Jiang Quan's general Niu Guangtian and others also went to the city to fight. In addition, two civil servants, Han Wenquan, the Shanxi Jiedu envoy of the Dashun Dynasty, and Li Ruoxing, the direct commander of Shanxi, also put on their military uniforms and ran to the city wall to fight.
This is not because of how brave they are, but because Chen Yongfu, the president of all military affairs in Taiyuan, has given a death order. All officials with hands and feet, except those who cannot go to the front line because of handling military affairs and food, others, etc., no matter you
Regardless of whether they were defense envoys or state shepherds, they all went to the city wall to fight with the soldiers.
Even if he is too old to fight, he must still appear on the front line to boost the morale of the defenders.
Li Yukui was originally the governor of Ningxia in the Ming Dynasty. After he became an official, he returned to his hometown in Pinglu. The reason why he is still in Taiyuan and still in the Dashun Army is because Li Yukui's hometown is still under the occupation of the Shun Army.
Because he is one of the most prestigious gentry leaders in Shanxi, he was forced by Chen Yongfu to patrol the city wall at this time. At least the Taiyuan militiamen who were temporarily recruited must see Li Yukui's figure. After all, the local indigenous people are more powerful than others.
Given the prestige of the Dashun Dynasty, it is still more trustworthy to celebrities like Li Yukui who are well-known in Shanxi.
It was also during the process of going up the city wall that Li Yukui felt the "new dynasty atmosphere" of Dashun. The steps on the city wall were all lined up with soldiers taking turns going up in order, especially the elite soldiers from the palace army brought by Yuan Shitai, many of whom
Still wearing a black and white feather helmet, he is obviously a soldier of the Habayashi Army.
Although the number of soldiers in the Dashun garrison was not as large as that of the attacking Qing army outside the city, the fighting spirit and enthusiasm of the soldiers attracted Li Yukui's attention more than the enemy's offensive.
When Li Yukui was the governor of Ningxia in the northwest, his political reputation was pretty good. Many of the Dashun troops were from the northwest, and some of them were Ningxia border residents who knew Li Yukui. They lined up to meet Li Yukui who walked up the city wall to fight.
The bow made Li Yukui feel a new temperament that was completely different from the Ming army in the past.
The Qing army used Hongyi artillery to bombard the city gates again, causing many city walls to collapse. The Mongolian soldiers seized the opportunity and rushed in through the gaps in the city wall. This was a tried-and-tested method of siege by the Qing army, but they had already encountered difficulties in Taiyuan City.
After many failures, this time will be no exception.
Jiang Yu's general Niu Guangtian is a hair protector who escaped from Datong. He actually has no special sense of loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, Dashun or the Ming Dynasty. Basically, he is the type who will fight with whoever gives him food.
General general.
However, the Qing army wanted to operate on Niu Guangtian's hair and various living habits. They also made it clear that they wanted to force you to rebel so that they could take away your family property.
This is too much.
You must know that although the Dashun Army also engages in collecting stolen goods for payment, and will also use clamps and sticks to torture and plunder, after all, it will not completely take away all your family property. Moreover, most of the recovery of stolen goods and payment and torture are aimed at civil servants and gentry classes, and cattle.
It doesn't matter to frontier generals like Guangtian.
Whether from a moral point of view or from a personal interest point of view, Niu Guangtian chose to follow his old boss Jiang Quan to join Dashun.
He and Liu Qian, the admiral of Shanxi who is currently with the Qing army, were very familiar with each other in the past and could be regarded as old friends. Niu Guangtian knew that even if Liu Qian made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty and was a high-ranking official like the admiral of Shanxi, in fact,
I also had a very unhappy time.
After all, Liu Qian is a Han. Not only is he not a Manchu, but he is not even a bannerman. Even if he has made special achievements, he is still regarded differently by Dorgon. When Ye Chen was the coach of Shanxi before, because Ye Chen
They valued Liu Qian's understanding of Shanxi's geography and people, and also valued the powerful Xuanda border army in his hands, so he treated Liu Qian relatively favorably.
But now the powerful and powerful Prince Zheng Jierhalang took over the position of head coach of the capital commander Ye Chen. It is true that Jierhalang was a serious person, but he was indeed quite bullying and disdainful of Liu Qian.
Not to mention the Manchurian soldiers brought by Jierhalang to Shanxi. These people simply regarded the soldiers of the Xuan Da Frontier Army as slaves. The first thing they did when they arrived at the front line in Taiyuan was to use their own strength to get from Beijing.
The mules and horses brought were exchanged for the warlike horses of the Xuan Da border army, and many Jin soldiers who had shaved their heads came to join the army.
Niu Guangtian went south relatively late, and he was very familiar with the discrimination and bullying of Han soldiers by the bannermen within the Qing army in Shanxi. Therefore, after he arrived in Taiyuan, he felt the dignity and comfort of general generals under the Dashun Youwu policy.
When the Dashun army received food and generals on time, and the soldiers got along relatively cordially, they immediately concluded that the Qing army would be defeated and Dashun would win.
With this belief, when the walls of Taiyuan City collapsed and the Eight Banners soldiers swarmed in, Niu Guangtian, as an old tribe general of Jiang Yu who had recently surrendered to Dashun, had the confidence and courage to rush out alone.
If it were in the past when he was in the Ming army, Niu Guangtian would never have dared to do this. Even if he was charging, he would have to be accompanied by his trusted direct family members.
But after Hufa fled south, where did Niu Guangtian have any servants left?
When he rushed forward alone, the ones who had hope and confidence were not his own servants, but Dashun's friendly troops. They were the soldiers who were not his subordinates. After Niu Guangtian got to know him during this period of time in Taiyuan, of course he
I believe that when I take the lead in the charge, the other soldiers who are not part of my subordinates will definitely follow suit.
Niu Guangtian is not alone.
There were many people who had the same idea as him, including Yuan Cong from the Dashun Army, Chen Yongfu's old subordinates, elite soldiers from the Yulin Army brought by Yuan Shitai, and other generals from Jiang Yu's tribe.
Everyone took the initiative to block the gap in the collapsed city wall, and the generals took the lead in rushing out. The remaining soldiers did not shrink back. The remaining soldiers were not even because of the exemplary role of the generals and officers, but because they had the ability to do so.
With a strong attacking spirit that keeps moving forward.
The soldiers of the Dashun Army blocked several gaps created by the collapse of the city wall like a human wall, resisting the attack of the Eight Banners soldiers. In such a dense flow of people, superb martial arts and extraordinary bravery were of little use.
, everyone has experienced what it means to be "no eyesight".
The sword pierced through the dense crowd, blood flowed endlessly, and corpses were piled up layer by layer.
Jiang Quan was very shocked. He had been in Datong border for so many years and had fought many big and small battles, but this was the first time he had seen such a fierce and bloody scene.
Not to mention Jiang Quan, even Chen Yongfu and Marshal Chen have witnessed many of the most fierce and intense battles since the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, and have even personally defeated the Qing army several times.
However, when he witnessed the fierce battle at the gap in the Taiyuan city wall, he was amazed several times in succession, praising the bravery of Shanxi soldiers and civilians.
Jierhalang, Prince Zheng of the Qing Dynasty, who was directing the siege outside the city, was very angry. He had already lost to Li Laiheng once in Shenzhou, and his reputation as a respected and virtuous king was greatly affected.
Jierhalang was counting on being able to capture Taiyuan with a fierce offensive this time when he was on his own in Shanxi. However, he did not expect that he would encounter a city that was probably the most well-defended and effectively defended in the history of the Dashun Army.
"Prince Rui is about to cross the Yellow River south. We must capture Taiyuan and protect the flanks of the Qing army...otherwise things will be in trouble!"
Ye Chen also looked solemn. Although Ye Chen was only the commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners, his status was far inferior to that of Jierhalang. But compared to Jierhalang who seemed old and procrastinating in using troops, Ye Chen's military talent was actually more significant.
He knew that after Jierhalang arrived in Shanxi, the reason why he immediately changed the Qing army's siege tactics and captured Taiyuan at all costs was to eliminate the protrusion in Shanxi and cover the main force of Dorgon's southern expedition.
Ye Chen quite agrees with this strategic goal itself, but Taiyuan is a majestic city. Although the Eight Banners Army has Hongyi artillery, its manpower is limited. To attack the city, it still needs to borrow the power of the Xuanda border army. Therefore, Ye Chen is very interested in Jierha. Lang was quite dissatisfied with how he bullied and insulted Liu Qian and other Jin generals, especially the Manchu soldiers brought by Jierharang, who unscrupulously snatched the Jin soldiers' good horses. As far as Ye Chen knew, even Liu Qian's own All the mounts were taken away by the Manchu soldiers.