The city tower suddenly became a sea of fire, the roof of the upper floor of the gatehouse had already collapsed and caught fire, and Di Yingkui had no intention of retreating or even escaping.

He was still using the cover here to observe when the Ming army wanted to attack, and at that time he would order the Green Battalion soldiers who followed him to hide in the city tower to rush out to block the enemy, and then gather the soldiers who had fled down the city to support here.

There were two or three loud bangs, and the cannonball was actually fired by Pete through the small window of the castle tower. Di Yingkui's posture was forever frozen in the moment of his last struggle, and when he fell, there were still more shells shot into the window, and it looked so easy.

The Qing army did not even have a chance to raise the white flag on the city and surrender, waiting for their final attack to come.

When the Ming army climbed the ladder and swarmed there, the truth was really just like Gonzalo said at the beginning, there was no Qing army in sight in the city.

The Ming army occupied the west gate, opened the Wuding Gate, and continued to occupy the north gate Dinghai Gate, the east gate Qingqing Gate, the south gate Jingyang Gate, as well as the city government and various commanding heights, but did not encounter any resistance from the Qing army, they all obediently surrendered to the first group of Ming troops who walked by, one by one unkempt, dull and scattered.

Today's artillery fire of the Ming army not only blew up the battlements, blew up the towers, killed their comrades, but also broke their spiritual embankment, and then this invincible Ming army rushed into every cell of the Qing army's body like a flood, so that they can always remember.

The battle lasted an hour and a half, the Qing army killed 840 people and captured 1,660 people, the Ming army had no casualties, only one Ming soldier stepped on the ladder when he stepped on the ladder, fell and broke his foot.

Is this still the Laizhou City that once let Kong Youde attack for half a year, and finally forced him to flee to Liaodong with his troops and generals?

Yes, the city is still the same city, but now the Ming army not only has Laizhou City in their eyes, but they no longer have those red tassel guns and old-fashioned firecrackers in their hands.

Those soldiers of the Ming army who once saw the enemy close at hand and could deflect into the sky have become history, and from then on, the Ming army will become more and more well-equipped and more and more powerful.

And the ultimate goal of the Ming army may be the sea of stars. Dengzhou is a special existence for Shandong Province, the Bohai Rim, and even the entire Ming Dynasty.

The first special is the special strategic position, and the defense of the entire northern maritime frontier of the Ming Dynasty is centered on Dengzhou.

Dengzhou controls Liaodong in the east, faces each other across the sea from Jinzhou and Lushun, and is close at hand, and wants to reach Liaodong from here than from here to Jinan, the capital of Shandong, which is nearly half the distance, and it is also a waterway, and the speed of riding the wind and waves and the carrying of large warships are more conducive to the transportation of the army.

If the enemy wanted to attack Beijing by sea, he would have to face the blockage of Lushun on the north shore of the Bohai Sea and the naval fleets of Weihaiwei and Dengzhou on the south coast, as well as land fortresses.

The attack on Beijing from Dengzhou is close at hand, once the Ming army controls the sea control of the Bohai Sea, then Zhu Si wants to attack Dolgon's Beijing on the first day of the new year, then there is absolutely no need to wait until the fifth day of the first month.

Gyeonggi faced the attack of the enemy's amphibious forces in Dengju, like a beautiful woman who was stripped naked, and only a pair of bras were left to cover her shame, and this bra was the small city defense of Tianjin Wei and the surrounding areas of Tianjin.

In addition to Dengzhou's strategic position, Dengzhou's topography is also extremely special. The reason why Dengzhou was able to become the core of the northern coastal defense of the Ming Dynasty was because of the steep terrain and the defense of the place.

Of course, the main thing here is the water city of Dengzhou, and the city itself is not special than other cities.

It can be said that Dengzhou is divided into two cities in the north and south, the south is the city of Fu, the city of Fucheng is the barrier of the painting river facing the east, and the acropolis of Dengzhou is adjacent to the north wall of the city of Fucheng, also known as the water city and the city of Bei.

At that time, Qi Jiguang trained the navy here to fight against the Japanese invaders, and the city became famous all over the world. Dengzhou water city, the city is three zhang five feet high, one zhang and one foot thick, the circumference is three miles, the north of the city is near the sea, the seaside of the northwest of the city is built on the Danya Mountain again, there is a painting river in the east of the city, the south of the city has a painting river around it, there is a small sea in the city is sandwiched inside, so that the water city is divided into two major parts of the east and west, and the small sea in the city is the most important naval base of the whole Ming Dynasty, and there is nothing else.

The small sea is in the shape of a long bag, is the main body of the water city, is the place where the sailors and the boat are trained, the width is about 100 meters on average, the length from north to south is 655 meters, the water depth changes with the tide, the lowest time is about 3 meters.

This unique and precipitous city defense and naval base located in the city make Dengzhou different from any Daming seaport, and become the most important and unique existence.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong's army stayed overnight in Weihaiwei to rest and replenish supplies, and set sail at dawn on the second day, Weihaiwei was more than 70 nautical miles away from Dengzhou, and the fleet was expected to sail for six and a half hours, arriving before the evening of the same day.

This is basically close to the time when Li Yuanyin's Ming army arrived in Laizhou. At this time, it had just rained heavily on the sea, and the commanders of the Ming army at all levels were in a pre-war meeting, and a Jinyi Wei Baihu (the level of the Jinyi Wei Baihu was higher than that of the Ming army) who was in charge of the Dengzhou spy was describing to the generals the specific terrain of Dengzhou and the current defensive strength of the Qing army.

I heard him say at this time: "There are only two gates in the north and south of the water city, and the north gate is the water gate, also known as the Tianqiao gate, through which merchant ships and warships enter and exit the water city. The water gate is located in the U-shaped depression in the northeast of the city, the gate opens to the north, there is a section of the city wall in front of the convex on the left and right sides of the gate, and the eastern section of the city wall in front of the convex is a fort, and there are 18 cannons of all kinds. The western section of the city wall in front of the convex front is on the middle of Danya Mountain, and there is also a fort, which is equipped with 23 guns of various types, and there is a towering cliff under the city wall. The south gate of the city is called Zhenyang Gate, and the Qing army has arranged a total of 28 large and small artillery pieces such as Hongyi cannon, bamboo cannon, and ox leg cannon in each section of the city wall and Zhenyang Gate. There are 26 artillery pieces in other gates and walls of Dengzhou City, and the defenders of the two cities have a total of 4,300 people, and 600 Qing troops who fled from there before our army attacked Weihaiwei have withdrawn here, totaling 4,900 people. Among them, there are 1,120 green battalion soldiers, which is a full number of thousands of households. In addition, although Dengzhou was a seaport, the Qing army had almost no naval troops inside and outside the city, in fact, other coastal seaports I have seen are also roughly the same. This is related to the fact that the Manchurians are not accustomed to water warfare, and there is indeed a great lack of relevant talents in the Manchurian army. The current supreme commander of Dengzhou Mansion is the chief military officer Li Zhihui, and the actual highest official in Dengzhou, Zhang Shangxian, is commanding the main force of the Qing army in Qixia to surround Yu Qi, the leader of the rebel army in Ziyaya Mountain. At this time, the Qing court had revoked the position of governor of Denglai in the Ming Dynasty, and the prefect was the highest official in this place. After listening to Jinyiwei's information, the generals attending the meeting were almost stunned, and Zheng Chenggong was even more amazed: "How did the general get such detailed information?" Baihu lowered his head and said, "The entire intelligence network of our army in the north has now been strengthened, and it is said that it is personally supervised by the pacification envoy. As for which pacification envoy it was, the last general didn't know, and how the specific information was collected, the last general didn't know. The last general is only responsible for transmitting information to the generals, and as for the intelligence gathering work, there are other people. ”