"Why, didn't you dare to fight with the Qing army before, why did you suddenly have to live with the soldiers again, so you weren't afraid that the Qing army would raid at night and cut off your head with a knife?"

Jin Dashou and Ling Jingyang smiled embarrassedly, he felt that if he wanted to arrange a better defense, he had to understand the front-line battle on the spot, seeing that he was not afraid of death, Ling Jingyang asked him to act with the Iron Fist Battalion in this battle, to see how the Qing army fought and defended, and how should the stone camp break the Qing army's defense and defuse the Qing army's attack?

That night, the Qing army's Hongyi cannon was ready, Jiang Hao couldn't wait to issue an order to open the artillery, dozens of cannons began to exert their might, bombarding towards Weiyuan City, the rumbling bombardment lasted for half an hour, whether the Hongyi cannon tube could not be carried, Jiang Hao would continue to bombard the city wall.

Both the Dashun army and the Qing army knew the advantages and disadvantages of the Hongyi cannon, which was good at siege cities, but also had shortcomings, because it was a retreating front-loading smoothbore gun, and every time it was fired, it would seriously deviate from the original firing position.

Rao is the Qing army's Wuzhen Hachao artillery has been in battle for a long time, and it also needs to be constantly adjusted, reset, reloaded, and then set the direction angle and elevation angle, this time it bombarded for half an hour, and the east gate of Weiyuan City was crumbling, but the city wall was not collapsed, and the soldiers of the Dashun army in the city covered their ears and let the Qing army robes waste shells.

After Jiang Hao and the other shelling were over, he personally came to the artillery position and said to General Wuzhen Hachao: "Why don't you continue to bomb?" ”

The general of Wuzhen Hachao is also a Ming person, and Jiang Hao said: "It's too dark at night, and after dawn, I will continue to bomb the east gate, and I will keep it for you to blast open the east gate." ”

The sight is too dark at night, the concentrated bombardment of Hongyi artillery really has little effect, many shells don't know where to fly, and a lot of precious shells are wasted, Jiang Hao can only order to rest tonight, and wait for tomorrow after dawn, the east gate will be collapsed, and the whole army will break into and slaughter the whole city of Weiyuan City.

The Qing army outside the city sharpened its knives, and the Dashun army in the city was also in an orderly manner, after the shelling, Ling Jingyang convened the generals above the commander to hold a pre-war meeting, and after the generals were seated, Ling Jingyang asked the departments to report the losses.

Niu Guangtian, who was stationed at the east gate, took the lead in standing up, and Ling Jingyang reported the loss of the east gate, the Qing army's Hongyi artillery concentrated firepower to bombard the east gate, cracks appeared in the east gate city wall, and there were three potholes, tomorrow the Qing army continued to bombard, and the east gate city wall could not resist the ten rounds of salvo fire of the Hongyi cannon.

There were also more than 60 dead and wounded in the evasion of artillery, most of them were new recruits, who went to the battlefield for the first time, were frightened by the shells, and were killed by the fragments of the shells of the Qing army.

The losses of the other departments were not large, and the city wall was not bombarded by Hongyi artillery, Ling Jingyang nodded silently, and said to the generals: "This time, bring in the Qing army, fight in the streets of the city, and constantly drain the blood of the Qing army, and buy time for the cavalry battalion." ”

When the Qing army besieged Hunyuan City, he ordered the cavalry battalion to abandon the left guard of Datong, and the whole army retreated to Pingyuwei, and ambushed in Pingyuwei.

Li Rufeng led a cavalry force of 400 and brought 20 days of supplies to lie dormant in Pingyuwei.

The Boluo army besieged Weiyuan City, stationed 400 infantry troops on the official road between Pingyuwei and Weiyuan City, these 400 infantry troops set up cards every five miles, and for the cavalry battalions, hundreds of Qing infantry troops opened cards separately, which was completely a group of papier-mâché defense lines, which collapsed as soon as they rushed.

There was a cavalry battalion outside the city, and the generals calmed down, and Ling Jingyang and all the soldiers said: "Everyone, stick to Weiyuanwei, and you will be glorious and rich in the future, and your descendants will be shaded." ”

Of all the generals, only Dong Daqi was kept in the dark, he looked at everyone blankly, feeling very unnatural, Ling Jingyang didn't pull him to do it together, because he saw Dong Daqi's love for Bai Lushui, knowing that Bai Lushui admired him, and he also had a bad idea of Bai Lushui, such a general, Ling Jingyang didn't dare to reuse it.

This is also Ling Jingyang's decentralization of Dong Daqi from the directly subordinate troops to the locality, and then to the directly subordinate troops, and then to the local area as the right mighty general, nominally promoting him, but in fact, he is promoted in the open and secretly, from the front-line chief officer to the reserve general.

Dong Daqi's funny appearance made Ling Jingyang feel a little ridiculous, but soon he said: "Tomorrow, the Qing army will attack in a big way, all troops and horses will guard their positions, let the Qing army come in, and let the Qing army come one by one, and one by one." ”

Ling Jingyang is sure to fight street battles, not that his troops have been trained in urban combat, but to fight in the city, the advantages of the cavalry and artillery of the Qing army can not be played arbitrarily, and can only be in the city and the Dashun army in a short hand, and the terrain in the city, the Qing army is not familiar with it, it depends on who can fight whom?

Besides, Ling Jingyang also has reinforcements, Tian Jianxiu has already told him that Niu Jinxing was ordered by Li Zicheng to set off from Xi'an City with 6,000 soldiers, Ling Jingyang only needs to hold on for a few days, Niu Jinxing's reinforcements will arrive in Shanxi, from Shaanxi into Shaanxi Datong Mansion, Weiyuan City is the only way, and wait for Niu Jinxing to lead reinforcements to Weiyuan Mansion, and Weiyuan Mansion Shiying to attack the Qing army.

After unifying his thoughts with the generals, Ling Jingyang deliberately asked Dong Daqi to lead the troops to support the East Gate, Dong Daqi said that with him, the East Gate is there, and the other generals looked at Dong Daqi's appearance, and their hearts were all sighing, how pitiful the people who were abandoned by the collective.

After dawn, the Qing army's Hongyi artillery fired again, this time the artillery fire was more fierce and more accurate, and the fierce bombardment lasted all day, and finally blasted the east gate out of a big hole, Jiang Hao pulled out his waist knife, slashed forward, and thousands of green battalion soldiers rushed to the mouth of the city wall with weapons.

Bo Luo, Jiang Hao and other Qing army generals thought that the Dashun army would fight a bloody battle at the mouth of the city wall, but in fact, to their surprise, the green battalion soldiers rushed in from the mouth, watching more and more green battalion soldiers rush into the city.

Bo Luo and Jiang Hao stared wide-eyed, is this Dashun army going to surrender? Even if it is to surrender, it is not necessary to waste dozens of boxes of shells before surrendering?

The Qing soldiers who rushed into the city were divided into three parts, one part rushed forward, wanting to expand the occupation and area, and the other two parts rushed to both sides, wanting to occupy other city walls as soon as possible.

The Qing army that rushed into the city was like being possessed by a ghost, being shot into the body by arrows and projectiles, dancing one after another, dead and wounded, and the other Qing troops hurriedly looked for cover, trying to avoid the shooting of the Dashun army, but how could the Dashun army let the Qing army find cover?

Niu Guangtian and Dong Daqi led their respective subordinates, rushed forward to fight with the Qing soldiers, the Qing army broke through the city wall was too small, the Qing army in the city was defeated and retreated, but the support behind could not keep up, and was killed by the Dashun army, many Qing soldiers were either cut off their heads, or were shot to death by dark arrows.

Jiang Hao hurriedly ordered more troops to support, go to Beiboluo to stop, he decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops, the order to withdraw the troops was issued, the Qing army blocked at the entrance of the city finally recovered from the chaos, the green battalion soldiers who did not rush into the city withdrew, only dozens of green battalion soldiers who rushed into the city withdrew, and almost all the other soldiers were killed.

The tactics of the Dashun army made the Qing army Bolo very appreciative, and if he couldn't hold the city gate, he asked you to blast open the city wall and fight street battles in the city to offset the advantage of the Qing army, but Bolo was not a vegetarian, he ordered to lower the muzzle, level the city wall, smash all the city walls, and continue to use the Hongyi cannon to bombard the entire city.

But this military order was rejected by the general of Wuzhen Hachao, and he and Bo Luo said respectfully: "Beizi, the minions have not brought enough cannonballs, and it is the limit to be able to continue to knock down the Weiyuan Guard City Wall, and there is really no strength left to bombard Weiyuan City." ”

Bolo kicked over: "Dog minion, where's the cannonball?" ”

The general of Wuzhen Hachao lowered his head, and hesitantly told Bolo that Azig only gave him fifteen Hongyi cannons and one-fifth of the cannonballs, and asked him to bring them to support Weiyuan City, and the other cannonballs were in the artillery unit of Wuzhen Hachao under Datong City.

Bolo suddenly lost his arrogance, the power of the Hongyi cannon was the greatest in the siege, so he had to order to continue bombing, no matter whether there were so many shells, first knock down the city wall, and then let the green battalion soldiers rush, it is best to destroy the Dashun army, and if it can't be destroyed, it will hold on to the Dashun army, and when Azig breaks through Datong City, there will be reinforcements to reinforce.

The artillery of the Qing army continued to open fire, this time it was still the east gate, the Dashun army in the city was regarded as listening to firecrackers, the Qing army bombarded for two days, and finally knocked down part of the city wall of the east gate and the north gate.

He personally led a group of soldiers and horses to attack the east gate, his brother Jiang Rang led a group of soldiers and horses to attack the north gate, Ling Jingyang received the whole army of the Qing army in the city to attack, knowing that the Qing army had a bloody capital this time, and wanted to finish its work in a battle, and also cheered up, let the direct troops in the city, the iron fist battalion as a reserve, and all the other departments pressed up, before the battle, he and the generals ordered, be sure to repel the Qing army, and quietly Jiang Xuan said: "See if you can contact your brother's troops in the street battle?" ”

Jiang Xuan nodded, and led the troops to lurk in the alley near the center of the city in the north of the city, no matter how fierce the battle in the city was, Jiang Xuan did not lead the troops to attack, he was waiting for the green battalion soldiers and the Dashun army to fight until they were exhausted, and they were killing to see if they could capture the green battalion generals.

The street fighting in the city was very tragic, the Dashun army and the Qing army were desperate to sacrifice their lives, one side wanted to capture, the other side had to defend to the death, the soldiers of the two armies were fighting with weapons until the last moment, many soldiers were dying, and they also had to pull an enemy to die together.

The battle until the evening, still did not distinguish the winner or loser, there were not many corpses at the east gate and the north gate of Weiyuan City, but the more you went into the city, the more corpses, the corpses lying on the ground made the soldiers on both sides have to stop fighting, and after transporting the corpses, they continued to fight.

Jiang Hao continued to increase troops in the city, but still no progress was made, and Bolo couldn't stand it, so he decided to send the Eight Banners soldiers into the city to fight, and the generals waved the flag, and two thousand Eight Banners soldiers charged into the city with weapons.