The unauthorized actions of the freed slaves completely disrupted Li Dingguo's original plan to attack the old city of Hetuala.It was too late for him to blame the slaves, that didn't help the current situation.He only has 20,000 horses, after a long journey, the food he brought has run out, and he can't take Hetuala, these horses will starve to death in this ice and snow, and what is even more serious is that his army has been exposed, and the direction of Shenyang is only more than 300 miles away from here.When the Manchus learned that the old city had been attacked, they would definitely send troops to help.At that time, if he couldn't take the old city, in the wilderness outside the city, I was afraid that there would be no chance to escape.He brought infantry, and when the Manchu Qing came to help, he naturally had to use fast cavalry.How the infantry outran the cavalry, and if he retreated quickly now, he might be able to escape the doom of total annihilation.But there was no food or grass to eat when they retreated, and they brought with them many people who came to take refuge along the way.If the Manchu cavalry pursues closely, I am afraid that he will still not be able to retreat with his whole body.Think about boasting about Haikou in front of Wang Shuo, and boasting that he is good at fighting mountain warfare.It's good now, go back with a disgraced face, how can you have a face to see people, if you can't go back, you have to take down this Hetuala, he gathered all the senior officers together, everyone squatted on the snow, surrounded him, and he began to arrange a strong attack on Hetuala.The army commander Niu Fangliang and the deputy army commander Feng Qishan also knew that the situation was serious, and it would be dangerous for the army not to take the city.But the west wall of Hetu Ala is built according to the mountain, and the terrain is dangerous.The only thing that could be attacked was the west gate.On the western stretch of the wall, the enemy had muskets and artillery, and the assault must have suffered great losses.The point is that it takes time to take Hetuala.The enemy has reported to Shenyang that Manchu reinforcements from Shenyang will arrive before dark today.If they were still fighting fiercely under the city at that time, they couldn't take the city, and they were attacked by the enemy inside and outside, I am afraid that there would be a danger of annihilation of the whole army, Li Dingguo was ruthless, and strictly ordered Niu Fangliang and Feng Qishan to take Hetuara before noon, which is probably a task that cannot be completed at all.If you don't take the city, you can't survive, so you can only do your best to do it.At this time, Li Dingguo stopped them."
Retreat."
He said helplessly, "Go back, maybe half of the soldiers can survive, and if you attack the city, you can only wipe out the whole army" Li Dingguo finally couldn't bear to look at these elites who followed him, so he was buried here, as for whether he had the face to see Wang Shuo after he went back, compared with the lives of the soldiers, it was insignificant.He looked a little depressed, stood up from the ground, and finally said: "I will bear the responsibility for failure, go back, if you can die one less soldier, let it be one less." ”At this time, the colonel with the hot air balloon reconnaissance and mapping brigade spoke.Everyone else stood up and prepared to attack the old city of Hetuala, but he kept squatting on the ground, looking at the layout of the city drawn by Li Dingguo in the snow.I heard him say: "I will use all the more than 200 hot air balloons, fly into Hetuala, throw flowering bombs near the walls of your main attack, blow up the defenders, and maybe attack before noon." ”Li Dingguo's eyes lit up, yes, he still has more than 200 hot air balloons, how can he forget to throw flower bombs on this stubble, the enemy hides in the city gate hole or the gatehouse and corner tower on the city, the effect will not be very great.Moreover, if this thing is thrown from a high altitude, its accuracy will be greatly reduced, and if it is thrown outside the city, it will hurt the besieging soldiers.He asked the colonel, "Except for the men who operate the balloons, there are a maximum of how many people can sit on the balloons," and the colonel replied, "It takes at least two people to operate the balloons, and five people to fit in the hot air balloons."
However, in this case, you will not be able to carry more flowering bullets. ”Li Dingguo pondered for a while and said, "Enough." ”He called the officers to his side again, pointed to the map he had drawn in the snow, and said, "Throwing flower bombs from hot air balloons alone will not do much damage to the enemy."
We organized 600 elites, and each hot air balloon sat three soldiers.After the hot air balloon flew to the west gate, it first dropped flower bombs, and then the 600 elite soldiers took advantage of the enemy's confusion to climb down the rope from the hot air balloon and storm the west gate.As long as the West Gate is opened, our troops will attack the city, and we will win" Li Dingguo will personally lead these six hundred elites to attack the West Gate, he is strong in martial arts, and there is no problem for one person to use one hundred or ten people, but he was stopped by Feng Qishan.Feng Qishan said: "The general is the commander of the three armies, how can he move the 20,000 horses of our Northwest Military Region, which is originally the elite of the Northwest Military Region.From the 20,000 elites, another 600 elites will be selected, and there will be no problem for each soldier to be one as ten.I will personally take it in and guarantee that I will complete the task assigned by the general, and before noon today, we will definitely be able to open the west gate" Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Before noon, we will not only open the west gate, but also occupy and control the entire Hetuala.Only in this way will we have time to deal with the enemy reinforcements coming from the direction of Shenyang.Therefore, before the time comes, the West City Gate must be taken down" Feng Qishan said: "General rest assured, my old Feng is also killed in the army of ten thousand horses, and his martial arts dare not be compared with the general, and it is enough to kill the Manchu Qing Tartars."
If I can't open the west gate before the time, I will come to see you" At this time, the Qing army was defending on the city wall near the west gate, but there was no trace of the enemy outside the city.Judging from the chaotic footprints left in the snow under the city, the enemy army was no less than 10,000 people, and at this moment they must have taken refuge in the mountains around Hetuala.He did not dare to give orders to go out of the city, but only ordered his subordinates to guard along the city walls.Every 100 paces on the city wall, a lookout sentry is set up, and when the enemy army appears, the police are immediately called.The heavy snow had just stopped yesterday, and now the sky was like a wash, blue, without a trace of clouds, and you could see far away.The old town of Hetuara is located in a small basin deep in the mountains, surrounded by high mountains, covered with various pines and cypresses, and it is difficult for enemy troops to hide in the surrounding high mountains.However, there is a large flat area between the surrounding mountains and the old city, and as long as the enemy comes out of the mountain to attack the city, they will be discovered before they can reach the bottom of the city.Since there are no enemy troops around the old city, the capital is not in a hurry, as long as it holds out until the afternoon, it is estimated that the reinforcements of the imperial court will arrive.At that time, he went into the mountains with reinforcements to exterminate all these daring barbarians, and at this moment, a black cloud slowly drifted from behind the snow-covered mountains to the south.The cloud stood out against the clear blue sky, and it was very strange, and it flew directly towards the city wall
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