Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 201

Shi Kefa was furious, if he hadn't been supported by the left and right sides, he might not be able to stand up.

Just as Huang Hai said just now, every word is like a knife, and it has great lethality for a person like him who cherishes his reputation.

Trying hard to calm down, Shi Kefa pointed angrily: "Does Pingru know what General Huang said?"

Huang Hairu responded with a stern expression: "My lord said that Mr. Shi has no intention of serving the country, but he has no ability to serve the country. In the end, he can only harm the country and the people."

"If you want to defend Yangzhou City, you can only rely on our new army."

After all, he immediately took out a letter and handed it to Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa took it with trembling hands, opened it and saw that it was written by Tangning himself.

So I read it carefully, and my face became paler and paler.

Although what Tang Ning said in the letter was much gentler, the meaning was similar to what Huang Hairu said. In short, he was persuading Shi Kefa to let more capable people do more suitable things.

Only when people make the best use of it can they always have it.

At the end of the letter, Tangning also added that if Huang Hairu was not good at defending the city, he would definitely deal with it severely.

Shi Kefa accepted the letter with a blank expression, and said to Huang Hairu: "What is said in the letter, if you are not the main general, you can act cheaply. How to act?"

Huang Hairu said without hesitation: "I will forcibly take over the defense. Those who resist will be killed."

Shi Kefa laughed suddenly, and asked loudly after the laughter stopped: "You want to kill this old man and seize power?"

Huang Hairu shook his head and said: "Your Excellency's loyalty to the imperial court is unrivaled, and the general will not dare to hurt you in the slightest. But for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people in Yangzhou, this is the only way to do it."

"Today, I will take over the defense of the city. Any soldiers who resist will be punished by military law."

Shi Kefa said in shock and anger, "How is this trip different from that of the Qing army?"

Huang Hairu didn't argue with him, and said directly: "Sir, will you take the initiative to worship me as the general, or let the last general forcefully gather the troops in the city, and then proclaim himself the general?"

Although Shi Kefa was trembling with anger, he finally compromised.

The Yellow Sea is so powerful, and at this time of life and death, he doesn't want to see another fight in the city.

For the defense of Yangzhou City, he had no better way but to compromise.

This was also within Tangning's expectation. Shi Kefa had compromised all the way. He seemed to bear the burden of humiliation for the court, but in fact he was not courageous enough and was too indecisive.

Ten thousand steps back, if Shi Kefa insisted on holding on to the military power, Huang Hairu would not really fight the defenders in the city. He would directly lead people out of Yangzhou and abandon this impossible city.

Tangning had complicated feelings for Shi Kefa. On the one hand, she admired his loyalty and fear of death, but on the other hand, she was saddened and angry because of his limited ability, which caused the good situation to be lost step by step.

In the end, Huang Hairu was appointed by Shi Kefa as the general army of Yangzhou to lead the defense of the entire Yangzhou.

And he himself is responsible for raising food and supplies for the army and maintaining order in the city.

Huang Hairu did not delay, and immediately began to adjust and deploy the defense of Yangzhou City, changing Shi Kefa's previous layout a lot.

On the 21st, led by his younger brother Liu Liangchen, Liu Liangzuo led more than [-] troops to surrender to the Qing army.

On the 22nd, under the threat of Duduo, Liu Zeqing's nearly [-] troops surrendered without a fight.

On the 24th, Duduo led the Qing army and the surrendered troops of Li Chengdong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Xu Dingguo, etc., a total of 40 people, approached Yangzhou Prefecture, and camped [-] miles outside the city.

The ridiculous thing is that Xu Dingguo was the one who planned to kill Gao Jie, and then he joined the Qing army.

Now, they are serving the Qing army together with Li Chengdong, who represents Gao Jie, and they live in peace.

I don't know how Gao Jie will feel if he knows it.

Although this person led a small force, only about [-], but he killed Gao Jie at a critical moment, which can be said to be the chief culprit for the rapid collapse of Jiangbei's defense line.

But it's too late to say anything now. I heard that hundreds of thousands of enemy troops are besieging the city, and everyone in Yangzhou Mansion is in panic.

However, after the news of the new army joining the defense of the city spread, people were somewhat comforted.

But many people know that the number of new soldiers who actually entered the city is not many, only a few thousand, so they are also full of worries about the prospects of Yangzhou Prefecture.

Duduo was not in a hurry to attack, but first sent people to write a letter of persuasion to Shi Kefa and Huang Hairu.

Although Shi Kefa has limited ability in some aspects, his loyalty to Daming is unquestionable, so he refused without hesitation.

However, he seemed a little worried about Huang Hairu, so he went to meet Huang Hairu on purpose, and reprimanded the surrendering army and Qing army in front of Huang Hairu, and then tore up the letter persuading him to surrender.

Huang Hairu smiled and said: "Master Supervisor Gao Yi, a bunch of mobs want me, Huang Hairu, to surrender, it's wishful thinking."

After all, he also tore up the persuading letter in front of Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa breathed a sigh of relief, and his dissatisfaction with Huang Hairu's forcible seizure of the command of Yangzhou Prefecture was also reduced a lot.

Seeing that Yangzhou City, which could not be persuaded to surrender with only more than 2 troops, Duduo stopped talking and immediately assembled the army to prepare for war.

There are not many real Qing troops in Duoduo's headquarters, and more than [-]% are surrendered troops, so there are quite a lot of people available, but Duoduo did not hesitate to hit Li Chengdong.

There is no other reason. Li Chengdong was led by the original Gaojie soldiers. He himself is not the leader of the four towns. At this time, this person must want to prove himself and work harder.

If there is this person taking the lead, and Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's troops are ordered to fight, presumably these two people will have nothing to say, and they dare not not try their best.

Sure enough, as Duoduo expected, Li Chengdong readily accepted the order and immediately reorganized the army.

On the 27th, Li Chengdong assembled an army of [-] to prepare for the siege, and then approached Ximen.

Upstairs in the west of Yangzhou City, the worried Shi Kefa still appeared here, stood beside Huang Hairu, and asked Huang Hairu how to deal with it several times.

"Your Excellency, just look at it." Huang Hairu was very calm, without any panic.

Under his order, ten MG42 machine guns have been set up, and under the cover of parapets and shield soldiers, they are like simple bunkers.

These machine guns were specially brought down from the warship by him, and there were also some cannons, which had been hidden everywhere according to his requirements.

At that time, 5000 pioneers from Li Chengdong's department launched the first tentative attack with ladders, trench bridges, folding bridges, crash vehicles, chariots, and siege artillery.

Huang Hairu personally commanded the battle from the tower. Seeing that the enemy was approaching less than two hundred feet away, he gave the order, "Fire the machine guns."

Suddenly, "chi chi chi..."

With a terrifying sound of tearing cloth, MG42 frantically spewed out flames.

The enemy troops who were slowly advancing and hadn't launched a full-strength attack suddenly fell down like cutting wheat, one by one was beaten to pieces, their bodies seemed to be pinched by mud, and they fell apart with blood rain.

Even some soldiers hiding behind the chariot were not spared, and the defensive shield in front of the chariot was easily pierced.

"Ahh..." For a while, there were horrified shouts, but most of them were soldiers who were intact.

Because very few people who were shot could make a cry, unless they were not hit in the torso, they would die without a doubt, and there was no chance to cry out at all.

Finally, the soldiers in front were frightened by this horrible scene, turned around and flew back.

Fear spread like a plague. Soldiers carrying ladders dropped the ladders and fled. Soldiers pushing chariots, crash carts, trench bridges and other equipment for attacking the city and crossing the moat also immediately dropped these slow and heavy things, terrified. Flee backwards.

After the enemy left the corpses all the way and fled three hundred feet away, Huang Hairu shouted: "Stop shooting."

In this way, the attack was over before it officially started.

Li Chengdong, who was full of expectations, looked at all this in the binoculars, as if he hadn't reacted yet.

(End of this chapter)