Hu Kui faced Zhang Qiang, who was having breakfast, and said: "Dadu Governor, we pursued the enemy for more than 30 miles last night, killed more than 3,000 enemies in total, captured 5,800 Han soldiers in the green battalion of the Qing army, recovered 23 villages, one county seat, five small towns, and three large towns. ”

Zhang Qiang nodded, his mouth did not stop, and said with a Weng voice: "Okay, you go back now, send a small number of militiamen to escort the prisoners back, and hand them over to Du Ge to deal with, and the remaining soldiers will continue to attack other counties and villages in Raozhou Prefecture, and we must recover this mansion as soon as possible." ”

Then he turned his head to Feng Wuyu and said: "Your soldiers patrolled all night last night, rested in the morning, and went to really surround the Raozhou Mansion City in the afternoon, there are not enough people, you take my warrant to transfer people in my guard brigade, you must make it so that even a bird can't fly out of the Raozhou Mansion City." ”

Feng Wuyu said: "Dadu Governor, won't we attack the city today?" Listening to your tone, it seems that you are going to besiege the capital of Raozhou for a long time, is that good? The battle came faster. ”

Zhang Qiang wiped his mouth with a towel and took a sip of tea, "Our purpose is not to take only one Raozhou capital city, but to completely eliminate the main force of the Qing army in the southeast generation that can fight with us, and evacuate the Qing army in the entire south, at least to weaken their combat troops, so that they can continue to dispatch troops from the north to fight, and consume them, the Ming Dynasty is so big, there are so many righteous people who oppose the Qing Dynasty, once the troops are all drawn to us, the righteous armies in other places will take the opportunity to grow, We can use a great battle to lay the foundation for our future position and foundation, so that the Manchus will not be able to fight us for several years. ”

Hu Kui and Feng Wuyu glanced at each other, and shouted at the same time: "The Metropolitan Governor is wise." ”

Zhang Qiang raised his eyes and glanced at them with disdain, and said in a deep voice: "Get out of the way, when did you learn like those pedantic officials in the Ming Dynasty, or like those groveling Han dogs in the Manchu Dynasty." ”

After finishing the conversation with Hu Kui and Feng Wuyu, Zhang Qiang inspected the various camps of the Guards Brigade.

And Azig and Ah Dai took a group of Qing army generals to the city wall, observing the Huaxia army outside the city, under the fluttering Venus red flag, a group of Huaxia troops wearing blue uniforms, lined up at the city gate three miles away, behind them, countless people and militia, and some engineers, heavy soldiers sweating like rain, are digging trenches.

Countless triangular horses are set up, using the terrain to dig a trap pit, crisscrossing trenches with horses, trapping horses, and making the ground three miles away from the entire Raozhou Mansion gate a thousand holes, undulating, and becoming a nightmare for the Qing army.

This kind of project is still extending to both sides, making full use of the terrain to form a solid fortified area, each fortified area is arranged with no less than ten six-pounder guns, three nine-pounder guns, two twelve-pounder gun batteries, behind these areas, a strong fort is being built, the fort is often built in the rear of the fortified area one mile, the top of the hill, the area with a wide vision, and it is also just rooted in the weak place of the fortified area.

Azig and Adai's faces became extremely ugly.

This is the rhythm of encircling the Qing army.

Azig asked Adai, "Has the messenger for help been sent?" ”

Ah Dai said: "Sent out, a total of ten waves were sent, a thousand cavalry were mobilized, divided into ten roads, assaulted on all sides, the accurate news is that three roads were wiped out, two were wounded and retreated, and there were five roads without news, disappeared in the field of vision, and then sent people out, ran far away and could not see the messenger of contact, there was no trace of a fight on the road, it is estimated that at least two or three messengers broke out." ”

Azig nodded, "No news is good news, if there is a way to contact the outside, then the imperial army in other places can know, but I don't know if Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, will make peace with Tan Tai, the general of Zhengnan, now, and how long will it take for them to get here?" ”

A Dai said: "If it goes well, it is estimated that it will take four days, if it doesn't go well, it will take seven days to half a month, 50,000 troops, I think no Ming army can stop them all, if the Huaxia army is possible, other Ming troops are estimated not to even dare to touch such a powerful imperial army." ”

"Okay, we can't let the Huaxia army have a good time here, in order to delay their encirclement, send the army to go out to harass them in turn today, and let the red-clothed cannons on the city wall blow them up, don't let them have a good time."

"But our cannons may not be able to hit them." Adai Dao.

"The red-clothed cannon will erode ten miles as soon as it sounds, even if it doesn't, there will always be five miles, it's still on the high city, it can hit farther, let's hit them, isn't there still twelve red-clothed cannons, arrange three for each city gate, fight-"

"Yes, let's go down and arrange it." Adai Dao.

Feng Wuyu was looking at Raozhou Mansion City with a telescope, when he saw a flash of fire on the city wall, and a dull loud noise suddenly exploded in his ears, and the guards around him reacted quickly and threw him to the ground one after another.

Then the earth flew all around, the smoke was pungent and the screams of two men who were digging trenches not far behind him reached his ears.

Patting the dirt on his body, spitting out the blades of grass in his mouth, Feng Wuyu got up, and the guards persuaded one after another: "General, let's hide away, the shells don't have long eyes." ”

"Fart, the cannonballs that can blow up Lao Tzu haven't been made yet, Niang Xipi, dare to fire at Lao Tzu, come on, order our artillery to fire."

The distance here is only three miles, and the farthest 12-pounder cannon behind is only four miles away, although the solid artillery shells of this era must not be very accurate at a distance of thousands of meters, and it is completely up to luck to hit the selected target, but the artillery of the Huaxia Army is much higher than the quality of the artillery of the Qing Army, Feng Wuyu fully believes that the artillery in the nearby fortified area can knock out the artillery on the enemy's city wall.

Of course, you can only rely on 12-pounder guns, 9-pounder guns have too close range, don't think about 6-pounder guns, unless you explode siege warfare and push it to a place of five or six hundred meters to bombard directly, otherwise you will have no strength to fly more than 1,000 meters.

So Azig didn't expect that one of his decisions ushered in the unlucky moment of the Qing army on the city wall.

At this time, the Qing army, which had just fired a cannon, was working hard to reset the red-coated cannon weighing nearly 2,000 catties, and this work required 18 people, using a crowbar, even pulling and pushing, and it took two or three minutes to complete, and after the reset, the gun chamber was cleaned, the coordinates were calibrated, the charge bag was charged, and the shells were loaded again, and the fire was ignited, and four or five minutes had passed.

The smoke from the first shot had just dissipated, the air was filled with a strong smell of gunsmoke, and there was a faint fog in front of him.

At the same time, the artillery of the Huaxia Army, which had received the order, had already advanced the cannon into the gun position, cleaned the gun chamber, calibrated the coordinates, charged the package, steadfast, loaded the shells, and when the enemy's artillery fired, they were slightly behind, fired, and the shells flew out of the gun chamber in turn and smashed into the city wall.

The shells of the Qing army smashed into the evacuated queue of the Huaxia army, which had seen the first artillery fire, and each soldier was five meters apart, and the three shells of the Qing army did not hit anyone, but only lifted dozens of meters of turf and dust, giving these veterans who had experienced countless bloody battles some pressure in their hearts.

But the three 12-pounder guns of the Huaxia army were different, and the cracks within a radius of three or five meters on the city wall were like spider webs, and the vibration made the Qing soldiers in this place fall down two or three, and two or three were scratched by the flying wall brick fragments, making twenty or thirty Qing soldiers run around in fright.

The three shells gathered fifty meters together, and the smashed city wall shook, and the Qing soldiers were terrified.

Next, the quality of the artillery of the Huaxia Army was highlighted.

The artillery of the Huaxia Army, which corrected the orientation and coordinates of the target, this time directly hit the red-clothed cannon near the city gate tower within a range of more than ten meters, and one shell smashed off a piece of the cornice of the city gate tower, and the other shell flew into the capital city of Raozhou, smashing the road surface of the city into a small pit one meter deep and the size of the bowl.

Frightened, a group of green battalion soldiers who were patrolling here almost blew up the camp and ran more than 50 meters away.

The other three city gates of the Huaxia army did not achieve results either, but the counterattack had already begun.

Generals on both sides took refuge in safe places and watched the battle.

While the Qing army was still cleaning the chambers, the artillery of the Huaxia army opened fire for the second time.

This time the landing point was closer, three artillery aimed at one of the enemy's artillery and hit hard, and the three shells fell near the city gate tower, which was also more than ten meters away from the red-coated cannon in the center.

And the artillerymen could not dodge and could only continue to be busy.

Ah Dai said to the nearest artilleryman: "Hit the enemy's artillery, hit the enemy's artillery, blow him up for me, dumb an enemy's cannon, the leader officer will be promoted to three levels, and the rest of the officers will be promoted to one level, ten taels of silver each." ”

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, the Qing artillerymen were excited, and the degree under the piggyback was also fast, and when the Chinese army was still cleaning the barrel, the third artillery of the Qing army fired.

The shells flew more than three miles away, flew over the trenches, flew over the people, militiamen, and soldiers of the Huaxia Army digging trenches who were looking up, smashed more than four miles away, and ran away in shock.

The artillery of the Huaxia army opened fire again, this time three shells smashed on the battlements of the city wall less than eight meters away from the artillery of the Qing army, smashing the three battlements, and a stone directly smashed a Qing soldier who had just wanted to come up to report down the city wall, let out a miserable scream, and then fell silent.

The Qing army's Han army flag artillery looked at each other, and their eyes showed fear and fear.

They understood that the enemy's artillery was getting more and more accurate, and it would hit them directly on a dozen of them in the next moment.

The movements in their hands slowed down, and at the same time they looked around with their eyes, preparing to dodge.

Their movements and eyes were watched by Ah Dai, who was watching them from afar inside the city gatehouse.

(End of chapter)

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