"Kill the Tartars! Kill! The earth-shattering shouts of killing resounded in the sky, and the Qiongzhou Army of the Eastern Road Northern Expedition launched a fierce offensive against Jinan City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the forefront of the rush were the newly recruited recruits from the land of Lianghuai, who came from Anqing, Huaibei, Huai'an, Fengyang, Luzhou and other places of Lianghuai. Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the people of the land of Lianghuai have suffered from flooding all year round, the original fertile land has become saline-alkali land because of the Yellow River has broken many times, the water network of Lianghuai is vertical and horizontal, as the saying goes, rely on water to draft, after the destruction of agriculture, the people of Lianghuai rely on the river to make a living, and many people have become boatmen.

The Qiongzhou army won a complete victory in the battle of Lianghuai, and a large number of Lianghuai's children became prisoners.

After Wang Yu arrived in Xuzhou, he immediately ordered to speed up the screening of prisoners, and the captured two Huai children met their families, and then the Qiongzhou army selected a group of strong, loyal and honest, and obedient young men from the two Huai children, and assigned them to the Qiongzhou army, and the rest of the prisoners were either incorporated into the railway soldiers or sent to the immigration team.

The discipline of the recruits was very good, they were originally canal boatmen, and the boats sailed in the canals, often paddling by hand or pulling fibers on the shore, and they had to be in a uniform rhythm.

It is because they obey orders that this newly formed army is trained to be an elite.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the Qiongzhou army has never been in arrears of military salaries, the food is good, and if you are unfortunately killed, there will be a generous pension, and you can also enter the martyr's tomb.

Jinan is also a strong city, not as strong as Beijing and Xiangyang, the world's first strong city, but after all, it is an important city, the former governor of Shandong Yuan Maogong because of the news of the defeat of the Qing army in the two Huai wars, he was angry, spit out a mouthful of blood, and died directly in office. The Qing court brought in a new governor, Zhang Fengyi.

Zhang Fengyi is a native of Xuanhua, most of the gentry in the area of Zhangjiakou in Xuanda have more or less to do with the Jin merchants, since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the eight families of the Jin merchants have formed an impermeable relationship network in Xuanda.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the original unsightly business came to the fore, so the gentry in the Xuanhua area can be said to be loyal to the Qing court.

After Zhang Fengyi came to Jinan, she immediately made arrangements to defend Jinan and vowed to live and die with Jinan City.

In the city of Jinan, there are not many regular green battalion troops, only 5,000 green battalions remain, most of the once powerful Shandong green battalions were wiped out in the battle of Lianghuai, and the rest were either separated, or fled into Zhili, and few ran back to Shandong.

In order to deal with the shortage of troops, before Zhang Fengyi came to Jinan, he borrowed troops from Jin merchants and borrowed 3,000 guards. After he came to Jinan, he immediately recruited people, strengthened the city wall, built a large number of weapons to defend the city, and prepared to rely on the Jinan city wall to resist to the end. At the same time, street fortifications were also built in the city.

On the sixth day of the second month, the Ming army arrived at the city of Jinan.

Wang Yu first asked people to shout under the city to persuade the Qing army in the city to surrender. However, Zhang Fengyi rejected the persuasion of the Ming army to surrender, and said that the loyal ministers did not matter to the two masters.

"Since this person is stubborn, he has no choice but to attack the city!" Wang Yu gave the order to siege the city.

Although the Qiongzhou army already has the advantage of absolutely crushing the Qing army, but before the siege, Wang Yu still did not dare to be careless, the barracks that should be arranged should be arranged, the wooden fence that should be pulled up should be pulled up, the trench that should be dug should be dug or dug, the tower was set up in the barracks, the gate was opened on the wooden fence, and the suspension bridge was set up.

Wang Yu marched to war, always paying attention to a stable word, and never took risks. The barracks stationed at night are all prepared to prevent the opponent's sneak attack, build a good defense, arrange watchtowers, and arrange secret posts around them.

While building the barracks, the auxiliary soldiers of the Qiongzhou Army accompanied the army to the mountains south and west of Jinan to cut wood and build siege weapons. Although the Qiongzhou army already has new artillery shells that can break the city, it is still necessary to create siege weapons, such as shield cars, nest cars, watchtowers, etc., shield cars can protect auxiliaries to fill in the moat, nest cars and watchtowers can allow stragglers and snipers to climb and shoot, and build large trench and bridge vehicles that can cross the river.

After five days and five nights of preparation, on the 11th day of the second lunar month, the Ming army launched a siege battle.

As soon as the day dawned, the Ming army fired the sound of siege artillery.

At the head of Jinan City, there were 20 Hongyi cannons cast by Yuan Maogong when he was in office, and these cannons were raised by the Shandong gentry themselves and cast by the Shandong governor Yamen. It was said that the Shandong gentry raised funds by themselves, but in fact, there was a certain compulsion, Yuan Maogong asked the officials and the green battalion soldiers to collect the cannon casting fee, and raised 180,000 taels of silver to cast the cannon. Although it is said that the northern gentry are not as rich as those in Jiangnan, they can still take out the money. In the previous Ming Dynasty, if anyone wanted to come down to raise money to build cannons, they didn't even want to raise money. Nowadays, the imperial power of the Qing court is strong, and there are not so many annoying officials in the Ming Dynasty who supervise the imperial history and patrol the imperial history, so it is not a problem to collect money at all.

The imperial history of the Ming Dynasty was a group of so-called clear streams, with fair and honest words and sanctimonious appearances, but in fact, they were all spokesmen of the gentry class and used to limit imperial power.

By the time of the Qing Dynasty, although the official position of imperial history was still retained, these officials were no longer useful, and the Qing Dynasty arrested and killed scholars if they wanted, and even the emperor did not dare to do this in the Ming Dynasty, let alone the ministers and magistrates below.

It is precisely because the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty has increased and the court speaks with a knife, so the power of the gentry is not so great, no one dares to confront the court, and it is impossible for anyone to reprimand the emperor for not being able to compete with the people.

Shandong cast 20 Hongyi cannons, because of the quality of the cannons, these cannons weighed 3,600 catties, but they could only fire eight-pound shells, because the barrel wall was thicker, the weight of the cannon increased, and the caliber was smaller. However, the barrel length was long, and the firing range still exceeded that of the 64-pounder mortar used by the Ming army.

Although these Hongyi cannons are all shoddy cannons, their power is not small, and the range is long, and once they are hit, they are unbearable.

In order to deal with the threat of the Ming army, Yuan Maogong also built a number of small cannons such as the Franc machine gun, the small general cannon and the tiger squat cannon, which were placed at the head of Jinan City to block the Ming army's attack.

Considering that the Qing army placed a large number of artillery at the head of the city, the Ming army first suppressed the Qing army's artillery at the head of the city with long-barreled cannons and high-precision rifled guns. At the same time as the shelling began, the Ming army auxiliaries dug trenches and advanced.

Due to the maturity of Mini shell technology, it is no longer possible to use shells to make complex and expensive hexagonal guns, but to directly carve rifling into the bore of part of the front-loading guns, and a lead butt is hung on the tail of the cylindrical shell, and the butt expands after the shell is fired, just stuck in the rifling. The shell fuze still adopts the metal medicine disc fuse, which has mature technology, low price, and much simpler manufacturing process than trigger fuze.

The cannon roared, and the overwhelming cannonballs smashed into the city.