"Doctor Guanglu, Shangzhu Guo, Chu Guogong, Young Fu and Prince Shaobao, Military Department Shangshu and Right Deputy Capital Yushi, Hang the General of the Expedition and Confer the rank of General, plus the ambassadors of Korea and Japan, and send Zhu Junmen, the governor of Liaodong, to arrive!"

Liu Jun admires his ability to sing and drink official names as flag officials, and he can sing his long list of official rank and rank positions, and he can sing them without breathing, and he has not missed a single official name.

With this long roll call, all the generals and colonels in the Chinese army's tent stood up and saluted Liu Jun in unison.

"Meet the Commander!"

Liu Jun, who was wearing the golden armor of the imperial palace and the sword given by the Son of Heaven at his waist, walked to the top position and stood still, and behind him, there were several young officers, namely the sword officer holding the sword of Shang Fang, the flag officer holding the banner of the king's order, and the arrow officer and the palm seal officer holding the golden arrow and the seal of the general of the conquest.

As a celebrity of the Son of Heaven, Liu Jun has four Imperial Gift Heavenly Son Shangfang Swords, twelve pairs of royal flags, as well as nine golden arrows, and a golden seal of the Imperial Confidant General.

Each of them represents the supreme trust of the Son of Heaven.

Governors, governors, governors, chief eunuchs, governors and eunuchs, superintendent of the army and imperial history, a large number of high-ranking civil officials and ministers came to Liaodong, but Liu Jun was still the undoubted actual commander of the one-third of an acre of land in Liaodong.

With Liu Jun's Heavenly Son Shang Fang Sword, the Banner of the King's Mandate and the Seal of the General of the Expedition, no one among these ministers and governors dared to sing against Liu Jun, not to mention, the Chu Army of the Three Towns was completely brought up by Liu Jun, and it was completely his cronies, and the needle could not be inserted into the water and splashed through.

Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan, the two governors, did not have Shangshu swords, while Liu Jun alone had four.

Liu Jun nodded to the military academy members standing in two rows and wearing armored military robes, and motioned for everyone to sit down.

All the generals in the tent were the generals of the three towns. Those governors and ministers, and the ministers of the prison army, all failed to attend. Liu Jun didn't invite them at all, and he didn't want them to come to this meeting to point fingers.

"Report to the marshal, Gaizhou City has been surrounded by us on all sides, and Kong Youde's 50,000 rebels are surrounded by me. Become a turtle in an urn! Wang Qian, chief of the general staff of Liaodong Town, reported to Liu Jun.

After receiving the emperor's edict announced by Fu Zonglong, asking Liu Jun to cooperate with the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi to launch an offensive, Liu Jun did not hesitate or discount, and immediately transferred an army division in each of the two towns and a naval division with a fleet of more than 30,000 people. This expedition did not have too much time to prepare for the battle, and it was completely unprepared.

The army set out from the port of Jinzhou and quickly rushed to the seaside landing point twenty miles south of Gaizhou.

A few months ago, the Chu army had landed here and conquered Gaizhou in one fell swoop, and the Chu army came again. Familiar with the door. For the sake of emptiness and concealment, the Chu army chose to land at dawn.

The sky was slightly bright, and six army associations under the two army divisions, and a cavalry battalion belonging to each association was gathered and rushed to the city of Gaizhou first.

At this time, the 50,000 horses led by Kong Youde had just withdrawn from Jinzhou to Gaizhou after staying in southern Liaoning for more than half a year, and they did not expect that the Chu army, which had been with them for half a year, would suddenly kill under the city of Gaizhou. After several barracks outside Gaizhou were raided. Soon fled back to the city of Gaizhou. When Kong Youde reported it, he couldn't figure out whether these Chu troops were just attacking and harassing. It's still a big hit.

The follow-up troops of the Chu army came quickly, and Kong Youde had not yet decided whether to fight or withdraw, and most of the Chu army had already arrived from the shore.

Kong Youde hesitated, and the artillery of the Chu army finally arrived in the afternoon.

When more than 30,000 Chu troops surrounded Gaizhou City, it was too late for Kong Youde to retreat.

However, after the Chu army surrounded Gaizhou, it did not immediately launch a siege operation. Not even a single cannon was fired, but the gates were surrounded.

Then, the engineer battalion of the Chu army began to dig trenches and build earthen walls outside the city gate, and Kong Youde and others on the city head were inexplicable. The Chu army obviously has sharp cannons. Why not just attack the city?

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the Chu camp, Liu Jun was listening to the reports of the generals.

Each of the six associations guards a city gate, and the other two associations are in the center, each responsible for the two gates.

"Marshal, when are we going to launch a general attack?" Zhang Guodong asked.

Liu Jun looked at the sand table in the tent with his hands behind his back, the information collected by the intelligence department under the General Staff, and the engineer battalion made it into a very detailed sand table, with Gaizhou City as the center, and the surrounding mountains, rivers and fortresses on it. Even the information of Gaizhou City is quite detailed, how many gates of the city, how wide the moat is, and how many enemy towers are made clearly.

It turned out that the city wall that was destroyed during the last attack of the Chu army has been repaired.

"How many rebels are there in Gaizhou?" For the Han troops in the city with white and black flags, Liu Jun did not call them Qing troops, but rebels.

"There are more than 50,000, including about 20,000 soldiers, 20,000 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 10,000 people." A young staff officer replied. Of these more than 50,000 rebels, the soldiers were mainly the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty that year, as well as many young and strong soldiers recruited from the Han people in Liaodong. The auxiliary army is some militia trained by the Qing army in eastern Liaodong, which cultivates in peacetime, trains in leisure time, and follows the army in wartime, and has simple weapons. The people, on the other hand, are purely ordinary people who are responsible for transporting grain, grass and weapons, not all of them are young and strong, but also young and old, and basically have no combat effectiveness.

"How much grain and grass is there in that city?"

Liu Jun asked again.

Because the Chu army did not fight against Kong Youde's rebels after building the Jinzhou Fortress before, even if Kong Youde once led his army to the Great Black Mountain Fort in Jinzhou, the Chu army ignored them. Because this kind of well water does not interfere with river water, many of Kong Youde's subordinate soldiers are a little paralyzed, and even Kong Youde and a few people have become accustomed to the Chu army ignoring them, and everyone gets along peacefully.

When the Chu army suddenly appeared, they were not immediately alert, and many soldiers and horses stationed in various places outside Gaizhou City were attacked, but they only withdrew into the city, without thinking of saying that they would retreat directly to the north.

"There is a lot of grain and grass in Gaizhou City, which is enough for 50,000 people for three months." The staff officer replied. Kong Youde and others were the first to recover Gaizhou, and then dragged on for several months in southern Liaoning without fighting with the Chu army, but after they recovered Gaizhou, they quickly repaired the city wall, and then used it as a transfer station for grain and grass, transporting grain and grass from Liaoyang, Haizhou and other places to Gaizhou, and then transferred to Jinzhou. After they withdrew, Huang Taiji asked Kong Youde to defend Gaizhou, and Kong Youde and others brought a lot of grain and grass equipment, so that the grain and grass in the city could be used by 50,000 people for three months.

"There is a lot of grain and grass, and there are also a lot of soldiers." Liu Jun nodded. "And as far as I know, these rebels are fierce, and they have a lot of artillery, and they have a lot of guns."

Although their artillery was inferior to that of the Chu army, and the arquebuses were mainly bird guns, their firearms and equipment were also more than those of the armies of this era. Especially Kong Youde and others have a large number of elite cavalry in Liaodong over the years.

"How many cavalry are there?"

"The cavalry under the four rebel generals is about 3,000."

"There are quite a few, these cavalrymen are their own families, and many of them withdrew from the Dongjiang River to Dengzhou back then, and later rebelled from Dengzhou to Liaodong."

The situation is obvious, the troops and horses led by Kong Youde and other four rebel generals are quite numerous, and the equipment is not weak. They had a lot of guns, an elite cavalry, and especially a large city, as well as plenty of food and grass.

Such an enemy was something that the Chu army had never faced before. Since they entered Liao, they have only dealt with one or two thousand Qing troops each time, and tens of thousands of people at a time.

With the artillery of the Ming army, it is not difficult to break through the wall of Gaizhou, but breaking through the city wall does not mean victory.

The walls were broken, and there were still tens of thousands of enemy troops inside. And these are all rebels led by rebel generals, and the backbone is the officers and soldiers who defected in the Dengzhou Rebellion. Because of the rebellion of the past, it is impossible for those people to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and they will resist as stubbornly as the Tartars.

Liu Jun didn't want to fight street battles with tens of thousands of rebels.

Hard-fought battles have always been what Liu Jun has tried his best to avoid. As a last resort, he would never fight the enemy like he did in the muddy ditch.

"We're besieging the city!" Liu Jun said. "Just like when the Tartars besieged Dalinghe City, let's do the same, surround Gaizhou, dig trenches and build walls outside the city, and surround them."

"Siege?" Many Chu army generals were greatly surprised by Liu Jun's decision.

"But the rebels have three months' worth of food."

"We won't have that long." Liu Jun smiled, "Siege, but it's not just a siege. ”

A new army with a large number of artillery guns will of course change its tactics appropriately. The purpose of digging trenches and building walls is to surround the enemy, restrain the enemy, and prevent them from breaking through.

Of course, this alone is not enough. As the generals said, the rebel generals have enough food and grass and walls, and it is not enough to surround them.

"We need to teach the rebels what a real new army is, and it is not called a new army if it is equipped with some artillery and some guns. A truly new-type firearms unit must not only have enough firearms, but also have relatively matching tactics. ”

Gaizhou City.

Kong Youde was watching the Chu army digging a trench under their noses.

After the first trench was dug, the Chu army was already digging the second trench, and between the two trenches, a breast wall was built with the excavated soil.

"Liu Jiye actually wants to play siege warfare with us? Digging trenches and building walls, isn't this the same way we encircled our ancestors in Daling River back then? Geng Zhongming stood aside and said, "Is he expecting that we will have no reinforcements?" ”

"Let them dig, we have three months of grain and grass, and if we save a little, we can hold on for four months and five months. For such a long time, the emperor will send someone to save him. ”

Kong Youde is not as optimistic as them, Liu Jun is uncharacteristically no longer bombarding the city with artillery, but besieging the city, which is by no means simple. He stared carefully at the bustling scene of the construction site outside the city, his brow furrowed.

Well, what are those?

"Bring the clairvoyant mirror!" Kong Youde beckoned. The family sent the clairvoyant mirror, and Kong Youde picked up the clairvoyant mirror to carefully look at the abnormal place he had just discovered. "This is building an earthen platform, is it, is it that the Chu army wants to build a fort?" (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you for the support of the city lord of Baiyun, thank you!