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Chapter 550 Huang Taiji's death (8700 chapters)

Hauge dreamed of wanting Dorgon to die in battle, so that he could take over the power of the entire Eastern Captive Puppet Qing Dynasty, instead of sharing power equally with Dorgon as it is now.

After struggling for a long time, Hauge finally led more than 3 cavalry north to meet Dorgon.

It doesn't matter whether Dorgon is dead or not. The important thing is that the more than 4 troops in Jinzhou City can no longer be damaged, otherwise they will be completely finished in captivity.

What Hauge wants is a powerful Eastern Captive Puppet Qing Dynasty, not a Eastern Captive Puppet Qing Dynasty that is about to be completely wiped out with only remnants of soldiers and defeated generals left.

So even though he didn't like Dorgon very much and wished he would die on the battlefield, Hauge still brought his cavalry back north to meet the Dongyao defenders in the direction of Jinzhou.

As for the defenders on Xingshan, although the Chu army is attacking fiercely, they should be able to defend for a while, not bad for the past few days.

However, when Hauge led more than 3 cavalry northward, the Chu army also made related moves!
During the last few days of the Battle of Jinzhou, the senior leaders of the Third Army were actually a little confused, because until now, basically the direction of the battle has not followed the direction they planned...

At the beginning, they wanted to hold back more Dongbang people by gradually escalating, but because of the active retreat of the enemy troops on Tashan, they made a misjudgment and directly launched a large-scale attack.

And after they surrounded Xingshan, the Chu army discovered that the Dongyao people on the opposite side hadn't even run away... At this time, they realized later that the Dongyao people really didn't think about retreating directly.

So they quickly mobilized troops 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 went to the northern part of Jinzhou. The route of the rout.

But yesterday, the Chu army discovered that the enemy cavalry appeared not far from Xingshan. They thought that the Dongyao people were going to rescue them. In the siege, a first-class division was dispatched to the east to cooperate with the First Cavalry Army and the Guards Cavalry Lan to fight for aid.

As a result, before the Chu army's troops could maneuver in place, the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side went north again...

The whole battle situation seems 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 had never changed, that is, to wipe out as many of the enemy's vital forces as possible.

The enemy troops on Xingshan City were already under siege, and it was a matter of time before they could be swallowed, so Zuo Yingzhe did not rush to attack by force, but sent a division that was scheduled to intercept the enemy cavalry to Songshan City.

As for the enemy cavalry...they are cavalry anyway, and it's hard to chase anyway, so let them go to Jinzhou.

Now the tactical goal of the Chu army has been placed on the siege of Songshan.

According to intelligence, there are also about 5000 garrison troops in Songshan. If they are swallowed up, then the vitality of the Dongyao people will be weakened.

So, 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 Dongyao people's cavalry going north, the Eighth Army decisively went south and approached Jinzhou to block it directly, and built a large number of field fortifications
More than 2 soldiers from the Eighth Army and more than 4000 guards, plus more than 6 Mongolian cavalry, totaled more than [-] troops, directly blocking the north and east of Jinzhou.

As for the west and the south, that is the Naughty River... If the Dong captives in Jinzhou City dare to escape from this direction, let’s not mention how difficult it is to escape across the river, but it’s no different from running into the muzzle of the Chu army’s guns. .

As a result, Hauge managed to take [-] cavalry northward to a few kilometers southeast of Jinzhou, but what he saw was a dense parapet and other simple field fortifications.

Jinzhou was completely blocked by the Chu army.

How to do?
Hauge looked at the Chu army's position in front of him, and after thinking for a long time, he sent cavalry to try to attack...

However, as soon as their cavalry went up, they were bombarded by a large number of field artillery. After finally rushing up to shoot arrows, they were swept across a large area by the dense flintlock firepower of the Chu army!

On that day, the cavalry of the Eastern Captives bravely fought bloody battles against the artillery shells and bullets of the Chu army, and launched four large-scale attacks, trying to create a passage for the defenders in the city.

As a result, it was a full six or seven hours from morning to afternoon.

The fierce battle caused Hauge's troops to pay more than 1000 cavalry casualties!

However, they couldn't even break through the forefront of the Chu army...

And the casualties caused to the Chu army were no more than a hundred!

And Dorgon in the city did not wait to die. When the cavalry under Hauge launched an attack outside the city, he also ordered the troops in the city to launch a counterattack, trying to open a gap to break through...

And they are even worse!
After they left the city defense system and came out, due to the lack of a large number of artillery cover, the infantry who went out of the city were often bombarded by the intensive field artillery of the Chu army as soon as they assembled, and they finally rushed up and were fired by the intensive infantry firepower of the Chu army. intercept.

After half a day of fierce fighting, there were more than 3000 defenders in the east of the city, but the Chu army's position was not shaken at all, let alone broke through the gap to break through.

As for the Chu army, there were no more than three hundred casualties.

After a day of fierce fighting, Hauge and Dorgon cooperated with each other, trying to open the gap and cover Dorgon's plan to break out of the encirclement, but it was completely in vain.

Now, there are only three choices left for them!

The first is to continue to launch a fierce attack tomorrow, hoping to open the gap tomorrow, but this possibility is extremely small. If the Chu army's defense line is so easy to open, they will not fail so badly today.

Second, if the stalemate continues, Hauge's cavalry will roam and garrison on the periphery. If it continues to be exhausted, it may be possible to exhaust the ammunition and food of the Chu barbarians on the opposite side. You must know that the guards of the Chu army The army and the eighth army have crossed the daughter river and killed the eastern and northern areas of Jinzhou. While blocking the Jinzhou defenders from fleeing east or north, they basically gave up their own logistics supply lines.

It's not that the supply line has been completely cut off, but Hauge's cavalry are not vegetarians. They can't break the tortoise shell of the Chu army, but it doesn't mean they can't block the Chu army's supply line.

Now the Chu army's 6 or [-] people can only rely on the ammunition and food they carry.

But God knows how long these Chu troops can persist... If these Chu troops can persist for ten days and a half months, the Chu barbarians will come up later, and Haoge and the others can leave at that time, but Dorgon is sure To be finished.

The third is to change the direction, and the cavalry under Hauge will try to attack the Chu army in other places. 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 army blocking the gate is a typical field army. There are many field artillery, but there is no heavy artillery for siege. It is too difficult to attack the city. .

But... If Hauge turns around to attack the main force of the Chu army, it is easy to trap himself. You must know that the main force of the Chu army has more than 2 cavalry and more infantry and artillery. Although there is no danger in small fights , At that time, it couldn't stop others from advancing.

But if the fight was too hard and too deep, Hauge's [-] cavalry might not be able to come back after leaving.

That night, Hauge and a group of generals from the East captives discussed and discussed, but they couldn't reach a conclusion.

On the second day, Hauge finally made up his mind and led his army south to Songshan...

The siege of Jinzhou cannot be solved, Xingshan can't be rescued, and it can't even stop Chu Manzi's main force from advancing, but the more than 1 defenders in Songshan City can still be saved.

When Dorgon was on the top of the city gate, watching the cavalry under Hauge in the southeast retreating to the south one after another, he was in despair.

"I knew that I couldn't trust him, and I thought he could take care of the overall situation, but I didn't expect him to put his personal grievances above the national destiny in the end!"

That day, Dorgon murmured in front of Huang Taiji, who was still unconscious and lying on the bed: "It's all played, everything has been played!"

Hauge ran south again, and when he arrived at Songshan, he insisted on the absolute numerical advantage, forcing a division of the Chu army blocking the gate to form an formation to protect themselves, and finally successfully rescued the defenders in Songshan City [-] years ago. .

Immediately after crossing the Xiaoling River and retreating to the Xiaolinghe Fort and Dalinghe Fort, Hauge wanted to try to rely on the Daling River to re-establish the 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 launch a counterattack after Hauge gathers more reinforcements.

Of course, Hauge also sent someone to cross the blockade of the Chu army, and sneaked into Jinzhou City in the dark, and sent a letter to Dorgon, explaining what he did, saying that he was advancing by retreating, And will use all means to gather more troops to prepare for the counterattack.

One month later, half a month earlier, he will be able to complete the counterattack and prepare to rescue Jinzhou Yunyun.

After Dorgon finished reading the letter, his heart was filled with anger...

Those who run are just running, and they say that retreat is the only way to advance, and they want to set up a torii even after being a bitch.

However, even though he has been angry so far, if he wants to save his life and the lives of the [-] troops in the city, he still has to rely on Hauge's reinforcements.

Therefore, he suppressed his anger and wrote a letter to send people across the blockade of the Chu army to Xiaolinghe Fort, saying that he did not blame 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 wants to survive, he can only pray for Hauge to bring as many troops as possible to rescue him westward.

Otherwise, Jinzhou will be finished sooner or later, and this time will definitely not be too long.

Especially on June [-]th, when he learned that Xingshan City was breached by the Chu army and the entire defenders in the city were wiped out, Dorgon wrote three rescue letters in one day and sent the dead to cross the Chu army's blockade to Xiaolinghe. call for help.

These letters have already used the tone of prayer, and the tone of each letter is lower and lower.

In the first letter, Dorgon said that now is the time when the Qing Dynasty is in crisis, and everyone needs to work together to revitalize the Qing Dynasty. He also said that in order to avoid internal friction, he will support Haoge to supervise the country after the Chu barbarians are defeated.

The second letter, after talking a lot of nonsense, didn't say that the Chu Manzi would support Haoge to supervise the country after the repulsion, but directly said that he would support Haoge to supervise the country now, and called Haoge as Huang Taiji The eldest son, the name of Jian Guo is justified.

And when the third letter came, Dorgon had already directly called Hauge His Royal Highness Jian Guo, so that Hauge could see that everyone was an uncle and nephew, and because everyone was fighting for the Qing Dynasty, he also asked his nephew to be his uncle. a handful of...

It's a pity that none of these three letters from Dorgon were actually sent out!
After the main force of the Chu army broke through Xingshan City and captured Songshan without a single soldier, a large number of the main forces of the Chu army have already reached the city of Jinzhou one after another, and some of the troops have even bypassed Jinzhou and headed towards Xiaolinghe Fort. .

Jinzhou City has been completely surrounded by more than 2 troops inside and outside the Chu army. There are tens of thousands of infantry directly besieged in the inner layer, tens of thousands of main troops as a strategic reserve in the middle layer, and more than [-] cavalry troops in the outer layer.

The entire Jinzhou can be said to be tightly besieged.

The dead soldiers sent by Dorgon were not very lucky, and they tried to pass through the blockade of the Chu army during the day, but were discovered and killed by the patrolling forces of the Chu army one after another.

At the same time, the three Dorgon letters asking for help were also found, and were finally sent to the headquarters of the Third Army.

Zuo Yingzhe in Jinzhou City saw the three letters asking for help from Dorgon, and said with a smile on his face: "It seems that Dorgon in Jinzhou City is almost unable to hold on!"

"In this battle, we were able to annihilate at least [-] troops from the Eastern Captives, which greatly eased the difficulty of subsequent marches into the Liaodong Plain!"

Lieutenant General Qian Taijinwei, the deputy director of operations of the Guards, said: "After the heavy artillery units are ready, they 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. It doesn't take too long, there is no suspense on the Jinzhou side, but there are at least 5 enemy troops on the Dalinghe Fort."

"Especially the more than 3 cavalry inside, it is a trouble!"

"We failed to catch this cavalry in this battle. If we also fail to catch them in the follow-up battle, then it will be more troublesome when we go deep into the inland of the Liaodong Plain!"

Zuo Yingzhe said: "There's nothing we can do about it. Hauge is leading the army on the opposite side. He was scared of being beaten by us when we were in Guangning Zhongqian before. With a stronger sense of vigilance, our main force came over. They ran away with the cavalry, and it was hard to chase them!"

"But it's not a big problem. Although the cavalry has stronger strategic maneuverability, we still have a lot of cavalry. 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 ready to be cleaned up, and some Mongolian cavalry will be assembled to fight eastward, even if there are tens of thousands of people in Hauge's hands, he won't be able to jump up."

Zuo Yingzhe, Qian Tai and other senior generals in the Chu army were all in a pretty good mood.

Although the beginning and process of the Jinzhou campaign exceeded their expectations, they failed to match the initial battle plan and directly captured 10,000+ troops into dumplings.

However, it is not bad to be able to severely damage the Eastern captives and annihilate their [-] to [-] troops.

As for the remaining 5 or [-] people under Hauge's subordinates, they have to eat one bite at a time, just like eating, and just continue to fight back.

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Dorgon's letter for help did not reach Xiaolinghe Fort, let alone Hauge, but it does not mean that Hauge is unaware of Jinzhou's crisis, nor does it mean that he does not want to rescue Jinzhou.

In fact, when Hauge retreated from before, he thought about going west to rescue Jinzhou again. If Hauge had the heart to sit and watch Dorgon's defeat and death, he would not have returned to Jinzhou with his cavalry at the beginning, and he would not have returned to Jinzhou in the first place. The Jinzhou city stormed for a day, and more than 1000 cavalry casualties were paid.

Therefore, Hauge is still willing to put aside his personal grievances with Dorgon and the competition for the throne, and is willing to lead troops to rescue Jinzhou, and pull Dorgon.

However, Hauge thinks that the existing troops are not enough to rescue Jinzhou. If he rushes westward to rescue, he will easily become a meat bun and beat a dog, and he will never return.

Therefore, he wanted to wait until the arrival of reinforcements from the Liaodong Peninsula, eastern Mongolia, and the rear of Shenyang before launching a rescue operation.

In his opinion, there are more than 4 cannons in Jinzhou City, dozens of large and small long-barreled cannons, hundreds of old-style short robes left by the Ming army, and new-style arquebus guns. There are thousands of them, and there are also thousands of old-style shotguns.

There is a lot of food and ammunition in the city. After all, this place used to be a strategic rear area in the direction of the Liaoxi Corridor, where important materials were hoarded and transited.

Let alone 4 people, even 10 people would be able to feed them for at least three months.

There are also a lot of reserves of various types of gunpowder, shells, and lead bullets.

From Hauge's point of view, even if the Chu army's artillery fire is sharp, Jinzhou can persist for at least one month, and if lucky, it may even persist for more than three months.

But, this is just Hauge's idea!

Although Hauge had also fought against the cavalry of the Chu army, he had also heard the rumble of cannons from a distance when the Chu army attacked the city.

However, strictly speaking, Hauge never witnessed the large-scale siege of the city by the Chu army.

And the grand scene when the Chu army attacked the city, if you didn't see it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine it just by imagination.

Whether Dorgon, Hauge, or the former general of Xingshan City, or Qierhalang who has died in battle, they relied on hearsay when they were not facing the heavy artillery attack of the Chu army. Even if the intensity of the Chu army's siege has been raised many times.

But in fact, their maximum imagination is still lower than the real siege intensity of the Chu army.

During the Battle of Xingshan, Qierhalang 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, Qierhalang was still full of confidence at that time, thinking that he could hold Xingshan for more than three months. No problem.

Because at the beginning, the only artillery used by the Chu army was the field artillery of the artillery units of each division. Although there were some [-]-jin light howitzers among them, the number was still not many.

It is still very difficult to forcibly attack Xingshan City, which is fully prepared for artillery fortifications, relying on the artillery force of the division alone.

If it is replaced with a howitzer before large-scale service, the Chu army will generally adopt methods such as long-term siege, gradual elimination, and fixed-point blasting in the face of this kind of tortoise shell.

Suppressing artillery fire, covering engineers and infantry units to dig trenches and rush forward, follow-up engineers will try to blast the city wall. Once the blasting is successful, then the heavy armored commando will be killed, and the city will be captured through tragic close-range melee fighting.

And this method of siege was the reason why the Dongbang people had expected it and had the confidence to block it.

Because the Dongyao people started their business by relying on heavy armored infantry. Speaking of close combat with heavy armored infantry, this is their best way of fighting.

But in Qierhalang they don't know that the Chu army doesn't play like this anymore...

During the siege of Guangning Zhongqian, how did the Chu army attack the city?
Mainly rely on the killing of howitzers, under the continuous and intensive bombardment of howitzers, a large number of active forces of the enemy are killed.

At that time, Guangning Zhongqian lacked effective artillery 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 anti-artillery fortifications, while the Chu army focused on using 48-jin howitzers to attack the enemy's trenches and fortresses outside the city with concentrated firepower.

Especially the fortresses outside the city where the enemy garrisoned a large number of troops. According to the early battle experience between the Ming army and the Chu army, this kind of fortress outside the city seems simple, but it actually has a good defense against solid shells. It is the protruding part, the artillery and musketeers deployed on it can well cover the battlefield 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 of 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 in the city It also has a city wall, but it is basically powerless.

In the offensive and defensive battle of Xingshan, both sides actually relied on their early combat experience to fight...

Based on the experience of the new standard army in the previous Ming Dynasty, the Dongyao people believed that to defend Xingshan, they had to defend the forts outside the city, so they deployed a large number of troops and artillery in several forts 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 forts outside the city, so they assembled a large number of artillery and focused on bombarding these fortresses.

Ever since, in the middle and late stages of Xingshan City, that is, after the heavy artillery troops of the Chu army arrived and went into battle, the casualties of Xingshan defenders began to increase sharply!

Under the bombardment of almost countless 48-jin, 24-jin, and [-]-jin howitzers, those fortresses outside the city built to resist solid shells, although there were also trenches and anti-bunker holes to resist howitzers during the period, their strength was Not enough.

As a result, a large number of guards in these fortresses outside the city were killed and injured by the artillery fire of the Chu army.

Moreover, the Chu army has repeatedly made infantry assault postures, forcing the defenders of Dongyao to crawl out of the artillery holes to prepare for defensive operations, but often at this time, the artillery troops of the Chu army come back and shoot rapidly...

Although this kind of rapid fire is often the howitzer fired by the nine-pound light howitzer, the eighteen-pound light howitzer and the nine-pound field gun, the power of the shells is not great, but there are many nine-pound artillery in the Chu army... …

After several times of assaults, in fact trying to trick the enemy out of the shelling tactics, the living forces in these fortresses outside the city often suffered extremely heavy casualties.

By the time the Chu army actually dispatched grenadier troops to attack these fortresses outside the city, more than half of the defenders had already been killed or injured, and they had completely lost their organization.

The enemy army that has lost its organization is barely different from the lamb in the assault troops of the Chu army.

It is worth noting that in the Battle of Xingshan City, in addition to using hand grenades, traditional weapons such as rifles, armor, and waist knives, the Chu army’s assault troops, that is, the grenadiers, also tried to use a large number of quick-fire pistols.

And it was temporarily borrowed from the cavalry unit...

Because of the poor performance of the pistol cavalry in the early days, the cavalry troops of the Chu Army are now very displeased with the pistols. The dragoons in the division cavalry troops think that it is enough to dismount and use flintlocks for infantry. Only fools will play with you. Pistol shooting...

Cavalry and archery cavalry feel that pistols are far less useful than bows and arrows when playing cavalry and archery.

As for the cuirassiers and hussars of the Guards, they don't even use muskets and bows. Several cavalry regiments strictly forbid soldiers to use pistols when charging, and offenders will be severely punished.

In the several battles in the Liaoxi Corridor this time, the cavalry units basically never used pistols. When it came to the Battle of Jinzhou, the Guards cavalry units simply left all the pistols issued behind them in order to reduce the burden!
The pistols used by this group of cavalry were also left, so after negotiation, they were taken away by the grenadiers in the infantry.

Grenadiers... They claim to be elite infantry, they can use any weapon, and they can use it.

In regular field battles, grenadiers play in line and are good at using muskets.

Sometimes the front-line infantry commanders will let the grenadiers spread out and deploy in front of the line formation, because the grenadiers have better marksmanship, braver, and higher organization, even if they form a skirmish formation After that, it can also fight effectively.

During the tough battle, the grenadiers will turn into heavy armored infantry... directly wear a heavy armor, and then hold steel knives, spears, muskets, grenades and other weapons to attack tough battles.

As for the quick-fire pistol, they think it should be usable in battle.

Because grenadiers often encounter enemy troops who are also wearing heavy armor during battles. At this time, cold weapons are not effective, and muskets and light artillery are often needed to kill the enemy.

However, these firearms are very limited in the narrow and chaotic close combat, so the grenadiers of the Chu army began to use the pistols.

When attacking a tough battle, bring two quick-fire pistols that have been loaded in advance, and shoot first when encountering the enemy, and then kill them...

Although the Suifei pistol has a limited range and a very short range, its lethality in close range is quite good. At least the armor of the Dongbao people on the opposite side cannot stop the bullets.

In the hands of the grenadiers, the quick-fire pistols were used for the first time in a fortified battle, and they performed quite well. So within a few days, the quick-fire pistols that originally belonged to the cavalry unit were distributed to the grenadier units.

This can be regarded as the Suifa pistol of the Great Chu Empire, and it is the first time that it has performed well in actual combat... In the past, it was so miserable that the high-level officials wanted to completely remove the Suifa pistol...

At the same time, the excellent performance of the suifa pistol in the grenadiers also made the top leaders of the Chu army pay attention to the firearms and equipment of the grenadiers in the battle of fortifications.

The existing grenadiers mainly have three kinds of firearms when they are fighting fortifications, the two-and-a-half-pound field gun, and the nine-pound light howitzer. Among them, the nine-pound light howitzer is very good. And designed, and equipped, very light, curved trajectory, very practical.

But the two-and-a-half-pound field cannon and quick-firing rifle are not enough. Field cannons are not suitable for use in tough battles. When grenadiers use them, they are all directly pulled up and used as direct-aiming shotguns...

The rapid fire pistol is too slow. In hand-to-hand combat, the enemy will not give you time to reload for the second time after shooting!

Today's grenadiers urgently need an individual firearm for use in tough battles.

The Third Army has already reported to Jinling that it has gently developed this kind of tackling weapon, but it takes too long for a new type of weapon to go from design to testing to production and then to service.

At least, this kind of weapon could not be waited for in the Battle of Jinzhou. The grenadiers of the Third Army had to continue to use the original weapons and equipment when fighting Jinzhou.

Considering the needs of tackling tough situations, the grenadiers in each unit began to practice hard pistol marksmanship...

On June [-]th of the seventh year of Chengshun, the third group army, which had completed its preliminary preparations, officially launched its general attack on Jinzhou!

On June 5000, after two days of fighting, the Chu army successfully captured seven fortresses outside the city of Jinzhou, killing and wounding at least [-] enemy troops in the process.

On June [-], the Chu army launched an attack on the front line of the Jinzhou city wall. The Dongyao 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 [-]th, the Chu army used a large number of heavy artillery to blast across a section of the city wall in the southeast, and then the two sides fought fiercely around this place. .

The fierce fighting lasted until about four o'clock in the afternoon, and the Chu army completely captured the ruins of this section of the city wall.

So far, the Chu army has completely opened the tortoise shell of Jinzhou.

And in the past few days, the cumulative casualties of the Eastern Captives have exceeded ten thousand, and even the clan members have died as many as a dozen, including a Baylor and even a Beizi!

If Jinzhou hadn't been completely surrounded, they could not escape, and Dorgon was still in the city, and even Huang Taiji was still there, they probably collapsed a long time ago, and they wouldn't be able to persist until now.

It's a pity that it's useless for a trapped beast to fight against the artillery fire of the Chu army.

On the night of June [-]th, the Chu army and the Dongyao people continued to fight fiercely in the dark. By dawn, the Chu army had captured almost all the city walls, and the Dongyao people retreated to all the buildings in the city.

On June [-]th, the Chu army began to advance towards the city, preparing to wipe out the remaining enemies in the city. As a result, the troops entering the city were frequently ambushed by the enemy relying on various buildings. Zuo Yingzhe was furious and ordered the 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 already in ruins, and there were less than [-] remnants of the captives in the city.

According to the account of the remnant soldiers, Huang Taiji, Dorgon and other important people 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 Battle of Liaoxi, and did not wake up until the moment he was burned to death.

On the same day, Zuo Yingzhe once again personally wrote the victory report, sent it to Jinling City, and asked all the ministries to publicize the news that Huang Taiji and Dorgon were dead, trying to hit the morale of the remnants of the Eastern Captives as much as possible, and shake the resistance confidence of the various ministries in Monan Mongolia.

On June 25th, after learning that Jinzhou City was broken and Huang Taiji and others were dead, Hauge ascended the throne in Dalinghe Fort with the support of tens of thousands of captive soldiers, and was granted the reign title of "Weiwu".

The next day, Hauge led his army to withdraw from Dalinghe Fort and headed for the hinterland of the northeast inland.

At the same time, all ministries of the Liaodong Peninsula were ordered to abandon the Liaodong Peninsula and retreat to the hinterland of the northeast inland.

This move also announced that the Puppet Qing Dynasty, represented by Hauge, had completely withdrawn its troops from Liaoxi and Liaodong Peninsula, and retracted its forces back to the hinterland of the northeast inland. Its strategy has undergone a comprehensive change!
As for the Great Chu Empire, after capturing Guangning, Gaizhou and other places, and pushing the battle line to the south of the Liaohe River, the Ninth Army and the Seventh Army successfully returned to the Niangniang Palace near the mouth of the Liaohe River. In the middle of the month, the pace of continuing to advance to the northeast inland plain stopped!

On the one hand, it will continue to fight for several months, requiring rest and replenishment, while on the other hand, it will continue to fight in the northeast direction, and the supply line will be hundreds of kilometers at every turn. It is too risky to be fully prepared.

The strategic change of the two sides also meant that after August of the seventh year of Chengshun, the war between the Great Chu Empire and the Eastern Captives had pressed a pause button.

However, this pause button will definitely not last for too long. After the Chu army has finished its rest and completed preparations for a new round of offensive, then it will be time for the Chu army to enter the hinterland of Liaohe and capture Shenyang City.

(End of this chapter)