A ball of fire erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and the whistling cannonball smashed into the Mongol scout cavalry more than 400 paces away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Mongol cavalry suddenly saw the flash of fire at the head of the city, and immediately scattered their horses, but there were still two cavalrymen who could not dodge, one of them was hit by a cannonball, and his men and horses were torn to pieces; Another cavalryman was grazed by a cannonball, and his upper body was immediately shattered and turned into a canopy of blood mist.

"Damn! The Jurchens have already entered the city! Go back and report to the prince! A Mongol looked at the Eight Banners at the head of the city and Kangxi's banner and shouted.

Half an hour later, Abunai received a message from the scout cavalry: "Lord, something is wrong! The Jurchen Puppet Emperor has already taken the lead in entering the Naturalization City! The little ones went outside the city, but they were shelled by the Jurchens at the head of the city, and lost two brothers! ”

Abnei asked worriedly, "How many troops are there in the city?" Do you know what the situation of the little prince is? ”

The scout cavalry replied: "The little ones have observed, there are at least 10,000 Jurchens and 20,000 barbarians who have taken refuge in the Jurchens in the city!" There are also Baoyi Aha and the like, I'm afraid there are thirty or forty thousand. However, the Jurchen pseudo-emperor does not seem to embarrass the little prince, and the banner of the little prince is still hung at the head of the city. ”

"We don't have enough troops to take the city!" Huang Zhao frowned, "Even if all the troops in Shenyang are transferred, it will not be difficult to conquer Guihua City, so we can only camp on the spot!" I don't believe it, this Qinggou puppet emperor can live in the city all the time and can't come out! As long as they run out of the city, we will chase them down! ”

Abnai said: "If you want to seize naturalization, Xiao Wang has a way!" ”

"What's the solution?" Huang Zhao was overjoyed.

"Xiao Wang sent Neiying into the city and let the dogs raise troops against the Jurchen Pseudo-Emperor! As long as Xiao Wang's people enter the city, the dog will definitely cooperate! When the time comes, the city of naturalization will be taken in one fell swoop! Abnei said.

Huang Zhao was overjoyed and said: "Okay! Then it's up to the prince! ”

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In the capital, outside the Wu army camp, Wu Sangui has recovered from the grief of losing his son. Although he had regained his calm on the surface, the loss of his son in old age was a great blow to Wu Sangui. Among Wu Sangui's two sons-in-law, Wu Yingxiong's talent is obviously much higher than Wu Yingqi, Wu Yingqi is just a big grinning reckless man, but Wu Yingxiong is a very smart person, when he was a hostage in the capital, he won a lot of military salaries for the southwest, and since the beginning of the Shunzhi Dynasty, he has repeatedly negotiated conditions with the Qing court to win the greatest interests for the southwest.

Wu Sangui's throne was intended to be passed to Wu Yingxiong, but now he has received the news of Wu Yingxiong's death, and Wu Yingqi is not angry, and his grandson is young, which is a great blow to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui, who is close to sixty years old, feels that his physical strength has been hollowed out, and he may fall down at any time with a serious illness.

"Report to the commander!" Gao Dejie walked into the big tent of the Chinese army, "The last general found more than 100,000 women, children, old and weak who were abandoned outside the city by Qing dogs from the surrounding villages!" Now they've been brought back to the camp! ”

Wu Sanguiqiang supported his sick body, nodded calmly and said, "Okay!" Immediately let them cooperate with the auxiliary soldiers and the people to build siege weapons! As long as you can still work, don't be idle! The old man must break through the capital within two months, slaughter all the dogs in the city, and kill all the Tartars who stayed in the city! ”

"No!" Gao Dejie retreated.

At that time, the water volume of the rivers was much larger than now, and there were many woods around, and the natural environment and vegetation of that era were much better than now, and the rivers on the periphery of the capital were lush forests on both sides.

The Wu soldiers first let the women, children, old and weak drink the multigrain porridge in the camp, and then escorted them to the woods to cut wood. However, Wu Jun was still humane, some old people and young children who could not work were left in the camp to take care of babies and young children, and the strong healthy women, the old ladies with quick hands and feet, and the relatively strong old people, who were already able to be used as half adults, were all pulled to work.

"You guys, come and push the cart! A few of you, each with an axe, go and cut down the trees! An officer of the Wu Army Auxiliary Corps shouted at a group of eleven or twelve-year-old children, "As long as you do a good job, you will be rewarded with candy!" ”

As he spoke, the Wu Army auxiliary officer asked people to bring a basket full of candied sweets from the South Seas.

Seeing the secret realm of candy, these boys and girls who couldn't even eat enough on weekdays had bright eyes, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, picked up the tools issued to them by Wu Jun, and began to cut down trees.

Five or six boys swung axes and slashed down a tree, and in a few moments a towering tree fell. Later, under the command of Wu's auxiliaries and craftsmen, they cut down all the branches and leaves of the trees, and called more people to carry the trees to a large cart.

More than a dozen eleven or twelve-year-old girls came up and pushed the cart to the Wu army camp.

Women, old men and women are also sweating like rain, chopping trees, and nervously pushing carts back and forth. There were also women, old people and children digging trenches outside the Wu army camp, and the trenches gradually extended in the direction of the city walls.

"Wu Gou actually drove the women and children to attack the city! It's a bunch of brutes! Bogoduo, who was standing at the head of the city, put down his binoculars and angrily pointed to the women, children, old and weak who were working under the city.

In fact, the Wu army did not drive women, children, the old and weak to attack the city, but only used them as labor. On the contrary, the trick of driving women and children to attack the city was a common trick used by the Jurchen army in the post-Jin period. Now Bo Guoduo saw that Wu Jun used women and children to build fortifications and build siege weapons, so he spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, thinking that Wu Sangui would also use this trick.

But it seems to be wrong, Wu Sangui is not a gentleman, he also belongs to the ranks of villains, but it is better than the Qing army, and Wu Sangui has not slaughtered the city, from this point of view, Wu Sangui is much better than Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others.

Outside the city, women, children, the old and the weak, and the auxiliary soldiers and the strong people worked together, and the ditches extended in the direction of the city wall, and the excavated earth was piled up to form a wall of earth and extended to the city wall. There are also women and children, the old and weak, together with the auxiliary soldiers and the people, digging up the soil around and filling the excavated soil into the sacks, and then some women seal the sacks, sew them up, and make sandbags.

"You work hard, don't worry, our handsome man is merciful, as long as you work, we won't let you attack the city!" A Wu Army auxiliary officer said.

A gray-haired old craftsman was still worried, but after listening to the words of the Wu army's auxiliaries, he was relieved, so he swung his axe vigorously and chopped the wood that had just been cut down, and in a short time the wood was split into several planks.