Kong Youde's army was like a fierce tiger, pressing towards Yangzhou City like a big net.

Hearing that the spies of the former army came to report, saying that the champion army burned down the camp and divided the troops to resist, Kong Youde disdained it, and secretly said: I want to work hard, you Wang Lanping is not qualified for this, the Qing army is prepared this time, and taking Yangzhou City is a devastating trend, and even if you have three heads and six arms, you will not be able to stop me.

Kong Youde ordered that the whole army speed up the march, and must rush over before the formation of the defense line of the champion army, and go directly to the city of Yangzhou.

The three armies on the left and right were galloping, and half of the troops were half of the troops in a blink of an eye for dozens of miles, and they were twenty miles away from Yangzhou, when suddenly the sound of killing in the direction of the left army shook the sky, and the guns rang out in unison.

"Report, marshal, the left army marched to ten miles outside Yangzhou and was fiercely attacked by the Ming army"

Kong Youde looked at the map, the left army is the key to the city, two hundred cannons are all on the left, but there must be no delay, at the moment, he waved his horsewhip, "There is no need to fight, the right army is ordered to spread out immediately, gallop to the left, and sweep away all the Ming army blocking positions outside Yangzhou City, I want to see how Wang Lanping can stop my army"

Wang Lanping really didn't dare to block the advance of the Qing army with a tide of troops, so he could only block the offensive of the Qing army in sections, and the first battle was Song Xian's Fengzi battalion, which launched an attack on the Qing army's left army with a fierce offensive.

After the previous battle, the strength of the Fengzi battalion was greatly damaged, and even the wounded soldiers were less than 4,000 people, and they were not able to stop the 20,000 people of the Qing army's left route army, and this was Kong Youde's firearms unit, although the march was slow, but the combat effectiveness was definitely the pride of the whole army.

Song Xian and Song Dali each led 2,000 men and launched a surprise attack from the beginning and end of this army.

Although the Ming army marched forward bravely, they could not break through the intertwined musket array. This is Kong Youde's most sophisticated firearms unit, 3,000 guns of all kinds, 200 artillery pieces, and 4,000 small arrows and artillery fired from bows and crossbows. More than a hundred brothers were killed in one charge, and a second charge was organized, and hundreds of corpses were thrown down.

Five or six times before and after, Song Xian was so angry that he shouted, nearly a thousand brothers were killed, but he couldn't get close to the Qing army, and he had never fought such a battle in his life.

At this moment, Wang Lanping's military order came, saying that the cavalry troops of the right army of the Qing army had surrounded the Fengzi battalion. The Fengzi battalion immediately withdrew from the blocking position and withdrew.

Song Xian was helpless and ordered the whole army to retreat and let the Qing army pass.

Knowing that the defense line of the Ming army Song Xianbu was defeated, Kong Youde was overjoyed and ordered the whole army to go straight to the west gate.

At this time, there was a military report, indicating that more than 10,000 troops were active on the flank of the army, and another Ming army organized a defensive line again after Song Xian was defeated. Get ahead of the army.

Kong Youde smiled secretly, wanting to attack our artillery army with wheel warfare. I'm afraid that your champion army is not yet playing.

The right army of the Qing army was suddenly divided into two, and the firearms army on the left was sandwiched in the middle, and the three armies advanced in unison.

The Ming army that made a comeback again was the champion military national security department, and more than 10,000 people in the whole army were divided into four teams and attacked in turn, and the offensive was wave after wave. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but in terms of field combat ability, the champion army was not the opponent of Meng Baqi at all, and after the second round of resistance for an hour, Wang Lanping ordered Fang Guoan to withdraw and rest. At the same time, Chen Wanliang's department was pulled up.

In the face of such an oil-adding tactic, Kong Youde couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to postpone the march.

Kong Youde secretly thought, the last time an army of 100,000 besieged the city, Wang Lanping did not set up a blocking line outside the city, but took the city gate to refuse, but this time he used a military taboo, using refueling tactics to block in turn, and the fool can also see that this is clearly luring the enemy to go deeper, could it be that this kid is holding back where is bad?

Before Kong Youde could make a judgment, he suddenly heard a noise in the front army, and he was busy arranging people to inquire, it turned out that Chen Wanliang's troops saw that they could not break through the left flank of the Qing army, so they simply gave up, bypassed, and turned to kill Kong Youde's Chinese army, and the offensive was fierce, not very like a decoy soldier.

Kong Youde was confused, what is the Ming army doing? A hammer in the east and a stick in the west, there is no discipline at all, is it that he is dizzy, broken jars?

Kong Youde analyzed the current war situation, the Qing army's left wing army and the Chinese army are less than ten miles apart, if the front and rear attack, the Ming army Chen Wanliang's department is bound to fall into a heavy siege, it is very likely that the Ming army is trying to use this army as bait to attract the Qing army to temporarily change the siege strategy, but to eat Chen Wanliang first, and then Shi Wang and the two will have a counter-encirclement.

This idea is quite bold, but the Ming army does not have so many troops to carry out counter-encirclement, what is the other party doing, Kong Youde is puzzled.

Don't say that Kong Youde doesn't know, even Shi Kefa, who has a plan to settle with Wang Lan, is stunned, didn't he say that he wanted to lure the enemy deeper, why do you have to go again and again in vain to consume the already stretched troops.

But Wang Lanping didn't explain to anyone, he went his own way, transferred the battalions back and forth, and kept changing the battlefield.

Just after storming Kong Youde's Chinese army for a while, Chen Wanliang really withdrew again, Kong Youde heard that the Ming army was retreating, and suddenly laughed, he finally understood.

It turned out that Kong Youde remembered that on the eve of Wang Lanping's sneak attack on the Huai'an Zheng Red Flag Army, he also used this trick, the army left out and right in, right out and left in, virtual and real, and finally was able to make the army disappear from under his nose, this time he wanted to repeat the old trick, the purpose was to let himself separate the army to pursue, he was likely to have set up an ambush somewhere, waiting for the prey to be sent to the door.

Kong Youde immediately called the sentry cavalry, and when he asked, sure enough, the Ming army that came in turn came in a hurry and went even more urgently, and they didn't know where to go in a blink of an eye.

This made Kong Youde believe in his own judgment even more, Wang Lanping knew that he was not capable of eating his entire army in one bite, and he was afraid of being surrounded by a large army in the city, so he took this bite of cannibalization, and attracted his troops to other places little by little, and he concentrated his superior forces and slowly digested them, good, good strategy, however, you also underestimate my Dingnan King.

Kong Youde immediately ordered, the whole army will fight a family, no matter how many ways you come and go, I will go all the way, ignore the Ming army harassing along the way, just repel it, before noon, rush to the west gate of Yangzhou.

A misstep was lost all over the game, and I don't know if Wang Lanping's plan was discovered or Kong Youde's misjudgment, since the Qing army assembled and marched. Wang Lanping never sent troops to attack and disturb again.

In the golden autumn of October, the sun hung in the sky, and the vanguard of the Qing army appeared on the horizon. The mountains are all over the wilderness, like a life-threatening spirit flag.

Wang Lanping and Shi Kefa stood at the head of the city.

"Song Dali, are all the battalions ready?"

"All to the designated location"

Wang Lanping was silent and nodded, "Okay, give the order, close all the city gates, and wait for the Qing army to enter the cannon range." Shoot now"

"Yes"

Since Wang Lanping withdrew all the Ming troops outside the city, Kong Youde, who was in the place of the army, was like entering a no-man's land, driving straight in, and never encountered any resistance, when he saw the outline of Yangzhou City again, he secretly made a decision in the morning: Yangzhou is not Shi Kefa and Wang Lanping's Tang Tomb is my Kong Youde's burial place.

Boom Boom!

As soon as the Qing army's vanguard entered the range of Yangzhou artillery, it was immediately enveloped by overwhelming artillery fire, and shells came one after another. When the person in front of him turned on his back, he couldn't stand on his feet at all.

Kong Youde immediately launched a counterattack.

The artillery battalion of the Qing army was under the cover of the Xiaocai battalion. Braving the dense artillery fire at the head of Yangzhou City, he climbed to the highest point outside the city and quickly built an artillery position, and Kong Youde personally commanded the artillery battalion.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was crazy, and the shells fell less than ten zhang in front of Kong Youde, but this was also the maximum range of the Ming artillery.

Boom Boom!

The artillery of the Qing army also rang out like a sea of mountains. The bricks, stones, and earth debris on the head of Yangzhou City flew everywhere, and suddenly the sky was full of dust, and thick smoke was billowing, and half of the Ming army's artillery was dumbfounded in an instant.

The west gate of Yangzhou City was only equipped with a total of 30 artillery pieces, and all of them were semi-fixed city fire artillery. It took too long to adjust the firing point, and most of the artillery of the Qing army was framed by carriage carriages, and after the shell was missed, the firing angle could be quickly adjusted.

The 200 artillery pieces of the Qing army roared in unison, and the sound of the cannon that shook the ground and shook the mountains alone could already shock people to the heart.

The artillery bombardment on both sides lasted only half an hour, and the artillery of the entire Ming army was completely dumbfounded, and the city wall was in disarray, and the corpses were bombarded to pieces, and blood was everywhere.

Being able to persist in shelling for half an hour under the powerful artillery attack of the Qing army has greatly exceeded Wang Lanping's estimate, two hundred cannons fired at the same time, and one round of artillery bombardment can destroy a cavalry of thousands of people.

Seeing that the sound of artillery in Yangzhou City was gradually extinguished, Kong Youde couldn't help but show a smile on his face, under so many cannons, anyone who tried to stop the advance of the Qing army was stupid and self-defeating.

The Qing artillery showed its might, and it took less than half an hour to destroy the Ming army's city defense artillery, and then Kong Youde ordered all the artillery to shift the target, concentrate all the guns, and bombard the northwest corner of the west city with uninterrupted artillery bombardment, which is the weakest section of the city wall that Liu Liangzuo said.

The cannonballs covered the sky and bombarded the bottom of the city wall one after another, and the entire city wall trembled, shaking the guarding Ming army with a chill from their bones.

At the same time, Kong Youde did not rely entirely on the power of the cannons, and the Xiaocai battalion was full of soldiers with outstanding archery skills, and they were 3,000 men in groups of ten, running from east to west along the moat of the city wall, pulling their bows and firing arrows at the head of the city as they ran, and their movements were as fast as the wind.

The 3,000 soldiers of the Tiger Gun Battalion of the Qing Army also dispersed, approaching the Yangzhou City Wall in a sporadic attack mode, used to suppress the firepower of the Ming army, and the Yunti Battalion followed up, followed by the Yunti Battalion is a 2,000-step military camp, each of them is holding a long knife in their right hand and a round shield in their left hand, braving the rain of guns and arrows of the Ming Army.

In this first round of siege alone, Kong Youde mobilized tens of thousands of people to cover the entire outside of the West City.

Soon, the Qing army's horse teams moved a large number of bricks and stones one after another, filling the moat outside the city, and then spread thick wooden planks on it, and the terrifying ladder approached the city wall step by step.

In the face of such a strong attack by the Qing army, the Yangzhou army Xu Dingguo, which guarded the west gate, suffered heavy losses, but no one retreated to the defensive line.

"Fight, then, it's coming up over there again" Xu Dingguo ran back and forth at the head of the city, constantly reminding the soldiers to kill the Qing army under the city again and again.

The sky is soaked in the flames of war, everywhere is gray, in the end it is the sound of shouting and killing, the screams of pain, the city wall of Yangzhou is really not in vain, no matter how the Qing army is not afraid of death, can never climb the first step of the city, the ladders are also burned by the fire crow when approaching the city wall, the raging flames are churning under the city wall, and the water in the moat seems to have become hot.

After a round of attacks, the Qing army failed to set foot in the city, leaving behind more than 1,000 corpses and seven or eight burning ladders and retreating.

At this time, the artillery of the Qing army also continued to smash thousands of shells on the city wall in the northwest corner, and the gaps between the huge city bricks were slowly opening, and the masonry began to loosen, but the entire section of the city wall was still standing tall and upright, and there was no sign of falling in the slightest.

The Qing siege troops could not bear the casualties and finally retreated, but the shelling continued.

Wang Lanping and Shi Kefa also climbed the city tower at this time, looking at the Qing soldiers who were slowly retreating.

Xu Dingguo hurriedly ran over.

"Inspector, General Wang, why did you come here, hurry, come here, cover the two adults to return to the Shuaifu"

Wang Lanping waved his hand and said to Xu Dingguo, "General Xu, it's good, you have retired the Tatars"

Shi Kefa also praised again and again, "Well, in this battle, General Xu should be the first meritorious"

Xu Dingguo wiped a handful of dust from his face, and immediately became more filthy, but he didn't care, and pointed to the outside of the city, "The Tatars are relying on the sharp artillery fire and constantly bombarding the northwest corner, even if they can't climb this wall, it is difficult to ensure that this city wall does not collapse."

Wang Lanping smiled and said, "It's okay, your responsibility is not to let a single Tatar soldier enter the city before the city wall falls."

Xu Dingguo's face was full of perseverance, "vowing to live and die with the city wall"

Xu Dingguo turned to leave, and he had to check the city defenses again to deal with the next round of attacks by the Qing soldiers.

Shi Kefa seemed to be puzzled, he looked in the direction of the northwest corner of the city wall, frowned, and looked very worried.

"General Wang, it seems that there are our people in the German army in this hole, the northwest corner is the most vulnerable place in this section of the city wall, he is very poisonous, and it will be like this, or in a few hours, this city wall will have to collapse."

Wang Lanping was still like straight water, not in a hurry or irritated, in the face of Shi Kefa's worries, he just said softly 'oh' and never spoke again.

All the military deployments are in Wang Lanping's control, when the city wall will collapse, he doesn't care, it's useless to worry, it's just a matter of time, he is more worried about something else, just at the beginning of the war, he once again sent people to Jinniu Mountain to investigate, to see if the 50,000 Ming troops of Dinghuai Marquis are still there, where is what he cares about the most. (To be continued.) )