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Chapter 24 Breakthrough (1)

Duoduo's troubles were no less than those of Zhang Tianfu, Zhang Tianlu and other traitors. Nearly 40,000 soldiers were lost at the city of Jinan. At present, the Guanning Army had already taken over, but Hu Shouliang, who was leading the army, was very treacherous. He seemed to have a huge attack, but he was completely unable to do his work. When he reached the attack range at the top of the city, he returned. If it weren't for Wu Sangui's sake, he would have hoped to push Hu Shouliang out and behead him.

Although most of the losses were the recruited Ming army troops, the main force of the Eight Banners only lost hundreds of people, if this continues, he has to send the main force of the Eight Banners to attack the city. Otherwise, if all the surrendered Han troops are fought, no one will dare to surrender again in the future.

Looking at the layers of corpses under the city, Duofeng felt a headache. The Eight Banners were the foundation of the Qing Dynasty and could not cause too much damage. However, it was impossible to give up Jinan City. If he led more than 100,000 troops back without success, not to mention that his status would be lost, even the status of the Regent would be shaken.

This Jinan city is like a hedgehog. If he bites it, it will immediately make blood flow, but he doesn't want to give up.

"Report, Prince, the artillery battalion report, the red-clothed cannon has no shells and can no longer be fired."

"I understand, go down." Duofeng said expressionlessly. If Ajige had changed to a bad temper, the servant who had just reported the news would inevitably be whipped.

The Qing army's artillery went from sparse to completely stopping, and only the sound of Ming munitions was left on the top of the city. At first, the Ming army thought that the Qing army's artillery was just suspended. After a long time, the Qing army did not see the Qing army's artillery dropping. The Ming army immediately cheered. Without the interference of the Qing army's artillery, the civilians in the city could continuously transport various resources to the city to the city, and the city was almost relieved.

Huang Degong had a smile on his lips. It was impossible for the Tartars to produce shells with the army, but dozens of rounds could be added in the city every day. With this, at least before the Tartars transported the shells from Beijing, the advantage was in the hands of the Ming army.

Maybe he had a foreseeable feeling that the siege would return without success today, and the sound of the Qing army retreating began. The Qing army, who was sieging the city, quickly left the nightmare battlefield as if they were amnesty.

Just as the Ming army cheered on the city, a blood-stained general stumbled onto the city wall from the city. He was the general defending the gate of the Xicheng. When he saw Huang Degong, the general burst into tears: "Master, Xicheng is lost."

"Is Xicheng lost?" Huang Degong was stunned when he heard it. He didn't hear that the Tartars in Xicheng had siege. How could the Xicheng be lost: "What's going on?"

"It was Tian Xiong and Ma Degong. They opened the city gate and let the Tartars come in. General Wu refused to obey and had been killed by them. The last general was incompetent and could not stop him."

Tian Xiong and Ma Degong, Huang Degong's head almost exploded with a buzzing sound. His body shook several times. Several personal soldiers quickly supported Huang Degong. Yin Hongsheng heard clearly from the side and shouted: "Master, I'll go and kill these two traitors."

"Master, go quickly. Jinan can no longer hold on, and it is still time to leave now." The genius general advised.

Huang Degong pushed away the personal soldiers who were supporting him and looked up towards the west of the city. Although the distance was far, he could still circulate several smoke and dust above the west of the city. At a glance, he knew that the cavalry was rising. It seemed that what the general said was true, and the Qing army had indeed entered the city.

After decades of fighting in the world, Huang Degong had encountered the most dangerous situation. When he was a soldier, he dared to rush into the Tartar formation and kill two people in a row and return, and received a reward of fifty taels of silver. Now there are many enemies outside the city, and one city gate has been opened by the enemy, but his subordinates are still more than 20,000 soldiers.

"How many people have come in West City?"

"It seems that there are not many generals, only more than 2,000 people, but they are all cavalrymen. They all look like real Tartars. By the way, the last general seemed to see a team of reinforcements coming from the river on the city wall, with only dozens of boats and more than 1,000 people. The Tartars also divided some of them to deal with the reinforcements in the river, but they didn't know if the reinforcements were still there."

The reinforcements lit up in everyone's eyes, but when they heard that there were only more than a thousand people, their eyes darkened again. What's the use of more than a thousand reinforcements? Maybe the reinforcements have been wiped out now.

"I passed the orders of the commander of the two southeast gates to immediately notify the guards of the southeast gate to break out of the city, break through on their own, and then meet in Yanzhou Prefecture after breaking through."

"Yes." Several messengers hurried down.

"General Yin!"

"The last one will be here!"

"You stay here and destroy the artillery as fast as possible. After destroying the artillery, you can also break through by yourself. When the rest of the people go to Ximen with me, I want to see if the two bastards, Tian Xiong and Ma Degong, have the face to see me."

"Yes, I will obey the order." Yin Hongsheng bowed and walked down. His roar had already come: "Hurry up, demolish the artillery."

To demolish the artillery, you can only stuff an excessive amount of gunpowder into the barrel, seal it, and then occupy the fuse to make it explode. Fortunately, because there are a large number of muskets, there is no shortage of gunpowder in the city.

The order to retreat came, and the soldiers who were cheering for the retreating Qing army were silent for a moment, almost unable to believe their ears. When Tian Xiong and Ma Degong led the Qing army into the city, everyone started to curse, wishing they could catch the two of them and smash them into pieces.

The western city of Jinan was already in chaos. Duoduo said that he had not sealed his sword for three days after entering Jinan. The soldiers of Zhenghuang Banner had been suppressed for a long time. As soon as they entered the city, they immediately became vicious and galloped on the street. All the figures in their sight could not escape their pursuit. All kinds of crying and shouting were in chaos.

"Bang! Bang!"

A mess of gunfire came, Tan Tai tilted his head and couldn't help asking left and right: "Where did the musket sound come from?"

The Ming army in Xicheng had been chased by them long ago. If there was any gunshot, they should come from the front. How could he hear the gunshots seem to come from the rear?

"Military Gate, should I send someone to see it?" asked a side general.

The Ming army in the city is not small. Although Tan Tai entered the city, he did not want to fight with the Ming army head-on. So he deliberately rode a horse in the West City, intending to disrupt the morale of the Ming army. However, the gunfire came from behind at this time, but Tan Tai felt puzzled. The warriors of the Eight Banners never despised using firearms, and even the cannons were in the hands of the Han Eight Banners.

Tan Tai nodded, several Goshha shouted, turned his horse's head, and rushed towards the city gate.

Shortly after several Goshha went down, several rattled riders covered in dust and blood rushed towards Tan Tai. As soon as they stopped their horses, several people shouted in panic: "The military gate is not good, not good."

"What's so panicked?" Tan Tai asked unhappily. He had already recognized that these people were the cavalry who had been sent to the river beach to intercept the Ming army reinforcements. I believe that the Ming army has been eliminated now. Why are these people so panicked?

"Military Gate, Military Gate, Lord Tula was killed." Several cavalrymen cried and said it. They saw with their own eyes that Tulai had all been wiped out with 800 elite Zhenghuang Banners. They took a big turn before they dared to come over to report to Tan Tai.

"You are talking nonsense. I dare to spread the military information for falsely. I will kill you!" Tan Tai did not believe that Tu Lai was actually dead. Could it be that these guys were not protected by the unfavorable negligence that the Ming army succeeded in a sneak attack?

"Military, the slaves dare not tell lies. Lord Tu Lai and the eight hundred elite soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner were all killed."

"Haha, the dog slave, dares to make up such a lie, saying, are you being sold by Ming Dog?" Tan Tai's face was as heavy as water, and his hand was pressed on the hilt of the knife. Lord Tu Lai and the eight hundred Zheng Huangqi elites would be wiped out. He would not believe it anyway, unless the body was placed in front of him.

More than a dozen Goshhas also placed their hands on the weapons. As long as Tan Tai gave the order, they would cut the few slaves who were falsely circulating military information into pieces without hesitation.

"Military Gate, that's true. We dare not deceive the military Gate." Several cavalry cried, and it seemed that the scene of Tu Lai being left in front of them was another scene where only a few people were charging towards the Ming army.

Tan Tai was trembling with anger: "Okay, since you are stubborn, don't blame me for being rude and chopping them!"

"Yes." More than a dozen Goshha pulled out their weapons and slashed at several racists. Several racists opened their eyes wide and stared at Tan Tai with their eyes open. Every sentence they said was true, why did Tan Tai just not believe it? They forgot that even if what they said was true, the general died and escaped in the face of war, they should be executed.

The gunshots in the direction of the city gate became increasingly dense, and a trace of uneasiness flashed across Tan Tai's face. Could it be that Lord Tu Lai really happened and shook his head. How could this be possible? Even if he was surrounded by tens of thousands of Ming troops, Tu Lai could rush out with the eight hundred elite cavalry, let alone where did the Ming army get tens of thousands of people?

"Kill! Kill all the Tartars!" Yang Lin ordered loudly, directing the Yulin Guard to seize the high position.

After they wiped out Tu Lai, they hurriedly cleaned the battlefield and rushed towards the city gate. Unexpectedly, the Tartars had already taken the city gate. Tan Tai was too careless and allowed the city gate to open. Only a small team of soldiers were sent to guard the city gate. This team of men still had to support Tu Lai and the Qing army in the north city into the city, otherwise Tan Tai would not have sent this small team of men.

When Yang Lin and Bugalu brought their men to the city gate, the Qing soldiers guarding the city were stunned. They never thought that there would be a Ming army behind them. After reacting, the Qing army in this small group did not close the city gate, but launched a charge against Yang Lin and others.

On the battlefield, it was a common practice for the Qing army to win with the few, and they did not associate this Ming army with the Ming army coming from the river, thinking that it was just a remnant defeated soldier from somewhere. As soon as they rushed, these Ming troops would collapse.

The charge on the flat ground was much faster than the river beach. The Ming army fired only one shot, and the Qing army rushed to them. Although half of the Qing army was killed in the first round of guns, more than ten people rushed into the Ming army formation. After a series of slashes, the Ming army shot all the Qing army that rushed into the formation, but they also suffered more than ten casualties.
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