The open land of a hundred steps in front of the south gate of Puhe City is full of falling Tartars.

Some have long been dead and have been frozen to the point of being frozen, while others have just died and are still steaming. The most pitiful thing is those who fell down but are not dead yet. They are lying on the cold ground, calling for help poorly.

A team of Aha came up with a white flag. They were cautious, afraid of their hands and feet, and turned around in one step, fearing that the guns on the top of the city would sound.

"The corpse collection team is coming up again." Artillery officer Johnson Zhang Jingde held a cigarette in his mouth, sucking beautifully, while looking at the team of Tartars under the city.

"Let them collect the corpses. We are the kingly troops of the Ming Empire." Nicholas Liu Jinzhong said in the Huangzhou accent Ming Dynasty.

Since joining the Chu army, Johnson and Zhang Jingde also participated in the military study class according to the rules of the army, learning Mandarin Chinese, and also learning the history of the Han people. When learning Chinese, he usually chose a Chinese name because his real name is Johnson, so he chose Zhang, which is somewhat similar to John. As for the name, he used the name of his favorite Tang Dynasty general Yuchi Jingde as his name, which was simpler than Liu Jinzhong.

Just like the Swedish father named his son, he was careless, Johnson's father was named John. After he was born, his father was too lazy to think about his name, so he directly added a son to the back. The literal translation is actually John's son. Many Swedes named him this way, for example, Johnson is John's son, and Anderson is Anderson's son.

Just like many Dutch people have the surname Fan, most Russians have a Sky behind them, and Japanese people always like to name So-and-so.

"I want me to say that those Tartars cannot take away the bodies. All of them are taken away. How can we report the results when we look back? We say that we will repel the siege of 3,000 people and kill more than 1,000 enemies. But where is the head, who will testify?" Johnson and Zhang Jingde said, "This is all our achievements, merits and rewards!"

Nicholas Liu Jinzhong also lit a cigarette. He took a sip, and then spit out a smoke ring skillfully, "Don't worry, our nine-headed birds have never relied on human heads to judge military merits. Besides, those killed Tartars are also considered military achievements? They are just groups of old people and teenagers, some herders and farmers, what kind of warriors are they?"

It was the first time he served as commander and acting battalion commander. With two 500 men in the company, he repelled the attack of the three thousand Qing troops and left thousands of corpses under the city. Nicholas is now very proud. With this battle, he was promoted to the rank of rank.

The Tartars under the city finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the city was ignored.

"Hurry up, while those Chu army soldiers are in a good mood now, let's carry the body away quickly." The leader was a Han man. As a Zhenghuang Banner, his mood was complicated at this time. He was a little secretly happy with the mighty power of the Ming army. On the other hand, he was worried about his fate and future. After all, most of the people lying on the ground were like him, and as many were Han people before.

"It's time to eat."

On the top of the city, the military officer Dong Xian brought a group of women to the city. They carried buckets of hot soup and steamed buns that had just come out of the steamer.

"Old Dong, what delicious food is it?" Zhang Jingde bounced out the only piece of cigarette butt left and turned to face Old Dong.

"It's all fresh and hot, including pork stewed with vermicelli, pork and cabbage filling, and sesame cakes, and hot egg flower soup over there, which is enough, enough for it." Dong Xian came up with a big belly and said with a smile.

The food in Puhe City is very rich. As the base of a battalion of the Black Flag Army, a lot of supplies were stored, and they were stolen from all over the surrounding areas. There were also many "Manchu people" who were forced to move into the city. Dong Xian picked a group of young wives and aunts from them, responsible for cooking for hundreds of brothers who were guarding the city and thousands of men who helped guard the city.

They are all women who have passed the preliminary identification of the Han people in Liaodong.

"The food is quite rich, good, pork stewed with vermicelli, such a delicious food in such a cold weather." Zhu Jingde looked at the hot and hearty food with a smile on his face.

He was a Swedish, and Nordic was a cold place and life was very difficult, especially the civil war in Germany. It had been fighting for more than ten years, and finally involved almost all large and small countries in Europe, making it a mess. Johnson and Zhang Jingde joined the Swedish army as soon as they became an adult, and later became a mercenary.

According to his memory of being employed by the armies of various European countries in those years, in the battlefields of Europe, wars often rely on local supplies, to put it bluntly, robbery. Wherever they go, they can rob them. At that time, countries mainly rely on mercenaries to fight. Wherever the army goes, they rob them all, and even followed a huge caravan and many prostitutes and girls.

Under this fighting style of European countries, poor logistics supply has led to a very poor food in the army. Sometimes one potato and two onions may be a day's food. Those hard breads that can be used as weapons are definitely a nightmare on the cold battlefield.

Later, when I arrived in the east, I was often at sea, and the food on the warships was not much better. I basically couldn’t eat vegetables, and I could eat salted fish and vomit.

After Johnson and Zhang Jingde were captured by the Nine-Headed Bird, he stayed in the prison camp for a few days and decided to join the Chu army. For nothing else, he just wanted to eat for the Chu army. The Chu army's food was so good. There was a special logistics camp convoy following him in the war, and there were rice and meat on the car, and even the coal for boiling water and cooking rice.

Just like now, the gunners were commanding the gunners to shoot guns on the top of the city for a long time, and they were tired and hungry. Then the quarantine immediately brought people to pick up hot meals. The dishes were so rich that they could choose any three dishes and one soup.

Even the civilians who helped guard the city each had two large steamed buns and a large bowl of hot soup.

After a warm lunch, the Chu army, who had just been exhausted, immediately became energetic, and even the civilians worked harder than in the morning.

Damn it, just the morale of the Chu army, the Tartars under the city who were drinking the northwest wind, still want to break the city?

After the Puhe siege, in just half a day, the Qing army launched several waves of attacks. Unfortunately, the Qing army, who had only had simple trenches and ladders and shield chariots, fought for a whole morning. Until the afternoon, they didn't even find the side of the city wall. They were trying to build a trenches and cross the trenches.

Unfortunately, every time they arrived at the trench under the fire, they were so dense that they became better rakes for the Chu army gunmen.

The arid moat is less than ten steps away from the city wall, but is ten feet deep and two feet wide, which is difficult to easily cross. Even building a trench bridge is not easy.

This moat made the Tatars be delayed in front of the trenches every time they rushed over, and then shot to death by the gunmen on the city. Even the gunmen on the city could easily throw grenades into the Tartars group in front of the trenches.

Some powerful men even set up water dragons and sprayed the hot boiled water, hot oil, and even feces on the Tartars in front of the moat.

Although the Tartars under the city tried to hide behind the shield cart and shoot arrows every time, they attacked from bottom to top, which was not good, not to mention that the range of the muskets on the city was farther than theirs. There were even more deadly artillery.

After fighting to the back, no matter how the Qing army, who was supervising the war, was willing to go forward again.

For Ajige, who launched this attack, the failure of Puchenghe was not the only one. The troops were divided into seven groups. He thought he could pull out seven castles defended by the Black Flag Army at one time.

As a result, even if each place attacks several times or even ten times the force, they are defeated without exception.

The only difference is that the other few times were not as big as the casualties in Puhe City. The only gain was that during the assault sweep before the siege, several Black Flag Army that had no time to retreat into the city were wiped out. About a thousand Black Flag Rebels were killed.

But in the subsequent siege, the seven troops lost more than two thousand troops.

Azige was very angry when he was ridiculed by Haoge in the hall. He had already told Haoge in the Golden Palace that he would personally lead his troops to annihilate the rebels. Since all the words have been released, he must do it.

After Ajige returned from the hall, he thought carefully and felt that his previous plan to attack was too confident. The Black Flag Army rebels were originally led by Kong Youde and were also powerful troops. They have always been the most skilled troops in the Qing army that used firearms the most and equipped with the most firearms.

Now that he has rebelled and surrendered to Liu Jiye, Liu Jiye has obviously equipped these Black Flag Army with more firearms. Although the quantity and quality of the Black Flag Army are obviously one or two lower than the Chu Army, it is undoubtedly more powerful than when he was in the Qing army before.

Ajige did not pay much attention to this situation before. Now he has suffered a great loss.

He planned to concentrate his troops and fight one castle at a time. If the Black Flag Army or the Chu Army dared to send troops to help, it would be better. If the Qing army attacked and defended the city, the Qing army could not compare to the Chu army, but could fight in the field. The Chu army would not be able to compete with the Eight Banners of Manzhou for another ten years.

"Send an order to gather all the troops."

"Prince, which rebels should we use first?"

Ajige glanced at the map and finally looked at the location of Puhe City. There were only about 500 Ming troops in Puhe City, including more than 200 Black Flag Rebels and more than 200 Nine-headed birds. There were about 3,000 Qing people who were captured and plundered into the city.

Compared with the other cities, Puhe City had fewer defenders, but their counterattacks were more fierce. With the hundreds of defenders in this city alone, they killed thousands of Aha Nucai who siege the city.

"Puhe City." Ajig slowly spit out the name, "Take Puhe City first."

While mobilizing various troops to gather, Ajige also specially sent a batch of siege equipment from Shenyang's arsenal.

"Bring two red cannons." Azige asked his men to transport two red cannons.

However, this plan was rejected by Haoge. Although Haoge asked Ajige to take over the Zhenghuang Banner and agreed to send troops to attack the Black Banner rebels, Shenyang's defense was still dominated by Haoge's Zhenglan Banner. The few red barbarian cannons in Shenyang are now all in Haoge's hands.

Haoge refused to hand over these heavy red cannons to Ajige to attack Puhe City. No matter what Ajige's men said, Haoge would not allow it.

"There are not many red barbarian cannons in the capital, and they all rely on these cannons to defend the Chu army's attack. How can they be pulled out at this time? What if they are robbed or destroyed by the Chu army?"

When Ajige heard the news, he was angry, but he was helpless. The Qing army seized many cannons and hundreds of cannons in Yizhou last time, but now it is still in the army of Dorgon and Jirgalang, and the distant water cannot relieve intimidation.

"If you don't give it, don't give it. Even if I don't have the Red Barbarian cannons, I will still have to take Puhe City." Ajige said angrily. In the end, the Red Barbarian cannons could not be brought, so I only brought a few Flang machines. These Flang machines were originally owned by the Zhongzheng Huangqi of Shengjing City, and there was no need to ask Haoge for it.

"Let's go, before dark, take down Puhe City!" Azig rode on his horse and shouted coldly! (To be continued.)

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