Chapter 358: Recovering Liaoxi
Jinzhou, the easternmost point of the Liaoning West Corridor, is the hole that connects the northeast with various places in the Guannai, which is like a throat, and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.
Therefore, after the fall of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, the Qing army chose to set up heavy defenses here, and reactivated Shuosai, the prince of Heshuo Chengze, who had been under house arrest until now, and ordered him to serve as the defender of Jinzhou.
According to history, Shuo Sai died of illness as early as the first month, but perhaps because of the stable living environment after house arrest, Shuo Sai did not get sick, he was still strong, and even gave birth to an heir during house arrest.
However, this has nothing to do with the next Jinzhou War, and the reactivated Shuo Saimo shook his hands, and he vowed to take revenge on the Xia Army through the Battle of Jinzhou, making Su Yan regret that he had bullied himself so much.
After taking office, Shuo Sai immediately led his own rainbow banner to Jinzhou, and after entering the city, he immediately deployed the defenders in the city, actively hoarding materials to defend the city, intending to build Jinzhou City into a strong city that made the Xia army hit their heads and bleed.
However, when he saw the bare artillery emplacements on the head of Jinzhou City, his mentality almost collapsed.
After the Qing Dynasty conquered Jinzhou, it directly dismantled the Hongyi cannon at the head of Jinzhou City, and then entered the customs to fight smoothly, and there was no need to reload the city fire cannon for Jinzhou, so after the Xia army came back, Jinzhou actually appeared in an embarrassing situation where there was no artillery to defend.
Shuo Sai knew that he was probably going to die with Jinzhou in this battle.
There was no extra time for Shuosai to regret it, a few days later, the Xia army finally came to Jinzhou City, although Jinzhou has a high wall and a strong city, but the scale of the city is not large, which is convenient for the Xia army to fully besiege the city, but it is also convenient for the Qing army to concentrate its forces to hold on.
Su Ci looked at the Manchurian rainbow flags and cypress flags flying high above the city, but there was no pre-war tension on his face, and he smiled and said to the generals beside him:
"The Qing army is also in a hurry to jump over the wall, and at once put into the two Manchurian Eight Banners of the Inlaid Rainbow Banner and the Inlaid Cypress Banner, but this also proves that the situation of the Qing army is not easy, I heard that Rong Guogong has recovered the Liaodong Peninsula, as long as our army takes Jinzhou, it will soon be able to join him."
"Overseer, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and lead the soldiers to the head of the city first!" Dang Hu Bo Ruan Jin said with his fists clenched.
Su Ci glanced at him and continued to smile, "Why should Uncle Danghu be in a hurry? It is not too late to wait for the walls to fall before attacking, and at that time the Governor hopes that Danghubo will be able to rush to the front and win the first victory."
"The last general commands." Nguyen Jin should go down.
Su Ci liked Ruan Jin very much, a brave vanguard general, and when the Xia army conquered Shanhaiguan, it was Ruan Jin who was the first to rush into the pass and cut off the banner of the Qing army, so he would encourage Ruan Jin to win the first merit again.
After some chatting, Su Ci immediately ordered the army to surround Fucheng, he personally led the troops to the north gate of the town, ordered Hu Bo Ruan Jin to lead 3,000 troops to be stationed outside the small north gate of Dongguan, Pingyi Hou Zhou Hezhi led 3,000 troops to be stationed outside the small east gate of Dongguan, Ma Tai, the general soldier of Zhongzhen, led 3,000 troops to be stationed outside the small west gate of Dongguan, Shandong commanded Zhang Tianlu to lead 3,000 troops outside the Guangshun Gate, and Hebei commanded Yang Chengzu to lead the headquarters of 3,000 troops to Yonganmen.
The Xia army immediately surrounded Jinzhou to the point where it was impassable, cut down the surrounding trees, and built siege camps and artillery positions.
At the same time as the Xia army besieged the city, Shuo Sai also began to arrange the guards of each gate, he still inevitably had the idea of preserving his strength, and assigned the north gate of the town with the largest number of Xia army troops to the inlaid cypress banner, although Zhuo Luo, who fled back from Ningyuan, was dissatisfied, but the strength of the inlaid rainbow banner in the city was superior, and he could only swallow the dissatisfaction.
Two days later, the Xia army began to bombard the capital of Jinzhou, and the artillery in the army was concentrated in the north gate of the town, so the gate was bombarded with a key point, and the inlaid cypress banner guarding this place was already in turmoil because of successive defeats, and since the death of Dolgon, the treatment of the inlaid cypress banner has plummeted, and the children in the banner are already dissatisfied, and it is even more impossible to serve the Aixin Jueluo family of the three banners.
Therefore, after being taken care of, the phenomenon of deserters directly appeared at the north gate of the town, and those deserters directly took off their armor and fled into the alleys that extend in all directions in the city, and no one can be found again.
Even the Manchus will have deserters, let alone the Han people, but Zhuo Luo can't bear to attack the Manchu compatriots, it doesn't mean that he won't do anything to the Han people, those who want to escape
The Han Baoyi was directly arrested by his order and executed in public, barely stabilizing the wavering military heart.
The first day's shelling was nothing more than a tentative action, and through this shelling, the Xia army also discovered the lack of city fire artillery, and after hearing this, Su Ci couldn't help but laugh out loud, mocking the Qing army's self-cutting Great Wall.
Since the Qing army lacked city artillery, Su Ci had no worries, he ordered a full-scale attack the next day, the Xia army attacked from all gates, they carried the battering rams in a hurry, and rushed to the city gate in the rain of guns and arrows from the city, intending to break the city gate and enter the city from the city gate.
And the north gate of the town is the rumbling of artillery, the artillery of the Xia army concentrated on the city wall of the north gate of the town to bombard, the city wall of Jinzhou has been lacking repair since the Qing army entered the customs, although last year after withdrawing to the outside of the customs temporarily crammed to the Buddha's feet, but the effect is not very good.
Under the bombardment of the Xia army, there were many cracks in the Jinzhou city wall, and the defenders on the city wall felt the shaking under their feet, knowing that the city wall was damaged, they naturally did not dare to continue to stay on the city wall, and hurriedly left this section of the city wall.
On the other side, Danghu Bo Ruan Jin once again exerted his spirit of being a soldier, he concentrated the gunpowder in the army, personally held the shield, and covered the soldiers close to the city wall, after arriving at the city wall, the Xia soldiers used the cover of the shield to wave their pickaxes wildly, forcibly dug a big hole at the bottom of the city wall, and piled the gunpowder inside.
The Qing army soon discovered their purpose and frantically tried to stop the Xia army from blowing up the city walls with gunpowder, but the Xia army was greatly encouraged by Nguyen Jin's lead and soon piled a large amount of gunpowder under the city walls and ignited the gunpowder.
Dozens of breaths later, only to hear a deafening explosion, the whole earth trembled, a section of the city wall of the small north gate of Dongguan was directly blown up by the Xia army with gunpowder, the city wall collapsed and raised dust, gravel splashed, indiscriminately hit the Xia Qing soldiers within the range.
Seeing the city wall falling, Ruan Jin pulled out his saber from Zhoushan to the present, and shouted: "Soldiers, follow me, the first to enter the city is a great achievement!"
When the words fell, he took the lead in killing the gap in the collapsed city wall, and the soldiers of the Xia army deployed outside the small north gate were deeply affected, and they also shouted and went into the attack.
The Qing army at Xiaobeimen was affected by the explosion just now, and when they eased up, the Xia army had already rushed to the front of the gap and began to climb the ruins, and the Qing army hurriedly stopped the counterattack, but it was no longer able to stop the Xia army with high morale.
After a fierce battle, the Qing army was defeated and retreated, and Ruan Jin took the lead in rushing into the city and killed several Qing soldiers with his own hands, and his bravery won the admiration and support of the whole army.