When the foreman led by Huang Degong approached Yangzhou City for more than ten miles, the intensity of the Ming army and the Qing army's whistle cavalry rose sharply.

The border guards, the imperial guards and Huang Degong were almost all elite. The Ming army's whistle cavalry may not be as good as the Qing army in terms of individual soldiers' quality and equipment, but the number of people is too different.

When the Ming army set up camp about ten miles south of Yangzhou City, the Qing army finally broke through the Ming army's whistle cavalry blockade and discovered many military information in the Ming army...

The new camp of the Qing army's Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners was very tricky, on a low slope opposite to the southwest corner of Yangzhou City.

There were originally many trees here, but they were all driven by the Qing army to follow the military, civilians and slaves and cut them down, and used them to camp and build various necessary camp defense facilities.

Due to the tight time, the various facilities in the Qing army camp were still far from being perfected, and the civilians and slaves were still busy.

These are naturally not related to the bannermen and masters.

But the bannermen were not easy either - they got a series of Ming army military information discovered by the whistle cavalry, and they were discussing the war-related issues.

"It turns out that the leader of the Ming Dynasty royal family and a governor."

Hearing this news, Han Dai, who had some understanding of the Ming system, immediately said: "The Ming Dynasty usually only let the prince supervise the country or the vassal kings.

But Emperor Hongguang was the vassal king who succeeded the throne, so he would not let other vassal kings serve as the governor.

But if it were Zhu Yousong's son, he would not be old, right? How could he defeat a general like Huang Degong?"

Yin Erde of the Zhenghuang Banner Meilezhangjing said in confusion: "I have heard from the Han generals that Emperor Hongguang had a son of a few years. He died when Luoyang was captured by Li Zicheng's army. Now he has no son yet."

Tulai sneered, "I think it's probably because of the Ming Dynasty that the vassal king wanted to usurp the throne and claim to be the ruling power."

Duoduo didn't want to hear these messy arguments, and waved his hand and said, "Who this governor is, and it doesn't matter what his relationship with Emperor Hongguang is.

What’s important is how many soldiers and horses this governor has brought, and how we should attack Nushan. Let me tell you."

Nushan is a member of Zhenghuang Banner, and his current official position is Gebush Xianying Gushan Ezhen.

The so-called Gebush Xian Camp selected all young warriors of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, or outstanding ones among the Eight Banners nobles, and were the predecessors of the Qing Dynasty's vanguard camp.

Its actual role is mostly to serve as the guards of the real power of Beile, the prince and even the emperor, and also the Eight Banners Officer Training Camp.

As the top three princes in the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo is naturally surrounded by Gbushxian, who has hundreds of people.

Even the Gushan Ezhen, Dorgon, sent to Duoduo as a bodyguard and assistant.

Nushan said: "In addition to Huang Degong, there were about 30,000 people under the command of the Ming army, and there were also flags of "Border Defense Army, which town" and "Imperial Guard Army."

This may be the personal army of the state-supervisor. There are four towns on the land and one town on the canal. Each town has about ten thousand troops.

In other words, the Ming army had about 70,000 to 80,000 people this time.

And because they came along the canal, they didn’t see many civilians.”

Hearing this, Zhenghuang Banner Melezhangjing Ahanikan said first: "Since they only have 70,000 or 80,000 people, why should we fight so conservatively? It's better to let the Han Army Banner and the Green Camp cooperate to launch a general attack and defeat them in one fell swoop."

No one answered Ahanikan's words.

Because he said this was too stupid - since he had learned that the Ming army's artillery and many muskets were numerous, wouldn't it be a pity for them to take the initiative to attack?

Duoduo simply ordered the task directly.

"This battle requires cavalry to take the lead." Duoduo looked at Boluo, "If the Ming army does not move, we will not move. If the Ming army dares to attack the Han army and the Green Camp that are sieging the city, you and Erossechen will lead the cavalry to their flanks.

Remember, it is not to let you really go to the battlefield, but to force out the Ming army's artillery fire.

We have to make it clear how many kinds of artillery they have and how far they can hit."

Boluo hesitated and said, "General, these Ming troops are all elite. They are not afraid of cavalry when they are aligned. It is probably difficult for us to test their strength."

"You can't test it out, can't you find a way?" Duoduo said unhappily, "Remember, you made meritorious service in this battle.

Could it be that you think that if you lose tens of thousands of cavalry and put the blame on Nikan and the two generals, you can escape the punishment?

If you don’t make meritorious contributions in this battle, you will be the lightest to get the title and the penalty for silver when you return to Beijing!”

Boro's face turned red when he was scolded and replied in a low voice: "I understand."

Duoduo also said to Ezhen of the flags such as Baiyintu, Tulai, Ashan, and Zhang Jing said: "We have never fought the battles that the Ming army had the advantage of artillery. When my father Khan was in power, and when the Han army such as Kong Youde and others in the early years of the late emperor, which battle was not fought against the artillery fire of the Ming army?

This time, we just need to look for old examples and use more cars.

You will go down and check the carts you need to carry in each Niulu, and then let the civilians speed up the process, without sympathizing with manpower and material resources, and create as much as you can before the war begins!"

Bai Yintu and others were all old generals. As soon as they heard this, they realized that Duoduo asked them to use the civil servants and slaves to death.

After all, it would be very cost-effective for them to exhaust a group of civilians and slaves to win this battle.

Because of the wrong propaganda that began during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people thought that Manchus captured the world by riding and shooting.

But I don’t know that in the series of battles between the Manchus before entering the pass to unifying the world after entering the pass, he relied on three armaments, namely heavy armored infantry, cavalry, artillery and chariots.

I won’t say much about artillery, but it was brought by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, the three traitor kings.

As for the heavy armored infantry and cavalry, it was a set of tactics summarized by Nurhaci from the former Northeast Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty during his years of fighting with the Ming Dynasty after the uprising.

Although it is not good for all, it is enough to cope with the advantages of the Ming army in artillery and muskets.

Therefore, it was confirmed that the Ming army had many artillery and many musketeers, so Duoduo thought of the old tactics.

According to the military regulations of the Later Jin Dynasty, every hundred people in the army must have four taels of carts to accompany them, and there is even a saying that "if you encounter an enemy without carts, don't go out to fight."

Although the number of vehicles in the Eight Banners of Manchuria should have decreased because of the advantage of artillery, it has reached the level of at least four vehicles per Niulu (300 people).

But Duoduo and others knew that this number of carts alone would still be difficult to offset the advantages of the Ming army artillery, which would speed up the production of more carts.

Of course, this is also a blessing for the Qing army to enter the pass for only one or two years and still maintain its combat effectiveness before entering the pass.

If Dorgon dies in a few years, the Eight Banners of Manchuria will begin to fall and their combat power will decline sharply. I am afraid that there may not be a car in the army that can be used...

That afternoon, the Ming army and Qing army generals spent the rest of their time on the stable camp.

As of the next day, it was the morning of April 18th.

The Han army flag Kong Youde tribe, the green camp Yang Chengzu, Xu Dingguo, and Li Yuchun, and the nearly 10,000 remaining troops of Li Chengdong's troops began to attack the south wall of Yangzhou City at midnight (8 o'clock).

Kong Youde not only carried twenty large-caliber red cannons, but also had more than 100 long-range artillery pieces such as red cannons, Francs, and more than 200 tiger squat cannons, and more than 3,000 artillery soldiers were equipped with them.

In addition, there are more than 3,000 elite musketeers, who use the mesh rope guns purchased from the Red Barbarians.

There were also more than 3,000 troops using old Ming Dynasty firearms, three-eyed guns, bowl-mouth cannons and other firearms.

Then there are more than 5,000 elite Forbid Armor.

In other words, this time, there were 15,000 people in the Zhenghong Banner of the Han army he was led.

Yesterday, Kong Youde had already tested that there were not many artillery guarding the city of Yangzhou, so today he not only used twenty red and barbarian cannons, but also transported more than 100 other long-range cannons to more than a mile below the city, bombarding the city with fierce artillery fire.

At the same time, thousands of civilians were driven by the Green Camp Army and Geng Zhongming's naval army to drive civilian ships from the ancient canal into the southern moat, and then lay wooden boards and sand to form a floating bridge for the Qing army to pass.

Although the Ming army braved artillery fire to attack these civilian ships with bows and arrows, throwing stones, tigers, and squatted cannons, with the intention of obstructing them.

However, the Qing army's artillery fire was too fierce, which made the Ming army guarding the city dare not show up. The attacks of a few people were difficult to cause too much damage to the civilian ships and the civilians.

As a result, the floating bridges built by civilian ships were formed at a speed visible to the naked eye...

At a height of six or seven hundred meters, the bird's-eye drones of the two families spread the images to the Ming army camp ten miles away.

Zhu Mai was not in a hurry to let his troops attack the Green Camp Army and Han Banner Army in the south of the city.

Until the floating bridge was paved, 20,000 to 30,000 Qing troops rushed across the moat with ladders and began to attack the city, she picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Bo Jingnan, prepare to send troops."

"Abide by the order!"

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In Yangzhou City, after being bombarded by twenty red cannons and hundreds of other long-range cannons, the southern city wall was already in a mess.

Not only were many Ming troops killed by artillery shells, but many of the previously prepared city defense materials were also damaged.
Chapter completed!