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On the tenth day of the first month of March, after dawn, the Qing army outside Hengshan County did not launch another attack, but only bluffed towards the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Moreover, the intensity of the shelling was far less intense than in previous days, and it ended in less than half an hour.

After the shelling stopped, the Qing army, which had been distributed in three directions outside the city, began to move, closed in the northeast of the city, and after some adjustments, it was divided into two parts. The Han army set the red flag, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi continued to monitor and deter the Ming army in the city. The rest of the divisions were led by Duoduo himself, facing the north, apparently to deal with the reinforcements of the Ming army.

At this moment, although Duoduo can't see any change on the surface, he is actually full of remorse in his heart: why did he insist on solving Pang Yue first? If you advance directly to Hengzhou, maybe you can conquer Hengzhou before Pang Yue and Zhu Dadian arrive, and capture Emperor Longwu alive. Even if Pang Yue can desperately rush to Hengzhou to save the car, under the attack of his own army of nearly 50,000, the core forces of Hengzhou will also be hit hard, and the deterrent effect on the gentry and people who are still nostalgic for their old days is also obvious. But now, the news of the broken city in the direction of Hengzhou has not come, but the tens of thousands of reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived, although these tens of thousands of Ming troops are not enough to threaten and trap themselves, but if they still want to finish their work in one battle, annihilating the Longwu court in one go, I am afraid it is already more difficult.

But things have come to this point, what's the use of regretting? There is no regret medicine in the world, otherwise no matter how expensive it is, Duoduo will definitely buy some to taste. Naturally, Dodor would not show his regrets. Instead, they began a series of deployments to minimize their own losses, and then continued to look for opportunities. At the moment, it is not appropriate for Hengzhou to go again. The reason is simple: although Dodor was confident in the fighting power of his army, he began to have some doubts about whether the food routes of his army could continue to be safely maintained. After all, now that our army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Huguang, and the Ming armies from all walks of life have also continued to spread, our food and grass supply lines are too long, and they may be interrupted by the attack of the Ming army at any time. As long as the grain and grass are cut off. No matter how elite the soldiers and horses are, they will be trapped alive.

Therefore, Duoduo not only gave up the decision to attack Hengzhou with the main force, but also sent people to send express letters to Lan Bai, Zhuo Luo and others, asking them to come and join forces with him, first inflict heavy damage on the reinforcements of the Ming army coming from the south, and then choose the opportunity to fight again. With the vastness of the surrounding area, it is impossible for the Ming army to defend it in every place, and they will always find an opportunity to attack. Even if you can't capture Emperor Longwu alive, as long as you can destroy the various reserves of the Longwu Imperial Court, such as grain, grass, taxes, etc. Destroy its ability to call and mobilize among the gentry and the common people, so that it cannot turn the tables in the short term. It's not worth it.

Under the golden dragon, Duoduo summoned the generals to come, made the final adjustments to the pre-battle deployment, and encouraged the generals. After a few days of fierce fighting, although the Ming army in the city was severely damaged, it also paid the price of nearly 3,000 casualties, especially the army of King Sanshun, which almost lost the ability to attack except for artillery. As the manager, Dordor certainly had to find a way to get the morale back up.

It's just that Duoduo can't get any actual reward for the time being. It can only be replaced by a verbal promise. But even so, some results have been achieved. In particular, the promise of "after the war, please ask Prince Rui to make up for the losses of all departments" made the generals present become excited again.

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In the city, all the battalions in Huguang Town were in the open space behind the city wall, and they seized the time to adjust the original phalanx of the camp, and only a few officers and soldiers were left on the city wall to serve as guards.

According to the information sent back by the secret agents of the Intelligence Department, the loyal battalion will arrive in Hengshan County this morning. When the time comes. If the loyal battalion was intercepted by the Qing army, Pang Yue was also ready to lead the army out of the city to contain the Qing army in order to receive reinforcements from the loyal battalion. When fighting out of the city, it is natural to use the tactics of phalanx combat. However, a series of fierce battles in the previous days resulted in the loss of a large number of soldiers. There were a lot of vacancies in the original phalanx, and in order to maintain as much combat effectiveness as possible, some adjustments had to be made. However, this kind of adjustment is not just a matter of filling all the vacant seats, and there is a great deal of attention to what kind of soldiers are needed for a certain position, and which position a certain soldier is suitable for. Fortunately, the staff sub-divisions and supervision sub-divisions of combat units at all levels have a relatively good understanding of the situation of the officers and men of their headquarters, so they quickly came up with a set of corresponding adjustment plans in accordance with the actual situation of their headquarters, and reported and summarized them one by one.

After the plan was decided, each battalion immediately organized its officers and men to rearrange the phalanx and conducted some basic tactical maneuvers. Due to the large number of people, the new phalanx looked significantly smaller than the original phalanx, and the role it could play after entering the battlefield was definitely not as good as that at the beginning of the expedition. However, fortunately, the officers and men still have the foundation of their usual training, and they have gained some practical combat experience after the previous bloody battles. As long as the commander gives proper command, the combat effectiveness cannot be ignored.

When the officers and soldiers were preparing for the battle, Pang Yue also personally went to the city gates to inspect them. Perhaps because of the news of the arrival of reinforcements, the morale of the officers and men of each battalion has been greatly improved, and the officers' orders have become particularly loud. Seeing this situation, Pang Yue secretly sighed that the military heart was available.

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At about ten o'clock in the morning (about ten o'clock in the morning), the officers and soldiers of Huguang Town at the head of the city, especially the officers and soldiers at the head of the north gate, suddenly felt as if there was a burst of thunder coming from the north of the sky, at first vague, but after a quarter of an hour it began to become clearer and clearer, and the ground under their feet also trembled slightly. Immediately afterwards, I saw a large puff of smoke and dust rising from the north, sweeping towards the south. In the smoke and dust in the sky, a black line was faintly visible, rapidly advancing southward. As time passed, the blurred small black dots above the black line gradually became clear, and it was clearly the fiery red military flag representing the Ming army!

In an instant, the shouts and shouts of the mountains and tsunamis erupted in the city, like a volcano that had been silent suddenly erupting.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Reinforcements have arrived!!"

"Huguang Town, Win !!"

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Almost all the officers and soldiers joined in the cheers. Even Pang Yue and other generals were no exception. Some officers and men even shed tears of excitement, constantly raised their weapons in their hands, and shouted hoarsely.

After being suppressed and worried for so long, the pressure in my heart has finally been completely released! Persisted in fighting with the enemy for several days, and finally waited for reinforcements! What could be more joyful?

At this moment, the dark clouds that shrouded the hearts of the soldiers of Huguang Town completely dissipated, and the morale of the whole army reached a new peak!

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As the loyal battalion people who came to help continued to advance towards Hengshan County, Pang Yue could already vaguely see the big flags of "Li" and "Gao" fluttering in the air in the telescope.

Pang Yue, who is familiar with history and has obtained information, of course knows that the Li characters and Gao characters represent Li Guo and Gao Yigong. Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, and Gao Yigong was also an important general by Li Zicheng's side. Both of them are veterans in the Dashun army.

Although most of the current ministers of the DPRK and the opposition gentry are hostile to Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other generals from the peasant army, and even many later generations have great prejudice against these former generals of the Dashun Army, indiscriminately calling them "thieves" and "grass cowards", but Pang Yue does not think so, and he has always had respect for these generals who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty until the last moment, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Li Laiheng, etc.

In any case, Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others never surrendered to the Tartars, and they were not a little stronger than those "orthodox officers and soldiers" who first killed good people and took meritorious deeds, and then shaved their heads to fight the world for the Tartars. In the history of Pang Yue's previous life, the later situation also illustrates this point. The remnants of the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army all became the mainstay of the Southern Ming Dynasty's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and many of the original "regular troops" who received the imperial court's food and salaries such as Wu Sangui, Liu Liangzuo, Li Guoying and others. But he combed his braids and became the vanguard of "my Qing Dynasty" to extinguish the light.

When Pang Yue could already see the banner of the Loyal Battalion clearly, Kong Youde's artillery also opened fire in the direction of the Loyal Battalion under the orders of Duoduo. For a while, the cannon roared, and another big battle began.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, Duoduo gave an order, except for the men and horses in the city, the rest of the Qing army pressed on and launched an all-out attack on the loyal battalion.

Seeing that the Qing army began to attack the loyal battalion, Pang Yue was also preparing to go out of the city to fight. The battalions in Huguang Town were ordered to get ready.

"Soldiers!" Pang Yue turned over and stepped on his horse and personally encouraged the soldiers around him, "Reinforcements have arrived, and the time has come for us to avenge the dead robes!" It was a big joke that the slave chieftain Duoduo tried to scare us out of the city with so many people! Would you like to go out of the city with me and kill him? ”

"Yes!!"

"Good! So we went out of the city, and told Dodor with our weapons. What is different about Huguang Town! Drive out the Tartars! ――”

"Recover the rivers and mountains!!"

"The blood does not drain! ――”

"No truce!!"

With Pang Yue's order, the soldiers of Huguang Town rushed out of the city through the gap in the city gate and the city wall, and killed the Qing army.

Before long, the surrounding area of Hengshan County had become a battlefield. The flags were unfurled, the swords were rolling, and the men and horses were roaring and neighing, and the officers and soldiers of the two soldiers fought to the death.

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After a fierce battle lasted for an hour, it gradually became clear. Although the Qing army was brave, after the bloody battle a few days ago, it had already injured a lot of vitality, and this time it was still a little difficult to face the Ming army coming from two directions, especially the more than 30,000 loyal and well-nourished soldiers. In addition, Duoduo did not want to add a lot of unnecessary losses in vain, so after seeing that the morale of the Ming army was high and his side could not win easily, he ordered to disengage from the Ming army.

Duoduo didn't want to fight any more, but the combat effectiveness of the more than 30,000 Eight Banner Army could not be ignored, and it was naturally difficult for the Ming army to achieve further results, so the two armies separated and fell into a state of confrontation.

After the loyal battalion escaped the interception of the Qing army, it joined forces with Huguang Town near the east gate. Due to the previous experience of killing the enemy together, the soldiers of the Ming army from two different systems had never met before, but they also seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding, looking at each other and laughing, and cheering together.

In the tide of cheers and shouts, Pang Yue saw the big banners with the characters "Li" and "Gao" and some other generals moving towards him together, under which were a group of military generals wearing helmets and armor, and in the middle were a civil official wearing a six-beam crown and a red robe.