"Boom, boom!"

The Eight Banners of Manchuria, which were about to shoot heavy arrows, were suddenly blown over by more than a dozen 10,000 enemies.

Blowing up is an adjective, because it is less powerful, and it is all about hurting people by the shrapnel that bursts. The most disgusting thing is that there are lime and chili noodles inside, not only the Eight Banners soldiers who are shooting heavy arrows suffer, but even the follow-up troops who climb the cloud ladder can't open their eyes.

"Rush again!"

Ao Bai covered his mouth and nose and stood behind the cart and yelled.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Just as Ao Bai was reorganizing the charge, the city's artillery rang out again. However, it was Dolgon on both sides of the northern city wall who suddenly invested a large number of troops, and just now the Datong army stopped firing artillery, and it was also adjusting the direction of the shooting.

The generals of the Qing army, who often attacked the city under artillery fire, were very keenly aware that the garrison artillery of the Datong army seemed to concentrate on defending the gap in the city wall.

So the Eight Banners gave up the cart and ran fast with a simple ladder.

Because the Manchu tunnels had been dug very far ahead, when the Datong Army adjusted its artillery positions, thousands of Eight Banner soldiers had already rushed out of the artillery firing boundary. The artillery of the Datong Army could only hit the tail of the enemy unit.

It was not the negligence of the defenders, but the method of digging tunnels to attack the city worked, and the forty or fifty days of tunnel operations before the Manchu Qing Dynasty were not done in vain.

Of course, they rushed to the city so quickly that they could not carry a real siege ladder.

The real ladder has to be pushed and walked like a car, and the speed is not much faster than that of a car.

"Bang bang bang!"

The artillery angles could not be fired, and the musketeers on the walls opened fire.

These Eight Banners rushed out of the artillery firing range, but they were not really next to the city wall, and they could not attack with rolling logs or falling rocks, so they could only use fire guns or bows and arrows.

At the cost of more than 300 people coming back, thousands of fire-gunned soldiers ran sideways, carrying improvised wooden ladders and rushing to the vicinity of the gap in the city wall.

Ten thousand enemies can't smash it, or rather, these Eight Banners soldiers along their mouths and noses don't pay attention to the explosion of ten thousand enemies. Anyway, the explosion is not very powerful, and after wearing double armor, he is not afraid of shrapnel, as long as he can carry lime and pepper noodles, at most he will be injured by shrapnel, and those who are killed on the spot are unlucky.

Finally, the Eight Banners attacked the earth and stone platform where the city wall collapsed, and the Eight Banners in the rear also threw stabbing arrows.

"Bang bang bang!"

In the face of a volley of firearms, with the cooperation of 10,000 enemies, the Manchu Qing offensive failed again, and the survivors who rushed up fled one after another.

"Kill!"

Ao Bai hacked a rout to death, led the charge with a limp, and climbed up as fast as anyone who had nothing to do.

The musketeers had already retreated to reload, and the rattan players and pikemen quickly replenished them, and stabbed at the edge of the earth and stone platform towards the enemy.

This position is very cramped, and there is not much room for firecrackers, and if they are all replaced with flintlock guns, they will definitely stand more.

The rattan players of the Datong Army squatted and raised their shields to protect their whole bodies, and if they stood up, they were easy to be cut off. The pikemen clinged to him, stabbing their spears above their shields, killing the Eight Banners as they tried to climb up.

Ao Bai was shot twice, but he dodged in time, and he was not hit by the vital point, and even suffered only minor injuries after wearing double armor.

This thing is fierce and abnormal, and when he saw that he was about to be poked down, he actually reached out and grabbed a rattan card, trying to drag the rattan player down together.

The player had no choice but to give up his shield and look at his left hand where he was grabbing it.

The middle finger and ring finger of Aobai's left hand were cut off on the spot, and the whole person also fell down the simple wooden ladder.

"Woohoo!"

The Manchu archers in the rear shot heavy arrows diagonally upwards at close range.

In an instant, there were more than a dozen spearmen with arrows, and a few Manchu heavy arrows actually shot through the rattan card of the Datong army.

"Boom, boom!"

More than 200,000 enemies smashed down and threw themselves at the Eight Banners gathered in the rear. The firecrackers also moved to the city wall and fired at the Eight Banners below.

At the same time, the Han army banner soldiers of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion also shot at the Datong army on the earth and stone platform.

By now, this place has finally become a flesh millstone, and the casualties on both sides are skyrocketing.

After being knocked out of the gap by heavy arrows and firecrackers, the Eight Banners soldiers in the front row took the opportunity to rush onto the earth and stone platform, and the attacking and defending sides were completely scuffled.

But the death rate in melee combat has become smaller, everyone is in armor, and you can't hack the enemy to death for half a day. On the contrary, it was a firecracker and 10,000 enemies, which continued to cause damage to the enemy's follow-up troops. The enemy's stabbing arrows were also being thrown all the time, always hitting a few Datong troops in the rear.

The east and west walls were also fighting sieges at this time.

The Eight Banners pushed the carts and ladders, and soon approached the city wall, and were not badly bombarded by the artillery, because most of the artillery was transferred to the northern city.

……

The reinforcements of Li Zheng, Xiao Zongxian, and Lu Xiangsheng have approached the Manchu camp.

But it was difficult to attack, and it was all about a circle of trenches and earthen walls.

It's not that Dolgon learned to be obedient and dumbfounded, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always been like this. Huang Taiji especially likes to do this, once he feels that he can't break the city quickly, he will build his camp as impregnable, and many times it will become the Ming reinforcements to attack his stockade, and the siege war will be a garrison war against the reinforcements.

After paying hundreds of casualties, Li Zheng decisively stopped the attack and said: "You can't attack like this, otherwise you will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and you may not be able to attack." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "In the huge city of Gaizhou, in just two months, it is impossible for the Tartars to dig trenches and build earthen walls everywhere. Even so, the enemy army is storming the city, and it is impossible to defend it everywhere. ”

Xiao Zongxian analyzed: "Our army has attacked the enemy camp in the north, and there must be heavy troops in the north. The east of the city is one of the channels for their withdrawal, and there must be heavy troops. It's not much use to go to the south of the city, it's just to cross the river into the city and help Xiaohu defend the city. How about the west of the city? ”

Li Zheng said: "In order to prevent us from coming to help from the sea, the Tartars built many forts along the coast west of the city. I'm afraid it's also heavily guarded! ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "The sea ship can only reach the mouth of the Daqing River, and if it sails inside, it will have to run aground." The Qing army built artillery shells to prevent us from using small boats to transport grain from the Daqing River into the city. We will not take the Daqing River, but land north of the Daqing River. When he saw the trench and the earthen wall, he went to occupy it, and he also occupied the Tartar battery along the river, where it was absolutely impossible to prevent more than 20,000 people from attacking! ”

"But if we go around, we can't block the retreat of the Tartars," Xiao Zongxian said, "as long as the Tartars don't suffer too heavy casualties, they can retreat calmly." ”

Li Zheng supported Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion and said: "You can't become a big fat man by eating in one bite, this battle is not for the total annihilation of the Tartars, as long as we hold Gaizhou, we will win." Moreover, even if the Tartars want to leave, they have to leave something behind. If you don't feed us, will the Tartar army be gone? ”

Of course, it was the broken rear troops that remained, and the army had to do so if it wanted to evacuate.

Li Zheng belongs to the commander of the reinforcements, and since he has made the decision, he has to carry it out.

After going around the sea to the north, the reinforcements camped for several days, and more than 100 dead and wounded left again, and they had to circle the sea again.

"Your Highness, the enemy army has withdrawn, do you want to pursue?" Sukh Saha asked.

Dorgon shook his head: "Don't chase, concentrate on attacking the city." The enemy army in the north will definitely not be able to attack, so they pretend to withdraw their troops to lure us into pursuit. ”

……

The battle in the north of the city was mainly carried out by the two blue flags and the red flags, and the remaining eight banner troops attacked the east and west of the city.

It was here that the fighting was fiercest and the casualties were the heaviest.

Nurhachi's grandson and Hauge's henchman Kubilon said, "Lord, you can't fight like this anymore. There was a lively fight on the east and west sides, but in fact, not many people died, only our side of the battle was dangerous. Man Dahai knows the stakes and has not contributed much, only the warriors of our two blue flags are fighting desperately. This is Dolgon borrowing the hand of the Nanban to deliberately weaken the strength of the two blue flags! ”

Hauge waved his hand and said: "Since you are on the battlefield, you should use all your strength, and don't get involved in the internal grievances of the Eight Banners." ”

Kupilon hurriedly said: "We are using all our strength, but Mandahai, which is inlaid with red flags, is attacking the same city wall as us, and the soldiers with red flags are using all their strength?" The tough battle is fought with two blue flags! ”

"Hugh is going to talk nonsense," Hauge scolded, "you are too distracted, and you are not good at fighting." When is it? The Southern Barbarians have three cities in Liaodong, and if they don't make any effort to capture Gaizhou today, we won't be able to keep Kyoto in a few years! ”

He wanted to speak and stopped, so he could only retreat silently.

Retreating to his brother's side, Chaohar said: "Sixteenth brother, you know what kind of temper the prince has, no matter how much he persuades, it is useless. ”

Curb Pilon sighed and said, "Brother Thirteen, having said that, but...... The two blue flags can't stand such a fight. ”

According to the original historical trajectory, Chaohar should have died in battle during the siege of Jinzhou, but now it is still in good condition. He was a half-brother to Suppilon, the grandson of Nurhachi, and the mother of Chaohar.

The father of the two was very good at giving birth, giving birth to a total of sixteen sons, and several died in the battle for the Manchu Dynasty.

The waist knife of Suppilon is very famous, and it was still there until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Cezanne as a messenger to conquer the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xianfeng gave him a strong waist knife, and the tooth plate tied to the handle of the knife was engraved with the words "Shenfeng Grip Victory". Qianlong sent Fu Heng to pacify Jinchuan, which was also the imperial gift of this knife to go on the expedition.

While the brothers were whispering, the Red Banner soldiers of Mandahai were ordered by Dorgon to intensify their attack.

Man Dahai didn't dare to disobey the military order, so he had to send troops to push the cart and the ladder, and ran to the north city wall to attack the city.

In the gap in the city wall, the corpses were already piled up.

So far, the Datong army has only retreated four meters on the earth and stone platform, and the price paid is more than 300 people killed.

As for the Eight Banners soldiers who attacked the gap, thousands of them were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, and most of the wounded were blown up by 10,000 enemies.

The first warrior of Manchuria, although his leg injury was healed, he became lame. Now, two fingers of his left hand have been cut off, and he has been wounded in seven or eight places, and he is still fighting there.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

More than 10,000 enemies smashed down, and the Eight Banners who were climbing the earth platform finally couldn't bear it anymore and were blown up and scattered directly on the spot.

"Kill!"

The Datong officer who led the team to guard the gap was named Li Fuguo, and he took the opportunity to order a counterattack, which immediately turned from a defensive position to a charge.

"Uh......"

Ao Bai's eyes widened, and then he fell on his back and was stabbed in the throat by Li Fuguo.

The Eight Banners of Tushitai were killed, the Datong army once again completely controlled the gap in the city wall, and the Manchus had to organize a new attack.