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Although Zhao Zhilong's surname is also Zhao, he and Zhao Han are mortal enemies!

"Fire... a lot of artillery!"

Sun Dingliao stood on the tower, staring out dumbfounded.

Two divisions, fifty artillery pieces, plus three siege cannons!

With 53 cannons deployed, the guards in the city are going crazy. How can they bully people like this?

Although Zhao Han didn't have much food, he had a lot of money, and he was frantically building firearms.There are four artillery factories, one in Guangdong, one in Jiangxi, one in Hunan, and one in Jiangsu. They have been casting guns endlessly in recent years.

In comparison, Man Qing is a poor ghost.

Although the Manchus were able to cast their own cannons, more than half of the cannons were snatched from Ming Dynasty, or Kong Youde and other surrendered generals took them with them.

"Boom boom boom!"

Fifty-three guns fired one after the other, all aimed at the same wall.

The cannonball fell down without stopping halfway.

Tong Yangjia's cousin made cannons for the Qing Dynasty.He knew how terrifying it was, and couldn't even imagine how the enemy could move out so many artillery to attack the city.

"I'm dead, I'm dead..." Tong Yangjia looked pale and muttered to himself.

The city wall of Shangqiu is slightly thinner than that of Jining, with a bottom thickness of 10 meters and a top thickness of 6.7 meters.

53 cannons bombarded, three of which were heavy siege cannons, and cracks were blasted in just one day.

Tong Yangjia saw that the morale of the defenders was low, so he quickly summoned all the generals: "Don't panic, everyone, the city wall of Shangqiu is thick, and it is not easy to collapse. The emperor's father and regent Wang Zhiyong are both wise and brave, and he used the Taizu." Let him come a few ways, I will only go all the way The Nanman puppet army is attacking on the Six Routes of Henan, and its forces are scattered, and they will be defeated by the regent. We only need to hold on for a few more days, and the regent will be successful in coming to help, and the Nanman puppet army will definitely be defeated by then!"

Everyone was speechless.

After a moment of silence, Sun Dingliao suddenly said: "Lead troops to attack at night. The enemy's army is so dense that it is impossible to win in the daytime. The only way is to attack at night. You don't need to bring too many soldiers to attack at night, just choose a thousand dead soldiers. It is best to attack the camp successfully, but if you fail to attack the camp, you will only lose a thousand soldiers."

"Who is going?" Sun Xigui asked.

Tong Yangjia glanced at the generals: "You can recommend yourself to go, generals. If you let the enemy's artillery bombard the city, I am afraid that the army's morale will be shaken before the city wall collapses."

The generals looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone suggested: "The flower horse Liu Hanyong, you can attack the camp."

Liu Liangzuo stood up suddenly: "Why should I go?"

Historically, Liu Liangzuo was Gao Jie's general during the small court in Nanjing, and later led 81 troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.On the [-]st, Jiangyin was also besieged by Liu Liangzuo, the executioner who killed Yan Yingyuan and others.

This guy has not been cast under Gao Jie's command yet, it belongs to Mou Wenshou's generals, guarding Fengyang together with Zhao Zhilong and other generals.

A few years ago, when the Datong Army sent troops to northern Anhui, Zhao Zhilong and Liu Liangzuo joined forces to trap and kill the general Mou Wenshou, and then fled to Henan with the troops to seize the territory.

As for Liu Liangzuo's younger brother, Liu Liangchen, he had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty during the Battle of Dalinghe.

"I also think General Liu is suitable."

"That's right. General Liu, nicknamed Flower Horse Liu, is proficient in riding and fighting. He must be capable of robbing camps."

"..."

One person proposed, and everyone agreed, and Liu Liangzuo was always elected as the chief general of the night attack.

Chapter 418 [Man Qing wants a decisive battle]

Liu Liangzuo went out of the city in fear, and led his troops only three miles away before he was spotted by sentry cavalry crouching in the dark.

"Shut up!"

The sharp brass whistle sounded in the night, and the nearby dragoons rushed up, and then trumpeted to call for more friendly troops.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalrymen were also on standby near the camp, feeding the horses with night food.Hearing the sound of the horn, he immediately got on his horse and jogged towards the direction of the sound of the horn.

Liu Liangzuo wanted to flee back to the city, but he was worried that the city wall would be bombarded by artillery. It would be better to surrender now than to surrender at that time.

However, the "warriors" of the thousand night raids were selected from various ministries.It is difficult for these "warriors" to obey the abnormal military orders issued temporarily, or they cannot react at all.

Liu Liangzuo was about to surrender, but before he gave an order, the soldiers under his command started to flee - they came to rob the camp, since they were discovered by the enemy, they naturally ran away subconsciously.

More than 200 dragoons wanted to fire their guns, but when they saw the enemy fleeing, they immediately rode their horses to kill them.

After fighting for a while, Lu Xiangsheng led the Xiao cavalry to kill, and the battle situation was settled in an instant, and the Qing soldiers began to disperse and flee.

These guys, five hundred cavalry and five hundred infantry, all carried firelighters.The hooves of the horses were wrapped in cotton cloth, and the horses' mouths were covered with cages to avoid making noise during the march.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Liangzuo fled without even having a chance to surrender.

He was chased outside the city by several dragoons, and when he saw the city gate opened, he rushed in immediately.

The Datong dragoons did not dare to follow, because there was an urn inside, even if Lu Xiangsheng led thousands of cavalry to enter, they would be locked in the urn and shot from all sides.

A thousand soldiers were scrapped, only Liu Liangzuo fled back alone, and a few cavalry slipped away, not knowing which direction they fled.

The guard in the city was speechless and thought that he could only continue to guard the city of sorrow.

the next day.

Bombardment, Bombardment, Bombardment!

The gap in the city wall is getting bigger and bigger, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses.

……

Dorgon was in Fugou County, and when he learned that Xiangcheng and Shenqiu had fallen, he immediately decided to follow suit.

In Shangshui, Chenzhou, and Xihua counties, Dorgon only left a small number of troops.It is nothing more than attracting Jiang Liang's fifth division to capture, not only can lengthen the fifth division's supply line, but also allow the fifth division to divide its forces to defend the city.

At that time, send cavalry to cut off the food road, and then the army will besiege and annihilate them!

The idea was quite good, but in the end Zhao Han issued a military order, not only did the Fifth Division not continue to attack, but even spit out Xiangcheng and Shenqiu that had already been occupied.They even retreated for two hundred miles, directly to Yingzhou (Fuyang), and even lost Taihe County, which had been divided into households and land for more than a year.

Just one word: Steady!

Jiang Dashan's Sixth Division was similar, defending Yancheng without moving.With the strength and food of the Sixth Division, it will be no problem to guard for half a year.If Dorgon is awesome, he will lead his troops around Yancheng and go to the hinterland of the Datong Army to rob everywhere.

Zhao Han's here is not the Ming court. The Manchu Qing ravages the Gyeonggi area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and the actual strength of the Manchu Qing is not even clear.

As long as Dorgon dares to come, Zhao Han will lose population and food at most, and he can definitely mobilize the army to close the door and beat the dogs.

Just when Dorgon was hesitating and didn't know whether he should pursue him or not, the messenger sent military information: "His Royal Highness, the main force of the enemy army is besieging Shangqiu, with fifty or sixty cannons. There are also three giant cannons. There may be seven or eight artillery pieces." A thousand catties!"

"How strong is the enemy army?" Dorgon asked.

The messenger handed over the military information: "There are countless, my master asks for reinforcements."

Countless, really countless.

Outside Shangqiu City, although there are only Zhao Han's relatives and two divisions, there are only more than 2 regular troops.But there are many peasants, soldiers and peasants, as well as a large number of hungry people and rebels, and the camp stretches for more than ten miles.

How does this make the defenders in the city count?

Dorgon opened the letter and read it repeatedly, but he couldn't find a description of the enemy's strength. The letter only said that the enemy camp stretched more than ten miles.

Camped for more than ten miles, because Zhao Han was afraid of being affected by the hungry people, so he threw the hungry people far away.Moreover, when a plague was found among the hungry people, Zhao Han ordered not to gather in large numbers.

After thinking about it, it was difficult for Dorgon to make a decision, so he recruited his generals to discuss the matter.

Man Dahai, the grandson of Nurhaci, the Duke of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the owner of the banner with the red flag, said: "This place is not like Liaodong, and the puppet is not the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult to get news back from the spies we send out, and it is not easy to buy spies. In this way The situation of the enemy army is unknown, how can we let him come a few ways, and I just go all the way? Those southern barbarians, it is easy to call, but it is difficult to get news when they go back!"

"That's right, you can't even find beggars in Yingzhou City!" The one who spoke was Jierhalang, the nephew of Nurhachi, Prince Heshuo Zheng, and the owner of the Xianglan Banner.

The Manchu Qing entered the customs several times to plunder Daming, and fought in Beizhili, and the news was better than that of Ming Dynasty.In addition to having businessmen as spies, they also like to buy beggars and refugees, and even secretly support beggar gangs.

The two counties of Yingzhou and Taihe are very strange. The secret agents of the Qing Dynasty wanted to buy beggars in the city, but found that there were no beggars in the city.

It's very simple, the population in northern Anhui is scarce, and Zhao Han has to immigrate from the south.

Under such circumstances, how can a beggar be allowed to idle around?

The beggars in the city, as long as they are good at hands and feet, are all thrown to the countryside to divide the fields. If they don't know how to farm, they will learn from the immigrants.Disabled people are admitted to nursing homes, where they learn to weave baskets and straw sandals. Anyway, they have to support themselves.

As for the businessman's secret work, since last year, he has cut off business contacts with the Manchu land.

Once you find merchants coming from the north, you are not allowed to put them back, there are checkpoints along the way.Even the merchants under Zhao Han's rule are not allowed to go to the north to do business again!

City spies are hard, country spies are even harder.

Town mayors, village heads, and peasant associations strictly check the migrant population.Not only to guard against spies, but also to prevent the plague. Under group defense and group control, farmers in Taihe County alone seized more than a dozen spies.

Dorgon could only obtain a small amount of information about Anhui, and although his eyes were smeared, he was not too far from a blind man.

In this situation, do you want to lead the army to kill and intersperse to fight the annihilation battle?

dreaming too!

When Dorgon's strategy of luring the enemy failed, Zhao Han ordered the other roads to stick to it, and his plan of "going only one road" was shattered.

Daishan, the leader of Zhenghongqi, is old and has been suppressed by Dorgon in disguise. Now he is living in Beijing for the elderly.His fourth son Wakda sneered: "We will fight as the Regent wants to fight. There is no need to discuss with us..."

"Fourth brother, stop talking nonsense!" Man Dahai immediately scolded.

Wakda smiled and said, "Ha ha."

These Eight Banners top nobles have never been of one mind.

The father of Wakda and Man Dahai, Daishan, was the second son of Nurhachi and was the first successor to the Later Jin regime.

After Nurhachi's death, the Houjin regime was in turmoil and was almost on the verge of collapse.Daishan felt that he could not control the situation, so he took the initiative to give way to Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji also respected him very much.

Therefore, Daishan and his son Yuetuo, the father and son actually owned Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi.

It's just that, including Yue Tuo, several of Daishan's sons died in the army.

After Dorgon embraced Fulin, Daishan's other son, Shuotuo, died even more confusingly.It turned out that the Eight Banners agreed to Shunzhi's succession, and Shuo Tuo singled out Dorgon to re-establish Dorgon. Inexplicably, he was sentenced to death for the crime of disorderly government.

Although Shuotuo was dissatisfied with his father's domestic violence and tried to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty twice, this strange way of death is still nonsense.

Now, Daishan has been thrown in Beijing, and the two red flags have enough reasons to be dissatisfied with Dorgon.

Wakda, who is talking strange things in front of him, was also dealt with by Dorgon in history.He had just made great contributions in pacifying Shanxi, but when he came back, he was involved in a small case. He was investigated for joint responsibility and dismissed from the six ministries, and then he was dismissed from the post of discussing politics. He died at home a few months later.

Dorgon was really ruthless. After Haoge's family was beaten up, he aimed at Daishan's two red flags and put his hand into Emperor Shunzhi's two yellow flags.

At this moment, it was the time when the power struggle between the Manchu and Qing Eight Banners intensified.

Dorgon is taking over power, and if he loses the battle, he doesn't know what troubles will happen.

Dorgon asked Kong Youde: "How does King Gongsun think we should fight?"

Now that this was the case, Kong Youde dared not talk too much, and quickly said: "It's all at the request of His Royal Highness the Regent."

Ji Erhalang said: "Since the main forces of the Puppet and Nanban besiege Shangqiu, they will lead their troops to a decisive battle. Regardless of whether he is besieging the city to fight for reinforcements, there are more than 6 Eight Banners soldiers, and tens of thousands of surrendered elites will join the more than [-] Shangqiu defenders. .Is there any battle in the world that cannot be fought?"

Man Dahai said: "That's the reason. You can let a few Han generals lead troops to go around the hinterland of Puppet Tong to plunder, forcing the enemy troops in Yancheng and Yingzhou to return to deal with them. In this way, the enemy in Shangqiu will have no reinforcements. , we have more than [-] people to fight, how can we not beat him?"

"It's time to fight like this," Wakda said, "Who are the Eight Banners of Manchuria afraid of? If more than [-] people have been killed, there will be millions of enemies!"

The top aristocrats of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although their tactics were steady and steady, they liked to take risks strategically, and most of the time it was a big gamble to win.But every time they fight against Daming, they can win the bet.

Dorgon saw that everyone agreed with this proposal, and he himself felt that he could fight, so he said: "Then go to Shangqiu for a decisive battle!"

When Dorgon led the army to Shangqiu, he also ordered Wu Sangui and other generals to gather cavalry to plunder Suiping, Shangcai, Taihe and other counties.In this way, the Datong army in the middle of Henan can be restrained, so that these Datong army cannot go to reinforce the Shangqiu battlefield.

After Wu Sangui received the military order, he took the remaining Guanning iron cavalry, Ma Ke and others to surrender to the frontier generals, and the whole cavalry team went south to plunder.

After crossing the Lishui, Wu Sangui said to the surrendered generals: "A team of three hundred cavalry should only kill and set fire. Don't grab too much property, otherwise the enemy will not be able to chase you fast. Each person should grab at most ten catties of grain and bring them with you. Those who don’t leave will be burned!”

All the generals couldn't bear it.

It's not that they can't bear to burn, kill and loot, but they can't bear to burn food. All these miscellaneous troops are short of food.

Wu Sangui also said: "The houses along the way will all be burned down. If you encounter the enemy, don't chase after them. After five days, cross the river and go back. Don't be chased by those cavalry with guns."

Chapter 419 [Prepare a small gift]

The two brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan used to be the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty respectively.

In previous battles, they had very few soldiers left.When Li Zicheng reached Datong, Jiang Guan immediately surrendered, even if he surrendered, he was almost killed by Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng forcibly disbanded Jiang Guan's troops, and sent his confidants to garrison Datong City.

Before the Man Qing came to kill him, Jiang Guan had already betrayed Li Zicheng in essence, and just took advantage of the situation to take refuge with the Man Qing.

After that, the old servants were re-recruited, and the two brothers' cavalry only totaled more than [-] cavalry.

Brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Xuan crossed the river and went down the river. Their more than [-] riders were organized into a cavalry team and were responsible for plundering the area from Mengjiazhuang to Xincai.

"Brother, something is wrong!"