Looking at the No. 1 Franc cannon again, I saw that the bore of the sub-mother cannon had been blown open at the same time, and the iron stubble turned out, like a chrysanthemum that had been forcibly cracked by violence.

Thankfully, no one died.

Only two scholars scratched their cheeks, which was really fatal.

Qu Shawei was only smoky by the smoke that overflowed from the cannon chamber.

Frightened, Qu Sha got up in a panic, and said in a slight panic: "Your Majesty the Emperor, do I want to quit?" ”

This job is too dangerous, if you say that you die on the battlefield, it's just that, but this is just training, and engaging in training is actually life-threatening, and the probability of death is too high to stand it.

"No way!" Chongzhen categorically refused, "To withdraw is to flee from the battle, and you have to be punished as a deserter!" ”

Qu Shawei immediately shut up and deserted the soldiers, wouldn't that be beheaded? I didn't say anything just now.

Chongzhen asked Qu Shawei again: "I haven't asked you yet, what happened just now?" Why did it blow up? ”

"Your Majesty, it's all my fault." Qu Sha scratched her head slightly, and said with a little embarrassment, "I have measured the caliber of these No. 1 Franc cannons before, and found that their tolerances are not large, so I thought that the sub-cannon might be universal, so I was lazy, and the result was blown up, Your Majesty, you shouldn't blame me, right?" ”

Chongzhen said: "I don't blame you, but I must warn you that before the arrival of the new artillery cast by the Daming Arsenal, you should not make such an attempt again. ”

"Yes, yes, I don't dare anymore." Qu Sha nodded slightly, "Don't be lazy anymore." ”

As he spoke, a fast horse suddenly galloped over and handed over a copy to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen hurriedly came to Chongzhen with the express delivery: "Shengshang, Shandong Express." ”

Chongzhen cut the fire paint in front of Ma Huabao and more than a dozen other general soldiers, and after hurriedly reading the Tang newspaper, he said: "Jiannu has gone south, and the number of troops is said to be 200,000!" ”

"What?!"

"Two hundred thousand?!"

"Is this a nest?"

Ma Huabao and other commanders of more than a dozen towns looked at each other in shock.

Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "The 200,000 army is just a claim of Jiannu, and the actual strength will never exceed 100,000, I estimate that it is 70,000 or 80,000, maybe only 50,000 or 60,000." ”

Hearing this, the faces of Ma Huabao and the other chief officers really improved a lot.

Seventy or eighty thousand Jiannu is obviously too different from the deterrent power of 200,000 Jiannu.

After pondering for a moment, Chongzhen instructed Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, send an urgent delivery to Huai'an Mansion, let Lu Zhenfei immediately lead the transport army to Pizhou, and then send an urgent delivery to Xia Zhen to remind Jingnan Hou to be prepared." ”

Because of the last victory in Xiazhen, Huang Degong has been promoted to marquis.

Chongzhen knew very well that Jiannu's southward trip this time was different from the last time.

The last time I went south, I was just a partial teacher, and at best, there were 10,000 people.

But this time it was no longer a partial division, but the main force of Jiannu led by Duoduo.

Therefore, this time, the Ming army must be fully prepared, not only Xiazhen, but also Xuzhou and Pizhou will be attacked.

Xia Zhen has the general Huang Degong in charge, and the elite soldiers of the ten towns under his command have already had the experience of defeating Jiannu once, plus Xia Zhen's fortifications have become more perfect, so Chongzhen is actually not too worried.

As for Xuzhou, naturally he Chongzhen personally guarded it, but Pizhou still lacked a coach.

Pizhou originally had eight town border troops, and after Zuo Mengeng and Jin Shenghuan's 20,000 people arrived in Xuzhou, Chongzhen transferred two town border troops from Xuzhou to Pizhou, so now Pizhou is also a ten town army.

The border troops of the ten towns in Pizhou are from Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie, and the ten general soldiers have similar qualifications and abilities, so it is definitely impossible to serve the public when selecting a general soldier as a commander.

But Chongzhen doesn't have any available ministers at hand, so he can't temporarily recall Wang Jiayan from Shandong, right? After all, in the next big war, Shandong's position is also extremely important.

After thinking about it, Chongzhen felt that Lu Zhenfei could do it.

First of all, Lu Zhenfei's qualifications are no problem at all, he is the governor himself, and he is also an old acquaintance with the general soldiers of the ten towns under Liu Zeqing, so it should not be a big problem to get along.

It's hard to say in terms of ability, but I can only let him try.

Who made him have no available retainers under his command now?

There are a few good seedlings in the Shizi camp, but they lack experience.

For example, Yan Yingyuan was being sent to Huai'an Mansion to train troops at this time.

Another example is Zheng Sen, who has good ability to lead troops and command battle formations, but he is too young, and it would hurt him to suddenly let him go to Pizhou to take charge alone, and the general soldiers of the ten towns in Pizhou will never obey his command.

Therefore, he could only let Lu Zhenfei go to Pizhou and transfer his transport army as well.

Urgent deliveries to Xiazhen and Shanyang were soon dispatched, and Chongzhen also began to inspect the city defenses.

The defense facilities of Xuzhou are in the same vein as the defense facilities of Xia Town, the only difference is that the core of the defense line of Xia Zhen is only a canal town without city walls, while the core of the Xuzhou defense line is Xuzhou City.

However, Chongzhen still let the border army of Xuzhou build a twelve-fold platform on the periphery.

Moreover, the number of guns in the Xuzhou defense line is more than 100 more than that of Xia Town, reaching more than 600 in total.

In addition, after the end of the Battle of Xiazhen, Chongzhen ordered the reinforcement of the platforms on the periphery of Xiazhen, Xuzhou and Pizhou, and the trenches were dug wider, widening from the previous thirty steps to fifty steps, and the depth was also deepened from one zhang to three zhang, and the parapet walls on the front edge of the platform were all changed from wooden fences to rammed earth walls, with a thickness of five feet!

However, compared with the Xiazhen defense line, the Xuzhou defense line and the Pizhou defense line have a fatal worry.

Looking at the embankment of the Yellow River, which is obviously higher than the horizon and even higher than the city wall of Xuzhou, Chongzhen's eyes flashed with a touch of melancholy, this fatal worry is the Yellow River!

Fortunately, there are also sailors led by Liu Hongkui and Zheng Cai's uncle and nephew.

Previously, under the repeated urging of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to transfer 50 bird boats from Fujian, and now the naval division used to defend the Xuzhou defense line has 150 bird boats, a full 6,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division.

In addition, in the river below Hongze Lake, there is also a detachment of the water division led by Zheng Cai.

This detachment of sailors consisted of a total of 4 foreign ships (junks) and 20 blacktail ships, which would have been enough to meet the Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish expeditionary fleets, but it was more than enough to deal with the sailors brought to Jiannu by King Sanshun, because the ships of the two sides were not on the same level at all.

……

Jiannu actually knew this, so he didn't think about using a water engineer at all.

One is because the strength of the naval division is not good, and the other is that the naval warships cannot cross the canal bridge lock.

Duoduo did not call in the navy warships at all, but only called the sailors' boats to help transport heavy grain and grass and reduce the burden on the army, nothing more.

The speed of the army of Duoduo was not fast.

Beitongzhou, which left on the twenty-fourth day of October, traveled all the way south to Texas for almost 600 miles, but it took half a month, that is to say, the average day was less than 40 miles.

When the army of Dordor arrived in Texas, it was already the fifth day of the first month of November.

Hearing that Duoduo led the arrival of the army, Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong appointed by the Qing court, and Zhang Youfang, the governor of Dezhou, hurriedly led their officials out of the city to kneel to greet them.

First of all, let's introduce the situation in Shandong.

Chongzhen's will to Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui before was that Dongchang Mansion would give up directly, Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion would be able to abide by it, and if they couldn't keep it, they would give up, but Qingzhou Mansion, Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Mansion must be fully defended.

In accordance with Chongzhen's will, Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui made a lot of war preparations.

The main purpose was to relocate the people of Jinan, Yanzhou and Dongchang to Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Huai'an.

By the way, among the 200,000 villagers recruited by Fan Zhongjie in Huai'an Mansion, there are actually many Shandong people, these Shandong people have suffered from the military disaster of Jiannu, and they know how cruel and ruthless Jiannu is, so they are more active than the locals of Huai'an Mansion.

But Wang Jiayan and Hu Xinshui did not completely abandon Jinan and Yanzhou.

Up to now, both of them are still staying in Licheng, the capital of Jinan, and the prefect of Yanzhou, Ling Qi, is still staying in Rencheng, and half of Yanzhou and half of Jinan are still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the only ones that were really under the jurisdiction of the Qing court were Dongchang Mansion, half Jinan Mansion and half Yanzhou Mansion.

Even Fang Dayou's governor Yamen hid in Dezhou, causing Zhang Youfang to become the governor of the attached state.

"Get up." Duoduo motioned to Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang to get up, and called Tong Yangliang, the chief soldier of Shandong, to talk, compared to Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang, the two degraded officials, Tong Yangliang is his own person.

Only then did Tong Yangliang flick his sleeves, and knelt down on one knee to ask Duoduo for a peace: "Slave Tong Yangliang, knock to see the master." ”

Fang Dayou, Zhang Youfang and all the subordinate officials all looked at Tong Yangliang with envy, they actually wanted to call themselves slaves, but they didn't have this qualification, because only when they became a banner official could they be qualified to call themselves slaves.

Don't look at the people who are just a minion, but their status is much higher than that of them.

Duoduo treated Tong Yangliang more closely than Fang Dayou and Zhang Youfang, first smiled and gently kicked Tong Yangliang, and then scolded: "You dog slave has gained a lot of weight, wow?" It seems that life in Shandong is quite good. ”

"Hehe, it's not all thanks to your master." Tong Yangliang said flatteringly.

Duoduo's face straightened, and then asked, "You can briefly talk to this king about the situation in Shandong." ”

"Huh!" Tong Yangliang agreed, and gave a concise introduction to the situation in Shandong.

"Really?" Duoduo frowned slightly and said, "So, Jinan Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion don't have any oil and water?" ”

"If you go back to the master, you still have oil and water." Tong Yangliang lowered his voice and said, "Although the people of these two provinces have moved about the same, the gentry families are still there, and these gentry families are fat sheep, and they are so rich. ”

Dorgon was thrilled, and Dorgon had specifically told him not to divide his troops.

But Dorgon did not say that the route of the march could not be changed.

Along the canal is to the south, and to go through the city and Rencheng is also to the south.

But at that moment a fast horse came galloping from the north.

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