Chapter 31 Kill Daishan first, and then kill Dorgon!

The rows of Tartar cavalry in the front of the opposite formation were swept across the sky. The cavalry behind saw that the people in front were dead and did not dare to directly attack the enemy formation, and they all merged into the cavalry next to them.

Then, along the gap between the square formations, they rushed into the Tiancheng Army’s muskets phalanx. The Tartar cavalry on the periphery detoured the sides and planned to attack back and forth.

From the outside, it seems like the Tartar cavalry completely surrounded these square formations.

At this time, on the top of Baoding City, Jia Lian was observing the Tartar camp in the north, as if he didn't care about the battle situation in the south at all.

The messenger came to report: "Marson, General Liu's troops have been surrounded by 60,000 cavalry of the Tartars!"

Hearing this news, Jia Lian smacked his lips and said, "This Dorgon is really sinister, it's just a chain of plans!"

At this time, Jia Lian had already judged Dorgon's plan based on the movements of the Tartars on the battlefield in the south and the movements in the Tartar camp in the north.

After thinking for a while, Jia Lian said, "Tell Li Tai that he would send 500 cavalrymen to run south with the flag of our Tiancheng Army, then put away the flag and retreat, then rush to the south with the flag, and run five rounds in a row!"

Zhang Yao, who was standing beside him, said in confusion: "Marson, what are you doing?"

Jia Lian put down his telescope and said lightly: "Dorgon has so many tricks. I just want me to divide his troops to rescue Liu Cheng. Then I will pretend to divide his troops to satisfy Dorgon's wish!"

"What do you mean is that Dorgon will come directly to attack Baoding City?"

Jia Lian nodded and said, "That's right, Dorgon has never attacked Baoding City head-on. In his opinion, I will definitely feel that he will not attack from the front. In order to rescue the besieged Liu Cheng's troops, he will inevitably draw troops from Baoding City to reinforce. Taking advantage of the empty troops, he will inevitably lead his army to attack!"

"But our Baoding City is so strong, why should he think he can defeat it?"

"Who said he must be defeated? If we really send troops to reinforce and Dorgon comes to attack the city again, we will be in a dilemma. Either withdraw the reinforcements and horses and he can eat Liu Cheng's third army and capture the southeast camp. If he does not return to the rescue, he will attack Baoding City and chew it down with a force of 400,000 troops!"

"I understand. We just pretended to be Dorgon's plan and asked him to take the initiative to attack. Let's kill them hard!"

Jia Lian rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "Dorgon's plan is very deep, but unfortunately, he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Third Legion!"

Soon, five hundred cavalrymen left Baoding City.

In order to pretend to be more similar, they also tied brooms to their ponytails and raised large swaths of smoke and dust.

During this period, the flag of the Tiancheng Army appeared and disappeared, as if a large number of soldiers were really coming out from the south of the city to reinforce the surrounded Third Legion.

The scouts of the Tartars were closely following the movements of the Tiancheng Army. Seeing the Tiancheng Army constantly gushing out of Baoding City and raising a large area of ​​smoke and dust, these news soon came to Dorgon.

"Your Majesty, what I saw with my own eyes, the fourth wave of Ming troops had just arrived from Baoding City and headed to the southeast to reinforce the 30,000 to 40,000 Ming troops besieged by Prince Li!"

"Report to the emperor, the fifth wave of reinforcements from the Ming army left the city, with a force of about 10,000 people!"

Upon hearing this news, Dorgon slapped his thighs excitedly, stood up and said, "Very good, Jia Lian has indeed fallen into the trap!"

"Tell me my will, and all the troops will attack the city with all their might!

More than 400,000 Tartars in the camp were dispatched together, and they suddenly felt like the earth was shaking.

A large number of siege equipment such as siege vehicles, shield vehicles, trenchers, red-clothed cannons were all moved out.

These Tartars were arranged to their respective positions according to their different types of troops, with heavy armored infantry in front, and spearmen in the back, archers and a small number of musketeers behind.

The cavalry was surrounded by the battlefield, the artillery was located on both wings, and there were hundreds of large trenchers.

These catapults were not intended to fight against the artillery of the Tiancheng Army. Even though the catapults were the peak of long-range weapons in the era of cold weapons, they were not worth mentioning in front of artillery.

Their function is to cooperate with infantry and landfill the moat.

With a command, the Tartars pushed thousands of shield chariots and advanced towards the city of Baoding.

These shield cars are actually installed in front of the four-wheel flatbed wooden car, and a large wooden board is used as a shield, and the shield is covered with a layer of iron and cowhide.

Used to resist the musketeers of the Tiancheng Army and provide cover for infantry pushing carts.

There were more than a dozen sacks on the shield cart. The Tartars only needed to push the shield cart forward, come to the moat, throw sandbags filled with sand into the river, even if they completed a mission.

Despite the shield chariot protection, the Tiancheng Army not only had muskets but also cannons. Such a dangerous job was of course the most suitable for the second Tartars on the Han army flag.

Teams of Tartar cavalry followed behind the shield chariots, first to provide cover for them to prevent the Tiancheng Army cavalry from taking the opportunity to go out of the city to attack, second to guide the way for the two Tartars who were pushing the shield chariots. The large shield in front of the shield chariots could protect them, but also cover them up.

"Boom!!!"

When these shield cars entered a distance of 500 steps, the cannons on the city wall opened fire.

Shield chariots were constantly hit by shells, smashing the shield and then smashing the Tartars behind them.

However, there were too many shield cars. Even though the artillery kept firing, half of them successfully arrived at the moat and threw the sandbag into the moat with the continuous fire.

Immediately, the two Tartars stopped for a moment and ran back with their shield carts.

During this period, the Tatars' trencher also began to work and shot out sandbags.

This thing requires dozens of Tartars to control it, and the sandbags thrown out have no accurate lead. They can only throw the sandbags to a rough range, but the advantage is to send them from a long distance and do not need to get close to the moat.

But then, these catapults became targets of Tiancheng Army, and shells roared towards the catapults.

Although it was far apart, the great power of the Napoleon cannon was now reflected very strongly. As long as you get a shot, these catapults will be unable to be used again.

Moreover, the wood chips produced by the shells hit the catapult were like fragments, and they were spread to the surrounding Tartars who controlled the catapult.

These wood chips have high kinetic energy. Although they cannot kill them in one blow, they will hurt enough to penetrate the body.

The worst thing is that he was hit on the face by a large piece of wood chips, and blood was flowing, and he was in pain, but he would not die immediately because of this, and he would feel more and more painful. He kept rolling on the ground and screaming, making others feel numb in scalp.

Dorgon saw these things. In order to capture Baoding City and annihilate the Tiancheng Army, the army that poses the greatest threat to the Qing Dynasty, these losses are worth it.

Finally, after running back and forth for more than ten times, the catapult was almost completely destroyed, and nearly 20,000 Tartars who were carrying sandbags were killed or injured, they finally stared at the artillery fire of the Tiancheng Army and filled the moat.

Although Dorgon was bleeding in his mind, these were worth it to him. He had already paid too much to capture Baoding City and annihilate Tiancheng.

At this moment, he was like a gambler who lost money, and his capital was borrowed.

If you stop, the losses will not be compensated and the debt will not be paid. At that time, not to mention that the Tiancheng Army can destroy them, even other internal factions can eat him raw Dorgon.

All he could do was to go all the way to the dark and continue to bet. Only in this way would he have a chance to make a comeback.

"The whole army attacks and captures Baoding City"!"

"Those who capture or kill Jia Lian alive will be granted a king and will be rewarded with two million taels of silver!"

"The three generals with the greatest military achievements are the king and rewarded with one million taels of silver!"

"Scapture and kill the enemy's legion-level generals, be granted the Duke, and reward 500,000 taels of silver!"

"Search and kill the enemy's military division-level general, be granted a marquis, and be rewarded with 200,000 taels of silver!"

Dorgon shouted the reward order, and even the captain and killing the Tiancheng Army could be awarded the third-class light chariot commander.

When hundreds of thousands of Tartars heard these rewards, they all rushed to the city as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Even if you just kill a local boss, you can become a nobleman, and you have never had such a good opportunity.

For most Tartars, they dared not think about the commanders of the legion and division level commanders, but they still had some thoughts about the commanders of the 250 people.

Seeing the Tartars making a big move and pounced towards Baoding City like a tide, Jia Lian couldn't suppress his excitement and shouted: "Zhang Yao, drag my Yidaili cannon out!"

All the cannons were pulled out and were quickly arranged in place, aiming at the Tartars a mile away.

"fire!"

At Zhang Yao's order, three hundred cannons opened fire one after another.

"Boom!!!"

After a moment, the sound of thunder-like cannons shook the entire battlefield.

What made the siege of Tartars a little strange was that they did hear a large number of gunfire and also saw the fire on the top of the city. Why didn't the smoke rise?

Moreover, those solid shells with large bowls can be captured by the naked eye on weekdays, but why can't the shells be shot this time?

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly, a loud bang rang out from the crowd, and a large area of ​​Tartars around the shells fell.

The scene was in a mess, and several Tartars were even directly overturned into the air by the explosion shock wave, and then fell heavily.

There were even broken limbs and broken arms, flying several feet away, and the arrows in the arrow bag, crushed armor, and broken weapons were scattered all over the ground.

This is the record of a shell. At least fifteen Tartars died, and more than a dozen were injured and not killed.

However, this amount was not much for the total military force of the Tartars, and soon the Tartars rushed up.

They were like dense ant colonies, and they didn't care about these fallen comrades and continued to rush forward.

The rewards Dorgon made every Tartar go crazy. These Tartars became puppets who were ignorant of fear under the temptation of huge rewards.

"Boom!!!"

"boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

However, just now, it was just the effect of the first shell explosion, and then shells kept exploding among the Tartar crowd.

As the shells continued to land, the number of casualties of the Tartars continued to rise.

Each shell killed at least twenty Tartars and created a blank area in the middle of the dense Tartars.

But it was soon filled with the sky of the Tartars behind, as if just a small stone fell into the water, causing a splash of water, and then returned to peace.

After a short while, all three hundred shells exploded in the sunset and the number of casualties among the Tartars was more than 6,000.
To be continued...