With the formulation of the strategy, the Zhao Fox Corps was strengthened, and according to the intelligence, there were few people left in the city, and they had basically lost their morale, the soldiers took the people as food, and the people were easy to eat, and after a year of siege, the people in the city had dropped from more than one million to more than 300,000.

The young and strong died in battle, the women committed suicide, the old people were eaten meat, the people left behind were not as alive as the ghosts in the mountains, the beggars on the streets, and the soldiers on the street also wore tattered clothes, armed with swords, guns, swords, halberds, and walked weakly, and all the strong and capable of fighting were sent to the city wall to defend the Huaxia army.

This is a pure Han city, but for the Manchu Dynasty loyalty, fought until the last moment.

Even Yu Chenglong and Chen Yanjing's clothes have not been changed, the cloth in the city has been used to make military uniforms, keep out the cold, or used to wrap the body, they can't wait for the Manchu counterattack, can't wait for reinforcements, starting from the outer defense line, there are nearly a million young people around Yanjing who are coerced into the city to guard their Great Qing Kingdom Kyoto.

Kangxi's Imperial Forest Army and Manchurian cavalry, Mongolian cavalry have all retreated to the outside of the pass, and the Qing soldiers are guarding the Shanhaiguan Pass, and they have also become a pile of corpses, which is not to say that the Huaxia Army does not have the strength to take the Shanhaiguan, but they have to consume millions of Japanese people and Southeast Asian people, and all the attacks are carried out around cannon fodder to cannon fodder.

In fact, the soldiers and horses of the Han Eight Banners, the Eight Banners of the Meng, and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty who stayed in the city for nearly a year were not much damaged, and the main forces had retreated to the outside of the pass, leaving behind some of the Qing Dynasty not to be seen, and the Kingdom of China would not forgive them, and they were particularly rare and loyal to the Qing Dynasty's soldiers and horses, these soldiers and horses were young and strong with the Han people, and those Manchus who were unwilling to go should deal with the desperate charge of the Japanese people and the people of Southeast Asia, and they also fought the Japanese servant army and the Southeast Asian servant army.

Because of the strong city, the Huaxia army adopts the most consuming ant-attached siege mode, so it has not yet taken Yanjing, both sides, referring to the Qing Dynasty, the Great Qing Kingdom and the Huaxia Kingdom both want to consume the enemy's living force, but on the contrary, the Huaxia Kingdom consumes its own, and the Great Qing Kingdom hopes to consume the regular army of the Huaxia Kingdom, the Huaxia Army, the field army, and the soldiers.

Now the Chinese Kingdom does not even have the Japanese people who are attached to it, and the people of Southeast Asia are gone, and the Han people who have been attached to the Qing Kingdom are there, but there are not many, and the Chinese Kingdom is as pure as a sixteen-year-old girl.

Basically met Zhang Qiang's requirements, pure Han people.

Now there is a single strong ethnic group, the Huaxia people.

Yu Cheng Chan Hao Chen Yanjing stood on the destroyed city wall, and saw the servants and civilians who had suffered heavy losses before, as well as the soldiers and horses began to slowly retreat, and what appeared in their field of vision was the elite Chinese army infantry, as well as artillery and cavalry.

Yu Chenglong raised his head with tears in his eyes and sighed, "Why bother, why bother, why is it too anxious to fry each other from the same root, is it possible that a huge China can't accommodate a Manchu nation?" Pity me Daqing, this battle, there is no turning back, the emperor, the micro-ministers have a heavy trust, and they have no ability to hold the Beijing division, and they are ashamed of the ancestors and the emperor——。 ”

Chen Yanjing is also very uncomfortable, how old is he, but he has to face such a desperate moment.

"Lord Chen, the lower officials will take the first step and bless me in the underground." Yu Chengchan raised his head in despair and shouted.

"Lord Yu, don't ——," Chen Yanjing knew what Yu Chengchan wanted to do, it was too late, Yu Chengchan jumped and jumped off the thirty-meter-high city wall, this is the main gate, the bluestone paved road below, Chen Yanjing only grabbed the corner of Yu Chengchan's tattered official robe, stabbed, sound, Yu Chengchan still went down.

Zhao Hu looked at it from afar, and in a year's time, even in the telescope, it was enough to know Chen Yanjing and Yu Chenglong, the two Manchu officials who defended the city.

Seeing Yu Chenglong jumping down, falling into a meatloaf, putting down the binoculars, and spitting, "Stubborn, who to show if you die, see if you can leave your name in history in the future, or leave a stink for 10,000 years, His Majesty the King said, the history books are written by the victors, don't want to change the loyalty, when the Qing Dynasty is destroyed, you are a stubborn reactionary, and you should be left behind for 10,000 years." ”

He waved his hand to the back, "Herald, order the artillery to open fire and burn Yanjing." ”

The herald did not hesitate to convey Zhao Hu's order, for this more arrogant and conceited commander, he was fed up, he didn't expect this commander from the military intelligence department to have such a character, unlike other commanders, the other commanders are all kind and pleasant, only when they are on official business, sometimes angry, irritable like thunder, and even beat soldiers, but under normal circumstances, they are still very good.

But this chief is simply scathing, arrogant and conceited to the extreme, and very stingy, last time he secretly used some of his shoe polish, this guy crossed his nose and raised his eyes, scolded him for three days and three nights, and deducted his allowance, this chief always dressed himself like a glamorous one, changed a clean military uniform every day, and didn't know what his background was, so similar to the style of the previous Ming officials and Qing nobles.

For such a commander, he was routine, never said even half a word to such a commander, did not ask questions, and after carrying out his instructions, immediately stood behind him like a wooden carving, or followed him on horseback, never had the slightest emotion towards him, and the whole herald cavalry behaved like this.

Zhao Hu didn't care about their attitude, anyway, he didn't rely on them for anything, as long as they could carry out their orders in a businesslike manner, he was the highest commander of the First Army.

The fierce artillery fire projected the latest incendiary bombs developed by the Huaxia Army onto the wall of Yanjing City, in the city, in every place, in order to play the greatest role, Zhao Hu used all the artillery regiments directly under the division of the field division, as well as the artillery brigade directly under the corps, all the cannons that can project the lowest distance of one thousand meters, and the latest siege field artillery from nine-pounder guns to twenty pounds.

Standing five miles away, he felt the scorching air, all the liquid in his throat was dry and unpleasantly burning in a quarter of an hour, and the nine-pounder gun company in front had begun to retreat, as if it had lost the battle, dragging the nine-pounder cannon in embarrassment, grabbing a somewhat crazy pack horse, and quickly fled back, and was still running back.

There is no way, Yanjing has a radius of twenty miles, a length of twenty-one miles, and a width of eighteen miles, such a city, a city with countless wooden buildings, wants to burn, even if it is just burned, it will make people feel hot five miles away.

The air flow caused by the hot wind made them faintly hear the hysterical screams and cries from the wind, as if they smelled the smell of barbecue meat in their noses, and all kinds of birds flying over Yanjing City flew frantically towards the outside like the end of the world, and were swept down by the towering tongues of fire and black smoke from time to time.

All the artillery regiments retreated in a hurry without completing the prescribed base, until they retreated twenty miles away, and then they all silently watched the spectacular scene they had created, and everyone struggled in their hearts.

And Zhao Hu had already gotten into the tent on the mountain thirty miles away, and observed Yanjing with a telescope through the gap in the tent.

Finally, he put down his binoculars and sighed, "It's a pity, there are a lot of good things in there, this time I'm afraid that the gold and copper have melted, and all kinds of cultural relics accumulated for thousands of years are buried in it, my majesty, you are too thorough." ”

(End of chapter)