After the Tianxiong Army and Xuan Dajun entered Jiazhuang, the powerful people in the village immediately became busy. They dragged out sacks from the house like magic, put them in sand and soil, put the sacks onto the car, pulled the edge of the village, piled up sandbags and in the open space of the house, and piled up sandbags fortresses.

The sand was also prepared in advance. Half a year ago, Li Guodong instructed Wang Quan to dig a large amount of river sand from the river, and sent the dug river sand into the village, and piled it into piles of sand. Now what the people in the civilians have to do is to put the sand into sacks and then pile up the filled sandbags.

"What is the purpose of piled up these sandbags?" Yang Guozhu didn't understand what the purpose of Li Guodong's sandbags were.

"There are red cannons in Jiannu. In order to protect our house, sandbags were piled up on the outside of the house." Li Guodong replied.

"Can this sandbag block the red cannon?" Yang Guozhu shook his head incredibly. He originally thought that Li Guodong could have some unique tricks to defend against Qing army artillery attacks, but unexpectedly, piles of sandbags that looked very unreliable were piled up outside the house.

However, Yang Guozhu was very satisfied with the layout in Jiazhuang Village. There were thousands of sturdy houses, each of which was a solid fortress, connected to each other through tunnels and wall holes. The houses in the village were high inside and low outside, forming three-dimensional cross-fire power. In addition, shooting holes were opened in the house, and the defenders could just hiding inside the house and shoot guns and arrows outside. The solid buildings could protect the defenders from long-range shooting by the attacking parties.

The core of Jiazhuang is a huge four-story castle, five feet high, four hundred steps in circumference, and one bastion in each of the four corners. Even if the Qing army attacks the core of Jiazhuang, it will suffer heavy losses in front of this huge fortress. There are stables, granaries, barracks and other facilities in the castle, and all the cavalry's war horses are placed in the castle, and there are tunnels connected to the outside houses. They can attack and retreat and defend. If the Qing army attacks the village and concentrates its forces to attack the castle, they will be attacked by fire from the bastion and the houses behind them. The projectiles and arrows shot from all directions can make the Qing army unable to hide.

In the Qing army camp, the scout came to report: "Master, the old thief Lu Xiangsheng, the Minggou commander, has entered Jiazhuang!"

"Okay!" Dorgon stood up, started to click the general, and sent tokens one by one. Dodo, Abatai, Jirgalang, Muketan, Tulai, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Bumuba, Zarbu and dozens of generals of the Manchu, Han and Mongolian Banners received the tokens.

The Qing army dispatched troops and rushed from all directions at an extremely fast speed. More than 70,000 Qing troops surrounded Jiazhuang like an iron barrel, and even a fly could not fly out.

When Li Guodong found that the Qing army surrounded him heavily, he was not in a hurry at all. He scoffed at the Qing soldiers outside: "Come on Jiannu! I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"

The construction of the civilians accelerated the speed. Everyone was busy pushing a truckload of sandbags and piled up outside the outermost building. The fortress formed by sandbags quickly increased and widened. In addition to a sandbag wall outside, several sandbag forts were piled up in several corners and raised parts. This kind of sandbag fortress is actually a castle made of sandbags. The outer wall of the sandbag fortress is divided into three layers. The inner layer is a log inserted into the underground, forming a circle, and only a hole is left in the direction of Jiazhuang. The middle layer is a sealed soil that is one meter wide, not rammed earth, but just a pile of soil obtained from digging the trenches. The outer layer is a sandbag piled up with a width of the bottom and a narrow top.

The main purpose of these fortresses is to protect the inner building and to prevent the house from being directly bombarded by heavy artillery by the Qing army. Another function is that when the Qing army infantry attacked, these sandbags can provide side crossfire.

"What are those Nikans doing?" Seeing the Ming soldiers busy and piled up sacks of earthen castles outside the village, Duoduo felt incomprehensible. Such sandbag castles looked very unsolid. As long as the Qing army set up a red barbarian cannon to bombard it, it would probably be knocked down immediately.

"Tell me that Kong has virtue!" Duoduo shouted.

Kong Youde ran over and knelt down and called out: "What are the instructions of the master?"

Duoduo pointed to the sacks piled up in front of him: "Can you knock down Minggou's stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen stolen

"Go back to the prince, there is no problem!" In Kong Youde's eyes, the things made of sacks were simply vulnerable. I guess a shell could be smashed into pieces! Nonsense, the large-caliber red cannons could even knock down the city wall, let alone those sandbags simply piled on the ground?

The flag-fire weapon soldiers of the Qing and Han army unloaded the Red Cannons from the chariot and installed them on heavy wooden frames.

"Jiannu is about to fire the cannon! I will send orders to let the brothers hide first!" Li Guodong, who was standing on the high platform of the castle in the center of Jiazhuang, saw the Qing army erecting cannons and sent orders to send orders.

The civilians who were busy piled up sandbags heard the shouts, put down their work, spread their legs and fled into the village.

"Boom boom boom" A red cannon spit out his flames, and the shells hit the earthen castle made of sandbags, but it sounds strange. One shot could have blown a pit of brick and stone walls, and even a cracked shell. When it hits the sandbag, it is like a mud cow entering the sea. The shells smash the outer sandbags and drill into the earthen castle pile, and there is no result.

After a round of shells, the Qing army gunners cleaned the cannon chamber with wet mops, poured a bucket of water in, and then cleaned the water in the cannon chamber with mops. Then several people stood up the Red Barbarian cannon, poured gunpowder into the muzzle, compacted the bullet rod, put a piece of wooden board, and finally stuffed the shells in. The loading process took about six to seven minutes, and then the loaded cannon was flattened, aimed at the pile of sandbags, and fired another round of shells.

This time, the Qing army concentrated twenty red cannons and aimed at a sandbag fort and blasted violently. Twenty shells were shot out, and only a few sandbags were knocked away. The Ming army and civilians piled up the sandbags, and the Qing army's shelling had almost no effect.

Kong Youde was anxious and ordered the three-pound field gun imitated by the Qing Dynasty to be pushed out, set up the cannon, and aimed at the sandbag and earthen castle and bombarded violently.

The three-pound field gun was loading very fast, and two rounds of shells could be fired in one minute. Forty three-pound guns quickly fired three rounds of shells. More than one hundred shells roared on the earthen castle, but they were like mud bulls entering the sea. All the energy of the shells was absorbed by sand and soil, and it could not pose any threat to the houses behind.

Occasionally, a few shells passed by the sandbag pile and smashed on the solid house. Only sparks were seen splashing, and shells hit the walls of the house, leaving only a white mark.

Duoduo walked up and said, "King Gongsun, what's going on? Why is your red cannon of no use at all?"

"Your Majesty, I don't know what's going on. It seems that the shelling is completely useless." Kong Youde was so anxious that he almost cried. After all, the military discipline of the Qing Dynasty was extremely harsh. If the task could not be completed within the prescribed time, it would be fine if Duoduo, the real Manchu prince, cut himself into a Han prince with one knife.

Of course, Duoduo would not chop Kong Youde casually. In the future, the Qing Dynasty will have to rely on these Han people to conquer the world. So he said: "King Gongshu, since the red cannons are useless, then prepare shield chariots and small cannons, and advance from the front road!"

"Zhe!" Kong Youde knelt on the ground and beat him a thousand.
Chapter completed!