In fact, it is not only Yan Shenggong, but also the news about the capital has not been received for a long time.

One reason is that the distance is too far. Even if it is normal to rush for 500 miles, it will take at least five days to send a letter from the capital, but it will definitely not stop in actual operation.

What's more, Nanjing is now surrounded.

However, Yang Feng is not worried about the capital now.

The more than 3 million military and civilians in the two prefectures of Shuntian and Yongping who have completed the reform of the new policy will turn their homes into indestructible fortresses.

And the northern gentry was happy at this time.

They would not be so stupid that they would lead Yang Feng back.

Even if there were a few exiled gentry in Shuntian Prefecture and other places who wanted to be a returnee group, the gentry around them would not be so stupid as to allow them to do this. Seeing Yang Feng entangled with the gentry in the south, it would be great to continue to live in the north, why would it cause trouble for themselves? If Yang Feng ordered the army in the capital to attack again, the gentry in Zhili in the north would be unlucky. Because of the new policy of Shuntian Prefecture, the gentry around them had been waiting anxiously. Now, the gentry in Baoding and Hejian prefectures have begun to reduce their rents.

It won't work if it doesn't decrease.

There is some wasteland in Shuntian Prefecture. They did not reduce their rent, so the tenants went to open up the land.

Last year, the Hejian gentry had already quietly reduced their rents to win over the tenants and avoid the latter from escaping. After all, even if they have fertile land, it would be useless if they had no one to farm!

Until Nanjing was surrounded, the three northern provinces led by Xing Jie still respected Wanli, and maintained an offensive posture in Huaibei, and then happily waited for Xu Chengwei to give away the money. Although he was not interested in saving their emperor, he did not recognize Hongguang. As for the Northwest Group led by Li Wen, Yang Feng had not received any news for a long time, but since Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan had not publicly recognized Hongguang, they would definitely not bet so quickly. The Northwest Group could only advance and retreat with the three northern provinces and Sichuan.

They have to rely on food from these places.

They should be waiting.

Wait for the outcome of this battle of Yingtian.

Yuhuatai.

"One, two, push hard!"

Yang Dashuai yelled.

Then he and the soldiers around him pushed the huge square wood in front of him.

In front of them, there was a group of driven cows humming dissatisfiedly, moving slowly along the mountain.

On the square wood is a huge water tank...

cannon.

To be precise, it is a mortar.

But because of its huge diameter, it looks like a water tank.

Accompanied by their roars and the humming of the oxen, the mortar mounted on the huge square wooden base moved forward little by little. Then behind them, the shouts of long live the mountain shouts came from behind. Then His Majesty the Emperor appeared next to Yang Feng, and seriously pushed the square wooden base. The four small wheels under the base turned slowly.

Soon with cheers, it finally arrived at the destination of the trip.

At the commanding height of Yuhuatai, there is a semicircular chest wall surrounded by sacks of soil, and behind the chest wall is a compact ground.

And this huge mortar stopped here.

The muzzle pointing to the sky was suddenly cheerful, and the situation at the foot of the mountain was clear. A rammed earth wall at the foot of Yuhuatai Mountain came from the east, and at the right side, the mountain turned north, and the east side was the Jiagang Gate, and they were facing Fengtai Gate. Not far west was the small Ande Gate and the Great Ande Gate that were almost next to each other. These three gates were also the main battlefield. One mile outside the three gates were countless cannons that were spraying flames, and you could even see heavy cannons similar to the Red Cannons...

The cavalry attack did not stop the landing.

Dong Yu brought an army of more than 100,000, so how could it be blocked by cavalry attacks?

They were just unprepared before. The infantry landed first, but then they landed first, and then there was no chance for cavalry. After all, the generals of the Ming Dynasty had rich experience in dealing with cavalry. In fact, the core of the Ming army's tactical skills was to resist cavalry. After more than two hundred years of entanglement with the Mongols, they had extremely rich anti-cavalry experience. As for the fact that they could not defeat Jiannu later, it was because Jiannu was not a cavalry, and their chariots were more smooth than the Ming army.

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry was beaten by Jiannu.

After changing to a chariot, landing first, establishing a landing area to block the harassment of cavalry, more than 100,000 troops quickly completed the landing and then started a real attack.

And here is the core of the battlefield.

Fengtai Gate, large and small Ande Gate, first bombarded the rammed earth wall with heavy artillery, and then seized the commanding heights of Yuhuatai and continued to bombard Jubao Gate.

The outer wall of Nanjing is not the exaggerated solid brick wall like the inner wall.

The outer city walls are rammed earth, and only the city gate area has bricks. Most places are pure rammed earth walls.

This cannot stop the Red Cannon.

Dong Yu brought more than 30 heroic cannons.

In order to wipe out His Majesty the Emperor before them, the gentry of Jiangxi and Huguang really broke out, with iron smelting bases such as Xinyu and Wuhu, the largest copper trading market in the Ming Dynasty. For them, casting red barbarian cannons was just a cruel deed. The copper in the late Ming Dynasty basically gathered from the Yangtze River, whether it was Dexing, Qianshan, Sichuan, Liangshan, and Yunnan gathered in Wuhu. Although it was theoretically sent to Nanjing, it was actually divided up by private merchants in Wuhu.

Nanjing has reported many times for this reason, because the Wuhu folk merchants intercepted it, the Nanjing did not have the Tongbei Transportation.

But the court had no choice.

Now, in order to wipe out their former emperor, the gentry from all over the country have really put their best efforts.

More than 30 red cannons of more than 2,000 kilograms, and thousands of large and small Fran aircraft were all aimed at the Fengtai Gate wall and bombarded wildly.

The sound of cannons from the Yuhua platform was filled with smoke.

The siege shocked Matteo Ricci.

real.

He had never seen so many artillery on the same battlefield, even a European.

Although most of them are Franchise aircraft, the problem is that at this time, Franchise aircraft were also used as cannons in Europe, and they used three-pound cannons in field operations. The scene of thousands of cannons bombardment is still impossible to see in Europe.

"Your Majesty, please!"

Yang Feng presented the telescope just made.

His Majesty the Emperor took over like a strategist general, and then faced the red cannons.

"This product is very good, so it can be made more by the Ministry of Works!"

His Majesty the Emperor said with satisfaction.

Then Yang Feng next to him carried a larger one and placed it directly on a wooden rack in front, aiming it in the same direction like a cannon. His Majesty the Emperor silently looked at his small toy, and then threw it to Matteo Ricci next to him. The latter took it like a treasure and looked at it greedily.

Yang Feng remembered wrongly that the telescope was not brought by Matteo Ricci, and he didn't even know about telescopes at this time. It was obvious that it was several years later for Europeans to invent the telescope, but it must be the end of the Ming Dynasty.

"Recharge!"

Yang Feng shouted.

The soldiers immediately began to load ammunition...

The shells were so big that a gantry and pulley were needed to fill.

The huge spherical shell was covered with a cowhide bag, and hung it to the muzzle with a pulley, and then cut the hole under the cowhide bag with a rope. It immediately fell from the inside, which had been filled with gunpowder. Then Yang Dashui took a wooden box from his subordinates and took out a long wooden plug from it. A soldier at the muzzle pulled out the wooden plug with a wax seal on the shell. Then Yang Dashui looked at the distance of the enemy, cut off a piece of the wooden plug with scissors, and then stuffed the rest into it.

OK, this is the flowering bullet.

These days, flowering bullets can only be fired with mortars, and the wood pipe fuse is not worth mentioning.

Just as he finished this, an artillery soldier inserted the cannon tail fuse and was about to open fire, a tsunami-like shout suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.

Yang Feng looked up in shock.

There was dust on the city wall not far from the right of Fengtai Gate at the foot of the mountain.

"The city wall was knocked down!"

Duke E, who was accompanying his guard, shouted.

The rammed earth city wall, and it is a rammed earth city wall for more than two hundred years, is good enough to last until now under the bombardment of the Red Barbarian cannons.

At this moment, the enemy troops arranged in the distance began to move forward, obviously preparing to attack this gap. The command of Deng Zilong, who was guarding the city, continued to block the attack. Although they also had red barbarian cannons and countless Franchise turtledove guns, they were distributed on the long city walls. The number of people who really resisted this side was limited, and it was obviously unable to stop the enemy's strong attack.

"Open fire!"

Yang Feng said without hesitation.

The artillery quickly ignited the fuse at the tail of the cannon, and then everyone retreated as quickly as possible, running to the sandbag guard behind the back. Just as they poked their heads out, the flames of the mortar in front erupted, accompanied by the loud noise of the sky and the earth cracking, the huge shell flew out in the smoke and fire at a speed visible to the naked eye, and rushed straight into the sky like a terrifying monster.

A little light smoke behind and Mars spewing outward rose as it flew.

Everyone stared at it, and then it disappeared from people's sight, but the faint trace of smoke could still indicate its direction.

Soon it began to fall.

Everyone's eyes followed it down.

The enemy was almost approaching the gap. Deng Zilong waved his sword on the city wall, urging the soldiers to rush into the gap to prepare for blocking.

The enemy continued to swarm forward, like floods hitting the dam, crowding and squeezing into the only gap.

Then……

A terrifying ball of flames suddenly exploded above their heads.

Because the explosion point is only ten meters away from the ground, you can clearly see on the Yuhua Platform that this flame is like pushing down a rockery on the water surface of a pond, instantly arousing countless waves of broken limbs and broken arms. After the flames shine, the smoke and dust suddenly flooded a large area of ​​enemies. The enemy troops who were originally charging were also scared to stop at this moment, and they all looked at the explosion of the shells, the broken limbs and broken arms flying in the sky, and then as if they were given some order, everyone turned around and ran away as quickly as possible.

At this time, the huge explosion sounded to the Yuhua Platform.

"Caval, attack!"

Yang Feng yelled.

The cavalry gathered under the Yuhua Platform immediately moved forward, and then the Fengtai Gate and Xiao Ande Gate opened at the same time, and two cavalrymen rushed out.

But at this moment, a large number of chariots among the enemy troops outside the city rushed out and quickly formed a formation. A general rushed past the formation on a horse, waving his sword to command the command to complete the defense. Then the defeated soldiers arrived. He ordered the firing without hesitation. In the flames of the Franz, some of the defeated soldiers fell down in front of the city. The rest were so scared that they stopped quickly, and finally calmed down under the obstacles of the general and began to turn around to face the cavalry rushing out of the city.
To be continued...