"Is that so?"

"However, this plate of dim sum is made by the imperial dining room, and the workmanship is more fine, a plate is two or three dollars of silver, if the street vendors in Ava sell such dim sum, you can buy it for one dollar or even seven cents, of course, seven cents are more brown sugar."

"Your Majesty... Indeed, what the commander said was true, however, the ministers thought that after the King of Min entered the city, he was a little proud and underestimated the enemy, and perhaps some measures were inappropriate. "As the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, it is not a big problem to comment on a prince.

"In August, the Zheng army sent more than 100,000 troops upstream, into the area of An (Qing) Hui (Zhou), all over the wind and fell, but the army wanted to attack Wuchang, Hanyang Erfu in the east of Sichuan thirteen confluence, and then went upstream, but the Yangtze River is extremely wide, not easy to pull fiber. As a result, the grain route was blocked, and it was difficult to attack. ”

"After that, Dongyu sent troops from Shandong to Nanzhili, and at this time I had already left Nanjing, and the rest of the matter was not clear."

"The king of Min opened the palace, and the officials around the country mostly retained the original puppet officials in the east, or elected from the gentry, although the opening of the palace had to be done as a last resort, but the Manchurian army pressed the border, which is still a hidden danger... The army is all in Huguang, the troops of Nanzhili are insufficient, and the countryside is still the world of the heroes. ”

"I'm afraid, before the army of King Min can be transferred back, Nanjing will change hands again!"

"This Nanjing is the most majestic city in the world, with walls several feet high and a population of millions, so it can always last until the arrival of the army?"

Zhu Youlang said, faintly feeling that there was a bad premonition, the last time Nanjing was lost was because a group of people directly surrendered to the enemy, and the Qing army took Nanjing without blood, but Zhu Chenggong he... He can't be!

"The King of Min used the gunpowder coffin taught by His Majesty to blow up the city wall. Dozens of big holes were blown up in the city wall of Nanjing, and if the Tartars attacked the city, the cavalry was directly attacked, although the army of the King of Min was numerous, but there were not many in the city of Nanjing, and they were not accustomed to land warfare..."

Well, this is a cocoon.

Zhu Youlang smiled bitterly, and had to comfort himself, even if Zhu Chenggong really failed, maybe he could learn from Zhu Yihai's classmates and occupy the vicinity of the Yangtze River estuary... Moreover, as long as there were not many losses on sea vessels, the Grand Canal, the gas pipe of the Manchu court, was basically abolished.

In any case, it's better than the situation in history where Zhu Chenggong's complete Northern Expedition failed, isn't it?

After asking a few more questions, Zhu Youlang went to the table with Liu Xiang: "I think Gonggong Shen has also introduced this new food to you, so I ordered people to make it because sweet potatoes and other grains can relieve famine in times of drought and flood." However, the local people are reluctant to plant and use. I heard that the king of Chu has a thin waist, and there are many hungry people in the palace, so the two Aiqing will be hungry with me, okay? ”

"May I follow Your Majesty as the queen!"

As he spoke, several dishes were served one after another, all of which were home-cooked, but some of them were replaced with sweet potatoes or purple potatoes. At this time, the grain was far less delicious than the carefully selected and bred food of later generations, but the imperial kitchen was able to imitate the taste of later generations to the greatest extent regardless of the processing cost.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the topic is back to business. Zhu Youlang asked some questions that were not easy for ordinary people to notice, and sent them back, but as for the appointment of the post that the two were concerned about, he did not say a word.

"Bang!" Under the city of Yangzhou, a large general cannon of the Han army flag roared angrily and sprayed out projectiles with frosted surfaces.

The iron ball roared through the air, and landed on the root of the city wall when the kinetic energy was exhausted, and the iron ball bounced back with a slight gap in the bricks.

"Put!" With a wave of his hand, the lieutenant commander in charge of these generals' cannons spewed out a ball of cannon muzzle fireworks in turn, and the iron balls drew various Brownian trajectories and landed on a section of the city wall that was more than a mile long to the west.

Immediately afterwards, the gunners rushed up to clean the barrels with bristle brushes, and poured water to cool these old general's cannons, and in the bursts of cold water and the sound of the cannon barrels, the Qing army launched the first wave of siege. The green battalion soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Qing army carried straw bags and poured up like a tide.

"Throw in four straw bags, you don't have to go again today, if you don't throw them into the river and come back, the head on the gate will be your fate!" In front of the Qing army camp, there was no need to participate in this kind of large-scale activities of the real Shura field, and the general flags repeatedly emphasized today's task.

The Qing soldiers numbly picked up the sack full of clods, lowered their bodies and walked forward quickly.

Outside the city of Yangzhou has long been ordered by Zheng Xi to "clear the wilderness", a few miles away from the city wall, there is a large empty space--- even the trees were ordered by Zheng Zheng's classmates to cut down and transport them into the city as firewood.

A Qing soldier ran with his head buried in his head, forcing his instinct to go back to die, and walked forward quickly despite the distant explosion. The straw sandals on his feet were torn a few holes, but he didn't dare to stop at all. Just now, a small iron ball flew out of the city wall, tumbling and leaving a trail of blood on the ground.

The fast runner had already thrown the straw bag into the river, and the straw bag that had absorbed the water slowly swelled. Listening to the increasingly dull sound of straw bags falling into the water, the soldier's thigh muscles burned. As the distance got closer, more and more things fell from the city. Whizzing arrows, flying lead, and hula pebbles. No matter what you encounter, you can't survive with your thin uniform.

"Knock knock...", carrying one on his back and one in his arms, two straw bags fluttered into the water. Braving the arrows like flying locusts, the Qing army turned around and ran with their backs bare. Although the probability of being hit is the same, the invisible danger can always give people a sense of security, and the first wave of Qing troops who went up to fill the moat panted and stretched their waists to the camp gate.

"What for? Who gave you rest? Go, get these two out! While the officers scolded, they arranged for the auxiliaries to give bamboo chips. When the soldiers received a bamboo chip, they said that they threw a straw bag into it, and as for the auxiliaries, they gave more bamboo chips...... Rest assured, although these officers may not be literate, but the addition and subtraction of about a hundred can still be calculated, if it is too much, it would be good to cut off the heads of the auxiliaries--- in this troubled world, lack of food, lack of silver, but the most lacking is people.

A little bit of ice on the moat was hit by a straw bag and turned back into water. The straw bag sucked up the water and became a little swollen, but it was still far from being able to pass through. Looking at the bloody corpses left in front of them, the Qing army, who had put on the straw bags on their backs, actually stood up. These green battalions from the north have been in peace for a long time, when have they fought such a tough battle? Cut off a lot of heads in a row, but failed to drive these mud legs to death, but faintly showed signs of camp roaring.

"Go, suppress it."

The chief lieutenants could not sit still, and decided to waste gunpowder and lead, and ordered the birdmen to come forward and shoot at the walls behind the shield carts. The reason why it is said to be a waste is because with the unbearable air leakage ability of the bird's gun, most of the lead cannot fly to the city, which is the effect of a placebo.

Half a moment later, thousands of straw bags fell into the moat. The Qing army who threw the straw bag was like a pardon, thinking that he had walked away from the Lord of Yama today, and galloped back with a ghost. No one noticed that there was a creak of wood under some of the collapsed houses on the other side of the moat.

"Kara..."

Instantly, a group of infantry in two-layer iron armor emerged from the ground, and the people in front of them set up special wooden planks over the moat, allowing the infantry to leap over the bridge. A smoked rocket flew into the air, and the cannon at the head of the city, which had been silent for a long time, thumped again.