It should be said that the Qing army is indeed a powerful army. The Qing Dynasty, which now only occupies a corner of North China, also has the atmosphere of founding a new dynasty.
Although Bolo's father Abatai has lost power, he himself is highly regarded by Huang Taiji and is still a royal family member of the Aixinjueluo family. He even shot Li Zicheng to death in the Battle of Huolu. It can be said that he has a bright future.
At this critical moment of the war, with his noble status as the Prince of Boluo Duanzhong, he was not afraid of risking his life at all, and decided to take the lead in the attack on the city at the risk of the stone.
Of course, the siege battle was very fierce, and corpses fell down from the city walls from time to time. There were soldiers from the Qing army and soldiers from the Shun army. On several occasions when the defenders were about to lose their support, Ren Jirong personally led his guards to kill them and stabilized them with his own hands.
Stay on the defensive line.
Boluo selected a hundred of the most elite and skilled guards from the Qing army, and also selected hundreds of useful soldiers from the collected Han troops.
He ordered Mandahai to display all the gold and silver treasures that had been obtained after the Qing army issued a beheading order and massacre. The Hongyi cannon was not convenient to carry, but Boluo did not forget to bring the white silver.
Several boxes of silver were opened by Mandahai, and the display of jewels and jewels made the Han soldiers feel hot in their bellies.
Boluo added: "Chuang Ni was chasing stolen goods for payment in Shandong, and tortured the gentry. It is said that he has plundered 70 million taels of silver. As long as we capture Liaocheng, we can get at least several million taels of silver. I will not take any of these silvers.
Whoever grabs it belongs to whoever grabs it.”
Man Dahai also raised his mace and shouted: "Kill all the evildoers! Break the city and steal silver!"
The Manchurian guards were all calm and did not speak. However, the other Han soldiers who were carefully selected by Boluo were very excited. They all started making noises and were determined to follow Prince Duanzhong to attack the city and steal money.
Bolo nodded with satisfaction. He wore three layers of armor, but he was worried that when he reached the city wall, the armor would be too bulky and inconvenient to fight, so he took off another piece of armor.
"Mandahai, I will leave the army to your command. If something happens to me, you should not hesitate to withdraw your troops and return to the daimyo immediately. Do you understand?"
Bolo vowed to conquer Liaocheng even to the death. He was very determined and the words he spoke were almost like his last words. Man Dahai carefully received the military order, knowing that in the current decisive battle between Qingshun and Qingshun, every Manchu soldier was very important.
Bolo led a hundred Manchu guards and hundreds of other elite Han soldiers to attack the city, but the defenders were also tenacious. Many of Ren Jirong's men were Mao Hulu soldiers from Henan. The Mao Hulu soldiers were originally from the late Yuan Dynasty.
The local armed forces recruited by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty to suppress the Red Turban Army were called the Hairy Gourd Army because the local villagers used animal skins to make quivers, which looked furry and resembled gourds in shape.
The development of the Mao Hulu Army was because the Mao Hulu Army was recruited by the Yuan government to suppress the rebel armies. Therefore, with the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mao Hulu Army, which was used to suppress various rebel armies, also collapsed for a time.
However, due to the nature of this armed force being recruited from local areas, it did not perish. From the early Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, the Mao Hulu Army became a local armed group composed mainly of vagrants, active in old mines deep in the mountains.
The Mao Hulu Army is mainly distributed in the western region of Henan and Henan, which connects the three provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei. It is mostly mountainous and has complex terrain. The imperial court's control over mountainous areas is relatively weak, and the people in the mountainous areas have developed a tough style in the harsh environment.
The Mao Hulu Army, formed from this source of troops, fought extremely fiercely and bravely.
The Mao Hulu Army was originally composed of Orion mountain people in the late Yuan Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, more miners were added, as well as local ordinary farmers, so its composition was relatively mixed. It had also fought with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other tribes many times before.
The rebel army fights.
Later, with the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's rule in Henan, most of the Mao Hulu soldiers joined Chuangying and became part of the Dashun Army.
Mao Gourd Soldiers are good at using spears and bows in combat, especially their accurate arrow skills. Most of the pro-army guards around Ren Jirong were Mao Gourd Soldiers. When Bolo personally led his troops to the city, these pro-army soldiers used exquisite arrows.
One by one, Fa Yi killed the Manchurian guards who were extremely skilled in martial arts by name.
Ren Jirong's brother Ren Guangrong also saw many elite soldiers wearing heavy armor suddenly appearing among the enemy's siege troops. He also saw Bolo, whose armor was luxurious and he could tell at a glance that he was a general.
"This person must be General Donglu!"
Ren Guangrong spotted Bolo's figure, he set up his bow and arrow, and used the poison-coated arrows commonly used by the Mao Gourd Soldiers. Once hit, Bolo would be killed or disabled.
In order to cover Ren Guangrong's attack and open up a firing range for him, other soldiers of the Shun army guarded the crenellations of the city wall. Many people set up their spears and moved forward fiercely, trying to drive away the protecting soldiers around Bolo.
"middle!"
Ren Guangrong saw the opportunity and let go of the arrow. The arrow penetrated Bolo's chest accurately. At such a short distance, Ren Guangrong used another heavy arrow. The arrow was very likely to be able to penetrate two layers of armor.
, gave Bolo a fatal blow.
But it was too late for Ren Guangrong to confirm his victory. New sounds of fighting suddenly came from below the city wall. Hundreds of Qing soldiers who had previously hidden in the city untied all their turbans and attacked the city gate defenders from behind.
It would have been impossible for more than a hundred people to rob the city gate controlled by the Shun army, but at this time the battle on the city wall had reached the most critical moment. Brothers Ren Jirong and Ren Guangrong had sent all available troops to the city wall, neglecting to guard the rear of the city gate.
Defense.
After the soldiers of the Qing army succeeded, they immediately pushed open the city gate. Duke Mandahai was overjoyed:
"Hurry into the city and leave no chickens or dogs behind!"
There were a total of more than 10,000 Qing troops outside the city, but they were restricted by the city wall and could not exert their full strength advantage. Now they cooperated inside and outside to control a gate in Liaocheng, and their strength advantage was immediately revealed, and a large number of Qing troops poured in one after another.
Enter the city.
Ren Jirong suddenly felt dizzy and his head was spinning. Was the glorious history of Zhongying going to be destroyed by his own hands?
The Qing soldiers who sneaked into the city launched an attack from the rear, and the Dashun defenders were attacked from both sides. The number of enemy ambush troops was very small, but the situation was chaotic at this time. Ren Jirong could not judge how many enemy troops there were, and the other soldiers became even more panicked.
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Ren Guangrong had just shot Bolo with an arrow. He didn't know yet whether he had shot this Qing general who seemed to have a very high status. He didn't have time to confirm the result, so he hurriedly turned to the city gate in the hope of blocking it.
A large number of Qing troops attacked from both inside and outside.
Ren Guangrong threw aside his bow and arrow, and jumped into the enemy jungle with a sword and cards in hand. He was a guard in Nanyang before joining the invasion army. His social status was not low and he could be regarded as a middle-level officer. It was just because his younger brother Ren Jirong had surrendered.
After breaking into the camp, he participated in the rebel activities.
"Ha! Brother, retreat to the inner city. There is still a chance to defend the inner city wall!"
The outer wall of Liaocheng was built by Chen Yong, the commander of the Dongchang Guards in the fifth year of Hongwu. The top is two feet wide, the base is three feet thick, and the depth is two feet. The inner wall is made of Sanhe soil and the outer wall is built with giant masonry. On the city gate
A gate tower was built, and the four gate towers of the Wengcheng were built with double eaves.
In the seventh year of Wanli, Liaocheng built another 27 watchtowers and more than 2,700 crenellations. However, at this time, Wangyue Tower in the northeast of the city wall and Luyun Tower in the northwest had fallen one after another, and the situation was critical and almost uncontrollable.
Already.
Ren Guangrong rushed into the ranks of the Qing army with a sword and cards in his hand and fought hard to resist. Most of the soldiers around him had been killed in the battle. The corpses fell outward in a semicircle shape. No one died with his back to the enemy.
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Ren Guangrong urgently urged his brother Ren Jirong to retreat to the inner city. The inner city wall was built during the Song Dynasty. It was smaller in scale than the Liaocheng city wall in the Ming Dynasty. It was an earthen wall and much lower. It had been abandoned for many years.
But now that low and thin earth wall has become the Dashun Army's last resort in defending Liaocheng.
Ren Jirong was unwilling to leave alone, so the soldiers on his left and right had to pick up the commander and carry him into the city. He watched his brother's figure gradually being submerged in the crowd of the Qing army's siege troops, and his eyes could not help but shed tears:
"Brother! I'm sorry for you!"
Ren Guangrong didn't say anything more. He didn't have much obsession with the Ming Dynasty, Shun Dynasty, or Qing Dynasty. When he joined the camp as a guard who had just broken out of Shangluo Mountain, it was entirely to take good care of his younger brother.
Ren Jirong.
Now that I can protect my family and brothers again, my life is not in vain.
What's more, Ren Guangrong believes that with Ren Jirong's ability, he will be able to hold on to Liaocheng until reinforcements come to save him. Therefore, his sacrifice is completely valuable. When Ren Jirong draws Ling Yan in the future, the lintel of the Ren family will naturally shine. Ren Guangrong has always wanted to
The ideal of taking good care of your brothers and wanting them to grow up and be successful will of course come true.
In terms of martial arts, Ren Guangrong was no match for the elite Manchurian guards. He held his horse-cutting sword in front of him, and blood was flowing from the wounds on his body. Ren Guangrong knew that he might not be able to withstand the attacks of several Manchurian soldiers.
But when he saw that Ren Jirong and another group of defenders who maintained organization and discipline had not completely retreated to the abandoned earth wall of the Song Dynasty, he took the initiative to step forward and devoted his life's martial arts to contain the Qing army's onslaught.
A Manchurian guard threw a noose and quickly dragged Ren Guangrong to the ground. Several Han soldiers rushed forward and stabbed Ren Guangrong with countless sharp knives at the same time.
He took a breath and vomited out large mouthfuls of blood. From the corner of his eye, he saw that his brother had withdrawn into the earthen wall, and he finally felt relieved.