The Battle of Liuhe has been going on for four months. From the beginning of July to the beginning of November, small battles continued, but the big battle did not break out. Zhu Hengjia and Duny, like two martial arts masters, were fighting, constantly fighting.
Looking for the opponent's flaws and planning to kill him with one blow.
Zhu Hengjia is inspecting the military camp again. In the past four months, he has not been idle and has been constantly consolidating his own defenses.
Five hundred soldiers are called a small stronghold, and more than five hundred soldiers are called a large stronghold, with a total of 200 strongholds. The strongholds face each other and are connected by plank roads. There are stronghold walls, shooting holes, lookout holes, archery towers, military tents, and passages in the strongholds;
Outside the village there are trenches, ramparts, fences, patrol roads, trenches, and arrow stacks, all of which are fully functional and form an extremely tight defense system.
After a round of inspection, I was very satisfied. With this approach, each camp was built into a simple version of a castle, and the entire defense system was like a group of castles. Even if the Qing army filled in the trenches and entered the camp,
Inside, they will also face attacks from countless castles. In order to prevent fire attacks, each stronghold is built with earth and stone, and multiple wells and ponds are built to store water. The strongholds are also kept apart from each other. Even if one stronghold catches fire, it will not affect the others.
Zhaizi.
Zhu Hengjia boarded the observation tower in the largest Chinese army stronghold. The Chinese military stronghold was built with solid earth and stone and housed 10,000 bodyguards. The observation tower was built extremely high and served as both a lookout tower and a command post.
On the stage, a dragon scroll is very eye-catching.
Holding up the telescope, the Qing army camp opposite was clearly visible. Like our own, the other side was also building fortifications, but instead of building the fort, they were building various equipment to attack the fort, and they were very busy.
Zhu Hengjia laughed loudly, "Doni, my camp is impregnable, but I want to see what you can do to attack it."
He has an old man's temperament and writes poems when he is happy, so he immediately composed a poem "Magpie Bridge Immortal: Waiting for the King":
Waving the North Finger,
Outside Liuhe City,
The wind blows and the camp becomes difficult to cross.
The host is hospitable to you,
Swords and fish and dragons dance.
The golden wind has arrived,
There is still a lack of jade dew,
The three armies are in great danger.
A round of red sunshine shines on the country,
The ancient trees in the west of the city were dyed red.
After reciting the crooked words, he left it alone and had his own internal official records of compiling "Notes on Living Life".
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At this time, Qing'an Yuan Jingkou General and Xinjun Prince Duoni were also observing the Ming army's camp and sighed: "The advance and retreat are measured and orderly. Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty is so handsome and talented!" When I returned to the camp, I didn't think of any good way to defeat the enemy, so I felt depressed.
The military ration officer came to report: "General, our army's rations are less than one month."
The war lasted four months, and the military rations were naturally insufficient.
"Has the grain transport team come back?"
"Not back yet".
"Report, the Han army with a red flag on the mountain front and the real stone pillar reported urgently that the Ming army sneaked across the Yellow River and burned the Fengji warehouse. Now the remaining grain in Qingjiangpu is only 100,000 shi."
"What!"
When Doni heard this, the world was spinning. The weather finally got warmer this year, the summer grain was harvested, and a lot of military rations were stored in Fengji Warehouse. Unexpectedly, most of it was burned down in a fire!
"Yang Fangxing has harmed the country, and I want to join him." Doni yelled angrily, and Fengji warehouse was burned. Naturally, Yang Fangxing, the governor of water transportation, could not escape the involvement.
In fact, without his participation, Yang Fangxing hanged himself the day after Fengjicang was burned. As soon as he died, Shi Tingzhu breathed a sigh of relief and went to Shushun to rule the emperor. While pleading guilty, he put all the blame on Yang Fangxing.
Doni was anxious and summoned Luo Keduo, Shang Shan, Du Lan, Zhuo Luo, Zu Zerun and others to discuss.
"Our army's rations are less than one month, and Huai'an's rations are only enough for two months at most, and they haven't arrived yet. What can we do?"
Zhuoluo suggested: "General, now that the autumn grain is being harvested, why not send troops to the fields to cut rice?"
"The weather has finally gotten warmer this year. If we send troops to harvest rice, I'm afraid it will arouse public resentment." Zu Zerun was a little worried.
Doni sighed: "If the matter is urgent, let the grain harvesting team collect grain near Liuhe first, and then ask the magistrate of Liuhe to give the grain to silver at a discount."
The so-called giving silver at a discount is empty talk. Everyone knows that the Manchurian army never gives money when they requisition grain.
"General, our army is short of food and grass. We must attack the Ming army camp as soon as possible and fight the enemy decisively," Shang Shanjin said.
"Well, what Shang Shanbeile said makes sense. After two days of rest, the army will engage in a decisive battle with the Ming army. This battle is related to the fate of the Qing Dynasty. All generals should fight bravely to kill the enemy and advance without retreating."
"嗻!"
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After hearing the news that the Qing army organized food teams everywhere to collect food, Emperor Guangwu knew that the burning of Fengji Granary was done. He couldn't help but look serious. The enemy army would definitely struggle to death before they ran out of food, just like a beast before its death.
The blow was very fierce.
"Instruct all troops to strictly guard their camps and post three sentries at night."
On the first day, there was no movement from the Qing army; on the second day, there was still no movement. Zhu Hengjia secretly praised that this Duni could keep his composure. You are not in a hurry if you have little food, and I am even less anxious if I have more food. Thinking of this, I can't
He calmly sat on the dragon chair and read the book of war.
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On November 6, the third year of the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army launched a fierce attack on the Ming army camp.
"Soldiers of the Eight Banners, move forward for the sake of the Qing Dynasty." With Dhoni's roar, the decisive battle began.
Zhenghuang Banner Han Army's Gushan'e Zhenzu Zerun, Meilezhang Jingmang Gutu, Fu Ka, and Ke Xingge each led their troops to approach the Ming army camp.
Heavy artillery from both sides began to fire at each other.
The Qing army drove the captured civilians and pushed bucket trucks filled with soil to fill the trenches.
"Old guy, run faster." A green soldier waved a big knife and forced an old man to push a cart.
"These days, if you grab food and arrest people, you will be killed by Master Wang sooner or later." The old man muttered secretly and pushed the cart forward.
"Chirp", a huge stone bullet flew over. The twenty-kilogram projectile, carrying inertia, smashed the old man's body into pieces, and bounced towards the Green Camp soldiers.
"Ah", the green battalion soldier only had time to shout, and then there was a big hole in his body.
The Ming army dug three trenches in front of the camp, and each trench required human lives to fill it. After the people's lives were filled, they used the Green Camp and the Eight Banners Han Army to fill it.
In ten days, the three trenches were finally filled.
Donnie was very anxious. The grain transport officer came back from Huai'an and only received a month's worth of grain. Now he only has enough grain to last for a month and a half.
"General, you can have the artillery close up to shoot, the archers and gunmen to suppress the formation, and the infantry to attack the stronghold," Shang Shan suggested to Doni.
"Yeah", Duny responded. He took the risk and ordered the gunner to push the small cannon towards the Ming army camp and blast directly at it. Before the cannon stopped, the archers and musketeers, under the cover of the carriage, went straight to the camp.
Under the wall, the Ming army's artillery shot arrows and muskets on the wall. The Eight Banners were good at shooting and there were many archers.
Chedengzhai.
On the high platform, Zhu Hengjia sneered, "Send an order to Zhao Yong to adjust the distance between the artillery carriages and shoot down the Qing artillerymen in front."