Since Jiang Xin's 2,000 men were all disarmed, dozens of family members were also deprived of armor and weapons.

Relying on fists alone could not suppress those deserters no matter how much they bulleted, and they were slipped away by about 20%.

Seeing Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren, etc., Jiang Xin did not hide what happened, and the traitors, who were already frightened, felt that the end was coming.

Geng Zhongming and Huang Han have a deep enmity like the sea, Zhang Cunren was originally a descendant of the ancestral army, and the "Red Flag Army" was a mortal enemy.

They did not think of surrendering, they wanted to rely on the fortifications that had been in operation for two years, and relied on those trenches to withstand the attack of the "Red Banner Army".

After Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde surrendered to Jiannu with their families, the red gangsters arranged a mansion for them in Shengjing, and the big traitors did not bring their families when they came to North Korea to fight in order to show their loyalty, and now Geng Zhongming only left two Goryeo concubines to serve.

These two concubines surnamed Li are white-skinned and tender, not big flat faces at all, they are beautiful and loved by everyone, and they can also write Chinese characters, and they are well-educated relatives of the Korean royal family since childhood.

Jiang Xin and Zhang Cunren were good friends, Geng Zhongming did not embarrass him, and directly handed over Jiang Xin and about 1,600 returned soldiers to Zhang Cunren's command.

Zhang Cunren had seen Huang Han and hundreds of cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" as early as the third year of Chongzhen, and Huang Han, who was still fledgling at that time, dared to hedge with the inferior troops and the Guanning Iron Cavalry and won a great victory.

Now that eight years have passed, the "Red Flag Army" has long soared into the sky, fighting Jiannu and Tatars in Shanxi.

Zhang Cunren didn't know that relying on the Han army and Goryeo soldiers under his command to confront the "Red Banner Army" in the sky had little future, so he could only do his best to obey the fate of heaven.

However, the 1,600 Qing troops who had already been captured once and were released after a good meal became the biggest hidden danger.

They were assigned to the trenches and were surrounded by Zhang Cunren, who was worried about their future.

The core of the topic is can we hold Seoul? Is there really a way to survive surrendering?

A former small flag officer of Jiang Xinbu looked at the surrounding area and said with a smile:

"Hold Seoul? See the fuck! Lao Tzu saw with his own eyes the artillery of the 'Red Banner Army', and he couldn't count them, not to mention Seoul and Pyongyang, even Shengjing couldn't hold it. I am afraid that the time is not far off to build a slave and destroy the country and destroy the species! ”

"So what do we do? The cannon doesn't have eyes, and there may be no bones left when hit! ”

"What else to do? Are you a pig's brain? Surrender! The 'Red Banner Army' promised to ensure that all the surrendered troops were well fed and clothed. ”

"We never thought of working for Jiannu and Tatars, we have long thought about surrendering to Daming and going home, and we don't know that the old mother and brother at home are still there."

"This brother, what's your name, where is your hometown?"

"I am also a small flag officer, because I play well with birds, others call me Dou Kuaishou, in fact, my name is Dou Kuai, and my hometown is in Changping.

At the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen, when I followed Zhang Chun to rescue the Daling River, I was scattered by Jiannu and fled to the mountains and forests, and later because I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, Chongzhen and a few brothers took the initiative to go down the mountain and surrender in the spring of the fifth year. ”

The little flag officer under Jiang Xin's command patted Dou Kuaishou's shoulder and comforted: "Each other, my name is Xie Hu, I was born in the sword and shield hand, a native of Xuanfu, and I have been messing around with Jiang Shenjiang, and I don't know how the life of my wife and children and parents is now." ”

"Brother Xie, have you seen the 'Red Flag Army' tell us what secrets they have, why Jiannu just can't beat them?"

"I can't say what the specific reason is, all in all, the people of the 'Red Banner Army' make you feel long spirited when you look at it, everyone can write and calculate, and it is said that every soldier who uses the bird gun can do it in a hundred steps.

Their warships were so big, as high as several stories high, and they were probably equipped with hundreds of guns, and there were hundreds of people on one ship, and I saw dozens or hundreds of such ships with my own eyes. ”

Dou Kuaishou couldn't help but get emotional, and said: "I didn't expect that my Ming Dynasty has such a powerful 'Red Flag Army', Lao Tzu has long been fed up with the traitor days of no one and no ghost, and this time I must return to Daming." ”

At this time, a Goryeo soldier cautiously asked in stiff Chinese: "Sir Xie, Sir Dou, we Koreans have never really worked for Jiannu, I wonder if the surrender of the 'Red Banner Army' can be forgiven, food and clothing?" ”

Xie Hu said with a smile: "The Korean State was originally a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, but the two ends of your lord should be buried in the sea of fire in the end, I participated in the attack and defense of Ganghwa Island the year before last, and I saw with my own eyes that the fire burned for three days and three nights.

Don't worry, Da Ming can tolerate you, and the general will not kill innocents indiscriminately. ”

In the trenches, such as Xie Hu and Dou Kuai, they were unscrupulously talking about how the "Red Banner Army" was good and how unbearable the Qing army was, and the Han army abounded.

Jiang Xin, one of the generals, did not stop it at all, and secretly told the family members to be clever and report to those leaders who shook the morale of the army, so as not to be found by Zhang Cunren's family members and cut off their heads.

Three days later, dozens of "Red Banner Army" warships with a displacement of about 300 tons appeared on the Han River, and hundreds of artillery pieces on board began to bombard the Qing troops in range.

It's not that the artillery of this era can't do it, but that the two always take turns to stop and empty the three guns, and then move forward a hundred paces and then stop and bomb the fuck.

The artillery was surrounded by 3,000 sword and shield men, and the one-foot-and-two-foot ash pole spear was not easy to turn in the trenches, so the cold-weapon spearmen did not get the opportunity to go to the battlefield this time.

Under the leadership of Sun Chuanting, Mao Chenglu, and Shang Keyi, the artillerymen, sword and shield men, and under the cover of the 5,000-meter ni gunners under the personal command of Song Pengfei, advanced to attack the trench net.

Behind the attacking force were 6,000 laborers, pushing 3,000 wheelbarrows laden with sandbags and prefabricated planks, and 10,000 self-generated men.

Geng Zhongming and Zhang Cunren were all holding on to the outer trenches at this time, and in the city were 4,000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry led by Zhennu Arzin and more than 1,000 bannermen, and 15,000 Han troops and Goryeo soldiers led by Xue Dahu and others.

Whether you can hold out for ten days and half a month to bring reinforcements, you have to see how long the carefully built fortifications of the outer Seoul can last?

Geng Zhongming and others believed that it was not so easy for the Ming army to fight for positions, because when they led their subordinates to seize Yizhou, they fought trench battles with the men and horses of Dongjiang Town.

The battle was particularly tragic, fighting for half a month, more than 10,000 people died on both sides, and in the end it was the Dongjiang soldiers who took the initiative to evacuate to succeed.

Geng Zhongming believed that the trench network built outside Hancheng was of better quality and larger than the defense line built by the Dongjiang soldiers in Yiju, and the number of defenders was two or three times that of the Dongjiang soldiers at that time, and it should be able to hold it for more than half a month.