Hauge dreamed of letting Dorgon die in battle, so that he could take over the power of the entire Eastern Capture and Puppet Qing Kingdom, instead of having to share power equally with Dorgon as it is now.
After struggling for a long time, Haug finally led more than 30,000 cavalry north to meet Dorgon.
It doesn't matter whether Dorgon dies or not. What matters is that the more than 40,000 troops in Jinzhou City cannot be lost any more, otherwise their captivity will be completely finished.
What Hauge wants is a powerful Eastern Capture and Puppet Qing Kingdom, not a Eastern Capture and Puppet Qing Kingdom that has only the remaining defeated troops and is about to be completely destroyed.
So even though he disliked Dorgon very much and wished he would die on the battlefield, Hauge still led his cavalry back north to meet the Dongzhao garrison in the direction of Jinzhou.
As for the defenders on the Xingshan side, although the Chu army's offensive is fierce, they should be able to hold on for a while, with the same effort as the past few days.
However, when Hauge led more than 30,000 cavalry to the north, the Chu army also made related moves!
During the past few days of the Jinzhou Battle, the senior leaders of the Third Army were actually a little confused, because until now, the battle has basically not gone in the direction they planned...
At first, they wanted to hold back more Donglu people through gradual escalation. However, due to the active retreat of the enemy troops in Tashan, they misjudged and launched a large-scale attack directly.
After surrounding Xingshan, the Chu army discovered that the Dongjiu people on the opposite side had not yet escaped... At this time, they realized belatedly that it turned out that the Dongjiu people really did not intend to retreat directly.
So they quickly mobilized their forces to try to besiege Jinzhou. The Eighth Army quickly moved eastward along the Great Wall in the northern part of the Liaoxi Corridor, and then fought to the north of Jinzhou. Based on this judgment, it wanted to cut off the Jinzhou garrison in the northeast direction, that is, the direction of Liaohetao. Escape route.
And yesterday, the Chu army discovered that the enemy's cavalry appeared not far from Xingshan. They thought that the Dongji people were trying to rescue them, and they just wanted to come to a whole set of encirclement points for reinforcements. For this reason, they already relaxed their attitude towards Xingshan. During the siege, a first-class division was mobilized to march eastward to cooperate with the First Cavalry Corps and the Guards Cavalry Lan in a reinforcement campaign.
As a result, before the Chu army could mobilize its forces, the Dongfeng cavalry on the opposite side moved north again...
The whole battle situation seemed extremely chaotic...
But even though it was extremely chaotic and the battle process had seriously deviated from the planned plan, the strategic goal of the Third Army has never changed, which is to annihilate as many enemy forces as possible.
The enemy troops here in Xingshan City have been besieged, and it is only a matter of time before they are swallowed up, so Zuo Yingzhe is not in a hurry to attack by force, but sends a division scheduled to intercept the enemy cavalry to Songshan City.
As for the enemy cavalry... they are cavalry after all, and it is difficult to chase them anyway, so let them go to Jinzhou.
Now the Chu army's tactical goal has been to besiege Songshan.
According to intelligence, there are about 15,000 garrison troops on Songshan side. If they are swallowed up, the effective strength of the Dongji people will be weakened.
As a result, as soon as Hauge left, Songshan was blocked by a first-class division of the Chu army.
As for Jinzhou, after the Chu army received reinforcements from the Dongjiu cavalry going north, the Eighth Army decisively moved south, and approached Jinzhou to block it directly, and built a large number of field fortifications.
The Eighth Army has more than 30,000 people and the Guards has more than 20,000 people, plus more than 4,000 Mongolian cavalry, a total of more than 60,000 troops, directly blocking the north and east directions of Jinzhou.
As for the west and south, that is the Nvnu River... If the Dong captives in Jinzhou City dared to escape from this direction, let alone how difficult it would be to escape across the river, it would be no different from running into the Chu army's guns. .
As a result, Hauge finally led 30,000 cavalry northward to a few kilometers southeast of Jinzhou, but what he saw was a dense parapet and other simple field defenses.
Jinzhou was completely blocked by the Chu army.
what to do?
Hauge looked at the Chu army's position in front, and after thinking for a long time, he sent out cavalry to try to attack...
However, as soon as their cavalry went up, they were bombarded by a large number of field artillery. They finally rushed up to shoot arrows, but they were swept away by the Chu army's intensive flintlock firepower!
On that day, the Eastern Cavalry bravely fought bloody battles against the artillery shells and bullets of the Chu army. They launched four large-scale attacks in an attempt to create a passage for the defenders in the city.
As a result, the fight lasted for six or seven hours from morning to afternoon.
The fierce battle cost Hauge his troops more than a thousand casualties!
However, they couldn't even break through the Chu army's most advanced position...
And the casualties caused to the Chu army were only a few hundred!
Dorgon did not wait for death in the city. When Hauge's cavalry launched an attack outside the city, he also ordered the troops in the city to launch a counterattack and try to open a gap to break out...
And they are even worse!
After they left the city defense system and fought their way out, due to the lack of a large amount of artillery cover, the infantry who left the city were often bombarded by the Chu army's intensive field artillery as soon as they gathered. When they finally rushed up, they were bombarded by the Chu army's intensive infantry firepower. Interception.
After a fierce battle for half a day, more than 3,000 defenders were captured in the east of the city, but they could not shake the Chu army's position at all, let alone break through the gap to break through.
As for the Chu army, there were no more than 300 casualties.
After a day of fierce fighting, Hauge and Dorgon cooperated with each other, trying to open a gap and cover Dorgon's troops' plan to break out, but it completely failed.
Now, there are only three choices left for them!
The first is to continue to launch an offensive tomorrow, hoping to open a gap tomorrow, but this possibility is extremely small. If the Chu army's defense line could be opened so easily, they would not have suffered such a disastrous failure today.
Second, if the stalemate continues like this, Hauge's cavalry will be roaming and stationed on the outside. If they continue to be used up, they may be able to consume all the ammunition and food of the Chu barbarians on the opposite side. You must know the Chu army's guards The Army and the Eighth Army had already crossed the Daughter River and reached the eastern and northern areas of Jinzhou. While blocking the Jinzhou defenders from escaping eastward or to the north, they also basically gave up their logistical supply lines.
It's not that the supply line was completely cut off, but Hauge's cavalry was not a vegetarian. They couldn't break the Chu army's turtle shell, but it didn't mean that they couldn't block the Chu army's supply line.
Nowadays, the 50,000 to 60,000 people in the Chu army can only rely on the ammunition and food they carry.
But God knows how long these Chu troops can hold on... If these Chu troops can hold on for ten days and a half, the Chu barbarians behind will come and kill them. By then, Hauge and the others will be able to leave, but Dorgon is sure To be finished.
Third, that is to change direction, and Hauge's cavalry will try to attack the Chu army elsewhere. As long as the main force of the Chu army cannot come up, Jinzhou will not be in any danger.
The city defense of Jinzhou is quite reliable. There are many troops in the city. The Chu troops blocking the gate are all typical field troops. There are many field artillery, but there are no heavy artillery for siege. It is too difficult to attack the city. .
But... if Hauge turns around and attacks the main force of the Chu army, it is easy to get himself trapped. You must know that the main force of the Chu army has more than 20,000 cavalry and more infantry and artillery. There is no danger in a small fight. , and could not stop others from advancing at that time.
But if the attack is too severe and too deep, Hauge and his 30,000 cavalrymen may not be able to come back.
That night, Hauge and a group of generals discussed the matter but came to no conclusion.
Waiting until the next day, Hauge finally made up his mind and led his army directly south to Songshan...
The siege of Jinzhou cannot be solved, and Xingshan cannot be saved, and it cannot even stop the main advance of Chu Manzi, but the more than 10,000 defenders of Songshan City can still be saved.
When Dorgon was on the city gate tower, looking at Hauge's cavalry in the southeast as they retreated south one after another, he felt desperate.
"I knew I couldn't trust him. I thought he could take care of the overall situation, but I didn't expect that in the end he would put his personal grudges above the destiny of the country!"
On the same day, Dorgon muttered in front of Huang Taiji, who was still unconscious and lying on the bed: "I've played with everything, I've played with everything!"
Hauge once again ran south. When he arrived at Songshan, he took advantage of his absolute numerical superiority and forced a division of the Chu army that was blocking the gate to form a formation to protect themselves. In the end, he successfully captured more than 15,000 former defenders in Songshan City. .
Immediately after crossing the Xiaoling River and retreating to Xiaolinghe Fort and Dalinghe Fort, Hauge tried to rely on the Daling River to re-establish a defense line and buy time to wait for reinforcements from the Liaodong Peninsula and other directions.
As for Xingshan and Jinzhou, we can only pray that they can hold on longer and wait until Hauge gathers more reinforcements to launch a counterattack.
Of course, Hauge also sent people to risk their lives through the Chu army's blockade, sneaked into Jinzhou City at night, and sent a letter to Dorgon, explaining his actions, saying that he was retreating in order to advance. And will use all means to gather more troops to prepare for counterattack.
As late as a month or as early as half a month, he would be able to complete the counterattack and prepare to rescue Jinzhou Yunyun.
After Dorgon read the letter, he was filled with anger...
The one who ran away just ran away, saying that retreat is the way to advance, and being a bitch, she actually wanted to erect a memorial arch.
However, although he was still angry in his heart, he still had to count on Hauge's reinforcements if he wanted to save his life and save the lives of the 40,000 troops in the city.
Therefore, he suppressed his anger and wrote a letter to send someone across the Chu army's blockade to Xiaolinghe Fort, saying that he was not to blame for Hauge and hoped that he could gather reinforcements to rescue Jinzhou as soon as possible and preserve the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. .
Under the current situation, if Dorgon wanted to survive, he could only pray that Hauge would lead an army with more troops to the west for rescue.
Otherwise, Jinzhou will be finished sooner or later, and this time will definitely not be too long.
Especially on June 9, when he learned that Xingshan City had been captured by the Chu army and the entire garrison in the city was annihilated, Dorgon wrote three rescue letters in a row and sent dead soldiers to cross the Chu army's blockade to Xiaoling River. Ask for help.
These letters already have a pleading tone, and the tone is getting lower and lower every time.
In the first letter, Dorgon said that now was the critical moment for the Qing Dynasty and that everyone needed to work together to revitalize the Qing Dynasty. He also said that in order to avoid internal strife, he would support Hauge to supervise the country after the Chu barbarians were defeated.
In the second letter, after talking a lot of nonsense, it no longer said that after the Chu barbarians were defeated, they would support Haoge to supervise the country, but directly said that they would support Haoge and supervise the country now, and called Haoge Huang Taiji. The eldest son, the name of the governor of the country is justifiable and so on.
And by the time of the third letter, Dorgon had already directly addressed Hauge as His Royal Highness the Supervisor of the Kingdom, so that Hauge saw that everyone was an uncle and nephew, and because everyone was fighting for the Qing Dynasty, he also asked his nephew to win over his uncle. A handful...
It is a pity that none of Dorgon's three letters was actually sent out!
As the main force of the Chu army broke through Xingshan City and captured Songshan without a single soldier, a large number of the main force of the Chu army had successively reached the gates of Jinzhou City, and even some of the troops had bypassed Jinzhou and headed towards Xiaolinghe Fort. .
Jinzhou City has been completely surrounded by more than 100,000 troops from both inside and outside the Chu army. The inner layer is directly surrounded by tens of thousands of infantry, the middle layer is the main force of tens of thousands as a strategic reserve, and the outer layer is more than 20,000 cavalry troops.
The entire Jinzhou can be said to be tightly surrounded.
The dead soldiers sent by Dorgon were not very lucky, and they tried to pass through the Chu army's blockade during the day. As a result, they were discovered and killed by the Chu army's patrols one after another.
At the same time, these three letters asking for help from Dorgon were also found, and they were finally sent to the headquarters of the Third Army.
After Zuo Yingzhe, who was under Jinzhou City, saw these three letters asking for help from Dorgon, he said with a smile on his face: "It seems that Dorgon in Jinzhou City is almost unable to hold on anymore!"
"In this battle, we were able to annihilate at least 40,000 Dongji troops, which greatly eased the difficulty of the subsequent march into the Liaodong Plain!"
Guards Lieutenant General Qian Tai, Deputy Chief of Operations of the Guards on the side, said: "Once the heavy artillery troops are ready, we can attack the city. Jinzhou has been besieged by our army for a long time, and the morale of the troops in the city is extremely low. Anyone who wants to attack the city can't do it." It won’t take too long, there will be no suspense here in Jinzhou, but there are still at least 50,000 enemy troops at Dalinghe Fort.”
"Especially the more than 30,000 cavalry inside, they are a problem!"
"We failed to capture this cavalry in this battle. If we fail to capture them in subsequent battles, it will probably be more troublesome when we go deep into the interior of the Liaodong Plain!"
Zuo Yingzhe said: "There is nothing we can do about it. The leader on the opposite side is Hauge. He was frightened by us when we were at Guangning Zhongqian Post. Now that we are more vigilant, our main force comes over. They just ran away with the cavalry, making it difficult to chase them!"
"But the problem is not big. Although the cavalry has stronger strategic mobility, we still have a lot of cavalry in our hands. What's more important is that we are making good progress in Monan Mongolia. It is estimated that there will be remaining stubborn tribes in a few months. It’s almost done. Let’s go back and gather some Mongolian cavalry to march eastward to cooperate in the battle. Even if there are tens of thousands of people in Haug’s hands, they won’t be able to stand up.”
Zuo Yingzhe, Qian Tai and other senior generals in the Chu army were in a pretty good mood.
Although the start and course of the Jinzhou Campaign exceeded their expectations, they failed to follow the initial battle plan and directly captured hundreds of thousands of troops to make dumplings.
But it is not bad to be able to severely inflict heavy damage on Dongji and annihilate their 70,000 to 80,000 troops.
As for the remaining 40,000 to 50,000 people under Hauge's command, it is just like eating, they have to eat one bite at a time, and then just go back and continue fighting.
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Dorgon's letter asking for help did not arrive at Xiaolinghe Fort, nor was it sent to Hauge, but it did not mean that Hauge was unaware of Jinzhou's crisis, nor did it mean that he did not want to rescue Jinzhou.
In fact, when Haug retreated, he had thought about marching west again to rescue Jinzhou. If Haug had wanted to sit back and watch Dorgon's defeat and death, he would not have led his cavalry back north to Jinzhou in the first place, and A day's fierce attack at the foot of Jinzhou City cost more than a thousand cavalry casualties.
Therefore, Hauge is still willing to put aside his personal grudges with Dorgon and the competition for the throne, and is willing to lead troops to rescue Jinzhou and pull Dorgon out.
However, Hauge believed that the existing troops were insufficient to rescue Jinzhou. If he rushed westward for rescue, he would easily become a meat bun beating a dog, and there would be no return.
Therefore, he wanted to wait until reinforcements from the Liaodong Peninsula, eastern Mongolia, and the rear of Shenyang arrived before launching a rescue operation.
In his opinion, there are more than 40,000 artillery troops in Jinzhou City, dozens of large and small long-barreled artillery pieces, hundreds of old-style short robes left over from various Ming armies, and several new matchlock guns. Thousands, thousands of old shotguns.
There is a lot of food and ammunition in the city. After all, this place used to be the strategic rear area of the Eastern Liaoning Corridor, and it was an important material storage and transit place.
The grain and grass reserves in it, let alone 40,000 people, can feed even 100,000 people for at least three months.
There are also a lot of reserves of various types of gunpowder, cannonballs, and lead bullets.
According to Hauge, even if the Chu army's artillery fire is sharp, Jinzhou can hold on for at least more than a month. If they are lucky, it is even possible to hold on for more than three months.
However, this is just Hauge’s idea!
Although Hauge also fought against the Chu army's cavalry, he had also heard the rumble of cannons from a distance when the Chu army attacked the city.
However, strictly speaking, Hauge did not witness the Chu army's large-scale siege.
As for the grand scene when the Chu army attacked the city, it would be difficult to imagine it just by imagining it if you didn't see it with your own eyes.
Whether it was Dorgon, Hauge, or Qilhalang, the former defender of Xingshan City who was now killed on the battlefield, they relied on hearsay when they did not face the Chu army's heavy artillery attack in person. Even though the intensity of the Chu army's siege has been increased many times.
But in fact, their best imagination was still lower than the Chu army's true siege intensity.
During the Battle of Xingshan, Qilhalang was full of confidence from the beginning. Even though he had been besieged by many main forces of the Chu army in the first few days, Qilhalang was still confident at the time and believed that he could defend Xingshan for more than three months. No problem.
Because at the beginning, the artillery used by the Chu army was only field artillery from the artillery units of each division. Although there were some 18-pound light howitzers among them, the number was still not large.
It is still very difficult to forcibly attack a city like Xingshan City that is fully prepared with anti-artillery fortifications by relying solely on the division's artillery force.
If it was before the large-scale use of howitzers, faced with this kind of turtle shell, the Chu army would generally adopt methods such as long-term siege, gradual elimination, and fixed-point blasting.
Artillery fire suppression was used to cover the engineers and infantry troops digging trenches to advance. The engineers would then try to blast the city wall. Once the blast was successful, the heavily armored commandos would attack and seize the city through brutal close-range melee.
This method of siege was because the Dongji people had expected it and were confident of blocking it.
Because the Dongjiu people started off by relying on heavy armored infantry. When it comes to close combat with heavy armored infantry, this is their best fighting method.
But they didn't know in Qilhalang that the Chu army no longer played like this...
During the siege battle at Guangning Zhongqian, how did the Chu army attack the city?
Mainly relying on howitzers to kill. Under the continuous intensive bombardment of howitzers, a large number of enemy troops were killed and wounded.
At that time, Guangning Zhongqian Post lacked effective artillery defense fortifications, so it was quickly killed and wounded in large numbers, and finally surrendered on a large scale.
By the time of the Battle of Xingshan, Xingshan City already had relatively complete artillery defense fortifications, and the Chu army focused on using forty-eight-pound howitzers to concentrate firepower on the enemy's trenches and fortresses outside the city.
In particular, there are several forts outside the city where the enemy is stationed with a large number of troops. According to the early combat experience between the Ming Army and the Chu Army, such outside forts may seem simple, but they actually have good defense capabilities against solid shells. At the same time, because It is a protruding part. The artillery and musketeers deployed on it can cover the battlefield well and cause heavy damage to the attacker.
In the early city offensive and defensive battles between the Chu Army and the Ming Army, to a certain extent, the key battles between the two sides were repeated battles around these fortresses outside the city. Once these fortresses outside the city were successively captured by the Chu army, even if the defenders inside the city We still have the city wall, but there is basically nothing we can do about it.
In the Xingshan offensive and defensive battle, both sides actually relied on their early combat experience to fight...
Based on the experience of the Xinbiao Army of the former Ming Dynasty, the Dongji people believed that in order to defend Xingshan, they had to defend the fortresses outside the city. Therefore, they deployed a large number of troops and artillery in several fortresses outside the city.
Similarly, when the Chu army looked at the city defense system on the opposite side, they also believed that in order to attack the city, they must first attack the fortresses outside the city, so they assembled a large number of artillery and focused on shelling these fortresses.
As a result, in the middle and late stages of Xingshan City, that is, after the Chu army's heavy artillery troops arrived and went into battle, the casualties of the Xingshan defenders began to increase sharply!
Under the bombardment of almost countless forty-eight-pound, twenty-four-pound, and eighteen-pound howitzers, the forts outside the city built to resist solid shells, although there were trenches and anti-blast holes during the period to resist the howitzers, were not strong enough. But it is far from enough.
As a result, the defenders in the fortresses outside the city suffered a large number of casualties under the Chu army's artillery fire.
Moreover, the Chu army repeatedly made infantry assault gestures, forcing the Dongcheng defenders to crawl out of the artillery holes to prepare for defensive operations. However, often at this time, the Chu army's artillery troops came back with a burst of rapid fire...
Although this kind of rapid fire often uses howitzers fired from nine-jin light howitzers, eighteen-jin light howitzers and nine-jin field guns. The power of the shells is not great, but there are many nine-jin level artillery in the Chu army... …
After so many staged assaults, tactics that actually tried to trick the enemy out for artillery bombardment, the active forces in the fortresses outside the city often suffered extremely heavy casualties.
By the time the Chu army actually dispatched grenadiers to attack these fortresses outside the city, more than half of the defenders had been killed or injured, and they had completely lost their organization.
The enemy army had lost its organization, and the Chu army's assault force was barely any different from a lamb.
It is worth noting that in the Battle of Xingshan City, the Chu army's assault force, that is, the grenadier force, in addition to using grenades, as well as traditional weapons such as rifles, armor, and waist knives, also tried to use a large number of Suifa pistols.
And it was temporarily borrowed from the cavalry unit...
Because of the poor performance of the pistol cavalry in the early days, the Chu cavalry units now dislike the pistols. The dragoons in the divisional cavalry units think that dismounted infantry fighting with flintlock guns is enough. You are a fool to play with you. Pistol shooting...
Cavalry cavalrymen feel that pistols are far less useful than bows and arrows when playing mounted archery.
As for the cuirassiers and hussars of the Guards, they don't even use muskets and bows. They charge directly with their horses. Even in order to maintain the formation during the charge, morale and courage, etc., the Guards' Several cavalry regiments strictly prohibited soldiers from using pistols when charging, and violators were severely punished.
In several battles in the Western Liaoning Corridor this time, the cavalry troops basically did not use pistols. When it came to the Battle of Jinzhou, the Guards cavalry troops simply left all the issued pistols behind in order to reduce their load!
The pistols used by this group of cavalry were left there, so after negotiation, they were taken away by the grenadiers in the infantry unit.
Grenadiers... they claim to be elite infantry, capable of using any weapon and using it.
In regular field battles, grenadiers play in line and are good at using muskets.
Sometimes the front-line infantry commander will ask the grenadiers to spread out and deploy in front of the line formation, because the grenadiers have better marksmanship, are more brave, and are more organized, even if they form a skirmish formation. Finally, it can also fight effectively.
When fighting fortified areas, grenadiers will transform into heavy armored infantry... directly wearing a suit of heavy armor, and then holding steel knives, spears, muskets, grenades and other weapons to attack fortified areas.
As for the Suifa pistol, they felt that it should be useful in attacking fortresses.
Because when fighting fortified areas, grenadiers often encounter enemies who are also wearing heavy armor. At this time, cold weapons are not very effective, and muskets and light artillery are often needed to kill the enemy.
However, these firearms have great limitations in small and chaotic close combat, so the Chu army's grenadiers began to use Suifa pistols.
When attacking fortified areas, bring two pistols that have been loaded in advance. When you encounter an enemy, shoot first, and then kill them...
Although Suifa's pistol has a limited range, its lethality at close range is quite good. At least the Dongjiu people's armor on the opposite side cannot stop bullets.
The Suifa pistol was in the hands of the grenadiers and was used for the first time in offensive operations. It performed quite well. So within a few days, the Suifa pistols that originally belonged to the cavalry units were distributed to various grenadier units.
This can be regarded as the Suifa Pistol of the Dachu Empire, and it has performed well in actual combat for the first time... In the past, it was so miserable that the senior officials wanted to completely dismantle the Suifa Pistol...
At the same time, the excellent performance of the Suifa pistol in the grenadiers also made the top brass of the Chu army pay attention to the problem of grenadier firearms and equipment in critical operations.
When the existing grenadiers are fighting fortified areas, they mainly have three types of firearms: Suifa rifles, two-and-a-half-pound field guns, and nine-jin light howitzers. Among them, the nine-jin light howitzer is very good. This thing is actually specially designed for attacking fortified areas. The design and equipment are very light, have curved ballistics and are very practical.
But the two-and-a-half-pound field cannon and the Suifa rifle will not work. Field cannons are not suitable for use in critical battles. When used by grenadiers, they are directly pulled up and used as direct-aimed shotguns...
The rate of fire of Suifa pistol is too slow. In hand-to-hand combat, the enemy will not give you time to reload after firing!
Today's grenadiers urgently need an individual firearm for use in critical battles.
The Third Army has reported to Jinling that it is developing this offensive weapon, but it takes too long for a new weapon to go from design to testing to production and then to service.
At least, this kind of weapon will not be available in the Battle of Jinzhou. The grenadiers of the Third Army must continue to use their original weapons and equipment when fighting against Jinzhou.
Considering the need to attack difficult situations, grenadiers in various units began to practice hard on pistol marksmanship...
On June 15th of the seventh year of Chengshun, the Third Army, which had completed preliminary preparations, officially launched a general attack on Jinzhou!
On June 17, after two days of fighting, the Chu army successfully captured seven fortresses outside Jinzhou City. In the process, they killed at least 5,000 enemy troops.
On June 18, the Chu army began to attack the front line of the Jinzhou city wall. The eastern defenders suffered heavy casualties. Dorgon personally went to the top of the city to supervise the battle, and his left arm was injured by shrapnel.
On June 19, the Chu army used a large number of heavy artillery to blast across a section of the city wall in the southeast. A fierce battle ensued between the two sides. The Chu army repeated its old tricks, using howitzers to rapidly fire in the gaps between infantry attacks, causing a large number of casualties to the Dong captives. .
The fierce fighting lasted until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Chu army completely captured the ruins of this section of the city wall.
At this point, the Chu army had completely pried open the turtle shell of Jinzhou.
In the past few days, the cumulative casualties in Dongluo have exceeded 10,000, and even the clan members have died as many as a dozen, including a Baile and even a Beizi!
If Jinzhou had not been completely surrounded, they had no way to escape, and if Dorgon and even Huang Taiji were still in the city, they would have collapsed long ago and would not be able to hold on now.
It's a pity that the trapped beast still fighting is of no use in front of the Chu army's artillery fire.
On the night of June 19th, the Chu army and the Dongluo people continued to fight fiercely in the night. By daybreak, the Chu army had captured almost all the city walls, and the Dongluo troops retreated to various buildings in the city.
On June 20th, the Chu army began to advance towards the city, preparing to clear out the remaining enemies in the city. As a result, the troops entering the city were frequently ambushed by enemy troops relying on various buildings. Zuo Yingzhe was furious and ordered his troops to attack with fire.
The fire in Jinzhou City burned for a day and a night!
On June 23, when the Chu army entered the city again, Jinzhou City was in ruins, and there were less than three thousand remaining captive soldiers in the city.
According to the accounts of the remnant soldiers, Huang Taiji, Dorgon and other important figures who were captured in the East were all buried in the fire!
Poor Huang Taiji fell into a coma due to a stroke at the beginning of the Liaoxi Campaign and did not wake up until the moment he was burned to death.
On the same day, Zuo Yingzhe once again wrote a victory report in his own hand and sent it to Jinling City. He also asked the ministries to spread the news that Huang Taiji and Dorgon were dead, so as to undermine the morale of the remnants of the Eastern Capture as much as possible and shake the resistance confidence of the Monan Mongolian ministries.
On June 25, after learning that the city of Jinzhou had been destroyed and that Huang Taiji and others were dead, Hauge ascended the throne as emperor at Dalinghe Fort with the support of tens of thousands of soldiers captured from the East, and was awarded the title of "Weiwu".
The next day, Hauge led his troops to evacuate from Dalinghe Fort and headed towards the hinterland of the northeastern interior.
At the same time, all ministries in the Liaodong Peninsula were ordered to abandon the Liaodong Peninsula and retreat to the hinterland of the northeastern interior.
This move also announced that the Eastern Capture and Puppet Qing Dynasty represented by Hauge had completely withdrawn its troops from the western Liaoning and Liaodong peninsulas, and retracted its power back to the hinterland of the northeastern hinterland. Its strategy had undergone a comprehensive change!
As for the Great Chu Empire, after capturing Guangning, Gaizhou and other places, they pushed the battle line to the southern line of the Liaohe River. The Ninth Army and the Seventh Army successfully returned to the Empress Palace near the mouth of the Liaohe River, and also in the Eighth Army. In the middle of the month, they stopped advancing towards the northeastern inland plains!
On the one hand, the battle will continue for several months and require rest and replenishment. On the other hand, the battle will continue to the northeast. The supply line can easily stretch hundreds of kilometers. Without complete preparations, the risk is too great.
The strategic change of both sides also meant that after August of the seventh year of Chengshun, the war between the Chu Empire and the Eastern Bans hit a pause button.
However, this pause button will definitely not last long. After the Chu army has rested and completed preparations for a new round of offensive, it will be time for the Chu army to enter the hinterland of the Liao River and capture Shenyang City.
