The twenty-fourth day of the first month of the tenth year of Yongli, Yingde County, Shaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong.

The villages and towns near the county seat had been emptied by the Ming army, and at first, Huang Xing was preparing to collect these people back to the city to serve as people's husbands, and he did exactly that. However, then he soon found that there were too many people entering the city, so he simply sent these people to the boundary of Wengyuan County in the upper reaches of the Huangxi River.

Transferring people, collecting supplies, destroying official roads and wharves, and filling wells, Huang Xing began to do the work of clearing the wilderness as soon as he got the news. It's a pity that the big war is imminent, and there are too many things to do, especially the reinforcement of the city, as well as the repair and new establishment of the city defense facilities, which makes him scratch his head. By the time the Qing army arrived quickly and Tanma had approached the city, these tasks were still not completed in time.

The reinforcement of the walls continued, but it was clear that time was running out. The Qing army marched southward, with the help of the Huangshui waterway, but only with more than 10,000 troops, Lianzhou and Yangshan along the way really couldn't get too many ships, which would cause the time of the army to come to the city to this day.

Hong Chengchou is improvised, but also improvised, just like Chen Kai in the emptiness of Guangxi, not to rescue Guangxi, but to concentrate superior forces to storm the southern Jiangxi region that Hong Chengchou must defend, Hong Chengchou also chose to enter Yingde County, an important node of the lifeline of the Beijiang Waterway through the three counties of Lianzhou. However, as far as the Qing court officials and local forces in the three counties of Lianzhou were concerned, they were completely caught off guard, just like Huang Xing, who was about to face the siege of the city.

The rangers were infested, and Ma Bao finally entered the city before Hong Chengchou's army arrived at the mouth. However, the first step is only one step.

The three generals in Yingde County quickly clarified the rights and responsibilities of the battle, and the Qing army soon approached the city. Huokou, located in Yingde County a little downstream, the Qing army is downstream, straight to the south of the city. In this way, the communication between Yingde County and Qingyuan, Sanshui, Guangzhou and other places in the lower reaches of the Beijiang River was immediately blocked by the Qing army. Unless, go around a circle and arrive in Wengyuan County, there may be some possibility of contact.

Once the Qing army arrived, they besieged the south and west of the city. The east side is adjacent to Zhenshui, so it is still surrounded by three missing one, but it is not so solid.

The army approached the city, and Hong Chengchou's banner soon appeared in the west of the city, and it was quite eye-catching among the ten thousand troops. The banner embroidered with the big Hong characters was waving in the wind, revealing the identity and past of the owner of the flag.

Standing on the head of the city, Huang Xing, a Fujian native, couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Even if Ma Bao, a native of Shaanxi, only joined the Dashun Army in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and did not really fight against the Hong Butcher, but for many years in the Dashun Army and under the command of Li Chengdong, Hong Chengchou's prestige has been the least heard. At the same time, Wang Han, the weakest of the Cantonese, seems to have been less affected, and I don't know whether it was because the ignorant were fearless, or if he had greater confidence in another civil official who was known for his wisdom and good fighting skills who would surely be driven back from the north.

"The old man of the army will return in a few days, defend the city, everyone will be rewarded!"

The means to boost morale are used, but it always seems that there is a little bit of weakness in it. At this time, in the brilliant array of the Qing army, a fast horse galloped in, shouting loudly to persuade the surrender of the words, its toes were arrogant, half a year ago also under this Yingde City ordered the Qing army to surrender to the Ming army knights, even if they had Chen Kai's arrogant questioning blessing, they had to fall a bow.

After the condescending contempt of the persuasion, there was no reaction from the city, and the Qing knight clamped the horse's belly, and at the same time gently pulled the reins, and the war horse under the crotch turned a direction with light steps, and the Qing knight twisted the wolf's waist lightly, and then changed the body on the other side to face the county seat of Nayingde again.

As if it were a ritual, the war horse turned its head and stood again, and the knight once again swept those arrogant words of persuasion to surrender to the Ming army at the head of the city with a more condescending momentum.

When Yingde County was first built, it was one foot and three feet high, and it was about four meters three. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Wu Yongcheng, the county governor, rebuilt the city and raised it by the trend, and now it is five meters away. Counting the height of the Ming army at the head of the city, the height of the sound like eardrums is already six or seven meters, but under the arrogance of the Qing army, it seems that the knights outside the city who are only about two meters on a war horse are not knights outside the city, but the defenders on the head of these cities are not enough to face the huge aura of the hand without looking up.

"Shoot the arrows!"

It's an attitude, and it's a kind of inaction. As soon as Huang Xing waved his hand, a team of archers aimed at the Qing knight, and it was a burst of fierce shots.

However, the momentum is not a balloon, and such a rain of arrows has no chance of piercing it. Seeing this, the knights of the Qing army under the city naturally pulled out their swords, their bodies were motionless, and they did not rush to make a move, but only flicked a few times, and knocked down the arrows that threatened them and the war horses under their crotch one by one. After the rain of arrows, he scolded the halberd, and immediately rode his horse back laughing.

Let the Qing army be so arrogant, but it failed to hurt half of it, and Ma Bao on the head of the city had already gritted that steel tooth. Originally, he claimed to be an earl and a marshal, so there was no need to personally fight the Qing army, just let the soldiers below send it away. Who knew that this would be the case, and here he regretted that he failed to open the city and fight alone, and killed him under the city, so as to weaken the momentum of the Qing army.

The heroism of the Qing knights immediately attracted the cheers of the Qing army outside the city, and Ma Bao had no choice but to act in accordance with the established rights and responsibilities of the city guards. At this time, the attitude of the Ming army was clear, and the Qing army no longer waited, and the army moved forward slowly, but there were not too many artillery, and there were a lot of siege equipment such as lookouts, rushing cars, and ladders.

At the head of the city, Ma Bao is an old man, and Huang Xing has not seen similar scenes in Fujian and Guangdong. The Qing army is like this, it is nothing more than that the afternoon has passed, and the afternoon may not be able to decide the victory or defeat in a battle. In addition to the plum blossom piles outside the city, Huang Xing has worked hard, densely arranged outside, and a dense phobia looks down on the city, maybe he will be forced to get sick.

Sure enough, the Qing army's large array stopped outside the range of the Ming army's artillery. This distance has already entered the range of one mile, and it is obvious that the Qing army has an accurate understanding of the state of the city defense in Yingde County, especially the caliber of artillery.

This is all due to the intelligence collection work of the Changsha shogunate in the past six months. Of course, the attention is not only to such an Yingde county, and it can even be said that its attention is only a few tenths of that of Guangzhou City, but it can still allow the Qing army to have a sufficient intelligence base before officially launching an attack, and lay a better foundation for operational planning and operations.

The army came to a halt when it was close enough distance, not to reorganize the formation, but to really stop. Almost at the same time, the banner of the Qing army waved, and a group of auxiliaries behind the formation came out of the crowd, holding axes, hammers and other tools, plus some large shields, first slowly moving forward, and then running rhythmically, until they rushed to the forefront of the plum blossom pile before stopping, and then directly brandished the axe and began to cut down the plum blossom pile, without taking the Ming army shooters who were eyeing the city seriously.

The existence of the plum pile is not only to block the approach of the siege equipment and delay the speed of the attacker's advance to the city wall, but also to inflict damage on the attacker in the process and demoralize the opponent. The plum blossom pile is within the range of the Ming army shooter, during which the Qing army auxiliary soldiers began to cut down the plum blossom pile, the Ming army at the head of the city only waited for an order, and the arrows fell from the city like a torrential rain, compared to the time when the knight was sniped just now, the number did not know how much more.

The torrential rain came quickly, and killing and injury were inevitable. However, although the Qing army is only an auxiliary, but it seems to cooperate tacitly, a team of auxiliaries approached the plum blossom pile, dispersed, with a group of three, one holding a shield in front, one holding an axe from the bottom of the plum blossom pile to chop, to cut out the gap, the auxiliary soldier carrying the wooden hammer will round the hammer, directly smash the plum blossom pile along the gap.

The Qing army did not intend to uproot the plum blossom piles, they only had to cut off the exposed parts, even as long as they did not hinder the movement of the siege equipment.

Different teams have different numbers and combinations, but all of them have shieldmen in front of the cover and auxiliary soldiers behind to clear the plum stakes. When these Qing troops cooperated, they were not the kind of temporary together, and their tacit understanding was no less than that of real soldiers. The difference is nothing more than that the tacit cooperation of the soldiers is to kill people, while they are to clean up the plum blossom pile. However, as long as possible, anyone who sees the current scene will not doubt that these auxiliaries will really be worse in coordination once they kill people.

At the head of the city, Huang Xing and the others just thought about it, and the cold sweat on their foreheads was even heavier. The information that came back several times before, as well as the banner of the Qing army outside the city now, the army marked with tens of thousands in the southwest has been clearly placed here. Such a force is already extremely stressful for them. But now it seems that even the quality of these auxiliaries has reached such a level, and the combat effectiveness of those soldiers can be imagined.

This distance, although in range, can pose a very small threat to the Qing army auxiliaries with shield holders in terms of accuracy and strength. Seeing this, Huang Xing didn't plan to continue wasting arrows, so he asked those shooters to stop. In this way, it was not until the Qing army auxiliary soldiers completed the cleaning of nearly half of the plum blossom piles, and even replaced another batch of auxiliary soldiers to shoot before it was relaunched.

The angle is different, and the Qing army is beyond the power to provide cover for three or four people. Sharp arrows were shot one by one, and from time to time, the auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army fell to the ground with arrows. Some, screaming in pain, managed to get up again and went on with their work; Yes, wails emanated from the bodies that had fallen to the ground, apparently incapacitated; Some were shot to the ground without saying a word, with an arrow stuck in their bodies, and there was no longer life.

It was only a moment after the Ming army's shooting began to take effect, and the plum blossom piles of this size did not seem to weaken much, and the war drums on the Qing army's side sounded, and the huge siege equipment slowly advanced under the hard work of the auxiliaries. The Qing troops who followed behind were holding their own swords and following the siege equipment, refusing to expose any part of their bodies.

The siege equipment advanced slowly, and the Qing army's auxiliaries went up again and began to speed up the progress of cutting down plum blossom piles. The Qing army was slowly approaching, not fast, but it never stopped, and it was only a matter of time before it was close to the city wall. And those plum blossom piles, with more Qing army auxiliaries following up, obviously can no longer stop the Qing army's advance.

This is not a deliberate estimate, but with years of experience, the officers of the Qing army are obviously comfortable with this and handle it just right.

A moment later, the artillery on the head of the Ming army began to fire, not at the ant-like Qing army under the city, but at the towering lookouts. The target is larger, the probability of hitting is greater, and the damage caused is more, sometimes war is like a mathematical problem, it can be accurately calculated, but sometimes, the variables are constantly increasing, and the calculation power is slightly insufficient, and the calculation will often become more and more chaotic.

In the creaking sound of wood breaking, a lookout fell to the ground, and the Qing soldiers on the platform couldn't help but scream and try to pull the last chance of life, and even some artists dared to jump up at the moment of landing, but it was just in vain. The large wooden structure can carry a large number of soldiers, and its own weight is enough to crush everything.

The Qing soldiers behind the lookout quickly fled, but there were always a few who were left behind who could not survive. In the face of death, there is nothing more than nobility. These Qing troops were just trying to avoid the possibility of more war deaths with more experience, and became the lucky ones who survived.

The Qing army was still advancing, and the plum blossom pile array laid by Huang Xingbu had been broken by the Qing army before evening. Fortunately, the variables of the night battle are too great, especially for the Qing army, which goes deep into the hinterland of the Ming army, will never choose. Time is running out left, and it won't be long before they need to hold on.

This is just a theory, and everything is still unknown until the moment when the Qing army Mingjin retreats. The plum blossom pile was gradually cut down, there was no moat in Yingde County, and the lookout had stopped as early as halfway to shoot at the Ming army at the head of the city. The shooting of the Ming army at the head of the city undoubtedly gave those rushing cars a better opportunity to advance. Arrows from the top of the city continued to fall, accompanied by screams or not, such a towering city wall fell, and there was only a dead end. With another fall, the Qing army that was the first to approach the city shouted the trumpet, and the siege cone smashed heavily on the city wall.

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