Hauge left with the army on the front foot, and wolf smoke rose from the back foot of Pingyu Fort.

The castle was too small to accommodate firecrackers and baggage, and it was already crowded. Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry could not have been stuffed here, and they were all camped in the ravine further south.

In half a day, Lu Xiangsheng led more than a dozen cavalry to join 7,000 cavalry a few miles away from the Manchu army.

The Manchu sentinels had already noticed it, and they were so frightened that they quickly returned to report the news.

"Nearly 10,000 enemy riders?" Hauge was stunned.

The overwhelming cavalry is really difficult to count, and the Manchu spies can only estimate it.

Doni didn't care about the factional fighting, and said with a stern face: "There are nearly 10,000 cavalry alone, and the enemy infantry is probably even more." You should cross the river immediately and join forces with the regent, and don't collect any more wheat for the time being. ”

These guys, who came along the Daqing River, also cut wheat on the south bank of the Daqing River.

Hauge looked at the large wheat field, gritted his teeth, and said, "Light fires everywhere and burn all this wheat!" The warriors of the Eight Banners formed a formation to defend, and the soldiers and people crossed the river with their baggage first! ”

This was not an escape, but a tactical retreat, and the Eight Banners did not run first.

Hundreds of soldiers, carrying torches, ran to the surrounding wheat fields to light the ripe wheat.

Knowing that the Manchu army was approaching, the peasants went into hiding in the mountains a few days early. Hauge could not plunder the population and livestock, and now it was dangerous to even cut the wheat, so he simply destroyed the wheat field in front of him.

This situation made Hauge very depressed.

Because in the past, in the face of the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong border army, the Manchus all came and left whenever they wanted. The border army of the Ming Dynasty can only be on guard at all times, detect that the Manchus are coming to grab grain, organize the people to collect the grain in advance, and destroy what cannot be harvested, and let the Manchus take away those who can't destroy it.

And the Datong army dared to send troops to stop the Manchu Qing from harvesting wheat!

Lu Xiangsheng came with 7,000 horses, first went to kill the soldiers who set fire to the wheat field, and roared angrily: "The ancestors of the number of classics, don't let one go!" ”

These soldiers were far apart, and when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, they threw away their torches and fled frantically in the direction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Manchu artillery fired a salvo to stop the advance of the Datong cavalry.

Lu Xiangsheng only had cavalry in his hands, and he didn't dare to attack the enemy's big array, or even get too close. I could only watch as several wheat fields closer to the Qing army were burned.

In the whole battle, the Manchu Qing belonged to the attacking side, and the Datong Army belonged to the defending side.

The defender is even more passive!

Not only was the army at a disadvantage, but it also defended three cities, as well as the farmland around them. Gaizhou City and Pingyu Fort were only the most convenient routes for the Manchus to send troops, and the Manchus could also drill ravines in other directions, and they had to fortify and send sentinels everywhere.

Only by figuring out the direction of the main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could the Datong Army slowly assemble.

By the time Hauge attacked Pingyubao, the Datong army further south had already assembled towards Gaizhou, but it would take two or three days to do so.

Haorge rode on horseback and stood in the large formation of the Chinese army on the shore, facing Lu Xiangsheng from a distance, and neither side made any more moves.

It was not until the Manchu artillery was loaded and transported to the opposite bank that Lu Xiangsheng ordered the cavalry to come forward to extinguish the fire and prevent the fire from spreading to other wheat fields.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Manchu artillery was mounted on the opposite bank and began shelling again, covering the other Eight Banners soldiers to cross the river.

Lu Xiangsheng just looked at it, he had achieved his goal. This battle had only two purposes: first, to hold the city; Second, not to allow the Manchus to steal too much grain.

Drive Hauge's army across the river and prevent it from collecting food.

As for how many casualties can be inflicted on the enemy, it really doesn't matter. Just drag out the time slowly, this is the first year, it is the weakest time for the Datong army in Liaodong, and it can completely reverse the situation by delaying it for two or three years.

Liaodong is too far away, and it is not easy to transport military rations.

The grain convoy from the south encountered a storm some time ago, and one ship sank, and several other ships were damaged in many places.

Even if the Eighth Banner Army can be severely damaged this time, the Datong Army will not be able to continue to expand northward, and at most take the opportunity to occupy two more coastal cities.

Naval heavy infantry and musketeers were once again the last troops to cross the river.

Lu Xiangsheng did not choose to charge, because there was enemy artillery on the opposite bank, and there were Han army firearms on the shore. Even if they can kill these enemies who cross the river last, their own cavalry will definitely pay casualties, and this kind of life for life is not cost-effective.

When Haoge crossed the river and left, Xiao Zongxian's firecrackers followed, dragging some artillery and baggage.

"It looks like we're going to have a big battle in Gaizhou City." Xiao Zongxian said.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "If you can't capture Gaizhou City, the enemy army will not dare to cross the river easily. If you can't cross the river, you can't loot, and then our army will be counted. Just see how far Dorgon wants to go! ”

Xiao Zongxian said with a smile: "I definitely want to take Gaizhou." Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Jinzhou are located in Liaodong, and they are like mangs on their backs for the Tartars. If we delay for one more year, our army will be stronger and more abundant, and the Tartars will understand this truth. ”

Zhao Han's military plan to recover Liaodong was exactly the same as that of Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, and he was also in the Liaodong Peninsula step by step.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang was even more difficult at that time. Navigation technology was not as advanced as it is now, and it was extremely dangerous to transport food and troops from the sea. After arriving on the Liaodong Peninsula, there was no city to defend, and at first the city walls could only be made of wooden planks.

In the face of the counterattack of the Mengyuan army, the soldiers of the early Ming Dynasty were extremely brave. After the wooden wall was destroyed by the enemy, it was completely blocked by human life, and even the families of the soldiers joined the battle.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent soldiers to Liaodong by sea ship, and in the first few years he only did three things: tuntian, building cities, and defending.

After Tuntian received the effect, the army was fully fed and the soldiers were strong, so they immediately sent troops north!

……

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Inside and outside the city of Gaizhou, the sound of artillery shook the sky.

This has been going on for several days. The two sides did nothing else, and kept bombarding each other with artillery, as if it was a replica of the Battle of Daling River that year.

Dolgon imitated Huang Taiji and was dug in a circular trench in the city of Gaizhou.

When a ditch was dug up, a high wall was built in front of it with the excavated earth and rocks. Then use parallel trenches, continue to dig circular trenches forward, continue to build high walls with earth and stone barriers, and at the same time, place artillery bombardment at the gap in the high wall to bombard the city wall of Gaizhou.

This siege tactic is already somewhat similar to the "Vauban Siege Method", which is used to attack the fortress.

In the Battle of the Daling River, the Manchu Qing used 168 artillery pieces.

At this time, Dolgon attacked Gaizhou City, brazenly dispatched 183 artillery, and even the city defense artillery in Shenyang was dismantled and transported!

These guns were of all kinds, the smallest of which was a 4.5-pounder gun, and bombarding the walls was like tickling. The largest caliber is the 12-pounder gun, which belongs to the imitation of the "Wanli General Cannon".

Dolgon prepared a total of 15,000 shells of all kinds.

Still can't be with Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji attacked the Daling River that year, and prepared 17,000 shells. Just by uprooting the piers around Dalinghe City, two or three thousand shells were fired.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The shelling of Gaizhou City has not stopped, and the river and sea banks to the west of the city have begun again - the Datong Navy is bombarding the Manchus.

This seems to be a replica of another war, in history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty spent five days, arranging 80 coastal gun emplacements, and the Ming warships bombarded in Gaizhou.

There is no flowery work, just shelling, shelling, shelling......

The shelling inside and outside the city had been going on for half a month, and only small breaches had been made in the walls. Although the city wall of Gaizhou is not as good as Jining, it is similar to the city wall of Shangqiu, and it is not possible to collapse in ten days and a half months if it is bombarded by Manchu artillery.

"Boom!"

Another Manchu artillery was scrapped.

Although there are earthen walls as cover, the accuracy of artillery bombardment on the city is much higher than that of siege artillery on the ground.

The combat missions of both sides were different, the Manchu artillery wanted to destroy the city wall, while the Datong artillery wanted to destroy the Manchu artillery.

Hauge came to the outside of Gaizhou City, met with Dolgon, and when they met, he said: "There is a Southern Barbarian army behind, and there are nearly 10,000 cavalry alone!" ”

Dolgon smiled: "I'm afraid that they won't come, just besieging the city to send reinforcements." ”

Besieging the city and sending reinforcements is a trick that the Manchu Qing has tried and tested.

Because the walls of the Ming border army were too high and thick, they couldn't be beaten down in two or three months. Then they kept shelling around it, then annihilated the rescue force, killed a few reinforcements, and then surrendered when the city ran out of ammunition and food.

At this moment, Dolgon's tens of thousands of troops had crossed the Daqing River and moved to the south of Gaizhou City. Trenches and earthen walls were also dug and waiting for reinforcements from the Datong Army to come.

Twenty miles south of the city.

Li arrived by sea boat, but was blocked by the Manchu temporary shore defense batteries, and simply retreated to land on the coast.

After learning about the situation in Gaizhou City, he did not take the initiative to attack, and camped more than ten miles away from Dolgon. At the same time, he let the sea ships continue to bring grain and people from Fuzhou, and dig trenches and fortifications to build earthen walls inside and outside the camp.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry, which also covered Xiao Zongxian's infantry, ran to the beach to join Li Zheng.

The scene froze completely.

Nearly 70,000 troops of Dolgon and Hauge, as well as hundreds of thousands of soldiers and people, surrounded the city of Gaizhou.

In Gaizhou City, there was only one division of Hu Dinggui and the peasants who had withdrawn into the city from the surrounding areas.

Twenty miles south of Gaizhou City, there were reinforcements from Li Zheng, Xiao Zongxian, and Lu Xiangsheng, with more than 20,000 regular soldiers (some left in Pingyu Fort), and a large number of peasants and people.

A few miles west of Gaizhou City, the navy of the Datong Army, was bombarding the Manchu batteries.

After half a month of fighting, it was all shelling, digging trenches and building earth walls.

No one wants to take the initiative to attack, because they can't rush in. All kinds of fortifications, whoever rushes and who dies, the attacker always suffers more.

"What if the enemy's reinforcements don't come?" Hauge was a little depressed.

Dorgon said, "In time, the enemy will show his flaws." ”

That's how it is to fight, to see who can't survive first.

The Ming fought against the Manchus, and many times as well. The two sides were completely frozen, and the Ming Dynasty could not repel the Manchus, and the Manchus could not break through the city.

Under normal circumstances, the Manchu army ran out of food and chose to withdraw its troops.

But many times it is not normal, such as the reinforcements rushing forward lightly, or the imperial court urging the reinforcements to hurry up to fight, or there are traitors in the city - the defenders of Liaodong, some of whom are Mongols. Due to the surrender of the Mongols, several cities were lost.

Li Zheng belongs to a calm character, and he fights like this, and so does he treat people.

Although he decided to camp still and wait for the enemy to show his flaws, he still asked in a sincere tone: "General Lu and General Xiao, how do you think you should fight?" ”

Xiao Zongxian was the most qualified, and said: "General Lu must have a clever plan. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "The best strategy is to wait for the Tartars to run out of food. ”

Li Zheng also had this idea, and immediately said: "I will immediately notify the navy and ask them not to bombard the Tartars." Hurry to North Korea and urge North Korea to get more food. ”

"That's it." Lu Xiangsheng likes the atmosphere of the Datong Army, although there is also the phenomenon of the township party, but on the whole there is not so much intrigue.

There will be no such thing as the imperial court urging the army!

When the Datong Army and the Eight Banners Army fought, the first headache was North Korea, because the navy went to Ganghwa Island again, and it would not leave without giving a few thousand stones of food.

The Datong Army does not bully people, buys and sells fairly, and buys grain at a high price.

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