Lord of Ming Dynasty

There are quite a few skilled craftsmen in the army.

"My lord, the archers have suffered heavy losses. There are at least [-] Qing troops attacking the city under each city wall, and they cannot hold back." Someone flew to report to Hu Kui.

"If you can't stop it, let me stop it. Everyone brings their own guards to supervise the battle against a city wall. The governor will not ignore us. The governor must be nearby, and we must support the governor until he comes." Hu Kui roared .

"Yes, my lord."

Indeed, Zhang Qiang had already arrived. The 1st Guards Brigade, the 9nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 1rd Cavalry Brigade under his leadership, as well as the transferred 2th Field Brigade and 2th Field Brigade, were already in place, as well as the newly arrived Artillery 18 Brigade, Artillery Brigade The 5nd Brigade is the defensive artillery unit of Chuzhou Capital, and Bai Wenxuan's provisional [-]th Field Brigade has also arrived, waiting for Xuanyuan Longfei's [-]th Field Brigade to encircle them.

Most of them are in the north of Tingzhou Mansion, that is, behind and on the side of Duoduo's army.

In the south there are only Du Ge's 18rd Cavalry Brigade and Bai Wenxuan's provisional [-]th Field Brigade. Xuanyuan Longfei will enter Duoduo's back road from the southwest to prevent Duduo from retreating to Jiangxi.

The Qing troops of Duduo and Geng Jingzhong, who attacked Tingzhou in anger, had no idea that they were surrounded.

This encirclement is shrinking.

The dragoons and lancers of the Second Cavalry Brigade and the Guards Brigade are searching for nearby enemy scouts and cavalry units, as well as annihilating the enemy's small guard units.

It was only thirty miles away from Duoduo's army.

Duoduo was watching in the night wind. With a wave of his hand, he once again overwhelmed an elite Qing army from Manchuria and charged forward.

On the front, because they had to resist the main force of the Qing army, they had a lot of troops. Hu Kui deployed a thousand young and strong militiamen, five hundred Tingzhou prefecture Ming troops, three hundred yamen servants, and two thousand household battalions, one of which was Musketeers of Qianhu Battalion.

The cavalry supported every city gate on all sides, rushed to wherever there was danger, and at the same time prevented people from making trouble in the city, and patrolled the city.

Geng Jingzhong wanted to cry but had no tears. All the elite troops of his Han army were destroyed, his cannons, and his musketeers.

When shooting against the Chinese army's cannons on the city wall, before midnight, the artillery was completely lost. The [-]-pounder cannon on the enemy's city wall surpassed his own [-]-pounder cannon imitating the Portuguese, and the enemy's [-]-pounder cannon hit Those small cannons couldn't get close to the city wall at all, but the enemy's small cannons were killing and wounding a large number of firecrackers.

Those Manchu soldiers had sharp bows and arrows, but they couldn't beat the enemy's muskets. The climbing soldiers were killed by the rolling logs, stones, hot oil, and lime on the city wall. They had been attacking for four hours. The enemy's front It was still as stable as Mount Tai, although good news came from other directions, but his military strength was also compromised, so far only [-] troops were available.

"Report to my lord, the attacking troops from the south gate rushed to the city wall, and the enemy couldn't resist, and they are withdrawing into the city to resist."

Geng Jingzhong was overjoyed, "You took down the South Gate?"

The orderly said in embarrassment: "My lord, we are fighting fiercely near the city gate. There are cavalry in the enemy's city, and the general cannot approach the city gate."

Geng Jingzhong patted his thigh, "Come on, divide up two thousand troops to support the south gate, climb in from the city wall, and take down the south gate."

Hu Kui also learned that the southern city wall was lost, and immediately sent an additional 200 guards and [-] Ming soldiers, as well as [-] musketeers, [-] archers, and even [-] more soldiers to help defend the south gate. , and at the same time sent an additional [-] cavalry to the south gate.

Duoduo rode over on a horse, heard Geng Jingzhong talking to himself, squinted his eyes and looked at the front, the north gate, shrouded in flames and smoke in the darkness, and said to the soldiers beside him: "Go and send another [-] Han army flags, attack North gate, don't let the enemy have the opportunity to mobilize frontal forces to help other gates."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Geng Jingzhong with smug eyes, as if to say, "The battle has already been fought like this."

Geng Jingzhong quickly flattered and said with a smile: "Master Baylor is wise."

"Report-"

Another messenger arrived, and the two looked at the messenger. The messenger rushed to Duduo, "Report to Baylor, the east gate has been captured, and the enemy retreats to the streets near the east gate to defend. The enemy defenders on the city wall are defeated. Go to the south gate wall and continue fighting with our army, the enemy has been divided into many parts, and the city has been broken."

"Hahaha," Duoduo looked up to the sky and laughed, and Geng Jingzhong hurriedly said: "Congratulations to Baylor, congratulations to Baylor, this time the attack on Tingzhou Mansion will not only destroy the old nest of the Nanming Longwu regime, but also destroy a branch of the Chinese army leader Zhang Qiang." Arm, I heard from the captives that the leader of the Huaxia Army was once the confidant of Zhang Qiang, the leader of the Huaxia Army, and the captain of the personal guards. The imperial court has made meritorious service."

"Hahaha," "Okay, King Jingnan, you are a second person, but I like it, and your credit will be indispensable in the future. Go down and lead your people into the east gate, and get this king for me." Hu Kui's class."

Seeing that the victory is imminent, Duduo's mood also improved.

But Zhang Qiang's heart was heavy, because Xuanyuan Longfei was not in place yet, which made the encirclement circle set up by Zhang Qiang a little loose.

According to the report of the infiltrated scouts, Tingzhou Fucheng is now in a precarious situation facing the attack of the Qing army, and it may collapse soon.

Another field brigade of his is about to be disabled.

He already knew that the second field brigade was disabled, and the first field brigade was disabled, so most of the elite troops he had in the early days of his career were lost. They were the old Jinhua rebel troops who had followed him for many years. ah.

Most of them are elite soldiers trained by him personally.

"Report—the 18th Field Brigade led by Deputy Prime Minister Milin is only ten miles away from the enemy, and the provisional [-]th Field Brigade Bai Wenxuan is five miles away from the enemy."

"Send an order to let them attack the enemy camp in the south, beat me hard, and annihilate the enemy."

Turning back to the messenger, he said, "Go and get me the Second Cavalry Brigade and the Third Cavalry Brigade, and let them attack the enemy's camps at other city gates and troops that have withdrawn from the city, surround Tingzhou Prefecture, and prevent a single soldier from escaping. Get out, today I'm going to bloodbath the Tingzhou government."

"Order, the 1st Guards Brigade, the 9th Field Brigade, and the 11th Field Brigade, speed up the march and hit the enemy's central army."

After finishing speaking, he flattered his horse and rushed forward, leading the Chasseur guards forward.

In the rear, the torch is like a dragon, twisting and turning, with no end in sight.

He surrounded the Qing army in Tingzhou Prefecture, and encircled Baylor in the encirclement circle. In Raozhou Prefecture, Hong Chengchou's troops and Boluo's troops had already tried to attack several times, and lost a lot of soldiers and horses. Even the first line of defense was not broken.

Their entire camp has moved forward to ten miles away from the capital city of Raozhou, and densely surrounded the capital city of Raozhou.

The offense during the day is just a warm-up.

Inside the tent, Hong Chengchou, who was about to rest, actually had a lot of things to do, such as checking the information collected every day.

This information is not optimistic. Shanxi is rebellious. Anyway, the army is fighting with the Qing army. The Qing army is weak, so they have to transfer troops from Shengjing. The struggle of the Yanjing court is becoming more and more intensified. Repeatedly found fault, and Emperor Shunzhi had a few words to Dorgon, and Dorgon's power was not as reliable as before.

This made him worried, and he didn't know what to do next. He was introduced by Dorgon, and he was Dorgon's confidant just like Fan Wencheng.

The uprising army in Ganshan and the rest of Li Zicheng's troops were also surging. Wu Sangui had just left, but there was another rebellion.

Sun Kewang was ambiguous in Yunnan and Guizhou, and fought with the chieftain. The chieftain rebelled against the Qing army and surrendered. Li Dingguo also came out from Yunnan and invaded Guangxi, sweeping Guangdong. Huaxia Army?

Duoduo has not collected the war intelligence of the Huaxia Army, and it will take four or five days to know. He has lost the movement of the main force of the Huaxia Army, so Duoduo does not know whether he knows it or not. May suffer.

Ma Degong had a good idea. He led two troops of the Huaxia Army to go around in Fujian, Guangdong, and even Jiangxi.

Coupled with the turmoil in all parts of Fujian, it is impossible for the Huaxia Army to dispatch too many troops, and Duoduo is safer, but the question is, why do my eyelids keep twitching?

"My lord, the Huaxia Army of Hangzhou Mansion suddenly attacked Zhenjiang Mansion. The deputy general of Zhenjiang Mansion asked for reinforcements, but Jinling has no soldiers to send. Please tell me what to do?"

"How many soldiers and horses are there?" Hong Chengchou asked.

"There are more than 3 people. According to the report, the enemy's three main field brigades attacked together. Zhenjiang Mansion is in danger. It is said that there are 17 Field Brigades, 16 Field Brigades, and 13 Brigades. Wei Wuji, the governor of the Huaxia Army, personally commanded the attack on Zhenjiang Mansion. "

Hong Chengchou threw the letter paper in his hand, "Don't worry about them, Zhenjiang Mansion is lost, we will take it back another day, as long as we can destroy the main force of the Huaxia Army here, we will be able to disintegrate the Huaxia Army without bloodshed. The soul of the Huaxia Army is Zhang Qiang. Without Zhang Qiang, the Huaxia Army is nothing more than a mob."

"But my lord, according to investigation, there is no Zhang Qiang in the capital city of Raozhou that we are besieging here. He is already in Fujian."

"Hehe, he will definitely bring someone to rescue him if he surrounds this place. Our army has already ambushed him on the way back. When he enters the ambush circle and surrounds him on all sides, I don't believe it. Only a few of the 40 troops can't kill him." The Huaxia Army with tens of thousands of horses."

"Then tomorrow's battle, should we relax a little bit?"

"No, step up the attack tomorrow, pull out [-] cannons, and send [-] troops to attack tomorrow. We must break through the enemy's first line of defense, and then let the scouts and scouts around open a way for the enemy to send messengers for help. Do something similar, you can’t let them all go, you have to fight, just let go of one or two cavalry messengers on purpose, and intercept the others.”