Chapter 742: The city is in the people, and the city is dead
In just three days, He Luohui and Wu Sangui led 30,000 or 40,000 troops to Dongchang Mansion and launched a direct siege to Dongchang Mansion.
One shell after another roared down on the head of Dongchang Mansion, shaking the heavens and the earth, and the entire Dongchang Mansion fell into the flames of war again
Liu Haolin, the prefect of Dongchang Mansion, stood at the head of the city, his heart couldn't help but tremble, I am a mother, thirty or forty thousand people, the warship almost covered the entire lake, so many elite Qing troops, how can Dongchang Mansion be able to hold it?
Liu Haolin looked back at the soldiers around him, they were all the elite of Nanjing Right Town left by Qin Mufeng and Dong Xi, all of them were solemn in color, their faces did not change, they looked indifferently into the distance, they seemed to care about this battle, the guerrilla general Li Tao held a flintlock musket in his hand, stared into the distance, ready to shoot at any time, it seems that these people are determined to live and die with Dongchang Mansion!
That's it! That's it!
Liu Haolin secretly said bitterly in his heart, he had already surrendered once, although he was coerced by Liu Zeqing, but after all, he betrayed the enemy and surrendered to the enemy. That's not even as good as animals, the soldiers are not afraid of death, how can he, the parent official of a city, be greedy for life and afraid of death? It's a big deal to follow the death of the first emperor!
"General Li, this official is a civilian official, defending the city and killing the enemy is a layman, everything is left to the general, the general has needs, even if the official goes to the soup to fight the fire, he will definitely refuse, and he will definitely live up to the trust of the Governor to the official!"
Liu Haolin said in a deep voice.
"Good! Joyfully! ”
Li Tao replied coldly: "Governor Liu, what you want is your words, as long as you don't retreat from the battle, then even if you die, it will be me Li Tao who dies first, I am waiting, Dongchang is here, Dongchang is dead, naturally I am dead!" Please also come forward to call on the people of the city to defend the city and resist the Tatars! ”
The two of them had a tacit understanding, one commanded the battle at the head of the city, and the other returned to the city to call on the people to defend the city and carry equipment.
Dong Xi left Li Tao with two infantry battalions and 3,000 troops, which is the elite of Nanjing's right town, and compared to those Fubiao battalions and Zhendingwei soldiers in Zhendingfu City, they are more than a star and a half!
After a burst of cannonballs, the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Elite began a fierce siege of the city, and groups of soldiers began to pounce towards the city!
Li Tao commanded 3,000 troops and began to resist continuously, and the two sides launched a fierce battle, Wu Sangui and He Luohui watched from afar, frowning slightly, amazing! The Ming army at the head of the city is really fierce enough, the combat power is strong, far better than the green camp of the Qing army, with the help of the geographical advantage of the city wall, even the Manchurian elite cavalry is difficult to take advantage, look at this, three days, don't want to take Dongchang Mansion!
"Lord Wu, what can you do?"
He Luohui asked in a low voice.
Wu Sangui shook his head and said in a deep voice: "There is no good way, Dongchangfu City is surrounded by lakes, we can only launch a strong attack, casualties are inevitable, but in order to block the route of Nanjing's right town to flee south, there is only one bloody battle!" ”
He Luohui said helplessly: "Okay." Attacking the city with all his might, it is impossible to take Dongchang Mansion in three days, I hope to be able to take Dongchang Mansion within seven days! ”
Wu Sangui sneered: "Now we are besieging Dongchang Mansion with heavy troops, the defenders of Dongchang Mansion will not be able to come out at all, and the rest of the states and counties will not have any troops at all, Lord He, I will lead the army to attack the city, and you will lead the elite cavalry to attack the surrounding states and counties, it will not take three or five days, the states and counties of Dongchang Mansion and the surrounding states and counties of Tai'an, Yanzhou, Caozhou, and Caozhou will all fall into our hands. It can also solve our urgent needs, killing two birds with one stone, I don't know what adults want? ”
"Wonderful! Wonderful! ”
He Luohui stroked his palms and laughed: "That's the way, let's report to Prince Yu together, you lead the army to attack the city, I will lead the army to sweep, and there is no way to let the Ming army stare at Dongchang Mansion!" ”
Wu Sangui led 5,000 elite cavalry and 20,000 green battalions to continue to besiege Dongchang Mansion, while He Luohui led 10,000 elite cavalry, divided into three routes, and raided the states and counties of Dongchang Mansion!
With He Luohui's troops, it is not easy to raid various states and counties, and now the right town of Nanjing has been brought to Dezhou by Dong Xi, except for the 3,000 infantry left in Dongchang and the 3,000 infantry left in Yanzhou Mansion, other states and counties do not have the elite garrison of Nanjing Right Town at all, where can they stop the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria?
In three days, in just three days, all the states and counties in Dongchang Prefecture, only Dongchang Mansion was still in the hands of the Ming army, and the rest of the prefectures and counties all fell into the hands of the Qing army.
Deng Xian, the guerrilla general of Yanzhou Mansion, is also at a loss now, attacking? Not to mention that he only has 3,000 troops, even if he has 30,000 troops, he doesn't dare to attack rashly, there are 15,000 Manchurian elite cavalry in Dongchang Mansion alone, but they are all Manchurian elite cavalry, He Luohui is also a general in the army, but he does not dare to act rashly, once defeated, then Yanzhou Mansion will be lost, for today's plan, there is only a way to defend Yanzhou Mansion and wait for Lord Dong Xi to come back.
In three days, the territory of Dongchang Mansion has changed banners, also in the west of the canal, it is also a sudden change in the situation, and now Duoduo is already thunderous.
Duoduo's outburst was like thunder, not because Wu Sangui and He Luo would attack Dongchang Mansion, and they couldn't take Dongchang Mansion in three days, which was already expected, not to mention that He Luohui also took the opportunity to take all the states and counties in Dongchang Mansion, what made Duoduo thunderous was that he hadn't taken Dongchang Mansion yet, and Shunde Mansion had fallen first.
Of course, Wu Sangui and He Luo will divide their troops, the news came from the direction of Shunde Mansion, under the siege of Abatai and Aobai, Zhending Mansion was finally taken, Zhending City was broken, Aobai, who was holding back his anger, opened a killing ring in Zhending Mansion, nearly 200,000 people of Zhending Mansion, in one day, tens of thousands of people were slaughtered, and the people in the city fled one after another.
Ao Bai patronized and killed, but let Song Jiaxing and Qin Mufeng lead the elite cavalry to break through, all the way to Shunde Mansion, Song Jiaxing personally dispatched, led the elite, attacked the city in the middle of the night, killed the soldiers guarding the city, took the city gate, overnight, Shunde Mansion fell into the hands of the Ming army, just took the Zhending Mansion, Shunde Mansion was lost again, and Shunde Mansion is only two hundred miles away from the Daimyo Mansion, Shunde Mansion fell, the Daimyo Mansion is even more dangerous!
(End of chapter)