On the city wall of Jinan, the officers and soldiers of the guard post guarding the city saw the soldiers coming from afar, looked at each other and said, "Why are you here again?"

These guards did not know the deal between their superiors and the rebels, and when the rebels first attacked the city, they were half frightened and tried to defend it, only to find that the other party was only a false shot, and was not seriously attacking the city at all—and then the second and third times were the same, and these officers and soldiers thought that the homeless people had no combat power at all, although there were guns and cannons that they did not know where to get them, but to no avail, and their defenses were much lowered.

Therefore, when the artillery fire was all over the sky, accompanied by deafening shouts of killing, and the rebels really began to attack the city, these officers and soldiers seemed to wake up from a dream.

From the upper floor, the black and oppressive rebel army, some people have weapons, some people have no weapons, but they are not like the displaced people and soldiers I saw before, those people are all ragged, their faces are vegetable, and their faces are full of numbness and despair. In front of them, these people have clothes to wear, turbans to wrap their heads and faces, guns in the front row, people in the back row holding short pouts, hoes and other things in their hands, many people carrying burdens to dig caves in the city, and even dozens of people carrying wooden planks to resist the bricks and arrows in the city.

Jinan city is deep, there are three doors in the urn city, and there are ten iron-wrapped doors on the north and south sides, if not, it will not be in the time of Jingjing, so that the invincible Yan Wang can not be attacked for a long time. But this time is different from the past, because the garrison of Jinan is lax, so that the rebels actually go up the wall in a short time, and even they have special explosives made of gunpowder and strong oil, and they throw them on the city tower one by one as if they don't need money.

This is all the firearms and gunpowder of the rebels, they forced forward, and a sharpshooter in the rebel army, hiding under the trench, aimed at the city wall and released an arrow, and actually killed the commander of the tower on the spot. The arrow slammed straight into his left side of the neck, sending up a raging mist of blood.

The commander was killed on the spot, and the morale of the officers and men on the city gate in the chaos had been greatly demoralized and they had lost their command. Frightened and confused, Zhang Zhaohua looked at the back of the team kindly, ordered the last ammunition to be fired, and said: "Only punish corrupt officials, not civilians!"

The rebels immediately shouted this slogan, and the last remaining resistance of the officers and soldiers was also eliminated, and they immediately threw down their guns and cannons, and fled like an inner city. The city gate was opened, and there were corpses of different shapes all over the way, many of which were burned to death by artillery and medicinal oil, and the flames filled the sky, and the scorched smell of the surrounding walls for more than ten miles reached the sky.

Among the layers of charred black corpses, there are actually many corpses of homeless people who have no time to run, the artillery fire is ruthless, the arrows and stones are not long-sighted, these people are the first to bear the burden, the corpses are broken in half, and there are also those who have been punched out of the big holes, and the blood is exhausted, which is extremely miserable.

Jinan City was captured, and the first thing Zhang Zhaohua did when he entered the city was to stick to the city tower, send people to place rolling wood and stones on the polder wall, carry sacks and baskets, and also pile them on the battlement wall. There is a firearms depot in Jinan City, and people have been sent to it, and the things in it will be moved to the city tower.

Gao Xu is in Texas.

When he heard the news of the siege of Jinan, the time between the time he sent troops to rescue him must have been astonishingly fast. Zhang Zhaohua's biggest worry before was that the rebel army had not captured Jinan, but it was killed by Gao Xu's troops.

The yamen of the three divisions of Jinan was separated, and the righteous army quickly captured the political envoy Chu Yan and the envoy Zhang Hai, only the commander made Liu Ben resist stubbornly, and his capital division still had soldiers after all, and it took a lot of effort to catch him.

All three of them were arrested, and at the same time, the rebels searched out the account of the river control funds in the political envoy's office, this account book was very good, and the account was smoothed, but Zhang Zhaohua knew that there must be a dark account.

"Let's talk about it," Yang Shiqi said: "Lord Chu, I am on the embankment of Cao County, and I have counted all the eight money." You should have erased more than 1,200,000 taels of silver from your accounts. ”

"Yang Shiqi, you are a cabinet scholar, and you are deeply favored by the emperor," Chu Yan's upper and lower teeth gurgled: "You actually dare to collaborate with the enemy!"

"I didn't collaborate with the enemy," Yang Shiqi said, "You are the real one who collaborates with the enemy." ”

Zhang Zhaohua had already figured it out, and Chu Yan seemed to know Yang Shiqi's identity in the secret letter exchange with the Buddha's mother, and this huge handle was a sword that always hung over his head for Yang Shiqi, which could end his career and even his life at any time. Second, after the fall of the Third Division of Shandong, in order to escape responsibility, she had an affair with the White Lotus Sect, exposing all of Liu Sheng's previous battle plans, which aggravated the dire situation in Shandong, and she had no way to say all this, and Yang Shiqi was even more impossible. The third is the river control project, from which these officials embezzled millions of taels of silver and made the tofu scum project, which made Zhang Zhaohua furious.

When the Yellow River flooded before, the emperor sent Shangshu, and sometimes sent Shilang and Du Yu Shi to govern the river, this time Gao Chi set up the governor of the river to deal with the river affairs with full authority, but only Lin Fang took office, and all the river control officials were drawn from the Yamen of the political envoy of Shandong, so these people all deserve to die.

"Tang Sai'er," Chu Yan saw the Buddha's mother: "Why did you suddenly rebel and betray this official!"

"Shandong is hell on earth," the Buddha mother said lightly: "It's good that the culprit is the emperor, but you are all his accomplices." ”

It is true that the emperor bears the greatest responsibility for today's Shandong, and he did give Shandong a heavy conscription, but if it had not been for this group of officials at the bottom to add fuel to the fire, the situation would not have deteriorated so quickly, just a river control project, officials can embezzle millions of taels of silver, can you say that this is the emperor's problem?

"Found it—" said one of the rebel leaders, holding the account book, "isn't that it?"

Chu Yan's house searched out his secret accounts, and now he was as depressed as a frustrated ball, but he still stared at Yang Shiqi maliciously: "You pretended to be a thief and killed me by the other hand, and since then I have not known that you are actually in the enemy camp and give advice to the enemy! And you can take this account book and ask for merit and buy rewards!"

Zhang Zhaohua stood up from behind him, and Chu Yan didn't know who she was - until she lightly opened her lips and said a word.

Chu Yan's eyes widened suddenly, but unfortunately, the guillotine fell mercilessly in the next second, leaving a dead corpse on the ground, and the yellowed eyes were full of fear and disbelief.

"The books are closed. Zhang Zhaohua said: "Let's go, King Han is coming soon, he won't listen to you when he comes up, we can only negotiate when this Jinan city can't be captured." ”

Zhang Zhaohua's prediction of the King of Han was completely correct, Gao Xu heard that Jinan had been breached, and there was no intention of recruiting and persuading him to surrender, so he began to attack the city as soon as he gave an order, and the people who shouted at the head of the city were shot down by an arrow from two hundred steps away, and with the rumbling cannon fire, the King of Han began to attack the city, and the rebels occupied the city of Jinan for less than three hours.

Fortunately, the battlements of the city wall were covered with bricks, and the rammed earth was extremely hard enough to withstand artillery attacks, and it was also very useful to pile up sacks behind the battlements.