The 25,000 army was almost wiped out, and this disastrous defeat shocked Duoduo. After inquiring and investigation, Duoduo learned that the intelligence was wrong. The Ming army's cavalry was not two thousand, but ten thousand! And with the cooperation of the navy, he transported the cavalry to land on the battlefield, and attacked the Green Camp everywhere. This time Duoduo set a trap for the cavalry of the Huai Army. Who knew that the Ming army sent two thousand baits to eat the bait of the Qing army with bait, and then introduced the Mongolian Eight Banners and Manchu Eight Banners into the Jedi, and then cooperated with the navy and cavalry to annihilate the Qing army.

The furious Duoduo ordered to kill more than a thousand green camp soldiers who fled back.

The Manchu Eight Banners soldiers under Duoduo had only 50,000 people in total. More than 10,000 people were wiped out in this battle, and one-fifth of them were lost! How many Manchus were eloquent? There were only more than 200,000 people in total. The total population of Manchus was only a few hundred thousand, about 800,000, most of them were women, children, elderly and weak. Among them, more than 200,000 were only able to form an army of 100,000 people.

After entering the pass, Duoduo led 50,000 troops from the Eight Banners and 30,000 troops from the Ajige side. This was already the limit of troops from the Eight Banners.

The remaining Eight Banners population include the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and some people who were coated by Han and Koreans and carried flags into the Eight Banners. After all, those are not Manchus. If there were no Manchu Eight Banners suppressing them, how loyal would those people be?

For the Qing Dynasty, every Manchu Eight Banner soldier was precious. More than 10,000 Manchu Eight Banners were lost in one battle. Such a crushing defeat would inevitably arouse Dorgon's anger.

Although the Qing army attacked Yangzhou had a large army of 600,000, most of them were surrendered Green Camp soldiers. The Eight Banners soldiers would definitely lose their prestige among the Green Camp soldiers. Relying on their invincible combat power, the Green Camp soldiers were submissive, but now they were destroyed in an instant, which would inevitably lead to strange thoughts in the hearts of the Green Camp soldiers.

In fact, many Green Camp generals have begun to regret it. If they had known that the Eight Banners soldiers would have become vulnerable to the Huai Army, why would they surrender to the Qing Dynasty?

They surrendered to the Qing Dynasty because they saw the invincible soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty unified the country and was the general trend. But now it seems that the Duke of Chu's troops are so powerful that the Qing Dynasty may be completely defeated in Yangzhou.

The furious Duoduo yelled: "Siege the city! Siege the city for several days! After destroying Yangzhou, he will not seal his sword for ten days! Also, send people to transport all the food and grass scattered in various places to camp!"

The Qing army formed a powerful grain transport team with 10,000 Eight Banners of Manchuria, 10,000 Eight Banners of Mongolia, 6,000 Outer Vast Mongolia and 50,000 Green Camp soldiers to transport grain from various prefectures and counties they occupied to Yangzhou. Because the Qing army had strong grain transport forces, the cavalry of the Huai Army did not dare to rob grain, but used light cavalry to harass the Qing army from time to time without collecting them at night, and would run away after biting them, not entangling with the Qing army.

Almost all the Qing soldiers killed during the attacks of the Ming army were the Green Camp soldiers placed outside the Qing army. Mu Chen and Tobo, who were responsible for escorting food, did not dare to divide their troops to pursue the Ming cavalry, but only ordered that the food and grass must be safely transported to the Yangzhou camp.

While transporting food and grass, Duoduo ordered Kong Youde's Han Eight Banners Wuzhenchao Ha Camp to launch a fierce shelling attack on Yangzhou City.

However, the Yangzhou city wall was reinforced by Li Guodong, and the disrepaired city wall was renovated. The outside was covered with a thick layer of city bricks. Each city brick weighed 20 kilograms. It was the same type as the city bricks in Nanjing, Beijing and other cities. They were thick and sturdy blue bricks. The shells were hit, leaving only a little white mark.

Duoduo ordered the generals of the Eight Banners of Manchu Boluo, Boerjin, Kakeduli and others to lead 5,000 soldiers of Manchu Eight Banners to fight the battle behind. Generals of the Green Camp Army Liu Liangzuo, Zhang Cunren, Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu, Ma Mingpei and others to lead 20,000 people to attack the city. The Green Camp Army followed the archers of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners. Once someone retreated, they would shoot and kill them immediately. In front of the Green Camp Army were the captured Han people, and those Han people were like the Green Camp Army, and they were cannon fodder.

The moat in Yangzhou was too wide, and it was difficult for the Qing army to fill a passage by sandbag landfill. Therefore, they first cut off the connection between the moat and the canal, and then dig a water diversion canal to divert the water from the moat to attack the city.

The bird guns, Lumi guns, turtledove-foot guns, tiger squat guns and general guns at the city walls sprinkled with heavy rain-like projectiles, killing and injured the Green Camp soldiers behind the Minzhuang. The mortars arranged behind the city walls roared from time to time, and the 64-pound giant shells rose into the air and fell into the formation of the Green Camps and exploded, or simply exploded above the head of the Green Camps. Each sixty-four-pound shell exploded, which could sweep a large area of ​​Qing soldiers.

Li Guodong also transferred the scattered soldiers who had been dispatched outside the city to cooperate with the cavalry to harass the Qing army. The scattered soldiers returned to Yangzhou City and immediately entered the fortress at the top of the city, observing through the shooting hole, looking for opportunities to kill the Eight Banners soldiers who were pressing behind the Qing army.

The enemy platform outside the Yangzhou city wall was two feet higher than the city wall, and the upper half of the city wall was hollow fortresses. The outer walls of these hollow fortresses were built with iron-core cement concrete, and the thickness of the outer wall was three feet, harder than stone. When the Qing army's red barbarian cannons were hit, they only left a white mark on the outer wall of the fortress, and the fortress was unscathed.

If you want to destroy this kind of fortress, you can only destroy this kind of fortress by using heavy mortars, shells falling from the sky and hitting the top of the weakest fortress. However, the Qing army did not have heavy mortars, and relying solely on the bombardment of the Red Barbarian cannons, it is probably impossible to destroy this kind of fortress for a month.

Two layers of shooting holes are densely opened on each fortress, with a total of twelve shooting holes. One of the shooting holes is a special shooting hole for scattered soldiers, and the rest are provided for bird gunners and Lumi gunners. The range of these muskets is the same as that of Qing army bows and arrows, but the Qing army bows and arrows are fast, so the fortresses are needed to protect the gunners.

Although the range of stragglers is far greater than that of bows and arrows, each straggler is a precious veteran, so they need for the protection of a fortress.

"Bang bang" White smoke continued to spray out from the shooting holes of the fortresses outside the city wall, and firelight spurted out from the shooting holes.

When every gun sounded, there were always people in the eight banner soldiers who were squirting dazzling blood on their bodies and falling down. Needless to say, these are masterpieces of scattered soldiers. They could take the enemy's heads from one hundred and fifty steps away, and those eight banner soldiers wearing bright armor were their targets.

The rifled rifles in the hands of scattered soldiers do not need to be arranged in dense formations to exert their power, and can snipe important targets from a distance.

There are countless crossbowmen on the top of the enemy platform and above the city wall. The strong crossbows can make up for the weaknesses of the firearm's slow firing rate, poor accuracy and near range. Among Li Guodong's infantry, long-range firepower is in addition to the muskets and strong crossbows.

Because of the rise of firearms in the late Ming Dynasty, most of the Ming army had abandoned crossbows, but Li Guodong believed that crossbows had irreplaceable functions. The three types of rifled rifles, Lumi guns and crossbows were long-range high-precision weapons, but the reloading speed of rifled rifles was too slow; the accuracy of the Lumi gun was far less than that of the rifled rifles, and the reloading was not fast; in comparison, crossbows were a compromise weapon. Although the range was not as good as that of the rifled rifles, the reloading speed was much faster, and the accuracy at long distances was higher than that of the Lumi gun.

When he found that the Qing army's archers were pressing up, Li Guodong ordered the crossbowman to fire arrows.

After the female wall battlement on the front of the city, countless heads suddenly appeared, rows of crossbows and arrows covered the sky, covering the Qing army archers a hundred steps away from the city.

After the crossbowman has fired, he immediately retreated, pedaled his feet, put the crossbow arrows into the groove, and then probed his head again to shoot the crossbow arrows. These crossbow machines with pedaled feet are very powerful and can easily shoot through the armor of the Qing soldiers.

Arrows pierced into the Qing army's archers, and the Eight Banners soldiers immediately screamed and fell down a large area.

"Let it go!" Boro shouted.
Chapter completed!