, Xingshan City finally fell back into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, the Han army was the Red Banner Dutong Gang Atai fought to the death, and finally was chopped into meat paste by Huang Degong, who was bent on revenge, and the self-proclaimed martial arts Hashku jumped off the Xingshan City Tower in despair, and since then all the men of the Li family in Tieling have been killed by the Jingbei Army.
In the battle, the Jingbei Army lost more than 3,300 people together with the surrendered troops, and the Xingshan defenders lost 1,300 people, and the rest all surrendered.
At the same time that Xingshan was broken, Sun Zhiqiao also completed the siege of Songshan, trapping Wu Sangui, who was willing to be a Manchurian lackey, to die in the last castle on the outskirts of Jinzhou.