The Qing army fought bloodily from the afternoon until late at night, and finally had to retreat in embarrassment, and Azig was also holding back his anger in his heart, but there was nothing he could do.

The casualty figures reported to him by Man Dahai are really shocking.

Although most of the thousands of people lost in this battle were the infantry of the Han Army Banner and the surrendered former Ming puppet army, and only more than 1,000 people were the real elite of the Eight Banners, this number was enough for Azig to break his muscles and bones-

Man Dahai said that there were three to five thousand pairs of iron cotton armor left under the city, not that three or five thousand people really died, because the elite of the Eight Banners among them were all wearing two layers of heavy armor to go into battle, and one who died could drop two pairs of armor.

Coupled with the harassment battle before the siege a while ago, the vanguard cavalry was secretly attacked by Zhu Wenzhen, and since Azig crossed Tongbai Mountain, more than 2,000 children of the Eight Banners have been killed.

The soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners he brought with him were only twenty or thirty thousand people in total. This is equivalent to taking the outer counties of Nanyang Mansion, and they have already paid the price of one-tenth of the cumulative death of the Manchurian soldiers!

This kind of intense siege warfare, if it is fought for another half a month, and the soldiers are killed at this rate every day, his banners will be completely wiped out and killed in twenty days - of course, Azig will definitely not be so stunned in the actual battle, and he has already planned to think about it in the long run.

Unable to attack, Azig worked tirelessly that night, and convened the generals and staff to discuss.

Everyone was also tired, but no one dared to rest, racking their brains and working together.

Man Dahai didn't understand technology, so he suggested from a strategic level: "Uncle, it's better to let our army divide our troops, while continuing to besiege Nanyang County and keep the pressure on it."

The other way to the south, burning, killing, and plundering all parts of the north of the Han River, if you can find a boat, you can search it, if you can't find it, it's a big deal!

Anyway, you can't let those Han people have a better time! We must beat them up, make them afraid, and know the fate of the Qing Dynasty against me! ”

Azig pursed his lips and disliked Mandahai's suggestion, which was at least half nonsense, north of Hanshui to find a ready-made ship...... It's not like I haven't tried it! Isn't it funny to talk about the impossible?

However, the discussion was originally a process of mutual inspiration, he made a few comments and criticized the parts that were not in tune, but it inspired Tong Tulai next to him.

Tong Tulai is good at attacking the heart and infighting, and with a roll of his eyes, he found that Mandahai's tactics can be combined with some yin tricks, so he hurriedly offered his courtesy:

"Lord Wang, although what Man Beizi said cannot be used directly, it is also quite desirable, and the slave thinks that what I am best at in the Qing Dynasty is to use the barbarians to disunite and disintegrate people's hearts. For example, after besieging the city, even if it cannot be attacked for a long time, it can also be announced to the outside world that the defender has surrendered, and then send someone to pretend to be the defender to burn, kill, and plunder the Ming army defense area further behind......"

As soon as he was halfway through his words, Azig interrupted impatiently: "This Zhang Huangyan is Zhu Shuren's cousin, Zhu Shuren is so deployed, it is clear that he is ready to be isolated from the front and rear, and he is sure that his cousin will not surrender!" Your stupid trick is useless! ”

Tong Tulai was not in a hurry, and explained slowly: "The slave is just taking the strategies that have been used and are easy to use as examples, and they really need to be applied in practice, and of course they must be adjusted, and they should be adapted to local conditions."

For example, this Zhang Huangyan is loyal and does not change, then we can not say that he surrendered, but after a while, he preached to Xiangyang, Fancheng and other places that the outer city of Nanyang had been breached, and only the inner city was left and dangerous, and the southern barbarian army in the rear was lured to come to the rescue anxiously, and I could seize the opportunity to fight in the field in a dignified manner, and I no longer had to suffer from this kind of attack. ”

Azig: "This kind of news is too complicated, how can the enemy believe it?" ”

Tong Tulai: "Lord Wang, what is the purpose of the barbarian being in the north of the Han River, so he has to leave such a nail in Nanyang County?" It is to cut off the channel of the White River and prevent the north ship from going south.

Then if we do not hesitate to build some warships on the north bank of the Han River, bluff, and say that they have opened up the Baihe River and traveled from Yexian and other places, then how can the defenders of Xiangyang not suspect that Nanyang has a problem?

If the outer city of Nanyang is lost and the outer wall is controlled by our army, our army can calmly dismantle the reef barrage fortifications outside the northeast corner of the city wall, so that our fleet can transport supplies unimpeded-

Just imagine, on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Du Zhulou went down to Yizhou, and was able to break the 'iron cable Hengjiang' of Eastern Wu Wumi in Jianping County, was it defended and demolished against the bow and crossbow of the Wu people? Of course not! It must have been Du who broke Wu Mi's defenders in Yiling in advance, so that the Wu people could not assist in the defense by land and water.

Today, we pretend to be able to break through Zhang Huangyan's 'dark cone plug river', and the reason is the same. As long as the Ming army in Hannan believes it, it will hit its morale hard, and what if it is caught off guard in one fell swoop, and it is easy to advance and retreat, so that our army will seize the opportunity? ”

Azig was originally very unimpressed by this whimsy, but Tong Tulai's last half of the sentence can be regarded as a quote from the scriptures, which tickled his itch - all the princes of the Qing army watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to command the war, and Tong Tulai gave an example of the Western Jin Dynasty destroying Wu and breaking the iron rope across the river, and Azig felt very auspicious, which was too in line with the current situation.

"My Qing Dynasty" is like the Western Jin Dynasty in his eyes, and the Southern Ming Dynasty is just the Eastern Wu!

After he regained his patience, he pondered it a little more, and after recovering his senses, he understood the essence of Tong Tulai's strategy-

If we want to build a new fleet of ships with enough troops to cross the river and participate in the Han River water battle in the southern part of the Baihe River with the existing people's manpower and timber, it will definitely take a huge amount of time, and it will not be possible to do it in half a year.

But the essence of Tong Tulai is not to really make it, but to cut corners to make a little kind of goods, and even hide in the White River during the day and drive to the surface of the Hanshui River at night to make a false shot, then it is even more difficult to go.

If you want to get some kind of goods, so that the Ming army south of Hanshui will believe that "the Qing army's sailor force has entered Hanshui", the construction time will be much shorter, and it may be completed in a few months.

To put it bluntly, just like before the Normandy landings in later times, the Allies had to deceive Dover on the other side of Calais, where they landed, and really get the equipment of Patton's Third Army, which would be costly.

But the Allies didn't need to get as many tanks as Patton's regiment, they could have made a bunch of inflatable tanks for the German reconnaissance planes to take pictures, and at most General Patton himself would pretend to inspect them, which would be much cheaper and faster.

Specific to the current Nanyang Campaign, it may be a little slow to complete a new round of strategic deception and fight for the opportunity to fight in a few months.

But the problem is that Azig has no better choice at the moment, anyway, it is impossible to storm Nanyang regardless of casualties, and the follow-up can only be to fight siege and attrition war, build new forts, and strive to use curved and blind artillery to slowly gnaw at the city wall and the defenders at the head of the city.

In this case, why not let the idle half of the people try to do something, and if there are no dates to hit a pole, if there is no intention to insert willows, there is another harvest?

Azig also agreed to Tong Tulai's train of thought in principle, and asked the troops to make preparations with both hands, fighting a protracted war and bombarding the city, and at the same time, regardless of whether it was effective or not, and preparing all kinds of deception and deception preparations.

Anyway, even if you can't convince the Xiangyang guard that something happened to Nanyang, there is no loss. Maybe he can also gamble "to make Zhang Huangyan mistakenly think that the Nanyang guard will mistakenly think that something has happened to him", and he has to try to break through, at least send someone out to report and get in touch, so that the rear believes that he has no accident.

In that way, Azig would at least be able to intercept and kill a wave of Zhang Huangyan's messengers and breakout troops, which would be easier to kill than for the other party to retreat in the city.

The chain of suspicion brought about by lack of confidence has always been deceptive at both ends.

You can be confident in yourself, and your peers can be confident in you.

But that doesn't mean you'll have confidence in your peers' confidence in you, or that your colleagues will have confidence in your confidence in yourself.

He has been fighting for decades, most of the time, one by one, which can be said to have touched the deceitful mentality in this field to the extreme.

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The Qing army's initial offensive was unfavorable and turned to a steady and steady attack. In Nanyang City, Zhang Huangyan's life in the Ming army was actually not easy.

In the bloody battle of the first day, the Qing army suffered thousands of casualties, and on the side of the Ming army, the casualties of the troops alone reached more than 1,000. From the overall point of view, it is just an exchange ratio between 1 to 2 to 1 to 3.

If it is a field battle, the Ming army can replace two or three Qing troops one by one, then with the combat power of the original Ming army, I am afraid that even the commanders and generals will be able to wake up with laughter. But this is a defensive battle, or a plug to seduce the enemy to come up and output, and it is not too glorious to play this ratio.

Moreover, after the war, the Ming army was given the opportunity to clean the battlefield, at least the battlefield at the base of the city wall could be cleaned. After counting the results and losses, Zhang Huangyan estimated that the casualties of the Qing army on the opposite side were at most more than 1,000 people, and they were stabbed to death by Li Dingguo's department with a hedgehog-like dense spear array, accounting for only half of the casualties of the Qing army.

Most of the remaining casualties were blocked in the opening, and then killed by cross-range fire from the city's head, that is, by muskets, bows, and rolling logs. From this point of view, the exchange ratio between the Ming army and the Qing army in hand-to-hand combat is almost one to one.

Zhang Huangyan is very good at summarizing and introspecting, he personally examined a lot of corpses, and found that the most elite heavy infantry of the Qing army wearing double iron cotton armor was stabbed with all his strength by the spears with high-quality forged steel spear heads, and many of them could not be stabbed, but after piercing the outer armor, they deviated, and then left deep scratches and grooves on the inner armor.

And the gagged soldiers under Li Dingguo's command, many of the spears in their hands were twisted off in this kind of huge confrontation - the forged steel gun head produced by Daye County Arsenal is strong enough, unless it is repeatedly stabbed too many times The metal fatigue will be broken. However, the ash rod and other wooden gun shafts that are matched with high-quality gun heads, even if they are reinforced, cannot withstand such a huge twisting and torsional loss.

Of course, since ancient times, the barrel of the gun has not been directly made of steel, so it is too cold in winter, and it will be very slippery after being soaked in blood and sweat. Therefore, how to solve this problem can only be considered later, perhaps you can consider using the threaded rod of the steel bar and drilling to nest it into the wooden stick.

Anyway, the spearmen who are fighting in formation, the length of their weapons is generally more than one and a half zhang, and this kind of big spearmen requires the pole to be elastic and shake to dance out of the spear, and it doesn't matter if it is harder. Zhang Huangyan doesn't know how to do things that pat his head, and when the time comes, he can leave it to a professional person to ponder professional things.

All he could do right now was to improve the treatment of Li Dingguo's ministry - after today's battle, he felt the need to divide the armor in the arsenal again.

In the subsequent days of defending the city, the armor was distinguished by tasks, and it was no longer the same as the original "one-piece forged steel cuirass produced by Daye Arsenal was only allocated to the descendants who had followed Zhu Shuren for many years", and then let the old thieves use the remaining armor and captured armor of Zhang Xianzhong.

In the follow-up, Zhang Huangyan decided which one was responsible for the melee plugging at the head of the wall, and ensured that they were given priority to temporarily allocate forged steel cuirasses. This should solve the problem of internal dissatisfaction.

After thinking about it, Zhang Huangyan also summoned Li Dingguo overnight, first said some words of encouragement to him, and personally toasted him three bowls of wine, and then said his decision.

Li Dingguo also breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this was another step up from Lord Daotai's trust. It is also an honor to be willing to give them the armor of the descendants of the army temporarily.

He hurriedly thanked his subordinates, and after returning to his camp, he was flexible and adjusted the distribution method of the treatment promised by Zhang Huangyan slightly.

He asked several generals under his command to volunteer for the next few days, vying for the role of a firefighting team patrolling and plugging the mouth. Whoever bears this heavy responsibility first, the part of the high-quality armor left behind will be given priority to them permanently-

Li Dingguo knew very well that Zhang Huangyan had just said that he could produce about two or three thousand pairs of curved steel cuirasses forged in one piece for his brothers. When the crisis passes, these cuirasses will not be fully recovered, and more than half may be recovered, and the part that remains, who will be left depends on the performance.

Now those who are fighting with Li Dingguo are none other than the main generals under Zhang Xianzhong, Feng Shuangli, Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli is still seconded from Sun Kewang, only Bai Wenxuan has been following Li Dingguo.

At this moment, Bai Wenxuan, of course, could not let Sun Kewang's old department look down on him, and hurriedly said that his troops would take on this most dangerous task in the next few days, and only asked the military gate and the Daotai Lord to truthfully state their loyalty and dare to fight, and give them priority to permanently upgrade their equipment when the time comes.

The first batch of 2,000 sets of one-piece forged steel cuirasses that Zhang Huangyan took out from the warehouse were quickly sent to Bai Wenxuan's battalion.

After a day of bloody fighting, the soldiers were originally covered in blood, and even the soldiers who were not injured were all stinking, many of them were the blood of the enemy or the robes, mixed with the soil and sweat.

In the early winter, although the water level of the White River is not too low, and it is convenient to get water in the city, the weather is too cold, how can the soldiers take a bath after a bloody battle. Give everyone some meat, and after the bloody battle, you can eat a few bites of white-feathered chicken, plus a little reserve of dried tilapia, which is already very good.

Since Zhang Huangyan wanted to issue armor to the soldiers, he naturally had to do a good job of supporting it, so he asked the military treasury to evenly distribute some firewood rations, boiled enough hot water, and soaked all the soldiers who changed armor to change their armor cleanly.

In the cold and sticky blood-smelling atmosphere of early winter, I heard that I could take a bath, and the soldiers struggled to get up, which was very encouraging, and Li Dingguo also personally encouraged all the soldiers and announced the decision of the imperial court to issue armor, which attracted the excitement of the audience.

"Finally that bright and reflective breastplate is worn! I've seen that kind of armor, and the musket guards around Zhang Daotai are also wearing that kind of armor, if you don't wear a burqa outside, you think it's a large heart guard, which looks shinier than the heart guard, but it is not good to use it to look in the mirror to magnify people and become fat. ”

The soldiers said one after another, while many people squeezed a large cauldron and soaked in excitement. After a while, everyone knew how good this kind of well-made nail stomach was like a haha mirror.

Because firewood should be used sparingly, there is no chance to go out of the city to cut firewood after the siege, so the water will not be completely heated and then soaked, so that the process of placing it will cool down, which is too wasteful of heat.

They are all boiled directly in the huge army pot, and the water temperature is slightly warm, and the people take turns to go down in batches, soak for a while, and quickly come up to wipe it clean, and the people behind can't be disgusted with the dirty water, and the soldiers control the firewood next to them to avoid the water temperature scalding people.

The water temperature is a little hotter, and it can also urge the soldiers who are not resistant to heat to get up quickly, don't soak for too long.

After a night's rest, the next day Li Dingguo's ministry was full of morale and regained the momentum of daring to fight to the death with the Tartars. Everyone sees hope, sees the upward path, and knows that they can get back on track soon.

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ps: I went out today to see a little problem, so I won't open the chapter, I didn't save the manuscript, and I felt a little bit of a running account.

I am 1200 degrees myopia, I can't wear contact lenses, and I can't leave my glasses all year round. The nose pads of the old glasses have not been replaced for too long, and I am a fat man with greasy skin and bad skin, and the skin diseases on the bridge of the nose are all suppurated. I asked the doctor to test it and put some ointment, but it hurt so much that I couldn't put my glasses on.

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I'm going out tomorrow, and by the way, I will fix my glasses and change my nose pads, and the doctor said that they all have fungus. I can't work for half a day as soon as I fix my glasses. So tomorrow will be a big chapter of four or five thousand words.

By the way, I'm going to change the map.,Tomorrow the Huguang battlefield here will hold each other.,And then I'm going to change the map to write the protagonist and Duoduo all the way.,I'm also quietly sorting out the strategic ideas.。

Strive to resume two more shifts on Monday (at present, I can only say that I will fight, if I still put on glasses and press the bridge of my nose, it will hurt, and it will be troublesome).

Alas, last year, I still wanted to keep losing weight, and I didn't dare to exercise vigorously for more than a month, and I lost nearly 180 pounds again, and all kinds of greasy problems came back.