There were shouts of killing both above and below the city, and the soldiers freely shed their blood!
Habai led more than a thousand Manchurian Eight Banners troops to the battlefield!
One man and two horses, they rode into the battlefield, carrying bows and arrows on their horses.
A thousand cavalrymen dispersed instantly, and in groups of three or five, they fought back towards the city wall.
They are not stubborn and want to ride against the city wall.
Instead, they were prepared to use the cavalry's maneuverability and their excellent shooting skills to kill the enemy troops defending the city.
The cavalry rode past the city. The knights on horseback bent their bows and nocked arrows, and each arrow missed the city.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Driven by the acceleration of the war horse, the lethality of the arrow is stronger.
Fortunately for the green soldiers of the Qing army who were protected by cotton armor, since they were at the top of the city and still wearing cotton armor, they would not necessarily die even if they were hit by an arrow.
It is still the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, not the end of the Qing Dynasty. The Green Camp soldiers also have a certain amount of cotton armor, and the quality is considered guaranteed.
But those civilian husbands are different!
They only had a thin cotton coat on them. If they were hit by an arrow, the best result would be serious injuries.
There were screams all over the city!
The ladder leaned against the city wall, and the siege engine was pushed into the city gate.
Several tall and strong warriors pushed the battering ram together.
The battering ram hit the heavy city gate heavily.
The city gate's latch made a strange creaking noise, and this time, it was almost twisted and deformed by the impact.
On the tall jinglan chariot, the Ming army's archers bent their bows and set arrows, and fired at the Qing army at the top of the city.
There was a fierce battle between the two sides, and from time to time Ming soldiers screamed and fell from the Jinglan cart!
"kill!"
"Kill the thief!"
"..."
The fighting is getting more and more intense!
A Ming army ascended the city on a ladder truck, and a huge rolling log was carried onto the ladder truck by civilians.
The rolling wood rolled down along the tilt of the ladder truck!
With the support of gravity and acceleration, it rolled down faster and faster.
In the blink of an eye, several Ming soldiers were crushed to death by heavy rolling logs, or fell off ladders due to impact.
His head hit the ground, blood and brains splattered!
A barrel of kerosene was poured into the Ming army's array, and several ignited rockets were fired at the landing point of the oil barrel.
In an instant, the fire exploded!
Swallowed the surrounding Ming soldiers!
The cotton armor worn by Ming army soldiers became the best ignition material.
In an instant, the Ming soldiers wearing cotton armor turned into human-shaped torches.
Hysterical screams kept ringing!
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After fighting hard for half a day, the Ming army, whose attack was repeatedly frustrated, finally couldn't hold on anymore. Under the city wall of Chongqing, corpses were left on the ground, fading away like the ebbing tide.
The Qing troops at the top of the city cheered for their victory in the battle to defend the city!
The morale of the Ming army under the city was extremely low!
In the Ming army camp, Yongli's face was full of sorrow, Habai's face was also ugly, and Li Laiheng sat aside without saying a word!
Yongli asked Habai.
"General Habai, do you want to continue the fight?"
"Chongqing's city defenses are strong, and I'm afraid it won't be captured in a short while!"
Habai shook his head and said angrily.
“If it’s not easy to fight, I’ll fight!”
"We have already captured Chengdu. If we capture Chongqing again, we can connect the entire Sichuan and Sichuan provinces."
"At that time, we will march into Hanzhong and plot Guanzhong. Only in this way can we defeat the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty to success!"
Habai’s strategic intention is obvious!
He just wanted to take advantage of the strategic gap where the message transmission was delayed, the Manchu and Qing court could not react, and local troops did not dare to mobilize without authorization.
First capture Sichuan and Shu, then attack Hanzhong, and finally attack Guanzhong. Based on the strong troops of the Three Qin Dynasties in Guanzhong, we can defeat the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
Yongli opened his mouth and said.
“But Chongqing is really hard to fight!”
"In just half a day's siege, our army lost a thousand men!"
"How many thousand men can we lose?"
Li Laiheng also spoke.
"I don't agree with the counterattack!"
"Sichuan and Shu are dilapidated and sparsely populated, and Guanzhong is no better!"
"Even if we fight back to Guanzhong, how many people will choose to follow us?"
Guanzhong has been relatively stable these past two years!
Since the demise of Li Zicheng's Dashun, there have been basically no large-scale wars.
But it still can’t change the fact that Guanzhong is broken!
Because during the late Ming Dynasty, Guanzhong was really miserable.
Since the Year of Tianqi, due to the influence of the Little Glacier climate, floods, droughts, and locust plagues in Guanzhong have been recurring without stopping.
Also, most of the rogue bandits that swept through the late Ming Dynasty, such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other great bandits, started from Guanzhong.
Guanzhong has been in chaos for more than twenty years!
One can imagine how serious the population loss will be!
Although the Manchus and Qing Dynasties imposed excessive levies on the local area, they could not withstand the situation in Guanzhong. Nowadays, Guanzhong has fewer people and more land. It is not troublesome at all, and most of the people can survive.
Therefore, even if the Ming Dynasty returns to Guanzhong now, it may not be able to mobilize the people to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
The corners of Habai's mouth twitched, not knowing how to refute.
Because what Yongli and Li Laiheng said is true!
Li Laiheng also had his own small thoughts. On the surface, he said that Guanzhong was in ruins, but in fact, he did not want to lead his troops into Guanzhong and harm his fellow Guanzhong people.
If the Ming army returns to Guanzhong, the Qing army will surely arrive soon!
By then, Guanzhong will not necessarily be ravaged by the scourge of war!
Li Laiheng said.
"If you ask me, with our current strength, if the Qing army is serious, they will definitely not be able to defeat us on the frontal battlefield!"
"Instead of running north to the plains of Guanzhong to fight the Qing cavalry, it is better to go south!"
Habai frowned and said.
"Going south?"
"Where to go south? Yunnan and Guizhou?"
"But Yungui has Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi!"
Li Laiheng said.
"It is better to hide and seek with Wu Sangui in the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou than to face the Qing cavalry group on the plains of Guanzhong."
"Besides, do you think it is easier to deal with Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army or the Eight Banners Soldiers of the Qing Army?"
Habai couldn't help but frown, he could selectively ignore Yongli's words.
But he must take Li Laiheng's words seriously.
The current Yongli small court is not so much centered on Yongli as it is centered on Habai and Li Laiheng, the two generals who hold actual military power.
"If it doesn't work out, we can still escape to Annan or Myanmar for refuge!"
Li Laiheng said this.
Yongli: "..."
Li Laiheng noticed the strange look on Yongli's face and knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly made up for it.
"Has Your Majesty forgotten the humiliation he suffered at the hands of King Mangbai of Burma?"
"If we enter Myanmar, we will join forces with King Li Jin to attack Awa and kill King Mangbai of Myanmar to avenge His Majesty."
When Yongli heard this, he was a little moved.
He had been on the run as emperor for so many years, and the difficulty of cursing the water was an eternal pain in his heart!
Almost all the civil and military ministers around him were beheaded, and his face as the Emperor of Heaven was trampled into the mud by King Mangbai of Burma!
Habai pondered aside and couldn't make up his mind for a long time.
Li Laiheng urged.
"Commander Habai, come up with an idea as soon as possible!"
"If we wait for a long time under the city of Chongqing, and the Qing government reacts and mobilizes heavy troops from several surrounding provinces to encircle and suppress us, we won't be able to leave even if we want to!"
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