"Put!" A young Xiaoqi's face was full of gunsmoke, and a terrible roar came from his already hoarse voice, revealing the decisiveness and fearlessness that he should not have at this age.

With his order, the Ming army around him immediately set fire, and then several people worked together to lift a small cannon of the Franc machine, and the muzzle of the cannon was pressed down, and it was a cannon against the Qing soldiers who were attached to the city under the city.

There was a "boom", the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the defenders hurriedly put down the little Francophone and replaced it with a sub-system loaded with gunpowder.

At this time, Xiaoqi widened his eyes to see how many Qing troops had been defeated with one cannon just now, and to see where the Qing army was dense and needed artillery support.

"Boom!" There was a cannon sound, and the rubble flew, but it was a cannonball from the Qing army that smashed on the wall.

Before he could command his men to fire another cannon, he was hit by rubble and fell off the city wall covered in blood.

Seeing this, the faces of several Ming soldiers who operated the artillery did not change, and they looked very numb, they were no longer ordinary young and strong, but the Ming officers and soldiers tempered by the thirty-day siege battle.

Death happens every day, and it's too late for them to grieve for anyone, because the next one to fall is one of them.

"Put!" One of the defenders quickly took the place of Xiaoqi, waved his hand to command the team around him, and raised the Franco cannon again, which was a shot at the Qing soldiers who were climbing the ladder.

"Boom!" In the sound, the climbing Qing was like a string of sugar gourds, knocked down a piece, the same so red, blood and minced flesh, disgusting.

"Kill the captive! Pikemen, take them out of town! In another place, the Ming army on the side of the wall was all killed, and the city was full of corpses covered with arrows.

In the sound of sword strikes, the sound of arrows entering the body, and the shouts of killing in the sky, a group of Ming soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades and fought with the Qing soldiers who entered the city.

On every section of the city wall of Yangzhou City, the same tragic scene happened.

In the gap in the west city, the Qing artillery team stood on the high slope outside the city, looking down on the city, making the advantage of the Ming army relying on the city wall to defend it disappear.

In the artillery battle for several days, the artillery team of the Ming army under the command of Chen Yujie was not defeated, but it was never able to destroy the artillery team of the Qing army.

On the contrary, under the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the walls of Xicheng collapsed even more, and the Ming artillery lost its position and had to retreat temporarily.

Under the artillery of the Qing army, the gap could no longer be defended, so Wang Yan obeyed He Gang's strategy and asked people to take advantage of the night to rebuild a section of the one-zhang high sub-wall outside the gap.

The sub-wall was built into a pocket-shaped, and Wang Yan cast a high platform behind the sub-wall, placed the Franco machine cannon on it, and led the Qing army to pour in, and then opened artillery bombardment.

The Qing artillery on the high slope could not pose a threat to the sub-wall because of the city wall, nor could it destroy the Ming artillery on the high platform, while the Ming army could easily shell the Qing army that rushed into the gap.

On the sub-wall, the Ming army birds continued to bombard, and the pikemen kept poking at the Qing army under the sub-wall.

Behind the sub-wall, the Ming archers kept throwing arrows at the Qing army in their pockets, and the Qing army also threw waves of arrows behind the sub-wall.

The cannonballs exploded from time to time in the Qing soldiers, but behind the Qing soldiers of the green battalion, there was a real Manchurian sword to supervise the battle, so they had to risk death to continue the siege.

A large area of the Qing army, under the sub-wall, stabbed with the defender's sabers and spears, bows and arrows, firearms, corpses continued to pile up, and finally higher than the sub-wall, fighting frantically on the corpse mountain.

The offensive and defensive battle in Yangzhou, with the Qing court's reform of the green battalion's world military system and the arrival of the Zhun Tower Department, suddenly became extremely tragic.

At the beginning of May, Dolgon was shocked to hear that Duoduo had lost tens of thousands of dollars under the city of Yangzhou, and that the real Manchurian warriors had also suffered thousands of casualties, so he was depressed, and immediately sent troops from Shandong, so that the commander of Gushan Ezhen Zhun Tower went south, collected Li Chengdong and other high-level generals, and approached Huai'an.

On May 15, almost at the time of Li Zicheng's defeat, the Qing army of the Zhun Tabu approached Huai'an, Liu Zeqing fled by boat, and his commander-in-chief Bai Yongfu surrendered in Kaicheng.

Huai'an was lost, and since then the four towns in Jiangbei, except for Huang Degong in Chizhou and Wuhu, the other three towns have all surrendered their soldiers and horses.

In his report to Dolgon, Duoduo said that there were as many as 23 Southern Ming troops, 47 adjutant generals, and 238,300 horsemen and infantry horses.

The total number of Ming troops who surrendered to the Qing in the north of the river has exceeded the sum of the Qing troops of Duoduo and Azig who went south.

The three major feudal towns in Jiangbei surrendered to the wind, not because the soldiers were unbearable for a battle, but because they relied on the "fixed policy" and other reasons, they formed a powerful group that could not be defeated, and they had the heart to hold the court hostage, and they had no ambition to serve the country loyally.

On May 24, Zhun Ta led the Qing troops under his command, coerced Li Chengdong in Xuzhou, Liu Zeqing, and arrived in Yangzhou in the south.

Yangzhou was besieged for a month, and the battle lasted for several days, but it was not supported by a soldier from the imperial court, and the Qing army had reached 300,000 troops after waiting for the Shandong Zhunta Department.

After Duoduo recovered Liu Zhong from Henan, he led 100,000 troops south to attack Huaiyang, and then got the troops of Li Qifeng, Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu, and Liu Liangzuo.

The arrival of the Zhun Tower Department not only made the offensive and defensive battle of Yangzhou, which had already fallen into a tug-of-war, and fully fell to the Qing army, and the large number of ships he obtained from Liu Zeqing also made the Qing army control the Grand Canal and part of the Yangtze River, forcing Zheng Hongkui's sailors to dare not approach Jiangbei, so that Yangzhou was completely cut off from the imperial court.

Last year, Hongguang Dynasty was newly established, and Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan did not know that Wu Sangui had been cleared, and he ordered the transportation of 100,000 stones of rice to help Wu Sangui.

Shen Tingyang, the minister who has handled the transportation of southern rice to Tianjin and Songshan in eastern Liaodong for many times, is responsible for the transportation.

The ships in his hands were all big ships that could sail, but they were favored by Liu Zeqing, and when the fleet arrived in the Huai'an area, Liu Zeqing sent troops to take it for himself.

Now these big ships have descended to the Qing court with Liu Zeqing's subordinates, and they have all returned to the Qing court.

The Qing army's mastery of the waterways made Yangzhou a truly isolated city, and the form was not optimistic.

On May 25, the thirtieth day of Wang Yan's solo defense of Yangzhou, with the arrival of the Qing troops of the Zhun Ta Department, Yangzhou ushered in the most fierce attack.

Nearly 10,000 Qing soldiers were ambushed, and Yangzhou City was also bombarded by artillery, and the defenders were killed and wounded countless times.

"The Qing soldiers have retreated!"

Suddenly, a shout sounded in the city, and the green battalion soldiers, finally succumbing to the huge casualties, receded like a tide.

Outside the city, in the tent of the Qing soldiers, He Tuo was furious: "The 300,000 army can't defeat the city guarded by a group of untouchables, it's really unreasonable!" ”

In the city, Wang Yan was standing on the south tower, the bright light armor on his body had lost its luster, his mouth was full of messy beards, and his eyes were deep-set, looking very tired. He looked south with his bloodshot eyes, and there was not a single warship coming north on the sparkling river.