As Jiang Long said, in the next few days, news came that the Qing troops in Tingzhou and Zhangzhou had begun to block the border and relocate the people so that they could fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and the envoys sent to Zhenping County earlier also brought back a reply that Lai Qixiao had no intention of getting involved in the battle between them and the Ming army.

With the news that Sanheba was descending for the Ming army without a fight, Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long were also completely locked in this area, and the only fortified city in this area, the only place where there may still be some vitality is this Dapu County. In other places, there is no way to wander, there is no food in the wilderness, and they are all dead!

After Zheng Chenggong's troops occupied the Sanhe Dam, Zhang Jin, who followed him, led the soldiers of those towns to the west, went to Meixi, and went to Chengxiang, and it didn't take much effort to catch the key place. However, the Tanma who was scattered, and the Cheng Tuhao who decided to cooperate with Zheng Chenggong respectively sent information that Hao Shangjiu seemed to have received the news that the Ming army was heading north.

"Hao Shangjiu seems to have estimated it a long time ago, and he will react immediately as soon as the information arrives."

The Ming army set out from Chaozhou, where there was a geographical and people's gap with Changle and Xingning in land transportation. was able to react so quickly, and his eyes were staring at Zheng Chenggong's subordinates without mentioning it, but he was afraid that Cheng Township, the local tyrant who nominally fell to Zheng Chenggong, might not be single-minded.

"What Zhong Kuangbo said is that we don't need to care about that much, as long as we control these key points and don't let Hao Shangjiu make trouble for the country, it will be done."

"That's true."

The troops that intercepted Hao Shangjiu's reinforcements were successfully arranged, and after crossing the Sanhe Dam, the main force of the Ming army led by Zheng Chenggong also began to advance towards the county town of Dapu.

Strong strength is the premise of success, but after Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long joined forces, they also had more than 3,000 troops, among which Jiang Long could recruit villagers to defend the city, and the number of his soldiers was not much less than Zheng Chenggong, at least in the case of having the city as a cover.

The county town of Dapu stands against the mountain, and there is no gate in the south, so there is no pressure to defend it. In order to meet Zheng Chenggong, Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long tried their best to dig ravines, arrange city defenses, and strengthen walled walls and city walls, in order to be able to hold out for a few more days. As a result, when Zheng Chenggong arrived, he saw that Wu Liuqi's camp was in the north, and Dapu County formed a horn trend, and the plum blossom pile had been buried outside the city and outside the camp and not mentioned, that is, under the city, in front of the camp, the antlers, the tunnel, and the two defenders were also in strict formation, and the word "stubborn defense" was written clearly.

"I don't know, did Jiang Long block the city gate with a big stone?"

Chen Kai had a contemptuous smile on his face, even Shi Lang could see that Chen Kai's mockery, so he simply didn't say a word and continued to observe the situation of the garrison. However, Yang Cai, after taking Raoping County, began to feel a little uncomfortable, and this time he came with the lead of the troops, and he also echoed the words when he heard the words.

"If Jiang Long is not wise, it will save our army a lot of things."

The two departments are in a horn, supporting each other and sharing the pressure with each other, so that the pressure on the defense will be greatly reduced. Even if you don't mention this, just talking about defending the city, in the art of war, it is most taboo to shrink into the turtle shell and not go out of the suffocating defense, and you must always send troops to raid the siege troops or enemy camps to have the possibility of victory. In the Battle of Hongdu that year, Zhu Wen's performance when he was besieging Chen Youliang's hundreds of thousands of troops is the best example.

The opponent is only two bandits, even if the strength is not weak, but the Ming army still occupies a considerable advantage. After the military discussion, the strategy of attacking the city of Rongqi Town, attacking the camp of the left vanguard town, and supporting the left and right pioneer towns was decided.

"If I am a river dragon, the best way is to use water as a soldier, anyway, in the city, I can't drown him."

"Chen Senjun said with a smile, building a dam in the upper reaches of the Ting River, there is not enough time."

Shi Lang shook his head, and then laughed contemptuously, but Chen Kai didn't react to this, but said faintly: "What if it's these two rivers?" ”

"Xiaojing River and Zhangxi River?"

Coughing lightly, Yang Cai pointed to the map, and frowned, because these two places are either not far from the camping point, or close to the starting position of the siege, no matter which river is moved, its harm is not inferior to the rolling torrent of the Ting River.

Of course, this problem is not difficult to solve, in this era, there are no large-scale civil engineering machines, not to mention the time-consuming labor alone, and the horse's feet are too easy to show. Shi Lang said that he could observe the amount of water and send scouts to search for the upstream situation, which would be foolproof, but in the end, he still added a sentence "If Chen joins the army like Cao Mengde on Huarong Road, it will not be a good thing", suggesting that Zheng Chenggong should choose to camp and start again.

Chen Kai could hear that Shi Lang had been in battle for a long time, and he was also quite talented, coupled with the teaching of his uncle Shi Fu, the proposed method could have been prevented. His last suggestion, to put it bluntly, was to compare him to Cao Cao and disgust him, and at the same time laid a foreshadowing in Zheng Chenggong's heart.

"The ability of calculating people has grown."

sneered in his heart, but Chen Kai was silent, completely looking like he didn't do anything bad in his life, and he didn't feel shocked when he knocked on the door in the middle of the night, Shi Lang seemed to have smashed his fist on the cotton.

The army arrived on the first day, built a camp, rested for a while, and sent people to persuade Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long to surrender. As a result, neither of them did anything to the end, nor did they say anything to death, they just hoped that Zheng Chenggong could leave them a way to live, and they were willing to repay the favor by giving Zheng Chenggong a certain amount of grain and grass every year as filial piety.

"I didn't even mention raising troops to join him, this sincerity is very limited."

The war was inevitable, and in the next two days, the Ming army began to clean up the plum blossom piles outside the city and outside the camp to build siege equipment, and the defenders did not invest much energy, but only harassed the Ming army outside the city with bows and arrows and crossbow machines, while continuing to strengthen the city defense. In the early morning of the fourth day, Shi Lang's subordinates set off first, and Yang Cai followed up, and as Zheng Chenggong personally mentioned the Rongqi Town and arrived near the city, this battle directly entered the stage of winning or losing.

Since most of the plum blossom piles have been cleared, all that remains is nothing more than those close to the city wall, Zheng Chenggong does not intend to continue to waste time, and with an order, the lookouts, rushing cars, cloud ladders, and the Ming soldiers of the brigade and the auxiliary soldiers carrying dirt bags and sandbags on their backs slowly pressed towards the county seat of Dapu in the rumbling drums.

If it weren't for the fact that Jianglong sent people to dig a shallow ditch outside the city that did not lead to water, and barely formed a blockage of the hedging car, Zheng Chenggong would not have planned to prepare even soil bags and sandbags.

According to the intelligence, this place is located in a remote area, hidden between the mountains, the firearms in the city are nothing more than a few tiger squatting cannons, the caliber is not large, almost pure cold weapons siege warfare, fighting is nothing more than breaking the wall, breaking the door and ascending first. Especially when Zheng Chenggong's department brought a lot of artillery and firecrackers, especially the spirit guns, the victory or defeat could have already been determined.

"The weapons and equipment are not equal, and the subordinate officials will not look at it, and they will not see any direction that is beneficial to the Ordnance Bureau to improve weapons. On Wu Liuqi's side, it is said that there are still some firearms, and his people have also defeated Che Renzhong back then, and the lower officials still have some desire to take a look. ”

The sound of artillery behind him sounded, and Chen Kai was already on the forward position of the right pioneer town looking at the rolling forward of the left pioneer town in the distance. From west to east, the banner of Shi Zi, the chief military officer of Zuo Pioneer Town, and the camp about silently wrote the banner of Wu, the chief military officer of the Fengshun battalion, hunting in the mountain wind.

"Thunderbolt, General Vigor, two dogs and traitors bite each other, which one is bitten to death, Lao Tzu is happy."