Du Yinxi took a step forward and said, "I'm here."
Chongzhen said: "When the towns launch a counterattack, they will lead the people of Xuzhou out of the city to fill in the blockade ditch. The ten miles of blockade ditch between Yunlong Mountain and the Yellow River will be filled first!"
"I accept the decree!" Du Yinxi agreed with his hand.
Chongzhen said again: "Jin Xuan."
Jin Xuan stepped forward and said, "I'm here."
Chongzhen said: "Jiannu has the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Mongolia as an outer vassal. After our army launches an attack, the Mongolian cavalry will definitely arrive in a short time to help. Our infantry may not be afraid of the Mongolian cavalry, but the people lack protection. Once they are attacked,
If the Mongolian cavalry attacks, there will be a large number of casualties, which will affect the work of filling in the blocked ditch."
After a pause, he continued: "Therefore, your cavalry battalion needs to follow Minzhuang out of the city and be responsible for covering Minzhuang's landfill operations. If there is spare time, you can also assist the infantry in combat."
"I accept the decree." Jin Xuan agreed with his hands and stepped back.
Chongzhen turned his attention to Zheng Hongkui again: "Zheng Hongkui."
"I'm here." Zheng Hongkui stepped forward and promised loudly.
Chongzhen said: "When Jin Shenghuan and the others broke through the blockade, they launched an attack on the pontoon bridge on the river. After destroying the pontoon bridge, they first cooperated with the infantry to destroy the Jiannu Fort on the west bank of the Yellow River. Then they coordinated the infantry of Jin Shenghuan's three towns to the east bank and continued to destroy the Jiannu Fort on the west bank of the Yellow River.
The Jiannu Fort on the east bank must completely destroy the river defenses and connect water transportation!"
"I accept the decree." Zheng Hongkui bowed his hands and agreed.
Finally, Chongzhen shouted to the outside of the camp: "Yang Ponu."
Yang Ponu, who was guarding outside the camp, came in and said, "The villain is here."
Chongzhen said: "You pick a dozen with good water properties, and go out of the city now, go to Xia Town and Pizhou to report the news, and ask Huang Degong and Lu Zhenfei to send troops to hold off Jiannu at all costs!"
"Accept the decree." Yang Ponu turned around and ran out.
Chongzhen's eyes finally fell on Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude.
Lu Jiude stood up and subconsciously straightened his chest.
Chongzhen smiled and asked Gao Qiqian first: "Gao Banban, does your butt hurt?"
Gao Qiqian said with a sad face: "Long live my Lord, to be honest, this old slave really hurts."
The commander-in-chief and civilian officials present looked like they wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh. It was really hard to hold it in.
"If you know it hurts, remember it better. You must be careful in what you say and do in the future." Chongzhen snorted and said, "You two, along with the eunuch soldiers from the two towns under your command, will organize all the old, young, women and children in Xuzhou City for me.
Just wait for the people to fill in the trenches, then immediately leave the city and cut the wheat seedlings!"
"Lu Banban, Gao Banban, you must tell all your fellow villagers that your work will not be in vain."
"I will buy the wheat seedlings they harvested. Each hundred kilograms of seedlings is worth one tael of silver. I will not deceive anyone!"
After saying this, Chongzhen said solemnly: "But whoever dares to use grass as wheat seedlings will not only lose money, but will also be beaten!"
"Old slave, wait for the order!"
Lu Jiude and Gao Qiqian were extremely excited.
Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "Okay, let's go back and prepare."
"I will retire." Zheng Hongkui, Du Yinxi, Jin Xuan and others resigned one after another.
In the blink of an eye, all the civil servants, generals and dozens of scholars were gone. Only Chongzhen, his father and his son, and Li Xiangjun were left in the carriage. Li Xiangjun looked a little unhappy...
Zhu Cihong tugged on Zhu Cijiong's sleeve.
"Brother, why are you pulling my sleeve?" Zhu Cijiong said with a confused look on his face.
Zhu Cihong said to himself that you are a little chicken, you really don’t understand anything, how dare you stay here to bother your father?
At that moment, Zhu Cihong hooked Zhu Cijiong's shoulder and walked out and said: "Yesterday when I was reading Taigong's Art of War, there was an article in it that I couldn't understand. Please help me read it in detail."
"What is Taigong's art of war?" Zhu Cijiong looked confused.
"Let's go, let's go quickly." Zhu Cixi couldn't help but pull him away.
Watching the two Zhu Cixi brothers leave, Li Xiangjun finally found an opportunity: "Your Majesty, I also want to go to the battlefield, so please transfer the brothers and sisters from the National Disaster Theater Troupe to me."
There was a hint of coquettishness in his words.
Chongzhen coughed dryly and said: "None of the actors in the national calamity troupe know how to fight. If you lead them to fight against the Jian slaves, you are not asking for death. How about this? When the battle is over, you go back to Nanjing to recruit a battalion of female soldiers, and then
You should train them well and wait until you have the opportunity to go to the battlefield in the future."
Li Xiangjun said: "Your Majesty, you must mean what you say."
"You have no words to joke." Chongzhen pulled Li Xiangjun into his arms.
Some things are difficult to stop once they start, such as womanizing.
However, Chongzhen was very sure that he could not reach the level of King Zhou, King You of Zhou or Li Longji. For him, female sex was just a way to relieve stress, and it was impossible to become addicted to it.
…
The moon shines brightly and the warm breeze blows.
Shang Kexi was inspecting the pontoon with Geng Jimao, Zu Zepu and other aristocratic family members.
Zu Zepu was the second son of Zu Dashou. After the eldest son Zu Zelan was captured by the Ming army in the Battle of Xia Town and was escorted to Nanjing and beheaded outside Jinchuan Gate, the second son Zu Zepu took over Zu Zelan's position.
Looking at the vast Yellow River under the moonlight, Geng Jimao always felt a little uneasy.
Geng Jimao took a few steps and caught up with Shang Kexi: "Uncle, my nephew feels something is not right. Something might happen tonight."
Zu Zepu, who was following behind, couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Secretary Zu, why are you laughing?" Geng Jimao said angrily.
Zu Zepu said: "You're not laughing. It's just that last night you said it didn't feel right. You didn't feel right the night before. You still don't feel right tonight. So I'm wondering, little brother, which night was the right time?"
"My nephew, are you tired?" Shang Kexi smiled and patted Geng Jimao on the shoulder, "Why don't you go back to sleep first."
"Uncle, you don't even believe me?" Geng Jimao suddenly became anxious, "My nephew, I really feel something is wrong. Something is going to happen tonight. We must be prepared..."
While he was talking, there were sudden sounds of killing in the direction of Xuzhou City.
"Huh?" Shang Ke was delighted, and at the same time he raised his head and looked to the west.
"Look, what did I say?" Geng Jimao said anxiously, "I just said something was going to happen. You didn't believe it just now, Zu Lao Er. What do you think now? You have nothing to say, right?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zu Zepu ignored Geng Jimao and asked Shang Kexi: "King Zhishun, if the Ming army goes out of the city to counterattack, they will not only counterattack by land, there will definitely be actions by waterway.
, we must take precautions in advance.”
"Yes." Shang Ke nodded happily, "Light up the beacon on the ship."...
"Your Majesty has an order, light the beacon!" Zu Zepu immediately gave the order.
As Shang Kexi's order was conveyed, the beacon towers on more than 600 fishing boats serving as pontoons of the pontoon were lit one after another, and more than 600 beacon fires instantly illuminated the entire river.
As of today, the Eight Banners Han Army has collected more than 600 fishing boats.
And these more than 600 fishing boats were used as bridge piers to build five pontoons.
Of course, these floating bridges can only be used by infantry, not cavalry, because the distance between two adjacent "piers" is more than ten steps, and they are connected by four strands of hemp rope in the middle.
Two strands of hemp rope were tied to three-foot-wide wooden boards.
There is no problem in passing people on such a pontoon bridge, but the cavalry will be shaken badly.
Shang Kexi stood in the center of the first pontoon bridge upstream. Looking upstream, he saw silence under the moonlight. Not to mention the bird boats of the military and navy, he didn't even see a sampan.
However, Shang Kexi did not dare to take it lightly. He also transferred the Han army's musketeers who were left behind to the pontoon bridge, and at the same time ordered the forts on the east and west sides to burn the iron rods red and prepare for firing.
However, there has been no movement in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
On the other hand, across Yunlong Mountain in the direction of Xuzhou City, there were loud killing sounds, and flames shot up into the sky, almost lighting up the western half of the night sky, indicating that the fighting there was extremely fierce.
Moreover, as time went by, the war soon spread to the Yellow River on the east side of Yunlong Mountain.
I saw Ming troops constantly coming around from the north and south sides of Yunlong Mountain and launching attacks on the blockade ditch where the Qing troops were stationed. Even the Ming troops stationed on Yunlong Mountain launched a dive.
The cannons roared, the fires shot into the sky, and the battle was extremely fierce.
"Not good!" Shang Kexi's heart suddenly sank when he saw this.
Zu Zepu also cried out: "The fort on the west bank is in danger!"
"Quick!" Shang Kexi made a decisive decision, "The musketeers divided into teams of hundreds to rush to support the west bank forts! At the same time, the sentry commanders of each fort were informed that they would not be allowed to retreat even half a step before reinforcements from the Ten Kings arrived! Anyone who disobeys the order
, Execute the entire clan!”
"Yes!" Zu Zepu shouted, got up and ran away.
Geng Jimao quietly slipped away to the east bank of the Yellow River.
The west bank of the Yellow River is no longer safe.
…
The Ming troops in the three towns of Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao have also launched attacks.
It is difficult to climb up from the foot of Yunlong Mountain, but it is very easy to dive down from the mountain.
It only took less than a quarter of an hour for Jin Shenghuan's five thousand border troops to reach the front of the Jiannu blockade ditch.
By this time, the Jiannu outside the blockade ditch had long been alerted and were already standing in rows behind the wall of the blockade ditch.
In the light of the fire, looking at the rows of Jiannu guarding the wall, Jin Shenghuan's dozen lieutenants, generals and guerrillas began to retreat.
How can this be won?
"Headquarters, Jiannu is ready."
"How can we fight now? If we go any further, we will die."
"Zongzhen, otherwise we can just howl a few times and it will make sense."
In a word, these generals have long been frightened by Jiannu and have lost their eggs.
"Shut up!" Jin Shenghuan still had some eyesight after all. He had already seen that Chongzhen was very determined this time, so if the ten-town frontier army was too cowardly and made the old man lose face, he would definitely kill someone.
Therefore, if we don’t do our best this time, it will definitely be impossible. The Holy Lord must give him face.
But there’s no need to work too hard, as long as it’s not the town with the worst performance.
In this case, even if the Holy Sage's butcher's knife were to cut him off, it would not be able to cut him on the head.
At that moment, Jin Shenghuan shouted: "Set up the Tiger Crouching Cannon and give me a round of fire first!"
Dozens of squatting tiger cannons were quickly set up, the tiger claws were fixed with iron drills, and the cannons were fired immediately.
