Chapter 369: Attacking Liaoyang City

The next day, the fighting began again.

Emperor Shunzhi once again sat in the army and inspired the whole army to attack the Xia army's position, and in the rumbling cannon, the Qing army's infantry rushed into the range of the Type 2 rifle in the face of the artillery fire, and was once again fiercely returned fire by the Xia army's infantry soldiers.

However, the Xia army soon discovered that there was a team in the Qing army that also used the second type of rifle, and the new firearms battalion formed by the Qing army fired at each other with the Xia army under the cover of friendly troops, and the guns and cannons on both sides shook the sky and caused casualties to each other.

At the same time as the fierce battle outside the city, the Qing army of Liaoyang was not willing to be lonely, and broke through the city again, intending to annihilate the Xia army in the camp with the imperial army.

After the Qing army in Liaoyang attacked, Su Ci immediately sent a herald and ordered the first town of the west gate and the south gate to launch a feint attack on the city of Liaoyang to attract the attention of the Qing army.

After Su Ci's order was issued, the artillery of the first town finally roared, and the soldiers of the first town launched a fierce attack on the gates of Liaoyang under the cover of their own artillery fire, and the Zhenghong Banner that stayed in the city was caught off guard by the onslaught of the Xia army, even if they reacted quickly, they were still rushed under the city wall by the Xia army.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the first town set up a ladder on the city wall, intending to climb the wall to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army, and at the same time, several siege rams were also pushed outside the city gate, and the top-sharpened battering rams continued to hit the iron-clad city gate under the push of the soldiers, and the city gate continued to fall down with dust under the trembling.

During the siege battle, Danghu Bo Nguyen Jin once again exerted his spirit of being a pioneer, and led the team to climb the city wall under the cover of riflemen outside the city, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders on the city wall.

There are not many Zhenghong Banner soldiers and horses left in the city, and the total is only more than 3,000 people, and they are scattered in various city gates, even if they are assisted by the Han people, they are still difficult to withstand for a while under the onslaught of the Xia army.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the Xia army, under the leadership of Ruan Jin, forcibly conquered the Wenchang Gate in the south.

Seeing that the Wenchang Gate was taken, and they could not contact Su Ci outside the North Gate at the first time, several generals of the Xia Army at the South Gate took matters into their own hands and changed the battle plan, and they decided to take advantage of the situation to occupy the entire Liaoyang City, but instead annihilated the two baskets of banners of Liaoyang City here.

When Su Ci learned the news that Wenchang Gate had been conquered, the Xia army had already captured Fengle Gate, one of the two gates of the South Gate, and entered the city, and engaged in a tragic street battle with the Qing army who retreated to the streets.

After the Xia army invaded the city, the Manchus in Liaoyang City spontaneously organized themselves and rose up to resist, cooperating with the Qing army to repel the Han army that entered the city.

Aixin Jueluo Jidu, who was sitting in Beiguan, was the first to learn of this bad news, and he hurriedly dispatched the reserves in Beiguan that had not yet gone out of the city to fight back to the city to support, if Liaoyang was captured by the Xia army, the Qing army in the encirclement would be like rootless duckweed, and there would be no place to die.

Outside the city, the fighting continued.

The two sides were caught in a fierce battle outside the camp of the Xia army, and the imperial army, inspired by the emperor, bravely braved the rain of bullets and bullets of the Xia army to rush outside the wooden fence, forcibly cut down the wooden fence, and then rushed through the gap.

After the Qing army entered the camp, it was immediately attacked from all directions, and the Xia army first fired a volley of rifles, shooting a large number of Qing troops who rushed into the camp, and then transferred infantry guns, aimed at the gap, and shelled them with shotguns.

The power of shotguns, even if the Qing army was mentally prepared in advance, it was still difficult to withstand the large number of kills caused by shotguns, and the same was true of the Sauron soldiers who were relied on by the emperor, they were also composed of flesh and blood, seeing that the bodies of the clansmen were directly broken, they suddenly could no longer raise their morale to continue the attack, so they retreated in a hurry like the rest of the soldiers, leaving corpses all over the ground.

After several defeats and retreats, the Qing army was finally unable to continue the attack, even if the imperial court gave a great reward and killed many soldiers and generals, it was no longer possible for the soldiers to attack.

What's the use of a high reward? You have to have a life to take a life to spend it, and when someone dies on the battlefield and the money doesn't arrive, isn't it empty of people and money?

However, even if the morale of the whole army was low, the emperor still did not mean to lead the army to retreat, and the Qing army in Liaoyang at this time was still fighting with the Xia army.

In order to prevent the Xia army from devoting all its forces to fighting the Qing army in Liaoyang, the emperor gritted his teeth and ordered Yue Le to continue to deploy troops and horses to the Xia army

The camp launched a feint to contain the Xia army's forces.

On the other side, the Xia army was still fighting fiercely with the Qing army in Liaoyang, which broke through the siege, although the wooden fence destroyed by the Qing army yesterday was simply repaired, but it was destroyed again by the Qing army soon after the battle.

The Qing army then rushed into the camp through the gap and engaged the Xia army, who were repelled by the Russian garrison, wielding terrifying two-handed battle axes to tear apart one Qing army after another as they broke into the camp.

For example, the casualties in a straight line made the Qing army unable to bear it in the end, and the news of the Xia army's invasion of Fucheng spread in the army at some point, and the Qing army was even more unwilling to fight, and the army's morale fluctuated, and it was defeated and retreated.

Seeing this, Ji Du was worried about the stalemate in the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was worried about the rapidly increasing casualties outside the city, and gritted his teeth, but decided to withdraw the troops and horses to the city, and first solve the Xia army in the city.

However, after Jidu ordered the horn of retreat, the tight rope in the hearts of the Qing army on the front line was loosened in vain, and under the pursuit of the Xia army, the retreat from the original orderly retreat actually evolved directly into an orderly rout.

Under the order of Su Ci, the Xia army pursued the retreating Qing army, and the Mongolian cavalry battalion, which had been waiting in the city, finally found an opportunity, they took the lead in rushing out of the camp, and slashed left and right like wolves in the defeated Qing army, killing a large number of Qing troops.

The Xia army also ignored the shelling of the city artillery on the city wall, and pursued it until the bottom of the city wall, and the Qing army that went out of the city suffered heavy losses, and there were no ten people who could come back.

Not only that, but Belle Bezi in the two baskets of flags fighting outside the city also suffered heavy casualties, and Doni, who attacked in person, would have become a prisoner of the Xia army if he hadn't been desperately escorted by his own soldiers.

After withdrawing to Beiguan, the Qing army who had been lucky enough to withdraw looked at the closed city gate and listened to the sound of the cannon fire on the city wall, and suddenly became paralyzed, and everyone's face still carried the fear of death.

Doni's face turned pale, he was only two years older than the emperor, he had just turned nineteen, and he had never been on the battlefield before the Battle of Liaoyang, let alone experienced such a terrible fight and escape.

He was about the same age, either died on the battlefield, or was so scared that he peed his pants, and his performance was quite good.

The Qing army, which finally escaped back to Beiguan, only had time to rest for a while, and then was mobilized by Jidu to guard against the siege of the Xia army in the north - after Su Ci repelled the Qing army, he resolutely decided to cooperate with the first town to launch a siege after a short conversation with Su Dingyuan.

They did not want to be able to attack the North Pass, but also to contain the precious forces of the Qing army, which had suffered heavy losses and had few troops, so that they could not support the battlefields of other city gates.

At this time, because the Xia army at the south gate entered the city, the Xia army responsible for attacking the west to clear the gate finally defeated the Qing army stationed here and entered the city, but they were then met with spontaneous resistance from the banner people in the city.