Shi Kefa was not afraid of death and vowed to coexist with Yangzhou, but the officials in the city did not think so. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially the sentence of the Qing army messenger, "On the day the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs!" ", which gave a lot of officials a headache.

In the temporary official residence of King Zhu Yousong, several cabinet ministers are discussing.

"Shi Kefa wants us to be buried together! We can't afford to be indifferent! Zheng Sanjun, a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple, was the first to speak.

"That's right, knowing that you can't do it, it's really the courage of a horseman, regardless of the safety of the people in the city, to the people and the fire and water, how can a person who is an official do?" Liu Zongzhou, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, echoed.

According to their thinking, since Yangzhou cannot be defended, there is no need to resist desperately, and more consideration should be given to the people of Limin, surrender to ensure safety, and at the worst of all, find a way to break through and go south.

"It's useless, do you think Zhu Youzhen sent us over really to boost the morale of the army? It's just to eradicate dissidents! "Now, how can the blessed king Zhu Yousong not understand the reason.

Sent a prince and three cabinet ministers to guard Yangzhou, but as a result, not a single soldier in the imperial court was reinforced, and they didn't even give these people a little military power, what is this called?

Typical borrowed knife killing.

Because they have no military power, if they surrender to the Qing Dynasty, maybe before they get out of the city, they will be corrected by Shi Kefa's army on the spot, and it is not possible to stay in Yangzhou City, after all, they belong to the main officials guarding Yangzhou on the surface, if the Qing court defeats Yangzhou City, who will listen to you, the general of the defeated army without any real power explains?

The best way is to break out, which is not a defection, and with the status of these people, Zhu Youzhen does not dare to do anything to them in the open.

"I have a way to break through, but it takes one person to convince me." Xu Shilin, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, said suddenly.

"It's useless, Shi Kefa is an old stubborn, he is already crazy, how can he let us break through." Zheng Sanjun thought that Xu Shilin was referring to Shi Kefa.

"It's not Shi Kefa, it's the reinforcements sent by Suzhou last time, and Suzhou garrisons Guo Sheng." Xu Shilin explained.

"That's right! Today's Qing army persuaded to surrender, the young general is next to the old stubborn, and also persuaded the old stubborn to break through, although the old stubborn did not agree, but also said, to send someone to open a gap, escort the young general out of Yangzhou, now think about it, the old stubborn is selling Suzhou Li Menghui's favor, if we want to leave here, encourage the young general surnamed Guo to take us away, not without a chance! Liu Zong slapped his thigh on Monday and said quickly.

"That's right, although the young general surnamed Guo refused at the time, but I think I should be embarrassed, or I am worried that I will break through alone, and I will be punished by Li Menghui after returning to Suzhou, as long as we go to him, with the official positions of the three of us, plus the promise of King Fu, he is a small guard, and he will not obediently escort us out of the city?" Xu Shilin added.

In the eyes of these people, Guo Sheng should also belong to the "greedy for life and afraid of death" and the like, but because of his face or because he was worried about the punishment of the chief official, he rejected Shi Kefa's proposal.

Now in the entire Yangzhou City, only Guo Sheng proposed to break through, not only was he scolded by Shi Kefa, but Shi Kefa even promised to send troops to help him break through, so several people pinned their hopes on Guo Sheng.

According to their ideas, there are three cabinet ministers, plus a blessed king, such a large force is taking care of, maybe there is no need to coerce, as long as it is mentioned a little, a little benefit, the other party will definitely agree without hesitation.

You don't have to die on the battlefield, you can still be promoted and make a fortune after you go back, who would refuse this kind of thing?

"That's it, let's divide our soldiers into two ways, these days, I have also secretly bought some generals, you go and talk to that Guo Sheng, if not, then we can only do the opposite, but we can't be like Liu Liangzuo to oppose openly, just wait for the city to break, send troops to capture Shi Kefa, hand it over to the Qing army generals, maybe it can save our lives." Jung Sanjun decided to add an insurance policy.

"Also, the threat of the Qing army today is known to the whole city, among these people, there may not be those who have the same thoughts as us, especially those big families, these days under the coercion of Shi Kefa, although they dare not say anything, but their hearts have long been dissatisfied with the current status quo, as long as we are in charge, I believe these people will definitely stand by us." Liu Zongzhou also made suggestions.

In the hands of the big families, there are more or less some family members, thugs, gather these people, and even pull out an army, although it is not realistic to fight with the regular army, but after the city is broken, it is no problem to gather together to protect themselves and wait for the Qing army to surrender.

Since Zhu Yousong, the blessed king, calls Zhu Youzhen by his name in front of everyone, there is no need for these people to hide it, and simply put the self-protection methods they have thought of these days on the surface..........

Inside the city of Yangzhou, the people are panicking, and outside the city of Yangzhou, the Qing army from all walks of life is also frequently mobilized.

"Lord Wang, the 30,000 sailors sent back by Zheng Zhilong will be incorporated into the Baoyi slaves, which will be used as the first wave of troops to attack Yangzhou." Handy said to Dord.

The sailor lost the battle and now can only accept the fate of being cannon fodder.

"Where's Bolo?" Duoduo asked suddenly.

"Bolobel has already led the army to the south gate, and before he left, he said that he would definitely be the first to break through the south gate, and it would be a shame for Chongming Island." Handai explained.

"The south gate doesn't even have a Hongyi cannon, how can he break the door?" Duoduo wondered.

Originally, he had a good relationship with Bolo, otherwise he would not have allocated 100,000 people for Bolo to lead troops to attack Chongming Island.

The reason why Bolo was mentioned just now was to let Bolo lead the army to attack from the north gate, and there was Hongyi artillery support at the north gate, and I believe that the city would be broken soon.

As a result, I didn't expect Bolo to be so conceited that he chose the most difficult south gate.

"When Borobelle left, he took five hundred self-generated firearms, two hundred pounds of gunpowder, and three palm thunders from me, saying that it was enough to break through the city gates with these things." Han Dai replied truthfully.

He is in charge of logistics, and he naturally knows what Bolo takes.

"Oh? This guy, except for the Hongyi cannon, looked down on any firearms before, why did Chongming Island become interested in this firearm after the First World War? "Dodor was a little surprised.

Duoduo was more pertinent about firearms, but as a banner man, he could not order his subordinates to use Han firearms instead.

And those Han officers who surrendered, in order to "cater to" the preferences of the banner people, replaced the bird guns in their hands with bows and arrows and spears, so although the Qing army captured many firearms, they did not take them out to fight, and these captured firearms were finally kept in the quartermaster.

Now that Bolo had suddenly taken so many birds, it was indeed a surprise to Dord.

"This........ Humble office is not clear. Handai said.

"In this way, tomorrow Buddha dawns, he will concentrate artillery fire on the north gate, remember, only fire, do not attack, no military order, no stop! Han Dai, you can transport some more shells over. If Bolo breaches the south gate before dark, the whole army will launch a general attack on the north gate, and if the south gate has not been breached after dark, then the whole army will also attack the north gate. Duoduo explained to the generals below.

This can be regarded as a fake public and private benefit, buying time for Bolo's meritorious service.