In the fifth year of Hongwu, Gaizhou City was supervised by Wu Yu, commander of Gaizhou Guard. The brick and stone city was built on the basis of the original Tucheng. Because it was the Gaizhou Guard when the city was built, it was called Gaizhou City. In the ninth year of Hongwu, the city wall was expanded southward.

Gaizhou City is 87 meters long from north to south and 760 meters long from east to west, slightly rectangular. It has Guangen Gate in the south, Ninghai Gate in the west, and Shuntian Gate in the east. For the convenience of defense, there is no north gate. There is a urn city on the east and south gates, and a city tower is built on the gate. There are more than a thousand battlements on the top of the city wall, and Kuixing Tower and Zhuyi Tower are built on the east and west walls respectively. There are bells and drum towers in the city, and there is a moat that is five meters deep and six meters wide along the city outside the city.

The Bell and Drum Tower is located in the south gate of Gaizhou City. There is a tower at the bottom, a temple above, a stone strip is built on the foundation, and a blue brick is built on it. You can climb the stairs and climb the tower to see it in close view. The bell tower in the east, the drum tower in the west, and the Guanyin Pavilion in the middle. There is a north-south gate below the building. The huge bell rings, and the whole city can hear it. In addition to reporting time, it also has a fire alarm function.

After all, Gaizhou City was a city that Jiannu had captured and controlled. He knew very well about every tree and grass here, and they all knew their weaknesses and shortcomings. However, when they wanted to surround Gaizhou City, they found that it was impossible to travel at all. This was because Gaizhou City was more than ten miles away from the sea, but now they should have dug a large number of trenches and erected fences within this ten miles away, and continued their city defense to the sea. This means that Jiannu could not send a large army to surround them from all directions. When the Ming army saw that the wind was wrong, they could retreat to the sea through the defense area outside the city.

Moreover, the temporary positions built by the Liu family army were also very powerful. When Jiannu and his team saw that they had just built some trenches and fences, they wanted to continue the city for more than ten miles long. This was simply a whim. Jiannu sent their cavalry to attack them. If they could break through these defense lines, they could cut off their connection with the sea and surrounded them.

However, when Dorgon wanted to send troops to fight, he found that these trenches were actually very famous. Outside the trenches, they established a large number of pointed woods and iron branches. The existence of these pointed woods and iron branches made their cavalry unable to attack quickly. If you send cavalry to fight, it would be easy to be pierced and injured horse belly and soldiers. Jiannu also sent soldiers to remove these pointed woods and iron branches, but the effect was not very good. Although they came with shields and shields, the Ming army used cannons to bomb them.

The Ming army's musket team met the nemesis when they got on the huge shield. Generally, these Jiannu soldiers held giant shields and hid behind the shield to clear obstacles outside the position. The Ming army's muskets had no choice but to use them. Their giant shields were thick wooden blocks and covered with iron and cowhide. Two or three soldiers pushed forward, just like moving small walls. When the muskets hit these small walls, they often made dents in this place, and they could not penetrate them, so they could not hurt the Jiannu soldiers hiding behind.

However, they were not as awesome as Jiannu soldiers imagined. In their imagination, they could control the Ming army tightly as long as they held a shield cart. Who knew that the Ming army had deployed a large number of cannons. Their cannons were really not good at their correct heads and their power was average, but the huge shields that hit them in one shot were destroyed by human shields.

The only thing that comforted the Jiannu soldiers was that the Ming army's Fran machine cannons, which were light cannons. Although the number was large, it caused them huge trouble, but they were extremely accurate. They did not dare to send a large number of soldiers to the positions to clear these obstacles, because the Ming army deployed a large number of cannons behind them, and their shells were desperately attacking like they didn't have money. If it were other Ming army, they would definitely not dare to expect to shoot guns unscrupulously, but this Ming army seemed particularly rich. As long as they felt that it was inappropriate, they would immediately bombard them with guns.

The fortifications composed of Ming military muskets and cannons caused them a lot of trouble.

Even when Dorgon saw so many Fran machine cannons deployed in the other side's positions, he was furious: "Are the artillery of the Ming army worthless?"

If it were another Ming army, such a shooting cannon would probably be a waste of time.

Moreover, they deployed a lot of red-clothed cannons, but the red-clothed cannons looked very majestic, but their accuracy was extremely poor, and they often didn't know where to attack. However, once they were hit, they suffered heavy casualties and injuries. A team of their troops had been deployed three miles away. As a result, they were hit by a cannon from the Ming army, and forty or fifty people died on the spot, which scared them to death.

As a result, seeing that the Ming army was so awesome, they deployed nine cannons, guarding three gates, and one cannon came, sweeping a large area. So Dorgon ordered the army to be deployed five miles away, and the problem arose. They were deployed five miles away, and they could not encircle the Ming army at all, because his white flag and the blue flag were not enough to encircle the water within a radius of dozens of miles.

Since he could not surround the Ming army and could not cut off the food route, it was not a siege in the traditional sense. It would be impossible to put psychological pressure on the Ming army. Dorgon had a premonition that if he launched a strong attack, he would definitely suffer extremely heavy casualties.

Because Dorgon tasted the pain in his tentative attack for a few days. Although the fortifications outside the Ming army looked extremely simple and not as tall as the three walls, the places where these simple fortifications were connected were extremely powerful and strict, with a large number of soldiers and cannons inside. Moreover, when the seaside pier was at the dock, the Ming army was even more vigilant. They actually had a large number of warships parked on the dock and directly supported them. Dorgon personally went to the battlefield to observe the enemy situation and saw that the Ming army had deployed five warships on the sea surface, and each had eight cannons on a single side. He was so scared that his scalp was numb.

Dorgon was also an officer who paid great attention to collecting intelligence. He also knew that even the Liu family army was the Liu family in Shandong, and the Liu family in Shandong was the most prosperous in the world. In the past, he always thought how awesome an army formed by a rich man and a nouveau riche could be. Now he thought that this TMD was really awesome, and he didn't know where the killing of the sky got so much money? Where did he get so many cannons?

This shouldn't be true? Logically speaking, the Ming Dynasty court would not allow his generals to have so many cannons and troops, which is very taboo. However, the weapons and equipment of the Liu family army refreshed his understanding. If he could not persuade him to surrender, he would not be able to use it. There was no other way except for a strong attack. However, he knew that if he attacked the city, he would inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

Normally, the most powerful Ningmian defense line in the Ming army, the Liu family army deployed five times the cannons in each area than the Ningjin defense line. I really don’t know where they created so many cannons.

Most of the Ming army's cannons were bulky, and even the Fran machine cannons were between 500 and 1,000 kilograms. It would be inconvenient to drag it in a field, but the power of fixing it in a fixed location and defending it is quite amazing.

Jiannu is very good at sports warfare. They are very good at dragging down the enemy in sports, and then looking for opportunities to give the other party a fatal blow. But now the other party is motionless and just waiting for you to attack, which makes them unable to display their strengths.

Dorgon looked at Gaizhou City and sighed, saying, "Mr. Benbeile is sure to take this city, but the huge casualties will cause the great sweat to peel my skin."

Jiergalang is also a knowledgeable person, and has been on the battlefield and fighting. In the past few days, they have been testing the Ming army's city defense and the other party's firepower. However, from the moment, the other party is very cautious. There are many cannons in the city. Even the fortifications temporarily built by the other party between the outside of the city and the dock are very cautious. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If they attack rashly, they will definitely suffer extremely heavy casualties. This result made him very worried. You must know that the Khan Huang Taiji ordered three orders a day to quickly take down Gaizhou City and then go south to attack Fuzhou City. Now they are helpless here.

Huang Taiji also ordered another general, Ajige, to lead his troops to march southward to attack Fuzhou. He himself led the army to prepare to march southward to attack Jinzhou, divide the troops into three groups, and take down three places at the same time. However, Dorgon believed that not only did he encounter problems here, but the problems encountered in other places should also be quite small.

Of course, Huang Taiji's main force is still in Zhongwei City, Shenyang, and is still gathering. The Ajige army responsible for attacking Fuzhou City is probably still in the marching. Now they all hope that Dorgon's team can take the lead first, but Dorgon doesn't feel relaxed now.

In fact, Dorgon hated Huang Taiji very much. If it weren't for Huang Taiji's hard urging, his mother Abahai would not have committed suicide and buried her. Their brothers could have lived because his father Khan left dozens of Niulu soldiers to their brothers. Their brothers were also very successful and constantly expanding their soldiers and forces. With soldiers, there is power, and only with power can they have the right to speak and survive.

If they conquer Gaizhou City without regard to casualties, they would not be worth the money in the end, so Dorgon was hesitating about what to do.

Dorgon and the others are now anxious to attack Gaizhou City and seize the three people in southern Liaoning, but Xiao Ning and the others are not in a hurry at all, because the order given to him by Liu Bu was to let him defend this place to the death. They just need to defend this place and guard Gaizhou City, which is victory, while Jiannu is different. They are very anxious to regain this place and restore control here.
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