Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 163

When Li Taiping was making waves in northern Shaanxi, Shanxi in the neighboring province seemed to be boiling porridge.

Since the third day of December in the fifth year of Huaxing, Jiang Guan ordered to change his crown and clothes in Datong and raise the banner of anti-Tartar, and the heroes of Shanxi have responded.

The two counties of Shuozhou and Hunyuan depend on the transmission, and Wutai, Xinzhou, and Yu counties are all attached to Jiangguan.

Liu Qian and Lang Fang conspired in response to Liu Qian's claim to be General Zuo, and led his army to defeat Fanzhi in the east.Wutai Zhang Huanchu and Gao Shan also led the crowd to respond and surrendered to Liu Qian.Liu Qian and Lang Fang led more than ten thousand troops and stormed Daizhou.

In Lu'an Mansion, Hu Guoding called the commander in chief and built an army, attacking the city and pulling out the village all the way.

Chen Du, Zhang Douguang and others led troops to attack Zezhou Prefecture, conquered several cities, and occupied Zezhou Prefecture.

In Puzhou, Yu Yin, Han Zhaoxuan, and Li Qisheng also heard the news and responded. They established the King of Han privately and lived forever.

In this way, in a short period of time, Shanxi was full of wars and rebels everywhere.

After the Tartar court rebelled against Jiang Tuan, the regent Dorgon personally sent envoys to appease Jiang Tuan, but Jiang Tuan refused.

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, he sent Nikan, king of Jingjin County, and other troops into Shanxi.In February, Dorgon personally led the army to conquer Datong regardless of his physical discomfort.After conquering Hunyuan Prefecture, surrendering Yingzhou and Shanyin County, he suddenly received news from Beijing that his brother and mother, Prince Duoduo, who served as the assistant government of Deyu, had contracted smallpox and was in critical condition.Therefore, Dorgon returned to Beijing with no intention of fighting.Prince Azig of England and Prince Nikan of Jingjin were left behind to besiege Datong, and they sent Prince Duanzhong Boluo, Prince Chengze Shuosai, Prince Doro Mandahai, and Prince Doro Wakda to conquer all parts of Shanxi.

As a result, the war in Shanxi intensified.

Affected by the war in Shanxi, the Tazi court did not go south to wipe out the Yongli regime after the victory in the Battle of Nanchang, but mobilized the main force to go north to Shanxi.Let the foolish monarchs and ministers of the Yongli Dynasty live a life of intrigue and intrigue again.It wasn't until after Jiang Yu was pacified that the Tartars sent Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming to the south, and the Yongli court came to their senses, and then fled in a panic.

There is only one Yellow River between Tongzhou and Shanxi. Now that the Yellow River freezes in winter, the two sides can travel easily, and some troops even cross the river on ice to take refuge.

After hearing from the defectors that there were also people acting in Puzhou Prefecture, Li Taiping quickly released the second and third brigades, divided his forces to attack Puzhou Prefecture and Jiezhou, and took Jiangzhou.In this way, this prefecture and two prefectures in southern Shanxi can be connected with the same prefecture in Shaanxi.

Therefore, when Wu Sangui led Mo Ergen, Li Guohan and other Tartar troops to the capital city of Tongzhou, Li Taiping had already completed the layout.It is only necessary to firmly drag the Tatar army under the city of Tongzhou, and let the garrison troops in the other counties of Tongzhou, as well as the troops led by Mei Renxin, the acting training officer in Fuzhou, and Yao Huaisheng and Li Jiusheng who were sent to Shanxi The troops quickly took root in the local area and expanded their strength.

Therefore, Li Taiping had to be a nail firmly embedded in the road for the Tartars to pacify the area.

When the Tartar army approached the city, Wu Sangui looked at the red flag flying above the city, and was in deep thought.Looking at the red flag flying high, he thought of the armies that stayed behind and resisted when he chased north from Xing'an Mansion last month. It seemed that they were also holding the same flag, embroidered with A golden word An.Although only the first resistance force caused trouble for him, and the rest fled on the watchful wind, this also left a deep impression on Wu Sangui.

After trying it, Wu Sangui sent envoys to recruit these troops.In this era, siege warfare is very difficult to fight, it is best not to fight if you can, and the recruited troops can also be used as cannon fodder, as the main force for the next siege, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

What Wu Sangui didn't expect was that the gang of rebels directly beheaded their envoy, and then even hung his head high to show their determination not to surrender.

After fighting for many years, Wu Sangui is no longer that impulsive boy.Seeing the insulting behavior of the rebels, Wu Sangui was not angry, but ordered to attack.

"Decree, attack the city! After the city is broken, no one will be left behind!"

"Whoo!"

After receiving the siege order, the generals of the various ministries began to act, and began to attack according to the previously formulated plan.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

What remains unchanged is the bombardment before the siege.In this era, the Tartars paid great attention to firearms. The Tartars who suffered from firearms under the hands of the former Ming Dynasty were very good at learning. However, King Kong Youde of King Gongshun and King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun brought the essence of the former Ming Dynasty, and Sun Yuanhua surrendered with his hard work. After the Tartars, the Tartars not only had the ability to use firearms, but also the ability to make firearms.As a result, the Tartars began to use artillery to conquer the city repeatedly.

Now in the conquest of northern Shaanxi, Wu Sangui's army has dozens of cannons, large and small.

In order to prevent the Tartar shells from hitting the city wall from splashing stones and hurting people, Li Taiping deliberately found thousands of quilts and hung them in places where people were easily hurt.Excluding the needs of the soldiers and civilians in the city, Li Taiping only had a thousand more items.

It's just that after laying a quilt, the effect is very general, and it doesn't have the ability to resist the bullets of the firecrackers.The huge kinetic energy of the shells will directly tear those thin quilts, and some shells carry too much heat, and can even ignite the quilts.Thus, Li Taiping's strategy failed.Fortunately, in order to prevent casualties, he only left a small number of troops at the head of the city.These people on duty squatted behind the parapet, holding their heads and praying for God's blessing.

In this era, infantry and artillery coordinated tactics could not be practiced. When the shelling stopped, the Tartar troops rushed over. At this time, Li Taiping also ordered the regiments to walk up to the city wall.

However, the Tartars' first attack was extremely swift and fierce, and they rushed up on a ladder under the rain of arrows, while the mudlegs who had just picked up their knives and guns were panic-stricken and unable to resist, and even lifted a rock but hit their own feet Yes, for a while the morale of the regiment members was terrified by the murderous intent of the Tartars.Even if there are hundreds of armored soldiers going around to rescue the emergency, they can't stop the defeat.Seeing that the city was about to collapse, Li Taiping's back move came in handy.

After capturing the city several times, Li Taiping collected tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder.Using the gunpowder he made more than 1000 explosive kits.The explosive package was tightly bound with sackcloth, and many sharp stones, broken ceramics and other sharp objects were stuffed inside.Although the lethality of the gun is not great, but the terrifying sound, the sharp objects flying all over the sky, and the pain that makes the wounded feel like dying, all of these have consumed the fighting power of the Tartars and lowered the morale of the Tartars , For a while the attack of the Tartars was frustrated.

After several battles, the Tazi's offensive became less violent.As for the Fourth Battalion, although the number of explosive packs gradually decreased, the remaining regiments also grew up.War eliminates the cowardly and the weak, trains the brave, and will eventually create the strong.

As a result, the war in the capital city of the same state became a stalemate.And because Li Taiping blocked the firepower of the Tartars with his own body, the power of the local troops of the Fourth Battalion began to flourish, which also allowed Wang Yongqiang, an ally in Yan'an, to expand his strength far stronger than in the original history.

(End of this chapter)