"Inlaid blue and yellow, they are all the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, and they are my people. I have always treated everyone equally, without any thickness, and without distinction between them. I am also very sad when the Lanqi in this battle has suffered losses."

Huang Taiji was very dissatisfied with the debate between the flags raised by Jirgalang. He didn't want to cause any internal strife within his army.

Although the status between different flags has never been equal, as the leader of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji still had to be equal on the surface.

"And what we are talking about today is related to the fate of the Qing Dynasty. No matter what opinions you have, as long as you are good to the Qing Dynasty, you can speak publicly and discuss them together in front of me."

Huang Taiji had a gloomy face. After saying these words, he pointed at Guarjatulai, who was kneeling on the ground with his hand and said, "Tulai, continue talking!"

"Yeah!"

After hearing Huang Taiji's words, Tu Lai no longer paid attention to Prince Zheng Jier Harang, who glared at him. He then continued the previous words:

"The slave said that the reason why there is still a chance to attack in the short term is that there is a section of the wall in the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort that is shaking several times and is about to collapse.

"As long as the emperor issued an order to transfer all the heavy artillery of our army to the east of the city, and not afraid of damage and to close the artillery, within a day or two, the walls there will inevitably collapse.

"What I said is a fact. If there is a half false statement, I will lead the military law. As for whether to continue to attack or divide the troops eastward, everything will be decided by the emperor. I will only know how to do it according to orders!"

After saying these words, Tu Lai kowtowed to the ground, stopped talking, and just waited for Huang Taiji's will.

However, after hearing what he said, Huang Taiji was hesitant. After looking around the people in the tent, he suddenly realized that Fan Wencheng was gone. He couldn't help but sigh and said to Geng Zhongming:

"Geng Zhongming!"

"The slave is here!"

"In the past few days, you and Tulai have been stationed in the east of the city, and you have been in charge of the heavy artillery camp in the east of the city. What do you think of Tulai's judgment?"

"If you go back to the emperor, I will have the same views as Gushan'ezhen in my own flag."

In fact, what Tu Lai said just now was originally proposed by Geng Zhongming.

When Huang Taiji issued an order to mobilize troops to gather in the west of the city and decided to launch this strong attack from the west of the city, Geng Zhongming proposed to Tulai that he should gather heavy artillery and heavy troops in the east of the city.

However, at that time, Huang Taiji was angry and launched an army. The order was issued, and the two of them were not recruited to come to the west of the city to participate in the matter, so they did not have the opportunity to report it to Huang Taiji.

At present, Huang Taiji's approach of gathering heavy troops to launch a strong attack from the west of the city has indeed failed. This reminded Tu Lai of Geng Zhongming's previous statement, so he said it in public.

However, now Huang Taiji took the initiative to ask Geng Zhongming about his opinion, but he couldn't just say the way he played, and he had to say his own basis.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the city of Zhenjiang Fortress was broken at that time, and it was severely damaged by heavy artillery hidden in the warships of the people and bombed with gunpowder.

"Later, the bombed city wall was rebuilt by Yang Zhen's troops entering the city. Now, the location of this rebuilt city wall has been discovered by the slaves' heavy artillery bombardment in the city for several days.

"What Lai Gushan said just now is here. In the eyes of a slave, this city wall is the weakest place in the entire Zhenjiang Fort city defense. If all heavy artillery can be gathered to bombard this place, then there will be a great chance to break the city from here."

Geng Zhongming has been using heavy artillery to bombard the rebuilt city wall in the east of Zhenjiang Fort in the past two days, including the west side of the city this morning, and he did not stop in the east of the city.

Unfortunately, although there are many artillery under his command, there are not many heavy artillery that can hit the city wall two or three miles away and cause damage to the city wall.

At the beginning, when he and Kong Youde divided their troops and moved to the southern end of Weihua Island in the east of Zhenjiang Fort, he led twenty heavy artillery pieces of Tianyou cheering the general.

But until today, especially since the heavy artillery on the city wall began to focus on counterattacking his artillery array yesterday, his twenty heavy artillery pieces were hit by four of them one after another, and now only sixteen are left.

Moreover, in order to avoid the remaining sixteen heavy artillery, more were destroyed by the same heavy artillery with a longer range at the top of the city, the heavier artillery had to retreat for a while, and the accuracy and strength were reduced a lot.

However, if he could gather all the heavy artillery in the army and move the artillery position forward again, at all costs, he would be sure to quickly destroy that section of the city wall.

Geng Zhongming was thinking about whether to risk offending others and expressed his thoughts together, when he heard Huang Taiji ask him again:

"So in your opinion, if you follow the words of Tulai and concentrate all the heavy artillery on your place, how many days will it take to blow up the rebuilt main wall in the east of Zhenjiang Castle that you mentioned?"

"emperor--"

The other princes and ministers present were shocked when they heard Huang Taiji's questioning Geng Zhongming. Among them, Jirgalang, Namutai, Baiyintu and Ganglin almost shouted "Emperor" in unison.

However, when Huang Taiji saw that they tried to interrupt the conversation between him and Geng Zhongming, he was immediately extremely unhappy. His eyes that could only open were wide open and glanced over and suddenly appeared.

Seeing this, Jirgalang, Namutai, Baiyintu and Ganglin all lowered their heads and did not dare to interrupt again.

Geng Zhongming, who had experienced this scene, immediately realized that Huang Taiji was still obsessed with capturing Zhenjiang Castle as soon as possible. He immediately thought about it in his mind and said:

"If the gunners are killed or injured, and the heavy artillery is destroyed, the slave thinks that within one or two days, it will be clear!"

"In one or two days?"

Hearing Geng Zhongming's answer, Huang Taiji frowned and immediately asked back, and then fell silent.

Perhaps he was planning the pros and cons of another attack, but at this time the tent was quiet and everyone even breathed quietly.

After a while, Huang Taiji took a deep breath and asked Geng Zhongming again:

"How sure are you?"

"If the heavy artillery used in the army is assembled, the gunners will use their lives, and they will not hesitate to be killed or injured, and move the artillery position forward and approach the bombardment. Within one or two days, the slaves will dare to say that they are very sure!"

At this moment, Geng Zhongming also realized Huang Taiji's obsession with Zhenjiangbao. After thinking about it, there should be no accidents, he simply took it off, so his tone was very affirmative.

However, he has always been smart, and has added many conditions in front of him, such as gathering all heavy artillery, using his life to kill and injured, or moving the artillery position forward and approaching the bombardment. If there is an accident, it is easy to shirk responsibility.

But no matter what, after several days of continuous shelling, Geng Zhongming was still very sure.

Huang Taiji seemed to have seen through Geng Zhongming's thoughts, so he stared at him for a while, and finally said to him:

"Geng Zhongming, from tomorrow, I will give you a day. If you can break the city wall you mentioned, then I will be the first merit in this Eastern Expedition and will have a heavy reward! If you cannot, I will give you a title, confiscate your Sanniulu, and fill the losses of the Blue Flag!"

"Slaves obey the order."

When Geng Zhongming heard Huang Taiji say this in the end, he felt a little whispered in his heart, and did not dare to say anything more, so he quickly received the order.

When the others present heard this, they were a little confused and looked at Jirgalang, the prince of Duluozheng.

Finally, Huang Taiji turned his attention to Jirgalang's face.

However, at this time, Jirgalang was moved by what Huang Taiji said just now, thinking that it was only one day. Although his army was short of food, he was not short of food for such a day.

So he nodded and did not say anything different.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji knew that Jirgalang also agreed to do so. He immediately let out a long sigh, looked around the people in the tent, and finally said:

"Today's discussions are very effective. Moreover, our army divided our troops across the river and plundered the Li Dynasty, and we did not rush to take one or a half days. From noon today to noon tomorrow, the whole yellow, yellow and blue flags and the people drawn from other flags were all rested for a day.

"At noon tomorrow, each flag will be divided into guards and combat soldiers. The guards will stay in the camps of each flag, and the combat soldiers will pack up their horses and prepare for the decisive battle in the siege and advance eastward.

"If King Huaishun gathers all the heavy artillery and destroys the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort as scheduled, our army's selected combat troops will break through the city from the gap.

"If it is late to the Sun Shin time, King Huaishun cannot destroy the east wall as scheduled, then the selected war soldiers of our army will immediately rush the troops eastward to take Jiuliancheng to the Yizhou Prefecture City in front of the people! How about it?"

"The emperor is wise!"

After Huang Taiji said this, everyone present, including those who had just advocated dividing their troops eastward and opposed another strong attack, were also convinced.

Because of Huang Taiji's decision, he absorbed everyone's opinions and took care of all aspects of his demands.

Anyway, it's only one day, and it's not a chance for King Huaishun Geng Zhongming. The main army of Zhenghuang, Huanghuang and Lanzhou Banners cannot set out eastward tonight or tomorrow morning.

And as long as they do not launch another serious casualties to climb the cloud ladder, seize the city head and other ants-attacks, they don't care too much.

After all, if the main wall in the east of the city can collapse and the siege team can rush in, what else can you be afraid of?

Even if the Ming army guarding the city is sharp, as long as they ride their horses to the city quickly enough, the casualties should not be much greater, right?

Besides, Huang Taiji has made the decision. Once King Huaishun cannot destroy the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort before the Shen period tomorrow, the gathered horse soldiers will turn on the spot and go east to plunder the people.

With this option of preparing both hands, naturally no one stood up to oppose Huang Taiji's decisions or put forward any different opinions.

In this way, although the attack on Zhenjiang Castle City failed that morning, in the afternoon of that day, Huang Taiji minimized the impact of the defeat in the morning's siege through this two-handed game.
Chapter completed!