Everyone looked at this seven-grade petty official in surprise, in order to prevent the Qing soldiers from taking advantage of those Ming people, they had to drive tens of thousands of people out of their places of residence and leave them to fend for themselves, what a ruthless heart.

Wei Tongnian stared at the vine forest, and after being silent for a while, he slowly shook his head and said, "No, if we do this, then how different will we be from that murderous tartar, and this matter will not be mentioned again." The official still insisted on moving those people into the city, and as for the food problem, the official consulted with the gentry and wealthy families in the city to see if they could donate some, plus the government can properly open a warehouse to give porridge, it should be able to support it for a while, what do you think? ”

Everyone nodded silently after hearing this, after all, people's hearts are flesh and blood, and there are not many people who can push tens of thousands of people into a desperate situation without blinking.

With the order of Wei in the same year, all the officials and some troops in Jinan City were mobilized, they either rode horses, or donkeys or walked, shuttling through various villages and villages within a radius of 100 miles outside Jinan City, with only one purpose, that is, to move those people into Jinan City.

On April 25 of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Dolgon led a large army to the city of Jinan, and 30,000 Qing soldiers surrounded the city of Jinan. At the same time, Wei also ordered the closure of the Jinan city gate in the same year, and the city wall was densely filled with soldiers and recruited young men, bows and swords out of sheaths, ready to fight to the death with the Qing soldiers.

On a small slope more than a mile away from the city of Jinan, Dolgon, dressed in gilded armor, stood on a high slope with extraordinary bearing, and behind him his brother Duoduo and the Goshha. Dolgon looked at the heavily guarded Jinan City in the distance, and said softly: "This Jinan City is really heavily guarded, it seems that it is not easy to capture it!" ”

Duoduo stood behind Dolgon and nodded: "Fourteenth brother, this Shandong is indeed not the same as Hebei, we didn't find a few people all the way over, I heard that the people within a radius of a hundred miles here have been relocated to Jinan City, it seems that this Shandong governor really wants to resist us to the end." ”

"Yes!" Dolgon's slender eyes narrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "This Shandong prefect is called Wei Tongnian, and it is said that he is the father-in-law of that Pang Gang, so we have to guard against it." ”

Duoduo asked curiously: "So, if we attack Jinan, then Pang Gang will inevitably come to help?" ”

Dolgon nodded: "There is a great possibility of surname, according to the news from the rear spies, after we and Yue Tuo divided the army, Pang Gang also separated from their army, and then disappeared, I suspect that they are coming for us." ”

Worriedly, Dordor asked, "What are we going to do then?" ”

Dolgon smiled bitterly: "What else can we do, since we are here, we can't go home empty-handed!" ”

Duoduo frowned and said, "If Pang Gang is really coming for us, then the only thing we can do is to capture this Jinan City as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to wait for that Pang Gang to arrive." In addition, we have to send more spies behind us, and we will report the news of Pang Gang immediately. ”

Dolgon shook his head and said: "Fifteenth brother, it is said that Pang Gang came by boat, no matter how powerful our spies are, they can't run to the sea, I estimate that they are very likely to get off the boat in Dengzhou, and then directly rush to the aid of Jinan, so our actions must be fast, and we must capture Jinan before Pang Gang arrives!" ”

With Dolgon's order, more than 30,000 Qing soldiers immediately began to prepare for the siege, and the Qing army drove the captured craftsmen and the artisan battalion in the Qing army (most of them Han Chinese) to immediately cut wood and quarry around and began to make siege tools.

Two days later, the siege equipment was completed, and Dolgon, who couldn't wait, quickly ordered an attack, and countless Qing soldiers carried ladders and pushed shield carts to rush towards Jinan City, and for a time the sound of killing in Jinan City shook the sky.

"The Tartars are starting to attack the city, everyone is on the city wall!" Seeing a group of Qing soldiers in various armors rushing from a distance with a honeycomb howl, the defenders on the city wall shouted loudly.

Since the eastern wall was the main direction of attack of the Qing soldiers, Li Yuan led 3,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 original Jinan defenders to defend the eastern city wall, and they were assisted by 30 Napoleonic artillery pieces led by Dong Guo, a guerrilla general of the artillery battalion.

At this moment, Li Yuan was constantly cheering up those recruits, "Don't panic, when the Tartars come, beat them down with a rifle!" ”

"Steady, steady, reload gunpowder, bloom bullets, put!"

On the eastern city wall, Dong Guo commanded thirty artillery pieces to fire fiercely outside the city, and the round and black flowering bullets fell on the open space a mile away with a whistling sound, and then there was a violent explosion, and the flying shrenchnel flew everywhere under the drive of strong kinetic energy, tearing the surrounding Qing soldiers to pieces. At this time, whether it was the auxiliary soldiers carrying the ladder or the infantry soldiers hiding in the shield cart, as long as they were within the explosion range of the flowering bomb, they were all shattered into pieces.

Standing two miles outside the battle, Dorgon and Dodor looked at the auxiliaries who charged forward like ants, but were torn to pieces by the fierce artillery fire, and their faces were gloomy, the artillery fire here was too powerful to exceed the imagination of the two brothers.

It stands to reason that they have not seen flowering bombs, and to be honest, the power is indeed good, but due to the expensive price of flowering bombs and the cumbersomeness of the manufacturing process, no one has used this expensive bullet on such a large scale in previous wars as today, but today they have seen that one by one expensive flowering bombs fell like hail in the attacking Qing soldiers, and the huge roar and explosion and the white smoke and yellow dust raised the east gate of Jinan City were shrouded in gray smoke. Such a scene was something the brothers had never seen in so many years of fighting.

"Fourteenth brother, how can the artillery in Jinan City be so fierce, don't they need to spend money to buy their flowering shells?" Dordor, whose face turned pale, asked Dorgon in a trembling voice.

Facing his brother's question, Dolgon shook his head with a calm face, and said with a gloomy face: "I don't know, but I can be sure that if they fire like this, their flowering shells will definitely not last long, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they stop." ”

As if to confirm Dolgon's words, after half a pillar of incense, the sound of artillery on the city gradually stopped, and the Qing soldiers, who were originally pressed behind by the artillery, did not even dare to show their heads, slowly raised their heads, looking at the stumps and broken arms around them and the parts of the siege equipment flying everywhere, most of the people's faces showed a look of fear.

At this time, there was a desolate sound of bull's horns behind the Qing army, which was an order urging the soldiers to continue the attack.

A member of the formation jumped out and shouted: "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, those Han dogs' shells have been fired, now it's our turn, rush!" ”

"Rush!" The remnants of the Qing soldiers gritted their teeth and attacked forward under the orders of the leaders around them, and they knew that if they did not charge, the vested soldiers who were eyeing their Bayala battalion behind would definitely not be stingy with the arrows in their hands, if they died like this, their families would not only get no compensation, but what was waiting for them would be the fate of being sent to the armoured people as slaves, so even if they died, they would have to die on the road of charging.

When the remnants of more than 1,000 Qing soldiers carried the ladder and staggered towards Jinan City, Duoduo, who was standing behind to supervise the battle, couldn't help but sigh lightly, and pleaded to Dolgon beside him: "Fourteenth brother, the first batch of attackers has been killed and wounded nearly half, do you want them to withdraw first." ”

The first wave of attacks on the East Gate just now had 2,000 people, but in a round of artillery bombardment of the Ming army, nearly half of them were lost, and even a ruthless person like Duoduo was distressed.

"No way!" Dolgon didn't look back and said: "They died so many people to rush to the front, now letting them withdraw means that all the achievements are lost, and those warriors just now will die in vain, so the only way now is to let them continue to charge, even if they are dead, they must attract the enemy's firepower to cover the second wave of warriors, fifteenth brother, are you ready for the second wave of attacks?" ”

There was not the slightest emotional fluctuation in Dolgon's words, and the lives of thousands of people seemed to him to be just cold numbers.

Duoduo was silent for a moment before gritting his teeth and saying, "Fourteen, rest assured, I'm ready to put them into battle at any time." ”

Dolgon looked at the Qing soldiers who were desperately charging in front of the city wall and nodded, "That's good, let them go now!" ”

"Scum!"

Duoduo violently drew the long knife at his waist, and the sharp sword drew an arc in mid-air, and commanded in a loud voice: "Sons, rush! ”

"Rush!"

The second team of more than 2,000 Qing soldiers, who had been on standby for a long time, rushed forward with a roar under the leadership of a Jialazhangjing

At the same time, on the eastern city wall, Li Yuan trotted all the way to the artillery camp guerrilla Dong Guo and asked loudly: "Why don't you open fire, the Tartars are about to rush to us, what are your cannons for, if you have a bad pool, can you afford to eat because of this?" ”

Dong Guo glared at him coldly, pointed to the gunner next to him who was skillfully cleaning the artillery and said, "What are you anxious about, it's not too late to fire the cannon when the temperature has cooled down after the brothers have brushed it, otherwise you will wait for the chamber to explode." ”

Li Yuan looked along Dong Guo's hand and saw that several gunners were busy wrapping large balls of wet cloth with wooden sticks in the barrel of the gun, constantly cleaning up the remaining gunpowder residues, and there were a large number of projectiles the size of bowls around them.

Li Yuan asked in surprise: "Dong Guo, what about the flowering bullet you used just now, what about that thing, how can you use this kind of stupid solid bullet?" ”

Li Yuan's words made Dong Guo angry, he glared at this greedy guy fiercely, and said angrily: "You fool, do you know how much silver the flowering bomb you used just now?" It's scared to death when you say it, the cost of a shell is five taels of silver, and we have already fired nearly two hundred rounds just now, if you continue to fight like this, how much silver you have is enough to waste. ”

"What!" Li Yuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "Are you saying that if you went down with the round of shells just now, a thousand taels of silver would be gone?" ”

"What do you say?" Dong Guo glared at him angrily.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "My obedient, if you hit it, it will be one thousand taels of silver, then the four city gates will be four thousand taels in total, this is only half a pillar of incense, if it is a day."

Li Yuan didn't dare to imagine the next number, he said to Dong Guo with a smile: "Okay, Brother Dong, you fight slowly, I'll go first"

After speaking, Li Yuan ran to the center of the city wall without looking back, looking at Li Yuan's hurried figure, Dong Guo could only shake his head helplessly and smile bitterly, this Li Yuan, who was a guerrilla surname, was still so impatient.

At this time, a report sounded beside him, Lord Qiqi, the artillery has been cleaned and cooled down, and it can continue to fire.

Looking at the Qing soldiers who had rushed to the front of the city wall, Dong Guo ordered with a cold face: "The solid bullet is ready to be fired!" Measure the distance of enemy troops! ”

The observer of the artillery battalion lay behind the battlement, constantly observing the approaching distance of the enemy, and kept reporting: "Eight hundred steps"

The black-pressed Qing soldiers pressed over, and the observer kept adjusting the angle of the clairvoyant.

"Six Hundred Steps"

"Five Hundred and Fifty Steps"

"Knock out the Tartar's shield cart, and each cannon aims autonomously."

Immediately a squeaky metal sound sounded, and the gunners of the thirty Napoleonic guns kept adjusting the angle of the muzzles, and with a loud bang, a six-pounder gun opened fire first. Then another six-pounder cannon spewed out thick smoke, and with the cannonball in front, a large iron ball weighing five catties flew viciously towards the Qing army.

Fierce and tight cannon fire came one after another, and in the smoke of gunpowder, thirty Napoleonic guns opened fire one after another, each aiming at its own target.

Since the current bullet is a solid bullet, it is natural that it cannot be killed by the explosive surface like the flowering bullet just now, but can only be killed by points, so the requirements for the aiming hand are naturally very high.

The first Napoleonic six-pounder shell did not hit the artillery carriage, but the shell smashed into the dense charging formation of the Qing soldiers, almost from head to tail, and along the way, I don't know how many people's arms and thighs were taken, and how many people's chests and heads were smashed.

Another solid iron ball accurately hit a advancing shield cart, and with a loud "boom", the shield cart was immediately scattered, and the four wheels flew everywhere, and the heavy shelf was lifted aside. The surrounding Qing soldiers and the Qing soldiers hiding behind the shield cart were also affected by the pond fish, and their whole bodies were blurred by the various fragments that were stirred up, and they all rolled to the ground and howled.

However, although the lethal effect of solid shells was amazing, the number of casualties was too small, and after firing more than a dozen rounds of shells in a row, the gunners had to stop to cool down the guns.

"Hurry up, hurry up for Lao Tzu!" Countless Qing soldiers rushed forward desperately amid the shouts of the officers.

I have to say that Dolgon's preparations for this attack are very sufficient and cunning, most of the first and second rounds of charging Qing soldiers are composed of Han military banners and some vassal races, these people not only have a low status in the Qing army, but they often play the role of cannon fodder in Pingyue, but today, the damage of their cannon fodder is indeed not small.

With strong troops and sufficient preparations, the Qing soldiers gradually rushed to a distance of two hundred steps from the city wall, and Duoduo, who was watching the battle from behind, finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Fourteenth brother, we can take the ladder in a while." ”

"Not necessarily!" Dolgon said coldly: "There is still one thing that the Ming army has not yet revealed. ”

As Dolgon spoke, the walls immediately began to rise with muffled gunfire and white smoke, and many of the Qing soldiers who were running forward fell to the ground screaming and clutching their bodies, and it turned out that the riflemen on the city wall had opened fire.

Rows of muffled gunfire echoed on the city walls, and the Qing soldiers who rushed forward with heavy ladders fell to the ground one after another, no matter how fierce they usually were, at this moment, they were still wailing like ordinary people, begging their companions around them to pull them along.

But at this moment, no one is willing to pull them, or dare not pull them, the arrows and projectiles falling like raindrops on the city wall have told them with the truth that any attempt to save their companions will end up the same as their companions around them, and they can only survive by rushing to the dead end of the city to shoot.

Looking at the first and second waves of cannon fodder troops that kept falling, Dorgon lost no time in sending out the third wave of attacks today.

"Warriors with white flags, it's time for you to get on!"

With the swing of his long sword, Dodor commanded his true elite with the white flag to charge.

The elite of these Qing soldiers are different from the cannon fodder troops just now, these elites with white flags are wearing double or even triple layers of heavy armor, or holding huge shields or hiding behind shield carts, tall and thick shield carts are in front of them, unless they use artillery, it is impossible to destroy these shield carts in a short time.

"Quick, quick, quick, hurry up and push the shield cart over before the Ming artillery fires!" Behind dozens of shield carts, a Qing army officer brandished a weapon and urged his subordinates to push the heavy shield carts forward.

At this time, Li Yuan ran to Dong Guo again and shouted: "Dong Guo, why don't you fire the cannon yet, if you don't fire the cannon, the Tartars will come over, look at it, Naxi is wearing red and white armor, but the elite of the Tartars with white flags is there!" ”

Dong Guo shook his head calmly and said: "No, the Shicai artillery has been firing continuously for too long, and if you want to fire again, you will have to wait for at least half a pillar of incense." ”

"What, half-pillar incense? After half a pillar of incense, the Tartars have already gone to the city! Li Yuan was furious.

"It's your business to defend the city, don't rely on me!" Dong Guo's expressionless expression seemed to be saying something that had nothing to do with him.

"You"

(To be continued)