"Bang bang bang" The head of Tucheng spewed out flames. Two hundred steps away, the Qing army gunners who were fiddling with cannons fell one after another.

Two hundred steps, equivalent to three hundred meters. Each of these scattered soldiers carefully selected by Wang Fuchen was the most elite gunman. More than two hundred people were divided into seven platoons to shoot in turn, with thirty people in a row. The gunshots did not stop for a moment. The continuous bullets fired caused heavy casualties and injuries to the Qing army gunners.

In fact, scattered soldiers were also an elite and valuable army. In the tenth century, when the British lobster soldiers were invincible in the world, few people knew that the British scattered soldiers had made indelible contributions to the British Empire. The same queuing was so good at shooting the same queuing, but before each queuing, the British army always used green jackets, that is, the scattered soldiers first went out, shooting the opponent's line infantry formation from afar, and then the lobster soldiers lined up to advance.

The British army's green jackets even dared to shoot against Napoleon's artillery!

During the American Revolutionary War, a team of British scattered soldiers were ambushed in the woods. Later, a senior American officer took his men out of the woods. Because the senior American officer turned his back to the British green jacket, the British scattered officer ordered that the shooting was not allowed. Who knew that the senior American officer was Washington! If the British scattered soldiers had fired at that time, there would be no United States.

"Hurry up, pull up the shield wall in front to protect the gunner!" Nikan shouted anxiously.

The Qing army set up a shield wall in front of the artillery team to resist the attacks of the Huai Army's scattered soldiers on their artillery.

The devil is one foot taller. After the Qing army erected a shield wall, the Ming army sent another mortar cannon to fire flowering shells at the Qing army, killing the Qing army with heavy casualties.

Nikan had no choice but to order the Qing army in the Green Camp to launch a forcibly attack on Tucheng with the fierce firepower of the Ming army.

The two sides fought fiercely around a small earthen city. The Qing army in the Green Camp rushed to the city one after another and launched a fierce attack on the city. The Huai Army cannon fodder team, auxiliary soldiers, and Minzhuang at the city were slapped with wolf teeth, yasha slap, turbulent oil tanks, gold juice, lime bottles, ten thousand enemies and other defending weapons. The Qing army in the city was hit hard by the Qing army under the city, and the bodies of the Qing army under the city were piled up like mountains.

The Qing army suffered heavy losses, but the Tucheng was as tall as a mountain.

So Nikan gave an order to let the Qing army in the Green Camp be cannon fodder in front of the city, and use the bodies of the Green Camp soldiers to block the Ming army's vision, and cover their artillery to fire and bombard the Tucheng.

The Green Camp soldiers in front siege fiercely, and the Qing army artillery team behind opened fire. The shells fell on Tucheng and also fell among the Qing army crowd. Tucheng was shaking, and the Qing army in front siege was also knocked down by cannonballs.

After all, Tucheng is Tucheng, and it cannot withstand the bombardment of red and barbarian cannons. After several rounds of artillery shells in the Qing army hit, Tucheng was already covered with scars and the city walls were covered with cracks. However, while the Qing army artillery team was bombarding Tucheng, the Ming army's mortars set up behind Tucheng also fired bombardment towards the Qing army artillery team, causing major casualties to the Qing army artillery team. One of the flowering artillery shells fell on the edge of the powder barrel and exploded, detonating the powder barrel, and blowing a heavy red and barbarian cannon into the sky.

After paying a heavy price, the Qing army finally blasted the Tucheng, and groups of Qing troops in the green camp shouted and rushed in from the gap.

"Huh? Why is there a Tucheng ahead?" The Qing army in the Green Camp found in horror that a new Tucheng was erected a hundred steps behind the Tucheng they had just captured!

This kind of earthen city was very easy to build. Just when the Qing army was sieging the city, the Huai army launched cannon fodder, tenants, and strong people. A new earthen city was built a hundred steps behind the earthen city!

Nikan was so angry that he vomited blood. This battle was simply impossible to fight! The Qing army paid a heavy price and finally managed to break a Tucheng. The Ming army set up another Tucheng behind him. How could he fight? Nikan had no idea that Li Guodong adopted a large-scale and layer-by-layer blocking tactic to block the Qing army reinforcements.

This tactic of large depth and layer-by-layer blocking is already more advanced than that of the Kuomintang army during the Anti-Japanese War! It would be strange if the Qing army could defeat it with a tactic that had been ahead of nearly three hundred years.

The clever use of the narrow and long terrain made the advantage of the number of Qing soldiers unable to be exerted. The Ming army left the reserve team and adopted a large-scale deep approach, setting up multiple defense lines and blocking layers to consume the vitality of the Qing army. Even if the Qing army could break through three earthen cities in a row, the last line of defense would be a stone fortress with a bastion!

Even if Nikan had no choice but to bite the bullet and order the Qing army of the Green Camp to launch an attack on the second Tucheng.

"Prince, Prince!" A Qing army scout whistle came from behind in a hurry, "The big thing is wrong, Minggou also built a Tucheng behind us!"

"It's over!" Nikan lamented, "We were blocked from front to back! The only way is to rush out! Otherwise there is no way out!"

More than 200,000 Qing troops were blocked in a narrow valley that was more than 30 miles long and could not move forward or retreat. If they did not find a way to advance from the front and join Hong Chengchou, they would have to choose to discard all the supplies and horses and run away from the mountains. If the army ran away from the mountains, they would not only lose all the supplies and horses, but also face step by step harassment from the Ming army's mountain troops. Even if they escaped, the Qing army, which was left with only infantry, would be followed by Ming cavalry, and there would be few who could escape back to the north bank of the Yellow River.

"Master General, the Jiannu reinforcements have begun to go crazy. They launched an attack on our Tucheng at any cost!" A soldier came to report to Li Guodong.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Jiannu is crazy. That's a good thing, which means they are at the end of their journey! Hong Chengchou was surrounded by us and could not go down the mountain, and their reinforcements were blocked by us! In this battle, 400,000 Jiannu were wiped out again! After these 400,000 Jiannu were defeated, our army will have no pressure to fight the Northern Expedition! This is the power of launching a people's war!"

The first thing to launch a people's war is to weaken the gentry's control over the people, make the people realize that those gentry in the village and neighbors on weekdays are parasites that ride on their heads to shit and urinate. The Huai Army came to liberate the poor people, and thus gained the support of the people.

In order to save the land they had just assigned, the people who were mobilized spontaneously joined the army. Even if they did not join the army, they spontaneously organized themselves to form a team of strong people and supplies, and helped the Huai Army build fortifications and transport food.

In this way, from the comparison of the forces between the two sides, the number of Qing troops exceeded that of the Huai Army. However, the power of the real mobilization was far greater than that of the Qing army!

Just like a famous decisive battle in later generations, the victory of the Red Side was launched by ordinary people with small carts.

Although the people mobilized by Li Guodong could not go directly to the battlefield, they dug trenches and fortifications, built ditches and cities, and helped the Huai Army transport food, which played a crucial role in the battlefield.

Li Guodong smiled and pointed to the Qing army besieged on the mountain: "Now Hong Chengchou has become Hong Masu! We have cut off the water source. Jiannu on the mountain has no water to drink. As long as we set a fire for them at the right time, I see what will happen to Hong Masu."

The water source of Hong Chengchou's army, trapped on the mountain, was cut off by the Ming army. Hong Chengchou had been cut off for seven days at this time.

"Sir, have some water." One of Goshhans handed it to Hong Chengchou with a skin bag.

Hong Chengchou took the water bag and took a sip. The water bag became empty. He raised his head and turned the entire water bag around. The mouth of the water bag was facing his mouth, and only one or two drops of water dripped out of it.
Chapter completed!