On Liaoyang City, a volley of arrows was fired, guns and cannons roared, and the coats fell down one by one.
Is the coating poor? Poor.
But even more hateful!
The defenders on the city wall, under the command of Zhang Quan, fired with crossbows, bows, and three-eyed muskets. Bao Yi, who did not have an inch of armor and had very weak body bones, would not be able to survive until this time next year if he was hit.
There was a lot of wailing on the ground, and Bao Yi died all the way.
Some lucky ones, carrying baskets made of thorn strips, lined up to carry soil. When they reached the river bank, they bowed their heads and poured the soil in the baskets made of thorn strips into the river, then turned around and left quickly.
However, the Jiannu refused to let them retreat to the rear. They either had to carry another bag of soil to fill it in, or they picked up their dead and alive companions from the ground, lifted them up and threw them into the river.
The soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner and the Horqin Mongolian cavalry stood in the distance and shot arrows at the city wall to suppress the shooting of the Ming army. The matchlock gunmen of the Ming army also shot at the Zhengbai Banner and the Mongolian army. As for shooting the coats, use bows and arrows, or three-eyed muskets, not much more.
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There are also French cannons on the city wall that are shooting at the enemy, and of course there are also Tiger cannons that are firing gravel projectiles inside the city.
The new packers did not participate in digging, transporting, or filling the soil. Instead, they were transferred to the rear. In fact, they were afraid that they would see a large number of packers die and be filled into the river.
Baskets of soil were poured into the river, and batches of coated ghosts cried and howled to death, and then were filled into the river. The moat was only filled up to a short section of 5 battles wide.
The first wave of soldiers who filled ditches and rivers were all killed, but the defenders' arrangement of guns, cannons, and crossbows were all seen by Jiannu.
In the battle with Yuan Yingtai, Amin and Jierhalang, who were flying the blue flag, regained the confidence that had been knocked out by the Southern Army. At this time, they discovered the weakness of the defense.
The moat outside the east gate is very wide, but these waters are originally connected to a river outside the city, and the moat is blocked from this river by a sluice.
If we seize the sluice gate, we can release the water in the moat!
Amin immediately sent someone to report the plan to Nurhachi, who praised him:
"In the first stage of the attack on Liaoyang, Xianglan Banner defeated Yuan Yingtai in the field, and Zhu Wanliang was the first to do so! If this plan is successful, draining the water from the moat and entering the city first, then Xianglan Banner will have the greatest contribution in the entire battle, and he will definitely be the third in rewards in the future.
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Amin was taken aback by such a painting, and with Jierhalang's persuasion and inducement from the side, he immediately decided to send out the main force of the blue flag.
There was originally a Ming army camp guarding the city outside the sluice. When Yuan Yingtai was defeated and retreated, he retreated into the city. At this time, Zhang Quan had to re-send the temporarily recruited Liaoyang Rebel Army to guard the city.
These Liaoyang rebels were originally ordinary people or refugees, and their combat experience was far less than that of the camp soldiers. However, Zhang Quan selected the members properly, and each of them was a brave man. Many of their leaders had blood feuds with Jiannu.
With only 1,000 people, they could withstand the attack of nearly 5,000 people with blue flags.
Zhang Quan, who was originally resisting the main force of the slave-building forces in the north of the city, also led his people to quickly support the east of the city. He immediately fired muskets and artillery on the city gate tower to support him. After holding on for an hour, the water gate was not lost.
Amin was so angry that he threw in the newly recruited barbarians from the Xianglan Banner and personally led 700 Bajala guards to join the battle. Then he killed all the rebels guarding the gate, opened the gate and released the water in the moat.
He was so eager to accomplish his feat that as soon as the water from the moat was released into the river through the sluice, he ordered all the Xianglan Banners to attack the city.
However, Zhang Quan defended it properly, and for a time the east side of the city was stable and there was no risk of being lost.
At this moment, there was sudden chaos in the west of the city.
When they saw that the water in the moat had been drained and the Ming army's supervisors came up, Hu Yingdong and other civil servants took the lead in climbing over the city wall in hanging baskets to escape.
There was a sudden chaos in the city, a large number of big families rebelled, and the remaining Mongolian soldiers also rebelled.
The north gate and south gate were opened, and the two yellow flags and the white flag entered the city first.
The west gate was also opened, and Zu Dashou led his army to break through and leave.
Later, when the Jin army entered the city, they were not blocked. Instead, they were greeted by the people. Some women even dressed up and made up to welcome them.
Of course, these people are not ordinary people. After many years of fighting in Liaodong, only wealthy families have the financial resources to prepare beautiful clothes and make-up. Ordinary people will flee to the pass if they have a little financial resources. Those who stay are either the most miserable tenants, hunters, or refugees.
A wealthy family with numerous properties and shops.
At this time, various wealthy families in Liaoyang City, especially some big landowners and big businessmen, had long been in secret collusion with Hou Jin's master, and now of course they were rushing to show their loyalty.
Yuan Yingtai was very kind and righteous to these wealthy families, and wanted to gain their support for him and the court.
The rich people welcomed Jiannu in fine clothes and repaid his kindness.
Yuan Yingtai was still standing guard on the watchtower, with large shield soldiers guarding him on the left and right, and even he was holding a shield. However, this shield could not protect Liaoyang City, and it could not even protect his safety.
The Xianglan Banner could not enter from the east of the city, so Daishan's two red flags were simply blocked here. He led the Xianglan Banner and quickly entered the city from the north of the city, following the Zhengbai Banner and the Mongolian soldiers.
Unlike Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, who were busy annihilating the remaining Ming troops and appeasing the big families in Liaoyang after entering the city, he led people directly to the west of the city to block the exits and prevent the people from fleeing Liaoyang.
The purpose of this is to capture more coats, so that the blue flags with greater losses can be replenished with slaves.
Unexpectedly, the Kormi Mongols thought the same way. These Mongols lost a large number of cavalry and could not rob the large households that had an old relationship with Nurhaci, so they could only come to the west of the city to capture slaves.
A large number of civilians in Liaoyang were fleeing. Jiannu and Mongolian horses blocked the roads. People everywhere were cursing and wailing. The situation was extremely out of control.
"All! All! All!"
A blast of horns came from the west.
As the horn sound spread into the city, all the noisy people suddenly became quiet.
"All! All! All!"
The people in the city, defeated soldiers, slave soldiers, and Mongolian soldiers all looked to the west, but saw nothing through the city wall.
But the sound of this trumpet tugged at the heart of each of them.
Because that is the trumpet of the Ming army!
On the west wall of Liaoyang, the remaining defenders who were panicking and preparing to flee saw an astonishing scene on the wall.
The reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty have arrived!
The flags are neat and majestic, the horns are loud and powerful, and the spears are densely packed like a forest. They look like a forest, but they are running towards Liaoyang.
It is unimaginable that if the soldiers and horses in Liaoyang had such momentum and fighting spirit, would the people of Liaodong still be worried? Would they still be worried that they could not farm and herd properly, and would they be afraid that the sky would fall all day long?
In fact, there are quite a few Liao soldiers here, including those who just escaped from Liaoyang.
Wang Hongyu, Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Hannian, Qin Ling, Zhou Yijie, Jiang Bi, You Shilu, Zhao Lijiao, Liu Qu, Luo Yiguan, as well as Zu Dashou, who had just escaped and now returned, led nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses to fight back.
Wang Hongyu was on the banks of the Liao River. When he heard that Liaoyang was in danger, he, Guangning's deputy general Liu Qu, and his general Luo Yiguan, as well as all the soldiers and horses from Sichuan, Zhejiang, and Tu, who were not seriously injured, came to support.
We must not let Jian Nu occupy Liaoyang, the largest city in Liaodong, in vain.