In Ruijin City, 30,000 soldiers were killed or injured, and only five or six thousand were left to fight.

There was a shortage of materials in the city. In order to persist, Zheng Chenggong discussed with Longwu and decided to let the people go out to invest in Qing Dynasty.

At first, the Qing army was very happy about this. They treated the people who surrendered from the city. They only asked to shave their hair and rob some money and women, so they let go of the people who left the city, hoping that more people in the city would surrender.

Later, Heluo found that the situation was wrong. It was the people who surrendered, and there was no army, so he realized that this was the defenders in the city. In order to reduce food consumption, he took the initiative to release the people in the city out of the city.

This made He Luohui angry. As soon as he and Gong Adei decided to block the city and prevent the people from surrendering. At the same time, he also drove away some people, wanting to let the people enter the city and eat all the food in the city.

Emperor Longwu cried bitterly, saying that he had harmed the people and wanted to accept the people into the city. However, Zheng Chenggong and others, as well as the ministers accompanying him, all firmly opposed it. Instead, he decided to continue to drive the people out of the city, so Longwu did not insist.

For a moment, the gate of Ruijin City was closed, and 20,000 to 30,000 people could not enter the city or leave. They were trapped in a narrow area between the Qing army's encirclement and Ruijin City.

The Ming army did not allow them to enter the city, and the Qing army did not allow them to leave. The people lived in a narrow area, without food or firewood to make fire. A famine soon broke out and people kept starving 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 pretended that he could not hear anything. The generals of each gate had also put their lives to the death and did not allow the soldiers to open the city.

After the people were rejected, they went to ask the Qing army to let them go, but He Luo met Gong Adaye, and had already ordered that no one should be left. The people close to the Qing army's defense line were all shot to death by bows and arrows.

As a result, tens of thousands of people were forced into a dead end, and people were constantly starving to death. The narrow area was filled with lifeless people. The desperate old woman looked dull and sat on the ground with her angry grandson in her arms, with a dead silence on her face.

In Ruijin City, after driving out of the city, the soldiers of the defenders barely supported him, but the people outside the city starved to death. Only a small number of people survived by eating human flesh.

When the Qing army saw that the defenders in the city did not accept the people, they saw that the people starved to death. More than 50,000 Qing troops besieged Ruijin, and the food pressure was also very high. He Luohui had no choice but to change his strategy and launch a fierce attack on the city.

However, Zheng Chenggong, Yan Yingyuan and others fought to defend the city, especially Yan Yingyuan, who once defended the small county of Jiangyin and resisted the attack of more than 100,000 Qing troops for several months. With him and Zheng Chenggong commanded the defense, He Luo would attack several times, but they all ended in failure.

However, the city was short of supplies, and Ruijin Mountain City was far less prosperous than Jiangyin. Even though the defenders released most of the people out of the city, the situation was still in danger after two months of siege.

February 3, 1649.

At this time, the Qing army besieging Ruijin had already learned about Duoduo's defeat. Gong Adayai and He Luohui were in a panic and felt huge pressure.

Duoduo's great defeat will change the situation between the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now only they can capture Ruijin and capture Longwu to save face, attack the Ming army's arrogance, and maintain the strong state of the Qing Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty.

If the Qing Dynasty could not press the Ming Dynasty on the ground and beat it to death this time, instead, the Ming Dynasty got up and punched it hard, it would be unlikely that the Ming Dynasty would have the chance to press the Ming Dynasty on the ground in the future.

Therefore, the two of them decided to think that they had a difficult responsibility and felt that they would take over Ruijin City at any cost.

At this time, the two sent 5,000 troops to defend Fujian and enter the ancient city pass in Jiangxi to defend against the Ming army coming from Fujian, and then organized all elite troops to attack Ruijin City.

Under the city, the Qing cavalry roared and occupied the battlefield. People in the camps shouted horses and neighed, and the sound of drums and yelled endlessly.

After the Qing army had a full meal in the morning, a large number of infantry troops gathered with siege equipment and left the camp, and placed it one mile away from the city.

The Ming army fled in a hurry and hid in the small county of Ruijin. There were no large heavy artillery in the city, so the Qing army could safely approach the city and line up.

On the Ruijin City Wall, the Ming soldiers were on high alert. Zheng Chenggong was surrounded by a large group of soldiers and inspected the city. The soldiers were busy carrying earth, stone and wood.

At this time, the Qing army had already formed formations outside the city, with various siege equipment towering like clouds, shields, ladders, and cave houses, putting endless pressure on the defenders.

At this time, He Luo and Gong Audai will stare at the city. Gong Audai said angrily: "We must conquer the city this time!"

He Luohuai sneered: "Hmph, the barbarian struggles for so many days, it's time to end!"

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at the ten red cannons lined up by the forward, waved his hand and ordered: "Let's start!"

These ten red cannons were not brought by He Luo, but Luke Dehun, who besieged Ganzhou, sent people to send reinforcements. Originally, Luke Dehun had to send troops to come, but Hunan Du Yinxi, governor Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Ma Jinzhong and other troops entered Jiangxi. Luke Dehun had switched from attacking Ganzhou to defending and could not draw troops, so he only sent ten cannons.

The Qing army's artillery technology was not weaker than that of the Ming army, and even stronger than most Ming army, especially the use and manufacturing of heavy artillery. The Qing Dynasty's understanding of red and barbarian artillery was greater than that of the Ming Dynasty.

This was mainly because Kong Youde's troops, trained by the Folang Ji people in the early years, surrendered to the Qing army, which enabled the Qing Dynasty to master the manufacturing and use of red cannons.

At this time, with a command, a horn sounded in the Qing army formation, and the cavalry showing off their might at the city retreated one after another, and the Qing army's artillery formation began to roar.

On the cannon formation, the Qing army's red cannon suddenly retreated, and a black iron bomb flashed through the air and hit the city wall. Suddenly, the bricks and stones were sunk and broken, and dust and gravel fell.

For a moment, the artillery fired in the Qing army's artillery formation, making deafening sounds of cannons. As each artillery mount retreated, more than ten kilograms of iron bullets rushed out of the smoke and smashed towards the city wall. The wall instantly filled with smoke and dust. The soldiers on the city covered their heads and squatted down, feeling very shocked.

The shells continued to bombard, countless gravels splashed, and the wall bricks that were repeatedly hit were peeling off one after another, revealing the soil embryo inside.

Finally, after another round of artillery, Ruijin's old city wall was unbearable to the shelling, and collapsed with a burst of thick smoke and dust.

When He Luo saw this, he smiled and was about to give an order, a horse rushed over and whispered to him, which made his face suddenly become gloomy.

"What?" Gong Adayai couldn't help asking.

He Luo said with a gloomy face: "Zhao Zamao has arrived at the ancient city gate."
Chapter completed!