"After a while, the cannon hit the city, you see, most of the walls of the outer city of Nanjing are made of earth, although it is not in disrepair, but this wall is thin, as long as it is bombarded with cannons, it will definitely be able to blast open!"

When Hou Fangyu explained, the smiling Cao Eryu just kept nodding.

In fact, as early as last year, when they entered the southern sweep, the Manchu Qing had already mastered the technique of attacking the city with Hongyi artillery. In history, to the next year, it was the time when the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the Hongyi cannon to expand the results, in Tashan, the Manchu Qing Dynasty used the red-coated cannon to attack the Tashan City, only one day of shelling, the Tashan city wall was blasted open, the Qing army outside the city heavy armor soldiers swarmed in, and the 7000 defenders in the city were annihilated. After the fall of Tashan, the Qing army attacked Xingshan again, and soon collapsed the Xingshan city wall, and the Ming army defending the city surrendered without a fight.

……

Kong Youde's betrayal, the core disaster is also like this, after entering the customs of the Manchu Qing south, although the Jiangnan gentry fiercely resisted, but in front of the Qing army equipped with red barbarian artillery, most of them were vulnerable, and the strong city walls were as short as a day, or more than a few days, they would be blasted down, and then ...... Slaughtering the entire city, the cannons destroyed the knights' castles in Europe and the cities in China.

“…… In a word, the city will not be broken! ”

"You mean, don't just blast the walls open?"

Listening to Hou Fangyu's explanation, Cao Eryu looked a little puzzled. What does that mean?

"Bomb the city and not break the city? So what's the point of blasting through the walls? ”

"It's just a blast, let's blast the first half of the section, let them know that as long as we want, we can attack the city at any time, and then, what do you say will happen to those people in the city?"

"Chaozong, do you mean that Lord Belle doesn't plan to attack the city?"

Cao Eryu wondered.

"It's not that you don't plan to attack the city, it's not that you don't want to attack! Storm...... Even if we break the outer wall, there is still the inner wall, and ......"

Shaking his head, Hou Fangyu glanced at Jiangbei, and then said.

"Besides, Lord Belle is planning to surround and send reinforcements! If the city of Nanjing is broken, how do you say that you will surround it and send reinforcements? ”

Encircling the point to send reinforcements, outside the gate, this is a tried and tested style of play in the Qing Dynasty, and Cao Eryu naturally knows nothing more about this.

Then they talked about other things. For example, Hou Fangyu was very eager to learn about Liaodong. Of course, now it should be said that it is Manchuria. Regarding his curiosity, Cao Eryu naturally explained them one by one. Although Jiangnan is very good, in Cao Eryu's view, Jiangnan is not as good as Manchuria at all. Naturally, his mouth was full of praise for Manchuria. And even in his mouth. Liaodong, a bitter cold land, has become a plug in the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with Hou Fangyu, he naturally scoffed. If it's really that good, it seems that it will sharpen its head and want to enter the customs.

When the minions under the city of Nanjing were exchanging their feelings warmly, and they were talking about how to be a better slave, better serve their masters, and repay their masters, they didn't know that the vast land of Liaodong in their mouths would have completely changed, at least in the short term, it would be impossible to be "Saiwai Jiangnan".

……

Tens of thousands!

On the land of Liaoyang, which is covered by ice and snow, thousands of sleigh cars, stretching for dozens of miles, are driving towards the south in the snow under the drag of galloping horses, and the sound of whips echoes in the air.

The sound of horses' hooves, the sound of whips and the joyful laughter of the people, for these people who have regained their freedom, they do not know what awaits them, but the feeling of being human again has immersed everyone in this long-lost freedom.

Behind them, the city of Shenyang, where I don't know how much Han blood and sweat flowed, was billowing smoke, and before evacuating Shenyang, they not only set fire to all the buildings inside and outside the city, but also tore down the city walls.

On the way out of Shenyang, there were burning villages everywhere, and those clothed Ahabs who were worse than dead in Zhuangzi, after killing their former masters, either rode horses or drove carts to keep up with the retreating procession.

The mighty procession looks extraordinarily magnificent, what is the size of the million-strong army?

Zhu Guoqiang didn't know, but nearly 400,000 people drove more than 40,000 sleigh cars, but they stretched for dozens of miles, and fortunately it was in the Liaoyang Plain, fortunately, the thousands of miles of frozen land became a natural road, otherwise such a huge team would be really difficult to retreat.

But even so, it is still extremely difficult to control hundreds of thousands of people. In order to smoothly retreat, in addition to drawing out 70,000 young men and women to use the weapons of the Qing army captured in Shenyang to form a strong regiment, the remaining nearly 300,000 people were organized into a team of 1,000 people, and each team of 1,000 people was organized into a team of 1,500 sleds.

It took three days for the team to set off, but even so, there were still many problems encountered on the way to the march, such as the scattering of the team and the fact that some people were left behind. So much so that the cavalry had to act like shepherd dogs, while being responsible for guarding the perimeter, while reminding the thousand-man team to keep in formation.

After leaving Shenyang for a day, as the sun went down, the sky became gray and dull, and after nightfall, the cold wind also blew from all directions, and almost instantly, the temperature dropped a lot.

The people have turned out quilts and other things and wrapped them on their bodies, as a coat Aha they may not have many quilts, but they snatched a lot from the former master's house. People touch the cotton clothes and quilts covering their bodies, both men and women, young and old, are full of smiles, although they also have cotton clothes, but as slaves they wear, use, are all shabby, wearing new clothes, it seems to be a matter of the previous life, where can the masters give them new clothes to wear!

The vast Liaoyang Plain may have provided convenience for the movement of hundreds of thousands of people, but as a plain, there is no place to shelter from the wind and snow, and there are endless snow fields everywhere.

Under the command of the officers and men, the refugees circled more than 150 large sleigh carts and then turned them over to protect them from the wind and snow.

All the sleds are like wooden walls, forming circles on the snowfield, hundreds of bonfires are burning on the snowfield, when the people are preparing for the night, in an intact village, Zhu Guoqiang sitting on the fire pit, his expression is slightly solemn.

"It's only less than a hundred miles!"

Staring at the map, Zhu Guoqiang said to Wan Shouqi and them.

"From Shenyang to Jinzhou, it's almost seven hundred miles, according to the plan, we should resist within seven days, and the places that need to pass along the way are Liaoyang, Fuzhou, and Jinzhou, and now there is no suddenness of attacking the city, so whether these cities fight or not, this is a problem!"

Looking up at Wan Shouqi, Liu Hanyi and others, Zhu Guoqiang asked rhetorically.

"The big guys are talking about their thoughts?"

"Lord Shizi, the most important thing now is to evacuate people to Lushun as much as possible, we have been delayed in Shenyang for three days, when we set off, Huang Taiji has already set off, which means that we are at most two days ahead of them, if we delay the siege of the city, I am afraid that it will delay the time, and then it will be a big loss."

"Yes, Lord Shizi, although Liaoyang was a big town in Liaodong in the past, after the looting and slaughter of Jiannu, it is now just a small city with a population of more than 10,000 people, and the scale is not even as small as the small county town in Guannei, Fuzhou and Jinzhou are probably the same, and the people in the city were either killed or plundered and distributed to Jiannu to become their coat Aha ......"

Zhang Chun, as the person who knows the situation in Liaodong best, naturally has more right to speak, and his words made Zhu Guoqiang's eyebrows raised, and then said.

"Jiannu killed my soldiers and civilians, if you can't cross the city, it's a pity......"

After thinking about it, Zhu Guoqiang asked.

"What about the people in this Zhuangzi, do they know anything about the situation in Liaoyang?"

Soon the people in Zhuangzi were found, and as soon as they heard that the prince wanted to know about the situation in Liaoyang, because Zhuangzi was only a dozen miles away from Liaoyang, the people in Zhuangzi naturally knew very well.

"Shiziye, there are usually five thousand Jiannu and their families stationed in Liaoyang City, Zhuangzi outside Liaoyang City, is their banner land, Zhuangzi collects grain, pigs and other things are usually handed over to the city for them to eat, now most of those Jiannu are with the chieftain to go on the expedition, the rest of the city is old, weak, sick and disabled, if it is stormed, first bombard the city wall, it is estimated that half a day's effort can be taken......"

Glancing at Liu Hanyi, Zhu Guoqiang asked:

"What do they mean is that all the people in the city live in the city?"

"There are also some Han people, but the clothes that can go into the city to wait, are all slaves who are willing to work for Jiannu in their bones, and they are the most reliable people, after all, they don't dare to use Han people easily, they are afraid that the Han people will be poisoned, when Jiannu just conquered Liaodong, they were attacked and killed alone, and they were poisoned when they ate, which is a long-term thing, so they will be extra careful."

In the face of the strong resistance of the Han people, in addition to slaughtering the Han people as much as possible to completely eliminate the Han people physically, he also ordered the Jurchens to carry weapons when they traveled, not to act alone, and the things sold by the Han people could not be eaten. In fact, such a distrust, let alone now, the distrust of the Han people did not disappear until the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how could the colonial rulers trust the ruled slaves?

"Hmmm,......"

Nodding slightly, Zhu Guoqiang's brows raised and he sneered.

"In that case, then things will be easy to do!"