As the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, Shenyang City gathered a large number of Manchu people and Manchu nobles in the city.

Although Dai Shan and other four Baylors were not in Shenyang City because they assisted the young Shunzhi Emperor in Beijing City, Shenyang City had a very high status in the eyes of the Manchu people, even higher than Beijing City, not only a large number of Manchu people and Manchu nobles, but also some Huang Taiji's concubines, etc., which could not be lost.

The defensive force that Dolgon left to Shenyang City could have been used for a battle.

50,000 of the most loyal Manchu Han Banner Army, as well as nearly 40,000 Manchu veterans and remnants of the Manchu army, as well as a part of the Manchu elite Manchu army.

"Lord Zhang Jing, General Abai was killed in battle, most of the 30,000 troops were killed and wounded, and less than 5,000 people came back!"

At present, because of the death of Ah Bai, the top general of the Manchurians in Shenyang City has become a Zhang Jing of the Zhengbai Banner, who is a confidant of Dolgon, named Lungu.

"General Ahbai did not listen to the advice, resulting in a great defeat, and the defense in the city is afraid that it is not enough!" Lungu was more worried about his lack of identity, there were too many nobles in Shenyang City from the Nurhachi and Huang Taiji eras, and it was not something he could command at all, otherwise the regent would not let him assist Ah Bai, but unfortunately, Ah Bai obviously betrayed Dolgon's trust.

It's also too arrogant, too arrogant, a reckless man, no wonder after Nurhachi's death, he can't be reused by Huang Taiji and Dolgon, so he can only stay in Shenyang City.

No matter how chaotic the city of Shenyang was, after the Fourth Army reached the city of Chengyang, it immediately began to build artillery positions.

"Fire!"

"Boom Boom"

As soon as the cannon of the Fourth Army of Yinglong's army rang out, the city wall of Shenyang was shrouded in explosions and fires, and the entire city of Shenyang shook, and the city was full of people for more time.

Those Manchurian nobles are not ordinary soldiers, they may not be afraid of death, shouting to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Ming army, but more of them are also afraid of death, one by one they are so frightened that they turn pale, and they don't know when the Ming army will enter the city.

In the end, these full nobles wanted to use the rich materials they had stolen from the Ming Dynasty, and they began to be a little pampered one by one, and they lost their blood that was not afraid of death.

"Red-coated cannon, quick, hurry up and use the red-coated cannon to shoot back against the Ming army!" In the face of the fierce bombardment of the Ming army, the generals of the Qing army on the city wall realized that they also had red-clothed cannons defending the city on the city wall, and immediately roared loudly.

In order to strengthen the defenses of Shenyang City, Dolgon installed forty red-coated cannons on the walls of Shenyang City.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Due to the heavy and difficult operation of the red-coated cannons, only a few of them began to fire at the beginning, and they could not be formed into pieces, and the accuracy and firing range were poor, and they could not pose a threat to the artillery battalion of the Fourth Army of the Yinglong Army under the city.

"Hehe, big brother, the cannon full of people also fired back at us, but unfortunately we couldn't hit a single shot!" Feng Houdun smiled beside Yan Yingyuan.

It had long been expected that the Manchus would have red-coated cannons in Shenyang City, and when Yan Yingyuan took the Fourth Army of Yinglong's Army to Shenyang City, he deliberately chose to build an artillery camp outside the range of the red-coated cannons, so although the red-coated cannons on Shenyang City returned fire, they could not hurt half of the Fourth Army.

"After a while, at most a stick of incense, the cannons full of people will be destroyed under the artillery camp of the Fourth Army!" Yan Yingyuan said with a smile.

The artillery battalion of the Fourth Army of Yinglong Army not only occupied the advantage of firing range, but also occupied the advantage of the power of the cannonballs, and with Yan Yingyuan's words, one by one the heavy red-clothed cannons were constantly blown down from the city wall and smashed under the city, smashing the ice surface of the moat.

It's already November, and Liaodong has long been cold, and the moat has already been frozen.

The artillery fire of the Fourth Army was fierce, and the red-coated artillery on the city of Shenyang was gradually destroyed by all that was left.

Due to the ferocity of the cannon fodder, the Qing soldiers on the city wall suffered too many casualties, and most of the Qing troops hid the city wall in order to avoid the artillery fire of the Fourth Army.

Looking at the Shenyang city wall, which was constantly ravaged by artillery fire, Feng Houdun suddenly couldn't arouse any interest.

"Big brother, the city is full of people, it's better to let the artillery battalion bombard the city directly and force the people out by themselves!" Feng Houdun suddenly proposed.

Yan Yingyuan frowned, and after thinking for a few breaths, he shook his head and said: "No, there are many people in the city, but there are also some Han people who were plundered and enslaved by the Manchus back then, and even they will be killed if they bombard the city." ”

"Big brother, those people are willing to put down their dignity to serve the thieves, what do we care about them?" Feng Houdun said.

"Nonsense, there are a few people in the world who are willing to be slaves, let alone slaves to the Manchus, they are all Han people who were captured by the Manchus from the Guannei, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had no ability to protect them, and now the Ming Dynasty has the ability to rescue them, do you still have to care about their life and death?" Yan Yingyuan said with a serious face.

Seeing that Yan Yingyuan looked like he was angry, Feng Houdun immediately didn't dare to talk nonsense.

"That's what Big Brother said." Feng Houdun thought about what Yan Yingyuan said just now, and felt that there was some truth, indeed, it was the Ming Dynasty who was unable to protect them, so they were taken captive by the Manchus and taken to Liaodong to become slaves, which was not voluntary.

Although Yan Yingyuan did not order the artillery battalion to bombard the city directly as Feng Houdun said, he looked at the city wall and frowned and pondered.

For a moment, Yan Yingyuan thought about it.

"Although you can't bomb the city directly, there is a way to quickly break through Shenyang City!" Yan Yingyuan said.

"What! Big brother, what did you come up with? Feng Houdun hurriedly asked.

"The moat of Shenyang City has been frozen, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall are also afraid of our army's artillery fire, and most of them are hiding, we can take the opportunity to send some soldiers to put a large number of shells and ** piles under the city to detonate and blow up a gap!" This method was just thought out by Yan Yingyuan, and he estimated that Shenyang City was just a small county town in Liaodong back then, although it was built by Nurhachi and Huang Taiji for two generations, but the Manchurians were used to riding horses and fighting in the field, and Shenyang City had never been attacked, and the city wall was definitely not as thick as the strong city in the Central Plains, and it was not impossible to blow up a gap.

"Big brother, good way!" Feng Houdun's eyes lit up, and the moat of Shenyang City was frozen, so he could directly send people to carry a large number of cannonballs and ** past, detonate them together, and blow up a section of the city wall is not a problem.

With Yan Yingyuan's order, the cannon of the artillery battalion suddenly split a short section of the city wall located on the east side of the city tower.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Yinglong Army carried a few boxes of ** and more than a dozen boxes of shells and rushed to the section of the city wall that was temporarily diverted by the artillery battalion fire.

The so-called ** is actually a bag of tightly wrapped new gunpowder with a lead, which each army of the Ying Long Army carries, but because it may not be used much, it is not much.

** and shells continue to pile up, the ** carried has all been transported over, and the artillery battalion shells have also been transported by one-fifth at a time, it is estimated that it should be able to blow up that section of the city wall, Yan Yingyuan ordered to stop carrying ** and shells to the city.

"Hit all the gunfire, fire!"

All the cannons of the artillery battalion were aimed at the large number of **s and shells piled under the city walls, and the cannonballs were fired violently.

"Boom Boom"

Dozens of shells detonated along with the piled up ** and shells.

The flames from the violent explosion enveloped the entire length of the wall.

After the explosion, a gap nearly ten meters wide was blown open in that section of the wall.

"Kill"

Under Yan Yingyuan's order, the Fourth Army of the Ying Long Army began to fight into Shenyang City from the gap that was blown up!