"Haha, Yifan, I haven't seen each other for two or three years, but you still have the same style."

Zhu Jie saw Xu Yifan and laughed loudly.

Xu Yifan and the others hurriedly knelt down to see the driver.

Zhu Jie picked Xu Yifan up with one hand, and in two or three years, his henchman finally fully matured, and in two years, he withstood the strong pressure of Duoduo's more than 100,000 troops in the Central Plains, and did not let Duoduo take a step forward, which was really not easy.

"Get up, all of you, and go in and speak."

Xu Yifan, Qin Mufeng and others escorted Zhu Jie to the tent.

"How? How's the war going now? ”

After Zhu Jie sat down, he asked.

Xu Yifan shook his head and replied: "Your Majesty, this Jinzhou City is worthy of being the first fortress in Liaodong, the city is strong, the ministers mobilized hundreds of artillery, attacked the city day after day, and consumed no less than 6,000 shells every day, and used thousands of musket battalions, after more than ten days of fierce fighting, it was still impossible to take Jinzhou City. ”

"Expected!"

Xu Yifan looked at Song Jiaxing and Qin Mufeng on the side, and said: "Jiaxing, Mufeng, Yifan didn't follow me to Manchuria back then, but the two of you have followed me to come here, you should know more about the city defense of Jinzhou City, especially Jiaxing, don't you two have any good ideas?" ”

Song Jiaxing smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, this Jinzhou City is an incomparably hard turtle shell, we don't have any way to take a trick, either besiege it for several months, and directly let the Qing army in the city run out of ammunition and food, and it will not be attacked; Either he can only mobilize artillery to forcibly attack one of them to break the surface, and Chen really can't come up with other ideas......"

Zhu Jie shook his head and replied, "Besieging Jinzhou? No, absolutely not, we don't have that much time, even if the supply of baggage in the rear is very timely, we can't keep delaying like this, you know, the weather is getting colder and colder, this year is especially cold, dripping into ice, we have a month at most, if we can't take the entire Liaodong within a month, then we can only obediently retreat to the pass, the cold weather, not suitable for us to forcibly attack the city, in that case, we will suffer heavy casualties, the soldiers here are the elite of the Ming Dynasty, Dead and wounded, I am distressed. ”

Xu Yifan said: "Your Majesty, for today's plan, you can only forcibly attack the city, after a small half a month of attack, the city wall of the south city has been bombed and dilapidated, if there is more than ten days, it will definitely be able to collapse the wall of Jinzhou City, half a month, it should be enough to take Jinzhou!" ”

"It's going to take half a month?"

Zhu Jie frowned, and said in a loud voice: "This time I came to Jinzhou, I brought fifty more artillery, all of them were put into battle, and attacked with all my might, I only gave you eight days, eight days, we must take Jinzhou City, after taking Jinzhou Cheng, we still have to wave our troops eastward to attack Shengjing, we can't take Shengjing within a month, we can only retreat in one bite, and the rest of the matter will be unpredictable." ”

Although Manchuria's vitality was greatly damaged, Zhu Jie still did not dare to underestimate Manchuria, in addition to the Jurchens in Liaodong, there were also Bohai Jurchens and savage Jurchens in the north, although the population was not large, but the habits were more fierce than the Jianzhou Jurchens, and Dolgon must be wiped out in one fell swoop, leaving them no time and opportunity to breathe.

Eight days!

Xu Yifan and the others looked at each other, the emperor was so anxious this time, but it was very rare.

Qin Mufeng gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, if you launch an attack today, the minister will personally lead the army to attack the city, and you must exert the strongest pressure on the Tartars to force out the Manchurian elite in their city, hehe, I know that there are at least nearly 20,000 Manchurian elites under Dolgon's command, so simply, use a strong attack to force out all their elites!" Fight it out! ”

Xu Yifan and Qin Mufeng began to prepare for a new attack, but the scene in Jinzhou City was different.

When Dolgon and Duoduo were discussing countermeasures, a soldier staggered into the general soldier's yamen, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, it's not good, there is another Ming army in the south of the city, and it is still carrying a large number of artillery, and now there are at least one hundred and forty or fifty artillery pieces gathered under the southern city, and the Ming army will launch a new attack at any time!" ”

Dolgon's heart was shocked, and he exclaimed, "What? Has the Ming army increased its troops? How can it be! ”

"It's true, Your Majesty, it's true, there are two more rows of artillery under the city! Once these cannons are fired with all their might, I am afraid that our southern city will not be able to support it for a few days, and a large area will collapse......"

The soldiers were now so frightened that they couldn't get up.

Dolgon's face changed greatly, and he shouted, "Dordor, Aobai, follow me to the city to watch!" Spread the decree and once again mobilize the Manchurian elite of the six Niu Lu to go to Nancheng to help in the war!"

Soon, Dorgon took Dorgon to the southern city and looked out of the city!

Hiss......

Dolgon gasped, and sure enough, there were quite a few more Ming troops, at least twenty or thirty thousand people! Outside the city, the artillery of the Ming army was constantly carrying the shells, and the gunners were adjusting the crosshairs of the artillery, which could be put into battle at any time.

"Your Majesty, here, there are so many more troops, so many more artillery, how can we support it......"

Ao Bai said hurriedly on the side.

Before Dolgon could answer, the Ming gunners outside the city took action one by one, stuffed the shells into the chambers of the cannons, and immediately ignited them!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A deafening cannon sound rang out, and dozens of shells came towards the city again!

"Your Majesty, danger!"

Ao Bai pushed Dolgon under the battlements, dodging the bombardment of the Ming army, and a cannonball immediately fell on the top of the city, thick smoke and dust!

Immediately after that, another wave of artillery rang out again, one after another!

In just a quarter of an hour, the artillery of the Ming army outside the city has launched more than a dozen waves of attacks!

The Qing army was not given any time to react and dodge, the fire was too fierce, and I had never seen so many artillery pieces firing together, like firecrackers, one after another!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can return to the Yamen of the General Army first, and leave the ministers here to supervise the war!"

Ao Bai shouted loudly, it's too dangerous, the bricks and stones are flying around, a little careless, not to mention being hit by a cannonball, even if it is hit by the aftermath of the explosion or the splashing masonry, it is either dead or injured, especially a shot of flowering shells fell on the city wall, followed by this Qing soldier was directly blown out, no matter how strong the soldiers, they absolutely blocked the explosion of the shell, and they were directly minced by the explosion!

"Your Majesty, let's go, let's talk about it!"

(End of chapter)