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  Chapter 453 451 [Dream of the Red Chamber is gone]

  Man Dahai with the red flag was also furious. Seeing the soldiers with the two red flags collapsing at the gap in the city wall, he directly said to his eldest son, Chang Adai, "Go up, don't run back, even if you die, you will die in Gaizhou City!"

"yes!"

  Chang Adai shouted to the Eight Banners soldiers under his command: "All the cavalry follow me!"

  Using Manchurian cavalry to attack the city belongs to the practice of the Eight Banners Army. Because they are infantry when they dismount, and each of them is the best of the best.

  Only more than 3,000 riders were seen rushing out from various passages in the earthen walls and trenches, and followed Chang Adai to the gap in the city wall.

  Haug also ordered: "Gather the rout and rest. Turg and Chaohar, you two lead your troops to assist the warriors with red flags at any time!"

"yes!"

  Turg and Chaohar knelt on one knee to take the order, and then summoned their troops to set off.

  Turge and Chaohar are the elder brothers of Yebilong. Turge once recruited and surrendered the Mongolian Chahar tribe, and historically attacked Daming and broke sixty-seven counties.

  During the reorganization of the brothers' army, Chang Adai's cavalry had rushed out.

  More than 3,000 Manchurian cavalry, all wearing double armor, rushed to the city in a loose formation against the artillery fire of the Datong Army.

  Because the trenches of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were too close to the city wall, they only suffered casualties of more than a hundred cavalry, and these cavalry had already rushed near the city wall. Those who were close to the gap in the city wall immediately dismounted and turned into infantry, carrying ladders and rushing towards the earth-stone platform. Those who are farther away from the gap are thrown towards the city with stabbing arrows on horseback.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   Another ten thousand enemies smashed down, but they couldn't stop the attack of these Alihachaoha camps.

  In order to guard against the heavy arrows of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Li Fuguo did not let soldiers guard the edge of the earth-stone platform. Chang Adai personally led the soldiers and climbed up the earth-stone platform along the wooden ladder against the bombardment of tens of thousands of enemies.

"Collide!"

   Li Fuguo gave an order, and the rattan players in the front row rushed forward in a tight formation.

  Alha Chaohabing, who had just climbed up the earth-rock platform, was knocked down by a whole row of rattan players. The earth-stone platform is only three meters high, and it is generally impossible to fall to death, but the elite Manchurians in double armor still fell to the ground and became a target for grenadiers and gunfire soldiers.

"shoot!"

  At the same time, Alihachaohabing, who was further behind, shot a heavy arrow at the Datong Junteng player who had rushed to the edge of the earth-rock platform.

   "Back it back!"

  Li Fuguo hastily issued an order, but there were still four rattan cards with heavy arrows in their hands.

  Taking advantage of this brief interval, some Alhachaoha soldiers climbed up the earth-rock platform again, and strangled together with the rattan players and spearmen of the Datong Army.

  After Chang Adai was knocked down, his bare hands had been wounded by shrapnel from the enemy, and he couldn't even hold a weapon firmly. His face was also **** and his eyes were blinded by lime and chili powder. When he came back to his senses, Turg and Chaohar's troops had come to support him.

   "Kill the barbarians!"

  Turge and Chaohar brothers rushed up to the earth-rock platform at the same time and strangled with Li Fuguo's defenders.

  Chang Adai stood up unsteadily, and went to climb the wooden ladder again.

"boom!"

  A bullet was shot from the left city wall and hit Chang Adai's right shoulder. This time, he couldn't hold the knife at all.

"kill!"

  Chang Adai switched the knife to his left hand, and led the soldiers to continue to charge forward.

  This gap is only twelve meters wide, but the two warring parties have gathered hundreds of people. Hit the back and squeeze forward, unable to swing the knife at all, but the enemy of thousands of people kept smashing into the crowd.

  However, the number of enemies smashed by tens of thousands of people became less and less. In addition to insufficient ammunition, the enemy troops were also using ladders to attack the city because of the walls on both sides of the gap. Some grenadiers had to take care of the enemies who climbed the city.

  The Datong army defending the gap was squeezed back a little bit. Several rattan players accidentally fell down and were trampled to death by the Eight Banners soldiers.

   "Boom boom boom!"

   Chang Adai was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the throat when he was hit by the enemy again.

  Blood gushed out of his mouth, the son of the banner owner with the red flag, finally died on the battlefield. He didn't even fall because there were people in all directions, and the corpse was pushed on and kept going.

  The Datong Army was also affected by the lime and chili noodles blasted by the Ten Thousand Enemies. They were blown by the wind, and both sides closed their eyes and coughed non-stop.

  Hu Dinggui personally came to the city wall on the left side of the gap, regardless of the enemy troops who were climbing the ladder, gathered hundreds of gunners, and fired guns at Alihachaoha soldiers who were gathered together.

   "Three strokes!"

   "Raise the gun!"

"put!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   Immediately, two or three hundred and eight banner soldiers were shot, and two Datong soldiers who defended the gap were also killed by mistake. This is still to shoot towards the outside as much as possible, more towards the follow-up troops outside the city, otherwise there will be more friendly troops who will be accidentally injured.

   There are still countless Eight Banners soldiers rushing up, and the gap has long been unevenly piled up by corpses. The Eight Banners Army rushed forward stepping on the corpse, seeming to be condescending, and some of them freed up their arms and held their knives in their backhands to cut their throats.

  However, the firecrackers and tens of thousands of enemies in the city continued to cause casualties to the Eight Banners soldiers. The Eight Banners soldiers couldn't get in, so it was only a matter of time before they retreated here.

"kill!"

  On the east side of the city wall, there was a sudden shout of killing.

  However, too many troops were invested in the north wall, and there were not enough regular troops on the east wall, so they could only use farmers, soldiers and common people to help defend the city, but Dorgon commanded two white flags and two yellow flags to attack the city wall.

  The regular soldiers of the Datong Army fought bravely, but some farmers and soldiers formed by the Liaodong people turned around and fled in fright. They have only trained for two or three months, and they have been enslaved by the Tartars for a long time, so they always have a fear of the Tartars in their hearts.

  Liu Dazhang screamed vigorously: "Don't run away, don't run away, if you run away, you will be a slave to the Tartars! I don't want to be a slave, kill me!"

  Jin Guozhen shouted in Korean: "You don't want your surname? Don't you want your land? Do you want your wife? My wife is pregnant. For the sake of my wife and children, hurry up and do my best! Zhao Bodhisattva bless you!"

   "Bodhisattva Zhao bless you!"

  These peasants and soldiers in Liaodong didn't say anything about farming and eating, but they all shouted "Bless Zhao Bodhisattva". It was as if God was possessed, except for a few cowards, most of the fleeing peasants and soldiers returned.

Pan Hui, who was organizing and leading women to deliver supplies to the guards, picked up the pole with her big belly: "Sisters, men are working hard, and we women are not afraid of death. If you don't want to be captured by the Tartars, you can kill the enemy with me." !"

  Pan Hui is a lady from a gentry family in Hunan, and her husband is Yang Ye, the artillery commander who died unexpectedly.

  She originally stayed with the pregnant woman. After hearing that her husband was killed in battle, she came out with tears in her eyes to organize women to help.

  Hundreds of women carried poles and sticks, climbed the tower to join the battle. Seeing this, many people put down their transportation work and rushed to the city wall together.

   Upon seeing this, Liu Dazhang shouted: "Protect the woman, don't let the woman be killed by the Tartars!"

"kill!"

   Regardless of whether they have participated in the training of farmers and soldiers, the young and strong people defending the city rushed towards the Eight Banners soldiers with red eyes.

  Because the women who came to support were all wives of the soldiers and civilians who defended the city.

  Darhan led his troops to attack the city wall, and the soldiers under his command were killed one after another, but he steadfastly held on to the female wall at the ladder to cover more Eight Banners soldiers climbing up the city wall.

   This guy is Nurhachi's son-in-law. During the **** battle of Dalinghe, more than 500 Ming troops went out to fight in the city, and Darhan led 80 people to defeat the Ming army. When attacking the Zalut tribe of Mongolia, Darhan chased him alone and captured the tribe's Taiji (the crown prince or the king's younger brother).

  Darhan originally belonged to the Xianglan Banner, Dorgon adjusted the Eight Banners troops, and got the titan Darhan under his command.

  Now, Darhan is sent to attack the city again!

   Under the fighting of Darhan, more and more Eight Banners soldiers climbed up. On his left is the Datong army, and on the right is the peasant army. This guy carries the Datong army by himself and lets the friendly army fight with the peasant soldiers.

  Seeing the collapse of the peasants and soldiers one after another, who knows that there are people who keep boosting morale and come back after shouting.

  Some farmers and soldiers with red eyes dropped their weapons and threw their lives at the expense of their equipment because they were at a disadvantage. Two or three peasant soldiers threw down an Eight Banners soldier, and then hugged and wrestled on the city wall.

   "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

  Wu Huapu hissed, the dragoons under his command had been temporarily turned into musketeers, and were in charge of the other sections of the city wall.

  Received a warning here, Wu Huapu immediately personally led a team to support, the muskets were loaded and the bayonets were put on, but they were stopped by a large number of people rushing up. Especially those women, who have no combat effectiveness in fighting, instead block the reinforcement channels.

   Fortunately, I don't need his help.

  The crazy fighting will of the peasants and soldiers made the Eight Banners soldiers who were fighting feel terrified. The Eight Banners soldiers who were close to the female wall were even hugged by the peasants and soldiers, and they jumped over the female wall together and fell to their deaths.

  Darhan, the titan, was covered with multiple wounds, and in the end he was no match for four with two fists.

  After the soldiers around him died, they were pushed against the female wall with several long guns, and were stabbed hard in the throat by another shot.

  At the gap in the city wall, the soldiers of the Eight Banners could not withstand the ten thousand enemies and the firing of firecrackers, and finally retreated to the camp with lost troops.

  On this day alone, more than 3,000 Manchus were killed and countless wounded. On the side of the Datong Army, more than 500 regular soldiers died in battle, and more than 100 farmers, soldiers and civilians died.

  Such astonishing casualties made the nobles of the Eight Banners unable to sit still, clamoring to withdraw their troops.

   A few thousand more deaths would have already hurt Man Qing!

   That night, the fifth watch.

  The vanguard of the reinforcements landed on the seashore on the west side of the battlefield by boat. There were not many people, only more than two thousand, but Lu Xiangsheng and Xiao Zongxian all came, and only Li Zheng stayed to control the large army.

   When the sky was about to turn gray, they had already circled behind the Manqing Fort along the river.

"kill!"

  Lu Xiangsheng and Xiao Zongxian each led more than a thousand people to raid the river bank fort.

  Man Qing obviously did not expect the enemy to rush out from behind, and the artillerymen were killed one by one.

  The person in charge of this section of the fort is Dorgon's confidant and beloved general, the artillery general Cao Zhenyan who was born in Baoyi, the great-great-grandfather of Cao Xueqin.

  Cao Zhenyan woke up from his dream, saw several forts fell, and immediately said to his son: "Run away!"

  Cao Xi, Cao Xueqin's great-grandfather, drew his sword and shouted: "Father, the Regent treats my Cao family with such kindness as a mountain. How can I escape at this moment?"

   "If your grandfather had been loyal to Daming, our Cao family would have been gone long ago. At this time, life-saving is the most important thing!" Cao Zhenyan felt that his son was mentally retarded.

  Cao Xi was reprimanded, and the father and son finally reached an agreement to withdraw from the fort with the remaining artillery.

   "Don't let any one go, kill!"

   Lu Xiangsheng led hundreds of cavalry, and had already blocked the escape route of Cao's father and son.

  The enemies here are mostly artillery, but where are they better than cavalry?

  Cao Zhenyan immediately knelt down and begged to surrender. Just as he knelt down, he saw his son drawing his sword and rushing towards the Datong army. He shouted anxiously: "Nizi, come back quickly!"

  Lu Xiangsheng came on horseback and shot the young and vigorous Cao Xi to death.

  Under the twilight of dawn, Cao Zhenyan saw this tragic situation, and immediately knelt and collapsed there, holding back tears and shouting: "Please surrender!"

  (end of this chapter)