Although Hauge is reckless, he is not stupid, and he must also talk about strategy when he rushes hard.

The Manchu army fought very patiently, and in the battle of the Daling River that year, they shelled each other for a long time.

Huang Taiji prepared 8,500 light and heavy artillery shells, and forcibly pulled out all the Ming army batteries on the periphery of the battlefield one by one. Almost every Ming battery was bombarded by more than 200 shells from the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And the Manchu army, at that time, the infantry and artillery cavalry fought together!

Now Hauge did the same, ordering the whole army to wear only one layer of armor. This is because they figured out the number of roads in the Datong army and knew that there were no archers in the Datong army, but a huge number of firecrackers.

In this case, there is no need to wear multiple layers of armor, it will be pierced by the fire gun anyway.

When the battle was about to begin, Shang Kexi came to offer advice again: "Lord Wang, the enemy's guns are fierce, it is better to dig trenches and push forward, all the way to those dirt slopes!" ”

Before the advent of the high-powered flowering bomb, there were three ways to attack the fortress:

First, pile up human lives until the defenders can't kill them.

Second, bombardment with mortars. The mortar cannon has a large firing angle, and a large number of mortar cannons are used to throw at the city wall.

Third, dig tunnels. Dig a circular tunnel first, then dig a parallel tunnel, and then dig a circular tunnel...... The cycle goes on and on, little by little.

The Manchus naturally did not dare to pile up with human lives, and they only had cannons, and they had never had the habit of carrying mortars.

Then you can only dig tunnels, although Shang Kexi did not propose a ring tunnel offensive, but it is still very powerful to come up with the idea of digging tunnels.

Hauge shook his head and said, "When the tunnels are dug up, the wheat in the countryside is rotten, and this battle must be resolved quickly!" The castle on the opposite side is very low, and it is only necessary to break through the dirt slope outside and brave the arrows and stones to quickly capture it. I intend to attack on all sides, loosen up the formation, and pay one or two thousand casualties, and I will definitely be able to conquer this castle. ”

Shang Ke was happy to talk and stopped, and he didn't know what to say.

It was indeed very laborious to dig tunnels, and the Manchu Qing sent troops this time, mainly to harvest wheat.

By the way, send reinforcements in the siege of Gaizhou.

Hauge's side belongs to the partial division and does not dare to besiege the city for reinforcements. If you stay too long, you may be rushed by reinforcements and attack from the back.

……

"The enemy is attacking!" Jiang Hao stood on the city tower and said.

Xiao Zongxian smiled: "I'm in a hurry to die." ”

Xiao Zongxian was stationed in Fuzhou before, and after the Pingyu Fort was repaired, he came over with firearms, and the melee infantry and dragoons still stayed in Fuzhou.

Due to the constraints of time and conditions, Pingyu Fort is not a serious fortress, and it is actually relatively simple to build.

On the periphery of the low castle are a circle of moats and earthen walls.

The earth and stones excavated from the trenches are piled up into a slope at the outermost level, and a low wall is piled up between the trenches.

The low walls are only half a man high, and the musketeers can hide behind them and shoot. After the enemy rushed through the dirt slope, there were still trenches waiting, and each trench was a trench of life and death.

All the ditches and earthen walls had to be breached in order to attack the real castle.

At this moment, I saw that beyond the dirt slope, there were small groups of enemies everywhere, attacking in an extremely loose formation.

Xiao Zongxian held up the clairvoyant mirror and said slowly: "Order, no cannon fire." This attack was all a soldier, not the Eight Banners Army at all, it should have come to test the firepower of our army. ”

Above the castle, not a single shot was fired.

These were the soldiers who were forced to feint and attack, and they ran until they were near the dirt slope before they were defeated by the Datong firecrackers on the slope.

Jiang Hao patted his ass and said: "General Xiao has good eyesight, and he is really a soldier!" ”

Xiao Zongxian said with a smile: "Although they are all wearing cotton armor, the momentum of the charge is not right, and even the Datong peasant soldiers in my south are not as good." What is not a soldier? ”

In the early days, the division commanders, except for Fei Ruhe, also Xiao Zongxian read the most, which is really not comparable to a reckless man like Zhang Tieniu.

Of course, Huang Qi, Li Zheng and Hu Dinggui have also insisted on reading over the years, although most of the books they read are military books.

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly said: "It's better to resist a little on the periphery, show the enemy weakness, and put the Tartar in and fight again." ”

"Mr. Lu's words are exactly what I want." Xiao Zongxian said with a smile.

The city was chatting, but outside the city was frowning.

Hauge felt very uncomfortable about wasting the lives of some of his men and not being able to test the defenders' firepower.

He is a little nostalgic for fighting in Shanxi, where many troops and generals are available, and there is no need to waste the lives of the Eight Banners warriors as a temptation.

This time he withdrew to Liaodong, and Dolgon also took more than 20,000 troops and surrendered generals, and reorganized the Eight Banners Army in Liaodong. More than 20,000 surrendered troops, including 16,000 people, were incorporated into the Eight Banners of the Han Army as a supplement.

However, the combat effectiveness was worrisome, and the only way to garrison the cities was to prevent the Datong army from crossing the sea and sneaking attack.

Hauge is also a battle-hardened person, so naturally it is impossible to stud. He sent a number of Eight Bannermen, mixed with the guards of the ship's armor, to continue the reconnaissance feints, and took turns attacking all directions of the fortress.

It turned out that as long as the direction of the next main attack was far away, the sound of muskets would inevitably be more sparse, and artillery would have to be used to suppress them on the castle.

This made the nobles of the Eight Banners very happy.

Even Doni, who was reluctant to attack, said happily: "There are at most one or two thousand firecrackers inside!" ”

"One or two thousand firecrackers is not a few, but it can also be fought." Hauge laughed.

Doron said: "If you divide the formation a little more, you will not be afraid of firecrackers and artillery." ”

Ao Bai knelt on the ground and clenched his fists: "Lord Wang, let me take the lead in attacking the city!" ”

Hauge immediately arranged an attack, leaving only cavalry and musketeers, while the rest of the infantry and archers attacked from all sides.

This time, you don't need to use the car, you just spread out and rush forward.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Nearly thirty Manchu artillery pieces bombarded those dirt slopes wildly.

Under artillery cover, the Manchu troops began to attack. When they rushed to the firing point, the artillery on the castle also began to return fire, but the Manchu Eight Banners rushed forward under the fire.

This kind of thing, they often do it, because Daming's firepower is also very fierce.

When the Eight Banners approached the slope, the Manchu artillery stopped bombarding. The Datong army on the dirt slope fired a few shots sporadically, and then all chose to retreat and directly abandoned the dirt slope position.

Ao Baiti rushed up the dirt slope and was a little dumbfounded when he saw the situation inside.

Because behind the dirt slope, there are several trenches. These trenches were figured out and could be used by the defending soldiers to retreat and transfer.

At this moment, there is no other way to think about it.

When Ao Bai saw that the enemy had retreated into the trench and was using the trench to move, he immediately shouted: "Follow me to chase and kill the enemy!" ”

The Eight Banners everywhere, in line with Aobai's choice, chased down the dirt slope, ran over a section of flat land, and then jumped into the trench and began to chase and kill.

Many of them, carrying improvised ladders, seemed to want to rush up to the castle in one fell swoop.

Haoge, who was in charge of the Chinese army's big array, couldn't see what was going on inside, so he could only let the front-line generals play freely.

"Boom, boom!"

The passage connecting the annular trench with a low wall on both sides.

Behind the low wall, grenadiers suddenly stood up and threw 10,000 enemies into the passage.

After two shots of 10,000 enemies in succession, Ao Bai was killed several times in his body, and he himself was wounded by shrapnel.

"Bang bang bang!"

This was followed by a firing gun, aimed condescendingly at the enemy in the trench.

There are ditches and earthen walls, and the terrain cannot be seen clearly. Where is the passage of the trench and where is the passage on the ground, the defenders are also familiar with it after half a month of training.

For the attacker, it is tantamount to entering a labyrinth.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

Ao Bai shouted in horror, finally knowing how dangerous it was.

The bastion is not a lonely castle, but a defensive system, which can be understood as a "man-made preset battlefield". All the terrain here is arranged by the defenders, and the attackers only have to be beaten. That is, to maximize the defensive advantage and the offensive disadvantage.

The outlying fortifications of Pingyu Fort, which combined trenches and low walls, were more similar to the defense of a large battalion due to the constraints of conditions, but they were enough to confuse the enemy.

It's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out.

Because of the outermost circular tunnel, there are no steps to climb at all. Even if the defenders wanted to fight out, they had to temporarily build wooden planks, and the one-man high trench was enough for the enemy to climb slowly.

Fortunately, the Eight Banners Army brought many ladders, put them on the walls of the tunnel, and scrambled to climb up.

When you run for your life, you don't care so much, it's normal for you to fight for me, and you often grab the ladder and overturn it.

The musketeers, who were guarding behind the low wall above the tunnel, could easily shoot down.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the situation on the battlefield and said regretfully: "It's better not to go deep enough, otherwise these Tartars won't be able to escape a few." ”

Haoge couldn't command the battle, and Xiao Zongxian and Lu Xiangsheng were similar.

Because the soldiers in ambush had to crouch behind the low wall, it was difficult to see the flag orders on the city wall, and they could only be handled by the front-line commanders themselves.

While climbing the ladder, he was shot in the calf.

The first warrior of Manchuria climbed faster after pain, and rushed up in three or two strokes.

"Bang!"

Another shot hit the Eight Banners behind Aobai, and this unlucky guy just helped Haoge block the gun.

Ao Bai led his defeated soldiers and limped away from the slope, and will face the bombardment of the city's artillery.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

It is difficult for the attacker's artillery to hit the bastion, and the artillery of the bastion can easily bombard the enemy. Moreover, this angle is very prone to ricocheting, and almost every shell that lands on the ground will jump up and fly far forward, and if it hits one, it will either be killed or seriously injured.

Ao Bai fell off one leg and finally fled back, but he was confronted with Hauge's anger.

Hauge couldn't figure out what was going on inside, and was furious when he saw a bunch of routs: "They have already rushed in, why did they escape again?" ”

Ao Bai explained with a bitter face: "Lord Wang, there are ditches and low walls inside. If you turn around and turn around, you can't hit the enemy, you can only be beaten by the enemy. ”

Hauge was speechless.

The defeated soldiers fled back one after another, Hauge counted the casualties, and this attack lost more than 1,600 people!

In fact, some of them didn't die, but they couldn't get out, and more than 100 captives were captured.

Doni didn't bother to raise the bar with Hauge, and sighed: "Stop attacking the castle and go to the countryside to harvest wheat." At least three or four hundred of my warriors did not escape. ”

Hauge glared at Shang Kexi: "Since you have heard of this kind of castle, why don't you say anything to warn you?" ”

Shang Kexi stubbornly explained: "Lord Wang, the last general really doesn't know, I only know that this kind of castle is not easy to attack, and I don't know what it's like inside." ”

Haoge gritted his teeth and said: "Rectify your respective troops, slowly withdraw your troops, and prevent being pursued by the enemy!" ”

Fools will continue to attack, and Hauge can only choose to leave now.

This kind of castle is terrible, the enemy is not damaged, and after several attacks, he has already suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

Two thousand Eight Banners warriors!

This battle has nothing to do with morale, equipment, training, and organization, and it is purely the first time that the Manchus have encountered a fortress, and it is a fortress that has been changed into a mess by the Datong army. I have no experience in dealing with it at all, and it's really hell if I don't lose.

The Datong army could not pursue immediately, and the outer trenches could not be crossed, and they had to slowly build planks.

It's such a hassle to build a makeshift thing.