Chaoyang Gate.

"These bandits, my freshly built garden!"

Gong Yili howled indignantly.

In the city not far in front of him, a flowering shell of a twenty-pound mortar exploded, and a newly built small building in his house, Prince Heng's mansion, collapsed in the explosion, and then the fire rose, and he could even see how those concubines fled in panic.

As he spoke, two traces of smoke in the sky on the right side, one after the other, crossed the city wall and fell with a whistling sound like a meteor, smashing into the roof of Nanxincang, disappearing in an instant in the splash of tiles, and the next moment with the fire of the explosion, the roof sprayed into the sky in all parts, and then the same fire rose, and a large group of bannermen, women, old and weak, hurriedly rushed into this warehouse full of grain with buckets and the like.

And the cannonballs kept falling in the sky.

Obviously, the Ming army knew very well what was the most important thing behind the wall between Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate, and where these important targets were located.

The vast majority of the shells landed in several warehouses where grain was hoarded.

In other words, this is also bad luck for the Qing army.

Because of the layout, several main granaries in the city, such as the north and south new warehouses, shipping warehouses, and the grain depots of Xingping, are basically close to the city wall, and the grain transported from Tongzhou can enter the city at Chaoyangmen or Dongzhimen and then directly enter the warehouse, even if it is the farthest from the city wall, it is only more than a mile away. The Ming army's 20-pound mortar cannon had a range of four miles, and it was set up outside the range of the artillery on the city wall, and the shells were easily fired into these warehouses, and the arson effect of the cannonballs doped with aluminum powder was also obvious. At this moment, as the shells continue to fall, almost all of these warehouses are rising with smoke, and the hardcore crops who know the importance of these warehouses are desperately trying to put out the fire, but it is clear that they are far from being able to put out the fire as fast as the shells.

Outside, eighteen mortars were bombarding, because of the inaction of the Green Battalion, coupled with another fiasco in Yijing's counterattack on Tianjin, a battalion of the 2nd Marine Brigade escorted the Cao fleet and rushed to carry ammunition.

It is clear that the transport line of the Ming army is unblocked.

There are still thousands of tons of such shells waiting to be fired in Tianjin!

If it's not enough, there's more to come.

In a month and a half at most, the Ming army's convoy will return, and the scale will be larger than the last time, because another batch of new transport ships in the shipyard has been delivered, and the next batch of transport ships will not only bring more ammunition, but also two infantry brigades of reinforcements, and before the end of the year, a third batch of reinforcements will be transported to Tianjin, and the marines will be replaced and returned, and the north will be followed up by the newly formed Eighth Army, which will also form four infantry brigades under this corps, and at least three infantry brigades will be formed locally, bringing the total strength to seven brigades.

And this is the maximum that Yang Feng can maintain by sea at present.

Of course, this is all for later.

And now he just wants to keep scourging these hardcore crops in Sijiu City, anyway, he is not ready to really attack the city, what he has to do is to keep shelling the city, this is the inner city, except for a very small number of businessmen, as well as those ministers who give or borrow residence, almost the whole city is the banner people, Yang Feng doesn't care about their incidental casualties!

In other words, what he wants is collateral casualties.

A total of fifty-two cannons of various types belonging to the 1st Marine Brigade are lined up outside the Chaoyang Gate, constantly pouring flower shells into the city, and the captains of those artillery teams have a map of Beijing City in their hands, which is marked in detail with all the important warehouses, official offices, as well as the mansions of the princes and ministers, and the barracks of the Eight Banners garrison, the distance and direction of these targets are very clear, and they will not be able to aim because of the city wall, and even Yang Feng specially raised a hot air balloon to shoot at all, in short, the captains of those artillery teams freely choose their targets, As long as you are within the range, you can hit wherever you want.

It is said that those Ming artillery had a good time, and the hardcore crops in the city were unlucky.

At this time, most of the buildings were made of wood.

The artillery shells of the Ming army are all accompanied by a strong arson effect, and after less than an hour, the city is already full of fires, and the billowing smoke covers almost half of the inner city.

Speaking of which, for these warehouses, the hardcore crops have lost hope.

This thing is in such a bad position.

So at this time, several military ministers and a few princes were personally directing people to urgently rescue these stored grains and then transfer them to the imperial city, so that the artillery of the Ming army could not reach the imperial city no matter what.

However......

"This has to be a bigger cannon!"

Yang Feng looked at the billowing smoke in the city and said.

"God Emperor, the twenty-pound cannon is indeed small!"

Xu Hui beside him said sympathetically.

"If twenty catties are not enough, exchange them for two hundred catties, go and get me some captured copper cannons, if the copper cannons are not enough, get copper coins, and also ask for some pig iron, I will make you a big guy, and make you a one that can hit two hundred catties of heavy cannonballs."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

This is a very easy solution, just a one-man mortar from the Civil War.

This kind of mortar cannon, which looks like a water tank, can only be fixed on a special base, and takes a long time to shoot once, can shoot a two-hundred-pound cannonball for a full four thousand meters, and he enlarged the caliber to eleven inches, that is, three or four one millimeters, the barrel is slightly extended, and the bronze used is better, and basically it can cover most of the inner city, at least it is enough to smash the cannonball on the top of Daoguang's head.

"Your Majesty, there is a group of people in the city who are coming from Andingmen and coming this way."

Suddenly, an officer announced.

"Check it out!"

Yang Feng waved his hand and said.

Because he has too few troops, he can't actually block the entire city of Beijing, and the Ming army is now only blocking the two gates of Chaoyang and Dongzhi, and the other gates are not in charge, in fact, he can't take care of it, at most there are a few teams of soldiers riding captured war horses to patrol around.

Soon a patrol cavalry arrived with a group of zombie suits.

"Pan Shien."

Yang Feng looked at the old man curiously.

The old fellow was full of gray hair, with a ruby top, but he knelt on the ground very sensibly, and the next few people who followed him also knelt on the ground, and their actions were perfect.

"You're the Tartar's Minister of Aircraft, aren't you?"

Yang Feng looked at him playfully and said, "You don't accompany Min Ning in the city to wait for death, what are you doing when you come out to see me?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty's words, my Emperor of the Qing Dynasty His Majesty to the Ming and Qing Dynasty as brothers, Jia Shen Nian broke through Beijing and caused the martyrdom of Emperor Zhuang Lie of the Gui Dynasty, my Emperor Shizu of the Qing Dynasty should be invited by the people in the customs to enter the customs, destroy the rebellion and avenge the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains of the land to get the rogue instead of the Ming Dynasty. Later, Hongguang was incompetent and incompetent, trusted the traitors, and made the people miserable, and the fate of the great tomorrow was over, and he went south to mix a Yu to clear the rogues, and it has been nearly two hundred years, and the two hundred years of political communication and national peace and security can be called a prosperous era.

However, even so, my Qing Emperor also knew that the land of Hongguang was indeed not right.

Today, it is fortunate that His Majesty has re-established the Daming Society.

My Qing Emperor is willing to return the Jiangnan obtained from Hongguang to the Ming Dynasty, from Yichang to the south of the Yangtze River estuary Hunan, Jiangxi, Liangguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, Jiangsu Jiangnan part, all returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Yangtze River as the boundary of the river and rule, rebuild the good of brothers. ”

Pan Shien said tremblingly.

"Do you think I'll say yes?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

He really didn't expect Daoguang to play such a play, I have to say that these guys are so cute, it's no wonder that this mind is being played by the British, saying that Kang Mazi has to be angry to death if he wants to come back to life, of course, he also knows that Daoguang is urgently ill and seeks medical treatment, after all, he blocked the door, and this has a straw to try.

"Your Majesty, although Your Majesty has two Guangzhou, but has not yet been out of Hunan and Jiangxi, I have been extremely generous to return to the land south of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty, although Your Majesty forced Beijing, but Your Majesty has thousands of miles across the sea, and the potential energy is long? What's more, Your Majesty is still at war with Yingyi, so Your Majesty is not afraid that Yingyi will attack Liangguang on a large scale? In order to show the sincerity of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, I would like to give His Majesty another 10 million taels of silver, and marry His Majesty with Princess Shouzang Heshuo......"

Pan Shien said.

"Poof!"

Yang Feng, who was drinking juice, sprayed a mouthful of orange juice on his old face.

"Ugh!"

Pan Shien wiped his face in embarrassment.

"Get out, go back and tell Min Ning, keep his daughter, keep his 10 million, everything he has is mine when I beat this Beijing city, his money is mine, and his women are also mine, as for the land of the Ming Dynasty, what is lost on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty will be taken back on the battlefield, and the river will be ruled by rowing the river? What qualifications does he have to rule with me? Tell him that like Zhu Cihuan, Ling Chi is his only end. ”

Yang Feng kicked him over and shouted.

Pan Shien wanted to say a few more words, but was directly picked up by the Ming soldiers on both sides.

"Wait a minute!"

Yang Feng said suddenly.

Pan Shien looked at him with hopeful eyes.

"You've repaired the Siku Quanshu, so you don't need this face!"

Yang Feng's fingers stretched out as he spoke, and he swiped one after another at a very fast speed, and in Pan Shien's screams, he instantly cut off his ears and nose, and then pointed at his attachés and said, "These are all arrested and sent to Nanyang!" ”

The attachés kept kowtowing on the ground, but they were still quickly taken down by the wolf-like soldiers.

"The first and second battalions immediately bypassed Beijing, seized the Old Summer Palace and then emptied it, and if there were not enough people, they would go to Tongzhou to gather the people together and remove all the people who could be removed from the Old Summer Palace, and you would keep the jewels, gold and silver, and reward the people with the rest."

In Pan Shien's screams and their begging for mercy, Yang Feng said to Xu Hui.

"Is the garden burning?"

Xu Hui asked excitedly.

"Garden, the garden doesn't need to be burned, just burn those things related to the Tartars, and as for the garden, keep it for later construction of a school!"

Yang Feng thought for a while and said.

In other words, it is not bad to build a university in the Old Summer Palace in the future.

In this way, with the cry of Pan Shien all the way to Chaoyangmen, the two battalions of the Ming army quickly went north, and at the same time, a team of coolie convoys that had just transported shells also followed, and a few others quickly ran back to Tongzhou to gather more people, and a new military-civilian festival kicked off.