Chapter 227 Duduo was so angry that he almost burst into tears
The fire that soared into the sky from the Jiannu camp alarmed the local warriors in Shanyang City.
The village heroes came to the top of the city to watch the excitement. Maoxiang was also awakened by these village heroes, so he immediately put on his cotton robe and returned to the northeast corner tower of the West City.
Seeing Maoxiang, Yan Yingyuan smiled and greeted him: "Brother Bijiang, why are you back?"
"Brother Jianheng, why did the slave camp suddenly catch on fire?" Maoxiang asked in shock.
"Nothing, I sent someone to give them a big gift." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, "After all, they are guests from afar, don't you think?"
"Did you set the fire?" Maoxiang was shocked when he heard this.
Then he complained: "Brother Jianheng, you are so uninterested. You didn't even call me for such a lively event? If those local heroes hadn't woken me up, I almost missed this big show."
Yan Yingyuan waved his hand and said, "Hey, I didn't want you to sleep a little longer."
"Why are you still sleeping?" Maoxiang said excitedly, "Jiannu's losses should be considerable now."
Yan Yingyuan grunted and said, "Judging from the intensity of the fire, the dozens of piles of food and grass baggage that caught fire should have been destroyed. I estimate that it could burn the Jiannu's rations for half a month."
Maoxiang counted on his fingers: "Based on 80,000 people, and the minimum standard of one liter of rice per person per day, half a month will be 12,000 dan! Good guy, Duduo will be so angry that he goes crazy."
"The most important thing is that we can save half a month of guarding the city!"
Yan Yingyuan said in a deep voice: "As the old saying goes, if you defend for a long time, you will lose, and if you attack for a long time, you will break. If we can't reduce the ration supply of Jiannu, and allow Jiannu to attack the city for a long time, Shanyang will be lost sooner or later."
"Well, that makes sense." Maoxiang agreed.
Now the hope of guarding Shanyang has greatly increased.
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Duduo was indeed going crazy.
What made Duduo angry was not only the fact that most of the grain and grass baggage with white flags was burned, but also that yesterday they were laughing at Chongzhen's servants and mocking the embarrassment of the two soldiers sent by Chongzhen to Huai'an Prefecture to train troops and defend the city.
Da Ren, he was slapped mercilessly in the face before dawn, and his face was almost swollen.
At this moment, Duduo felt his face burning with shame.
As a veteran who has led troops in battles for nearly twenty years, his camp was unexpectedly attacked by two fledgling white-faced scholars. Doesn't this mean that he is not even as good as the two scholars?
When news of this incident came back to Xuzhou, Luo Luohun and Luck Dehun still didn't know how they would laugh at him and eliminate him. They had always been the only ones to steal the Ming army's camp, but it was his camp in Duduo that allowed the Ming army to successfully attack.
This alone was enough to make him, Duduo, the laughing stock of the Eight Banners.
Thinking of this, Duduo's whole body was about to burst, it was so embarrassing!
"Gege, Gegege." The sound of chattering teeth came from behind Dodo.
Turning around, Duduo saw He Luohui, who was tied to a wooden stake wearing only an obscene garment.
In this cold weather, He Luohui was only wearing a piece of undergarment, and his whole body was covered in bruises from the cold.
"Slave dog, you are so elegant. Are you still thinking about this before the battle?" Duduo was so angry that he really wanted to kill He Luohui on the spot.
It’s not like you, He Luohui, can’t find a woman, but how about finding a man?
If you are looking for a man, then look for a man. When can you not find a man? It has to be last night? Will you die if you endure it?
Before you went to camp last night, what did I tell you? I told you to carefully check every gun platform to guard against the Ming army's nighttime sneak attack. But you just took such precautions? What a thief!
"Master." He Luohui's face turned purple from the cold. He wanted to beg Dodo to let him wear a cotton coat, but he was worried that it would offend Dodo even more and incur an extra beating.
"Don't call me master, I am not your master."
Duduo shouted with a dark face: "I don't have a slave like you."
It wasn't until it was cool that the fire finally slowly extinguished.
The losses of each Jiala of Xiangbai Banner were also gradually summarized.
Niyaha came over quickly, flicked his sleeves and gave Dodo a thousand words: "Master."
"Niyaha, your complexion looks very bad." Dodo frowned and said, "Would you like to ask the doctor to take a look?"
"Go back to the master, I have already seen the doctor." Niyaha said, "The doctor said it's nothing serious. Maybe it's because I haven't taken care of him that night."
"Then don't hold on."
Duduo said with concern, and then asked: "Have you checked everything?"
Niyaha then said with a dark face: "Last night, a total of twenty cannon towers were attacked by bright dogs. Seven of them were spotted by flagmen or Bao Yi and failed to succeed. The remaining thirteen gun towers were all on fire."
"What about the losses?" Duduo asked, "How many casualties were there? How much food, grass and supplies were lost?"
"There were no casualties." Niyaha replied, "The materials burned included more than 22,000 stones of grain, more than 200 carriages and sidecars, more than 100,000 arrows, in addition to fodder, armor
The stomach and the cart."
Listening to Niyaha's report, Dodo's eyes darkened for a while. This wave of losses was too heavy.
The loss of so much material will inevitably severely weaken the entire army's continuous combat capability. If it cannot obtain food and livestock supplies from Huai'an Prefecture, it can last for another month at most.
After a month, they will have to withdraw because they have run out of food.
Originally there were two months of food rations, but now there is only one month left.
Niyaha said again: "Master, Xianglan Qi also captured one person alive."
"Alive?" Duduo said with hatred in his heart and gritted his teeth, "Bring him here."
Niyaha signaled the bannermen to bring the Ming soldiers captured last night alive to Duduo.
"Hey, what's your name?" Duduo still wanted to ask properly at first.
If he could ask for some useful information, he wouldn't mind giving the other person a good time.
But Ming Jun opened his mouth and spat bloody phlegm into Duduo's face.
Duduo was so angry that he immediately ordered two flag men to control the Ming army. Then he pulled out a sharp dagger from his elbow, cut off a large piece of the upper and lower lips of the Ming army with his own hands, and then knocked the Ming army off.
Teeth, he used a dagger to poke into the Ming army's mouth and twist his mouth and tongue into a puddle of minced meat.
The Ming army was also a ruthless man. After being severely injured, he glared at Duduo angrily.
Then when Dodo was unprepared, another large mouthful of blood spat out on Dodo's face.
This mouthful of blood was also mixed with a lot of minced meat, which made Doduo's face full of tears.
Duduo was so angry that he immediately ordered the bannermen to take off all the clothes of the Ming army, and then personally cut off the roots and balls of the Ming army's descendants.
He Luohui immediately felt a chill in his lower body.
Duduo cut at least hundreds of knives on Ming Jun's body, and finally stopped until Ming Jun died.
"These smart dogs must all die! After the city is breached, no one will be spared but all will be executed!" Duduo threw the dagger on the ground and motioned to Fan Chengmo to wipe his hands.
Fan Chengmo quickly wiped Dodo's hands with a hot towel.
After wiping off the blood on his hands, Dodo said: "Niyaha, go and find out which dog slaves were responsible for guarding the sentry last night? After you find out, no matter whose coated slaves they are, they will be executed!"
"Hey!" Niyaha shouted again, turned around and left with murderous intent.
Duduo said again: "Beat the drums and summon the banner masters of each banner, Baylor's army, to discuss matters."
The endless sound of horns and drums soon sounded in the Jiannu camp.
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"Jiannu is beating drums to gather the generals." Yan Yingyuan said quietly, "The attack on the city will begin soon."
Hearing this, Maoxiang became nervous instantly: "Then quickly summon the country warriors to go to the city?"
"Well, Xiangyong can go to the city." Yan Yingyuan nodded and said, "Brother Bijiang, it's time for you and me to go our separate ways. I'll leave the west city to you to guard, and I'll be in charge of the east city."
"Okay." Maoxiang nodded and said, "If you have any questions, let me know in time."
"Okay." Yan Yingyuan agreed, and then said, "Under normal circumstances, the canal lock bridge connecting the east and west cities must be unobstructed, but you should not be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. If the canal lock bridge is cut off by the slaves,
Let’s communicate according to the sign language taught by the Holy Master, and remember to be at the east gate when the time comes.”
"Okay, brother Jianheng, take care."
"Brother Bijiang, take care of yourself too."
The two bowed to each other and left separately.
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At the same time, the flag owners of the two white flags and the blue flag, Beile, Beizi, Mele Zhangjing, Jia Lazhangjing and other generals have gathered in the gun platform bunker where Duduo lives.
This is a large gun platform, and the bunker hall can accommodate nearly a hundred people.
At this moment, Duduo was furious at the nobles with two white flags.
"It's shameful. It's really embarrassing. You've totally lost the face of the two white flags."
"No, not only the two white flags, the entire Qing Dynasty has been disgraced by you!"
"I, Duduo, followed the old Khan to the battlefield at the age of thirteen. I have been on the battlefield for twenty years and fought more than a hundred battles, large and small. I have never fought such a humiliating battle. Because of you, I, Duduo, will become the laughing stock of the Eight Banners!
"
Including He Luohui, who had already put on cotton clothes, the nobles of the two white flags all lowered their heads.
Only the nobles of the Eight Banners, such as Gushan Ezhen, Mele Zhangjing, Jia La Ezhen and Jia La Zhangjing, who were wearing blue flags, were secretly laughing, saying to themselves that you two white flags are actually here today? How happy!
Duduo scolded the nobles with two white flags for half an hour.
Finally, he said: "Since the matter has already happened, it will be useless to regret it. In short, the more than 20,000 stones of grain and hundreds of thousands of arrows that were burned will never be recovered!"
"But some things can still be recovered."
"I, Duduo, can still get my face back."
"The reputation of the Two White Flags can also be regained!"
"If you don't want the two white flags to become a laughing stock, and if you don't want me, Duduo, to become a laughing stock, then today, you will take down this Shanyang City for me!"
After saying this, Duduo said with a ferocious face: "Take down Shanyang, wash Shanyang with blood, take the heads of hundreds of thousands of Ming dogs in Shanyang City to prove my righteousness, take the blood of hundreds of thousands of Ming dogs in Shanyang City
Come and wash away your shame! Take the mountains of food and wealth in Shanyang City to prove that our Two White Flags are the strongest among the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty!"
Listening to Duduo's hoarse roar of filial piety, the blood of the nobles in the two white flags was about to burn.
Niyaha even beat her chest with a fist as big as a sandbag, and screamed: "Master, look at it, I will definitely take down Shanyang City with my son-in-law today!"
"Okay, I will wait to see how you perform."
Duduo nodded and said: "Send the order and start attacking the city!"
"Hey!" He Luohui responded loudly, "The general ordered us to start attacking the city..."
"General's order, start attacking the city..." Duduo's order was quickly conveyed.
The bannermen with two white flags and a blue flag immediately marched out from the camp in a steady stream.
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Yan Yingyuan has arrived at the north gate of Dongcheng.
It happened that Shanyang County Magistrate Zhi Tingjian was also at the north gate.
Zhi Tingjian was the magistrate of Shanyang County who took office in the 16th year of Chongzhen's reign.
"Your Majesty," Yan Yingyuan said, "It's enough as long as I'm here."
"Anyway, I can't sit still in the county government." Zhi Tingjian shook his head and said, "So I just came to the city. Yan Xiaoyou can just treat me as a village hero."
To be honest, both Zhi Tingjian and Fan Zhongjie had reservations about Chongzhen sending two scholars, Yan Yingyuan and Maoxiang, to Shanyang to train local warriors and defend the city.
But Zhi Tingjian, like Fan Zhongjie, also knows priorities.
Now that the Holy Emperor's decree has been issued, and there is no use for anything else, the only thing they can do is to cooperate with Yan Yingyuan and Maoxiang as much as possible to defend the city as much as possible.
Yan Yingyuan also knew this very well.
At that moment, Yan Yingyuan stopped being pretentious and said, "In this case, Lao County Zun will summon the people to wait under the city. If the defensive equipment of a certain city wall is in emergency, it can be replenished in time."
"That's fine." Zhi Tingjian immediately turned around and went to the city.
Yan Yingyuan called Wu Erdan over again and said: "Erdan, ask Xiang Yong to set up the big pot and boil the golden juice! And the thirty tiger cannons and six hundred bird cannons from Dongcheng, all of them
Move to the north city wall! Jiannu’s intention is already obvious, which is to attack the north gate city wall, so let’s concentrate all our firearms to give Jiannu a dagger!”
"Yes." Wu Erdan agreed, and immediately went to assemble the squatting tiger cannon and bird muskets.
There are specialized artillerymen and musketeers in Erwan Township in Shanyang, and they have also practiced shooting tiger squatting artillery and bird muskets. However, in terms of business, they are definitely incomparable to the frontier army and the Shizi camp. The key is to be good at it and practice it.
Not enough.
After a while, the city wall began to be filled with a suffocating stench, the smell of gold juice.
Yan Yingyuan carefully inspected the rolling logs, rocks and other defensive equipment piled on top of the city.
By the way, after Yan Yingyuan arrived in Shanyang, he set up a gunpowder workshop and produced more than 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder. The quality of the gunpowder was not good, but it was just right for making ten thousand enemies.
Yan Yingyuan also specifically told Xiang Yong, who was guarding tens of thousands of enemies, to be careful and pay attention to the Jiannu Fire Attack.
After checking it over, Yan Yingyuan also made up his mind: Shanyang City is ready. If Jiannu is not afraid of death, just come over. I, Yan Yingyuan, will definitely give you a big surprise.
When he looked up again, a group of infantry had already separated from the Jiannu formation.
This group of infantry, which probably numbered more than 2,000 people, pushed dozens of carts and approached the North Gate city wall step by step. The battle was about to break out.
