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Chapter 336

As Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Damu's uncle and nephew said, Prince Azig of England and Prince Duoduo of Yu treated these two envoys of the Ming camp as honored guests, and even respected them as ancestors. Whether it is tea first and then wine, or accompanied by a prince, or accompanied by singing and dancing beauties, nothing else, it is all because the Tatars have illusions about the Zheng family.

Imagine that after they settled Zhu Yousong, they recruited the Zheng family army sitting on the southeast coast.

If you want to take something, you must give it first. This is what the traitors told them, but the Tartars didn't say a word to persuade them to surrender, because they didn't have this time. They were busy with peace talks first, and then bombarded the Ming camp. The matter of beheading or capturing Zhu Yousong alive.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Damu were pirates at heart, so naturally they didn't ask the price for these filial pieties to the Tartars, and they all accepted them with a smile, and they never refused.

It’s just that before leaving, the Tartars asked the uncle and nephew to bring a message to Ming Emperor Zhu Yousong, that is, peace talks are impossible, and they should surrender quickly and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and they can still save their lives. At that time, jade and stone were burned together.

After sending away the two envoys of the Ming Army, the next morning, just after dawn, Prince Yu Duoduo immediately stood on a high place on a hill, looking at the Ming Army camp in the distance. The sky has changed. A not-too-high wall was erected around the Ming camp. In the camp, one pile after another, one pile after another, like firewood and grain depots. Duoduo couldn't help laughing when he saw this.

"The false emperor is really clever. It's hard for him to think about these tricks. He's still deceiving people. You've run out of ammunition and food. Don't you think I'm waiting for you? It's all just deceiving yourself and others with these hypocrisy. This wall can stop you." Can it stand against my red-clothed cannon in the Qing Dynasty? It's really funny, hahaha..."

Duoduo laughed triumphantly, and Geng Zhongming and Sun Zhixie also laughed in agreement. The laughter echoed in the morning wind, like a group of demons dancing wildly.

"Fire!" After laughing, Duoduo suddenly withdrew his smile, stared at his two wolf eyes, and said viciously.

The Hongyi cannon was the most powerful war weapon at that time. The general Hongyi cannon had a range of more than five miles, and the heavy Hongyi cannon could even hit targets ten miles away. It can be said that its range and lethality are amazing, and more importantly, it is unparalleled in deterrence.

Now the red barbarian cannons are not only owned by the Ming army, but also by the Tartars. There are several main sources. One is from looting. Relying on the advantage of artillery fire, after the Tartars won, these artillery became their spoils of war.

The second is that they bought them with money, and a few of them were bought directly from the West. The main reason is that the Tartars and the Han people had trade relations very early. Even during the war with the Ming Dynasty, this trade did not stop. The Shanxi merchants, Zhejiang merchants, Huizhou merchants, etc., the Tartars all traded with them. While these big businessmen made huge profits, they sold the Central Plains' ironware, gunpowder technology, and even Ming information to the Tartars.

The Tartars plundered and plundered, and even snatched away the firearms manufacturing experts. Now they can also make Hongyi cannons.

However, due to the limitations of ironware and casting technology, the tartars did not make red cannons fast, nor could they be mass-produced. This time, Prince Yu brought twenty red cannons from the Tongguan battlefield.

The Qing Army's Central Artillery Battalion had already made preparations. After the order was issued, someone ignited the fuse, and twenty red cannons roared.

"Boom, boom, boom... blah blah, boom—"

Cannonballs came through the air from a few miles away and flew accurately to the camp of the Ming army. Most of the shells fell on Zhu Yousong's newly built city wall and exploded. It fell on the firewood stacks and combustibles inside the city wall, or on the open space in the camp, and caused a fire after the explosion.

The cannon is indeed the god of war. When the cannon rang, it shook the heavens and the earth. No matter how far away it was, Doduo could feel the ground under his feet trembling. everywhere.

After a cannon fire, Mingying's one-foot-five-foot-high city wall was blown apart, with gaps several meters wide in many places, and some even collapsed into ruins.

Seeing that the city wall that Zhu Yousong had worked so hard to build was wiped out in their artillery fire, Duoduo became even more complacent, and joked to Geng Zhongming and Sun Zhixie: "You say, the false emperor made these things. It took a lot of effort!"

"My lord Mingjian, this project is not small. There are no tens of thousands of people who can't take it down in ten and a half months. The false emperor must be working around the clock and putting all his eggs in one basket. But he never dreamed that the power of our Daqing's blessings and God's help has far surpassed that of Ming Dynasty. gone."

"The false emperor claims to be invincible, and there are two trump card divisions, what is the iron cavalry of the imperial camp, the white soldiers of the loyal camp, what is invincible, but in front of the prince, it is nothing more than that, hiding in the camp at this time must be Shaking too, hahaha..."

Geng Zhongming and Sun Zhixie slavishly complimented each other, full of ugliness.

"Pass down the king's order, stop the shelling, and charge me!" Seeing that the camp wall was ablaze and the shelling was running out, Duoduo gave an order enthusiastically, and more than 1 Qing troops shouted from the south. rushed to the camp of the Ming army...

The battle situation in the northern camp was similar to that in the southern camp. In cooperation with Duoduo, Prince Azig of England concentrated a small amount of artillery fire from Luoyang City, and also howled. Amidst the sound of artillery fire, the city wall at the north gate of the Ming camp was blown down, and the camp was on fire. Azige and Shang Kexi also gave the order to charge with great complacency, and the [-] Qing troops rushed towards the Ming army's camp like a flood bursting with shouts.

Thanks to the advantage of artillery fire, seeing the Ming camp being blown into ruins, it was also out of revenge for the last defeat. The Qing army, from soldiers to princes, went down the mountain this time, and they were extraordinarily brave and full of vigor. Nearly [-] Qing troops filled the camp of the Ming army.

Prince Azige of England and King Zhishun Shang Kexi rushed to Zhu Yousong's imperial tent from the north with their troops. Prince Yu Duoduo, King Huaishun Geng Zhongming, and the right servant Sun Zhixie of the Ministry of Rites did not lag behind. In the blink of an eye, he also rushed to the imperial tent from the south.

They all want to capture or kill Zhu Yousong alive, not only to avenge the previous defeat, but to capture or kill Zhu Yousong alive. The credit is so great that everyone wants it.

Like Sun Zhixie, even if he didn't dare to dream of capturing or beheading Zhu Yousong, it would be a good job to rush into the imperial tent and grab some women or gold, silver and jewelry.

Unfortunately, so far, they have not seen a single soldier of the Ming army. Zhu Yousong’s imperial tent was also on fire. Silver jewels and beauties, not even a copper coin.

Where did the tens of thousands of Ming troops go?Where did the pseudo-emperor's mighty trump card division, the imperial cavalry go?Why is the little white soldier who claims to be invincible in the world gone?Did they all die under the powerful artillery fire of the Qing Dynasty?
Obviously not, because at this time, there is not even a corpse of the Ming army in the huge Ming camp. Except for the fire everywhere, the Ming camp is full of Qing troops. Except for this imperial tent, the Ming army company Nothing was left behind, such as tents, swords, guns, horses and luggage, which was obviously abnormal.

"No, we've been tricked, retreat quickly!" The four kings of the Qing court and the traitor Sun Zhixie, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, were not fools, and they were sober from complacency and scrambling for fame and fortune.

The Qing army ran out one after another, but it was too late. The fire in the Ming camp was getting bigger and bigger, the temperature on the ground was getting higher and higher, and the explosives buried underground had already been ignited...

(End of this chapter)