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When the entire Yangzhou was preparing for the upcoming siege of the Qing army under the leadership of Ren Siqi, the Qing army outside the city was not idle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Chengdong successfully persuaded Admiral Li Benshen, General Yang Chengzu and other former Gaojie troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, including the newly surrendered Liu Liangzuo Division, and now the total strength of the Qing army outside Yangzhou City has reached 230,000, including more than 50,000 Manchurian, Han and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers, and other green battalion soldiers adapted from the surrendered Ming army as many as 180,000, except for the Ming army in Yangzhou City, the Ming army north of the Yangtze River except for Liu Zeqing's department in Huai'an, and Huang Degong's department in the Wuhu area, all the others surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty!

Since the army is so strong now, it is natural that he cannot be idle, and Duoduo ordered an attack on Yangzhou despite the fact that the red-coated cannon had not yet arrived.

Originally, Duoduo was still waiting for the civil strife in Yangzhou City, but after waiting for a day or two, Yangzhou City was not only not chaotic, but more regulated, according to the detailed report in the city, the Ganshan soldiers who tried to rebel have been exterminated, and the salt merchant Wang Lin and many gentry who participated in it were raided.

Although the supervisor Shi Kefa was seriously injured and fell into a coma, the city was cleaned up under the leadership of Su Jubo Ren Siqi, which quickly stabilized the hearts of the people.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, most of the cities they have fought have relied on the defenders to fight civil strife or surrender, except for the Tongguan and Shun armies, there have not been many hard battles at all, but it does not mean that the Manchus will not fight hard battles and dare not fight hard battles!

Duoduo immediately ordered that with Beledoro as the main general, he commanded Li Benshen, the commander of the green battalion, and Yang Chengzu, the general soldier, with a total of more than 60,000 troops, to attack the northern city of Yangzhou.

With Li Shutai as the main general, he commanded the green battalion soldiers Xu Dingguo, Liu Zhong, and the original Li Yuchun, with a total of 50,000 people attacking Xicheng.

With Belenikan as the main general, he commanded 10,000 Mongolian Eight Banner cavalry, as well as Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of the Green Battalion, Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu, a total of 65,000 people, to attack Nancheng.

As for the eastern side of Yangzhou, because there was a wide canal to bypass, it was impossible to attack until the canal was controlled.

However, the city of Yangzhou is high and deep, and if you want to attack the city wall, the first problem that must be solved is the moat.

The moat outside Yangzhou is more than 40 meters wide and 10 meters deep, and the river is connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It would be difficult for an ordinary landlubber to swim across such a wide river, let alone cross the moat to attack the city.

In the face of Yangzhou's moat, the Qing army adopted the stupidest method, which was to fill it!

On April 22, the Qing army first launched an attack on the southern city, and under the orders of Belenikan, tens of thousands of green battalion cannon fodder each carried a cloth bag full of dirt, and ran desperately towards the city with their heads down. Because Yangzhou's moat is connected to the canal from the south city, if you want to fill the river, you must first cut off the connection between the canal and the moat.

Nikan issued a strict order that every Green Battalion soldier must transport a bag of dirt and throw it into the moat, otherwise he would be killed, and no one except the generals of the Green Battalion could be exempted.

Strange to say, when they belonged to the Ming army, these green battalion soldiers boycotted, made trouble, and did not listen to dispatches, but after surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they were obedient like Sun Tzu one by one.

Under the command of ordinary officers, a battalion of green battalion soldiers rushed to the moat with mud bags on their shoulders, and they scrambled one by one.

The main force defending the city in the south city was Hu Shangyou, the general soldier of Sichuan, and there were more than 3,000 Sichuan soldiers under him, including only more than 300 archers. But in the face of the Qing soldiers who are as many ants as ants in the city, this point of arrow is not enough to see. Some of the Green Battalion soldiers fell, and the rest of the fallen companions did not care about it at all, but only ran desperately to the moat, threw the mud bags down the river, and then turned and ran back.

had to report that the Qing army was attacking the city, Ren Siqi immediately rushed to the south city with his personal guards, and saw that the archers of the Sichuan soldiers in the city could not contain the green battalion soldiers at all. Ren Siqi immediately ordered the newly established bow battalion to go to the city, and sent a hundred artillery pieces to the south city. As mentioned above, the Daishan Army came to Yangzhou this time with a total of 200 guns of 500 catties, each of which was equipped with wheels that were easy to move, and no cannon only needed five or six soldiers to tow it, and it could be easily moved.

Two thousand five hundred newly formed archers were the first to ascend the city walls, and the soldiers drew their bows and arrows, and began to shoot at the green battalion soldiers running below the city.

To increase the effectiveness of the shot, the method of salvo fire was used. Two thousand five hundred men were divided into two groups and, under the orders of the battalion Zheng Mao Liu, began to shoot covering the city.

For the recruits of the bow battalion, if you let a single person shoot, I am afraid that nine times out of ten, I will not be able to shoot, but the covering shot of a thousand people is very powerful.

Just one volley went down, and Ren Siqi saw that a hundred green battalion soldiers were knocked to the ground, and then soon another group of archers continued to shoot. The two groups of archers shot arrows alternately, and the rain of arrows was overwhelming and continuous, and countless green battalion soldiers were shot down on the way before they could get close to the moat.

"Lord Belle, the casualties of the brothers are too great!" Liu Liangzuo's face turned blue when he saw it, how could his soldiers have fought such a tragic battle.

Nikan just gave him a cold look, keeping his mouth shut and saying nothing. How can a force that surrenders easily be affordable, in Nikan's view, the lives of these surrendered troops are not worth anything at all, the Southern Dynasty is a lot of people, and this group of people will be recruited after they die.

Seeing that the brothers who filled the moat in front of them had suffered heavy casualties, and that thirty percent of the five or six hundred people in the first battalion had been killed or wounded, the faces of the soldiers who had not yet arrived turned pale one after another, and their eyes were rolling wildly with various ideas.

But when some cheating and slippery soldiers dropped their mud bags and secretly ran back, and then were pulled out by the vicious Eight Banners soldiers and beheaded, others no longer dared to fight this idea. One by one, they ran fast with mud bags on their backs, praying for God's blessing as they ran.

Seeing that the casualties of his subordinates were too great, Liu Liangzuo ordered the shields of the whole army to be placed on the heads of the soldiers who went to fill the moat.

With the protection of the shield, the casualties were much smaller, which made the filling of the moat much faster. In an hour's work, a small part of the moat was filled.

But at this moment, a hundred artillery pieces of the Daishan army were transferred to the city wall.

In a group of three artillerymen, the muzzles of the guns were lowered and facing straight in front of the moat. The gunpowder was then loaded and the shells were stuffed, this time not with solid shells, but with scattered shells made up of hundreds of iron nails and iron balls.

With the order of the artillery commander, a hundred guns opened fire one after another, and with a loud bang, the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the whole city was filled with white smoke.

Before the smoke cleared, the artillerymen began to wipe the chambers with a damp cloth wrapped in iron drills and reload the gunpowder projectiles. The smoke of gunpowder dissipated slightly, and when I looked down the city, I saw that the green battalion soldiers running under the city had fallen a large piece.

Hundreds of artillery pieces fired tens of thousands of shotshots, forming a rain of bullets that were overwhelming, even with shields! (To be continued.) )