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Sun An belonged to the second generation of Baoyi. His father died of the plague in Beizhili, so he replaced his father as a coat for the army.

His main achievement was to follow his master to rob in Beizhili.

Some time ago, he returned to Liaodong, and followed his master to North Korea to rob.The harvest in North Korea was good. The master rewarded him with two buckets of rice and a North Korean woman as his wife.

But, he really didn't want to be cannon fodder!

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a gunshot on the city wall, and Sun An was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

The civilian husband behind him was beaten to death, but he rushed forward by virtue of inertia, and immediately fell on Sun An.

Sun An struggled a little, but suddenly felt blessed, and just lay there pretending to be dead.

There are more than one or two cannon fodder pretending to be dead!

After spending most of the day, and it was almost evening, Dorgon ordered to withdraw his troops.

Wait until tomorrow to continue consuming.

The hustle and bustle of the battlefield gradually became quiet, and Sun An carefully crawled out from under the corpse.Little by little, he climbed towards the gap in the city wall, and after approaching, he shouted: "I surrender, I don't want to die, I have come to surrender. I am not a spy, you should tie me up!"

This voice immediately reminded the cannon fodder who pretended to be dead.

One after another, hundreds of people stretched out their hands to show that they had no weapons, and crawled towards the gap in the city wall in the posture of raising their hands in surrender.

Hu Dinggui thought for a while, and ordered: "Let's tie them all up. After the war, they will be screened. The peasants will divide the fields and settle down, and the servants will use them as coolies."

For several days in a row, it was consuming.

The Qing Dynasty consumed human lives, and the Datong Army consumed supplies for defending the city.

Gradually, soldiers began to be sandwiched among the cannon fodder, trying to suddenly attack the city wall when the defenders were lax.

This situation made it impossible for the Datong Army to underestimate every attack, and the consumption of defense materials doubled.

The logs and rocks can still be brought back after dark, but there is not much hot oil and golden juice left.

Finally, the Manchu Qing began to formally attack the city.

The chariots were crushed by the artillery, and the exposed Eight Banners soldiers could only speed up and charge towards the city wall.

"Oh!"

A piece of sawdust flew out from the shattered car, and ruthlessly pierced Tulai's cheek.

Although a tooth was knocked loose, this small injury is nothing. The real headache is that the car is gone.Tulai drew his sword and shouted, "Run and rush over!"

Tulai is Oboi's cousin. Historically, he participated in the Battle of Dalinghe, Songjin, and Shanhaiguan. He led troops to capture Hongguang Emperor and Longwu Emperor of Nanming.

Tulai and Aoboi brothers, both of Haoge's loyal confidantes, were thrown out by Dorgon to attack the city with their lives.

A cannonball jumped up from the ground, and the soldiers around Tulai were broken by the iron bullet, and then flew to the back and killed several of them one after another.

This side has the fiercest firepower, because the front is the gap in the city wall that was blown down.

"Old Yang!"

On the city wall, a group leader roared in grief.

But not far from him, Yang Ye, the artillery commander of the No. 11 Division of the Datong Army, was killed.

Yang Ye was born as a scholar. He was proficient in arithmetic when he was young, and later studied mathematics systematically.He had only been in the army for four years. Because of his talent, he was promoted very quickly, but now he died unexpectedly in Gaizhou.

It was really an accident, Yang Ye was directing the cannon to adjust the angle, when a full shell flew over, smashing the bricks of the female wall into the air, and then the brick hit Yang Ye's head.

"Boom boom boom!"

The artillery of the Datong Army vented their anger with shells.

Tulaizhen was running and charging, and a shell roared towards him.He didn't feel it at first, as if he was rubbed by something, and the inertia led his body to lean back.

After a few more seconds, Tulai felt severe pain: "Ah! Ah! My arm is gone!"

The cannons used to defend the city are prone to ricochets because of the angle.Tulai's arm was broken by a ricochet, and before the shells stopped, four more were killed and injured with blood stains.

Suddenly, the artillery from both sides stopped one after another.

Because the Manchu Qing siege troops were approaching the city, the Manchu artillery stopped for fear of accidental injury, and the Datong artillery stopped because the angle was too large to hit.

The Manchu Qing successfully pushed over a dozen carts, and there were also many ladders with wooden shields.

Most of the chariots were in front of the gap in the city wall. Unfortunately, Gaizhou City did not imitate the bastion, and used the sharp-angled enemy towers like Ningyuan, which formed a short-term dead angle of firepower.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The firecrackers of the Qing Dynasty stood on the steps of the car and fired at the gaps in the city wall through the shooting holes.

The fallen wall formed an earth-rock platform three meters high, 12 meters wide and six meters thick.

The ladder was erected, and Oboi commanded the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and quickly climbed up the earth-rock platform along the ladder.After climbing up half of his body, he lay on the edge of the earth-stone platform and pulled Manqing's heavy arrow away with all his strength.

Before they shot heavy arrows, thousands of enemies were smashed down on the city walls on both sides.

Chapter 450 [Slaying Oboi]

"Boom boom boom!"

The Eight Banners of Manchuria, which was about to shoot heavy arrows, was suddenly blown up by more than ten thousand enemies.

Blowing up is an adjective, because it is less powerful, and it depends on the exploding shrapnel to hurt people.The most disgusting thing is that it is mixed with lime and chili noodles, not only the Eight Banners soldiers who are shooting heavy arrows suffer, but even the follow-up troops climbing the ladder can't open their eyes.

"Rush again!"

Aobai covered his mouth and nose, stood behind the car and yelled.

"Boom boom boom!"

Just when Oboi reorganized his charge, the artillery on the city rang out again.It was Dorgon who suddenly invested a large number of troops on both sides of the north city wall. The Datong Army stopped firing just now, and it was also adjusting the shooting direction.

The generals of the Qing army who often attacked the city with artillery fire were very keen to find that the artillery of the Datong army seemed to concentrate on the gap in the defense wall.

So the Eight Banners soldiers gave up the chariot and ran quickly carrying the simple ladder.

Since the tunnels of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties had been dug very far ahead, when the Datong Army adjusted the artillery positions, thousands of Eight Banners soldiers had already rushed out of the artillery range.The artillery of the Datong Army can only hit the tail of the enemy troops.

It was not the negligence of the defenders, but the method of tunneling and attacking the city worked. The tunneling work for forty or fifty days before the Qing Dynasty was not for nothing.

Of course, they rushed to the city so quickly, and they couldn't carry a real siege ladder.

A real ladder, like a cart, has to be pushed, and the speed is not much faster than a cart.

"Bang bang bang!"

The angle of the artillery was unable to shoot, and the firecrackers on the city wall opened fire one after another.

These Eight Banners soldiers rushed out of the range of the artillery, but they were not really close to the city wall. They could not attack with rolling logs or falling rocks, and could only use firecrackers or bows and arrows.

At the cost of more than 300 people coming back, thousands of musketeers ran sideways, carrying simple wooden ladders to the vicinity of the gap in the city wall.

Ten thousand enemies can't hit them, or in other words, these Eight Banners soldiers follow their mouths and noses, ignoring the explosion of ten thousand enemies at all.Anyway, the explosion is not very powerful, and after wearing the double armor, they are not afraid of shrapnel. As long as they can hold lime and chili noodles, at most they will be injured by shrapnel, and those who are killed on the spot are unlucky.

Finally, the Eight Banners soldiers attacked the earth-rock platform where the city wall had collapsed, and the Eight Banners soldiers behind them also threw stabbing arrows.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was a volley of firecrackers in the face, and with the cooperation of thousands of enemies, Man Qing failed again in this round of offensive, and the survivors who rushed up fled.

"kill!"

Ao Bai hacked a rout soldier to death, led the charge with a limp leg, and climbed up as fast as a normal person.

The firecrackers had already retreated to reload, and the rattan players and pikemen quickly made up for it, poking at the enemy at the edge of the earth-stone platform.

This position is very narrow and cannot accommodate many firecrackers. If all of them are replaced with flintlock guns, more will definitely be able to stand.

The rattan hand of the Datong Army squatted and raised the shield to protect the whole body. If they stood up, their legs would be cut off easily.The pikemen stuck behind them, stabbed their spears above the shield, and killed the Eight Banners soldiers who were trying to climb up.

Aobai was shot twice, but he dodged in time, and he was not hit vitally. After wearing the double armor, he was only slightly injured.

This guy was extremely ferocious, seeing that he was about to be poked down, he even reached out and grabbed a rattan token, trying to drag the rattan holder down together.

The rattan player had no choice but to give up the shield, swung his knife and looked at Ao Bai's left hand grabbing the shield.

The middle finger and ring finger of Aobai's left hand were cut off on the spot, and his whole body fell from the simple wooden ladder.

"Shhhhhh!"

The Manchu archers in the rear shot heavy arrows obliquely upwards from close range.

In an instant, there were more than a dozen spears with arrows in their hands, and a few heavy arrows from the Qing Dynasty even shot through the rattan badge of the Datong Army.

"Boom boom boom!"

More than 20 more than [-] enemy bombs were thrown down, and they were thrown at the Eight Banners soldiers gathered in the rear.The gunfire soldiers also moved to the city wall and shot at the Eight Banners soldiers below.

At the same time, the firecrackers of the Han army's flag in the Wuzhenchao Ha camp also shot at the Datong army on the earth-stone platform.

Up to now, this place has finally turned into a flesh and blood mill, and the casualties on both sides are rising in a straight line.

After being shot out of the gap by heavy arrows and firecrackers, the Eight Banners soldiers in the front row took the opportunity to rush up the earth and stone platform, and the attackers and defenders fought in complete melee.

However, the death rate in melee combat has decreased instead. Everyone is armored, and the enemy cannot be killed by hacking for a long time.On the contrary, it is firecrackers and tens of thousands of enemies, which have been causing damage to the enemy's follow-up troops.The enemy's stabbing arrows are also constantly thrown, and they can always hit a few Datong troops in the rear.

Siege battles broke out on the east and west walls at this time.

The Eight Banners soldiers pushed the chariot and the ladder, and soon approached the city wall. They were not bombarded badly by the artillery, because most of the artillery was transferred to the North City.

……

The reinforcements of Li Zheng, Xiao Zongxian, and Lu Xiangsheng had already approached the Manchu camp.

But it's hard to attack, it's all circles of ditches and earthen walls.

This is not because Dorgon has learned to be obedient and fights sternly, but it has always been the case in the Qing Dynasty.Huang Taiji especially likes to do this. Once he feels that he can't break through the city quickly, he builds his camp to be impenetrable. Many times, it turns into reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty to attack his camp, turning the siege into a camp defense against the reinforcements.

After paying hundreds of casualties, Li Zheng decisively stopped the attack, saying: "You can't attack hard like this, otherwise there will be heavy casualties, and you may not be able to attack."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "In the huge city of Gaizhou, it is impossible for the Tatars to dig trenches and build earthen walls everywhere in just two months. Even so, it is impossible to fortify everywhere because the enemy army is storming the city."

Xiao Zongxian analyzed: "Our army has already attacked the enemy camp in the north, and there must be heavy troops defending the north. The east of the city is one of their withdrawal channels, and there must be heavy troops. Going to the south of the city is of little use. Just guarding the city. How about the west of the city?"

Li Zheng said: "In order to prevent us from coming to aid from the sea, the Tartars built many forts along the coast of the west of the city. I am afraid they are also heavily guarded!"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "Sea ships can only go to the mouth of the Daqing River, and if they sail further inside, they will run aground. The Qing army built artillery shells to prevent us from using small boats to transport grain into the city from the Daqing River. We will not take the Daqing River, but Land in the north of the Daqing River. When you see the trenches and earthen walls, occupy them, and also occupy the forts along the river of the Tartars. There is absolutely no way to prevent more than 2 people from attacking there!"

"But if we go around, we can't block the Tartars' retreat," Xiao Zongxian said, "As long as the casualties are not too heavy, the Tartars can retreat calmly."

Li Zheng supported Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion and said: "You can't become a big fat man with one bite. This battle is not for annihilating the Tartars. As long as we defend Gaizhou, we will win. Moreover, even if the Tartars want to leave after being defeated, they must leave something behind." If we don't feed us, can the army of Tartars go away?"

What is left is of course the broken army, and the army must do so if it wants to evacuate.

Li Zheng belonged to the coach of the reinforcements, and since he made the decision, he had to execute it.

Circled from the sea to the north, the reinforcements camped for several days, with more than a hundred casualties, left again, and they had to circle from the sea again.

"Your Highness, the enemy army has withdrawn, do you want to pursue it?" Suksaha asked.

Dorgon shook his head: "Don't chase, just concentrate on attacking the city. The enemy army in the north must not be able to attack, so they pretended to withdraw to lure us to pursue."

……

The battle in the north of the city was mainly in charge of the two blue flags and the bordered red flags, while the remaining Eight Banners troops attacked the east and west of the city.

Here the fighting was the most intense, and the casualties were the heaviest.

Ye Bilong, Nurhachi's grandson and Hauge's confidant, said: "My lord, we can't continue fighting like this. The east and west sides fought lively, but not many people were killed. Only our side is dangerous. Man Dahai knows the pros and cons, and has never No matter how hard you work, only the warriors of our two blue flags are fighting desperately. This is Dorgon using the hands of Nanman to deliberately weaken the strength of the two blue flags!"

Hauge waved his hand and said: "Since you are on the battlefield, you should use your full strength and don't get involved in the internal grievances of the Eight Banners."

Ye Bilong said anxiously: "We are using all our strength, but Man Dahai with the red flag is attacking the same city wall as us. Did the soldiers with the red flag use all their strength? Tough battles are fought with two blue flags!"

"Don't talk nonsense," Hauge scolded, "you are too confused to fight wars. When is it? Nanmanzi has three cities in Liaodong. If you don't make any effort to capture Gaizhou today, how many days will it be?" We won't even be able to keep Shengjing in [-]!"

Ye Bilong hesitated to speak, and could only retreat silently.

Withdrew to his brother, Chao Hal said: "Brother Sixteen, you know the prince's temper, no matter how much you try to persuade him, it will be useless."

Ye Bilong sighed and said: "Brother Thirteen, even though you say that, but... the two blue flags can't stand such a fight."

According to the original historical trajectory, Chao Hal should have died in the siege of Jinzhou, but now he is still well.He and Ye Bilong are half brothers, Ye Bilong is Nurhachi's grandson, and Chao Haer's mother is another person.

The father of the two was very good at giving birth, and gave birth to sixteen sons in total, and several of them died fighting for the Qing Dynasty.

Ye Bilong's waist knife is very famous, and it was still there until the end of Qing Dynasty.As an imperial envoy to conquer the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xianfeng bestowed Ye Bilong with a strong waist knife, and the tooth plate attached to the handle of the knife was engraved with the words "Shen Feng Holds Victory".Qianlong sent Fu Heng to pacify Jinchuan, and he also bestowed this sword on the expedition.