Enemies, in general, are very cunning!

Of course, there are stupid enemies, but the Qing Emperor Amadorgon is certainly not stupid. Not only not stupid, but also more cunning than the average enemy.

So he never thought about going to Liaocheng to fight Zhu Cihong in a decisive battle!

Although he had 90,000 elite soldiers on hand, as well as 48 3-pounder guns and 48 one-pound guns, he definitely had the strength to fight against Zhu Cihong's Northern Expeditionary Army.

But what about after World War I? defeated the Qing Dynasty, and naturally it was gone...... If you win, kill 10,000 enemies and lose 5,000 yourself?

Definitely not!

Zhu Cihong had more than 100 million Han people, and the real Manchuria under Dolgon had hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children. How could Bidolgon stand the ten-to-five exchange?

Even with the green flag cannon fodder, you can't die like this! The current green flag is also a "noble soldier", and it will only take 100,000 to enclose the land after enclosing it, if it is finished, where will Dolgon go to enclose the land? He can't take back the land he received from the loyal family of the Green Banner, right? If you really want to do this, the new Green Flag fighters are still willing to die?

"Nikan, Bolo, Mandahai," returned to the city of Zhengzhou, Huang Ama was in the middle of the line, and Dolgon summoned Nikan, Bolo, and Mandahai to him, and began to teach the opportunity in person, "We now have the heavenly soldiers who can thwart the southern army." But the current setbacks are different from the past, instead of killing 10,000 enemies, they have lost hundreds of themselves. The southern soldiers are not so weak...... If you fight south of the Huai River, you can't be sure of a one-to-one change of life.

But in the Northland, in the winter, it is indeed good for us! But if you can play one life for two lives and three lives, it's the sky. ”

Not to mention, Dolgon still has a very accurate understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army - the skirmish between the Qing army and the Ming army has not stopped in the past two years, and Dolgon has a lot of first-hand information, and it would be foolish not to know.

Even the feudal army of the North Six Towns is now well fed, and they have a good armor, and sometimes they even pull a side van out of the battle.

When encountering this kind of troops, the soldiers with the green flag are not cheap! Even if you pull a pound of cannons, you can't go.

A pound of artillery can indeed destroy a van, but the Ming army also has a pound of cannons!

Moreover, the shield of the van can be removed, and combined with the sand, it can quickly become a simple fortification. Coupled with a pound of cannons, firearms, bows and arrows, and spears to defend together, the Qing army can't move at all!

"Huang Ama," Nikan shook his head, "you can't fight a one-to-two, one-to-three battle for your life!" ”

"What then?" Bolo asked, "Huang Ama, we can't go around Nanming's soldiers and horses, right?" ”

"Of course we have to go around!" Dorgon smiled, "Four-legged ones have to fight with two-legged legs...... Nanming's troops not only have two legs, but some of them are also pulling carts! When the canal was not frozen, they could still move by water. Now it's freezing and snowy, and those who pull the cart can't move at all! ”

Man Dahai had already picked up his thumb, "High! Huang Ama is really tall...... Let's fight with them and walk a thousand or two thousand miles first. ”

"Walk a thousand or two thousand miles, and they should collapse!" Dolgon touched his beard and said with a smile, "Nikan, Bolo, Mandahai, who of you stay in Zhengzhou to watch Zhang Xianzhong, and who is willing to lead the team to fight with Mingkou?" ”

Nikan has been dealing with Zhang Xianzhong for the past two months, so he wanted to do his best, so he said to Dolgon: "Emperor Ama, stay here!" ”

"Good!" Dolgon nodded, "Then Bolo and Mandahai, the two of you soldiers are divided into two routes, all the way to Huaibei and all the way to Jinan...... Remember, if you don't attack the city, don't fight a decisive battle with the enemy's army, and don't loot too many people and materials, if you have too many things, you won't be able to go fast. ”

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Dongchang Mansion, Liaocheng.

The sound of artillery rumbled, blowing up the inside and outside of Liaocheng, which was firmly held by the Qing army on the opposite side. Dozens of 12-pounder Hongyi cannons and 24-pounder mortar cannons formed two artillery positions, and the gunners in the winter were also tired and sweaty, and they all went into battle shirtless, loading iron bullets and flowering shells into the barrels of the guns, and then firing them like thunder and lightning.

The cannons deployed outside Liaocheng City are all transported by waterway, and they are not field guns (they do not need to be moved frequently after deployment), and they do not need too many cattle and horses to pull them. So there are not much restrictions in caliber and number - the only limit is the gunner.

In order to break through the fortified cities in the north, Zhu Cihong ordered the formation of two artillery regiments directly under the Generalissimo's Mansion - the first and second siege artillery regiments!

The two regiments were armed with a total of 6 companies of 12-pounder Hongyi cannons and 6 companies of 24-pounder mortars, and if necessary, 24-pounder and 36-pounder guns could be mobilized from various coastal defense forts!

Although Zhu Cihong brought a lot of heavy artillery in order to break through Liaocheng, it was bombarded for several days, but the city wall of Liaocheng was not completely destroyed.

This was actually his own making—the ability to build walls with sandbags was learned by Dord! After learning it, Duoduo taught it to the soldiers of the Nine Banners.

Therefore, the current Qing army will also build a fortress with sandbags, and will deliberately pile up an inclined plane...... Not to mention the 12-pounder gun, even if the 36-pounder cannon is pulled, it may not be able to move the wall with sandbag slopes.

However, a large number of 12-pounder guns were still able to use dense firepower to suppress the Qing artillery on the wall of Liaocheng, so that the Qing gunners could not even raise their heads. Under the cover of the 12-pounder gun, the "migrant workers" who were good at digging trenches in the four towns of Shandong arrived at the "moat" in Liaocheng and dug "parallel trenches" and used sandbags to build artillery bunkers that could be used by 24-pounder mortars.

Before the lake outside Liaocheng froze, the Ming army's 24-pounder mortar cannon could blast huge flowering shells into the small Liaocheng City, which was crowded with the officers and soldiers of the Green Flag and their families!

King of Dingnan in the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youde, one of the three banners of the Green Flag, knelt in the ancestral hall of the Dingnan Wangfu in Liaocheng City at this time, facing a statue of Confucius with an angry sword and a tablet of "Confucius of the Ancestors and the Most Holy Ancestor Confucius", and there were words in his mouth.

"Ancestor bless! The ancestors blessed the descendants of Kong Youde and did not hurt the son! Bless Nankou's cannon can't hit my palace, there is no hole in the south of the Holy Ancestor, and there is no Holy Ancestor in the South......"

Well, Confucius now has another function - avoiding guns! I don't know who started it, saying that as long as you worship the tablet of Confucius at home and recite "Nan Wu Holy Master" every day, you can ensure that your house will not be hit by the endless falling flowering bullets!

Well, there is a little bit of a miracle in this matter! Anyway, Kong Youde believed it, and since the Ming army began to shell, he kowtowed and burned incense in the ancestral ancestral hall in the mansion every day to chant "Nan Wu Holy Ancestor". So far, his palace has only suffered a dumb flowering bomb...... This is clearly the blessing of the ancestors' spirit in the sky!

The rumbling cannon stopped abruptly again, and Kong Youde, who was kneeling on the futon in a long cannon coat, sighed deeply - it seems that he has avoided another catastrophe, and his ancestors are still reliable!

Just when he was thinking about kowtowing a few more times to the position of the Holy Ancestor Confucius, he suddenly faintly sounded in his ears the most frightened shout: "Saint Confucius...... Invulnerable! Invulnerable......"

Kong Youde was trembling at that time - this was the slogan before the Qufu training army launched an attack!

With this shout, there is a chance that the city will be attacked!

The reason why the Dingnan Mansion can be preserved under the bombardment of the Ming army these days is thanks to the blessing of Sage Kong. But now, the genuine Kong soldiers called...... Confucius has a spirit in the sky, so he has to bless his children and grandchildren!

That's it!

At the thought of finishing, Kong Youde's tears fell...... Crying, a rush of footsteps sounded outside the door, and then I heard the shouting voice of Sun Zhiqi, the governor of Shandong.

"Lord, lord, your relatives are attacking the city, you hurry up and preside over the overall situation!"

It's really the Qufu army that hit...... Kong Youde cried whimper-whimper, startling Sun Zhiqi, who had just entered the door.

"Lord Wang, what are you ......" Looking at Kong Youde's cowardice, Sun Zhiqi chuckled in his heart.

It's going to be over! But it's okay...... Sun Zhiqi thought again: I defected to the Ming Dynasty as early as the last time I went to Nanjing, and now I am an internal response!