The offensive and defensive battle in Baling has been fighting for more than a month.

Zhu Hengjia was reluctant to let his direct subordinates attack the city, and let Li Chengdong's former subordinates Du Yonghe, Hao Shangjiu and Li Yangchen serve as the main attackers, attacking the East, South and North respectively, and led his army to support him.

This Li Yangchen was originally the deputy general of Xiongshao, guarding Nanxiong Prefecture, Guangdong. He was a fence-headed man, and who had the greatest power to follow. Jin Shengheng attacked Ganzhou, and without saying a word, surrendered to Jin; Liu Wuyuan defeated Jin Shengheng, and he joined Liu without saying a word; Li Chengdong brought the army and returned to Li; Zhu Hengjia attacked Gan, and he immediately became a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Such a character stayed in the rear, and Zhu Hengjia was worried, so he transferred him to Yuezhou to assist in the battle.

He walked slowly and arrived in the Tongguying area of ​​Jiangxi Province. He simply stopped and stumbled around.

After learning that the Ming army had been winning continuously, he immediately raised his horse and rushed to Yuezhou in more than ten days.

Li Yangchen was afraid that Zhu Hengjia would blame him for coming, so he knelt down and apologized as soon as he arrived at the camp. Reasons such as snowy roads and stomach troubles, one after another.

Zhu Hengjia sneered in his heart, but on the surface he was generous. Not only did he not blame him, he gave him a banquet, a python robe and a jade belt.

After being supervised for a long time, the way to rule the emperor is Zhu Hengjia's Qing. The direct generals do not matter how much they punish them. For miscellaneous generals, they can be killed or rewarded, but they can't be scolded. Once they scold, they will be troublesome after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

After several rewards, Li Yangchen felt embarrassed.

Zhu Hengjia spoke: "Deputy General Li, the army is tired of fighting for a long time. Your troops are new and are a new force. I will leave the siege to you. I hope you will strive to attack the city and live up to your hopes."

"Don't worry, the general will definitely show off his appearance and show our military power." Li Yangchen responded loudly.

Du Yonghe, Hao Shangjiu, and Li Yangchen's troops launched a fierce attack on Ma Jiaolin, Tie Zhaorong and Sun Kaizong troops in the city.

In order to show his face in front of Zhu Hengjia, the three generals personally commanded the troops to set up ladders to attack the city. The general of Yuezhou of Qing Dynasty, Ma Jiaolin, personally took the arrows and stones to defend the city.

Seeing that the Ming army was attacking fiercely, Ma Jiaolin said to the navy deputy general Tie Zhaorong: "Brother Tie, there are too many ladders in the Ming army. I want to let Tie bring 500 elite troops. The ladders in the city will be destroyed. Can Tie dare?"

After the defeat in the water battle, Tie Zhaorong led 3,000 defeated navy troops to flee into Baling City, which increased the city's defenders by 3,000.

He was originally a Hui general and was good at riding and shooting, but he was sent to command the navy. In the battle of Dongting, he was really unwilling to accept his defeat.

Hearing this, he replied loudly, "Why don't you dare?"

Tie Zhaorong selected five hundred elite soldiers, each with sharp blades on his mouth, and went down outside the city wall with ropes.

He led the elite troops and sneaked to the east of the city.

Li Yangchen, who was the main attack on Dongcheng, was rewarded by Zhu Hengjia. In order to repay the country's favor, he attacked the most vigorously, and more than 300 ladder trucks were built.

"Dong!Dong!Dong!"

Li Yangchen personally beat the drum to cheer for his subordinates.

"kill!"

A shout of killing came from the city.

Not bad, the soldiers are very motivated!

Huh? No, why did you kill your own people?

Li Yangchen looked carefully and suddenly a Qing army emerged from the city, pushing down the small ladder, and igniting the big ladder. The Ming soldiers on the ladder were either thrown to death, burned to death, and chopped to death.

I hurriedly gathered my troops to fight this Qing army.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the army approached, the group of people ran away, ran under the city wall, followed the rope and was pulled back to the city.

After counting the losses, the subordinates lost five or six hundred people, and more than one hundred ladders were destroyed. The momentum of the siege was a stagnant.

Seeing that the strong attack was ineffective, the three generals used digging tunnels to attack the city. They ordered the soldiers to use cloth bags to fill soil, pile up into walls, plant wood into fences, and supplemented with signs to block the Qing army's sight.

He also selected archers and gunners who had good shooting skills to attack the Qing army's lookout posts, and secretly organized manpower to dig tunnels.

Unexpectedly, Ma Jiaolin used the "listening method" to detect the Ming army's intentions. Not only did he dig a deep trench parallel to the city wall in the city, but he also dug a side door from the remote part of the city wall, preparing to rush out of the city unexpectedly to seize the tunnel.

He brought out boxes of gold, silver and treasures, and encouraged his subordinates and said, "If anyone who can go out of the city to seize the Tao will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver for each person."

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. The Qing army in the city was red and was willing to go there.

After receiving the reward silver, the Qing soldiers fought to the death and swarmed forward. The Ming army's guns were like rain. The Qing army blocked their heads with cards and advanced with swords. They seized the tunnel entrance outside the city, setting fire to scatter the Ming army hidden in the tunnel, killing more than 200 people.

The siege failed and the morale of the Ming army fell. Ma Jiaolin took the opportunity to send Tie Zhaorong and Sun Kaizong two generals to go out to the south and north gates to attack Du Yonghe and Hao Shangjiu camp. Although it was not successful, the two generals suffered a considerable loss.

Seeing that the three generals were not good at siege, Zhu Hengjia ordered Zhao Yong, the general of the Che Cannon Baling Camp, to bombard Baling City.

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Yan Zungao's Western Route Army and Zhu Hengjia's Eastern Route Army met. After removing the damage, the total strength of the Ming army was still as high as 180,000.

The camp was so powerful that it was hundreds of miles away, and Ma Jiaolin in Baling City was so terrible.

Zhu Hengjia summoned the generals of the Western Route Army to express condolences one by one.

Suddenly, a general rushed to Zhu Hengjia and knelt down, crying in vain.

"I ask the supervisor to make the decision for the Youyang Ran family!"

"Who are you?"

"I am the agent of Youyang Xuanwei envoy Ran Tianyu."

When Zhu Hengjia understood, he understood that the Ran family of Youyang was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and was ordered by the Ministry of War to reinforce Huguang. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiang, the vassal state, took advantage of the opportunity to seize Youyang, and Xuanwei envoy Ran Tianlin was also killed in battle. It was really unjust!

On the spot, he said: "I'm please come up quickly. I know the injustice of Ran. Don't worry, the Ming Dynasty will never treat loyal ministers unfairly! After Gu takes over Wuchang, he will definitely preside over justice for the Ran family in Youyang!"

Ran Tianyu thanked him repeatedly.

After Zhu Hengjia finished handling military affairs, he was preparing to lead a large army to capture Baling City in one fell swoop, but suddenly he saw Li Dingguo want to speak but stopped.

"Li Qing said it when he had something to say. How could Gu be the one who would not accept advice?"

"Responsible State, are you determined to be in Yuezhou or Wuchang this time?"

"Nature is aiming at Wuchang."

"Since you are determined to be Wuchang, you should not take Baling quickly. The enemy in Baling is already a turtle in the jar and can be taken at any time. Wuchang is a mighty city in the world. If the Qing army huddled in the city, it is difficult to get out of the anxious situation. You can do not fight the enemy in Baling and lure the enemy in Wuchang to help. Annihilate the enemy's reinforcements and weaken the strength of the Wuchang defenders."

Zhu Hengjia was stunned and suddenly laughed: "Shi Qiwen told Gu that Li Qing is a general. Gu believes that Li Qing is not a general, but a general. He is a general!"

Therefore, according to Li Dingguo's plan, Yan Zungao ordered 50,000 troops to surround Baling, and led his own 130,000 troops to ambush the hills north of Baling City.

Legend has it that Houyi killed the Ba snake in Dongting, and the bones accumulated like hills, so it is called Baling.

Although it is just a legend, the many hills in Baling are real. It is a good place to attack ambush.

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Shang Kexi received a letter of help from Ma Jiaolin and was very confused. He only had 35,000 troops left, so he really couldn't bear to consume it anymore. But Baling was a military center, and he was afraid of punishment from the Qing court if he didn't help him.

After thinking about it, the five thousand soldiers of the deputy general He Jiuzheng were not his own subordinates, so he asked He Jiuzheng's troops to rescue Baling.

When He Jiucheng heard this, he didn't dare to go. He only had 5,000 troops. Wasn't he going to die if he saved Baling alone? He found various reasons to delay. Shang Kexi was in a loss and was not easy to force him.

At the moment of helplessness, King Kong Youde of Dingnan sent Shen Zhixiang, Duke of Xu Shun, to lead Meilezhangjing to Tai, General Han You, Deputy General Gao Shiqing, Hui Zhiguan and others to lead 25,000 troops to assist Yuezhou.

Shang Kexi was very happy and ordered He 95,000 soldiers to follow the battle, gathering 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the military situation was like fire, so he immediately set out for war.

The commander of the Qing army, Shen Zhixiang, was always a little courageous, and asked the deputy commander, the Han army's commander, Meilezhangjing Tuntai, Han You and He Jiu became the front army, and he took Gao Shiqing and Huizhiguan as the rear army, and rushed straight from Chenglingji to Baling.

Tuntai is also a treacherous character. He Jiucheng is familiar with geography and let his troops be at the forefront.

The military order was like a mountain, and He Jiucheng spat hard and walked carefully on the small path among the mountains.

"Xinxing Bo, the Tartars are here," Gao Minggui said to Feng Shuangli.

"En Pingbo, the country has said that we two will be defeated and lured the Tartars into the ambush circle. Don't let go of your sex or not, it will be a bad thing." Feng Shuangli joked with a brilliant guile.

"Old Feng, don't be careless, it's time for us to take action."

The second general led ten thousand soldiers and horses to block He Jiucheng's way.

If you kill a ball, you can't defeat it at once. It's not like you, you have to fight for a while and then you will lose again.

"Reported that Deputy General He was blocked by the Ming army."

I heard that when I encountered a blockade, Tuntai felt much more relieved. Without a blockade, there would be ambush; if there was a blockade, there would be no ambush. This is his many years of experience in the army.

Tuntai led his army to arrive and saw that the Ming army was only about 10,000.

Waving the order flag, three thousand Han army's cavalry rushed towards the Ming army.

The Eight Banners, Mongolian and Han Army of the Eight Banners are all under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners Manchu Banners. The Manchu Banners (usually Prince Heshuo or Beile) have a Manchu Banner, a Mongolian Banner, and a Han Army Banner. Therefore, the Manchu Banners, the Mongolian Banners, and the Han Army Banners are not twenty-four banners, and there are only the Eight Banners from beginning to end. Their military banners are exactly the same as the Manchu Banners.

Seeing a pure blue rod, rectangular, and a military flag with a dragon head facing the back, the Ming army was frightened, "Run quickly, the real Manchu Tartars are coming!"

Tuntai smiled. These Nikans are still afraid of the power of our Eight Banners Army!

"Soldiers, follow this chapter to kill!"

Feng Shuangli, Gao Minggui ran desperately, and Tuntai chased after him desperately.

"Report that the former army won the victory, and Tuntaizhangjing is pursuing the Ming army."

It was so easy to win? Shen Zhixiang was a little suspicious, and asked Gao Shiqing and Huizhiguan to follow and walk at the end.

"Here you come!"

On the hillside in the northeast of Baling, Zhu Hengjia sat in a dragon chaise, holding a thousand-mile mirror and observing carefully.

The Qing army's vanguard entered the ambush circle, the central army also entered, and the rear army entered more than half, and only a few thousand people in the end were slow to advance.

Zhu Hengjia frowned and could not wait any longer. After waiting, the Qing army's vanguard walked out of the ambush circle. According to experience, the commander was usually in the central army, and there were no big fish in the rear army.
To be continued...