Jining.

The news that Duoduo's main force had left only deceived Fei Ruhe for less than ten days, after all, there were Datong troops in each city. Although Duoduo came up with all kinds of tricks to confuse, the material transfer still couldn't deceive people.

There is no way to chase, if it weren't for Zhang Tieniu to return to the division in advance, Yizhou City could only rely on the peasants and soldiers defending the city.

Fei Ruhe didn't care about the enemy's main force, and directly chose to attack Jining, because the siege artillery was delivered!

A total of six siege guns were built, three of which were made in Macao, and were transported to the Yangtze River by sea, and then sent to Fei Ruhe via the Grand Canal. The other three were made in Jiangxi and transported all the way to the Henan battlefield.

These siege guns, with a body weight of 3.5 tons and a caliber of about 20 centimeters, should be called "63-pounder guns" according to the British name.

Zhao Han borrowed this method and localized it, calling it "forty-seven catties cannon" (57.15 catties).

However, the "forty-seven catties cannon" is really not majestic, and some soldiers follow the name of the Ming Dynasty, and are still called "mighty generals' cannons", or the weight of the cannon body is called "six thousand catties cannon" (actually 7,000 catties).

At this moment, Zu Zeyuan has come to the aid with the Han army with a white flag, and is currently stationed in Jining City.

Whether it was Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu, or Zu Zeyuan, they all didn't care about Fei Ruhe's siege. Because there is a large army stationed in the city, and Jining is high and deep, as long as you strictly guard against spies in the city, Fei Ruhe will attack for a year, and don't think about breaking the city.

The Jining city wall is 13 meters high, the thickness of the wall base is 14 meters, and the thickness of the top of the wall is 7 meters.

Even if you dig a tunnel and blow it up with gunpowder, it won't be a few hundred catties of gunpowder that can blow it up!

Hong Chengchou sat on the city tower reading a book, and the people outside the city were still filling in the moat. Zuo Liangyu was simply basking in the sun, thinking about the war situation in his mind, and he always felt frightened these days.

"Cannon!"

Suddenly, a guard of the city exclaimed.

The noise became louder and louder, and Hong Chengchou finally couldn't sit still, so he got up and went to see what was going on.

I saw that tripods were set up with logs on the shore, and there were several such tripods alone. The specific details are not clear, it seems that there is a pulley (pulley) device, the ropes are a lot, the enemy soldiers are pulling the pulley group, and something is pulled up from the boat.

Hong Chengchou snatched the clairvoyant mirror in the observer's hand, but saw that it was a cannon barrel that was hoisted by a pulley set. It's a little more slender than the common Hongyi cannon, but the barrel is really thick.

Zu Zeyuan also ran over, snatched the clairvoyant mirror from Hong Chengchou's hand, and said dryly: "This time it's troublesome!" ”

Another artillery officer, who had mastered mathematics, came to the fixed artillery position and took out a measuring instrument to measure the angle and distance.

The Ming Dynasty had artillery ranging technology, standing on the watch rod, with hundreds of scales on the rod, and using the Pythagorean oblique chord to measure. Sun Yuanhua also compiled "The Divine Machine of Western Law" and introduced European artillery ranging technology.

Three siege guns with sports cars on wheels.

The men pushed the sports cart with all their might, and went to the side of the artillery officer. The car was also specially built, made of copper, iron, and hardwood, and the rear frustration of the siege gun was cushioned by wheels and the ground.

After repeated calculations, the Datong Army began to test the artillery.

Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu, Zu Zeyuan and others, without waiting for the shells to be loaded outside the city, ran down the city tower one after another to hide.

According to the weight unit hundreds of years later, a cannonball is more than 57 catties, and it takes a lot of effort to stuff the cannonball into the barrel!

In addition to the three siege guns, twenty-five field guns were also aimed at the same section of the wall.

Here comes the wonderful scene.

Three siege artillery pieces and 25 field artillery pieces fired at the same section of the city wall one after another. For each launch, the data is recorded and then the angle is adjusted.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Most of the shells were too far or too close, and only three hit the target, one of which hit the female wall at the top.

No one could suppress it, and no one could suppress it, anyway, all the soldiers defending that section of the city wall ran away.

Each time the siege artillery was fired, it would be pushed back into place, and there were ten soldiers pushing the artillery cart alone.

"Boom!"

Finally, a heavy cannon hit, and an iron bullet of 47 Ming Jin (57 City Jin) smashed on the city wall. The bricks of the outer city wall were smashed and flying, but the rammed earth city wall inside could absorb the kinetic energy of the cannonballs.

Jining city wall, too thick!

There are only the eight banners of the Han army of Zu Zeyuan in the city, and the rest are all Han troops, including Shandong troops and border troops.

Some Shandong generals have already made up their minds to escape, and when the city wall collapses, they will flee whenever they want, anyway, it is impossible to die for the Manchus.

At least, they would not give their lives to the Manchus until they won the battle.

The buildings near that section of the city wall were simply out of luck. Half a day later, the walls did not collapse, and the nearby houses collapsed.

In the evening, the shelling stopped.

Hong Chengchou carried a lantern and walked into a half-collapsed shop. He squatted down and looked at the cannonball in a daze, a cannonball much bigger than his head, Hong Chengchou really hadn't seen it.

Zu Zeyuan also came over and squatted down, looked at it for a while, and said: "You have to go to the city and grab the artillery, you can't let the enemy bombard like this!" ”

Zuo Liangyu reminded: "I can't move." ”

"Then blow it up!" Zu Zeyuan said.

Zuo Liangyu said: "If we can blow up the enemy's huge artillery, unless our army can win a big victory." What did you do by then? It's all been seized by us. ”

"You can only attack the camp at night!" Zu Zeyuan said.

Zuo Liangyu said: "Attacking the camp at night may only cause temporary chaos, and the camp outside the city has always been cautious. If there is only a moment of confusion and darkness, can you find where the enemy cannons are? ”

Zu Zeyuan was silent for a moment.

Hong Chengchou opened his mouth and said: "The Ten Kings have taken the main force to Yizhou, and our army must not leave the city, so we can only wait for the news of the Ten Kings." As for the enemy's cannons, let them continue to bombard, knock down the city walls, and defend the city at the breach. ”

This is, with the morale of those soldiers and generals in the city, once the city is broken, they will immediately flee.

But Hong Chengchou couldn't help it, he only had the thousands of Han troops inlaid with white flags brought by Zu Zeyuan in his hands.

The next day, the artillery was again launched to attack the city, still collectively aimed at the wall of yesterday.

Twenty-eight guns, fired in order.

After the first shot is fired, immediately clean the chamber and reload the ammunition. At the same time, the second gun fired, and so on, and the bombardment went on and on.

And the Minfu troops, under the cover of artillery, continued to fill in the moat.

Jining's moat has to be filled in ten days and half a month, wide and deep!

On the fourth day of the bombardment of the city, Zu Zeyuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the Wuzhen Hachao battalion out of the city to attack the artillery unit.

Four thousand Datong firearms were neatly arranged by the moat.

Zu Zeyuan stopped moving forward and looked at it, and then went back in a gray way. He didn't dare to go around from other directions, for fear that he would not be able to return to the city if he went far away, and none of the friendly troops in the city were reliable.

"Report!"

A horse rushed from the west, crossed the canal in the north a long way, and finally came to the city of Jining.

Before Hong Chengchou could ask a question, Zu Zeyuan said, "What military situation?" ”

The soldier who delivered the letter said, "The wild is gone." The Caozhou rebel army besieged Juye for several days, and there were generals in the city who rebelled, and the inside and outside should join forces to break through Juye City. ”

Zu Zeyuan was silent.

Hong Chengchou was helpless, there were too many righteous troops in Shandong. There were "rebellions" in various parts of the rear, and in order to maintain stability behind him, Zuo Liangyu sent two generals to bring troops back to suppress them one after another.

As a result, the army was overstretched, and it was impossible to take the initiative to attack the rest of the prefectures and counties, so it could only shrink into a group and hold the city.

Zuo Liangyu felt that he was ruthless enough, but the Manchu Qing were even more powerful than him, and forced the gentry to rebel by forcibly requisitioning grain!

Of course, the meticulous work sent out by Xu Ying also made great efforts, spreading rumors, incitement, and conspiring everywhere. When a woman from the Han family gets married, she must first give it to the Tartar official cave room, and this rumor has become known to everyone.

Datong only needs to spread the rumors, and does not care about the follow-up at all, and the people have passed it on by word of mouth.

The more outrageous the rumor, the faster it spreads!

Moreover, the common people took the initiative to add oil and vinegar, and the more the content spread, the more evil it became. But no matter how evil it is, some people believe it, because during the Chongzhen period, after the Tartars broke through, they once robbed all the way to Shandong, burning, killing and looting.

Yan Yingyuan and other rebels, joined forces with the Liangshan rebels, and merged with the rebel soldiers of Caozhou, and now they have finally captured Juye, and these rabble have gathered 150,000 troops!

It is really a rabble, among the 150,000 rebels, only more than 10,000 can understand the flag order.

There were a large number of civilians in it, whose homes were ruined and there was really no food to eat. Some prefectures, counties, and villages are empty, and men, women, and children join the army together, and they are nothing more than a mixed meal.

They hated Zuo Liangyu and the Manchus so much that they joined the rebel army one after another, and most of them didn't know what to do when they were fighting.

But they just broke through Juye, and the next city was Jiaxiang.

Once Jiaxiang is broken, the righteous army will be able to kill Jining and join the main force of Fei Ruhe's Datong army.

Jiaxiang County.

The guard general Zhang Yingxiang was already numb in his scalp, and more than 100,000 people were killed outside the city, and he almost ordered to replace the Datong military flag on the spot.

But the occupation is unknown, Zhang Yingxiang does not dare to defect easily, what if the Manchu army wins?

He didn't wait for it to get dark, because his family wasn't in the city, and his goods weren't in the city. Before the siege of more than 100,000 righteous troops, Zhang Yingxiang abandoned the city with his troops and fled, went around the north and then rushed to Jining to join Zuo Liangyu.

If you don't spare the road, you can't do it, the Datong Army Naval Division has occupied the canal near Jining!

"Why are you here?" Zuo Liangyu asked.

Zhang Yingxiang replied: "More than 200,000 rebel troops attacked Jiaxiang, and they couldn't hold their lowly duties. ”

Zuo Liangyu became more and more worried, and the development of the situation was very different from what he imagined.

This is no longer a war between the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Datong Army, but the entire Shandong people, who have risen up to fight the Manchus.

Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Shandong for ten years before it completely wiped out the righteous army in Shandong.

Now the Datong Army has carefully created rumors, instigated in tandem everywhere, and has the Datong Army as the confidence, and the Shandong Righteous Army is several times more than in history.

The vast sea of the people's war!

"Boom!"

The crack in the city wall became larger, and Hong Chengchou's face became more and more gloomy.

The Datong Water Division occupied the canal, and the defenders of Jining couldn't go if they wanted to.

It is okay to withdraw troops, but it cannot take away heavy food. Because the more baggage you bring with you when you withdraw your troops by land, the more people you need.

Once there are more people, coupled with a group of demoralized troops and generals, I am afraid that the Datong army will not be able to chase a few miles, and Hong Chengchou's side will change from withdrawing troops to fleeing.

"Boom!"

Another heavy artillery hit made Hong Chengchou's heart tremble.

A messenger came running from the east, and after entering the city, he was frightened: "Surabaya County is gone, and the enemy army is besieging Qufu County!" ”

Zu Zeyuan was terrified: "What about the army of His Royal Highness the Ten Kings? ”

"The Ten Kings were defeated and died!" The messenger said.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Zeyuan glanced at each other, and at the same time looked at Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu was far away, he wanted to know the military situation, but Hong Chengchou didn't let him listen.

On Jining's side, the generals have long since left Germany.

Zu Zeyuan recruited his own soldiers, gathered around Zuo Liangyu and said: "The Ten Kings have been defeated, Jining can't hold it for a long time, so withdraw to Dongping with the elite tonight." ”

Zuo Liangyu lowered his head and said, "Okay!" ”

Zuo Liangyu was held hostage, but if he didn't say a word, he would be hacked to death by Zu Zeyuan.