On the eighth day of August, the Qing army reached the boundary of Fanjiazhuang. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the beginning, Li Zhi just felt that there were more and more slaves in all directions. Jiannu's scout cavalry was like a wave of sea, constantly pressing Li Zhi's sentinels. These rangers are all horse armor and infantry armor that are skilled in riding and archery, and their combat effectiveness is considerable. They seemed to have learned the lesson of the previous day, and a group of forty or fifty people scattered in the four fields, one by one, to try to suppress the sentinels of the Xuanfeng battalion, but they did not rush up to fight, and only relied on a little more people to squeeze the sentries of Fanjiazhuang.

The cavalry of the Tartars was so dense that Li Zhi's sentries were in danger of being surrounded when they went out to engage in battle, so Li Zhi withdrew the sentries and took them into the city.

To scout the surrounding military situation, it is all up to telescopes.

By the ninth day of August, 12,000 Qing troops had already attacked the city of Fanjiazhuang. Li Zhi stood on the city tower and looked over, only to see groups of slaves in yellow armor running a mile away from the city, raising patches of dust on the wasteland. Five or six miles north of the city were densely covered with tents of the Qing army, and the camp was several miles.

Li Zhi looked through the binoculars and saw that the camps were heavily guarded, the cavalry was ordered to shuttle back and forth, and the Qing soldiers stationed there were all dressed in yellow armor or military uniforms, and the military discipline and military appearance far exceeded the thieves seen in Ru 0zhou.

The camp is very large, and there are not only Qing troops in it, but also more people and mules and horses looted by the Qing army. I couldn't see it well through the binoculars, but I could only vaguely see the people who seemed to be tied up from the tents with a few open doors. It is believed that the Qing army wanted to escort these people to Liaodong to be slaves to provide manpower for the Manchu war.

Looking through the binoculars, all kinds of flags were displayed in the tent of the Qing military camp, and Li Zhi didn't know what those flags meant. The camp tent was erected every 100 meters, and Li Zhi guessed that it was where the Qing army's Jiala Zhangjing and Niulu Zhangjing were located. There is a woven gold dragon fluttering on the camp in the middle, which is probably where the Zhenghuang Banner Super Gong Yang Guli is located.

When the Tartars arrived at the battlefield, they did not rush to attack the city, but looked around for wood and trees and began to make chariots. A grove of trees to the north of the city was unlucky, and was cut down by the Tartars.

In addition to preparing for the siege, the Tartars had another hand to prepare:

In the afternoon, three horsemen rode out of the Tartar camp. The three of them slowly bypassed the pit traps outside the city, moved away from those antlers and horses, and rode all the way to the bottom of the city gate of the north city, stopping about fifty meters away from the city gate. One of the Han Chinese generalists shouted in Chinese to the soldiers on the towers:

"The heroes in the city, I have been able to conquer and be invincible in the Qing Dynasty. Do not resist by chance, lest you perish in your own right. Surrender now, our Qing army will not kill innocents! ”

The soldiers of the city pointed their rifles at him, and there was a deathly silence.

The messenger was a little frightened, licked his lips and shouted again.

He was answered by three crisp gunshots.

After the gunshots rang out, only three plops were heard, and the three Tartars and Han Tongshi who had surrendered to Fanjiazhuang were hit by Minnie's bullets, fell under the horse, and died.

Seeing that the messenger was killed, there was a commotion in the Tartars' camp.

Not long after, the camps of the Qing army were opened, and a hundred Tartars rode out with more than 300 Ming people. Riding a mile outside the city walls, the Qing troops stopped.

The people who were escorted out knew that there was no good thing, and one by one they knelt on the ground and began to cry, and the cry shook the sky for a while.

Then a tartar went up to untie the rope of a middle-aged man among the people of the Ming Dynasty. The man let go of his hands and feet, looked around, and ran towards the north gate of Fanjiazhuang.

He ran less than thirty meters when a Tartar vest bent his bow and shot an arrow at the back of the man's head. The arrows of the tartar were accurate and heavy, and the man let out a terrible cry and fell to the ground, without making a sound.

When the soldiers of Fanjiazhuang on the city wall saw that the people were killed, they gritted their teeth and cursed.

The Tartar untied the ropes of several young girls of sixteen or seventeen, and the girls wept when they saw the death of the middle-aged man in front of them. They knew that they would inevitably die, so they wiped their tears with their hands and walked towards the gate of Fanjiazhuang with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The Tartar waited for them to walk a few dozen paces, rode up and slashed the girls to death from behind.

When the soldiers on the city wall saw this, their eyes were already blood-red.

But the Tartars were still more ferocious to come, and they raised their sabers and began to gallop among the kneeling Ming people. Every few steps they run, they swung their sabers and slashed at the people below. The bound people could not escape, so they could only be killed. Blood flew everywhere on the open land north of the city, and the screams shook the sky.

The blood of hundreds of people stained a whole land red.

On the city wall of Fanjiazhuang, the soldiers were all heartbroken when they saw this scene, and some soldiers turned around and knelt in front of Li Zhi: "My lord, let's go out and fight with the Tartars!" ”

Li Zhi closed his eyes and said lightly: "Don't fall for Jiannu's agitated plan!" We defend against the danger! ”

The soldiers were full of hatred and turned their heads to look at Li Zhi speechless.

After killing the people of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartars shouted for a while beside the corpses of the people. Seeing that the Ming army on the city wall did not rush out, they rode back to the camp.

For the rest of the day, the Tartars did not move, but kept cutting down trees around them, as if they were burying themselves in the camp to build chariots.

The next morning, the Tartars' tent suddenly heard the sound of trumpets. The gates of the tent were opened, and the soldiers in yellow armor rushed out of the tent with a howl. They did not ride horses, but lined up on both sides of the gate with swords on foot.

The gold-woven dragon was also raised, and dozens of generals stood under it, riding horses and slowly moving towards the city wall. Zhijin Longxu led the entire Qing army array forward and stopped four miles away from the city wall.

Shield carts were pushed out of the tents.

The wagons were six or seven meters long, two or three meters wide, and two meters high, and were covered with a thick layer of wood on the outside, and the front was covered with a wet quilt that ordinary archers and arrows could not penetrate. Eight or nine wooden wheels were mounted underneath the shield cart, and there were more than two dozen vest infantry armours standing inside to push the shield cart.

The Tartars built nearly a hundred shield carts! The shield carts were only four or five meters apart, and they covered the entire front of the battlefield.

The Qing army took 300 soldiers as a bull record, and each cow record had about 10 of the most elite white swing teeth, about 40 elite horse armor, 50 infantry armor, and the remaining 200 soldiers were all followers and auxiliaries wearing cotton armor or not wearing armor.

At this time, each shield cart was followed by a dozen followers and auxiliaries pushing wheelbarrows, who were ready to fill the potholes and traps outside the city walls with earth and stones.

Behind the followers and auxiliaries were more than 300 white-bellied soldiers wearing iron armor, also known as white-armored soldiers. With red tassels on their helmets and flaming flags on their backs, they held their bows and arrows in their backs, ready to support key points at all times and shoot any of their own soldiers who fled.

Li Zhi used a telescope to observe the white pendulum tooth horns, and found that there were some generals wearing thick armor among the white swing tooth horns, these generals wore feathers on their heads, and there was a two-foot flying tiger back flag on their backs, probably the leader of the white swing tooth lama.

A Jialazhangjing rode two miles away from the city wall with his personal guards and served as the front-line commander of the siege. The guard behind him was holding a big pole, which was very conspicuous.

The shield cart went out of the camp gate and pressed towards the north wall of Fanjiazhuang. The preparations for the defense of each wall of Fanjiazhuang were similar, and the Tartars simply attacked the north wall directly.

Li Zhi had long known that the Tartars could build chariots, and at this time he had already concentrated sixty-two six-pounder cannons on the northern city wall. The six-pounder cannon rested on a specially designed battlement and could be fired at the city. Together with the four eighteen-pounder guns on the North Wall Battery, there are now sixty-six cannons on the North Wall Walls.

Four, three, two, one, and Tartar shield carts little by little came into the range of artillery.

Li Zhi ordered to go down: "Riflemen don't shoot, wait for the shield car to stop in front of the pothole and then shoot!" ”

The Tartar shield cart continued on and reached the front of the pit more than a hundred meters from the city wall. The Tartars pushed the shield cart all the way without being attacked, thinking that there was no artillery on the city of Fanjiazhuang, and they were extremely happy.

They didn't know how powerful Fanjiazhuang was, and they thought that this seemingly rich city was already within reach.

The shield cart stopped in front of the pothole, and the followers and auxiliaries behind the shield cart pushed the wheelbarrow up and began to fill in the potholes outside the city.

Li Zhi shouted: "The artillery is firing in turn!" ”

The horn sounded on the city wall, the swan sounded, and twenty six-pounder cannons and two eighteen-pounder cannons aimed at the shield cart one hundred and fifty meters away, and spat out tongues of fire.

A huge boom sounded, and the soldiers on the wall couldn't help but cover their ears. Black smoke erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, spewing the smell of saltpeter and sulfur over the entire wall.

The cannonballs flew like lightning bolts at an invisible speed towards the shield cart not far away.

Twelve six-pounder guns hit their targets, smashing one-meter-wide holes in the shield carts. Fragments of wood smashed by the cannonballs flew sideways, more deadly than stray bullets, and in an instant they killed the Tartars in the front row of the shield cart. Not to mention the Tartar's infantry armor, the iron pieces nailed inside the dark armor of the infantry armor could not prevent the extremely fast flying wooden blocks, and the joints of the iron pieces were easily broken away by the wooden blocks, and the wooden pieces pierced into the flesh, and these infantry armors were immediately stabbed to death in this shield car.

Although the vest was wearing two layers of armor, the neck and face were defenseless, and when the wooden block was inserted into the neck, it was also immediately dead.

In addition to the dangerous wood chips, the shells are also very lethal. The cannonball crashed into the shield cart, shattering the flesh that stood in its way, bouncing on the ground and taking several more lives.

An eighteen-pounder cannon hit the shield cart.

The eighteen-pounder cannon was even more powerful, and it smashed on the shield cart and directly smashed all the front rows of the shield cart, and more pieces of wood were knocked out, which directly resulted in the lives of seven or eight Tartars in front. The heavy cannonball crashed into the shield cart, smashing all the flesh that stood in his way into a pulp, shattering the pulp, shattering the first body, and then rushing backwards to shatter the second body, and with a single flick on the ground, it smashed through three or four layers of the Tartar's body in a row before stopping.

The shield carts hit by the cannonballs were filled with flesh and blood, and countless Tartars screamed terrible screams from inside, as if those shield carts had turned into Shura hells.