There were a few loud bangs, and seven or eight stone bullets weighing nine catties came whizzing, crashing into the fortifications made of shield carts, gun wagons, and sand, smashing the wooden shield carts and gun carts, and then burrowing into the sand and making no sound.

The Shandong regiment trainees who were desperately digging and piling up soil with their waists bent on their waists were all relieved. In this era, no one knew that it was possible to dig anti-artillery pits, but it was still known that it was possible to use mounds to resist shells - this is the advanced experience of the Battle of Qufu! Moreover, Gao Hongtu's army was originally a "migrant worker", relying on hard villages and stupid battles to fight the world, so they carried a lot of shovels for digging soil. As soon as the artillery team of the Eight Banners Han Army came up, they took turns to work, desperately digging up the mound of soil and reinforcing the mound that was higher and higher to protect their lives.

Occasionally, however, shells would either pass over the mound of dirt that was not too high, or pierce through the thin parts of the mound. Then it will cause certain casualties to the regimental trainers hiding behind the mound.

Shells that pass from high in the air will fall close to the river beach, and anyone who hits them will die! Fortunately, the soil of the Tuhe beach is soft, and the cannonballs will hit it very deeply, and it will not be easy to bounce again, so it will not kill many people.

And the cannonball that pierces the mound is so powerful that it can effortlessly wade through the crowd in a flesh alley!

When the Qing army had just pulled up the Hongyi cannon, because the fortifications built by the Shandong regimental trainers were not generous enough, they were often broken down and caused many casualties.

Fortunately, Gao Hongtu stabilized the situation in time and personally went to the front line to direct his "migrant workers" to dig the pile wall. Now a ring of ramparts more than a foot and a half wide and about six or seven feet high has finally been repaired. With such a thickness, it is not easy to penetrate with a 12-pounder gun.

Therefore, starting from today's daytime, it will be difficult for the Qing army's Hongyi artillery to cause any casualties to the "peasant workers" with lofty ambitions.

However, Duoduo did not let Cao Zhenyan's Hongyi cannon cow record it and rest, but let them continue to fire stone bullets in rounds. At the same time, Xu Dingguo, who had lost a son in the previous battle, was escorted to the battlefield by Duoduo's directly subordinate minions - taking his remaining subordinates to the front line to pile sandbags!

That's right, it's a sandbag!

Duoduo's Eight Banners disciples are not those unscrupulous descendants who smoke big cigarettes with cage racks, they are very good at learning. After beating Qufu, he learned how to stack sandbags, and asked Dolgon in Beijing for 100,000 sacks and bags.

Now that some of the sacks and pouches have been transported to the Tuhe front, Duoduo can also start to deal with Gao Hongtu with the method of "giving back to the other in the other way" - he has to use trenches and sandbags to encircle Gao Hongtu's regimental training.

Then surround the point and send reinforcements!

When the Hongyi artillery ceased fire and cooled down, Gao Hongtu, who had not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, looked around with his subordinates Li Chengdong, Zhang Mingzhen, Ma Degong and others, and also found that the Qing army was digging trenches and building fortifications, looking like they wanted to besiege themselves.

Li Chengdong and Ma Degong are both veteran generals who have been in battle for a long time, and they know that it is going to be bad when they see this scene.

Li Chengdong said: "The Tartars are digging trenches and repairing walls, this is to besiege us!" ”

Ma Degong looked carefully at the barrier and ditch in front of him, "Dongyu is also building sandbags!" They learned our skills so quickly, what can we do? ”

Gao Hongtu took a telescope from Zhang Mingzhen's hand, and then began to observe the situation on the battlefield. I saw a cavalry in white armor trotting through behind the Qing army fortress that was being built.

He said to Li Chengdong, Zhang Mingzhen, and Ma Degong: "It seems that Dongyu wants to use the method of dealing with Hong Chengchou in Liaodong to deal with the old man!" As soon as the walls and trenches are completed, we will really be trapped if we don't do it, and the military rations at hand will not last long, how should we fight later? Tell me about it. ”

There is still a huge loophole in Gao Hongtu's "hard village and stupid battle" - his opponent is not the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has no cavalry, but the Eight Banners soldiers who bow and fight the world!

Therefore, the Qing army could effortlessly surround the hard village with lofty ambitions, and use the method of starvation to deal with the defenders in the village.

Of course, Gao Hongtu also has some ways to deal with it. His method was to build sandbag forts, and the number of deployments was small, but there were many defenders of light earthen cannons such as tiger squat cannons, attack cannons, and second general cannons.

Because the number of defenders was small, usually two or three thousand, the rations consumed were also small. Storing four or five thousand stone of grain is enough to eat for more than a year!

It is unthinkable for the Manchurians to besiege a small fortress for more than a year - it does not cost anything to build such a fortress, it just consumes a little sack and the strength of the Shandong Han, so what is polite? The hundreds or thousands of people who repaired him N had to be surrounded one by one to starve for food, and the Manchurians couldn't beat Shandong until the Xinhai Revolution broke out......

Therefore, the method of building the fortress must be effective! However, there is a prerequisite for a counterattack by relying on the method of advancing from the fortress - there must be a certain number of cavalry, and the strength is not weak.

For example, the Russians in history relied on the tactics of the fortress and the Cossacks to conquer large territories in Central Asia and Siberia.

But Gao Hongtu did not have Cossacks under his command, and he could not even have the field combat ability of the infantry, so he could only rely on building fortresses to fight against the Qing soldiers.

Therefore, during offensive operations, it is necessary to send a large force to cover the construction of the fortress, and it is easy to fall into encirclement......

"We can't let them build the walls and trenches, or we'll be finished!"

"That's right, we have more than 20,000 people, and there are many livestock, and people eat horses and chew them, and the consumption is huge!"

"Yes, if we surround it for a month, we will all die!"

Gao Hongtu listened to the advice of the people under him, and frowned deeply: "How about waiting for help?" ”

"Who's going to help?" Li Chengdong shook his head, "The soldiers of Shi Inspector, Zuo Tuanlian, and King Lu, like us, are all grass-founded armies and cannot fight in the field...... Only the new army of the crown prince can be used. However, the new army is far away in Jinling, and it has to deal with the Qing army in the direction of Henan and the thieves in Xiangyang, so it is impossible to come to Shandong! ”

Zhu Cihong is coming to Shandong, then the Ming Dynasty is really in danger of falling!

Duoduo's white-flaged soldiers have suffered in Dagukou, and it is impossible to carry out a decisive battle easily, it must be a delay and entanglement in every possible way, as long as Zhu Cihong is tripped in Shandong, he can sit and wait for others to copy Zhu Cihong's nest......

"The prince won't come!" Gao Hongtu thought for a while, "We have to rely on ourselves...... Let's make a shield car! How many more carts are available? ”

"There are still two or three hundred grain trucks available."

"Good!" Gao Hongtu said, "I have divided all the grain...... All the grain carts were changed to shield carts, and the wooden shield was mounted on the right side of the cart. When the time comes, we will retreat along the Tu River, line up the shield chariot on the right side of the army, and then select some archers and three-eyed guns who can shoot on the horse, and lean on the shield to shoot arrows. ”

This is how the shield cart evolved into the Che Castle......

Gao Hongtu looked at the three generals in front of him, as if he was pursuing their opinions.

The three of them all had admiring expressions on their faces - the tall old man can! I can think of such a trick!

"Okay!" Li Chengdong nodded, "I think it's okay...... You can also put a spear on the shield cart! ”

"But how do we rush out?" Ma Degong asked, "There are a lot of soldiers and horses in the east!" ”

"There will be brave men under the great reward!" Zhang Mingzhen said, "Only if you give away the money, are you afraid that there will be no dead soldiers?" ”

Gao Hongtu stroked his beard, thought about it and said, "I'm afraid that I can't just give silver...... Grant the field, reward the official position! Anyone who is recruited and dares to die will be awarded 200 acres of land, ordinary soldiers will be rewarded with small flag ranks, and officers will be promoted to one level! ”

He squinted his eyes and looked at the three generals in front of him again, "Which of you will take the lead, and reward a subordinate state south of the Daqing River!" ”

Yes? And so it goes......

Li Chengdong, Ma Degong and Zhang Mingzhen were all stunned, Gao Hongtu was just a governor of Shandong, and he actually took out the prefectures and counties of the imperial court to reward people!

Is this true? Is this really possible?

Gao Hongtu glared, "What?" Don't dare to be rich? Still don't believe the old man? ”

Li Chengdong gritted his teeth: "I believe it!" He's not out of the way...... I want Taeanju! ”

"Here you go!"