Chapter 1292: The Battle of Dignity (11)

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Dolgon understood that the process of the battle could not be controlled at all, it was too late, in his opinion, the battle of the siege was the most difficult, the warriors of the Qing Kingdom were extremely brave, but when attacking the city, they were also frustrated many times, and although the situation was slightly better, each battle took a long time.

Dolgon led the army to focus on Haizhou, he thought that the Jiangning battalion would not be able to take Haizhou in a short time, and he could hold on for at least a month, and the longer he held here, the more beneficial it would be to Shenyang, so he made sufficient preparations and made up his mind to stop the attack of the Jiangning battalion.

The truth was completely different from what he imagined, the Jiangning battalion did not rely on the sergeants to attack at all, but blew up the city wall with artillery, and the sergeants did not rush in, gathered around the city wall and the gap, and relied on flintlock guns to attack, resulting in heavy casualties among the sergeants stationed there, and had to withdraw from the battle and give up the city wall and the gap.

What made Dolgon most depressed was that the sergeants who wanted to retreat were suddenly attacked by the sergeants of the Jiangning battalion, and most of the sergeants were killed under the flintlock pistol.

Dolgon's short-sightedness and self-confidence minimized the time of the battle.

After He Renlong led the leading troops into the city from the gap, Hong Chengchou immediately issued an order for a general attack, and the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion entered Haizhou City from the gap and the city gate.

Brutal street fighting began.

Street fighting is one of the subjects that the officers and men of the Jiangning battalion must train, and it is the most important subject, whether it is a combination of less than 10 people or a small force of several dozen people. Even for an attack force of hundreds or thousands of people, how to grasp the formation and how to take care of each other are all subjects of training in peacetime, and after entering the city, the effect of training begins to come into play.

There are many accidents in street fighting. Generally speaking, the losses of the attacking troops are greater, because they are not familiar with the terrain, and this is not a small weakness in the face of opponents who have been stationed in the city for a long time, so sometimes, not being able to grasp the laws of street fighting may lead to heavy losses, or even have to withdraw from the city to rest.

But that's all 100 years later. Dolgon could not have been familiar with any of this.

Despite occupying favorable terrain, the Eight Banners Army under Dolgon's command was still accustomed to face-to-face fighting, and there was almost no concept of street fighting in their minds. The rest was a matter of plundering, as the opponents also placed the main forces around the walls. Once the walls were taken down, the opponent's forces were almost lost.

The Eight Banners, who were not familiar with street fighting, suffered even more heavy losses.

Dolgon knew that the situation was getting worse and worse, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it, and the sergeant of the attacking Jiangning battalion was armed with flintlock pistols. Hearing where there was movement, he shot directly, causing the Eight Banners sergeant who was ambushed in the house to die at gunpoint before he could shoot the second arrow.

But the white flag and the sergeant with the white flag. It is worthy of being the most combat-effective among the Eight Banners, and despite being in an extremely unfavorable situation, the resistance and fighting have not stopped.

The day passes, and the night comes.

However, in one day, the Jiangning camp occupied one-half of the city of Haizhou.

Hong Chengchou is very satisfied with such a result, if he continues like this, he will be able to take Haizhou in one more day, so it is not impossible to take Anshan and Liaoyang in ten days.

The night offensive continued.

Hong Chengchou, who had enough troops, made some adjustments, and the vanguard troops that were responsible for the main attack during the day withdrew and temporarily went to the camp outside the city to rest, and Ma Xianglin led 30,000 people to continue the attack, and it was absolutely impossible to give the Houjin Tartars the slightest respite.

The outside of the city has long been surrounded by the Jiangning camp, and the focus of defense is the city gates in several places, and the Houjin Tartars can only retreat from the city gates even if they want to retreat, and the rest have nowhere to escape.

This is also a good thing for Dolgon to do, in fact, there are many city walls in Haizhou City, which have fallen into disrepair for a long time, and they are not very stable, and after Dolgon took Haizhou as a key defense and guarded city, he strengthened the city wall, so that the city wall of Haizhou City seems to have almost no weaknesses.

It was precisely because of Dorgon's actions that he was surrounded by a lot of siege, and there was no chance to evacuate at all.

The Jiangning battalion continued to attack during the night, leaving Dolgon with no respite.

The sergeants of the Eight Banners were forced to fight.

The sergeants stationed at the city gate reached 10,000, but in one day, these 10,000 people, almost all of them were lost, in the following street battles, the loss of more than 5,000 troops in the Eight Banners, after a day of fighting, the 50,000 soldiers under the command of Dolgon, the loss of two-fifths, including the 5,000 people stationed in Yaozhou, the remaining 30,000 people, part of the Tieling, part of the Liaoyang, but not much understanding, still in the Haizhou city to insist on fighting, at most 20,000 people left, guarding half of the city, struggling.

The night is a very good opportunity, in case you can't hold the city, you can use the opportunity to break through at night, the sergeants of the Eight Banners are very familiar with the terrain near Haizhou, and after concentrating their forces to break through the encirclement of the Jiangning battalion, they can easily return to Anshan or Liaoyang, but the Jiangning battalion launched an attack at night, so that Dolgon had no chance to choose to break through.

At this time, I chose to break through, waiting for the fate of the annihilation of the whole army, thinking about the pursuing Jiangning battalion sergeant in the back, the ambush of the Jiangning battalion sergeant in front, and the panicked breakthrough sergeant, encountering the front and rear flank, even if you have great ability, I am afraid it will be difficult to break through the encirclement.

Outside, the sound of gunfire kept coming, and Dorgon had become a trapped beast, wandering around the house.

He finally had the idea that the donkey skills were exhausted, and the scouts risked their lives to detect the intelligence, the Jiangning battalion sergeants were at least more than 100,000 people, in terms of numbers, they had an absolute advantage in dealing with it, and when attacking the city gate, because of the sharpness of the artillery, the losses of the Jiangning battalion sergeants were not large, and the soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners who were caught off guard and did not adapt to the tactics suffered very heavy losses.

With less than 30,000 people guarding half of the city, facing the attack of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion who were several times his own, what kind of outcome would it be, Dolgon, who had been fighting for a long time, knew very well.

The officers with the white flag and the white flag have already begun to implore Dolgon to break out, and if there is an accident with Dolgon, the white flag and the white flag will be completely finished, and there is no possibility of continuing to exist.

Dolgon bitterly refused the officer's request.

Even if it is to break through and go out, what can it be, the Jiangning battalion must be pursued by victory, the defense of Anshan is not strong, it is impossible to hold, Liaoyang is not bad, but who can predict that maybe when he has not retreated to Liaoyang, he will be surrounded by the Jiangning battalion, and when he encounters the sergeant of the Jiangning battalion in the field, there is only a dead end.

In the direction of Shenyang, there is an army led by Lu Xiangsheng, ready to attack, and the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Su Tiancheng, the emperor of the imperial court, is afraid that he personally commanded the battle against Shenyang, and the situation in Shenyang has become extremely tense and sensitive.

The gunfire grew more and more intense, and Dorgon's mood was on the verge of collapse.

The possibility of holding Haizhou no longer exists, and this fact must be admitted, but thinking about breaking through, there is no chance, and the sergeants of the Jiangning battalion did not relax their attack at night.

Dolgon forced himself to calm down, fighting fiercely in the army since he was a child, I don't know how many dangerous situations Lu Dao has seen, he can always get through it, not necessarily this time, maybe there is a faint chance.

When the sky was bright, Dolgon, who had not slept all night, made a decision, took the initiative to give up part of the city, concentrated his forces, and held two-fifths or even one-fifth of the city, and after surviving this day, he chose to break through at night.

Dolgon's order was quickly conveyed, and the order did not forget to ask the sergeants to concentrate relatively and use all effective methods to attack the attacking Jiangning battalion sergeants and make good use of every opportunity.

As soon as the day dawned, the battle to seize and hold the city became fierce again.

The method adopted by Dolgon still had some effect, and the tenacious soldiers of the Eight Banners, after they began to concentrate, began to fully manifest their combat ability, and they occupied the favorable terrain and fought with the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion.

Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, who also stayed awake all night, received a report that the losses of the Jiangning battalion soldiers began to increase, because the Houjin Tartars adjusted their tactics and took the initiative to give up part of the city, and the personnel began to concentrate, so that the rain of arrows shot by the Houjin Tartars was very dense, and many of the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion who attacked were killed under this kind of arrow rain.

Some aides proposed to use artillery to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the area occupied by the Houjin Tartars.

Hong Chengchou rejected this suggestion, after all, there are still a lot of people in Haizhou City, if two-fifths of the city is bombed, the people in these places will have no chance to live, such an act that is close to slaughtering the city, Hong Chengchou will never adopt it.

The order given by Hong Chengchou is very simple, no matter how many casualties are caused, the attack must be launched, and the Houjin Tartar has become the end of the strong crossbow, increase the intensity of the attack, and the Houjin Tartar will soon collapse.

Hong Chengchou originally expected to take Haizhou City in about five days, exterminate the soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in Haizhou, and eliminate the vitality of the Houjin Tartars to the greatest extent, but now it seems that it does not take such a long time, at most three days, Haizhou can be completely taken. (To be continued......)