Dorgon's personal expedition was indeed beyond Lu Si's expectations.

In terms of strategic situation, Dorgon, with limited troops, had no ability to turn the tables. No matter which line the main force of the Qing army in the North and the Xishun army, the other line could drive straight into Beijing.

If you lose Beijing, what can Dorgon win?

The wise choice is to leave the pass immediately, and to the north, the main force of the Qing army directly raided the Shandong Xiangma bandits of Li Huajing's troops, and regain control of the pass, so that they could survive for a while.

The reason why the miscellaneous brands in the seventh town made such a big noise in Liaodong was not that these miscellaneous troops were able to play, but that there were not many Qing troops outside the pass. It is certain that the Qing army had all its strength to come out of the pass, and the seventh town could not hold on for even half a month and had to retreat to Dongjiang in shame, and maybe the entire army could be wiped out.

"Dorgon wanted to fight quickly and decide quickly. Like the slave chief Nurhaci, he first attacked Du Song and then Liu Ying, so as to break the siege of Heituara."

Zuo Sui Gu Junen, who was following the army to the east, stayed in Wei Hui to be responsible for logistics. The one who could be called a strategist by Lu Si was Jia Hanfu, the former governor's office, who joined the army.

Jia Hanfu's judgment was also accurate, and he could guess Dorgon's intention to personally enlist.

Lu Si snorted coldly: "Dorgon is not his father, and I am not Yang Hao. If he wants to fight quickly, I will drag him to death!"

Gao Jin came to arraigned the news from Beijing. When he left Beijing, Dorgon had not yet left Beijing because the Eight Banners soldiers pursuing west of Beijing needed to withdraw, and it would take as soon as five days to set off from Beijing. It was three hundred miles away from Beijing to Baoding, so it was left for the Shun Army to attack Baoding for about five or six days.

Jia Hanfu believed that in addition to wanting to fight quickly and make a quick decision to rush back to save Beijing, Dorgon was also related to the current extreme food shortage of the Qing army.

At the beginning, the Qing army entered the pass and provided food from Liaodong. Now, except for the two big cities of Shengjing and Liaoyang and Guangning, Liaodong were almost destroyed by the Seventh Town. The Huangzhuang flag fields were all too hot. The food that could be taken away, and all the food that could not be taken away were set on fire. It was impossible to provide Beijing with a steady stream of food.

The grain provided by North Korea to the Qing Dynasty was also blocked by the Seventh Town and could not be transported. The food channels were smooth. It was estimated that North Korea was afraid that it would not provide food for the Qing Dynasty anymore. There were still many pro-Chinese factions in the courts of this repeated vassal state, and it was estimated that this would be very gloating.

There was no food outside the pass and was transported to the pass, and the Beizhi area was ruined by Gao Li, Li Chengdong, and Hu Maozhen, the murderous kings. Even if Dorgon did not personally conquer Beijing, he would probably not last long.

In the history of Lu Si, the Qing army began to fight south a few months after entering the detention zone, because the north was destroyed and there was no money or food to maintain it.

Today, the north, especially the areas between Beizhi and Jingji, are far more destructive than before, and the difficulties of the Qing army can be imagined.

The slave killing army, with Sun Shoufa as the general, entered Zezhou, Shanxi from Huaiqing seven days ago. In addition to capturing southeastern Shanxi, Lu Si gave the slave killing army the mission to cut off major transportation from Shanxi to Beijing and prevented a grain of food from being transported from Shanxi to Beijing.

In addition, Lu Si gave Sun Kefa a secret order, which was to kill all the merchants in the city every time they attacked one city. Among them, eight of them were the king of Dashun, the king of the rebellion of the country, no matter the age or the young, the family was killed.

Since Dorgon wanted to fight in person and wanted to fight quickly, Lu Si would be with him, but Dorgon wanted to fight quickly, but Lu Si Tianwang wanted to fight slowly.

But the premise is that you must seize Baoding City in front of Dorgon and take the initiative in the battle, otherwise the Eastern Expedition Army will have to be passive.

After all, if Dorgon really wanted to bring the main force of the Qing army, Lu Si, who had only three armies on hand, felt that he could not defeat him.

The First Army Admiral Gao Yigong received the order and immediately took down Qingdu City, which was the place where Shun Army would pass to enter Baoding.

As the southern gate of Baoding, the importance of Qingdu City to Baoding is self-evident.

Song Jing, the magistrate of Qingdu, was born in a former Ming Dynasty scholar. After the Qing army entered the pass, he was defeated and evacuated the Shun Army in Baoding. Song Jing organized villagers to attack the Shun Army and cooperated with the Qing army's operations. He was later appointed as the magistrate of Qingdu.

The Shun Army crossed the Ci River and entered Dingzhou in a large scale, and the news of the attack on Baoding scared Song Jing very much. He sent people to quickly fight Baoding, saying that "the thieves' flags and weapons were shining for a while, and the infantry and cavalry covered the sky and the food, wages, bows, knives, guns, and arrows were countless."

After discussing with the Mongolian army's Zhengbai Banner, Yu Qinglian, the governor of Baoding City, discussed with the Mongolian army's Ming Andali, he believed that Qing was the gateway of Baoding. If he was allowed to be captured by the Shun Army, there would be no more city south of Baoding to stop the Shun Army. Therefore, the Ming Andali led his troops to Qingdu, and as much as possible, he would slow down the speed of the Shun Army's advance to buy time for the regents in Beijing to arrive in Baoding.

Andali of the Ming Dynasty was also loyal to the Qing Dynasty. He knew that the gap between the enemy and us was too great, but he still led his troops to Qingdu without saying a word.

Under the order of the king of the reign of the country, politics is the first and military is the auxiliary. The First Army Admiral Gao Yigong led his troops to ride a horse to Qingdu and persuade him to surrender.

Song Jing took a slow-down strategy and said he was willing to offer the city anyway, but he took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Shun Army had not arrived to plunder food in nearby villages and strengthened the city defense.

The Anda Rites Ministry of Rites arrived in Qingdu half a day before the Shun Army. The arrival of a large number of braided soldiers gave Song Jing confidence to stay, but there were more Shun Army soldiers coming out of the city.

When the Shun Army first arrived and had not yet established a stable foothold, Anda Liyi personally led the army to fight against the Shun Army. On the one hand, it could improve the morale in the city, and on the other hand, it could disrupt the Shun Army. It would be better if the enemy could be defeated in one fell swoop.

Song Jing of course said that it was wonderful. In the early morning of the next day, four thousand Mongolian soldiers broke out from the east and south gates of Qingdu City at the same time. Unexpectedly, the Shun army had already prepared, with cannons and guns firing, the horses and infantry fighting out.

The Mongolian soldiers who went out of the city were caught off guard, panic and retreated, and they trampled on each other. The soldiers and equipment suffered heavy losses and could no longer attack the camp.

Ming Anda Li looked up to the sky and cried out sadly, knowing that he underestimated his opponent and saw that he could not do anything, so he ordered the withdrawal of troops back to the city.

Unexpectedly, when Ming Andali led the remnants to retreat to the city, he found that no matter how they shouted to open the door, the city gate was still motionless.

It turned out that the gentry in the city was afraid that the Shun army would slaughter the city after breaking the city, so they took their slaves to tie up the magistrate Song Jing who was watching the battle on the city after the Mongolian army left the city!

Andali Ming was shocked and knew it was not good. In desperation, he quickly took people to escape to Baoding. As a result, Hu Maozhen, who was determined to take revenge, led his cavalry to catch up. Lin Yangcheng, the commander of the tenth town, even surrounded the Eight Banners soldiers with three brigades of his troops.

Seeing that they were surrounded by the Shun army, the Mongolian soldiers fled in chaos and they fled one after another. Most of them were chased into the Ganges River north of the city by Hu Maozhen's troops, and the small group abandoned their horses and surrendered.

After the war, the battlefield was cleared, and some soldiers of Shun Army caught a horse on the river beach, with golden saddles and bridles, and sent them to the camp for verification. They interrogated the Qing army's prisoners who claimed that they were riding a war horse by the banner owner Andali. They were transferred to the State of the State to report their merits.

Lu Siwen captured Ming Andali's mount and ordered people to go downstream to search for Ming Andali's corpse. Sure enough, he found it. He experienced the corpse and confirmed that the dead body was Ming Andali.

At the same time, he ordered the killing of Na Zhijing and Song Jing and his nearly 200 people. Anyway, all the gentry made great contributions and ordered the name to be registered and registered, and the candidates were selected for the war.

In order to seize Baoding before the main force of the Qing army, the First Army marched towards Baoding without resting, and then He Zhen led the Third Army to move rapidly towards Baoding. Liu Tichun led the Second Army to recover the remaining prefectures and counties in Baoding to consolidate the results.

At the same time, the Dashun State Responsible King's edict was widely spread to all places, and ordered all places to surrender early, otherwise the Dashun Heavenly soldiers would arrive, regardless of the civil and military.

After the news of Andali's death in Ming Dynasty reached Baoding, Yu Qinglian sat on a chair like a tampered with tendons.

On August 6, Hu Maozhen's cavalry, who was the vanguard, rushed to the city of Baoding. Looking at the important town he was about to attack, Hu Maozhen laughed loudly and shouted to the city: "I'm back again!"

On that day, all units of the First Army arrived one after another and began to set up camps and Anzha outside the city.

The next day, Lu Si and the Third Army and the Governor's Office arrived at the city of Baoding.

Lu Si gave Yu Qinglian the opportunity to surrender, but the governor of Baoding, who passed the Qing Dynasty as the candidates, refused to surrender.

Shunjun's letter of persuasion of surrender was shot into the four cities at the same time, with no less than dozens of letters. Many green camp soldiers and young and strong men in the city saw the contents of the letter. The officials and gentry in the city were afraid of the officials' destruction after the city was destroyed, and many gentry were shaken by this.

Yu Qinglian personally displayed the official documents sent by the Regent from the capital, saying that the army would arrive soon. If the people in the city were shaken and surrendered to the thief, the Regent would slaughter the entire city once it arrived, and the chickens and dogs would not be left behind.

Baoding was captured by the Qing army a few years ago, and last year the Qing army defeated the Shun army in Baoding. Therefore, when a group of officials and gentry heard that the regent would lead 100,000 Zhenman troops to Baoding, they were shaken in their hearts and went there. They all advised the young and strong to work hard to defend, and they would not allow the Shun thieves to enter the city, otherwise the disaster would come in the future.

In order to inspire the young and strong, the gentry generously donated money and made great rewards.

Yu Qinglian and the gentry were in charge. Since the resurgence of the thief, dozens of prefectures and counties have been lost, and countless martyrs have been killed. Therefore, only the gentry in the city needs to work together to defend Baoding. When the regent is in charge of the troops from Manzhou, the lost territories will be repaid with officials from all over the country.

This move made the gentry even more determined to defend the city. Qi Zhi said that he was willing to live and die with the Qing Dynasty, and he threw the threat of massacre from the Shun army aside.

Lu Si didn't know where Yu Qinglian got the courage to persevere, and where the troops from Baoding City were no longer delayed. He ordered Zu Kefa to lead the surrendered army to attack the city.

After the three-way drum,

Zu Kefa led more than 6,000 surrendered troops to the city to prepare for siege.

20 artillery pieces of He Zhen's army were pushed out, and with a command, one cannon fell on the city wall.

Shunjun's artillery was not very accurate, but they were aimed at the city, either hitting the city tower, smashing the battlements, or directly hitting the city wall. The huge solid iron ball hit the ground and lifting up pieces of gravel. Some unlucky green camp soldiers were either killed by cannons or hitting the key points. The passages on the city wall were filled with scattered flesh and blood, and pools of blood were covered with falling bricks and stones.

Experienced battalions either hid behind battlements or lay on the ground. However, the young and strong men who had just entered the city were so scared that they were crying and howling around in the ghosts and wolves, and many of them lost their lives because of their inexperience.

The surrendered soldiers were driven toward the Baoding city walls. They knew that their value was to attack the city as cannon fodder, but they also understood that as long as they could survive, they would no longer be cannon fodder, but would become a member of the Shun Army.

This is affirmed, regardless of Shunqing, and it is also the only opportunity and benefit of these surrendered troops working hard for this.

Zu Kefa was also very familiar with the situation in Baoding City. If the Anda Rites Department of Ming Dynasty were still there, the city would definitely suffer a lot of losses. But now the Anda Rites Department of Ming Dynasty was wiped out. Yu Qinglian pointed at more than a thousand old and weak soldiers and the young and strong soldiers and wanted to defend the city, which was undoubtedly a dream.

The killing of Luo Xiujin and Liu Fangming did not affect Zu Kefa, because Zhang De, the Han flag officer who first seized the gate and let the Shun Army enter the city, was his subordinate, and this action was also privately instructed by his Zu Kefa. Therefore, Zu Kefa was the first hero of Wei Hui's breaking the city.

The situation is obvious now, and the popularity of Manchus is exhausted. If his Zu Kefa does not show off in front of his new master, how could he protect the power of the Zu family in the future?

Under the command of Zu Kefa, more than 6,000 surrendered soldiers rushed to the Baoding city wall in a swarm. Some carried the ladders they had just built, some pushed simple shields to build, some held the big shields on their heads, some kept shooting at the top of the city with the bows and arrows they had just taken from the Shunjun, and some kept covering their own way to the city gate with muskets.

Although the Shun Army surrounded Baoding, the main attack was only on the south city.

Fortunately, when the Qing army attacked Baoding, they drove the people to fill the moat outside the city. Later, although the Ming Dynasty dug up the moat again, the Qing army filled the river when it attacked the Shun army last year, so the surrendered troops could directly approach the city wall, otherwise there would be a moat across it. I am afraid that many of them would die tragically by the moat.

Lu Si's order to Zu Kefa was to attack the city, how to attack and how many people he killed, he didn't care, he just wanted the result.

Hu Maozhen's cavalry had been hanging behind the surrendered army. As a Weishe, once the surrendered army was found to have turned around or were delayed, they would go forward and slash. The surrendered army had no choice but to spread their legs and run forward in order not to be hit by artillery fire and bows on the top of the city.

On the top of the city, Yu Qinglian, who was lying behind the battlement, saw that the general who was sieging the city was Zu Kefa, clenched his fists in resentment, as if a ball of anger would erupt at any time.

There are artillery artillery in Baoding City, with more than 30 large and small pieces. These artillery were left by the Shun Army back then, and it is also the confidence that Yu Qinglian dared to stick to it.

"fire!"

When the Shun Army, who was sieging the city, entered the range of artillery, Yu Qinglian slapped his hand heavily on the battlements and ordered the firing of the gunner. The gunner who heard the order immediately took the burning torch that had been prepared and burned in his hand and burned the fire lead with the fire letter exposed with the medicine chamber.

"boom!"

More than a dozen artillery erupted with anger, and shells roared out of the cannon chamber and flew towards the surrendered soldiers rushing from afar. The sharp cannon sound was very harsh, and the cannons fell to the ground and then fell, screams fluctuated with each other. Many surrendered soldiers were hit directly by the cannons, and their bodies were beaten to pieces, and their hands and feet were flying all over the sky, which was very terrifying.

The surrendered soldiers who were not beaten to death on the spot just wished they could die early, and rolled on the ground in pain, screaming in terror.

Where the shells were bombed, the ladders and the wreckage of shields were everywhere, and human corpses were everywhere, with blood everywhere.

The sudden cannons from the city stumbled the steps of the surrendered soldiers. Seeing the tragic situation ahead, many surrendered soldiers were so scared that their legs were trembling. However, the Shun cavalry in the rear rushed forward without hesitation without hesitation, slashing dozens of heads, which made the stunned surrendered soldiers no longer dared to hesitate and continued to rush forward in fear.

Even though the artillery fire on the city is terrible, the consequences of not rushing are even more terrifying.

While the cannons on the city were busy changing their clothes and loading their bullets, the surrendered troops rushed forward again. The cannons on the city fired again, and there was another scream.

The artillery on Shunjun did not fire, not because there was not much medicine, but because there was no need.

The war drums that urged the attack were thunderous, and the cavalry of the Shun Army supervised the formation did not care about the lives of the surrendered soldiers. As long as there was a slight stagnation in front, they would rush up like wolves and chop them up.

After hundreds of casualties, the surrendered soldiers approached the city wall and ladders one by one. Some surrendered soldiers picked out and dressed in armor hurriedly climbed up the city.

At the city gate, a car crash also began to bombard the city gate blocked by stones.

The surrendered soldiers who climbed up the city gritted their teeth and climbed up desperately with arrows and stones. The ones above fell and quickly went up from below.
Chapter completed!