Li Shiyuan turned over and dismounted, and with the help of his personal guards, he took off his heavy armor, and he had just led his troops to rush and kill for a while, driving back a group of Qing soldiers who had gone south to capture the young and strong. The beheading of thousands of people in World War I can be said to be a small lesson for the Qing army outside Texas.

But this is only a small fight, and in general, the Qing army still has an advantage. Because Azig had already led the army to Yanzhou, Zheng Zhilong raised the main force of the army to enter Ziyang and was fighting with Azig.

And Zu Zerun also led the Green Flag soldiers of the Central Plains to force Dongchang Mansion, Azig retreated, and the Green Flag soldiers retreated. But Zu Zerun must first face the Yuyuan army in Caozhou. The latter lived up to Zheng Zhilong's expectations, took the money, food, and armor given by Zheng Zhilong, and fought with Zu Zerun in Caozhou. But Zheng Jun still has to divide his troops to 'watch'!

At the same time, the Qing army in the north was also under the supervision of Haoge, mainly the green flag soldiers of Zhili, although they had suffered heavy losses a year ago, but Xu Dingguo surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also became the general army of Zhending, called the green flag soldiers of Zhili increased their strength again, and now they are pressing towards Qilu.

Texas is the center of fierce battles between the two sides!

Besieged on three sides, the Manchu Qing Dynasty seized the shortcomings of the limited strength of the Zheng army, and pursued and attacked fiercely.

The gentry and wealthy households in Qilu in southern Hebei also responded, for example, Hejian City, which was originally controlled by the Zheng army, surrendered without a fight, and a force that had been dormant for a long time in the city broke out, and the Qing army captured the fortified city without much effort.

Although this is also related to the fact that Zheng Jun doesn't care about the city's gains and losses at all.

At the head of Dezhou City, several tall wooden pillars were erected by Zheng Jun, and their heads were hung all over them, and some of the heads were still dripping with blood. These are all people who have turned to the Manchus in the heart of the city, or people who have shown unfriendliness to Zheng Jun, and now they are all dead.

During the war, Zheng Zhibao could not tolerate soft-heartedness.

After a series of battles, the Qing army had completely recaptured Hejian Province, and ten cities, large and small, were taken back by the Manchus without much effort. The power of the gentry cannot be underestimated.

Zheng Zhibao must pay attention. He can not care about Hejian Mansion, but he can't let the Qing army go unpunished in Qilu. When the Qing army in Zhili moved, it first raised a group and gathered a part of the Zheng army's infantry cavalry, plus Guo Sheng, Zhou Lianggong and Yuan Dahong, Xie Qian and Ding Keze's miscellaneous troops, and when the Qing army was killed, it was directly nailed to Dezhou.

As an important town in the north of Qilu, it is also an important water and land transportation hub, Dezhou is the only place for Zhili to go south to Qilu. After the opening of the Grand Canal, Dezhou is an important wharf on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and is an important place for cultural exchanges and transportation between the north and the south, after becoming the capital of Yanjing, until the 19th century, Dezhou is an important land and water passage leading to Yanjing in the nine southern provinces (Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi).

The soldiers and horses of Zhili could choose to surround but not fight, just as the Manchu Qing did when they entered Qilu, but they must not be left alone.

Because in the case of the canal and waterway, land transportation was the lifeblood of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was absolutely impossible for them to put their logistics lifeline under the knife of Zheng Jun.

Whether it is from Zhendingfu, or from Baoding and Hejian, the first stop is Dezhou. Because this is how the official road of the Ming Dynasty is cultivated.

Is it okay to go straight down to the Central Plains and then enter Qilu from Zhending? It's okay, but can Luo Jinxiu in the Central Plains be able to provide the military supplies of the two armies?

How is this possible!

Turning his gaze back to Dezhou City, after the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city defense here was fortunately maintained. The reason is very simple, the two expeditions before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs were both besieged but not fought against Texas. And by the time of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, Dezhou also surrendered without a fight, and even when the Zheng army came, the local officials and gentry fled one after another, and it was still won without a fight.

But now the city of Dezhou, which has been bombarded by the artillery of the Qing army for many days, has fallen to the same level as many cities in Qilu.

It looks like it's all in tatters!

The Qing army seized the time to construct artillery positions outside the city and arrange artillery. Heavy firepower has always been something that the Qing army lacks, this time in order to attack the city and pull out the village, it is said that the artillery at the head of Yanjing City has been moved, and it can be said that it has taken out the treasure at the bottom of the box.

Under the guidance of Buckhouse, they learned to build improvised batteries, and learned how to place willow baskets filled with sand in front of the cannons for protection, and then the artillery outside the city became much more difficult.

Because you can't expect shells bouncing around enemy artillery positions.

Therefore, in recent days, the artillery of the two armies has been bombarding each other, and the number of them is as high as thirty or forty, but there is no longer the scene of directly breaking up the opponent's artillery carriage and artillery carriage as before.

With the current accuracy of artillery, it is not very difficult to hit the gun carriage of the gun carriage opposite, but it is too difficult.

In addition to using artillery to bombard the city, the Qing army sent troops to attack in all directions, either forcibly recruiting the people and strong, or harassing the back road of the Zheng army.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery of the two armies was always firing at each other.

Above and below the city, the sound of cannons shook the sky, and while the arrows and stones flew sideways, a large group of young people who were forced up by the Qing army rushed up like locusts.

These people were all forcibly recruited by the Qing army, and they were crying and mourning, and no one dared or wanted to move forward. But under the threat of the Qing army's swords and guns, it can only move forward, and it must move forward.

The defense of the city of Texas is quite complete, it was already winter when the Zheng army seized here, and it was also used to pour water into ice to build a few ice castles outside the city, but now it is the end of February, and the ice in the canal is about to melt, and the ice castle will naturally not be completed for a long time. There is also a lack of time to build fortress turrets, and now it is only necessary to arm the Texas city as much as possible.

Pile up sandbags in the city to strengthen the city walls, pile sandbags on the city walls, strengthen the enemy towers, and turn the enemy towers into turrets......

Zheng Jun's guns will not be lacking, even some small Fran cannons that have been collected have also come in handy. At least they have the range to cover the moat outside the city.

At this moment, there are only three five-pound cannons, two three-catty cannons, and many mortars are fighting back.

The lethality of the bullets shot out was really not small, and the young people in the city were scattered.

In particular, a mortar cannon, the flowering bullet they fired deliberately cut the fuse, and every time it exploded in the air above the head of the young man, the lethality was much stronger than those solid iron balls, and the deterrent power was also much stronger.

The young men who were driven by the Qing army fell to the ground and wailed in pain, and no one came to help them, and even some of them were ruthlessly trampled on by the panicked crowd behind them.

The sandbags and dirt bags that fell quickly filled in the trench, and in one day, the trench in the north of Texas City was filled out of a passage that was a hundred feet wide.

Li Shiyuan led his troops to assault several times, but the Qing army had already been garrisoned, and they all returned in vain.

Some people in Texas City were terrified, but Zheng Zhibao was an old god. What are you afraid of? The Qing army had artillery, and they also had artillery. The city was full of grain and charcoal, and there were many military supplies in reserve, even if it took a year, he was not afraid.

However, Zheng Zhibao believed that in less than a month, the Yanzhou battlefield in the south would definitely come with the good news of Zheng's army's victory. At that time, the hardship of Texas is still a fart.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't understand Zheng Zhilong's recent decision, the eldest brother not only turned his face with Jinling, but also established Zheng Sen as the prince, and even talked to him in private, inexplicably saying that he wanted to pass on the throne to Zheng Sen.

Zheng Zhibao's brain was really confused, and he didn't want to figure it out, so he just honestly obeyed the order. Everything horizontally and vertically has Zheng Zhilong!

Zheng Zhilong asked him to resist Haoge, and he went directly to Texas.

Although the soldiers and horses in this Texas city are patchwork, such as the rebel army of Xie Qian and Ding Keze, it is simply a rabble. But isn't the Qing army on the other side also a rabble?

Although the enemy was outnumbered, the difference between the two armies was not huge, at least the Qing army did not have the ability to block Texas and move south, and he believed that he could hold Texas.

As for whether Zheng Zhilong's fight on the main battlefield in Yanzhou will be defeated, Zheng Zhibao never thinks about it.

Looking at the wars over the years, how has his eldest brother ever lost a battle? Zheng Zhibao's confidence in his eldest brother is that he can fly into the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun.

"Boom! Rumble! "The rumbling of artillery resounded throughout Texas.

First, four Dingliao general cannons fired, and this general cannon was the imitation version of the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty. A bronze iron-hearted cannon two feet long - bronze on the outside, iron on the inside. The barrel gradually thickens from front to back, with three raised copper hoops in the middle. There is a cannon lug on each side of the middle of the gun body, and the tail end of the gun is conch-shaped. It weighs about 5,000 catties.

This is the Ming Dynasty once resisted the Manchu Qing Dynasty, one of the artillery body on the front of the inscription: Qin Cha Admiral Military Affairs Guard Liaodong Chief Military Officer Zuo Du Governor Wu donated money casting, Chongzhen fifteen years of November auspicious day. This "Governor Wu of the Left Capital, the Chief Military Officer of Liaodong", is clearly Wu Sangui.

Then there were four Kamui Grand General cannons, and then two Western-style twelve-pounder cannons.

These ten heavy cannons can be fired every once in a while, and one by one solid bullets hit the city wall, although the Texas city wall is strong, the outer layer is covered with fifty pounds of large masonry, and the contacts are all cracked and shattered.

Then a large number of Qing troops carried the wooden platoon and long ladder forward, like ants. Braving the guns and cannons in the city, under the coercion of the supervising troops behind him, he tried his best to move forward and move forward.

The moat in Texas was five zhang wide, and the sheep and horse walls under the city had already been shattered by cannonballs.

There were not many soldiers on the city, except for the fortified enemy forts, there were some musketeers.

Although there are casualties every day, it is by no means a number that Zheng Zhibao cannot afford.

Now seeing the Qing army launching a fierce attack, Zheng Zhibao is also full of indifference, this is not the first time that the Qing army has come to send him to death.

The large and small artillery shells on the city were replaced with scattered bullets, and dozens or hundreds of broken iron horns, broken nails, and even gravel of different sizes were stuffed into the barrels.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The iron horns that shot out of the iron nails and broken stones, with a scream that cut through the air, slammed into the ranks of the city. It's really more effective than Lord Yama's invitation, and each shot can take the lives of a dozen or more people.

Just like the rocket artillery in the later island raiders against the thin-skinned infantry, no amount of bombardment is enough.

The Qing army's offensive was very fierce, and the speed of the retreat was also very fierce.

With the tenacity of a rabble, how long can they hold out?

The Green Flag soldiers were not fools, and no one felt that they had lived enough, and in only a quarter of an hour, they turned around and fled, and collapsed in a hurry.

The Qing army, which had been lined up in the rear outside the city, finally made a move at this time, and they quickly spread out and gathered the scattered Qing army. After the defeated soldiers stopped a group of Qing soldiers armed with swords and spears, they obediently stopped.

Hauge was unmoved by the defeat, knowing that such an attack would be of little use to the defenders of Texas. But an attack like this is still necessary. At least this can let Zheng Jun in the city know who is strong and who is weak, and continue to maintain pressure on them.

And if some people don't die, how can he rest assured of Xu Dingguo? For a soldier like Xu Dingguo's ministry, there is no harm in dying more.

Who wrote history for 5,000 years

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