Gongchangling Village is the first fortress in the junction area between the Hongtang army and the Qing Dynasty.

In the fortress, there are several of Hongtang's strongest armies, such as the first, second, and third divisions of the Hongtang Whale Division, and the general of the town guard is Shang Kexi, an outstanding talent among the Hongtang generals.

With the arrival of the Hongtang headquarters, the banner of Dongjiang Town has already existed in name only, and the former Dongjiang Town General Soldier positions such as Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming have been reduced to vain, and the officers and men of their departments have been disorganized and mixed into the various departments of Hongtang.

Nearly 50,000 soldiers, almost half of Hongtang's soldiers in the northeast, shows how much Hongtang attaches importance to Gongchangling, a fortress that has just been built.

It is said that it is a village, but in fact it is much larger than the village, with a perimeter wall that is more than three miles long and wide, and it costs hundreds of tons of cement in Hongmen, as well as countless iron ore mined from behind the mountain, which is not even smaller than Liaoyang City, which has been operated by the Qing people for decades.

And it is such a fortress that can be called a small city, but it only took half a year, which simply made the Qing army and government in Liaoyang City eyeing each other dumbfounded.

Such a swift construction of fortress technology can be said to be unprecedented, and it is precisely because of this that the Qing Dynasty hall deeply felt that if it could not be driven out of the map of the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, it would not be a few years later, which originally belonged to the hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers of the Qing Dynasty, it was already densely packed with fortresses and deep defenses.

The Qing people were also self-aware and knew where their shortcomings were, not only because they were sparsely populated, but also because when they attacked the city, they were not as good as the Han people.

It's just that what they don't know is that in order to build this bridgehead as soon as possible, Hongmen almost emptied the stocks of Dayuan Island and Luzon, and even pressed the cement factories of Yushan and Jura Mountain to rush to work day and night, so that there was no shortage of their resource supply.

In addition to this Gongchangling Village, if Hongmen wants to build other defensive strongholds, they will need to slowly accumulate resources and slowly plan it.

The walled city is built so large, there is no problem in accommodating 50,000 soldiers, not to mention that it is built on the mountain, and the actual internal space is more advantageous than that in the flat land.

The castle located on the top of the hill, looking down condescendingly, the number of miles outside the city and other obstructions have been cleared, standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, every move within the ten miles of Fang Yuan is clear at a glance.

"Division commander, the outer guards have sent information that the Jurchen barbarians have collected 170,000 troops and are about to go south in a few days."

In the walled city, a non-commissioned officer from the aircraft department was reporting the news he had just received to the chief general Shang Kexi.

"When will the other party leave?"

"It's not more than half a month, at least before the first snowfall, otherwise their baggage will be very troublesome."

"Are we well prepared for the grain and grass in the city? Was the last fortification completed? ”

"Grain and grass are enough for 50,000 troops in March, and as for the last batch of female walls and turrets, if they work overtime, they should be able to be built when the Qing army is in the city."

"It's just that the artillery in our city is only fifteen forty-eight-pounder guns that really want to fight, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to suppress the Qing army."

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and ask the commander for help?"

"But even if the commander approves us to send more artillery from Dayuan Island, we must not be able to wait for the time to fight the Qing army."

"You nerds!!"

Shang Kexi looked at his staff officer a little speechlessly, and then smiled sneeringly and said: "We have a lot of artillery, it may not necessarily be transferred from Dayuan Island, don't forget that at sea, the sixty-four-pounder main guns of those battleships on our fleet are much more powerful than these forty-eight-pounder guns!" ”

"Isn't that going to weaken the fleet?"

Lu Shijie, a non-commissioned officer of the Aircraft Department and a newcomer who had not graduated from the Armament Department of the academy for a few years, looked at the sinister smile of his division commander and said in embarrassment.

"So let's hurry up and report to the commander, what we can think of, it's impossible that the people around the commander can't think of it, if you want to offend people, shouldn't it be the commander who offends people?"

"Besides, now that our fleet is at sea, in addition to transporting supplies and soldiers to us, how can there be any other threats, and if we don't use the good resources, we can't stay at sea and rust?"

Wake up the people in their dreams with a word, the talents who have just come out of the academy still have the ability to military strategy, but in the case of lack of exercise, their thinking is somewhat solidified, and they need to follow Shang Kexi to practice on the battlefield and broaden their horizons.

Sure enough, within half a month of Lu Shizhuo's pen writing a letter to Commander Wu Jie in Phoenix City, more than 20 large and small artillery pieces arrived at Gongchangling Village, of which five were still 64-pound guns.

The rest of the artillery, the worst of which was also a thirty-six-pounder cannon, was powerful enough to cause a lot of threat and damage to the Qing battle array.

With these artillery, the edge of this bow and long ridge village is also like the copper wall, which is even more difficult to attack. The Hongtang soldiers who lived in it guarded the city more and were more confident.

At the same time, when the artillery arrived at Gongchangling and began to arm to the city wall, the advance army of the Qing people had already arrived in Liaoyang City. Immediately afterwards, the Chinese army of its army also began to set off from Shengjing, led by the three princes of Su, Haoge, Rui Dolgon, and Zheng Nurharang, and slowly moved forward.

As early as the departure of the vanguard of the Qing Dynasty, Shang Kexi and other generals of Gongchangling Village had already learned the news, and began to step up the improvement of the remaining city defense offensive and mobilize Hongtang soldiers to prepare.

When the mighty army of 170,000 finally arrived at the plain under the Gongchangling Village, it was just in time for the first heavy snow at the beginning of the winter of the nineteenth year.

At this time, it was less than half of October, but it was almost half a month earlier than the winter of previous years.

"I really can't think of 'how these Han people spent more than half a year in this wild place to build such a majestic city!!"

Just when the soldiers came to the city, looking at the empty in the past, but now there is a majestic city overlooking the four fields, the Prince of Rui Dolgon sighed and said a word of appreciation.

"So what, it's just a turtle shell, thinking that there are many cities captured by my Qing Dynasty, and there are countless higher and more majestic cities than it, will you be afraid of it?"

However, Prince Hauge of Su, although he reached a consensus with Dolgon, and now he is still fighting side by side with Dolgon, but when he went south before, he was placed in the rear and had no merit to be gained, but he did not see the resilience and strength of Hongtang's army when it was stationed in the city defense.

(End of chapter)