The fierce artillery fire lasted for nearly half an hour, and a huge gap was blown out of the city wall in Fushun. The defenders in the city hid behind the walls on both sides. Although the casualties were large, they did not lose their combat effectiveness under the artillery.

But in front of the gap, no one dared to stand.

The artillery fire was so fierce that if there was no cover protection, it would be killed in a short while.

"The third-line troops were ready." Li Ran saw in the telescope that the city wall had blasted a gap of more than ten meters long, and immediately issued an order.

"Report to the battalion commander, the third-line troops are ready."

"Occurrence." Li Ran waved, "The artillery barrage Xu Jin covered it."

"yes."

The messenger conveyed the order. Soon, 20,000 troops from the third-line troops held melee weapons and rushed towards the gap.

"kill!"

"kill!"

Twenty thousand people yelled and rushed to the gap. The artillery behind began to shoot Xu Jin in front of him, which made the Qing army in the city unable to raise their heads.

But the 20,000 cannon fodder troops rushed into the gap, and the Qing army on both sides of the city wall immediately jumped out.

At such a distance, any artillery fire cover and any shooting are virtual, and only real swords and guns can be used to fight against each other. The cannon fodder troops directly collided with the Qing army and launched a bloody and cruel hand-to-hand combat.

The two sides fought each other, and people kept falling to the ground and never got up again.

But when every soldier of the cannon fodder unit fell, more Qing soldiers fell. First of all, the Qing soldiers had no formation. Under the suppression of artillery, the Qing army could not form a formation at all. When they rushed up, they were already extremely scattered.

Although cannon fodder cannot be directly supported, the Qing army can be organized to scatter dense formations.

In terms of formation, the Qing army suffered a great loss. In terms of equipment, the Qing army's armor was not as strong as the plate armor on these cannon fodder troops, and the weapons were not as sharp as that.

In close combat, the Qing army often had to cut several knifes to kill a chargeable cannon fodder soldier, but the soldiers of the cannon fodder army often took the life of the Qing soldiers with one blow.

At the same time, after several months of training and brainwashing education, these cannon fodder troops were very crazy in their battles. No matter what their lives were, they just fought with the Qing army.

These cannon fodder troops were incorporated into the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Han Army. They were oppressed by the Qing Dynasty for a long time. The resentment in their hearts was only slightly provoked. In addition, they had weapons sent by the Shandong Army to lead them to fight, so they were so determined to fight, and they were extremely fierce when fighting, and they were not afraid of death in battle.

The 20,000 cannon fodder troops were getting crazier in the strangle, and they rushed into the city with unstoppable momentum. Tens of thousands of Qing troops were killed and retreated step by step.

After the cannon fodder troops rushed into the city, Li Ran immediately ordered a general attack. The third battalion quickly entered the city. The performance of the third battalion in street fighting was often not as good as those cannon fodder troops. Not only because of lack of experience, but also lacked the brazen momentum.

Most of the Shandong Army are only suitable for field battles. In field battles, it is not personal fighting, but team cooperation. Many soldiers have not even experienced personal fighting.

Despite this, the Third Battalion's entry into the city had a significant effect.

I thought the Third Battalion brought long-range strike capabilities to the cannon fodder troops, and musketeers kept shooting groups of Qing troops on some wide streets, while some were solving difficult enemies in the alleys with the cannon fodder troops.

In terms of personal fighting momentum, the combat technology of these cannon fodder troops is incomparable to these cannon fodder troops.

Twenty or thirty spearmen and some musketeers can block a street.

The fierce battle continued. Surprisingly, these Qing troops did not run away, but instead fought to the death. The situation was very abnormal, but even if these Qing troops fought to the death, they could not reverse the end of the Shandong army's recovery of Lushun.

The fierce street fighting ran from dawn to noon. The Third Battalion began to seize control of the city gates. After repeated struggles, it finally controlled the three city gates in the east, south and north, but the only one left was the West Gate in the hands of the Qing army.

The Qing army in the city fought fiercely until noon, and there were heavy casualties. Nearly 40,000 Qing troops were annihilated, and only more than 10,000 Qing troops were still fighting stubbornly in the west city.

Li Ran knew that these Qing troops must be waiting for Chen Yang's support.

After all, it had been a morning of fighting, and the Qing army in Chenyang had definitely received the news. It won’t take long before the Qing army’s cavalry would arrive in Fushun.

As long as these Qing troops could still control a city gate, the Qing army could take advantage of the fact that the Shandong army had not yet established a stable counterattack.

But the Third Battalion obviously would not give these Qing troops the opportunity. After attacking Fushun, the artillery of the Third Battalion also advanced, and most of the artillery had advanced to the Xicheng Gate.

More than 10,000 Qing troops fought stubbornly at the Xicheng Gate and were soon bombarded.

The Qing army quickly scattered under the shelling. When fighting with the Shandong Army, they still had some experience in how to deal with the artillery of the Shandong Army.

However, as soon as the Qing army was dispersed, the gathered cannon fodder troops immediately launched a fierce attack.

Now the Qing army is over. Without dense formations, it is very unfavorable for hand-to-hand combat, because it is almost divided.

If a person has to deal with the weapons of several people, it is useless even if Guan Gong possesses him.

Moreover, these Qing troops had no geographical advantage to rely on. In less than half an hour, these Qing troops were submerged in the crazy attack of the cannon fodder troops.

Seeing that he could not resist, more than 5,000 Qing troops fled out of the west gate in a panic, rode on their horses and fled towards Chenyang. Li Ran did not chase him, but quickly began to set up defenses in Fushun and clear the Qing troops in the city.

The Third Battalion began to set up artillery on each city gate, and the 20,000 cannon fodder troops killed more than 1,800 people in this battle.

More than 4,000 injured people.

Those who can also participate in the battle will start to knock the door open from door to capture the Qing Tartars in the house. If they are Han people, they will be placed in other places.

The Qing Tartars who were captured were all taken to repair the gaps in the city wall.

The work of cleaning up the remaining Qing troops, clearing the Qing Tartars in the city, setting up city defenses, counting casualties, annihilated the number of enemies, counting wealth and goods, etc., went all out one by one.

Li Ran led the third battalion to attack Fushun, and the mission was to nail it to Fushun like a nail.

The method of cleaning up the army is very simple, search the city!

More than 10,000 people were searched from house to house in the not-so-large Fushun City, and they were caught from all over the streets.

However, just an hour later, 50,000 Qing cavalry appeared under Fushun City.

But this one hour was enough for the Third Battalion to set up defense. The Qing army outside the city had no siege equipment and could not fly up the city wall, so the defense pressure was very small.

That gap is simpler. If you have a cannon installed around you, who dares to rush up?

Even if some people come in, it doesn't matter. The Third Battalion is not short of troops in the city, and it is enough to destroy the 50,000 Qing soldiers.

When Duoduo heard the report in Shenyang, the Shandong army suddenly attacked Fushun and quickly transferred 50,000 cavalry to support Fushun. If he could encounter the situation where the Shandong army did not enter or exit when siege the city, he would make a profit.

At that time, 50,000 cavalry will rush, and the Shandong army will definitely ignore it.

But before siege, Li Ran considered this, so when he attacked Fushun, he pulled all his baggage into Fushun City.

The Third Battalion had no cavalry cover at this time, and it was easy to be disturbed by cavalry in the wild.

Although cavalry cannot attack infantry with tightly arranged formations, they have the maneuverability that infantry does not have, so they are easily disturbed during the march.

The reason why Li Ran dared to fight out of the mountains was entirely because he had a higher mobile surname when using sleds. In the event of a sudden attack, he did not have to worry about being disturbed by the cavalry.

After attacking Fushun, if a cavalry breaks out, you won’t be afraid. After all, the Third Battalion can be arranged in a tight formation under the city of Fushun, and there are artillery soldiers. The third battalion that arrives at Fushun no longer needs to march, so naturally they are not afraid of cavalry disturbances.

However, after putting the combat soldiers into the siege battle, the baggage and artillery must be transferred into the city in time. Otherwise, a cavalry will emerge and the baggage and artillery will be hit by the destruction surname.

The Qing soldiers outside the city tried to approach the city wall and were immediately bombarded.

As soon as the shell appeared, the Qing army rushed away quickly and left the city wall. Seeing that there was no advantage, they stationed outside the city.

Of course, the cavalry was not used to attack the city, but they had to trap the Shandong army in the city and wait for Shengjing to mobilize troops to attack Lushun.

If the Shandong army in the city rushed out, their chance would come. As long as they were outside the city, the Shandong army would not leave Lushun to attack other cities.

...Liaoyang!

The atmosphere of war completely enveloped the city.

The most elite first, second cavalry battalion, first infantry battalion, first artillery battalion, and the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army and second cavalry battalion have gathered in Liaoyang.

There are 12,000 cavalry, 28,000 infantry, and 30,000 cannon fodder troops. They have gathered together in early December, but they are still waiting for the arrival of the two cavalry battalions in Shandong.

At the end of November, Zhao Yan ordered Qin Zhiyuan to lead the troops to the expedition and lead the Third and Fourth Cavalry Battalions to Liaodong to cooperate with the development of the winter offensive.

Qin Zhiyuan had already sent troops out to command troops, and Zhao Yan's personal guard captain was replaced by the original deputy captain Hong Furen. Hong Furen did not have the military talent of Qin Zhiyuan, but his victory lies in his steadiness and conscientiousness.

In early December, Qin Zhiyuan took 8,000 cavalry on board, arrived in Lushun on the 8th day. After resting for a week, he set out for Liaoyang.

In late December, Qin Zhiyuan arrived in Liaoyang with eight thousand cavalry.

Seeing that the troops had been assembled, the Liaodong General Staff immediately launched a full-scale winter offensive. On December 23, he attacked the Prince River Ferry.

The total force assembled this time reached 88,000. The Qing army on the other side of the Taizi River was directly defeated under artillery attack, and the engineers quickly laid mats on the frozen river surface.

Twenty thousand cavalrymen were the first to cross the river, and the infantry behind them rode sleds and carried huge baggage to cross the river one after another.

"Fight until Shenyang to celebrate the Spring Festival." This sentence became the slogan of the entire army. When you cross the river, you rushed towards Shenyang.
Chapter completed!