Mandahai, who was holding a red flag, was also angry. When he saw the soldiers of the two red flags collapsing in the gap in the city wall, he directly said to his eldest son Chang Adai: "You go up and you are not allowed to escape. Even if you die, you will die in Gaizhou City!"
"yes!"
Chang Adai shouted to the Eight Banners soldiers under his command: "All the cavalry will charge with me!"
It was the practice of the Eight Banners Army to use Manchu cavalry to attack the city. Because they dismounted and became infantry, and each one of them was the best among the best.
More than 3,000 cavalry were seen, rushing out from various passages in the earthen walls and trenches, following Chang Adai towards the gap in the city wall.
Haug also ordered: "Gather the defeated troops and rest. Turg, Chaohaer, you two will lead the troops and assist the warriors with the red flag at any time!"
"yes!"
Turg and Chaohar knelt down on one knee to accept the order, then gathered their troops and set off.
Turg and Chaohar were both brothers of Er Bilong. Turg once recruited the Chahar tribe of Mongolia to surrender. In history, he attacked the Ming Dynasty and defeated 67 counties in a row.
While the brothers were fighting, Chang Adai's cavalry had already rushed out.
More than three thousand Manchu cavalry, all wearing double armor, withstood the artillery fire of the Datong Army and rushed to the city in a loose formation.
Since the Manchu trenches were too close to the city wall, these cavalrymen rushed to the city wall with only a hundred cavalry casualties. Those who were close to the gap in the city wall immediately dismounted and turned into infantry, carrying ladders and rushing towards the earth and stone platform. Those who were farther away from the gap
He rode on horseback and shot arrows at the city.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Thousands of enemies came down again, but they could not stop the attack of the Aliha Chaoha camp.
In order to guard against heavy arrows from the Qing Dynasty, Li Fuguo did not let his soldiers guard the edge of the earth and stone platform. Chang Adai personally led the soldiers and climbed up the earth and stone platform along the wooden ladder despite the bombardment of foreign enemies.
"Collide!"
Li Fuguo gave an order, and the rattan players in the front row rushed forward together in a tight formation.
Aliha Chaoha Bing, who had just climbed onto the earth and stone platform, was immediately knocked down by a row of rattan players. The earth and stone platform was only three meters high, and it was generally impossible to fall to death, but the Manchu elite wearing double armor still fell to his death.
Basu became the target of grenadiers and gunmen.
"shoot!"
At the same time, Aliha Chaoha's soldiers further behind fired heavy arrows at the rattan player of the Datong Army who rushed to the edge of the earth and stone platform.
"Get back!"
Li Fuguo quickly ordered, but four Tengpai were still hit by heavy arrows.
Taking advantage of this short interval, some Aliha Chaoha soldiers climbed onto the earth and stone platform again and strangled the rattan players and spearmen of the Datong Army.
After Chang Adai was knocked down, his exposed hands had been injured by shrapnel from thousands of enemies, and he could no longer hold the weapon firmly. His face was also bloody and bloody, and he could not open his eyes because of the smoke from lime and chili powder.
By the time he came to his senses, troops from Turg and Chaohar had arrived to support him.
"Kill the Nanmanzi!"
The brothers Turg and Chaohaer rushed onto the earth and stone platform at the same time and strangled themselves with the defenders of Li Fuguo.
Chang Adai stood up unsteadily and climbed the wooden ladder again.
"boom!"
A bullet was fired from the city wall on the left and hit Chang Adai on the right shoulder. This time he was completely unable to hold the knife.
"kill!"
Chang Adai changed his sword to his left hand and continued to charge forward with his soldiers.
This gap was only twelve meters wide, but both warring parties gathered hundreds of people. When they hit the back, they had to squeeze forward. They couldn't swing their swords at all, but thousands of enemies kept smashing into the crowd.
However, the number of attacks from outsiders was getting smaller and smaller. In addition to insufficient ammunition, the enemy troops were also using ladders to attack the city due to the walls on both sides of the gap. Some grenadiers had to take care of the enemies who climbed onto the city.
The Datong Army, which was defending the gap, was squeezed back little by little. Several rattan players accidentally fell down and were trampled to death by the Eight Banners soldiers.
"Boom boom boom!"
Chang Adai was hit again by thousands of enemies and was wounded all over his body. A piece of shrapnel hit Chang Adai in the throat.
With blood pouring out of his mouth, the son of the owner of the red flag finally died on the battlefield. He didn't even fall down, because there were people on all sides, and the corpses were squeezed forward.
The Datong Army was also affected by the lime and chili powder exploded by thousands of enemies. It was blown by the wind. Both sides closed their eyes and kept coughing.
Hu Dinggui personally came to the city wall on the left side of the gap. Regardless of the enemy troops who were climbing the ladder, he gathered hundreds of musketeers and fired muskets at the soldiers of Alihachaoha who had gathered together.
"Three strikes!"
"Raise the gun!"
"put!"
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Immediately, the last two or three hundred and eighty flag soldiers were shot, and two Datong soldiers who were in the defensive gap were also accidentally killed. It is better to shoot towards the outside as much as possible, and more towards the follow-up troops outside the city, otherwise the friendly troops who were accidentally injured will still be shot.
More.
Countless Eight Banners soldiers still rushed forward, and the gap was already bumpy with corpses. The Eight Banners soldiers stepped on the corpses and rushed forward, with a condescending attitude. Some of them used their arms and held knives behind their backs to slit their throats.
However, the cannons and thousands of enemies on the city continued to cause casualties to the Eight Banners soldiers. The Eight Banners soldiers were unable to attack, so it would be a matter of time before they retreated here.
"kill!"
On the east side of the city wall, a loud shouting of murder suddenly came from the sky.
However, too many troops were invested in the north city wall. On the east wall, only peasant soldiers and civilians were needed to defend the city, but Dorgon commanded two white flags and two yellow flags to attack the city wall.
The regular soldiers of the Datong Army fought bravely, but some peasant soldiers formed by the people of Liaodong turned around and ran away in fear. They had only been trained for two or three months, and had been enslaved by the Tatars for a long time, so they always had a fear of the Tatars in their hearts.
Liu Dazhang screamed with all his strength: "You are not allowed to escape, you are not allowed to escape, if you escape, you will become a slave of the Tatars! I don't want to be a slave, kill me!"
Jin Guozhen shouted in Korean: "Don't you want your surname? Don't want your land? Do you want your wife? My wife is pregnant. For the sake of my wife and children, I must work hard for my wife and children! Bless Zhao Bodhisattva!"
"Blessed by Bodhisattva Zhao!"
These Liaodong peasants and soldiers did not shout about farming and eating, but they all shouted "Zhao Bodhisattva bless you". It was as if they were possessed by gods. Except for a few cowards, most of the fleeing peasants and soldiers fought back.
Pan Hui, who was organizing and leading women to deliver supplies to the soldiers defending the city, picked up the pole with a big belly: "Sisters, men are working hard, and we women are not afraid of death. If you don't want to be captured by the Tatars, join me in killing the enemy."
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Pan Hui was a young lady from a Hunan gentry family, and her husband was the artillery commander Yang Ye who was accidentally killed in action.
She originally stayed with pregnant women, but after hearing that her husband had been killed in battle, she came out with tears in her eyes to organize women to help.
Hundreds of women carried carrying poles and sticks and climbed up the city tower to join the battle. Upon seeing this, many people put down their transportation work and rushed to the city wall together.
Upon seeing this, Liu Dazhang shouted: "Protect the woman, don't let the woman be killed by the Tatars!"
"kill!"
Regardless of whether they had participated in peasant soldier training or not, the young and strong people defending the city rushed towards the Eight Banners soldiers with red eyes.
Because the women who came to support were all the wives of the soldiers and civilians guarding the city.
Darhan led his troops to attack the city wall, and his soldiers were killed one after another. However, he held on to the female wall at the ladder and protected more Eight Banners soldiers from climbing up the city wall.
This guy is the son-in-law of Nurhaci. During the bloody battle of Daling River, more than 500 Ming troops went out to fight. Dalhan led 80 people and defeated the Ming army. When attacking the Mongolian Zalut tribe, Dalhan chased and killed them alone.
Capture Taiji (the crown prince or crown prince) of the tribe.
Dalhan originally belonged to the Xianglan Banner, but Dorgon adjusted the Eight Banners troops and got Dalhan, a strong general, under his command.
Now, Darhan is sent to attack the city again!
Under Darhan's fighting, more and more Eight Banners soldiers climbed up. On his left was the Datong Army, and on his right was the Peasant Soldiers. This guy held the Datong Army on his own and let the friendly forces fight with the Peasants and Soldiers.
Seeing the peasants and soldiers collapse one after another, who would have expected that someone kept boosting morale, shouting and then came back to fight.
Some farmers and soldiers with red eyes, because their equipment was at a disadvantage, threw away their weapons and risked their lives to fight. Two or three farmers and soldiers knocked down an Eight Banners soldier, and then rolled and struggled against the city wall.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Wu Huapu shouted in a hissing voice. The dragoons he commanded had been temporarily converted into firecrackers and were in charge of other sections of the city wall.
After receiving the warning here, Wu Huapu immediately led a team to support him. His muskets were loaded and his bayonets were sheathed. However, he was blocked by a large number of people who rushed up. Especially those women, who had no fighting ability, blocked the reinforcement channel.
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Fortunately, there is no need for his help.
The crazy fighting will of the peasants and soldiers made the fighting Eight Banners soldiers feel terrified. The Eight Banners soldiers who were close to the female wall were even hugged by the peasant soldiers, and they climbed over the female wall and fell to their death.
Darhan, a tough warrior, suffered from many wounds and was ultimately unable to defeat the four-handed man with just one fist.
After the soldiers around him died, several spears were pressed against the parapet, and another shot was stabbed into his throat.
At the gap in the city wall, the Eight Banners soldiers could not withstand tens of thousands of enemies and fire cannon fire, and finally retreated to the camp with a loss of troops.
On this day alone, the Manchus suffered more than 3,000 killed and countless wounded. On the side of the Datong Army, more than 500 regular soldiers were killed, and more than 100 peasant soldiers and civilians were killed.
Such shocking casualties made the nobles of the Eight Banners unable to sit still and clamored to withdraw their troops.
If thousands more people die, it will already be a serious injury to the Qing Dynasty!
That night, the fifth watch.
The leading troops of the reinforcements landed on the seaside on the west side of the battlefield by boat. The number was small, only more than 2,000, but Lu Xiangsheng and Xiao Zongxianquan arrived, and only Li Zheng stayed to control the large army.
When the sky was about to turn white, they had already circled behind the Manqing fort along the river.
"kill!"
Lu Xiangsheng and Xiao Zongxian each led more than a thousand men to raid the riverside fort.
The Manchus obviously did not expect the enemy to come out from behind, and the artillerymen were killed one after another.
The person in charge of this section of the fort was Dorgon's confidant and artillery general Cao Zhenyan, who was born in Baoyi, and the great-great-grandfather of Cao Xueqin.
Cao Zhenyan woke up from his dream and saw that several forts were lost. He immediately said to his son: "Escape quickly!"
Cao Xi, Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather, drew his sword and shouted: "Father, the regent has treated my Cao family with great kindness, so how can he escape from the battle at this moment?"
"If your grandfather had been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, our Cao family would have been gone long ago. At this time, it is important to save your life!" Cao Zhenyan felt that his son was mentally retarded.
Cao Xi was scolded, and the father and son loyally reached an agreement and withdrew all the remaining artillery from the fort.
"Don't let anyone go, kill them!"
Lu Xiangsheng led hundreds of cavalry and had already blocked the escape route of Cao and his son.
Most of the enemies here are artillery. Where can they defeat the cavalry?
Cao Zhenyan immediately knelt down and asked to surrender. As soon as he knelt down, he saw his son charging towards the Datong army with his sword drawn. He was so anxious that he shouted: "You traitor, come back quickly!"
Lu Xiangsheng came on horseback and stabbed the young and energetic Cao Xi to death with one shot.
Under the dim light of the morning, when Cao Zhenyan saw this tragic situation, he immediately knelt there and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Please surrender, the guilty general!"
