So Chang Yu and his six cavalry stopped them.
"Dismount!" Qin Fugui held up the torch and pointed his knife. Chang Yu was startled. When he saw his face clearly, he suddenly became murderous. Good thing you are a dog who can't change his habit of eating shit. I spared your life before, but now... Taking advantage of the chaos to rob the city, he pulled out the green bird from his waist. When Guo Chongshan and others saw it, they quickly pulled it out.
"Hold the grass, have a knife, they have a knife." Qin Fugui's men shouted. Guo Fugui licked his mouth and was still in panic: "Good thieves are here well prepared."
"That's not true. I spared your life before, but this time you will definitely die." Chang Yu roared, clapped his horse and slashed with his sword, but Guo Fugui heard his voice: "I have seen the factory master before."
An inch! It was only an inch away. Fortunately, Chang Yu saw the clues and returned the knife in time, shouting, "What are you doing here?"
The blade of the knife passed by his face, and the gloomy cold air made his hair stand on end. Qin Fugui peed unsatisfactorily. He really peed all over the floor. He felt the cold sweat on his forehead: "I am patrolling the city under Li's garrison order..."
Damn, Li Shiyuan is really good at playing! Seeing Qin Fugui's narrow escape, Chang Yu was so frightened that he peed on the ground and said, "Li Shiyuan is in Beicheng."
"Here you are!" Qin Fugui quickly kowtowed.
Chang Yu rushed off his horse and threw a piece of broken silver in the air: "Get some wine to calm down the shock. Remember not to drink while on duty!" After the voice was gone, Qin Fugui picked up the broken piece of silver from the ground tremblingly. The brothers gathered around happily.
"I have a hunch that I'm going to have sex!" Qin Fugui touched his crotch, put it in front of his nose, smelled it and shuddered, it tasted good!
Sure enough, Li Shiyuan learned from the North City Tower that the little eunuch had arrived and came over to greet him. Chang Yu looked at the pitch black north without any light. The Qing cavalry hadn't arrived yet: "Have your men returned to the city?"
In order to warn the people outside Qingzhou City, Li Shiyuan sent hundreds of officers and soldiers to travel nearly a hundred miles outside Qingzhou City. When he encountered villages and towns, he ordered the villagers to take refuge quickly. If it was too late, he would regret it.
"We have returned to the city one after another," Li Shiyuan responded, "but there are also many people who have taken refuge in the city." Chang Yu expected this. For example, people who were farther away did not dare to go into the mountains in the dark when it was already late, or It is also inconvenient to lead domestic animals, and Li Shiyuan will not refuse anyone who comes to the city to seek asylum. As for whether there are any spies from the Qing army who have disguised themselves as entering the city, this can only be investigated slowly.
Chang Yu looked at the top of the city for a while and saw no movement in the north. Then he walked eastward along the city wall. The city was full of piles of stones and wood, which were all prepared for the Qing army. Then he took a look at the inner city. , there are still people below looking to the city to deliver supplies.
"A lot of houses were demolished, right?" Chang Yu asked.
"By dusk, more than 300 houses have been demolished," Li Shiyuan said quickly. Chang Yu asked again: "How many young people have been recruited?"
"More than four to five thousand, they are being trained by humble people over there at the moment." Li Shiyuan pointed to the northwest corner, which was originally an open space, but now it was filled with people with flashing firelight.
"Not enough" Chang Yu shook his head slightly: "At least close to ten thousand, otherwise the Tatars can cope with it if they focus on one place to attack the city, but if they divide their troops and attack from several gates, they will be stretched."
Li Shiyuan took it seriously: "We are still recruiting one after another. There will be brave men under heavy rewards. It shouldn't be too difficult to get more than 10,000!" Chang Yu sneered and snorted: "If we are facing a national crisis and are rewarded with heavy rewards, how can we be brave? If there are less than 10,000 men by noon tomorrow, we will attack by force!"
"I humbly obey the order!" Li Shiyuan quickly agreed, thinking: This is Dongchang's vigorous and resolute method. This little eunuch's previous words and deeds were so inconsistent with the rumored Dongchang, but now he finally has some flavor.
Then Chang Yu asked about the reserve of firearms. Li Shiyuan had moved all the firearms depot to the city for backup. There were more than a hundred shells and more than ten muskets. They were almost not worth mentioning, but Chang Yu was surprised and delighted. Qingzhou City had a lot of gunpowder in reserve. This was due to the fact that Li Shiyuan enjoyed the benefits of using various firearms and explosives to defend the city two years ago. After the war, he had a lot of gunpowder stored for two years.
This thing is of great use. Chang Yu inspected it and ordered Li Shiyuan to immediately ask a craftsman to make it into a gunpowder bag. This was not difficult for the Ming Dynasty firearms craftsmen. You must know that the firearm technology of the Ming Dynasty was leading the world at this time. What will happen in later generations? Stun bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, grenades, etc. are all available these days! It's just that the technological content and power are not as good as those of later generations.
Chang Yu concluded that the east city was the most unlikely attack point for the Qing army, so the city only had conventional war preparations, unlike the mountains of war preparations on the north and south sides. Even there were very few people, with only dozens of officers and soldiers on duty. Chang Yu jumped onto the battlements and then sat down and stared at Zhengdong in a daze. Under the starlight, the winding Mi River could be vaguely seen.
The little eunuch was in a daze and said nothing. Li Shiyuan behind him did not dare to say a word. Looking at the stone lion in front of him, the little eunuch thought to himself that he was really a young man. He could climb high and low without fear of losing his footing and falling to his death.
Little did he know that the little eunuch was blowing the night breeze and admiring the night view, looking like he was peacefully enjoying the time, but actually he was extremely conflicted in his heart, whether he should leave the city or not!
Dorgon led his troops southward in a hurry, and his ambition was obviously to eat the fat of King Heng of Qingzhou, and to obtain the palace of a vassal that was as good as ten cities!
But is it enough to just defend Qingzhou City? Perhaps to King Heng, Qian Lianghan, and Li Shiyuan, holding Qingzhou City was victory, but for Chang Yu, defeating the Qing army and forcing it out of the pass was victory.
Defending the city, Chang Yu was confident that Dorgon's attack on the imperial capital would be unfavorable, so he issued a military order to only plunder but not attack the city. Almost all the siege equipment was thrown outside the capital. Now the soldiers and civilians of Qingzhou City are united and have foreign aid to defend Qingzhou. The city is still very confident.
But this is not his ultimate goal, and if the Qing army fails to attack the city, it will fight elsewhere. In this way, he will have to follow the Qing army and be led by Dorgon.
And more importantly, whether Qingzhou City can be defended does not actually depend on the city's defensive capabilities. If Dorgon is fully prepared to attack Qingzhou City with tens of thousands of troops, which has no high walls, no thick walls, and no heavy artillery defense, It is not difficult at all, and ultimately it depends on the support of the Ming army outside the city.
Only when the Ming army outside the city bites Dorgon hard and disperses his troops so that he cannot concentrate on attacking the city, Qingzhou can be sure to survive. To put it bluntly, in this battle, external forces are the main priority and internal forces are supplemented.
Since the main battlefield is outside the city, how can the young eunuch who is the coach stay at home in the city? He took all the trouble and risk to come here in the past, but it was actually to appease the people and trick King Heng into donating money. In addition, it was to guard against Li Shiyuan and worry about his opinion. The Qing army was so prosperous that it abandoned its commanders to protect its soldiers!
Both the rebel army and the Qing army had a routine. They would say anything to get you to surrender before attacking the city, but once you surrendered, they would immediately fall out. Fortunately, the rebel army caught the rich and powerful country gentry and fucked them hard, but the ordinary people were too lazy to move because they had no money, but they still got it. Good reputation, but the Qing army is much more wretched.
Once you surrender, you will directly take away your people and things. The real chickens and dogs are restless and have no integrity at all. Ten days ago, Duduo in the city of Yangzhou accepted 300,000 gold (you read it right, gold, not silver) from the Hui merchant Wang brothers. Not killing innocent people indiscriminately, but...800,000 were slaughtered!
Of course, this was all a year later, but because of this, Chang Yu was worried that Li Shiyuan's mother's heart would burst and sacrifice the city when he saw the mighty Qing army. Then the people of Qingzhou City would really feel like they were going to hell, and how could Prince Heng's Mansion A century-old foundation will be destroyed in one day, and his wealth will fall into the hands of his enemies. This is what Chang Yu least wants to see.
Although Li Yan was stationed outside the city, Chang Yu should have been relieved due to his good strategy and the fact that he had stood alone in the battle of Baoding Prefecture. However, Li Yan was seriously injured at this time and his general Huang Degong and others were unruly, so it was not necessarily possible to suppress him. What's more important is that Li Yan is not familiar with the terrain around Qingzhou. How to march and arrange the formation is a problem. A slight mistake will trigger a series of crises.
And... not good! Chang Yu suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly. He stood up from the wall and almost fell down. Li Shiyuan and Guo Chongshan were shocked and rushed to help him, but Chang Yu turned around, jumped down and said to Li Shiyuan: "Go to the palace quickly."
Seeing his anxious expression, Li Shiyuan asked hurriedly: "What happened to the factory governor?"
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