More than 70 kilometers away from the battlefield that was about to break out, in the Chinese military tent of the Qing army clan Bolobele, Hong Chengchou was sitting opposite Bolobele.

Bolobel is the son of Nurhachi, the ancestor of the Manchus, the third son of Aixin Jueluo Abatai, Abatai is the seventh son of Nurhachi, and his mother is the concubine Ilgen Jueluo, which belongs to the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner.

Aixin Jueluo Bolo (1613-1652), a general and clan of the Qing Dynasty, and one of the three kings of the early Qing Dynasty.

Of course, because he was hit by the artillery of the righteous army commanded by Zhang Qiang on the city wall in Jinhua Mansion, he was seriously injured, and then went back to recuperate, and later led the army out several times, history has been a little different from that moment, and now it is the end of 1652, he is still alive, and he can still be assigned to lead the army to support Hong Chengchou's attack on the Huaxia army.

The two of them sat opposite each other, and Bolo said to Hong Chengchou: "Zhang Qiang, we have to be careful, he is defending the city quite strongly, and now I don't know where Azig is, I sent several waves of scouts, and they were all intercepted by the Huaxia Army on the border of Raozhou Mansion, we can't get any information, where are you?" How do you reply to the detailed work that has penetrated in? ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Back to Baylor, the latest information is seven days ago, at that time, Prince Azig has been defeated, retreated into the capital of Raozhou, the Chinese army is besieged on all sides, bombarding the city wall with cannons day and night, it is estimated that the situation is not optimistic, so we must speed up the march, and strive to rush to the capital city of Raozhou as soon as possible to relieve the siege." ”

Bo Luo frowned, "According to the current marching speed of our army, it will take at least five days to reach the capital of Raozhou, mainly because the marching speed of those Han troops is too slow." ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Back to Baylor, if it is other Ming troops, we can cavalry hurry, and the infantry can follow slowly, but in the face of the Huaxia army, after several battles, the minister found that the Huaxia army is very good at fighting decisive battles, positional warfare, and stubborn abnormality.

Unlike other Ming troops who heard the arrival of our army, they were in chaos first, and when our army arrived, they were already demoralized and chaotic before fighting, so our army fought very easily, and it was simply a hand-to-hand capture, like a bag to take things.

Except for those hard bones in Dashun, the Qing army has not yet had a decisive battle with the Ming army of more than tens of thousands of people, but the Huaxia army has already defeated our Armageddon Battle, which is led by a big man like Baylor, whose military strength surpassed that of them by more than double, so the minister was so careful not to fall for the tricks of the Huaxia army. ”

"Well, you are also cautious, but this time we are not the same, where is still trapped in the Qing Dynasty's Baylor, the royal family, you can't help but go all out, you have to let your front army march as soon as possible, so that the Han army must not be lazy, speed up the march, we must break into the Raozhou Mansion within three days, and arrive at the city of Raozhou Mansion within five days. Otherwise, not only will I not be able to explain to the court, but you will also have to fall to the ground. ”

"Yes, yes, the slave must order his subordinates to speed up the march, strive to defeat the Huaxia army on the border of Raozhou Mansion on the third day, and reach the city of Raozhou Mansion on the fifth day." Hong Chengchou bent over and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuffs.

"Where's Mandahai?" Bolo asked.

"This, Lord Belle, Man Dahai did not listen to the persuasion of the old minister, and took 20,000 soldiers and horses to make a detour into Raozhou Mansion, and reported to me last night that he was less than fifty kilometers away from Raozhou Mansion, and he marched overnight, thinking that at this time today, he should have marched another twenty kilometers and approached Raozhou Mansion."

"Okay, you go down and speed up the march." Bolrobelle picked up the teacup on the tea table and drank it slowly.

Hong Chengchou retired, and he returned to his marching tent twenty kilometers away.

didn't sit down, just listened to the report outside: "Report, report carefully, Raozhou Mansion has fallen, and the whereabouts of the prince are unknown." ”

"Ah——," Hong Chengchou shook his hand, and the teacup in his hand fell to the ground and smashed it.

"Quick, quick, the whole army will pull out the camp and speed up the march, I will spend the night in the border county town of Raozhou Mansion tonight." Hong Chengchou held on to the table, his breath was not smooth, he was dizzy, and the guards on the side hurriedly went up to help.

In the distance, Liu Liangzuo was holding a teacup, sitting on the gate tower of Raozhou Mansion, which had been cleaned out and renovated, and sang in a loud voice:

"I'm looking at the city gates——,

But it turned out to be a soldier sent by Sima——,

How lucky are you to win three cities in a row——,

I, Zhuge waited, in the enemy building——,

I have no ambush and no soldiers......"

Before I finished singing, I heard someone clapping his hands at the door, "Papapa, my lord is so interested." Still singing here—"

"Hahaha, it's Lord Zhu, come, sit down, and drink tea together." Liu Liangzuo stood up and greeted Brother Zhu.

Brother Zhu sat down, one on the left and one on the right, looking at the ongoing defense works outside the city in the distance through the window pane of the city gate tower.

At present, the defense project is nearing the end, and the tunpu four miles away has become the front line, and the hundreds of meters outside the tunpu have been cleared and turned into an open space, and there are a lot of horses and traps on the open space, stumbling horses, and of course, there are passages for the defenders to counterattack, regardless of the fact that those passages are crooked, if you want to ride a horse and rush over, it is looking for death.

The fortifications were reversed, they were originally used for siege and to defend against the enemy in the city, but now they are used to defend the city, and all the arrangements are facing the outside of the city, of course, the place behind the original trenches facing the city has not been removed, so that the original arrangement is not wasted, and the enemy can not advance quickly after occupying these trenches, they also have to face these arrangements in front of the trenches, which alone can give them a headache and consume the enemy's troops.

Of course, if the enemy has the upper hand, then it is a drain on the enemy's time.

Hundreds of thousands of people will have to spend a lot of time in front of these fortifications, giving the defenders of the city enough time to prepare and think of other methods.

The 35,000 troops had to face the attack of the 200,000 Qing army, and it would be a joke to say that it would be easy to defeat the enemy, even if they were hit with modern artillery and modern rifles, it was not something that could be done in a short time and a half, so they could only delay time with fortifications.

Staying here is actually not Zhang Qiang's willingness, he doesn't want to fight with the Qing army, not because he can't beat the Qing army, if he transfers some more field brigades, there are five field brigades, plus 1 brigade of the Guards Brigade, plus 1 brigade of the artillery brigade, plus 3 cavalry brigades, this is nearly 90,000 troops, if it is more than 40,000 militiamen, then he has 140,000 troops, nearly 150,000 troops, and 200,000 Qing troops, he can still win.

But the Qing army is actually only more than 30,000 main forces, the rest are Han troops, although there are 70,000 or 80,000 banner troops that can no longer be called Han people, and the rest are the troops formed by the Han Ming army, in the face of such troops, Zhang Qiang does not want to die, no matter how many people die are Han people, the Qing army is defeated this time, and in a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of Han troops can be pulled from other places over, but his elite troops are accumulated little by little, and one by one.

Although his tactics are advanced, although his weapons are more advanced than the enemy, they are only half advanced, and the arquebus cannot throw off the Qing army a large distance, so he has to pay a lot of casualties, even those who died are soldiers in the era of cold weapons, and he does not want to lose too much of the cold weapon troops with cold weapons, swords, swords, halberds, and bows and crossbows, so he has to destroy the enemy in the movement, dragging the enemy's troops into several pieces, and destroying them one by one.

Lao Mao said, concentrate superior forces to destroy a small part of the enemy's forces, set small victories into big victories, and finally defeat the enemy.

Besides, what he encountered was a traitor who could not display his talents in the Ming Dynasty in history, and did not want to display his talents, but in the Qing Dynasty, he contributed to the Manchu Tartars.

The Chinese have never had this idea of defending themselves against the enemy outside the country, they are only satisfied with recovering the territory that was originally seized by the enemy on their own territory, and then stop, share the credit, and try to enjoy, without the magnificent atmosphere of a 5,000-year-old civilization, such as the middle of the day, the momentum of forging ahead, but more and more satisfied with this small achievement.

It is still the era of the feudal dynasty, if you wait for three hundred years, the world is the same, the atomic bomb has also come out, and then everyone has to sit down to drink tea and chat to solve things, at that time, if you want to expand the living space of the Chinese nation, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky, especially the lazy and easily satisfied character of the Chinese, and they have not recovered the occupied territories in later generations.

On the contrary, they are satisfied with the ruined country, preaching what benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long, and as a result, benevolence and morality are invaded by Western culture, and the destruction is completely clean. What is the soul?

With this resentment, Zhang Qiang had to retreat with the army and make peace with Hu Kui's 1st Field Brigade, while guarding against the army of traitors like Kong Youde, who knew more about the use of firearms, while waiting for an opportunity to counterattack the enemy.

Here, Brother Zhu and Liu Liangzuo were chatting back and forth, guessing in their hearts what Zhang Qiang meant by doing this, and asked Liu Liangzuo: "Admiral Liu, how long do you think we have to defend?" ”

Liu Liangzuo glanced at Brother Zhu, and muttered in his heart, isn't he the captain of Zhang Qiang's personal guard, why do you still ask yourself, it depends on what Zhang Qiang thinks, but he said: "The Metropolitan Governor is really a god, so arranged, plus our military firearms are sharp, bows and arrows, crossbow arrows are more powerful than the enemy, and our side is also rushing to make bed crossbows and other sharp weapons to defend the city, so I think the three lines of defense are impregnable, the Qing army is not under the city with 70,000 or 80,000 casualties, and it cannot attack the city, when the time comes, I think the Metropolitan Governor has led the army back to the army." ”

Brother Zhu thought for a while, "Yes, I think it's also impregnable, so when will we withdraw the big camp more than ten miles away?" ”

(End of chapter)