The Ming army's siege cannons are now in Anshan Lake. Because Emperor Zhu Hongsan underestimated the enemy, he was ambushed by the Qing army in Anshan Lake, and the personnel losses were acceptable. These siege cannons sank to the bottom of the lake. If they were small cannons of less than a thousand pounds of pounds of the army, they could still be salvaged, but each of the heavy siege cannons weighed seven or eight thousand pounds. At that time, for the convenience of transportation, the gun mount was removed and fixed to the bottom of the ship, so that they could act as ballast stones to prevent flat-bottomed canal ships from being overwhelmed by strong winds.

But doing this is troublesome now. After the ship was burned by the Qing army, the heavy artillery suffered no loss. It only sank to the bottom of the lake five or six meters deep. However, because there was no gun stand, there was no way to use force to salvage the lake. As time went by, the heavy artillery slowly sank into the mud in the lake. It is even more difficult to salvage now.

Although everyone knows that the logistics fleet was attacked this time, Zhu Hongsan, who was very fond of merit, was mainly responsible. If Zhu Hongsan had not insisted on storming snakes out of the hole, the fleet would not have been escorted by a division. Now something went wrong, the Ming army preparing to attack Jinan was very passive.

In fact, when he was in Suqian, Zhu Hongsan's main generals opposed the emperor's plan. Now the Ming army has the main advantage and does not have to do any tricks at all. They can just fight steadily and push them over. Jinan and Beijing were all crushed into powder under absolute firepower. However, Emperor Zhu Hongsan was very stubborn. Qian Yong, Zhao Guodong and others dared not object to the emperor's intention, so they followed the emperor's advice to divide the troops.

Although the generals knew what was going on, they still had to protect the emperor's face on the surface. Now, when Jiang Pengju asked about the cannon, they did not say a word.

Zhao Guodong glared and cursed, "Damn, why don't you fight without cannons? I tell you that even if you use your hands to slash the walls of Jinan, you will be able to slim down the Jinan city walls!"

Jiang Pengju was most afraid of Zhao Guodong in the army. Now he heard from the superiors that he dared not ask.

Zhao Guodong looked at his subordinates' commander and deputy commander and said, "I told you that the Emperor has issued a strict order to break through Jinan Prefecture within one month. Your Majesty will enter Beijing before the Spring Festival! So no matter what tricks you use, if you haven't taken down Jinan City within the prescribed time, you will not be able to explain in front of the emperor. I will peel your skin when I come back! Tomorrow, each division will complete its team and set off for Jinan!"

It is July 28th, and there are still four months left before the New Year. In the Ming Dynasty, due to the influence of the small ice river, the Shandong territory was already very cold at the end of July. Although it did not snow, it had dropped to zero degrees in the evening in the mountainous areas. Most of the soldiers under Zhu Hongsan were from the south, and many of them had no experience in fighting in the cold areas. Although the Ming army provided sufficient supplies, Zhu Hongsan was still afraid that if there was a mistake in winter, so he gave a death order to conquer Jinan before the end of August, and then immediately went north to take Beijing. After hearing what the superior said, Zhao Guodong's subordinate breathed a long sigh, and had no choice but to go down and prepare to raise an army tomorrow.

In the Ming Dynasty, Jinan Prefecture was the first of the six prefectures in Shandong. Jinan Prefecture dominated Licheng, led four prefectures and twenty-six counties, and had a wide area of ​​unprecedented territory. As the provincial capital, Jinan's social and economic development level was not the highest among the six prefectures, and it was a medium-level level. Given the status of Shandong Province in the country at that time, it can be said that in the northern region, Jinan Prefecture's social and economic development level could be regarded as moderately developed.

However, this was before the Tianqi Year of the Ming Dynasty. During the huge peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, Shandong, which was adjacent to Henan, was also affected. However, the chaos in Shandong did not have much impact on Jinan City. It was the Qing army in Liaodong that directly caused fatal damage to the Jinan city walls.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji sent Dorgon to lead his army into the pass, and his troops were divided into two groups, destroying the border walls from Qianziling and Qingshan Pass respectively, and the troops were heading to Jinan. The two armies crossed the An, passed Fengrun, joined Tongzhou, along the Taihang Mountains and the Canal, divided the troops into eight routes, and attacked westward. The six towns passed along the way were all captured. The Qing army went deep into southern Hebei, connected to Guangping, Shunde, Daming and other places, then turned to Shandong, bypassed Dezhou, and met at the city of Jinan. Within one day, they captured Jinan City. Jinan was looted and then attacked sixteen other towns in Shandong. After that, Dorgon led his army to Tianjin Wei, crossed the canal, and returned to Liaodong.

This was a fatal blow to Jinan. In this battle, the Qing Dynasty killed two governors and more than 100 generals and officers above the garrison, captured King De Zhu Youshu, Prince Zhu Ciying, General Zhu Cishang, General Zhu Cishang of the State, and Feng Xu, the eunuch of the army, and obtained 462,300 people and animals, 4,000 taels of gold, and 977,400 taels of silver. At this point, Jinan Prefecture, known as "lotus on four sides, willows on three sides, one city with mountains and half a city and lake", completely became another scene in the late Ming Dynasty. The population of more than 600,000 was left in the city, and there were only less than 100,000 left. In addition, Shandong was full of anti-Qing armed forces in recent years, so everyone wanted to come to Jinan to take a bite. Now Jinan has become a dead city.

Jiergalang felt a little regretful when he came to Jinan. He had never been to Jinan. He had only heard of the reputation of this important town in Shandong. He originally thought that even if it was ruined, there would be hundreds of thousands of people. He thought it was wrong to develop it here.

But there is no regret medicine in the world. After passing Jinan, there is no big city to guard, and the defense line can only retreat to the Tianjin Wei line. Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty was not the municipality with a population of tens of millions in later generations. Tianjin Wei was just a county-scale garrison. It became a city because the Qing Dynasty ceded Tianjin to the great powers as a concession. With the efforts of foreigners, Tianjin became a city.

It is not realistic to use the city wall of Tianjin to deal with the Ming army. There is no way Jiergalang can only mobilize manpower to renovate the city wall of Jinan.

Jinan Prefecture City was formed in the Song Dynasty and was originally a rammed city. Since the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, it has been built on five large-scale constructions in the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of Hongwu, bricks and stones were transformed into brick cities. The Ming Dynasty wall of Jinan was more than 6,000 meters around, ten meters high and sixteen meters wide. There were also urns outside the west gate, south gate and east gate. There were four city towers and three arrow towers. There were corner towers on the city walls, enemy towers, pavilions and other defense facilities. There were more than 3,000 marches on the lower part, and green square stones were built on the ground. The upper part was built on the green bricks. Each brick weighed 30 kilograms, which was solid.

Of course, Jiergalang has limited resources now and cannot repair the Jinan city wall as intact as before. He can only fill the gap and wait for the arrival of the Ming army.

Tai'an was managed by Jinan Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty. There was an official road connection between the two places. Although it passed through the mountainous areas, the conditions for marching were quite good. The Ming army led by Zhao Guodong set off from Tai'an on July 29th and arrived at the city of Jinan on the fifth day of the August 20th.

Jiergalang had already received a notice of the destruction of Yue Le's entire army. Although Yue Le had 20,000 people left, were the cavalry without horses still considered cavalry? Jiergalang did not expect that the Ming army's combat effectiveness was so strong that only 15,000 people could block 100,000 people for a day. What should I do with the 45,000 people in front of him?

Jiergalang stood at the gate of Ximen Liyuan and looked at the large number of Ming troops walking in from a distance. The Baoding general Yi Yonggui, who was beside him, was stationed in Shanxi before, and was guarding against Jiang Rang from Datong. He had not fought with the army of the Southern Ming. Now he saw that the Ming army had come to make a first contribution in front of the leader, so he stood up and said, "Prince Zheng, my subordinates think that going out to fight will weaken the morale of the Ming army while the Ming army is not yet stable. Please be sure to accept it!"

Jiergalang is an old man. He knows the power of the Ming army well, and the army opposite is led by Zhao Guodong, the second general of the Ming army. Zhao Guodong has been confronting the Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou. He has fought countless battles in recent years, and the Qing Dynasty still knows Zhao Guodong's reputation.

"No, this time the Ming army led the troops was Zhao Guodong, who was in Jiading to fight against our Qing Dynasty soldiers. It was very difficult to deal with. No one was allowed to go out of the city to fight. Those who violated the order would be killed!" Jiergalang refused Yi Yonggui's order to fight, and then said to the prefect of Jinan: "The city wall must also be strengthened. There are several construction progress behind. Behead the foreman. I must see the city wall completed by dawn tomorrow!"

It was right that Jiergalang did not send anyone out. Zhao Guodong could not know this truth when he experienced a long battle formation. The Ming army was already ready, so he waited for the Qing army to come out to get the bargain, and then took advantage of the Qing army's carelessness to attack the city. As long as the Ming army enters the city, everything will be over. Zhao Guodong believes that as long as he is given two days, he will definitely be able to seize Jinan from the Qing Dynasty.

But he didn't know that Jirhalang was so smart that he knew that he had second-rate troops in his hands, and that only relying on the city wall was the right way, so he was not fooled, but hid in the city and watched the Ming army camp.

The Ming army camping was also very strange. It is logical that the army belonged to the siege and should surround Jinan. However, Zhao Guodong went the opposite way and only camped at Ximen. No one guarded the other three directions, as if he was not afraid of the Qing army taking the opportunity to break through. In fact, Zhao Guodong was really not afraid of the Qing army breaking through, because the Ming army's 50,000 cavalry had arrived in Dezhou. The Qing army in Jinan wanted to retreat back to Beijing, and there was only one way. Yue Le's 150,000 cavalry was not good. Zhao Guodong didn't believe that Jiergalang's 70,000 second-rate Han army Eight Banners could break through the cavalry blockade line?

Jirgalang had no intention of escaping at all, but closed the four gates and actively prepared in the city, waiting for the Ming army's siege.

Zhao Guodong felt very depressed when he saw that the Qing army was not trapped. Now it seemed that he could only wait for the Jinyiwei in the city. He hoped that these guys could bring good news to him.

On the first night when the Ming army set up camp in Jinan, Zhao Guodong waited for news about the Jinyiwei. In the middle of the night, a personal soldier came in to report that it was a person from the city, claiming to be a hundred households of Jinyiwei, and came out to deliver a letter to Zhao Guodong.
Chapter completed!