Chen Ming had already sent cavalry to monitor the two gates in the northwest of Huai'an City, if there was a fire in the city, and the Qing army or people escaped from the two gates in the northwest, then this battle would be easy to fight.

It's a pity that God doesn't give face, and the arson bombs prepared for this are all hit, and the wind hasn't blown yet.

"Summons Huang Jie, the third brigade is tentative to attack the city."

Chen Ming looked at the sky above his head, the sun was shining well, and there was no wind at all, which was also strange. Since God doesn't appreciate face, then the Han Army will work harder.

Huai'an South City, at this moment, the root of the city wall has become the best place in the whole day, especially those military houses built against the wall, which are crowded with Qing soldiers. Even in the cave, it's not safe here.

The two commanders of the Qing army stationed at the south gate, one is the chief soldier of Caozhou Town, Shandong, Alsuna, and the other is Zheng Guorui, Huaiyang Town, northern Jiangsu, who was also in the barracks under the root of the inner city wall at this time, listening to the sound of artillery outside and the screams and noises in the city. The morale and fighting spirit in the hearts of the two of them were like a balloon that had been punctured, deflated little by little.

"My brother is a martial artist of Qianlong's ten years, and he has been in the army for more than 20 years, and he has never heard of such a ferocious artillery fire......" The frustration on Zheng Guorui's face could no longer be concealed. How does this make him fight? No matter how weak the soldiers and horses in Huaiyang Town are, there are still some people who dare to play with their lives, and they still have the loyalty to serve the country. But how can human flesh compete with cannonballs?

Arsuna was expressionless, because he didn't know how to speak, whether to reprimand or approve of Zheng's words. The Caozhou soldiers in Shandong are stronger than the green battalion in Huaiyang, but under the cannonballs falling like raindrops, aren't they also running away and hiding now?

The breath in the barn was as silent as death. The two bigwigs stopped talking, and the rest of the pro-soldiers, Goshha, kept their mouths shut one by one. Until an urgent report came outside: "Two adults, the traitors are driving prisoners of war to fill the river......"

After Huang Jie, who was outside the south gate, received Chen Ming's order, he waved his hand, and the soldiers of the Third Brigade on the front line drove a large group of prisoners of war carrying mud bags on their backs, pushing heavy shield carts and Hao bridges, and rushed towards the south gate of Huainan like a flood.

The Fu Han army had a promise that each person would carry five bags of sediment and sand, or push a shield cart and a Hao bridge, and their mission would be over. And with the red and black bamboo sticks issued by the Fu Han army [the red one is a mud bag, the black one is a cart], they can use this thing in the prisoner of war camp in exchange for extra food. A red skewer can be exchanged for a big steamed bun of four taels, a black skewer can be exchanged for a fish, or a meat steamed bun the size of an adult's palm and a finger thick slice of fat meat, which is definitely a good thing for people in this era.

In addition, these prisoners of war also saw how badly the defenders of the southern city wall were beaten by the cannons of the Fu Han army, and their own fear was not too great, and there were rewards in front of them, and their morale was not too low. Some people even wonder if they should take advantage of the opportunity to do more, which is an added benefit. As soon as the 3rd Brigade gave the order, the prisoners of war poured down.

The Qing army in the south of the city tried their best to dodge the shells and put out the fire, and on the other hand, they did not relax their vigilance against the southern city wall. When the prisoners of war rushed down to the city with dirt bags and sandbags on their backs, pushing shield carts and Hao bridges, the news was immediately reported to the two commanders.

As a bannerman, Arsonaden still has the courage to go to the city, and immediately ordered the town sign to go to the city.

"Commander-in-chief, the Qing soldiers are coming, and the Qing soldiers have landed in the city......"

On the artillery position, Huang Jingting's ears sounded the shouting of the heralds. The cannon is rumbling, and if your voice is too small, it really won't be heard. "Deliver my order and shoot five rounds at the wall—"

Anyway, the people who filled the river were prisoners of war, and they were really unlucky to be killed by a shell, and they were also unlucky. Huang Jingting paid more attention to the killing of the Qing army. What an opportunity.

Arsuna bravely climbed to the top of the city with the town mark, and Arsuna and his town mark were heroically annihilated by the rain of bullets of the Han army......

Zheng Guorui in the city is blue-skinned.

The difference in firepower between the two sides is the distance between heaven and earth, when the Fu Han army did not care about the lives of prisoners of war, they always maintained the bombardment of the southern city wall, and Li Shiyao in the yamen of the governor of Caoyun could not sit still.

Crypt siege is no longer an uncommon tactic, the Fu Han army in Jiangnan bullied people with firepower, and on the battlefield except for the time when they fought Nanjing, they did not do much elsewhere. But Gao Pingshan in Anhui is different, in the territory of the expeditionary force, Anqing was not under much pressure at the beginning, but with the official implementation of the local regimental training policy by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Gao Pingshan gradually felt the heavy pressure. In order to break the momentum of the Qing army, Gao Pingshan launched a counterattack on Hefei, although he had to retreat when the soldiers hit Feixi, but Lujiang and Shucheng were all taken by the second brigade, Gao Pingshan used the crypt to attack the city, directly digging a hole at the foot of the city wall, filling a large amount of gunpowder, and the city walls of Lujiang and Shucheng were blasted by the second brigade.

Li Shuyao knew this tactic very well, and now if the defenders retreated from the city wall, wouldn't they just wait for the Fu Han army to blow up the city wall.

"Report to the town, make the military order of the master of Taiwan......"

Under the South City Gate, Zheng Guorui's face turned black directly after reading the handwritten handwriting handed by Li Shiyao. Every inch of land at the South City Gate will fight for the head of your old turtle! "Bang la...... all the tea cups in hand were swept off." What is Lao Tzu fighting for? "The lives of his soldiers? With Arsona's experience, do you look at the one who is willing to go to the city? Forcing the sergeant to send him to death will cause chaos.

Zheng Guorui was like a wounded beast that had been cornered, turning and turning in the barroom, and suddenly the person stopped. The soldiers are in chaos, yes, I can't force the soldiers of Huaiyang Town to die, but I can let the soldiers under him 'chaos', isn't this all solved? Even if you blame yourself after the war, you can't condemn yourself to death......

"Zhentai's trick is good enough. But the students thought that they could also beggar-thy-neighbor and lead the ...... to the east," Zheng Guorui's aides pointed to a place not far away, which was Caozhou Town, where the general soldier had just died. The Zhengjun is in a state of confusion, if the gossip spreads in the past, saying that they still want to defend the southern city wall, and they have to fight for every inch of land, the people of Caozhou Town must collapse, so Huaiyang Town will collapse with a piece of the crime. The main thing is that the general army of Caozhou Town has been killed.

"Wonderful, wonderful." It's a great plan. Zheng Guorui clapped his hands and praised, and then immediately ordered: "Don't do it quickly!" ”

……

Huai'an City is in full swing, and Yancheng, two hundred miles away, is also in full swing.

After the Fu Han army hit here, they first recruited refugees and laborers, and then exchanged a lot of grain for labor, swept the local salt warehouse and salt warehouse, and bags of salt were pulled back to the south by the Fu Han army. This thing is left in the past, it is all real money, much more valuable than food. But now, food can save lives, and table salt is just salt.

Now outside the city of Yancheng, the black and oppressive refugees are gathered at the gates of the simple camps outside the city, waiting for the soup soup of the Han army left behind. Many of the refugees have even come all the way from Haizhou, north of the Yellow River.

Without the grain brought by the Grand Canal, repeated wars and droughts, this year's northern Jiangsu is really miserable.

At the gate of a camp, more than a dozen logistics soldiers of the Fu Han Army with thirty or forty homeless people had already set up ten cauldrons and boiled multigrain porridge under the simple shack at the entrance of the camp. However, a brigade of logistics soldiers of the Fu Han Army outside the city is maintaining order, and the continuous soup kitchens of the Fu Han Army these days have also given these refugees some trust, and the order is not chaotic.

Then there were some northern Subei people recruited from the refugees by the Fu Han army, wearing yellow and red vests, constantly walking in the crowd, and the refugees lined up in order in a gentle manner. These people have a friendly and not bad attitude, and they all have the accent of northern Jiangsu, and even a few days ago they were 'their own people' among the refugees, so they are very accepted by these refugees.

Tens of thousands of refugees gathered around Yancheng were divided into four major pieces by the Fu Han army with four gates as their substitute. These people are not engaged in production, some are old and some are young, and there are many people who drag the old and the young, and the daily consumption of grain can exceed 500 stones. The Fu Han army raised them in order to invite people's hearts, and it was impossible for many of them to follow the Fu Han army, but they survived this difficulty, whether they stayed in Yancheng or returned to their hometown, they could spread the reputation of the Fu Han army. That's enough!

And the most important point is that the Fu Han army is not short of food at all, if the Fu Han army disperses all the grain it has retrieved from Jiangnan for disaster relief, it is estimated that the order in northern Jiangsu and Jiangnan will be restored to the normal line immediately. And what is the use of Chen Ming pressing this more than one million quintals of grain in his hands?

At present, Fujian is in chaos, and it seems that there is no problem for the Fu Han army to gain a foothold in Nanjing in the short term, but is it really necessary for him to stay in Nanjing all the time? It was too far and too far from the base of the Fu Han army. Compared with Nanjing, Chen Ming was more willing to seize Hubei, capture Hanzhong, cut off the passage from northern Sichuan to Sichuan, and expand the territory of the Han army, which was a territory with control.

When Chen Ming's army went straight to the south of the Yangtze River, he was not prepared to stay in Nanjing all the time, he was thinking about breaking the money bags of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time, and now the situation can develop so well, which Chen Ming never expected at the beginning. But that didn't make him change his mind!

Chen Ming had been planning to annihilate the Manchu living forces as much as possible in the south of the Yangtze River, annihilate the Manchu mobile forces, and then return to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, conquer Hubei Province, and then seize Hanzhong, where there is saltpeter, and it is still the only passage between Sichuan and Shaanxi.

As for Jiangnan, the Fu Han army only needs to keep Jiujiang and Hukou, and keep Anqing, then there will be a bridgehead for the Fu Han army. At the very least, Hukou Jiujiang must be kept, and if Anqing really can't keep it, he won't keep it.

Therefore, too much food is of little use to the Fu Han army. Will there still be a shortage of food in Hubei? That's the big granary of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.) )