Doubts are inevitable, because such a shape is completely inconsistent with the old tradition of strengthening the defensive ability of the city wall with the fortress of the deep pond and the high fortress, and the defensive buildings such as the urn city, the enemy tower, and the female wall.

Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying are both veteran generals who have been in battle for a long time, and they have never seen the fortress in front of them, but Chen Kai's reputation is outside, it is famous for strategizing, and it is impossible to spend a lot of labor to build two fortresses that have no practical use for no reason, let alone give up the camp that has been held in front for more than two months so easily.

Rao is so, but they really want to give it a try, at least they have to understand the doorway. However, the operation has not yet begun, and they soon received an urgent military order, and there is no need to rush it for the time being.

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To the west of the Qing army, in the distant hinterland of Guangzhou, the two palaces of Pingnan and Jingnan have begun to take shape after a year of construction.

The two palaces are "facing each other from east to west, and they are extremely majestic". Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, is extravagant, claiming that the lion at the gate of the palace should be made of white stone, and some flatterers suggested: Zhaoqing area produces the best stone, so he flew to Zhaoqing, Gaoyao and other places to ask for it. The local officials and people were exhausted, and after many screenings, they selected two bodies of billet stone to apply. When it was transported to Zhaoqing Gorge, because of the heavy load, the ship sank in the Xijiang River together with the billet. I had to search again and offer it separately.

Later, Yang Yongjian, a local official, was transferred to the military department as a Beijing official, and only then did he boldly write a book, pointing out that Guangdong was "unbearable to the two kings" and stating that it had "tired the people's disadvantages" in a total of more than 20 paragraphs. So the Qing court moved to Sichuan, the town of Nanwang, and later changed to Guangxi, and finally settled on Fujian, but this was already a matter of 16 years of Shunzhi. And the palace of Geng Fan has changed into the palace of Shang Zhixiao, the second son of King Pingnan, which is "especially magnificent".

The reason for this extreme desire for poverty and luxury is that the vassal king is definitely a native emperor that no one can hope for in Guangdong. The two feudal clans of Shang Geng had the authority to control "governors, admirals, governors, and towns" and "dispatch troops and horses".

In this way, they "dug mountains and mines, boiled salt, sent tax collectors from counties, and sent foreign ships." Establish a feudal manor, "Wangzhuang", to control rivers and lakes, as well as coastal fisheries. It even manipulated the province's market and commerce, organized the "head office", and integrated Guangdong's political, economic, and military powers. As for the seizure of private houses, false accusations of theft, extortion of huge sums of money, and imposition of additional taxes, the list goes on.

It is estimated that the annual income of the Ping Domain alone is more than one million taels of silver, and the income can already be compared with the Zheng group, the maritime overlord who controls the trade in the Fujian Sea.

These all come from the people's fat and ointment of the people of Guangdong. In the last year, Shang Geng's second feudal clan has been busy suppressing the small Ming army in western Guangdong, and more importantly, it is also exploiting the common people, and the poor people use the rich royal mansion to satisfy their poor and luxurious life. There is a way to be an official for thousands of miles only for money, civil officials, military generals, even if they are vassal kings, after all, this money, after all, people's hearts are greedy, and the more money the better.

However, with the successive victories of the Qing army in western Guangdong, Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong has never been pacified. Hao Shangjiu once gave them hope, but after the capture of Chengxiang County, Hao Shangjiu's department also had no movement. In the southwest of Chaozhou, Su Li, who had nearly 10,000 troops, was exterminated by Chen Kai at the end of the year, and the attack of Chaozhou showed signs of recurrence.

Next, Huang Yingjie responded, but kept the county seat of Haifeng and the city of Shengjie Qianhusuo, it is said that he fought with Chen Kai, and neither side could help anyone, so he simply quit the army. Huang Yingjie didn't blow the cowhide too big, but it didn't attract Shang Kexi's attention too much, the key is that he didn't behead him, and Shang Kexi only encouraged him a little.

However, in the following days, the Ming army counterattacked, and Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying sent troops, but they could not overcome it for a long time. As the Qing army gradually gained a foothold in western Guangdong, and a senior official of the Ming army had expressed the idea of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, the Chaozhou side became more and more eye-catching.

"Virtuous nephew, the surname Chen is not a good-looking character, don't be careful when you go."

"Uncle, don't worry, the little nephew is all feudal soldiers, and he fights some pirates, isn't it ready to be captured?"

"It's better to be careful, everything is underestimated."

At the east gate of Guangdong, Shang Kexi was entrusted, and Geng Jimao took Xu Degong, the general of the left wing, and Lian Decheng, the general of the right wing, to the east.

The green camp has never been able to solve the problem, and if the feudal soldiers have been sitting idly by and treating themselves in the city of Guangzhou, the Qing court will not be able to explain it. Seeing this, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao agreed that Shang Kexi would continue to preside over the encirclement, suppression and appeasement of the Ming army in western Guangdong, while Geng Jimao would lead the army eastward and strive to solve the Chaozhou problem in World War I. If not, prevent the Ming army from continuing to grow, and wait for Shang Kexi to complete the annexation of Qiongzhou and lead the army of the Pingnan Domain to help in the war.

Seeing the fortress of the Ming army clearly, Huang and Zhang also quickly received an order from Guangzhou, asking them to rest for the time being, wait for Geng Jimao's army to arrive, and then make a big move.

The two kings were already a little impatient, perhaps because the pressure from the Qing court had been conveyed, so that they had to do so. It is of course a good thing that reinforcements are about to arrive, or stronger reinforcements, but in this world, blessings and misfortunes are often indispensable.

"You two bastards, sitting on thousands of officers and soldiers, can't exterminate them in the face of the pirates who have almost no big gap in strength, but are led by the nose, they are just two waste!"

When the army of Jingnan Domain arrived in Haifeng County, Huang and Zhang hurriedly went to meet them, and as soon as they met, Geng Jimao naturally scolded them, scolded them to the head, and even rewarded them with a whip, telling them unmistakably that if they dared to cringe like this again, it would not be as simple as whipping next time.

Geng Jimao was very angry, and Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying didn't dare to talk much, so they had to listen to it resignedly, one death crime at a time, and begged Geng Jimao to let them wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions.

The vassal kings can be unreasonable, not to mention that they really failed to achieve a breakthrough against the Ming army. It's just that in retrospect, when they were in the Ming Court, they were all counts, and Dongxun was also very prosperous in the court, who dared to treat them like this?

"Hey."

was pulled back to the camp by Geng Jimao's whip, and the two had to sigh. But since he chose to surrender, he was humiliated by himself, and he couldn't complain about others. When they returned to the camp, they had to honestly and hurriedly order their subordinates to build a camp for the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Domain behind their camp with auxiliary soldiers.

The construction of the camp began rapidly, and the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain rested in Haifeng County for a few days before leaving for the front. Entering the newly built camp, Geng Jimao was resolute and took these generals to observe the fortress of the Ming army. just looked at it, but it was scoffing, and even Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying were scolded.

"You don't dare to attack such a low wall?"

The fortress of the Ming army is only less than two zhang high, and it is estimated to be five or six meters. In front of the Chinese-style city wall with a height of eight or nine meters, or even more than ten meters, it is really pitifully short. Such a height, in Geng Jimao's view, is just two civil structure of the village, it is really nothing extraordinary. But at this moment, he glanced at each other with Xu Degong and Lian Decheng, and then shouted to Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying:

"Rest for two days and prepare siege equipment. On April 12th, the king himself and you will help! ”