In the early morning of the next day, the four defensive lines of Shenyang City were once again ignited, and the artillery of the Ming army began to bombard at dawn, and the dense artillery fire almost covered the second line of defense on all sides of Shenyang City, and the momentum was huge, and the ground shook the mountains.

In the north of Shenyang City, Zheng Zhilong mobilized the 14th Army of the National Defense Army to attack, after more than an hour of artillery bombardment, the Han army stationed in the second line of defense in the north is more than 23,000 people in the red flag, as well as more than 20,000 Manchu soldiers, more than 10,000 Mongolian tribesmen, and thousands of Han people Zhuang were beaten to nowhere to hide, and the broken defense line was full of all kinds of corpses, killed by rockets, broken by shells, and countless stumps and broken arms, all "described" the brutality of the Ming army's artillery fire!

At this time, the officers and men of the 14th Army of the National Defense Army advanced forward in formation, the chief officer Tian Zhenbei supervised the formation in the rear, the deputy commander-in-chief Jiang Yun and the left battalion general Feng Tang and the right battalion general Fu Mingwu led the troops to attack, and tens of thousands of soldiers quickly advanced to the south, and soon broke through to a distance of dozens of steps from the second line of defense.

"Shoot the arrows! Stop the Ming army! ”

At this time, the Han army was shouting loudly, his eyes revealed panic and uneasiness, and the troops in his hands seemed to be more than 60,000 people, but most of them were rabble, and it was okay to fight fiercely, and it was not enough to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Moreover, after the fierce artillery bombardment of the Ming army, the warriors of all departments suffered many casualties, and the fortifications on the defense line were destroyed by the artillery fire of the Ming army.

However, the Han army still has some means to strengthen the mountain with the red flag, and directly ordered: "The whole army is defended in sections, and the team is cut off, which section loses the position, from the generals to the soldiers, all the heads are beheaded!" ”

"Get a Ming army head, reward fifty taels of silver, and reward half a future!"

The "half future" mentioned by Nabayan is the lowest official position of the Manchu Qing dynasty at this time.

In history, Jiang Liangqi once recorded in "Donghualu Shunzhi Four Years": "In December, he changed his position to Ang Bang Zhangjing to Jingqi Nihafan...... Wulu Zhangjing is to worship his Rabul Hafan, and half of the future is to drag Sha Lahafan. ”

Among them, Tuosha Lahafan, translated into Chinese, is "Cloud Cavalry Captain", which is the lowest hereditary title in the Qing army at this time.

Don't look at this title as the lowest, but as long as ordinary Qing soldiers get it, it means that they are out of the role of "cannon fodder" and have become "dignitaries" from now on, so this reward is enough to make those cannon fodder soldiers of the Han army with red flags, as well as Manchu township soldiers, Mongolian tribesmen and other soldiers crazy, even if the Qing Dynasty has reached the time when it is dying, for these low-level soldiers, a title is enough to change their fate, enough to make people fight for it!

As Bayan's order was conveyed, for a while, the soldiers of the Qing army in the second line of defense began to counterattack frantically, and dense arrows and a large number of lead bullets fired by various firearms raged in front of the defense line, constantly killing and wounding the officers and men of the 14th Army of the Wehrmacht on the march.

The Ming army throwers who rushed in front of the army formation, although they also threw a large number of earth-shattering thunder into the Qing army's defense line, in the successive explosions, caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army's various departments, but these brave throwers completely exposed the Qing army's firepower, and the casualties were also very large, after a confrontation, dozens of people fell in a pool of blood, and the remaining Ming army throwers also retreated, leaving the attack surface to the tens of thousands of soldiers behind them.

"Stop!"

Jiang Yun, the deputy commander-in-chief, looked at the front angrily, and the corpses of the throwers lying on the ground were so dazzling, and he suddenly roared angrily: "Volley, fire!" ”

"Put!!"

Rumble!

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the 14th Army of the National Defense Army began to fire in turns, the strength of the Ming army's bird guns, has been deeply engraved in the hearts of the Qing army's departments, now as soon as they hear the unique roar of the Ming army's birds, the vast majority of the Qing army is afraid, in the Qing army's various departments, almost all of them suffer more or less from "Ming phobia", just for plunder, for military merit, in order to maintain the characteristics of the Manchu slave colony, even if the Qing army is afraid in their hearts, they are still constantly making enemies with the Ming Dynasty, and deep down they are still looking forward to reviving the prestige of the year.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the Manchu Tartars!

At this time, under the fierce volley of the officers and men of the 14th Army of the National Defense Army, the firepower of the Qing army, which was extremely fierce just now, was suppressed almost instantly, although there were still some sporadic counterattacks, but they were all unsuccessful, but they were only supported by the heavy reward promised by Bayan.

"Ahh

A scream sounded, startling Bayan, who was commanding the battle in the trench, and looked back, only to see that one of his subordinates was really hit in the cheek by a lead bullet, and his whole face was beaten out of shape, like a demon in hell, he stared at Bayan's side with wide eyes, and then collapsed to the ground unwillingly, without breathing.

This scene frightened Bayan hurriedly squatted down, looked left and right, and saw that all the soldiers and horses were mainly dodging, only a few brave soldiers were still fighting back, but those soldiers who fought back were constantly dying, and the firepower of the Ming army was too strong.

So Bayan gritted his teeth and roared angrily: "Pull those Han people out and let them go to the battle!" ”

The surrounding Qing soldiers suddenly showed cruel smiles on their faces, and the thousands of Han people in the defense line were quickly assembled, and more than a hundred of them were distributed to a pottery sphere, which was filled with gunpowder and all kinds of broken porcelain pieces, iron nails, and other things. The rest of the Han people were given shields, swords and guns.

This is the imitation earth-shaking thunder that Bayan hastily made last night, because the clay pot and gunpowder are not sufficient, and the power of this kind of thing is not clear, so the Qing army can only make more than a hundred.

Then Bayan ordered those Han people to immediately attack the Ming army's horizontal formation, cover the more than 100 people who were assigned to the earth-made earth-shaking thunder, and blow up the Ming army's array.

Hearing this order, all the Han people were frightened, and even many people began to kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, not daring to go out and die.

Immediately, Bayan ordered the Han people who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy to be killed on the spot, and then pointed to the corpses on the ground, and said in a cold voice: "Write down the names of these people, and all their families who stayed in the city will be arrested and rewarded to the meritorious soldiers as slaves!" ”

Hearing Bayan's words, the Han people all quieted down, for the sake of their families and their own lives, everyone's eyes were full of bloodshots, and their faces were replaced with a hideous expression.

Soon, thousands of Han people were driven out of the second line of defense, and those people roared and ran wildly in despair, rushing towards the Ming army one after another.

Feng Tang, the general of the left battalion, couldn't bear it, but he was helpless, saving his own life on the battlefield is always the first priority, as long as he picks up the weapon, whether it is a child or a woman, then he is an enemy, as long as he is an enemy, he must be killed!

"Put!"

The salvo is still continuing, in the face of the salvo of tens of thousands of Ming soldiers, thousands of Han people can not rush forward at all, even if there are a large number of shields to protect, these Han people are also falling in pieces, in the Ming army within a dozen steps in front of the array, a layer of corpses composed of "carpet".

Suddenly, among the Han people, who were already very sparse, more than 100 people appeared, all of whom were holding a jar in their arms, and then rushed to the front of the Ming army regardless of it, or threw themselves into the Ming army, or wanted to rush in directly, seeing Feng Tang and Fu Mingwu and other generals jumping eyelids.

Rumble!

Immediately a series of explosions rang out, and more than a dozen of them were in the horizontal formation of the Ming army, causing great casualties to the officers and men of the 14th Army of the Wehrmacht.

Because these explosions were so abrupt that there was some commotion in the horizontal formation of the 14th Army of the Wehrmacht, and the firepower became messy, Jiang Yun, the deputy commander-in-chief, was so angry that he shouted and cursed loudly, and ordered the generals of all departments to immediately reorganize the military formation and resume the rhythm of the salvo as soon as possible.

In the second line of defense, Bayan saw the opportunity and ordered the whole army to counterattack, and tens of thousands of horses composed of the Han army's Zhenghongqi, Manchu village soldiers, and Mongolian tribesmen rushed out of the second line of defense, and within a distance of dozens of steps, the Qing army paid the price of more than 1,000 people and directly crashed into the Ming army's horizontal formation.

"Get on the bayonet!"

Seeing this situation, the generals of the various departments issued an order to bayonet in advance, and the officers and men of the 14th Army of the Wehrmacht immediately started hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army, entangled in the narrow strip between the second line of defense and the first line of defense, and nearly 100,000 horses and horses on both sides gathered in one place, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Zheng Zhilong held a clairvoyant mirror to observe the battlefield, and said angrily: "Immediately send someone to question the chief military officer Tian Zhenbei, and ask him if he will fight, he has absolute firepower, and he can still be seized by the Tartars to organize a counterattack, it is a shame to say it!" ”

"Yes!!"

At the front, Tian Zhenbei, the chief military officer, was also so angry that his face was purple, and he directly led the soldiers and horses of the military department to rush into the battlefield.

However, at this time, all the soldiers and horses of the Qing army saw the hope of repelling the Ming army, and they were all like chicken blood, and they fought to the death without retreating, even if the number of casualties exceeded that of the Ming army, they still continued to charge forward, so that Tian Zhenbei could only lead his troops to continue to fight to the death.

This melee lasted for about an hour and a half, Zheng Zhilong received battle reports in the rear one after another, and then looked at the sun gradually setting in the west, and decided that it was probably difficult to take the second line of defense today, and it would only increase casualties if it continued to fight, so he ordered: "Order Tian Zhenbei to lead his troops to withdraw, and order the 13th Army of the National Defense Army to prepare for the response, so as to prevent the Qing army from taking the opportunity to attack the first line of defense!" ”

"Yes!!"

Zheng Chenggong on the side frowned slightly, and said: "Supervisor, today's Qing army repelled our army's attack, which is a small victory, and we must beware of the Tartars taking advantage of the victory tonight!" ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded and said, "The Thirteenth Army and the Fourteenth Army have experienced bloody battles, I see that you will mobilize the officers and soldiers of the Fifteenth Army to prepare and be responsible for guarding tonight." ”

"Yes!"

Subsequently, the officers and men of the 14th Army of the Wehrmacht slowly retreated, and Bayan was overjoyed to see the retreat of the Ming army, and at the same time restrained his subordinates who had already killed the red eye, and did not lead his troops to pursue, but also retreated back to the second line of defense to garrison.

Zheng Zhilong looked at Tian Zhenbei and Jiang Yun, who came back dejectedly, and said coldly: "Since the start of the war, the two generals have been pushed back by the Qing army, and the two generals are still the first. ”

Tian Zhenbei and Jiang Yun immediately clenched their fists and received the order, and they were willing to make a military order to take the second line of defense tomorrow.

Zheng Zhilong nodded and returned to the Chinese army's tent without saying a word.

In the evening, in the west of Shenyang City, Liu Yan successively received today's battle reports from various departments.

After a day of attacking, the resistance of all units of the Qing army today is much stronger, and it can be seen that the Han army's banners and horses stationed in various parts of the second line of defense are stronger than the Korean Eight Banners.

After a day of fierce fighting, the second army of the Wehrmacht in the west successfully won the second line of defense, severely damaged more than 47,000 people of the Han army stationed in it, and killed the Han army's white flag Gushan Ezhen Ye Keshu, and the Han army inlaid with the white flag Gushan Zhenzu Dale led the remnants of the two flags to retreat into the third line of defense.

In the east, Li Dingguo's troops took the first line of defense in the east, and today's battle wiped out the defending Korean soldiers and horses.

The attacks to the south and north did not make much progress and were blocked by the Qing army.

At nightfall, Liu Yan counted the results of today's battle, with more than 50,000 beheadings and more than 4,900 casualties, including more than 2,700 dead in battle.