Shi Tingzhu, Shi Lin, and Cheng Fuliang, three bloody heads appeared on Yue Le's handsome case. They were shot by the Ming army wrapped in packages and shot with arrows. At the same time, there was also a letter of persuasion to surrender.
Although the Qing army built many fortifications in Lishan, and Shi Tingzhu was a veteran of hundreds of battles, he only defended Lishan for two days before losing it. The strength of the Ming army deeply shocked the Qing army in Jinan City.
Yue Le looked majestically at the generals Ledu, Gunchuk, Fu Ka, Ku'erchan and Li Yidi.
"Everyone, please discuss how to defend this city?"
No one answered, and the air was deathly silent.
Yue Le was furious, "Why are they all mute? Is it possible that they were all frightened by the Ming army?"
"Don't worry, General. If the Ming army dares to attack the city, let them have a taste of the power of Dutch artillery," Jacob Kaou said.
Seeing that it was a Yi who spoke first, Yue Le felt very embarrassed. There were so many Eight Banners generals, but Hong Yi was not as courageous as him!
He angrily said: "In the past, my Taizu and Taizong fought in the north and south to establish the Qing Dynasty. How difficult it was! Among the princes of the older generation, Baylor, Ezhen, and Zhang Jing, who did not sacrifice their lives during the battle? Only then did they create the illustrious Eight Banners.
With such a timid appearance, are you worthy of being a man of the Eight Banners?"
Yue Le cherished the lives of the Eight Banners' children very much and placed the Han military flag and green camp outside the city, while the vast majority of the people in the city were Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners. These words aroused their bloody courage.
"The last general is willing to follow the general and sacrifice his life to serve the country." Ledu, the king of Duoluomin County, blushed.
"I will eat, drink and sleep on the city wall tomorrow, vowing to live and die with Jinan," Gunchuk shouted.
"This slave is born to the Qing Dynasty and dies to the Qing Dynasty. If the Ming army wants to conquer Jinan, they must first crawl over the slave's body." Fu Ka was so excited that his body trembled.
"Slave??"
"Slave??"
"Slave??"
The impassioned voices made Yue Le slightly relieved. The military spirit can be used!
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"I was leaning on the railing with my head full of anger, and the misty rain stopped. I raised my eyes, looked up to the sky and roared, my heart was full of passion??"
The Ming army came singing "The River is Red", with flags waving and soldiers and horses like a river, covering the sky and the sun, spreading for dozens of miles, and the singing shook the city of Jinan to tremble.
"Your Majesty, the camp has been set up, please come to the camp to rest," Li Mingzhong, Duke of Chang Kingdom, reported. Zhu Hengjia ordered Yuan Zongdi to attack Lishan and at the same time, he ordered him to surround Jinan. When he arrived in Jinan, he did nothing else and kept working.
Build fortifications and camps.
"I'm not busy, I'll go and inspect it first." Zhu Hengjia looked around at the fortifications and saw deep winding ditches, tight fortifications, and various fortifications that were extremely complete. He was full of praise, "Li Qing is so handsome and talented!"
"Your Majesty has given you too much praise, but I just abide by my duties." Li Mingzhong did not dare to take credit.
"Li Qing, don't be humble. If you sweat more in peacetime, you will bleed less in war. I just said that you are a handsome man, and I am not exaggerating at all. It is getting late, so I will go to the tent to rest. Tomorrow morning, I will watch Li Qing's talent."
The so-called appreciation of his talents meant that he was appointed as the vanguard general in the siege. Li Mingzhong was overjoyed and said with emotion: "I will definitely live up to the sacred mandate!"
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In the early morning of the next day, Li Mingzhong ordered Wang Deren, Hao Shangjiu, Hao Yongzhong, and Li Laiheng to prepare and attack the city as soon as the sound of cannons stopped.
Zhao Yong, the Bo of Yixing in the Ming Dynasty, was inspecting the forts everywhere. He placed more than ten heavy cannons in the east, west and north of Jinan, but he placed a full hundred cannons in Nancheng.
These guns are incredible. They are the latest models produced by the Firearms Department of the Arms Department of the Ming Dynasty. They have a very large caliber and a very heavy gun body. It is said that when Peng Yao, the head of the Firearms Department, asked the Holy One to name this cannon, the Holy One gave him five words:
"General who destroyed the captives". This name is domineering, and Zhao Yong likes it very much. When he tried the cannon, he liked it even more. Not only did it have a longer range, but it was also more powerful. It's hard to say whether a cannon can destroy thousands of miles, but it can smash a big hole in the city wall.
No problem.
Zhao Yong galloped to Nancheng and saw Jiang Bin, the deputy general of the artillery battalion, building a simple fort, with five guns and one fort, a total of twenty.
The sergeants are carrying earth to build a low wall to protect the artillery.
"Are you building a wall?" Zhao Yong asked.
"Report to the town, the soldiers are building a low wall," Jiang Bin replied hurriedly.
"Hahaha, Lao Jiang, you just don't know how to adapt. The range of these generals' cannons is half a mile longer than that of other generals. Our fort is also extended back half a mile. At such a long distance, the Qing Dynasty
How can the cannons built by the captives be fired? Stop building blocks, Chang Guo is just waiting for the cannons to attack the city. Prepare to fire."
"Yes", Jiang Bin heard that Zhao Yong's words made sense, so he said "yes" and prepared to fire.
Although the cannons built by the Qing army could not reach the huge cannon of the Ming army, the Dutch sixty-four-pound cannon could.
Captain Kaowu looked around with his telescope and found that the Ming army's forts on the east, west and north sides were not as numerous as those in Nancheng, so he ordered artillery carts to gather all fifty of these behemoths into Nancheng.
These sixty-four-pound cannons are very heavy and require twenty people to push them. Among the twenty people, there are two gunners, one observer, and seventeen gunners. Two people are enough to fire the cannon, but twenty people are needed to move it.
Everyone worked together. In addition to the thousand artillery, there were also a thousand Dutch infantry. More than 200 were deployed on each city wall to deal with the Ming army rushing towards the city.
"Fire", Zhao Yong's command flag waved.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"??
The sound of artillery roared, and the Ming army's huge cannons shot big holes in the city wall. The Dutch observers were very busy, busy measuring the positions of the Ming army's cannons.
"Fire", Captain Kaowu ordered.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"??
The Dutch's cannons began to counterattack. The Yi's cannonballs were accurate and poisonous. The first round of shooting destroyed more than ten Ming army cannons. The gunners suffered heavy casualties. Each of the Ming army's cannons cost twenty
Personally, because I didn’t believe that the Qing army’s artillery could shoot so far, I didn’t build a low wall to block the shrapnel. The shells came one after another, and the fragments flew around, shooting down countless gunners.
"Gululu", Zhao Yong saw not far away, a cannon was overturned and the wheels of the cannon were rolling around.
I was embarrassed and annoyed. I didn’t expect that the Qing army also had huge cannons that could shoot such a distance.
"Shoot for me," Zhao Yong shouted. This heroic artillery commander was never afraid of battle. His original name was Zhao Erhu, and he was born as a school captain in the Jingjiang Prince's Palace. Because of his bravery in battle, he was named Yong by Zhu Hengjia.
"Chirp!"
A cannonball was fired not far from Zhao Yong, landed, and then burst into countless fragments. Without the obstruction of the low wall, the fragments easily shot into the Ming army's formation.
Zhao Yong felt fishy and hot, and a shrapnel hit his neck. He tried to cover the wound to block the blood, but couldn't. "Cough, cough, cough," he coughed violently several times and fell to the ground.
"Headquarters!"
Everyone panicked and rushed to the back camp to find the doctor, but it was too late.
"What! Yixing Bo died in the battle!"
Under the Panlong banner, Zhu Hengxi was shocked when he heard the bad news! Zhao Yong was his favorite general and an old man from the Jingjiang Palace. He followed him all the way from Guangxi to Shandong. He originally planned to make him a marquis after taking Shandong.
Unexpectedly, he died in battle today!
"Which Qinglu army did it?" Zhu Hengjia gritted his teeth in hatred.
"Your Majesty, the soldiers below the city can see clearly that the people who killed Yixing Bo were red-haired Yi people."
"Red-haired Yi people?"
Emperor Guangwu was so angry that he "sent an order to Li Mingzhong. After capturing Jinan, he found that all the barbarian soldiers had been killed and they were not allowed to surrender!"
This chapter has been completed!