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Gaizhou City in the Ming Dynasty was located closer to the sea than the urban area of ​​Gaizhou hundreds of years later, blocking the passage from the north to the south.

Dorgon personally led an army of 50,000, and tens of thousands of them were dressed in clothes. After gathering in Haizhou, they quickly went south.

Hauge led the 20,000 Eight Banners Army, coming from the valley in the northeast, along the Daqing River to the east of Gaizhou, all they wanted was to wreak havoc on the countryside and grab wheat.

Because the entire north bank of the Daqing River, in order to prevent it from being harassed by the Manchus, the vast and fertile land was completely abandoned, and crops can only be seen if you cross the Daqing River.

Anyway, the population is insufficient, so of course we must choose a safer area for cultivation.

"My lord, the convenience ahead is Newcastle!"

Hauge galloped out on horseback, bypassed a mountain creek, and personally stepped forward to take out the binoculars to observe.

There is no castle here, and the construction has been completed in recent months. Since they didn't know the name, the Manchu spies called it "Xinbao".

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in order to guard against the passage here, Tangchi Fort was built in the north, and a large area of ​​Lingguan, Shanghata Dun and Shimenguan were built along the river valley in the east. However, these places are too far away and are easy to be surrounded and defended. The Datong Army shrunk their defenses and built the "Pinglu Fort".

"What castle is this?"

Hauge put down the binoculars, muttered to himself, then picked it up again to continue observing.

The walls of the castle here are very low, and you can rush up with a ladder. Moreover, there is a layer of sloping soil slopes outside the city wall. This kind of soil slope does not even need ladders, and soldiers can climb it by running and charging.

It's just that the trenches around the slopes are very annoying, and the folks have to fill the trenches first.

After observing carefully for a while, Hauge was amused, and said to the left and right generals: "If it is under my command, the craftsmen responsible for building this castle should be killed. How can we prevent the army from attacking the city?"

The original plan was that Dorgon would lead the main force to besiege Gaizhou City and send aid along the way. Hauge led a partial division to outflank the flanks, plundered the population while harvesting wheat, and joined forces with Dorgon at critical moments.

At this moment, Hauge saw the appearance of "Pinglu Fortress", and immediately decided to unplug this stronghold first.

According to Hauge's estimate, it can be won in a day at most!

The people who were plundered from North Korea some time ago have now become siege men, and they go to fill the trenches with the soldiers (coated with the army).

"Bang bang bang!"

As soon as the peasants approached the trench, they were shot by the firecrackers behind the slope.

With a gunshot, they all collapsed.

In desperation, Hauge ordered the car to be moved from the ship to assemble. Use a car to cover the civilian husband, and fill in the trench first.

"Boom boom boom!"

This time it was a cannon fire, and it was extremely accurate, almost four or five shells could destroy a car.

Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry has expanded to 7,000. The newly added war horses were all captured on the Henan and Shandong battlefields, and some cavalry simply came here with their horses.

For example, Jiang Yu took four hundred Ding cavalry to join him, and is now being dispatched to Liaodong to participate in the battle.

"Haha, this Laoshizi Bastion is really useful." Lu Xiangsheng stood on the wall to watch the battle.

The bastion is not known for being strong, and the walls are also very low. If you are really rushed to the bottom of the city by the enemy, you can climb up in minutes.

However, there is no dead angle of firepower, and enemies in any corner will be covered by firepower.

Including the firing points of the artillery, they are all measured in advance. When the enemy arrived in that area, they let the artillery fire, and the hit rate of the shells was very high.

Several vehicles were scrapped in a row, Hauge couldn't sit still, and ordered the civilians and servants to fill the trench with soil regardless of casualties.

After defeating the men who filled the trench more than ten times, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly ordered: "Let them fill it, save some gunpowder and shells, and use it to fight the real Tartars behind."

The guns stopped immediately, and Hauge was overjoyed: "Those Nanban ammunition is not enough, quickly fill up the trench!"

The trench was neither wide nor deep.

After the gun threat was eliminated, the civilian husband quickly filled it up, and Hauge immediately ordered the Eight Banners soldiers to push the car to attack.

Everything was going well until the car approached the slope.

"Bang bang bang!"

Firecrackers appeared on the slope again, and the Qing chariot, a sharp siege weapon of the Qing Dynasty, could not play the slightest defensive role.

Because the soil slopes are also full of edges and corners, the car can block the bullets on the front, but it cannot block the bullets on the sides. After the paper shell ammunition is loaded, the paper shell is also inserted by the poke bar, which can prevent the projectile from rolling off when it is fired downwards.

Boluo, the grandson of Nurhachi, the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, and the son of Gushan Bei, is leading a charge at this time.

Although Haoge's confiscated Zhenglan Banner Niulu was returned before being withdrawn to Liaodong, it was mixed with sand by Dorgon. A group of aristocrats with the inlaid white banner, including Boluo, were mixed into the Zhenglan Banner, and the remnants of the inlaid white banner left after Duduo's death were taken over by Dorgon.

"Put harder, and the cart will be able to break through the city by pushing it up the slope!"

Boluo hissed and roared, quite excited in his heart.

Like Hauge, he regarded the craftsmen in charge of building the city as fools. These slopes are not only very low, but also not very steep, and the carts can be easily pushed up.

"Bang bang bang!"

Boluo didn't pay attention to the firecrackers who suddenly appeared on the slope.

However, there was a gunshot, and Boluo suffered pain in his side. He touched behind him, his hands were covered with blood, he turned to look sideways, and the second round of firecracker shooting was about to begin.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw! It's a sharp-angled platform like Ningyuan's!"

Boluo instantly understood what was going on, the car couldn't guard against the side.

Thousands of Eight Banners soldiers attacked the city, so it was naturally impossible to rely on Hou to command. Except for the few around him, no one could hear what he was shouting, because the firecracker had already fired again.

A stray bullet hit Boluo in the neck, and the grandson of Nurhachi fell down on the spot in a daze.

"Dang Dang Dang Dang!"

In the large formation of the Qing army, suddenly there was a gong beating, but it was Hauge who ordered Mingjin to withdraw the troops.

Without his order at all, the second round of shooting ended, and the casualties of the siege troops exceeded 15%. They found that the car could not be defended, so they dared to continue to attack, and turned around and fled without waiting for the order to withdraw the troops.

Hauge was extremely angry, and shouted: "Pull up the artillery! The southern barbarians only took two or three months to build this fort, and the city wall must not be very strong!"

It's really not very strong, the main body of the castle is made of rammed earth.

As for the surrounding soil slope, it also belongs to rammed earth. But it didn't tamp it very well, just a few slaps on the base soil.

Seeing Manqing dragging out the artillery, the Datong army on the city and on the slopes immediately retreated to hide.

"Boom boom boom!"

More than twenty Manchu Qing artillery began to shoot at the same city wall.

As long as we hit a few more shots, the shoddy castle in front of us will definitely collapse immediately.

However, not even a single shot hit!

Because the city wall is too short, there are soil slopes outside the city wall to block it.

The Hongyi Cannon is a smoothbore cannon with a relatively small shooting angle. With this kind of artillery, the attack itself is low, and there are walls blocked by earth slopes outside, the chance of hitting is equal to winning the five million lottery jackpot.

After several rounds of continuous bombardment, the Manchu Qing artillery finally realized the problem.

Hauge ordered: "Build soil and build a fort!"

Since you can't find the shooting angle, make the fort higher.

Although it was not very useful to do so, Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to take it lightly and ordered the artillery to bombard the peasants who were laying the soil.

The fort cannot be built.

The scene froze, and Hauge was stuck.

He can disregard the castle and walk a few miles forward to grab the wheat in the field.

But he really couldn't save face, he paid thousands of casualties, destroyed more than a dozen chariots, fired dozens of shells, and didn't even touch a single hair of the enemy.

If this matter is passed back, won't Dorgon's big teeth be laughed off?

Hauge ordered the camp to stay, and in the evening, he called all the generals to discuss: "How to fight this weird castle, you all talk about it."

Doni, the grandson of Nurhaci and the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, said: "Since it is so weird, don't fight it. Let's take the soldiers to grab the wheat. After we grab the wheat, we can find a place to cross the river and join the regent. If the enemy army in the castle is chasing after you, just defeat them in the field!"

Ao Bai said: "There are many guns and cannons in the castle, and the defenders are estimated to be tens of thousands. If we ignore these enemies, can we safely grab the wheat? Even if we grab the wheat, what should we do if we are surprised by the enemy when we cross the river?"

"What are you? You don't have a place to speak here!" Duny said angrily.

Of course, Hauge wanted to protect his confidant and beloved general. He said: "Oboi's words are very reasonable. We have to find a way to pull out this castle. When Taizu was alive, when he encountered the castle of the Ming army, he was able to pull it out." Pull it out, otherwise it will stick there next time.”

Ao Bai continued: "The castle is built like a mountain. Although the mountain is not high, it is easy to stand on it and attack the bottom. Those slopes are exactly the same as the sharp-angled platform in Ningyuan. No matter which side you attack, the two sides The firearms soldiers must release their guns, and the chariots will definitely be unstoppable. Then no chariots, more than 20,000 of us will rush up the slope in one go!"

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it had already begun to learn from the bastions, and it was first built in Ningxia to defend against Mongolia.

The bastion-like defensive buildings in Liaodong were built by Sun Yuanhua with the support of Sun Chengzong. Cities such as Ningyuan in Liaodong have similar defensive buildings.

However, that is not a bastion.

Instead, on the basis of the Chinese-style city wall, a prismatic enemy platform was built so that artillery and firecrackers could bypass the chariot and hit the enemy.

There is no difference between who is superior and who is inferior. The Eight Banners soldiers cannot break through, so they are surrounded to death, and they can only surrender when they run out of ammunition and food.

The bastion here is too short, Haoge and other Manchurian nobles couldn't think of Ningyuan City for a while, and they didn't think of Ningyuan City's sharp-edged enemy tower until they were hurt.

"Rush to die?" Donnie sneered.

"What should we do if we don't rush?" Obai said, "The castle is built in a critical place, so we can bypass it when we come here. How can we bypass the food, people and livestock when we have a lot of luggage? At that time, we have to cross the river, Either walk outside the castle, no matter which one is easy to be raided."

Duny said: "It's just right to lead the enemy out of the castle and destroy them!"

Aobai confronted each other: "Those southern barbarians know how to fight, so we must let us rob them. The more things we rob, the harder it will be to march. At that time, we will be the prey, and the enemy will be the hunters. They rely on the castle, and they can come and go quickly." Hurry up, go fast, gain the upper hand everywhere, we are very passive everywhere."

Duny said: "No matter how bad the field battle is, it's better than siege the city and die. This weird castle, if you want to die, you go first!"

"Let's go!" Aobai said angrily.

This seems to be discussing military affairs, but it is actually a continuation of the conflict between Hauge and Dorgon.

Doni is the second son of Dodo!

Shang Kexi huddled beside him. He didn't speak at first, but he didn't want to storm the castle, so he could only say: "This kind of castle with a sharp angle, I heard it from the red-haired artillery teacher before, and Mr. Sun (Sun Yuanhua) also mentioned it many times. Don't It looks short, but it's actually not easy to conquer..."

"Why didn't you say it earlier? I killed thousands of warriors!" Hauge was furious.

Shang Kexi explained: "The last general has only heard about it, but has never seen the real thing. And in the past many years, I really didn't think of it for a while, until the prince withdrew his troops just now."

Aobai said: "First use the artillery to bombard, wait until the Eight Banners warriors are close, and then stop and don't fire the artillery. The slope is not steep, and you only wear one layer of armor, so you must rush quickly. After occupying the slope , and then take a ladder to attack the city. Those walls are not high, so we can definitely attack them!"

Haoge didn't want to be laughed at by Dorgon, so he immediately said: "Then try this way!"

Doni and the others just sneered, they wouldn't attack anyway. If Hauge wanted to force it, he had to let his Niu Lu go to attack the city, and they wouldn't feel distressed no matter how many deaths there were.

Manqing is the head office, and the Eight Banners are branch companies. There are also branch companies under each banner, and each branch company is responsible for its own profits and losses.

As the small boss of the branch, Doni only needs to keep himself from losing money.