It didn't take long for more and more Tartar cavalry squads patrolling outside the city to see the figures of the soldiers, and suddenly, the Tartars in the entire Langfang City jumped for a while, and the news also spread to Langfang City, and to the Tartars' guards in Langfang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tartar guard was shocked, and said with a look of disbelief: "What, the two-way army, there are many people, at least tens of thousands!" ”

"No... More than tens of thousands, from... At least tens of thousands. A Tartar, out of breath, stumbled in and immediately corrected it.

Tens of thousands of troops!

Suddenly, the Tartar guards were greatly stunned, and it took a long time to come back to their senses, tens of thousands of troops, so it seems that Zhang Feng's men and horses in Tianjin are all here, and there is no need to ask, this is a posture that wants to take Langfang City in one fell swoop.

The Tartar guards are shocked!

"Quickly, quickly gather men and horses to defend the city, and the men and horses outside the city will quickly return to the city." The Tartar guard immediately shouted loudly, and said loudly: "Quick, send someone to Beijing, report immediately, we need reinforcements, we need reinforcements!" ”

It is true that there are more than 10,000 people in Langfang City, but tens of thousands of people have come to Tianjin, and the Tartar guards know that there are two things to do at the moment, the first is to defend the city, and the second is to ask for help.

The Tartars in Langfang were in a hurry, from the Tartar guards to the ordinary Tartars, everyone knew that tens of thousands of troops came from the Tianjin Guard.

Tens of thousands!

These Tartars knew that just over two months ago, Zhang Feng defeated Duoduo in Tianjin, destroying more than 50,000 enemies, capturing more than 20,000, and even Duoduo was killed. The Tartars of Langfang knew that they were no match for the seven or eight armies of Duoduo, and the only thing that made these Tartars feel at ease was that Langfang had a strong city to defend.

In this era, a fortified city, if there is enough grain and grass, it is possible to hold it for ten days and half a month, or even one or two months, and the Tartars of Langfang are busy defending the city, waiting for reinforcements from Beijing.

On the city wall of Langfang, the Tartars guarding the city hurriedly slammed into each other, all the gates of Langfang City were closed, and the Tartars on the city wall could already see the figures of the soldiers outside the city.

The soldiers approached Langfang City from all directions, and in the setting sun, the Tartars on the city wall could see clearly, and the soldiers were going to encircle the entire Langfang City on all sides.

In the evening, the sky was slightly dark, at this time, the soldiers were everywhere outside Langfang City, but the soldiers were not in a hurry to attack, the soldiers of the artillery regiment chose the artillery position, and then set up artillery, and more soldiers set up tents outside the city.

The temporary headquarters was also set up, consisting of several large tents, the largest of which was a few soldiers busy lighting fires, and the weather was relatively cold, so a large charcoal fire was indispensable.

In front of the tent, two major generals, each holding a telescope, looked at Langfang City, which were the two commanders of the 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division.

………

Capital.

Dolgon was about to rest, suddenly, a Tartar general hurriedly came over, anxiously reported: "Master, urgent military situation, this evening, Zhang Feng's tens of thousands of horses in Tianjin Wei all appeared outside Langfang City, and now Langfang City has been surrounded, looking at it, they want to take Langfang City in one fell swoop." ”

Dolgon said slowly: "Sure enough, sure enough, he still started to attack Langfang, and the comer is not good!" ”

For a long time, Dolgon was very worried about Langfang City, and this time, in Dolgon's opinion, Zhang Feng must be at ease after such a long time of preparation.

"Master, what shall we do?"

Dolgon pondered for a moment and said, "Pass the order, stick to Langfang City, and in addition, send reinforcements, and strengthen the defense of Beijing City." ”

Dolgon feared that attacking Langfang was only the first of Zhang Feng's many plans, and the next step was probably to attack Beijing.

However, Dolgon was not very worried about the safety of Beijing City, Dolgon believed that it was true that Zhang Feng had powerful firearms, but Beijing City was not comparable to Langfang, the city walls of the entire Beijing City were tall and strong, and he had 100,000 troops in Beijing City, and it would not be a problem to defend it for several months.

In addition, Dolgon still has hundreds of thousands of troops outside, and the main army is divided into three routes, one way to Xi'an, and the other two are chasing Li Zicheng who is running away, if necessary, Dolgon can order one of the soldiers and horses to return to Beijing.

In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also had soldiers and horses outside the customs, and Shanhaiguan also had soldiers and horses, and these soldiers and horses could return to Beijing, so Dolgon believed that Beijing did not need to worry, and the first priority at present was to hold Langfang.

In this way, the Tartars strengthened the defense of the city of Beijing, and in addition, sent a reinforcement of more than 10,000 people, if Langfang really could not be defended, Dolgon had already made the worst plan, that is, to abandon Langfang, let this support army meet the defenders of Langfang and retreat to the city of Beijing.

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Langfang.

There was nothing to do all night here, the soldiers did not put a shot, did not fire a cannon, just surrounded Langfang City, not surrounded on all sides, to be precise, it should be surrounded on three sides, the direction of Langfang to Beijing City, the soldiers had the least troops, only one regiment.

In the early morning, a round of red sun rose from the east, and under the rays of the morning sun, on the artillery positions outside the city, the artillery pieces were covered with a layer of golden-red brilliance, and the soldiers of the artillery regiment began to be busy.

A total of 36 guns, neatly and neatly, the muzzle of the cannon is facing the direction of Langfang City, the terrain here is open, in the position of the artillery position, you can clearly see the city wall of Langfang City, if you are expected to have a telescope, the situation on the city wall can also be seen more clearly.

On the city wall, there are a lot of Tartars, it is estimated that these Tartars have been guarding the city wall all night, these Tartars guarding the city are worried about the soldiers attacking the city, but the whole night, the soldiers are just resting, and they are not attacking the city.

On the city wall, in addition to the Tartars defending the city, there are also the cannons deployed by the Tartars on the city wall, however, these cannons are all old-fashioned cast cannons, with limited power and limited range, and the soldiers of the artillery regiment directly ignore them.

There were even soldiers of the artillery regiment pointing in the direction of the city wall and said: "Everyone sees that there are no cannons on the city wall of the Tartars." ”

Immediately, a soldier smiled and said, "Is that also called a cannon?" Wait a minute, let the Tartars know, what kind of real artillery. ”

"Haha......"

Many of the soldiers next to him began to laugh happily, but the work in their hands did not stop, and did not slow down, and after about half an hour, all preparations were ready, the soldiers were in place, and boxes of shells were moved to the side of each artillery.

Each artillery, the muzzle of the cannon is diagonally facing the direction of the Langfang city wall, just waiting for the order, the soldiers will open artillery shelling, shelling the defenders of the city.

"Report, everything is ready for shelling."

A soldier came over and reported loudly, next to the position, it was the commander of the artillery regiment, the colonel looked at Langfang City, and said slowly: "Start shelling, but remember, slow down, ten shells per cannon." ”

"Yes!"

Since it is a feint, it is better to do enough play, slow down the speed of the artillery bombardment, hit ten shells, and use the time to hit three or ten shells.

After a while, the artillery position sounded a series of shells, one by one shells whistled out, although the soldiers greatly slowed down the speed of the shelling, but the accuracy was still not bad, many shells exploded directly on the city wall.

This is a smokeless gunpowder cannonball, the explosion power is not comparable to the black powder cannonball, suddenly, the Tartars on the city wall screamed for a while, many Tartars were directly blown away, flying the city wall, flying far away.

The artillery regiment was shelling, and many soldiers were watching the battle, and even some soldiers laughed, including a soldier who said: "This is playing with Tartars, look at the people in the artillery regiment, the shelling speed is obviously much slower." ”

"This is a feint, so naturally you don't need to shell hard, this speed is enough."

"Even so, the Tartars who guarded the city were killed and wounded."

“……”

The soldiers watched the battle while discussing the discussion, and when the artillery regiment's shelling was over, the soldiers of about a regiment saw that it was a siege, and saw everyone holding muskets and began to slowly approach Langfang City.

The Tartars defending the city had just been blown up by an artillery bombardment, and when they saw at least a thousand soldiers approaching, they were immediately shocked, and immediately came back to their senses, and began to defend the city in a hurry.

To defend the city, the best weapon is naturally the cannon, but these cannons have basically been damaged in the round of shelling just now, and there are no cannons, so you can only use bows and arrows.

Many Tartar archers drew their bows and looked outside the city, watching the warriors approach, and as soon as the warriors came within range of the bow, these Tartars would release their arrows.

The fighters gradually approached, from 500 meters, 400 meters, to 2 or 300 meters, and at this distance, the fighters began to fire their guns.

With a musket, you don't have to aim carefully, and you can hit the sparse guns on the city wall, and it doesn't matter much if you don't hit, anyway, it's a feint.

The Tartars defending the city did not know that the warriors were feintting, because these Tartars did not know the warriors' muskets at all, and they were very nervous when they saw the warriors shoot and suffer casualties themselves.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"

Before the warriors were within range of their bows and arrows, the leading Tartars shouted and shouted, and the Tartar archers fired their arrows desperately outside the city, and a large number of arrows shot out in front of the warriors.

Many soldiers, very cooperative, seemed to be flustered, put a few shots indiscriminately, and then began to retreat in a mess, seeing the soldiers retreating, the Tartars who defended the city quietly breathed a sigh of relief, many Tartars thought in their hearts, fortunately, there is a strong city to defend.

Such sieges were staged many times from morning until dark, and each time the warriors were forced back by the arrows of the Tartars.

Sometimes, the soldiers of the artillery regiment saw that everyone was "frustrated" in the siege of the city, and after the soldiers of the siege retreated "in a mess", the soldiers of the artillery regiment also fired a few cannons, causing certain casualties to the Tartars defending the city.

From morning to night, although the siege of the warriors was "frustrated again and again", the casualties of the Tartars were not small, and it is estimated that the casualties of the Tartars were more than 2,000 in such a day.

Inside the city.

While the Tartar guard quietly breathed a sigh of relief, his face gradually became gloomy, because the casualty statistics had come out, and a Tartar had reported just now that the Tartars had killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds of people.

The casualties are more than two thousand, this is the first day, if this continues, the Tartar guards will know, it is estimated that after a few days, Langfang City will not be able to hold.

The Tartar guards don't know that the soldiers didn't contribute to the siege at all, just with the mentality of playing with the Tartars, everyone is feintting, if it is a real siege, how can the Tartars hold for a day, it is estimated that half a day's work will be broken without Langfang City.

With more than 2,000 casualties a day, the Tartar guards could only hold on, and the Tartar guards would never dare to abandon the city and flee before Dolgon gave an order.

Fortunately, there is a very weak encirclement of warriors in Langfang City, and after some effort, the Tartars can still sneak out quietly, and they can still deliver the news to Dolgon.

This was naturally done on purpose, in order to let Dolgon know about the situation in Langfang and attract Dolgon's attention firmly to Langfang, so as to gain time for Zong Dechao's independent first division and independent second division.

At present, this strategy is very successful, Zong Dechao's army has been out of Tianjin Wei for a whole day, tens of thousands of troops, such a big target, Tartar has not found it.

As long as it takes three or five days, if the Tartars still fail to discover Zong Dechao's army, then Zhang Feng will succeed, and when the time comes, when Dolgon knows and has insight into Zhang Feng's strategic intentions, it will be too late.

The first and second infantry divisions, tens of thousands of soldiers, were busy in Langfang City all day, everyone was "unable to take Langfang City", in the evening, everyone stopped the siege, began to rest again, and waited for the next day to continue the siege.

The situation in Langfang really continued to spread to Dolgon, and seeing that Langfang had been defended, it would not be a problem to hold on for a few more days, and Dolgon was greatly relieved.

The next day, the soldiers began to "attack the city" again, but they still failed to break through Langfang City, and even, a support army of the Tartars "smoothly" broke the defense line of the soldiers and smoothly entered the Langfang City, so that the defenders of the Tartars in the entire Langfang City reached 20,000 or 30,000 people.

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Port of Shanghai.

Shi Kefa had already boarded a 3,000-material transport ship, and many such large transport ships had docked at the port of Shanghai, and all the soldiers of the 11th Infantry Division, including all weapons, equipment, ammunition, and so on, had already boarded the ship.

"Woo, woo, woo......"

A whistle sounded, one by one the transport ships began to leave the dock, standing on the bow deck, Shi Kefa looked at the dock that was gradually moving away, Shi Kefa's mood was slightly surging, and a heart had flown to Tianjin Wei.

Thinking that in a few days, his 11th Infantry Division would arrive in Tianjinwei, and then it would be able to enter the battlefield, Shi Kefa's mood was even more excited and looking forward to it.

This will be the first battle of the 11th Infantry Division, and it will also be the first battle of the new army led by Shi Kefa, for this battle, Shi Kefa is full of confidence.

Not only Shi Kefa's 11th Infantry Division, but also many other infantry divisions have begun to move and begin to prepare, and everyone will also go to the north, some will board ships in Shanghai Port like the 11th Infantry Division, and some will take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Larger steam-powered ships naturally can't go through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but a thousand steam-powered ships can, and in addition, those often old-fashioned sailing ships or merchant ships can.

In Nanzhili, one infantry division after another began to move, because the news was not developed in this era, and the distance was far away, and Dolgon, who was far away in the capital, did not know anything about this.

Dolgon was concerned about Langfang and his hundreds of thousands of troops who were chasing Li Zicheng, and even Dolgon was still wondering if he was going to divide his troops to attack Zhang Xianzhong.

……… (To be continued.) )