841 corpses in the thousands

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They had already learned from Leng Feng's mouth that Liancheng was attacked by the Tartars without knowing it, and it would fall so easily.

Then, the Tartars slaughtered the city frantically in Liancheng, and more than 120,000 people in the city may have become the souls of the Tartars.

Although Li Sheng and the others got the news sent by Zhou Dazhu in advance, they knew that some Tartars had bypassed the Jinzhou defense line and killed them on their side.

However, they didn't know that there would be a kill so soon.

According to the speculation of Zhu Yong and others, even if the Tartars had to rush to their Lushun side, it would be at least a day later.

Even, Zhu Yong and the others were optimistic and speculated that if Zhou Dazhu and Wu Bei in the north looked at their actions in time, they might be able to stop the Tartars in the north and fight with the Tartars.

If that's the case, I'm afraid the Tartars won't have a chance to appear outside Arthur.

But now, Leng Feng arrived ahead of schedule and told them the news, so that all their previous speculations were overturned.

So, Li Sheng, Zhu Yong, Feng Tong and Leng Feng discussed and decided that they would not only defend the city, but even set up an ambush in advance to see if they could Yin Tartar once.

So, that's why they have an ambush tonight.

It's a pity that they waited from the first half of the night to the second half of the night, and they didn't wait for the Tartars to attack the city at night.

In the end, Zhu Yong couldn't stand it anymore, yawned, and said, "Order the soldiers, all withdraw, leaving two hundred people to defend the city."

The rest of the soldiers all returned to the camp to sleep, and they were recuperated, and tomorrow there will be a defense of the city.

If you don't sleep again, the sky will be about to dawn, in case the Tartars come to attack the city after dawn, then we won't sleep all night, how can we defend the city.

It's all gone! ”

In the face of Zhu Yong's order, Leng Feng did not object, because what Zhu Yong said was right.

At this time, it is basically impossible for the Tartars to come to the night attack.

As a result, just after dawn in the early morning of the 12th, Agu Yang led 7,000 Tartars to attack the city of Arthur.

Li Sheng slept directly in the palace, and early in the morning he received a message sent by Zhu Yong and others, saying that the Tartars had attacked the city.

Immediately, Li Sheng personally rushed to the front city gate, and halfway through he heard the rumbling of cannons on the western city wall.

"Kill!"

At the west gate of Lushun, the sound of killing shook the sky, and more than 2,000 Tartars were attacking the city.

This time, the siege method of the Tartars is no longer to carry a ladder to attack the city.

The Tartars tried to rush under the gates of Arthur, blew them open with gunpowder, and then rushed straight in.

It's a pity that Lushun City, as a seaside city, has a moat, and it is not so easy for the Tartars to rush to the city gate smoothly.

"Shoot, shoot, don't let the Tartars rush under the gates, they want to blow them open."

Zhu Yong personally led more than 1,000 city defense soldiers to guard the west gate.

As soon as the Tartars began to attack the city, Zhu Yong sensed the Tartars' intentions, stood on the city wall, and shouted loudly to the musketeers around him.

"Fire!"

Boom Boom!

On the west city wall of Lushun, more than a dozen artillery pieces fired frantically, and explosive bombs exploded outside the city, flying gravel and mud.

If you are close to the explosive bomb, some Tartars who are charging will be unlucky enough to be hit by the iron pillar or nail fired from the explosive bomb, and then fall to the ground and wail.

"Shoot!"

Bang bang bang!

More than 1,000 musketeers on the city walls fired quickly at the Tartars outside the moat under the city, then loaded their ammunition and fired again.

As soon as a Tartar crossed the moat and tried to approach the city gate, Zhu Yong would have the grenadiers on the city wall throw iron-clad mines below.

"Grenadier, bomb throwing!"

Just now, two teams of Tartars, braving the rain of bullets to erect planks on the moat, crossed the moat, and tried to get close to the city gate, and Zhu Yong immediately asked the grenadiers to drop the bombs.

Because, the two teams of Tartar soldiers who rushed over were holding two large canisters in their arms, which contained gunpowder.

Of course, Zhu Yong recognized that it was equipped in the White Dragon Army, and the flame canister specially used for blasting was equivalent to the explosive bag of later generations.

These two large gunpowder jars contained at least a dozen catties of gunpowder, which were lit in front of the city gate, which was enough to blow open the gate of Lushun City.

These gunpowder canisters specially used for blasting were seized by Agu Yang from Nanguan City yesterday.

Snort!

Seven or eight iron-clad mines with fuses were thrown from the city walls and thrown at the gates.

The Tartar soldiers, who had just rushed to the city gate and had not had time to light the two large powder jars, watched several iron-clad mines explode next to them under frightened eyes.

"Ahh

After a few screams, five or six Tartars who rushed to the vicinity of the city gate were all wounded and struggled on the ground screaming.

But most of the Tartars did not die, and the two Tartars climbed on the ground in severe pain, trying to climb up to the two gunpowder canisters and set them on fire with their fire breakers.

Creak!

At this time, a gap suddenly opened in the west gate of Lushun City, and then three or four city defense soldiers with knives rushed out from behind the crack in the door.

Poof, poof!

The city defense soldiers who suddenly rushed out quickly rushed out, and with the long knives in their hands, they stabbed into the bodies of the injured Tartar soldiers at the city gate, sending these Tartar soldiers to heaven.

Immediately, these city defense soldiers quickly turned around, picked up the two large powder canisters on the ground, and quickly rushed back to the city, closing the city gate.

More than 2,000 Tartar soldiers, after attacking for more than an hour and leaving behind more than 300 corpses, failed to rush to the west gate of Arthur City, blew the gate open, and had to withdraw in a hurry.

At the same time, at the north gate of Lushun City, there were also more than 3,000 Tartars attacking the city.

Agu Yang guessed that there should not be many defenders in Lushun City, so he took advantage of his strength to disperse the siege and force the defenders in the city to disperse their forces.

Bang!

At the north gate of the city, there was a shocking noise, it turned out that there were Tartar soldiers, who successfully rushed to the gate of the city and lit the gunpowder jar.

After a loud bang, the north gate of Lushun City was really blown open.

"My warriors of the Qing Dynasty, rush with me, rush into the city, leave no one behind, kill!"

After seeing this scene, Agu Yang was also excited, shouted loudly, and quickly entered the north gate of Lushun with a team of Tartar soldiers.

"Ready, shoot!"

As a result, when a large number of Tartar soldiers braved the rain of bullets on the city walls, crossed the moat, rushed to the city gates, and prepared to fight into the city.

These Tartar soldiers found that in the city gate hole, rows of city defense musketeers had already lined up and were waiting for them.

Bang bang bang!

Dense gunfire rang out again at the gate of Lushun North City.

More than 200 musketeers of the city defense troops, at the narrow city gates, again fired in three shots.

"Ahh

I saw that the Tartar soldiers who were armed with guns and knives and rushed over like fierce gods and viciousness fell in pieces under the fire of the musketeers of the city defense army, screaming miserably.

A mere 200 musketeers of the city defense army completely blocked the narrow city gate in a three-stage attack, and no matter how many Tartar soldiers rushed in, they basically came to die.

It's just that these Tartar soldiers are indeed fierce, but they are not afraid of death, and they still rush in one after another.

Soon, near the gate of Lushun North City, a large number of Tartar corpses were piled up layer upon layer, and even blocked the footsteps of the Tartars behind.

In Lushun City, there are only more than 4,000 defenders of the city defense army, and Zhu Yong and Feng Tong have to arrange defenders at the east and south gates to prevent the Tartars from sneaking attacks.

In the west of Lushun City, at the two city gates in the north, the defending city defense soldiers, a total of no more than 3,000 people, let the Agu Yang Department who tried to storm the city hit his head and broke the blood.

The more than 3,000 Tartars on the side of the north city gate failed to enter the city after storming Lushun for more than an hour.

The outcome of this battle once again tells the Tartars that a new era in which firearms dominate the battlefield is accelerating.

If they don't rely on sneak attacks, if they want to storm the city head-on when the soldiers of the White Dragon Army in the city are prepared, it is basically a fool's dream.

This time, it was not the elite of the White Dragon Army who defended Lushun, but the ordinary soldiers of the city defense army.

Perhaps, if this battle had taken place in the wild, the Tartars would not have been so miserable.

However, Agu Yang tried to storm Lushun City and faced a combination of city walls and firearms.

These Tartars, who were still armed with bows and arrows and long knives, would not have a second result except to leave behind pieces of corpses and retreat in ashes.

In this battle, Agu Yang lost nearly 1,000 Tartar soldiers, but still failed to attack the city of Arthur.

The soldiers of the city defense army defending the city suffered only about 50 casualties and more than 30 casualties.

The casualties were all shot by Tartar archers outside the city.

I have to admit that the archers of the Tartars are still very accurate.

They are often shot in the face of the soldiers of the city defense on the city walls, and once shot, the death rate is very high.

Fortunately, the range of the Tartar archers was far less than that of the musketeers of the city defense on the walls.

Tartar archers, musketeers who want to attack the city defense troops on the city walls, need to brave the threat of artillery fire and bullets to shoot close to the city walls.

How could the musketeers of the White Dragon Army on the city wall allow these Tartar archers to shoot arrows calmly.

Often, as soon as the Tartar archers had finished firing the first wave of arrows, they were immediately met with a fierce counterattack from the musketeers of the fortified city walls.

When a Tartar archer kills a musketeer of the city defenses, several archers will essentially fall.

Agu Yang, who failed to attack Lushun, had to retreat, and lost thousands of people in the first battle, which made Agu Yang even more angry.

Agu Yang led the army to retreat, but the city defense troops and horses in Lushun City did not pursue it.

In this battle, although the losses of Agu Sheep were not small, it only hurt the Tartars, and the main force of the Tartars of Agu Sheep was still there.

Once the city defense army in Arthur City pursued out of the city and engaged in a field battle with the Tartars outside the city, it was not as easy as defending the city.

In case they were ambushed by the Tartars outside the city and defeated, Lushun would not be able to hold it at that time.

For Li Sheng, Zhu Yong and others, defending Lushun City is their most urgent task at present.

As for the pursuit of this Tartar army, it will have to wait until their reinforcements arrive.

At this time, Li Sheng had already learned from Leng Feng's mouth that the Tartars had captured Nanguan and Liancheng one after another, and slaughtered 200,000 people in the two cities.

It is precisely because of this that Li Sheng is more cautious.

Because, as the largest city on the Jinzhou Peninsula at this time, Lushun developed rapidly after being occupied by the White Dragon Army, and the permanent population of the city was enough for 150,000 people at this time.

Coupled with the floating population, the population in Lushun City basically maintains about 170,000.

And yesterday, Li Sheng sent people to move more than 20,000 people from six villages around Lushun City into the city before Agu Yang led the Tartars to arrive.

That is to say, at this time, there were more than 190,000 people and defenders in Lushun City, which was basically about to catch up with the sum of Liancheng and Nanguan.

If Lushun was conquered by the Tartars and the people in the city were slaughtered, Li Sheng, Zhu Yong and others would not be able to atone for their crimes even if they died.

Therefore, Li Sheng, Zhu Yong and others, without exception, all agreed on the same decision, first hold Lushun City, wait for reinforcements to arrive, and then find a way to annihilate the Tartar army of Agu Yang.

As for some other villages around Lushun, because of the distance, it is impossible to move the people there to Lushun City.

However, Li Sheng also sent people to these villages early, and at the same time, the officials there asked them to organize the people to leave the villages overnight and hide in the nearest woods and mountains.

Don't let the Tartars of the Agu sheep find them, let them keep them safe first.

Li Sheng was able to make so many preparations in advance, but fortunately, the heralds from Jinzhou arrived earlier.

Sure enough, Agu Yang, who had failed in the attack on Lushun, regrouped his Tartars in a wooded area, and then pounced on several surrounding villages.

Unable to defeat the big city of Lushun, and also lost thousands of soldiers, Agu Yang was extremely angry, and he wanted to slaughter a few surrounding villages to vent his anger.

This time, however, he was destined to be disappointed.

He led people to find two nearby villages one after another, but the people there had already been empty, and there was no villager to be found.

"Burn, it's all burned for Lao Tzu."

In the end, Agu Yang had no choice but to let his Tartar soldiers burn two village forts to vent his anger a little.

The territory of the Jinzhou Peninsula is not large, and there are only those villages around Lushun.

The people who got the news in advance either hid in Arthur City or hid on a nearby island by boat, not giving Agu Yang a chance to find it at all.

This made Agu Yang angry, and he originally wanted to come over and fight Lushun, but it turned out to be in vain.

The unwilling Agu sheep did not withdraw from it, but continued to stay in the Lushun area to see if there were other opportunities.

Also on the same day, in the early morning of the 12th, the city was also fought in the north, but this time it was the White Dragon Army attacking, and Duoduo took the Tartars to defend the city.

Zhou Dazhu barely slept all night, and as soon as the morning dawned, he immediately ordered the gathering of men and horses to prepare for the siege.

He really couldn't wait, if he couldn't attack Liancheng and kill all the Tartars inside, he wouldn't even have the idea of sleeping.

Last night, Wu Beiwang, Qin Hu and Chu Feng respectively led their troops to strictly defend outside the city to prevent the Tartars from escaping from the city at night.

But what they didn't expect was that the Tartars didn't leave the city overnight, and there was no sign of escaping from the city at night.

This made Zhou Dazhu, Wu Beiwang and other White Dragon Army generals breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they were also happy.

As long as the Tartars did not escape and continued to stay in the city, it would be great news for them.

(End of chapter)