Chapter 56: The Battle of Jinhua VII

After the surprise, Xu Jiaying reacted violently and immediately ordered the whole city to mobilize.

"Dangdangdang." The bell struck violently.

"Knock knock." The drums also sounded.

The morning bell and dusk drum were originally ancient timekeeping tools. And at this moment, all of them are used by Xu Jia as a herald tool.

One torch after another was lit, and when I looked at it from a distance, it seemed that the brightness of the entire Jinhua City had suddenly brightened. Immediately, the west gate of Jinhua City suddenly opened, and it seemed that the brigade of men and horses was ready to go. You can rush out of Jinhwa City at any time.

Faced with this situation, Du Yonghe, who originally wanted to immediately support the other bank, had to stop his actions, but waited for all possible attacks by the defenders of Jinhua City.

The so-called tenfold encirclement.

And after Li Chengdong led the army, Du Yonghe's troops were a little weak, and they had to be distributed in all directions, if there were no intact fortifications, Du Yonghe felt that this thing could not be done. If the defenders of Jinhua abandon the city. Du Yonghe may not be able to hold it.

After weighing the gains and losses, Du Yonghe could only take care of the present. He secretly said in his heart: "I hope that straw bale cheers up a little." ”

"Report, the prince has sent a message." One of the guards stepped forward and said.

Du Yonghe immediately opened it and saw that it pointed out that Zhang Xianbi had made a detour to the east, and he had already waited for the army to turn around, and would come back in about two days.

Du Yonghe secretly said in his heart: "My lord, can't your speed be a little faster?" ”

At this time, Du Yonghe had nothing to do.

He could only quietly transfer his reserves, prepare a strong team, and be ready to fight at any time, but at the same time, he didn't dare to save Tian Qifeng, not because he had prejudices against Tian Qifeng. Because he was worried that if he put in thousands, or more than 10,000 troops, there would be no hope for the siege of Jinhua at all.

Of course, doubting Tian Qifeng's ability is also a small part of it.

After Du Yonghe gave up the rescue, Tian Qifeng's fate was doomed.

At dawn, Tian Qifeng's head had already hung on the bamboo pole, and under a big banner with a summer character, it couldn't be affected by the wind and rolled, as if it were a flag.

Half of the soldiers, lying on the ground on the spot, according to their own formation, leaned against the chief of the army, and snored softly, and all of them did not have tents. They were all covered with dew. The other half of the soldiers were doing things with red eyes. Organize the camp and watch the prisoners.

If yes, etc.

After all, Zhang Xianbi knew that they would soon turn from defense to offense.

And Zhang Xianbi is not idle, he is negotiating with Chen Ding at the moment.

Chen Ding listened to what Zhang Xianbi said, and this literati with very good cultivation couldn't help but lose his face, and said sharply: "Absolutely not, absolutely not, thousands of artillery, do you really think that my Royal Highness is wronged?" There are also hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder. It's simply impossible. ”

"How could it be?" Zhang Xianbi said: "I didn't ask for Hongyi cannons, but I just wanted some Franc machine guns, tiger squat cannons, and the number is not much, but only a thousand." You must know that Li Chengdong will come soon, and the battle to defend the city is a must. ”

"Who doesn't know that the Zheng family is rich in the world, so they won't even take out such a little thing, right?"

There was a trace of bitterness in Chen Ding's mouth, he could hardly understand what Zhang Xianbi meant, when did a thousand cannons, even small cannons, become a very simple thing. The difference in values between the two people is so big that it is simply impossible to communicate.

However, after Zhang Xianbi learned about the output of the Guangzhou Manufacturing Bureau, his opinion of artillery changed greatly. Now in his heart, only the Hongyi cannon can be regarded as a cannon, and the rest of the small cannons are not a thing at all.

But Zheng does not have this capacity.

After Zheng Zhilong knew the production capacity of the Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau, he purchased most of Zheng's artillery in Nanjing. Therefore, there are a lot of existing artillery pieces of the Zheng family, whether it is the Hongyi cannon or the Franc machine gun, or the tiger squat cannon, but after the fall of Nanjing, the manufacturing capacity is not very strong.

Or maybe they don't have much manufacturing capacity in the first place.

And Chen Ding is not often in contact with this aspect of things. Naturally, he couldn't understand Zhang Xianbi's requirements, and the value of artillery in Chen Ding's heart was still a few years ago, but he didn't know the emergence of iron molded artillery and the large-scale reduction in the cost of casting guns.

The number of cannons rose almost in a straight line. The world is a very different place than it was years ago.

"Newspaper. Someone came from the other side. Someone said.

Zhang Xianbi and Chen Ding's hearts moved at the same time, and said, "Please." ”

But after a moment, a wet man stood in front of the two of them and said, "Xiaguan Yan Yingyuan pays a visit to the two adults. ”

Zhang Xianbi introduced the two to them, deliberately not saying that Chen Ding was from the Zheng family, not wanting the people in the city to think nonsense. "What is the situation in the city?" he asked. ”

"Thanks to General Xu's presence, he is quite stable, and after learning that the general came to help, the whole city was even more jubilant. It's just that since the enemy's attack was completed, it's just a place for General Xu to think, how many people have come to the army, and what guidance the general has for my Jinhua City. It's also good to be in the heart of the city. Yan Yingyuan said.

After Zhang Xianbi heard this, he said with some embarrassment: "Now the army is in a stalemate with the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, and it cannot be taken lightly, so the source is only more than 20,000 horses." My plan is to occupy this place, and to be at a corner with Jinhua City, so that we can support each other. ”

When Yan Yingyuan heard this, he suddenly felt bad in his heart.

He knows too well the strength of the Qing army, and this point of people may not be able to support it for long. So he immediately turned his attention to the realities. He didn't even have the heart to complain, and said, "The gunpowder consumption in the city is huge, I wonder if the general can solve it?" ”

Zhang Xianbi immediately looked at Chen Ding.

Chen Ding gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I immediately ordered all the prepared gunpowder to be sent over." "He was originally prepared to bleed here, so naturally he would not be too stingy, and to Jinhua City, unlike Zhang Xianbi, although Chen Ding and Zhang Xianbi only had contact for a few days, but he could feel that Zhang Xianbi might flee when the timing was in crisis, but the defenders in Jinhua City would not.

Zhang Xianbi said: "Okay, if you just want to transport it quickly, let's build a pontoon bridge as soon as possible." There is a pontoon bridge, and the two sides are connected together, so it is convenient to do anything. ”

In essence, the Dongyang River is not a big river, and there is no architectural problem in building a pontoon bridge on it, Yan Yingyuan agreed, and immediately said: "I will immediately go back to report to General Xu and start the pontoon bridge." ”

Yan Yingyuan came and went in a hurry, barely saying much to Zhang Xianbi, and didn't even have time to change his wet clothes, so he went back, but this time, it was not a swim, but a boat.

Yan Yingyuan saw Xu Jiaying, and the two almost hit it off. Almost the entire city was dispatched to build pontoon bridges. There was not enough wood, so the houses in the city were demolished. All craftsmen, men and women, young and old, all went into battle, and in just one day, a pontoon bridge was built, and several large wooden planks advanced into the Dongyang River, and these planks were nailed with ropes on both sides, and the other end of the rope was pulled across the bank, and the two sides pulled both sides of the riverbank, and the planks were almost automatically returned to their positions.

However, in half a day, this pontoon bridge was built.

Between the two tight ropes, there are wooden planks tied, and although the whole pontoon bridge is fixed on both banks, it is still in an arc shape with the impact of the Dongyang River.

As soon as the pontoon bridge was successfully built, Xu Jiaying came over from the pontoon bridge, and when he saw Zhang Xianbi, he immediately said, "Meet the general." ”

"Why do you have to do that?" Zhang Xianbi said: "General Xu, now I am also a general, although you and I are up and down, but we are also on the same level." Don't be so polite. Saying that, Zhang Xianbi forwarded a letter from the Privy Council to Xu Jiaying, in which he was appointed as a miscellaneous general's order.

Xu Jiaying just took a cursory look, he was not very interested in this, after all, Jinhua City was still between life and death, these false names were useless at all, and the reason why he and Yan Yingyuan were so anxious was because they didn't know how long this support army could last, or how long this external channel could last.

And in the siege, after a long time, there is a shortage of everything, and he has to hurry up and replenish supplies. These messy false names are all problems that wait for the next generation. It's not worth mentioning at all.