Although the plan to ambush the Qing army led by Abatai halfway was failed, since the Qing army was drawn out, the Qing army must not be released, and the ambushing would be attacked to encircle and annihilate. Therefore, Zhou Shaohuan ordered the seventh brigade to block the Abatai tribe in the South Post and immediately began to re-arrange the plan to encircle and annihilate the Abatai tribe in the South Post.
In the first step, Zhou Shaohuan ordered the 9th Army's special forces brigade to bypass the Qing army from the small path to attack Tai'an, first cut off the retreat route of Abatai's troops; then ordered the 14th Division of the 10th Division of the 5th Army, the 14th Division of the 9th Division of the 8th Division of the 5th Army to enter Gaojiadian, Sanwangmiao, Guojiatang Kongcun, Yuanjiacun and other places to form a siege against Abatai's troops. Two cavalry regiments were drawn as preparations for pursuit, and the seventh Brigade of the blocking Chinese troops had dispatched three divisions, one brigade, and the total strength of the two cavalry regiments had reached about 43,000. Because the encirclement and annihilation war was different from other battles, it must have more than the enemy's troops to surround the enemy and annihilate it.
In addition, Zhou Shaohuan also considered that Li Rutai's troops in Yanzhou might break out of the city and join Abatai's troops. In this way, the plan to encircle and annihilate Abatai's troops may have variables. Now there are only 12th brigades stationed outside Yanzhou. The 27th brigade has enough troops to restrain Li Rutai's troops, but they still have insufficient troops to trap Li Rutai in Yanzhou. Because they must also be prepared for Li Rutai to escape southwest and flee into Henan.
Therefore, Zhou Shaohuan ordered the fourth brigade stationed in Jiningzhou to participate in the war and handed over Jiningzhou to the anti-Qing guards of the uprising army. At the same time, he also dispatched Zheng Chenggong's troops to encircle Yanzhou City and equipped them with a cavalry regiment to support the reserve team. In this way, the troops to besiege Yanzhou were more than 38,000 enough to block the Qing army in Yanzhou City.
Three days later, Zhou Shaohuan received a report sent back by the Special Forces Brigade Tai'an had been successfully captured by the Special Forces Brigade. At this time, all other troops from the Chinese army were also located. Zhou Shaohuan immediately ordered two places to attack the Qing army at the same time and issued a mobilization order before the war to tell the soldiers of the entire army that this was a victory in the Shandong battle. Guan Jian asked the entire army to work hard to fight and annihilate more enemies.
The battle to siege Yanzhou was commanded by Zhang Yiping, the commander of the 10th Army. Among the troops besieging Yanzhou, the 10th Army had at most two brigades and a cavalry regiment.
After receiving the order from Zhou Shaohuan, Zhang Yiping immediately made a plan to attack Yanzhou. In fact, the attack plan was very simple. Now the Qing army in Yanzhou gave up all the peripheral positions and retreated into the city to defend. Therefore, there was no plan at this time to attack the city directly. So Zhang Yiping also ordered the Fourth Brigade, the Twelfth Brigade, the Twenty-Seventh Brigade and Zheng Chenggong's troops to attack one of the gates and lead the cavalry regiment to respond from all sides.
After the order was issued, the three brigades and Zheng Chenggong immediately sent troops to surround Yanzhou City and launched an attack on the four gates.
Although Zhang Yiping did not show any evidence before the siege, there was a competition between all the people and horses. Of course, they all hoped that they could be the first to conquer Yanzhou, including Zheng Chenggong. This time he was transferred to Shandong for battle. However, in the early stage, the Chinese army was mobilizing the Qing army's troops and did not go into full war with the Qing army. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong's troops did not get the opportunity to go to war. Now it's finally time to go to war, Zheng Chenggong also hopes that he can perform well so that he will not be given the name of the Allies.
Therefore, after the siege began, all the people and horses were very brave, and the guns were loud and the cannons were roaring, even in the city, you could hear them clearly
The east gate, which was responsible for the fourth brigade, was the first to complete the blasting, but the blasting result was not ideal. Although the city wall was blown up, the gap was more than two meters high from the ground. Although there were broken bricks and cracks at the gap that could be directly connected, when the commando launched an assault on the gap, two grenades were not thrown into the gap but fell on the broken bricks and cracks outside the gap. As a result, after the explosion, the reverse side caused the broken bricks and cracks outside the gap to collapse again. The soldiers of the commando had to set up a ladder to rush into the gap.
But this gave the Qing army a front line. As a result, tens of Qing army's musketeers took advantage of this gap to rush up to defend the gap and fired at the commando. The commando was killed by the Qing army in one go. More than 20 people were killed by the Qing army.
Fortunately, the Chinese soldiers who were covering the commando behind also immediately shot at the Qing army. After a fierce attack, the Qing army's musketeers finally couldn't hold on and were killed or injured. She retreated into the city. The fourth brigade took the opportunity to launch a second attack and finally successfully broke through the gap. He entered Yanzhou City. As a result, he was still five minutes slower than the 12th brigade.
Although the blasting of the North Gate and the West Gate, the 27th Brigade was responsible for attacking the attack, although it was later than that of the East Gate and the West Gate, the assault after the blasting was relatively smooth. Twenty minutes later, it successfully entered Yanzhou City.
Less than two hours after the Chinese army launched an attack on Yanzhou City, the east, west and north gates of Yanzhou City were broken through by the Chinese army.
Only Zheng Chenggong's troops, which attacked the south gate, made a little slower progress. Although the Zheng army suppressed the Qing army's firepower at the beginning, the Zheng army could not use blasting tactics, so they used cloud ladders to attack the city. As a result, after the Zheng army began to attack the city, the artillery and musketeers also stopped firing. The Qing soldiers who came to defend the city could fight fiercely based on the city's defense and siege the city.
Although the Zheng army had approached near the battlement at this time, the Qing army occupied the city head after all, so it was unable to attack the south gate in a short time. Zheng Chengjun also knew that the other three gates had been attacked and opened and were eager to break through the south gate. The urge to fight was unstoppable. The war was stalemate.
However, at this time, the three gates in the east, west and north of Yanzhou were attacked and opened. After the news reached the south gate, the Qing army guarding the south gate suddenly became motivated and they were indifferent to defend the city. They retreated one after another. Zheng army took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the city and finally climbed onto the city gate. Zheng Chenggong immediately led the army into the city. Although it was almost an hour later than the other gates, all four gates in Yanzhou City were attacked and opened.