On the eighth day of August, the Qing army reached the boundary of Fanjiazhuang.
At first, Li Zhi just felt that there were more and more slave cavalry from all directions. Jian Nu's scout cavalry were like waves, constantly oppressing Li Zhi's sentries. These rangers were all horse-armored and infantry soldiers who were skilled in riding and shooting.
, the fighting power is considerable. They seemed to have learned the lessons of the previous few days. They were scattered in groups of forty to fifty people in the four fields, one by one, and moved forward to test and suppress the sentries of the forward selection battalion, but they did not rush up to fight, and only relied on
As more people crowded in, the sentinels in Fanjiazhuang were squeezed.
The Tatar cavalry was so dense that Li Zhi's sentries were in danger of being surrounded when they went out to engage in battle, so Li Zhi withdrew the sentries and took them into the city.
Detecting the surrounding military situation relies entirely on telescopes.
By the ninth day of August, 12,000 Qing troops had already reached the gates of Fanjiazhuang City. Li Zhi stood on the tower and looked around, only to see groups of slaves in yellow armor running toward each other about a mile away from the city, raising clouds on the wasteland.
There was a lot of dust. Five or six miles to the north of the city, there were densely packed Qing army tents, and they were camped for several miles.
Li Zhi looked through his binoculars and saw that the camps were heavily guarded, with cavalry rushing back and forth. The stationed Qing soldiers were all dressed in yellow armor or military uniforms, and their military discipline and appearance far exceeded the bandits seen in Ruzhou.
The camp was very large. Not only were the Qing troops inside, but the tents were filled with civilians, mules and horses that the Qing troops had looted. It was not clear through the telescope, but could only be vaguely seen through a few open tents.
It seemed that the common people were all tied up. It seems that the Qing army wanted to take these common people to Liaodong to work as slaves to provide manpower for the Manchu war.
Looking through the telescope, he saw various flags fluttering in the Qing army's camp. Li Zhi didn't know what those flags meant. There were large banners erected every 100 meters in the camp. Li Zhi guessed that they were Jiala Zhangjing and Niu Lu of the Qing army.
There is a gold-woven dragon banner flying on the camp in the middle where Zhang Jing is, which is probably where Zhenghuang Banner Chaopin Gongyang Guli is.
When the Tatars arrived at the battlefield, they were not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, they looked for wood and trees everywhere and began to build chariots. A forest in the north of the city was unlucky and was chopped down completely by the Tatars.
In addition to preparing to attack the city, the Tatars also have another preparation:
In the afternoon, three horsemen rode out of the Tatar camp. The three of them slowly bypassed the potholes and traps outside the city, moved away the antlers and horses, and rode all the way to the bottom of the North City Gate, about fifty meters away from the city gate.
It stopped. One of the Han generals shouted loudly in Chinese to the soldiers on the tower:
"Heroes in the city, wherever our Qing troops come, they will be invincible and invincible. Don't take chances and resist rashly, otherwise you will die and the city will be destroyed. Surrender now, and our Qing troops will not kill innocent people!"
The soldiers in the city pointed their rifles at him and remained silent as death.
The general manager was a little frightened, licked his lips and shouted again.
He was answered by three crisp gunshots.
After the gunfire, only three thuds were heard. Three Tatar and Han generals who had surrendered to Fanjiazhuang were hit by minion bullets, fell down from their horses, and died.
Seeing that the messenger who had brought the message was beaten to death, there was a sudden commotion in the Tatar camp.
Not long after, the Qing army's camps were opened wide, and a hundred Tatars rode out with three hundred Ming civilians. When they rode about a mile outside the city wall, the Qing troops stopped.
The people who were escorted out knew that nothing good was going to happen, and they all knelt on the ground and began to cry. Their cries were loud and loud.
Then some Tatars went up to untie the rope of a middle-aged man among the people of the Ming Dynasty. The man's hands and feet were released, he looked around, and then ran towards the north gate of Fanjiazhuang.
He ran less than thirty meters when a Tatar in vest bent his bow and shot an arrow, hitting the back of the man's head. The Tatar's arrow was accurate and heavy, and the man let out a scream and fell to the ground.
Not a single sound was made.
Fanjiazhuang soldiers on the city wall gritted their teeth and cursed when they saw the people being killed.
The Tatars also untied several young girls aged sixteen or seventeen. When those girls saw the death of the middle-aged man in front of them, they cried loudly as soon as they were untied. They knew that they would inevitably die, so they used their hands to
Wiping away tears, I walked towards the gate of Fanjiazhuang City with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The Tatars waited until they had gone dozens of steps, then caught up with them on horseback and hacked the girls to death one by one from behind.
When the soldiers on the city wall saw this, their eyes were already bloodshot.
But the more ferocious Tatars were still behind. They raised their sabers and began to gallop among the kneeling people of the Ming Dynasty. Every few steps they ran, they waved their sabers and slashed at the people below. The tied people could not escape.
If he fell, he could only lead his neck to be slaughtered. For a moment, blood flew across the open land in the north of the city, and the screams shook the sky.
The blood of hundreds of people dyed the land red.
On the city wall of Fanjiazhuang, the soldiers were heartbroken when they saw this scene. Then one of the soldiers turned around and knelt in front of Li Zhi: "Sir, let's go out and fight the Tatars!"
Li Zhi closed his eyes and said calmly: "Don't fall for Jian Nu's plan to provoke the generals! We will defend according to the danger!"
The soldiers were filled with hatred and turned to look at Li Zhi speechless.
After killing the Ming people, the Tatars shouted for a while next to the corpses of the people. When they saw that the Ming troops on the city wall did not rush out, they rode back to the camp.
For the rest of the day, the Tatars did not move much. They just kept cutting down trees around them and seemed to be busy building chariots in their tents.
On the morning of the next day, a continuous sound of horns suddenly came from the Tatar camp. All the doors of the camp were opened, and soldiers in yellow armor rushed out of the camp howling. They did not ride horses, but lined up on foot with swords raised.
On both sides of the gate.
The gold-woven dragon banner was also lifted out, and dozens of generals stood under it, riding horses and slowly moving towards the city wall. The gold-woven dragon banner led the entire Qing army array forward and stopped four miles away from the city wall.
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Shield carts were pushed out of the camp one after another.
Those shield carts are six to seven meters long, two to three meters wide, and about two meters high. The shield carts are covered with a thick layer of wooden boards, and the front is also covered with wet quilts. Ordinary bows, arrows, and muskets cannot shoot them.
There are eight or nine wooden wheels mounted on the bottom of the shield cart, and there are more than twenty horse-armored infantry standing inside to push the shield cart.
The Tatars built nearly a hundred shield carts! The distance between each shield cart was only four or five meters, and they covered the entire front of the battlefield.
The Qing army had 300 soldiers in each group. Each group included about ten of the most elite Bai Bai Ya La, about forty of the elite vests, fifty of the infantry, and the remaining two hundred soldiers were all wearing cotton armor.
Or unarmored followers and auxiliaries.
At this time, each shield cart was followed by more than twenty followers and auxiliary soldiers pushing wheelbarrows. They were preparing to fill the potholes and traps outside the city wall with earth and rocks.
Behind the followers and auxiliary soldiers were more than 300 white-armored soldiers, also known as white-armored soldiers. They had red tassels on their helmets, flaming flags on their backs, and held bows and arrows behind them, ready to
Support key points at any time, and shoot all escaping soldiers at the same time.
Li Zhi used a telescope to observe the white pendulums, and found that among the white pendulums there were some generals wearing thick armor. These generals had feathers on their heads and two-foot-square flying tiger flags on their backs. They were probably white pendulums.
The leader of Yala.
A Jia La Zhangjing and his bodyguards rode on horseback two miles away from the city wall to serve as the frontline command of the siege. The bodyguard behind him was holding a large banner, which was very conspicuous.
The shield car left the camp gate and pressed towards the north wall of Fanjiazhuang. The defense preparations for each wall of Fanjiazhuang were similar, so the Tatars simply attacked the north wall directly.
Li Zhi had long known that the Tatars could build chariots. At this time, he had concentrated 62 six-pound cannons on the north wall. The six-pound cannons were placed on specially designed crenels and could shoot down the city. In addition, the north wall forts
There were four eighteen-pound cannons, and there are now sixty-six cannons on the north wall.
Four miles, three miles, two miles, one mile, the Tatar shield car gradually entered the range of the artillery.
Li Zhi gave the order: "The riflemen should not shoot. The artillery will wait until the shield truck stops in front of the hole before firing!"
The Tatar shield cart continued to advance and arrived in front of a hole more than 100 meters away from the city wall. The Tatars pushed the shield cart without being attacked all the way, thinking that there were no artillery in Fanjiazhuang City, so they were extremely happy.
They didn't know how powerful Fanjiazhuang was, and thought that this seemingly rich city was within easy reach.
The shield cart stopped in front of the pothole. The followers and auxiliary soldiers behind the shield cart pushed the wheelbarrow up and began to fill the potholes outside the city.
Li Zhi shouted: "The artillery fires in turn!"
The horns sounded on the city wall, the swans roared, and twenty six-pound cannons and two eighteen-pound cannons aimed at the shield car one hundred and fifty meters away, spitting out tongues of fire.
There was a huge roar, and the soldiers on the wall couldn't help but cover their ears. Black smoke suddenly spurted out from the muzzle, spraying the smell of saltpeter and sulfur onto the entire city wall.
The shells were like streaks of lightning, flying toward the shield vehicle not far away at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
Twelve six-pound cannons hit the target, punching one-meter-large holes in the shield cars. The wood fragments hit by the shells were more deadly than stray bullets. In an instant, the people in the front row of the shield cars were
Three or four Tatars lost their fighting capacity.
Although the Tatars' vests and infantry were wearing armor, their necks and faces were unprotected. If the flying pieces of wood penetrated their necks, they would die immediately. In the rain of flying wood chips, many Tatars had their necks cut open.
Several Tatars were hit by sawdust and their glasses were cut, and they were immediately blinded. Even if they were lucky enough not to be seriously injured, but just had a piece of wood inserted into their face, they would have suffered heavy bleeding and lost their fighting ability.
In addition to the dangerous sawdust and wood blocks, the cannonball itself was also very lethal. The cannonball crashed into the shield vehicle, shattering the body blocking it, bouncing on the ground, and directly taking away one or two lives.
An eighteen-pounder gun hit the shield truck.
The 18-pounder cannon was even more powerful. When it hit the shield truck, it directly smashed the entire front row of the shield truck, and even more wood fragments were thrown out. The five or six Tatars at the front of the shield truck were killed or killed.
He was injured and withdrew from the battle. The heavy shells crashed into the shield car, smashing all the flesh in his way into pulp, smashing the flesh into pieces, smashing the first body, and then smashing the second body backwards.
It bounced on the ground and broke through three or four layers of Tatar bodies before stopping.
The shield cars that were hit by the shells were filled with blood and flesh, and the screams of countless Tatars could be heard from inside, as if those shield cars had turned into various hells.
