More than 500 shield carts were dispatched, and only a hundred were able to come back safely, and looking at the situation on the battlefield, Duoduo frowned tightly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Since the army went south, all the Ming troops fled or knelt down in front of the Eight Banners to surrender, this battle can be described as smooth sailing, but I didn't expect this Yangzhou to become a hard bone that can't be bitten!

Yangzhou is the place where Shi Kefa, the governor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, is stationed, and Duoduo has considered the difficulty of fighting Yangzhou as much as possible before the attack, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult. Twice attacked by the Ming army in the city, more than 3,000 Eight Banner warriors and tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers were damaged, which made Duoduo dare not divide his troops to attack the city, but gathered a large army to attack the west side. The city of Yangzhou is too big, and the nearby water network extends in all directions, if the troops are divided again, who knows if it will be attacked again.

Siege warfare is always very cruel, this is true for the defenders, and even more cruel to the besiegers, under normal circumstances, even if the city is defeated, the loss of the besieging side will be several times that of the defending side. At that time, under the city of Ningyuan, tens of thousands of Eight Banner troops led by the Mandate of Heaven Khan also had to return with thousands of casualties, you must know that Ningyuan is only a small city with a radius of seven miles, and the current population of Yangzhou City is dozens of times that of Ningyuan City!

But what? The current Qing army is not comparable to the Houjin army in the Mandate of Heaven, now the Qing Dynasty has captured half of the Ming Dynasty, in the face of the Eight Banners Army, whether it is the officers and soldiers, the military and the people of the Southern Ming Dynasty have surrendered to the wind, how can the city of Yangzhou be able to stop it?

As long as we defeat Yangzhou, pull out the last barrier of Nanming, and take advantage of the situation to cross the river, the whole world will be full of people!

Duoduo looked coldly at Yangzhou City opposite, and secretly made up his mind that no matter how many casualties there were, he would defeat Yangzhou!

It's too slow to rely on shield carts to fill the moat, so let's fill it with people! There are 200,000 Green Battalion soldiers who surrendered, and now is the time to use them!

Duoduo gave an order and transferred all the green battalion soldiers to fill the gap. According to the time of surrender, the latest to surrender was the first, and the first round to go up to fill in was the soldiers under the original Liu Liangzuo.

With the battalion as a unit, more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers are personally led by a general or deputy general. All the soldiers did not carry any weapons, but carried a sack full of dirt and a shield to protect their heads, and then ran to the moat and threw the sack.

Duoduo promised that as long as he could return safely, he would not have to participate in siege battles in the future, and that he would enter the city with the army and sack it when the city was breached.

In order to raise enough sacks of soil, the Qing army attacked and harassed in all directions, collecting large quantities of sacks of cloth from the deserted towns and villages that had fled nearby.

With 5,000 green battalion soldiers as a batch, they went to fill in the water in turn.

The shovel shoveled up the soil, filled with sacks and cloth bags, Xu Dingguo led and commanded tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers to be responsible for filling sacks, this design killed the original Henan general soldier of Xingping Bo Gaojie, because of the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty relatively early, fortunately got the errand of filling the sacks, unless other green battalion soldiers took a round, no need to risk death to fill the river.

More than 5,000 green battalion soldiers under Liu Liangzuo were the first batch, and they carried sacks of soil one by one, waiting for the order to dispatch with pale faces. The artillery at the head of the city was still roaring, and the projectiles fell on the array of the Qing army, but no one dared to move. Behind him, there were Eight Banner soldiers riding tall horses with knives to supervise, and no one dared to move.

The horn of departure finally sounded, and under the leadership of an adjutant general with the same pale face, five thousand green battalion soldiers carrying sacks on their shoulders embarked on their cannon fodder road.

The sack containing more than forty pounds of dirt is not very heavy, and any adult man can carry it and run fast, what makes the green battalion soldiers afraid is the cannon and rocket arrows flying from the city, and the small round shield on the top of their heads does not give them much security.

Seeing that the Qing army chose to forcibly fill the land with people, the Ming army at the head of the city was naturally not polite, and the ballistas fired in unison, and the muskets rang out continuously, and launched a covering shot at the Qing soldiers who were rushing under the city.

The running Qing soldiers felt like they were running in hailstones, and the round shield above their heads made a "bangbang" sound from time to time, which was shot by a bow and arrow. From time to time, there were screams around him, and then they stopped abruptly, so he knew that another brother had died under the arrows of the Ming army.

Screams rang out one after another, and one after another Qing soldiers were shot. Luckily escaped, it was too late to rejoice, and one by one the pale faces ran faster. Rush to the moat, throw the sack off your shoulder, carry the shield behind you, turn and flee back at a faster pace.

"Swap shots!" Under the order of artillery commander Chen Yujie, the artillery with a shorter range gave up loading solid shells and modified them with scattered shells, and hundreds of iron nails, iron sheets, and stones were loaded into the cannon chamber, and a large piece was blasted out, and there were even more Qing soldiers who fell in front of the moat.

Liu Liangzuo looked at the situation on the battlefield with a pale face, and only more than 4,000 of the 5,000 soldiers sent to fill the land could come back safely, and a thousand people died on the way, or by the moat.

Before the living Green Battalion soldiers could escape back to their positions, another group of 5,000 Green Battalion soldiers were coerced to carry sacks and join the queue to fill the water.

Batch after batch of green battalion soldiers were dispatched, rushing between the Qing army's position and the Yangzhou moat, the Qing army had dug a huge pit in front of the formation, and the green battalion soldiers who were responsible for loading sandbags were tired and their wrists were painful.

Liu Liangzuo's original 50,000 green battalion soldiers had already taken a turn, and only the 1,500 personal soldiers directly under him did not have a turn, but with his status, Duoduo naturally could not send him to personally lead the troops into battle. So the next round of people sent to fill in the new round were Zhang Tianfu and Zhang Tianlu's brothers, who had just surrendered......

Of the 50,000 troops, only 40,000 could or returned, and nearly 10,000 fell on the way to fill the water. Liu Liangzuo closed his eyes in pain, but he didn't dare to say anything, since he chose to surrender, and all the power in the past left him, Duoduo would definitely not hand over tens of thousands of troops to his own hands, Liu Liangzuo knew this.

Under the orders of Dodor regardless of casualties, the surrendered Green Battalion soldiers were driven into the sequence of filling, and the moat was filled at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually filling in a passage as wide as a mile. There are a lot of corpses under the city of Yangzhou, and there are corpses of green battalion soldiers everywhere. These people originally chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in order to survive, but they didn't expect to be used as artillery fire to attack the city and die under the city of Yangzhou.

With the sound of the horn, the Qing army's large array slowly retreated, and since the moat had been filled, the next step was to attack the city directly.

The setting sun was like blood, reflecting half of the sky. The cool breeze blows the flag of the city and hunts. The thatched grass under the city was overgrown, and there were countless feathered arrows that shot down the city, and the corpses were piled up in the wilderness, and the blood stained the whole earth red! (To be continued.) )