Liaodong, Jinzhou Jiancheng.

The sound of guns and cannons rumbled, the roar of killing shook the sky, the tragic offensive and defensive battle was still continuing, and it had lasted for several days, the Jin army was crazy like a madman attacking the city, the battle was extremely tragic, but the war seemed to have nothing to do with Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong, he was lying on the desk with a few henchmen, staring at the map on the table, studying the battle of the Horqin grassland.

Hong Chengchou had already arranged all the details of the Jinzhou defensive battle before he became the shopkeeper, and Zu Chengxun, the chief soldier of Jinzhou who was in charge of the command, as long as there were no major mistakes and commanded the battle according to his deployment, no matter how fierce the Jin army attacked, it would not be able to break through the fortified city of Jinzhou.

He didn't missee the wrong person, although Zu Chengxun was not enterprising, but he was calm and good at guarding, according to his deployment, commanded the battle in an orderly manner, after a few days of fierce fighting, whether it was the new army or the old army that had just received reorganization, they all took turns to go into battle and received a real combat training, some troops have already experienced the second battle, although there are casualties, but the soldiers have grown up, and are changing, I believe that a few more battles, can fully grow into a veteran.

Although the old army that had been reorganized on the Ningjin Defense Line had not yet been able to replace all of its muskets and artillery, as for half of the troops, it was also equipped with reckless muskets, and although they were still backward front-loading muskets, they were all sophisticated muskets, so there was no need to worry about exploding the chamber with three or five shots as before.

With a large number of excellent Lu Mi guns, enough detonators to bomb the sky, enough flowering shells for the Franc cannon, soldiers to serve their orders, a strong city to rely on, and attacking fortifications is the weakness of the Jin army, what else is there to worry about? Therefore, Hong Chengchou will rest assured and boldly throw the heavy responsibility of the defensive battle to his subordinates, and hide in the house by himself, if he is ten years younger, maybe he will chat with his favorite concubine about life ideals or something.

Boom –

Hong Chengchou was studying the tactics of conquering the Horqin grassland with several henchmen, when he suddenly heard a loud noise that shook the sky, and the ground shook violently under his feet.

"Someone, go check it out immediately!" Hong Chengchou shouted loudly, this earth-shattering loud noise and the violent shaking of the earth made him feel a strong sense of unease, and while ordering his own soldiers to check, he summoned his own guards out of the palace, intending to go up to the city to check.

"Inspector, look." A pro-soldier points to the north.

Hong Chengchou turned to look forward, only to see a thick smoke rising from the direction of Beicheng, and his face changed suddenly, "Oh no, it's still careless, you, you, you, immediately rushed to inform the generals of the battalions to urgently reinforce Beicheng, so the guards rushed to Beicheng with me." ”

The earth-shattering explosion sounded from the north city gate, the original thick and solid city wall was blown down, revealing a large gap more than 20 meters wide, as if it was bitten by a giant beast, there were more than 100 guards on the head of the city in the collapsed section, and there were more than 100 soldiers in the hidden pit under the city, all of whom were killed, and the billowing dust and smoke raised covered the sky and the sun.

Huang Taiji waved the army to attack the city, the west city is the main direction of attack, the north and south feints, he led the army to attack the city, while ordering the migrant workers to dig the tunnel desperately, the migrant workers dug a total of four tunnels, one of which dug the underground river, the tunnel was flooded, the other two were found and destroyed by the Ming army defending the city, fortunately the tunnel dug in the north city was not discovered by the Ming army, and successfully excavated to the city, buried explosives and successfully blasted.

Huang Taiji had already arranged the elite iron cavalry to prepare for the charge, but in order to avoid being discovered by the Ming army, the senior generals of the Ming army had a clairglass mirror, which was said to be able to see things thousands of miles away.

"Kill!"

The originally dense phalanx of infantry quickly parted to the left and right, revealing a large opening, and an iron cavalry struck out of the formation, surging forward like a rolling flood without an embankment.

"What happened?"

Today it is He Renlong's turn to be in charge of guarding the defense line of the northern city, and the Jin army attacking in the north is just a feint, He Renlong is not under much pressure, so he is busy and sneaking in a small wine shop near the city gate to drink some wine, and by the way, he teases the young and beautiful proprietress of the young and beautiful proprietress by the way.

The proprietress is surnamed Xiao, widowed for two years, and is nicknamed the widow by the people in the city, in peacetime, some gangsters or single hairy young men love to come here to drink, but now that the war is fighting, the Xiao family wine shop is too close to the city gate, and it may be hit by the solid shells of the Jin army, which is a dangerous area, no one dares to come again, even if there is a bold desire to come, he can't get in, and he is blocked by He Renlong's personal soldiers, because He Renlong uses the Xiao family wine shop as his temporary headquarters.

Although He Renlong accepted and learned all kinds of advanced theoretical knowledge of the new army, the old army habits on his body were still heavy, and his personality was rough and domineering, and no one dared to provoke him, of course, he was gentle to Widow Xiao.

In this era of male superiority and inferiority, the man is the head of the family, and it is very difficult for a woman who has lost her pillar to live, even if Widow Xiao has this wine shop, she is often harassed by those ruffians and gangsters, plus all kinds of gossip, and her heart is not strong enough to wipe her neck and commit suicide early to prove her innocence.

Widow Xiao really wanted to find a powerful man to rely on, and she was still very excited about He Renlong, who looked powerful and commanded the troops of the first division, so she let him touch his little hands or something to rub oil and eat some small tofu.

He Renlong was eating tofu happily, when suddenly an earth-shattering violent explosion sounded, and the ground shook, which startled He Renlong, and Widow Xiao was even more frightened, instinctively screaming, and threw herself into his arms.

The beauty took the initiative to give her arms, but He Renlong didn't have the mind and time to take the opportunity to rub oil and eat tofu, and he pushed people away very incomprehensibly, the explosion was very loud, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it was in his defense area, something must have happened, he didn't dare to be careless, otherwise he would be ashamed of the favor of the Son of Heaven, and his future would be ruined.

"You two stay behind to protect Mrs. Chexiao." He Renlong rushed out, turned his head and pointed at the two pro-soldiers in a hurry, and asked them to stay behind to protect Widow Xiao.

cough cough cough ......

He Renlong rushed out of the door, and was choked by the billowing dust and smoke, and a group of personal soldiers and guards behind him hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and everyone was shrouded in the thick smoke that diffused, almost unable to see.

When the billowing smoke cleared slightly, He Renlong couldn't help but open his mouth wide when he saw the collapsed city wall, fortunately he was also a fierce general who had experienced a hundred battles, and he quickly reacted, thinking of a terrible scene in his mind, he shivered and hissed loudly, "Come on, quickly plug the gap, plug the gap." ”

He Renlong is in charge of a division's troops, but his division is seriously lacking, only two regiments of more than 3,000 people, including two second battalions of well-dressed Lu Mi, the others are still swords, bows and arrows and other cold weapons, according to Zhu Jian's idea, it doesn't matter if there is a shortage of personnel, first put up the shelves of the troops, the soldiers can be slowly replenished, and the weapons can also be slowly changed.

"The spearmen are lined up here, the musketeers and archers are on the city to block, and the others are carrying sandbags for Lao Tzu, all hurry up, the Jin army is coming, if you don't want to die, hurry up!"

He Renlong shouted loudly and commanded, his arrangements are one of the preset precautions before the war, every officer has to study carefully and memorize, this is according to the previous Shanhaiguan city wall was blown down, Lu Hongniang's targeted arrangement, blocking the correct arrangement of the Jin Army's iron cavalry assault and breaking the city, Zhu Jian asked Hong Chengchou to send this battle example to the whole army to study, digging tunnels to bomb the city is one of the Taiping Army's specialties, and now it has been discovered and used by Huang Taiji in advance, he can only remind the generals of the nine sides to be careful.

In fact, there was no need for him to shout orders, and several political officers in the army had already acted according to the precautionary plan, leading musketeers and archers to rush up to the city, separating the head of the city and on both sides of the broken wall.

The spearmen poured into the collapse of the city, erected their spears one by one, and laid out a dense array of spears, behind which were several columns of musketeers and archers, and the rest of the soldiers carried sandbags and piled them up in front of the musketeers, forming a simple sandbag defense.

There are also some soldiers to carry all kinds of debris to throw to the city collapse, desperately to fill the gap, the nearby people are also mobilized, carry sandbags to move sandbags, move sundries to move debris, and some people to pile up sand and gravel piles to dump cement, stir evenly, and then pour water and stir evenly, put barrels and transport them to the city, dump to the gap, in the busy time, thousands of Jin army iron cavalry has been like a flood that lacks embankment.