After Li Laiheng led his troops into Shenzhou City, the strength of the Shenzhou garrison was greatly improved. Liu Fangliang, Gu Kecheng, Guo Sheng and others also entered the city one after another to assist in the defense. The situation of Jintang was established. At least for a few days, the Qing army was absolutely unable to do so.
May have conquered Shenzhou.
The most dangerous time had passed, and Li Shiwei went to Li Laiheng to plead guilty and be punished. Li Laiheng was particularly surprised by Li Shiwei's bravery and calmness, and repeatedly praised him as a filial son of Cao Zixiao in Dashun.
After Liu Fangliang arrived, the overall situation was finally consolidated, and the soldiers and civilians of Shenzhou seemed to let out a sound of relief and surprise. Although the Qing army continued to launch several offensives the next day, the attacks were far less violent than before, especially the Hongyi
The number of artillery firings was greatly reduced, and the Shenzhou defenders were able to calmly launch artillery counterattacks, killing a large number of siege Qing troops one after another.
Enemy corpses and the remains of siege equipment were abandoned everywhere under the city. Occasionally there were some torches left over from the fighting between the two armies. The flames ignited some corpses and wooden siege equipment. On the moat outside Shenzhou City that had been mostly buried.
A raging fire burned.
The red fire illuminated the sky and briefly divided the battlefield. After this, the morale of the Qing army seemed to have suffered a heavy blow. They never organized a violent attack with more than ten thousand people, but only sent some small troops from time to time to attack.
The defenders were just harassing them.
The military morale in the city and the people's morale were thus greatly stabilized. Li Laiheng could also breathe a sigh of relief and take a good break to recuperate his soldiers who were exhausted from the continuous battles.
"The morale of the Donglu has declined greatly! Your Majesty, after we entered the city for reinforcements, for one day and one night, I saw that the Qing army's siege efforts were not enough. If the enemy's momentum continues to decline like this, I would like to wait until our Majesty leads the troops to attack the city.
From now on, it will only be a matter of time before we defeat Donglu."
Hao Yaoqi looked down upon the low-morale Qing soldiers outside the city. Could this be the legend that "soldiers are as strong as tigers, horses are as strong as dragons, climb mountains like apes, swim like otters, are as powerful as Mount Tai, and China is like a tired egg?"
Manchurian heavenly soldiers?
During the Battle of Dangshan, the Manchus still had a brave and powerful spirit, but now the Qing army under Shenzhou City has become weak and unable to defeat Lu. However, after a setback, morale has been reduced to such a low level.
Is it impossible to mount a large-scale demonstration counterattack?
Li Laiheng and Liu Fangliang were sitting in the main seats in the hall. They both looked at each other and smiled when they heard this. Liu Fangliang said with emotion: "We broke through the long siege of 200,000 enemy troops with 20,000 troops and went straight into Shenzhou City. After all, the Eastern captives will eventually become a small country of Yi and Di."
, but under the pretense of the decline of Zhu Ming, they were able to occupy Liaodong, invade Yan, Yun, Dangshan, Baigouhe, and now Shenzhou. Dashun fought three times against the Donglu, and won the three battles. Naturally, the Donglu only had fear.
I will never dare to invade the Central Plains again."
Liu Fangliang is full of confidence. Of course, Li Laiheng is not as confident as Master Liu, but he is also deeply optimistic about the development of the current war situation. In the past, he always believed that Huang Taiji was the most brilliant military strategist in the world. Therefore, since the war began, Li Laiheng
He was always timid in planning and making arrangements, always panicking about Huang Taiji's subsequent moves, so that he often found himself in a situation where he was at a loss of whether to advance or retreat.
The success of Shun's army in rescuing Shenzhou has proven that Huang Taiji's ingenuity has not reached perfection. The Qing's 200,000-strong army is not a sword of Damocles hanging over Dashun's head. On the contrary.
, such a mixed army of Manchu, Mongolian and Han nationalities, although Huang Taiji managed to put it together with his genius, it would definitely not be able to exert its true power.
In Li Laiheng's opinion, the combat effectiveness of such a mixed force of 200,000 soldiers may not be as good as that of a pure Qing army composed of 100,000 soldiers.
"In the future, the Dashun Dynasty will definitely compile history books, and everyone here in Shenzhou City today will definitely be included in the history books. When future generations of scholars read this paragraph, they don't know which of us will be included in it."
I think of Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Li Jing and Xu Shiji of the Great Shun Dynasty!"
Heshuo Youyou, the war situation has developed to this point. The Qing army's 200,000 troops stationed on both sides of the Hutuo River. Not only did they fail to massacre all the civilians and soldiers in Shenzhou City to undermine the morale of the Shun army, but they themselves suffered heavy blows one after another under Shenzhou City.
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The morale of the Qing army even declined to the point where they were unable to launch another large-scale offensive against Shenzhou City in a short period of time.
With such depleted morale and such a chaotic army, how can they resist Li Zicheng's army that is about to rush out of Jingxingkou?
The great history has finally turned a corner, and victory has been unmistakably guaranteed by Li Laiheng in the hands of Dashun. Shenzhou is not the Shanhaiguan of Dashun. Shenzhou has become the Hengyang, Xiamen and Guilin of Huang Taiji. Mopan Mountain stands tall.
Whether Wu Sangui or Hong Chengchou, these people failed to sell their dignity, nation and country at a good price after all - they can no longer sell their nation!
The generals in Shenzhou City, including Liu Fangliang, seemed to be eager to prepare for a triumphal celebration banquet. The common people also put aside their worries for the past few days, and many people gathered around the commander's residence.
Nearby, I wanted to pay my respects to the glorious faces of Li Suihou and Liu Cihou.
The soldiers on the city wall did not relax easily, and Li Weiqun was still guarding the city. Guo Sheng, the general of the Shun army who had recently entered the city, also led a group of infantry to the city wall of Shenzhou City to strengthen the defense. There were also
Li Shiwei, the hero who defended the city, spent a lot of energy adjusting the positions of the defenders' artillery groups so that the Dashun Army's heavy artillery units could exert greater power.
"It's impregnable!" Li Laiheng couldn't help but sigh.
Fang Yiren was the last person to come to the commander's palace. He had just followed his half "disciple" Li Shiwei to help adjust the array of the Shenzhou defenders' artillery group. Because the walls of Shenzhou City had been severely damaged before.
In order to destroy the houses, Fang Yiren also used his expertise in handling chores and quickly organized a large number of Shenzhou residents with high emotions to demolish a number of uninhabited houses because their owners died in the war, and then used these building materials to start repairing the city defenses.
He organized militiamen to build towers, build wooden fences, and place deer antlers at the gaps in the city wall. In some areas that were easy for the enemy to break through, Fang Yiren also proposed to dig another layer of trenches behind the battle line as a buffer.
His arrangements were all on point. Even Liu Fangliang praised Fang Yiren after seeing it. Although he was a scholar, his ability to handle military affairs was as good as any general in the Dashun Army.
"Mr. Leshan is really as capable as Zhuge Liang!"
Fang Yiren gently shook the folding fan as always. He originally wanted to decline with a smile and accept the compliments that made him feel like a breeze. However, he suddenly remembered that when he coordinated the defenders to repair the city defenses, the Qing army launched several harassment attacks.
The attacks were very weak, but there was a little bit of disharmony in the middle, which made Fang Yiren deeply puzzled.
He thought about this and saw that Li Shiwei had also returned to the handsome manor, so he raised the issue again:
"General Li, it seems that all the soldiers and horses of the Qing army attacking the city are Han people? It's strange. If the Qing army really regards Shenzhou as a thorn in its side, it will break through Shenzhou City at all costs. How come it has reached this point, or is it still the same as before?
Han soldiers were the main force, and there was no large-scale deployment of Eight Banners soldiers to attack the city?"
"Well……"
Li Shiwei had never thought about this problem, but he also felt that it was not a big deal, so he replied: "The siege troops will definitely consume a lot of money. Maybe the Donglu cherish the Eight Banners' troops, so they don't want to invest too much? I listen to you.
As Hou said, when you were fighting in the field at Nirvana Pass, you encountered many Eight Banners soldiers, right?"
Fang Yiren slowly narrowed his eyes: "The Qing army used Han soldiers as the main force to attack the city, and Manchurians as the main force to fight in the field... From this point of view, the Qing army believed that field warfare was higher than siege. If this is the case, why should they always surround Shenzhen?
The state will not let go? How about making a posture of never giving up until the state is deep?"
Fang Yiren's question didn't attract much attention at first, but slowly and soon Li Laiheng also noticed something was wrong.
When Li Laiheng continued to think along Fang Yiren's words, a terrible fact slowly surfaced.
"No matter what posture the Qing army assumes, what determines the main and secondary targets of the Qing army must be the deployment of troops. The place where Han soldiers are deployed must be the secondary target of the Qing army, and the place where Manchu soldiers are deployed,
It must be the main target of the Qing army."
Everyone was stunned, and Liu Fangliang also said in shock: "How is that possible? The Qing army's primary target is obviously Shenzhou."
Therefore, the way to use military force is to show it with softness, and then use hardness to meet it; to show it with weakness, and to take advantage of it with strength; to respond to it with 歙, and to respond to it with tension; to show it to the east when it desires the west.
"Huang Taiji went to Zhending at this time? No, it's impossible. There are still 20,000 defenders in Zhending, and Zhending is a big city. Huang Taiji is rushing to Zhending from the vicinity of Shenzhou, and there is absolutely no trace of it.
It is possible that the city will be broken before the main force of the Dashun army leaves Jingxing!
So Huang Taiji was going to Jingxing Pass to block the main force of the Dashun Army? But the Qing army had already wasted so much time under Shenzhou City. If Huang Taiji's purpose was to block Jingxing Pass, why would he waste his time here?
Zhending and Jingxingguan, no matter which one Huang Taiji’s real goal is, there is no need for him to fight this battle under Shenzhou City!"
Li Laiheng's doubts were also everyone's doubts, but Fang Yiren put forward another terrible guess:
"What if Donglu... what if Huang Taiji's goal is neither Zhending nor Jingxing, but the nearly 100,000 main troops of Dashun Army?"
Fang Yiren quickly opened the map. He explored every stronghold of the Dashun Army in Hebei, and seemed to have finally discovered something:
"Dashun's advantage in Hebei is that it has a series of Heshuo cities as strongholds. After the Taiyuan army left Jingxing, relying on these key points and the soldiers and horses of the palace master and Liu Shuai, even if the field battle was unfavorable, they could retreat and defend the city.
Even if they were defeated, the Qing army would not be able to annihilate the main force of the Dashun Army... Moreover, Zhending originally had 40,000 troops. After joining Taiyuan's 100,000 troops, the Qing army would definitely not be 100% sure of victory.
So, what if Huang Taiji’s real goal was not to fight for one city or one place, but to annihilate the main force of the Dashun Army from the beginning? Without this battle in Shenzhou, the Zhending garrison would not have been weakened
After Taiyuan's 100,000-strong army came out of Jingxingguan, they relied on Zhending's 40,000 defenders to attack from inside and outside. Even if Huang Taiji had 200,000 people, there would be some miscellaneous Ming troops who made up the numbers. They might not be able to win. Even if they defeated our army, they would not be able to win.
It is difficult to eliminate the main force of our army.
Now the water transport is still cut off by the Shun army, and the Donglu occupy the capital, and at the same time they bear the burden of a million people in the capital. Liaodong, Beijing, and Datong are simply unable to support an army of hundreds of thousands.
If the main force of the Dashun Army is not eliminated, the Qing army can confidently move south to open up water transportation; without opening up water transportation, even if the Qing army achieves a certain victory, it will be trapped in itself and die over time."
Fang Yiren put the map aside and looked extremely serious: "The Zhending garrison has been weakened to 20,000 people, and the Taiyuan reinforcements number between 90,000 and 100,000. If King Chuang...if your Majesty receives another Qing army
With the news of the setback under Shenzhou City, the Dashun Army is optimistic, but it is likely that they will face a huge gamble from Huang Taiji!
Huang Taiji does not want to win, but to achieve an unprecedented victory... How many Qing troops are there outside the city now? How many of them are the main force of the Qing army, and how many of them are Ming troops? Maybe our army was happy late last night
During the Qing Dynasty, or even earlier, the Qing army had already begun to take action."