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"Then why are you standing there, send someone down to pick it up quickly! By the way, build it into the new wall together with cement. The emperor said that steel bars and cement are stronger together. We don't have steel bars, so we use these to run bombs!"

Chapter 3 Seventy: The Seventh Battle of Jianghuai

Xuzhou can be regarded as the most beneficial battlefield for the Ming army in the entire Jianghuai area, while Suqian and Fengyang, where battles took place at the same time, were much more difficult.

There are no fewer golden soldiers attacking the city in Fengyang than in Xuzhou, and Fengyang City is not as strong as Xuzhou.Fengyang City, which looked majestic on the surface, was already crumbling under the bombardment of several rounds of super cannons.

There is nothing to say about Huang Degong's bravery in battle. The most important thing is that he is obedient, as long as it is an order issued by the court, he will resolutely implement it.Zhu Youjian said not to take the initiative to attack, and try to keep the city defense longer, but Huang Degong did as he said without saying a word.

However, a section of the city wall of Fengyang City has collapsed. The inner and outer bricks of the city wall and the rammed earth in the middle collapsed all over the place, filling half of the moat.

"Quick, quickly move the stones to fill the gap." On the side of the Ming army, the soldiers defending the city frantically moved all kinds of building materials to fill the gap.Wooden beams, stones, and sandbags are all stacked towards the gap.

"Quickly, fill up the moat for me." Jin Bing also filled the moat like crazy.Their purpose was to cross the moat before the Ming army blocked the gap, and rushed into Fengyang City in one breath.

The defenders on Fengyang City kept firing at the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers who were busy filling the moat died all over the place, but there were still carts constantly pushing into the moat, and the dead bodies were not dragged away at all. thrown into the moat.

At the gap in Fengyang City, the Ming army also suffered casualties constantly. Round after round of shells flew in from the gap, and each iron bullet could take away the lives of one or two Ming soldiers.

Slowly, a large area of ​​houses near the gap was demolished, and the gap was finally blocked.The golden soldiers outside the city withdrew seeing that they couldn't make any money.

"Commander, Jin Bing's cannon is really powerful. If we continue to fight like this, our city wall will collapse?" Huang Degong's deputy Weng Zhiqi said.

"The Jin Bing's cannon is guarded too tightly. We can't go there and blow it up, but we have to watch it bombard us." Another general, Tian Xiong, was a little annoyed.

"Take care of your own defense zone, kill more enemies and less worry about it." Huang Degong glared at the people around him.In fact, he was very worried in his heart. The one who guards the city is the city wall. If the city wall cannot be kept, what is there to guard?

In the past, the siege of the city relied on directly attacking the city gate or looking through the city wall, while the two sides relied on fighting with their lives.But now it seems that the world has changed, the gate of the city is no longer the focus of attack by the attackers, and the defenders will block the gate of the city in advance.

As for the city, the attacking party could use cannons to blast the city wall away. Huang Degong reckoned that this Fengyang city might be blown down in sections.

Huang Degong's side was lucky to plug the gap just now, and the cannons outside the city rang out again, and this time there seemed to be a lot more cannonballs.

"What's going on?" Huang Degong hurried up the city wall in a panic.

The artillery of Jinbing outside the city has been lined up, and all the muzzles are aimed at a blockhouse and firing.

Huang Degong's face darkened, and he immediately understood that Jin Bing had found the weakness of Fengyang City.He calculated in his heart that Fengyang could hold out for ten days at most, and after ten days he would face the golden soldiers hand to hand.

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Huai'an City.

A large wave of golden soldiers is attacking the city. Although the defenders deal with it easily, the number of golden soldiers attacking the city looks scary.A total of [-] gold soldiers reported to Huai'an to besiege, and by the way, they harmed the people around Huai'an.

"Does this Hauge think I'm too easy to bully?" Zhu Youjian sat on the chair angrily and sulked.

"Not to mention, Haoge's bait is really fat, with a total of [-] soldiers. But there is no Eight Banners, and there is not even a decent firearms battalion." Li Yan said.

"Do you think Hauge guessed our strength in Huai'an?" Zhu Youjian asked.

"Probably not. The tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Huai'an City were replaced with old-style military uniforms. They entered the city in the name of the garrisons around them. After entering the city, Huai'an City was under martial law. There should be no leaks."

"How about we eat the golden soldiers outside the city?"

"No. We can't swallow these 10 people in one gulp. As soon as we show up, Hauge will know that our main force is in Huai'an. When he transfers all 30 people here, we won't be able to outrun their elite cavalry."

"Sooner or later, it's not always about letting them know."

"That's different. There's a big difference between half a month earlier and half a month later."

Li Yan knew that Zhu Youjian was speaking out of anger, and it would be uncomfortable for anyone else.But who made Daming lack such toughness, he could only endure it.

"Look, this is the latest battle report. Zeng Ying is attacking Guangyuan, Shi Lang is blocking the Jinbing Navy at Wusongkou, Li Guo is attacking Nanyang, Suizhou is supplying the Thirteenth Army, Zheng Chenggong is leading the Fujian Navy to go north; Xuzhou, Fengyang, Suqian, and Huai'an are all at war. The entire area around the 36th parallel north latitude has been burned to the ground by the flames of war."

"What line?" Li Yan was taken aback, not understanding.

"North latitude is 36 degrees. That is the dividing line between north and south, usually the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River." Zhu Youjian said, picked up a pen and drew a straight line on the map.

"Your Majesty, things have changed." Zhu Youjian was about to say something more, when Ji Biao walked in and handed Zhu Youjian a piece of paper.

As a result, Zhu Youjian's face turned dark when he saw it, and then he slammed a hammer on the table.

"What happened?" Li Yan asked quickly.

"Liu Liangzuo wants to surrender." Zhu Youjian was really furious. The news was sent by Fang Jinnan, and it was revealed from Jin Bing.

If he knew that Liu Liangzuo would rebel in the end, Zhu Youjian really didn't need to spend money to raise cavalry.The result was still the same, and the four towns in Jiangbei did not change their fate at all.

Liu Liangzuo's rebellion was tantamount to disrupting Zhu Youjian's entire game of chess.Especially the cavalry under Liu Liangzuo, which is Zhu Youjian's backbone in Huaisi.

When Li Yan heard this, his hands trembled in panic and he dropped the tea bowl to the ground.Although they imagined that someone would surrender gold, after all, there are still some places stationed in Jiangbei, but the most elite cavalry should not surrender gold.

"Your majesty, tell me the truth, how soon can the Sichuan army reach Jianghuai?" Li Yan looked at Zhu Youjian very seriously this time.

"One month at the earliest, that's not counting as assembly time." Zhu Youjian was also the first and the second big.

Li Yan's forehead had begun to break out in cold sweat, and Zhu Youjian could see it clearly.

Li Yan turned around and looked through the pile of maps like crazy, but Zhu Youjian saw that Li Yan's face was obviously getting worse and worse.Zhu Youjian felt deeply guilty for the first time, and at the same time felt his own uselessness.

Although the traverser was open, he couldn't solve the really important problem.Zhu Youjian threw the battle to Li Yan, but only gave him limited conditions.

"Your Majesty, can you squeeze out some more soldiers?" Li Yan asked Zhu Youjian almost in a begging tone.

"No more, the whole family is here. There are still some soldiers in Hunan, but I'm afraid that after being transferred here, he will be the next Liu Liangzuo." Zhu Youjian dared not use any local warlord's soldiers in this war.

"Really?" Li Yan was about to cry.

"Not really."

"I made one table of dishes, and two tables of guests came!"

When Zhu Youjian heard it, why are these words so familiar?How did the Huaihe decisive battle of later generations be won?

Zhang Kexia.Yes, Zhang Kexia's uprising is the key.

"There is one person, he should have someone in his hands, but he doesn't know how many."

Li Yan heard Zhu Youjian's words in a fog.

Chapter 371: The Eighth Battle of Jianghuai

Before dawn on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow like goose feathers covered the Jianghuai land, and no one could be seen fifty steps ahead.In such weather, no bird will fly in the sky.

The main streets in Huai'an City were full of carriages, and the horses' backs were covered with special leather or oiled paper, and even the horses' legs were wrapped with some warm cotton wool as much as possible.

And all the soldiers were either on horseback or in carriages.Coarse-faced gloves, earmuffs, and masks can still be distributed to every soldier.