The sun is shining brightly, shining on the whole land.

The breeze came slowly, and the wheat field rolled up layers of waves.

A huge team walked on the official road, stretching for miles before and after, and the number of people was as many as tens of thousands.

The front and back of the team are green battalion soldiers with weapons in hand, and in the middle are nearly 10,000 people who have been arrested, helping the old and the young, pushing carts to carry the burden, there are men and women, old and young, crying one after another, accompanied by the roars and beatings of the green battalion soldiers.

In order to get enough siege cannon fodder, Duoduo ordered that as long as the people were active, regardless of men, women, old and weak, they would all be arrested under the city of Yangzhou, and they were no longer limited to the theory of strong men.

At the beginning, Fan Tianyu, a military Chinese official, suggested to Duoduo that Daming would soon be destroyed, and that this people would be the people of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and suggested that Duoduo treat the people well, and it was best to send Ding Zhuang to participate in the siege of the city, and let go of the useless women, children, old and weak.

After all, in the future, it will depend on the people to pay taxes and money for the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Duoduo thought that it made sense, so he followed Fan Tianyu's advice.

Who knew that a few days had passed, and under the interference of the cavalry of the Pingnan Army, there were less than 10,000 strong men collected, and in three days, not a single ditch to divert water was dug well, let alone filled the moat.

Compassion does not raise soldiers, where is there so much kindness of women!

Duoduo, who has participated in previous entry and robbery, naturally does not care about the lives of ordinary people, let alone lowly Ming people. Over the years, Duoduo has personally killed hundreds of Ming people, including Ming generals and soldiers, as well as women, children and children.....

Duoduo ordered the Green Battalion to get enough people as soon as possible, no longer limited to the strong men, which caused the people west of the canal to suffer. Everywhere the Green Battalion went, the village was looted, and everyone was taken to Yangzhou to be cannon fodder.

Liu Zhong and his men walked only 30 miles to the southwest, and in half a day, they looted more than 10 villages and captured 6,000 or 7,000 people.

Liu Zhong personally commanded the attack, suppressed the Zhuang Ding on the wall with bows and arrows, blasted open the gate with the artillery he carried, and then killed the rebels, and the green battalion soldiers rushed in and began to do whatever they wanted.

The villages that did not resist were treated much better, and there were basically no massacres or adultery, and of course all the people in the villages would still be plundered, and food and property would be looted.

Now, the green battalion soldiers, who have caught enough of the people and grabbed enough food and property, have returned to Yangzhou under the leadership of Liu Zhong.

When the team was less than thirty miles away from Yangzhou City, suddenly the scout horses sent out in front galloped back like a fly.

"General, the Ming army is coming!"

Hearing the report, the Green Battalion soldiers immediately rioted.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, quickly line up to defend against the enemy!"

Liu Zhong shouted sharply, with his order, under the urging of officers at all levels, the green battalion soldiers gradually stabilized, lifted off the rejection horse from the car, and placed it in the direction of the arrival of the Ming cavalry.

The road and the side of the road are no more than a few feet wide, on the left side of the road is an endless wheat field, on the right side is the gentle slope of the undulating hills, and on the hills are dense woods, as long as the road is cut off with horses, no matter how powerful the enemy's cavalry is, it will not be able to exert itself, and it must be dismounted and battled. This is also the reason why Liu Zhong is not flustered.

However, he still gave the order and ordered several of his cavalry to run out along the road they came from to move the rescuers. Duoduo sent more than ten green battalion soldiers, with no less than 30,000 people, as long as there was any reinforcement along the way, this Ming cavalry could be left behind under the front and rear attacks. It would be best if you could find the 3,000 Mongol cavalry that Belenikan had led.

All the people were ordered to sit on the ground, and hundreds of green battalion soldiers with sharp blades were watching on either side, daring to run around and kill them.

In the distance, a large cloud of smoke and dust had appeared, and the distance of the Ming cavalry was less than five miles.

Looking at the array of green battalion soldiers that appeared in the distance, Yu Feng raised his left hand and swung it back, and then the herald behind him blew the whistle, and the sharp whistle sounded, and the cavalry behind him slowed down their horses one after another, and stopped at a stone's throw away from the green battalion soldiers.

Since the sneak attack was successful a few times, the Green Battalion soldiers have learned to be obedient, and they can't help but have a lot more people, and the accompanying army actually took the repulsion horses, and they were able to set up a defense in a short time. Several times Yu Feng, who tried to sneak attack, returned in vain.

In this kind of terrain that is not conducive to cavalry impact, there is no way to use cavalry to attack the opponent's horse and horse array.

If the sneak attack fails, there is only a strong attack, but the number of the opponent is several times that of your own, and if you dismount and attack, you may not be able to fight.

However, looking at the other party's strict formation, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yu Feng's mouth.

At the sound of an order, all the cavalry jumped off their horses at a distance of 120 feet from the Green Battalion, and then unloaded ten cannons from their horses.

They are all thirty-six-pound tiger squat cannons, and one war horse can easily carry two.

The tiger squat cannon was placed on the ground, the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the front, and the gunner commanded Chen Goudan to squint one eye and look at the position of the green battalion for a moment, and nodded heavily. At this distance, the angle at which the Tiger Squat Cannon was placed was just enough to spray the barrage onto the Green Battalion position. This is the experience of hundreds of test launches.

Twenty soldiers rushed over, and two of them waited for a cannon, raised a wooden hammer and drove the iron nail into the front paws of the tiger squat cannon, so that the tiger squat cannon firmly grasped the ground, this is to stabilize the cannon body.

Then a gunner untied the bag, poured the gunpowder weighed in advance into the muzzle, tamped it with a wooden stick of suitable thickness, and then picked up another bag and poured hundreds of small projectiles into the muzzle.

The whole process was like a cloud of water, from removing the artillery to loading the projectile, it took more than 20 breaths at most. It can be seen how rigorous the gunners have been trained in advance in order to train the speed of firing the artillery.

Green battalion array, Liu Zhong looked blankly at the busy work of the Ming cavalry, is this going to be shelled? The cavalry even carried artillery!

What to do? Faced with this situation, Liu Zhong couldn't think of a way for a while. Attack first with a bow and arrow? The distance between the other party was a hundred feet, and it had already exceeded the range of the bow and arrow.

Ordering the army to attack at once? Then you have to move away from the horse, and then run a distance of 100 zhang before you can engage the opponent, which is enough time for the opponent to fire.

Back off? The road behind was crowded with thousands of captured people, desperately blocking the way to retreat, unless the road went down into the wheat field or ran to the hillside bushes on the other side, but it also took effort to climb from the bottom to the top, and once the retreat, the robbed grain and captured the people were all left to the Ming army, and how to explain to the prince of Yu Duoduo.

Just when Liu Zhong hesitated, the gunners of the Ming army on the opposite side had already lit the fuse of the tiger squat cannon, and after a few breaths, with a series of loud noises, countless projectiles were like dense wasps, splitting their heads and covering their faces towards the green battalion array.