But said Wang Qiang, as soon as Hong Chengchou left, he was tied to the base camp, he has never interfered in the affairs of the Northeast garrison, even the names of the generals and generals of the Chinese army can not be called, and there is no one around him who will lead the soldiers.

On the morning of the fifth day of Hong Chengchou's departure, Wang Qiang was sitting on the handsome chair in the lobby of the Chinese army and was in a daze, when the flag officer of the Chinese army hurriedly came in, saluted and reported loudly: "Lord Qiyu Supervisor, according to the report, the Qing army in western Liaoning has set out to Jinzhou, and it is now less than a hundred miles away from Jinzhou!" ”

Wang Qiang was confused and didn't hear what was said below, thinking that it was a trivial matter, he yawned, stretched, raised his hand and waved impatiently, and said, "Just do it." ”

The flag official was in the local area, and he didn't know what to do, so he had to repeat the report again: "Lord Qiqi Supervisor, according to the report, the Qing army in western Liaoning has set out to Jinzhou, and it is only less than a hundred miles away from Jinzhou!" ”

"Ahh Wang Qiang heard it clearly this time, he jumped up from the chair and shouted: "The Qing army is coming!" Hurry up and ------, with Lao Tzu. It's a hundred miles away. He sat down again, forced his composure and asked, "Hey, I said, this Qing army is less than a hundred miles here, according to your estimate, when will it be able to reach us?" ”

"Lord Hui Jianjun, under normal circumstances, you can go outside Jinzhou City this evening." The flag officer replied cautiously.

Wang Qiang touched his chin and thought for a while, the first thing he thought of was the school in Tashan, don't let the Qing army give it to him, then his hard work for nearly half a year will be in vain. Then I thought that I had to quickly gather the generals to deploy the defense of the city. He instructed the flag officer: "You send a reliable person to the county seat of Tashan and arrange for the school there to be moved to Jinzhou, which must be completed by this evening." ”

"Obey!" The flag officer replied.

"Immediately beat the drum and summon the generals to the Chinese army to discuss the matter!"

"Obey!" The flag officer replied.

After a while, the rapid drumming outside the hall of the Chinese army sounded, and the generals of all battalions in the city rushed to the hall of the Chinese army when they heard the drums. Wang Qiang saw that everyone had arrived, cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, I just heard that the Qing army in western Liaoning is coming, what is the details of this situation, who knows?" ”

A soldier came out of the squad and said: "Back to my lord's words, the last general will synthesize the situation reported from various sources, and the details are as follows: The commander of the Qing army this time is the prince Duoduo of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army has 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed in western Liaoxi, except for 20,000 who stayed behind, there are about 80,000 soldiers and horses in Jinzhou this time. Among them, there were about 50,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. The Qing army came here with more siege equipment such as ladders and catapults, and had the intention of storming Jinzhou. After this soldier finished speaking, he stepped back into the column.

Wang Qiang calculated, the Ming army in Jinzhou City garrison is also nearly 80,000, the two sides are evenly matched, but the Ming army is based on the city, and there are artillery and other weapons, there should be no difficulty in defense, and the heart is a little more settled, so he said: "Everyone, it seems that Hong Dashuai's analysis is good, the Qing army really took the opportunity to attack my Jinzhou, we will follow the commander's prior deployment, each guard their own positions, after returning to prepare more bows and arrows and rolling wood and stones, and train soldiers to be vigilant, especially to beware of the Qing army to attack at night, right, You also have to prepare more pine and bamboo torches, and you must illuminate this city wall and this one as bright as day, so that the Qing army has no opportunity to take advantage of it. Also, no matter what the situation, you must not go out of the city to meet the enemy, lest you fall into the enemy's ambush, do you hear clearly? ”

"Obey!" The generals replied together, Wang Qiang was acting according to the strategy ordered by Hong Chengchou when he left, everyone had no objection, and went separately to prepare, Wang Qiang called the army over and asked him to write a military report to Hong Chengchou and send it immediately. He himself took the Chinese army escort to the city wall and wandered around to show that he would calm the army.

In the afternoon of the same day, the teachers and students of the Tacheng Military Academy were ordered to enter Jinzhou and settle down in an abandoned winery in the city.

In the evening, Wang Qiang got a report, saying that the Qing army had arrived outside the city of Jinzhou, he was surrounded by several relatives, to the north of the city, climbed the city tower to watch, the Qing army's brigade has appeared in the field of vision, in the sunset, the Qing army's team is like a long snake, slowly squirming in the direction of Jinzhou, the snake's tail has been extended to the end of the sky, and there is no edge in sight. The Qing army stopped five miles from the city, and then groups of cavalry gathered into a formation to form a square formation, and you can already vaguely see the fluttering flags and the cold light of the swords and guns in the hands of the soldiers. The Qing army did not advance further, but camped there on the spot, drove piles, set up tents, lit fires for cooking, and left only a small number of cavalry to guard outside the camp. Seeing that the Qing army had no intention of attacking at night, he gave a few words to the generals defending the city and went home.

Early the next morning, Wang Qiang invited Zhang Xiaoping and Lan Ting to have breakfast together in the house, Zhang Xiaoping heard that the Qing army was a little nervous about attacking the city, seeing Wang Qiang's calm and relaxed appearance, he couldn't help but admire, after eating, Wang Qiang said that he wanted to go to the city to supervise the battle, Lan Ting didn't know that the soldiers were in danger, and felt that fighting was a very fun and exciting thing, pestering to go, Wang Qiang had no choice but to ask Lan Ting to change into a military uniform, disguise himself as his entourage, and follow him. Wang Qiang went out of the mansion, only to see the Yan brothers and several instructors and martial artists of the school waiting outside the mansion with swords, they spontaneously came to protect Wang Qiang and participated in the battle to defend the city.

Wang Qiang led everyone to Beicheng and climbed the enemy tower to watch the battle. Outside, the siege soldiers and horses of the Qing army have been stationed two miles outside the city, only to hear a trumpet, a group of Qing troops shouted and rushed over, the head is the cavalry, these cavalry to the city immediately divided into two teams, while shooting arrows at the head of the city, while sliding through the city, the cavalry just dodged, the Qing infantry carried the ladder, holding the shield and rushed up, the cavalry went around in a circle, and turned back to their own infantry, and released arrows to the city to cover the siege. The officers and soldiers defending the city were very experienced, and after dodging the first round of bows and arrows of the enemy's cavalry, they came out together, rolling logs, stones, bows and arrows to hit the Qing army besieging the city together.

The first round of the Qing army's attack was only a tentative and was quickly repulsed. Immediately afterwards, only to hear another cannon sound in the Qing army's formation, the second team of men and horses shouted to kill, this offensive was unusually fierce, the cavalry under the city not only shot arrows, but also threw gunpowder bags to the head of the city, wounding a lot of Ming troops, the Ming army defending the city was not ambiguous, rockets, gunpowder bags were also smashed into the crowd of Qing soldiers, the Qing army was wearing fur uniforms, and was burned to death and burned a lot. However, the soldiers of the Qing army fought very bravely, charged hard, fought to the death and did not retreat, the two sides stuck together, the fight was very fierce, the fierce battle lasted for half an hour, the Qing army suffered countless casualties, and the Ming army also suffered a lot of losses. Wang Qiang was shocked to see it in the enemy building, he slapped his hand, his hand was shaken and hurt, and he looked down to see that there was a Hongyi cannon beside him, which was the artillery that Zhang Xiaoping had just sent to Jinzhou a few days ago, and he wondered in his heart: "Yes, isn't this a cannon, why don't you use it?" ”。

At this moment, only to hear the Qing army position is another cannon, the third team of Qing troops killed again, this time the Qing army offensive is more aggressive, and the catapult and siege vehicle are added, the first row of soldiers more than 300 people, all shirtless, brandishing long knives, not even holding shields, stepping on the corpses of their comrades, braving the rain of arrows, shouting to kill, this is the famous death squad in the Qing army, all of them are outlaws, extremely fierce, they screamed and rushed up, some of them still struggled forward with several arrows in their bodies, The Qing army overwhelmed the Ming army in momentum, in the face of such a ferocious attack, the Ming army defending the city was a little unbearable, and some places were grabbed by the members of the Qing army's death squad, and the Ming army's defensive camp began to loosen, fortunately, the Ming army had a musket team as a reserve, where there was a flaw, it went up and fired a burst of muskets to plug the gap. However, as more and more Qing troops attacked the city, the musket team had no time to plug all the loopholes, and the city was already in danger, and the defensive front of the Ming army began to waver.

Wang Qiang looked anxious in the enemy tower, and said in his heart: "It's only been one morning, can you just ask the Qing army to break the city, these officers and soldiers are really rice buckets!" He saw a few Qing army daredevils shirtless on the city, brandishing long knives and slashing wildly, the Ming soldiers were frightened and retreated, and couldn't help but feel angry, blurted out and scolded: ", don't you just play bare-chested, who wouldn't!" Saying that, he took off his outer coat, and then took off his shirt and tied it around his waist, and he was also shirtless, and followed his personal soldiers and entourage to see that the boss was going to play with his life, and they all took off their coats and were naked, Lan Ting saw them like this, she was excited and shy, she couldn't be shirtless herself, but she couldn't become a man, and go out to kill the enemy like them. Wang Qiang was excited, forgot about the cold, picked up a big gun from the weapon rack, and shouted: "Brothers, follow Lao Tzu!" More than a dozen people rushed out of the enemy building with a hula. The Ming army defending the city saw a large group of shirtless people rushing out of the enemy building, thinking that it was the Qing army's death squad coming up, a team of musketeers rushed over, and was about to shoot, someone recognized Wang Qiang, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't fight, this is the prison army!" The Overseer has gone into battle to kill the enemy! ”

Wang Qiang held a big gun majestically, shook his arms, stood at the head of the city and shouted: "Brothers, it's a master, let's fuck him bare-chested, we're not afraid of bloodshed, are you still afraid of the cold!" As soon as his words fell, a Qing soldier daredevil attacked along the ladder, he stabbed a Ming soldier above to death with a knife, and rushed up to the city, which was on Wang Qiang's side. When he raised his eyes, he saw a shirtless one, thinking it was his own person, and he was stunned for a while, and was shot by Wang Qiang on the front door, screaming and falling straight down from the city. The Ming army defending the city saw that their commander was so brave, cheered in unison, and suddenly their morale was greatly boosted, they stripped off their arms one after another, and risked their lives, but they were more and more brave in battle, the three brothers of the Yan family were strong in martial arts, and they were also very fierce, and the steel fork in their hands flew up and down, and they killed heartily on Wang Qiang's side, and soon killed the Qing army that had rushed to the city. Wang Qiang saw that the Qing army commander flag was two miles away from the city, and it was expected that it was where the Qing army commander was, so he turned around and found the general in charge of defending the city, and said: "See the Qing army commander flag is not, bombard me with a cannon!" ”

The guard said: "Lord Hui, this cannon has just arrived, and we won't use it." ”

"What a crap!" Wang Qiang scolded, he turned his head and called the instructors of the military academy and asked, "Do you know how to use artillery?" ”

One of them said, "My lord, I will!" ”

"Good! You take a few people to go, blow up the handsome banner of the Qing army for me, and go back to give you credit. Wang Qiang said.

"Obey!" The instructor took a few people up the enemy building, operated the cannon, only to hear a roar, the Qing army flag in the distance fell down in response, the Qing army camp was immediately in chaos, scattered to escape the artillery fire, the Qing army besieging the city was also in chaos, immediately like the tide Hula retreated, the Ming army cheered together, the Ming army guard hurriedly asked: "My lord, the Qing army has retreated, the last general please order to take people to chase and kill for a while!" ”

"No, you can't fall for the tricks of the Qing army!" Wang Qiang had already dissipated his anger at this time, and regained his calm and relaxed appearance, he suddenly hugged his shoulders and shouted: "Damn, I'm cold to death, hurry up and bring clothes." ”

Lan Ting had already run out of the enemy building quickly, and helped Wang Qiang put on his coat with three times and two clicks, his eyes were full of admiration, Wang Qiang at this time was a big hero who was not afraid of heaven and earth in her eyes!

The news that Wang Qiang led the officials and troops to kill the Qing army immediately spread throughout the city, Jinzhou was jubilant, firecrackers, gongs and drums sounded together, and the common people rushed to tell each other, Wang Qiang's "heroic deeds" were spread to the gods, and they were out of the limelight. The merchants and squires in the city spontaneously organized themselves and carried condolences to the Shuai's Mansion one by one to comfort the labor army. Lan Ting witnessed Wang Qiang's feat of bravely killing the enemy, admired in his heart, and in the evening, he personally cooked the wine and food to reward Wang Qiang and several of his relatives, and after dinner, Wang Qiang was worried that the defending troops would be slack after the victory, and would be attacked by the Qing army.

But it was said that the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo, was depressed and drank alone in the big tent. According to the plan discussed with Huang Taiji and others, he led his troops to attack Jinzhou only to be defeated, not to be victorious, not only to be defeated, but also to be defeated "just like the real thing". In order to keep it secret, he only told the commanders of each battalion about this matter, and the other generals and soldiers did not know. In the first battle this morning, the Qing army lost nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses, especially the warriors of the death squad who killed and wounded more than 200 people, which made him feel distressed, but he had to make a posture of attacking Jinzhou in order not to make the Ming army suspicious, he inserted the handsome flag in the range of the Ming army's artillery, that is, he deliberately sold a flaw to the Ming army, once the handsome flag was defeated, he commanded the soldiers to retreat, if the Ming army took advantage of the situation to pursue and kill, they simply abandoned the large battalion, and made the appearance of defeat like a mountain, and he had discussed in advance with the commanders of each battalion about the route of the retreat of each army. Unexpectedly, the Ming army actually gave up a great opportunity to break the enemy, did not go out of the city to chase and kill, and let his wishful thinking fail. Duoduo pondered, and sighed to himself: "This battle is really a wreck, stretching out your face and waiting to be slapped, but people still don't pay attention to you, what can I do?" He stepped out of the tent and looked up at the stars, thinking about how this defeat should be fought. He heard about Wang Qiang's bare-chested battle, and thought: "It seems that this little eunuch is still a little bloody, so I will simply tease your fire and see if you can come out!" ”