Chapter 174: Wang Hongyu will definitely arrive
The arrows on Liaoyang City missed and the guns roared, and the coating fell down one by one.
Is the coating pitiful? Wretched.
But it's even more hateful!
The defenders on the city wall under the command of Zhang Quan shot with crossbow arrows, bows and arrows, and three-eyed guns, and as long as the armor without an inch of armor and the weak body bones were hit, it was impossible to survive until this time next year.
There was a wail on the ground, and Bao Yi walked all the way to death.
Some lucky coats, carrying back baskets made of thorns, lined up to carry the soil, walked to the river bank and bowed down, and the soil in the thorn basket poured into the river, turned around and left quickly.
However, Jiannu did not let them retreat to the rear, and either carried another bag of earth to fill it, or they picked up their companions from the ground, whether they lived or died, and lifted them and threw them into the river.
The soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner and the Horqin Mongol cavalry stood in the distance and shot arrows at the city wall to suppress the Ming army's shooting. The arquebusiers of the Ming army also fired at the Zhengbai Banner and the Mongol army. As for shooting coatings, you can use a bow and arrow, a three-eyed gun, not far.
There are also Fran cannons firing at the enemy on the walls, and of course there are tiger cannons firing gravel projectiles inside the city.
The new Baoyi did not participate in the excavation, transport, and filling of the soil, but was transferred to the rear, in fact, they were afraid that they would see a large number of Baoyi die and be filled into the river.
Baskets of mud were poured into the river, and batches of clothed ghosts cried wolf to death, and then were filled into the river. The moat was filled only 5 battles wide and a short section.
The first wave of ditches and rivers were killed, but the guns, guns, bows and crossbows of the defenders were all seen by Jiannu one by one.
In the battle with Yuan Yingtai, Amin and Zilharang, who were inlaid with blue flags, regained their confidence in being defeated by the Southern Army, and found a weak point in defense at this time.
The moat outside the east gate was very wide, but it was connected to a river outside the city, and the moat was blocked by a sluice to the river.
If you take the sluice, you can drain the water from the moat!
Amin immediately sent someone to inform Nurhachi of the plan, and Nurhachi praised:
"In the first stage of the attack on Liaoyang, the defeat of Yuan Yingtai and Zhu Wanliang in the field with blue flags is the first achievement! If this plan is successful, release the water of the moat and enter the city first, then the whole battle will have the greatest credit for the blue flag, and the reward will be absolutely the first in the future! ”
Amin was caught up in such a picture, coupled with the persuasion and inducement of Zilharang from the side, he immediately decided to set the main force of the blue flag and send out the whole army.
Outside the sluice, there were Ming army camp soldiers, and Yuan Yingtai retreated into the city when he was defeated, and Zhang Quan had to re-send the temporarily recruited Liaoyang rebel guards at this time.
These Liaoyang rebels were originally ordinary people or refugees, and their combat experience was far inferior to that of the battalion soldiers, but Zhang Quan selected the members properly, and each of them was brave people, and most of the leaders had blood feuds with Jiannu.
With only 1,000 people, nearly 5,000 people attacked with blue flags.
Zhang Quan, who was originally resisting the main force of Jiannu in the north of the city, also led people to hurry up to support the east of the city, and immediately put all his strength on the city gate tower to support the cannons, and carried it for an hour, but he still did not lose the sluice.
Amin was furious, and threw in the newly added barbarians with the blue flag, and personally led 700 Bayala guards into battle, which killed all the rebels guarding the gate and opened the gate to release the water from the moat.
He was so meritorious that as soon as the water from the moat was put into the river through the sluice, he let the blue flag all besiege the city.
However, Zhang Quan guarded it properly, and for a while, the eastern part of the city was stable and there was no risk of loss.
At this moment, there was a sudden chaos in the west of the city.
As soon as the water of the moat was released, the Ming army's supervisors Gao Gao, Hu Yingdong and other civil officials took the lead in escaping from the city wall with hanging baskets.
There was a great chaos in the city, a large number of large families rebelled, and the remaining Mongol soldiers also rebelled.
The north gate and the south gate were opened, and the two yellow flags and the white flag were the first to enter the city.
The west gate was also opened, and Zu Dashou led the army to break through the siege.
Later, when the Jin army entered the city, they were not blocked, but were greeted by the people, and some women even dressed up in makeup to welcome them.
Of course, these people are not ordinary people, Liaodong has been fighting for many years, and only large families have the financial resources to prepare fancy clothes and makeup. Ordinary people would flee to the Guannai if they had a little wealth, and those who remained were either the most miserable tenants, hunters, and refugees, or the great clans with countless fields and shops.
At this time, the various clans in Liaoyang City, especially some big landlords and big businessmen, had long been secretly communicating with Houjin, and now of course they are rushing to show their loyalty.
Yuan Yingtai was very benevolent to these clans, and wanted to exchange this for the support of the clans for him and the imperial court.
The big clan greeted Jiannu in full costume and reciprocated his benevolence.
Yuan Yingtai was still holding on to the watchtower, guarded by big shield soldiers around him, and even he himself was holding a shield. But this shield can't guard Liaoyang City, and even his safety can't be protected.
The blue flag could not enter from the east of the city, so he simply let Dai Shan's two red flags be blocked here, and he himself led the blue flag to enter the city from the north of the city, following the white flag and the Mongolian soldiers.
Unlike Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, who were busy eliminating the remnants of the Ming army and pacifying the big families in Liaoyang after entering the city, he directly led people to the west of the city, specifically to block the exit and prevent the people from fleeing Liaoyang.
This was done in order to grab more coats, so that the blue flag with the greater losses could replenish the slaves.
Unexpectedly, the Kormi Mongols also thought the same, these Mongols lost a large number of cavalry, and they could not rob those big families who had old ties with Nurhachi, so they could only come to the west of the city to catch slaves.
A large number of civilians in Liaoyang are fleeing, Jiannu and Mongolian horses are blocking the roads, and people are scolding and wailing everywhere, and the scene is extremely out of control.
"Both! All! All! ”
There was a trumpet in the west.
As the sound of the horn entered the city, all kinds of people, who had been noisy, suddenly fell silent.
"Both! All! All! ”
The people of the city, the defeated soldiers, the Jiannu soldiers, and the Mongol soldiers looked to the west, but they saw nothing through the city wall.
But the sound of the trumpet tugged at the heart of each and every one of them.
Because that's the clarion call of the Ming army!
On the west wall of Liaoyang, the remnants of the defenders who were panicking and preparing to flee saw an amazing scene on the city wall.
The reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty have arrived!
The banner is neat and mighty, the horn is loud and majestic, and the spears that are as dense as a forest look like a forest, and they are still running towards Liaoyang.
It's hard to imagine that if those soldiers and horses in Liaoyang have such momentum and fighting spirit, will the people of Liaodong still be worried? Are you still worried that you won't be able to farm and graze well, and you'll be afraid that the sky will fall all day long?
In fact, there are a lot of Liao soldiers here, and there are even soldiers and horses who escaped from Liaoyang just now.
Wang Hongyu, Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Hannian, Qin Ling, Zhou Yijie, Jiang Bi, You Shilu, Zhao Shujiao, Liu Qu, Luo Yiyi, and Zu Dashou, who had just escaped and now returned, led nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill them.
Wang Hongyu was on the bank of the Liao River, and when he heard that Liaoyang was in an emergency, he rushed to support him with Liu Qu, the deputy general of Guangning, Luo Chengcheng, and all the soldiers and horses of Sichuan, Zhejiang, Turkey, and the three sides who were not seriously wounded.
Jiannu must not be allowed to occupy Liaoyang, the largest city in eastern Liaodong, in vain.