Sukh Saha, who was supervising the battle in Quang Ninh, learned that while Wang Shuo had increased his troops to surround the guards, there was still a large army advancing.He immediately understood Wang Shuo's intentions.People relied on the strength of the crowd to directly isolate his guard.Then, then people had no worries, and directly crossed the guard post and attacked Shengjing.If he still stays in Guangningwei, he will be surrounded by people in the guard and become a turtle with a shrunken head.When people knocked down their capitals, he stayed in the guards and had a fart, since he understood Wang Shuo's intentions, Suke Saha was not stupid, and he did not wait for the first group army composed of the Beijing Military Region of Li Guo to approach, he decisively abandoned the guards in Guangning, and the whole army of more than 100,000 people withdrew east to the Liaohe loop and crossed the Liaohe River for defense.Shengjing is empty, and the soldiers asked Aobai to transfer half of it to attack Hetuala, and if he doesn't return to defense, Shengjing will be finished.On the one hand, he ordered his soldiers to dig trenches on the east bank of the Da Liao River and establish defensive positions, and on the other hand, he sent someone to inform Sonny of Shengjing, asking him to send all the remaining forces of the Beijing division to form a defense in depth behind him, preparing to resist the attack of Wang Shuo's army step by step.The enemy army was already approaching, and there was no point in fighting for the old city of Hetuala.Sony hurriedly sent someone to inform Aobai and asked him to return to the army to defend Shengjing.At this time, Ao Bai was inseparable from Li Dingguo's killing.After more than a month of fierce fighting, the corpses under the city are piled up.Li Dingguo's shells were finally gone, and if it weren't for the hot air balloon reconnaissance team, which risked their lives and transported ammunition back and forth from the port to Hetuala, the muskets would have run out of ammunition long ago.Li Dingguo ran out of cannons, so Aobai's cannons were used.He carried twenty red-coated cannons outside the west gate and bombarded the city walls incessantly.The city wall collapsed in many places, and the Qing army swarmed into the city, and was driven down by the northwest army.After such repeated battles, the Northwest Army suffered huge casualties, and now it is less than 5,000 people.Ao Bai still had 30,000 horses in his hands, and the muskets in the hands of the soldiers had long since run out of ammunition.The Northwest Army relied entirely on the sharp use of firearms to resist the Qing army's attack with 5,000 men.But now there are still many people and horses, and the city wall is full of gaps, which cannot stop the Qing army from kicking the city.As long as you increase your strength, let the soldiers attack with all their strength, and with the strength of the crowd, taking Hetuara is just around the corner.At this time, Ao Bai received a letter from Sony, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.His men and horses have almost died under his reckless fighting.With this kind of people, going out to defend Shengjing won't play much role, so it's better to take down Hetuara in one go.He decided to ignore Sony's letter, and asked the messenger to tell Sonny that if Shengjing was not safe, he would immediately retreat to Hetuala, and take advantage of the dangers along the way to block the advance of Wang Shuo's army.Before the fall of Shengjing, he will definitely be able to destroy the Northwest Army and retake the old city of Hetuala.At this time, Hong Xue and Li Guo had already led the First Army to cross the Quang Ninh Zhuwei Station, march to the Da Liao River, and engage the avant-garde troops of Sukh Saha.The Da Liao River has been frozen, and it cannot be an obstacle to the advance of the Northwest Army at all.Only the trenches dug along the river in Sukh Saha, and the foothills set up on the river beach, were the real obstacles.The offensive of the Northwest Army has formed a pattern, first shelling the opponent's positions with artillery, and then the musketeers will attack in a musket formation.The Qing army was also trained against the offensive methods of the Northwest Army.When the opponent's artillery bombarded, the soldiers hid in the trenches until the artillery stopped firing and the opponent's musket army approached, and then they emerged in the trenches, using Niu Lu as the basic unit, organizing a musket formation, and firing continuously with muskets.After constant warfare with Wang Shuo's army, the Qing army also learned how to form formations and shoot non-stop.The Qing army hid in the trenches, and the artillery caused limited damage to them, only partially the trenches were blown down, so that they could not hide, and then the northwest army advanced in a musket formation and fired at the Qing army.The muskets of the Northwest Army have much better shooting accuracy and range than those of the Qing Army, so at the beginning of the shooting, the Qing Army's muskets could not reach the Northwest Army, and other people's muskets could already hurt them, and the Qing Army suffered a lot of losses.Therefore, the Qing army will not easily go out of the trench to shoot at each other before the opponent enters its own range.The Northwest Army was not stupid, and when the two sides entered the firing range of each other and began to shoot at each other, the artillery behind the Northwest Army fired again and made a second bombardment towards the Qing army's position.In this bombardment, the Qing army suffered a big loss, and many of them had no time to hide, and were directly killed by the opponent's artillery.It was not until the second artillery was fired that the musket formation of the Northwest Army took advantage of the smoke to disperse and once again advanced towards the opponent's position.The 500,000-strong army of the First Group Army advanced in parallel along the Liaohetao Great Plain.Sukh Saha only has more than 100,000 people, and the weapons are not as advanced as others, how to resist the attack of the Northwest Army After a round of attacks by the Northwest Army, Sukh Saha has already ordered a retreat and retreated to the second line of defense set up by Sonny behind him.At the same time, the cavalry of the Qing army was dispatched from the rear, and Pegasus slaughtered the battlefield to block the advance of the infantry of the Northwest Army.Li Guo was unwilling to fight with the opponent under the absolute superiority of weapons.He ordered the musketeers to retreat back within cannon range, preparing to stop the Qing cavalry with artillery fire.The cavalry of the Qing army saw that they were approaching the range of the opponent's artillery, and they also retreated one after another.Their purpose is only to prevent the opposing infantry from continuing the pursuit, and when they achieve their goal, they will return.With such layers of blockade and layer of fortification, Sukh Saha finally retreated to the north of Dongningwei, the line of Zhangyi and Wuqing.Here, in order to prevent the attack of Wang Shuo's army, the Qing army has already built many strong permanent fortifications, and many sections on the top of the trench are roofed, and the tops are paved with huge red pines harvested in the forest, and then more than a foot thick soil is compacted, which can completely resist the bombardment of the artillery shells of the Northwest Army.Such a ditch has been lined up in the direction of Shengjing, there are more than a dozen winding ones, the trenches are connected to each other in series, extending in all directions, looking at it from a distance, it is a labyrinth.Moreover, the Qing army placed hundreds of its red-coated cannons in trenches with strong roofs, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed in the direction of the Northwest Army's attack.The artillery of the Northwest Army could not blast open the trenches and destroy the artillery of the Qing army, but the artillery of the Qing army could scatter and disperse the musket formation when the musket array of the Northwest Army attacked.The Qing army's troops defending Shengjing had been training in these trenches for more than a year, and they were very familiar with the roads leading in all directions between the labyrinthine trenches.Even if the Northwest Army attacked the trench, it was easy to be wiped out by the Qing army because it was not familiar with the roads inside.Li Guo led the army to attack here and suffered a big loss.When the musket array of the Northwest Army entered the range of the Qing army's red-coated artillery, the Qing army's artillery fired a volley, and the front of the position was filled with smoke.When the smoke cleared, in front of the Qing army's position, the musket corps lay down, and several regiments serving as the main attack were basically disabled.After just this battle, Li Guo lost nearly 10,000 people and had to stop the attack.Knowing that there were only more than 300,000 Qing troops in front of him, and Li Guo's First Group Army had 500,000 troops, he had no choice but to do so
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