In the eastern Henan Plain, Duoduo left 40,000 horses, trapped Shangqiu and Xuzhou with deep trenches and low walls, so he angrily rushed to the crown and led an army of 60,000 to kill southern Henan.

I didn't want the army to be murderous and not majestic for two hundred miles, so I encountered obstacles.

Standing in front of the Qing army were some strange military forts with five or six corners, each fortress was not large, the small ones could only hold a few hundred people, and the ordinary ones could only hold one or two thousand people.

At first, Duoduo didn't think so, and let the striker fight all the way, but the striker was disgraced.

Duoduo originally planned to kill Runing Mansion in three days, but ten days later, his army was still on the east bank of the vortex.

At this time, Azig sent him 50,000 reinforcements, and Duoduo's strength increased to 110,000, but within ten days, the army had not yet returned to Defu, which made Duoduo irritable.

Luyi City is the largest fortress of the Wei army in the entire eastern Henan region, which can accommodate 5,000 people, and there are no residents in the city, only military families and families.

The city is to enclose the people in it and protect it, and there are often tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000 people in the city.

In order to protect these people, the city wall should be built long enough and big enough, which actually increased the pressure on the defenders to defend, and the existence of the people also increased the consumption of food and water in the city.

The fortress is a pure military fort, there are no people left in the city, there are no houses, mainly warehouses for storing food and materials, which can be consumed for at least half a year.

Zheng Chenggong attacked the Dutch Fort of Geranza and blockaded the fort for more than half a year before the Dutch surrendered.

Of course, the Wei army's fortress does not have the same good conditions as Relanza, and it can only be regarded as a beggar's version, but this is enough for the Qing army to drink a pot.

On the second day of the first month, on the fifth watch, on the edge of the vortex river, a Wei army secret sentry was squatting in the dry grass to.

Yesterday, the Qing army uprooted six military forts on the east bank of the vortex river, and the Wei army's stronghold in the east of the vortex river was completely uprooted.

In order to boost morale, the lieutenant had a lot of pork brought to the fort last night to reward the army, and the secret sentry ate too much, and his stomach was spoiled at once, and his legs were weak.

At this time, after a crackling, the dark whistle groaned comfortably, grabbed a handful of grass from in front of him, and suddenly there was a sound on the river in the distance, and the dark whistle looked up to look, and was almost scared to sit on the shit.

The sentry hurriedly wiped his buttocks with the dry grass, hurriedly pulled up his trousers, and ran back, into the fortress, and he came to the outside of the room of the brigade, "Chief, the tartar has touched it!" ”

When Gao Yihuan was in Luyi, he started the movement of burning bricks and building forts, and later Gao Yihuan's focus shifted to Nanyang, and he did not pay much attention to the matter of building forts in eastern Henan.

After Li Zicheng's expedition to the east, the enthusiasm for building forts in eastern Henan stopped for more than half a year, and then the Qing army killed in Henan, and the tunding of each fort began to build forts spontaneously, and it took three years to build them.

Now on the East Henan Plain, like a devil building a gun tower, along the water source and official road, there are military forts everywhere.

The fortress where the dark post is located is a simple fortress that can accommodate a thousand people not far from Luyi, there was no garrison in it before, they were all tunding and their families, and the Wei army of a division was recently stationed, with 300 people stationed.

The commander of the brigade guarding the fortress was called Gao Chengkui, who was still Gao Yihuan's distant relative, he sat up from the bed, took a helmet and a knife from the wall, and then got out of the room, "Where is it?" ”

"Just came from the East Coast, sneaky must be trying to steal the city!" The secret whistle called Wu Huizhi, and he covered his stomach and said.

Gao Chengkui immediately said: "Call all the brothers up, all go to the fort, don't raise fire, wait for the Tartars to get close and fight." ”

The Wei army's fortress was difficult to attack, and the Qing army spent a lot of effort to sweep away the Wei stronghold on the east bank of the whirlpool, and before the army could return to Germany, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded.

In order to reduce casualties, he took advantage of the night to touch the whirlpool, preparing to attack the fortress and open a gap to facilitate the main force of the Qing army to cross the river.

Kong Xigui stepped on the west bank, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of joy in his heart, but after taking a few steps, his feet suddenly slipped, and he sat on a puddle of things with his buttocks, and touched it with his hand, which was warm.

Several personal soldiers helped him up, but Kong Xigui was in a daze, he looked at Luyi City not far away, and finally waved his hand: "Keep moving forward, faster." ”

At this time, on the surface of the river, the dense Qing army crossed the river lightly, and the red-topped hat on the head was like a poisonous mushroom after the rain.

"Don't worry, steady!" The military fort was on the edge of the whirlpool, and Gao Chengkui saw a dark shadow in the distance by the moonlight, and raised his hand.

The Wei soldiers in the city leaned on the edge of the city wall, the archers wound their arrows, the arrows stretched out from the perforation, aiming at the black shadow of the approaching military fort, and the firecrackers held the fire fold in their hands, ready to ignite the fire at any time.

Seeing that the Qing army touched the city and entered the firing range, Gao Chengkui suddenly waved his hand and roared angrily: "Shoot!" ”

The archers in the city were the first to open their bows, and the arrows whizzed down, and the Qing troops under the city were hit by arrows one after another.

Kong Xigui saw that the sneak attack on the city was not good, and it was changed to a strong attack, and the Qing soldiers and soldiers shot arrows at the city, but they were beaten by the Wei soldiers who lit the fire, and shook like a sieve.

The advantage of the fortress is that there is no dead angle for shooting on the city, the traditional city wall is a "one" shape, the soldiers rush to the corner, the defenders on the city can not shoot the enemy army who climbs along the wall, the defenders must lean out from the city wall, in order to attack the enemy, but the defenders lean out, they will become the target of the attack and defense under the city, so there are many defects in the defense.

The walls of the fortress are protruding, and attacking any wall is a "V" shape, so that even if the soldiers who rush to the foot of one wall and the other wall can fire arrows from behind, and shoot the unobstructed enemy army as a target.

At this time, Kong Xigui's men and horses were faced with such a situation, the Qing army exposed between the two city walls, without any shelter, was purely a target, and was shot by the city soldiers for a while, suffered heavy losses, and had to retreat temporarily.

Repelled the attack of the Qing army, the Wei soldiers and the tunding in the fort cheered together.

Gao Chengkui saw the Qing army retreating, but said to Wu Huizhi: "The Tartars will definitely come during the day, I'm afraid that our people won't be able to hold it, you go to Luyi to report the news, and ask the general to send reinforcements." ”

Wu Huizhi rode an old horse and rushed to Luyi, walked for more than ten miles, the sky was already bright, and seeing that he was about to arrive in Luyi, a team of soldiers and horses came to him.

The first man called Wu Huizhi, "Brother, which fort is it from?" ”

Wu Huizhi said: "Twenty miles of gang, I want to go to Luyi to find General Jin for help, the Tartars have attacked our fort this morning." ”

"You don't have to go, the Tartars have arrived on the east bank, and the Lord will already know that we are here for reinforcements!" The man spoke, a mouthful of Henan dialect, listening to the accent is still Chen Liu's place, and the same handsome is still a fellow countryman.

Wu Huizhi looked at this team, and always felt that the spirit was a little wrong, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, "Even if I don't win, I still have to go." ”

A soldier behind the man quietly changed his posture of holding a knife so that he could quickly draw his knife.

The man continued to laugh and said: "Brother, don't delay time, the line of the vortex river is so long, more than ten fortresses have to send troops to garrison, and there are not many soldiers there in the general, and you won't find anyone if you go." Besides, the Tartars may cross the river at any time, so you better go back with us and hurry up and set up defenses. ”

Wu Huizhi's stomach rang again, and he thought about it, "In that, let's go back together, it's important to be armed." ”

When the group returned to the fortress, the defenders did not suspect the deception and opened the door to let them into the city.

Wu Huizhi took the man led by him and wanted to see Gao Chengkui to explain the situation, but the man led by him suddenly showed a cruel smile on his face.

Wu Huizhi only felt like falling into an ice cave, and couldn't help but think of the six-eared macaque in the storytelling.

Suddenly, the man who entered the fort drew his sword and violently cut Wu Huizhi down. The Tunding and Wei troops in the fort were caught off guard and were cut down again and again, and on the vortex river outside the fort, the repulsed Qing army made a comeback and pounced on the military fort.

Half an hour later, the man at the head of the man stood outside the fort and nodded, the Qing soldiers passed in a procession, Duoduo rode over and grabbed the reins of the horse beside the man, "Wang Jiaping, you did a good job, work harder, this king will lift you up." ”

This person is also Gao Yihuan's acquaintance, but he didn't think that not only did he not die, but he also took refuge in the Qing army.

"Slave, thank the master for his promotion, serving the Qing Dynasty, is what a slave should do!" Wang Jiaping flattered and bowed.

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