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Zhu Youlang successfully used the tactic of besieging the city and attacking aid, and retreated Geng Zhongming and Tuntai troops who came to support more than 40,000 reinforcements. In the past, the Tatars often used this trick in Liaodong to eat up the Ming army troops who went to support. Now the feng shui turns to change, and it is the Ming army's turn to use it.

After the fierce battle, the soldiers were exhausted and the troops were trapped. After a day and night of rest, their combat power was restored. They were finally able to free up their hands to attack Yiyang City. In Yiyang City, there were only five or six thousand remaining soldiers from Meilezhang Jingzhuoluo and five or six thousand cavalry and horses of general Ma Jiaolin. Even if there were more than 10,000 strong men who temporarily pulled up the city to guard the city, the total number was only more than 20,000. They were trapped for more than a month and almost ran out of ammunition and food, and their morale was so sluggish.

If it weren't for Zhuo Luo, Ma Jiaolin and others' attitudes were not strong enough, and they had no desire to surrender and guarded the city, they might have been destroyed by Li Ding's troops long ago.

During the main battle between the Qing army and the Ming army, the troops in the city were very dishonest. In order to echo the reinforcements, they went out of the city several times to raid, trying to break through the wall. The main infantry forces that attacked the Ming army from behind were blocked by Gao Yigong and Hao Yaoqi's army's 20,000 besieged troops. Zhu Youlang then fought in the field with Geng Zhongming's Qing army in the future and achieved the final victory.

Now the Qing reinforcements retreated, and outside Yiyang City, there were nearly 70,000 infantry and cavalry troops, large and small red artillery cannons and one or two hundred Folang machine cannons outside Yiyang City.

In addition to the large number of artillery, the Ming army built many earthen ridges to avoid the guards' bows and arrows and stones.

The reason why the Ming army was prepared quite well was that Emperor Zhu Youlang set the deadline for breaking the city: three days!

The walls of Yiyang City are eight feet high, with a foundation of one meter and seven feet wide, with a surface of one meter and two feet, and a surrounding area of ​​nine hundred and sixty-three feet. Outside the north gate, Yuecheng is built as a barrier, and 34 enemy towers, forty-seven nests, and 1,932 pheasant coals. There are many defense facilities. Compared with the provincial capital cities such as Changsha, Wuchang, Nanchang and Guangzhou, it cannot be tall and strong.

To deal with such a middle- and low-level city, more than 100 siege cannons were gathered under the city. If you still can't kill them, you might as well find a piece of tofu to kill them!

Zhu Youlang ordered that Yiyang must be taken down within three days, otherwise all commanders who participated in the siege would be punished!

Since the emperor gave the death order, the artillery guards were all excited and ready to show their strength.

So the real bombardment that was open uninterrupted began.

At the second update that night, all the walls of Yiyang were collapsed due to the combo of cannons. Then it started to rain heavily in the sky, which seemed to indicate the end of everything.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Zhu Youlang thought that Yiyang City had collapsed completely, so he ordered thousands of soldiers to move more than a hundred cannons to the northeast of the city to specifically attack the most powerful place that collapsed.

The rain became even more intense that day. Ming soldiers set up cowhide tents outside the city to protect the cannons and gunpowder from being wet by the rain, but the city was silent at this time.

Because the artillery fire was too fierce, the Qing soldiers on the city immediately hid behind the wall to prevent the fire from being injured. And often they dared to climb the city tower again to defend after the sound of the artillery.

After seeing this situation, the Ming army artillery soldiers and soldiers outside the city deliberately set off empty cannons and only wolf smoke was set off in the cannons (the function was similar to today's smoke bombs), making smoke outside the city blocking the sky and it was hard to tell.

The Qing soldiers guarding the city could only hear the cannons, but could not see the exact situation outside, so they did not know that the Ming soldiers had actually quietly pulled out the city defense facilities such as deer antlers, horses, and caltrops under the cover of artillery fire, and crossed the moat.

When the Ming soldiers who had climbed the city wall appeared out of the smoke and rushed up and killed the defenders, the Qing soldiers realized that they had been fooled by the Ming dogs, but at this time it was too late.

Soon, Yiyang City's defense system completely collapsed. Yiyang City, which had been strong for a month or two, was finally captured.

On that day, the Ming army first attacked the city of Yiyang from the north and opened the north gate. Tens of thousands of imperial camp personal troops rushed into the city like a tide. Although the situation was hopeless, Zhuo Luo, Ma Jiaolin and other generals still led the hungry and tired Qing soldiers to engage in street battles with the Ming army.

After receiving the report, Zhu Youlang was furious and ordered that all the surrenders of the Qing soldiers besides the people's might, regardless of whether they resist or not, they would be killed!

Ma Jiaolin, whose ancestral home is Guyuan, Gansu, belonged to Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, so he is also considered a Shaanxi native. Because he is a Hui tribe and believes in the *** religion, he is nicknamed Ma Huizi

Ma Jiaolin's ancestors were nobles of the Ming Dynasty and a family of military generals. He fought with the peasant army in his early years and later relied on Zuo Liangyu. After Zuo Liangyu died, he turned to He Tengjiao. He was all under his command of Xiliang, a fierce and ferocious Hui cavalry, and had a strong combat power.

In real history, after Ma Jiaolin surrendered to the Qing army in Yuezhou, he has been charging forward for the Qing Dynasty and made many military achievements. He was regarded as the strongest enemy of the Qing army in Huguang by the Yongli court. His greatest contribution was to capture Guilin, pacify Guangxi, and capture the Minister of War Qu Shisi of the Yongli court, and the Minister of Rites Fang Yizhi and other important officials, and was appointed as the Admiral of Guangxi by the Qing Dynasty.

In his original history, this person became a hard-core traitor after the Qing Dynasty in Huguang. In order to repay the master of his Qing Dynasty, he spared no effort to suppress the remaining Ming army in the south. He devoted all his efforts to the Qing Dynasty and died. This is exactly the word "helping the evil and abused". Such "loyalty" is really ironic!

As more and more musketeers of the Imperial Camp gathered, they forced Ma Jiaolin and hundreds of their personal soldiers to a corner of the city. After gradually surrounding them, they continued to shoot guns on the front, and flanking swords and shield soldiers assisted in the attack. The remaining three or four hundred horse soldiers on the field formed a round formation and were still resisting, but as time went by, they were all knocked to the ground one by one.

Ma Jiaolin in the round formation was covered with blood marks and was still struggling to kill, like a trapped beast. The blue veins on his purple-colored face were exposed, and his expression was full of madness.

Wu Jisi shouted to Ma Jiaolin in a muffled voice: "You were also the general officer of the Ming Dynasty. After surrender, the Tartars did not see you promoted you to a higher position. Why did you work so wholeheartedly for them? Is it shame?"

Ma Jiaolin snorted coldly: "The general trend of the Manchus unify the world is just to follow the times! There is no need to say more nonsense, even if you let the horse come over and a family frowns, they are not considered a hero!"
Chapter completed!