"Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! ”

"Boom!! Bang!!! ”

The crisp sound of muskets firing and the roar of heavy and huge artillery complement each other, forming a battlefield of gunpowder in the territory occupied by Hongmen south of Liaoyang City in the northeast.

The two sides launched a fierce exchange of fire on this land of hundreds of miles, sometimes the Qing army advanced dozens of miles, and sometimes the Hongtang army did not know how to kill a partial division from the oblique stab, forcing the Qing people to have to return to the defense, and once again surrendered the territory they occupied to the Hongtang army.

In the face of the attack of more than 100,000 Qing troops, the response of the Hongtang army was unexpectedly resolute and domineering, and the dock fort built at any cost in the winter of last year allowed the Hongtang army not to retain too many troops in these dock forts, and only needed to send one or two eloquent people to organize the slaves, captive Han Chinese, and Koreans in the dock fort, and they could rely on the strong defense facilities of the dock fort to guard for a day or two.

The main force of the Hongtang army, under the leadership of Wu Jie, Xiao Xiurong, Geng Zhongming and other generals, the entire 50,000 Hongtang army was concentrated in the front of the battlefield, and the more than 100,000 troops of the Qing Dynasty were in a stalemate.

Although Prince Rui Dolgon hated this Ming army in his heart, he still thought that he still attached great importance to the other party when facing the enemy, but he really tried to fight the other party head-on several times, and Dolgon successively raised the importance of this Ming army.

It's a pity that he led the army south last year, firstly, he lost a lot of the main force of the Jurchen Eight Banners, and secondly, the other party took advantage of the emptiness of the Qing Dynasty to make the Qing garrison army led by Prince Daishan scattered, and the entire Qing Dynasty was far weaker than when Dolgon led the army south to attack the Ming Dynasty, at least three points weaker.

Therefore, looking at them now, the strength of the Qing army is still good, but even if more than 100,000 troops cross the bridgehead of the Ming army, Liaoyang City, and march south to recover the rest of the land without fortified cities, they encounter the resistance of the Ming army, and they are unable to distinguish the winner from the defeat in a few tentative attacks.

The 30,000 flank defense army, which was mostly composed of Han Chinese, Dutch Koreans, was attacked by an army of no more than 10,000 people in the Ming army, and the army was on the verge of collapse in one night.

In the next few battles with the Ming army, the two sides suffered mutual damage, but on the whole, the losses of the Qing army were heavier, after all, Dorgon's command style, unless it was time to meet the poor dagger or the real decisive battle, he would rarely send the main Jurchen army.

What's more, Dolgon presided over the army, relying on a large number of Han soldiers and a second-rate Jurchen Mongol mixed army as the main force in the initial battle.

Almost every time a Hongtang soldier is lost, two or three Qing soldiers will be killed, but in numerical terms, Hongtang is earned.

But is that really the case?

In addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers who fought out of the peasant army in He Sanjiang, the strength and skills of the Hongtang army were inferior, and the rest of the Hongtang soldiers and the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, Ryukyu Naval Division, etc., which one of them was not Wu Jie and Xiao Xiurong, the veterans trained by these generals for several years, but the cost of losing one person was much higher than that of the Han army, and the majority of Korean soldiers occupied the Qing army.

In the long run, with the real main force of the Qing Dynasty not yet dispatched, perhaps all the forces built by Hongtang, which has been built up with the strength of the entire team for more than 30 years, are likely to become a cripple, and then be taken advantage of by Dolgon, the prince of the Great Qing Rui, who is waiting for work, to let Hongmen suffer the greatest setback and loss since they established the team.

This is what Shang Kexi is worried about in the hearts of wise generals like them, after all, the Qing people are fighting at home, and their background is still much stronger than the Hongmen that is biased overseas, and in the case of mutual losses on both sides, they will eventually tend to be inferior, etc., and it is inevitable that the Hongmen with worse strength and strength will be worse.

For this war that absolutely cannot be lost, Wu Jie and the others really contributed all their wisdom and strength, several members of the Aircraft Department, Wu Jie, Xiao Xiurong, and other experienced generals like them, etc., all racked their brains, discussed and decided on the current map all day long, and every time according to the battle situation reported back from the front line of the battlefield, the emergency situation obtained by the scouts after thousands of hard work, and revised their plans again and again, striving to achieve perfection.

The most stressful is naturally Wu Jie, who is the chief general and decider, Wu Jie, who is almost fifty years old, was originally well maintained, at least compared to the fifty-year-old Han people in this era, but he is much younger.

Wu Jie, who was competitive and liked martial arts in his early years, even if he still retains some fighting spirit at this age, I am afraid that he may not reach the point of going thousands of miles to the front line.

If it weren't for the important battle that would determine the future of Hongmen for this battle, Wu Jie would not have come all the way to this cold place to ask for his own guilt. When he came to Liaodong Guanwai, Wu Jie and Li Tianyang had a painstaking exchange in private for several days and nights, and after being persuaded by Li Tianyang in the end, his only request was to personally suppress the formation, and make sure that this battle became a battle for his retirement.

It's not that he is reluctant to make military merits, and he still wants to take the opportunity to make a big contribution, but he knows very well that this battle is too important for their Hongmen future, and he and Li Tianyang will not be at ease if it is handed over to anyone, so he can only go out by himself Wu Jie.

The original black hair had turned gray in a month as early as when he was sticking to Shanhaiguan, but now in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, which has just started spring, Wu Jie can no longer find a hair with black spots on his head, and he has become vicissitudes and tired.

During the day, Wu Jie needs to select an order that he thinks is most beneficial to the Hongtang army from a temporary contingency plan, and issue it, and the final result will be borne by Wu Jie himself, regardless of success or failure, gain or loss.

In the evening, Wu Jie had to make a coordinated plan with Geng Zhongming and Xiao Xiurong, the generals on the periphery of Hongmen, and everyone should communicate and cooperate with the second day's battle in a timely manner.

At this time, the contradictions between the local faction, the small faction, the foreign faction and other small groups that gradually bred in the Hongmen finally lost their former vitality and disappeared into the depths of darkness under the coordination of Wu Jie, the chief general with the most prestige and status in the Hongtang except for Li Tianyang.

It is also with the cooperation of Xiao Xiurong, Geng Zhongming, Xiang Shenggao and other generals that the Hongtang army is still fighting vigorously in the face of absolute numerical superiority and other Qing troops.

(End of chapter)