An important quality of a good commander is patience, and ancient wars often take a long time, and it often takes months or even years for a battle to be decided by attacking and defending a city.

Like the Songjin War not long ago, it also took three years for the Qing Dynasty to achieve the final victory, annihilating more than 100,000 Ming troops, Qiu Minyang, Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao and other Ming generals were killed, Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou and others surrendered to the Qing.

After the Battle of Songjin, the Ming Dynasty lost more than 100,000 of the most elite border troops, and since then it can only be slaughtered.

As a famous general in the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo naturally has good military qualities, and there is no lack of patience and perseverance.

Now the last elite Pingnan army of the Southern Ming Dynasty is besieged in the city of Yangzhou, as long as the Pingnan army is destroyed, the Southern Ming will no longer be able to resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty, and Duoduo knows this very well.

Only by killing all the resisting Ming troops, slaughtering Yangzhou City, and showing the officials and people of other cities in the Southern Ming Dynasty can we kill chickens and monkeys and completely destroy the fighting spirit of the Ming people.

Duoduo couldn't sit still in the tent of the Chinese army, so he personally came out to patrol the camp.

First of all, I looked at the artillery position, and more than 20 red-coated cannons were firing in turn, and the entire position was filled with gunsmoke and deafening. At this rate, it may not be long before the walls of Yangzhou can be collapsed, and that is the day of Yangzhou's fall.

For hand-to-hand combat, Duoduo has absolute confidence in the elite of the Eight Banners under his command, and no matter how strong the Ming army is, it is no match for the elite Eight Banners warriors.

Commanding the artillery battle is Huaishun King Geng Zhongming, and the Ming army for twenty or thirty years, the Qing army has suffered enough from the Ming army's firearms, since the beginning of the first emperor Taiji, the Qing army attaches great importance to firearms, Kong Youde Geng Zhongming and other Sanshun kings surrendered, brought a large number of soldiers and craftsmen who can use firearms, thus making the Qing army's firearms on a big step.

The previous victories against the Ming army were the capture of countless guns and artillery on the battlefield. Now in terms of the utilization rate of firearms, the Qing army is far above the Ming army. The armament rate of the Eight Banners is more than 20 percent, and every 100 armored soldiers will be equipped with at least 20 or more guns, and 500 people will be equipped with two guns.

However, the red-clothed cannon is very complicated to maintain and maintain, and it is too clumsy to move, and it is generally operated by the Eight Banners of the Han Army Banner, and the Eight Banners of the True Man are impatient to do such a meticulous thing.

Duoduo appointed Geng Zhongming as the commander of the artillery battalion, responsible for bombarding the Ming army city walls with red-coated cannons.

"General, why are you here? It's dangerous here. Seeing Duoduo coming, King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun ran over, knelt down and kowtowed, and complained.

"I am the prince, and you are also the prince, so you don't need to make this big gift." Duoduo smiled and waved his hand to signal Geng Zhongming to stand up.

"Then how can I do it, although I was crowned king by Emperor Longen, I am always a slave in front of you, isn't it natural to kowtow to you?" Geng Zhongming said with a smile.

"Hahaha," Dordor laughed, "Don't fucking pat me on the back, I'm not a regent, I can't give you anything." As long as I fight well. ”

"General, look at it, the city wall on the northwest side of Yangzhou has been blasted out of a crack, and it will collapse in three days at most." Geng Zhongming patted his chest and reassured.

"Three days! We're going to have to work hard to fill in the moat. Dodor muttered to himself.

The artillery of the Ming army was also returning fire, and from time to time shells fell near the artillery position, and under Geng Zhongming's repeated requests, Duoduo left here.

In the wilderness west of Yangzhou City, with the efforts of thousands of strong men, a ditch five or six miles long gradually took shape, and it was only necessary to cut off the connection between the moat and the canal, and then the ditch and the moat could be dug through, and then the water in the moat was diverted to a low depression nearby.

However, the closer the ditch is to the city wall, the more difficult it is to dig, and once it gets close to the range of the bow and arrow fire on the city, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties among the people. Although Dodor did not care about the casualties of his citizens, he was worried that this would affect the progress of the siege.

It seems that a large number of Ming civilians will have to be captured, and more cannon fodder will be needed to fill the moat during the siege.

Also, the speed of the green battalion soldiers sent to collect food and arrest Ding is too slow, and it took two or three days to catch these thousands of people!

Just when Duoduo saw the situation of digging the ditch and was about to return to the camp, his brows suddenly furrowed, and he saw a green battalion of more than 100 people coming from the south, one by one, throwing away their armor and drooping their heads, looking like they had lost the battle.

"What's going on? Go and call the general of the Green Battalion. With a gloomy face, Dodor commanded.

Soon, Feng Cheng, the general of the Green Battalion, was taken to the Shuai tent. This guy was frightened by Yu Feng's cavalry battalion and fled, and the more than 100 remnants of the soldiers who were easily collected were defeated and returned to the camp.

Seeing Duoduo angry, Feng Cheng's courage was almost frightened, and he knelt on the ground and trembled and told him everything about the encounter with the Ming cavalry.

The Pingnan Army actually had a cavalry of 1,000 people outside Yangzhou! Duoduo's expression suddenly became solemn, with this cavalry here, it would be troublesome for him to send the green battalion soldiers to grab food and catch Ding.

Sure enough, soon the defeated soldiers fled back to the Qing army camp, and in one day's effort, three green battalion soldiers were attacked, more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded, and the robbed grain was taken away.

The Qing army came from afar to attack Yangzhou, naturally it did not carry any food with the army, and it was completely intended to eat the enemy, and it was natural to eat wherever it went in the Ming Dynasty. The military rations were provided by the surrendered prefectures and counties, and the other was obtained by looting.

In the past few days after arriving in Yangzhou, Duoduo divided his troops to attack the nearby county seats, most of the cities west of the canal surrendered, and many Ming troops surrendered and were reorganized into green battalion soldiers. Now the Qing army's battalion of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion have more than 100,000 soldiers. The daily consumption of such a huge army is incomparably huge, and it all depends on the grain team to go around collecting food and robbing the nearby states and counties.

Now the Ming army has an elite cavalry outside, which makes the food team is greatly threatened, and we must find a way to solve it!

Over the next few days, Dordor increased the number of food teams sent out to 3,000 men, and allowed them to communicate with each other, so that other troops in the vicinity could quickly support them in the event of an attack. At the same time, Duoduo sent 3,000 Mongol cavalry south, responsible for finding the Ming cavalry for a decisive battle.

At the same time, it was ordered that all the teams that went out to collect food must be vigilant, and if there was any loss of food, the generals of the team would be beheaded. In the event of a sneak attack by the Ming cavalry, you must fight to the death and wait for other teams to come to support.

Sure enough, the grain was much smoother, and two food teams were attacked, but under the hard work of the green battalion soldiers, the Ming cavalry could only retreat.