Chapter 128: The Bloody Battle of Tai'an (I)

After three days of fighting, Tai'an County is still standing, but 20,000 Qing troops have lost thousands, Jinan City, the commander of the Qing army, Azig was furious when he learned of this result, and scolded Sukhnara for his waste.

At the same time, Azig also received news from Jiangnan that the Southern Ming Dynasty had ended the war with Zuo Liangyu and was sending troops north to prepare to rescue Shandong.

"Someone! The herald is still gratifying, no, this king personally commanded the troops to go, and I don't believe that I can't take the small Tai'an County! Azig couldn't sit still, anyway, it was not interesting to stay in Jinan City, he not only personally led the commander of more than 30,000 troops to go, but also dismantled dozens of city cannons in Jinan City and other big cities to carry them together.

Although these fortified bubbles are far worse than the red-coated cannons, many of them are still old copper cannons, but a small Tai'an County, there are so many cannons to bombard, it is already a big fuss.

However, after two hours of preparation, Azig took 3,000 Eight Banner Iron Cavalry and 10,000 Mongolian Iron Cavalry, plus Li Huaxi's 20,000 Han Banner Army, etc., and more than 30,000 troops marched south from Jinan City to Tai'an. Shang Kexi and the tens of thousands of troops who swept through Yantai in the Bohai Sea had also won the victory and were turning back, and Azig ordered them not to go to Jinan City, but to Tai'an County to make peace with him.

Outside the city of Tai'an, the Qing army camp.

"You waste, you have lost my face in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty!" Azig angrily kicked Sukhnara over and up, without saving any face, and hit Sukhnara's face, leaving a clear footprint on Sukhnara's face, kicking Sukhnara's nose and bleeding, which was very miserable.

A general of the Han Banner Army is secretly cool, in the past few days, Sukhnara has forced him to attack Tai'an County every day, he has been scolded I don't know how many times, and now it is finally Sukhnala's turn to be scolded himself.

The Han Banner Army general hadn't been proud for long, Azig seemed to have a sense of shifting his firepower, glaring at the Han Banner Army generals who had participated in the siege of the city in the past few days and yelling: "You guys are also waste!" What are you doing to eat in the Qing Dynasty, even a small Tai'an has been attacked for so many days, this king warns you, if you are negligent, this king will not be spared! ”

Azig's killing machine was exposed, these generals of the Han Banner Army were not their Manchurian children, and he would not be soft at all when he killed.

Under Azig's murderous gaze, these Han Banner Army generals trembled, and cold sweat broke out, how could they forget this stubble, the generals of the Han Banner Army who were ineffective in killing them would not hesitate at all, just now they only cared about laughing at Sukhnara, it turned out that they themselves were the most dangerous.

In Tai'an County, Yan Yingyuan has recruited more than 2,000 young men to participate in the defense of the city these days, in addition to the dead and wounded in the past few days, he still has nearly 5,000 men and horses to defend the city, although the number is more than double the original only 2,000 people, but how can these newly recruited young men compare with the 2,000 city guards who have been trained by him for several months. If the Qing army only had 20,000 people, he was confident that the Qing army would never be able to break through Tai'an, but now that tens of thousands of people participated in the siege, the situation was very different, and Yan Yingyuan did not have much confidence in how many days he could defend.

"Big brother, there are more and more prisoners." Chen Ming was worried about the dense Qing army under the city.

"Looking at this situation, I'm afraid that 50,000 people will have to go down immediately, hehe, I can't imagine that our small Tai'an County is worth letting Qinglu use so many people, it's really an honor for the three of us brothers." Feng Houdun smiled, not at all worried about what would happen to Tai'an once he couldn't hold himself, maybe he would have put life and death out of the way a long time ago.

"Second brother, third brother, eldest brother is afraid that he will be sorry for the two brothers." Looking at so many Qing troops outside the city, Yan Yingyuan didn't dare to say how many days he could hold Tai'an, once the city was broken, it was conceivable that it would be the fate of his three brothers.

The three brothers don't need to say much, Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun also know what Yan Yingyuan meant, Yan Yingyuan thought that he could take the two brothers to do a career in Tai'an, but he didn't expect to harm the two brothers in this desperate situation.

"What did the eldest brother say, when the three of us brothers were married, we did not ask to be born on the same day and month in the same year, but to die in the same year and on the same day! Besides, it is enough for the Qing Lu to mobilize so many men and horses to attack, which is enough for the three brothers to go down in history, what is there to regret. Feng Houdun said.

"Yes, big brother, we have nothing to regret if we can fight with Qingyu." Chen Mingyu also said with a smile.

"Good brother!" Yan Yingyuan was moved, and then laughed.

"Hahahaha, okay, the second brother is right, if you can fight with Qing Yu here, my three brothers will not be in vain. Qingyu is heavy, even if he can't defend Tai'an, he vows to let Qingyu break a few teeth here! ”

The three brothers are fearless, as a member of the Ming Dynasty, they must be worthy of the country, worthy of the nation, and never bow to the Qing aliens, the three brothers are determined to fight the Qing army in Tai'an County to the end.

The 50,000 Qing army was personally led by Azig, and after reorganizing the army, they prepared to attack Tai'an again.

"This king personally supervises the battle, little Tai'an, I think you can survive for a few hours! Order, give this king to push all the cannons forward and bombard Tai'an! Azig Senran smiled and ordered.

More than forty cannons were all slowly pushed forward, and the black muzzles pointed directly at the Tai'an city wall.

"No, it's a cannon!" Yan Yingyuan's eyes widened in horror, although these cannons were all old-fashioned old cannons, the Tai'an city wall was not comparable to the city wall of the big city, and it could not withstand a day or two of bombardment.

"Big brother, the situation is extremely bad, what should I do!" Chen Mingyu asked.

Although Tai'an County originally had four old bronze cannons to defend the city, they were too long ago to be used at all, and Tai'an had no ability to fight back against the Qing army's artillery fire, so it could only be bombarded by the Qing army's artillery, and there would be big trouble if it went on like this.

"No, only to fight to the death!" Yan Yingyuan gritted his teeth and said.

Yan Yingyuan defended the city very well, but he couldn't think of any way in the face of the Qing army's artillery, he couldn't send people out of the city to destroy the Qing army's cannons, I'm afraid that before the people sent out approached the cannons, they were cut into meat sauce by countless Qing soldiers.

Half an hour later, all the more than 40 cannons of the Qing army were in place and loaded.

"Shoot this king!" Azig ordered with a sinister smile.

"Boom Boom"

More than forty cannons roared at the same time, and the iron balls hit the city wall of Tai'an, and the bricks and stones flew into the debris, and the entire city wall trembled, which was extremely terrifying.

The Qing army concentrated firepower to bombard a section of the city wall, it seems that it intends to open a breakthrough and let the cavalry kill into the city.

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