The gunshots that Sun Yanji heard were fired by 20 flintlock musketeers of the Ming army as they opened fire on one of his patrols. Although Sun Yanji is greedy for money and lustful, and has no great ambitions, he has also fought a few battles with his father Sun Long, and has also learned the art of using soldiers. Therefore, the arrangements for the night camp began to be in place, not only setting up sentry posts on high places, but also sending troops out of the village to patrol along the low walls.

And this group of more than 20 patrolmen happened to meet 20 musketeers of the Ming army who came up in the dark with rifles with bayonets - that is, those "black spearmen" who got off their mules. Those who can be "black spearmen" are of course very good at marksmanship, but they did not choose to fire at a long distance, but lined up side by side and pressed up with their rifles.

Because it was dark and a little night blind, Sun Yanji's patrolmen didn't see that the other party was coming up with muskets, and thought they were holding short guns or some kind of long-handled machetes, so they picked up the guys and went up to meet them, until they got closer, only to find that they seemed to be holding muskets, but there were no arquebuses...... Is it a musket that is used as a short gun?

When they didn't understand one by one, they had already stood upright, aimed, and shot! Because of the distance, the hit is very accurate! One platoon of guns knocked down twelve or thirteen people! The rest of the Sun family patrolmen were so frightened that their legs were weak, and it was not easy to turn around and run away, but they were shot in a row again, and only a few of the more than 20 people ran back in the end. The 10 archers who were covering the musketeers of the Ming army rode up and followed, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army guarding the gate of the village to open the door and let their own people into the village, and launched an attack! rushed directly into the village, and then slashed and slashed, which caught the Qing army by surprise and completely messed up.

And those Ming musketeers who had finished two rows of guns loaded their ammunition and followed them into the village, and when they saw a lone Qing army, they stabbed them with bayonets, and when they saw that there were many people on the other side, they bombarded them with muskets.

Although their numbers were small, they relied on night raids and sharp muskets to stunned the Qing soldiers in the whole village. Sun Yanji wanted to organize resistance at first, but soon found that his side could not organize at all, and the gunfire was getting closer and closer to his position.

Knowing that the general trend has gone, he had to take a few personal soldiers on the horse to break through, who knew that as soon as he came out of the village, he was targeted by an unknown number of Ming army lancers, and he rushed to kill, and beat Sun Yanji into a bare pole, fortunately, the war horse under his crotch ran very fast, and his personal soldiers resisted desperately, so that he picked up a life and ran back to find his father......

And his father Sun Long and Fan Wencheng, who was guarding Liaocheng, have been receiving bad news that their own grain search teams, patrol teams, or other small units have been defeated by the invading Ming army since September 18, the sixth year of Hongxing.

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September 20, Liaocheng.

Fan Wencheng, the king of Dingnan in the Great Qing Dynasty, was wearing full armor and inspecting the city wall with high spirits. Liaocheng was broken by Zhu Cihong once nearly six years ago, and Kong Youde committed suicide by washing and smashing the back of his head with a pen at that time......

Later, because Dolgon won the Battle of Guishan, Zhu Cihong had to give up Liaocheng, so Liaocheng returned to the Qing army.

However, when the Ming army retreated, it still destroyed the original city wall of Liaocheng and most of the buildings in the city.

After Kong Tingxun took over Liaocheng, he began to save money to repair the castle.

After nearly five years of construction, until Kong Tingxun followed Azig to defeat in Jieshi Mountain and lose the throne of Dingnan, Liaocheng Daleng Fort had been basically completed.

The bastion, which took five years to build, is of course very strong! Moreover, after the signing of the "Japan-Mongolia Agreement", the Qing Dynasty also received some engineers from Zhisi Bania, and the level of city construction also improved. Therefore, Liaocheng Fort has been repaired with an impregnable effect!

However, there is also a downside to this impregnable fortress, which is that it is too small. Liaocheng is originally small, only one square kilometer, and it is built on an island in the middle of the lake, and there is no way to expand it without filling the lake.

Therefore, Kong Tingxun can only build a four-corner fortress on this square kilometer area, because it is necessary to leave space for the platform on the four corners, so the city wall can only shrink inward, and finally the area inside the fortress is not even the original forty percent!

Such a palm-sized place is now stuffed with tens of thousands of people, and it is really crowded, and to exaggerate, there is no place to turn around......

However, the castle still looks very solid, and it should be able to hold it!

Thinking of this, he nodded emphatically: "Hold on!" Vice General Sun, Gong Jin (Fan Chengmo), Anping and Dezhou are all fortresses no less than Liaocheng, we fought with our lives, we can always hold it! As long as we can defend it for a year and a half, the imperial court will be able to send troops to save it! ”

Fan Chengmo listened to Fan Wencheng's words, but his thick eyebrows were tightly locked, and he looked preoccupied.

"Pilgrimage, what do you think, just say it!" Fan Wencheng said to his son.

"Father," Fan Chengmo said, "the son thought of the Battle of the Daling River and the Battle of Songjin......

Both of these battles are the idea of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and the results are very good! The Battle of Dalinghe severely damaged the Liaodong group of the Ming army, and two of the three heroes of Liaodong in the Yuan Chonghuan era, Zu Dashou and He Kegang, were folded in this battle. He Kegang died, and Zu Dashou surrendered first and then escaped, but the ancestral army was basically finished, and it was no longer a strong force in Liaodong. Coupled with the fact that Zhao Shujiao was killed in the previous change (the troops were also completely annihilated), the most capable unit of the Liaodong Army no longer existed after the Battle of Dalinghe.

And the subsequent Battle of Songjin wiped out the strategic main force of the Ming army, which could directly lead to the later Jiashen Change!

Now Fan Chengmo actually thought of the Battle of Daling River and the Battle of Songjin...... Obviously, he regarded the current Qing army as the Ming army in the Battle of Dalinghe and the Battle of Songjin.

"No, no, not ......" Fan Wencheng said with a smile, "Although the strength of the Ming army is strong, there is no general who can compare with Uncle Huang." Even generals like Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are gone, how can they win such a big victory as the Battle of Dalinghe and the Battle of Songjin? Moreover, the preparations of Liaocheng, Dezhou, and Anping are comparable to those of Dalinghe Fort and Jinzhou? We just need to defend the city well, and we will definitely wait for the turnaround. ”

He paused, "But the strength of the Ming army is still extraordinary...... Let's withdraw the armies in the other castles to the three cities of Liaocheng, Dezhou, and Anping!

Let's defend these three castles! ”

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"Your Majesty, the two castles of Liaocheng and Anping don't seem to be easy to capture, I haven't seen them in Texas, so it's not good to evaluate...... In contrast, the Qing army's large camps south and north of the Yellow River were much easier to deal with. ”

It was Prince Condé who was talking to Zhu Cihong!

He is now in charge of a staff department with Li Yan to help Zhu Cihong command hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Expedition!

To be honest, this is the first time he has experienced such a big battle.

"Your Royal Highness," Zhu Cihong said in French, "have you seen the camps north and south of the Yellow River?" How do you know they're easy to deal with? ”

Prince Condé said with a smile: "Your Majesty, although I have not seen the Qing army camps north and south of the Yellow River, there are details of that area in your military advisor's mansion, including maps and hydrological data. ”

"How much time will it take to defeat the Qing army camp north and south of the Yellow River?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"There is no need to lay down two," said Prince Condé, "just take down the Henan camp...... If it strikes this winter, then next spring, maybe February of the Chinese calendar, should be able to take it. ”

"What about the losses?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"It depends," said Prince Condé, "but not much...... A few thousand people at most. ”

"Who will go?" Zhu Cihong asked, "Your Royal Highness, you don't want to command it yourself, do you?" ”

Zhu Cihong does not plan to go to the front line to command now, because he already has a large number of outstanding officers who have attended the Confucian cram school...... But he didn't want to hand over his army to a French prince.

"General Yan!" Prince Condé said, "Please give him a field regiment of more than 100,000 people!" ”