Outside the city of Gaoyang County, Dorgon's 70,000 troops arrived five miles away from Gaoyang City.

According to the information of Shanxi merchants such as Fan Yongdou, there was no defender stationed in Gaoyang County, and there was an old man living in Gaoyang that the Qing Dynasty hated him. He was Sun Chengzong. Since Gaoyang had no defender, Dorgon led the Qing army to Gaoyang and wanted to break through the city. On the one hand, he could capture Sun Chengzong, avenge his previous shame, and on the other hand, he could go into the city to rob.

Before, Dorgon did not intend to harbor the 70,000 troops here, and only sent a two thousand troops to Gaoyang. Who knew that after the side troops arrived in Gaoyang, he found that only two thousand people could not break through the city.

"Yudhe, you trash! Two thousand people went to Gaoyang City, ran around and ran back. What are you doing? Do you just know how to run around?" Dorgon shouted at Youdehe who was bringing his troops back in shame.

Youdehe kowtowed repeatedly: "Master, it's not that the slave is incompetent, but that Gaoyang City is not easy to fight. When the slave arrived at Gaoyang City, he found that this city was very strange. I'm afraid that two thousand people would attack the city and could only die in vain."

"Bare! Two thousand Qing warriors can't take a mere small city?" Dorgon slapped Youdehe in the face.

Youdehe kowtowed and apologized, "When I go back to the prince, I found that this city has been rebuilt. I seem to see the shadow of the Minggou general Li Laoer behind me, so I dare not attack the city."

Dorgon was shocked and asked quickly: "I'll ask you, have you observed carefully how many defenders are there in this city?"

"When I returned to the prince, I carefully observed the situation of the defenders. There were approximately 100 regular defenders in the city. Most of the guards on the front of the city were Ming Gou Nikan people, all wearing people's clothing and without armor."

Dorgon sneered: "There are only a hundred Mingdog defenders, but I, the Qing warriors, have you easily taken it down? People come and I will order me to personally conquer Gaoyang! Capture Sun Chengzong's old dog alive! Avenge my previous shame for the Qing Dynasty!"

The Qing army's 70,000 troops arrived a mile away from Gaoyang City. Dorgon ordered the cessation of advance. He rode his horse and galloped two hundred steps away and carefully observed the city ahead. He saw that the Gaoyang city wall had been transformed and was completely different from the common cities in the Ming Dynasty. There were more convex forts outside the city wall. Those forts were 1 zhang high above the city wall and were about 1 zhang out to the outside. Every hundred steps, there was a fortress like this. There was a urn city outside the city gate. There was a four-zhang square fortress on both sides of the urn city.

Seeing such a city, Dorgon gasped, and Youdehe was right. There is a shadow of Li Laoer behind such a city! Thinking back to the Qing army invading the Ming Dynasty from Da'ankou, Li Laoer had an indestructible city outside Da'ankou. And now Gaoyang City looks a bit like Li Laoer's walled city!

Needless to say, this city must have been transformed with the help of Li Laoer!

What’s strange is that the other cities Dorgon passed through had not been transformed, except for Gaoyang City, which had undergone major surgery and became what it is today. This made Dorgon suspicious: "It’s strange, why did Minggou only build Gaoyang City? Did Li Laoer know that I was coming to fight Gaoyang? If this is the case, it would be terrible!"

However, there seemed to be few defenders in the city. Dorgon carefully observed the head of the city and found that there were very few people wearing armor, and the city wall was full of people without any protective power.

"Since there are very few defenders, it is called a siege! Perhaps Li Laoer repaired Gaoyang City in order to protect Sun Chengzong. After all, without Sun Chengzong, Li Laoer could not be used by the Ming Dynasty. He repaired this city but did not send troops to protect it. Maybe he didn't expect us to move so quickly, right?" Dorgon said.

Suddenly, Dorgon had an idea: to surround the points and attack the aid! On the one hand, he attacked Gaoyang fiercely, and at the same time sent scouts and cavalry everywhere to pay close attention to the movements of the Ming army. Once the Ming army was found to rescue, he immediately organized troops to annihilate the rescued Ming army.

"Sun Chengzong is the former chief of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty court heard that Gao Yang was besieged, he would definitely send someone to rescue him. If Lu Xiangsheng was here to save him, it would be even better!" Dorgon sneered.

Zhang Shiwen, who was standing at the top of the city, was also observing the Qing soldiers outside the city. He was stationed in Gaoyang according to Li Guodong's orders. He had been waiting for the arrival of the Qing army. At this time, Zhang Shiwen was so eager to fight with the Qing army. With the lord personally commanding the construction of the city, the losses of the defenders would be far less than that of the Qing army.

In Gaoyang City, the defenders of the regular army, namely Zhang Shiwen's 100 elite infantry, the rest were either the people in Gaoyang City or the refugees recruited by Li Guodong. Those who assisted in defending the city did not have armor. If they were fighting in the field, let alone the Qing army, they would not even be able to defeat the Ming army. However, with strong city protection and simple equipment, the civil and brave men could kill the elite. At this time, there were three thousand refugees and five thousand elite men in the city assisting in defending the city.

The Qing army set up camp one mile away from Gaoyang City. Baoyi Aha drove the captured Ming people to cut down trees and build siege weapons. The Han Eight Banners Army made great preparations, unloading the cannons from the chariots, setting up red barbarian cannons, and preparing ammunition. After Dorgon gave the order, he bombarded the city with cannons.

After a whole day of preparation, the next morning, Dorgon ordered the siege.

Because the defenders of Gaoyang City lacked artillery, there were not many obstacles outside the city to block large siege weapons. The Qing army could easily clear the few wooden stakes and forts outside the city, and rushed to the moat and started filling the river.

With Dorgon's order, the Qing army's cannons roared.

On the positions of the Eight Banners of Han, thick cannons spit out flames, and white smoke filled with air. More than 200 large and small cannons aimed at Gaoyang City Wall and fired violently. Iron balls of all sizes hit Gaoyang City Wall. Fortunately, thick blue bricks were wrapped on the city wall, and the shells hit it, leaving only shallow pits.

The Qing army knew that those fortresses that raised outside the city wall must be the biggest threat to the attacking party. Many Qing army gunners aimed at the fortress and fired bombardment. However, the shells hit the basin, which seemed to hit a hard rock. Apart from leaving white seals on it, they did not have any destructive effect at all.

Kong Youde picked up the monocular telescope he brought from the Ming Dynasty to observe the shelling effect. His telescope was purchased by Sun Yuanhua from the Portuguese back then. After the Wuqiao mutiny, the only pairs of telescopes in the Ming Dynasty were brought to the Great Jin Kingdom by Kong Youde.

"What exactly is the fortress made? How did the shells hit it, and it didn't work at all?" Kong Youde was shocked.

Although the Red Armor cannon has great destructive power, it is too slow to load. The Qing army gunners who had fired the shells had to pour cold water into the barrel. After cooling, they raised the tail of the cannon, pour out the water inside, and then used a mop to clean the cannon chamber. After cleaning the cannon chamber, the loading step is the most troublesome: the heavy Red Armor cannon needs to be erected, the muzzle is facing the sky, and then poured the gunpowder into it, then put it in a wooden board, then pour it into the soil and seal it. Then use a push-bolt rod to compact the gunpowder, and finally put the shell into the muzzle to press it tightly, and finally lay the cannon flat before it can be fired again. According to such a complex loading step, this kind of cannon cannon cannon only fire twelve shells in one hour.

The most numerous Folang cannons in the Han Eight Banners Army had a fast firing speed, but their destructive power was too small. The Folang cannon shells hit the city wall, and only sparks were splashed out, and even the bricks could not be broken, and only a little debris fell.

But Min Zhuang on the top of the city can no longer stand. Although the Folang machine cannon cannot penetrate the female wall, the shells hit the outside, and the bricks inside will splash out of debris, killing Min Zhuang on the back.
Chapter completed!