Jinzhou.◎,

Early in the morning, Dorgon mobilized the elite troops of the two white flags to advance outside the north gate of Jinzhou. A large area of ​​soldiers wearing white cotton armor and two white flags with red edges inlaid with white, making the outside of the city seem to be covered with snow overnight.

The loud military horn resounded through the wilderness, and the war drums shook the sky and the earth.

Dorgon's commander's flag was only two miles away from the city. At this time, Dorgon stood there, looking at the city opposite with a thousand-mile mirror.

Jinzhou was the focus of the battles over the Ming and Qing dynasties for many years, and was the core city. Especially since the Qing army won the Battle of Guangning and Daling River, the Qing army had advanced the front line to the front line of Xiaoling River, and Jinzhou City, located on the east bank of Xiaoling River, became the east gate of the Ming army guarding the western Liaoning Corridor.

Since the moats around Jinzhou were dug and earthen walls were built when they surrounded Jinzhou, the Qing army was very convenient for surround Jinzhou this time. Jinzhou City, also known as the Zuotunwei of Guangning, was once a prosperous city, but in recent years, the wars in western Liaoning have been constantly. From the Apocalypse to the present, the city has been in ruins, and the city has long been no longer as prosperous as before.

At this time, there were 50,000 soldiers and horses in the city. Hong Chengchou, the governor of Ji Liao, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and five generals were trapped in the city. Although there were many soldiers and horses, many soldiers and horses could only be regarded as Baoyi Aha slaves carried by the Eight Banners soldiers, compared with the Qing army.

In fact, after Wu Sangui lifted the siege of Jinzhou, the Jinzhou soldiers in Jinzhou City followed the north to Yizhou. Then Hong Chengchou led his men to Jinzhou with a batch of food, grass and supplies. Half of his 50,000 soldiers were almost considered auxiliary soldiers of civilians.

Since Zu Dashou took the cannons to Yizhou when he went north, there were only a few red barbarian cannons in Jinzhou City, and they were all old-style red barbarians made in the early years.

Originally, with these cannons and 50,000 troops, I could still hold Jinzhou for a year or two.

But now Dorgon faced the city of Jinzhou, which was closed, and was full of confidence. The batch of Ming army artillery captured at Yizhou City had been transported to the city of Jinzhou City. There were thousands of artillery large and small, and even if the small cannons such as Tiger Squat were eliminated, there were more than a hundred.

Especially one of the new cannons was said to have been purchased by Wu Sangui from the Chu army, and it was extremely powerful. During the Battle of Yizhou, several large holes in Yizhou City were blasted open.

But now, all these sharp artillery artillery belong to the Qing army. With these cannons, Dorgon was confident that he could quickly take over Jinzhou City.

Dorgon personally saw the test firing of these artillery. Compared with the Red Armored Cannons that the Qing army had only copied in recent years, these cannons are lighter, but they can shoot farther. Especially the siege mortars among them are light and easy to transport, but they can fire extremely large stone bombs for siege, which are extremely powerful.

Now, if Dorgon calls cannons of more than a thousand pounds of kilograms of red artillery, he has at least a hundred red artillery cannons of different sizes in his hand.

Huang Taiji and Daishan successively led 5,000 troops back to reinforce Liaoyang. Now Dorgon commanded the troops under Jinzhou City, Jiergalang commanded the Qing army in Yizhou, and Duoduo commanded the troops in the outer city of Songshan.

Among these three Qing troops, Dorgon was also the commander.

Before leaving, Huang Taiji explained the situation very clearly, let Liu Jun from Liaodong be rampant for a while. As long as he defended Liaoyang, he would temporarily occupy Haizhou and Gaizhou and other places. Winter would come soon. At that time, the Liaohai Sea would freeze, and the role of the Chu army's sea control power would be greatly weakened, and their navy could not send troops everywhere. As the maneuvering from land, many artillery possessed by the Chu army would be a drag on them.

The Qing army first concentrated its forces to capture Jinzhou, and then defeated the Ming army in western Liaoxi in Songshan Xingshan and other places. At that time, Liu Jun was alone in Liaodong and would be isolated and helpless. The Qing army had time to wipe them out.

Regarding how to attack Jinzhou City, Huang Taiji's plan was to use the method of attacking Daling River. He siege the city for a long time and attack aid. However, now that there are a large number of artillery, Dorgon plans to imitate Wu Sangui's attack on Yizhou and Liu Jun's attack on Gaizhou, use artillery to focus on breaking the city wall and then seize the city.

As long as there is no city wall to rely on, Dorgon believes that the Ming army is not enough to fight with the Qing army.

Not to mention that there were 50,000 Ming troops in Jinzhou City, Dorgon was not afraid of adding 50,000. Under Jinzhou City, Dorgon led not only two white flags, but also other flags and Han and Mongolian flags, with a total of 50,000.

Half of the elite troops of the Qing army were gathered in the hands of Dorgon, and he is now full of confidence.

The Ming army now has no courage to go out of the city to fight, and there are trenches surrounded the city with earthen walls, and there are trenches that cut off the connection between Songshan, Xingshan and Jinzhou.

Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu and Ma Guangyuan suggested that there was no need to siege from all sides like Wu Sangui attacked Yizhou, and only concentrated heavy troops to attack one side. Anyway, there were siege moats and earthen walls outside the city, so you only need a small number of cavalry to pay attention to the overall situation. If the Ming army wanted to escape, they could intercept it immediately.

Because each gate of Jinzhou City has a urn city, Dorgon planned to directly bombard the city wall and attack the city gate, but was preparing to blow the city wall directly to avoid fighting for the city gates that the Ming army focused on defending. After all, there is a urn city gate. If the city gate is broken, the city gate must be attacked again. The city gate is small and has a thousand-jin gate and a gate tower, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Hundreds of large and small artillery were transported down the northern city. In front were more than a hundred shield chariots, pushing by the captured Han prisoners of war, they covered the artillery chariots behind them.

Originally, when the Qing army dealt with a strong city like Jinzhou, they could either besiege the city, or ants attacked the city, or dug tunnels, but now, with many cannons in hand, the Qing army has also learned new ways to siege the city.

Especially the Qing army who came down from the south of Yizhou City, they truly realized the power of artillery attacking the city that day. Now that the cannons are in hand, they are too lazy to build a ladder.

The Ming army on Jinzhou City also discovered the intention of the Qing army and hurriedly let the cannons on the top of the city bombardment.

The shield cart and the cannon cart had just entered about two miles, and the red cannon at the north gate made a loud noise, and a large iron ball flew out, flying high into the shield cart formation.

The shell landed directly on the open space, bounced a few times, and finally hit a shield car. The newly built new shield car was broken directly, and the prisoners next to it ran fast and were not injured.

But before they could even have time to be glad that they had escaped, the Qing army, who was supervising the battle, immediately shot arrows at them and shot them all to the ground. For the Qing army, the function of these prisoners of war was to push shield chariots and cannons. Since the shield chariots were gone, they were useless. Shooting on the spot could also shock other prisoners of war, preventing them from running away.

The shield car continued to push forward, covering the cannon car behind.

The cannons on the top of the city fired again, but this time they did not shoot anything and deviated far from the convoy.

The Red Armored Cannon fired several times, but failed to hit the target at one time. At this time, the Qing army's convoy had already pushed four or five hundred steps below the city, and the Red Armored Cannon became more and more missed.

The Red Cannons were simply no longer fired, but then the fire of the General Cannon and Thousand-Kiln Francs with a closer range on the city started to fire again.

These artillery were the main artillery in the previous Ming and Qing wars, but compared with the batch of artillery owned by the Qing army now, they were far behind, not to mention that compared with the artillery of the Chu army, they were even more eliminated equipment.

However, although this kind of gun has a short range and poor accuracy, it still has a lot of power when it is launched from the city at a distance of hundreds of steps.

Several shield cars were hit in a row, dozens of prisoners of war were killed and killed, and another gun car was also hit. The gun car was blown up and it was temporarily unavailable.

Fortunately, the Red Artillery cannon on the top of the city was straight, and the artillery team approached the city wall, but instead entered the dead corner of the Red Artillery cannon on the city, making the most powerful cannon a decoration.

"Three hundred steps, stop!"

The Qing army officers led the team stopped when they entered the north city about 300 steps in front of the sparse artillery fire at the top of the city. This was also the location where they found the Ming army artillery formation in Yizhou to be placed away from the city. This position basically ensures that all large and small cannons can attack the city wall and ensure accuracy.

"Recharge!"

Dorgon sent Shi Tingzhu to personally command the artillery formation. Many gunners were from the Four Banners of Han. Many Han soldiers from the Four Banners were originally Wu Zhenchaoha soldiers. At that time, Wu Zhenchaoha was also a large number of troops equipped with firearms. They were the most proficient in firearms. In the Qing army, there were troops with Kong Youde and others who were the best at firearms, but unfortunately they have all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, after the war in Shi Tingzhu Yizhou, many original Ming army gunners were collected from prisoners of war, and the reorganization of these gunners into this new artillery also greatly increased the strength of this Qing army artillery unit.

Three pounds, six pounds, nine pounds, eighteen pounds, and long and short cannons of several sizes. Although there are no cannons, no howitzers, and no grenades, the solid iron bullets alone are enough to deal with the not-so-thick city wall.

Use a mortar cannon to directly smash the defenders on the city head, use a red barbarian cannon to directly smash the city wall, and small cannons protect the cannon formation.

"Let me stare at that section of the city wall. Don't hit the city gate, just hit the city wall on the side of the city gate. Bang hard until the city wall collapses!" Shi Tingzhu ordered loudly.

The sound of the horn sounded, and hundreds of red and barbarian cannons of all sizes opened fire almost at the same time, with large iron balls roaring at Jinzhou City. These cannons were made by the Ming army themselves, purchased from Macau, and made by the Qing army themselves, as well as the Chu army eliminated goods bought by Wu Sangui from Hubei. Some of these cannons were Dutch naval guns, some were British, Spanish, and Macau naval guns, and some were Army field short Cannon.

At this time, all the cannons of different calibers and sizes were called Red Barbarian cannons by the Qing army, and they were bombarded and bombarded the northern city walls of Jinzhou.

After only a long bombardment, in the afternoon, the city walls covered with holes finally collapsed with a loud bang, and a section of the city walls that were several meters wide collapsed.

Dorgon saw the big gap that appeared in the smoke, and was extremely excited. He laughed loudly and shouted, "Blow the trumpet, charge, and seize Jinzhou!" (To be continued.)

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