"That's right, the red cannons have been pulled out!"
Jie Yuancai said: "Brother Jianheng, Jiannu will definitely attack the Chenguantun camp again."
"Then let them come." Yan Yingyuan said in a ferocious voice, "I wasn't afraid of them during the last sneak attack at night. How can I be afraid of them in broad daylight this time? Hmph."
Yan Yingyuan really hoped that Jiannu would attack again.
However, Yan Yingyuan's wish ultimately came to nothing.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another movement at the city gate.
I saw groups of civilians driving out of the city just behind the Green Camp.
Moreover, these civilians all carry shovels, pickaxes, dustpans and other tools, and even tamping tools.
"Hey, what is this?" Jie Yuancai was immediately stunned, "What's going on? What does Jian Nu want to do?"
Yan Yingyuan was Yan Yingyuan after all. He immediately guessed the intention of establishing a slave and said in a deep voice: "I understand!"
Jie Yuancai immediately looked back at Yan Yingyuan and asked, "Brother Jianheng, what do you understand?"
Yan Yingyuan said: "Brother Xingdou, don't you understand yet? Jian Nu is planning to build a gun platform!"
"Of course I know how to build a gun platform." Jie Yuancai asked again, "The key is to build a gun platform for what?"
After a pause, Xie Yuancai continued: "Is Hong Chengchou worried that there are not enough guns outside Jinghai County?"
"No." Yan Yingyuan said, "Hong Chengchou probably planned to start from Jinghai County and build a cannon platform all the way south, eventually connecting it with Qingxian County in the south."
"Oops, wouldn't our army's food route be cut off again?"
At this time, Jie Yuancai also came to his senses, and said with a dark face: "This Hong Chengchou is quite capable, and he actually came up with such a damaging move, but we must not let him build the gun platform."
After a pause, Jie Yuancai said again: "Why don't we ask the cavalry to attack and stop Jiannu from building a gun platform?"
"No." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "Jian Nu has set up a battle array, and there are hundreds of red cannons and Fran cannons. The cavalry will be beaten in the face by Jian Nu's guns when they go up to the town."
"Then let Your Majesty bring back the main force."
Xie Yuancai said: "It's time to have a decisive battle with Jiannu."
"No way." Yan Yingyuan said, "As soon as the main force comes back, the Jiannu will definitely retreat back to the city. At that time, will the main force of our army attack Jinghai County, or go north again to surround Beijing?"
"To storm Jinghai County, we need to seize thousands of gun towers in the periphery first. This is not as good as attacking Beijing."
"But what if we go north again and wait for the main force to leave, but Jiannu, who is hiding in Jinghai, comes back to repair the gun platform? And let the main force come back from Beijing? How much tossing back and forth?"
Xie Yuancai was immediately speechless, as if he really couldn't do it.
At this time, Zhu Cijiong, Hu Guozhu, and Xia Wanchun also arrived after hearing the news.
After learning about the situation, Hu Guozhu said: "Our cavalry will attack first and try our best to prevent Jiannu from building gun platforms to the south. Otherwise, once the grain road is cut off, we will be in big trouble."
Xia Wanchun frowned and said: "The key point is that even if the cavalry attacks, it can't stop it."
Zhu Cijiong also said: "Yes, Jiannu has deployed so many cannons, and the cavalry can't get close no matter how fast they run."
Hu Guozhu said solemnly: "We must stop it even if we can't stop it. Even if we wipe out the entire cavalry town, we can't just sit back and watch the slaves build gun towers to cut off our army's food routes."
"The question is why all the cavalry are needed?" Yan Yingyuan said disapprovingly.
"There are clearly better ways to break the Jiannu's gun-battery offensive tactics, so why do we have to send out cavalry to fight? There is no need at all."
"Yan Gijian has a better solution?" Zhu Cijiong asked.
"Yes." Yan Yingyuan pointed forward and continued, "Isn't Jiannu using it?"
"Yan Gijing said that we should also build a gun platform?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes, we are also building a gun platform." Yan Yingyuan stretched out his hand and drew a cross in the void, and then said, "Jiannu wants to build a vertical chain of gun platforms to connect Jinghai with Qingxian County in the south. Then we
Just build a horizontal chain of gun platforms to connect the Chenguantun camp with the Tianshuijing stronghold on the coast."
"Look, in the end, it was Jiannu's chain of muskets that cut off our grain road?"
"Or is it that the gun platform chain we repaired will cut Jiannu's gun platform chain in half in the middle?"
After a pause, Yan Yingyuan continued: "We are not afraid of slaves in field operations, and we are not afraid of slaves in building gun platforms. How many civilians can be mobilized to build slaves? Can it be compared with the Ming Dynasty?"
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in Beijing.
The Ming army mobilized tens of thousands of civilians to dig blockade trenches in the north and south directions starting from the Sili Bridge outside Chaoyang Gate. The trenches were two feet deep and more than six feet wide.
So far, the blockade trench in the north has extended to outside Andingmen, and the blockade trench in the south has also extended to outside Zuo'anmen, almost encircling one of the three Beijings.
This put great pressure on the Eight Banners nobles and Han officials and gentry in Beijing.
Seeing the Ming army's blockade extending, the Qing army was powerless. This sense of powerlessness and decadence was undoubtedly very torturous, so dissatisfaction with Dorgon and Hong Chengchou broke out again.
The dissatisfaction of the Eight Banners nobles headed by Duduo was mainly directed at Dorgon.
However, the Han officials headed by Sun Zhixian and the Han gentry headed by Zhang Jinyan were more dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, and they all felt that it was Hong Chengchou's incompetence that caused the current passive situation.
Sun Zhixian and Zhang Jinyan even went to Prince Rui's Mansion to complain to Dorgon.
It is said to be a complaint, but in fact it is to make a complaint. This is also the basic operation of Han officials.
Han officials have been fighting with each other for thousands of years, and they have developed a good ability to work together to defeat different parties.
"Prince Regent, I have a piece of advice that you should never regurgitate unhappily." Sun Zhixian said seriously.
"Hong Chengchou is said to know the soldiers, but his name is not true. Although he had a small success in suppressing the bandits, most of them were due to the second cao, He Renlong and others. Hong Chengchou really had no merit. It was a plan of the Qing Dynasty. His master needs to be replaced as soon as possible.
Hong Chengchou."
Dorgon frowned and said nothing. In his heart, he actually looked down on Sun Zhixian, because this guy had no backbone. When the Qing soldiers first entered Beijing, Sun Zhixian couldn't wait to shave himself on the first day of the court meeting.
He had a golden rat-tail haircut and tried to sneak into the Manchen class, but was kicked to the ground by Azig.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sun Zhixian could only return to Hanchen's shift in disgrace.
As a result, the Han ministers were deliberately placed close together, and Sun Zhixian could not squeeze in and had to stand at the end of the class. From then on, he became the laughing stock of the courtiers in Beijing and was looked down upon by everyone.
But it is one thing to look down on Sun Zhixian, and another thing to treat him.
Even if it was just to set an example, the Qing Dynasty could not treat Sun Zhixian too harshly.
Therefore, Dorgon could only listen patiently to Sun Zhixian's nonsense in Dongnuang Pavilion.
But when Sun Zhixian proposed to replace Hong Chengchou with Duduo, Dorgon finally became angry.
"Sun Zhixian!" Dorgon stared at Sun Zhixian gloomily, "How many benefits did the Ten Kings promise you?"
"Master, why did you say this?" Sun Zhixian hurriedly knelt on the ground, "I have not accepted any benefits from the ten kings. I really think about the country and the country of the Qing Dynasty. Please be careful, master."
"Then you are teaching me how to do things?" Dorgon's eyes became even colder.
"Master Mingjian, how dare this slave do this?" Sun Zhixian's face turned pale.
"Then you should stop nagging in front of me." Dorgon glanced at Zhang Jinyan and said, "Let's all go back. When you return home, take care of your servants and don't talk nonsense."
Sun Zhixian and Zhang Jinyan were unhappy and left in embarrassment.
Dorgon's state of mind was also affected to some extent.
For no other reason than because Hong Chengchou suffered another defeat.
In the Battle of Daluli, one man killed nearly 20,000 Mongolian cavalry.
What made Dorgon even more angry was that 200 camel cannons were lost.
As for the cannon offensive proposed by Hong Chengchou, Dorgon was not optimistic.
First, because the construction of gun towers is too slow. How long will it take to connect Jinghai and Qingxian?
Second, because the Qing Dynasty could build gun towers, couldn't Nanming? They could also build gun towers. Then wouldn't it become a competition to build gun towers and a competition of manpower and material resources?
In terms of manpower and material resources, how could the Qing Dynasty be able to compete with the Nanming Dynasty? It would definitely lose!
However, he did not issue an order to stop Hong Chengchou, so he was still lucky.
What if the Ming army had no time to react and Hong Chengchou really succeeded?
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Almost at the same time, Chongzhen also received an urgent delivery from Yan Yingyuan.
After Wang Jiayan, Xu Yingwei and others finished reading the urgent delivery, Chongzhen asked: "What do you think?"
Jiang Tianyi said: "Your Majesty, I think Jian Heng's proposal is very good. Jiannu will build a gun platform, and we will also build a gun platform. Jiannu will be seeking death if he competes with our Ming Dynasty in terms of manpower."
Zheng Sen echoed: "That's right, even consumption can consume slaves alive."
Xu Yingwei said: "But after the gun platform is built, troops need to be stationed. At present, 13 large camps have been built on the more than a thousand-mile logistics channel from Dengzhou to Beijing. In addition, there are more than 70 small strongholds, for a total of more than 80 large and small camps.
But there are only seven infantry brigades left behind, which is already stretched thin."
"If the Chenguantun camp and the Tianshuijing stronghold are connected in a line,"
"Then at least 210 gun towers need to be built in these more than 150 miles."
Speaking of this, he added: "Based on one sentry per gun platform, at least 210 sentries are needed, 70 in total, which is fourteen infantry battalions and nearly three infantry brigades."
Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "Then transfer the second town back."
There are still three infantry brigades in the 2nd Town remaining outside Beijing.
It just so happened that these three infantry brigades were transferred back to protect the grain road.
Wang Jiayan said again: "Your Majesty, we still need to recruit some more people from Shandong to come."
Chongzhen thought for a while and then said: "Forget it, the people in Shandong are not enough. Now that spring has begun, spring plowing will begin soon. It is better not to recruit people from Shandong, but from North Korea."
As the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he still had to control the life and death of the people of Shandong.
As for the life and death of the Korean people, he Chongzhen could not care less.
"Immediately send an urgent delivery to Dengzhou, and ask the Duke of Fujian to lead the navy to go to North Korea to ask for people. At the same time, the 20,000 Korean troops from Liaodong will also be transported over. Maybe they will come in handy soon."
