Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 452 Zhangzhou City King Li Doufa

Li Chengdong's order was passed on, and immediately at the city gate, a cavalry force of about a thousand people gathered on the street.

Tong Yangjia hurried over, wondering, "What's the matter? This is Duzhen?"

"Wang Shiheng used troops cunningly, and never refused to suffer." Li Chengdong said with a serious expression: "Sure enough, what I was worried about happened. Obviously, Wang Shiheng is not going to attack Zhangzhou by force. He is going to use the method of locking the city to trap you and me in the city." , and then get out to fight the weakly defended cities in central Fujian."

Listening to Li Chengdong's words, Tong Yangjia looked in the direction he pointed, and saw tens of thousands of peasants digging wildly outside the city. He couldn't help but immediately thought of the Battle of Dalinghe.

At this time, the Zhangzhou Qing army set itself in a passive position because of its previous defensive counterattack strategy, but now it is really completely passive.

Although Tong Yangjia did not have the ability of Li Chengdong, he immediately understood that Zhangzhou was in a dilemma. If they sat back and watched the Ming army dig trenches and build walls to trap them in the city, they would not have achieved their goal of exhausting the Ming army, and they would not have held back. The main force of the Ming army may also be besieged and rescued.

If you take advantage of this time to attack, but it is a bit late, the Ming army approached the city, and the Qing army retreated into the city in a hurry, the momentum was already lowered, and now that Wang Yan and Zheng Chenggong have joined together, [-] will beat him to [-]. hope of winning.

Tong Yangjia's face became heavy. He looked at the cavalry gathered at the city gate, "Duzhen is preparing for battle, is it?"

Li Chengdong slammed his fist on the wall, "The battle has just begun, and we have fallen into a passive position. Zheng Chenggong's warship has blocked Xixi. Even if we want to retreat, there is little possibility for us to retreat. Now we are only waiting for help, but the town But Wang Yan couldn't make it so easy, so he trapped Zhangzhou. The method of locking the city requires a lot of fortifications, and it can't be completed in a day or two. If the town sends troops to interfere, even if Wang Yan can't be stopped, he must be killed. Vigorousness. In this way, every day of delay can buy one more day for Jiangnan to enter the aid, and as soon as the aid arrives, even if Wang Yan enters the hinterland of Fujian, it will be in vain."

Hearing the words, Tong Yangjia already understood that what they can do now is to try their best to delay the time for Wang Yan to lock the city, and the rest is to see when Zhang Cunren and Jiangnan's reinforcements will arrive.

This is when the cavalry at the city gate had assembled, and Li Chengdong immediately shouted: "Open the city gate! Let my son attack~"

As soon as the military order came out, the gates of the west city of Zhangzhou opened wide, the ropes on the winch creaked, and the suspension bridge fell. Li Chengdong's adopted son Li Yuanyin led a thousand cavalry and rushed towards the peasants who were digging. , the sharp spear, under the sunlight, reflected a dazzling cold light.

Since the Han army was fighting the White Banner and the Yellow Banner on the battlefields of Huguang and Jiangxi, the entire army was wiped out, and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty urgently needed to replenish the source of troops. Furthermore, the Qing court implemented the strategy of using the Han to control the Han, and it was necessary to win over a large number of capable Han people. Among the generals, Li Chengdong has more than 7000 people, and 500 of them are included in the Baijia.

The Eight Banners soldiers are good at cavalry and shooting, but in fact they also have heavy infantry and artillery formations. The Qing court allocated horses and armor for Li Chengdong, but Li Chengdong's department is still mainly infantry. The Qing cavalry in the entire city of Zhangzhou will not More than 2000 people, it's not that there are no horses, but that the cavalry needs training, and the infantry cannot be regarded as cavalry even if they ride horses.

The ground trembled for a while, feeling the galloping horses. The diggers straightened up, touched the sweat, and there were nervous expressions on their faces. Watch, keep digging, it won't hurt you~"

At this time, in the camp of the Ming army, the battle drums were roaring, and they had already lined up to guard against the [-] cavalry from the Qing soldiers who came out of the city to harass them. Immediately, like arrows flying from the string, they divided the city into two teams. , To break the clear ride back.

Since the establishment of the Supervising Standard Cavalry, they have been repeatedly beaten and hammered. In terms of skills, they are not as good as the Manmeng Eight Banners who grew up on horseback, but they can't cure Li Chengdong?

The momentum of the six thousand cavalrymen of the Ming army was several times that of the Qing cavalry. Seeing that it was easy to rush out, it was difficult to come back. There was no need for Li Chengdong in the city to call for gold to withdraw the troops. He went back wherever he came, turned his horse's head hastily, and squeezed into the city gate in a panic.

Seeing this scene, the Qing soldiers in the city were so surprised that their eyes fell to the ground. The Qing soldiers were always majestic and majestic, pressing down on the Ming army's blasting hammer, how could they suddenly reverse their forms and landed in such a field.

At this time, the cavalrymen of the Ming army rushed out of the range of their bows, arrows and shotguns. They all laughed and showed off their power. Incomparable.

This made Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia's faces heavy.

The cavalry of the Qing army really showed a big face this time, humiliating everyone, Li Yuanyin ran up to the city, and quickly pleaded guilty to Li Chengdong, "Father, the child is incompetent, I am ashamed of you."

"Your decision is not wrong. You can make a quick decision and bring back 1000 people." Li Chengdong patted Li Yuanyin on the shoulder and sighed, "It's this town. It's negligent. I didn't expect Wang Yan's cavalry to be so strong."

For a moment, the faces of all the generals of the Qing army in Chengqiang were blackened, and none of the guards and soldiers around dared to speak. The atmosphere was extremely dignified.

The Ming army is so powerful, but what should we do?

At the same time, there was joy in the tent of the Ming army. Seeing that the generals looked down on the Qing soldiers, Wang Yan reminded: "Everyone, don't underestimate Li Chengdong. The whole Northland was owned by Shun back then, but he Being able to follow Gao Xingping, from Shaanxi, through Shanxi, Huaiqing, Henan, into Shandong, and finally escape to Xuzhou, spanning thousands of miles, is enough to prove his ability. From the point of view of this pavilion, he will definitely not be willing to accept this. Sleepy. Liu Shun, take someone to bury the bomb you got from the Military Weapons Supervisor.”

"No~ I will do it when it gets dark."

All the generals of the Ming army understood, looked at each other, and immediately laughed in unison.

It was the fourth watch of the night, and the city gate of Zhangzhou was quietly opened, and three thousand Qing soldiers sneaked out of the city. Under the cover of night, they went to the Ming army's camp, obviously wanting to steal the camp.

Li Chengdong is indeed a capable general. He thought that Wang Yan had just arrived, and the army's camp was unstable. Moreover, the Qing army's cavalry was so embarrassing during the day that it would inevitably make the Ming army ignore him and be negligent. So he decided to steal the camp at night and kill him. The Ming army is not in a hurry to make a wrong move.

Three thousand Qing soldiers left the city, carefully touched the front of the ditch, touched the first ditch, no one was guarding it, and after climbing over the low wall, there was still no one. The Qing general Hong Xishan who led the team became nervous. Looking at the Ming army camp not far away, he waved his subordinates to touch it, but at this moment, the soldiers of the Qing army in front stepped on the bombs buried by the Ming army.

"Boom~" There were several loud noises, and the ground exploded one after another. Dozens of Qing soldiers were immediately blown away, and the Qing soldiers who stole the camp were thrown into chaos.

Fried buns are ancient landmines. According to the "Fire Dragon Classic" of the Ming Dynasty, "The fried buns are made of pig iron, empty stomach, put medicine and pestle, put them into a small bamboo tube, wear the fire wire inside, and use a long wire to wear the fire groove outside. Dozens of them were buried in the pit, the medicine tank was connected to the steel wheel, covered with soil, so that the thieves didn't know it, and when the engine was stepped on, it shook, and the iron blocks flew like flying, and the flames shot up into the sky."

It can be seen from the records that "exploding artillery" is not only the earliest pressure-fired landmine, but also similar to today's "serial mines". When Qi Jiguang guarded Jizhou, he also used a "steel wheel fire" mine.

The sudden explosion made the Qing soldiers bewildered for a while. Hong Xishan saw that he had been exposed and could not steal the camp, so he had to grit his teeth and let his subordinates attack. Disturb the Ming army.

"Bang~ bang~ bang~"

Just when the Qing soldiers rushed to the front of the camp, the torches in the Ming village were suddenly raised, and the first three hundred red-haired ghosts were divided into three teams.

The Qing soldiers who rushed to the front immediately fell down. The Qing soldiers behind saw countless figures shaking in the Ming barracks, and there were shouts of killing from both sides, and their morale suddenly blew up. Just run away.

At this time, Liu Shun immediately led the crowd to fight out, and drove the Qing army in pursuit. Li Guo and Wang Shixiu, who were ambushing on the left and right flanks, also rushed out respectively, cutting off the Qing army, and just surrounded Hong Xishan.

This old general of the Zheng family was also decisive when he arrived. Seeing that he could not escape, he immediately threw his weapon and ordered the soldiers to surrender directly to the Ming army to save their lives. When the arrows came, Fang withdrew his troops and returned to the camp.

Now Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia completely gave up their minds, closed the city gates, hung the suspension bridge high, and never thought about it again. He can consume so much that he doesn't need to kill people like Zu Dashou to satisfy his hunger.

(Thanks to Fat Pengpeng for the five hundred book coins, thanks to the little bookworm cc fans, Yuedong Woxin, who came to give me a smile, thanks to the little bookworm cc fans, and Lao Chen's monthly pass)
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