The open land in front of the south gate of Puhe City was full of fallen tartars.

Some of them have long since died, and they have been frozen into ice pads, and some have just died, and their bodies are still steaming. The most pitiful are those who have fallen down from injuries but are not dead, they are lying on the cold ground, pitiful crying for help.

A group of Aha came up with white flags, they were cautious, timid, and shrunk their heads and turned back three times, for fear that the guns on the city would sound out.

"The corpse collection team is coming up again." Artillery Staff Officer Johansen. Sheet. Jingde had a cigarette in his mouth, and while smoking beautifully, he looked at the team of Tartars under the city.

"Let them collect the corpses, we are the kings of the Ming Empire." Nicholas Liu Jinzhong said in the Huangzhou dialect.

Johnson. After Zhang Jingde joined the Chu army, he also participated in the study class in the army according to the rules of the army, learned Chinese official dialect, and also learned the history of the Han people by the way. When learning Chinese, he usually had to take a Chinese name, because his real name was Johansen, so he chose Zhang, who was somewhat similar to John, and as for the name, he used his favorite Tang Dynasty general Wei Chi Jingde's name as his own name, which was simpler than Liu Jinzhong.

Just like the Swedish father who named his son casually, Johansen's father was called John, when he was born, his father didn't bother to think about the name when he named him, and directly added a SON to the back, the literal translation is actually John's son, many Swedes take names like this, such as Johansen is John's son, Anderson is Ender's son.

Just as many Dutch people have the surname Fan, most Russians have a sky behind them, and the Japanese always like to take the name so-and-so.

"If you want me to say, you can't let those Tartars take away the corpses, this corpse has been taken away, how can we report the results when we go back? They said that we repelled a siege of 3,000 men and killed more than 1,000 of the enemy. But where is the head, and who will testify? Johansen Zhang Jingde said. This is our record, a meritorious service and a reward! ”

Nicholas Liu Jinzhong also lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff, and then skillfully spit out a string of smoke rings, "Don't worry, we nine-headed birds have never relied on human heads to judge military merits." Besides, even those Tartars who were killed, are they also considered war records? It's just a group of old men and teenagers, some herdsmen and farmers, what kind of warriors are they. ”

For the first time as a commander. As the acting battalion commander, with two companies of 500 people, he repelled the attack of 3,000 Qing troops, and let the Tartars leave thousands of corpses under the city, Nicholas is now very arrogant. With this battle, it is certain that he will be promoted.

The Tartars under the city were relieved to see that the city did not pay attention.

"Hurry up, while those Chu soldiers are in a good mood now, let's hurry up and carry the corpses away." The leader of the team is a Han Baoyi. As a Zhenghuang Banner coat, his mood at this time was complicated. While secretly happy with the powerful power of the Ming army, he was worried about his fate and future, after all, most of the people lying on the ground were like him. In the past, there were just as many Han Chinese.

"It's time to eat."

At the head of the city, Quartermaster Dong Xian walked up to the city with a group of women, carrying buckets of hot soup and steamed buns that had just come out of the steamer.

"Lao Dong. Cook something delicious! Zhang Jingde flicked out the cigarette butt that was only a short piece left, and turned to face Lao Dong.

"It's all fresh and hot, with pork stewed vermicelli. Big buns stuffed with pork and cabbage, as well as baked cakes, and hot egg drop soup over there, the portion is enough and enough. Dong Xian came up with a big belly and said with a smile.

There is a lot of food in Puhe City, and as a battalion of the Black Flag Army, there are many materials stockpiled, all of which are looted from all over the surrounding areas. There were also many 'Manchu people' who were forcibly moved into the city, and Dong Xian selected a group of young daughters-in-law and aunts from among them, who were responsible for cooking for the hundreds of brothers who defended the city and the thousands of people who assisted in defending the city.

They are all Liaodong Han people, women who have undergone preliminary screening.

"The food is quite rich, not bad, pork stewed vermicelli, such a cold day, delicious." Zhu Jingde looked at the hot and hearty food with a smile on his face.

He is a Swede, Northern Europe is a cold place, and life is also very difficult, especially the civil war in Germany, which has been fought back and forth for more than ten years, and finally involved almost all the large and small countries in Europe and made it into a pot of porridge. Johansen joined the Swedish army as an adult and later became a mercenary.

According to his memories of being hired by the armies of European countries in those years, on the battlefields of Europe, many times the war relied on local supplies, and to put it bluntly, robbery. At that time, all countries mainly relied on mercenaries to fight, and wherever the army hit, they looted it, and there were even huge caravans and many prostitutes and women.

In this way of fighting in European countries, poor logistics and supplies have led to quite poor food in the army. Sometimes a potato or two onions can be a day's worth of food. Those hard breads that can be used as weapons are an absolute nightmare on the cold battlefield.

Later, when I came to the East, I was at sea all the time, and the food on the battleship was not much better, basically I couldn't eat vegetables, and I could eat salted fish until I vomited.

After Johansen Zhang Jingde was captured by the Nine-headed Bird, he stayed in the prisoner camp for a few days, and he had already decided to join the Chu army. If nothing else, it's for the food of the Chu army. The food of the Chu army was so good that there was a special logistics battalion convoy to accompany the war, and there was rice, meat, and even coal for boiling water and cooking in the car.

Just like now, the gunners in the city were commanding the gunners to fight for a long time, tired and hungry, and then the quartermaster immediately brought people to pick up a hot meal, and the special dishes were rich, and you could choose three dishes and one soup.

Even the people who helped defend the city had two big steamed buns and a big bowl of hot soup each.

After a hot lunch, the Chu army, who was still tired just now, immediately became energetic, and even those people worked harder than in the morning.

What's special about the morale of the Chu army, those Tartars who drink the northwest wind under the city, they still want to break the city?

After the siege of Puhe began, in just half a day, the Qing army launched several waves of attacks, but unfortunately only the Qing army, which had simple trench filling vehicles, ladders, and shield carts, fought for a morning, and fought until the afternoon, and they did not even touch the side of the special city wall, and they have been trying to erect a trench bridge and cross the trench.

It's a pity that every time they reach the trench under artillery fire, they are densely packed and just become better rakes for the Chu army's gunners.

The arid moat was less than ten steps from the city walls. But it is one zhang deep and two zhang wide, which is difficult to cross easily, even if it is not easy to build a trench bridge.

This moat meant that every time the Tartars rushed at them, they had to be held back in front of the trenches and then shot by the city's gunners. Even the city's gunners could easily throw grenades into the Tartars in front of the moats.

Some powerful men even set up water hoses and sprayed boiling water, hot oil, and even dung juice onto the tartars in front of the trenches.

Although the Tartars under the city also tried to hide behind the shield cart every time to release arrows, they could attack from the bottom up, which was not good in the first place. Moreover, the guns at the head of the city have a longer range than theirs, and there are more lethal artillery.

Fighting in the back, no matter how the Qing army who supervised the battle drank the order, and no Tartar was willing to step forward again.

For Azig, who launched this attack, the defeat of Puchenghe was not the only one, and the troops were divided into seven routes, thinking that they could pull out seven castles defended by the Black Flag Army at once.

As a result, even if they attacked with several times or even ten times the number of troops in each place, the result was defeat without exception.

The difference is only that the other few times are not as big as the casualties in Puhe City, the only gain. That is, in the assault and sweep before the siege, several Black Flag troops who had no time to retreat into the city were annihilated, and about a thousand Black Flag rebels were killed.

But in the subsequent siege, the total loss of soldiers and horses of the Seven Routes exceeded 2,000.

He was taunted by Hauge in the temple. Much to the annoyance of Azig. He had already told Hauge on the Golden Temple that he would personally lead his troops to annihilate the rebels. Since the words have been released, they must be done.

After Azig returned from the temple, he thought it carefully. I felt that I was still overconfident in my previous plan to divide my troops. Those Black Flag Army rebels were originally under the leadership of Kong Youde, and they were also a strong force, and they had always been the most proficient in the use of firearms in the Qing army. The most armed units with firearms.

Now after rebelling against Liu Jiye, Liu Jiye has obviously equipped these Black Flag Army with more firearms, although the number and quality of firearms equipped by the Black Flag Army are obviously still one or two grades lower than that of the Chu Army, but they are undoubtedly more powerful than when they were in the Qing Army before.

Azig didn't pay much attention to the situation before, and now he has suffered a big loss.

He plans to concentrate his forces and fight castle by castle, in case the Black Flag Army or the Chu Army dare to send troops to help, it will naturally be better. Attacking and defending the city, the Qing army is not as good as the Chu army, but it can be fought in the field, and the Chu army will not be able to compare with the Manchurian Eight Banners for another ten years.

"Give the order and gather all the soldiers and horses."

"Lord Wang, which rebel army shall we take first?"

Azig glanced at the map, and finally his gaze fell on the location of Puhe City. There were only about 500 Ming troops in Puhe City, including more than 200 Black Flag rebels and more than 200 nine-headed birds. In addition, there were about 3,000 Qing people who were taken captive into the city.

Compared to the rest of the cities, Puhe City had fewer defenders, but they fought back more fiercely, killing thousands of Aha minions besieging the city with only a few hundred defenders of this city.

"Puhe City." Azig slowly spat out the name, "Let's take Puhe City first." ”

While Azig mobilized various forces to gather, he also specially asked people to transfer a batch of siege equipment from Shenyang's arsenal.

"With two Hongyi cannons." Azig asked his men to carry two Hongyi cannons.

However, this plan was rejected by Haoge, although Haoge let Azig take the Zhenghuang Banner and agreed to him to send troops to attack the Black Flag rebels, but the defense of Shenyang was still dominated by Haoge's Zhenglan Banner. The few Hongyi cannons in Shenyang City are now in Haoge's hands.

Haug refused to give these heavy Hongyi cannons to Azig to take to attack Puhe City, no matter what Azig's men said.

"The number of Hongyi cannons in the Jingshi is not much, and they are all counting on these cannons to defend the Chu army to attack the city, how can they be pulled out at this time. What if it is robbed or destroyed by the Chu army? ”

When Azig heard the report, although he was angry, he was helpless, the Qing army captured many cannons in Yizhou last time, hundreds of them, but now they are still in the army of Dolgon and Zilharang, and the distant water cannot quench the thirst.

"If you don't give it, you won't give it, even if you don't have Hongyi cannons, you still want to take Puhe City." Azig said angrily, in the end, Hongyi couldn't bring the cannon, only brought a few Franc machines, these Franc machines were originally available in the Zhongzheng Yellow Banner of Shengjing City, and there was no need to ask Haoge.

"Let's go, before it gets dark, take Puhe City!" Azig rode on his horse and shouted coldly! (To be continued.) )

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