The west side was slightly open. Nurhaben considered that if the Ming army was besieged from all four directions, the Ming army would organize the people to fight to the death, so the west side was slightly open.
I hope someone will open the city gate and escape, and the city will be in panic and they will take advantage of the situation to seize the city.
The development of the matter went beyond Lao Nu's plan. As a result, Huang Taiji, the shrewdest man, suffered a hundred Zhengbai Banner casualties and hundreds of Horqin cavalry.
The soil on the backs of more than 3,000 people, together with their flesh and blood, had just filled the moat with a width of 5 miles, when they saw the water in the moat receding rapidly.
Isn’t this busy work in vain?
No. Now there is a broad road entering the city from the north. When entering the city from the south gate and west gate, there is a deep river dam with a slope, and the bottom of the river is cushioned with grass and soil, and the lower ditch is the upper ditch.
In fact, Amin reported to Nurhachi that he had found the sluice gate. The old slave asked him to seize the sluice gate and release the water. If Xianglan Qi was the first to break through the east gate, the reward would be first place.
In fact, Nurhachi walked around outside the city and saw that the defense of the East City Gate was the best, and the defensive leader must be a powerful figure. With a blue flag and the main attack, it was difficult to win the East City Gate with the cooperation of two red flags.
So Amin can't get this credit.
It must be his or Huang Taiji's.
Nurhachi gave full consideration to sending all the troops and 10,000 Horqin cavalry to Huang Taiji's Zhengbai Banner.
The Ming army was the strongest on the east and west walls. The west wall was defended by Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong governor. He was timid and selfish. The old slave judged that the west wall was not under attack and would not support the north and south walls.
Nurhachi was indeed a tycoon. He reaped the benefits in allocating his troops and even plotted against Amin's blue flag.
Amin was not an idle person. When the north and south city gates were opened, he knew that the old thieves were plotting again. He was not someone who suffered easily, so he rushed to the west gate to intercept the fleeing people and captured many slaves.
Wang Hongyu led 18,000 Ming troops to come to the rescue, and it was no coincidence that they arrived.
He continuously sent scouts to investigate the battle situation in Liaoyang, knowing that if reinforcements arrived before the city was broken, Yuan Yingtai would not send troops out of the city to attack the Jiannu and Horqin Mongolian coalition forces.
Moreover, if a rapid march arrives before the city is broken, the reinforcements will be exhausted, let alone rescue, and the entire army may be annihilated.
In fact, Wang Hongyu led everyone in a long-distance attack to save the Ming army and people in the city, not to give Yuan Yingtai more credit.
Seeing that the water in the moat had been drained, but there was mud at the bottom of the river, Wang Hongyu ordered the soldiers to take off their shoulder straps and load them with soil. This was a grain bag specially prepared by Wang Hongyu, which could hold 30 kilograms of grain, and now it became a soil bag.
The pike team provided cover, and the veteran soldiers brought a bunch of weeds to cushion the mud. The soldiers and civilians who escaped from the opposite side moved bricks and looked for stones to cushion the slope. Some people even used the corpses of those who drowned yesterday to cushion the mud and slope.
At this time, not to mention the city gate, even the east and west streets leading to the city gate were blocked by chaotic crowds, and it was impossible to take away people if they were caught. After all, there were many Han people, and each other was either relatives or neighbors. If someone was caught, others would rescue him.
, beat it into a pot of porridge.
After the marching horn of the Ming army sounded, the arresters stopped, and the fighters also looked outside the city. In fact, they could not see anything because they were blocked.
The Ming army rushed into the city gate, which was guarded by 100 soldiers with blue flags to prevent the Han people from escaping out of the city. Seeing a large number of Ming troops rushing into the city gate, these Jiannu soldiers were about to block the city gate.
The pikemen ran forward with their spears held flat. Jiannu lowered his head and bent down, but a few of them were not pierced. He rolled close to the pikemen. The dagger in his hand cut to the left and stabbed right. Two of the pikemen were stabbed in the calf.
The gunmen in the back row strode forward and sprinted forward. One of the slaves was stabbed to death. The other grabbed the handle of the gun with his left hand. He threw out the steel knife with his right hand and flew directly to the left arm of the gunman holding the gun. The gunman released his left hand to grab the knife and used a few fingers.
was cut off.
The crossbowman behind shot an arrow into the guy's big face. Jiannu fell to the ground and died, still holding on to the barrel of the gun with his left hand.
The 100 Jiannu refused to retreat but advanced despite the forest-like spear formation, maiming 5 spearmen. It turned out that these were 100 Bajala guards with blue flags.
Jiannu Bagala's cry for help attracted hundreds of screaming dead soldiers. These were the hundreds of Jiannu who returned to their ancestors. Later, Mang Gurtai used cruel methods to train them into death soldiers who were not afraid of death.
Zhu Wanliang's Liaodong soldiers, whom they had defeated not long ago, threw away their armor and fled away.
This time Amin used them to deal with the Confederate Army's spear phalanx, thinking that it was a sure shot, but was defeated twice by the Confederate Army's spear phalanx, which had already left a shadow on Amin and Xianglan Banner.
The hundreds of dead soldiers who were rented back were driven crazy by the Confederate Army. Using these hundreds of dead soldiers to break the Confederate Army's spear phalanx avenged their past humiliation and avenged themselves.
Hundreds of screaming dead soldiers rushed not far from the spear phalanx. Amin waited to see the bloody scene. Suddenly, the people to the west of the dead soldiers with blue flags started shouting:
"Oh my God! The Confederate Army is coming, run!"
The cries were shrill and shrill, like little ghosts seeing the King of Hell. They took off their armor and clothes while burrowing into the cracks between people. Some simply climbed up walls and houses to escape without their lives.
When the Xianglan Banner Jiannu returned to their ancestors soldiers saw the Southern Army, the confidence they had finally re-established quickly collapsed, and they returned to their ancestors again. Now the Horqin Mongols were more sure that the Jiannu were afraid of being beaten by the Southern Army, and they were beaten to the point of returning to their ancestors.
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Several Ming army arquebusiers on the west city wall were about to shoot at the atavistic Jian slaves who had climbed onto the roof, when a veteran stopped them:
"Don't fight. These Jiannu have been frightened crazy by the Confederate army. Letting them escape will just hit the Jiannu and Mongolian ranks. It can also cause the enemy to panic, which is good for our retreat."
"Aren't you going to take back Liaoyang City?"
"You're stupid! The reinforcements headed by the Southern Army rushed all night from Hunhe. How could they have the physical strength to seize the city? The Jiannu and Mongolians totaled nearly 40,000 people, and the reinforcements were less than 20,000, and the powerful crossbows cannot penetrate the reeds.
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As expected, hundreds of atavistic slaves fled to a distance and kept shouting:
"The Confederate Army is coming, run!"
Although the other soldiers with the blue flag were not frightened and returned to their ancestors, they were frightened when they heard that the Southern Army was coming. They dared to intercept the Han people. They followed behind and ran away, reminding their friends in the distance as they ran:
"The Confederate Army is coming, run!"
The news spread from ten to ten, and in the streets near the west of the city, slaves running from the Xianglan Banner could be seen escaping. The voice spread everywhere: "The Confederate Army is coming, run!"
This chain reaction has long affected the Horqin Mongols who are hunting Han people everywhere. This kind of shouting mixed with Jiannu and Chinese can be heard by everyone. Not many of them understand Jiannu, but many understand Chinese.
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A large number of soldiers with the blue flag took off their clothes and armor, shouting: "As a nation of fishermen and hunters, fishing and hunting are the foundation, fish in front and hunt in the back!"
The savage Jurchens also returned to the instinct of primitive people: "Fish and hunt, fish in front and hunt behind~"
These guys who were beaten to the point of returning to their ancestors went fishing in the river east of the city~