"It's a miracle that has been squeezed out!"

Yang Xin stood on the treasure gate and looked at the Yuhuatai opposite with interest.

It's busy.

Countless strong men who had been driven by the nearby gentry themselves and their slaves were working silently, and from time to time the whips raised by the overseers could be seen, while around them were heavily armed Datong troops, carrying muskets and spears one by one, to ensure that these strong men would not sneak away......

They're building a fortress.

However, to be precise, it is actually a huge triangular parapet, partly using the rain flower platform itself, and partly using rammed earth and wood piled up on the spot, and finally forming a very thick, boomerang-like thing......

Zhang Mingzhen has already figured out a way to break through Nanjing.

Of course, he wouldn't really want to blast the city with those nine-pound heavy artillery.

That thing makes no sense.

On the first day, he was just venting his anger, he angrily fired hundreds of cannonballs at the treasure gate, and the only thing he gained was only to make potholes on the city wall, like pockmarks growing on his face, not even pockmarks, more like freckles than this iron-walled castle.

It certainly doesn't make sense.

He needs heavier cannons, cannons that can really collapse Nanjing City, his nine-pound cannon really can't open Nanjing City, and even eighteen catties are enough to choke.

So he had to reforge the real super-cannon.

10,000 pounds of cannons.

The Battle of Nanking was extremely important.

As long as he can break through the city of Nanjing, Yang Xin will not be able to play in Jiangnan, not only him, but also the Jiangnan gentry and officials who are also aware of this are also doing their best to help him win this battle, so the gentry from all over the country collected the best craftsmen and a large amount of copper, which was continuously transported to him. Just outside the city of Nanjing, twelve super cannons were cast on the Yuhuatai, and the 10,000-jin cannon with a shell weighing 40 catties was actually not only 10,000 catties, but 15,000 catties.

Not only that, but even dammed upstream to divert water from the Qinhuai River.

It's winter now.

The Qinhuai River's water was already dwindling, and they built a dam upstream to dig a channel to divert water from the Qinhuai River into another inlet, so that the remaining shallow water would be frozen into a passable ice cap, completely removing its hindrance to the siege.

After all, the river is also wide.

When the 10,000-jin cannon is cast, you can use those huge cannonballs to blast out the gap, and then the whole army crosses the Qinhuai River and directly presses it to attack, so Zhang Mingzhen will not really launch an attack before the cannon is cast and the Qinhuai River water diversion project is not completed.

It's useless to attack.

He knew too well the city's defenses.

But these cannons need fortresses, which they are building now.

This is more like a fortress of the embankment to protect the cannon casting site behind it, inside are twelve blue brick and cement masonry through the cave, inside the tamped ground laid wooden tracks, the cast cannons through the track little by little pushed into the cave to erect, and then in the city of Nanjing to shoot. The main reason is that these cannons are too heavy to be cast in other places, and then transported here to be transported to Yuhuatai, and they have to be fired by the cannons on the city wall.

Can only be minted in situ.

And the next shelling must also be within the range of the city's artillery.

After all, if this thing wants to chisel the city wall, it must be as close as possible, the 10,000-jin cannon is indeed very exaggerated, but the 10,000-jin cannon is only 40 catties of shells, our 10,000-jin cannon in the Qing Dynasty is actually more than 30 catties of shells, if the distance is far or useless, 40 catties is just two city bricks, the kinetic energy is not enough to chisel the city wall, that is not a layer on the surface and then rammed earth inside, it is a pure solid brick.

If the barrel is shortened and the caliber is increased, it can indeed shoot a hundred pounds of ammunition, but then the firing range will be even shorter.

If you want to increase the range, you can also increase it.

But then you have to continue to increase the barrel length.

In the early nineteenth century, British coastal defense guns of more than 60 pounds could hit more than three kilometers, but weighed up to nine tons.

And it is useless to increase the range at this time.

Because at this time, the shooting technology of the cannon can not support too far, shooting at the city wall on the Yuhuatai, more than two miles is the limit, this distance can ensure accuracy, the power is also okay, it can be said to be balanced. The only problem is that the cannons in the city will definitely be able to reach them, Yang Dudu's mortar can make the regimental training still fresh in the memory, although there are no mortars in the city of Nanjing, but some are craftsmen, Yang Xin will not cast.

The end result was to force out this spectacular siege tactic in Europe.

"Hit them with a shot and tease them!"

Appreciating this spectacular scene, Yang said with satisfaction.

The eighteen-pound cannon beside him that had just been dragged over from the Yang Family Arsenal immediately erupted flames at the fortress being built in the distance.

The shells were there in the blink of an eye, and the dirt was flying.

The people scattered and fled in terror, but the Datong soldiers immediately opened fire and warned them, and they had no choice but to go back to their work in fear under the whip of the overseer. At the same time, on the artillery position of the Datong Army, which was connected by the trench under Yuhuatai, the shells of the counterattack were fired out one after another, hitting the iron-walled castle of Jubaomen in vain......

"Haha!"

Yang Dudu laughed proudly and left.

And the Shanghai wharf at this time.

"Wait for Xuan Gong, please think of saving the people of Nanjing quickly!"

Liu Kongzhao threw himself at the feet of Shang Zhouzuo very exaggeratedly, and frightened the latter so much that he hurriedly fell down as well, as if he was worshipping heaven and earth......

"Uncle Chengyi, you are tormenting the lower officials."

He said in trepidation.

Then Liu Kongzhao came from his heart and couldn't help crying.

"Uncle Sincerity, Shizi, what is going on with you?"

Shang Zhouzuo said blankly.

A group of officials large and small behind him, including Dong Qichang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, all lay there and looked at the two people suspiciously, they didn't know the situation in Nanjing, because the whole city of Nanjing was closed, except for Liu Kongzhao and the others, no one else has escaped so far, and Liu Kongzhao and the two of them boarded the boat directly after leaving the city and went downstream, and they didn't stop anywhere else at all......

There is no need to stay.

The city of Zhenjiang was surrounded by loyal soldiers.

Before the apocalypse, Zhenjiang had been ordered to return to Zhaoyi, although Yang Dudu did not accept the order, but the loyal and brave army received the order, so they surrounded Zhenjiang City and asked to take over Zhenjiang, and the Huwei army was in a confrontation with them, which is also the reason why the Huwei army did not dare to join the Datong army. If you don't join, it's a dispute with the loyal army in the defense area, at most confrontation, and if you join, you're the enemy, after all, the Datong army hasn't been recruited by the holy decree, and although the Nanjing military department is still not allowed to attack, the loyal army is not controlled by the Nanjing military department.

Unless Liu Kongzhao went to Jiangbei, there was no rescue to ask for along the way.

However, all the troops that Jiangbei can collect are on guard in Fengyang, where there are still tens of thousands of Yang family households, and more than 30,000 elites can be pulled out at any time.

The gentry of Jiangbei are all worried!

Liu Kongzhao can ask for help, only Shang Zhouzuo's side, Jiangnan general Yang Zhaoji, Songjiang and Changshu, Taicang and even Tongzhou and other gentry, the new Changsheng army put together again, the original Changsheng army has surrendered to the Datong army in Suzhou. The new Changsheng army is under the command of Shen Youlong, the imperial history who resigned and returned to his hometown, he is a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, and this new Changsheng army has expanded to 10,000 people, although the level is very different from Shen Tingyang's department, but relying on Songjiang's strong industrial strength, the equipment is not inferior at all. Even the officers and troops under Yang Zhaoji's department, with the support of the Songjiang gentry, have been fully redressed, so at present, there are more than 20,000 new troops under Shang Zhouzuo who are quickly armed.

He's got a fleet!

In addition to the water division of the river, there is also the water division of the anti-smuggling team of Shanghai Customs.

It can be said that this was the strongest weapon in the hands of the civilian officials in Jiangnan, but the main purpose was to protect Songjiang and the northern parts of Suzhou, and to prevent the loyal and brave troops from crossing the Yangtze River.

"Wait for Xuan Gong, Yang Reverse will wash Nanjing with blood!"

Chang Yanling screamed sadly.

"Then the traitors slaughtered the city?"

Dong Qichang said in horror.

"It's almost the same, Wei Guogong, Marquis Funing and others were all killed by him, and only the Marquis of Huaiyuan and my Liu family were left in Nanjing, and all the others were killed by him, and the family property was looted, and the worst thing was that the Marquis of Lingbi was even cut into two ends by him, tortured to death, and the dead bodies were carried back with pots."

Liu Kongzhao wiped his tears and said.

"Heartbreaking!"

Shang Zhouzuo slapped the ground and shouted angrily.

Only then did he remember that he was still lying on the ground, so he quickly got up and helped the two of them up, and those behind him scolded the traitors very perfunctorily......

No big deal.

Yang Xin's doing this is a daily operation, and if he doesn't do this, he'll see the hell!

But this is not about this side of the matter, he really slaughtered Nanjing, and it is not about this side of the matter, it is nonsense to send troops to rescue or something, Songjiang and the gentry from all over the country pooled money and armed more than 20,000 troops, that is to protect their own fields, not to protect the noble gentry of Nanjing.

"Sincerity, rest assured, I, the millions of people in Songjiang, will never allow this traitor to poison the people!"

Dong Qichang is talking nonsense.

Other officials and gentry were talking nonsense with the same righteous words.

"Sincerity, please rest assured, the lower officials will play Yang's evil deeds, and make a dew cloth to spread the news to the world, so that the world knows the fact that this thief has killed the princes of Wei, and the governors of the provinces will be told, and the appointments will be played together to ask Your Majesty to send troops to crusade, you must know that there is justice in this world, and the lower officials will not believe it, and the princes of the Ming Dynasty and the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty are no more than a traitor!"

Shang Zhouzuo said.

Then the crowd was heated again.

At this moment, an officer appeared outside the crowd on horseback with an anxious face, and Yang Zhaoji, who was greeted with him, immediately walked over and said a few words, and then pushed away the crowd and walked in front of Shang Zhouzuo with the same anxiety, who looked at him suspiciously......

"Inspector, the Beiyang Naval Division wants to enter the Yangtze River."

Yang Zhaoji said in a low voice.

"Stop!"

Shang Zhouzuo said very simply.

"The river sailor can't stop it, those four battleships are inside."

Yang Zhaoji said in a low voice.

Shang Zhouzuo took a deep breath......

"Please take out the Shang Fang Sword, I want to see if this is still the world of the Ming Dynasty!"

He said.

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