Lu Xiangsheng, who received the summary of the achievements, looked at the unthinkable joy in his heart when he looked at this unthinkable record, and he smiled and said to the generals: "Today, I can have this victory thanks to all of you to go all out to kill the enemy, this official immediately gave the emperor some twists, and reported your merits to the emperor, with these merits, it is not a problem to add officials to the knighthood!" ”

After hearing this, everyone's faces were full of smiles, especially Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu, they had been following Lu Xiangsheng after Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian divided their troops, they didn't eat, wear, or say, they had to fight with the Qing soldiers along the way, and they lost nearly half of their men and horses after only half a month.

Unexpectedly, Pang Gang led more than 16,000 Qingzhou troops to arrive in time, and there was enough food for them to eat for a month, and now everyone under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng was able to wipe out more than 3,000 Qing soldiers in Jiazhuang so happily, this happiness came too suddenly, until now Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei still laughed from ear to ear.

Looking at the generals of the Shanxi Army and the Xuanda Army who were dancing happily, Pang Gang's mouth also had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, at this time his mind was not immersed in the results of today's battle, he knew that the battle of Ming would be more fierce and cruel!

The sky darkened quietly, and a bright moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the earth into a bright silver color.

In the camp of the Qing army, the atmosphere was dull, and a large number of Qing soldiers lit bonfires, and silently barbecued meat, drank water, or ate dry food. Under the golden dragon of Dolgon and Yueto, the banner owners and the important people in the banner gathered around them, and each of them did not say a word.

Today's casualties have come out, although everyone has already been prepared in their hearts, but when the results came out, everyone was taken aback, just a morning of fighting, the various banners suffered nearly 4,000 casualties, of which more than 3,400 were killed, and it is estimated that more than half of the remaining wounded could not be saved.

And among these casualties, there are more than 1,800 cavalry and soldiers killed in battle, although the rest are auxiliaries, but the auxiliaries are also an important combat strength of each banner, and now they are filled in those trenches that have no value in vain, the casualties are too great, no wonder everyone is like a dead father, everyone stares at the fire on the ground without saying a word.

Without saying a word, Dolgon drew something with a brush on a small table that he found temporarily, and soon, when Dolgon finished drawing, he slowly dried the ink on the paper, put it in front of everyone, and said: "Everyone, this is the defensive posture of the Ming army today. ”

After speaking, Dolgon slowly put the Ming army's defense map on the table for everyone to see, and everyone poked their heads over, and a simple and clear defense map was presented in front of everyone.

A village was depicted on the map, behind which was a river, and on the other three sides was a paraped, and in front were three trenches, the center of which and the gaps were sprinkled with iron thorns and horses, leaving only three passages that were not too wide.

Judging from this defense map, this defense line is very ordinary, and it is also very simple, so simple that it seems that it can be pushed with a slight push, but the generals who have experienced today's war know how vicious this defense line is, and today there are already 4,000 Qing warriors who have shed their last drop of blood in front of it.

Dolgon pointed to the defense map and said: "After the observation of this king, the camp defense of the Ming army has been clearly seen, this village is surrounded by earthen walls on three sides, and it is about chest high. There were three passages for entry and exit, and the rest were surrounded by trenches, iron thorns, and horses, which were very difficult to pass. There are about thirty-six artillery pieces on the front, and these artillery guns are also very sharp, after observation, the front is the defense of the Qingzhou army led by Pang Gang, the two wings are one for the Ming general soldier Yang Guozhu, one is the Ming general soldier Hu Dawei, each has about twenty or thirty large and small artillery, now you all talk about it, how to capture the Ming army camp? ”

Dolgon's younger brother, the white-flag-inlaid banner master Duoduo, said that he suffered a big loss, and lost more than a thousand elite soldiers, and he still had palpitations when he thought about it at this time, and he said: "Today, I was ordered to launch an attack on Pang Gang's headquarters, but I was suddenly attacked by their artillery and birds, and their birds were so sharp that they could shoot my heavily armored warriors more than two hundred paces away, so that our warriors had nothing in front of them, which is the most important thing!" ”

Yue Tuo's eldest son, Luo Luohun, said with a smile: "So what, my Qing Dynasty's riding and archery skills are unparalleled in the world, are you still afraid that they won't succeed?" ”

Duoduo retorted: "Luo Luo Hun Beizi is not afraid, you can try it tomorrow!" ”

The two of them were talking and talking, and they were about to quarrel.

"Enough!" Yue Tuo glared at the two of them unhappily, "At present, the great enemy is now, and it should be the time to work together, but you are coaxing in the nest, are you still not our warriors of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Hearing Yue Tuo's reprimand, both of them lowered their heads and remained silent.

At this time, Du Du, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, said: "What the Ming army relies on is only those three trenches, let's send more warriors with multi-sided heavy shields, lined up in several rows, and cover the auxiliary soldiers to fill the trench soon?" ”

"It's not impossible," said Dolgon, "but if this is the case, the casualties of our Eight Banners warriors will be ......."

Speaking of this, a chill surged in everyone's hearts, if they did it like this, they were afraid that they would just fill those trenches, and they didn't know how much blood would be shed of the warriors in the banner. The first trench was fine, the chariots of each banner could be pushed all the way to the front of the first low wall, and the auxiliaries of each banner could throw bags of dirt into the trench, but the remaining trenches were even more difficult.

Yue Tuo shook his head, "This method is too risky, if this is the case, the casualties of the warriors in our clan will be too great." ”

Luo Luo was anxious, and said with some anger: "In that case, what are we going to fight, won't the Ming army dig trenches?" Didn't they want our warriors to fill those trenches with blood? Okay, let's not be fooled, let's surround them all, as long as they surround for a month or two, I see if they still have the strength to fight us! ”

When Yue Tuo heard this, he couldn't help but glared at his son and shouted: "Stupid, have you ever thought that if my army stays here, every grain and grass consumed alone is a large amount, where does our grain and grass come from?" If it's really a two-month siege, I'm afraid we'll be the first to fall! Besides, an army of 50,000 is watching us from fifty miles away. Although this eunuch is timid and can't fight, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not take risks after staying for a long time, and send a large army to besiege us with Lu Xiangsheng and others, and then our army will be attacked by the enemy, how do you deal with it? ”

Luo Luo said unconvinced: "Then we can leave some soldiers and horses behind, and then send the army to destroy Gao Qiqian first, and then turn back to eliminate Lu Xiangsheng's lone army, isn't that okay?" ”

Yue Tuo sighed and explained: "It's not impossible for you to think about this idea, but have you thought about it, according to the combat strength of Pang Gang's Qingzhou army, how many soldiers and horses do you have to leave to surround them, 20,000?" Or thirty thousand? I estimate that if we want to firmly encircle them, we can't do it without 50,000 soldiers and horses, so how many more soldiers and horses can we send to encircle and annihilate Gao Qidive? Don't forget, Gao Qiqian still has 60,000 soldiers and horses, even if his combat strength is not good, but he can still resist us for ten days and half a month, and if the war really drags on like this for a month or two, I am afraid that the emperor of the Ming Kingdom will really send a large army to deal with us, and I am afraid that our entire army will be annihilated! ”

After Yue Tuo's explanation, everyone realized that the situation of their original Qing army was also not good, and there was a danger of being swallowed up by the Ming army at any time.

Dolgon and Yueto looked at each other, and Yueto asked Dolgon, "Prince Rui, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Dolgon smiled bitterly, "The general thinks too highly of this king, and in this situation, the Ming army can't shrink like a turtle, and we don't have any good way, I really can't think of any other way than to attack this king." ”

A hint of decisiveness flashed in Yue Tuo's eyes, "A hard attack is a hard attack, the general doesn't believe it, with an army of seventy or eighty thousand, he can't take a small village." Starting from the Ming Dynasty, the flags began to attack in turn, each flag attacked for an hour, one flag came to another flag on the up, can not stop, like this oil like this style of play is not good, that can only be in vain to lose our troops, and we fill in the trench, even at night there must be someone to guard in the distance, must not let the Ming army dig the trench again, we continue to attack for three or four days, we will be able to capture the Ming army camp! ”

Seeing that the main general had made up his mind, the generals of the Qing army responded in unison: "Scum! ”

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On the second morning, just after dawn, the Qing army once again poured in like a tide, and they braved the danger of the Ming army's artillery to desperately approach the low wall and ditch, and then once again pushed out the dense layers of wooden shields.

Countless auxiliaries resolutely marched towards the trench under the cover of Mu Dun, pouring dirt into the trench one after another with bags and dustpans full of dirt.

However, two hours later, the trench dug by the Qingzhou army yesterday was filled in by them again, although the Qing army left more than 1,000 corpses for this, but the Qing soldiers seemed to not care, and continued to rush to the second trench like crazy.

Seeing such a crazy move of the Qing army, Lu Xiangsheng and Pang Gang's faces began to change, looking at the actions of the Qing army today, they had the posture of filling up the trench in one fell swoop and then launching a general attack.

Lu Xiangsheng's face was very ugly, and he said to Pang Gang: "Chaodong, it seems that the Tartars are going to work hard today, you go back and tell the brothers, be careful!" ”

(To be continued)