The next day, in the new city, the alarm bell on the city wall rang again.

"The Tartars are attacking the city again!"

A soldier standing on a high tower and observing with a telescope pointed to the distance and shouted loudly, where a large number of Qing soldiers and horses were gradually approaching the new city.

There was a rapid sound of gongs and drums in the city, and Zhu Cihong in the city also heard the report below, and hurriedly came to the city tower.

When he saw the scene under the city, he couldn't help but turn pale, and the other soldiers defending the city also changed their faces one by one.

I saw that in the distance outside the city, the Qing army had already lined up in battle array, and at the front of the battle array, there were a large number of people, numbering thousands.

They were all in rags, and many of them still had hoes and shovels in their hands, and the baskets filled with soil should have been used by the Qing army to fill the moat.

Behind this group of people, groups of Qing soldiers armed with spears were driving them, slowly towards the city, and the cries of the crowd could be heard hundreds of meters away.

At the head of the city, some of the soldiers defending the city turned blue and were very angry, and scolded the three generations of Tartar relatives.

Huang Degong said: "Your Highness, they drove the people to attack the city, what should we do?" Still shelling? ”

Sun Yingyuan said: "This group of Tartars is really ruthless, knowing that His Royal Highness, as a prince, cannot attack the people, so they use such methods to attack the city." ”

Rao is Zhu Cihong knew that the Qing soldiers in history would have this trick, and he didn't think that he would encounter it, although he was a little anxious in his heart, he didn't show it, he said calmly: "Where are these people in the city?" ”

Xu Sheng said: "According to the news that the flying pigeons are not collected at night, these people are the wanderers who were unwilling to repair the city when His Royal Highness raised the people last time, and they have been living in a shack area a few miles away. ”

Zhu Cihong sighed, remembering the previous order to soothe the people, most of the 120,000 displaced people are willing to build a city, and only less than 20,000 people are too lazy to build a city, thinking that after the city is built, they will build a shack and continue to live.

After the establishment of the new city, the new city required people with wooden signs to enter, and expelled all the shack homeless people who mixed into the city, and these homeless people could only continue to return to the shack area and rely on the few remaining porridge factories to make a living.

Zhu Cihong thought for a while and ordered: "After the displaced people, the Qing army immediately opened the cannon to cut off the artillery after entering the range of artillery, don't be afraid to hit the displaced people, if the city is broken, your family members in the new city will end up like this!" Do you understand! ”

"Understood!" The soldiers of the new battalion shouted that these lazy people were nothing compared to their families.

In the Chinese army of the Qing army, watching the people of the Ming Kingdom go down to the low wall under the envoy of the Qing army, listening to the crying and shouting of the audience, the Tartar generals felt that it sounded as good as fairy music, and they couldn't help laughing relatively.

Bo He said: "E, this trick is really a clever plan to control the Han with Han, I want to see how the prince of the Ming Kingdom deals with it." ”

Yanguli said: "What else can he do, I'm afraid he can only watch from the city wall, you can hear how badly the dogs cry, haha, the worse the crying, the better!" ”

Bo Hezhen said contemptuously: "The Han dog is useless, in fact, the number of Han people is a hundred times more than ours, if everyone comes to resist us, I'm afraid we won't be so easy to enter the Central Plains......"

At this moment, the laughter of the two stopped abruptly, and their eyes were fixed on the city wall of the new city more than two hundred steps away, shooting out an incredible light.

As the crowd approached the city wall, after entering the range of five hundred meters, several Hongyi cannons on the city wall kept adjusting their distances, ready to fire at any time.

"Fire!"

At this moment, only a loud "boom" was heard, and the artillery on the new city finally began to fire.

After the cannon sounded, the Qing army that drove the displaced people under the city fell one piece, and some of the displaced people were scattered.

Many of the displaced people panicked and retreated one after another, and the Qing troops in the back immediately waved their spears and leather whips, trying to drive them back again, and the shouts and shouts of the Qing soldiers could already be heard.

But the artillery on the head of the city was still firing one after another, and there were Qing soldiers whipping them behind, and the displaced people could only run to the city wall, and some people shouted as they ran: "Soldiers, don't open fire!" ”

The Qing soldiers, who hid behind the displaced people and drove them away, did not stop the people from shouting, but only coerced them, took shovels, hoes and other things, and began to produce soil to fill the moat.

Sun Yingyuan frowned and said: "It's not good, if it goes on like this, it won't take long, I'm afraid that the moats will be filled, so that the Tartars can unscrupulously push the shield cart and the ladder cart to attack the city." ”

Zhu Cihong had also regained his composure and said, "Not only that, but when the Tartars officially attack the city, they will also drive these people to attack the city again." ”

The other generals also looked at each other, and their eyes were focused on Zhu Cihong, after all, this matter was too tricky, and they didn't dare to make private decisions.

Zhu Cihong thought for a while, and finally spoke: "Throw all the weapons and unused armor captured in Liangxiang into the city, and let these outcasts pick up and fight with the Tartars!" ”

After a while, a large number of weapons were transported up the city wall, and under Zhu Cihong's order, they were thrown down along the city wall, and suddenly a long river of weapons appeared outside the moat under the city wall, with swords, guns, axes, halberds, and everything.

Zhu Cihong ordered some soldiers with loud voices to shout, and these soldiers stood at the battlement and shouted loudly to the people below: "The crown prince has an order, if you are still the people of the Ming Dynasty, pick up the weapons on the ground and kill the Tartars!" The crown prince promises that the living will be promoted, and the dead will be erected! If you help the Tartars to attack the city, there will be no forgiveness! ”

Zhu Cihong looked at the city expressionlessly, these homeless people missed the first opportunity, this is the second time, if they are greedy for life and afraid of death, then they will face death.

If they still have the fighting spirit and want to live, they can only take up arms and fight, this is their only chance to live.

In his plan, when the Qing army and the homeless people were fighting together, the city gate would be wide open and cavalry would be sent to charge and kill, and maybe the Qing soldiers could be forced back.

Of course, the cavalry would definitely suffer heavy losses, but in order to prevent nearly 10,000 civilians from being slaughtered in front of him, he had no choice but to do so.

From the moment he dropped his weapons on the city wall, Yanguli thought of the intentions of the Ming army, and he said sharply: "Order the front, but anyone who picks up weapons will be shot on the spot, and quickly drive all the Ming dogs to fill the river, quickly!" Fast! ”

As soon as Yanguli's military order was delivered, a man suddenly picked up the hoe in his hand and smashed it on the head of a Tartar beside him.