The sound of the golden drum sounded again, and the Ming army continued to make postures of filling trenches, pulling piles, and attacking the city, sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, sometimes in the south, and sometimes in the north. The captive soldiers of the Ming army, who were originally from the Ganshan Green Battalion, kept shouting in the trenches outside the city to carry out political disintegration. The Tianwei cannon fired an occasional cannon to keep the Qing army at peace.

Golden drums, feints, shouting, and bombardment were not the main purpose, but to cover the sound of tunnel excavation and interfere with the "poppy" method that the Qing army might adopt. In the trenches west of the city, the engineering corps was nervously carrying out the earthwork work. Because it is only 200 meters from the city wall, the amount of excavation work can be reduced to a minimum. In the middle of the night last night, they had already started construction, and according to the progress of the project, they added support to increase the load-bearing and avoid collapse, and at the same time took the column as the boundary, the middle part was the excavation section, and the space on both sides was left to transport the slag and constantly fill the deep trench.

Near noon, Yang Shen finished his city defense inspection, and the accompanying Qing generals dispersed. The guerrilla Shao Mengkai, escorted by several personal soldiers, rode back to his house.

There was a commotion on the streets, and the Qing soldiers smashed the doors and broke into the houses, forced the people's quilts away, and took the opportunity to loot them again before they left satisfied.

The screams of a heart-rending woman came, and several Qing soldiers dragged a young girl out of a common person's house, and the girl's old mother cried and cried in the back, begging the Qing soldiers to let her daughter go.

"Damn× it!" A Qing soldier kicked the gray-haired old woman to the ground and scolded, "Get out of here, and then entangle your life." ”

The old woman was holding her stomach with one hand, unable to get up in pain, and the other hand was still stretched forward, trying to take her beloved daughter back.

"What's going on?" Shao Mengkai grabbed the horse's head and asked with a gloomy face.

Several Qing soldiers hurriedly stopped, and one of them stepped forward to report: "My lord, the little ones are being ordered to arrest the prostitutes and put them on the city to get rid of the cannons. ”

Well. Shao Mengkai snorted lightly, his eyes swept away, and the one who was arrested was obviously a young girl, with beautiful eyebrows, where was a prostitute. His heart was bright, and it must have been these guys who were interested in it. Take the opportunity to lust.

"Adults, little ones, let's go." Qing Bing saw that Shao Mengkai didn't speak, so he wanted to slip away first.

"What is the crime of privately plundering people's property and robbing people's daughters?" Shao Mengkai suddenly asked coldly, and turned his face to his own personal captain.

The captain of the pro-soldier was stunned, but when he came into contact with Shao Mengkai's cold gaze, he seemed to have an understanding, and immediately raised his eyebrows and shouted: "According to military law." When chop! ”

"Behead the public." Shao Mengkai's eyes narrowed, and he gave a brief and cold order.

Several Qing soldiers simply couldn't believe their ears and were dumbfounded. Military discipline is military discipline, when did it be seriously enforced? Seeing a few of his own soldiers dismount and draw their swords, they fell to their knees and cried out: "My lord's life, the little ones are all your subordinates, just spare this time......"

Shao Mengkai's face was expressionless. The palm of his hand slashed down hard, and the knife flashed. Stained blood splattered, and several human heads rolled to the ground in blood.

"All the officers and soldiers of our department, those who violate military discipline, will be killed!" Shao Mengkai untied his waist knife, threw it to the captain of the guard, and pulled the horse's head. In the surprised and frightened eyes of the Qing soldiers on the street, they galloped away.

×Damn, what time is it now, these bastards haven't forgotten to rob and rape. They are beautiful, after the city is broken. Lao Tzu has to carry the black pot. Shao Mengkai's confidence in defending the city was even lower, thinking of the Ming army's capture policy, he also had to leave a way back for himself.

As soon as she returned to the mansion and sat down, the concubine in Yongchangna came to ask for warmth with her stomach, and asked about the situation in the city worriedly.

Shao Mengkai looked at the concubine's bulging belly, and his heart was gloomy, so he had to comfort a few words. When the meal was served, he forced a smile and ate with the concubine. After eating, Shao Mengkai tactfully asked the concubine to pack up her things and go back to her parents' house for the time being.

"Husband-" The concubine asked hesitantly, "Why did you let the concubine go back to her mother's house, is this city unguardable?" You just lied to me? ”

"What nonsense?" Shao Mengkai deliberately lowered his face and said: "These days, my husband has to be busy guarding the city, and I can't take care of my family, so I am afraid that my subordinates will not take good care of me, so I let you go back to your mother's house to live first." ”

The concubine sighed softly, stroked her stomach and said quietly: "Last night, there was a non-stop rumbling sound, and the concubine was so worried that she didn't sleep all night. Husband, this city can be defended, but if it can't be defended, you must cherish yourself, and you must take care of the concubine and the flesh and blood in your belly. ”

Shao Mengkai secretly smiled bitterly and coaxed him before sending the concubine back to her parents' house. Then he sat alone in his room, thinking about it, and finally came up with an idea, which he was not very sure, but it never hurt to try.

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There are many fire drums in night battles, and many flags in day battles, so that the ears and eyes of the enemy are confused, so that they do not know what to prepare for me, and they will win.

Although the tunnel had been dug in the middle of the night and the gunpowder had been filled, Zhu Yongxing thought about it again and again and still did not take a night battle with many variables. There are many soldiers, and there are many generals, so let's fight in a dignified and upright way, and win steadily!

In order to make a fool's plan, Zhu Yongxing also personally went down to the trench, drilled into the tunnel, and inspected the work of blasting and attacking the city. It wasn't until he felt that there was no problem that he returned to the camp and slept well.

Early the next morning, the Ming army had a full meal of war food, and after a short rest, all the men and horses began to act according to the battle plan, and the feint attack force set up a posture in the east of the city, and the main attack force was lined up in the west of the city.

The Qing army defending the city also realized that the actions of the Ming army were different from the past, and Yang Shen and other generals realized that the enemy army was about to attack the city, so they all dressed up neatly and commanded the defense in their respective city defenses.

The "Min" character Wang Banner was raised in the Ming army formation in the east and west of the city, which was the first time that Zhu Yongxing came to the west of Yunnan to unflatter the Wang Banner.

"Your Highness Chitose, Chitose!"

"Heaven is bright, and the Tartars will be destroyed."

"Mighty, mighty!"

"God bless our army, invincible."

"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"

The soldiers of the Ming army shouted, beat their weapons, and let out a tsunami-like shout.

The pseudo-sect room was about to fight, and Yang Shen stood on top of Xicheng, his face suddenly became solemn, and his fists were subconsciously clenched tightly.

Sure enough, he came! Shao Mengkai stood in the Dongcheng Tower, his pupils contracted, and he didn't know what it was like in his heart. In the battle of Tengchong, most of the Ganshan Green Battalion was lost, and even he and Daniel Zhang escaped death, and the haze of fiasco was still there, and it was difficult to get rid of.

Zhu Yongxing's expression was solemn and majestic, looking at the red flag waved by the engineer team in the distance, he nodded lightly, made a gesture, and the Ming army beside him immediately waved his flag and ordered.

The cheers gradually fell silent, tens of thousands of Ming troops stood still in the face of the city, and the Qing army in the city was waiting for them, and the air of slaughter filled the heavens and the earth.

Time passed minute by minute, and Gao Wengui, the prince of Changguo, who was in charge of the main attack, seemed to be a little impatient, and turned his head sideways to ask.

"Your Highness......" As soon as Gao Wengui opened his mouth, he felt the ground under his feet suddenly shake, followed by a deafening explosion, cutting off the words that he hadn't had time to spit out.

Gao Wengui turned his head to look at the city, and there was no city wall in sight, only smoke in the sky and pillars of smoke and dust rising into the air.

The soldiers of the Ming army who were waiting in formation did not see what was going on, and some of the Ming soldiers, who had particularly good eyesight, felt as if they had seen the western city wall of Yongchang burst open from the inside out, and the bricks and stones and the dust inside rose into the air, as if a monster was about to come out of the belly of the city wall. At the same time as the loud bang, the monster leapt from the surface of the earth into the air, and the smoke and dust brought up obscured the wall, so that nothing could be seen.

All the Ming soldiers raised their heads and looked at the pillar of smoke that kept rushing towards the tower. After a while, a rain of rubble fell near the blasting point, and a large amount of brick dust fell back to the ground from the air, drifting out of the ground for a long time, and even falling on the heads of the Ming troops in the distance.

A large gap was blown open in the two-zhang city wall, and the smoke and dust mixed with black powder and the wailing of the wounded were filled, and the broken bricks and rubble were scattered all over the ground, and the scene was in shambles.

"Plug the mouth, the enemy army is attacking the city in the cave, go and plug the mouth quickly." After a period of panic, the Qing generals who had come back to their senses roared in panic and commanded the Qing soldiers under the city to rush to the gap for reinforcements.

It seems that the Ming army made a big mistake and did not attack at the first moment, and if it took advantage of the smoke and dust, it was likely to break through.

The generals of the Qing army were glad about this, but they also felt a panic, because the main general Yang Shen was in the city just now, but now he was gone.

The smoke and dust at the city wall dissipated a little, and the busy figures of the Qing army could already be seen. The corners of Zhu Yongxing's mouth twitched, revealing a sly sneer, and once again ordered the flag soldier beside him to wave the flag.

Seeing that there were more and more soldiers at the gap, the Qing army general breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm so lucky, it's really a bodhisattva blessing." He fearfully wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.

The ground under his feet suddenly shook violently again, and with the deafening explosion, a large number of Qing troops were blown away along with broken bricks and tiles.

What's going on? The general of the Qing army was in severe pain, and was pressed by the newly fallen city wall, his consciousness gradually blurred, and in the smoke and dust, he heard the sound of the Ming army's golden drums and shouts of killing.

Double-layer tunnel blasting, high-level play, Zhu Yongxing showed a happy smile on his face. Surrounded by the Ming army rushing towards the smoke-filled city wall, ladders and planks set up a trench to become a passageway, and some Ming soldiers advanced along the trench and climbed up from the two-meter-high trench around the city.

"Our army wins." Zhao Wang Bai Wenxuan put down the binoculars, the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, he had already seen the red flags on both sides of the collapsed city wall, the Ming army was pouring into the city from the gap, the battle would continue for a while, but victory was only a matter of time.

"Break the city in two days!" Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, couldn't say whether he was excited or emotional, raised the monoculars again, and continued to observe.

Gao Wengui, the Duke of Changguo, and the three provinces of Zhenshuo Bowu, who served as the main attacker, had already led their troops into the city, and there were many captive soldiers of the Ganshan Green Battalion under his command, shouting and persuading them to surrender while fighting, and the Qing army dominated by the Ganshan Green Battalion in the city also had a disintegrating effect. (To be continued......)