Chapter 216: First Strike (1)
After Li Guo, Liu Fangliang and other generals got the news of the Qing army's surprise attack, they immediately said goodbye to Tian Jianxiu, and took their own soldiers from the western city of Datong Mansion to Yan'an Mansion, and then entered Pingyang Mansion from Yan'an Mansion, and returned to the barracks to command the troops to fight.
The surprise attack of the Qing army caused the first line of defense of the Dashun army to be broken through, and it also made Ling Jingyang have no chance to continue to make a proposal to unite with the Ming army to expel the Qing army, so he had to wave his hand and Tian Jianxiu to say goodbye and rush back to Weiyuan Mansion to command the army to fight.
When the generals of the various departments in the city left, Tian Jianxiu and everyone issued the latest military order, and the armies temporarily gave up attacking Taiyuan Mansion, and made every effort to defeat the attacking Qing army, and then implement the counterattack plan after the Qing army was defeated.
Ling Jingyang and Tian Jianxiu said that he would lead reinforcements to help defend Datong City in ten days, and asked General Tian to hold on for a few days.
Tian Jianxiu asked Ling Jingyang to hurry back, and ordered all troops and horses to withdraw from the smaller city to Datong City, so as not to be broken by the Qing army one by one.
At this time, the Qing army's vanguard was already approaching Hunyuan City.
The Qing army was personally commanded by Bolo to fight, half a month ago, the army he led was defeated by the Dashun army, defeated Datong City, and also lost Jiang Xuan and a large number of Ming troops to surrender generals.
After returning to Taiyuan City, Azig was furious, if it weren't for the sake of the clan, he would have dragged Bolo out and beheaded him.
And Jiang Hao wants to cry without tears, Datong Mansion is his base camp, Datong Mansion is lost, he is a rootless duckweed, although he still has a lot of soldiers and horses, but there is no base, no supplies, and only let people slaughter in the future.
Although Datong Mansion was lost, Azig did not hurry to dispatch troops, first asked people to go to the capital to ask the regent for reinforcements, and then contacted the Qing army Aobai Department fighting in Henan and other places in time, and asked Aobai to lead the army to attack Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi from Luoyang, Henan, to contain the military strength of the Dashun army in the southwest of Shanxi and isolate the Dashun army of Datong Prefecture.
After completing the complete occupation of Taiyuan Mansion, without waiting for the soldiers to be immersed in the joy of victory, Azig led the main force to attack Datong Mansion, he not only wanted to recapture Datong Mansion, but also annihilated the Dashun army of Datong Mansion, so that the entire Shanxi could not see the shadow of the Dashun army.
Bolo was ashamed and brave, without Azig whipping, he asked to lead the forward to clear the way forward for the main force, Azig gave him 1,000 and 5 soldiers of the Eight Banners, 2,050 soldiers of the Green Battalion, and more than 4,000 people in the whole army, launched an attack from Yanmen Pass, raided the Zhongtunwei of Andong, and swept away the 2,000 Dashun troops stationed here.
Wang Yi, the general of the party guard, was seriously wounded and led the remnants of the defeated army to retreat, but Bolo did not stop the pace of the attack and led the vanguard to continue to attack Hunyuan City.
The army approached Hunyuan City, and a small number of Dashun troops surrendered to the Qing army along the way, and Bo Luo asked his subordinates to see if these surrendered Dashun troops were Jiang Xuan's subordinates.
The generals ran over and asked these surrendered soldiers, dozens of soldiers of the Dashun army were really Jiang Xuan's subordinates, after being defeated by the Dashun army, they surrendered to the Dashun army, and seeing that the Qing army was killing again, these cheap bones surrendered again.
Bo Luo learned from them that Jiang Xuan did not die, but surrendered to the Dashun army, and became the new Weiyuan Mansion right mighty general of the Dashun army.
This news made Bo Luo immediately interested, and asked his subordinates to send the surrendered Dashun army to Jiang Xuan's military camp, so that Jiang Xuan knew that Jiang Xuan was not dead, but surrendered to the Dashun army, which could inspire Jiang Xuan to work harder and harder for the Qing army, and also let Azig guard against Jiang Huang's possibility of leading the troops and surrendering the Dashun army again.
After doing all this, Bolo ordered the troops to attack Hunyuan City, Hunyuan City is the gateway to Datong City, as long as Hunyuan City is breached, the Qing army can reach the core area of Datong Mansion.
Dang Shousu personally led 4,000 elite soldiers from Hunyuan City, and there were 1,000 soldiers in the city, and there were more soldiers and horses defending the city than Boluo forwards.
But Bolo dangled a shot under Hunyuan City, leading the vanguard to the eastern city of Datong Mansion to kill, the Dashun army in the eastern city of Datong Mansion The defensive strength is insufficient, in the face of the Qing army's attack, either open the city gate and surrender, or be broken by the Qing army, within five days, the eastern states and counties of Datong Mansion were once again captured by the Qing army and became the territory of the Qing army.
After Bo Luo captured the eastern city of Datong Mansion, he still did not attack Hunyuan City, but led his troops to Weiyuan Mansion to kill, he and Azig made a tactical plan in front of the station, and wiped out all the defenders of the east and west acropolis of Datong City, and then besieged Datong City and completely wiped out the Dashun army.
Dang Shousu wasted five days in Hunyuan City, and when he reacted, Azig led the main force to kill, dozens of Hongyi cannons lined up outside Hunyuan City, Dang Shousu saw the Hongyi cannons and felt furious, this thing is really powerful to attack the city, one cannon smashed down, how thick the city wall can be smashed out of a pit.
Azig led a large army to Hunyuan City, he and Tulai ordered to break through Hunyuan City within three days, and let Jiang Hao lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to support Bolo to attack Weiyuanwei, maybe Jiang Hao could persuade Jiang Xuan to surrender again.
Azig had superb military command skills, and he ordered Geng Zhongming's troops to attack the three acropolises of Yanghewei, Gaoshanwei, and Tianchengwei in the northeast of Datong Prefecture, eliminate the local Dashun army, and then wave the army to attack Datong City from the northeast.
He led the troops and horses of his headquarters and Shang Kexi's troops as the Chinese army, and after Turai broke through Hunyuan City, the whole army killed Datong City, creating a false impression that the Dashun army was completely surrounded, and forcing the Dashun army to surrender The best way, so that the Dashun army could be digested and absorbed without consuming a single soldier and a soldier, and the strength of the Qing army would be enhanced.
If the Dashun army fights to the end, it will use Hongyi artillery to blast Datong City, and after the city is broken, no one will be left.
The battle of attacking Hunyuan City soon began, and Turai, like Bolo, also returned to Datong Mansion again, looking at the figures of the soldiers of the Dashun Army on the wall of Hunyuan City, Turai did not hesitate to order the cannons, and dozens of cannons made a deafening sound of cannonarding,
Many soldiers of the Dashun army were frightened by the spectacular artillery of the Qing army, most of the shells in the first round of artillery fire did not hit the city wall, and the Qing army soon carried out the second round of firing, this time dozens of shells, more than half of the shells smashed on the city wall, and the wall of Hunyuan City was crumbling.
"Resist it, don't let the Tartars blow down the city wall."
The soldiers of the Dashun army in the city frantically repaired the city wall, but the Qing army bombed faster, and after a while, a big hole was blasted out of the south gate of Hunyuan City.
Dang Shousu personally led 500 elite soldiers to fight a bloody battle with the Qing army at the entrance of the cave, but the Qing army was not in a hurry to attack the city, but continued to bombard Hunyuan City.
Every time the Qing army fires artillery, it causes very great pressure on the Dashun army, the city wall is constantly blasted out of cracks, and the soldiers are also killed and injured, no one knows when the Qing army will kill in, looking at the city wall There are more and more holes, Dang Shousu hurriedly asked his subordinates to withdraw the city wall, ready to fight with the Qing army in the city.
Turai wanted to force down the Dahuan army in the city, and ordered the army to pull the large artillery and small artillery into the field to bombard, the Hongyi cannon barrel was red, so he used the general cannon, the general cannon stopped, and used the tiger squat cannon and other Ming army standard artillery to maintain the uninterrupted firepower attack, and the Qing army artillery continued to bombard for a day and a night.
The Dashun army in the city began to be unable to withstand it, after dark, many Dashun soldiers went out of the city in twos and threes to surrender to the Qing army, and when one of the soldiers came out, they shaved their hair.
Seeing that his subordinates went out of the city to surrender one after another, Dang Shousu led his own soldiers at the gate of the city, and cut off the heads of dozens of soldiers who wanted to surrender out of the city in one breath before stopping the wind of surrender.
After dawn the next day, there were hundreds of soldiers of the Dashun army who were shaved and easy to obey in the Qing army, and these soldiers shouted loudly in the west of the city to open the city gate and surrender to the Qing army.
The rebels outside the city made Dang Shousu very angry, the Qing army persuaded to surrender under the city, but he refused, the Qing army saw that the persuasion could not be achieved, and bombarded it with artillery for another day, causing hundreds of casualties in the city.
Dang Shousu was a little furious by the Qing army's artillery, but he was not carried away by anger, calmed down, what did the Qing army do when they besieged Hunyuan City, did they want to trap the soldiers of the Dashun Army in the city alive?
If this is the case, the Qing army has dozens of powerful artillery bombardments day and night, which can trap the soldiers and horses of Hunyuan City alive, or maybe the Qing army encircled the point to send reinforcements, luring General Tian to lead the troops to support, and eliminate the living force of the Dashun army in Hunyuan City.
Dang Shousu did not want Tian Jianxiu to lead troops to support, which would only create an opportunity for the Qing army to completely annihilate the Dashun army.
So he decided to break through immediately, and ordered all the troops and horses to rest as usual, but in the second half of the night, he suddenly asked the generals to wake up the soldiers of the whole city, quietly gather troops in the city, and without saying a word, ordered all the troops to follow the footsteps of the vanguard and break through to Datong City.
The Dashun army in the city quietly organized a breakthrough, and the Qing army outside the city was not a fool, Azig ordered Turai to break through Hunyuan City, this is the second day, after tonight, tomorrow will attack with all his strength, Turai concluded that the Dashun army may break through tonight, and has already led two thousand soldiers and horses to ambush in the north of the city.
Sure enough, in the second half of the night, there was a killing cry from the north gate of the city, the Dashun army really chose to break through, Dang Shousu led the whole army of more than 4,000 soldiers and horses, broke through the blockade line of the Qing army at the north gate in one go, and killed and injured hundreds of Qing troops, and ran frantically to the north of Datong City.
In the breakthrough of the Dashun army tonight, the Qing army was taken by surprise, and the party guard thought that it had broken through the encirclement of the Qing army, but when passing through a forest in the north of the city, thousands of Qing troops who were ambushed here launched a surprise attack under the order of Tulai.
The retreating Dashun army was suddenly attacked by the Qing army, just like a healthy person who was knocked on the door of the head with a hammer, and was suddenly beaten and couldn't find the north.
The Qing army raided, disrupting the organization of the Dashun army, and after a while, the Dashun army, which suffered heavy losses, became a group of stragglers, and soldiers were constantly killed or surrendered, and the party Shousu was also shot in the back by the Qing army's guns, and the blood flowed like a note, and the soldiers carried him and rushed out of the encirclement with great effort.
However, most of the officers and men in the army did not evade the pursuit of the Qing army, and only more than 500 people withdrew with the party guards, and the rest of the officers and soldiers were either killed or surrendered.