Shi Kefa was a little surprised by Luo Jian's surprise and asked, "Xinghua, what's the matter, are these muskets different from before?" ”

When Luo Jian heard this, he knew that Shi Kefa didn't know the details of these rifles, so he hurriedly introduced to him the difference between this Minny gun and the previous firecracker.

Shi Kefa was also overjoyed when he heard this, and he stood up in a hurry and was about to go back to urge Xiao Liu and them to hurry up and make this rifle.

"Brother Xian, this Minny gun is very troublesome to make, Xiao Liu and they have done their best, there is no need to rush them." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"It's the brother of Xian who should go back to Yangzhou to sit down, so as not to make the people of Yangzhou unstable."

"Hehe, that's not necessary, as long as the news of your return comes back to Yangzhou, that's the best news." Shi Kefa also said with a smile.

"Brother Xian, I don't have that much effect, right? The commanders of this specific battle are all Huang Degong, and I just came up with ideas, and I am not good at specific battles. ”

Luo Jian said modestly, this expert is an insider, in the past, the Ming Dynasty army used laymen to command generals, which is also one of the reasons why the Ming army often loses battles.

"I said Xinghua, you are so modest, the news of the total annihilation of the Qing cavalry outside Shouzhou City came out, who would dare to say that you are a layman?" Shi Kefa smiled when he heard this.

"But Xinghua, you have lost a lot of weight, if Liu Lan knows, she will definitely feel distressed for a long time." Shi Kefa, who was in a good mood, actually made a joke.

Shi Kefa said that Liu Lan was also very nervous these days, and she had to go to the staff headquarters several times a day to see if there was any news from Luo Jian.

In fact, the Yangzhou army was able to quickly withdraw from Fengyang to Tianchang, and Liu Lan made a great contribution.

Before the war, Liu Lan took the women of Yangzhou City to work overtime to make a lot of fried rice and fried noodles, and Luo Jian and they relied on these dry foods to save a lot of time, so they rushed back before the Qing soldiers.

Shi Kefa still returned to Yangzhou, these tens of thousands of fleeing people still need to be resettled, although there is no shortage of food at present, but accommodation and everything need to be coordinated and arranged, Ren Minyu and his prefect Yamen are already busy.

After sending off Shi Kefa, Luo Jian went to the city tower on the wall of the Great Wall of Heaven, raised his binoculars and looked at the Qing soldiers five or six miles away.

The camp of the Qing soldiers is the same as that of the Yangzhou army, and it is also extremely strong, it seems that they have made preparations with both hands, and the attack is not successful to turn into defense, anyway, the main purpose is to stop the reinforcements from Tianchang to Xuyi.

The Duoduo army has firmly surrounded Xuyi County, surrounded by dense barracks, and the small Xuyi County seems to have become a lonely boat in the ocean.

To the west of Xuyi County, more than 30 red-coated cannons are setting up positions, and when these cannons destroy the city wall, the Qing soldiers will go up to attack.

Of course, Dodor was also prepared with two hands, and the siege vehicles that were being assembled were for use in case the walls could not be destroyed.

The red-coated cannons of the Qing soldiers were not set up smoothly, and the upper red-coated cannons at the head of the city had already fired, and although the possibility of a direct hit on the cannon was extremely small, the threat to the artillery soldiers was still great.

Fortunately, there were not many red-coated cannons on the head of the city, and only a few shells were fired, and the Qing soldiers stubbornly insisted on building their positions at the risk of being hit by these solid bullets.

Duoduo didn't know that Liu Zhaoji in the city was transferring the red-clothed cannons placed on the city wall in other directions, although these cannons were very troublesome to transfer, but Liu Zhaoji felt that he had to do this, if the Qing cannons were allowed to bombard the city wall, it was estimated that this Xuyi city would not be defended for long.

At the same time, Ma Yingkui and Zhuang Zigu were also directing the soldiers to transport sacks full of stones in this direction, preparing to urgently plug the gap after the Qing soldiers destroyed the city wall.

Liu Zhaoji regretted that he didn't get a few new artillery pieces of the Yangzhou Army to come to the city, if there was that kind of artillery, there would still be room for the Qing soldiers to calmly arrange red-coated cannons.

The siege of the Qing army began with an artillery battle on both sides.

Although the artillery at the head of the city delayed the erection of the Qing army's red-coated cannons, it finally failed to stop them.

Wang Qiang saw that the red-clothed cannon on the city wall was just a cannon for the Qing soldiers, and felt that the probability of hitting was too low, so he ran over to find Liu Zhaoji and told him to let more than a dozen guns concentrate on one, and in this way, only two cannons of the Qing soldiers were killed.

The cannons of the Qing soldiers had already fired, and more than a dozen pounds of solid cannonballs smashed on the city wall, and Wang Qiang felt as if an earthquake had occurred.

Feeling that he couldn't let the Qing soldiers bombard the city wall so casually, Wang Qiang squinted his eyes, stretched out his thumb and carefully calculated the distance between the city wall and the Qing soldiers' red-clothed cannons.

Wang Qiang estimated that these red-coated cannons were about a mile and a half away from the city wall, a distance that exceeded the range of the trebuchets designed by Liu Weimin, and there were no weapons in the city that could threaten these red-coated cannons except for the red-coated cannons and the tiger squat cannons.

This gave Wang Qiang the idea of leading people to attack, squatting on the edge of the city wall, Wang Qiang carefully pondered the feasibility of attacking.

The solid cannonballs kept smashing on the city wall, as if they had smashed into Wang Qiang's heart, and this passive beating made Wang Qiang extremely uncomfortable.

Sticking out his head from the edge of the city and looking at the artillery position of the Qing soldiers, he saw that the Qing soldiers' brigade was also a few hundred meters away from the red-coated cannons, which was the red-coated cannons on the head of the city that forced them to wait outside the firing range, which created the possibility of a city assault.

Wang Qiang pulled Wang Sicheng to find Liu Zhaoji and put forward his thoughts, he prepared like this, all with cavalry with grenades, riflemen to cover, even if they couldn't destroy the red-coated cannons, they had to disrupt their arrangement.

Liu Zhaoji thought about it for a long time, and finally made up his mind and agreed to this action.

But he resolutely disagreed with Wang Qiang to lead the team, and seeing that Wang Qiang still insisted, he said that he would cancel the operation.

In the end, it was decided that Wang Sicheng would lead a hundred cavalry out of the city to attack the red-coated artillery, and the city immediately made nervous preparations.

The red-coated cannons at the head of the city aimed at the Qing army brigade waiting behind the red-coated cannons, trying to drive them farther.

The attack of more than a dozen red-coated cannons had a certain effect, and the Qing army finally retreated fifty or sixty steps back.

Wang Sicheng took a hundred cavalry and began to line up more than 50 meters away from the west gate, so far away from the city gate, in order to leave a distance for the cavalry to accelerate.

When the cavalry began to start, the city gate was quickly opened, and a hundred cavalry rushed out and went straight to the Qing army's red-coated artillery position more than 800 meters away.

Wang Sicheng took the lead, with the rifle still on his back, holding a grenade in his right hand that had pulled off the pull ring, followed by four riflemen, all four riflemen holding rifles in their right hands, ready to shoot at any time.

Finding that the cavalry of the Yangzhou army was coming towards the red-coated cannon, the Qing army team was in a commotion, and soon a group of cavalry also galloped out from the right, wanting to intercept the cavalry of the Yangzhou army.

Time, the most important thing is time, the cavalry of the Yangzhou army beat the horses vigorously, and the speed of the war horses has reached the limit.

In less than a minute, Wang Sicheng was only a few dozen steps away from the red-clothed cannon on the far right, and Wang Sicheng threw the grenade in his hand towards the cannon.

At this time, the cavalry of the Qing soldiers was only a few dozen steps away from them, and after Wang Sicheng threw out the grenade, he strangled the war horse vigorously.

The war horse neighed and stood upright, Wang Sicheng turned over and jumped off the horse, rolled on the ground, took off the rifle from his back, knelt on one knee, and fired at the Qing cavalry.

Wang Sicheng's rapid movement won time for the Yangzhou cavalry, and the Qing cavalry who was shot by the rifle fell down three horses in an instant, and the cavalry following behind subconsciously reined in the horse, and at this time several other gunners had jumped off their horses and were ready to shoot.

The continuous fire of the five rifles stopped the cavalry of the Qing army, Wang Sicheng had already jumped in front of the first red-coated artillery position, lying in front of the fortifications and continuing to fire at the Qing cavalry, and the dense cavalry made him almost miss a shot.

The cavalry of the Yangzhou Army, which soon followed, threw the grenade in their hand towards the position of the red-coated cannon while running, and the cavalry behind turned over and dismounted, throwing the grenade into the barrel of the red-coated cannon that was still smoking.

Knowing that the firearms of the Yangzhou army were powerful, Kong Youde did not personally command the artillery position, he was in the array of cavalry in the rear.

Seeing that the red-coated cannons were about to be destroyed, Kong Youde also turned red-eyed, and ordered his own soldiers to rush forward without their lives, and there were more and more Qing cavalry rushing up.

All the eyes of the head of Xuyi City were focused on the fierce battle under the city, and seeing the Qing cavalry rushing up regardless of casualties, Wang Qiang shouted anxiously on the city wall, "Hurry up and retreat!" ”

Wang Sicheng got up and took a look at the situation of the explosives, and while continuing to fire at the Qing cavalry, he turned around and gave the order to retreat.

Several riflemen fought and retreated, covering the other cavalry to rush towards the city gate, and Wang Qiang had already led dozens of Minnie gunners on the city wall to prepare for it.

When the west gate of Xuyi City was heavily closed, Wang Qiang had the heart to see the situation of the Qing army's red-clothed cannons.

Just as Wang Qiang was counting how many doors were destroyed one by one, Wang Sicheng's head had already come to the side and counted together.

"You kid, that's a good job!" Wang Qiang patted Wang Sicheng's shoulder vigorously, but he forgot where he had just counted, so he had to count from the beginning.

Liu Zhaoji had already seen clearly that there were still four red-coated cannons of the Qing army that had not been blown up, and Lao Liu was now extremely down-to-earth, "Without the red-coated cannons, what do you use to attack the city?" ”

Kong Youde looked at the cannon that had been blown up, but it still looked intact, and he was extremely unwilling to lie down and look at the cannon body carefully.

"Lord Wang, it's no longer available." The artillery soldier next to him pointed to the already raised part of the gun body and said carefully.

Kong Youde got up and glanced at the soldier, and the soldier trembled.

Kong Youde didn't get angry this time, and silently got up and went to the place where Duoduo was behind.

Duoduo watched the destruction of the red-coated cannon on the hillside two miles away from the red-coated cannon position, and a feeling of helplessness welled up in his heart.

Kong Youde Pegasus ran in front of Duoduo, turned over and dismounted and knelt in front of Duoduo, "You are guilty of despicability, please punish Prince Yu!" ”

Worried that Duoduo's anger would burst out, Kong Youde took the initiative to ask for guilt.

Duoduo didn't punch the hole this time and was angry, just looked at him coldly.

"What now?" Duoduo's tone was so cold that Kong Youde's whole body twitched.

"It's... The lowly position immediately led people to attack. Kong Youde said tremblingly.

Countless Qing soldiers began to surround Xuyi City from all sides, Liu Zhaoji and several regiment commanders stood on the city wall and watched, and when they saw the situation under the city, "These beasts! Liu Zhaoji slammed his fist on the city wall, and blood immediately flowed out.

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