The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 204 Fighting in Chongqing ([-])

There was a lot of shouting and killing in the upper and lower walls of the city, and the soldiers swayed their blood to their heart's content!

Habai led more than a thousand Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers to the field!

One of them and two horses, they rode into the battlefield with bows and arrows on their backs.

A thousand cavalry seemed to disperse in an instant, in groups of three or five, and headed back towards the city wall.

They are not iron-headed, and they are going to ride horses into the city wall.

Instead, they are going to use the maneuverability of the cavalry and their excellent shooting skills to kill and injure the enemy defending the city.

The cavalry rode their horses past the city, and the knights on horseback bent their bows and set arrows, one after another heading towards the city.

puff!puff!puff!

Driven by the acceleration of the horse, the lethality of the arrow is stronger.

Fortunately, the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army who were protected by cotton armor, because they were at the top of the city and were still wearing cotton armor, even if they were shot by arrows, they would not necessarily die.

It is still the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, not the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the green battalion soldiers also have a certain amount of cotton armor, and the quality is guaranteed.

But those folk husbands are different!

They were only wearing thin cotton coats, and as long as they were shot by arrows, the best result would be serious injuries.

There are screams from the top of the city!
The ladder leaned against the city wall, and the siege engine was also pushed into the city gate.

Several tall and strong warriors pushed the battering ram together.

The battering ram hit the thick city gate heavily.

The latch of the city gate made a strange creaking sound, and this time, it was almost twisted and deformed by the impact.

On the tall Jinglan cart, the archers of the Ming army bent their bows and set arrows, and shot at the Qing army at the top of the city.

The two sides fought fiercely, and from time to time, soldiers of the Ming army screamed and fell from the Jinglan cart!

"kill!"

"Kill the thief!"

"..."

The fighting is getting more and more intense!
A Ming army climbed to the city along the ladder cart, and a huge rolling log was carried onto the ladder cart by the peasants.

The rolling wood rolls down the inclined angle of the ladder car!
Under the support of gravity and acceleration, the rolling down became faster and faster.

In the blink of an eye, many Ming soldiers were crushed to death by heavy rolling logs, or fell from the ladder.

Head hit the ground, blood and brains splashed!
A barrel of kerosene was poured into the formation of the Ming army, and several ignited rockets were fired at the landing point of the oil barrel.

In an instant, the fire exploded!
Engulfed the surrounding soldiers of the Ming army!

The cotton armor on the soldiers of the Ming army became the best igniter.

In an instant, the soldiers of the Ming army in cotton armor turned into individual torches.

The hysterical screams kept ringing!
……

After fighting hard for half a day, the Ming army, whose attacks were repeatedly frustrated, finally couldn't hold on anymore. Under the city walls of Chongqing, corpses were left all over the ground, fading away like the ebb tide.

The Qing army at the head of the city cheered for the victory in the battle of defending the city!
The morale of the Ming army under the city was extremely low!
In the Ming army camp, Yongli's face was full of sorrow, Habai's expression was also grim, and Li Laiheng sat by the side without saying a word!

Yongli asked Habai.

"General Habai, do you want to continue fighting?"

"Chongqing's city defenses are strong, and I'm afraid it won't be able to be captured in a short while!"

Habai shook his head and said in a low voice.

"If it's not easy to fight, you have to fight!"

"We have already won Chengdu. If we take Chongqing again, we will be able to connect the whole of Sichuan and Sichuan."

"At that time, we will march into Hanzhong and try to plot Guanzhong. Only in this way can the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty be successful!"

Habai's strategic intentions are obvious!

He just wanted to take advantage of the delay in the transmission of news, the Manchu and Qing courts could not react, and the local troops did not dare to mobilize without authorization.

Take Sichuan and Shu first, then attack Hanzhong, and finally attack Guanzhong. Based on the strong soldiers of the Three Qins in Guanzhong, we will fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
But Yongli said.

"But Chongqing is really hard to fight!"

"Just half a day's siege, our army lost less than 1000 people!"

"How many 1000 people can we lose?"

Li Laiheng also spoke.

"I don't agree with counterattacks!"

"Sichuan and Shu are dilapidated, sparsely populated, and Guanzhong is not much better!"

"Even if we go back to Guanzhong, how many people will choose to go with us?"

Guanzhong has been considered stable for the past two years!

Since the demise of Li Zicheng's Dashun, there have been basically no large-scale wars.

But it still can't change the fact that Guanzhong is broken!

Because at the end of Ming Dynasty, Guanzhong was really miserable.

Since the year of the apocalypse, due to the impact of the climate of the small ice river, the floods, droughts and locust plagues in Guanzhong have continued in rotation without stopping.

In addition, most of the rogue bandits who swept through the late Ming Dynasty, such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai, all started from Guanzhong.

Guanzhong has been in chaos for more than 20 years!

One can imagine how serious the population loss will be!

Although the Manchu Qing imposed violent taxes on the localities, they couldn't stand Guanzhong. Now there are fewer people and more land, and they are not involved at all. Most of the people can survive.

Therefore, even if Daming returns to Guanzhong now, it may not be able to call on the people to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!
The corner of Habai's mouth twitched, not knowing how to refute.

Because what Yongli and Li Laiheng said is true!
Li Laiheng also had his own little thoughts. On the surface, he said that Guanzhong was broken, but in fact he didn't want to lead his troops to harm his fellow Guanzhong.

If the Ming army returns to Guanzhong, the Qing army will definitely arrive!
At that time, Guanzhong may not necessarily be destroyed by the war!

Li Laiheng said.

"If you want me to say, based on our current strength, if the Qing army is serious, it will definitely not be able to fight the frontal battlefield!"

"Instead of going north to the plains of Guanzhong to meet the cavalry of the Qing army, it is better to choose to go south!"

Habai said with a frown.

"Going south?"

"Where to go south? Is it Yungui?"

"But Yungui has Pingxi King Wu Sangui!"

Li Laiheng said.

"Going to hide and seek with Wu Sangui in the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou is better than fighting against the cavalry group of the Qing army on the plains of Guanzhong."

"Besides, do you think Wu Sangui's Guanning Army is easier to deal with, or the Qing Army's Eight Banners soldiers?"

Habai couldn't help frowning, he could selectively ignore Yongli's words.

But Li Laiheng's words, he must pay attention to them.

The current small court of Yongli is not so much centered on Yongli, but rather centered on Habai and Li Laiheng, the two generals who hold actual military power.

"If it doesn't work, we can escape to Annan or Burma for refuge!"

Li Laiheng said so.

Yongli: "..."

Li Laiheng noticed the weird look on Yongli's face, and knew that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly said.

"Has Your Majesty forgotten the humiliation he suffered at the hands of King Mangbai of Burma?"

"If we enter Burma, we will join forces with King Li Jin to attack Awa, kill Burmese King Mangbai, and avenge His Majesty."

Hearing the words, Yongli was a little moved.

He has escaped and been the emperor for so many years, and the difficulty of cursing water is the eternal pain in his heart!

The ministers around him, Wen and Wu, were almost beheaded, and his face as the Son of Heaven was trampled into the mud by Burmese King Mangbai!

Habai pondered aside, unable to make up his mind for a long time.

Li Laiheng urged.

"Commander Habai, come up with an idea as soon as possible!"

"If I wait for a long time under the city of Chongqing, and the Qing court reacts and deploys heavy troops from the surrounding provinces to encircle and suppress, we will not be able to leave even if we want to!"

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