More than half a month ago, Prince Gong Chang Ning, who had lost more than 4,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners and more than 7,000 clothed soldiers, had just fled back to the city, and was punished by Kangxi, but no matter how he said that he was Kangxi's own brother, Kangxi naturally could not hang him or kill him with a cane, nor would he reward him with a cup of poisonous wine, so the punishment was just locked in the palace and thought about it.

The Zheng raiding unit outside the city shelled intermittently for three days, and then the shelling stopped.

Hearing that the sound of artillery outside the city stopped, Tu Hai, Suo Etu and others judged that there were not many shells carried by the Ming army outside the city, and thought that as long as they could not hold out, when the weather was about to warm up and the ice and snow melted, the Ming army would have to withdraw, otherwise their sleds would be useless.

However, Mingzhu, Lasali and others advised Kangxi that it was better to take advantage of the lack of ammunition of the Ming army to withdraw the army, and take advantage of the opportunity at night to run out of the west gate and retreat all the way to the west.

The idea of withdrawing troops was refuted by Tuhai, who believed that the Ming army's sleigh was flying in the snow, and as long as the Qing army left the protection of the city wall, it would be covered by the Ming army behind it. What's more, there are still many women and children in the city, although most of the women are captive women, but those women and children are the seeds of the revival of the banner people, and they must not be thrown away. Once left from the protection of the city walls, neither the woman nor the child could escape.

Kangxi finally adopted the advice of Tuhai and others and insisted on it.

Chang Ning, who had returned from defeat, was punished and was facing the wall in the palace. At this moment, his concubine Wu walked in with a bowl of fish soup.

Chang Ning turned his head and saw that it was the Wu family, he opened his voice and roared: "Get out!" Don't bother Lao Tzu! ”

Wu was stunned for a moment, and Chang Ning, who was shouting hysterically, "snapped" and knocked off the soup bowl in Wu's hand, and then slapped Wu in the face again: "You Jin woman!" If it weren't for your grandfather Wu Sangui, the dog thief, Lao Tzu would not have fallen to where he is today! We love the Xinjue Luo family, and we were miserable by your Wu family! ”

"Stop!" Princess Jianning didn't know when she walked in, "Don't hit the daughter of the palace!" Even if there is no Wu Sangui, there is a king and a dog thief, do you think you can hold it? This is not to blame the father-in-law of the palace, he was also forced! Wu and Zheng attacked Huguang, attacked Sichuan, and cut off the transportation of grain from Yunnan and Guizhou, and his father-in-law was also forced to do so! ”

"Humph!" Chang Ning snorted coldly, "A thief is a thief!" ”

Kangxi stood at the door, hearing the sound of his aunt and younger brother arguing, and his heart was very uncomfortable. He shook his head and turned back to his imperial study.

Walking in the palace of Beihai City, Kangxi was full of emotion. He had just turned 20 years old, and it was the time in a person's life when he was ready to make a big difference. But looking at the palace in Beihai City, Kangxi only felt hopeless. I recall that I grew up in the Forbidden City in the capital, which was a splendid and majestic imperial city, with tall and majestic palace buildings and countless buildings in the palace. But when I came to this bitter cold place, the palace in front of me was not as good as the mansion of an official in the capital.

The palace of Beihai City, although it also imitates the Forbidden City, is much smaller in scale, and it is not a level at all, compared with the Forbidden City in the capital, it is simply a Lilliputian country, and even the Forbidden City of Shengjing cannot be compared.

"Your Majesty, it's not good!" A eunuch stumbled into Kangxi's palace and knelt down to report, "Mongols! The Mongols are coming! In the city, densely packed, there are more than 100,000 people! ”

"What?" Kangxi was taken aback, "Mongols? The Mongols are coming? More than 100,000 people Quick, immediately summon the Tu scholars, Mingzhu, Suo Etu and others into the palace! ”

"Wow!" The eunuch withdrew.

Beihai City is not very big, Tuhai and others actually knew the news of the arrival of the Mongols earlier than Kangxi, they were discussing in the prime minister's yamen, and when they heard the eunuch's report, Tuhai and others immediately rushed to the palace.

Tu Hai walked into the imperial study, but saw that Kangxi was throwing things, and a precious Jingdezhen vase was grabbed by Kangxi and slammed into pieces. Seeing that Kangxi was about to get another vase again, the personal eunuch Liang Jiugong hurriedly hugged Kangxi's thigh: "Master, I can't help it!" This vase can be exchanged with the Rakshasa people, and a vase can be exchanged for a Rakshasa cannon! Master, you've just dropped a Rakshasa cannon! ”

Kangxi's personal guard Cao Yin also persuaded him bitterly: "Master, you can't do it!" ”

"Get out! Get out of here! Kangxi roared hoarsely.

"Your Majesty, the minions are late!" Tu Hai and the others hurriedly knelt down at the door of the imperial study.

When Kangxi saw that it was Tuhai and Mingzhu and others who arrived, he lost some anger and let Tuhai and others enter the house.

"Damn Mongol Tartar!" Kangxi scolded, he forgot, in fact, he himself is a Tartar. The Eight Banners have been in the customs for a long time, and the Mongolians who unconsciously check the customs are also called Tartars.

Tu Haidao: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger!" Mongolian dogs are not terrible at all, they are just our defeated men! No matter how many Mongolian dogs there are, they are no match for us! ”

Kangxi was full of anger: "It's good that the Mongolian dogs can't beat us, last time they took advantage of the danger of others, how many people did we lose!" This time, with the help of Zheng Xi, the old dog, the Mongolians followed to pick up the cheap, which is a great threat to us! Zheng attacked the dog thieves who were short of gunpowder and cannonballs, and the Mongols came! With so many Mongols attacking the city, how can we hold it? ”

Suo Etu said: "Please rest assured, although there are many Mongolian dogs, they are not good at attacking cities!" Presumably, that Zheng Xi did not dare to force the Mongols to attack the city, otherwise the Mongols would be annoyed, and they would have internal strife, and that would be our chance! ”

The Mongols are indeed not good at siege, and Zheng Raid did not think of letting the Mongols go to the ant annex to attack the city as cannon fodder, this time the Mongols came to help the war, Zheng Raid asked the Mongols to build siege weapons, and some Mongols will be responsible for digging tunnels.

Under the command of the Ming army, a number of low-ranking Mongol warriors and slaves from small tribes went up the mountains to cut wood, and then they began to build siege weapons under the guidance of the Ming army. Someone is instructing the Mongols to build siege weapons, which is also decent. A large number of Mongols nailed the felled wood and made it into a rack for ladder trucks. Don't look at the thin arms and legs of this ladder truck, that's just the frame of the ladder truck.

The ladder truck was pushed to the edge of the lake, and then someone went to Baikal to dig through the ice and draw water from the ice cave. The water was poured on the ladder truck, and soon it formed a layer of ice. Then another bucket of water poured it, and the ice on the outside of the wooden shelves became thicker and thicker, and finally the entire shelves were covered with thick ice, even the load-bearing pillars were ice.

In addition to the Ice Cloud Ladder Car, the Mongols also helped to create siege weapons such as Ice Nest Cars and Ice Rush Cars.

The work of crafting siege weapons was relatively smooth.