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"The situation is not good. The roads are frozen, and they can't even dig. It was late summer when the Thirteenth Army entered Henan, and it's early winter now. They can't even supply clothes. It's not easy to persist until now. .” Li Yan replied while busy sorting out military information from all parties.

"The Thirteenth Army harassed the Jinbing supply line on the bank of the Yellow River, which is equivalent to buying us nearly a month." Zhu Youjian talked about the contribution of the Thirteenth Army, but in fact he knew very well in his heart that Li Laiheng suffered a lot this time. .

Dorgon sent troops at the end of August, and he didn't expect the cities in Jiangbei to be so hard, dragging millions of troops to the snowy day, and he can only blame the winter of the Little Ice Age for coming too early.

The logistics of a million-strong army is an astronomical figure, coupled with the slow recovery of Henan, and those damn "bandits", the war has become the current situation.

In this regard, the Ming army took advantage, after all, it was on its own territory.

"You can order the Thirteenth Army to retreat, and if you let them consume it, the whole army will be wiped out." Li Yan walked to Zhu Youjian's side, stretched out his hand to roast on the brazier for a while, and continued:

"Haizhou has been attacked for more than half a month, and one of the four Qian brothers has been seriously injured. It seems that they can't hold on anymore..."

"Can't withdraw! You said: the scorched earth resists the gold. Once Haizhou withdraws, there is no danger to defend the eastern front, and Hauge can go straight to Huai'an." Zhu Youjian said.

"But if they don't withdraw, they won't be able to last for five days at most, so it won't have much impact on the overall situation." Li Yan is a kind person, and when he can speak, he will definitely say good things.

"It's good to buy an extra hour. There is no one who can't die in a battle. In the current land of Huaisi, people are dying every hour."

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Haizhou City.

After the new wave of golden soldiers retreated, corpses were strewn all over the city wall.Qian Sule stood up with a spear in his hand.

If you look around, you can't see a complete battlement, and even the outer bricks of Haizhou City have collapsed in several places.There are ruins and ruins everywhere in the city, and the green smoke after the fire is extinguished is everywhere, and even the young and strong actions to rescue the wounded are not so fast.

It looked like a decadent scene.

"Brother." Qian Sulin and Qian Sudian walked in front of Qian Sule wearing tattered armor.

"How's the fifth brother's injury?" Qian Sule asked Qian Sufan.

"Fifth Brother has already left us earlier." After Qian Sudian finished speaking, he threw away the sword in his hand, turned around and squatted by the side of the ruins, crying bitterly.

"Why are you crying? The Qian family in Ningbo doesn't have any men who weep like women." Although Qian Sule said this, tears rolled in his eyes unconsciously.

Qian Sule took a deep breath. The slightly salty air in Haizhou City was very similar to his hometown Ningbo. If he could eat another bite of soft and glutinous rice cakes, he felt that he would have no regrets in this life.

"Brother, those bastards are here again." Qian Sulin ran two steps, and shouted at the edge of the city.

"The third brother goes to the left, the fourth brother goes to the right, and the fifth brother protects the gap..." Qian Sule arranged habitually, but suddenly it was heard that the fifth brother was no longer there.

The main force participating in the siege of Haizhou was not the main force of the Jinbing at all, but Ergouzi from Shandong.A certain family has spent a lot of money, and almost mobilized all the strength of the foreign family to help Jin Bing.

The reason is that Hauge threatened to pacify Qufu if they didn't help. Under this threat, a certain family sent troops without saying a word.

Dead Daoist friends do not die poor Daoists!

Enemies swarmed towards a city gate. Qian Sule was standing on the gate, and there were less than a hundred soldiers around him who could still hold weapons.

The gate of the city had already been tightly blocked, and the Jin soldiers couldn't break through it at all.Qian Sule thought that the city gate was the safest, but unexpectedly a group of golden soldiers rushed towards the city gate carrying a load of dark things.

"Quickly, stop them and don't let them approach the city gate." Intuitively, Qian Sule felt that the burden was a threat and must be eliminated.

But Jin Bing's speed is very fast, it seems that the thing is not heavy.Jin Bing quickly threw the burden under the city gate, and then ran out of the city like crazy.

"Boom!" Before Qian Sule could figure out what Jin Bing was doing, the city wall under his feet was blown away.Even he himself was blown up by the blast, and was finally thrown not far from Qian Sudian's side.

"Brother." Qian Sudian was stunned. The loud noise just now was like a landslide, and his ears were so shaken that he couldn't hear any sound.

There was a rain of bricks and stones in the sky, and countless people turned their heads and smashed at the Qian family brothers. Qian Sudian climbed on the eldest brother to protect his own brother.

"Fourth brother, why did Qufu treat us like this?" Qian Sule's last sentence was a rhetorical question to himself. The Qian family is full of disciples of saints.But Qian Sudian couldn't hear what his brother was saying, he shook off the dust on his body, raised his big knife and rushed towards the gap like crazy.

"My lord, the power of this thing is too great. I won't be afraid of the city walls of the Southern Barbarians anymore." Han Dai smiled and looked at the Haizhou City that had been blown into a big gap, imagining that the golden soldiers would flatten all the Ming Dynasty. city ​​of people.

Hauge's face was as black as carbon. He knew that the explosion just now was all the stock he dug up in Fei County for two days. His Eight Banners cavalry had already experienced the power of this thing in Fei County.

But all craftsmen don't know how this thing is made, and no one can even guess the most basic raw materials.

"Spread the word, Haizhou massacres the city, leaving no one behind." Hauge felt inexplicable fear in his heart, he was afraid that he would be blown to pieces by that thing, so he wanted to cover up his fear by killing people.

Chapter 367: The Fourth Battle of the Jianghuai River

The post-Jin Dynasty attached great importance to firearms, but what they paid attention to was the weapons that had been manufactured from firearms, rather than the research on the principles of firearms.

When the Westerners came to their homes more than 200 years later, their cannons were only made bigger and heavier. Technically speaking, there was no progress, and even the gunpowder formula was the same as that of Ming Dynasty.

Such a dynasty may really only be playing palace fights every day!

Outside the city of Suzhou, two thousand young men were resting in front of the road, and eight huge stone rollers were pulled and rolled on the road repeatedly.Pulling the stone mill was a group of naked strong men, and several golden soldiers were whipping these strong men on their backs.

Behind these rollers, there is a bull array composed of dozens of oxen. Behind the cow array is a ten-thousand-jin cannon. The swarthy cannon is tied with a piece of red silk.

This is Dorgon's siege weapon - the super large red cannon.

After preparing for a full year and a half, Hou Jin only succeeded in casting three such cannons.Consuming a full 200 ​​million taels of silver, it can be called a sky-high price.

If Zhu Youjian was here, he would definitely say: "This item costs at most 1 silver dollars, and I will sell it to you for 10 taels of silver, and the delivery can be made in five days."

However, it is impossible to sell it to Houjin. Compare the cost performance and highlight the stupidity of Jinren.The Ming Dynasty at least proposed the theoretical design of the flintlock gun, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty had forgotten about the flintlock gun for more than 200 years.

Duoduo licked his lips and watched with ecstasy as the two cannons were transported outside the city of Suzhou, because Jin Bing had confirmed that Ma Shiying, a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, was in Suzhou city.Compared with the unknown Yan Yingyuan in Xuzhou City, Duoduo was more interested in attacking Ma Shiying in Suzhou.

"Is there another cannon?" Duoduo was very unhappy when he saw the loss of a cannon.

"Reporting to Prince Yu, the other side of the cannon is being transported to Fengyang."

"Understood." Duoduo pulled his face, but he couldn't say anything else.He was given two of the three cannons, which is already very preferential treatment.I heard that Hauge didn't even get a single course!

The positions of these cannons were three miles outside the city of Suzhou. This distance was calculated repeatedly to ensure that the cannons defending the city of Suzhou could not reach the artillery positions of the Jinbing.

It has been more than a month since the siege of the city. It cannot be blamed for the incompetence of Duoduo's subordinates. It can only mean that the cannons of the army defending the city are too powerful. up.

It took a lot of effort for Hou Jin to cast a cannon. Just for casting the cannon for this southern expedition, Hou Jin spent two years of taxes.If the cannons of the Ming people cannot be suppressed, at the current rate of consumption, the cannons alone can drag down Houjin's economy.

"Master, you have to cover your ears with this thing when you're going to fire the cannon." Kong Youde leaned closer to Doduo and said stammeringly. He had already prepared two strangely shaped earplugs in his hand, which looked very soft and soft. Look comfortable.

Duoduo glanced down at Kong Youde sideways. This guy was obviously taller than him, but every time he stood here he was always half a head shorter than him.

"Boom!" The cannon rang.

Doduo only felt his body shake, he was at least fifty steps away from the cannon.Looking next to the cannon again, the ears of the two gold soldiers were bleeding from the shock, and they were rolling on the ground in pain.The gun mount made of giant wood has been scattered, and a golden soldier next to the gun mount has been smashed into a puddle of meat.

A black projectile flew over the city of Suzhou, and it didn't know where it went. Anyway, the range was far greater than that of the cannons of the Ming army defending the city.

"It's high. You servants, hurry up and fix the gun mounts for me. I want to fire again." Duoduo was so happy that he seemed to have seen the collapse of the opposite city wall.