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Chapter 356 Attack on Hanyang

Seven days later, Duoduo and Yuetuo finally waited for the Huang Taiji army. When Huang Taiji's main army arrived, the Korean ruler and ministers transferred all their families, and the Koreans retreated into the Nanhan Mountain City, trying to resist to the end with the easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, Huang Taiji's main army was actually not slow to march. After crossing the Yalu River, it took only twelve days to go from the Yalu River to Hanyang. The main army was mainly infantry and carried a large number of heavy artillery and supplies. It was already very fast to travel more than 50 miles a day.

"Emperor, the slaves have too few troops to besiege the city. They watched the Goryeo people leave the city. The princess and the family of ministers all went to Jianghua Island, and the prince of the North Korea and the prince went to Nanhanshan City." Duoduo, Yuetuo and others stepped forward to apologize.

Huang Taiji laughed: "Dear friends, what are you guilty? Although the Koreans ran away, they can't run away, and the monks can't run away! Is Jianghua Island? Let's take Hanyang first, and then siege Nanhanshan City. As for Jianghua Island, we can let the surrendered Korean navy take us there."

The Qing army's Tianyou soldiers, Tianzhu soldiers and Wu Zhenchao Ha camp were all firearm soldiers. At this time, the Qing army already had a large number of heavy artillery, and there were firearms that were not inferior to the Ming army and the Korean army. It was stress-free to attack small cities like Hanyang City.

Hanyang is the capital of Korea, but the scale of the city is incomparable to that of the Ming Dynasty's capital. The Wuzhenchao Ha Camp of the Qing army with heavy artillery can open the Hanyang city. However, Huang Taiji was unwilling to waste precious gunpowder on these Goryeo people who had no combat effectiveness. It took several days to ten days to bomb the city with red cannons, and a lot of gunpowder and shells. Huang Taiji calculated it and felt that it was not cost-effective to bombard Hanyang City with cannons.

"Dorgon, Duoduo!" Huang Taiji shouted.

"The slave is here!"

"You wait for the two of you to catch the Korean people nearby, catch as many people as possible, prepare 200,000 mash bags, put them in the soil, and attack the city in three days."

"Zha!" Dorgon and Duoduo retreated.

"Li Guohan, Wu Shoujin!"

"The slave is here!"

"You and the other two brought the Han army flag to supervise the construction of siege weapons such as shield vehicles, ladder vehicles, and trench bridge vehicles! Be sure to build at least twenty large ladder vehicles, two hundred shield vehicles, and twenty trench bridge vehicles within three days, and build three thousand siege ladders and trench bridge vehicles and two thousand trench bridge vehicles! There are also siege weapons such as collision vehicles!"

"Zhe!" Li Guohan and Wu Shoujin fought and retreated.

Huang Taiji turned his head again and said, "Haoge, Yuetuo!"

"My son is here!"

"The slave is here!"

"You and the other two led 3,000 cavalry each and wandered around the left and right wings of our army. If a small number of Goryeo people come, defeat them! If a large number of Goryeo people come, repay me immediately!"

"Zha!" Haoge and Yuetuo took the order and retreated.

"Kong You De, He is still very pleased, Geng Zhongming!"

"The slave is here!"

"You and the other three led the Tianzhu Army to set up defenses on the Han River. If a large number of Koreans come to rescue them, intercept them!"

"twitter!"

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Huang Taiji made a series of arrangements to prepare for the siege.

The Qing soldiers of the Han army flag drove the Baoyi Aha who acted as auxiliary soldiers to cut wood in the mountains and forests to build siege weapons. Dorgon and Duoduo led the cavalry to arrest people in the surrounding villages, and captured many Koreans. The captured Koreans, both men and women, were taken into the Qing army camp. Then Dorgon and Duoduo ordered these Koreans to make mash bags, and the prepared mash bags were filled with sand and soil to make sand bags.

Haoge, Yuetuo and Sanshun King, who were responsible for the aid mission, arranged defenses on the periphery, but after waiting for three days, they did not see a Korean army serving the king coming.

Three days later, the Qing army began to attack the city. The one in front was the Goryeo people carrying mabaos, and the Eight Banners of the Han army with swords behind them, which was specifically responsible for supervising the Goryeo people. Behind the Eight Banners of the Han army were Baoyi Aha who was pushing a shield cart, and the nine-headed bird heavy musket soldiers from Wuzhenchao Ha camp followed behind the shield cart, and there were also medium-sized light cannons such as Folang machines and general cannons.

There were also many Korean arms on the city wall, as well as many cannons and bird guns. However, when the Korean soldiers saw the Korean people in front of the Qing army who were coerced by the Han Eight Banners and carrying sandbags to fill the trench, their hands were trembling, and they didn't know whether to fire or shoot.

Under the might of the Han Eight Banners, a large number of Korean people carried sandbags to the trench and threw the sandbags into the trench. This trench was originally a moat, and the river surface would freeze in winter, so the Korean army shone the water in the moat and turned it into a trench with sharpened wood in the trench to stop the enemy from siegeing the city.

The group of Korean people kept throwing sandbags into the trench. At this moment, the Korean soldiers at the top of the city finally opened fire. The projectiles fired by the firearms such as the Folang machine, bird gun, nine-headed bird gun, tiger squat cannon, etc. were shot down like rain. The Korean archers at the top of the city opened their bows and arrows and shot down locust-like arrows.

The blood mist blew in the crowd of Goryeo people blew up and screamed, and a large number of Goryeo people screamed and fell into the trench with sandbags.

The undead people of Goryeo turned around and ran away in fear. The soldiers of the Han Eight Banners followed him with their hands and fell, and the heads of Goryeo rolled to the ground.

Yan Dayong waved his steel knife and cut down more than a dozen Koryo people's heads one after another. He was originally a Baoyi Aha from Liaodong. Since Huang Taiji expanded the two Han army flags into the Han Eight Banners, Yan Dayong was carried into a Han Eight Banners because of his two contributions to the invasion and robbery by the Dajin Army.

When he followed the Jin army to attack the Ming Dynasty many times, every time he attacked, Yan Dayong and other Baoyi Aha rushed in front as cannon fodder. The flag directors of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banners behind him were holding swords to supervise them. I don’t know how many of his companions did not die under the artillery fire of the Ming army, but died under the butcher knife of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banners. Now he has raised the flag and become a flag director, adding everything that was forced to attack the city by the flag directors before, now on the Goryeo people.

"Those who retreat, kill!" Yan Dayong held a bloody head in his hand, shouting loudly, and the blood on the knife dripped on the ground, scaring the Koreans.

The Goryeo was forced to turn around and continue to attack the city. Yan Dayong inserted the knife in his hand back into the scabbard and untied a whip from his waist and held it in his hand. Seeing that some Goryeo had slowed down, he waved the whip and beat it up. The whip also had an iron thorn on it. With a whip, the torn cotton coat on the Goryeo immediately broke a hole and blood flowed out.

Yan Dayong enjoyed the feeling of beating the Korean people very much. He was beaten by the Mongolians and Han military flags in the past. Now he has changed from a slave to a master, and he also wants to show his master's majesty and whip the slaves.

In fact, Yan Dayong forgot one thing. Although he had been raised and became a Han Eight Banner Banner, he was still not the master. His real master was the Manchu Eight Banners. Whether it was the Mongolian Eight Banners or the Han Eight Banners, they were just dogs.

The shield cart behind slowly advanced up, and Zhang Qinglin, a soldier from Wu Zhenchao, put a nine-headed bird heavy musket on the shield cart. The shield cart encountered an obstacle and stopped moving forward. The Korean people in front began to clear the obstacles under the whip of the Han Eight Banners.

Wu Zhenchao Ha Camp began to shoot. The first thing that fired was various small cannons. The small cannons behind the shield chariot spewed out flames. The shells hit the female wall of the city wall at the top of the city, causing the city bricks to crack. The Goryeo soldiers hiding behind were knocked over to the city head by shrapnel-like stones and brick fragments.

The Qing army hit hard artillery bombardment, and rows of shells hit the female wall, which soon collapsed, causing the large section of the city to become bare. The Goryeo soldiers standing on it lost the protection of the female wall and were exposed to the Qing army's firepower.
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