Chapter 400: Persuading to Surrender
Watching the dark Qing army rushing onto the Yuliang Road, thirty shield cars in front were crowded on the four-meter-wide Yuliang Road road, followed by bird gunners, light Folang machine gunners, tiger squat gunners, archers, and dead soldiers wearing triple thick armor holding iron shields and steel knives. Behind were cavalrymen ready to jump into the city at any time. The defenders at the city were already suffocating and could not breathe, and everyone's heart was about to jump out of their chests. Originally, three thousand weak brigades and five thousand people defended the city, they relied entirely on the benefits of the city wall. Now the Yuliang Road of the Qing Dynasty has been completed and has lost the benefits of the city wall. How can these mobs fight against the Qing army?
Li Hong looked at the Qing army that was rushing to Yuliangdao, but his eyes showed a hint of contempt and disdain. He had already made up his mind that more than 1,000 elite Qing soldiers would become victims. He had been defending for more than 20 days before, and although the defenders had killed more than 7,000 enemies, they almost killed the valuable Baoyi Aha and the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers. The elite Qing soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners killed less than 1,000 elite Qing soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners this time, except for the 600 Aha who pushed the cart, the remaining 1,000 were elite soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners!
"Zeng Qianhu, you can do it!" Li Hong called Zeng Tao.
"No!" Zeng Tao retreated.
The Qing army shield chariot slowly advanced along the slope. Li Hong gathered all the artillery and bombarded violently at the shield chariot array. The shells kept hitting the exquisite iron-packed shield chariot. One, two, and three. Finally, a shield chariot split like a shoddy toy. Aha behind was swept over by the shells. Then the second shield chariot was destroyed, and the wooden boards flew across it. Aha screamed and fell down.
The defending artillery had a certain delay on the Qing army's shield chariot formation, forcing the Qing army's shield chariot to pause. The Wu Zhenchao soldiers behind set up small cannons and bombarded violently at the top of the city wall.
The shells hit the city wall covering the thick ice layer, jumped up, and then absorbed energy by the sandbags behind them, which of course also caused casualties to the defenders, but there were few casualties.
As the shield car array advanced, the firepower of the defenders on the city became more fierce. Bows, crossbows, bird guns, shotguns, and rockets came as if it was raining. The turbulent oil tank was thrown out and landed in front of the shield car, causing a raging fire.
From time to time, people threw out claw hooks at the top of the city wall, and the claw hook tied with iron chains hooked out the shield car. The defenders at the top of the city wall pulled the shield car guard with a winch, and the exposed Aha behind immediately became the target of concentrated firepower. The arrow projectile swept over and Aha was knocked over a large area.
The Qing army was also using bird guns, tiger squat cannons, Folang machines, and bows and arrows to counterattack. At this time, both sides were on the same height plane. The defenders who lost the advantage of the city wall were not advantageous in the shooting. They were attacked by the Qing army's long-range firepower, with great casualties.
Dorgon watched the shield car pushing upwards little by little towards the city. With another thirty steps, the shield car could top the city wall. At that time, the elite hand-to-hand combat soldiers of the eight banners who were heavily armored behind the shield car could jump into the female wall and massacre the defenders like killing chickens and sheep.
"Master, our army is in sight!" Shang Kexi stepped forward and said with a flattering smile on his face.
"Well, King Zhishun is indeed worthy of your title!" Dorgon nodded with satisfaction.
At this moment, Dorgon suddenly saw the fish beams in front of him and suddenly fell into a flying ice and snowflakes. The earth shook suddenly like an earthquake, and then a deafening loud noise came.
The Yuliang Road collapsed, breaking into two parts from the middle, and the first half was completely trapped in the ground, and the one behind collapsed like a sudden loss of support, just like an avalanche. White ice flowers and snowflakes were flying all over the sky, sliding down from the high slope. The crowded shield chariots, artillery, heavy armored infantry, and heavy cavalry on the Yuliang Road collided one after another, and then fell from a high place. The heavy shield chariots slid down and pressed on the Qing soldiers. Whether it was the heavy armored infantry, heavy cavalry, Wu Zhenchao Ha soldiers or the armorless Aha, they were crushed by the shield chariots, the effect was the same, they were all crushed into human-shaped meat pie.
The broken shield guard plate hit the heads of heavy armored infantrymen. The iron helmet was concave like paper, and the brains were spewed out like tofu brains. The heavy cavalry on the avalanche fish beam path also fell to the ground, people fell to the ground, and war horses pressed on people, and the thick armor on their bodies could not save the lives of these Eight Banners soldiers. Some horses had not yet died from the ground, jumped up in pain, trampled on the crowd and horses, and trampled countless people to death.
"It's over! More than a thousand elite soldiers are over!" Dorgon closed his eyes in pain. Among them, there were more than 200 of the most elite white-armored soldiers, who were still disabled even if they were not dead.
It turned out that when the Qing army built the Yuliang Road, Li Hong had a tit-for-tat approach and dug an authentic tunnel from the city and dug it to the bottom of the Yuliang Road. The tunnel was supported by wooden stakes, so that the tunnel could withstand the weight of the Yuliang Road. When the Qing army attacked the Yuliang Road, Li Hong ordered Zeng Tao to take people to set fire in the tunnel, burning the wooden stakes. The thin top of the tunnel could not support the weight of the Yuliang Road, and then collapsed. The Yuliang Road made of ice and snow collapsed like an avalanche, destroying more than a thousand Qing soldiers.
This principle is the same as the willingness of a cave attack. The so-called cave attack means digging the tunnel to the bottom of the city wall, then digging a horizontal tunnel parallel to the city wall, and then supporting it with wooden stakes on the top of the tunnel, then expanding it, and finally burning the wooden stakes, then the tunnel collapses under the weight of the city wall.
The Yuliang Road siege that the Qing army spent a lot of manpower and material resources and time on building failed. I don’t know how long it took to break the low-high city in front and how many people would sacrifice to break through. Even if Aha was used as cannon fodder to consume the weapons and forces of the defenders’ defense, Dorgon felt that he could not bear it. It didn’t matter how many Aha died, but he couldn’t afford it.
"Master Beile, if our army spends time in naturalization for a long time, let the Chahar, Tumot and Khalkha join forces again, the battle will be difficult to fight again." Manzhu Xili stepped forward and said.
"Mr., what trick do you have to break the city?" Dorgon asked.
"Master Beile, please send someone to persuade the surrender. After all, this is a Mongolian city. The head general in the city is also a Mongolian. As long as we persuade each other with kind words, Xiao Wang predicts that the people in the city will definitely put down their weapons and surrender to our army."
"Okay! Benbeile is going to enter the city to persuade him to surrender!" Dorgon nodded.
Dorgon had never thought about a way to persuade surrender before, because he felt that a small city of naturalization was not high, a moat was not deep, and the cannons of Wuzhenchao Ha Camp, it would be easy to capture such a small city. Who knew that it was blocked for more than 20 days!
Now all kinds of methods have been used up. Dorgon finally thought that persuading surrender may be a good way. As long as the Mongols and Han people in the city surrendered and retained their official positions, as long as they opened the city gate and surrendered to the Qing army, they would be loyal to the Qing Dynasty from then on, and would not blame the previous crime of killing the Eight Banners Warriors.
Half an hour later, a team of Qing soldiers walked towards the city wall with white flags. Several loud Qing soldiers shouted loudly to the city: "Don't fire guns and shoot arrows on the city! We are here to enter the city and the city to negotiate!"
"Sir, Jiannu has sent someone to negotiate. Will we fight?" Zeng Tao asked.
"Don't fight, let's hear what they want to say! Put down the hanging basket and let them enter the city." Li Hong said.
The defenders at the city wall put down the hanging basket and let the envoys sent by Dorgon enter the city.
The envoy sent by Dorgon was a Mongolian, and Li Hong invited the envoy into his mansion.
Chapter completed!