In a short period of time, if the army of the Great Qing Kingdom came to relieve the siege of Qingxi, their reinforcements should be able to arrive in the next two days.

The sky was gloomy, as if there was going to be a heavy rain, but Wu Chao's face also brought a bit of gloom.

In this week, Wu Chao led the Hongtang army to Qingxi City, but he did not launch a fierce attack on Qingxi City on the spot, but let the soldiers take the opportunity to rest for a while, so that the fatigue caused by attacking the city and plundering land along the way was a lot less.

The city of Qingxi City is not too high, at least compared to the cold and heat of the Ming Dynasty, which is good at building city defenses, the city built by the builders of Qingxi City, the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty, is still inferior.

But after all, this is a complete city that has not experienced too many battles, with their perfect fortifications and the number of defenders who are not less than the number of Hongtang's army, if Wu Chao wants to really capture this city, it will cost a huge price.

The commander-in-chief, Wu Jie, took the initiative to seize the more arduous task of raiding and guarding the defense line of Shanhaiguan, and for Wu Chao to buy time to destroy and destroy the land of the Qing Dynasty, for Wu Chao, their pressure was extremely great.

But while there is pressure, Wu Chao and they don't want their colleagues to give them the time and opportunities they have won, and waste them in some places that are not too worthwhile.

Compared to Shang Kexi's pragmatism, Wu Chao's goals and ambitions are greater, and he hopes to use the power in his hands to destroy a bigger goal.

His goal was the Qing army that was very likely to come to support in the Qing Dynasty, that is to say, from the time the troops approached the city of Qingxi, Wu Chao's goal was not on the city in front of him at all.

In order to ensure that the strength of his army was at its peak, Wu Chao slowed down the attack on Qingxi City, and in addition to the tentative siege every day, the rest relied more on the more than ten field guns they carried, and carried out artillery bombardment of the city without money.

However, Hongtang, the main force, was settled in the camp outside the city to recuperate, recover his strength and energy, and in order to ensure the state of war, he swept the Qing army and villages around Qingxi that had not yet had time to retreat or came to support, showing a posture of not being in a hurry or impatient.

This is the posture of an army that goes deep behind enemy lines, but it is more like an army fighting on its own.

Of course, the Jurchen generals in Qingxi City were puzzled by this unhurried and unhurried siege method under the city, and at the same time, they were also angry. It is obvious that these guys under the city did not take their own city defense army in their eyes at all, standing on the female wall of the city and looking at the Ming soldiers who swaggered in and out of the Ming army camp every day, as well as all kinds of materials consigned behind them, needless to say, they were all scavenged from the villages around Qingxi City.

It is ironic to say that the Qing Dynasty can have today's strength and heritage, thanks to the various materials and people that they have continued to cut meat from the Ming Dynasty over the years. Now they themselves have tasted the evil deeds inflicted on the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the raiders this time happen to be the Han people of the Ming Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty.

The Jurchen generals defending the city did not want to stop all kinds of provocations by the Han people in the city, and he also turned these ideas into actions, but since his plan to attack the camp in the middle of the night that he thought was unparalleled not only did not succeed, but was ambushed by the Ming army under the city and lost 3,000 soldiers, he no longer dared to act rashly.

The battle experienced that night, the Jurchen general Setel who defended the city vividly, and it was the fine tradition of the Jurchen generals to fight in person, but it was precisely because of this tradition that Setel personally felt the powerful combat ability of the Ming army below.

The contempt for the Ming Dynasty soldiers, because of the battle experience of almost not being able to escape from the Ming army camp that night, was thrown out of Settel's mind, and the firearms, personal qualities and battle formation cooperation of the Ming Dynasty soldiers under the city all made the Jurchen elites who did not ride the war horse because they were afraid of being exposed. As the Ming soldiers who didn't know where to hide in the camp swarmed over wave after wave, they only surrounded the five thousand Jurchen soldiers who attacked the camp, including Setle and other Jurchen soldiers as if they were in a vast ocean, although they fought hard, they always felt trapped in a cage.

"Report to the division commander, fifty miles to the northwest, the number of soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty is 80,000, and they are marching towards our army!"

The scouts who spread out finally brought back a piece of news that had long made Wu Chao look forward to it, and Wu Chao, who heard the news, immediately gathered all the soldiers in the camp and told everyone to assemble.

"It's a life-and-death battle, and even I don't know how many people will survive, and it's an unknown whether we can even win."

"But I believe that you haven't forgotten the real purpose of my Hongtang army's march north, right?"

"For this purpose, our minister, Commander Wu Jie, is leading tens of thousands of colleagues to buy us even a little bit of time on the long defense line hundreds of miles long."

"The latest battle report shows that Dolgon, the prince of Daqingrui, arrived at Shanhaiguan with 200,000 soldiers and fought with 20,000 of my colleagues in Guanzhong."

"Now, just thirty miles behind us, the largest Qing army in the Great Qing Kingdom is marching towards our army, needless to say, their purpose is naturally our 20,000 colleagues!"

"Everyone has been asking me for the past few days, why they have not attacked Qingxi City, and now I will tell you the reason, instead of occupying this city with a number of only 340,000 or 30,000, the price we pay will bring too many unfavorable factors in the next war, but if we preserve our strength and directly defeat the reinforcements of the Qing army, then no one in the next Qing country will be able to stop the footsteps of my Hongtang soldiers!"

"I, a Hongtang soldier, will do the hardest battle if you want to do it, and kill the strongest enemy if you want to kill it, and when we defeat the enemy this time, we will complete half of the task assigned to us by the adults!"

"Colleagues, let's have a big fight!!"

"Winning !!"

"Winning !!"

An impassioned but confident roar gushed out from the mouths of the generals, and then they all walked out of Wu Chao's tent and walked towards the ranks that had been lined up in the camp.

A group of Hongtang soldiers walked out of the gate of the camp, and although the action of almost the whole army alarmed the Jurchen generals in the city, but without knowing the situation, the Jurchen generals did not dare to act rashly for the time being.

At the same time, the huge Qing army that was coming towards Qingxi did not expect that the Ming Dynasty army attacking Qingxi would dare to find them first, and abandon their previous goals.

(End of chapter)