Gao Jie fled back to Yangzhou with the defeated generals. When he arrived at the city of Yangzhou, he saw that the "Gao" flag originally hung on the top of the city was no longer visible. Instead, it was replaced by the "Yellow" flag. The city gate was closed and the suspension bridge was pulled up high.

"Huang Manzi! I am Gao Jie, open the door quickly!" Gao Jie shouted at the top of the city wall.

Huang Degong poked his head out from behind the female wall. He looked at Gao Jie, who was standing under the city on a horse, spread his hands and showed his imperial edict: "General Gao, Xingping, you are optimistic. The imperial edict is here. Don't make mistakes! Your Majesty has an order to make me Huang defend Yangzhou and not to allow rebels to enter the city! Flying the mountain hoist, if you are wise, you can put down your weapons on the spot and throw them to Nanjing to survive!"

Gao Jie was furious: "Huang Manzi! Are you the same as Labor and Capital? You are the four towns in Jiangbei? You are also the minister of the dragon to support King Fu! Do you think I, Mr. Gao, can you be better off? The prince Zhu Cilang is definitely not a kind person, be careful of the rabbit and the dog cooking!"

Huang Degong sneered: "Closing Mountain Harrier, no matter how you scold me, Huang will not open the door! Closing Mountain Harrier, wake up, King Fu is not orthodox, the new emperor is the orthodox of the Ming Dynasty! If you are lost, your Majesty will not make things difficult for you!"

"Okay, Huang Barbarian, you won't get in, right?" Gao Jie cursed angrily, turned around and ordered his subordinates, "Siege the city! Take down Yangzhou, catch Huang Barbarian, and cut it into pieces!"

Gao Jie thought that Huang Degong's troops were not large in the city, less than 10,000 people, so he began to attack the city. With Gao Jie's order, Gao Jie's auxiliary soldiers built simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges and launched an attack on Yangzhou City.

Huang Degong had a small army, less than 10,000 troops, and even the Yangzhou city wall could not be fully occupied. However, after receiving the imperial edict, he expressed his loyalty to the new emperor and had already made preparations. In addition to recruiting a large number of civilians and strong men, he also borrowed a large number of salt peddlers from major salt merchants to help defend the city. At this time, the number of troops defending the city in Yangzhou had reached 30,000.

All major salt merchants have their own salt cubes. On weekdays, they are servants who escort salt to deal with robbers and to check the private salt of private salt dealers. At the same time, they also do some selling private salt. In wartime, the government can organize salt cubes to defend the city.

Gao Jie's army approached the city wall and was shot back by the muskets and arrows of Huang Degong Army on the top of the city. Gao Jie was furious and ordered the archers and firearms to approach the wall and shoot, suppressing the bows and arrows of the defenders on the top of the city. Then a large number of infantry rushed to the moat, lowered the simple trench bridge, the gun barrel moat, set up a ladder, and began to climb to the top of the city.

Huang Degong, who was prepared for the precaution, prepared the city-defying weapons such as lime bottles, turbulent oil tanks, wolf teeth pats, yaksha squats, gold juice, ten thousand enemies. When Gao Jie's army began to climb to the top of the city, various city-defying weapons were attacking the generals. Gao Jie's army, who was attacking the city with ant, screamed and fell from the ladder, with heavy casualties. Occasionally, a few people climbed up the top of the city, and were also beaten by Huang Degong himself.

Seeing that there were more and more Gao Jie's soldiers gathered under the city, Huang Degong ordered: "Crush the turbulent tank!"

The can of tincture oil flying like locusts flying from the sky, and it hit the city with a "pong-pong" hitting the city. The tincture oil flowed under the city, emitting a pungent smell of tung oil and pine resin. Then the rocket shot from the city and ignited the tincture oil. Suddenly, a raging fire ignited under the city. Gao Jie soldiers who were on fire were howling painfully in the sea of ​​fire, and finally cried and fell into the sea of ​​fire. Some soldiers who could water cried and jumped into the water. Although they put out the fire, the heat poison attacked the heart and were soaked in cold water. Those people would not live long after they returned. The fire was burning wildly, and the simple cloud ladders on the city were also burned one after another. The fire spread to the trenches on the moat. The trenches caught fire, and then it was burned, and the broken bridge decks fell into the river one after another.

Gao Jie, who suffered a great loss, had no choice but to order the Mingjin to withdraw his troops. In the half-day battle in Yangzhou, Gao Jie lost more than 1,000 elite combat soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, while Huang Degong only lost more than 100 combat soldiers, more than 400 civilians and more than 200 salt dings.

Gao Jie, who failed in the first battle, returned to the central army camp and ordered the auxiliary soldiers to build large-scale siege weapons and vowed to take down Yangzhou City.

Just as Gao Jie was preparing to build a large-scale siege weapon to siege the city, Zhao Peng's Nanjing New Army and Jinyiwei boarded the ship from the Yizhen River, took the Zheng family's fleet's ships downstream and headed towards Yangzhou.

After a night of sailing, the Zheng family's fleet docked at the Guazhou Wharf. Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai led the Nanjing New Army and the Jinyiwei to get off the ship and prepare to launch an attack on Gao Jinku's troops, the general stationed in Guazhou.

The Gaojinku team who stayed in Guazhou was not large, with only more than 5,000 people. The Nanjing New Army got off the ship and immediately launched a fierce attack on Gaojinku's camp.

Gao Jinku's camp was right by the river, and he controlled the Guazhou Canal Lock. As long as the Yangtze River boat entered the canal, it had to pass through the Guazhou ship lock, so the location of Guazhou was very important. Gao Jinku, who was good at defending, built Tucheng and Daying by the river, and arranged solid camps to try to stop the attack of the new Nanjing army.

"Damu, it depends on your navy to break through Gao Ni's city." Zhao Peng asked Zheng Sen for artillery support.

"Assisting the loyal and brave man to suppress the rebellion is the responsibility of the student!" Zheng Sen agreed without hesitation.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Brother Damu, I will naturally give you a supplement to the gunpowder shells consumed by the Zheng family's navy. Brother Damu, please do not stingy with ammunition."

"With this saying of Zhongyong, I will naturally not be stingy with ammunition, brother." Zheng Sen replied.

Zhao Peng seemed to remember something and said, "Brother Damu, I have a plan to double the power of the artillery! Damu can make people heat the shells with a stove. When it is fired, load the shells into the muzzle and shoot them out, which can burn the enemy camp."

So Zheng Sen asked the shells to heat the shells with a stove. After the gunners loaded the gunpowder, they inserted another wooden board, and then stuffed the red-hot shells into the muzzle to compact the bullet rod. Because there were thick wooden boards separated, the red-hot shells would not directly detonate the gunpowder in the gun chamber.

Zheng Sen ordered a fierce shelling to the Gaojinku camp on the shore. The Zheng family navy concentrated large and small guns with ammunition and poured violent artillery fire onto the shore.

The overwhelming artillery shells hit the Tucheng in Gaojinku, splashing broken soil, and the shells hit the Tucheng one after another, constantly smashing pits; the shells hit the wooden fences, and the wooden fences shattered and turned into countless pieces of wood, killing the rebel soldiers behind them like shrapnel. The shells fell into the camp, hit the tent, and immediately ignited a raging fire.

The Zheng family army's large and small warships lined up in a long line. Looking from the shore, they saw dazzling lightning flashes passing by the river, and rolling white smoke rose from the fleet and enveloped the river. The shells kept falling into the camps of Gaojinku, destroying the strong camps.

Gao Jinku was a general who was good at guarding the army. In the original time and space, he followed Hong Chengchou after he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. He was at first the deputy general of Jiangning, but later transferred to Jiangxi to serve as the general of Ganzhou and stationed in Ganzhou. Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan were any longer in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Jinku stood firm in Ganzhou, blocking the journey of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong's meeting, making the Ming army in the north and south unable to echo each other, and eventually led to the defeat of Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan. This man personally destroyed a good opportunity for a turnaround in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the camp arranged by Gao Jinku personally guided and arranged is indestructible, and if it attacks on land, it will be difficult to break. Unfortunately, Gao Jinku encountered the most powerful Zheng Family Navy in East Asia this time.

Zheng Sen's land combat ability was not strong, but his navy launched artillery fire on the other side of the shore, and the power was nothing to say. The hundreds of warships of the Zheng family army were equipped with thousands of large and large artillery pieces. In one volley, the shells fell like hail, which made Gao Jinku army dizzy. After three consecutive rounds of shooting, Gao Jinku army camp was already in ruins.
Chapter completed!