"After more than thirty-four years, the banner of my Han family has finally returned to the land of Liaoyang again."

Standing on the bank of the quietly flowing Taizi River, Su Dingyuan and Su Ci looked at the swaying figures on the head of Liaoyang City, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Yes, Liaoyang is the territory of my Han people, *** barbaric occupation, and slaughter of the Han people in the city, now that our army has returned, it is time to report the justice of the people who died tragically under the *** butcher's knife." Su Ci said.

His eyes fell on the quietly flowing Taizi River, as if he had traveled through thirty-four years ago, witnessing the heart-rending cry of the Han people living here under the trampling of the Manchu cavalry, it was the blood and tears of the Han people, in exchange for the prosperity of Liaoyang today.

On this day, the Xia army besieged Liaoyang, and built a siege camp outside the gates of Liaoyang, Liaoyang Mansion City counted a total of nine city gates and eight outer gates in the north pass, two of which were close to the Taizi River, so there was no need to divide troops to besiege.

The Xia army had no intention of storming Fucheng, after dividing the Suzaku Left Brigade to cross the river to besiege Tokyo City, the main force of the Xia Army with the Qinglong Right Brigade and the Xuanwu Left Brigade stationed troops outside Beiguan City, besieging the Second Gate of Beiguan (the East Gate Yongzhi Gate faces the Taizi River, only need to divide troops to monitor), the first town divided troops to besiege the four gates of Fucheng, and monitored the Pu'an Gate near the river.

In order to completely besiege the city of Liaoyang, the Xia army divided the troops to build the siege camp at the same time, but also dug trenches on all sides outside the city, erected wooden fences, so that the Qing army in the city could not go out, and people outside the city could not enter, in addition, several trenches were also dug outside the camp facing the north, the bottom of each trench was covered with spikes, covered with millet straw, and a layer of soil was laid for camouflage, and in the innermost part of the layer of trenches, a simple wooden wall was erected, and there were many shooting holes left on the wooden wall, and the body of the car was blocked behind the wooden wall, so that the soldiers could stand on the car to shoot.

There are also artillery bunkers throughout the camp, so that their artillery can directly shell the attacking Qing army, the entire defense line can be described as impregnable, and in order to prevent the Qing army from cutting off the water source, the siege camp has spread to the bank of the Taizi River, and the Xia soldiers can draw water directly from the Taizi River.

The two baskets of flags stationed in Liaoyang City saw that the Xia army outside the city was in full swing, and they worked hard, and immediately understood the other party's intentions, and hurriedly reported to Aixin Jueluo Doni, the owner of the Zhengbasket Banner, and Aixin Jueluo Jidu, the owner of the basket flag, who were personally sitting in the city.

Now only 19 years old, Doni is the son of the late Duoduo, after the death of Dorgon and the Duoduo brothers, for some well-known reasons, Doni was also alienated by Shunzhi, and was sent here when the Xia army called, leading his main basket to defend Liaoyang.

Perhaps because the emperor was afraid that he would have a different heart and surrender to the Xia army, or maybe he really wanted to defend Liaoyang, the emperor ordered his cousin Jierharang's son Jidu to be the general of Dingyuan, and led the basket flag and Zhenghong flag to enter Liaoyang to have an overview of Liaoyang's military affairs.

Only Ji Du himself knew that he led the army to hold this place for two purposes, one was to stick to Liaoyang and contain the Xia army here, so that the imperial court could have more time to gather troops and horses, and the other was to monitor Doni to prevent him from harboring two hearts and defecting to the Xia army.

After learning that the Xia army was building outside the city, Doni and Jidu hurriedly walked up to the city wall to observe the movements of the Xia army, and after watching for a while, Jidu's face couldn't help but be gloomy, and he said to Doni and the generals of the Three Banners: "It seems that the Xia army is preparing to trap us in Liaoyang City, how much grain and grass is there in the city?"

"That's enough for the army to last three months." A general in charge of logistics hurriedly replied.

Hearing that he could hold out for three months, Ji Du nodded, no matter how slow the imperial army was, it was impossible for them not to be ready for three months, seeing them trapped and dying in Liaoyang, as long as they waited for the imperial army to come, the Xia army would either retreat without a fight, or fight to the death to decide the fate of Shengjing, no matter how it was, it would not take three months.

"What about the draft problem in the army?" Jidu asked again, although Liaoyang City was built according to the Taizi River, the Taizi River did not pass through the city, and the Xia army was eyeing outside, so they had no way to go outside the city to get water.

And...... If you want to get water on a large scale, you will definitely not be able to escape the eyes and ears of the Xia army, if the Xia army takes advantage of this time to attack, the soldiers who go out to get water will definitely have no return.

"Before the Xia army besieged the city, he had ordered Bao Yinu to dig a few more wells in the city, and water was not a problem." Na Jiangzo replied.

Since you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, so is Jidu

There was nothing to worry about, the stone hanging in his heart was loosened by more than half, and he was full of optimism about the future battle situation, he asked the soldiers on duty to pay more attention to the Xia army outside the city, and left the city with a group of generals.

Contrary to Jidu's optimism, on the other side of the Taizi River, in Tokyo City, Meler Zhangjing, who stayed in Tokyo City, looked at the Xia army outside the city with cannons ready to attack, and his face was full of gloom.

Tokyo City as the former capital of the Later Jin, even if the imperial capital has been moved elsewhere, there is still a Mele Zhangjing left here, when the Xia army came, the remaining Meler Zhangjing once asked Liaoyang Mansion to send additional troops to help defend the city, but Jidu had no intention of distracting the precious troops to defend a doomed city, he only symbolically sent a Niu Lu and hundreds of clothes.

This amount of strength did not ease the pressure on the city's defenses, which were still empty, and they could not even deploy enough soldiers on each wall to defend them.

Fortunately, the Suzaku Left Brigade, which was besieging Tokyo Castle, did not have enough troops to besiege Tokyo Castle, and they could only attack from outside the two gates, but this was enough.

After arriving at the castle of Tokyo, the commander of the Suzaku Left Brigade and the adjutant general Wang Jinbao of the army, they did not set up a siege camp outside the castle, but they were ordered to fight a quick battle before they set out, so after arriving outside the castle, they lined up the artillery they carried and launched an artillery bombardment at the gate of the castle.

Rumble –

The sound of artillery on the other side of the river made Ji Du and the others who were returning to the government office pause, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly looked in the direction where the cannon sounded, he saw that the cannon sound came from the direction of Tokyo City, how did he not know that this was the Xia army began to besiege the city.

Although he had expected that Xia Jun would attack Tokyo City in advance, he was still inevitably anxious in his heart, and did not continue to walk towards the government office, but walked non-stop towards Pu'an Gate, climbed to the top of the city, and looked in the direction of Tokyo City.

But the distance between the two places is still a bit far, Ji Du and the others can only see a black line representing the city wall of Tokyo in the distance, fortunately, Ji Du has a clairvoyant mirror bought from Nanyang, he picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked into the distance to barely see the military formation of the Xia army outside Tokyo.

The city of Tokyo did not deploy the city fire artillery, the Qing army in the city could only passively endure the artillery bombardment of the Xia army, after several rounds of shelling, the city gate was finally blasted open, the Xia army immediately sounded the horn of attack, and launched a fierce attack on the city.

In the sound of the horn, the soldiers of the Russian garrison wearing heavy armor and holding battle axes shouted and rushed towards the blasted open city gate, and the Manchurian soldiers on the city wall hurriedly drew arrows with bows and arrows, and shot light arrows at the Xia army that rushed into the firing range.

However, they soon discovered that the light arrows fired could not effectively damage the heavily armored Xia army, so they temporarily stopped shooting and waited for the Xia army to rush closer and shoot with heavy iron arrows.

The heavy iron arrow is the heavy arrow like the javelin that was handed down in later generations, although it is not as exaggerated as the javelin, but its armor-piercing effect and power are still obvious to all, after the Qing army replaced the heavy arrow, the number of Xia army foot soldiers who fell under the rain of arrows rose sharply.

"Rush into the city, all the people are full, and not one will be left!"

The officers of the Xia army shouted loudly, and the foot soldiers under their leadership poured into the city gate in the rain of arrows, stepped on the shattered fragments of the city gate and rushed to the porch, engaging the Manchurian heavy infantry waiting behind the porch.

One side wielded a terrifying two-handed battle axe, the other held a round shield and a long-handled war knife, in this narrow porch into a fierce fight, the Russian garrison wielded a battle axe can easily smash the shield in the hands of the Manchurian soldiers, the huge stamina made the Manchurian soldiers uncontrollably take a few steps back, their throats are sweet, and they almost vomit blood.

After a fierce battle, the Xia army still broke through the blockade of the Manchurian infantry and rushed into the city, but after they rushed into the city, they were immediately resisted by the Manchurian bannermen living in the city, and the Manchus in the city spontaneously took up arms to fight against the Xia army without being mobilized.

The old men who had been on the battlefield organized men to line up to meet the enemy, and those strong Manchu women stood behind with bows and arrows to shoot at the Xia army.

Compared with the bravery of the bannermen and civilians in the city, those clothed and organized clothed slaves are visible

Some cringe, after the uprising of the Han people in Liaodong, the Manchu people's defense of the Han people has been raised to a higher level, those who have received military training and are trusted in armor and clothing are okay, the cloth slaves in the city can only get obsolete weapons, and the waist knives in their hands are even rusty and dissatisfied, making people have to wonder if they will crack by cutting down hard objects.

In the melee, some Han people who were unwilling to continue to work for the Manchurians took advantage of the chaos to flee, and their escape also shook the hearts of the rest of the Baoyi army, and soon joined the ranks of fleeing under the offensive of the Xia army.

Under the resistance of the banner people with the same hatred and hatred, the offensive of the Xia army for a time actually faintly showed signs of being repulsed, but this was only temporary, with the addition of the new force of the Xia army, the Manchurian defense line was finally broken through, the Xia army rushed into the city, and fell into a fierce battle with the banner people attacking from all directions on the street.

The battle lasted until the end of the night, and after the last Manchu who resisted was killed in the Khan's palace, the battle in the city finally ended, and all the bannermen who participated in the resistance were killed, only the Han Bao Yi who surrendered and a small number of Manchus who surrendered in time escaped and were left with their lives.

The streets of Tokyo are littered with corpses and rivers of blood, and everywhere you can see the hideous faces of the flag men before they die, and the rich and disgusting smell of blood permeates the entire city.