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Chapter 417: Attacking Zhen'an Fort

The Chahar cavalry who rushed to the front did not dare to rush into the Han Eight Banners spear formation, so they took out their cavalry bows and shot rows of light arrows. Most of the arrows were blocked by the Qing army shields, and only a few Han Eight Banners spearmen were shot down. At this moment, the loaded Han Eight Banners Qing soldiers shot out the projectiles again, and another row of Chahar cavalry fell off the horse.

"Why is the same firearm, why is it much more powerful in the hands of the Jurchens than in the hands of the Ming army?" Ezhe, who suffered a loss, was shocked. He just saw that the Qing army had no artillery, so he thought about letting the cavalry take advantage. Who knew that he didn't take advantage, but instead suffered a loss.

The Chahar people didn't know that the Ming army's firearms were of poor quality and most of them were easily exploded, so when used, soldiers did not dare to use enough medicine. In addition, the Ming army's firearms often fired at a distance, which could only scare people. The Qing army's firearms were all excellent firearms made strictly supervised. Once the firearms exploded within their service life, some people would lose their heads. Not only the craftsmen wanted to lose their heads, but the supervisors also had to be unlucky. Therefore, there would be no layers of corruption in the firearm factories in Liaodong, and inferior products were used as good ones.

Ezhe remembered what Li Guodong had told him, and when he met the Eight Banners of Manchu and Eight Banners of Han, he would not fight hard and leave immediately. He shouted: "Retreat!"

The Chahar cavalry left quickly as if they were when they came.

Ezhe won first and then lost. The Chahars who learned the lessons would run away as soon as they met the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners, and they would run away from afar. When they met the Meng Eight Banners or Aha’s baggage team, they would go up and take a bite and leave. As a result, the Chahars also won more than 1,000 heads of the Korqin Meng Eight Banners soldiers and more than 600 heads of the Baoyi Aha.

After Li Guodong and Ezhe broke up, they led 3,000 Iron Cavalry and 3,000 Camel Firearms to head straight to Zhen'anbao. Along the way, the Ming army destroyed the Qing army scouts and whistle cavalry he met on the road, and captured more than 100 Zhen slave heads. However, Li Guodong's elite troops also paid a significant price to sacrifice 37 people.

The six thousand Ming army headed straight for Zhen'an Fort occupied by the Qing army. It was December, and it was the time for camels to have a [love]. At this time, the camels ran very fast and ran much faster than the best war horses. Three thousand camels firearms and cavalry with one man and three cavalry set out at the same time, but arrived first than the cavalry.

This time, Li Guodong attacked the Qing army's grain garrison site. Only more than ten people were brought out by the five hundred gods, but not all of them were brought out, because Li Guodong had no intention of fighting head-on with the Qing soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners, Han Eight Banners, but instead took the method of running away after fighting. The Qing army invaded and plundered, and the troops were dispersed, and could win by surprise and eat a few small groups of Qing army. Li Guodong's army was all fast cavalry and camel firearm soldiers. Although they were infantry, in the season when camels were in love, the mobile phone of this kind of camel riding infantry was higher than that of cavalry.

However, camel firearm soldiers were unable to carry twelve-pound field cannons. For speed, they did not even bring six-pound field cannons. They only brought heavy weapons such as light twelve-pound howitzers, 100-pound light Folang machine and Nine-headed Bird Muskets, and the rest were bird guns.

Don’t underestimate the bird guns. Li Guodong’s bird guns are of very good quality. The bird guns he used were either made by himself or seized from the Qing army. They were definitely not the junk goods of the Ming Dynasty’s bomber.

Li Guodong was very quick and went straight to Zhen'anbao. In the Qing army camp, Dorgon and Yuetuo were entered into the Ming Dynasty by the Chahar people, and continued to attack, causing dizziness in the news of attacking the Eight Banners of Mongolia everywhere.

"The Chahars actually entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty? Can the Ming Dynasty court allow Mongolian cavalry to enter?" Hearing this news, Yue Tuo walked back and forth in the central army camp, muttering to himself.

"Yue Tobezi, Fan Yongdou needs to investigate this matter." Dorgon said angrily.

"If you investigate this matter later, the most urgent task is to prevent the people of Korqin from moving alone. If you want to plunder the people of Ming Dynasty, you should have the help of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han Dynasty."

The single Mongolian Eight Banners are not the opponent of the Chahars at all, but once the cooperation of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners, the Chahars became vulnerable.

At this moment, Yue Tuo suddenly discovered a very serious problem: "Uncle Fourteenth, then Li Lao Er should have returned to the territory of Ming Dynasty, but we have no news about him. Where did this person go? It is strange that no scouts have received any rewards."

"I will ask someone to investigate." Dorgon said.

Not long after, Dorgon found out that several scouts had returned, but only a few scouts on the road leading to Chichengbao were all missing.

"It's broken! Minggou must attack Chi Castle!" Dorgon was shocked.

"No, with Li Laoer's strength, he should not be able to defeat Chi Castle, he should be able to attack the weaker Zhen'an Castle!" Yue Tuo analyzed.

Dorgon immediately stood up and ordered, "Come on! Let the future gather together in my tent!"

After everyone arrived, Dorgon ordered Suna, Taxila and Tong Shounian to immediately lead 3,000 Manchu Eight Banners cavalry to Zhen'anbao, and ordered Man Zhu Xili to lead 5,000 Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers to assist in the battle. He ordered Sanshun King to lead 5,000 Han Eight Banners soldiers to follow behind. If the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers could block Li Guodong, the Han Eight Banners soldiers would come up to annihilate Li Guodong's troops.

When the Qing army was dispatched, Li Guodong's three thousand cavalry had arrived at Zhen'anbao.

In Zhen'anbao, there was only one Niulu, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and five hundred surrendered soldiers from the Ming army and five hundred Baoyi Aha were stationed.

It is no problem for Li Guodong to attack and defend, and attack a small Zhen'anbao. Shortly after Li Guodong arrived at Zhen'anbao, Ezhe's more than 9,000 Chahar cavalry also arrived.

"Ezhe Khan, just look at me siege the city." Li Guodong knew that the Mongols were not good at siegeing the city.

Ezhe said: "Ben Khan can let the cavalry cooperate with you to attack the city."

"Okay, when our army climbed the city, your troops surrounded the city and shot arrows."

Li Guodong ordered a siege, and first used six twelve-pound howitzers to target the city.

The twelve-pound howitzer with a barrel weighing only more than 200 kilograms is low in pressure and is suitable for firing shrapnel and shotguns, but it does not mean that solid shells cannot be fired to attack the city. The Zhen'anbao wall has been disrepair all year round, and these fortresses of the Ming border army are already very bad. With twelve-pound howitzers can tear open the gap.

"Boom boom boom boom" the sound of cannons rumbling, six twelve-pound howitzers spit out flames in turn, the shells drew an arc, and a personal black iron ball hit the city wall at a speed visible to the naked eye. The female wall battlement cracked and the top of the city was beaten so hard that it could not stand.

The shells hit the top of the city wall, and the female walls cracked. The yakshas on the top of the city were hit by the shells and turned into flying pieces of wood. The shells hit the bonfire, and the iron pots on them were crushed to pieces. The sharp fragments splattered with hot gold juice. The Qing soldiers around them screamed and fell down.

After a quarter of an hour of shelling, Li Guodong ordered the ants to attack the city.

Three thousand camel firearm soldiers rushed to the city on camels and used bird guns under the city. The nine-headed bird heavy musket and light Fran machine gun aimed at the city head, suppressing the defenders at the city head, which could not raise their heads. Because the female walls at the siege were all broken by howitzers, the Qing army at the city head lost the object to cover and was hit by the fierce firepower of the Ming army at the city head so that they did not dare to approach the edge of the city wall.

The heavy cavalry who had dismounted the horse was responsible for the attack. After Li Guodong's heavy cavalry dismounted, they became heavy infantry. The weapons defending the city at the top of the city were all destroyed by artillery. The elite heavy infantry held iron shields and climbed up the simple cloud ladder to the city. At the same time, Ezhe's Chahar cavalry also surrounded the city wall and kept shooting light arrows at the city. The Ming army's firearms continued to provide fire cover, and the Qing soldiers at the top of the city fell one after another, or fell down from a backward planting onion on the city.

Some Qing soldiers fired muskets, and someone from the Ming army who was climbing the city wall was shot and rolled down from the ladder with screams.
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