On January 15 of the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the so-called "First Battle of Baoding" recorded in the history of the ban.

Zhao Zhengbao took out all his family resources.

This family base included not only his army—all the cavalry and infantry units of Hebei, all the infantry units of the Central Plains, the defense units of Yanjing and the Acropolis—but also his people—countless civilians pulling grain and grass hand in hand.

After Ma Xingcai's enthusiastic pre-war mobilization, these people gathered north of Baoding City. Ma Xingcai told them that a god came down from heaven to help Hebei dominate the world.

When people heard this, some believed it, and some didn't.

But everyone knows that if they are defeated, they will surely die - and it is better to die on the battlefield!

So everyone prepared with the same hatred.

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The "22 Provincial Coalition Army" was besieging Baoding City at this time.

If they hadn't been paid their salaries, it would have been 30 million troops—of course, I guess millions—maybe a million, who the knows, I'm not a god.

The Ming Imperial Army discovered the main force of the Lianghe Army, took its attention away from Baoding City, and set up a position to face the north.

At this time, countless people were crowded outside the small city of Baoding, and the entire Jizhong Plain was so crowded that they couldn't get into the dumplings!

Zhao Zhengbao, the "Governor of the Two Rivers", appeared in the north.

Surrounded by the crowd, he used the loudspeaker of the car to announce the final mobilization for the war, in which he accused the court of brutality and dereliction of duty, his own innocent loyalty, the hearts of the Ming subjects, the "divine help" of Hebei, and the victory of the Lianghe Army.

This speech was obviously written by Ma Xingcai, and it was well written, and I give it a score of 99.

Zhu Hongfeng, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, appeared in the south.

He didn't bother to speak, and looked contemptuously.

When he heard Zhao Zhengbao say, "God is destined for us to win," he and his "22 Provincial Alliance" burst into cheerful laughter at the same time.

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Both sides waved their flags and began to attack.

People on the city wall of Baoding in the middle watched nervously on both sides, waving the Hebei provincial flag.

The two sides first shelled each other.

Shells hit the dense positions like stones thrown into a pond.

People on both sides did not hide, just waited in place to be bombed.

Soon the shelling from the south stopped, because they were out of shells - the forbidden army just wouldn't give them.

The shelling was meant to be a symbolic ritual, just a few shots, just to tell the other side that my cavalry was going to charge, just like waving a flag, but this ritual in the north is a bit long.

After the shelling in the south stopped for a long time, the north continued to bomb indiscriminately.

The south was a little overwhelmed, the soldiers were a little panicked, and the formation began to retreat.

The frequency of artillery firing in the north has also slowly decreased, because their cannons have blown up their tubes.

After all, the quality of the shells produced by Yanjing is not high, and if you fight too much, you can always encounter stink bombs.

If there are too many barrels, they will always blow up the barrels, and they have no spare barrels, and they cannot produce barrels at all with their strength. Barrels require casting, quenching, drawing, cutting, and other complicated procedures, which they simply do not have the ability to do.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Southern Front, the Two Rivers Army sent all their last car charges, with submachine guns mounted on them and their self-made bullets piled underneath them.

The car accelerated to the south, and the submachine gun spewed flames.

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But! Damn it! The vanguard sent by the Royal Army was not their own army, but the people of the Central Plains and Hebei!

All of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, bare-handed, ragged, and miserable.

These flesh shields were charged forward with swords, followed by cavalry, archers, and infantry from all provinces.

The Two Rivers Army had no choice but to shoot.

The people fell down in rows like leeks.

As soon as this group of people fell, the next group rushed up, batch after batch, endlessly.

People didn't even pretend to be dead, their legs were broken, and they crawled north.

His hand was also broken, and he rolled north.

Played for a long time.

The two sides seem to be angry, depending on whether you have more guns or more meat shields.

Some of the guns of the Hebei army were jammed, some were bursting, and some had to change ammunition.

At this time, the Royal Army rushed up, and the crowd of Wuyang and Wuyang rushed towards the Hebei Army.

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Each of the Two Rivers Army had a ring of grenades around their waists and threw them wildly at the south.

A flash of light, a loud noise, a smoke, accompanied by limbs flying in the sky.

The cavalry of the Royal Army began to charge north.

When have these military horses ever seen such a formation?!

Before the grenade could hit the cavalry, the horses were frightened by the loud sound of the grenade.

As the two rivers army advanced, the horses turned around and ran, and the cavalry was thrown to the ground and dragged away, and their heads were torn off.

Subsequent Royal Army archers fired arrows to the north.

The arrows in the sky shot the infantry of the Two Rivers Army into hedgehogs, but the grenades of the Two Rivers Army could not be thrown that far.

The two river armies braved each other's arrows to charge.

Most of them died under the arrows, but some were lucky enough to rush in front of each other, he threw grenades, dozens of archers were blown into the sky, and those around them were also stunned.

More and more people rushed to the front, and the formation of the Royal Army collapsed.

They started backwards and then turned and ran.

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The Lianghe Army finally attacked the city of Baoding.

Beneath the city were the camps and fortifications of the Royal Army, including sandbags, trenches, pillboxes, mounds, and dozens of unfinished tunnels dug into Baoding City.

The Royal Army relied on these things to stop the attack of the Two Rivers Army, and those fortifications effectively attenuated the explosive power of the grenades.

The war lasted from morning to evening, and the blood-red sunset reflected the blood-red earth.

The Two Rivers Army made the final charge, and their weapon was themselves.

One by one, the soldiers of the Two Rivers Army were strapped to explosives bags and rushed to the Royal Army bunker.

One by one, those bunkers were blown up.

There were a lot of soldiers from the Two Rivers Army who rushed into the tunnels.

Soon there was a dull sound from the depths of the ground, and the flat ground caved into deep and wide gaps, leading to Baoding City, and disappeared when it reached the city wall.

If it were a few days late, these hidden tunnels would be filled with black powder and then blow up the city walls, and the bones of millions of people in Baoding would be gone.

The follow-up troops of the Two Rivers Army rushed up and cleared the remnants of the Royal Army, and now the entire city of Baoding was within the reach of the Two Rivers Army.

The big iron gate of Baoding City slowly opened, and the people outside the city cheered and hugged each other.

A large number of troops of the Lianghe Army entered the city, and there were also heavy troops behind them to send a large amount of food to Baoding City, which had been besieged for more than two months—the city was about to be eaten by people.

I watched it all from afar from the rear.

I was very touched by these unyielding resistances.

I was very angry because of these brutal Ming Imperial Army.

I was angry because my technique did not bring the Rivers Army a final victory.

The Two Rivers Army suffered heavy losses, their bullets and shells were all useless, grenades and bombs did not give them an overwhelming advantage, and the Royal Army stationed in the south of Baoding was not wounded.

Thinking of the innocence of Hebei and the cruelty of the imperial court, I thought, damn, you forced me!

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After entering the city, there is a grand celebration feast.

Although the Two Rivers Army suffered heavy losses, it was still victorious.

People take out the best things to eat and the best wine to drink.

I can't believe it!

I actually saw Dongfang Rong in Baoding City!

He was rewarded by Zhao Zhengbao for his meritorious service in defending the city.

He looked much thinner and very emaciated.

I met him quietly and privately.

He looked at me in surprise, completely incredulous.

Then we hugged each other and couldn't be separated for a long time.

I used to be very jealous of him, jealous of his landlord status, jealous of his jinshi, and jealous of his middle move.

I also looked down on him for being fat, laughed at him for being stupid, and laughed at him for being a eunuch.

I even hated him for no reason.

Now we hug each other like brothers.

Even though he was Zhao Zhengbao's general, and I was an imperial official of the imperial court.

I told him everything I had and nothing to hide.

He also told them about the situation.

In the second year of Daming Honghua, the prince Zhu Hongfeng had already recruited troops in Luobei County, and he recruited tens of thousands of Luobei children. At that time, people felt that the conscription was too large because they did not know how to recruit in the future.

At the beginning of the third year of Daming Honghua, Zhao Zhengbao occupied Luobei, and the number of conscripts doubled.

In October of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial army rushed out of Tongguan and implemented the policy of "killing without forgiveness" for the counties of the Central Plains.

Zhao Zhengbao ordered all the Central Plains people to withdraw to Hebei - and was particularly strict with Luobei County - Dongfang Rong entered Hebei with more than a million people in the county, and then retreated all the way north.

Laggards and casualties along the way left the team with less than a million men.

They stopped outside the city of Baoding, where only soldiers and young women were allowed to take refuge, while the rest had to stay outside.

Dongfang Rong picked out more than 200,000 people with tears, and the rest could only say goodbye to their relatives outside the city - they all made the meat shield of the Ming Imperial Army.

Dongfang Rong said: "As a county magistrate and military officer, I still have some power. I brought in all the people I knew in the village, and as for the others, I really couldn't help it. My whole family is fine, and so is the dog's leftover family. But the dog leftover died a few days ago, and the plague died. By the way, the dog's leftover father is dying, and he keeps mentioning you these days for some reason, wanting to see you for the last time. I also said how is this possible, I didn't expect you to really come! It's a miracle! ”