Shang Kexi still decided to stick to Hanzhong.

Although this decision was extremely difficult, he still had to do so.

Because his wife and children are both in Xi'an, they are held in Ajige's hands.

Once Shang Kexi leads his troops to escape, it is likely to cause Azige to be furious and he will take his anger on his family.

Shang Kexi then issued two orders.

First, he asked Guanzhong for help in the most urgent tone, and told Ajige that the Qing army in Hanzhong had reached a critical moment of life and death. He believed that Ajige would still be able to be sensible.

The second is to transport all the stored grains in the fortresses around Hanzhong to Hanzhong to solve the urgent problem.

After all, even if Ajige immediately sent a large army to transport food to Hanzhong after receiving Shang Kexi's request for help, it would take time.

But now the Qing army in Hanzhong has reached the point where food is out of stock and can't wait.

There are nearly a hundred fortresses around Hanzhong. Although there are not many grains stored in each fortress, it is a big number to get together.

The Qing army in Hanzhong was going to eat for half a month, which would definitely be enough. Shang Kexi believed that the reinforcements that Ajige transported food would definitely arrive in half a month.

As for these peripheral fortresses, we can only give up temporarily.

Losing a car to protect the coach is the best way to lose your car at the critical moment of life and death.

It’s still gratifying to know which one is more important.

However, after these outer fortresses were abandoned, Hanzhong became a completely lonely city, losing all connections to the outer world.

It would be very easy for the Ming army to surround and attack support.

However, these are not the issues that Shang Kexi needs to consider now.

What he needs to consider now is how to defend Hanzhong and not ask the Ming army to take his subordinates into slaughter.

Just as Shang Kexi was in charge of the city and dispatching troops to set up the city defense, a confidant suddenly came to report that he had found a large Ming army outside Hanzhong City.

Shang Kexi couldn't help but feel a slump in his heart.

He expected the Ming army to come but did not expect the Ming army to come so quickly.

This is not giving him any time to deal with it.

But it doesn't make any sense to complain at this point.

Shang Ke sighed happily and said in a deep voice: "Let me follow me to climb up to the city and take a look."

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Shang Kexi is a veteran of the battle.

He had experienced many times in life and death in his military life.

But he survived.

Rich experience tells him that the more he needs to remain calm at this time. He must not panic or lose his composure.

The cold wind blew across his cheeks, causing him to feel pain like a knife cutting flesh.

Shang Kexi looked at the waving Ming army flags under the city for a moment.

Once upon a time, he was also a member of the Ming army, and was inspired to kill the Tartars to serve the country and restore Liaodong.

But God seemed to have played a big joke with him and forced him to the Qing court.

Now he has no way out and can only survive and die with the Qing army.

He didn't know how he would be written in history books a hundred years later, but he knew that he had to live first.

Because dead people cannot speak up for themselves.

Shang Kexi glanced at him quickly and according to his estimate that the Ming army's strength should be about 20,000 to 30,000.

This is definitely not the entire number of Ming troops siege cities. It is simply a dream to take Hanzhong with just 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Even in Hanzhong, which is short of food and food.

Shang Kexi estimated that this was just the vanguard of the Ming army and was used for testing.

The real main force is still behind.

But Shang Kexi was not panicked at all.

If the soldiers come and generals block the water and soil, they are fighting for the sword. Anyway, whoever wins will win will be the master.

"I will order the whole city to be martial law from now on. All the young men and women in the city need help defending the city, and those who violate the city will be executed immediately."

Shang Kexi's tone was very cold, like a stone without any emotion.

Come on, since you want to fight, let’s fight happily, whoever is cowardly will be your grandson.

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Under the head of Hanzhong City, Zeng Ying's face was as cold as ice.

Until now, he still doesn't understand why the governor asked him to attack Hanzhong head-on and pull space for Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was just a remnant of the Western Army. Even if he surrendered to Ming, he could not change this fact.

The rioters are the rioters. If it weren't for their Ming Dynasty, how could the Tartars take advantage of the loopholes and seize the north?

No matter what others think, I have hated Li Dingguo and other Western Army remnants to the core.

But military orders are military orders.

Even if Zeng Ying doesn't like Li Dingguo, he will have to enforce military orders.

After the Wen'anzhi organized the meeting, Zeng Ying ordered his troops to rush towards Hanzhong City.

Since it was a head-on attack, it was naturally impossible to avoid the Qing army's goals.

Moreover, the effect of Wen'an's intention was to make the movement bigger so that the Qing army would not pay attention to the surprise attack on Li Dingguo from behind.

Zeng Ying had no choice but to order the army to maintain the highest marching speed.

The mountain road is very difficult to walk, especially when marching urgently.

However, Zeng Ying still overcomes layers of difficulties and leads the army outside Hanzhong City.

Next it's time to attack the city.

In order to make the Qing army believe it, Zeng Ying even brought about a dozen small cannons with the army.

The weight of these small cannons is not too heavy, but their power cannot be underestimated.

At least it can pose a great threat to the enemy in field battles.

Although its power will decrease in siege battles, it can at least strengthen its momentum.

Zeng Ying didn't expect to blast the city gates in Hanzhong with these small cannons.

If it is so easy, what else should Li Dingguo, who attacked him from behind?

Some people are destined to sacrifice. Zeng Ying plays this role.

Hanzhong is not easy to attack. The city is strong and the walls are thick, and nearly 100,000 Qing troops are hiding in the city.

Although these Qing troops had no food, they had the idea of ​​fighting to the death.

It is very unwise to attack rashly at this time.

So Zeng Ying decided to use the tactic of bombing the city in a coffin.

This tactic was tried and tested during Gao Jie's first Northern Expedition. The city walls of Henan, including some cities in Northern Zhili, were all destroyed by gunpowder.

Although Zeng Ying didn't want to pick up people's wisdom, the coffin bombing city is indeed the easiest way to do it now.

The preliminary preparations for this tactic are not complicated. After Zeng Ying ordered, the soldiers immediately started to move.

At the same time, Shang Kexi, who was above the city wall, saw the clues.

In fact, since the high mounds raised not far from the city wall, he realized what the Ming army was going to do.

The Ming army relied on this tactic to repeatedly destroy Zhucheng, Henan.

Later, Hong Chengchou sent someone to inquire about the experience and conduct on-site inspections, which finally proved that the Ming army did not use magic, but instead relied on gunpowder to collapse the city wall.

Many things are bad for that layer of window paper.

At the beginning, the Qing army had no choice but to be beaten passively.

But since Hong Chengchou cracked this method, the Qing army has had new understandings about it.

It is not difficult to deal with it after knowing its principles.

At least Shang Kexi now has a way to deal with it.

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Chapter completed!