Tongcheng, in the past, was just a small city north of Anqing, and ordinary people had never heard of its name, but now, it has become the focus of the Qing army and the Fu Han army.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Ning Yu led a full army of 30,000 after meeting with Cheng Ming and others, and went south to besiege Tongcheng.

The Fu Han army lined up the formation under Tongcheng, hundreds of artillery pieces were lined up in turn, the dark barrels reflected a dazzling light under the sunlight, and tens of thousands of Fu Han soldiers carried flintlock pistols, three-edged bayonets hung from their waists, and their faces were full of smiles, just looking at Tongcheng in their eyes, revealing a little excitement.

The battle is almost over! This is one thing that everyone knows very well, and everyone understands that the current Qing army has been completely locked in a cage, and the 100,000 army, together with Emperor Kangxi, will be completely buried in Anqing Mansion, and the world of the Han people will come soon!

Dong Ce was a little uneasy about the optimistic atmosphere in the army, and since the beginning of the army, he has always held a cautious and humble attitude towards every battle, and has also won every battle.

It may be that the prestige of the king on the other side is too amazing, so that Dong Ce can't believe it, the Fu Han army just copied the back road of the Qing army, so that the Qing army has only reacted now, he found Ning Yu with puzzlement, hoping to get the answer.

"The reason is very simple, the current Qing Dynasty is no longer the Qing Dynasty when it entered the customs. The current Kangxi is not the Kangxi when the three feudatories were pacified forty years ago, they are all old, and they have gradually lost their sensitivity to the changes in the external environment, just like a big tree, it still looks lush on the outside, but it is empty inside. ”

Ning Yu said here and sighed, he stood with his hands in his hands, with a bit of complicated emotions on his face, "One day in the future, the Fu Han Army may also become like this, just like today's former Ming Dynasty and the current Qing Dynasty, it will gradually decay, and then it will collapse with just a light blow from an external force." ”

"Isn't there anything that can be done?" Dong Ce asked subconsciously.

"There is no immortal dynasty in the world, when Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty never thought that there would be a lineage for all generations, he formulated a system for the descendants of the Ming Dynasty that he thought was complete, but the times are changing..... After all, manpower can't withstand the general trend. ”

Ning Yu muttered, but in his heart he was imagining, the Fu Han army was already preparing to start the first imperial examination in Wuchang, and the time was set for March this year, if all this can be carried out smoothly, then it fully shows that the gentry and people of Huguang have fully accepted the rule of the Fu Han army.

The situation in Huguang has gradually changed from chaos to governance, after all, the intensity of the original war is not very large, and the Qing army has been completely wiped out in a short period of time, so the strength of Huguang has not been greatly affected, and a large number of people and gentry found that under the banner of the Fu Han Army, it seems that it is not worse than before, but a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been exempted, and life can go on, so the support for the Fu Han Army is gradually increasing.

In addition, there have also been some subtle changes in the Jiangnan atmosphere of the Qing army, at least many people have planned to wait for the Fu Han army to fight, and immediately cut the braid anyway to revolt, adding another handful of soil to the cemetery of the Qing Dynasty.

On the territory of Qing Dynasty rule, although Jiangnan has always been an important place for money and grain, it is also one of the places with the strongest anti-Qing ideology. The thinking of these people has not completely faded with the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and if the rule of the Qing Dynasty continues for another 50 years, I am afraid that this situation will be reversed.

Because of this, in this era, you can still see anti-Qing scholars like Zeng Jing, and you can also see doers like Zhu Yigui.

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"My Qing Dynasty is still in full swing, are you willing to defend the city with me?"

Arsuna stood at the head of the Tong City Wall, looking at the soldiers behind him, his face was full of enthusiasm. It's just that this performance may be able to win a full house in front of Kangxi, but it can't touch the hearts of the people of Tongcheng at this time.

Everyone looked at this high-ranking official of the Niu Co Lu clan, and they were not moved at all, but felt a little tired, the reason was naturally because this noble-born master seemed to know everything about the battlefield from the script, but he had almost no actual combat experience.

Speaking of Arsuna, the background backer is also scared to death, born in Manchuria with the Yellow Flag, or Niu Hulu, is the great-grandson of the founding general Yidu, and the grandson of the auxiliary minister Kubilong, so at the age of only twenty-three, he inherited the title of second-class duke, and at the age of twenty-four, he was appointed as the Minister of the Guard and the firearms battalion, which can be described as a veritable high-ranking official.

Later, the Fu Han army rose, and the errand of the firearms battalion was also taken away by Prince Yong, so he could only hang an empty title of the minister of the guard, and followed Kangxi all the way south. But it doesn't hurt to dress up as a glamorous appearance to show people, but now that they are really on the battlefield with real knives and guns, they can only shrink in the rear.

Originally, this plan was not bad, but what Arsuna didn't expect was that he was besieged by the main army of the Fu Han while staying in the rear, and he was completely helpless except for the messenger sent to ask for help.

Now that the bigwigs who have gone south with Kangxi have basically gone to the front line, only Alsonga and the military department Shangshu Bai Huang have been left behind, who are responsible for supervising the military quartermaster in Tongcheng, so Alsonga naturally set his sights on Bai Huang.

Bai Huang pretended to be calm, although he was only promoted to the position of secretary of the military department the year before last, but he also started as a magistrate along the way, and he has experienced a lot of government affairs in his life, so he has to maintain his composure at the moment.

"Now there are 5,000 defenders in Tongcheng, of which 2,000 are soldiers of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion, and 3,000 are Green Battalion shotgunslingers.

In this era, the siege speed is very slow, and the whole process is very laborious, and the advantage occupied by the defenders is relatively much greater, so the lower city is often besieged, and there are few examples of capturing the fortified city in a short time, so Bai Huang did not have too much panic in his heart, this Chu Wei can hold on to the siege of nearly 100,000 troops for more than half a month, and his own 5,000 people defend 30,000 people, it is not a problem.....

When Al Song'a heard this, he also pondered in his heart, and felt that this was indeed the case, so he was a little happy in his heart, and began to fantasize about whether Kangxi could promote his knighthood again after the end of the war, so as to win glory for the family.....

At this moment, hundreds of artillery pieces of the Fu Han Army let out an earth-shattering roar, and hundreds of solid bullets and flowering bullets flew into the sky together, like flowers, blooming on the thin city wall of Tongcheng.

The battle of Tongcheng officially began.