The Yangzhou army that re-encircled did not immediately attack the city, and fought fiercely all morning, especially the long-distance attack to besiege the Qing cavalry, which made the physical exertion of the Yangzhou army extremely great, and it was close to noon, and it was already time for lunch.

Geng Jimao was still staring blankly at the Yangzhou army outside the city who was sitting down to eat dry food, and no one knew what he was thinking at the moment.

At this moment, Geng Jimao didn't think about his past, and after he defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with his father in the past, he did too many evil deeds to his compatriots, and he couldn't remember it.

At this time, Geng Jimao's heart swelled up with the kindness of Duoduo, although the cavalry sent by Duoduo did not rescue them, but Prince Yu did not forget the Tianyu army, and sent such an elite cavalry to the rescue, which was enough to make Geng Jimao grateful to Dade.

Today, he personally witnessed the strength of the Yangzhou army, Geng Jimao wanted to tell his master everything he saw as soon as possible, so that they could take precautions as soon as possible, but he knew that this might not be possible.

Although the rescue of the Qing cavalry did not work, and they also put themselves in, it completely dissipated Geng Jimao's fleeting thoughts of surrender.

The Yangzhou army outside the city did not mean to surrender Geng Jimao, and Luo Jian had no intention of surrendering to the Tianyou Army, a hardcore traitor army that had done a lot of evil.

After organizing the troops to eat dry food, Luo Jian did not let the troops attack the city immediately, but rested for more than an hour before slowly organizing the troops to surround Dangshan County again.

Lai Fu was very busy during this time, the war was about to start, and the news from all sides continued to reach Yangzhou, and the analysis and summary of various intelligence made him have no free time.

This afternoon, he was about to go out to find a few points in Yangzhou to understand the situation, and as soon as he arrived at the courtyard of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, he ran into Liu Lan.

When Lai Fu saw Liu Lan, he bowed down and stood on the side of the road.

"Lai Fu, we see you every day, why are you so polite?" Liu Lan asked curiously.

"Back to Madame, Lai Fu asked Madame to strengthen the guards in the mansion during this time, if there is no major matter, I hope that Madame will not leave the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion." Lai Fu still bowed and said to Liu Lan.

"What's going on? What's the situation? Liu Lan suddenly became alert.

"This..." Lai Fu hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and persevered for a long time, but still said: "Please don't ask more Madame, no matter what happens, Lai Fu will give up his life and will protect Madame's safety." ”

"Stop! Come with me, if you don't make things clear today, Lai Fu, don't think of going out of this door! Liu Lan saw that Lai Fu was about to walk away after he finished speaking, and she was suddenly a little angry, so she reprimanded.

Hearing that Liu Lan was angry, Lai Fu didn't dare to move anymore, so he had to follow Liu Lan to the hall.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" Liu Lan asked again, her tone a little cold.

"Madam, Lai Fu is guilty!" After Lai Fu finished speaking, he knelt straight in front of Liu Lan.

"You get up first, and when you're done, you kneel again!" Liu Lan became more and more angry.

"Madam, Lai Fu said on his knees. Before the Governor of the Metropolitan had even set off, I received information that the Manchu envoy Kubilong had conspired with Li Zhan, Liu Kongzhao and others to rebel, and was ready to arrest the emperor and the ministers of the court to force the Governor to withdraw his troops, but Lai Fu ate this information and did not report it to the Governor. ”

Lai Fu lowered his head, still speaking unhurriedly.

"Is there such a thing? Why didn't you report it? Liu Lan was so angry that her face turned green.

"The Metropolitan Governor is Lai Fu's master, and the Metropolitan Governor will always be the emperor in the future, but the Nanjing court has always been a stumbling block on the way to the throne of the Metropolitan Governor, and the Metropolitan Governor can't do anything to it, Lai Fu feels that it is more appropriate to let them do it, so he didn't report it. It's just that today I received another news, saying that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would send 20,000 cavalry from Hunan to attack Nanjing, and now I am afraid that it is not very far from Nanjing. ”

Listening to what Lai Fu said, Liu Lan was already stunned, such important information was actually swallowed by him.

Liu Lan, who was a little confused, took out the pistol left for him by Luo Jian from her handbag, loaded it with a bang, and pointed the muzzle at Lai Fu, who was kneeling on the ground.

Lai Fu looked up at Liu Lan, as the first prisoner of Luo Jian's four people, of course he knew what the muzzle of the black hole meant, but Lai Fu did not panic.

"Lai Fu knows that he has committed a big crime, but Lai Fu feels that he has not done anything wrong, it is okay for Mrs. to kill Lai Fu, but Lai Fu begs Mrs. not to kill Lai Fu now, wait for Lai Fu to sort out the intelligence system in his hand and hand it over to Madame, is it feasible for Madame to kill Lai Fu again?"

Liu Lan calmed down at this time, glared at Lai Fu fiercely, closed the pistol safety and put it in her bag.

"Someone." Liu Lan called two guards over.

"You two watched him." After Liu Lan finished speaking, she went out and ran outside.

Knowing that it was impossible for the Qing soldiers to send reinforcements to rescue Dangshan County in a short period of time, the Yangzhou army was not in a hurry to attack the city.

Yan Yingyuan's artillery was ready to shoot, and outside the east gate of Dangshan County, a hundred artillery pieces were all out of range of the general's cannon at the head of the city.

Yan Yingyuan held the binoculars and carefully counted the large general's cannons exposed on the city wall, and the first thing the artillery should do was to carry out targeted removal of these artillery.

Luo Jian and Huang Degong were still standing behind the side of the artillery position, neither of them interfering with Liu Zhaoji's command, and they were waiting for him to give the order to open fire.

Not all of the Qing soldiers on the city wall were as grateful to Duoduo as Geng Jimao, nor were they all loyal to the Manchu court.

Many Qing soldiers secretly turned back to the city to take a look, and saw Geng Jimao's personal soldiers under the leadership of the little leader, standing under the city wall with a bright waist knife, obviously these people are supervising the war, if they dare to run down the city wall, they must be greeted by a head-on knife.

As Yan Yingyuan reported that the artillery was ready, Liu Zhaoji gave the order to open fire.

With a rapid sound of cannons, a hundred cannons simultaneously opened fire on the wall, which was not very wide in front, and the entire wall was soon enveloped in smoke again.

After firing five shells in a row, Yan Yingyuan ordered to stop firing.

After the smoke cleared, Liu Zhaoji didn't see anyone moving on the city wall, waved his hand, and quickly rushed to the city wall under the leadership of Ma Yingkui.

The moat, which was not too wide, was quickly put up with ladders and planks by the sappers, and a group of people ran through the moat, and the demomen rushed towards the city gate with several boxes of black potions, and were about to dig to bury the huo potions, but the gate suddenly opened.

The several rounds of artillery salvo just now, the most killed and injured were not the Qing soldiers on the city wall, but the Qing soldiers waiting in the city wall were killed and wounded in large numbers, Geng Jimao's personal soldiers had been blown up in a mess, and they could no longer care about supervising the battle against other Qing soldiers, at this time, some generals took the opportunity to lead their subordinates to open the city gate and escaped.

When Ma Yingkui saw it, he was immediately overjoyed, and while shouting loudly, he took the lead and ran towards the city gate, and a group quickly controlled the east gate of Dangshan County.

It took some time to clear the Qing soldiers in the city, and in Dangshan City, the Yangzhou army still paid the price of hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded, and some Qing soldiers hid in the houses and gave the Yangzhou army a lot of casualties with bows and arrows and firearms.

Liu Zhaoji found his body in Geng Jimao's residence in Dangshan City, Geng Jimao committed suicide, and before committing suicide, he killed all his wives and concubines.

Li Chengdong, who arrived later, kicked Geng Jimao's corpse fiercely, and said, "Cheap this kid!" ”

By the time Luo Jian, Huang Degong and others entered Dangshan County, it was already dark.

After Liu Lan asked Lai Fu to look at her, she immediately ran to the Governor's Mansion to find Shi Kefa.

"Brother Shi, something is wrong!"

Shi Kefa happened to be in the mansion and was taken aback when he heard Liu Lan's voice.

"Liulan, what's going on? Xinghua: Something is wrong with them? Shi Kefa wanted to ask if Luo Jian and they had lost the battle, but when the words came to his lips, they became "something went wrong".

"Brother Shi, no, it's Nanjing City that has a big problem." Liu Lan said anxiously.

"Liu Lan, don't worry, speak slowly." Shi Kefa personally poured a glass of water for Liu Lan and handed it over.

Only then did Liu Lan tell Shi Kefa what Lai Fu said just now.

When Shi Kefa heard this, his face changed, and his brain spun rapidly.

Lai Fu didn't know or didn't want to care, but Shi Kefa knew how much the Yangzhou army needed a stable rear, and if the Southern Ming court was destroyed by the Qing army, Yangzhou would definitely fall into the encirclement of the Manchus.

Although the Southern Ming Dynasty is not helpful, but after all, they are the banner of the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, the world still regards them as orthodoxy, with them, the Ming army in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong and other southern provinces will continue to resist, if this banner falls, I am afraid that people's hearts will be gone, what will happen later, then no one can say.

What's more, the Qing army not only wanted to destroy the Southern Ming Dynasty, but its main target was probably Yangzhou, with the cooperation of Liu Kongzhao's sailors, it was not very difficult to attack Yangzhou from the direction of Nanjing, and its invasion of Yangzhou, the first to bear the brunt of it was Guazhou.

Other places in Yangzhou can be lost, but Guazhou must not have any problems, and the most basic industrial base of the entire Greater Yangzhou area is there.

Shi Kefa made a decision in a flash, and immediately sent his guards to Nanjing to inform Ma Shiying, and then rode with Liu Lan to Wang Qiang's garrison.

The two hurried to the garrison, but they didn't notice that in the teahouse outside the governor's mansion, a pair of eyes were staring at the gate of the mansion, watching the two guards ride out of the mansion gate, turn around and run away.

Wang Qiang was also extremely surprised when he heard the news, he didn't expect Lai Fu to do such a thing, no matter what his starting point was, if the Qing cavalry had approached Nanjing, then now Yangzhou had reached an extremely dangerous situation.

Ren Minyu, who received Shi Kefa's notice, also rushed to the garrison division after a while, and several of them looked extremely solemn.

"Shi Ze, you immediately organize all the garrison troops and people in Yangzhou to prepare to defend the city, and try to organize the people outside the city into the city, Xiao Wang, you take the garrison division to rush to Guazhou immediately, and at the same time send someone to report to the governor of Dadu quickly."

Although Shi Kefa, who had experienced a lot of things, was shocked, he did not have the panic when the Qing troops went south for the first time, and still ordered in an orderly manner.

When Shi Kefa rushed to the staff headquarters again, Wang Qiang quickly gave the order, and the entire garrison division was quickly assembled by a burst of emergency assembly posts.

Wang Qiang asked the chief of staff of the garrison division to lead the troops to run to Guazhou, and he led a few people to set off on horseback first.

"How so? Now the most important thing for us is to quickly evacuate the skilled workers to Yangzhou City, and you quickly lead the garrison division to deploy along the Yangtze River, and the Guazhou wharf and shipyard are the focus. ”

When Liu Weimin heard this, he was also taken aback, thought about it briefly, and said to Wang Qiang.

Song Yingxing and Chen Zilong, who received the news, also rushed over and briefly understood the situation, Song Yingxing opened his mouth and said:

"Xiao Wang, the equipment for preparing a regiment for the third division has been loaded and is preparing to be shipped, you quickly send someone to stop them, with these rifles, it will be difficult for the Qing soldiers to attack them."

When Wang Qiang heard that there were more than 1,000 rifles, he was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered people to go.

"I said don't be happy early, has your garrison trained Yangzhou Type 1 rifle?" Liu Weimin said.