Zhu Linmiao looked at the two people in front of him like watching a clown performance, which made Zhang Duan wipe a cold sweat nervously, and continued: "Your Majesty, there are more than 10,000 Jianzhou soldiers under Tan Bai's headquarters in Beijing, plus the green battalion of Beizhili and Liaodong, a total of 35,000 troops.

In addition to the extremely sophisticated firearms and armor prepared by these soldiers and horses, there were also nearly 100 cannons, and countless rolling stones, fire oil and other materials used to defend the city.

"Tan Bai swore when he left Beijing that he would defend the city to the death, and the people in the city would be destroyed in the city, and the battle would be until one soldier and one soldier would rest.

"At this time, there are seventy or eighty thousand stones of grain in the city that the criminal ministers and others know about alone, which is at least enough for the thief army to eat for more than half a year! And there should be other places where there is grain and grass to hide. Your Majesty...... If the thieves go out of the city for a decisive battle, they will definitely not be the opponent of the imperial army, but if Tan Bai is determined to defend the city, it will be difficult to take Beijing with more than 40,000 people and horses in the imperial court.

"As long as Your Majesty is gracious, we will still be left to serve the imperial court, and we will be able to enter the city tomorrow, otherwise we will ......"

Zhu Linmiao interrupted him with a sneer, "A group of traitors who have surrendered to the country at both ends of the rat, what qualifications do they have to bargain with me?"

"When the Kou comes, you will meet the Kou, and you will support the Jianyu when you enter the customs, but now it is just to see the siege of the imperial army, and you want to come to be a Ming minister, but it is a good calculation.

"But I can't keep you traitors to endanger Daming!"

Zhang Duan trembled with fright. As Zhu Linmiao said, these "old ministers of the Ming Dynasty" are good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, no matter who the emperor in Beijing is, they can mix well.

They originally expected that the emperor would treat each other with courtesy when he learned that the high-ranking officials of the Qing court had come to vote and could easily recover Beijing, but they didn't expect that Zhu Linmiao would hardly have to look at him.

Zhang Duan still gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, the city of Beijing has thick walls, and it has never been breached since Taizu built this city!" Back then, Yu Qian was able to refuse to be outside the city with only the newly recruited soldiers in a hurry, and Tan Bai was elite?

"When it is dragged into winter, it will be more difficult for the army to perform, and after the spring of the next year, the Liaodong thieves will definitely gather the army and make a comeback......"

Zhu Linmiao originally wanted to hear some information about the prisoners in the city, but at this time, he saw that they had nothing to say, so he stopped talking nonsense, and threw the table sent by Fang Ganglin and others to the two, "Wait for three days, the first ten people to open the city can avoid death, and the rest will be beheaded." ”

Gao Eryan and Zhang Duan were so frightened when they saw the content of the table that they were already scared, it turned out that Jianyu was already planning to give up Beijing, and he actually came to negotiate conditions with the imperial court, which was extremely ridiculous.

Zhang Duan swallowed hard and spat, struggling: "Your Majesty, beware of the thief and the ...... of fraud"

"Hehe," Zhu Linmiao glanced at him contemptuously, "I never intended to make peace with Jianyu. To tell you the truth, I have mobilized 300 cannons, which will be transported to the city in a few days, and a mere city will not be able to stop the Ming Xiongshi! ”

He was exaggerating a little by saying that. Counting the previous captures, the Ming army now has more than 300 cannons, but only more than 100 of them are more than 12-pound heavy artillery. The other small-caliber guns and Franc cannons were largely useless during sieges.

Fortunately, he was also prepared, and when he just recovered Jinan, he ordered the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau to urgently build a batch of 24-pound guns, and now all of them have been cast and shipped to Beijing.

In addition, he also has a "guarantee" means - nitrocellulose. Ma Lin is on his way with the equipment and craftsmen to make nitrocellulose. It's just that after the Battle of Nanjing, Jianyu must be prepared for the bombing of the city, and he will not use this trick until the last resort.

Three hundred cannons?! Gao Eryan and Zhang Duan both twitched in their hearts, and were about to say something more, but they saw Zhu Linmiao waving his hand to Shi Lin and said, "By the way, let Zhao Shichao come back, take these two guys to watch the beheading, and send them back to the city after that." ”

"Yes!"

The two of them walked out of the tent in a daze, and asked Shi Lin carefully: "Dare to ask the general, who are you going to behead?" ”

The latter smiled coldly, "The envoy of the captives is like a Baylor named Duran, and the minister of the captive parliament, Ganglin......"

On the head of the city of Deshengmen in Beijing, Tan Bai repeatedly watched the deployment of the Ming army under the city with a telescope, and his face turned from blue to black, and then from black to blue.

More than two miles away from the city, tens of thousands of Ming troops lined up in two straight dark green straight lines, like two indestructible steel cables across the Desheng Gate, the bayonets in the formation were dazzling, and the banners were hunting in the wind.

In front of the Ming army's infantry battle array, hundreds of cannons were lined up, and the pitch-black muzzles reflected the sunlight, like hundreds of ferocious beasts staring at their prey, which made people shudder.

This is not just a small cannon such as a tiger squat cannon and a Weiyuan cannon. Tan Bai has observed in recent days that the smallest cannon is also a forward Franc machine. He knew very well that the Ming army's Franc cannon was by no means weaker than the red-coated cannon in his hand.

And the more than 100 heavy artillery pieces in the middle of the Ming army's position were what made him palpitate the most. Among them, even the smaller cannons are at least more than 3,000 catties, and the ones near the inside are more than 5,000 catties of heavy artillery! There are more than 30 doors!

A 12-pound cannon with more than 3,000 catties, and a 24-pounder cannon with 5,000 catties.

Tan Bai originally made careful arrangements for defending the city, planning to rely on the strong Beijing city wall to defend it until winter. But at this time, in the face of so many heavy artillery, he had no idea how long the city wall under his feet could last.

He also sent troops out of the city to raid this artillery array many times, but without exception was beaten back by the terrifying fire of the Ming army, and more than 1,000 people died.

After that, he didn't dare to go out of the city easily, except for an occasional sneak attack at night.

And the Ming army did not seem to be in a hurry to open artillery to attack the city, but just continuously transported artillery to the north of the city, arranged neatly.

But today Tan Bai is particularly worried, because there has been no new artillery in the enemy formation for most of the day, which shows that the artillery of the Ming army should have all arrived, and the next thing to do is self-evident - open artillery to bombard the city.

Sure enough, after another three hours, a hill of shells piled up behind the Ming artillery position. However, due to safety regulations, gunpowder was allocated to stay a mile away, and it was constantly transported to the front line in shuttle wagons.

The second day of the fifth month of the first year of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Shi.

As the two red flares rose into the sky, the gun commander in the artillery position of the Ming army, which was more than a mile wide, raised his saber in his hand at the same time.

All the 140 cannons of the nine-pound and above had already been loaded, and the sighters had repeatedly aimed hundreds of times, all in anticipation.

Zhao Zhibi, the commander-in-chief of the artillery battalion, gave an order, "Fire artillery to bombard the enemy!" ”

The sabers in the hands of all the artillery commanders fell down in unison, and they shouted in unison, "Release!" ”

In an instant, monstrous flames erupted from the muzzles of one hundred and forty black holes, and a loud bang like a landslide and a crack in the ground was heard seven or eight miles away!