In the west of Yangzhou City, thousands of people are digging ditches under the threat of Qing soldiers' butcher knives, and the ditches that are several zhang wide and half zhang deep are gradually extending to the city of Yangzhou, and it only takes a distance of 100 steps to contact the moat.

Cut off the connection between the moat and the canal to make it a stagnant water, and then divert the water in the moat through the ditch, and then fill in the mud and approach the city of Yangzhou.

The moat, which is several feet wide and rippling blue waves, is a natural barrier to attack Yangzhou City, which the commanders of both the Ming and Qing dynasties are well aware of.

Therefore, Chen Yue laid heavy troops between the moat outside the city and the city wall, and each stone bridge outside the city gate was guarded by a battalion of troops, echoing the defenders on the city wall.

However, in the face of the Qing soldiers driving the people to dig ditches, the defenders had no choice.

The number of troops was too small for the Ming army to rush out to rescue the people and stop digging the ditch, so they could only watch the ditch get closer and closer to the moat step by step.

The artillery on the city can fire at the people digging ditches, but for some reason, the commander of the Ming army did not give the order for a long time, and the artillery on the city was only aimed at the artillery array of the Qing army.

Woman's kindness! Duoduo scoffed at this behavior of the Yangzhou defenders, but he was afraid of hurting the names of the people, so he let the ditch force the moat, this defender general was just a pedantic person, and he didn't even understand the reason why Ci was not in charge of the army, how could such an enemy be worthy of being his opponent! Pingnan Hou Chen Yue, a veritable person.

However, it was this commander of the Ming army who Duoduo looked down on that gave him a big slap in the face today, turning his dizzy face and endless anger rising in his heart.

"What do you say? Be clear! Duoduo struggled to straighten his body, and looked angrily at the Eight Banners sentry who reported the news.

According to the custom, the Eight Banners would send a large number of cavalry sentries every day to scout the movements in the vicinity, check the possible movements of the enemy army, and at least control any wind and grass within a radius of dozens of miles.

And today, when the cavalry of the regular sentry to the south traveled to the south of Yangzhou, they found the Outer Mongolian cavalry in a heavy siege, and hurried to report the letter.

In order to annihilate this Ming cavalry with only 1,000 people, Duoduo did not hesitate to send more than 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, plus thousands of green battalion soldiers who fetched food on each road, thinking that he could easily trap this Ming cavalry, but he did not expect his cavalry to fall into the siege of the Ming army.

Duoduo didn't think much about it, and hurriedly sent the cavalry of the headquarters of the escort army commander Ahsan, Gushan Ezhen Tulai, to quickly reinforce and rescue the besieged Nikan department.

However, it didn't take long for the bad news to arrive, and when Ahsan and Turai arrived at the battlefield with their troops, all they saw were headless corpses everywhere and the remnants of the war that had not yet been extinguished.

All 3,000 cavalry were beheaded by the Ming army, their heads were cut off and taken away, and the blood of the Qing cavalry stained the banks of the canal.

The 3,000 cavalry Nikan didn't care, because they were all requisitioned and sent from the Outer Mongolian servant army, not the Eight Banners full of soldiers. The killing of the Eight Banner generals such as Nikan Yild made Duoduo feel painful, Nikan was his nephew, the descendant of Aixin Jueluo, and the generals who led the troops such as Yild were also powerful generals in Manchuria.

And after thinking about it, from Sizhou to the present, there are more than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry of the Eight Banners who have died in the hands of the Pingnan Army, and the Manchu, Han and Mongolian Eight Banners that followed Duoduo to the south to attack Ming add up to more than 40,000 and less than 50,000. This caused a slight sense of fear in the depths of Dord's heart, followed by endless anger.

At present, there are more than 100,000 Qing troops outside Yangzhou, and the above are generally newly surrendered Ming army green battalion soldiers, and the continuous defeat of the Eight Banners will definitely lose their prestige in the green battalion soldiers. Relying on the invincible combat power to make the green battalion soldiers obedient, but now that they have been wiped out of 3,000 cavalry at once, it will inevitably make the green battalion generals have strange thoughts in their hearts.

These Green Battalion soldiers could not distinguish the difference between the Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Banners at all, so it was now necessary to take measures as soon as possible to reverse this situation and re-establish the image of the Eight Banners as invincible.

At present, the Ming army is cowering in the city, but it has several battalions of troops stationed in the moat outside the city, Duoduo originally thought that after digging a ditch to divert the water from the moat, these Ming troops would open their swords, but now it seems that they can't wait for that moment.

Early the next morning, when a subordinate came down to report that the Ming army had actually hoisted the captured Qing army head to the city wall with a rope, a wave of anger rushed to Duoduo's head, and he could no longer care about the gains and losses of the battle. After the death of the fallen soldiers, they were humiliated by the Ming army, and the heads of Nikan and others were hung under the tower of Xicheng, how could Duoduo endure such a shame!

I must invade Yangzhou and kill all the soldiers and civilians in the city, and leave no chickens and dogs!

Duoduo ordered that Gushan Ezhen Ibaitu as the main general, and Melerzhangjing Li Shutai as the deputy, led a total of 8,000 people from the 3,000 Eight Banners and 5,000 Green Battalions to launch an attack on Yangzhou.

Their mission was to annihilate the Ming army deployed outside the West Gate and seize the stone bridge at the West Gate.

To drive the Ming army into the city first, and then calmly deal with the moat and city walls, this is Duoduo's plan. Despite the incomparable anger in his heart, he did not lose his mind.

Naturally, the front was 5,000 green battalion soldiers as cannon fodder, in order to attract the artillery fire of the Ming army at the head of the city. However, under the supervision of the Eight Banners in the back, although there were strong casualties, no one dared to turn around and flee.

When the Qing army was three miles away from the city wall, dozens of Franco machine guns in the west city began to fire, and the shells fell into the queue of the Qing army from time to time, and from time to time the Qing soldiers were hit by the shells and fell to the ground and died without a word, but for the huge queue of 8,000 people, it was like a few waves in the sea, which disappeared in an instant. The artillery attack seemed to be shaking the earth and shattering, but in fact, there were more terrifying elements, and the real casualties caused in this era of solid ammunition were not too many.

The artillery of the Qing army was also firing fiercely at the head of the city, and the walls of Yangzhou were crumbling under the bombardment of the red-coated cannons.

When it was a mile away from the city wall, the tiger squat cannon at the head of the city began to fire, and this kind of scattered shells with more than 100 projectiles in one cannon was more powerful for defense than the Franc machine artillery.

However, the Qing army and the Ming army fought countless battles, so they naturally knew how to prevent it. The soldiers at the front of the queue held a thick cowhide shield, and most of the projectiles of the Tiger Squat Cannon were blocked by the shield, and even if it could penetrate the shield, the lethality of the soldiers behind it was greatly reduced.

Under the protection of the shield, the Qing army continued to approach the west gate, and when it entered a hundred steps away from the city wall, the fire bolts and crossbow arrows at the head of the city were still firing, and thousands of fire bolts had already been mobilized on the west city wall, and they began to shoot through the battlements below, and the arrow rain barrage shrouded the entire Qing army column, and the casualties of the Qing army suddenly increased a lot.

At the same time, the archers of the Eight Banners also approached the moat, and Zhang Gong aimed his arrows at the city and began to fight back, and the arrows covered the city like rain, causing large casualties to the Ming army at the head of the city.