"Old strategy, what should I do?"

The former deputy general of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Zu Dashou was now the leader of the Qing Censorate. Zhang Cunren, who was a first-class Meile Zhangjing, had already regretted it when Cangzhou was besieged more than two months ago.

It’s not that he regrets the Qing Dynasty with Zu Dashou in his early years, but that he regrets volunteering to come to Cangzhou to help Hong Chengchou, thinking that he could take over as the next governor of Shandong, but before he could do anything, he was surrounded in this damn Cangzhou city.

Real wings are hard to fly.

The trenches in the inner three levels were dug by the Shun Army, and the outer three levels completely eliminated the possibility of anyone in the city escaping.

Hong Chengchou's face was ashes.

It was not surprising that the Shun Army dug a large trench outside the city, because during the Battle of Songjin, Emperor Taizong decided to dig trenches and encircle the enemy's food route based on the weaknesses of the Ming army's head and tail without regard for each other.

"The trench is eight feet deep, one twelve feet wide, and the bottom is extremely narrow, and can only accommodate toes. Horses cannot cross, people cannot climb. There are fallen things and no place to accommodate feet, and they cannot come out again."

In order to surround the Ming army, the Qing soldiers worked hard to dig trenches, heading south from the west of Jinzhou, crossed the passage between Songshan and Xingshan, and all the way to Haikou, digging three large trenches in a row, surrounding more than 100,000 Ming troops, cutting off all connections with the rear and supply of food and wages.

Hong Chengchou repeatedly supervised his troops to break the trench, but he could not win and eventually lost.

Now this scene appears again, which is an ominous omen for Hong Chengchou. Moreover, the Shun army outside the city suddenly transferred so many artillery to bombard the city.

This Cangzhou cannot be defended!

In the former Ming Dynasty, Liaodong ruled, and the Qing Dynasty recruited the Grand Secretary of the Southern Governor-General, his heart was filled with shadows and desires.

Hong Hengjiu is a person who knows the current affairs and is even more a person who cherishes his life!

When Zu Zerun was bombarded by the Shun Army, he didn't even dare to hide from the city gate tower, for fear of being killed by any eyeless cannon Wuwuwu, so he brought people to a city road that had never been bombarded by the Shun Army.

There was a long blood stain on the ground not far away. At the end of the blood stain was a head that was smashed beyond recognition, and it could not even be said to be a puddle of rotten flesh.

Looking at the West City Wall that was constantly bombarded by the Shun Army, the green camp soldiers who covered their ears were full of panic and fear.

"Young Master, this city can't stand it!"

Zu Zerun's personal soldiers' captain also had a surname of Zu, but he had no name, but was only Zu Liu, who was born in the Zu family.

Seeing that the Shun Army concentrated on artillery bombing the wall, Zu Liu believed that the city wall could last at most a stick of incense, because the city wall in Cangzhou was too thin.

When he was guarding Jinzhou with his master in the early years, he personally led people to urge the civilians to strengthen the Jinzhou city wall. He thought it was as solid as a god, but in the end he still asked the Qing army's artillery to collapse.

Can Cangzhou be better than Jinzhou?

"So what can we do if we can't stand it? Can we still stand out?"

Zu Zerun smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly. He was ready to kill himself because he really had no chance to escape.

Zu Liu hesitated for a moment, and then whispered: "The master is in the capital, and many of the Han generals are old generals of the master in the Ming Dynasty in the past. The master has a great influence on the Liaodong army. The Shun Army may not be unwilling to give the prince a chance."

Zu Zerun was stunned: "You mean?"

Zu Liu nodded slightly and said, "If the young master agrees, I will deal with it with Lord Hong."

The so-called "handling" is to be tied up or killed.

This is also the common method used by the old master Zu Dashou. Whether in Dalinghe City or Jinzhou City, Zu Dashou had people who were unwilling to surrender before surrendering.

"this"

Zu Zerun hesitated. If he really wanted to surrender, Zhang Cunren would not have blocked him, because this person was his father's old subordinate.

but

Zu Zerun was worried that if he killed Hong Chengchou and surrendered, it might affect his father and the entire family in Beijing. In that case, Zu Zerun would be the biggest sinner of the Zu family.

But what Zu Zerun never expected was that just when he was hesitating, someone suddenly shouted at Shunjun outside the city to not fire the cannon.

At first, there were only a few people shouting, but soon there were as many as hundreds of people shouting.

Shunjun did not hear the shouts from the city at first, because the sound of cannons was too explosive. After a while, I found that many people in the city were waving and shouting at the bottom of the city.

"Stop firing!"

Hong Bao, the commander of the cannon town, put down the Qianli Milestone and ordered the attack to be suspended.

When Lu Guangyuan heard the sound of cannons suddenly stopped, he was a little surprised and ordered someone to ask what happened to the cannon town.

Before Pao Town could reply, the second town in front of the main attack sent people to report that it was the governor of the Qing court, Hong Chengchou, who was willing to open the city and surrender to Dashun.

"Hong Chengchou has surrendered, Hong Chengchou has surrendered!"

When the generals heard that Hong Chengchou was willing to surrender, they were all overjoyed, and many people jumped up excitedly.

However, there was no joy on their young governor's face. Instead, he frowned, then snorted coldly, and spit out two words: "No!"

In the shocked eyes of the generals, he ordered the Pao Town to continue bombarding the Xicheng of Cangzhou.

"Don't let us surrender?"

The Qing army generals in the gate tower in Cangzhou City were stunned: Is there any such thing in the world?

Governor Hong Chengchou first blushed, then frightened and angry.

The most popular one is Grand Secretary Hong, who wanted to surrender, no one gave him a chance. The one who was shocked and angry was that the leader of Shunzi was so blind. Didn’t he know that the Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty treated him as a national sage, and even asked the Queen Mother to visit him at night?

Have eyes but no beads!

You can tell that if I, Hong Hengjiu, will win the world!

"Shunter won't give me a way out, so I will fight with them!"

Zhang Cunren was also shocked and angry, and was furious and could only fight to the death. But as soon as he finished speaking, the sound of Shunjun's cannon sounded again.

After being hit by dozens of solid iron bombs, the crumbling western city wall was finally unable to stop. With a "wow" sound, it was like a big hole suddenly appeared on the ground. First, countless cracks flashed on the city road, and then the extremely thick city wall suddenly fell down.

The wall collapsed!

Countless bricks and stones were wrapped in sand and soil, "leaking wildly" like water from the drainage gate, and the sky above the city wall was filled with ashes. Then a gap about several meters long appeared in everyone's eyes.

The sound of cannons has not stopped, but this time dozens of solid bullets passed through the dust and smashed into the city without any obstacles.

The sound of cannons stopped abruptly.

A large amount of dust is still rising, as if smoke has risen in the burning ruins.

Hong Chengchou was stunned and looked at the collapsed city wall motionlessly.

Lu Xingzu, the Qixin Man of the Ministry of Works behind him, was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide when he saw it before, pointing at the gap, and couldn't say a word.

Zhang Cunren swallowed his throat and had a moment of impulse and just wanted to pull out his legs and leave.

Zu Zerun's legs were trembling. Although the shouts of killing outside the city had not sounded yet, he had already thought of his own fate.

Shun Army, Qing Army, countless people stared at the collapsed city wall.

The rising dust seemed to turn the bright sun into the setting sun.

Shun, countless people on both sides of the Qing Dynasty held their breath, nervous, excited, and fearful as they looked at the broken city wall, dozens of knights with small red triangle flags on their backs rushed out of the Shun Army camp and ran in different directions.

Wherever the horse's hooves arrive, there are voices.
Chapter completed!