Early the next morning, when the sun came out and the fog dissipated, Haug gave an order, and the Tatar army lined up out of the camp and swarmed eastward to assemble in the wilderness on the western outskirts of Songshan City.

After Prince Duduo of Yu was defeated and captured, Prince Hauge of Heshuosu naturally became the undisputed commander-in-chief of all the Manchu-Tatar armies in the Songjin area.

Hauge made up his mind to storm Songshan City, and no one else dared to dissuade him or stop him.

At this time, the various Manchu and Mongolian Niulu and Han Army Niulu gathered outside Songshan City were not small. There were as many as forty-six. In total, the total number of men and horses still exceeded 13,800.

people.

Excluding the three Jia La and fifteen Niulu stationed outside the North Gate, East Gate and South Gate, the number of Manta various Niulu gathered in the west of Songshan City now reaches thirty-one, totaling nine thousand three hundred

The remaining people.

Hauge gathered more than 9,300 people in the west of Songshan City and divided them into three echelons.

The first echelon is the Xianghuang Banner Han Army commanded by brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui.

The second echelon is the Han army with white flags commanded by Ying Erdai and Shi Tianzhu.

The third echelon is the Manzhou Mengniu Lu commanded by Xianghuangqi Manzhou Gushan'e Zhenye Keshu under Hauge.

In addition, Hauge, with the assistance of Obai, led hundreds of Baya soldiers with yellow flags, followed behind all the echelons, and acted as the supervising team for this battle.

Hauge's idea was to let the Xianghuang Banner Han Army Wu Zhenchao Haniulu, led by brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui, set up a heavy artillery position in the front, concentrate all the heavy artillery, and bombard the west wall of Songshan City.

After the heavy artillery bombardment was effective, the Han troops with white flags led by Ying Erdai and Shi Tianzhu charged fiercely, consuming all the strength of the city defenders.

Finally, at the critical moment that decided the outcome, his Manchu Gushan'er Zhenye Keshu and Manmeng Niulu under the banner of Xianghuang rushed forward to seal the final victory.

There are four gates in Songshan City, and there is of course a reason why Hauge and the others chose the west gate as their main attack location.

First of all, at the beginning of the year, the Manchu Tatars besieged Songshan City with heavy troops. They first focused on the south gate. After fighting for a few months, they failed to defeat it, so they switched to attacking the west gate. At that time, the shelling and damage to the west gate of the west gate were very serious.

If there wasn't a problem with the food supply of the Manchu Tatar army, and if they continued their fierce attack, maybe they would be able to destroy the western wall of Songshan City in a while.

Of course, high-ranking figures such as Hauge, Ye Keshu and Ma Guangyuan were aware of the situation at that time.

Although Songshan City has been renovated and a strange-looking urn has been built outside the west gate, they still identified the previously severely damaged west gate and hoped to use the power of the heavy red cannon to destroy the previously severely damaged west gate.

Crush, or open a breach in the west wall.

The other one was because Hauge didn't have enough heavy artillery in his hands, so he could only concentrate them together and use force on the west gate and west wall where they thought the terrain was relatively open and the city wall was relatively weak.

This time, when uncles Duduo and Hauge led their troops to the western Liaoning, the heavy artillery they carried was actually sufficient.

In June, when Wuzhenchaoha was divided into eight, the two yellow flags belonging to Huang Taiji and his son and the two white flags belonging to the Dorgon brothers were the four flags that received the most various types of artillery and firearms.

Just for the heavy Hongyi artillery, each of them was allocated forty pieces, accounting for the majority of all the heavy artillery in the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty.

This time, the Han army of the Two White Banners who followed Duduo on the expedition carried the real stone pillars on the mountain's forehead, carrying thirty of the forty heavy artillery pieces assigned to the Han army of Tianyou to support the general.

The reason why we didn't bring them all was because there were too many monks and too little food, so we were a bit stretched.

After all, after Yang Zhen led his army to raid southern Liaoning, the vast coastal areas of southern Liaoning occupied by the Manchu Tatars had to be carefully defended.

For example, the Liaohe Estuary area.

In order to prevent Yang Zhen from leading his army into the hinterland of southern Liaoning again, the Han army of the Two White Banners was ordered to build a fort at the mouth of the Liaohe River. They divided the few heavy artillery into a group and placed them on the fort at the mouth of the Liaohe River.

The Han Army of the Two White Banners had a total of forty heavy red cannons. This time Shi Tingzhu brought out thirty of them and sent troops to Liaoxi, which was quite a few.

The two-yellow-banner Han army that followed Hauge on the expedition, Gushan'e Zhenma Guangyuan, carried half of the forty heavy cannons commanded by the two-yellow-banner Han army, that is, twenty Tianyou cheering generals.

This is also very good.

After all, the heavy artillery Niulu of the Han Army under the Two Yellow Banners mainly followed the actions of the Manchu Tatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji, and their defense line was mainly Shengjing City.

Huang Taiji allowed Ma Guangyuan to bring out twenty heavy red cannons, which showed that he attached great importance to this dispatch to western Liaoning.

Calculating this, Duduo and Hauge brought as many as fifty heavy red cannons to Liaoxi when they first sent out troops.

If they weren't so greedy and didn't always want to gather reinforcements to catch big fish, then these heavy artillery alone would be enough for them to destroy an entire city.

But they didn't do that.

Now, of the fifty heavy artillery they brought to western Liaoning, thirty have been lost in Woniugou, leaving only the twenty in charge of the Han army under the Xianghuang Banner.

But at the turn of Maochen, all echelons were deployed outside Songshan City. Brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui immediately ordered all the Wuzhenchao Haniulu troops of the Xianghuang Banner Han Army to fire and start bombarding Songshan City.

The Han army with yellow flags brought twenty heavy red cannons to the Songjin front line, lined up in a row, and fired at the west wall of Songshan City. For a time, gunpowder smoke filled the air, the cannons roared, and the momentum was extremely terrifying.

A solid iron bullet weighing more than ten kilograms flew over in an instant and hit the west wall of Songshan City, making a thumping sound. The bricks and tiles that were hit instantly turned into powder and flew everywhere.

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Several red-coated cannons did not adjust their shooting angles, and the projectiles they fired went directly over the city head and fell into the city.

Some hit the roof and directly penetrated the roof; some hit the wall and directly penetrated the wall.

Those who hit it were all shattered, and the power was astonishing.

Xia Chengde's soldiers who were guarding the west gate of Songshan City shouted "enemy attack" and "enemy attack" loudly while quickly hiding behind the battlements.

Xia Chengde, who was also at the top of the city, had seen similar scenes and experienced similar heavy artillery bombardments as early as the beginning of the year, so he was not too panicked.

The current west wall of Songshan City was rebuilt by him personally and with his people for less than half a year. He still had a good idea of ​​whether it could withstand such a bombardment, or how long it could last under such heavy artillery bombardment.

So when the heavy artillery bombardment by the Manchu Tatars began, Xia Chengde, apart from secretly complaining that he was unlucky and lamenting that the West City he was guarding, had become the focus of the Manchu Tatar attacks, he also handled the rest well.

While he asked people to report the main attack direction of the Manchu Tatars to the General Military Mansion, and asked Yang Zhen for instructions on when to fire back, he crouched and hid behind the city wall, ordered the soldiers on the city to bend down on the spot, spread out and hide, and wait patiently for the Manchu Tatars to attack.

After the Tatar bombardment ceased, the infantry siege was inevitable.

There is a heavy Hongyi cannon deployed on the bastion-style fort of Songshan West Gate Urn City, but Yang Zhen had clear orders for the use of this heavy Hongyi cannon.

Regarding this issue, Yang Zhen's guilty conscience was also very complicated. As the commander-in-chief of Songshan, he certainly did not want the heavy artillery bombardment of the Tatars to cause excessive damage to Songshan City.

But if the heavy artillery bombardment of the Manchu Tatars was ineffective, or could not damage the city wall of Songshan City at all, then would the Manchu Tatars send subsequent siege troops to approach the city wall?

If they didn't get close to the city wall, wouldn't the purpose of bringing the Tatars closer to fight would be defeated?

Once this happens, Yang Zhen's plan to use the strong city to inflict massive casualties on the Manchu Tatar army will be impossible to implement.

But once the Manchu Tatars launch an offensive against Songshan City with hatred and hatred, and it turns into a long-term siege, it will be troublesome.

And the longer it takes, the more disadvantageous it will be to Yang Zhen's officers and soldiers in the city.

In that case, wouldn't the situation in western Liaoning turn into a situation where the Tatars are encircling and calling for reinforcements?

But by that time, I in Songshan City had become a besieged point and a bait for the Tatars to fish for.

Yang Zhen had been fighting life and death for so long, not just to make the situation in western Liaoning return overnight to the situation when Songshan was besieged at the beginning of the year.

Therefore, regarding this defense battle of Songshan City, Yang Zhen told Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi that no matter whether the Manchu Tatars' main attack direction was the West City or the South City, they must be as patient as possible first. They would rather suffer some losses to the city defenses than to

You need to bring the Mantazi closer before hitting.

As long as there is no real danger, the Hongyi cannons on the West Gate Urn City and South Gate Urn City should not be used easily.

Yang Zhen couldn't control the rhythm of this, so he could only make an ad hoc decision as the war progressed.

And this was another reason why he did not transport the captured red cannons outside the city back to the city for deployment.

The Manchu Tatar heavy artillery violently bombarded the west gate of Songshan City and its nearby city walls since the morning and has never stopped.

The west outer wall of Songshan City, which was finally repaired, soon became riddled with holes and devastation under the heavy bombardment of Tatar artillery.

Including the bastion and urn city that protruded outside the west gate, it was also pockmarked by the huge projectiles fired by the Tatar heavy artillery. In many places, the stone walls originally wrapped with rammed earth were exposed.

The concave and convex short walls and buttresses on the outside of the city wall were completely destroyed, so that Xia Chengde had to remove the soldiers guarding the city wall in large numbers.

At the same time, several trenches parallel to the city wall outside the west gate of Songshan and a little away from the city were gradually filled in by a large number of infantry sent by the Manchu Tatars.

During this period, Xia Chengde repeatedly sent people to the General Military Mansion to ask for instructions whether the Hongyi cannon on the Wengcheng fort could be used to force the Manchu Tatar heavy artillery positions to retreat, but Yang Zhen vetoed them all.

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As time passed by, the atmosphere in Songshan City became more and more tense and uneasy. This situation of passively being beaten and being able to fight back without fighting back made everyone full of complaints.
Chapter completed!