Boom, boom, booming cannons did not stop, and the walls in the northwest corner collapsed during the day and were rebuilt at night.

Since Wang Yan recaptured Yangzhou on the 25th, the Qing army's offensive has not stopped, and the Ming army and the Qing army have repeatedly tug-of-war on the city, especially the collapse of the northwest corner, which has almost become a sea of corpses and blood.

Duoduo knew that it would be difficult for the Han army to break through Yangzhou by relying only on Chengcheng, but he couldn't give the Ming army in the city time to breathe, and Zhen Manchu couldn't fight this kind of war of attrition with heavy casualties, so he could only urge the Han army's green battalion to attack the city every day.

The green battalion soldiers were not firm-willed, and Duoduo could not press too hard, although they attacked for several days and left nearly 10,000 corpses, they were never able to attack Yangzhou, and their morale began to slack off day by day.

The defenders in Yangzhou City are different, they have gradually cooperated from the initial rush to deal with it, but they have been tempered in the battles for several days, from the village brave people to an army, and the defense has become more and more proficient, making it difficult for the green battalion Qing soldiers to climb the city wall.

After paying the price of blood, in the attack of the Qing soldiers, Wang Yan finally completed the reorganization of the officials and troops in Yangzhou City.

When the Qing army broke the city on the 25th, some of the high-ranking officials of the imperial court in Yangzhou were killed, some were captured, and some fled from Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is the command post of Jiangbei's defense, and there are many court officials, but after this catastrophe, there are few military attaches and civil officials left.

Shi Kefa died unyieldingly, the general soldier Liu Zhaoji and his generals also died in the united front, and there were not a few civilian officials who committed suicide and threw themselves into the well.

Now the highest-ranking court official in the city has become Wang Yan, the third-grade general who entered the city to rescue. In terms of civil officials, there are not even three or four rank officials left, and the highest rank is only He Gang, Lang Zhong, Yang Zhou Tongzhiqu Congzhi and Wang Zhangjue, three officials of the fifth grade.

Since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts, but in the troubled times, the status of military generals has been improved, and Wang Yan has the merit of raising people's fame, and there is the merit of regaining Yangzhou, and the civil and military forces in Yangzhou City are naturally only his horse.

After a catastrophe, there were nearly 750,000 people in Yangzhou, most of whom were people who hid in the city from outside the city when the Qing army went south.

Among the 750,000 people, there were nearly 100,000 young and strong, and Wang Yan selected 35,000 warriors from among them, and after adding 5,000 officers and soldiers, they were reorganized into 40,000 Yangzhou defenders, and the remaining young and strong were used as reserves to assist in the defense.

At this time, although Wang Yan was a general, he had more soldiers and horses in his hands than the general army, which was comparable to a feudal town.

Now Wang Yan has one less name, and his status is already comparable to the existence of a town minister, but his status is only counted in this Yangzhou city, and he is still a general when he leaves Yangzhou.

40,000 soldiers and horses, Wang Yan was divided into five armies, each army of 8,000 people, Li Taizhen, He Gang, Qu Congzhi, Wang Zhangjue each led an army, divided into four gates, Wang Yan led another army in the center, ready to respond.

In order to control this large army, almost all of the 1,000 cavalry that Wang Yan brought into the city were promoted, but even so, there was still a shortage of officers.

Some of the beings in the city, capable villagers and brave people were also promoted.

For example, Dai Zhifan, Zhang Youde, Gao Xiaozhang, Wang Shixiu, Wang Ji, Wang Xu and others were all entrusted with important tasks, and Hu Weizong, who was strong in martial arts, was even directly promoted to Wang Yan's side to lead thousands of people.

These people, at least ten or a hundred people, or a thousand, are all arranged by Wang Yan, and the imperial court will not recognize them at present.

In order to justify the name, Wang Yan asked people to compile a roster and write a report at the same time, asking the court for the power of Yangzhou, and he believed that at such a moment, the court would definitely meet his request.

In terms of government affairs, 750,000 soldiers and civilians were trapped in Yangzhou City, and grain and grass were consumed, and money and equipment were astronomical every day, and it was extremely complicated to deal with.

It turned out that Shi Kefa's staff, the third class of the Yangzhou Mansion, the master, etc., were all dead or scattered, and no one took care of the government affairs, which made the city quite chaotic.

In just a few days, Wang Yan went from being in charge of a battalion commander of several thousand people to now being the commander of Yangzhou, who is responsible for the death of 750,000 soldiers, and the affairs and pressure have not only increased by a hundredfold, but he alone cannot complete Yangzhou's military and political affairs, so he can only put the burden down and hand it over to other officials.

It's not that Wang Yan didn't think about recruiting staff, but now he has no name and hasn't met the right person, so he can only rely on Jiangdu County to inherit Wang Zhiduan, Jiang Sicheng and others to manage Yangzhou's government affairs.

The army was reorganized, the squeezed government affairs were handled, and the people in the city were resettled, allowing Yangzhou to begin to restore order, which greatly enhanced Wang Yan's confidence in guarding Yangzhou.

When Wang Yan reorganized the city defense of Yangzhou, Duoduo was also reflecting, the Qing court entered the customs not long ago, the foundation was not stable, especially after Dolgon implemented the three laws of enclosure, surrender and escape in the pass, there was already a sign of instability in the north.

The population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is only a few hundred thousand, if you want to conquer the Ming Dynasty, you have to fight quickly, with the momentum of thunder, defeat the Ming Dynasty, if you fall into a long war, casually consume tens of thousands of real Manchuria, they can not afford it, and even have to retreat to the outside of the pass.

Duoduo led the Qing army to invade the south, and naturally understood the reason, he had been attacking the city for several days, but he could not break the city again, but there was a lasting danger, if it was a long time, it was difficult for him to guarantee that there would be no accidents.

The attack for several days has not been effective, but it has made the Yangzhou Ming army more and more cohesive, and the green battalion is not doing its best, which makes Duoduo worried at the same time, and his heart is also full of anger.

In order to change the situation, Duoduo first forced many Han generals to hand over the roster of the battalion, and then sent them to Beijing to reform the world military system for the Han army outside Yangzhou.

The world military system originated in the Spring and Autumn Qi State, but now it has become a sharp weapon for the Manchu Qing to control the green camp Han army, once the reorganization is completed, the soldiers and their families are all in the army, the father dies and the son succeeds, the brother dies and the brother dies, and the generations serve the Manchu Dynasty.

After being naturalized, the soldiers were separated from the people, and it was not allowed to change to civilian nationality, and the families of the soldiers lived in a centralized manner, managed them in a centralized manner, and became hostages of the Manchu Dynasty.

After sending the roster away, Duoduo couldn't help but sneer, as long as the adaptation was completed and the family members of the Green Battalion Han Army were in his hands, he would not be afraid of the Green Battalion and would not fight to the death!

Of course, in Duoduo's heart, the Han people are never worthy of his trust, nor are they worthy of his reliance, only the real Manchuria, only the banner people, can make him feel at ease.

Before, the real Manchurian Zhengbai Banner and the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner suffered a lot of losses, making the bannermen outside the city less than 10,000, which made him feel uneasy, so after forcing the Han generals to hand over the roster, he immediately wrote a report and asked Dolgon to quickly send Shandong troops to help in the war.

Although Wang Yan temporarily held Yangzhou, a more ferocious attack was brewing, and Yangzhou was bound to usher in a tragic Armageddon.