Fortunately, this did not happen, and the Qing army he led was first knocked down by a volley of 600 flintlock muskets, and then the body of Groha was suspended. In this way, the morale of both sides can be regarded as a tie after two moves.

Next, Kupilon did not let all the 5,000 people press, because he knew that Haoge was so bold in the first place, but he was delayed in Gaoyang for three days, not to mention, and was attacked by the Ming people at night. While asking the captive civilians to continue digging cement piers, he asked people to contact the Qing army in the south, and at the same time scattered the team to capture the strong men. Now that the mines have been cleared, there must be enough Ming people to remove all these cement piers, and then more than 5,000 elite Qing troops will shoot at them, and I believe that Hejian City will not be able to withstand it.

The tactics of the curbber are also considered to be old-fashioned, using the Ming people to block the front to reduce the casualties of their own army as much as possible, and attacking together with the right army to avoid one person from taking on the responsibility of killing Haoge and Yue Tuo in the anger of the Ming army guards.

It's just that he thought well, but when the messenger came back, he told him that Duoduo had left the river with the people, and it was obvious that there was an urgent military situation, otherwise Duoduo would not have given up the riverroom at his fingertips. Duoduo also left him a letter, telling him to contain and hold the army, not to give them the opportunity to flee or transfer supplies, and not to let them support the Ming army in other places.

At the end, Duoduo's meaning is obvious, Yang Hongzhang has a hostage in his hands, and he doesn't have to rush to attack the city.

The rest of the Suppilon didn't care at all, but the last point made him very depressed, this was the credit of Duoduo, who wanted to contain the defenders of the river here, and then wait for him to return from other places to take the river in one fell swoop. Suppilon has its own plans. He now needed to keep Hauge's men under control and try to convince them. I didn't expect Yang Hongzhang to decisively attack the people of the Ming Dynasty, so he was not prepared to let the people escape a lot, and now he has enough time to catch enough prisoners to clear the obstacles!

The sudden retreat of the Qing army in the south of the city also surprised Yang Hongzhang, and he hurriedly dispatched scouts in the city, making sure to grasp the movements of these Qing troops as soon as possible. After Siwen learned the news, his expression was also very complicated. Because time is indeed very precious to RiverCity. In the evening, the scouts returned to the city one after another but did not bring any definite news, and it was clear that the Qing army's right army had a strong commander and was very strict about the scouts. Another thing that gave Yang Hongzhang a headache was that the North Gate of Kubilong did not give up after dark to drive the people to continue digging cement piers, although the number of people was much smaller than during the day. But the Qing army guarding behind them reached as many as 1,000 people. Obviously, another purpose of Suppilon was to stop the defenders from continuing to lay mines in the concrete pier formation at night!

In the middle of the night on the second day of Duoduo's departure, the real reason for the sudden departure of the Qing army on the right was found. It turned out that at the same time that Duoduo was ordered to take over the Right Route Army and continue to assemble in the river, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong Town, finally began to act after Yang Sichang, a cabinet scholar, a secretary of the military department, and Yang Sichang, the governor of Shandong Zhili, arrived in Jinan, and cleaned up a lot of small Qing troops scattered in a county town. Duoduo is going to rescue non-stop and intercept. As a result, the two sides fought a big battle in Linqing, but Duoduo won a big victory but did not capture Linqing. Liu Zeqing sent people to Lu Xiangsheng and others overnight to rescue, Hejian was just passing by, and the messenger saw the scarlet Ming battle flag planted on the city of Hejian Mansion, and came to ask for help with the idea of having dates and not hitting a pole!

It's just that the envoy was dumbfounded when he heard that there were 1,700,000 elite Manchu cavalry besieging Hejian two days ago. After sighing at the luck of Yang Hongzhang, Xiang Siwen and others, they set off towards Baoding.

"General Yang, with the containment of Shandong soldiers and horses, the Right Route Army that wants to come to Jiannu has no time to take care of Hejian for the time being." Sending off the envoy from Shandong, Xiang Siwen breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, there are more than 20,000 horses in Shandong, and the Qing army should be helpless for a while while while defending the city. In particular, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has arrived in Shandong, and the local guards in Shandong should be able to come to support in a steady stream.

Yang Hongzhang is not as optimistic as him, Liu Zeqing is willing to send troops, it must be Yang Sichang's knife on his neck. Otherwise, Yue Tuo led his troops into the customs from Wallziling to Shandong, what was he Liu Zeqing doing? Even Yang Sichang will face the difficulty of a clever woman cooking without rice. Most of the soldiers in Shandong Town are infantry, and it is really hard to say how much combat strength they can have. The key is that the right army has been smooth sailing, but it lost its commander in the river, and it was just looking for someone to take revenge.

Outside the north gate, Suppilon kept more than 1,000 of his men awake all night, and although the poor people did not dig at a good rate, they succeeded in preventing the defenders from continuing to lay mines. As soon as it was dawn the next day, the large army came outside the city again and continued to try to attack the city, or rather, to consume the ammunition of the Ming army. Although the attack was not fierce, Yang Hongzhang could see that more and more people were being captured by the Qing army. The more people who willingly braved the attack of the Ming flintlock pistol to continue digging cement piers and filling in the moat, the more morale of the defenders in the city dropped. Sometimes Yang Hongzhang wondered if he had simply given up the river and went to the wild to fight guerrillas. But thinking about the tens of thousands of people in Hejian City, as well as the countless grains, Yang Hongzhang still felt that he couldn't give up until the end. The few thousand people of Kupilon were not what he was most worried about, he was worried that the right army of the Qing army, at least 30,000 elites brought into the pass by Yue Tuo, in addition to being killed by himself less than 2,000 people, the total losses in other places were estimated to be no more than 2,000 people. That is to say, there are at least 25,000 people, and if these troops are concentrated in action, in the areas of Zhili, Shandong, and Gyeonggi, who else can stop them except Lu Xiangsheng and Guanning Tiecai?

Sure enough, when one evening came, the warrant from Yang Sichang, the governor of Shandong Zhili, arrived, ordering Yang Hongzhang, the general of Hejian, to immediately rescue Linqing! Seeing the anxious envoy and the letter stamped with a bright red seal, Xiang Siwen and Yang Hongzhang were puzzled. Obviously, the two of them left out a lot of important information, such as how Yang Sichang arrived in Shandong, how he became the governor of Shandong Zhili, and how Yang Hongzhang became a general in Hejian from the Gaoyang garrison. Of course, what is even more outrageous is Yang Sichang's warrant. Let Yang Hongzhang take the soldiers and horses to rescue Linqing, Yang Sichang also looked too highly at Yang Hongzhang. And don't you want it in the river?

Seeing Yang Hongzhang's uncertain face, Xiang Siwen knew that he had to sing blackface, so he made a long gesture and said to the messenger: "Please go back to Ming Yang Xiang, General Yang brought out only 600 people from Gaoyang, and lost nearly 200 when he attacked Hejian." The rest are some people who have never been on the battlefield, let them build city walls, shouting and cheering, if they go to fight with the elite Jiannu cavalry for a long time, I am afraid that they will be defeated with one blow! And...... There are still five or six thousand Jiannu cavalry in the north of Hejian City. Now the city is going to hold Hauge and Yueto. Once out of the city, it is not safe to take it with you or stay in the city. Therefore, there is no way for Hejian to send troops to rescue Linqing. I hope that Yang Xiang will clean up Jiannu as soon as possible and lead his troops to Hejian as soon as possible, otherwise the granary in Hejian City will fall into the hands of Jiannu sooner or later! ”

Hearing this, the messenger was dumbfounded, where did he come to ask for help, and he obviously fell into the dung pit. Of course, he understood what the granary between the rivers meant to the Qing army, not to mention that there were really Haoge and Yue Tuo. It's just that he can't recover even if he goes back like this. So he changed his arrogant attitude to a pitiful look and looked at Yang Hongzhang. Yang Hongzhang sneered in his heart, no matter how many Qing troops Yang Sichang and Liu Zeqing encountered in Linqing, his experience in Gaoyang made his trust in the readers of this era to the minimum. Now I am only living one day at a time in the river. Send troops to rescue Yang Sichang, unless Guan Ning's iron cavalry is under his own command! Otherwise, you will be afraid of your own life!

The envoy saw that Yang Hongzhang never spoke, and said to Yang Hongzhang in a different tone: "General Yang, when you came, Yang Xiang also talked to the little one in private, and Hejian may also face great difficulties. So in the end, Yang Xiang instructed the villain, if the general was really embarrassed, could he ...... Can you hand over Na Haoge and Yue Tuo to Zaixia, and bring them back to Yang Xiang, with these two people in hand, I believe that Na Duoduo will not dare to be presumptuous, and the siege of Linqing will naturally be lifted. ”

"......" Yang Hongzhang glared at the messenger, and said in his heart, Yang Sichang is really calculating, hand over Haoge and Yue Tuo to him? Not to mention how to avoid the eyes of the Qing army on the road, the war value of Haoge Yuetuo alone is enough to resist thousands of troops. If the Qing army knew that Haoge and Yue Tuo had been transferred, it would not take a day for the Qing army to attack Hejian from all sides, and maybe it would not take a day for Hejian to fall. When the time comes, I don't know if I am alive or dead, whether Haoge gave it to Yang Sichang by himself or whether Yang Sichang snatched it from Duoduo is up to him, Yang Sichang. What a wolf's ambition! For his own selfish desires, in order to exclude dissidents, he completely disregarded the safety of the river and the changes in the entire battle situation. I don't know why the imperial court let this waste come to the governor of Shandong Zhili?

Seeing Yang Hongzhang, the envoy continued to look at his nose and nose, and returned to his arrogant demeanor again: "Lord Xiang, General Yang, the governor of my family is respected as a scholar, and the governor of Shandong Zhili is the secretary of the military department, and even Lu Xiangsheng saw the warrant of the governor of my family. I hope that the general will not support his troops and respect himself, because the responsibility for delaying the fighter plane at that time is not something that a person of the level of an adult or a general can bear. ”

"Haha, the envoy is serious, and the situation in the river is also understood. In fact, the adults don't have to be embarrassed, and ask the envoy to return to Yang Xiang, saying that Yang Hongzhang, the general of Hejian, led all his subordinates to more than 600 men and horses to rush to Linqing overnight, and encountered a large number of Jiannu cavalry in the city for 20 miles, and asked Yang Xiang to send troops to rescue Hejian as soon as possible. Yang Hongzhang didn't want to continue to rub shoulders with this guy, so he stood up and planned to send off guests.

"You...... You ......" The envoy didn't expect that the young Yang Hongzhang would be more difficult to deal with than Xiang Siwen, so he was so angry that he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. Xiang Siwen on the side learned from Yang Hongzhang's appearance just now, looking at his nose and nose and heart. At that time, Xiang Siwen's daughter, who was dressed as a man, endured the side, and her mouth was about to cramp in order not to let herself laugh. Finally, the envoy left the river with anger, and Xiang Siwen said to Yang Hongzhang with a sad face: "In this way, you and I have completely offended Yang Xiang, and it is impossible for him to get the support of Shandong soldiers and horses if the war is unfavorable." And in the future, he will have a lawsuit in the court. Therefore, the official thought that it was better to inform Sun Ge Lao of the matter here as soon as possible, and if there were still Gaoyang people making trouble outside the north gate, I am afraid that it would not be like a few days ago, otherwise it would be difficult to talk in front of Lao Sun Ge. ”