On the afternoon of the same day, after Huang Taiji finished the imperial meeting held in the west of Zhenjiangbao City, he brought the Bayala camp of Zhenghuang Banner back to the camp near Wulong Mountain to the north.

At the same time, the main forces of the Qing army and horses gathered behind the Changzuo west of Zhenjiang Fort City also withdrew their original defense zones.

The only difference is that when Guarjatulai and Huaishun King Geng Zhongming returned to the river base on Weihua Island east of Zhenjiang Fort, they accompanied Gongshun King Kong Youde and his heavy artillery team commanded by him.

Although Kong Youde said nothing, he was very dissatisfied with Geng Zhongming's proposal in his heart. He believed that Geng Zhongming did this simply because he wanted to show off his limelight and was completely useless.

In Kong Youde's view, the location of Zhenjiang Castle City is indeed very important, but what is the difference between this place being defeated one day earlier and one day later?

Why do we have to put the Jiangdong Chao people who are better at fighting and robbing, and we have to chew this hard bone in Zhenjiangbao?

Can't you wait for the robbery to come back, eat and drink yourself, and then drive the storm to charge and follow you to get a bargain?

However, in front of Guarjatulai, he couldn't say anything to Geng Zhongming, but his face was always not good along the way.

Of course, not all the complaints in Kong Youde's heart were directed at Geng Zhongming.

In fact, a large part of the dissatisfaction arises because of Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji's attitude towards Niulu of the Han army in various banners hurt Kong Youde a little, reminding him of his experience at the foot of Xiping Mountain and Guanma Mountain, and of his treatment in front of Dorgon and Abatai at that time.

His subordinates, who were formerly called Tianyou Bing, and later changed their flag and called Gongshun King Bing, were wiped out in those two major battles.

Kong Youde, who almost escaped alone, was not given a title by Huang Taiji, fined silver or deprived of Niu Lu, but after losing his youth and strong tribes, his status in front of Huang Taiji and the Eight Banners' powerful people has dropped significantly.

Originally, he thought that no matter what, he would finally have a Qing Dynasty title that was respectful to the king. He would pass it to his son Kong Tingxun in the future and could pass it on to his descendants, which would be considered as a waste of life.

However, today, Huang Taiji's understatement and indifferent attitude towards Shang Kexi's aftermath immediately made him feel alert and very uncomfortable.

However, he did not dare to show his slight dissatisfaction with Huang Taiji at all, and could only give his dissatisfaction to his former brother Geng Zhongming.

Among the Sanshun Kings who were enthroned together five years ago, only King Huaishun King Geng Zhongming's strength remains.

It is precisely because of this that the status of King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun has increased significantly. During the process of Huang Taiji's personal expedition, he has already passed Kong Youde.

This time, after listening to Geng Zhongming's remarks, Huang Taiji ordered without hesitation to subdue all heavy artillery in the army to Geng Zhongming's unified command.

Kong Youde, the King Gongshu, also officially ranks under King Huaishun, and must obey Geng Zhongming's orders.

This made Kong Youde even more angry.

However, no matter what Kong Youde thinks, he is now like a tiger with claws and teeth lost. At least among the powerful people of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, no one takes him seriously anymore.

If it weren't for the unique Niu Record that could cast cannons from the tribes he brought from Dengzhou, then he would have been deprived of his title because of his guilt of losing so many heavy artillery in Guanmashan.

But Kong Youde was not satisfied with this because he didn't want to become a cannon caster, and he also wanted to lead the army.

However, after years of war, especially after his entire army was wiped out in Xiping Mountain and Guanma Mountain, only the elderly, weak, women and children were left among his troops, and there were no more young and strong men.

Moreover, the few or extremely limited young men left were also invested in the expanded Shengjing Artillery Factory, and there was no way to form a soldier.

Under such circumstances, although Kong Youde Gongsun had a great reputation and a high title, he actually had basically become a bare prince.

How much money can a bare prince without his own troops be worth?

Even the Jiala Zhangjing, who were temporarily commanded by the old Han army drawn from the two red flags this time, such as Lang Shaozhen, Wang Guoguang, and Zang Guozuo, took him in person and did not take him seriously.

Of course, so far, no one in Jialazhangjing has exposed this point in front of Kong Youde, which is somewhat of a loss for him, the bare prince.

However, these Jialazhangjing people were born in the old Han army and were not directly under Kong Youde's military command. Kong Youde commanded them and threw them at the rat and were afraid of weapons, so they could not do anything like using their arms to use their fingers.

Faced with this situation, Kong Youde originally hoped that after breaking Zhenjiang Fort this time and even destroying Jinhai Town, he could divide a group of prisoners from the captive Ming army and incorporate the Gongshun King's soldiers.

After all, to make up for the previous losses of King Gongshun Wang Bing was something that Huang Taiji promised him when he summoned him back to Shengjing to expand the Shengjing Cannon Factory in March.

However, after the artillery bombardment over the past few days, especially after the strong attack in the morning, he was very disappointed and felt that this time it was probably going to fail.

It is precisely for this reason that King Kong Youdecai, who strongly advocated crossing the river to plunder the court at the imperial meeting convened by Huang Taiji.

For him, if the Ming army in Jinhai Town is difficult to fight and cannot be defeated, then it is second to settle for a group of young and strong men, and it is acceptable to be incorporated into the King of Condor Heroes.

Of course, Kong Youde, who was born in Dongjiang Town, also looked down on him by one hundred people.

If he had a choice, he would rather choose the young and strong people from the people who had been plundered in the pass.

However, judging from the current situation, if Jinhai Town cannot be wiped out, the Qing soldiers would want to invade the pass again and plunder the population, they really don’t know when they will be there.

Under such circumstances, as long as he is a young man who can be assigned to the army as a soldier, he will recognize him even if he is a magistrate.

However, even this hope was disturbed by Tu Lai and Geng Zhongming.

Of course, this is only temporary. In Kong Youde's view, the advice he gave to Huang Taiji is the "right way". Huang Taiji will sooner or later return to the "right way".

However, I was still very unhappy about Geng Zhongming's proposal and the decision to merge the heavy artillery teams that Huang Taiji has made to be unified for Geng Zhongming to use.

Let’s talk about the large-scale mobilization of the heavy artillery team of the Qinglu Camp in the west of Zhenjiang Fort City soon attracted the attention of the lookout post at the top of Zhenjiang Fort City.

At the beginning, when the watchtower on the head of the Xicheng City discovered that the Qing army was mobilizing troops to move north, they thought that the Qing army had retreated after the failure in the morning and was ready to withdraw.

After they happily reported the news to Zhang Chen, the commander-in-chief of the Xicheng Defense, the transfer of the Qing army's heavy artillery camp immediately attracted Zhang Chen's attention.

Zhang Chen personally rushed to the north end of the west wall of Zhenjiang Fort, and used a Qianli Mile Mile Mile to observe the movements of the Qing Lu heavy artillery team. In the evening, he finally made a correct judgment.

The Qing Lu's heavy artillery position was not to withdraw its troops at all. Instead, it went north to bypass Zhenjiang Fort City and turned east, entering the frozen Yajiang tributary several miles north of the city, and then headed towards the direction of Weihua Island, the main channel of Yajiang, to meet with the Qing Lu's artillery array in the east of the city.

In the evening of that day, Yang Zhen received the news from Zhang Chen. With a lot of doubt, he led several major generals from the west of the city and hurried to the top of the city at the east gate of Zhenjiang Fort.

"Qing Luns' artillery camps are joining forces? What are they going to do? Are the Qing Luns still unwilling to accept the failure in the morning? Want to find the place back from the east of the city?"

When everyone went up to the city, they saw a long team of horse-drawn carts and artillery, facing the setting sun, advancing from the north of Weihua Island along the river to the southward where the artillery array in Qinglu City was located.

So he couldn't help but express his doubts in public.

The generals stationed on the left and right wings of Zhenjiangmen, such as Qiu Zhenhai, Liu Lin, An Yingchang, Pan Xi, Liu Zhongjin, Yu Haichao and others, were all at the scene at this time.

They had also noticed the Qing emperor heavy artillery convoy marching above the river and heading south from the north.

However, the attack and defense battle in the west of the city was so fierce this morning, and the Qing dynasties suffered a lot of casualties. Just counting the corpses thrown outside the city, there were more than 6,000 pieces.

The siege launched by the Qing barbarians in the west of the city had just been completed, and the battle was like that. How could it be that time to rest for a few days before launching a new attack?

So, after Yang Zhen asked this, he was stunned by these generals who were in the joy of winning the first battle of the city defense battle today.

"No way? The more than 6,000 Qing Lu heads piled up in the Ximen were seen with your own eyes. Qing Lu heads suffered such a huge loss, and we were beaten and returned. After only half a day, they dared to fight again?"

Faced with the many questions that Yang Zhenzhen said, Qiu Zhenhai and others were still frowning and considering their judgment, Yu Haichao, who had been on duty at the left wing of Zhenjiangmen, that is, the north section of the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort, answered first.

One morning, when the Qing army on the west side of the city was sieging the city wildly, the Qing army on the east side of Weihua Island in the east of the city did not do anything unusual except to continue firing fire from afar to bombard the east wall.

Correspondingly, starting from the evening of the 26th, the heavy artillery of the Ming army on the top of Zhenjiang Fort opened fire and counterattacked, and then continued to fight for a night, until the artillery bombardment of the Qinglu in the east of the city stopped on the morning of the 27th, and the counterattack on the city followed the ceasefire.

The heavy artillery counterattack commanded by Liu Zhongjin not only caused the artillery formations in front of the Qing Lu Zheng Huangqi Cannon Camp in the east of the city to retreat one after another, but also four of the dozen heavy artillery cannons weighing more than ten pounds were fired at the beginning, and they accurately hit the heavy artillery cannons in front from the flanks.

If the Qinglu heavy artillery camp retreated quickly, if it was not dark in the night and it was difficult to aim, if it was not for the limited number of heavy artillery commanded by Liu Zhongjin in the city, only ten, then the losses of the Qinglu heavy artillery would only be greater.

Of course, as the Qing Lu heavy artillery camp retreated to the east of Weihua Island in the east of the city, their threat to the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort also decreased.

While the hit rate of heavy artillery commanded by Liu Zhongjin on the top of the city was reduced, the hit rate of heavy artillery of the Qing emperors against the newly built city wall also decreased significantly.

Every time the Qinglu Cannon Battalion fired ten cannons, only one or two cannons were shot for the first time, and they could hit the wall they wanted to bombard.

However, because the attack surface of the east city wall of Zhenjiang Fort was too large, and even after losing several punts, the number of heavy artillery by the Qing emperors was still more than Liu Zhongjin could command, so their threat to the entire east city wall still existed.

"Zhang Chen, how many of the heads you cut were Qing Lu's horse stairs and armor, and how many were Qing Lu's soldiers?"
Chapter completed!