Prince Nikan has also received a report from his subordinates!

He placed a checkpoint outside for the Ming army to touch, it was a unit commanded by Dadan Zhangjing, equivalent to a quarter of a Niulu, more than 80 people, on the night of September 23, let people sneak attack, the whole army was annihilated! And no one knew about it that night, and it wasn't until the next day that the other troops went to change their guards that they found dead people in a village...... More than eighty people died, all of them were stabbed to death with bayonets!

These Ming soldiers didn't even fire their guns (for fear of alarming the nearby Qing army), and they only used bayonets to kill more than 80 people, which is too cruel, right? It's almost time to catch up with the white armor soldiers of Manchuria!

What made Nikan even more frightened was that it was impossible for these more than 80 people to die in battle, and someone must have been captured! And if someone is captured, then his own ambush will be exposed......

Could it be that the Ming army brigade is rushing towards its side?

Nikan knew that something was wrong, and immediately brought his deputy Tan Tai to discuss.

"Lord Wang, we don't have a camp here!" Tan Tai was also a little panicked, "I occupied a dilapidated village, dug a shallow trench, and erected a wooden fence...... And we don't have many artillery, only one artillery cow record, 12 3-pounder guns and 6 6-pounder guns, I'm afraid I can't hold it! ”

"It's okay, there's still time...... Nikan gritted his teeth, "give the order and start digging trenches and fortifications immediately!" Everybody has to work! He glanced at Tan Tai, "You and I personally supervise the work!" In any case, the hard village must be repaired before the arrival of the Ming army! ”

Now the Qing army can't defeat the Ming army in the field, and there is only the number of ways left to repair the hard village!

In the original plan, Nikan was an ambush along the way, so he didn't build a hard village for himself. It's too bad now, the scouts of the Ming army are too powerful, and they directly searched out the Nikan who was in ambush!

"But Lord Wang, it's so cold outside now,......" Tan Tai frowned, "Where can those Han peasants and soldiers endure this hardship?" Don't be hard and haven't repaired it, and you're tired and lying down! ”

"How so?" Nikan said, "They can afford to plant so many fields by themselves, and now they can't build a life-saving hard village?" If the Ming army is allowed to enter, they will all die...... They are all traitors! ”

That's right! The puppet army is also a traitor!

The current Emperor Ming is very bad, no matter what you coerce or not, just send it to the United States...... America is so far away, so bitter, who will go!

If you don't want to go to the United States, if you want to stay in the Northeast, then work hard to dig trenches and build fortifications!

While supervising his subordinates digging trenches and building fortifications, Nikan and Tan Tai also sent an urgent report to Doni, asking Doni to change his plan and let Yue Le's department move closer to their side.

But Doni also received an urgent report from Yue Le - Yue Le was also discovered by the Ming army! Moreover, Yue Le also discovered that the swift and ferocious of the Ming army was not under the white armor soldiers, and the sentry posts he released were also copied by a few people! So I got nervous too.

Now it's Doni's turn to make trouble, who will the Ming army fight first? Who should be brought closer to whom?

And just when Doni was in trouble, Qin Mingtao and Li Shaowen had already made a decision to fight Nikan first! Because Yue Le's side seems to have repaired a hard village, it is more difficult to fight. Therefore, Qin Mingtao and Li Shaowen decided to concentrate their superior forces and beat Nikan first. However, he couldn't let Yue Le go, but took out the strength of a regiment and scattered them into stragglers to attack and confuse Yue Le's department, so that Yue Le didn't dare to leave the hard village easily. The remaining five regiments and all the artillery were sent straight to Nikan's headquarters.

As in the previous battle of Kongjiabao, this time the Young Guards Division still adopted the tactics of marching during the day and launching a night attack as soon as it arrived at its destination.

Moreover, as in the Battle of Kongjiabao, the attack on Nikan's headquarters was first initiated by a Young Guards infantry regiment that used skirmishing tactics.

That night, the heavy snow had stopped for two days in a row, the weather was very cold, there were no clouds in the sky, the moon was bright, and he was very good at night fighting.

Nearly 1,500 musketeers formed a skirmisher formation and slowly approached a farm called Zhaojiazhuang, which was entrenched by Nikan's troops.

Zhaojiazhuang is a large farm, but it is very dilapidated, and at a glance it is known that it is the settlement of the military and civilians of Liao Town before the rise of the Later Jin. However, there are also some renovated buildings, indicating that after the development of the Kanto region by Duoduo, some immigrants from Kannai lived here.

But now, the residents of Zhaojiazhuang have disappeared, and only the army led by Nikan remains.

When the battle began, Nikan, who was standing on the roof of a large house in Zhuangzi and watching the battle, immediately felt that something was wrong. The Ming army encountered this time was completely beyond his imagination, not how strong they were, but how Nikan could not imagine how this army was scattered in the snow on a winter night?

How do officers command? How to supervise the war? What if someone wants to run away, someone wants to hide and refuse to fight? And the officer can't see it clearly at all, how can he judge merit in this way? How can you fight like this?

Look at the Qing army's side, although it is also fighting at night, but before the enemy appears, piles of firewood are piled up in front and behind the forward position, and the fire is lit as soon as it starts, and the position is brightly lit, so that you can command!

But how did the Ming army command it?

Just when Nikan was confused, his deputy Tan Tai had already come out of the house, standing in the courtyard and shouting at him: "Lord, the regent's decree has arrived...... Let us go out immediately and move closer to King Anjun! ”

"What? Now sorted? Ass...... We are all surrounded by enemies! Nikan replied loudly, "Send someone to the regent for help, and let Yue Le move closer to me!" ”

"Lord Wang, maybe Yue Le's side was also beaten......

Nikan said, "That's false, but our side is real!" ”

"But how can you prove it?" Tan Tai asked.

Oh, yes! How to prove it?

When Nikan was in a dilemma, the Ming army gave him a "proof" very intimately - they opened fire!

"Boom ......"

It was still 4 12-pound short cannons, and the four cannonballs fell very accurately in the snow, and then bounced violently. One of them crashed into a house on the edge of Zhuangzi and exploded inside, blowing up the entire house, and I don't know if there was anyone inside? Two others exploded in the air after flying some distance, and one did not explode and did not know where it flew.

"Hurry up, push our 6-pounder gun up and fight back!" Nikan yelled loudly at the soldiers standing in the courtyard who were in charge of delivering orders.

Its practical 6-pound cannon counterattack against the 12-pound gun is a particularly unreliable thing, because the 12-pound gun, even if it is a short gun with a truncated barrel, has a longer range than a 6-pound gun. Moreover, the level of artillery of the Ming army is not comparable to that of the artillery of the Qing army - so many rare and death-threatening math problems are not done in vain! Moreover, they are also proficient in ranging and wind speed measurement, and can very accurately hit the flowering shells on the artillery positions of the Qing army.

Therefore, as soon as the artillery battle on both sides began, the artillery of the Qing army quickly fell behind, and in less than ten rounds, three 6-pounder guns were dumbfounded! The gunner of a 6-pounder gun also suffered heavy casualties because a 12-pound wooden shell exploded nearby, and the firing speed dropped significantly, and only 2 guns could barely fire.

At the same time that the Ming army's 4 12-pound guns completely suppressed the Qing army's 6-pounder cannon with flowering shells, the Ming army's stragglers were also approaching the Qing army's position step by step, because they continued to fire their muskets in the dark to shoot out the Qing army in the Ming place, causing certain losses to the Qing army that was sticking to the hard village, and also caused panic.

The shootout between the two sides also quickly reached a fierce level!

Nikan also came down from a high place at this time, and got into the house occupied by his Chinese army, and Tan Tai on the opposite side said: "The Ming army has fired...... It's all 12-pound or more guns! What we have encountered is their main force, and now we must let Yue Le move closer to us! ”