1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 525 Dengzhou Flesh Mill ([-])
On the fourth day of November 1644 (November 11), Daming, Penglai County, Dengzhou.

Standing more than 200 steps in front of the camp, Wang Guodong, the commander-in-chief of Linqing, looked at the several fortifications in front of Penglai County, and his mouth was full of bitterness.There are many fortresses, deep moats, and dense artillery on the top of the city.Looking from a distance, the defenders belonged to a strong army with relatively strong morale, and were not at all overwhelmed by the momentum of the tens of thousands of Qing troops outside the city.

Facing such a well-defended city with a battle-worthy defender, I am afraid that if I fill in all the more than [-] soldiers from Linqing Town, I may not be able to break it.

Then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of dozens of riders riding Eight Banners Manchurian Zhenglan Banner vests behind him, and sighed indiscernibly.Now that the Qing Dynasty has been surrendered, it is necessary to have the ideological consciousness of being a vanguard and being cannon fodder.

I didn't see that a few days ago, Ke Yongsheng, the general soldier of Jiaozhou, lost a battle under this city, and lost thousands of soldiers. The Prince of Daqingsu was furious. If he is punished, he may take away his position and background.At any rate, he is also an old man of the Eight Banners Han Army with a red flag inlaid. He served as a leader in the sixth year of Chongde (1641). world job.This year, he entered the customs with the Qing Dynasty and served as a director of the Ministry of Punishment. Not long after, he was changed to the chief soldier of Jiaozhou Town.

Ke Yongsheng would be treated like this by Hauge just because he was unfavorable in the first battle, so as a newly surrendered general of the Ming Dynasty, if he fails to attack the city this time, or even fears the battle, I am afraid that most of them will be executed by His Royal Highness Prince Qingsu himself Military law.

"Shen Dongcheng, lead the left battalion... and then attack the city." Wang Guodong took a deep breath, and ordered sharply: "Today, our army must take down this fortress in front of us. Don't retreat without an order!"

"...The order of the last general." Linqing Town Zuoying guerrilla Shen Dongcheng's face froze when he heard the words, and he clasped his fists in agreement.

The officers and soldiers of Linqing Town faced a fort that protruded from the south side of Penglai County. It was made of large stones. Although it was less than 10 meters in diameter, it was more than [-] meters high.Moreover, the castle was built in a strange way, with several sections of protruding horse walls.On a small fortress, there were no less than six or seven artillery pieces.What was even more troublesome was that the two nearby fortresses that were slightly behind were only a hundred steps away. If there were too many siege teams and the formation was too wide, they would inevitably be attacked by fortresses from three directions.

How does this shit go to attack the city!A small group of small groups of people rushed up, wouldn't that let the defenders at the top of the city reap their heads as much as they wanted.But military orders are difficult to disobey, if he dares to disobey orders, Wang Guodong, the commander in chief, can kill him on the spot.

After dawdling in front of the formation for nearly an hour, the Eight Banners armored cavalry who supervised the formation came to urge them several times, and the more than [-] officers and soldiers of the left battalion of Linqing Town forced themselves to brace their heads, carried the ladder, and rushed towards the fortress in front of them shouting. go.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." As soon as the Jiannu army entered the range of 200 meters, the artillery at the top of the city fired, plowing several bloody roads in the sparse attacking team, screaming continuously, and the charging Qing army Seeing this, the officers and soldiers turned their heads and were about to retreat.

"No retreat!... Those who retreat, beheaded!" Zuoying guerrilla Shen Dongcheng waved his long knife and shouted loudly: "Rush forward! There are very few enemy troops in the city. If you rush forward, you will definitely be able to break this small fort!"

But the retreating soldiers were unmoved at all, they swarmed and continued to run back.

"Kill!" Shen Dong was in a hurry when he was established, and with more than a dozen servants, he rushed to meet the rout, swiped his knife and cut down several people in a row, and then stopped the rout, and ordered them to continue to attack.The enemy army only fired a few shots, there were not many casualties, and they didn't even touch the opponent's city wall. If they were defeated and returned to the camp, they would definitely lose their heads.

It may also be felt that the number of people attacking the city by the Qing army was small, and the charge front was too scattered, and the artillery strike effect was not very good.When the Qing army mustered up the courage to attack again, the artillery on several forts did not fire, and they were allowed to rush to the trench more than 50 meters away from the fort.

But before the Qing army entered the trench, they were greeted with intensive bow and arrow attacks and firecrackers shooting from the city. The Qing army in front of the trench immediately fell down and rolled into the trench.

"Put the ladder up! Come on up!" Shen Dongcheng held up a shield and roared loudly: "Rush to the front, and the enemy will not be able to attack us!...Rush up!"

Several ladders were set up on the ditch, and the Qing army shouted and ran desperately over the ladders, but under the blows of bows, arrows and firecrackers from the top of the city, soldiers kept falling down in the ditch.

The soldiers of the Qing army who crossed the wooden ladder and rushed to the bottom of the city were attacked by the horse walls protruding from both sides of the fort before they had time to catch their breath.

Hauge rode on the horse and watched blankly as the former Daming troops who attacked the city retreated like a tide under the strong counterattack of the Penglai defenders, leaving corpses on the ground.

"Tell them not to stop and continue to attack." Hauge ordered.

Just attacking the most protruding castle, and being beaten back before the ladder was even placed on the top of the city, how can this be tolerated?The defenders in Penglai County are tightly guarded, and they still have a few tricks to deal with it. Let the surrendered troops attack a few more times to see how many tricks they have yet to use.

Wang Guodong received Haoge's order, looked at the earth-colored generals around him, smiled wryly, and then ordered the right battalion general Wang Zuqing to lead his troops to continue the attack.

As for Zuoying, in just half an hour, there were more than 200 casualties, and they were unable to fight any more, so they withdrew to the formation to rest.

On that day, the Qing army launched several rounds of attacks on several small fortresses in the frontier of Penglai County, all of which were repelled by the defenders, killing and injuring more than [-] people, while their own losses were extremely slight.

When the Qing army was defeated and returned to the camp, more than a hundred soldiers rushed out from several castles. Under the watchful eyes of many officers and soldiers of the Qing army, they picked up the arrows, projectiles, and even undamaged weapons scattered on the battlefield one by one. Transported back to the castle.Afterwards, seeing that the Qing army made no further moves, they boldly began to strip the armor from the Qing army's corpse.

The leading generals of the Qing army were furious and immediately drove the army forward to attack.

Seeing this, the defenders at the top of the city fired artillery to cover the troops outside the city and returned to the castle.When the Qing army attacked the trench, the bows, arrows and firecrackers from the city head fired a salvo, which stagnated the offensive.

An Eight Banners Jiala Ezhen (participant leader) who was supervising the battle behind the formation brandished a long knife and ordered all the soldiers not to retreat, so he launched a full-scale attack and took down several small fortresses in front of him in one fell swoop.

In an instant, more than [-] troops from the original Great Ming swarmed towards the castles in front. In the evening, when everyone thought that the day's battle was about to end, a large-scale siege suddenly started.

Numerous ladders, planks, and logs were erected on the ditch, and the charging soldiers crossed the ditch one after another and rushed towards the castle.

"Change the shotgun!" A captain of the artillery squad on the top of the city shouted loudly: "Change the shotgun! Bomb these bastards to death!... They're all fucking dead!"

"Isn't Jiannu going to attack our castle today?" A gunner looked pale and looked at the densely packed Qing soldiers below the city. He was a little stunned for a while, and his hands stopped.

"I'm afraid!" The artillery captain slapped him on the head, "We have so many artillery, the city defense is so strong, and there are four or five hundred brothers here, Jiannu can't break through!"

"There are tens of thousands of slaves down here, we..." The gunner wanted to say more, but when he saw the murderous gaze of the artillery captain, he didn't dare to say anything.

"Hurry up and fire!" the artillery captain said fiercely, "I want to see if there are more slaves, or we have more cannons! Bomb them all to death!"

In a short time, seven or eight ladders were erected at the top of the city, and countless Jiannu soldiers were struggling to climb upwards with short knives in their mouths. More Jiannu soldiers poured in from afar.On the two castles slightly behind on the left and right sides, all the cannons are already fully fired, firing all kinds of shells desperately to stop Jiannu's charge.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." The musketeers on the top of the city hardly needed to show their heads. They poked out their muskets a little and pulled the trigger, and they would definitely hit the Jiannu soldiers below.

"Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh!..." The Jiannu archers below the city threw their arrows at the top of the city with their heads up.

"Huh la la..." A bucket of hot juice poured down from the top of the city. Although the temperature of winter was low and time had passed, the hot juice was no longer boiling, but the scalding hot juice still scalded the Jiannu under the city to pieces. Howled endlessly.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The artillery roared on the top of the city, and the dense grape bullets were sprinkled over like water. Ten meters away from the city, Jiannu soldiers fell down immediately.

"Let Binzhou Town also attack!" Hauge ordered lightly: "Before dark tonight, pull out all the fortresses in front of the city!"

"Prince Su!" Geng Zhongming said with a frown: "There are so many people going up, and the terrain there can't be unfolded. Wouldn't it be in vain to let the defenders bombard them wantonly? This may hurt the morale of the soldiers."

"Are you teaching me how to fight?" Hauge looked at Geng Zhongming coldly.

"I dare not!" Geng Zhongming hastily bent his body and beat him a thousand times, "I just think that consuming those descended troops in this way will... make them feel dissatisfied."

"Dissatisfied? Hmph..." Hauge sneered, "Could it be that they dare to rebel?"

"..." Geng Zhongming Weiwei didn't dare to answer.

"Of course I know that the terrain there won't be able to deploy too many troops, but we have to exert pressure on the other party, showing that we will overcome the pressure of this city without going forward." Hauge took a deep breath and said slowly: "Linqing Nearly [-] people attacked the town and Binzhou Town. Such a huge momentum will surely capture the hearts of the defenders and make them terrified. In this way, these small fortresses can be removed first, and they will gain a point for future attacks on the city. First chance."

"...The slave has been taught." Geng Zhongming saluted respectfully.But he didn't think so in his heart, if the defenders could be overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of troops outside the city, then what's the point of fighting, just make up the number of people and gather in front of other people's cities.But Hao Gegui is the Prince of Heshuosu and the commander-in-chief of an army, so he still doesn't argue with him.

Jiang Yongrui watched with a solemn expression as thousands of soldiers poured out of the Jiannu formation, rushing towards the fortresses in front, and couldn't help but feel worried.

Is this Jian slave crazy?So regardless of casualties, when it was about to get dark, a full-scale offensive was suddenly launched.Although the previous fortresses had already inflicted a lot of damage to Jianu, they were like waves in the sea, one wave receded and another wave came in, seemingly endless.Not to mention the defenders in the previous few castles, even standing in Penglai County, it also gives people an unspeakable shock and suffocation, as if the soldiers and horses of the slaves can never be killed.When the next huge wave comes, it will crush and destroy all the obstacles in front of us.

"Looking at the situation, we may have to be mentally prepared to lose one or two fortresses." Luo Shouzhang, who was standing beside him, said softly.

"Just lost one or two forts?" Jiang Yongrui was mentally prepared to lose all three forts in the south of the city.

"If Jiannu can withstand greater casualties, maybe all the fortresses in the south can be breached." Luo Shouzhang thought for a while and said: "If that is the case, I am afraid that Jiannu will not be able to organize a large-scale siege operation after Jiannu. They If you dare to attack the castle close to the main city, you will definitely suffer more casualties under the blow of our crossfire. If so many people died in the first battle, who would be willing to work for the slaves of the Ming Dynasty?"

"If two forts are lost, it will cost 1000 people! Among them are more than [-] of our gunners. What a pity."

Jiang Yongrui glanced sideways at this young general of the Qi State. We only lost a thousand people, but at least we can replace thousands of Jiannu. .

On the most protruding castle, sporadic Jian slaves had already climbed to the top of the city. Although they were quickly driven down by the defenders, the city defense was already shaken.Dozens of musketeers also began to panic, and some of them fired the cleaning rods directly after compacting the gunpowder projectiles with the cleaning rods.Some reversed the gunpowder and projectiles in a hurry, causing the muskets to fail to fire.Even more, they didn't care about loading the ammunition, and bravely rushed forward with their muskets in their hands.

But as more Jiannu ladders climbed up the city wall, more and more Jiannu soldiers emerged from below, jumped onto the top of the city, and fiercely waved short knives at the defenders. The battle line gradually began to waver.A few months ago, the officers and soldiers of Daming Denglai Town who were just starving people, after being chopped down by more than a dozen people, kept moving backwards, and some even uttered a cry, turned and fled backwards.

The commanders of Linqing Town and Binzhou Town who were supervising the battle under the city felt that they were already somewhat unable to suppress the retreating soldiers.The artillery of the defenders continued to roar, and the feather arrows continued to fly. The entire attacking army suffered nearly [-]% casualties, and the collapse was unstoppable. Maybe in the next moment, all the soldiers would swarm back.

Suddenly, there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in front, and there was a faint shout of "the city is broken".

Linqing Commander Wang Guodong looked forward intently, and then a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

That small fortress that protruded forward was breached by our officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)