"Boom, boom, boom, boom ......" the cannon at the head of Ziyang City rumbled. The few cannons were unleashing their fury in full force. But for the Qing army with as many shield cars and ants below, their power is so insignificant.

And the defenders' birds, all of the musketeers did not dare to aim at the tartars, lest they be burned by the gunpowder splashing at the back door. The power can also be imagined.

"Bomb dropping, bomb ......" What can really make the brave Eight Banners soldiers return in vain is the thunderstorm that falls on the city.

Orange-red flames fell with the rain of grenades, densely rising under the city.

"Damn it!" Turg watched the defeat of the Eight Banners in front of him, and scolded angrily.

With the cessation of the fighting in Zou County, the war situation in Yanzhou Mansion entered a stalemate. The Qing army could neither capture Zou County nor the capital city of Ziyang. The latter has two more battalions of reinforcements, and many of them are unarmoured, and the combat strength of the defenders has not changed much. However, many of the Zheng military methods brought into the city by Zhou Lianggong have greatly optimized the functions of the military and civilians in Ziyang from the 'software'!

For example, fixed ammunition, from bird guns to cannons, everything can be used. This greatly increased the density of the fire of the defenders.

For example, the grenade, the latter is a miniature version of the 10,000-strong enemy - a large explosive incendiary weapon used by the Ming army to defend the city, Deng Fanxi and others are easier to understand. The crackling rain of grenades was a threat to the Qing siege troops......

Who told the Qing army to enter the Sai Dynasty without carrying heavy firepower? Even if some artillery pieces were captured, it was difficult to find enough gunners.

However, Ziyang Mansion City is an absolutely strong city.

In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming court promoted Yanzhou to the state as the government, led the twenty-three counties of four states, and built the palace of the king of Lu in the same year. Due to the narrowness of the ancient city, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding, to expand Yanzhou City, move the city wall to the south for two miles and thirty zhang, and change the original south moat to the Chuancheng River and the Fu River. And the city gate tower, the city wall heightened and widened, the rammed earth city wall outside the standard Ming city bricks weighing about 40 pounds rebuilt.

The circumference of the brand-new Yanzhou capital city is fourteen miles and two hundred steps, three zhang high, and the battlement mouth is seven feet high. The four cities all have urn cities, the city wall is three zhang and two feet high, and the battlements are nine feet high, and there are 5,893 battlements in total. The base of the city wall is two feet four feet wide, and the horse road is one and five feet wide, all of which are paved with bricks and stones, and two carriages can be used in parallel, and horses can also be used to patrol the city, so it is also called "horse running wall".

Two hundred and fifty-five years have passed. The city walls of Ziyang Mansion City are still strong, and after the Qing army entered the customs, how can the city walls in Qilu not be repaired and reinforced?

Turg didn't have a corkscrew in his hands - enough artillery, so he had to grind slowly. Just like the original Jinan Mansion, as well as the previous Hejian. It's not because the difference in strength between the enemy and us is too great, how can the Tartars easily break through the city?

Equipped with shield chariots, the heavy arrows of the Tartars fell one by one to the head of the city. But the warshed largely neutralized the threat of bows and arrows.

Now both Ziyang and Zou County have strong enough defense forces - Zou County has Xiao Yuan Ying, and Ziyang is the capital city of Yanzhou, which has a large amount of materials in it, including a large amount of medicinal powder, and a large number of Ding Zhuang population.

In fact, many cities of the Ming army have a large number of medicinal powders in stock, and there are as many as tens of thousands of catties of crude medicinal powder in Ziyang City, even if the power is not comparable to Zheng Jun's granular medicinal powder, it cannot be underestimated, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty will not use them at all.

Even if the crude powder is coarse, it is still a medicinal powder. Just put it in a jar and throw it down to listen to a sound, it's also a threat to the enemy.

Especially for a team with limited strength like the Qing army.

For Zheng Zhilong's army, for Xiao Yuan's battalion, Turg had to divide troops and horses to defend himself, and divide his troops again and again, so that the Qing army no longer had the capital to fight a war of attrition under Ziyang City.

Tens of thousands of catties of crude pharmaceutical powder are half of the medicine used to make bird guns and artillery, and the rest can also be used to make tens of thousands of grenades with catties of powder. That was definitely a big threat to the Qing army on the attacking side.

Who told the Qing army that entered the fortress did not carry enough artillery?

The ability to attack tough problems has always been the biggest shortcoming that restricts the development of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in the Battle of Songjin, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has made this shortcoming to the fullest. As long as the army and the people are united and resolutely resist, how can they not resist the enemy outside the city?

Don't talk about the example of Jiangyin, let's talk about Weixian, and it was in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen that the Qing army entered the Seli, and the Qing army in history strode into Qingzhou after breaking through Yanzhou, and then the soldiers went straight to Denglai, but they first hit a bag in Weixian. It took three months to beat the band, but it was fruitless. And the magistrate of the latter is not another county, it is Zhou Lianggong who led the troops into Ziyang.

Zheng Zhilong was not aware of this, but he doubted the ability of the Qing army to overcome danger at this time. After all, there is no Han army flag, or there is no Hongyi cannon, the Qing army is smashing the city, if the city can be united, I am afraid that Ding Zhuang who defends the city has not broken his muscles and bones, and the Qing army itself will collect the troops first. Population is the biggest shortcoming of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the loss of overcoming dangers will make the Qing generals who lead the army feel distressed and unable to do it.

However, having said that, in the context of the late Ming Dynasty, how many places can unite the officials and people of the Central Plains?

Therefore, the Tartar soldiers can crisscross the Central Plains, and wherever they go is like entering a no-man's land.

"Yuan Dahong has already arrived in Qufu?" Zheng Zhilong asked Zhou Yi. The number of Yebu to which the latter belonged has increased to one hundred and forty or fifty people, in addition to the original men and horses, there are some new old cavalry that Zheng Zhilong exchanged for Tartar heads, and there are some Qilu locals.

Now Zhou Yi and they are even more important, closely monitoring the movements of the Qing army.

"I was ordered back before, and General Xiao Yuan's headquarters has crossed the White Horse River." Zhou Yi replied.

When Zheng Zhilong saw that the war in Zou County was over, he immediately informed Yuan Shizhong and asked him to send a group of soldiers and horses to guard Qufu. The tens of thousands of soldiers in Xiao Yuan's battalion are all nested in Zou County, which is really a waste.

"Tell Yuan Shizhong that Zou County's good news has been submitted to Governor Wang Zhongcheng, and the credit is indispensable to him. As long as he guards Qufu and Zou County, he will be a great hero of the imperial court. His Majesty will not treat him badly. ”

Zheng Zhilong can breathe a sigh of relief now. Zou County is no problem, and Qufu is not a big problem. And Ziyang, he can make up for it by himself if necessary, and this is really not a big problem.

In this way, the Qing army in Yanzhou Mansion will not have much of a problem. As for Abatai's reaction, it depends on Hong Chengchou's ability. The Ming army there is the main force.

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Turg's face was gloomy, and he looked at Eshuo and Hurib, who were kneeling in front of him to plead guilty. In the battle of Zou County, he first asked Eshuo to lead troops to fight, but failed to take it, and then sent Hulib as reinforcements, but the result was still unsuccessful.

Then, in order to mobilize the Zheng army on the banks of the Surabaya River, the latter was entrenched in Dai Jiaji on the edge of Surabaya, these days he took advantage of the cold weather, splashed water and froze, frantically built camps, and turned his own station into a hard bone. Turg wasn't interested in eating it raw. He sent E Shuo and Hu Libu to lead the army to threaten Qufu, trying to mobilize the Zheng army to rescue Qufu, but the result was that Xiao Yuanying once again took the lead and returned again in vain.

"Get up. The whip will be written down for you first, and when the war is won, I will settle the score with you. ”

Turge doesn't care whether the defeat of Zou County and Qufu is because of Xiao Yuanying's insertion, horizontal and vertical, the blame lies on Eshuo and Hulibu.

Their army entered the Central Plains, of course, not all the cities they encountered, otherwise, from the north to the east of Qilu, there were already hundreds of cities, and they did not take them all.

Not to mention some state cities and government cities, even individual county towns have not been conquered. It doesn't seem like the first time that a loss like this has happened. But the key point of the defeat of Zou County and Qufu was - especially the battle of Zou County, which was the only example of the Qing army investing heavily in attacking the city and not succeeding.

According to the rules of the Eight Banners, whether it is Eshuo or Hulibu, they will all be punished. Whipping is a trivial matter, and there are "fines". From official positions to goods, clothing, mansions, etc., they are all within the scope of confiscation.

However, Turg has no intention of rewarding the two of them with whips now, so it is better to ask them to make meritorious deeds. Then a letter reached Abatai to the north.

The current situation of the Qing army is not good, the south road can't be moved, and the north road Abatai led the soldiers and horses to confront Hong Chengchou in Dongchang, and no one on either side can help anyone.

The Ming army is gathering more and more, although most of them are unbearable, but once the 'soldiers are more and more generals', and there is a figure who can hold the position, the morale will be greatly increased. But Hong Chengchou still avoided the battle and always focused on containment and defense, which is a big problem.

The most important thing is that Abatai can't defeat the Ming army on the opposite side, so he can't rush to Yanzhou City to join the Turg army.

Now relying only on the strength of the Qing army of Turge, it is really difficult to take Yanzhou.

If you can't take Ziyang City, you can cross the east of Jiancheng to really attack Qufu, how can it be easy to take it?

There is no way to go east. And to the south, they can't break the Xiaoyuan camp and can't take Zou County, and since they entered the Central Plains, the soldiers of the Eight Banners, who have been invincible and invincible, have been stopped in Yanzhou.

This is unacceptable to Turg, and even more so to the commander of the army, Abatai.

The seventh son of this old slave finally became the commander of the second army, and he was determined to compare himself with Dorgon.

Before being led by Dolgon into the fortress, capturing 460,000 people and animals, seizing millions of taels of gold and silver, breaking more than 60 county seats, beheading Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, beheading the old emperor Sun Chengzong, beheading the governor Lu Xiangsheng, capturing the king of Germany Zhu Youshu, the king of the county Zhu Ciying, the general of Fengguo Zhu Cixian, and the eunuch Feng Zhuqing, etc., the results of the battle are not too brilliant. How could Abatai be worse than Dorgon, the fourteenth brother?

He is over half a hundred years old, born and died for the Manchu Dynasty, and has made outstanding achievements, but he is still only a Baylor, and Abatai is not angry.

"Turg, this dog minion, is so useless!" Abatai was furious when he saw the letter.