Just as Duoduo was now gathering his generals to discuss the siege.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen had also ordered the commanders of the guards battalions to send the above officials into the city to discuss the next matter of annihilating the Duoduo Division.

Although it is a decisive battle, after all, it is a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, and it is naturally not like a group fight, so it starts hastily and then ends hastily.

Therefore, Yangzhou City does not have the noise and shouts of yesterday at this moment, but is quietly terrifying.

Zhu Youzhen was already standing on top of the city tower at this time.

Overlooking the entire Yangzhou City, within the field of vision, there are hundreds of thousands of armored people who can't see the edge at a glance.

The Guards infantry had already begun to build sand stacks around the city or walls, digging the necessary trenches and building basic defensive bunkers for firing.

The cavalry of the Guards had begun to dismount and feed the horses with bean fodder to ensure that the horses had sufficient combat power during the fight.

The Qing army is also stepping up the adjustment of the gun position of the red-coated cannon, and also began to recuperate, from time to time there will be Qing army iron cavalry to come to Yangzhou city to investigate the situation of the guards defending Yangzhou.

The Qing army of nearly 100,000 iron cavalry was arranged outside the city of Yangzhou in a figure-eight shape, and the red-coated cannon was in the center, so as to play the role of cavalry to protect the red-coated cannon, and after the red-coated cannon bombarded Yangzhou City, it was good to immediately rush into the city.

The First and Third Guards still controlled the east, west, north, and four directions of the Qing army's nearly 100,000 iron cavalry respectively, of which only the First Corps of the Second Guards Army was outside the city gate, while the Second Corps of the Second Army was on both sides of the city gate.

The commander-in-chief of the army, the deputy commander-in-chief of the corps, and the commanders of the battalions have all entered Yangzhou City one after another at this time.

Zhu Youzhen also immediately went down to Yangzhou City, and at this time, the situation of the Qing army's iron cavalry was always watched, and he naturally did not have to stand here every day.

"Your Majesty, can I go with you?"

At this time, Li Xiangjun came over, she knew that so many Guards officers had entered Yangzhou City, and His Majesty's face was sinking like water, it must be about the Qing army's iron cavalry outside the city.

As the person in charge of Guangming Daily, she was naturally very interested in this kind of military meeting of the Generalissimo's Office to discuss how to deal with the nearly 100,000 iron horsemen of the Duoduo Department.

Zhu Youzhen agreed to Li Xiangjun's request, and only asked her to dress up as a brocade guard and wear a flying fish suit to attend the highest-level military council of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Guards had about 5,000 or 6,000 people per battalion, and there were more than 60 or 70 battalion-level commanders and envoys of the more than 400,000 troops.

But at this moment, in the Yangzhou River Governor's Office, there are no less than 100 civil and military generals crowded here.

However, no one spoke casually at this moment, and everyone knew that this moment was the time when the big war was coming, and life and death were at stake here, so how could they be in the mood to greet each other.

The military generals present were either brave generals of the border army who had been famous all over the world in the past, or they were famous people who returned lupine scarves and Eguanbo a year ago.

But at this moment, after almost all of them came into contact with the Tartars, everyone's face was filled with determination.

"At present, nearly 100,000 iron cavalry cannons of the Qing army are holding arrows outside Yangzhou City, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of my Guards have also gathered here, whether this decisive battle will be as we imagined, a decisive battle to annihilate the Qing army, it is not yet known at this time, but I believe that as long as all the soldiers are of one heart and one mind, with the support of thousands of people behind them, this goal will be achieved!"

Zhu Youzhen walked in at this time and said a word first, and began to elaborate on the typical combat examples of the guards in their previous contact with the Qing army, and shared their experience with the commanders.

Although the war is imminent, Zhu Youzhen did not show the slightest panic, nearly 100,000 iron horsemen want to eat in their stomachs, and naturally they need to measure it.

In fact.

In this period of almost a month, the First Corps of the Guards Army, in addition to the First Corps, the Second Corps has annihilated 5,000 iron cavalry under the Zhun Tasuo in Pei County.

Although the First Corps of the First Army of the Guards Army had not participated in the battle against the Qing army, it had previously undertaken the main task of annihilating the 100,000 elites of Zuo Liangyu's department, and it could be regarded as having combat experience in fighting cavalry.

The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards fought a battle of Mengcheng and even killed the deputy capital of Hunan.

The Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army fought a battle of Dingyuan and captured Geng Jingzhong.

The Second Army of the Guards, which was responsible for defending Gyeonggi, did not participate in the real battle, but the chief officer He Xin and the commander of an infantry battalion, Xia Yunyi, followed Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen to experience Henan once.

Xia Yunyi's department has a record of killing dozens of white-armored soldiers of the Qing army.

Therefore, the main forces of the current Guards Army are basically not the same as before, they are still new troops without battle, and the first war before gave them a good start, and the military spirit and spirit are still there.

When the deputy commander-in-chief of each corps and the chief officer of each corps expressed their views on commanding the infantry and cavalry to deal with the Tartars, the guards also had a clearer understanding of the Qing army's iron cavalry.

I basically know when the Qing army's iron cavalry will be defeated, how far the strongest Qing army's white-armored soldiers can shoot bows and arrows, and how brave the Manchu iron cavalry is on the horse, so that several guards cavalry can jointly resist.

Even the commander-in-chief of the corps and the commander-in-chief of the Governor-in-Chief He Corps also expressed their views on how to command the decisive battle at present.

After all the civil and military generals finished speaking, it was already nightfall, and they still did not hear the sound of artillery outside the city, and Zhu Youzhen also began to determine the establishment of a wartime command here.

The commander-in-chief of each corps, namely He Xin, Zhou Yuji, and Liu Fangliang, together with himself, the emperor, sat in Yangzhou City to command the operations of each corps.

The Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards Army was directly commanded by Ma Yingkui, the deputy chief officer, and the First Corps of the Third Army was directly commanded by Wang Guangxing, the deputy chief officer.

At the same time, Shi Kefa, together with Ma Shiying, Li Banghua, Lu Zhenfei, Li Mingrui, and Liu Kongzhao, was responsible for the command of the dispatch of strategic materials.

Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered here, and the daily use of food and grass, epidemic hygiene, and military discipline maintenance are not simple projects.

Zhu Youzhen naturally did not rest that night, but convened the members of the command overnight to discuss how to command these hundreds of thousands of people to annihilate the Qing army's Duoduo Department.

The scale of hundreds of thousands of people, Liu Fangliang and Zhou Yuji have direct command experience, and he and He Xin have only cleaned up Liu Zeqing on the way to the south, but Zhu Youzhen knows that it is just his identity as an emperor, which is no different from Kaihang.

Therefore, at this moment, he had to be more rigorous and listen to Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang's suggestions.

"Your Majesty, in Weichen's opinion, before annihilating Duoduo's 100,000 iron cavalry, we must first ensure that Yangzhou City is not lost, this is the reason why Duoduo is still here, and Duoduo's biggest attack on Yangzhou City is not his nearly 100,000 iron cavalry, but his hundreds of red-clothed cannons!"

Zhou Yuji said first at this time, as a veteran who has defended the border town for several years, even if he has not participated in the battle of Henan to defend the territory, he can guess what is the reason why the Qing army can attack the city so quickly.

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