Qian Meng, Qi Dashan, and other officers in charge of the military intelligence department immediately adjusted their arrangements according to the key criminals named on the wanted warrants.

Experienced agents form stalking teams to keep an eye on these important targets at all times.

For three days in a row, dozens of hot air balloons flew over the inner and outer cities of Beijing, and even appeared over the Forbidden City, scattering thousands of leaflets and wanted notices.

The people of Beijing were eagerly awaiting the time of the shelling announced on the leaflets.

The remnants of the Ming Dynasty experienced the bloody rule of "Dashun" like purgatory, and the bloody lesson made the people realize that Li Zicheng, who "did not pay for food", was an out-and-out devil.

The common people of Beijing are secretly complaining about the "God of War", why do they announce the time of the shelling in one fell swoop? Why do you warn those thieves to stay away from the city's artillery? They all hoped that the "Nanming" artillery would blow up these animals to the ground.

The thieves have already implemented a curfew, and at night only the "Dashun" thieves can go out to rob the houses and rob the people's daughters, and the common people dare to move around and kill without mercy.

Even so, the people of Jingshi, who were excited, were still quietly connecting with each other, and even the surrendered Yuan Daming Wenwu was secretly contacting.

The "God of War" leaflet said that he was not guilty of the Ming Dynasty and the civil and military forces who had to surrender to the thieves in the past, and welcomed them to re-enter the arms of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the residents in the capital, except for a small number of scum and green-skinned gangsters who also followed the thieves to do evil, everyone else was waiting for the opportunity to attack the thieves.

This is, of course, the effect of the propaganda offensive, such as the leaflet of the goddess scattering flowers, let the entire capital know the current situation, the residents of Beijing know that the "King of the South" came to save the Ming Dynasty, and know that the "God of War" has taken action to surround the Beijing Division, and the thieves will not escape.

On 9 May, the rumbling sound of artillery came as scheduled, and the entire population of Beijing listened attentively, and the excited smiles on their faces could not be concealed.

The "God of War" announced the shelling in a high-profile manner, pointing out that the target of the bombardment was the hundreds of artillery pieces deployed at the head of the Beijing Division, and the focus was on striking dozens of Hongyi cannons.

How could the thieves sit idly by and wait for death, using artillery fire to defend the city was one of their lifesavers, and the "God of War" was ready to bombard the artillery at the head of the city, and the thieves naturally ordered them to resolutely return fire, striving to win the artillery battle and boost the morale of the army.

The thieves did not follow the warning of the "God of War" to stay away from the city, on the contrary, the generals and military divisions under the command of the thieves personally led the old battalion brothers to the city to supervise the battle, but they suddenly found that in addition to the gunners of the "Dashun" army, the gunners of the Ming army who surrendered ran a lot.

Some of the fleeing gunners used ropes to fall down the city and run to surrender to the "God of War", while others ran into the city to find a place to hide, because they knew that they might not even be able to leave a whole corpse in the face of the "God of War", and there was no possibility of victory.

A small number of gunners who could not run were put on the gun position at the head of the city, and the gunners of the former Ming army were trembling when the "God of War" announced that the time for the shelling was approaching.

In order to survive, these gunners did not give up their efforts, they persuaded the gunners of the original "Dashun" army around them, telling them not to try in vain to bombard the "God of War", there is no such opportunity at all, the artillery of the "Nanming" is far and accurate, and we are purely looking for death in the gun position.

Terror is contagious, and soon the gunners of the pseudo-"Dashun" army on the gun emplacement shuddered, and they were all turning around in the eyes of thieves, preparing to resolutely flee from the gun emplacement as soon as they heard the sound of artillery outside the city.

Seeing that the gunners were talking, the old camp thieves began to pay attention to it, and asked why the gunners were afraid?

Soon they finally learned that the range and accuracy of their own artillery were 108,000 miles away from the range and accuracy of the "Nanming" artillery, and that there was no possibility of vainly trying to bombard the "God of War" artillery, and that the "Dashun" army had no choice but to be passively smashed by shells.

Knowing the truth, the old camp thieves were also silent one by one, they couldn't help but believe the warning of the gunners of the Beijing camp of the former Ming army, and began to pay attention to the route that could escape the city wall as quickly as possible.

Li Zicheng personally came to Chaoyangmen to supervise the battle, he had a clairvoyant mirror in his hand that he didn't know where to capture, he didn't need to squint one eye to adjust the focus to observe the distance, and directly stared at the "God of War" artillery array with one eye.

This kid is not stupid, he saw a dark and shiny "Nanming" artillery in a distant formation, and saw that the "God of War" artillery was already preparing for shelling, and immediately realized that the rumor that the "Nanming" artillery had a range of more than 800 paces was true.

Seeing that the time for the bombardment announced by the "God of War" was approaching, Li Zicheng hurriedly led a group of generals to leave Chaoyangmen in a hurry on the grounds of going to Dongzhimen to take a look.

Fortunately, the thieves had a keen sense of smell and realized that the danger was approaching and fled decisively, otherwise it was very possible to be killed by artillery fire, because more than ten observers on the fixed hot air balloon rising high had already noticed the thieves who appeared at the head of Chaoyangmen City, and the artillery preparations were underway.

When the time came, hundreds of solid iron balls flew towards the artillery position at the head of the city, this is the "God of War" Renyi did not want to cause a large number of casualties to the thieves at the head of the city, and did not use flowering bullets, after all, the thieves are also Han people! As much as possible, these strong laborers should not die in vain in the civil war, so that they have the opportunity to colonize the Americas and start a new life.

Even so, hundreds of six- to twelve-pound iron balls that danced happily still hit many thieves, and the bricks and stones splashed at the head of the city caused too many thieves to bleed, and of course, many of them lost their brains and died on the spot.

The head of the city suddenly wailed, and the reality educated the thieves who tried to fight back in vain, and even the thieves were not ready to crush the head of the rats, and they also mixed in with the rout and slipped away.

"Mom, other people's cannons can really hit so far, brothers get out of the city."

"This city can't be defended, we will be caught by the 'God of War' sooner or later, but it's a pity that Lao Tzu has accumulated the silver!"

"Brother, it's good to stay alive, you still want silver, is that silver yours?"

"Bastard, run, what nonsense, get in the way of Lao Tzu."

On the hot air balloon that was lifted off, the artillery observer reported the situation through the flag, and the Praise and Painting Department of the Chinese Army learned that the artillery position at the head of the city was no longer defended by the enemy, and issued an order for the engineers to be dispatched.

The carriage galloped along the established route, and the engineers came a hundred paces from the city wall and began to unload materials and build a steel lookout.

At each of the lookout posts, a musketeer with a general flag and five snipers were on standby, and if anyone appeared at the head of the city, the sniper would decisively kill the enemy and prevent them from igniting the loaded guns and causing casualties to our troops.

As long as they hold on for an hour, the task of the blockers will be much easier, as they can climb the lookout post far above the walls of the capital division to choose the blocking position, and the enemy troops found on the walls have nowhere to hide.