Under the walls of Hetu Alassi, dozens of longitudinal moats stretch parallel to the city walls from a distance.The other side did not use artillery, and Li Dingguo also ordered the artillery to stop firing.Ao Bai expected that Li Dingguo's cannon did not have many shells.The cannon is not only heavy in itself, but also in the shells used.Moreover, at this time, the fuse used for the shell is not stable, and there is a risk of explosion if you are not careful during transportation, and it is more difficult to transport than a cannon.The fact that Ao Bai did not attack the wall on the eastern hill did not mean that he had completely abandoned his vigilance to the east.There are many others, and it is not difficult to encircle and blockade Hetuala.The Qing army in the east has completely blocked Li Dingguo's transportation line, and there are not enough troops, so they don't want to repel the Qing army in the east and open up the transportation line.Seeing that the trenches were constantly approaching the city wall, Li Dingguo had no choice.The Qing army hid in the trenches and dug forward, and it was difficult for the muskets to deal damage.There are not many shells, and they cannot be used lightly until the critical time.He could only watch as the Qing army approached the city walls in the trenches.He asked Niu Fangliang to select the sharpshooter among the soldiers, hide behind the battlements of the city wall, and shoot the Qing troops exposed in the trenches with cold guns, so that the rest of the soldiers should not waste bullets.Not only are there not enough shells, but musket ammunition must also be saved.Looking at Aobai's posture, if he doesn't take Hetuala, he won't stop, and more fierce battles are still to come.The Qing army dug the longitudinal trenches to about a hundred paces from the city wall, and then no longer dug forward, but began to dig horizontally, connecting the longitudinal trenches one after another to form a horizontal ditch that surrounded the entire western wall of Hetuala.In the horizontal trenches, the Qing army was also equipped with sharpshooters, and they used muskets produced by Wang Shuo, which they had captured in the past.Both sides are sharpshooters who shoot each other coldly, and their strength is about the same, and whoever does not pay attention to exposing their bodies will immediately become the target of the other party.Casualties began to appear in the advance army.Look at the sharpshooters who suppressed the city walls, and Ao Bai ordered the infantry to attack the city.However, seeing that hundreds of siege ladders were launched in the Qing army trenches surrounding the entire west and south part of the city wall, a large number of Qing troops risked their lives to climb out of the trenches and rushed to the city wall with shouts.The sharpshooters in the Qing army's trenches hid in different corners of the trenches, staring at the Northwest Army on the city wall, and as long as anyone came forward to resist the siege soldiers, they would immediately shoot and kill.On the city wall and in the trenches, the sound of muskets rang out, accompanied by the shouts of a large number of Qing troops attacking the city, and the fierce siege battle officially began.Constantly people on both sides were wounded by musket shots and wailed loudly.The Qing army approached the city wall, and the northwest army on the city wall threw down flowering bombs, blowing up the Qing army and the ladder under the city.Under the city of Hetuala, black smoke filled the air, flames soared into the sky, and severed limbs and stumps of wood on the ladder flew into the sky from time to time, and the battle was tragic.It took a month for Aobai to attack the city of Hetuala.During this time, Li Dingguo has also been thinking about various ways to defend the city.In order to make up for the lack of flowering bullets, these soldiers used the gunpowder left in the city by the Qing army, mixed gunpowder with broken iron pieces, tied them into squares with cloth, and made many gunpowder bags.At this time, these gunpowder bags are used, and the fuse on the gunpowder bag is ignited, and the matter is just thrown directly under the city.The gunpowder packet exploded under the city, and the flames soared into the sky, and pieces of broken iron flew wildly.Often, a gunpowder bag burned a ladder to ashes, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who operated the ladder were also killed and injured by the fragments flying out of the gunpowder bag.The Qing army attacked the city wall on its back, and the whole people were exposed to the attack of the Northwest Army, although there were sharpshooters in the trenches to cover, but they also suffered heavy casualties.Ao Bai did not spare the lives of the soldiers, he strictly ordered his generals to supervise the siege, and before a group of siege soldiers died cleanly, the second group of soldiers had been forced by the officers to climb out of the trenches and continue to attack, the soldiers were only allowed to advance, not to retreat, and no interruption was allowed.He has one belief, I am a lot of people, and I am not afraid of your killing.You have few men, you have limited ammunition, you consume a little less, and there will always be a time when you run out, and then I will win without a fight.The siege battle continued day and night, and the corpses under the city were piled up like a mountain.The Northwest Army took turns to go up to the city, fighting hard day and night, and even the people who came to take refuge and the freed slaves joined the defensive ranks.The offensive and defensive battle was fought for more than a month, and the ammunition in Li Dingguo's city was almost exhausted, and nearly half of the casualties were killed.The casualties on Aobai's side were even greater, and there were still 60,000 soldiers with combat effectiveness left in the more than 100,000 horses, but he had no intention of resting and stopping the siege.He knew that although he suffered heavy casualties, Li Dingguo in the city was more difficult than him and needed to rest more.He just didn't give Li Dingguo time to rest, he was determined not to take the city, and completely annihilated the Northwest Army, that is, the Qing army was dead, and he was the only one left, and he would never stop attacking the city When Ao Bai led 200,000 horses to attack the fortress leading to Hetuala, Wang Shuo, who supervised the battle at Shanhaiguan, learned the news through telegram.The total strength of the Qing army around Shenyang was less than 500,000, and Ao Bai took half of his troops to fight for Hetuala.It seems that the decision to sneak attack Hetuara was the right move, and it poked into the heart of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or he would not have made a desperate bet.Shenyang is empty, how could Wang Shuo miss such a good opportunity.Now, he is familiar with the operation of large corps.Originally, it was considered that it was impossible for the Qing army to invest such a large number of troops for Hetuala, at most, it would invest tens of thousands of people in the sky without affecting the defense of Shenyang.Now, as expected, the enemy has changed, and he must follow suit.He discussed with Li Yan and Song Xiance that he could not wait until the spring of the following year to land in Korea and increase his troops to Hetuala.Under the attack of Aobai's 200,000 troops, Li Dingguo is likely to not be able to hold the beginning of spring next year.He hurriedly dispatched Xin Sizhong's 500,000-strong army of the Northwest Military Region to the east, and together with Li Guo's Beijing Military Region, launched an attack on Liaodong along the Shanhai Pass.The Northwest Military Region is responsible for dividing troops to encircle all the guard posts along the road from Shanhaiguan North to Quang Ninh Wei, and there is no need to attack the guard posts, but only to encircle them at close range, and use megaphones as a means of political disintegration, so as not to let a single soldier run out of each guard post.The troops encircling the guard post should adopt the method of mixing the horse infantry army, so that when the enemy army leaves the guard post, the infantry army can be used to block the direction of its advance along the road, and the cavalry army can be used to encircle and attack from a long distance.In short, the defenders of the guard post were not allowed to leave within ten miles of the guard post.With the Northwest Military Region holding back the enemy guarding the guards along the way, Li Guo could lead the Beijing Military Region to the north with confidence, drive straight in, and take advantage of the emptiness of Shenyang to attack with all its might.At this time, if Ao Bai did not return to Shenyang from Hetuala, Shenyang would inevitably not be protected, and the Nanjing Military Region immediately landed at Yingkou to attack the guards of Gaizhou and Haizhou, preventing them from going north to reinforce Shenyang, and ensuring the success of the first battle of Li Guoshenyang.The campaign to destroy the Manchus and liberate the entire Liaodong began in advance
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