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The first city to be attacked by the golden soldiers was not the north at all, but Fengyang, the central capital where Duoduo fell into the sand the previous time.

"Commander Huang, look at the sky." A subordinate pointed to the sky and shouted.At the top of Fengyang City, Huang Degong went up to the top of the city every day to look west.

Huang Degong picked up the binoculars and looked at the sky. There was a dark cloud coming from the west.

Chapter 358: One of the Jianghuai decisive battles

Aixinjueluo Nikan, the grandson of Nurhachi, the third son of Guanglue Baylor Aixinjueluo Chuying, one of the three kings in the early Qing Dynasty.

Before departure, as one of the commanders of the three-way army, Dorgon repeatedly told him not to underestimate the Fengyang defenders.The task of the army he led was to capture Fengyang, Hezhou, and Anqing, and finally block the reinforcements from the west of Ming Dynasty.Dorgon didn't want Nikan to seize Nanjing, he wanted Nikan to ensure the safety of the right wing.

Dorgon believes that the most difficult city in Jiangbei is Xuzhou, but Fengyang.He wanted Nikan to gnaw at this hard bone, asked Duduo to cooperate with Haoge to clear the obstacles in the north, and then let Haoge go south to Yangzhou from the left wing, and let Nikan go south to attack Hezhou after a feint shot, leaving behind the army in the middle It is approaching Chuzhou and Nanjing.

Nikan moved east all the way, being cautious, and after passing through the artificially created no-man's land for the past two years, he arrived at the city of Fuyang almost without bloodshed.

"Master, look, Fuyang is in front of you. The city is only three feet high, and there are only more than 2000 defenders in the city."

"Don't be careless. The regent has repeatedly told that the Ming army in Jiangbei is very cunning, and we have to take it seriously, no matter how small the city is. Don't the Han people often talk about encircling three ques and ones? Just follow this order, bury the pot and make food, and start tonight Let's talk about it after surrounding it."

"The slave understands."

Fuyang was the first battle with the Ming army, and Dorgon's instructions were still in his ears, so he couldn't help being cautious.

After a long night of torment, Nikan almost didn't sleep. He didn't even take off his armor, just waiting for the fierce battle after dawn.

Just after dawn, Nikan walked out of the tent early.

"Report to the lord, the horses from the front came to report: the defenders of Fuyang had fled last night, Fuyang has now become an empty city, and there is not even a commoner in the city."

"What? Are you sure you read it right?" Nikan was taken aback. This was the most unexpected news he had ever heard.What about resistance?

Nikan heard right.The strength ratio of the Ming and Jin armies in Jiangbei is three to one. Under such circumstances, if the Ming army spreads its troops throughout the entire Jiangbei city like beans, then this general is not even qualified to be a squad leader.

However, it was impossible for the Ming army to gather all its troops together to fight a decisive battle with the Jin soldiers.

It is necessary to concentrate on a few important points for defense, rely on the city to disperse the deployment of the enemy's troops, weaken the enemy's offensive momentum, and wait until the final decisive battle.

In fact, this is also the consistent tactic of the Ming Dynasty against Jinbing, which is exactly the same as Liaodong's method of resisting Jinbing.

The two cities of Suzhou and Xuzhou have a total force of 12, of which the main force is 7 guarding Xuzhou; Fengyang has [-] guards, which is the most important city in Jiangbei; Hezhou has [-] guards; Anqing has [-] guards; and other troops have [-] guards The rest of the people all retreated within the line of defense, and guarded the canal and major traffic arteries with the local defenders.

Nikan led the army straight to the Fengyang city almost without bloodshed, without encountering any obstacles.

"Oh my God!" Kong Youde looked at Fengyang City in front of him, but he couldn't recognize it anymore. This was beyond what he knew about Fengyang City a year ago.

"Why is King Gongshun surprised?" Nikan came to Fengyang for the first time.

"Prince Jingjin doesn't know something. The servants and others were defeated by the east and west mountains a year ago, that's where." Standing outside Fengyang City, Kong Youde pointed to the north and continued: "It turns out that there are only a few ordinary mountains. , Now it has been built into a defensive city wall by the Ming army. Moreover, Fengyang City has been raised by the Ming army by a foot. This battle is difficult to fight."

Kong Youde's explanation was actually not in place. It should be said that the entire Fengyang garrison has not been idle for more than a year.Although they didn't have enough cement supply, they made all the hills outside the city into one, built a city wall, and connected Dongshan and Beicheng into one, and also built a tunnel.The troops were stationed on the defensive wall, and long-range offensive weapons such as cannons and bed crossbows were erected.

What surprised Kong Youde even more was elsewhere. A total of sixteen prominent bunkers were built outside the entire east gate and south gate, and the connection passages were made from the top of the bunkers by relying on bamboo reinforced cement technology.The bunker alone is a cube of seven feet in length, width and height, on which long-range attack weapons such as cannons and bed crossbows are erected.

Not to mention Nikan, even Kong Youde, who played with firearms, didn't know how to fight this battle.

But the army has already arrived at the city, so they can’t just withdraw like this! Nikan, who felt that he was born noble, is now full of anger, and he is going to use his brute force to smash the strong city of Ming Kingdom.

"Let me attack a few hills in the north first. As long as my warriors from the Great Jin Kingdom make a move, these southern barbarians will be scared to death." Nikan consciously pointed with his horsewhip.

When Kong Youde heard this, he shook his head helplessly.Because the last time he suffered a big loss when he was in Dongshan.

Following Nikan's military order, three thousand elite gold soldiers began to climb towards Miaoshan.

"Kill!" The golden soldiers spread all over the hillside densely like locusts.

"Boom!" The Ming army on the top of the mountain fired, and more than a dozen black iron bullets jumped and rolled down the mountain, killing countless golden soldiers along the way.

But this was the first wave of attacks after all, and the morale of the golden soldiers was still high. They couldn't control their companions who were killed by iron bullets, and they still ran up the mountain desperately.

"Don't panic, wait for the enemy to get close to the city before throwing thunder." The officers in charge of defending the city have all experienced the previous Fengyang city defense battle, and they are the only veterans in the Jiangbei army who have fought against the golden soldiers.

Jin Bing finally climbed to the bottom of the city, hundreds of thunderbolts smashed down his head and face, emitting green smoke, and then exploded in Jin Bing's panicked eyes.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Kong Youde heard the explosions in the distance, and every sound made him feel pain in his flesh.In almost an instant, more than 100 golden soldiers were directly blasted into the sky.

Until this time, Jin Bing didn't even see a shadow of the Ming army defending the city, and the Ming army even threw Zhen Tianlei into hiding behind the battlements.The golden soldiers who attacked like a tide retreated like a tide.

"Attack again, and send the elite of our Dajin Kingdom to go up there wearing three layers of armor." Nikan blushed. His so-called Dajin warriors turned out to be useless.This first wave of attacks would usually fail, but the performance just now was too embarrassing.It forced Nikan to use his family's ancestral secrets: human tanks.

Wearing layers of armor up a mountain on the hottest day?Well, this kind of behavior is very uncomfortable.Therefore, these people walked very slowly, so slow that the Ming army could aim at them calmly.

"Crack! Crack..." Within a hundred steps, it was impossible for the Jin soldiers to shoot arrows at the Ming army on the city wall, and the firecrackers of the Ming army opened fire.

As the saying goes: Don't slap someone in the face when you hit someone, and don't expose your shortcomings when you curse someone!But the Ming army was too careless, and their musketeers beat Jin Bing in the face.After a gunshot, a pool of blood splashed out of a golden soldier's forehead, and then the golden soldier fell back heavily, rolled along the hillside for a while, and lay motionless on the ground.

The companion next to this Jin Bing originally wanted to pull him, but he was too heavy, and his movements were half a beat slow. When he turned his head again, another companion on the other side of him made the same movement, and then Rolled down the hill.

"Trash! Gather together to form a shield formation." Nikan happened to see this scene with a telescope just now, and he yelled angrily.

On the battlefield, who doesn't want to save their lives?The tactic of forming a shield formation is of course easy.The golden soldiers immediately formed a shield formation at a distance of one hundred steps from the mountain, supporting each other and moving towards the mountain.

"Boom!" With the sound of cannons, a shield array was directly hit by an iron shell, and the shield array was smashed into a bloody puddle. Seven or eight golden soldiers lay on the ground on their backs, howling unceasingly, mouthing loudly. vomiting blood.

Kong Youde smiled contemptuously. With Nikan's method, he had learned the Ming army's defensive method in the same way a year ago. Now he feels pain for those golden soldiers lying on the ground. The internal organs of those guys have been shattered.

Chapter 359: Jianghuai Battle II

As the leading general of the Central Route Army, Duoduo encountered the same situation as Nikan, except that he encountered a tougher Xuzhou City, which only looked gentler from the outside.

It's just that Duoduo didn't take a detour like Nikan did. He set up a row of cannons directly at Xuzhou City.

"Fire!" It was not the Jin soldiers who fired first, but the Xuzhou defenders.Because the range of the Ming army's cannons has surpassed Houjin at this time, the overall level of firearms equipment, after three years of hard work and catching up, began to surpass Houjin in an all-round way.

When Jin Bing's artillery formation was ready, the Ming army's artillery shells flew over from the top of the city, and then hit the front of Jin Bing's artillery formation and bounced towards Jin Bing's artillery formation.

"Run!" Several Jin Bing's artillerymen were crushed to death on the spot, several sports cars were smashed down, and the rest of the artillerymen dispersed in a hurry.

Doduo was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, but he tried his best not to blame the artillerymen, because it was indeed not their fault.

"Drive the people to attack the city!" Duoduo couldn't believe that he couldn't even take down a little unknown Yan Yingyuan.

The walls of Fengyang City are too high and the moat is too wide, it is simply not realistic to drive the people to attack the city.But Xuzhou City is a new city, the city walls are a bit shorter, and the moat is not wide. In addition, the Yellow River was diverted last month, so there is no moat water.

Yan Yingyuan stood on the top of Xuzhou city, nervously watching the Jin soldiers outside the city and the people driven by them.In fact, there are not many people around Xuzhou. The people outside the city were brought over by Jin Bing from Henan and Shandong.

"General, what should we do? We can't shoot at those people, can we?" Zhou Ruilong, the governor of Xuzhou, turned pale with fright.

"Follow the established plan." Although Yan Yingyuan was a little flustered, Zhu Youjian had already told the Xuzhou defenders about such things, what kind of tactics the Jin soldiers would use, and what methods the Ming army should use to resolve them. Nanjing sent skilled hands The Xuzhou defenders were trained.