There is a bastion in each corner of the governor's yamen in the city. After the hard-working traitors, the Baoding governor's yamen has become an indestructible fortress, causing the Huai Army to suffer great losses in front of the governor's yamen.

The Huai Army scattered soldiers rely on the captured buildings as cover and hid in the buildings, extended rifled guns from the shooting holes, aimed at the shooting holes of the castle, fired accurately, and kept firing the bullets accurately into the shooting holes, killing the Han Eight Banners soldiers and Baoyi slaves who were hiding inside and resisting.

But the disadvantage of scattered soldiers is that they are too slow to suppress the firepower in the bastion. In the Qing army's bastion, a Han Eight Banner soldier or a Baoyi slave fell down, and another Han Eight Banner soldier or a Baoyi slave replenished them, constantly using firearms to shoot outside.

The cannons on the top of the city were aimed at the buildings that spit out flames, causing casualties to the precious scattered soldiers.

Wang Quan was completely angry. He didn't expect that the small Baoding would be so difficult to fight! Which of the cities that the Huai Army had forcibly captured before, is not as strong as Baoding? Even Xiangyang, which is known as the world's most powerful city, is almost the treasure of the Huai Army?

Who knew that Baoding was a tough tough guy!

"Report, Li Yan's army on the East Road has conquered Cangzhou and is heading towards Tianjin." A personal soldier came to report.

Then another personal army came to report: "Report! The Daxi Army has captured Xi'an, and Zhongzhen Camp is about to reach the city of Taiyuan! It is attacking towards Datong."

Wang Quan was even more angry: "We are the elite troops, how can we let the guards and bandits steal our initiative!"

Baoding's stubborn enemy became a roadblock for the Huai Army's Northern Expedition. At that time, the troops of Shandong's guards would still be the bandits in Zhongzhen Camp to take the capital first, so Wang Quan's face would be greatly disgraced!

Wang Fuchen said angrily: "Catch the governor's yamen, kill them, kill them without leaving any dogs!"

The generals of the Huai Army were completely angry and began to dispatch giant siege cannons into the city, preparing to use giant siege cannons to deal with the indestructible fortress of the Qing army.

However, the city had been beaten into rubble, and the siege cannons weighing tens of thousands of pounds entered the city, making it extremely inconvenient to operate.

When the Huai Army finally transported the siege cannons to the position, the Qing army stationed at the castle took out a group of women, children, elderly and weak, and placed them in front of the castle.

"Minggou, barbarian! If you are not worried about casualties in the people, then fire the fire!"

"The barbarians come and beat us! Come and fight!"

A group of coated slaves stood on the castle and shouted loudly, provoking the Huai Army unscrupulously.

"Those Eight Banners of Han and Baoyi are a hundred times more hateful than Jiannu!" All the generals were angered.

If the Qing Dynasty perished, the Manchus who refused to surrender could run north. However, those Han Eight Banners and Baoyi slaves had to abandon their original good days, run away with the Manchus, and go to the North Sea to drink the northwest wind. They were unwilling to give up their life as Ergouzi, so they naturally had to resist to the end.

"The Duke of the Kingdom is here!" Just when the Huai Army generals were at a loss, their personal soldiers brought back good news.

When Li Guodong heard that the Northern Expedition Army had almost arrived in the capital, his direct army was blocked in Baoding for more than a month, he hurriedly left Nanjing and went to the battlefield in Baoding. Anyway, he would soon attack the capital. Li Guodong must have participated in the battle to recover the capital.

However, after taking it back to the capital, Li Guodong did not intend to let the Ming Dynasty return to Northern Zhili.

In fact, the city in the north is not suitable as the capital, both in that era and later. In ancient times, the city was too close to the nomadic peoples. The emperor guarded the country's gates, so it depends on what kind of emperor it was. Zhu Di had no problem. Zhengde was actually a good emperor, but he was just a literati. Even Jiajing, Wanli, and Tianqi were not a big problem, but it would be a tragic person to meet an emperor like Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Youjian.

If it were later generations, the city's cruise missile range on the sea would not be safe, unless the first island chain was included in China, that would be safe.

Although according to Li Guodong's long-term plan, he would definitely be included in the first island chain, and even the powerful empire on the other side of the Pacific Ocean could not be born again, he still did not intend to move back to Beizhili.

In fact, the most suitable place to be the capital is Xi'an, and Luoyang is also possible. Whether in ancient times or later generations, the city of Xi'an has a strong strategic depth, and it was not easy for ancient nomads to invade Xi'an. In the 21st century, although foreigners could launch cruise missiles from the sea to attack Xi'an, if they wanted to attack Xi'an, their warships and bombers needed to approach China's coastline. Really, if the Chinese air force was air? Even if nuclear submarines successfully launched cruise missiles, wouldn't the air defense forces on land be arranged? Cruise missiles had been stopped so long ago when they flew so far on China's land.

However, since Xi'an was heavily destroyed by Zhu Wen at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was no longer suitable for being the capital. More importantly, the economic center was transferred from the north to the south, so after the Tang Dynasty, no dynasty established its capital in Xi'an again.

So what about Nanjing? It is said that the Feng Shui in Nanjing is not good, and there is no dynasty that has established its capital in Nanjing for a long life.

It can also be used as a suitable capital. Li Guodong thought of several places, one is Wuchang, one is Chongqing, and the other is Nanchang. But in the end, he decided to temporarily retain Nanjing as the capital, Beijing, Wuchang, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Chongqing, and all upgraded to deputy capitals. The prefects in these places are the same level as the governors of other places, and in fact they are municipalities directly under the central government.

"Brother, you are here. Brother, I am having a headache about breaking Baoding! Those coats are just guarding the castle, not asking for conditions, they just take the people as hostages. If they have made the conditions and said that they will let them go back to the capital, they will let the hostages go, and that will be easy. I will really let them go so that the people can survive." Wang Quan said with a frown.

"Those coats are indeed vicious. They took the people as hostages and thought I could not break the castle?" Li Guodong sneered, "Brother Wang Quan, in this arrangement, we chose some solid buildings, piled up sandbags, put twelve-pound cannons and six-pound cannons on the roof, aimed at the Jiannu turret at the top of the castle, and first knocked out the turrets, and then we rushed up with iron armored soldiers to rescue the people. The scattered soldiers concentrated their firepower, shot at the shooting holes, and suppressed the Jiannu's firepower. After saving the people, we would be able to fight."

Wang Quan immediately started his homework in the city according to Li Guodong's arrangement.

After a night of work, the sandbags were piled up, and six-pound field guns and twelve-pound field guns were set up, aiming at the turrets at the top of the castle, and sixty-four-pound mortars were also set up, ready to bombard the turrets at the top of the castle.

"Dude, if we fire a gun to bombard the top of the castle, the falling bricks and stones and the rebounding shells will hurt the common people who were taken hostage by Jiannu." Cao Bianjiao asked worriedly.

"I know it will hurt the people, and this account will be cured by Jiannu! All we can do is to minimize casualties among the people." Li Guodong said.

The Ming army launched a bombardment, and the shells kept hitting the top of the basin. The bricks and stones were shattered. The Qing army's artillery at the top of the basin was blown away and the stones continued to crack. The mortar shells fell from the sky fell on the top of the basin, smashing open the fragile top and drilling into the basin. Then the flowering shells fell and exploded in the Qing army's artillery at the top of the basin.

The artillery bombardment of the Huai Army inevitably caused casualties between women, children, elderly and weak. The shells that bounced down from the top of the Qing army's bastion and the cracked stone bricks above the bastion kept falling down, hitting the people under the city. Countless people screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

Poor that the common people were tied up and tied together by ropes. They wanted to run away but couldn't escape. They could only stand under the city and endure the hits of the falling bricks and stones.

"Sir! Sir! Minggou Barbarians actually bombarded our army's castle regardless of the casualties of the people!" Ma Wenhui reported the battle situation to Shen Wenkui in panic.

Shen Wenkui thought about it and replied, "It seems that Li Ergou is here! That dog thief is cruel and ruthless, so he considered the casualties of the people! Since that's the case, we are ready to fight! Even if we are all dead, we have so many barbarians to bury us with us, and it's worth it! You can send orders and bring all the barbarians back to the city!"

"Zhe!" Ma Wenhui retreated.

Just as the Qing army was about to pull the women, children, old and weak who were blocking shells outside the city back to the city, suddenly, flames spit out from the buildings outside. The Qing soldiers who were about to pull the people back to the city sprayed blood mist on their bodies and heads, and fell down one after another.

Immediately afterwards, a flame tongue was sprayed out from the height of the building, and the bullets drilled into the shooting hole accurately, killing the Qing army hiding behind, suppressing the Qing army's firepower.

"Good! Save the people!" a Ming army officer shouted.

More than a thousand iron-armored soldiers rushed out. In addition to their thick armor, each of them also carried a heavy iron shield. However, the lower plates of these iron-armored soldiers were not protected. They had masks under their sturdy helmets, were wearing plate armor, and carried a large shield.

"Bang bang bang" The shooting hole of the castle kept spitting out flames, but after the bullet hit the iron shield, it was blocked. Even if the bullets of the turtledove-legged gun could penetrate the iron shield, it would be difficult to penetrate the plate armor of the iron armor soldier after it was penetrated.

However, those iron armored soldiers were not feeling well. The bullets kept hitting the iron shield, which made their arms numb. The iron shield was almost unstable. As long as the iron shield could not be held, it would be impossible to block the firearm's shooting with the armor alone!

Fortunately, the firepower of the scattered soldiers was suppressed, and the firepower of the Qing army was intermittent and inconsistent, so they covered the iron-armored soldiers to approach the city. The iron-armored soldiers who approached the city drew out their swords, cut off the rope that bound the people, and then took the people back.

The iron-armored soldiers led the people to retreat. The Qing soldiers in the castle kept firing. From time to time, the people were spraying bloody mist and snarled to the ground.

"Save me quickly!" A woman's terrified scream rang out.

The Iron Armored Soldier Commander turned his head and saw a young woman lying on the ground, with blood on her body. The woman covered her belly with her left hand, looking like a pregnant woman.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" whistling bullets kept hitting the woman's side, causing sparks to splatter. There were still many ordinary people running over the woman, but no one pulled her. The bullets shot by the Qing army kept drilling into the crowd of people, and the people around them sprayed blood mist behind one after another, and they fell down screaming.

What to do? Will you save someone? It is too dangerous to go back to save someone. Jiannu is already crazy to resist. If I go to save someone, I will lose my life if I accidentally save someone. But if I don’t save someone, I will be pregnant. I really can’t bear to see her beaten to death by Jiannu. ** I feel very conflicted and have a complicated ideological struggle.
Chapter completed!