Sun Long thought of a solution: "Prince, we can catch more Mingdog people and let them attack."

"Minggou people? Are you not afraid that they will vote for Minggou?" Kong Youde showed a hint of joy on his face, but he was still a little worried.

Sun Long laughed and said, "Prince, select those who have families and are assigned to Aha, detain their families in our camp, and force them to attack; if they throw themselves into Minggou, they will cut off all their families! If those bachelors who are full of food and not hungry in their family, they will not need to attack the city."

"Good idea!" Kong Youde was overjoyed.

When the Qing army attacked the village, the Mongolian cavalry was not used for the time being, so they went to plunder the people around. The nearby villages had been arranged by Wang Quan long ago. Not to mention people, even a dog and a chicken were gone, and the people had long run away. However, beyond the radius of fifty miles, the people in many places did not escape. They did not know that the Qing army could actually penetrate the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It was almost Henan, and the Qing army could actually come to this place. Moreover, the information in this era was very unfamiliar. Many people did not know that the Qing army attacked Jiazhuang more than fifty miles away. Although they had received Wang Quan's prompt before, many people were reluctant to leave their homes, and they were caught by the Qing army.

In the past three days, the Mongols who went out to plunder the people brought back more than 300,000 people.

Kong Youde went back to ask Dorgon for advice: "Prince, we can use more Ming dogs to attack."

"Aren't you afraid that those Han dogs Nikan will run to throw themselves into Mingdo?" Dorgon sneered.

Hearing the four words "Han Gou Nikan", Kong Youde's face was a bit bad. In the eyes of the Manchus, he was also Han Gou Nikan. But of course, Kong Youde dared not to care about Dorgon's mistakes, so he offered respectful suggestions: "Prince, I have an idea, not to be afraid of the Ming Gou people surrendering to the enemy. We select those who have families to join Aha, detain their families in our camp, and then force them to attack; if they dare to surrender to Ming Gou, they will cut off their families! If the bachelors who eat one person and the whole family are not hungry, we will not need them to attack."

"Good idea! Then let's do it! If those Nikans died in battle, we would take their families to Liaodong and betrothed to the flag manager, the armored man and Aha who made meritorious friends as wives and concubines, or sent to wealthy families as maids and slaves, etc., it would be considered as worthy of their men who died in battle for the Qing Dynasty." Dorgon said with a smile.

Even if the Qing army invaded, they would not kill the children by the way. Those children were taken outside the pass, and when they grew up, they would be coated. Some strong bodies could be incorporated into the Han army flag and served as soldiers for the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing army invaded this time, unlike before, they believed that Han children were wasted food and cut them with no distinction. Generally, the slaughtered people were either resisting military households, white servants, or some elderly, weak, sick and disabled people who were considered useless by the Qing army, or some sour scholars who were powerless. Young and middle-aged men, women and children were captured by the Qing army and prepared to be sent outside the pass to replenish the population.

Then Kong Youde brought the Han army flag officers and soldiers to select suitable personnel from the Han people who had just been plundered.

The strong and family members were selected and shaved on the spot, with a rat-tailed braid on the spot, and announced that they would be braided into Aha. The next morning, these new Ahas were sent to the battlefield.

The Qing army's tactic is to pile sandbags. More than 100,000 newly incorporated Aha's captive people, build a large number of vehicles, dig river sand and put them into sacks, make sandbags one by one, then put the sandbags onto the car, push them into Jiazhuang, pile up the sandbags, and block the shooting holes, thus turning the original Ming army's fortress into the Qing army's siege stronghold.

The most troublesome thing is the fortress in the center of the village, the huge fortress with a circumference of 160 meters. There is a solid bastion at all four corners. There are shooting holes on the bastion, and there are also forts behind the walls on all sides. There are also turrets on the roof in the middle of the castle. The firepower can cover every corner of Jiazhuang Village from a high point.

The newly-packed people were pushed into the cart full of sandbags, shouting labor trumpets, and panting into Jiazhuang. Behind the captive people, Baoyi Aha holding a knife and spear, were Han flag officers and soldiers and Man Eight Banners soldiers holding various weapons. Once someone dared to escape at the battle, not only would he be killed, but his family would also be in trouble. His family was controlled by the Qing army, and these young and strong men in the acquitted had to work hard for the Qing army.

The Ming army was not rude, although the new coat of the cart was still wearing the clothes of the Ming people, it can be seen that they were all captured people who were forced to attack, but if they were rude at this time, the Qing army buried the outer defense line in sandbags by the Qing army, then the Qing army could directly start an attack on the basin.

The guns and arrows were fired at once, and the projectiles were hit like rain. The abducted people who were carrying sandbags to fill the outer fortifications were killed or injured. But almost no one dared to escape. In order for their family to survive, these young and strong men had to work hard, constantly moving the sandbags off the car and piled them in front of the building, knowing that they were shot to death by arrows and shot to death by projectiles.

Several young and strong people holding sandbags fell down, and the people behind threw the sandbags directly onto the bodies and piled up.

In the central castle, the Ming army was also increasing its efforts to dig the tunnel desperately. The tunnel slowly extended to the Qing army camp one mile away, and the digging soil was pulled out by a small cart and fell into the castle.

In order to speed up the transportation of soil, Li Guodong asked someone to lay wooden boards and wood tracks in the tunnel: two wooden tracks were nailed on the wood boards, laying these wooden boards into the tunnel, and then the small frame with iron wheels was sent to the tunnel, and the empty cart was pushed into the tunnel by Min Zhuang, and then the small cart filled with soil was pushed out to the tunnel.

"Guodong, how long will it take for us to dig under the Jiannu camp?" Lu Xiangsheng asked.

Li Guodong replied: "It will take about ten days. But please don't worry, it's no problem for us to stick to it for another ten days."

There are tunnels in the castle that can enter the houses outside, but even if the tunnel entrance was discovered by the Qing army, there are no fears that the Qing army will attack the castle through the tunnel. Because the tunnel is complicated, after entering the tunnel from the tunnel entrance, there are multiple roads inside. Once you go wrong, there will be traps waiting for them in front. In addition, where the tunnel leads to the castle, there are fortifications underground: a narrow and long aisle has parallel tunnels on both sides, and shooting holes are opened on the wall. The Qing army passes through the aisle, and can shoot arrows and spears on both sides, which can be said to be difficult to move forward.

The Qing army attacked the fortress from the front, and it was impossible to attack with a strong attack. The Qing army could not seize such a fortress with four bastion structures, and it was difficult to capture it with a large amount of sacrifice. In the Battle of Jaxa in real history, the Russian army could not break through a brick and wooden castle, and could only use the method of siege. Therefore, Dorgon did not have the ability to forcibly break through the Jiazhuang Fortress.

Since you can't attack, there are only two ways left:

The first is siege. However, the Qing army invaded and could not have besieged Tianxiong's army in Jiazhuang for several months, so this method would not work.

The second method is to pile sandbags, and finally pile them up to the same level as the castle, and then launch a strong attack. This method is the fastest way to break through the castle, but it took more than half a month to implement this method by the Qing army.

But Li Guodong would not give the Qing army more than half a month. When his tunnel is completed, he will launch a large-scale counterattack.

"We also have an authentic tunnel to leave the city. As long as the tunnel leading to Jiannu Camp is completed, our cavalry and infantry can leave the city first through the authentic tunnel to leave the city and ambush outside the Jiannu Camp. When the gunpowder explodes, we take the opportunity to enter Jiannu Camp." Li Guodong placed the defense map in front of Lu Xiangsheng and told him his combat plan.
Chapter completed!