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Duoduo coughed twice and asked Zuo Mengeng: "Jin Shenghuan and the Huai'an defenders are mostly your former subordinates, do you have a way to surrender?" ”

Zuo Mengeng replied with an embarrassed expression: "The slave will send someone to try." ”

Duoduo nodded, maybe he was sick, maybe because the situation was unfavorable to the Manchus, and he urgently needed the green battalion soldiers to strengthen his strength, and Duoduo became a lot more tolerant.

Compared with Azig, his overall view is much stronger, and he has a better grasp of the gap between advance and retreat.

"So, everyone thinks attacking Chuzhou is the best policy?" Duoduo asked quietly.

Che Bai suddenly said: "Lord Wang, according to me, it is better to fight Luzhou." ”

Duoduo glanced at the majestic Elephant-like Chelato, without saying anything.

Chebai and Turai are both Hauge's people, and Hauge is now being recalled to Beijing because he has to reuse Chebai and Turai now. If these people are reused, it is inevitable that Hauge will no longer be allowed to be alone, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.

Ning Wan said: "Luzhou has 30,000 troops from Meng Ke, and Huo Shan has added 20,000 horses to Li Guo, and Meng Ke is a horn to each other, and it is not easy to attack Luzhou. Moreover, Luzhou is biased to the southwest, our army is pressed to Luzhou, once it is dragged down, then the gateway of Henan and Shandong will be opened, and the land and water army of the eastern line of the Qin army can advance to Henan or Shandong along the Yellow River or the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so that not only Fengyang and Shouzhou in Huainan are difficult to protect, I am afraid that Henan and Shandong are also in danger. ”

Chebai sneered: "When Taizong was in power, every time I entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty, it was like entering a no-man's land. You can hit wherever you want, who have you ever been afraid of? As a result, Emperor Taizong returned to heaven with a dragon, and my Qing Dynasty iron rode like a mouse crossing the street, this is also afraid, no matter what is afraid, we might as well hide back in the pit outside the pass. ”

"Presumptuous!" Duoduo pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, and let out a deep sigh, and the light in the tiger's eyes burst into flames.

If the tiger is not powerful, you should still be a sick cat?

Of course, chelation is not intimidating. But in the military. Nor did he want to challenge the authority of the Duoduo too much. Because that's looking for death.

"There is no need to discuss it anymore, after the army arrives at Guide Mansion, it will turn around to Yongcheng and Suqian, and go to Fengyang."

The 80,000 Qing army, under the order of Duoduo, suddenly accelerated. Run to Fengyang Mansion.

When everyone thought that Duoduo would kill Ben Chuzhou from Fengyang. But he suddenly swung eastward. Quickly run along the Huai River to Sizhou and Xuyi.

Sizhou is located on the west bank of Hongze Lake, facing Changhuai to Xushan Mountain, 30 steps in Zhoujiuli. The city wall is two feet and five feet high, and there are five gates;

There is Huilong Bridge at the east gate, Yongning Bridge at the west gate, and the south gate imitates the Yueyang building system, which is majestic and magnificent.

Between the south gate and the west gate, open a door called the fragrant flower door, and the north gate is called Chaoque Tower.

There is the Ming ancestral mausoleum 13 miles north of Sizhou city. After Duoduo's army arrived in Sizhou, they camped not far from the Ming Ancestral Mausoleum.

Although the city of Sizhou is low-lying and is known as the water country of Zexiang, because of its developed water and land transportation, it is the throat of the Central Plains and the key point of the north and south, and its political, economic, cultural and military status is very important.

And Xuyi is located on the south bank of the Huai River, the Huai River flows into Hongze Lake between the two cities, Xuyi and Sizhou are sandwiched by the Huai River in the south and the north, like the two gates of the Huai River, once the two cities are controlled, the waterway of Hongze Lake into the Huai River can be controlled, and the Huai River waterway is in hand, then the Qing army has no worries.

Chebai was sent by Duoduo to lead an army of 10,000 to attack Xuyi on the south bank.

On the river surface at the mouth of the Huai River between the two cities, hundreds of large and small warships led by Zheng Sihai were moored on the river, with sails like clouds and oars like walls.

The ship's icy muzzles were pointed at both sides of the river, ensuring that the south gate of Sizhou and the north gate of Xuyi could communicate with the outside world by water, and if necessary, the garrison of Huai'an could come by boat to reinforce the two cities.

And the Sizhou guard is none other than Yan Yingyuan, who made the Qing army suffer a lot in Jiangyin, and there were originally 4,000 men and horses in the city. When Duo Ze killed Sizhou from Fengyang, Huai'an on the east bank of Hongze Lake urgently reinforced another 6,000, and now Yan Yingyuan has a total of 10,000 troops.

His banner with the word "Yan" was about to fly in the wind at the head of Sizhou City, and the Qing army that killed the city of Sizhou saw this banner with the word "Yan" and immediately thought of King Yama.

No way, in the last Jiangnan Campaign, Jiangyin City was undoubtedly the largest cemetery of the Qing army, and Yan Yingyuan had become a nightmare for the Qing army.

Sizhou city is not big, east and west long about four miles, north and south wide two miles, the whole city is oval, there are five city gates, because each city gate has a protruding moon city, so the shape of Sizhou city is very similar to a turtle missing a leg.

In the outer ring of 30 to 200 steps, there is also an outer wall, which is made of stone masonry and is made of lime and glutinous rice juice as a binder, which is very strong, and played a great role in flood control and resistance to the Japanese invaders.

In the face of a Yama king, it is not easy for Duoduo to gnaw open the turtle shell of Sizhou City!

For this reason, he also made full preparations, because the south gate faced the Huai River, the artillery on Zheng Sihai's ship could be pinched inside and outside with the artillery on the city, so it was impossible for the south gate to set up a large army to attack the city.

Duoduo placed 70,000 troops at the north and west gates, and hundreds of artillery pieces of all sizes were concentrated outside the north gate. On the afternoon of the arrival of the Qing army, the artillery roared first, and the outer city wall was bombarded violently, in an attempt to quickly open the gap.

Yama Wangye was dressed in Xuanjia, holding a big knife in his hand, standing on the outer city wall in the north, commanding the Qin army's twenty artillery pieces to fight back, the siege troops had not yet been dispatched, the city was already bombarded with artillery fire, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the whistling cannonballs fell down with an amazing momentum, which was deafening.

The Qing army commanded the artillery bombardment of Zu Dale, who was Zu Dashou's cousin. The ancestral family is a big clan in Liaodong, since the ancestral birthday descended to the Qing Dynasty, the ancestral family of Zu Dale, Zu Kefa, Zu Dabi, Zu Zeyuan, Zu Zepei have become important generals of the Qing army.

Zu Dale was very good at defending and besieging the city, and in view of the fact that the Qin army's artillery was particularly accurate, he asked the Qing army to pile up earth as a base, cover the artillery, and bombard it closely.

This trick is very effective, the Qin army's cannonballs will hit the earthen ramparts in front of them a little lower, and a little higher will fly through the artillery array, making it difficult to cause damage to the Qing army's artillery.

The outer wall of Sizhou City is made of stone strips, which seems to be very strong, but in fact, in such shelling, it is not as good as the city wall with red brick and rammed earth structure;

Because of the huge solid shells bombarding the stone wall, hard against hard, the stone wall is not only easy to crack, but also the flying rubble will pose a major threat to the defenders of the city.

After half an hour of artillery battle, the Qin troops in the city were not killed or injured by the direct shells, but many were killed and wounded by the gravel;

Yan Yingyuan's subordinate general Wu Dakai injured his arm, and he didn't care about bandaging it, so he rushed to Yan Yingyuan's side bloodily and said, "General Yan, this can't be done, if we continue to bombard like this, we will die." ”

Yan Yingyuan also knew that Lu Dao would suffer a lot from the bombardment, but he had no choice but to do it, if he did not return fire, the Qing army, under the cover of artillery, would continue to pile up earth ramparts in front of him, and the artillery would get closer and closer.

Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, the Qing army didn't know this trick under Jiangyin City, but now it is skillful in using it, and it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with.

Yan Yingyuan confidently ordered: "Let everyone retreat to the city to avoid the artillery fire first, and leave a few people to watch." ”

"Yes, General Yan."

After the Qin army gave up the counterattack, the Qing army really advanced, and they were so arrogant that they piled up earthen ramparts a mile from the city wall, and then moved the artillery up and bombarded it.

Duoduo, who was watching the battle from a distance, frowned a lot, he had not fought with the Qin army, but now it seemed that the Qin army was not as difficult to deal with as rumored.

"Master Ning, what do you think?" Duoduo asked rather lightly.

Ning Wan I was still frowning, thought for a while and replied: "Lord Wang, I don't know if you have noticed, the Qin army's previous artillery return fire was very sparse, and it was just a show." Now there is no return fire, which is obviously unreasonable. ”

Duoduo said disapprerovingly: "It's just that I want to consume more ammunition of our army, and then fight back when our army attacks the city, I'm afraid that Yan Yingyuan's wish this time will be disappointed, this time the king has prepared enough ammunition Ha Lu Haha wait for me to directly collapse the city, I want to see how he fights back." ”

"Lord Wang, I'm afraid it's not that simple."

It's really not so simple, all the gates of Sizhou City have water gates, the west gate King Kong crossing, and the north gate iron window lattice. For flood control, there are 6 moon cities built outside the city, the moon gate is like a double gate set of gates, when the big water is sent outside the city, the moon gate is blocked first, and pedestrians enter and exit from the moon city embankment.

This form of ancient city is rare in the country. Not only can it prevent floods, but it is also extremely useful militarily, in fact, under the attack of the superior forces of the Qing army, the prince of Yama does not intend to fight the Qing army to the death in the outer city wall.

(To be continued......)