No one knows how long the battle of Xiangyang City will last, and hundreds of miles northeast of Xiangyang City, a major battle is about to break out.

The Ming Dynasty army has been stationed in Jining City for three or four days, although there have been tentative attacks, but the general offensive has not been opened.

The response of the third army of the Hong Dynasty also made Zhang Huangyan, the commander of the East Road of the Ming Dynasty, puzzled, because they had not had any other large-scale counterattacks against the Ming Dynasty army except for the turtle cowering in the city of Jining until now.

This is not at all like the style of the Hong Dynasty army, when the first battle was fought on the outskirts of Jinan Mansion, Kong Youde's troops in his hands were comparable to now, and the morale and physical strength of the generals were not as good as now, they dared to go out of the city and take the initiative to find them to support the Ming Dynasty army to fight, and now they did not make any moves but made Zhang Huangyan feel uneasy.

"My lord, when will you launch a general attack?"

Xia Chengde, the commander-in-chief, was already impatient, and several times he took the initiative to fight was suppressed by Zhang Huangyan, and today he asked Zhang Huangyan again, with a eager attitude.

"It's almost there, generals, be safe!"

Zhang Huangyan calmly looked at the generals under his command, and had taken a lot of territory in the previous counterattacks, so that the confidence lost by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army was finally recovered, and it was no longer as miserable as when he faced the Hong Dynasty army, and everyone was in danger.

Zhang Huangyan didn't want to go to the next city and take Jining City down, but he still had a lot of worries in his heart, after all, the size of the Hong Dynasty's army at this time had reached 40,000 again, and it was completely comparable to their current army.

Moreover, he had other considerations, as long as the Hong Dynasty army was still stationed in Jining Mansion, then they might not have the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the soldiers of the Hong Dynasty's Third Army again.

"Generals just have to be ready, when the time comes, the governor will rely on the generals!!"

Zhang Huangyan, who sent several generals out and stayed alone with his staff member Cai Chongxin, asked meaningfully at this time: "How are the preparations over there?" ”

"Lord Hui, I have secretly ordered a group of sergeants to basically put all the supplies in place, and in two days at most, everything will be ready, and then the plan will be launched!"

As Zhang Huangyan's confidant, Cai Chongxin knew far more things than other Ming Dynasty generals, and many things that Zhang Huangyan didn't want to be known to outsiders were all handed over to Cai Chongxin to take care of.

"Two days?"

Zhang Huangyan frowned and thought for a moment, although he was a little dissatisfied, but thinking about this matter, he needed to keep it confidential and thoughtful, and it was normal to be slow.

"Okay, then I'll give you two more days, and remember to be careful of leaking the news!"

"Whoa!"

"And the Kong family continues to appease, don't make a mistake at this time, although they are worth believing, but the spies of the Hong Dynasty are pervasive, and no one knows if they will notice something!"

"Understood!"

Tsai Chongxin bowed in response.

In the following two days, the tentative exchange between the two sides did not stop, and when Zhang Huangyan began to summon his subordinate general soldiers and deputy general soldiers to discuss the matter early in the morning of the third day, the general soldiers had a premonition that the real war was about to begin.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the people of the Hong Dynasty are now my Ming henchmen, as the so-called raising the army for a thousand days and using troops for a while, the generals are full of the grace of my Ming royal family, and today is the time to serve the imperial court."

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p; As soon as they came up, when they saw Zhang Huangyan appearing in military uniform, the general soldiers of all roads who came to discuss the matter knew that their premonition was not wrong.

"I want to be sent from my lord!!"

"General Xia Chengde, this governor and your 30,000 horses will attack the west gate of Jining Mansion, remember, just attack the west gate, and be sure to give the maximum pressure on the Hong Dynasty army."

"At the beginning of the siege, Dongcheng can send as many troops as possible, no need to try, no need to worry about losses."

"The last general commands."

"Remember, no matter what happens in other directions, your troops don't need to deal with it, just attack the city."

"Whoa!"

The key point of Zhang Huangyan's reminder made Xia Chengde unclear, but since the coach arranged it like this, then he just had to do it.

"Gao Jie's general army, this governor and your 20,000 troops will attack the northern city of Jining Mansion, the specific matters are the same as Xia Chengde's general army, you don't need to care about the movements in other directions, just maintain the offensive on the northern city."

"The last general commands."

"Liu Zeqing's general army, the governor and you have 20,000 horses to attack the southern city of Jining Mansion, and directly use all the troops to press the city when attacking the city."

"The siege time is set at the beginning of the year, with the drums of our Chinese army headquarters as the number, when the drums start, the generals can just launch troops and horses to attack the city!"

"My lord, don't you blast the city gates open with artillery first?"

Xia Chengde and other general soldiers are not people who don't know soldiers, at this time Zhang Huangyan's siege skills are not small, but in terms of today's siege tactics, it is really unwise to dispatch most of the soldiers and horses when the first siege is launched.

With the large-scale equipment of artillery in the army, the siege equipment such as the previous cumbersome catapult and the city vehicle was gradually eliminated, and now the Ming army has surrounded the city in these days, although it has also made a large number of siege tools such as climbing ladders, but in terms of the current city defense situation of the Hong Dynasty army, their Ming Dynasty siege army is so rude to attack the city, the loss must be great, and the loss of soldiers must be heavy.

Regarding Zhang Huangyan's absurd siege strategy, even the general soldiers like Xia Chengde who actively responded to the battle, they frowned and asked with a look of resistance.

"The governor has his own arrangements, and the generals still believe me!"

"This governor is not stupid enough not to know what kind of loss will be caused by such a siege of the city, in the past few days of besieging Jining Mansion, this governor has made arrangements, if the plan is successfully achieved, our army should be able to break through Jining Mansion City today!" Fastest update Mobile:

Zhang Huang said that he was relieved to the generals present.

Looking at Zhang Huangyan's calm expression, thinking about his performance on the battlefield all along, he is not an incompetent person who can make such a mediocre plan in front of him, and after getting his reply, everyone can only respond in disbelief.

The next thing was logical, the Ming Dynasty army, which had besieged Jining City for a week, was mobilized and reorganized on a large scale, and it was obvious that there was going to be a big move.

The officers and soldiers of the Third Army of the Hong Dynasty, who saw everything in the city, also acted quickly, boarded their posts one after another, and aimed their artillery fire at dozens of feet in front of the city.

The officers of the Third Army, such as Kong Youde and Bai Guangen, who had been paying attention to the movements outside the city, also heard the news, put on their military uniforms, walked onto the city wall, and watched the enemy's march several miles outside the city, waiting for their actions.

At the moment when the artillery roar of the third army sounded, the Ming Dynasty army had already rushed to a distance of less than ten zhang under the city of Jining.