Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1174 The King Thief Is Coming
At dawn the next day, the war drums in the Qing army's camp started beating vigorously, and the shrill horns spread throughout the camp.

Nearly [-] Mongolian Bannermen came out of the camp reluctantly and slowly assembled outside Taiyuan City.

After all, the Han army accounted for the majority of the Qing army. Dorgon might not have looked down on them before, but now he has to pay a little attention to the feelings of the Han army.

Dorgon sent the Mongols to attack the city. Apart from this, it was mainly because he could not afford to delay. The Han army had not captured Taiyuan after two months of fighting, and continuing to fight would not have much effect. He had to send elite troops to attack the city. , to take Taiyuan City quickly, because Wang Yan has already arrived in Henan.

Standing on the dilapidated city of Taiyuan, Jiang Xiang watched the mobilization of the Qing army. He saw nearly ten thousand Mongolian soldiers walking out of the camp. Hearing the sound of horns, he felt the air suddenly tense.

"How about the other three sides?" Jiang Xiang asked.

"Duke, the Qing army is gathering, but the main attack should be here!" Liu Qian pointed at the assembled Mongols, and he was surprised that the attacking force had changed.

Jiang Xiang immediately turned around and ordered, "Ring the alarm bell and prepare for war!"

The alarm bell on the city rang, ten thousand rebels quickly deployed on the city wall, and thousands of people also took their positions.

Taiyuan was besieged for two months. The defenders in the city had experienced many defenses and had sufficient experience. They knew how to respond without orders. Everything was in order and there was no panic. However, Jiang Xiang's eyes revealed melancholy. Taiyuan City is not short of money , There is no shortage of food, but there is a lack of equipment.

Dorgon came to Taiyuan for only one day, and the next day he asked the Qing army to launch a large-scale attack. Hundreds of ladders and more than ten siege towers, surrounded by soldiers, rushed towards Taiyuan City like a tide.

Three thousand Mongols held their shields high, holding scimitars in their hands, and behind them were nearly seven thousand archers.Boom!Boom! 'In the sound of the drums, they stepped on the drums and moved forward.

The siege of a city has a lot of casualties and is not pleasing. It has always been done by the green battalion. Although the Mongols are dissatisfied, they still have to walk slowly with their weapons.

1 horses spread out in the wilderness, each ladder and siege tower was followed by hundreds of people, and the battle has been fought until now, the Qing army is a little numb to the siege, and the Mongols are too lazy to howl, just keep their heads down Advance towards the wall.

Although the Mongols had never attacked Taiyuan, they saw the Green Camp and the Han Banner attack several times. They advanced half a mile away from the city, and immediately ran wildly, and suddenly a rain of stones hit the city.

More than 100 huge boulders roared down from the sky, rolling in the crowd of Mongolian soldiers, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams resounded through the field.

A siege tower was hit in the waist, the wooden planks were broken, sawdust splashed, the tower body broke and fell directly, the surrounding soldiers scattered immediately, another ladder was hit by the wooden wheel, the bearing broke, the ladder body tilted, lying on the ground. Can no longer move on the ground.

The siege battle was the most tragic. Being shot to death by an arrow or shot to death by a blunderbuss was considered an easy death, but what was terrible was being flattened by stones, drenched in boiling oil, or poured with golden juice, that was an ugly death.

The Mongols didn't want to attack the city, so they wanted to run back, but Dorgon personally supervised the battle behind them, and they couldn't be inferior to the Green Camp, so the Mongols could only brave the stone bullets and charge forward, Pushing forward, the archers on both sides fired fiercely, and the battle quickly became fierce.

The defenders shot down arrows on both sides of the crenel on the city wall, and nearly [-] Mongolian archers lined up below the city wall in nine rows, throwing arrows at the top of the city in turn. The defenders suppressed.

Arrows from both sides were like rain, forming a black arrow net in the sky. The Mongols suffered heavy casualties, and the defenders were also suppressed.

In the dense rain of arrows, three thousand Mongols approached the city wall with their weapons, and the battle began to heat up.

Rolling logs and rocks were thrown down from the top of the city, and the fire oil tank ignited a raging fire immediately when it hit the ladder.

The Mongols' bows and arrows suppressed the top of the city, but there were too many archers, and the attacking troops were weak in follow-up.

The battle didn't last long. In less than an hour, the Mongolian archers shot all the arrows in the quiver, their arms became sore, and the city lost the arrow rain to suppress them, and immediately drove the Mongols down from the city.

In terms of siege, the Mongols were no better than the green battalion, or even worse.

The result of the siege made Dorgon dissatisfied, and the Mongols who attacked the city were not happy.

Since the Mongols and the Manchus got together, except for the tough battles in the initial stage of entrepreneurship, they rarely participated in such costly siege battles.

In the siege, it has always been mainly the green battalion soldiers who are fighting, using them to consume the enemy's new force, and then the main force of Manchuria will come on the stage to collect military merits and benefits.

This time Dorgon asked the Mongols to siege the city and let the Mongols act as consumables, which made the Mongols very dissatisfied.

In the early morning of the next day, Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Darhan Zhuolik Batu Dun and several Mongolian generals found Dorgon angrily, and said very dissatisfied: "Regent, I heard a news that today's attack The city still needs to be the vanguard of the Eight Banners. We already killed 2000 people yesterday, and there are only so many people in Mongolia. After three days of attack, all the banners will be killed. Does the regent want us to fight until the last man?"

"That's right! Regent, the Han army has always been the vanguard in things like siege, there are so many of them!"

Dorgon deeply felt the difficulties of the Qing Dynasty. This bandit group bound by interests, when the benefits it could obtain were stretched, its internal cohesion was far inferior to that of the past.

Dorgun was processing official documents, and after listening to a few people's words, he couldn't help but hate in his heart. He defeated Zhungeer and also gave these white-eyed wolves a lot of benefits.

Dorgon said with a sullen face, "This king is very clear about this matter. Your wounded ones will be treated by others. You will continue to take the initiative in attacking the city today. This will not change, but this king will order the Han army flag to cover your attack. "

The Mongols had no rules for attacking the city, and there was no follow-up preparation, which was reflected yesterday, but the Mongols also have the advantages of the Mongols, that is, they are brave and their soldiers are stronger than the Han Banners.

Dorgon changed his strategy and decided to let the Han Army Banner suppress the city with weapons such as bows, arrows and firecrackers, and let the Mongols charge ahead and take charge of climbing the city, giving full play to their respective advantages.

Several Mongolian generals, seeing that Dorgon was determined, did not dare to disobey the order, but the unhappiness was directly expressed on everyone's face.

Seeing this, Dorgon frowned, "You try your best to attack the city, whoever destroys Taiyuan first, this king will allow him to plunder for a day first!"

"Thank you, Regent!" Darhan Zhuolik Batu Dun looked better after hearing these words, and bid farewell to Dorgon with several others.

They saluted and then turned and left. Dorgon angrily threw the booklet in his hand on the table, and shouted angrily: "Let Kong Youde come to see the king!"

Not long after, Kong Youde came quickly, he got off his horse, walked directly into the big tent, saluted and said: "What orders does the Prince Regent have?"

"Today you can send out 1 horses, choose gunners and archers, and cooperate with the Eight Banners of Mongolia to attack the city!"

Kong Youde hurriedly prepared to take the order, but at this moment the curtain of the tent was lifted by Lou Qin. He walked into the tent in a hurry, and presented a military report to Dorgon, "Regent, you are welcome to send the eight hundred Li Jia is in a hurry, the king's thief sent troops to Ruzhou, and went straight to Luoyang!"

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