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

The sound of cannon fire made that day pine can't help but shrink his shoulders, trying not to think about the misery of the city.

The army marched south into the pass, and the regent not only took most of the troops of the Eight Banners, but also most of the artillery in the hands of the Manchus. In such an important place as Niuzhuang, there are only a few Hongyi cannons, plus a dozen small cannons such as Furlong cannons. Yesterday, it was destroyed by Zheng Jun's artillery fire.

All day today, they were all bombarded in the city.

It is also a shame that no one cut corners when the expansion of this Niuzhuang City, and the city wall is very strong, so Risong thinks how can he hold it for two more days. When the city wall collapses and the Zheng army attacks again, then compete with knives and tenacity.

Ah Shan had already led the horse armor soldiers to run outside the city, but left the two hundred foot armor he had brought to him.

That Risong didn't think about anything else now, just waited for the city wall to collapse, and then took people to the ruins to fight with the southern barbarians (liao).

Another muffled sound came, the one that Risong had seen, Zheng Zhilong's flowering shell, a kind of cannonball that could continue to explode after landing. The first time they saw it yesterday, they suffered a great loss, and the warriors of the Eight Banners who were hiding behind the city wall were killed and wounded by this kind of shell, and thirty or forty people were injured.

Several large 'cannonballs' were thrown into the city by the thunderbolt cart, and Zheng Jun played a new trick outside, moved out the catapult with counterweights, and threw several extra-large cannonballs into the city.

Compared to the shells, the speed of these large shells appeared to be very slow, cutting a curved curve in the air, with a piercing whistling sound, and the trajectory was clear to the naked eye.

But they didn't explode after they landed, but at a distance of five or six feet from the ground, they exploded with a bang, and then a large number of thin banners were scattered in the city of Niuzhuang.

That's what they do.

"Zheng Zhilong is really rich, and there are high-quality white silk in this banner. Such a good thing, I don't have to wear it, master, but he's good. ”

That day Song scoffed at these banners, Zheng Zhilong thought that this was the Central Plains? Is there anyone among a few people who can read and hyphenate? No matter how fanciful the words of persuasion on the banner are written, but no one is literate, isn't it also flattering and thrown to the blind?

He didn't even order anyone to collect all the banners and set them on fire. Because banners are also useful. This Zheng Zhilong trench is inhumane, and the materials used for the banners are all fine muslin, or silk and the like, and only a very few are linen.

These things were picked up by the soldiers, and as long as they didn't die and took them home, they could use them. Don't say anything else, sew a dress and socks, take a sole, the head office, right?

That day Song didn't take it seriously at all.

But who knows, in the next few days, Zheng Jun seems to have changed suddenly, and the artillery is weak.

It was also at this time that the Turge and Yierden brothers led their soldiers and horses to rush to the aid from Liaoyang. The strength of the Qing army in Niuzhuang reached 5,000 people, of which there were more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the Eight Banners, and the rest were all dressed in the right year.

That day was relieved, the whole person seemed to have unloaded a thousand pounds of burden, and now he was lying on a recliner, leisurely sipping tea, and standing next to him was the anxious five. "Okay, okay, I said you kid, do whatever you have to do, don't hang around in front of me. Brother, I'm dizzy to see. ”

"Third brother, those two people have blisters on their faces, limbs, chest and back, and they also have a high fever, which is obviously smallpox!"

When the five said the last two words, the whole person trembled.

Risong's expression also changed, "Nonsense, how can there be smallpox in this cattle village?" It's just two unlucky ghosts who burned to death, and there was smallpox. ”

What stall is it now? If this news spreads, Niu Zhuang will still fart in this battle.

The other five felt that this matter could be concealed from the bottom, but they must be told upwards and leave everything to Turg and Ilden.

That Risong's opinion is just two words:!

Not a word can be said about this.

In the Zheng army village in front of Niuzhuang City, Zheng Zhilong looked at the Qing army opposite, and his eyes were not bothered by the growth of their numbers, and even for him, the more Tartars here, the better.

If it weren't for the fear of the plague, it was really terrible, and there was no way to save it, he would have wanted to throw the piles of rats in Yanjing City. Instead of just some banners stained with ceiling paste and crust powder.

Smallpox is a thing for the Tartars to fear from the bottom of their hearts, it's an absolute nightmare for them.

Because they lived in colder areas of the north, smallpox was less likely to occur here, so the Tartars lacked immunity to it in their genes. There have been many smallpox epidemics in the Shengjing area, killing countless people, and many members of the Houjin clan, such as Yue Tuo and Ma Zhan, have died of smallpox. In order to avoid smallpox, Huang Taiji once ordered the establishment of a shelter, and he and the royal family frequently hid in it. And those who were making fun would also be forcibly sent to a place 100 miles away from Shengjing, which was later changed to 60 miles. Also due to the superstitious belief that the pox area should not be cut down, it was ordered that if someone was found to be "taking wood indiscriminately when the pox occurred", he would immediately ask for beheading. The leadership of the Eight Banners in his region will also be severely punished.

In the original history, Dorgon's brother Duoduo, and even Shunzhi himself, died of smallpox. is Kang Mazi, who was praised as the 'Emperor of the Ages' by N Duo Na, and the reason why he was able to inherit the throne was not because he had survived smallpox at a young age.

In history, in order to deal with smallpox, Kang Mazi also asked people to devote themselves to the study of 'human pox'. Because the climate of Yanjing is relatively mild, in the middle and late Kangxi Dynasty, the Xiaoice River had already passed. Therefore, the capital is often smallpox epidemic, in order to avoid the pox rash for the members of the clan, the Kangxi Emperor ordered the construction of a summer resort. The summer resort is not for the summer.

However, Zheng Zhilong, as a traverser, is no longer ignorant of medicine, so he has also heard the word 'cowpox'.

Compared with the human pox that appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty and was studied and re-studied by Kangxi, cowpox not only cultivated quickly, but also caused less harm. That's why he was able to come up with so much smallpox slurry and scab powder.

As for whether the Tartars on the other side will be infected, it is only the end of May, and the weather is still warm, so what can't be infected?

It's not like he's not idle these days, is he?

Relying on the lack of firepower of the Qing army, the counterweight trebuchet has been working.

Those five are the younger brother, and the younger brother wants to listen to the elder brother, although he thinks that Na Ri Song is wrong to do this, but he can't help but admit that Na Ri Song also has a certain reason. So he had to listen to his brother.

Then, that day, the disease finally raged in the cattle farm.

Zheng Jun obviously has an absolute advantage, but he is weak in the cannonball, not to mention that Risong feels that there is a problem on the other side, even Turg and Yilden also think so.

can make the morale of an army decline, then the biggest possibility is that Zheng Zhilong is sick, or seriously ill.

Turge has suffered a big loss in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and after the original battle, Yierden saw it in his eyes, and the brothers thought about their guesses, and they were so excited that they wanted to shout the blessing of the Buddha.

This time, Zheng Zhilong's sudden floating sea killing came to Niuzhuang, and the news reached Shengjing, but it startled the people. Zheng Zhilong, does he want to entrench himself in Niuzhuang again?

And if Zheng Zhilong really doesn't leave in Niuzhuang, the impact will be not small. The first is the matter of moving the capital, and the second is the entry of the Eight Banners.

Dolgon frequently wrote to move the capital to Yanjing, and at the same time let the families of the Eight Banners enter the customs, but if Niuzhuang is blocked, how can the capital be moved, and how can the families of women and children be moved?

The Zheng family's naval warships may be able to kill Changning Fort and Chang'an Fort, and approach Shengjing City.

Don't look at their brothers hurriedly set up troops and horses in Liaoyang to send reinforcements south, but they didn't have a plan in their hearts.

I never dreamed that Zheng Zhilong would cross without fighting.

Under this general trend, some people in the army suddenly had fever, fatigue, headache, pain in their limbs and lower back, and even persistent high fever, convulsions and coma, which did not cause much concern.

It wasn't until three or five days later that these people developed rashes on their foreheads, cheeks, wrists, arms, torso, and lower limbs, followed by blisters, that the Tartars were stunned to find that the figure of a demon had unconsciously enveloped them.

After the news came out, it was as if a small mushroom was blooming in the camp, and all the morale, military spirit, all the fighting spirit and loyalty were swept away.

Smallpox disease doesn't matter how high or low your status is, it may be that the lowly Baoyi Aha is safe and sound, but the master has fallen. In front of it is the real equality of all things.

"Li Wu. Bring someone forward and take down the cow village for me. Zheng Zhilong held the binoculars and looked at the other side, the guards at the head of the city were all listless, or trembling. Coupled with the commotion that sounded in the Qing military camp, the spirit of the defenders was slashing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

How can Zheng Zhilong give up this great opportunity?

Li Wu's bald soldiers were the first soldiers under Zheng Zhilong's command to be fully vaccinated with cowpox. So much so that there were too many pockmarked faces under his command, and the bald army was called a pockmarked battalion.

Of course, Li Wu didn't think the name of the Mazi Camp was good, but now he was proud of the identity of the 'Mazi Camp'.

Saion lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, and it was really a wise saying.

Look at the current camp heads, except for him Li Wu who dared to lead the troops into Niuzhuang, which one of the others dared?

"Starling......" Ilden looked at Turg with a panicked expression.

The Zheng army outside has already launched an offensive, in this case, how can Niuzhuang defend?

"Let's go." At this time, there is still a chance to go, and when I return to Liaoyang, even if I don't go to Shengjing again, it's better than now, isn't it?

They can get time to straighten their troops, shave the 'wounded', and they can still have the strength to fight.

"Let's go, go immediately...... "Turg is still very decisive, "leave the coats behind, and tell Dazhu that they must hold on for a day, and they will disperse at this time tomorrow." ”

"As long as they can withstand it here for a day, I will guarantee that they can carry the flag in the future."

Not all of them are Han Chinese, or Koreans, and some of the people who have been degraded to coat because of their sins are actually Tartars.