Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 889 Can't take it

The Ming army was actively preparing for the battle. Although Duoduo lost Shizhai, he would not sit still.

The Ming army's offensive thinking was exactly the same as his original one, focusing on the west city. The difference was that the Ming army did not fill the river, but wanted to use the moat for attack.

Duoduo has heard about warships attacking the city. Wang Yan was in Quanzhou, and Zhu Yihai was attacking Nantong. Both used warships.
The navy is the advantage of the Ming army. He can't change this, but he expects that everything will remain the same. Whether it is a building ship, a siege tower, or a ladder, it will always be close to the city wall. As long as he does his best to defend the city and prevent the Ming army from approaching, it doesn't matter whether it's a warship, a ladder, or a siege tower.

Yangzhou has four sides. He, who has attacked Yangzhou, naturally knows better than anyone why the Ming army wanted to attack Xicheng.

During the Hongguang Dynasty, Yangzhou was the place where Shi Kefa’s Jiangbei governor was located. It was a key place for the Ming army to operate. The merchant's financial resources focused on operating Yangzhou and further repairing and strengthening Yangzhou.

The four walls of Yangzhou are similar, three feet two feet high, and it is very difficult to attack, but if they occupy the high slope outside the west city, fire artillery from above, bombard the city walls from above, suppress the firepower on the city, and then attack, then the situation is completely different.

At the beginning, when he came to Yangzhou with more than 30 soldiers, he broke through from the west city and broke Yangzhou in one day, so the Ming army will inevitably attack here. Kind of trick.

However, thinking of Shi Kefa, Doduo's heart sank again. He wanted to stay in Yangzhou for a few months like Wang Yan to turn things around, but sometimes there was always a gap between reality and ideals.

The warm wind blowing from the southeast has stopped, and the cold current from the north has started to go south. Early in the morning, Duoduo added an extra piece of underwear to his armor, and led more than ten generals to patrol the defense of the western city.

At this time Duoduo was standing between the walls and looking out of the city. Under the cover of soldiers and artillery, tens of thousands of civilians were widening and deepening the excavated canal to ensure that once the moat was connected, the large warships of the Ming army with more than a thousand materials Can drive down the canal into the city.

Duoduo blocked the moat and the Yangzhou section of the Grand Canal with sunken ships, and used heavy artillery to control the sunken ship area to prevent the Ming army from salvaging and dredging, but he did not expect that the Ming army would dig another canal to connect the moat.

Duoduo saw countless peasants running around outside the city pushing wheelbarrows and carrying baskets, constantly transporting the excavated soil. He estimated that it would be completed in two days. The army has put so much effort into digging this canal, and they are not playing suspicious soldiers with the king. Chen and Liu Erni must want to use warships to rush directly to the city. In this way, the warships are like siege towers. You can go directly to the city, but you must try to keep the Ming warships from approaching."

The intention of the Ming army is obvious, although the Qing army can see it, but there is no way to solve it.

After the fall of Shizhai, the morale of the Qing army was not high. In addition, the Ming army started shooting surrender letters into the city yesterday, disturbing the morale of the army in the city, and it has already caused turmoil in the hearts of the people.

Although Duoduo sent bannermen to patrol the city, confiscated the letters, and burned them immediately, but those who read them or confiscated them must be indispensable.

After Duoduo finished speaking, no one responded, which made him frowned, but he continued in a deep voice, "There is nothing to be afraid of when a warship sieges a city. Just treat the ship as a nest car, a ladder, or a ship. Siege towers, how to deal with these things in the past, you can deal with warships. Don’t there be sails on the ship? Can you use rockets to shoot, can you use cannons to bombard them, and use cannon stones to smash them!”

Everyone nodded after hearing this, but they didn't show the fighting spirit that Duoduo wanted. This made a small flame in Duduo's heart rise, "I, Prince Yu, personally mobilized you, and you gave this reaction?"

However, although Duoduo was annoyed, the situation was a little different at this time. His face twitched a few times, but in the end he did not burst out. Instead, he held his temper and said in a low voice: "Although Shizhai is lost, the four cities of Yangzhou are intact. , the troops are sufficient, so you don’t have to worry. With the king himself in charge, there is no problem in defending Yangzhou. Besides, it’s already mid-October. In just one month, the weather will be completely cold. At that time, the cavalry from Huaibei will come to support. Tomorrow If the army dare not move rashly, this king will be able to take you all out of Yangzhou calmly."

The current situation is indeed very different from when the Qing army entered the customs. At that time, the Qing army was full of talents, and any general was a person from one side. It was naturally very easy to be the coach. Even if they were hollowed out by wine or sex, or died on the battlefield, the generals of the Qing army are far from being able to compare with those in the past. Most of them are as stupid as pigs, which made Duoduo feel powerless. not moving.

When the Ming army first approached the city, Duoduo could kill three generals of the Green Battalion in a brutal and brutal way to frighten the whole city. It was because the situation was still unclear and his prestige was still there, but the situation is different now. After the fall of the stronghold, most of the elite defenders of the Qing army lost more than half of them. Even the forehead Huisai was grabbed by the Ming general and chopped off his head with a knife. The blunderbuss had an astonishing rate of fire, and the transmission was amazing, causing the Qing army in the city to panic. In this situation, Duoduo was thinking of killing people, and if he wanted to use his anger to frighten the army, it would probably make people even more panicked.

Seeing Dodo's expression, Suksaha, who was standing behind Dodo, knew that he was already angry, and hurriedly said: "My lord said that as long as winter enters, the Ming army must retreat. As for the warships of the Ming army, we can rocket Qi Fa, the boat is made of wood after all, if you really want to deal with it, there are many ways to deal with it.”

Finally a cooperating person came out, Duoduo's face softened a little, he suddenly looked at Guan Zhongzhong, and asked, "How about the gun carriage that the king asked you to make?"

There are already a lot of artillery vehicles in Yangzhou City, but Duoduo still feels that it is not enough, especially the loss of Shizhai yesterday made him feel uneasy, so he asked people to seize the time to build another batch to strengthen the defense of the city.

"My lord, the servant has already been made, but the key is that there is no suitable wood for the next manufacture."

After hearing this, Duoduo immediately became angry again. He was justifiably angry, and he was loyal to one person for Guan, so he couldn't hold back, and ignited his temper, "Without wood, wouldn't you demolish houses? I want this king to teach you!"

The Ming army will attack the city in a few days, and the Qing army is robbing time. He gave the order yesterday, but today he told him that there is no timber. Isn't it unreasonable?
Guan's allegiance obviously has difficulties. After Duoduo scolded him, he said helplessly: "My lord, most of the properties in Yangzhou City are owned by the eight imperial merchants. ah!"

"What? A group of dog slaves, against the heavens!" Duoduo couldn't help being furious after hearing this, "You can't even deal with a few merchants, what use does the king want you for?"

Although the eight imperial merchants secretly transferred their assets to the area controlled by Hauge, their stalls are too large, and it is not easy to get away from the Manchus. Dorgon's work provided Manchu with a lot of wealth, and they even paid part of Duoduo's food and salary in Yangzhou.

After the collapse of the Manchu economy in the north, the role of the eight imperial merchants became even more important, so Dorgon still relied more on them, and this kind of reliance made the status of the eight imperial merchants soar that ordinary bannermen dare not provoke.

After listening to Duoduo's words, Guan Xiaozhong hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please calm down, the slaves are going to demolish them."

As he was talking, Suksaha next to him suddenly had a startled face, stepped forward to interrupt, grabbed Duoduo and left, "No, my lord, go down to the city quickly!"

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