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Destroying the elite Tartars here is equivalent to breaking the back of the Qing Dynasty.

In the Meihei River, more than a hundred rafts rowed along the river bank.

The defenders of the Tartars were all transferred to the front, and these surprise soldiers of the Datong Army quickly approached the city wall with rafts.Although the east city wall is close to the river, there is still a section vacant, otherwise, if the water rises, it will soak into the corner (earth wall).

"There are southern barbarians here!"

"Woooooooo~~~~"

The remaining defenders on the east wall panicked and shouted warnings, and at the same time sounded their horns.

Gao Li urgently brought troops over to support him. When he arrived at the east wall, dozens of Datong soldiers' corpses lay beneath the wall, and more than a dozen Datong soldiers were also killed on the city wall.But hundreds of people have already climbed up and formed a defensive formation with their backs against the parapet.

"Come with me!"

Nan Chu led the remnants of Yehe and Huifa to run along the narrow area outside the north city wall, found the wooden ladder and immediately climbed up.

Although these Haixi Jurchen soldiers had simple equipment, they exploded with great combat effectiveness at this moment.

They were oppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a long time, and their ancestors had blood feuds.Now they have finally found a chance to fight for revenge, but also for the future. Only by destroying Manqing can they truly survive.

More and more Datong troops boarded the East City, and Gao Li couldn't hold back anymore. He shouted to the soldiers: "Go and rescue the soldiers!"

This soldier managed to get to Leng Saiyi's side, and Leng Saiyi was already dizzy.

His eldest brother, Chang Adai, is the real warrior, but he has been working as a civil servant.Although I have practiced since I was a child, and I have gone out with the army, but this is the first time to command a battle independently.

From the beginning to the present, Lensaiyi has performed very well and has not made any major mistakes.

But in the face of the Datong Army's all-out attack, the battlefield became more complicated, and Leng Saiyi's commanding skills gradually became insufficient.Countless military news came,

With support everywhere, he felt like he was losing control of the battlefield.

At this moment, Leng Saiyi didn't even know which troops to send to support the north, he roared angrily: "Let the women carrying supplies go up!"

Ever since, more than 3000 old and weak women and children went to the north city wall for reinforcements with sticks.

These Tartars are all the core of the two red flags. They know that there is no retreat, and even women and children have to work hard.

"Beizi, it's urgent in the southwest!"

Leng Saiyi was stupefied, and asked his own soldiers: "Where is there a team to send?"

As soon as the words were finished, someone came running and said, "Beizi, Nanmanzi went to the southern city wall!"

The south city wall is next to the Huifa River, and the earthen city wall is far from the river bank, and there is also a narrow land.At this time, everyone is in a pot of porridge. Although the southern city wall is dangerous,

But you can also take a ladder to attack the city.

"Follow me to the south!"

Len Saiyi could only lead his personal guards to support the southern city wall.

In fact, thousands of Tartars defended the city, and the Datong army plus the servant army only had more than 1 people to attack the city.The troops defending the city are completely sufficient!

It's purely a matter of Leng Saiyi's scheduling. In some places, there are too many Tartar defenders blocking the contact area, and more than half of them don't know what to do.Without a military order, they dared not leave, and they couldn't really fight, so they could only stand around and watch the excitement.

For a good general, the casualties of the Datong Army may be doubled.

At this moment, the Datong army is besieging on all sides, not doing the same thing as besieging three and missing one.

Leng Saiyi's support was still slow. There were more than 600 soldiers, and they firmly occupied a section of the southern city wall.Lensaiyi's reinforcements, together with the defenders here, totaled just over 800 people, and the two sides had almost equal strength.

It was Luo Yuheng, the head of the cavalry division, who led his troops to attack the southern city wall.

A native of Subei, born in martial arts, a hereditary general.

This guy's weapon is not a cavalry spear and a saber, but an ancestral iron mace.

In the rest of the battlefields, the soldiers on both sides have armor, and they can kill each other without killing them for a long time.Luo Yuheng is an exception here, swinging an iron mace and smashing it, even the best armor is useless, this thing hits internal injuries.

On the city wall, Luo Yuheng was like the tip of an awl, leading the awl-like troops, constantly rushing into the defensive formation.

On the battlefield here, the battle started the latest, but the battle went smoothly.

Luo Yuheng smashed several enemies to death one after another, all of them on the head, at least concussion.

After fighting fiercely for more than ten minutes, Luo Yuheng personally killed more than 40 tartars who were knocked unconscious.The soldiers under his command followed the gap he made, and unexpectedly used inferior forces to divide and kill the Tartars in front of him.

"This man is brave, Bei Zi, retreat quickly!" The soldiers shouted.

Len Saiyi scolded angrily: "Where is there any way out? Follow me to kill!"

Leng Saiyi was really not afraid of death, when he mentioned it, he rushed towards Luo Yuheng, and the morale of the rest of the Tartar defenders was greatly shaken.

"Chief of the Tartars?

Seeing the Tazi soldiers' reaction, Luo Yuheng knew that Leng Saiyi's status was not low.He swung the mace continuously for more than ten minutes, and his arms were already a little weak. At this moment, he suddenly became excited, and felt that his whole body was full of strength in an instant.

Leng Saiyi's personal soldiers, who dared to let the master really rush to the front, rushed up to fight.

Luo Yuheng held the copper handle in one hand and the center of the iron mace in the other, which saved his strength.The first soldier rushed, he raised his mace to block the enemy's weapon, and then sent it along, the end of the iron mace hit the soldier's face.

He didn't faint, but he must have had a concussion, and was kicked away by Luo Yuheng.

This fellow rushed forward all the way, and even killed in front of Len Saiyi.

Leng Saiyi raised his knife to split open, Luo Yuheng raised his arm to block.Not only did his forearm have arm guards, but there was also a small round shield of the cavalry at the elbow, which easily blocked the knife.Then he brandished the iron mace with his right arm, and slammed it over, quickly and accurately, the iron mace hit Leng Saiyi on the forehead.

It's useless to wear a helmet, and the brains are all shaken.

"Beizi is dead!" the Tartar soldiers shouted in horror.

Luo Yuheng shouted in Manchu with only a few sentences: "The enemy general is dead, the enemy general is dead!"

The morale of the Tazi soldiers collapsed, and the morale of the Datong army exploded. The evenly matched battle finally quickly turned into a pursuit battle.

After completely occupying the southern city wall, Luo Yuheng stopped chasing the Tartars who had fled into the city. Instead, he took his soldiers to support the friendly army on the western city wall, and sent a group of troops to open the city gate.

This time it was more clean and tidy. Luo Yuheng's new force suddenly burst out from the side.Moreover, this gentleman was extremely brave, and he caught the Tartars on the west wall by surprise.

At this moment, the Datong army responsible for opening the gate finally occupied the city gate.

A large number of Datong soldiers who had not climbed the city rushed in through the city gate, and then attacked the rear of the Tartar defenders along the ramp of the city wall.

The Eight Banners Army was defeated like a mountain, one after another.Fun Court

On the other side of the east wall, Goryeo has died in battle.This brother of Huang Taiji and Dorgon was killed by an unknown soldier.

And Nan Chu, with the soldiers of Yehe and Huifa, was massacring the old and weak women and children guarding the city. He shouted: "They are all dog tartars, no one will be left!"

Goryeo's brother, Doerji, was originally defending the city wall in the northwest, but when he saw the situation was not going well, he ran away, causing a series of retreats among his troops.

Dorge fled into the city, found enemies everywhere, and finally hid in a well.

When Wang Tingchen entered the city on horseback, the situation of the battle had already come to an end, and only a few Tartars were still fighting stubbornly in the streets.The soldiers of the Yehe tribe and the Huifa tribe continued to massacre the surrendered Tartar soldiers, not counting the massacre of the old and the weak, women and children.

Wang Yaochen wanted to go over to stop him, but was stopped by Wang Tingchen: "It's fine if we don't kill them. Our army ran a long distance, and the army rations are not enough, so there is no need to raise so many prisoners. Moreover, after capturing this city, we will continue to attack after making some repairs. , simply unable to take care of so many prisoners of war."

Wang Yaochen hesitated to speak.

Wang Tingchen said again: "Let them kill for a while, and then stop them, just have an excuse to beat them. If you say you don't kill the prisoners, they will be guilty if they do!"

Chapter 685 [Another Undisciplined]

"Casualty statistics are out." Wang Yaochen handed over a report.

Wang Tingchen took a look, and suddenly became silent.

Counting from the day when the cannon fodder attacked the city until it completely occupied the city, the casualties of the Datong Army were as follows:

1552 people were killed, 743 were seriously injured, 3639 were slightly injured, and the casualty rate reached 43.9.

Wang Tingchen was a frontier general of the Ming Dynasty who came to serve, and the Ming army lost tens of thousands at every turn, and there were no casualties in front of him to make him feel sad.

These are all cavalry who have been trained for several years, and each one is extremely precious.Many people were killed when they climbed the city, they were hit by rolling logs, shot by bows and arrows, or they were surrounded and killed after climbing first.

Even if they were killed in battle, they should have died on the battlefield while galloping on horses. It was not worth dying while attacking a city!

Wang Yaochen comforted: "The Tartars guarding the city are all elites of the Puppet Qing Dynasty, and they are desperate. If the southern city wall hadn't killed the enemy generals and flanked the western city to open the city gate, the Tartar soldiers would have continued desperately. We were killed and wounded. So many people, in fact... not wronged."

"I understand," Wang Tingchen sighed, "but these are all soldiers trained by us. Since the establishment of the cavalry division, I didn't expect to lose the most during the siege."

Wang Yaochen said: "There is also good news. The city is full of wheat and livestock. Most of the wheat has just been harvested this year. The Tartars collected it and prepared it as military rations to send troops to support Sarhu. Livestock were also collected to transport military rations. , and now we have seized them all."

Wang Tingchen said: "If we arrived a few days earlier, the Tatars would definitely not have time to gather their troops, and they would have captured the city easily. In the end, the attack speed is too slow, so we shouldn't waste so much time in the north."

"Who knew that the Tartars were just drawing troops?" Wang Yaochen asked.

The cavalry division swept across the villages in the north, just to quickly cut off the vital forces of the Tartars.As a result, after the raids, they realized that the situation was wrong. The number of Tartars in the countryside was too small, and many young and strong were taken away to fight.

Wang Tingchen calmed down and said: "Order the whole army to rest for two days. The seriously wounded and military doctors will stay, and the rest of the troops will continue to attack!"

Here you can go straight to the main battlefield, march along the Huifa River, Baiyun River, and Hun River, and only need to climb a few low mountains on the way.

But the distance is quite far, a full 300 miles, and the march in the valleys and mountains cannot be fast.

A few days later, the cavalry division passed a place called Siping, which already belonged to Qingyuan County in later generations.

"Destroy the weapon workshop!"

"If there is resistance, shoot and kill, and all craftsmen will be arrested!"

Hundreds of years later, there are many "Siping" in the Northeast, such as Da Siping Town, Bei Siping Township, and Xiao Siping Village.Without exception, it must be the production base of bows and arrows in the Qing Dynasty. The original meaning of "Siping" in Manchu language is "making arrow shafts".

At this moment, on the southern battlefield, Yang Zhenqing's independent regiment is also attacking Xiao Siping Village, Da Siping Town, hundreds of years after Siping.

Yang Zhenqing set off from Yahuguan (in the territory of Weiziyu Town), crossed the Great Wall of Liao Dynasty, and went straight to Dasiping Town.

Many of the land outside Yajuan Pass belonged to the Ming Dynasty. Li Chengliang gave up six castles without authorization and handed them over to Nurhachi on the grounds that "the land is lonely and difficult to defend".

As for the Kuandian area further south, they are too lazy to attack.Daming built many forts in Kuandian, including Kuandian Fort, Xindian Fort, Yongdian Fort, Dadian Fort, and Changdian Fort.After the Manchu Qing occupation, the local people were forcibly removed, and it has been abandoned for 30 to [-] years.

It was not until Dayuer moved the capital to Hetuala that Kuandian was reclaimed.

But the population is still sparsely populated. A village has as many as [-] or [-] households, and in many places there are even only a few households.

It is a waste of food and grass for those in the mountains to conquer sporadic Tartars.

It would be much more comfortable to go east from Yaful Pass, as long as you lay down a few castles along the way, twenty miles to the east is the gold mine of the Tartars, and thirty miles to the southeast is the production base of the Tartars' bows and arrows.

former fort.

There are mountains on all sides, mountains to the south, and a narrow river valley between the two mountains.

The independent group traveled day and night, took a small boat unexpectedly, and chose to go ashore after passing the castle.

The guard of this castle is called Dai Qing, a name that has been flooded.There are not too many Mongols and Jurchens called Dai Qing, Dai Qin, and Dai Qing, which means "brave".

Even Dorgon's title before becoming king was "Mergen Daiqing", that is, "Wise Warrior".

This Dai Qing in front of me is probably not very brave.When he woke up, he found thousands of enemies behind the castle, and his face turned pale with fright.

The function of the front fort is to stop the army, and a few people can easily row across without luggage.

"Go and persuade to surrender!" Yang Zhenqing said.

A warrior from Sinicized Jurchen ran quickly to the bottom of the castle and shouted loudly: "Listen up, the defenders inside, 20 Datong heavenly soldiers have surrounded Sarhu. The puppet Qing court is about to disappear. You To resist in the corner is to die with the puppet Qing. If Kaesong surrenders, there is still a chance of survival!"

The Tartar archers listened to the words carefully, and none of them chose to shoot. Dai Qing became silent, hesitating whether to surrender or not. When Nurhachi first raised his army, it was a fat job to guard this place.Because the Yahu Pass in front of them is an important trade channel between Daming and Jianzhou Jurchen, and there can be a lot of money here every month.

But now, trade is banned, and stationing in this fort is tantamount to dispatching, and it may be attacked by the Datong army at any time.

"Arrests!

Without waiting for the defenders to make a decision, Yang Zhenqing ordered to do it.

The castle is not big and cannot accommodate too many people.There were only a hundred defenders inside, and their families lived and farmed in the river valley to the north of the castle.

Yang Zhenqing left 1000 people to block the castle, and the remaining soldiers were divided into multiple teams and began to sweep the valley to the north.

"Bang bang bang!"

Gunshots continued to be heard, and the defenders were worried about their families, and all lost their will to fight.

In fact, they didn't have the heart to fight, even the guards on duty at night were lazy, otherwise, how could Yang Zhenqing go around the back of the castle easily.

Most of the real elite Tartars were taken away by Man Dahai, and those hard bones were hit by the cavalry division.And those in front of them are ordinary bannermen who have turned into the Eight Banners Army. As long as they are young and strong, crooked melons and dates can also join the army. Many people don't even have cotton armor and only wear leather armor to fight.

Dai Qing looked around and found that the soldiers were sad, and they didn't look like they were defending the castle.

"Open the door and surrender!"

Dai Qing gritted his teeth.

He didn't want to be buried with the Qing Dynasty, and he was not a Manchu noble.On the contrary, he fought with the Qing Dynasty. He had already lost his two elder brothers, and the property his father and brother had robbed from the Han Dynasty had long been thrown in Haizhou and never brought out.