Zhu Youzhen wanted to know if the group of civil and military ministers in Yingtianfu supported the Ming Dynasty and supported the new emperor in Yingtianfu, but he was a little unwilling in his heart, he was the real son of heaven, but Ling Jingyang poured cold water on him.

"After the disappointment, there are endless disputes, some people support King Fu, some people support King Lu, there is also King Tang in Fujian, and there is a certain unworthy prince of your Zhu family in Guangxi, who wants to conspire to be the emperor, all thanks to you, and he will drag the whole family to die together."

Language is the sharpest weapon, stabbing Zhu Youzhen's soul all over the body.

He fell into madness and confusion, what King Fu, King Lu, and King Tang are all branches, but he is not willing to be a puppet, a year ago, Li Zicheng defeated Sun Chuanting, the Ming Dynasty was almost wiped out in the Jiangbei field army, and the remaining army was either flying and constantly dispatching, or with the Dashun army, he did not go to Yingtianfu, just did not want to become the plaything of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang civil official group.

Some ministers said that they would let the prince go to Tianfu to supervise the country, but some people threatened that the prince was in charge of the country, did he want to emulate Emperor Tang Ming?

So he didn't let the prince go to Yingtianfu, and someone asked him to go to Yingtianfu to worship the ancestors, but was hindered by others, and later, no minister suggested that he go to Yingtianfu, all waiting for the Dashun army to break through the capital and become the upstart of the new dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen's tears rained down, Ling Jingyang advised him not to have more rights and wrongs, if he still wants to save the Ming Dynasty, he will honestly become a mascot, he guarantees that in his jurisdiction, the Zhu family royal family can be lived, if you want to conspire to seize power, then don't blame him for not recognizing people with a big knife in his hand.

Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen looked at each other dejectedly, and Ling Jingyang said to the old steamed bun: "Old steamed bun, I put their lives here with you, you have to 'protect' Your Majesty." ”

The old steamed bun finally came back to his senses, ran to Ling Jingyang, knelt down with his left leg and asked Ling Jingyang to rest assured, he would do his best to 'protect' His Majesty and the head of the king, and then he paused for a moment, and talked to Ling Jingyang about the main generals of the artillery battalion, whether to kill or release?

"All of them were merged into the Iron Fist Battalion and the troops directly under them, and they were trained to the death."

More than ten artillery battalion generals can't do anything, after Ling Jingyang solved the backbone of the artillery battalion, he came to the artillery camp with the iron fist battalion, the artillery battalion still has more than 20 large and small artillery pieces in the city, but there are not many shells, it makes no sense to keep the artillery battalion, but there can be no shortage of artillery in the army,

He thought about it for a while, and finally came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, scattering the soldiers and artillery of the artillery battalion to various units, among which the Iron Fist battalion was divided into three artillery pieces and fifty gunners, which was also to improve the firepower of the soldiers and horses of each unit and make their strength steadily improved.

The situation in the city is changing, and the Qing army outside the city also opened up the formation, and began to prepare for the siege before the siege, before the siege, Bolo asked Jiang Hao to persuade him to surrender, and it is much more affordable to surrender thousands of Shun troops than to forcibly attack the city with flesh and blood.

Jiang Hao came to the city with his own soldiers and shouted loudly: "Brothers in the city, I am Jiang Huang, the chief military officer of the Qing Dynasty. ”

No one on the city wall responded to him, Jiang Hao was a little embarrassed, but he was still cheeky and continued to persuade him to surrender.

"The grace of the Qing Dynasty is as heavy as a mountain, and it is really a great rebellion to kill the Ming Emperor, and the Qing Dynasty entered the customs to avenge the Ming Emperor, and it is the chosen person of my Huaxia Jiangshan Society, so don't go against the sky."

At this time, there are no ordinary people in Weiyuan City, and the people are all under the leadership of Wang Mu and other civil officials, and they go to the edge cities such as Datong Right Guard to avoid the war, only thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed in the stone camp, and only Dong Daqi is the general above the captain, and the local army such as Wangbao does not know that Zhu Youzhen is still alive, Jiang Hao shouted Huan under the city, but the generals of the Dashun Army on the city wall want to laugh, when did they kill Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen lived well in the Iron Fist Battalion?

Bo Luo asked Jiang Hao to continue to persuade him to surrender, Jiang Hao shouted for a long time, the city was still quiet, if it wasn't for the banner on the city wall, he really thought that the Dashun army would have withdrawn a long time ago, and left a flag on the city wall to fool people.

He had just turned to leave, when suddenly, a familiar voice came from the city walls.

"Brother, don't want the pearl to cast secretly."

Jiang Xuan looked back and saw that it was his younger brother Jiang Xuan, who had already cut off his braids, put on the armor of the deputy chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty again, and looked at him coldly on the city wall.

He was angry and happy in his heart, angry that Jiang Xuan surrendered to the Dashun Army, embarrassing his face, happy that Jiang Xuan was still alive, after all, the relationship between brothers is blood thicker than water, but the surface kung fu still has to be in place, he and Jiang Xuan scolded: "Jiang Xuan, how can you kid fight with the thief army, don't commit suicide and become benevolent, and protect your integrity." ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire Dashun army in Weiyuan City laughed, laughing at Jiang Jiu's surrender several times and betrayal several times, why didn't he commit suicide, but asked his younger brother to commit suicide for the sake of the so-called integrity, doesn't this make people laugh off their big teeth?

Jiang Xuan was embarrassed by the ridicule, and hid his face and left, Bolo saw Jiang Xuan on the city wall, not only was he not angry, but he also had a starting point of joy, as long as Jiang Xuan was in the Dashun army, Jiang Xuan would not dare not work hard for the Qing Dynasty, otherwise Jiang Xuan's family would have fornicated with the Dashun army and seized Jiang Xuan's military power.

After withdrawing to the barracks, the first thing he did was to visit Bolo and ask Bolo to punish him, on the grounds that he did not discipline his family well and disgraced the Qing Dynasty, and his political ability was average, but this was still visible.

Bolo pretended to help him up, and said earnestly: "General Jiang, Brother Ling is just blinded for a while, after the city is broken, I will definitely spare Jiang Xuan's life, and ask General Jiang to break through Weiyuan City as soon as possible and rescue Jiang Xuan from Dashun." ”

Jiang Hao nodded his head like pounding garlic, and asked him to lead his soldiers and horses to serve as the main attack, and also signed a military order, he would break Weiyuan City in five days, if he didn't break Weiyuan City, he would come to see him.

Bo Luo excitedly took his hand and said to him: "General Jiang is really a tiger, Ben Beizi Yao wishes you a victory, break Weiyuan City, and destroy the Dashun army." ”

There are more and more Qing troops attacking Weiyuan City outside the city, and after all the troops are arranged, there are 4,000 Eight Banner soldiers and 20,000 green battalion soldiers under the city.

Some of the generals are sure, and some are not optimistic about breaking Weiyuan City in four days, Jiang Rang, as Jiang Huang's brother, some blame Jiang Huang: "Why did you become so reckless, this Weiyuan City is easy to defend and difficult to attack at a glance, you look at this city wall, battlements, is it much higher and thicker than when we were stationed?" ”

"Hmph, we have Hongyi cannons, starting from the afternoon, bombing day and night, until the city wall is knocked down, the whole army goes in and fights with the thieves, all for Lao Tzu to listen to, if anyone kills Jiang Xuan, even if the city is broken, Lao Tzu will cut off his head."

Jiang Xuan and Jiang Xuan have a very deep relationship, and the generals also silently put it in their hearts, they can't kill Jiang Xuan after the city is broken, but Jiang Rang still continued: "The Hongyi cannons are all in the Azig army, used to attack Datong City, how can we have Hongyi cannons here?" ”

In fact, the Qing army had already come to reinforce troops, but this time the reinforcements were mainly artillery, and it was the elite artillery unit of the Qing army, Wuzhen Hachao, who quietly arrived at the battlefield last night.

Wuzhen Hachao is the Qing army's heavy artillery troops, after entering the customs, the Qing army's heavy artillery troops have always chased Li Zicheng to fight, after Li Zicheng retreated to Shaanxi, Wuzhen Hachao temporarily had no direction of attack, was ordered by Dolgon to support the Shanxi battlefield, Azig also attached great importance to Wuzhen Hachao, and specially ordered Wang Chengyun to lead 5,000 troops to Beizhili, escorting Wuzhen Hachao's troops to Datong Mansion.

This time, Wuzhen Hachao brought forty Hongyi cannons, and Azig transferred twenty-five of them to Datong City, and the remaining fifteen cannons were transferred to Bolo to attack Weiyuan City.

With so many Hongyi cannons and elite artillery to help, in Jiang Jiu's opinion, what is the city wall after the reinforcement of Weiyuan City?

The Qing army was arrogant, the soldiers of the Dashun army in the city were strictly defended, and Weiyuan City was planned by Jin Dashou, although it was only more than ten days to reinforce, but the effect was very good, and almost every section of the city wall was reinforced.

After Jin Dashou followed Wang Mu to evacuate the people, he also came to the right guard of Datong, stayed in the right guard of Datong for a day, and quietly returned to Weiyuan City the night before the siege of the Qing army, wanting to see the reinforced wall of Weiyuan City, which could resist the attack of the Qing army?

But when he saw that the Qing army had brought more than a dozen Hongyi cannons and dozens of other miscellaneous cannons, he hurriedly ran to the Iron Fist Camp and asked Ling Jingyang to go out of the city to raid and wipe out the Qing artillery troops.

Ling Jingyang also saw the power of the Hongyi cannon, which was the strongest artillery in East Asia in the 17th century, more than a dozen Hongyi cannons lined up, firing at Weiyuan City, it didn't take long to blast open a hole, but Ling Jingyang was not afraid, he first praised Jin Dashou for being able to come back, but scolded Jin Dashou for not listening to the command and running around like a blind man.

Jin Dashou didn't care about Yu Lu, he only cared about whether the city wall could block the Qing army's attack, Ling Jingyang and Jin Dashou said: "Our army does not rely on the city wall in this battle, even if the city wall is destroyed by the Qing army, as long as our army is still in the city, the Qing army must rush in and fight with short soldiers, and our army relies on the street battle in Weiyuan City to consume the Qing army." ”

"My lord, if the city wall is gone, can't the Qing army directly bomb our military camp?"

Ling Jingyang also thought about this problem, but he also thought that even if it was bombarded day and night, the red-coated cannon was not a large-caliber artillery in later generations, how could any ability bombard the military camp in the city, and the artillery had an average flat firing ability, and there were not so many shells, and a strong enough barrel to support continuous firing.

He asked Jin Dashou to go to the city wall and look inside the city.

Jin Dashou looked at it, and sure enough, the city was full of potholes, trenches, and many stone battalion soldiers were lying behind the bunkers, waiting for the Qing army to rush up and fight in the trenches, which opened a new world door for Jin Dashou, and from then on, in his world, not only urban planning, but also battlefield defense.

He said to Ling Jingyang: "My lord, after this battle, can you let me live with the troops?" ”