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That night, Pang Yue received a report from the trapped camp: after repelling the Qing army's attacks in the morning and afternoon, the 1,000 corps of the trapped camp and the Taishan battalion had already made way to the main road south to Jingzhou according to the plan, and instead contracted the defensive line to stick to the camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After opening the road to the south, the Qing army also began to build fortifications and set up camp in the south of the camp camp, presumably to leave a group of men and horses to monitor the movement of the camp after the main force went south.

After listening to the report, Pang Yue asked the herald about the specific casualties of the trapped camp, as well as the reserves of food and ammunition in the camp, and finally settled down after receiving a clear answer. It seems that so far events have not clashed with the plan. It remains to be seen how the situation develops in the coming days.

arranged for the heralds to go down to rest, and Pang Yue ordered all battalions and the loyal battalion of the headquarters to prepare for the Qing reinforcements that would arrive under Jingzhou tomorrow. After the arrival of this reinforcement, the original balance of strength between the enemy and us will inevitably change, at least in terms of the number of soldiers, the Qing army is no longer at a disadvantage, and with a strong city as a reliance, it is really not easy to deal with.

And Sun Dingliao's mood to rescue Jingzhou is not unurgent, after opening up the road to Jingzhou in the south, he was worried that the night would be long and dreamy, so he tried his best to persuade the other leaders and generals to go south overnight after a short rest. The task of monitoring the trapped camp in Huguang Town was taken over by the troops and horses of the headquarters led by Tikkam in accordance with the previous agreement.

In the early morning of the next day, when the first rays of sunlight shone on the head of Jingzhou City, the Qing army stationed at the north gate was the first to see their own reinforcements coming from the north.

"Reinforcements have arrived! Reinforcements have arrived! The earth-shattering cheers soon spread throughout the city. Many Qing soldiers even cried with joy. Holding on to the shadow of the Ming army outside the city for so many days, anyone has had enough.

"See King Zhishun!" After Sun Dingliao and others entered the city. First of all, I went to meet Shang Kexi. After all, Shang Kexi is the supreme commander of the Imperial Palace.

"You've all worked hard, so you don't need to be polite!" Shang Kexi is very modest in his mouth. His face was not very good-looking, and then he looked at Sun Dingliao with a smile: "This king has already gotten the news, and the thousands of thieves in the north held the key road a few days ago, and they were very stubborn. However, Sun Junmen coerced the aftermath of Xiangyang's victory, defeated the thief army in the first battle, and opened up the main road to the south, which is really rare and indispensable! ”

"King Zhishun has won the award, and the last general is a courtier of the Qing Dynasty and a military general of the imperial court. It is really a matter of duty to share worries for the king and suppress thieves for the country, so why worry about a little effort? Sun Dingliao looked very modest.

"Oh!" Shang Kexi nodded a little exaggeratedly, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, "Is Sun Junmen really so concerned about the things in his part?" How did I explain to Sun Junmen when I left Xiangyang and went south that day? ”

Sun Dingliao naturally wanted to know what Shang Kexi was referring to, and his smile froze for a while.

"Who persuaded Sun Junmen to let Gao Junmen stay? Or is it Sun Junmen's own decision? In addition, the Ka people themselves want to stay in the north. Or did Sun Junmen let him stay? "Shang Kexi is pressing step by step. What he meant was that when he left Xiangyang and went south, he had specially explained to Sun Dingliao that after breaking through Xiangyang, he immediately went south to Jingzhou with Zhang Yingxiang and Gao Di. Even if Wang Guangtai's ministry was not completely annihilated. broke through and escaped partially, and Sun Dingliao only needed to leave a few soldiers and horses to garrison Xiangyang. Who knew that after the incident, all the nearly 5,000 men and horses of the Gao Di Department stayed in Xiangyang, which made Shang Kexi not angry. Originally, it was hoped that after the arrival of reinforcements, the balance of forces between the enemy and us would be completely reversed. Instead, it formed an advantage over the Ming army, but now Gaodi stayed in Xiangyang. The continued pinning of Titicham to the north has dashed that hope.

Hopes were dashed. Shang Kexi naturally poured his anger on Sun Dingliao, but he didn't seem to realize that Sun Dingliao, the temporary commander appointed by him, lacked enough prestige and couldn't make decisions about many things.

"I also hope that Zhishun Wang Mingjian!" Of course, Sun Dingliao refused to carry the black pot alone, and tried his best to defend himself, "Although our army recovered Xiangyang that day, the thief leader Wang Guangtai still led the remnants to break through, if the main force of our army all went south, he made a comeback and counterattacked Xiangyang, what should I do?" Isn't our army all that has done so in vain? When attacking Xiangyang, Gao Junmen contributed a lot, and after the city was broken, he offered to stay in Xiangyang and monitor the rest of the king's thief, which was reasonable, and how could the last general blindly refuse? As for the Ka-dain......"

Sun Dingliao was trying his best to defend himself, but Shang Kexi was not in much mood to listen, what could he do if the matter had come to this? With a gloomy face, he walked to the battlement at the head of the city, and silently looked at the Ming army camp in the distance. Although what happened could not be changed, and although he had already planned to find a way to transfer out of Huguang after this battle, Shang Kexi was really unwilling in his heart. Could it be that God also wants to help Pang Yue, can't he help him no matter what, and he can't turn the tables around? Do you really want to live in his shadow forever? Lao Tzu has been a horse for half his life, and he was promoted to a prince by virtue of his military exploits, what is worse than him?

"Enough!" Shang Kexi forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, impatiently interrupted the chattering Sun Dingliao, glanced at the people present, and said sharply, "There is no need to say more about the past!" But from today on, until the thief army is completely repulsed, if anyone is passive and slack, does not dare to fight to the death, or does not obey orders and is self-righteous, he will not blame the king for being ruthless and unjust! ”

Although the atmosphere of this first meeting was not very harmonious, the subsequent military discussions were carried out normally, and discussions were made on how to adjust the strategy for dealing with the enemy.

The previous stage of the battle made Shang Kexi realize that he had made a big mistake, that is, he underestimated the ability of the Ming army in Huguang Town to attack fortifications. He originally thought that the division of the soldiers and horses into two parts and the situation of each other's horns could form an effective containment of Huguang Town, so that it was in a dilemma and had no way to start, but unexpectedly, Pang Yue also monitored the city with one part, and the main force was exhausted, and before the city could react, he beat Kaqam to retreat for thirty miles, and in the end he was self-defeating. Later, he thought that even if he made a mistake for a while, he could be safed for a while with Jingzhou Jiancheng. Unexpectedly, the Ming army attacked twice, and both times they attacked the city. If he hadn't organized the dead to fight back desperately, if reinforcements hadn't arrived. It's really hard to say who Jingzhou is in now.

So, under Shang Keg's proposal. Two consensuses were quickly reached on the military discussion, one was that the troops could no longer be divided, and the other was that the Ming army could no longer be allowed to easily approach the city wall. The so-called defending the city must defend the field, there was no way to lack the troops before, but now that the troops are more or less abundant, it is naturally not appropriate to blindly defend the city wall. In addition to the garrison in the city, an army was arranged outside the east gate and the north gate to set up camp to facilitate a quick attack. Second, it can more effectively resist the attack of the Ming army. The result of the discussion was temporarily tuned by Daniel Zhang and Zheng Siwei outside the north gate, and Sun Dingliao outside the north gate, and then changed according to the actual situation if necessary.

After the military meeting was over, all the generals went to prepare, just waiting for the war to start again.

In the afternoon, Pang Yue saw the newly planted camp outside the east gate, as well as the trenches and horses in front of the camp. I couldn't help but laugh.

After laughing, he said to the generals around him: "Our army has failed to break the city several times before, and some soldiers can't help but feel discouraged. Now it seems. Although the city was not breached, the efforts of our army were not in vain. Shang Kexi was really beaten and hurt, and he was beaten into a turtle with a shrunken head. ”

The generals present heard this. They laughed too.

The pain is gratifying, which is equivalent to completing another task in the plan. It is one step closer to achieving the ultimate goal. Although the next situation is still unpredictable, Pang Yue's confidence is much more than in the previous days.

"Afternoon. The battalions attacked according to the original plan. We have to make Shang Ke understand that even if he builds more barriers for himself, we can still hit his turtle shell. ”

"Yes!"

In Jingzhou City, after Shang Kexi set up the camps outside the east gate and the north gate, his heart finally settled down a little, and at the same time, he was waiting for the Ming army to attack again. But the strange thing is that there has been no movement in the direction of the Ming army's camp. Throughout the afternoon, only the scouts on both sides encountered a few occasional encounters during patrols, and there were a few sporadic battles, but other than that, nothing happened.

The sun was setting westward little by little, and when the golden afterglow of the setting sun spread all over the land, and the smoke rose from the camp of the Ming army, the Qing army in the city finally breathed a sigh of relief and finally survived another day.

Shang Kexi also walked into the city tower and prepared to eat. But before he could pick up the chopsticks, the east side of the city suddenly rumbled with cannons, and then the horns rang out in unison, causing the Qing army above and below the city to be agitated.

"Pang Yue dog thief, it's really cunning and abnormal!" For many days, Shang Kexi was often surprised by the abnormal behavior of the Ming army. Now that the Ming army is doing its old tricks again, how can he not be angry?

This time, the focus of the Ming army's attack was still on the East Gate. Before the cavalry army set out, the fire battalion in Huguang Town carried out artillery bombardment as usual.

Since the Ming army camp was six or seven miles away from the city wall, and the Ming army attacked suddenly, it was impossible for the artillery group to push too close at once, so the threat posed by the first batch of shells to the Qing army was not obvious, and only a few fell into the camp of Daniel Zhang and Zheng Siwei outside the east gate. But even so, the grapeshotfire that had shown its might in the previous siege still made the Qing army shudder. In these two parts, Daniel Zhang had been stationed at the North Gate City Wall before, and Zheng Siwei had just returned to Jingzhou, both of which were the first time to taste this kind of shell.

As the artillery crew of the Agni Battalion continued to advance, more and more shells fell into the Qing army camp outside the east gate, and more and more Qing soldiers were injured, and the camp screamed for a while.

Officials at all levels of the Qing army maintained order while passing orders from top to bottom. Fortunately, the artillery of the various armies in the city had been concentrated in one place before, so that the Qing army would not be without the strength to fight back, and finally reluctantly fought a draw with the Ming army after suffering a burst of shells.

Before the sound of a round of artillery was completely over, the Ming army's horse infantry array appeared in the sight of the Qing army, first at one point, and then converged into a line, and then quickly rolled into a surface from the line, like a rushing ocean current advancing in the direction of the city wall. In the middle were the foot soldiers, and on the two wings were cavalry and artillery, and the tail could not be seen at a glance, and even the Qing soldiers at the head of the city clearly felt the trembling of the earth.

Although the Ming army was advancing, the sound of artillery did not stop. The artillery of the Agni Battalion on both flanks carried a large number of cannons, and they kept advancing after following the main flank. At the beginning, Pang Yue spent a lot of money on improving the mobility of artillery. Today, every Hongyi cannon is loaded with a gun cart and towed by a variable number of horses. Every time they advanced a distance, the various artillery groups of the Agni Battalion would stop and bombard the direction of the Qing camp to cover the infantry in the middle. After a long period of hard training, today's Huguang Town. The coordination between the infantry, cavalry, and artillery arms has been quite tacit.

Sun Dingliao, who was outside the north gate, also personally climbed the watchtower and vaguely saw the true face of Lushan Mountain, the main army of Huguang Town. The shock in my heart was almost beyond words. Although the road to Jingzhou was opened up last time, Sun Dingliao was also very clear. What is the price of this achievement? If it weren't for the thousands of lakes Guangming Army shrinking the defensive line, it was also a question whether he would be able to reach Jingzhou City now. As soon as he thought of fighting with such an army, the invincible momentum in Sun Dingliao's chest was washed away in an instant, and his heart was both apprehensive and glad: Fortunately, it was not my old Sun who took the lead.

Although he had suffered a lot under Huguang Town before, Shang Kexi was unwilling to shrink back in the city and be beaten, which not only lost the initiative on the battlefield, but also dealt a big blow to the morale of the army. After some intensive mobilization, Shang Kexi left a few soldiers and horses to defend the city, and prepared a few more follow-up moves. and Shen Zhixiang and others led the main force out of the city to face the battle.

The first to hand over is the cavalry of both sides cruising on both wings, Shang Kexi, Shen Zhixiang's cavalry are from the north, good at horse warfare, and have also made outstanding achievements in previous major battles, originally had a lot of psychological advantages, thinking that the southern barbarians are just in the upper hand in foot combat, to the horse battle, it depends on our northern athletes. But they soon realized how wrong they were.

on the battlefield. The horse's hooves are rolling, the military flag, the sound of killing is shaking the sky, and the swords are sonorous.

Leading the cavalry charge on the left flank was Shang Kexi's general Xu Erxian. Before the battle, he was also full of confidence, but he was stunned as soon as he first met. Damn, I've never seen cavalry used like this.

It was the Flying Tiger Battalion in Huguang Town that made a hand with Xu Erxian. When charging, they formed a dense line, like a steel grate whistling through the Qing cavalry formation. A few rounds of hedging down. This kind of reckless approach caused more casualties to the Qing army.

How much does it cost to train a cavalryman? Pang Yue's dog thief used it like this, he was really crazy. Completely insane! Xu Erxian scolded secretly in his heart, at this time, he no longer recklessly lost the hedge with the Ming cavalry, but gave full play to his own riding advantages, quickly maneuvered and detoured, and used bows and arrows and crossbows to shoot at the Ming army in the movement, which avoided greater casualties and maintained the stalemate situation. However, in this way, Xu Erxian could no longer pose a sufficient threat to the flanks of the Ming army's infantry.

"Fucking son of a tartary, why didn't you come? If it weren't for the commander's military order, Grandpa would have to catch up and have a good time with you today. Shi Youliang, who had suffered an ambush by the Qing army in Bao'an County, was still angry, and seeing that the Qing cavalry did not dare to hedge with him again, he glared at the bull's eye and scolded.

On the right flank, the cavalry of Shen Zhixiang and Daniel Zhang, who engaged the cavalry of the loyal battalion, made a breakthrough, and the commander of this cavalry was Xu Tianzhu, a general under Shen Zhixiang. Taking advantage of the superiority in troops, he first pinned down the opponent's main force with one piece, and then personally led hundreds of elites to launch a surprise attack on the artillery on the flank of the Ming army.

Although the distance is not close, it can be reached in an instant for cavalry. The Ming infantry in the middle obviously also discovered Xu Tianzhong's intentions, and several groups of firecrackers on the flanks of the phalanx turned sideways and fired at the roaring Qing cavalry. In the explosion of fried beans, from time to time, the cavalry of the Qing army fell off their horses.

Xu Tianpet also let go, regardless of the casualties, he went directly to the Ming artillery. His soldiers and horses have not been shelled by the Ming army in the city, how can this opportunity for revenge be easily let go now? Xu Tianzhong led the army to charge when he heard bursts of gunfire erupting on the main battlefield behind the flank, mixed with the sound of many tiger squatting cannons. Hearing this movement, he was even more happy in his heart, the foot soldiers on both sides seemed to have exchanged fire, and there must be no time to take care of this side, and the uncle must have taken the artillery camp of the Ming army, which must be a great achievement, and he may also take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle.

Pang Yue saw Xu Tianzhong's movements from a distance, and quickly understood his intentions, but he didn't take immediate action, just asked the reserve team to be ready to step forward to support at any time.

Dealing with the surprise attack of the enemy's cavalry is also one of the contents of the camp's usual drills, so when they saw the Qing cavalry rushing forward, although they were a little surprised and surprised, they were not at a loss, but reacted early.

Although the Agni Battalion was an artillery battalion, it also had a certain independence and was not completely dependent on the protection of the rest of the battalions. In addition to the artillery, there are other branches of the battalion responsible for protecting the artillery crew, such as shield men, pikemen, and musketeers. At this time, a group of shieldmen had already erected large shields and formed a small circle formation, protecting the artillery along with the cannons and horses. The musketeers in the circle protruded their guns through the holes in their shields, and several rows of pikemen plunged the ends of their elongated iron spears into the ground, bent down and stepped on them, the tips of their spears sticking out from the top of their shields like steel hedgehogs.

Before Xu Tianzhong led the army to rush to the front, he was shot by the Ming army in the round array, and from time to time the Qing cavalry fell from the horse. When they really rushed closer, they couldn't take advantage of it. First, the number of cavalry of the Qing army was not large. Second, the horse is also spiritual, and if the owner insists that it hit the tip of the gun, it will not be very happy, unless it is a blind horse.

After tossing for a while, the cavalry of the Qing army even broke through a round formation night, and only killed and injured some Ming artillery with bows and arrows and flying axes, but the casualties caused by the Ming army's guns and javelins were only greater. Seeing that he couldn't take advantage of it at all, and he was afraid that he would be dumped by the Ming army for too long, Xu Tianpet had to retreat with hatred.

At this time, in front of the large formation of the two armies, the infantry of the two sides had collided together and started a close battle. Blood and rain raged on the long front, and the dense blades reflected like stars in the sky.

As early as in the confrontation just now, the Qing army had already lost the upper hand, and now it is even more unable to take advantage. What they were good at was skirmisher warfare, but this array battle was Huguang Town's strong point, so it didn't take long for the Qing army to parry.

In the rear formation, Shang Kexi looked at the battle situation in front of him and was anxious. (To be continued.) )