The Seventh Division began to set off on the night of Tan Tai's withdrawal and rushed towards Jinan.

When the scouts reported that Tan Tai had led the army to withdraw from Yizhou City, Ma Qianjun ran to find Huang Degong, and he wanted to lead the Seventh Division to reinforce the division commander.

Huang Degong was worried that after the Seventh Division left, the firepower of the Fourth and Sixth Divisions would not be enough to open the Yizhou City Wall, so he hesitated.

But after Ma Qianjun handed over the zha medicine package that Wang Qiang had privately asked for from Liu Weimin to Huang Degong, Huang Degong agreed to set off the Seventh Division to reinforce Jinan overnight.

With the zha medicine kit, the Sixth Division quickly blew up the city wall of Yizhou, but what Huang Degong didn't expect was that the resistance of the Qing soldiers in Yizhou City was so fierce.

What was left in the city of Yizhou was the Qing troops guarding Qingzhou, which was led by Li Shiyuan to brutally suppress the anti-Qing rebels in Shandong, and they all had a lot of blood debts on their hands, and no one dared to surrender under the instigation of Li Shiyuan.

The Fourth and Sixth Divisions that entered Yizhou City paid the price of more than 2,000 casualties, and it took more than two days to wipe out more than 20,000 Qing soldiers in Yizhou City, and Li Shiyuan chose to commit suicide.

After the fierce battle, Yizhou City was already in chaos, and it took Huang Degong more than half a day to completely restore order in Yizhou City.

By the time the garrison troops from Xinyi took over the city defense of Yizhou City, the Seventh Division had already set off for more than three days.

Huang Degong did not care about letting the Fourth and Sixth Divisions rest and recuperate, and after replenishing ammunition, he immediately led two divisions from Yizhou to Jinan.

The battle in Jinan City was temporarily stopped, and after Xie Kui ordered fifty grenadiers to kill and wound a large number of Qing soldiers and archers who rushed to the city, Wu Sangui knew that it was impossible to capture Jinan City today.

Without the cover of musketeers and archers, the Qing soldiers besieging the city were only live targets for the Wehrmacht soldiers on the city walls. Although Tan Tai was still screaming hysterically. But Wu Sangui still withdrew his troops.

In desperation, Tan Tai had no choice but to order Shi Tingzhu's cavalry to withdraw as well.

The two-hour siege cost the Qing troops nearly 6,000 men. The corpses of Qing soldiers were already piled up under the city walls.

Most of the losses were Wu Sangui's infantry troops, but Shi Tingzhu's cavalry did not suffer much losses, he knew that the firepower of the Wehrmacht on the city wall was too fierce, and rushing up could only seek death.

Wu Sangui's eyes were red, he was already stunned by the number of losses, it was only an hour, and his troops had lost more than 5,000, and they had to continue fighting. His own 30,000 or 40,000 infantry troops could not withstand the attack at all.

Wang Qiang in Jinan City was also not happy, the loss of a regiment was not large, so far no one had been sacrificed, only a few dozen soldiers were injured by Qing soldiers and archers, and the problem was not too big after bandaging.

What makes Wang Qiang unhappy is that the ammunition consumption is too great, in the two hours of fighting just now, the ammunition of the whole regiment has been consumed by nearly one-third, if the Qing soldiers come so many times, the ammunition of a regiment will be exhausted, and then what will be used to defend the city?

It's getting late. Wang Qiang knew that the Qing soldiers would not attack the city again today, so he arranged the defense on the city wall. Wang Qiang returned to the temporary headquarters in the teahouse.

"Bring Fang Dayou here!" Wang Qiang instructed the guards.

After a while, Fang Dayou was brought over, and Wang Qiang kept asking people to lock him up in the firewood room in the backyard of the teahouse, which was still very close.

"Tan Tai has already led 100,000 Qing soldiers to attack the city, do you know?" Wang Qiang stared at Fang Dayou and asked.

There was a lot of gunfire in the city, and the teahouse was not far from the city wall, and of course Fang Dayou heard it.

Listening to Wang Qiang's words, Fang Dayou looked up at him, since he was caught by the National Defense Army, Fang Dayou has already had the will to die, as one of the big traitors listed by the Yangzhou Army at the beginning, he knew that the National Defense Army could not let him go, and he was now worried about the fate of his family.

Seeing that Fang Dayou didn't speak, Wang Qiang smiled, "Do you think Tan Tai can rescue you?" ”

The corners of Fang Dayou's mouth moved, and he wanted to say something but closed his mouth again.

"In the battle just now, we wiped out a total of five or six thousand Qing soldiers, do you believe it?" Seeing that Fang Dayou didn't speak, Wang Qiang didn't get angry.

"Tell me! Where is the powder magazine in Jinan City? As you said, when the Provisional Government tries you in the future, I will tell them the truth. Wang Qiang slapped the table vigorously, making Fang Dayou tremble.

The 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers in Jinan City did not know whether there was a powder magazine in Jinan City, but Wang Qiang felt that there must be.

"I said, can you spare my family?" Fang Dayou was silent for a long time, and finally opened his mouth.

In the past, there was no such attention paid to the gunpowder magazine, and since the Yangzhou army directly introduced the war into the firearms age, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also paid unprecedented attention to the manufacture of gunpowder.

There is no gunpowder workshop in Jinan, and the gunpowder in the city is transported from Beijing, and these gunpowder are ready to be transported to the front line in Yizhou.

"You have done evil personally, we will not record the accounts to your family, our Nanjing government will not engage in the association, you can rest assured, as long as your family does not do evil, we will naturally let them go, but the money you looted from the people must be confiscated, I will make this clear to you first."

Wang Qiang listened to Fang Dayou's words and said to him patiently.

"What you said is true?" Fang Dayou was a little overjoyed, he didn't expect the Wehrmacht to let his family go.

"Now the situation is urgent, your family is still under the control of the Jinan Mansion, and after the war, we will naturally send someone to screen, as long as there is no blood debt on the body, it will naturally be fine, if you don't believe it, I will let someone take you back to see it later."

"This powder magazine is in the courtyard behind the government, with more than 10,000 catties, all of which are ready to be sent to Yizhou." Fang Dayou only hesitated for a moment before speaking.

Wang Qiang was overjoyed when he heard this, with these more than 10,000 catties of gunpowder, he could rush to make a lot of zha medicine packets overnight, which could play a big role in the defensive battle.

"Let's go, you take us with us, and you can also see if we have harmed your family."

Wang Qiang beckoned the guards to walk towards the Jinan Mansion and sent someone to inform Xie Kui.

The Qing soldiers outside the city did not rest at night, and Tan Tai felt that the failure of the siege during the day was mainly caused by the lack of siege equipment. If there were enough siege engines. I'm afraid that Jinan has been captured.

Wu Sangui really didn't want to attack the city anymore. He was frightened by the powerful firepower of the city's defense forces, and his capital to save his life was almost exhausted, but he didn't dare to disobey Tan Tai's orders, and there were now thirty or forty thousand cavalry around him.

Wu Sangui, who was thinking hard, had to secretly explain to his subordinates, asking them to grind foreign workers as much as possible, and by tomorrow morning, there would be not enough siege equipment, Tan Tai would not force himself to attack the city, right?

But Wu Sangui's troops weren't the only ones busy. The cavalry brought by Tan Tai and the cavalry of Shi Tingzhu were also desperately cutting down trees, and tens of thousands of people almost cut down the woods south of Jinan.

Tan Tai is not in a hurry, he can't do it at all, Shi Tingzhu's 20,000 cavalry and the 15,000 cavalry he brought did not carry grain and grass, and all he ate at night was the grain carried by Wu Sangui, people could deal with it, but horses could not be expected.

Tan Tai has already sent someone to Tai'an to ask Tai'an City to quickly transport grain and grass, but that will not arrive until the day after tomorrow, and it will not be possible for the war horse to eat tomorrow.

So a few thousand more cavalry ran towards the countryside of Jinan, and then the cries from afar and the light of the fire in the village showed that they were not there to help the people.

Wang Qiang and Xie Kui stood on the city wall and watched the fires in the distant village. Xie Kui was so angry that he smashed his hand at the city wall.

"Don't do that useless thing, smash your hand and tomorrow you won't fight? We'll write it to them here. Sooner or later, I'll figure it out with them one by one, how is the zha medicine bag prepared? Although Wang Qiang was angry, he could still bear it.

"I made more than 2,000 of them, each weighing five or six pounds, wrapped in cloth and tied tightly with hemp rope." Xie Kui heard Wang Qiang's question, and then he took his attention back from outside the city.

"Wrapped in cloth?" Wang Qiang asked suspiciously, it is usually wrapped in kraft paper.

"We couldn't find so much kraft paper this night, but fortunately they found a few rooms of cloth in Fang Dayou's backyard, and I asked them to simply use these cloths to make them, so many broken tiles let us look for a long time, and with the help of the villagers, this is enough."

"By the way, division commander, I also found a few carpentry shops in the city, and asked them to make some trebuchets for us, didn't you say that this thing was easy to use in Xuyi the year before last?"

Xie Kui, who had diverted his attention, kept reporting to Wang Qiang about the preparations for defending the city tomorrow, and when he heard that the preparations were sufficient, Wang Qiang finally felt a little more steady.

In the Qing army camp outside the city, Tan Tai's heart is now much more steady, because he has just received a report that the more than 30,000 infantry troops withdrawn from Yizhou City will also arrive tomorrow afternoon, and there will be more teams that can be used to attack the city, and he can already see that Wu Sangui is a little reluctant to take the troops to fight.

It's just that the grain and grass will take two or three days to arrive, which makes Tan Tai a little helpless, now it is not as good as the situation in the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty warriors never brought grain and grass when they entered the customs, they all went to grab it.

A few days ago, the regent Dolgon also specially told the Qing army that they must pay attention to military discipline and not drive all the people's hearts to the Nanjing government.

Sending people to the village today to forcibly collect military rations Tan Tai is also helpless, he also knows that the so-called "collection" is actually robbing, but if he doesn't rob, how can the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty survive this day? Tan Tai recorded this account in his heart to the head of the national defense force in Jinan City.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and the teahouse on Nanmen Street in Jinan City was still lit, and Wang Qiang was still planning tomorrow's defensive battle with Xie Kui and the officers of each battalion.

"Generals, have a cup of tea." Boss Liu of the teahouse personally walked over with a large teapot, followed by a guy holding a set of glass cups.

"Boss Liu, thank you, come and sit down." Wang Qiang greeted Boss Liu, he has been living in his teahouse these days, which has caused a lot of trouble to his family, and despite the payment, Wang Qiang is still a little unhappy in his heart.

"Ouch, the generals discuss big things, how dare the villain sit down, the little one just brings a cup of tea to the military masters." Boss Liu said with some flattery.

"Don't be villains, our national defense forces don't like this, come on, I still have some things to ask you." Wang Qiang said with a smile.

Boss Liu sat down cautiously.

"Boss Liu, tomorrow the Qing soldiers will definitely attack the city with all their might, we are a little short of manpower, I just want to ask you, if you mobilize the people to defend on the city wall, will everyone come?" (To be continued.) )