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Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, started construction in September of the second year of Hongwu, set the national famous materials, 100 crafts and skills here, and stopped building in April of the eighth year of Hongwu, which lasted six years in total.

A total of three city walls were built: the inner city, the second city, and the outer city. Among them, the inner city is called the "Forbidden City", with a circumference of 9 miles and a square shape; Erdao City is called "Forbidden Wall", with a circumference of 15 miles; The circumference of the outer city is 60 miles.

The whole city reaches Fangqiu Lake in the north, Dushan in the east, the old man's bridge in the south, and Ma'anshan in the west, with nine city gates, 94 squares, 24 streets and alleys, 3 markets, and 2 downtown entrances.

In the Forbidden City, there are two halls, Wenhua and Yingwu, two floors of Wen and Wu, three palaces in the east, west and back, Jinshui River, Jinshui Bridge, etc. The prosperity of regulation is the best in the world.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant armies took advantage of the victory to capture Fengyang, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, destroyed the imperial mausoleum hall, burned the Longxing Temple, killed more than 60 eunuchs, and beheaded the Ming Dynasty to stay in Zhu Guoxiang and thousands of officers and soldiers, and Fengyang City was greatly damaged.

However, the city wall of Fengyang is still there, and its solidity is no less than that of Jinling, all of which are based on stones, and then build large city bricks on them. When masonry, lime, tung oil and glutinous rice juice are used as pulp, and the key parts are even "dissolved and irrigated with pig iron". The moat is seventy meters wide.

It is said that "guarding the river must defend the Huai", and to defend the defense line of the Huai River, the majestic city of Fengyang is indispensable, and the Qin army has long been eyeing Fengyang.

Now Su Jin's cavalry is harassing day and night around Fengyang;

Before Duoduo returned, the two thousand green battalion soldiers in Fengyang mutinied;

The 20,000 horses that Dordo brought back were like lost dogs, and many fell ill on the way. barely supported to return to Fengyang, morale was extremely low, and the Great Qin cavalry did not dare to fight in the face of external attacks.

Occasionally, the Qin army would take advantage of the night to kill the city and bombard the city gate with that powerful rocket, and the violent explosion shook the whole city, causing the Qing army in the city to be shocked three times in the night.

It wasn't until more than 30,000 people from Sizhou also returned to Fengyang that the situation changed slightly.

It was the first shift, and in the yamen of the governor of Fengyang, Duoduo was covered with black mink. Coughing incessantly. Coughing made the muscles on his face swell, the black lines swam, and the shaking light shone on his face, which looked very hideous.

His illness was never cured. After the Chuzhou fiasco. The condition is getting worse again.

"Lord Wang. It's time to drink the medicine. One of them carefully brought the tea and knelt before Duoduo.

Duoduo took the medicine and drank it down. Smash the bowl to the door, boom! The medicine bowl was smashed into pieces, and Lang Zhong, who was kneeling in front of him, kowtowed again and again, begging for mercy.

"Get out!"

Duoduo snorted coldly, and Na Langzhong ran out of the door.

In the past few days, on the one hand, his condition has worsened, and on the other hand, the bad news has come like snowflakes, which has made Duoduo extremely irritable, and often inexplicably angry.

"Report! Lord Wang, Wuhe County is lost, Yan Yingyuan and the rebellious people in the city should join forces outside the city"

The soldiers who hurried in were only halfway through the sentence, and Duoduo, who was on the fire, couldn't help but pick up a teapot and smash it over.

This time he was really angry, Yan Yingyuan knew that he had caused him heavy casualties in Sizhou City, and that's it, now Yan Yingyuan only has two or three thousand infantry, and he can easily capture Wuhe County.

What's wrong? What's the matter, how could the Qing cavalry, which once terrified the Han people, fall into such a field.

Duoduo had a feeling that he was being bullied by dogs, so he was furious, and the soldier was smashed on the head by him, and he pleaded guilty in panic, although he didn't know what his guilt was.

Anger turned to anger, Duoduo had to endure it for the time being, and invited Ning Wanme, Ma Laxi, Chebai, Gong Adai, Tong Tulai, Ye Chenluo and others to discuss countermeasures.

Knowing that Wuhe was lost, everyone's hearts were very heavy, Wuhe is located on the north bank of the Huai River, a hundred miles away from Fengyang.

In addition, there are rebellions in Hongxian, Mengcheng, Lingbi and other places on the north bank of the Huai River, and Huaibei has a tendency to be completely out of control, if that is the case, Fengyang will be dangerous.

"This king doesn't hide it from you, Shanxi Jiang Huang rebelled, and the eleven counties around Datong followed suit, what should we do now? Let's talk about it. ”

"What? Datong is also reversed? ”

Ma Laxi, Gong Acha and the others couldn't help but scream, this news Duoduo had just received it yesterday, and he was worried that the already turbulent army's morale would collapse, so he kept it hidden and didn't say it.

Sure enough, as soon as they said it, even Ma Lashi and the others exclaimed again and again, if they were known by ordinary soldiers, they didn't know how much panic it would cause.

Tong Tulai hurriedly said: "What can I do, there are not many soldiers and horses left in the capital, Datong is the northwest gateway of the capital, what if the rebels attack the Beijing division?" ”

Ning Wan was worried, and sighed: "Jining is lost, Shouzhou is in an emergency, the civil unrest in Huaibei is intensifying, and the Central Plains is on fire." Liu Meng stopped at Dingyuan and stayed in the middle of nowhere, Su Jin also adopted the method of attacking, as soon as our army left the city, he fled far away, which shows that he is not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with our army. Lord Wang, the current situation is pressing, and we can't afford to delay. ”

"How much grain and grass is left in the city?"

"Back to the prince, there is not much grain and grass left, and it can only last for ten days."

A fierce glint flashed in Dord's eyes, and the word "two-legged sheep" came to his mind, and it really got to the point where he didn't mind doing it.

Fengyang City has thick walls, and there are still 60,000 troops in the city, even if the morale is low, it is not a problem to hold Fengyang.

Originally, the Qin army was coming, and Duoduo's plan was to rely on the fortified city of Fengyang to consume the Qin army first, and after the Qin army was exhausted and his morale was restored, he would counterattack in one fell swoop, and destroy Liu Meng's middle route army first, then the other Qin armies would retreat without attacking.

But Liu Meng stayed in Dingyuan City, and he was not in a hurry to come to Fengyang at all, obviously planning to compete with him. Now the situation in the rear is so pressing, I can't afford to spend it at all

Gushan Ezhen Ye Chen said slightly: "Lord Wang, Meng Ke and Li Guo 30,000 horses in the west are advancing step by step along the west bank of the river, and there seems to be no intention to stop. ”

Without waiting for Duoduo to express his position, Ning Wan shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's not so easy, Meng Ke's marching route is quite particular, he is traveling north along the west bank of the river, and if our army wants to attack him, we must first cross the river." ”

As the so-called once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope, just suffered a big loss in the Chuhe River, and now when it comes to crossing the river, everyone still has palpitations.

Ning Wan I continued: "What's more, if I expect it to be true, Su Jin's 20,000 cavalry will definitely not sit back and watch us go west to besiege Meng Ke and ignore it, in Luzhou City, there are still 20,000 Qin troops to help, from the distance, as long as our army goes west to besiege Meng Ke, the Qin army can immediately gather 70,000 troops;

Our army has just suffered a big defeat, many soldiers are sick, morale is low, in the face of the Qin army 70,000 foot cavalry, the odds of victory are not big, once it drags on for a long time, not to mention, Xuzhou will be dangerous first, in case Xuzhou is lost, the cities of Huaibei, which are already in rebellion, I am afraid that they will also fall, where is it, our army is cut off in Huainan, the consequences are unimaginable. ”

Che Bai said angrily: "Lord Zhaoning said this, is it to let us give up Fengyang and Shouzhou?" ”

At present, the only cities south of the Huai River occupied by the Qing army are Fengyang and Shouzhou.

With these two bridgeheads, the Qing army can cross the Huai at any time to fight;

Once these two bridgeheads are lost, the Qin army will be able to form a strong defense line on the Huai River, and the Qing army may not even have the opportunity to cross the Huai River south in the future.

Chebai angrily sarcastic, Ning Wan I didn't answer a word, in his heart, he did intend to let Duoduo give up Fengyang and Shouzhou, theoretically, mastering the two bridgeheads of Fengyang and Shouzhou, the Qing army could cross the Huai south at any time, straight to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

But on the other hand, these two bridgeheads are also very likely to become the graves of the Qing army, once the Qin army melts the Huai River, these two lonely cities on the south bank of the Huai River will be cut off from foreign aid and become two dead cities.

But he didn't dare to say what he thought directly, so he could only faintly point it out and let Dodor make the decision.

For the sake of the overall situation, Chebai did not quarrel with him again, but he and Turai wrote down this account, and it will be liquidated one day in the future.

Duoduo also heard what Ning Wan meant, giving up Fengyang and Shouzhou, retreating to Huaibei, and at the same time suppressing the rebellion in the Central Plains of Huaibei, which is a rational move, at least this can keep Huaibei and avoid all collapse.

However, if he really wants to give up the two important towns of Fengyang and Shouzhou, Duoduo is so unwilling

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