In the afternoon of the same day, the Hydra cavalry galloped all the way to the green mud puddle, but what they saw was a small city that had been ruined. And on the city gate tower that is still preserved, the flagpole that has been erected is no longer a Tartar flag, but the red flag of the Ming army.

"Oh my God, the green mud valley city will be taken? Isn't it that the Tartars are the most brave, fierce and abnormal, and one can beat ten Han troops? ”

"Do you believe those words? Some people say that the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000, and there is no one to be defeated. But you see, the 200 Manchu Tartars in Fort Arthur have not been cut down by hundreds of Han and Mongolian soldiers, and here are 400 Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, and the city is broken. As the cavalry commander of this Eastern Crusade, Feng Sheng looked at Qingniwa City and was not surprised at all.

"Won't it be the time for artillery to reign supreme in the future?" A cavalry officer said a little helplessly, their cavalry has always been the most expensive unit, and as cavalry officers, they have always had a sense of superiority. I feel that in the nine-headed bird, they are the real trump card.

Feng Sheng and others led the cavalry to arrive and found that the Ming army was not evacuating the people in the city, but was organizing people to repair the damaged city walls. Even among those who do things, they find many Manchurians dragging pigs' tails.

After the Qingniwa City was breached, according to the original plan, the population, money, food and materials were moved back to Dengzhou.

But Liu Jun has now changed his mind, and he plans to occupy Jinzhou and make the southern tip of the peninsula his home base. So, instead of moving away from the population, he began to repair the city.

Liu Jun renamed Qingniwa City Zhenhai City, and asked Dutch consultants from Taiwan to design a new castle blueprint, a crown fortress. This is a powerful new form of defense that evolves as artillery evolves. Compared with the original ordinary city fortress, this kind of fortress with many edges and corners has inclined embankments, moats, breastwork, concave forts, triangular forts, half-moon forts, hollow forts, solid forts, cantonment stations, middle embankments, hidden roads, etc.

The design idea of this fortress is to change the straight layout of the original city wall, reduce the blind spot of shooting, and increase crossfire. Although the city of the Ming Dynasty also has enemy platforms. However, there are still many blind spots in this kind of fortress with sharp corners compared to Taiwan.

And this new type of bastion has more edges and corners, so that there are no blind spots and the crossfire is stronger. Coupled with the slope paved outside the outer city wall, it is more conducive to the firing of shells and firearms.

Moreover, the three-dimensional defensive fortresses composed of Triangle Fort, Half Moon Fort, Solid Fortress and Hollow Fortress are of different heights, which are more conducive to artillery shooting, and such a castle is even if there is a gap. Both have stronger defensive capabilities.

Concealed roads and cantonment stations were bunkers for infantry before counterattacks, and in order to prevent enemy vertical fire, there were many horizontal walls in the concealed roads. The outermost ram is where the crossfire is most concentrated, and its angle of inclination also helps the defender's firepower. The entire fortress should be built with masonry as much as possible, and if it has to be used for some reason, it should be covered with thick soil on the outside. Because the soil layer can absorb energy, the masonry is not only easy to damage, but also prone to ricochet, causing serious casualties.

When new artillery appeared, the original wall defense system became more and more weak, and new fortresses also came into being.

"We are in the Netherlands. It was by virtue of the fortress that the Spaniards were defeated. A crown fortress, with 100 cannons to defend the city, as long as 3,000 people, can block the siege of 100,000 Qing troops. ”

Dutch adviser Dahn declared to Liu Jun. He had seen the surrendered Qing army, and although the defenders were very brave, they still had primitive bows, arrows, and spears, and they didn't even see the firecrackers. Not to mention the cannons. Such a Qing army, he believes, is in front of the Hydra Army, which has a high degree of firearms, especially in front of the Hydra, which has a large number of artillery. It is completely undominant, and if the Nine-headed Bird has another fortress, with guns and cannons to cooperate with the fortress, then it can easily deal with ten times or even twenty or thirty times the siege of the enemy.

"As long as there is enough ammunition and enough food, it will be no problem to hold it for a year."

However, in order to build the castle as soon as possible, he suggested separating the fortified castle from the residential houses and markets. Just like the Dutch in Taiwan, after all, the construction of a fortress is quite complicated, it is necessary to build a high platform, and there are various forts, etc., it is impossible to build too big, if you want to build a city that can live in many people and have a market, then the project is too big.

For this kind of proposal, Liu Jun also agreed after thinking about it.

Separating the military fortress from the residential fortress is also conducive to defense, preventing small works from sneaking in and causing chaos and breaking through the fort.

"Then build this crown fortress in the middle of the port and Zhenhai City, and you can take care of both sides. At the same time, the warships can also support the defense of the fortress when necessary. ”

"There's no problem with that."

"Then let's start building, when we restore Zhenhai City, and at the same time build the fortress."

Daan suggested to Liu Jun that although the city and the fortress were separated, in order to enhance the city's defense, when repairing the city wall, the city wall could still be slightly improved and a wave-shaped city wall could be built to improve the defense of the city wall. He also adopted all of these proposals.

"Lao Feng, give you cavalry a new task, move the people of Jinzhou to Zhenhai and Lushun, and let them build castles."

"Are we going to clear the wilderness?"

Liu Jun nodded, now he is preparing with both hands, on the one hand, he wants to build forts in Lushun and Dalian, and at the same time, he will clear the fortified walls in the outer wilderness. If the situation is not right in the future, you can directly use a boat to transport the people of the two cities away.

"Persuade them to relocate, tell them that after arriving in Lushun and Zhenhai, they will help us build cities and forts, we will give them food and wages, and when they stabilize in the future, we will redistribute land to them and help them rebuild their homes."

Originally, when Liu Jun was in Lushun, he had already begun to count the fields, registered for registration, and was ready to divide the fields. Now he had to change this plan again, after all, before the castle was built, or even before the Golden State City was built, it was actually not safe. Moreover, Liu Jun needed a lot of manpower to build the city fortress.

On the same day, Liu Jun personally wrote an announcement, which explained the current situation, asked the people to move to the two port cities of Lushun and Zhenhai, and explained that there were Ming troops stationed here and warships to protect them, so they did not have to worry about the retaliation of the Tartars. In addition, after coming, not only can they participate in the construction of the castle to receive wages and rations, but those who migrate to participate in the construction of the castle will also be eligible for the division of the land, and when the castle is repaired, they will be able to get their own fields.

"Try to explain and persuade the people as well as possible."

"What if they don't listen?" Feng Sheng asked.

"Then you'll help you move."

After resting for one night, Liu Jun led the troops to continue to advance the next day, this time the troops were divided into two routes. Concurrent land and water. Some of them took warships and marched directly to Jinzhou City in the bay, while the other went north by land, passing to clear some of the Qing army's fortresses on the way.

"Don't kill the captured Qing army." Liu Jun especially explained to the generals, "People are also very precious, send them to Lushun Zhenhai to repair the city, and when the city is repaired in the future, they can also be sent to Tuntian in Taiwan for mining." ”

"It's cheaper to repair the city and mine, these tartars." Many generals said.

Liu Jun snorted coldly and replied, "It's really too cheap to kill them." ”

When Liu Jun marched towards Jinzhou by land and water, the city of Jinzhou had already received the news at this time. The Qing soldiers who ran to report the news brought the news of the Ming army's large-scale attack on the Liaodong Peninsula.

But at first the guard Zakdan did not believe in what a battleship with a hundred cannons. What tens of thousands of soldiers and horses how is this possible. Eventually, though, Zakdan sent a team of scouts to the mud pool to get information.

The scouts rushed back overnight, all with frightened looks on their faces.

They trembled and reported to Zachdan that there were hundreds of warships parked on the sea of Qingniwa, and the sails of the ships covered the sea, and the city of Qingniwa had been breached, and they could not get close, but they saw from a distance that a section of the city wall several zhang wide had collapsed.

"The Ming army had at least twenty or thirty thousand horses and thousands of cavalry. There are also many cannons, all of which are thousands of pounds of cannons from the Hongyi cannon ship, and there are also a large number of firecrackers. ”

Hearing the news, Zachdan was shocked.

What shocked him was not the number of twenty or thirty thousand Ming troops. It's that the Ming army actually has so many cannons.

The Jinzhou he garrisoned was one hundred and thirty miles north of Lushun, twenty-six steps in five miles of the city, and the city wall was three feet and five feet high. Three years after the Apocalypse, it has been controlled by the Qing army. Stationed here is the Jianzhou Blue Flag Department. It was guarded by the third-class Lazhangjing Zakdan, and there were two Niu Lu full banners and three Niu Lu Mongol soldiers stationed in the city. In addition, there are more than 2,000 Korean and Han troops and Baoyi, adding up to 3,000 people.

The number of troops is not small, as the first important city to defend the Liaodong Peninsula.

The defense of the Qing army on the Liaodong Peninsula was mainly concentrated in the three prefectures of Jin, Fu and Gai, and in the southernmost Jinzhou, the main force was also mostly concentrated in Jinzhou City, and the troops stationed at Lushunkou and Qingniwa were not much, and the Qing army did not have a real naval division, nor did they plan to attack Shandong across the sea, so they did not attach too much importance to the management of Lushun, but focused on Jinzhou, which was one hundred and thirty miles away from Lushun, in order to prevent the Ming army from the sea.

But no matter how few Lushun and Qingniwa soldiers are, there are more than 1,000 people. was killed without hindrance, when did the Ming army become so powerful?

"Don't worry, my lord, the southerners are just relying on the advantages of guns and firearms. Let's not let them calmly go to the city to set up a formation, fire artillery to attack the city, let's take the initiative to kill, halfway interception. A Niu Lu Zhangjing said loudly.

Another Niu Lu Zhangjing also nodded in agreement, "The Nanren cannon is indeed sharp, but as far as I know, the Nanren cannon is heavy and difficult to transport, and every time before using the cannon, you have to prepare for half a day." Let's ride quickly and ambush them halfway, and then the Nanren's cannon can't be used in time, how can the Nanren defeat me? ”

A group of subordinate generals didn't take the nine-headed bird too seriously. In their opinion, didn't the Ming army rely on the advantage of artillery? But the cannons are dead, and their cavalry can restrain them.

In the end, Zachdan was also moved, and instead of passively sitting in the city and waiting for the Ming army to attack, it was better to ambush halfway.

"Okay, let the Southern Barbarians also know our riding and archery skills." Zachdan shouted as he slapped the table. Immediately, he gathered 1,05 Manchurian and Han cavalry, left the rest behind, and galloped out of Jinzhou.

The scouts of the reconnaissance regiment of the 1st Combat Brigade came back to report that Tartars had been spotted ahead.

"About fifteen hundred men, all cavalry, judging from the banners, there are all the Mongolian and Han people."

"How dare the Tartars go out of the city to fight? Where does faith come from? Fu Shan smiled and said to the soldiers beside him. But since he's here, let's treat him well. Order, cavalry formation, artillery in position! ”

The Qing army wanted to go out of the city to ambush, but since the landing, the nine-headed bird has been quite cautious, and has not relaxed its vigilance because of the strength of its soldiers and horses. Whether it is a march or a garrison, scouts will be sent out far away, keeping an eye on any wind and grass.

At the sound of the command, the soldiers and horses of the 1st Combat Brigade of the Nine-headed Bird stopped advancing and began to assemble on the plains of the wilderness.

Their formation is also very simple, an infantry division of more than 1,000 people is divided into two infantry phalanxes, and between every two horizontal infantry phalanxes, a cavalry formation is lined up.

Two infantry phalanxes and one cavalry phalanx form a large phalanx, which is lined up to form a large phalanx of three infantry cavalry.

On the flanks of these three large phalanxes of the front row, there were six artillery batteries of the artillery regiment, three on each side. In the rear are the vehicles and horses of the chariot department and the baggage department.

The Qing army also found that they were exposed, and these people quickly rushed over, trying to kill the Ming army before it could be formed.

The Ming army had at least 10,000 people, but in the face of the Ming army, which was several times larger, Zakdan rushed over first.

On the nine-headed bird's side, looking at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, Fu Shan and other generals were not afraid. Although they are all young generals, they have experienced many baptisms of war, especially since they are not from the traditional army of the Ming Dynasty, and they have established sufficient self-confidence in the victories of the nine-headed bird.

Those Jurchen cavalry that frightened the Ming border army did not stand out in their eyes. On the contrary, when they saw the traditional cavalry charging method of the Jurchen cavalry, there was only a look of contempt in their eyes.

"The formation of the Ming army is a little strange!"

Zakedan in front of the charge is also a veteran of many battles with the Ming army, last year even with the army all the way to Shandong, broke through the city of Jinan, robbed countless gold and silver money, after going back, not only promoted to the third class Lazhangjing, equivalent to the guerrilla general of the Ming army, but also divided more than 10 Han people.

With his experience in fighting against the Ming army, as soon as the Ming army encountered the cavalry of the Qing army, it immediately lost its heart. It was simply unbearable to fight, especially the Ming army in the interior. They did not dare to fight the Qing army head-on, except for shrinking in the city and throwing cold arrows and throwing stones. If they encounter them in the wild, most of them will run away or surrender, and even if they barely dare to fight, they mostly use the chariot formation as a camp and hide in it to defend and fight.

But now the Ming army in front of him actually lined up the infantry and cavalry in the first line, and those carriages were placed at the back.

What does that mean?

Could it be that the Ming army wants to hedge?

Zakdan felt incredible, and at the same time his heart snickered with joy. The Ming army had tens of thousands of people, and if they really used carriages to form a chariot formation and surround themselves, then he would really have to exert some effort. But now, the foot and rider are mixed together and placed in the front, isn't this death?

Thinking of this, Zachdan's blood boiled, he raised his big sword and roared, "Cut them down!" (To be continued......)