Bolo's aim was to quickly break down the resistance at the defensive line in front of him, and then fight a decisive battle with Wu Shengzhao's main force outside Suzhou with a powerful chariot force, and flank the main chariot army of Shengwu's army, his army would be defeated.

At that time, as long as Wu Shengzhao's main force is lost, then the king of Jiangnan Lu will no longer have any soldiers to fight, and he can use cannons to collapse the city walls one by one, and then break them one by one. Now Bolo has cannons, and he has nearly 500 on land alone, including "Hongyi Cannon", "General Cannon", etc., large and small artillery, using two kinds of shells: solid and flowering.

As for Boluo, he sent Zheng Zhilong to lead all the naval army and carry 20% of the cavalry to Hangzhou, there were two reasons, one was to force Huang Binqing to surrender. This person is now vacillating between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and when he defeats Hangzhou tomorrow morning, Zheng Zhilong's army will also arrive on the shore, and he will have to surrender if he does not surrender.

Moreover, as far as Bolo knows, Huang Binqing himself has the idea of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, and even revealed that he has sent 5,000 new troops to Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, in the name of recruits, which is in the hands of Huang Mingjun, the inner Ying under the Tang throne.

In front of the Boluo army, it was a short waterway along the north of Suzhou City that ran through Taihu Lake and Yangcheng Lake in the northeast of Suzhou, which was one of the means used by Wu Shengzhao and Zhang Mingzhen to settle the rebels and other soldiers and horses, and was also the main force to defend Suzhou City. Lu Jianguo said that this "construction workshop (construction company)" was built by the earthwork construction of Shenzhou City, and the defense line of the civil engineering mixed structure was quite strong.

Along the river are thick pointed wooden piles diagonally into the river, and on the slopes behind the wooden piles are a number of civil forts, in which nearly 500 soldiers are stored, equipped with "fire guns", "bows and arrows", "sharp blades", "spears" and "flying crossbows" or "great general cannons" or "franc machines".

There are several "tiger squat cannons" standing behind the fortress, and they follow the orders of the soldiers on the upper part of the fortress to adjust the direction of the artillery fire. Each fort is about 50 meters apart and is connected to each other by underground tunnels, which seems to support each other. At the same time, the lessons learned from the last battle of Huzhou when the Qing soldiers used "chain fire oil bombs" to attack the wooden bunkers, and this time the bunkers were covered with a considerable thickness of soil to strengthen protection. Fifty meters behind are the second and third ...... The five lines of defense, with roughly similar facilities, can form a complete killing area for every two lines of defense.

These miscellaneous armies numbered about 50,000 men, and their strength was quite a lot, and the main force was stuck in the first and second lines of solid fortresses, and once the first line of defense was lost, the remaining officers and soldiers would retreat to the third line, and so on and so forth, retreating again and again, constantly consuming the enemy's troops, until the armored forces of the "victorious army" arrived.

It is said that this kind of defense and tactics in this era is probably a nightmare for a unit like the Qing army that is not good at attacking fortifications. It's just that this part of the army belongs to a ragtag army under different generals, and it is inevitable that problems of one kind or another will often arise in cooperation with each other.

Fortunately, the Zhenwu army under Wu Shengzhao and Zhang Mingzhen was strong, and it was not all up to them to defend Suzhou. Their role is to resist the initial attack of the Qing army, even if their combat ability is low, but they will not collapse at the first touch! Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of this line of defense, Wu Shengzhao even sent his younger brother Wu Shengtai to sit here in person.

At night, only the main searchlights in each fort swept up and down the river to monitor the movement of enemy troops above the river. The searchlights on the rest of the weapons were kept on standby with only a small fire head. As soon as an abnormal movement is detected, the alarm will sound at the same time throughout the entire position, urging the troops to enter the battle.

However, the reconnaissance force on the "Suzhou Defense Line" was obviously too weak to gain insight into the position of the Qing army's main attack during the attack, so it had to evenly distribute troops along the riverbank defense line.

In the winter of the south of the Yangtze River, it still does not take off its charm and delicateness, and a few remnants of snow are still left underground, decorating with petal-like traces everywhere. The soldiers of the new army of the Qing army sat in the darkness of the chariot one by one, waiting for the moment of iron-blooded fighting.

The thick siding of the chariot shielded them from the cold wind, and the same thick siding made it difficult for the heat emitted from their bodies to dissipate. However, almost every soldier couldn't help but "woo" in their hearts, their bodies seemed to be shivering from the cold, and they were now waiting for the salute flower that was the signal of the general attack to burst, and that was the moment to sacrifice their lives.

"Hurry up and bang, wait a little longer......!"

This method of warfare was carried out for the first time by almost all the Qing soldiers, and although they had been training for several months to fight, they had no bottom in their hearts. This kind of combat bears no resemblance to the cross-bowed horses of the past.

In the camp, under the banner that was blown in the cold wind and waved non-stop, Bolo was already like a statue standing in the cold wind, standing motionless for a long time, his eyes were just staring at the three incense sticks that were about to burn out.

It is located in the area of the Jiangnan water network, and the river with a width of nearly 100 meters can be seen everywhere. Originally, this would have restricted the movement of chariots and horses, but now that we are in the dry season of winter, the well-connected river has become a convenient condition for sneak attacks for chariots with the ability to float.

The three incense sticks finally burned to the end, and Bolo's soldiers raised their hands, and the same ceremonial flower went straight to the clouds. After a series of defeats in the middle of last year, the Qing army painstakingly managed such a shameful army. After a long wait, today is finally the time to give it a go.

As Bolo Zhongjun raised a salute flower high in the air, a faint light illuminated the ground. The Qing army was only hidden at a distance of only about 500 meters from the Ming army's Suzhou defense line. With an order, the chariots slowly began to move and drove towards the big river in front.

The canal leading directly to Suzhou was also a key part of Bolo's battle, with about 500 chariots running straight along the canal to Suzhou, threatening the flank of the riverside defense line in the south of Suzhou. The other route consists of 500 chariots to form a "sneak attack force", which will march south in the Taihu Lake before the whole army is launched, and will approach the flank of the "Suzhou Defense Line". Together with the chariots that broke through in the canal, they destroyed a section of the defense line along the river to ensure the smooth progress of the army's attack.

At the same time, the task of this thousand chariots was to resist the troops of the "Shengwu Army" who came to reinforce them, so as to ensure the smooth crossing of the river with a large number of artillery pieces equipped by the large army, especially the Qing army.