"Division commander, all the soldiers are finished, just waiting for your words!"

In the city of Liaoyang, Hong Tang, who was trapped in it, was still happy to face the 50,000 Qing soldiers outside the city, but these days were relatively easier.

The two sides have already reached a tacit understanding, and it is still gratifying that their task is to stick a nail in the rear of the Qing Dynasty position, maintain the suppressive force on its rear formation, so that it cannot unscrupulously launch a decisive battle with the Hongtang soldiers in the front position.

30,000 Hongtang soldiers may kill out of Liaoyang City anytime and anywhere, and attack the rear of the Qing Dynasty from the rear, and the damage brought may not be worse than that of the Hongtang army in the front's position.

And the 50,000 Qing troops outside the city, of which 10,000 are the elite of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, as a team to prevent the Ming army in the city from being killed, its main purpose is to prevent the Ming army in the city from doing any damage, it can be regarded as a complete merit.

Both sides have calculations with each other, so although the two sides have exchanged several battles from time to time these days, fierce battles like the front line Phoenix have rarely happened.

Shang Kexi Since they are rooted behind enemy lines, they hope to kill Liaoyang City at a critical moment and cause strong damage to the Qing army, anyway, the food and grass supply in Liaoyang City is abundant, and the materials consumed for it so far are only half of the amount at night, and it is no problem to hold on for a few more months.

And the 50,000 Qing men and horses stationed outside Liaoyang City knew that they couldn't even take Liaoyang City, which was a strong artillery of more than 200,000 troops at that time, and their 50,000 soldiers seemed to be not small, but it can be said that it was wishful thinking to take this Liaoyang City.

Rather than losing troops in vain, it is better to be like now, everyone tacitly understands that they have nothing to do with each other, as long as the Ming Dynasty army in this city cannot get out of the city, and wait until the front line of the army defeats the Ming Dynasty army and kills the division back, can the Ming army in Liaoyang City still escape the clutches of their Qing Dynasty?

Of course, Fu Peng, the commander of the Qing army stationed under Liaoyang City, and several Han army generals were all full of fear and precautions for the Ming Dynasty troops in the city. Although they had followed Dolgon south to the Ming territory to burn and plunder, they had little contact with the Ming army that penetrated deep into their Qing territory. Then, because the other party could not come out of Liaoyang City, Fu Peng couldn't fully know the exact combat strength of this Ming army, but just because they had the courage to hold on to Liaoyang City for several months without being discouraged and compromising, Fu Peng and them were already impressed.

Not to mention the tentative confrontation in these days, although it was a scene play, but it was not intentional by Fu Peng, but the final result also made that Fu Peng and them dispel the idea of attacking the city.

"Tell the brothers, it's time for them to show their talents!!"

Shang Kexi nodded, indicating that he understood.

On the third day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, the entire multi-sided battlefield between the Qing Dynasty and the Hongtang army outside the Northeast Guanguan suddenly became turbulent!

Since the night raid, it is already the favorite and most common tactic of the Hongtang army, the soldiers of the Hongtang army, without the influence of hunger and lack of nutrition, can hardly find the night blindness that is most likely to occur in the homes of ordinary people, so even if they fight at night, they can be orderly.

In addition, he has been trained in night battles, how to maintain a formation, how to distinguish between friend and foe, etc., so that even if he can't see in the deep night, he can react very quickly, unlike the general army at a loss.

At three o'clock in the evening on the third day of the fifth lunar month, it was the time when several troops of Hongtang's army from the south to the north of the front agreed on a big counterattack. In fact, as early as when Zhu Dazhuang, deputy division commander of the Ningjin Line, led an army of 20,000 troops to the south of Phoenix City, the Hongtang army was already able to act after hardship.

But Wu Jie and Shang Kexi thought that this would be a big battle related to the future of Hongmen, and since they were about to start a counteroffensive, then they must also give full play to the power of China.

In order to contact An Xianguo's 1st Cavalry Division, which was fighting on the move, the Whale Department Special Operations Battalion sent more than a dozen squads to go deep into the Qing Dynasty's rear defense to find the location of An Xianguo's cavalry division, and it was not until the end of April that the trace of An Xianguo's 1st Cavalry Division was found.

contacted An Xianguo's cavalry division, and gave An Xianguo a sufficient time to prepare, first found an opportunity to give a small lesson to the Qing cavalry who tracked him, so he made the suspicious array think that he was still on the Qing Dynasty subsidy line, and then quietly detoured an inaccessible route and rushed back to the decisive battle south of Liaoyang.

After the cavalry division almost arrived at the designated place, Wu Jie and the others began their decisive battle.

Liaoyang, Phoenix, Hat Helmet Mountain defense line, suddenly gunfire, swords and soldiers, in the middle of the night made a sonorous and powerful tear, the violent coaxing her is not enough to open the army city gate, has always made the Qing people dream of the opportunity is in front of them, but at this time the Qing people, who are accustomed to being the initiative party, were caught off guard and could not organize an effective attack at all.

For several months, the Ming Dynasty army has maintained a passive defensive posture, and even small-scale sneak attacks are rarely seen, as if they have already made up their minds to rely on the defense line of Phoenix City and Hat Helmet Mountain to stalemate with the Qing people in the coastal area outside the Guan.

Of course, a smart person like Dolgon would definitely not believe that the Hongtang people would be so passive, and this posture of the Ming army must be preparing for the next counteroffensive, so Dolgon emphasized vigilance and prudence in the army several times, which is to guard against the counterattack of the Ming army.

It's just that many times, this time will become a sharp weapon, silently eroding the morale and fighting spirit of a person, an army, etc. Although the main general Dolgon and others were on guard, and at the same time they were on the defensive, but the Ming and Han armies did not take action for several months, so that the morale of the Qing army was finally avoided from slackening and slackness.

And then there is the resolute army, how can it be kept in a full state of alert for months, so that it is ready to prevent a surprise attack at any time.

However, after all, with a wise general like Dolgon, the Qing army was also the most elite army of this era, although at the beginning of the surprise attack of the Han Ming army that almost poured out of Phoenix City, it was a little hurried, and the formation was also disrupted.

However, as Dolgon reacted, while directly abandoning the Han soldiers who were guarding the chaos at the front, he led his headquarters to retreat backwards and pulled out a three-mile gap, driving the defeated and retreating army to both flanks, creating space for his main counterattack.

Before the Han soldiers were completely defeated, the main army of the Qing Dynasty, which had been reorganized in the back, had already killed and stopped the Hongtang army attacking in Phoenix City.

(End of chapter)