On the ninth day of December in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, it was sunny.

Yesterday, Hilgen camped ten miles west-north of Pangjiazhuang, and in the evening he found that the Ming army of the brigade was approaching Pangjiazhuang, and it was estimated that the number of people had approached the armor of Hilgen and Zu Zerun.

The two originally wanted to report the battle situation after taking Pangjiazhuang, maybe they gained a lot because of the mistake, and they would not punish the casualties too much. However, after receiving the news of the reinforcements of the Ming army, Hilgen Zuzerun could only choose between retiring and holding on to the reinforcements.

The result of the withdrawal is that they will be idle and unused, and they may be whipped up.

Stick to the words of help......

"Don't talk about death," Hilgen said to himself, "just say that there are important people here." ”

It is a fact that the Ming army has gathered, and according to this fact, it must be that there must be a big man in Pangjiazhuang, otherwise who would care about the safety of a village? Recalling the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou led his troops to rescue Zu Dashou, who was besieged in Jinzhou City, and the Ming army was not so active as it is now.

Zu Zerun did not agree with this, and he did not believe that Hong Chengchou would believe it. Because there is a huge loophole in this statement: it is impossible for the big men of the Ming army not to bring their own guards to such a front-line village.

And during the whole day of fighting, I didn't see any flags or official badges.

Take 10,000 steps back, if there is really any big man, he will definitely run away when the village is not yet surrounded.

However, now he and Hilgen are grasshoppers on a rope, and it is already a shame that he can't defeat this village, and those who talk cool will not care that there is artillery in the village, and the elite reinforcements are coming very quickly.

So the only way to stay silent and let Hilgen come out on top is wise.

……

"Since the Ming army wants to fight, let's fight hard! After this battle, we also opened up the situation. It's worthy of the saint. Abatai coughed and pointed to the location of Anping County on the map.

The atmosphere in the tent was a little strange, and the Manchurian generals headed by Bolo had different expressions, some laughed at Hilgen's incompetence, some couldn't wait to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and some had serious faces.

On the side of the Han military banner, there are only Hong Chengchou and Zu Zepu, the second son of Zu Dashou. Although Zu Dashou has been reluctant to fight for the Manchu Qing Dynasty since his surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Only took the high-ranking official Houlu as a parasite, but this time the form was too urgent, King Sanshun and Wu Sangui both invested in the western road campaign, and the Han army banner in the south was really short of people to command, so they could only use the ancestral generals.

Although Hong Chengchou has extremely high qualifications, in the end, he is a civilian official and a marshal, and he still has to rely on military generals with experience in battle formations to really march and arrange, and the two armies to engage the enemy. He looked at Zu Zepu at the next one. As if he could see the resistance to this battle in his heart, he turned his head to Abatai and said: "Hill was only ordered to investigate the truth and the truth, and I don't know the strength of the three towns of the Ming army. ”

"Cowardly!" Suo Hai got up and shouted, "How can I, the warriors of Zhushen, be afraid of the Ming army? Even if they come together, they won't be able to carry my 100,000 army! "He is just Meler Zhangjing, and he is considered to be a second-rank martial artist, but Hong Chengchou is a first-rank governor and scholar, if he is in the Ming Dynasty, no one will dare to be rude to him.

Hong Chengchou also knows the truth that people have to bow their heads under the eaves. I didn't argue with this rough man, so I just kept silent.

Abatai tapped the table with one hand. Touching his chest with one hand, he said, "Hit a dozen, and the virtual and the real will naturally come out." Suo Hai, since you have the heart to fight, I will give you 10,000 people to break through Anping as soon as possible. Then withdraw and see how the Ming army responds. ”

"Huh! If you don't break the peace, I'll come to see the prince! Suo Hai made a military order.

Abatai shook his head slightly, and said, "Boheto, you hurry to Tianjin." Leading the eastern route soldiers to fight Cangzhou is also based on temptation, and not to lose more troops. ”

"Huh!" Bo and Toto are Bolo's older brothers, but Bolo is already Baylor, but he is still a Beizi, and he needs the opportunity to be on his own.

"Turai, Suppilon," said Abatai, "you rush to the river, and lead the troops in the middle to respond to Boheto and Suohai. Ben Wang and Mr. Hong led the army to defend against the Zhending Ming army. ”

"Huh!" Both of them were on call at the same time.

Hong Chengchou was very dissatisfied with Abatai's self-contained strategy, but as a Hanchen, although he was the governor of military affairs, he still could not overpower Nurhachi's son. The Qing Dynasty said that it was a country, but the nature of the tribal alliance was stronger, and the six officials were dispensable, not to mention a governor.

Abatai slowly stood up and announced, "Let's march here." ”

After a while, the generals in the big tent walked cleanly, leaving only Hong Chengchou alone.

Only then did Hong Chengchou say: "Lord Wang, it is freezing right now, and it is really not the time to attack in the wild. ”

How cold was North China during the Xiaoice period? It is difficult to come up with specific values without meteorological statistics. However, now the winter in Guangdong can drip into ice, and the temperature in North China is also minus 20 degrees. In this kind of extremely cold weather, even if people freeze to death in the city, let alone live in the wild?

"Could it be that my Qing soldiers are cold?" Abatai disagreed: "Wasn't it colder when I Zhushen was in Liaodong?" It's also in the customs. The Ming army is afraid that it will be more difficult to adapt. ”

Hong Chengchou could not deny that the Eastern soldiers were indeed superior to the Ming soldiers in adapting to the cold. However, people's ability to resist is limited after all, and when the temperature drops to a certain level, even if they resist the cold, they will freeze to death. It is already twenty-nine days now, and if they are still living in tents by the thirty-ninth day, a large number of soldiers will inevitably freeze to death.

"If someone in our army freezes to death, then the Ming army must have frozen to death." Abatai was confident.

Abatai proved to be too optimistic.

Early in the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, more than a dozen people froze to death in Hilgen's camp. These people are mainly Aha who has no winter clothes, which was originally also a consumable and did not attract his attention. But by midday, the attrition was still on the rise, extending from Aha to the sick and wounded.

Hilgen also thought the same as Abatai, thinking that the Ming army would rush to the rescue, and it would definitely be too late to bring baggage, and there must be more people who froze to death at night.

……

The Ming army was unharmed last night, and not a single one was frozen.

The observation post on the watchtower immediately discovered that the Qing army camp had begun to line up, and the news was immediately transmitted.

Wang Jiakang came out of the tent, looked up at the sky, and ordered a formation to meet the enemy.

Throughout the night, a half-human-high chest wall had been built in front of Pangjiazhuang. In this season, if you pull up two coarse cloths and pour water on them, you will soon freeze hard. Then mud was poured into the middle, and after a night of freezing, an impregnable breastwork was built.

Because there are three deep wells in the village, the water that comes up is still steaming. Therefore, the key to this simple fortification wall is to excavate the earthwork, fortunately, there are ready-made sand and stones in the village to prepare to consolidate the wall, which is coming in handy this time.

With the breastwork and tiger squatting, plus the red cannons in the stockade, the Ming army didn't even have to line up in array. The 3,000th division was divided into two shifts, which took turns. If it's not your turn, rest in the tent at the back to keep fit. In order to maintain the strength of the attack, the Qing army could only array in the field, attacking the Ming army's defense line in waves, but it could not even open a gap.

Hilgen once wanted to make a detour to attack the Ming army on the flank, but found that there were already new Ming reinforcements on the flank, and there were several irresistible tiger squat cannons. For a moment, Hilgen finally realized that he had kicked the iron plate, but there was no way back if he wanted to turn back. Because, he got a report from Tangma this morning, and Meler Ezhen Suohai is leading a large army to rush over.

Now is the real tiger riding hard.

"The Ming army must be more difficult to survive than us." Hilgen said to Zuzer.

Zu Zerun couldn't help but said: "You don't know how rich Daming is, if you use the financial resources of Jiangnan to build this defense line, even if 100,000 troops are consumed here, they can't survive them." ”

Hilgan let out a rough breath from his nose and didn't retort.

The Ming army began to cook again, and the aroma wafting out of it hooked the mouth with a spring of liquid, without the slightest sign of difficulty. Several Aha were wearing thin clothes and trousers, freezing and starving, their lips were blue, and they looked at the Ming military camp with smoke coming out of the camp and swallowed their saliva.

For the Qing army, the armor was prepared by themselves, and if the preparation was insufficient, they could only peel off the clothes and armor of the dead to keep them warm, or resign themselves to freezing to death. In fact, every winter, a large number of coated Aha freeze and starve to death, which is also the reason why the Manchurians have to "rush to the west" to replenish the labor force during the winter and spring transition every year.

But this time, they were already on the west side. (To be continued......)

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