It has been a month since the 50,000 Ming army stormed Gaoyouwei.

Zhou Yuji divided the 50,000 Ming army into ten teams, and took turns attacking day and night, not giving the garrison sergeants of Gaoyouwei time and opportunity to rest at all.

At the same time, Princess Kunxing and Liang Min also divided the 2,000 Haisha gang and 1,000 Xuanjia soldiers into twelve teams, each team of 250 people, and arranged three teams on each of the four city walls, one round every four hours, taking turns to go to the city wall for defense.

Fortunately, the military city of Gaoyou Guard is not large, 100 zhang long and 70 zhang wide, which is conducive to defense. If it is replaced by Gaoyou City, then this little force will be overstretched.

Liang Min ordered the cronies in the gang to spread in the military city, and after the Ming army broke the city, they would slaughter the city, the rumors that the chickens and dogs would not be left, and the fake news that the reinforcements of the Xuanjia Army would arrive soon. A two-pronged approach to increase the will of the crowd to resist.

The Ming army, unable to use artillery, could only choose to attack.

The Ming army first built dozens of ladders for climbing overnight and began to attack the city wall.

Liang Min, who had been fighting with the Ming army for many years in Liangshan, was familiar with the tactics of the Ming army, and had already sprinkled cold water on the city wall. Even if he attacked the top of the wall, he was easily shot down by the defenders.

The Ming army, which had long been accustomed to artillery sieges, was not at all accustomed to this kind of local method of climbing over the city wall and attacking the city, and after ten days of storming, it was still unable to capture the city wall. Occasionally, those who climbed the city walls were easily killed by the defenders who rushed in.

After ten days of fighting, a thousand corpses of the Ming army were left under the city walls, and the corpses could not be collected.

Zhou Yuji was hindered by Gao You's guards, and he had no choice but to change the tactics of storming the city wall and use the method of blasting the city gate.

Liang Min led the gang to smash the boulder under the city gate and snipe the sergeants who came to blast it. Even hundreds of barrels of water were prepared, and once the Ming army came to the city gate to place gunpowder and lead, the water immediately poured down.

The clear water outside the city gate condensed into ice, which was unusually slippery, which greatly increased the difficulty of the Ming army coming to blast, and it was impossible to place the gunpowder pack, let alone blast it with a lead.

Liang Min also relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, sprinkling water directly on the city gate, covering the city gate behind the thin ice, which was unusually strong, and it was difficult for small blasting to cause fatal damage.

Eight days later, the Ming army's demolition operation did not make any progress, and hundreds of corpses were left behind.

As the commander-in-chief, Zhou Yuji knew that he had encountered a hard bone that was difficult to bite, and he could not blast the city gate, so he changed to digging the foot of the wall again.

Digging the foot of the wall is to drive the tunnel directly under the foot of the wall, and then dig the city wall to make the city collapse so that you can enter the city in a big way.

Liang Min saw that the Ming army began to dig tunnels, and since it was impossible to stop it, he ordered the sergeants to fill a hundred sandbags in the city, soak them, and finally freeze them, making them into frozen soil bags that were as hard as iron.

It took the Ming army five days and five nights to finally dig the tunnel under the corner, and the city wall on the northwest side collapsed a corner.

Liang Min immediately ordered the sergeant to pile the sacks densely on the collapsed city wall, easily blocking the gap in the city wall.

The Ming sergeants rushed up with knives and guns, but it was difficult to poke open these bags of frozen soil that were stronger than stones, and this back and forth for seven or eight days was still in vain.

Liang Min was leading the crowd to resist desperately, and Princess Kunxing took Mama Liang and seven or eight palace maids to cook porridge and comfort the injured soldiers.

The Haisha Gang has no military discipline, and when they saw these palace maids with good looks, three injured gang members had the audacity to rape a little palace maid when no one was around.

The little palace maid was ashamed and angry, and told Mama Liang directly. Mama Liang, who is a female official, did not inform the princess, and directly found Liang Min and demanded that the three gangs who committed adultery be severely punished.

The princess's entourage of palace maids dare to violate, which is a great disrespect to the princess, how is it different from rebellion? Liang Min immediately led people to arrest the three people, and they were about to be executed in front of everyone to set an example.

When Princess Kunxing heard the news, she hurriedly came to stop the execution, and said loudly, "Confucius has said that it is understandable to eat and love beauty. But men and women love each other, we are human beings, not beasts, and we should always pay attention to etiquette, righteousness and shame. After the war, anyone who participated in the defense of Gaoyou. Whether it is the Haisha Gang or the Xuanjia sergeant, the palace will choose the young women who are still in good shape from the young women bought from Jiangxi before, and each person will be rewarded with one! ”

Instead of executing the three sergeants who had committed adultery, the princess promised to reward another woman after the war to return home as a wife and concubine, and everyone applauded in unison. The three sergeants who escaped death knelt on the ground with tears in their eyes and kowtowed.

Princess Kunxing dealt with this adultery case lightly, and privately found the palace maid who was not violated, took off a hosta on her head, and a jade bracelet on her wrist to give to the little palace maid, which was regarded as compensation for her, and was kind to soothe, and promised to find her a good family affair after that.

The palace maid is a slave in the palace, and the princess must die if she wants to die, let alone being raped? But Princess Kunxing obviously did not use the name of the princess to pressure her, but paid for the hosta and jade bracelet to comfort. The value of hosta and jade bracelet is really expensive, at least more than 100 taels of silver, with these as a dowry, you can also marry a good family in the future.

The little palace maid's kindness to the princess is grateful to Dade, and she can't stop crying.

Since the siege began, nearly a month has passed, and the 50,000 Ming troops are still sniped in a small high guard, and it is difficult to advance an inch.

Zhou Yuji immediately reported to Zhu Cihong, temporarily gave up attacking Gaoyouwei, and only sent 5,000 soldiers to guard Gaoyouwei, and the rest of the Ming army went south first, striving to break through the Jingkou wharf in one fell swoop and take over Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang.

Zhu Cihong saw that Zhou Yuji spent a month, but still failed to break through Gaoyouwei, but wanted to abandon this small military city of Weishou and send a large army south to Jiangnan, so angry that his face turned pale, and said coldly, "Governor Zhou, Gaoyouwei is only a military city, only 3,000 soldiers are stationed, and it is still difficult to conquer the Jin army's delay for a month." With the Jin army's ability to attack fortifications, can it be captured by going to Zhenjiang? I think I'll still be sniped at the Jingkou pier, and I can't get in! ”

Zhou Yuji was sniped under Gao Youwei, in vain, and he couldn't stand up his waist, he couldn't say hard words, he was speechless.

Zhu Cihong said in a cold voice again, "I have a way to break the enemy for Governor Zhou." The governor of Zhou immediately issued a military order, climbed the city wall within five days, and allowed to plunder the Yangzhou capital for ten days. If they could not climb the walls, they were punished by 'tithing'.

Zhou Yuji was stunned and asked, "What 'tithing'?" ”

Zhu Cihong said slowly, "The so-called tithing is transmitted by the Francois people, which is the military law that kills one person by drawing lots for every time after the war is lost. Since the Jin army is not good for attacking the city, it can only use heavy canons! ”

Zhou Yuji was so angry that he gritted his teeth when he heard this, saying that it was this prince who couldn't use artillery, and now he couldn't attack Gaoyouwei, and it was also this prince who wanted to implement cruel military law, which was obviously nonsense!

Zhu Cihong said lightly, "If Inspector Sun is here, he will be able to teach the palace how to break the enemy!" ”

He deliberately brought out Sun Chuanting, which was to provoke Zhou Yuji, implying that Zhou Yuji was not as good as Sun Chuanting at all.

Zhou Yuji is also hot, and was provoked by the prince, and said loudly, "Okay, good, don't attack the city wall within five days, and the minister is willing to lead the army to deal with the law!" ”

Zhou Yuji left angrily, immediately ordered the Ming army to suspend the offensive, pondered in the barracks for a whole day, and finally thought of a way to break the city.

The city wall of Gaoyouwei is not high, only five zhang, with the corpse of the Ming army under the city wall, plus a special earthen bag, specializing in a city wall, you can directly pile up the city wall.

Zhou Yuji immediately ordered his subordinate general Cui Yun to go and make earthen bags, and two thousand earthen bags must be made within two days.

There were no ready-made sacks in the army, so they had to borrow sacks for military rations, and after distributing the military rations to the camps in advance, they barely managed to gather 2,000 sacks.

Two days later, 2,000 sacks were made, and Zhou Yuji ordered 5,000 Ming troops to launch a final general attack on Gaoyouwei, and within two days the city gate would not be broken, and all military justice would be punished!

The Ming army carried these sacks, as well as the corpses of the soldiers killed on the battlefield, and began to pile up bags and corpses under the wall of the north gate of Gaoyouwei. Then he followed the pile of dirt bags and launched a frantic charge against Gao Youwei.

The two sides fought fiercely for two days and two nights around the battle for the Gaoyou guard wall.

Liang Min, who commanded the guards, had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, and the emergency military information from all sides continued to come, and more and more Ming troops climbed the city wall.

Although Liang Min was reluctant, he had to admit the fact that Gao Youwei's city wall had been lost!

He immediately ordered the remaining 1,400 defenders to immediately abandon the city wall guards and start street battles with the Ming army!