Duoduo knew that the Battle of Yangzhou was crucial. The Qing Dynasty began to plan to destroy the Ming Dynasty and annex China from Huang Taiji. It was already the most critical moment. If the Battle of Yangzhou was won, the Qing army could cross the river south, attack Nanjing, destroy the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and unify the world. But it can be expected that if it was defeated in front of a strong opponent, it would be an unprecedented defeat, and it might even be annihilated! If the Qing army was defeated, the Qing army without a powerful navy was in the terrain of the river network, and it would be difficult for them to run back, and even the cavalry could not escape.

Duoduo was shuddering when he remembered the Toutu Castle beside Hongze Lake. The castle not only controlled Gaojiayan, but also enabled the water of Hongze Lake to become a weapon to kill hundreds of thousands of elite troops at any time, but also controlled the Huaihe River ferry. Once the Qing army retreated, which road should it retreat? Go north of the canal, as long as the Toutu Castle is opened to Gaojiayan to release water, hundreds of thousands of troops will all become fish and turtles. If you return on the same route and pass by Sizhou, will the Ming army intercept and block the Qing army south of the Huaihe River?

In the past, Duoduo never considered the issue of the Qing army's defeat, but the Li Laoer in Yangzhou opposite forced Duoduo to consider this issue.

"While trying to destroy the Ming Dog Cavalry, attack the city as soon as possible! As long as you take down Yangzhou and defeat Li Laoer, the Qing Dynasty will be able to unify the country!" Duoduo issued an order to start siege.

The siege of Yangzhou began. The Qing army placed the Green Camp auxiliary soldiers and the captured Minzhuang in front as cannon fodder, and pushed the shield cart forward to fill the Yangzhou moat.

If the Qing army's red barbarian cannons directly hit the city gate, they could open the city gate. Moreover, the width of the Yangzhou City moat is at least eight meters above the width, so a wide moat is not convenient to use suspension bridges. Moreover, Yangzhou is a prosperous commercial city, so there is no suspension bridge in Yangzhou City, but there is a bridge outside each city gate.

However, even if the Red Barbarian cannons opened the city gate, there was a urn city inside. On both sides of the city gate tower, Li Guodong also built two raised enemy platforms. The lower half of this enemy platform was a solid city wall, with hollow fortresses higher than the city wall, and densely covered with shooting holes on it, forming cross firepower on the two wings, completely sealing the road to enter the city gate through the bridge. Even if you pay a heavy price to enter the city gate, there is a urn city inside.

Therefore, the Qing army had no idea of ​​breaking through the city gate. To break through Yangzhou City, they could only fill the moat and launch a strong attack on the city wall. They would bombard the city wall with red cannons behind them. If they could bombard the city wall with cannons, the army could directly enter the city from the gap.

The war drums rumbled, and hundreds of shield cars slowly pushed towards the wall of the west gate of Yangzhou. These shield cars lined up into scattered lines to reduce casualties under artillery attacks.

Li Guodong stood on the Tongsi Gate Tower, looking at the large number of black shield and chariot formations under the city, followed by countless Qing soldiers and the black men and horses, stretching to the sky.

On the wall of the west gate of Yangzhou, when Li Guodong was operating Yangzhou, he added a turret behind the city wall. The turret was higher than the city wall. Cannons such as general artillery and red artillery cannons can shoot the Qing army close to the city wall from a high point.

Qian Qianyi, who served as the governor of Lianghuai, stood at the top of the city, looked at the dark Qing army under the city, and gasped: "Dude, can we defend so many Tartars?"

"Hahaha! Muzhai don't have to worry. Even if this Yangzhou City cannot be defended, there is still a water gate on the east side that can be evacuated. At that time, Li will definitely ask Muzhai and Eunuch Wang to retreat first. Li and his brothers will cut off the rear and ensure that you can return to Nanjing safely." Li Guodong laughed.

Wang Chengen snorted: "If Yangzhou City is broken, you all leave, and our family will stay and sacrifice our country!"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Why should Eunuch Wang do this? Li will definitely be able to hold Yangzhou City for a month! In a month, my family will naturally win."

While talking, the Qing army's shield chariot had already entered the range of the cannons on the city.

"Fire the cannon!" The artillery officer on the fort roared.

The red cannons and general cannons set up on the forts spit out flames, and smoke filled the gunpowder. The black cannonballs swept across the city at a speed visible to the naked eye, smashing towards the Qing army shield formation that had entered the range.

Wang Chengen, who was standing at the top of the city, saw with his own eyes that a Qing army shield chariot was smashed by a shell fired by a red barbarian cannon. The shells hit the shield chariot. The thick wooden shield suddenly split into pieces and turned into countless pieces. It was like shrapnel to the Qing army auxiliary soldiers pushing the cart behind. He screamed one after another. The Qing soldiers fell to the ground and rolled on the ground crying and howling. The shells that penetrated the shield chariot continued to fly, directly hitting a Qing soldier, tearing him to pieces, and then the shells fell to the ground, jumped in the crowd, pulling a crooked bloodline.

"Good fight!" Wang Chengen shouted loudly.

"Eunuch Wang, Duke Qian, hurry up and go to the city, Jiannu is about to fire!" Li Guodong suddenly shouted.

Qian Qianyi, who served as the governor of Lianghuai, heard this and was so scared that he hurriedly left the city. However, the eunuch of the military supervisor Wang Chengen refused to leave the city: "Duke, as long as you fight on the city, our family will stay at the city!"

Li Guodong knew that Wang Chengen was not afraid of death and was a very brave eunuch. Since he could not convince him, he had to let him stay on the top of the city, and just told him: "Eunuch Wang be careful and don't let Jiannu's shells hurt."

"When we were in the capital, we had never seen the cannons of the thief army. What are the differences between the cannons of Jiannu?" Wang Chengen said.

"Boom boom boom boom" The sound of artillery fire from the Qing army's siege, and white smoke rose from the Qing army's artillery positions in the distance.

The rumbling sound of cannons shook dozens of miles. The shells were arcing across the sky for more than a mile and smashed hard on the city wall. The entire city wall shook a few times. The bricks and chips flew together in the places hit by the shells, and small pits appeared. Many places in the battlements of the city wall were also smashed to pieces, and bricks and stone debris were everywhere on the top of more than one meter wide.

However, the Yangzhou city wall in this time and space was reinforced by Li Guodong for nearly a year. He dispatched tens of thousands of engineers to repair the city wall, rest in the dilapidated areas, fill in rammed earth and bread bricks outside. The Qing soldiers would no longer collapse the city wall like another time and space like another time and space.

The Ming army on the fort at the city wall ignored the Qing army's red and barbarian cannons, but continued to shoot at the Qing army's shield chariot formation. Because the artillery accuracy of this era was too poor, it was almost impossible to accurately hit the Qing army's artillery positions with the red and barbarian cannons to bombard Qing army artillery positions more than a mile away. Instead of wasting ammunition, it would be better to directly bombard the shield chariot formation to kill and injure the Qing army's vitality.

At the same time as the offensive and defensive battle in Yangzhou City began, the Huai Army cavalry landed in Hexi again on a boat to harass the Green Camp Army that plundered the people everywhere.

The cavalry returned to report when he didn't stop the whistle and said, "The 10,000 green camp that found Ma Degong was moving towards Yizhen County."

"Explore again!" Han Dashan said.

"No!" Ye Bushang retreated.

Not long after, Ye Bushang came back again to report: "The Green Camp Army who found Ma Degong was followed by five thousand Mongolian Tartar cavalry. Five miles away from the Mongolian Tartars, there were countless Jiannu cavalry, with an estimated number of more than 10,000 people."

"It seems that Jiannu is going to set a trap for us. They want to use 25,000 troops to deal with us." Han Dashan said.

"We have ten thousand elite cavalry, and it is no problem to repel 25,000 Tartars. After all, there are only more than 10,000 real slaves. Ten thousand green camps are native chickens and tile dogs, and 5,000 Mongolian Tartars are not afraid of them! General Han, we kill ten thousand of us and let the Mongolian Tartars come, and then we will destroy them all! When the Jiannu cavalry comes, we can also fight." Wang Fuchen couldn't wait to stand up and demand a battle.

"It's not very meaningful to defeat Jiannu. They will keep the fake Tartars in the green camp and die. The real Tartars and the Mongolian Tartars are both cavalrymen, and they can run away even if they are defeated. We can't wipe out Jiannu and the Mongolian Tartars at all. We have to find a way to eat these 25,000 thief slaves!" Han Dashan said.
Chapter completed!