The names of the four or five thousand refugees clearly went straight to the river, and the Qing army followed these people from a distance...... What Yang Hongzhang and Xiang Siwen didn't expect was that after these refugees were clearly rejected, Wang Lenian did not lead everyone to turn back or turn to other places, but led the refugees to directly attack the city gate of Hejian. At this time, the Qing army had come to the north gate of the river less than a mile. Obviously, perhaps knowing that he could not continue to hide his whereabouts, he simply showed up. And the next action is what Xiang Siwen and Yang Hongzhang don't want to see. That is, these refugees were actually driven by the Qing army and rushed into the cement pier array. This is a mine array planted overnight by Yang Hongzhang in order to deal with the Qing army on the right side of the south gate.

"Get out of the way, there's a mine!"

"Block dodge, there are mines!"

First Yang Hongzhang shouted alone, then more than a dozen people, and more than 100 people shouted in unison. But the effect was almost nothing, and the panicked refugees desperately crowded towards the city gates. And what awaits them is the explosion of countless mines! The first batch of refugees who entered the cement pier formation instantly turned into a mass of flesh and blood. Seeing Yang Hongzhang and Xiang Siwen's eyes, they immediately turned red. Those refugees also seemed to have discovered the problem, and when they wanted to flee in all directions, they found that the Qing army behind them had already bent their bows and arrows, and as soon as anyone turned around, they would be shot immediately! Six thousand Qing cavalry surrounded four or five thousand refugees and drove them forward, forward! Yang Hongzhang simply closed his eyes, he knew that the refugees outside the city had no choice, and it was too late for him to clear the mines at this time. Obviously, this Qing army commander has seen the Battle of Gaoyang. And these refugees came to Hejian in such an orderly manner, and Wang Lenian, the county magistrate, contributed a lot. Maybe it's to use the granary of the imperial court in Hejian City as a temptation.

After paying for the lives of five or six hundred refugees, the mines within 100 steps of the north gate were basically cleared. But the group of refugees did not stop, because they had already begun to dig up the soil along the concrete piers, digging out the concrete piers one by one, and loading the soil and transporting it to the moat. These people are skillful, and Xiang Siwen and Yang Hongzhang were dumbfounded! Apparently these people were selected and had similar work experience when they were in Gaoyang! In less than half an hour, all the cement piers in the first row were dug out!

"Musket ready!" Facing this soft knife, Yang Hongzhang closed his eyes and shouted.

"General Yang, no! Outside, it's all the people of the Ming Dynasty. Hundreds of innocent people have been injured by mine arrays. If you attack with muskets again, then what are you and I doing differently from Jiannu? Xiang Siwen hurriedly stopped.

"Lord Xiang, if you don't disperse the refugees outside the city in time, wait until they dig up all the cement piers, then fill in the moat, and then take the ladder to the city tower, how will the thousands of temporarily recruited people in the city deal with it at that time. How did the tens of thousands of Jiannu soldiers outside the city respond? Yang Hongzhang stared at Xiang Siwen with blood-red eyes.

"But, but after all, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Not since they would rather be killed by landmines than help the Jiannu people clear mines

！ I have long said that Wang Lenian has defected to the enemy, and it is not known how many of his cronies are among the refugees. Demining is a dead end, and there may be a way to survive when they run for their lives, but they would rather choose to help Jiannu, do these people still deserve sympathy? If they are allowed to enter the city, how innocent are the people in the city, and how many cavalry can be built that can be fought well if the countless materials fall into the hands of Jiannu? ”

"This ......" Xiang Siwen had nothing to say, and while the two were arguing, many cement piers in the second row were dug out. The moat was filled with a lot of dirt. Xiang Siwen shook his head and closed his eyes. He knew that if he continued to persuade Yang Hongzhang, the situation might really get out of control.

Seeing this, Yang Hongzhang waved his right hand fiercely!

Bang bang, bang bang, two hundred flintlock guns opened fire at the same time, and suddenly there was a terrible howl outside the city. The refugees, who were desperately digging, finally realized the danger, stopped what they were doing, looked blankly at the defenders on the city wall, and then turned their heads to look at the Qing army behind them.

"Run in both directions, run out! There are mines in the concrete piers! Seeing the refugees outside the city looking dazed and helpless after the first round of flintlock attacks, Yang Hongzhang shouted hysterically again. Immediately afterwards, the people around him also shouted. Finally a hundred people spoke in unison, and some of the clever refugees began to whisper, and then scattered! The Qing soldiers outside the city naturally did not relent, and saw them slashing frantically behind the refugees. Those who can't catch up will bend their bows and arrows. After a commotion, thousands more bodies fell outside the north gate of the river. Fortunately, with the double deterrence of mines and artillery, most of the people ran desperately, some were chased by cavalry, but many more escaped. As for whether those people could escape the pursuit of the Qing soldiers after leaving the river, Yang Hongzhang could not do anything.

In fact, Suppilon did not relentless at all, in the face of the unarmed Gaoyang refugees, he let his subordinates kill as much as they wanted, especially the remnants of the previous commanders of Haoge and Aobai, who had suffered a lot in Gaoyang, and now they have the spirit to hunt down and kill Gaoyang refugees. About two hours later, Suppilon again led his army to the north gate of the river. According to Yang Hongzhang's observations on the city walls and the information sent back from the hot air balloon, at least a third of the four or five thousand refugees from Gaoyang died outside the north gate of Hejian, and most of them were shot. A small number of them became prisoners of the Qing army again, but perhaps the Qing army tried to control the city of Hejian Prefecture, so many more people desperately escaped.

In this process, Wang Lenian, who had been sending people to negotiate with Hejian, did not appear, so Xiang Siwen and Yang Hongzhang felt even more worried, because Gao Yang was far more than these people, you must know that there were at least 2,500 people who were armed when Yang Hongzhang was there! If more people in Gaoyang were coerced and used by Wang Lenian, it would be a disaster for Hejian City and the people of Gaoyang.

and whether the thousands of Gaoyang people became prisoners of the Qing army, or fled to other places, perhaps Wang Lenian, the magistrate who stuck to Gaoyang, had the most right to speak.

After this burst of destruction by the Gaoyang refugees, at least the first row of the cement pier formation completely lost its effect, and the cavalry of the Qing army brigade could at least get close to the city wall five or six steps without obstacles, and the moat was also filled in a lot, and what made Yang Hongzhang feel distressed the most was those mines. Now the situation is at least 12,000 Qing troops at the south gate and at least 5,000 Qing troops at the north gate. If the north and south attack the city together, and there is no blockage from the mine array, Yang Hongzhang does not feel that he can hold on for a day.

So in a hurry, Yang Hongzhang could only fight psychological warfare, he asked people to prepare a clean white cloth, and then asked someone to bring pen and ink, and hurriedly wrote a row of big characters in the puzzled eyes of everyone. Then I found a big wooden pole and hung it.

Although he could understand Chinese, he did not know Chinese characters, and at first he thought that the Ming army in Hejian City had surrendered with a white flag. As a result, when he saw that there were words on the flag, he hurriedly asked the Han people to translate and read them out one by one: "To all the soldiers, Prince Daqingsu Aixin Jueluo Haoge, Belle Yuetuo was captured by our army and is being held in the city." If you want to welcome back Haoge and Yuetuo, you must immediately withdraw from the Guanwai, otherwise the Qing army will attack the city when Haoge's head hits the ground! ”

It's this move again, and Ji Bilong threw a bite at Hejian City viciously, but he didn't expect Yang Hongzhang to turn over and over is this move. But he was proud of what he had done. Haoge and Ao Bai led 3,000 elites to besiege Gaoyang for three days, but they lost their troops and lost their generals, and they even got in. He asked Prince Rui Dolgon to ask for 3,000 elites, integrated the remnants of Haoge, and besieged Gaoyang for only two days, not only forced the defenders of Gaoyang to surrender, but also carried four or five thousand refugees to storm the river, not to mention the mines, and let the Ming people kill each other, which greatly damaged the morale of the defenders and exposed the firepower of the Ming army. According to Suppilon's idea, he must capture the river before Duoduo, regardless of whether or not Hauge and Yueto can be rescued. But as soon as Yang Hongzhang did this, the soldiers of the two yellow flags naturally stopped doing it. Hauge is the Great Prince. It's much more important than some food.

However, Suppilon quickly carried out the bomb suppression, and decided to take advantage of the Ming people's popularity to be hit and immediately organize a siege battle. He learned of the role of these cement piers from Hauge's scattered cavalry, so he immediately chose to dismount and fight on foot. But what awaits Suppilon is a salvo of six hundred flintlock pistols! Six hundred flintlock muskets were gathered at a distance of less than three hundred paces from the east and west of the north city gate between the rivers! This was something that Suppilon did not expect, and he received the news that it was about two hundred flintlock pistols. The point is that the Ming army had less than 200 people who were proficient in the use of muskets, and these people lost nearly a third of them in the attack on Hejian Fucheng. Now that so many guns had suddenly been added, Suppilon didn't believe the information he had gotten.

However, compared to the loss of the flintlock salvo, a corpse hanging from the gate of the river city shocked Suppilon even more. It didn't take long for someone to recognize that it was Groha! Yueto's general Groha! I don't know how long Groha has been dead at a distance, but the Ming army is really ruthless, and it only encountered the first wave of attacks, and it seems that the Ming army should have taken advantage. But Yang Hongzhang still decisively hung Groha's body. Suppilon's heart was shocked, how could this Ming man look so fierce. And the Zhenghuang Banner led by Haoge before stopped doing it, and they all asked Curb Bilong to stop the army, and first find a way to rescue Prince Su.

Of course, Yang Hongzhang is a strong outsider, but there is no way, if he doesn't make some strange moves to face the Qing cavalry several times the defenders, Hejian Mansion will be captured overnight.

Now in Hejian City, in addition to the hundreds of people who came out of Gaoyang, plus the Minzhuang recruited in Cangzhou, plus the defenders who fled in Hejian Mansion before, plus the Minzhuang recruited by Xiang Siwen in the past two days, the total number of people is only 4,000. There are only 15,600 people who are really capable of fighting. What Yang Hongzhang was most worried about was that the Qing army camp more than ten miles away from the south gate got the news and immediately began to attack the city.