The panic of the people in Qingzhou City gradually subsided after the government issued several notices to appease, since they can't get out, then work together to defend the city, the government has issued a document to recruit the young people in the city to help defend the city, and send money and food, plus it is learned that there are still tens of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the city to rush to help, and the people's hearts are gradually calming down, just at noon to return home to cook.

Li Shiyuan was busy with city defense matters, and the prefect Qian Lianghan was not idle, and invited all the famous squires in the city to the prefect's yamen as guests in one go, and went straight to the topic: fundraising, and the tone is similar to Chang Yu, whether he wants to go bankrupt or ruin his family!

At the same time, the chief historian and the bookkeeper in the Hengwang Mansion were busy keeping accounts and settling accounts with the account books, and the family members went out to the warehouse to pick up money and food.

Zhu Youqi went out, if you want money, give, if you want food, give!

As long as you save hundreds of lives in the Hengwang Mansion, you will not hesitate to go bankrupt!

Chang Yu wanted to go to Li Shiyuan to learn some information, but Li Shiyuan also came to look for him, and the two met near the North City Gate, so they found a table in a small teahouse on the side of the road and sat down to chat.

The teahouse is a roadside stall and there are no guests, a hunchbacked old man carried a big teapot to make water for the two of them, and then looked at the door and asked a few big men, "Don't the guests come in to drink tea?" ”

Those big men are Li Shiyuan's personal soldiers and Guo Chongshan, who was a brocade guard, and waved his hand when he heard the old man's greeting, but Chang Yu said: "Come in and rest, it's refreshing to drink some cold water without tea" A few people entered the store and sat down at a table in Yiyi, Guo Chongshan hugged his fists: "What do you call a few brothers, the surname is Guo, Guo Ziyi's Guo is not a pot with a pot lid......"

"Lord Changgong, I just counted the armory, there are more than 3,000 war knives and rust, more than 400 bows, more than half of them are broken, and nearly 1,000 arrows ......" Li Shiyuan reported one by one, but it was also what Chang Yu planned to ask before, the young and strong people in the city can be transferred out of thousands of people casually, but the civilians do not practice swords and arrows, and they will not use it for them to defend in the city, and they will not use it, so they only need to exert more strength to throw stones and scatter ashes.

"There are several iron cannons in Wuguan City, how much ammunition is stored?" Chang Yu asked.

"Few, less than 100 rounds" Li Shiyuan sighed, in the face of tens of thousands of troops attacking the city, 100 shells are simply a drop in the bucket.

"What about the enemy?" Suddenly, he asked again. He has heard of this thing, developed in the late Ming Dynasty Chongzhen period "Tiangong Kaiwu" recorded, but has not seen it with his own eyes, it is said that two years ago Qingzhou defended the city of a war used this thing, and finally relied on this thing to repel the Qing army.

Li Shiyuan was stunned, and didn't think that the little eunuch also knew about this thing, so he said: "This thing is not suitable for storage, there is no one in the warehouse, but it can be made fresh, but I don't know if it is in time."

"Are there firesmiths in the city who are good at this?" Chang Yu hurriedly asked, although he had never seen ten thousand enemies, but he also knew a rough idea, in fact, it was an incendiary bomb in later generations, a poison gas bomb, a kind of incendiary firearm, this kind of firearm is made of mud, and there are hollow balls with small holes around it, which are filled with gunpowder after drying, and mixed with toxic substances. When the enemy is attacking the city, light the fuse and throw it under the city, and the flames will shoot out in all directions and rotate continuously, scorching the enemy army. Because it is simple to make, easy to take materials, and has a killing function, it has this title.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, at the critical moment when the Qing army attacked the city, Huang Huan, the commander of Qingzhou Wei, threw this thing to resist the enemy and joined forces with Li Shiyuan to make the Qing army who had reached half of the city reluctant to retreat.

"Yes, but not much! And it takes three days from manufacturing to use, if it is sunny, and more than half a month if it is rainy," Li Shiyuan hurriedly said.

Chang Yu knew that the 10,000 enemies were using mud as a shell and needed to be exposed to the scorching sun, so he looked up at the sky outside: "Quickly order it to be made, the more the better, the governor will be rewarded" Li Shiyuan hurriedly asked a hot subordinate who was chatting with Guo Chongshan over there to pass the order.

I hope that the next will be a good weather with clear skies, Chang Yu prayed secretly, glanced at Li Shiyuan and said: "Li Shoubei told our family about the battle two years ago, how did you hold Qingzhou, how many soldiers and horses did the Tartars have at that time?" ”

In fact, Chang Yu learned about Li Shiyuan's battle to defend the city from some unofficial historical materials in later generations, for example, the Qing army lined up in Wenquan Village next to Fan Gongting to check the terrain, and suddenly pulled out of the camp three days later, the people in the city cheered, but Li Shiyuan felt strange and couldn't sleep at night, and in the middle of the night, he heard that there was movement outside the city, and he saw that the siege ladder of the Qing army was set up.

Li Shiyuan shouted to wake up the sleeping officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers panicked, Li Shiyuan cut over a person to stabilize the field to begin to return fire, with artillery bombardment, the Qing army has begun to climb the city, under the feet of the artillery can not bombard, Li Shiyuan poured the iron cannon against the city wall, the Qing army was in chaos, plus Huang Heng threw 10,000 enemies, the Qing army fired 10,000 arrows Huang Huan was killed by an arrow, and the soldiers went forward to resist desperately and finally repelled the Qing army...... In this battle, Li Shiyuan was crowned a god.

Of course, Li Shiyuan was also proud of this, and briefly said this battle, his face was full of pride, Chang Yu listened carefully, but also found that there was a slight discrepancy with the records of later generations, such as the strength of the Qing army is only thousands, not seven or eight thousand or even more than 10,000, if there is such a force, Li Shiyuan will not be able to hold it at all, and he will not attack so many people and leave at once, and the main force of the Qing army in Jinan at that time can not distinguish so many soldiers and horses, and the iron cannon in the city is not the kind of Huzun The field artillery has more than 1,000 catties, although Li Shiyuan is known as a strong man, but it is still too exaggerated to carry it as a gunman.

"Li Shoubei was also the Liangzi who married Liu Zeqing at that time?" Chang Yu asked with a smile, after the Qing army retreated, Emperor Chongzhen sent troops to Qingzhou to protect the domain, and the Ming army did not dare to approach the main force of the Qing army, but saw that the Qing army in Qingzhou retreated and pretended to come, and there were a lot, Governor Fan Zhiwan, Wang Yongji, Shandong General Liu Zeqing and General Zhong, these four people were camped outside the four gates, and the daily columns plundered outside the city, and what was even more hateful was that Liu Zeqing outside the West Gate took advantage of the night to pretend to be the Qing army to attack the city, fortunately Li Shiyuan saw through, and set off 10,000 enemies to burn more than 100 people, Liu Zeqing's conspiracy failed and he was angry to death, and the two had a grudge.

"The factory supervisor actually knows about this" Li Shiyuan smiled bitterly: "The humble man once reported this matter to the top, but he couldn't listen to it before he reached it" and said: "I heard that Liu Zongbing went north to King Qin a few days ago, and the factory supervisor should be more wary of this person."

Chang Yu smiled: "The governor of the Liu thief has long heard about it, but he can't spare his hand to treat him for a while" Li Shiyuan heard Chang Yu call Liu Zeqing a Liu thief and knew that he was also evil, but: "The master of the factory, the commander of the East Factory, is the emperor's cronies, and he can't cure him?" ”

Chang Yu sighed: "It's not that it can't be cured, one is that it's not available, and the other is that it can't be cured temporarily!" ”

"Why ......" Li Shiyuan wanted to ask again, but he quickly reacted: "Your Majesty knows, Liu Thief supports the army and respects himself!" Perhaps they heard about his evil deeds at the time, but they just deliberately turned a deaf ear."

Chang Yu was silent, and picked up the teacup and drank his tea.

Li Shiyuan sighed in his heart, the big eunuchs of the dignified Dongchang were helpless to take Liu Thief, what did he worry about with a small guard, and he was afraid of provoking the little eunuch by saying too much, so he diverted the topic: "Master Changgong, I heard that not long ago, there was a big battle with the Tartars outside the gate, and the defeat of the enemy in one fell swoop can be said to open the eyes of the lowly people."

Chang Yu smiled slightly, this Li Shiyuan can be regarded as having eyesight: "Okay, we have both fought with the Tartars and communicated with each other" to make a long story short and briefly said that Ningyuan outside the Guanwai would briefly talk about the battle general, Li Shiyuan listened with enthusiasm, sometimes clenched his fists, and sometimes applauded.

"At that time, the factory was hidden in the mountains, and there are mountains outside our Qingzhou City, can you ......" Li Shiyuan seemed to have discovered something, and his face was excited.

Chang Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's not feasible, first, I don't have time to go into the mountains to reconnoiter and find a suitable terrain for hiding troops, and there is no artillery and musket to defend, and secondly, the troops in the city are insufficient at the moment, so where can I divide my troops into the mountains."

Li Shiyuan sat down a little dejectedly, and said suddenly: "The factory said that the cavalry of the Qing army is unmatched, and at this time there are more than 20,000 cavalry, and the combat power of the Ming army can break more than 50,000 or more, and the cavalry chasing after the factory is only 30,000 or 40,000, aren't you afraid......?"

Chang Yu laughed: "I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid, but Dolgon didn't dare to return to the army at this time, because his purpose was to plunder rather than fight, if he chased me, I would run, he would never give up plundering and chase Ben Du around, not to mention that he was not willing to fight with Ben Du until the most urgent time." Although his more than 20,000 cavalry is strong, it is also the last to press the bottom of the box, and in addition to the more than 30,000 cavalry, there are also 50,000 or 60,000 infantry outside the governor, even if they fight to three, they can fight the bottom of his box! ”

Fight for three! Li Shiyuan couldn't help but shudder, only then did he know the gap between his combat strength and the Qing army...... He didn't dare to think about it, he just felt a chill in his back.