Chapter 891

The sky has been covered with dark clouds and there is no sunshine for thousands of miles, but it has been snowing and there are no raindrops. Now there is thunder and lightning, and raindrops fall one after another.

The spring rain comes first before the hibernation, which is a good year. When the spring rain falls, it sneaks into the night with the wind, moistens the earth, cultivates the land and cultivates the land.

But the imperial court gathered millions of soldiers, sharpened their swords, and did not intend to cultivate, just to recover the lost land and eradicate rebellion.

The imperial court gathered hundreds of thousands of troops and entered Shandong respectively. Around them, they made an agreement with each other that when the rainy season came, it was the day of their massive attack.

This is Zhu Xieyuan's conclusion. This is because the artillery and fire guns of the Chinese army are so powerful that they will die if they attack with knives, guns, bows and arrows.

After repeated studies by several marshals, they came to the conclusion that in order to win, they must weaken each other's advantages, otherwise they will be dead end.

In fact, going out on a rainy day also caused great trouble to the Ming army. Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that it will increase the casualties of soldiers.

But Daming just doesn't care about this. There are people in Daming's world. As long as you have money and food, you can recruit enough people.

In the words of officials of the Ming Dynasty, they never worry about nobody doing anything. They only worry about not having so much food to feed these mouths. In their eyes, filling these mouths is the most difficult thing to do.

As for the imperial court and the military headquarters, they have formulated such a strategy that they don't care about casualties, and they don't care about soldiers' casualties at all, which means that soldiers can let go.

Kindness is not in charge of soldiers and righteousness is not in charge of wealth. This is a conclusion reached by Yang Sichang after he took charge of soldiers. He understands that if they can't eradicate the enemy, they are sinners through the ages. What they say is that they have a good reputation of benevolence, righteousness and morality. He still watched the subjugated ministers of the Ming Dynasty perish.

Why Yang Sichang was willing to take charge of the army outside was because he found that although these clean gentlemen in the court had a good reputation, they were ignorant and useless people.

The world worshipped Lu Xiufu and believed that he showed the integrity of a scholar official, jumped to death with the emperor in his arms, and would never surrender to the enemy.

People all over the world lament that there are no Han people after the cliff mountain, but Yang Sichang doesn't think so. Lu Xiufu is just a coward. He looks bright, but in fact he is useless. Why do you say so? This is because there are 200000 troops in the air. They dare not create a foundation again and dare not fight to defend the enemy. Instead, they plunge into the water with the emperor and commit suicide. This is what the losers do. Even if you have integrity again, you are also losers and ministers. This is to help the king and calm the world by all means, rather than talking about the king and dying in the face of danger.

Seeing that it began to rain, Yang Sichang directly ordered to send troops without any hesitation.

His army had been deployed around Cangzhou. They gradually completed the encirclement of Cangzhou through the traditional tactics of the Ming army.

Their traditional method of warfare is to build a hard stronghold and fight a hard battle. To put it bluntly, they are constantly digging HaoGou in Cangzhou, strengthening fences, advancing step by step, and finally besieging it and cutting off external traffic links.

Of course, they can't besiege Cangzhou in an all-round way, because the Chinese army in the city doesn't eat dry food, but the Chinese army has insufficient troops and can only keep a limited number of defense lines. For example, they spare no effort to maintain the smooth official road. As for other places, most of them let the Ming army adopt this way of building hard strongholds and fighting hard battles, Temporarily blocked.

The focus of contention between the two sides is, first of all, officialdom. As long as they win officialdom, cut off external relations and completely annihilate this Chinese army.

Liu Feiyun, the division commander of the Dezhou division of the Chinese army, was responsible for guarding Cangzhou. Liu Fengyun was originally the head of the division. Because of a series of excellent performances, after the expansion of the Chinese army, he was successfully appointed as the division commander in charge of the guard work in the direction of Dezhou. Although his division headquarters was located in Dezhou, in order to win this battle, he Fanping Shandong, He took the initiative to set up his former enemy headquarters in Cangzhou. He simply believes that the key to defending Shandong lies in defending Cangzhou.

Originally, the garrison forces in Cangzhou were very sufficient. With these forces, they could suppress the enemy. However, with the opening of the Chinese Army's southward strategy, Liu Feiyun brought out a large number of troops that could recruit and fight well. They have begun to transfer a large number of troops successively, becoming very weak, and the troops are full of a large number of recruits, He didn't want to see such a scene, but he couldn't help it. He also knew that his division commander was not only because of his war achievements, but also because the imperial court transferred a large number of troops to compensate.

Since the imperial court sent a large number of troops to the south, they changed their strategy, which was mainly to defend.

Because of the shortage of troops, he had no choice but to use his main troops to defend the official roads and city walls.

Of course, he knows that such a strategy is very passive. Once the enemy completes the deployment and launches a fierce attack, it will be very difficult for him to defend.

With the strength of the Chinese army, there is no problem for them to defend Cangzhou City. There is artillery protection here, but it is difficult to maintain the long official line, because the enemy can launch a fierce attack from all directions from the long and vast wilderness, and you can only defend passively.

It's easy to be made dumplings by the enemy. This is the difficulty of forward positions and enclaves. Liu Feiyun is also aware of this, so he is ready to defend Cangzhou. Once the enemy launches a fierce attack, Cangzhou will be surrounded and compete here.

However, his strategy was rejected by the Ministry of national defense. The Ministry of national defense ordered to send troops of the Chinese army to escort the people loyal to China back to Texas and give up all the baggage and materials they could give up.

This order makes Liu Feiyun very dissatisfied, which is equivalent to making him give up his own son. However, this is the Chinese army, a place that pays attention to orders and prohibitions. If an order is issued, it must be implemented unconditionally.

So when he received the order, he began to order the evacuation of the people in the city, which is a huge project.

After the Chinese army occupied Cangzhou, it basically won the support of the local people. These are the Shunming of the Chinese army. If they fall into the hands of Daming, they will come to no good end. At least they can't avoid the crime of being a thief.

According to the poor and crazy style of the Ming army, he was afraid that he would peel off several layers of the people. Although Liu Feiyun received the above order and mainly asked him to escort some high-level squires loyal to the Chinese army to the mainland of Shandong, he evacuated all the people, which made his action very slow.

It's very difficult and dangerous for people to retreat to Dezhou and Jinan in the ice and snow. There are many people who are hard to leave their hometown and don't want to leave their hometown. They have spent a lot of words with them, and they have no effect.

When the Ming army launched an attack, half of the people in the city had not been evacuated. The Ming army launched a fierce attack, which meant that they could no longer evacuate the people through official channels.

The Ming army attacked from all directions. The strength of the Ming army was too sufficient. On the one hand, they stormed the reduced state city, on the other hand, they besieged all the official roads and checkpoints outside the city, pulled out these peripheral positions and besieged Cangzhou City.

The firepower guns of the Chinese army are really fierce, but they are greatly reduced when it rains. Although they also have preventive regulations for fighting in rainy days, they can't take into account many aspects after all. Gunpowder is easy to get wet and lead bullets can't hit, which greatly reduces their power.

The Ming army was like wolves and tigers. Like countless ants, they flocked to Cangzhou City.

He has fought with the Chinese Army many times, and the Ming army has also summarized some experience. He knows that the enemy's artillery is very fierce, so you can't put in a dense formation, and the other party's guns and bullets are also very fierce, which means that you must move forward with a shield.

Some of them are pushing shield carts, others are holding shields and moving slowly, which will offset the power of the enemy's artillery to the greatest extent.

Of course, the Chinese army also has a way to deal with this strategy, but it is really difficult to deal with on rainy days. Countless enemies poured in and launched a fierce attack on the city. The casualties of the Chinese army are also very heavy.

Liu Feiyun knew that his army was guarding Changzhou City, which was very difficult to defend, but he didn't expect that he was in an absolute dilemma on the first day when the Ming army launched the offensive.

The Ming army also beat chicken blood, more like crazy. In one day, it pulled out all the peripheral trenches and checkpoints of the Ming army, directly put the cloud ladder on the wall, and then climbed up along the cloud ladder.

On the first day, the two sides launched a bloody fight.

Liu Feiyun didn't expect such a scene. He was confident and guarded in Cangzhou for a long time, but according to the current situation, he couldn't keep it for ten days, let alone stick to it for help.

However, the top echelons of the Chinese army were also aware of this situation, that is, they were short of troops, and the enemy's troops were so sufficient that they did not order Liu Feiyun to stick to it, but let him fight continuously. Seeing that the wind was wrong, they could retreat.

Liu Feiyun was wondering if he underestimated me, but when the real fight began, he knew that the Ming army was so powerful. On the first day, the other party had killed close to the city wall and launched a fierce attack on Cangzhou City. The two sides had a tragic fight here.