"As the governor of Shandong, this official should protect the people of Shandong, how can he retreat from the battle!"

Gong Jilan categorically refused, although his heart was a little gloomy, but at least his Confucian spirit was still some.

"Your Excellency!"

"It's not for us to say depressing words, as the banner of our army, if there is a mistake, the heart of our army will inevitably collapse, and it will be difficult to have a reason to persevere!"

"And the adults are on the front line, the actual role is not as strong as the adults imagined, now the strategy in the army has been decided, the matter of the battle is left to our soldiers and soldiers, and the adults will also preside over the situation in the rear of Shandong, and we and other front-line soldiers have you behind them as a guarantee, and their hearts are much more steady."

General Bai Guangen also persuaded him from the side, for a general like him, who was once a surrendered general of the peasant rebel army, eating, drinking and enjoying himself would naturally not be inferior, but when it came to serving the court and guarding the country, he did not have much loyalty.

Of course, he is very powerful, first he was reused in the hands of Hong Chengchou, and then Liaodong was defeated and fled to Shandong, and then became the confidant of two governors of Shandong, and his mouth is naturally very beautiful.

“…… This official has made up his mind, you don't need to persuade again, what you need to consider at present should be how to prepare for an attack that the Hongtang army may launch at any time, and what shortcomings our army still has in the city defense. ”

Gong Jilan interrupted the persuasion of these generals, whether true or false, Jinan Mansion is where the governor's yamen and the political secretary's yamen are located, if he Gong Jilan wants to go further, he can't escape from Jinan Mansion like the political secretary.

At least, in Gong Jilan's view, Jinan Mansion is no longer poor, and it should be possible to persist for half a month, and when the time comes, the reinforcements sent by the imperial court will also arrive, and the two sides will converge to deal with the Hongtang army of more than 40,000 outside the city.

When the time comes, with this skill, he will go further to the six departments of the imperial court, and then he will have a few years less time to waste in the place!

The imagination is beautiful, but when the next day from the Hongtang army was attacked with full firepower, Governor Gong Jilan had already begun to regret it!

Even the Jingshi City, which was once the heart of the Ming Dynasty, only lasted for two or three months under the somewhat restrained attack of the Hongtang army.

Now the Hongtang army attacked Jinan Mansion, just the number of artillery used, it was more than ten times that of the original attack on the Beijing Division, and there was no important thing with a long history in Jinan Mansion like the Forbidden Imperial City, and the artillery bombardment launched by the Hongtang Naval Division and the artillery unit of the Hongtang Third Army took only one day to bombard the thick city wall of Jinan City to the ground and crumbling.

The stronghold of the city wall, the stronghold of the heavy garrison on the city wall, the houses and shops in the city close to the city wall, have become the fish in the pond that have been affected, and now there is hardly a figure that can stand and run.

"Ahh

"Help!"

"Help me!"

"Mother! Father! ”

The chief soldier Wang Pu was bold and walked on the ruined city wall with Ai Zhenxiong and other generals, but the scene of life and soul was in the sight, which made people feel uncomfortable and difficult to show a smile.

"If the Hongtang army bombards the northern city like this, the northern wall may not last long!"

Ai Zhenxiong still had some fighting spirit before, and he was considered the deputy general of the city with relatively high morale, but with the non-stop shelling for a few hours today, Hongtang's army had not even launched an attack on the city, and his previous fighting spirit had been exhausted.

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His face was full of sadness.

"The Imperial Ordnance Department is a group of wine bags and rice bags, and our army's artillery is completely different from the other side! Why are they just a civilian armed force, but they are sharper than the weapons of our Ming military! ”

Ai Zhenxiong was still dissatisfied, and squeezed out the bureaucrats of the Ordnance Department in Nanjing regardless of the occasion.

"Does it make sense to say that now?"

Wang Pu's general army is also in a heavy mood, although he has survived the siege of the Hongtang army today, but the siege of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, how should their Ming Dynasty army defend it!

You must know that Hong Tang has not even used their soldiers to launch a strong attack, just using the artillery in their hands, not to mention the heavy losses of the soldiers stationed in Beicheng, and also turned the entire Beicheng city wall into ruins.

"Rather than saying these discouraged words, it is better to prepare for the next street fighting, so that our brothers can familiarize themselves with the terrain as much as possible in the various urban districts and establish hidden affairs."

The Ming Dynasty army was not stupid, and the northern army fought with the Hongtang army again and again, so that they also had some tactics against the Hongtang army to attack the city.

Artillery gradually became a siege weapon, which made the powerful means that the Chinese civilization relied on to resist foreign invasions for countless years finally became a problem in front of the Hongtang army, and they no longer had the huge investment they had in relation to it.

Therefore, when many soldiers in Jinan Mansion were sharp about Hongtang's artillery fire, they initially only stayed on paper information, but now after really seeing it, compared with their colleagues who failed in the past, they also have other coping tactics.

Street fighting became a means for the Jinan garrison of the Ming Dynasty to delay time.

After all, at this time, on the north city, because of the dim vision at night, the Hongtang artillery fire temporarily stopped, and no team even dared to brave the rain of bullets to garrison it during the day, so it can be said that the Ming Dynasty army has given up the defense of the north city wall.

On the fourth day of the siege, hundreds of artillery pieces of the Hongtang army barely stopped bombing, and finally the city wall of the north city of Jinan completely collapsed.

At the moment when the city wall of Beicheng completely collapsed, the first and second divisions of the Hongtang Third Army, which had already been ready to go, almost all of them went out and drove straight into the ruins of the Beicheng with the empty gate wide open.

"Array!!"

"Musketeers prepare!"

"Shieldman step forward!"

"Forward!"

With the experience of street warfare in Beijing, the Hongtang army had a new understanding of the urban warfare they had learned and practiced, and the unreasonable tactics that they had once thought were corrected in the actual battlefield.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang! ”

"Boom!"

"Disarm or kill!"

"Listen, the people of the city, raise their hands and walk out of your room, obey the arrangements of our soldiers, and if they resist, they will be killed!"

As they advanced, the warriors watched for cold arrows from the shadows, and aimed their muskets at any object they deemed threatening.

At the same time, they did not forget to point out a clear path to the local people who had been frightened and did not know where to go, and concentrated them for their next sweeping mission.