Chapter 435: The Battle of Nanchang (4)
Duoduo has also been paying close attention to the movements in Nanchang City these days, Duoduo knows that Ganzhou in Jiangxi is in the hands of the Guangdong Shenwu regime, and he is very afraid that Guangdong's reinforcements will go down the river from Ganzhou, although Duoduo scoffs at the combat effectiveness of the Nanming army, but it is not good to add unnecessary variables in the siege battle.
Duoduo's calculation was to occupy Nanchang as soon as possible, and then capture Ganzhou by the end of the year. Tomorrow at the beginning of spring, we will enter Guangdong from Nanxiong Mansion, and enter the hinterland of Guangdong when we enter Nanxiong, which is basically hilly and river, and we can hit Guangzhou in a few days.
As long as Guangdong is occupied, the west can threaten the Yongli regime in Guangxi, and the north can unite with the Qing army in Zhejiang to flank Li Chengdong in Fujian. Of course, these are all based on the need to solve Nanchang quickly, and another point is that Duoduo feels that his body is getting worse and worse.
Duoduo contracted a cold after quelling the Mongol rebellion at the beginning of the year, and in June, he began to lead his army south, and contracted dysentery when he passed through the uninhabited land of Henan. That is, Duoduo is young and strong, which is estimated by other people to be half a human height.
However, the humid rainy season in Jiangnan still made Duoduo seriously ill, and Duoduo estimated that he would definitely not live for half a year if he persevered like this, so his calculation was to hand over the army to Tan Tai to lead after solving Jin Shenghuan before the end of the year, and he would return to Beijing to recuperate.
Therefore, after Duoduo saw that more than 500,000 people had been caught, he decided to launch an all-out blow to completely solve Jin Shenghuan in Nanchang.
Duoduo fought hard today, half lying on the bed covered with wolf skin, and said to the generals in the camp: "Now the temperature is cool, it is the climate we are used to, Tan Tai and He Luo will do what you have done in the past few days to make this king very satisfied, the war in Nanchang can not drag on, this king decided to start attacking the city today!" ”
Tan Tai, the general of Pingnan, was Duoduo's deputy, and when he heard Duoduo say this, he asked: "Dashuai, it's already noon, why don't you wait until tomorrow morning to attack the city?" ”
"No, prepare the fire tonight, if you can't fight at night, you must capture Nanchang tomorrow morning, you can't delay it any longer!"
Tan Tai also knew that Duoduo's health was not good, so he sighed and retreated.
Duoduo barely stood up and began to divide his troops.
"Tan Tai, today you are in charge of the general attack; He Luohui, you lead 10,000 white flags as a vanguard to attack Deshengmen, first use the Han people to attack the city, and wait until the corpses are piled up to the city wall, you lead people to rush up the city wall, and those who go to the city first can choose ten beauties in the city and reward one hundred taels of gold; Irib, you lead 30,000 Mongolian Eight Banners and 10,000 Han Army Banners to wait for He Luohui to open the city gate, order to go down, and enter Nanchang for three days without sealing the sword! Zakdan, you lead 10,000 Mongol banners to feint against Vinh Hoa Gate, Keshan, you lead 10,000 people to feint against Hue Gate; Ma Guozhu, you lead the naval army or feint to attack Zhangjiangmen; Kundu, you lead 50,000 cavalry to respond outside to prevent anyone from escaping after the city is broken! ”
After the Duoduo faction finished, he leaned on the handrail and couldn't speak, Tan Tai saw Duoduo like this, and asked, "Your Highness the Ten Kings, what else do you have to say?" ”
Duoduo shook his hand weakly, Tan Tai turned around and said to the generals: "You have all heard the order, go down and prepare, if anyone is afraid of the enemy and delays the fighter, he will not be spared!" ”
The generals retreated one after another, and Tan Tai saw that Duoduo had no orders and retreated.
When Tan Tai came out, he saw He Luohui standing at the door of the big tent, seemingly waiting for him.
"General, is there something wrong?"
He Luohui saw Tan Tai coming out, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "General, do you think the Ten Kings are about to die like this?" ”
Tan Tai heard that He Luo would say this, and shouted in a low voice: "What nonsense, this is also what you can ask?" Don't go and prepare for the siege yet! ”
He Luo would see Tan Tai say this, and he had no choice but to walk away.
Looking at He Luohui's back, Tan Tai also sighed, he knew what He Luo would worry about. The three Dorgon brothers were all heroes, and in the past Dorgon was in charge of central dispatch, and Dorgor and Azig were in charge of leading the troops to fight outside. At this time, the three brothers cooperated seamlessly, and they fought a few beautiful battles, and it was at this time that the two white flags were developed.
However, after entering the customs, with the expansion of the authority of the three brothers, there began to be filth between the three. First of all, the boss Azig challenged Dolgon's authority, and even wanted to ask for the title of uncle by virtue of his military exploits, so that he was on an equal footing with Dolgon. So Dolgon found a reason to refrigerate Azig and became an idle prince in Beijing.
And the second Duoduo, seeing the appearance of the eldest brother, coupled with his poor health, asked for leave early to cultivate in the palace all year round, so that Dolgon began to monopolize power.
If at this time, Dolgon could still lead everyone to victory as he did outside the Guan, but since the occupation of Nanjing, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanxi, which have already been pacified, have rebelled one after another, if you add Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, which have become no man's land, Shandong, which is full of bandits, Zhejiang and Nanzhili, where the Southern Ming righteous army is rampant, Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, and Yungui in the hands of Nanming, and only Beijing and Northern Zhili are still under the control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
At this critical juncture, if Duoduo dies, the royalists in the DPRK and China, led by Zilharang and Daishan, will definitely counterattack. And He Luohui and Tan Tai are both Dolgon's people, and it is inevitable that they will be concerned at this critical time.
Tan Tai himself is better, he was born in the Zhenghuangqi Shu Mulu clan, and he was originally a domestic slave of the Aixin Jueluo family, and the party attached to Dolgon was just a matter of standing in line. But Ho Lo will be different.
He Luohui was originally a close confidant of Hauge, the prince of Su, but he saw that Dolgon was powerful, and shamelessly became a backbone boy, and framed Hauge and the two Yellow Banner ministers Yangshan, Omoktu, Yi Chengge, and Luo Shuo for rebellion, resulting in Hauge and his two sons dying tragically in prison, and Hauge's wife also returned to Dolgon. If Dolgon falls at this time, it will be strange that the noble ministers can spare He Luohui.
Tan Tai is similar, although he is not as perverse as He Luohui, but there are many people who have offended, and if Dolgon falls, his best outcome is to save his life. Thinking of his bright future, Tan Tai sighed, if the Jiangxi war is won this time, even if the ten kings are gone, no one can shake Dolgon's authority, if the Jiangxi war is unfavorable, it is really hard to say.
Tan Tai stood for a while, making up his mind that no matter what happens in the future, winning the battle of Nanchang now is the key, and after thinking about it, Tan Tai began to prepare to assemble the team.
Jiang Yueguang at the head of Nanchang City also leaned forward, although he didn't know anything about military affairs, but it was already noon, and it would be night in a few hours, and now people have night blindness, and they basically don't go out at night. What Jiang Yueguang didn't know was that because the Manchurian Eight Banners ate well, and the Manchurians ate a lot of meat, the degree of night blindness was very mild, so the night battle was beneficial to the Manchurians.
"King Jun, it's noon now, why are the Qing troops on the other side preparing to attack the city, aren't they afraid of fighting at night?"
Jin Shenghuan pointed to more than a dozen large piles of wood three miles away and said: "The Qing army is preparing for a night battle, and the Manchurians eat well, night blindness is very light, and it is not good for us to fight at night!" ”
Jiang Yueguang heard Jin Shenghuan say this, and hurriedly asked, "What should I do then?" ”
"I can only order the soldiers to light more torches, and then build more bonfires!"
Jiang Yueguang heard Jin Shenghuan say this, and hurriedly took a few magistrates down to prepare bonfires and torches.
Such a general battle of hundreds of thousands of people, no one can organize the time, the army is easy to say, after all, it is trained, but those who are going to fill the pit have seen this. Seeing that the Qing army drove themselves to the city wall, some of these people survived the siege a few days ago, and now the corpses are covered with corpses outside the Desheng Gate in Nanchang, these people already know what the Qing army wants them to do.
There were a few brave warriors among the people, seeing that sooner or later they would die, and they shouted that they would fight with these Tartars! But after all, such people are a minority, and a few of the leaders died under the arrows of the white flag, and the others reported that they might be alive, and were driven to the city by the Qing army.
Outside the city of Nanchang there was a moat three zhang deep and five zhang wide, the siege of the city a few days ago has been filled with corpses and siege equipment for a while, although the weather in Jiangxi in September of the lunar calendar is not hot, but it is also above zero, the corpse in the moat is swollen by the blister, sometimes the stomach of the corpse explodes, not to make a loud noise, plus the decay of the corpse is overgrown with mosquitoes, and the city wall is almost a ghost.
The first few rows of people wanted to stop, but there were more than 100,000 people driven by the Qing army, and the back squeezed the front, where could the first row still stop, and they were squeezed into the moat and drowned, becoming meat sacks for filling the river.
The moat was originally only three zhang deep and five zhang wide, but in less than half an hour, the corpses filled the two-mile-long moat outside the Desheng Gate, and these people finally approached the city wall.
Jin Shenghuan stood on the city wall and looked at the tragic situation below, he couldn't help it, now it's either you die or I die, if these people are allowed to enter the city, then the 10,000 Qing troops who are following behind will take advantage of the situation to attack the city, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Nanchang City will not be guaranteed.
Jin Shenghuan couldn't help it, and shouted: "Don't let the people get close to the city wall!" ”
With the commander's military order, the 10,000 defenders on the Desheng Gate shouted: "Don't go near the city wall!" Go back! Or don't let go of the arrows! ”
But how can this stop the people living in the city from approaching, after all, if you don't get close to the back, the Tartars will definitely kill themselves, and if you get close to the city wall, you may still have a way to live. In this way, there are more and more crowds under the city, and some elderly people are squeezed down and immediately trampled to death by the people behind, and for a while the crying, screaming, and begging for mercy resounded under the city of Nanchang.
Jin Shenghuan looked down, now there are tens of thousands of people gathered in the city, and there are countless people rushing over like a tide behind him, Jin Shenghuan sighed, closed his eyes and said, "Let's do it!" ”