In Ruijin City, 30,000 soldiers of the forbidden army were killed or wounded, and only five or six thousand people were left and could barely fight.There was a shortage of materials in the city, and in order to be able to persevere, Zheng Chenggong discussed with Longwu and decided to let the people go out of the city to surrender.At first, the besieging Qing army was very happy about this, and gave preferential treatment to the people who surrendered out of the city, only asking for a shave of their hair, robbing some money and women, and then letting the people out of the city surrender, hoping that more people in the city would surrender.Later, Heluo would find that the situation was not right, and those who surrendered were all people, and there was no army, so he reacted, this is the defenders of the city, in order to reduce food consumption, take the initiative to release the people in the city out of the city.This made He Luohui furious, and as soon as he and Gong Adai combined, he ordered the city to be blocked, preventing the people from going out of the city to surrender, and at the same time driving some people away, wanting to let the people enter the city and eat up the food in the city.In this regard, Emperor Longwu wept bitterly, claiming that he had harmed the people and wanted to accept the people into the city, but Zheng Chenggong and others, as well as the accompanying ministers, were resolutely opposed, and instead decided to continue to drive the people out of the city, and Longwu did not insist.For a time, the gate of Ruijin City was closed, and 20,000 or 30,000 people could not enter the city or leave, and they were trapped in a narrow area of two or three miles between the Qing army's encirclement network and Ruijin City.The Ming army did not let them enter the city, the Qing army did not allow them to leave, and the people lived in a narrow area, with no food to eat, no firewood to make a fire, and soon there was a famine, and people continued to starve to death.The desperate people came to the city and begged the Ming army to open the city, Zheng Chenggong had a gloomy face, and he couldn't hear anything, and the guards of all the gates also gave their lives to prevent the soldiers from opening the city.After the people were refused, they went to beg the Qing army to let them go, but He Luohui Gong Adai had already ordered that no one could be let go, and the people close to the Qing army's defense line were all shot to death with bows and arrows one by one.As a result, tens of thousands of people were driven to a dead end, people starved to death, and the narrow area was crowded with lifeless people, and desperate old women sat on the ground with dull eyes, holding their lifeless grandsons, with dead silence on their faces.In Ruijin City, after driving the people out of the city, the defenders barely supported themselves, while the people outside the city starved to death, and only a small number of people survived by eating human flesh.Seeing that the defenders in the city did not accept the people, the Qing army starved to death, and the Qing army of more than 50,000 people besieged Ruijin, and the food pressure was also very great, He Luohui had no choice but to change his strategy and launched a fierce attack on the city.However, Zheng Chenggong, Yan Yingyuan and others desperately defended the city, especially Yan Yingyuan had held the small county of Jiangyin and resisted the attack of more than 100,000 Qing troops for several months.It's just that the materials in the city are scarce after all, and Ruijin Mountain City is far less rich than Jiangyin, even if the defenders release most of the people out of the city, but after two months of siege, the situation is still precarious.February 3, 1649.At this time, the Qing army besieging Ruijin had already learned the news of Duoduo's defeat, and Gong Adai and He Luohui were both panicked in their hearts and felt tremendous pressure.The defeat of Duoduo will change the situation between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now only if they capture Ruijin and capture Longwu can they save face, blow the arrogance of the Ming army, and maintain the strong state of the Manchu Qing against the Ming.If the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not press the Ming Dynasty to the ground and beat it half to death this time, but let the Ming Dynasty get up and punch hard, I am afraid that it will be difficult to press the Ming Dynasty to the ground in the future.Therefore, as soon as the two of them combined, they felt that their responsibilities were arduous, and they felt that they would take Ruijin City at any cost.At this time, the two sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to defend the ancient city pass where Fujian entered Jiangxi to defend against the Ming army coming from Fujian, and then organized all the elite soldiers to attack Ruijin City.Under the city, the cavalry of the Qing army roared back and forth, occupying the battlefield, and the people in the camps shouted horses neighing, and the sound of drums and trumpets was endless.After the Qing army had a full meal in the morning, a large number of infantry troops came out of the camp surrounded by siege equipment and placed them one mile away from the city.The Ming army fled in a hurry and hid in the small county of Ruijin, there was no large heavy artillery in the city, and the Qing army could rest assured that they would line up close to the city.On the Ruijin city wall, the Ming soldiers were waiting for them, and Zheng Chenggong was surrounded by a large group of armor soldiers, patrolling the city, and the soldiers were busy carrying earth, stone and wood.At this time, the Qing army had already set up a formation outside the city, all kinds of siege equipment towering like clouds, shield cars, ladders, and cave houses were countless, giving endless pressure to the defenders.At this time, He Luo and Gong Adai looked at the city, and Gong Adai was very angry and said: "This time we must capture the city!"
”He Luohui sneered: "Hmph, the barbarian has been struggling for so many days, it's time to end!"
”After speaking, he turned his head to look at the ten red-clothed cannons lined up in front of him, waved his hand and ordered: "Let's start!"
”These ten red-coated cannons were not brought by He Luo, but Leke Dehun, who besieged Ganzhou, sent people to send reinforcements, and Le Ke Dehun originally had to send soldiers and horses over, but Hunan blocked Yinxi, and supervised Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Ma Jinzhong and other troops into Jiangxi, Leke Dehun has changed from attacking Ganzhou to defending, and he can't draw troops over, so he only sent ten cannons.The artillery technology of the Qing army was not weaker than that of the Ming army, and even stronger than the vast majority of the Ming army, especially the use and manufacture of heavy artillery, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's understanding of the Hongyi cannon had surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty.This is mainly due to the fact that Kong Youde, who was trained by the Francophone in the early years, defected to the Qing army, so that the Manchus mastered the manufacture and use of Hongyi cannons.At this time, with an order, a horn sounded in the Qing army's array, and the cavalry showing off their might under the city retreated one after another, and the Qing army's artillery array began to roar.On the artillery array, the Qing army's Hongyi cannon retreated sharply, and a black iron bullet flashed in the air and smashed on the city wall.For a time, the artillery on the artillery array of the Qing army opened fire in turn, making a deafening sound of artillery, and the artillery mounts of each artillery retreated, and more than ten catties of iron bullets rushed out of the smoke and smashed into the city wall, and the wall was instantly filled with smoke and dust, and the soldiers and soldiers on the city covered their heads and squatted down, and their hearts were very frightened.The shells continued to bombard, countless rubble splashed, and the wall tiles that had been repeatedly hit peeled off, revealing the soil embryos inside.Finally, after another round of shelling, the old city wall of Ruijin was overwhelmed by the shelling, and collapsed with a bang, raising thick smoke and dust.Seeing this, He Luo had a smile on his face, and was about to give an order, when he galloped over and whispered to him, making his face instantly gloomy."
How?"
Gong Adai couldn't help asking.He Luohui said with a gloomy face: "Zhao Zamao has been killed in the ancient city." ”(Thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe) ()