As the last braided soldier escaped from the gap in a hurry, he could no longer see a standing braided soldier after the collapse of the city wall.

There is no need for a return from the bottom, Haoge and Kong Youde also know that this attack failed again.

Li Yingyuan, who was in charge of command, gritted his teeth and retreated from the "Man Bridge". The Han army who lost in the city was his direct line.

The number of people lost is not yet counted, but from the frightened and embarrassed look of the defeated soldiers, we can know that many people are probably killed or injured.

Unfortunately, even if the Qing army retreated in a hurry, the Huai army in the city could not take advantage of the opportunity to rush out to grab the cannons they transported across the moat.

There were too many muskets from the Qing army outside the city and too dense.

Under the cover of gunmen, a large number of Qing soldiers helped each other back to the "human bridge" with armor. Some people still evacuated with swords and spears while jumping out.

Even if you can escape, you will be slightly injured. If you can't escape, you will not survive even if you are not injured.

Kong Youde's general Sun Long led a team of Han troops to respond by the bridge.

Haoge and Kong Youde were a little difficult to understand. Although the Jinan city wall had been collapsed by its own cannons, the defenders inside should be scattered like birds and beasts. How could they be organized to repel its own offensive?

"Can the thief be in the city?"

Except for the Huai thief leader Lu Si in the city, Kong Youde could not think of any other explanation. Because not to mention these local bandits who were born in Huaiyang River workers, even regular troops of the Ming army would be difficult to organize counterattacks after the city collapsed. Even street fighting was just one-sided killing by the Qing soldiers.

Kong Youde remembered that the most powerful street battle between the Ming army and the Qing army was the Battle of Gaoyang.

In this battle, the Ming Grand Secretary Sun Chengzong led more than 20 descendants to Gaoyang's military and civilians. After the city was broken, he insisted on street fighting with the Qing army. In the end, the military and civilians in the city and the Sun family died together. However, this street fighting only caused more than 200 Qing soldiers to lose.

The Jinan city in front of me has caused the Qing army to lose thousands of people.

Kong Youde naturally thought of the Battle of Maguantun, which was wiped out by Bahana not long ago. At that time, he and his generals agreed that Bahana was underestimating the enemy and besieged by the Huai bandits with tens of thousands of troops, which led to the outnumbered and annihilated of the entire army.

It seems now that the combat effectiveness of the Huai thieves may be higher than that of ordinary local bandits. It is not ruled out that there are elite cavalry similar to the three walls of the Shun Army, and some of the Ming army may even be involved.

Otherwise, Bahana and the others would not have been beaten so much that there was not even a single person who escaped the letter of return.

There are a certain number of elite soldiers, plus the leader Lu Si, perhaps in Jinan City, which can explain the reason for the offensive failure.

As the saying goes, a rotten ship has three kilograms of nails. If the Huai thief is so unbeaten and the city wall collapses and the city will be broken, then Bahana and the others will die.

"The thief is quite smart and knows that the city wall alone cannot stop our Qing artillery, so he built the earth wall behind him and set up defenses in it..."

Wu Guoan had different views. Combined with the situation in the city depicted by the retreating soldiers, he believed that the Huai thieves were likely to have never thought of relying on the Jinan city wall to fight against the Qing soldiers from the beginning, but instead built the entire Jinan city into a battlefield.

That is, they set up ambushes and traps everywhere, and used their familiarity with Jinan City to drag the Qing soldiers into the city, so as to use the fortifications that were deployed in advance to fight against the Qing soldiers, and then continuously killed and injured the Qing soldiers.

"The Huai thieves are just local bandits. How many soldiers can he have to waste with us?"

Sun Long questioned Wu Guoan's view. This kind of tactic sounded feasible, but the soldiers who had to defend the city were all elite, with a large number of people, and they all had the determination to fight to the death.

Otherwise, once the wall collapses, the defenders will be disorganized and run around. Which Ming Dynasty city that was once attacked is not like this?

"The number of bandits in the city may not be less than 30,000."

Before the war, the Qing army observed the four gates of Jinan and concluded that the defenders would not be less than 10,000. However, Li Guoan said that there might be more than 30,000 people in the city, which was estimated to be 20,000 troops before the war, which would definitely surprise Kong Youde.

Sun Long frowned slightly and said, "Even if there are 20,000 or 30,000 thieves, how dare you fight with our army in the streets? Our army suffered a small loss just now because we didn't know the truth in the city. Can he still take advantage of the thieves behind him?"

Wu Guoan understood Sun Long's meaning. As long as the Qing army attacked the city with all its might without leaving any backstop, the real Manchu and Han army would go into battle together. No matter how many Huai bandits were in battle, the Qing soldiers would take action step by step, and make the defenses of Huai bandits unable to play a role to the greatest extent. How could the Qing army that had already entered the city make the Huai bandits turn the tables?

After all, the gap in strength between the two sides lies here.

When Tiangezhuang fought, did Li Guoan just lead more than a thousand officers and soldiers to attack thousands of cavalry in the Huai Army with their advantage of muskets and cannons?

Besides, if the Huai thieves were really good at fighting, they would not be able to make any solid walls and clear the fields, so that the Qing army could go directly to the city of Jinan.

The tactic of firming the wall and clearing the world actually causes greater damage and damage to the guard side.

Only when one has to do so will one adopt a strong wall and clear the fields.

Because, if you want to restore these areas later, you don’t have to think about it for more than ten or twenty years, and even one or two generations may not be able to do so.

The Qing army could see clearly along the way that even the thatched huts were burned by Huai thieves!

The walls and clear the fields so hard that they didn't even leave the well for their opponents. On the surface, it showed the determination of the Huai thieves to resist, but on the side, it could also be said that the Huai thieves were afraid to die.

Wu Guoan suddenly said, "Prince, I am worried that the thieves in Huai may not care about Jinan at all."

"What's the meaning?"

Kong Youde was unsolved.

"The last general means that Jinan is a bait, and even Shandong is a bait..."

The subsequent views of Guoan were a bit alarmist. He believed that the Huai thieves did not want to occupy Shandong at the beginning, but wanted to turn Shandong into a decay, so that even if the Qing Dynasty occupied Shandong, it would not be able to obtain the money and grain population in Shandong. This would be difficult for the Qing Dynasty, which occupied the capital and Beizhi areas, to continue to launch the war of destruction of China.

Without money and food, no matter how brave and good at fighting, the soldiers of the Eight Banners could not fight west and south.

Sun Long laughed. What Li Guoan said was too ridiculous. The Huai thieves really wanted to turn Shandong into a naked land. He could burn, kill, loot and kill the people of Shandong, either kill or kidnap them. Why do you have to stay in Jinan's provincial capital to confront the Qing army?

The more persistent the city of Jinan, the more it means that the Huai traitors attach importance to this city.

Only when the Huai thieves want to occupy the entire Shandong will they place their elite troops in Jinan, the heart of Shandong.

"this..."

The logic of Guoan clearly conflicts with Sun Long's view, and the Huai thieves in front of him also indirectly prove that his view is wrong.

Therefore, the Huai thieves still wanted to occupy Shandong.

I don’t care about Jinan, and I leave elite troops here to defend, and I still fight so tenaciously. What is the purpose of?
Chapter completed!