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Chapter 614 Decisive Battle in Southern Henan ([-])

In the early morning, near Xiangcheng, within a radius of tens of miles, the fortress of the Wei army and the barracks of the Qing army were noisy almost at the same time.

Steaming steamed steamed buns were placed on the top of the city, and the hot broth was carried up to the city wall. The soldiers each held the steamed buns and hot soup, squatting on the top of the city and gorging on it. Not long after, the alarm bell rang at the top of the city. , the soldiers hurriedly wiped their mouths, randomly stuffed steamed buns and pancakes into their mouths, and then immediately stood up and lined up.

On the city wall, soldiers of the Wei army stood guard by drawing piles. A small team of 12 people guarded three wall piles.

At this time, all bureaus gathered together, and more than a hundred people stood in three rows on the city wall. The teams of each team checked the weapons on their subordinates first, and then returned to the queue to stand still.

At this time, the training officer of each bureau came over, stood in front of the team, and began to mobilize before the battle.

Compared with other armies, the trainer is a feature of the Wei army. Before each battle, he must give lectures to boost morale.

At this time, Gao Yihuan's idea was to build a strong-willed army, but training was a job that required a large number of people with consciousness and ideals to do it. Gao Yihuan obviously did not have such a training team, so his training system, It's a bit like painting a tiger but not an anti-dog.

But no matter what, having training is better than not having it. It plays a big role in boosting morale and controlling the army.

This time the Qing army attacked southern Henan. Although some people in southern Henan also surrendered to the Qing, they did not surrender like Jiangbei, thanks to the presence of a group of training officers.

At this time, the instructors of the various bureaus began to give lectures to the soldiers, but these big bosses couldn't say anything good, and they were summed up in a few sentences, which were all the rhetoric set by the above.

"Well, why did your majesty lead us to fight the tartars, because the tartars are hungry wolves, if you don't kill this hungry wolf, we planted crops, and they came to grab them, we weaved cloth, they They also want to rob us. These animals not only rob us of our food and clothing, but also kill our parents and insult our wives and daughters, so we must stand up, beat the Tartars, and defend our homeland. Brothers, do you know the Liao land? 300 There were more than ten thousand Han people, nearly half of them were killed or injured, and the rest could only wear full clothes and shaved pigtails, and became slaves to the Tartars. Brothers, do you remember Shandong? The Tartars came in, and more than [-] fellow villagers in Jinan were killed by swords .Now the Tartars are going to attack Nanyang again, what do the brothers say?"

The soldiers of the Wei Army who fought in three rows responded with fists, "Kill Guisun to death!"

"Medium! That's it!" The trainer nodded in satisfaction, "Only when we repel the Tartars can everyone live a stable and good life."

When the Wei army was mobilizing, on the Qing army's side, trumpets and drums sounded one after another. The green battalion soldiers in gray gowns, the Jiangbei surrender army in mandarin duck jackets, and the colorful Eight Banners troops came from each camp like streams. flowed out, and then pooled into a sea of ​​human heads.

The cavalry of the Qing army arrived at the battlefield first, and they formed a team of more than 300 cavalry, cruising in the wilderness to prevent the cavalry of the Wei army from raiding the stable Qing army.

In this battle, Duoduo assembled nearly 20 Qing troops. The battle line was not just a city in Xiangcheng, but a vast area including Xiangcheng, with a radius of fifty or sixty miles.

At this time, the Qing army was everywhere in the wilderness, and the words "people mountain and sea" are not enough to describe the crowd of soldiers and horses. Standing in the formation, the soldiers of the Qing army felt that they were as small as sand grains, like spears in the forest, and banners like clouds. Shading the sky above.

20 Qing troops deployed in the wilderness, and the line stretched for tens of miles. The infantry formed small square formations one by one, and the cavalry began to detour to both sides of Xiangcheng to investigate the situation on the banks of the Ru River. Wei Jun, seeing the Qing cavalry, immediately fired rockets and roared cannons.

At this time, Gao Yihuan put on the iron armor, put on the helmet of the six gods, and had already arrived at the city wall.

Looking from the city, he saw that the Qing army covering the land was crowded outside Xiangcheng, and they did not enter the firing range of the cannons for the time being.

Hill-like siege towers, catapults, goose carts, and ladders stood in the crowd in the Qing army formation. Qing generals riding horses ran between the formations, and cavalry carrying letters rolled around in the formation. The yellow dust was lifted and the military order was conveyed, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Gao Yihuan stared intently at the outside of the city, and saw a white-armored general riding a horse with guards, roaming around the various formations of the Qing army, agitating the soldiers everywhere, and immediately aroused howling wolves wherever he went.

That white-armored general is Duoduo, and he is promising the generals of the Qing army that after defeating Gao Yihuan, they will be rewarded with rewards, gold, silver, treasures, beauties and good wine, flag raising and titles!
If anyone catches Gao Yihuan, prepare to be a marquis and use a carriage to pull rewards!
Different from the mouthpiece of Wei Jun's training officer, what Duduo promised was real gold and silver.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Under the heavy reward promised by Duoduo, the shouts of the Qing army were louder and louder. Hundreds of thousands of people shouted at the top of their throats, breathing like a wind, which shocked Gao Yihuan. Jump.

Before Gao Yihuan faced the Qing army, there were only tens of thousands of people, but now he looked at the Qing army formation that could not be seen at the edge, and he couldn't help but feel a chill.

Li Dingguo followed behind Gao Yihuan, seeing the Qing army below the city like a sea, and hearing the shouts of the Qing army, his face also changed slightly.

At this time, Wu Shizhao and others knew that Gao Yihuan was going to the city, so they came in a hurry. Gao Yihuan hurriedly calmed down, made a relaxed gesture, and said in a loud voice: "How about the defense preparations everywhere? Don't let Duoduo come into the city. That would be embarrassing!"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the garrison of Xiangcheng is 3000, and the Qing army will never attack easily." Wu Shizhao also responded loudly. The movement of the Qing army outside the city was too loud. Fort, Yuan Shizhong guarded the left fort, Zhao Mingchong guarded the right fort, each with 2 people, the two forts and Xiangcheng could support each other with artillery, and it would be difficult for the Qing army to break through. On the south bank of the Ruhe River, there were 4000 troops for defense, and the humble official was going to sit in the fort himself. Another [-] men and horses were deployed on various hilltops to occupy favorable terrain and contain the Qing army's attack."

Now there are more than 10 Wei troops in southern Henan, but as the defensive side, they can't just guard Xiangcheng, but also send troops to garrison other dangerous places to prevent the Qing army from hiding in Chencang.

Therefore, there are only 6 Wei troops on the front line of Xiangcheng, and more than 3 people are deployed in the mountains at the junction of Nanyang and Runing, and thousands of people are still scattered in fortresses in eastern Henan.

Hearing what he said, Gao Yihuan felt relieved. At the same time, he also understood the situation of the defense line built by the Wei army with 6 troops on both sides of the Ru River.

Among them, the soldiers and horses on the north bank were mainly concentrated in Xiangcheng and the two military forts, while the troops and horses on the south bank built fortifications along the river to resist the Qing army from crossing the river and prevent the Qing army from entering Nanyang directly.

Gao Yihuan nodded, and said with a loud voice: "Okay, Xiangcheng is difficult to attack, we must prevent Duoduo from forcibly crossing Rushui, and you must defend the south bank well. The lonely king sits in Xiangcheng and will go out of the city to support you if necessary .Similarly, if the Qing army is in a hurry to attack Xiangcheng, you have to cross Rushui to rescue the lonely king!"

"I understand!" Wu Shizhao clasped his fists.

Just as he was talking, Duoduo returned to the central army after turning around. In the large formation of the Qing army, nearly a hundred horns raised their heads and sounded immediately.

In front of the Qing army's line, fifty Hongyi cannons lined up. The Qing army gunners piled sandbags in front of the cannons, dug a cannon pit on the ground, and placed the Hongyi cannon weighing nearly [-] catties in it, fixed it. Alright gun emplacement.

At this time, when the horn sounded, a deafening sound suddenly erupted from the artillery positions of the Qing army. In the sound of "boom boom boom", the gun barrels of each artillery drove the gun carriages back, and white smoke filled the front instantly. A cannonball weighing more than ten kilograms screamed and smashed against the city wall, causing dust to fly over the city.

Cannonballs slammed into the city wall one after another, and the iron bullets immediately smashed the city wall into a depression, the wall bricks shattered, and countless gravels flew.

Xiangcheng was full of exclamations. Fifty cannons slammed into the city wall, and the whole city seemed to be shaking. Gao Yihuan, who had the advantage of firearms for a long time and was used to using them, also felt a wave of shock.

"Fight back!" Gao Yihuan yelled, and without waiting for the general's reminder, surrounded by guards, he walked down the city wall and waited until he reached the safe zone behind the city wall before giving instructions.

After King Gao went down to the city, the defenders on the city immediately let go of their hands and feet, and the artillery at the top of the city returned fire. The shells smashed into the Qing army's artillery array, and immediately the mud pillars splashed and howled miserably.

For a while, the gunners of the two armies fired at each other crazily. After firing one cannon, the gunners of the Qing army cleared the chamber with a brush, loaded new propellant and shells, and after adjusting the gun positions, the second round of shooting came again.

The way the Qing army used artillery was basically the same as that of the Wei army.

At this time, gunpowder smoke was already filling the front line, Duoduo looked at the filled gunpowder smoke, and immediately waved his hand, nearly ten thousand horses came out from each wing of the formation, and walked out amidst the sound of rumbling guns~
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