The next morning, the Ming army camp was close to the city. The civilians who accompanied yesterday and the small number of civilians who had just arrived today, as well as the regiment training began to build siege equipment.

In fact, the Qing army was already scared in the field battle, so Chen Wen did not intend to make too many things. In addition to the rushing carriages equipped with siege hammers, they were basically ladders, ladders, and a bunch of ladders were enough. Anyway, the ants attacked the city were also the green camp soldiers of the Qing army. These people have been evil in Jinhua for a long time. Even if they can survive the liquidation, they will be taken to work and reform for a few years. It would be better to let them bear some casualties.

There is a saying that "there is no soldier that must be rescued outside, and there is no city that must be guarded inside."

The Qing army retreated to defend the city by defeating the Ming army in the field. There were no reinforcements in the entire Jinhua Prefecture that could compete with the Ming army, and the defenders' will to defend the city may not be much better.

Even if the Qing army recovered under the excitement of the chief general and could fight back the surrendered Qing army soldiers who only relied on simple equipment ants to attack the city, Chen Wen still had a killer move. It would be better to wait until the strength became stronger before taking it out.

At noon, after lunch, Chen Wen sent away the returning regiments as promised - the regiments who returned to their hometown to train. Then, after returning to the camp, he pulled out the Qing army surrendered soldiers who had been in the camp's hollow space for a night and scolded them, and then generously offered two options for these green camp soldiers:

First, he was pulled under the city by the Ming army while hungry; second, after using a full meal, he put on the Ming army's uniform and ants to attack the city. Regardless of life and death, he can be forgiven for attacking the Ming army this time.

After discovering that there was no third option to choose from, the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army expressed their strong support for the second option in unison.

After a fierce battle and race yesterday, after a fierce battle and race, I drank the northwest wind in the open space and smelled the fragrance of the meat that the Ming army rewarded the entire army. My heart was filled with fear of being about to be killed by the Ming army. I have been hungry until now. Only fools will choose to be a starving ghost when they have enough food to eat and can escape their crimes!

The Qing army was arranged to cut off the tail of the money rat on its head and put on its military uniform, so they asked the followers to go to eat. Those who showed a hint of attachment and hesitation of the rat tail on the head were beheaded and displayed directly. After this full meal, the surrendered Qing army soldiers passed by the row of Qing army corpses hanging outside the camp gate, and began to fulfill their obligations under the escort of the Ming army.

Under the Dongcheng Gate of Dongyang County, Chen Wen commanded the Ming army to arrange an array outside the shooting range of artillery on the city. The surrendered Qing army soldiers were divided into two parts after putting on the Ming army uniforms. Some were assigned some captured weapons such as swords, shields, spears, etc., waiting for Chen Wen's order to attack the city, and the other part was also waiting for orders, and their task was to fill the moat.

In ancient wars, it was a common phenomenon that the surrendered soldiers and ants attached to the city. This can not only reduce the casualties of the soldiers on their own, but also consume potential resistance. This way of attacking the enemy with the enemy is beneficial to the siege party without any expense.

When these surrendered soldiers attacked the city, the former friendly troops or comrades on the city will never show mercy. People's hearts are separated from their stomachs. Who knows whether you will be holding a weapon to the city or grab the city? And there is another point that it is difficult for the defenders at the city to tell which one was the former friendly troops and which one was the real enemy in the chaotic city defense battle, so naturally they would rather kill by mistake than let them go.

Correspondingly, these surrendered soldiers tried to take advantage of the opportunity to climb the city to correct the defenders, because when facing the ruthlessness of the defenders, they needed to protect themselves, and self-protection means killing and injury. Both conveniences are enemies that are incompatible. Especially the captured Qing army, Chen Wen ordered them to cut off the rat tail of their heads. In the face of the barbaric tyranny of the Qing Dynasty, "leaving their heads but not their hair, leaving their hair but not their hair" and they can only stand on the side of the Ming army for the time being.

According to convention, Chen Wen still asked an officer to come forward and shout, and the content was nothing more than that the main force of the Qing army in Jinhua Prefecture had been defeated. The Ming army was strong and all those who resisted stubbornly were executed. Those who surrendered to the royal army could be exempted from punishment. Of course, Chen Wen added some inflammatory words such as "The Han people do not beat the Han people, and do not be slaves to the Tartars."

However, the Qing army guarding the city still seemed to have not taken these seriously. Although the city did not shoot a round of arrows like in Tiantai County last time, Chen Wen felt a little impatient with the indifference of the Ming army's persuasion to surrender.

When the troops entered Jinhua Prefecture last year, it was actually just part of the "Zhejiang Anti-Qing Chain" plan. However, now the Ming army in Siming Mountain is gone, Zhoushan is facing the main force of the Qing army, but he is powerless. The Ming army in Tiantai Mountain is relatively weak, so his plan at that time is no longer feasible.

Since this is the case, then he can only occupy a base that can develop rapidly, and then fight out as soon as possible, rely on snowballing to fight against the pressure of the entire Zhejiang Qing army, and faced the Qing Dynasty on the mainland, and there was not much time left for him at this moment.

Seeing this, Chen Wen did not intend to waste even a minute or a second. The main force of the Zhejiang Qing army is still in Zhoushan at the moment, but if he cannot quickly enhance his strength, he may be unable to face it in the face of the inevitable encirclement and suppression.

With the order, the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army put the cloth bag full of sand on their heads and flew towards the moat like a flying. Such work is usually done by auxiliary soldiers, but Chen Wen was thinking of consuming the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army this time, so he naturally gave all the work that was more dangerous to the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army without hesitation.

When the Qing army surrendered soldiers began to run towards the moat, the bows, crossbows and other objects on the top of the city also began to try to suppress them. However, the Qing army surrendered soldiers seemed very experienced. They put the cloth bag containing sand on their heads without exception. When they arrived at the moat, they threw it into the river and turned around and ran away without any hesitation.

"Yin Yue."

"The last one will be there."

"After the siege battle is over, we will call a few officers and soldiers from the surrendered soldiers to come over and ask them to talk about what they need to pay attention to when siegeing. This is what our department needs to conduct relevant training in the future."

"I will obey the order."

When he besieged Tiantai County with Yu Guowang, Chen Wen also asked Yu Guowang for some skills to attack the city, but Yu Guowang's own level was already limited, and Chen Wen did not intend to spend too much time there, so it was left alone. Since these Qing army surrenders also had some experience, then learning from them to deal with other Qing troops was accumulating virtue for them.

While riding a horse under the banner, Chen Wen continued to watch the movements of the surrendered soldiers and the Qing army defending the city. The first round of sandbag transport work was almost completed, and the surrendered soldiers in the Qing army were both fast and slow in their feet, and gradually widened some gaps.

While the first wave of sandbag throwing brigade began to run back, the second wave of sandbag throwing brigade also lifted the loaded sandbags of the civilians and rushed to the moat. When the Qing army who threw the sandbags returned, each Qing army surrendered who threw the sandbags all over the moat would receive a white note as a certificate for piece-rate wages. Chen Wen would also determine the treatment of each of them in the future based on the number of white notes.

The Qing army guarding the city was still shooting at these Qing army surrendered soldiers with bows and arrows, and the Ming army's bird gunners also divided up some of them to fight back at the Qing army at the top of the city to ensure the progress of the sandbag throwing brigade.

The surrendered Qing army soldiers who threw sandbags kept traveling back and forth between the moat and the civilians who loaded sandbags behind the formation. Every time they threw sandbags, some surrendered Qing army soldiers fell on the road. Chen Wen observed carefully for a while and found that when he ran towards the moat, there were sandbags on his head. The casualties of these surrendered soldiers were far less than those after throwing sandbags. After the Ming army began to suppress the Qing army at the city, they were also lower than the previous casualties.

After a long time like this, the moat outside the Dongcheng Gate of Dongyang County was finally filled up. Chen Wen did not intend to continue to wait for the expansion of the area, and immediately sent another part of the Qing army to attack the city with Yunlaid ants in batches.

After the last group of surrendered Qing army soldiers who threw sandbags came back, they all sat down or lay down to the ground. Chen Wen asked the civilians to allocate a cake of grain and a can of water to each of them, as the bonus for filling the moat work. Seeing all this, whether it was the surrendered Qing army soldiers who knelt down to thank them while accepting food and water, or the surrendered Qing army soldiers who were waiting to order the ants to attack the city, they all breathed a sigh of relief. In their opinion, since Chen Wen was willing to give food, it means that the commander of the Ming army should keep his promise.

After reaching this conclusion, the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army began to participate in the siege more vigorously, and the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army who had rested also expressed their willingness to commit crimes and requested Chen Wen to give them more work.

At this time, the Qing army, carrying swords, shields and spears, had already run towards the city wall with a ladder. Seeing that the siege had entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat war for the city wall, the Qing army guarding the city wall suddenly increased with the suppression of long-range weapons. Even the cannons that had not fired roared one after another.

Under the city of Dongyang County, the sound of shouting and killing was shocking the sky. The Qing army surrendered soldiers carrying cloud ladders dispersed from each other and ran towards the city walls with shouts. Under the shooting of the Qing army's arrows and artillery, the Qing army surrendered soldiers were constantly hit, while more Qing army surrendered soldiers continued to run forward.

As the first ladder was standing beside the city wall, the Qing army's bows and arrows and crossbows began to turn their attention to these more threatening targets. Seeing this, Chen Wen just waved his hands, and the rusher escorted by a killer team of the Mandarin Duck Formation also began to push towards the city gate.

The siege battle has entered a white-hot stage. All the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army siege held shields and climbed towards the city wall at the top of the ladder. While the Qing army guarding the city was unable to complete the frontal damage, they also began to shoot from the side and threw gray bottles, rolling wood, stone and other guarding equipment.

Behind the other side, many surrendered Qing army soldiers who were close to the top of the city wall kept rolling down the ladder, either falling alone, or falling down the ladder with the Qing army below.

However, not far behind were those fierce Ming army infantry and some cavalrymen who were as fierce as freaks. There was no way out to retreat. The Qing army surrendered soldiers had to continue climbing the ladder, trying to occupy a city wall after first to attract more Qing army surrendered soldiers to the city, and gradually overwhelmed the Qing army defending the city by relying on their number advantage.

At the same time, the Ming army, who followed the rushing car to seize the city gate, lost two rushing cars and arrived at the city gate, or near the city wall.

The Ming army's rushing car was a rectangular log-shaped rack with four wheels underneath, and a layer of wooden board was laid on it. In order to prevent heavy objects and fire attacks, it was laid with a thick layer of soil, as well as a water-soaked quilt or water-soaked cowhide above. The most important part of the entire rushing car was the siege hammer hanging on the rack.

When the Ming army arrived at the city, they used the stones they carried to snatch the wheels of the storm to the ground, and then pulled the rope on the siege hammer backwards. When the rope brought the siege hammer to the point of approaching the beam, they shouted and let go. Thus, using the power of the siege hammer swinging in the siege hammer, they rely on kinetic energy to destroy the city gate or the latch behind the city gate.

The Ming army had already begun to attack the city gate with rushing vehicles, while the Qing army inside the city gate used wood, stones and the power of the guardians to resist. They knew very well that if the city gate was broken by the Ming army, then there would be no meaning to defend the city wall. The Ming army that rushed into the city from the city gate could also advance in the city and completely smash the Qing army's defense.

However, the number of Qing troops captured by Chen Wen was quite large. If it was only 50% compared with the total number of Qing troops fled back to the city, but if it was only compared with the infantry used by the Qing army to defend the city, the number would be as high as twice as many. Moreover, behind these Qing army surrendered soldiers, there was also a large number of Ming troops assisting.

Seeing that the pressure on the city gate increased dramatically, the city guards at the city gate immediately mobilized the Qing army and civilians to attack the Ming army in the direction of the city gate. But at this moment, the first surrendered Qing army soldiers also climbed onto the city wall.

Chen Wen watched the first surrendered Qing army soldiers who had climbed far away were soon killed by the Qing army guarding the city. However, during this period, while the Qing army guarding the city solved this greater threat, more surrendered Qing army soldiers climbed the city walls with ladders.
Chapter completed!