Chapter 91: Just Like Last Night (Part II)

This is like the questioning and dissatisfaction of "I took off my pants, and you plan to show me this", Chen Kai's resoluteness is beyond words.

In this regard, Guo Zhiqi, who originally planned to persuade Chen Kai with political considerations, could only hope for Li Dingguo, after all, Li Dingguo is the king of the county and the commander of the recovery of Guangdong, even Chen Kai is a guest army who came to help, and he always has to give Li Dingguo some face. It's just that Li Dingguo doesn't pay much attention to this, or he is more inclined to Chen Kai's opinion. In this case, he had nothing to say, so he had to let Chen Kai unfold his arrangement in the west of Guangzhou.

"The artillery team will all be transferred to the northwest of the city before nightfall."

To the south of the city is the fleet of Zhou Hezhi, Jiang Meiao, Chen Qice, and Li Changrong; In the east of the city, the main force of the Ming army in eastern Guangdong was commanded by Ke Chenshu, the commander of the left; The north of the city was jointly defended by the two armies, with Li Dingguo's camp governor Jin Tongwu as the main leader, supplemented by Zhou Quanbin, the chief military officer of Qianchong Town under Chen Kai; Only in the west of the city, Li Dingguo's department was the main body, but Chen Kai transported all the artillery teams here, not in the east of the city.

In fact, not only the artillery team brought by Chen Kai, but also the relatively large caliber artillery in the hands of the Governor Gao En's subordinate under Li Dingguo and other Ming troops were all transferred by Chen Kai.

The artillery of the Ming army began to assemble in the northwest of the city, and it was basically the same size as when the shelling of Xinhui was carried out earlier, but there were more captures later in Gaoming and Shunde. The various artillery groups were preparing to load, and in front of them there were a large number of auxiliary troops of the Ming army digging the trap horse ditch, and in front of the trap horse ditch, there were more Ming troops lined up one after another, and on the afternoon of the 29th day of the lunar month, it was particularly ill-intentioned.

A moment later, Geng Jimao, who hurried to hear the news, looked at the Ming army in the distance, his hand on the battlement of the city wall, and his index finger inadvertently touched the tiny cracks in the masonry, and the blood faded on his face, leaving only a dead white.

This is the northwest of Guangzhou City, the gap location of the Qing army that destroyed Guangzhou City!

Once he thought of this, Geng Jimao couldn't help but tremble. The wind of Layue, even if it is three or nine days in Guangzhou, has a place of more than ten degrees, which is actually nothing to a person like him who comes from a bitter cold place like Liaodong. At this moment, the cold comes from the bottom of his heart, because he knows very well that compared to back then, this is a complete reversal of roles, and the former sword warrior is about to be reduced to fish and meat, and the end is predictable.

"To mobilize cavalry, you have to put the thief's artillery team at bay. Otherwise, the city will not be able to bear it in one night. ”

At the end of the fourth year of Yongli, the Qing army invaded Guangzhou and caused a horrific massacre. Subsequently, the feudal soldiers, the families of the feudal soldiers, and those clothed minions were stationed, and the Shang Geng Er Domain couldn't wait to start building the palace. In order to build the palace, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao tried their best to exploit the prefectures and counties in Guangdong, collect good materials for construction, and at the same time loot the people's fat and ointment in various names, and seize the land for the king's village. The two feudal clans were naturally arrogant and extravagant about their own private affairs, but they didn't pay much attention to repairing the city wall, and the materials used to repair the gap at that time were all defective products that were eliminated when building the palace, and there were many of them who directly used the slightly complete bricks and stones of the gap to "make Feng women again".

Such a wall is nothing more than a bright wall on the surface, but it is a joke on the inside. In the words of later generations, it is a standard tofu scum project, which is not as good as the city wall that they collapsed back then, not to mention the artillery outside the city, it can already be seen at a glance that there are indeed more than they did back then.

The order was issued, the cavalry quickly assembled, and Xu Erxian, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Pingnan Domain, personally led the team, and rushed out from the west gate.

The artillery position of the Ming army was located in the northwest of the city, and the Qing army attacked from south to north from the west gate. The war horse rolled up the dust and smoke, Geng Jimao looked at the city, and saw Xu Erxian leading the cavalry straight to the Ming army's large array surrounding the artillery position. The cavalry of the Qing army and the cavalry of the Ming army are the same, in the final analysis, they are all light cavalry, mainly cavalry and shooting, supplemented by hand-to-hand combat. In the face of the Ming army's spear jungle, they had no way to kick it through; And against the Ming army, the foot bow and bird gun are enough to dwarf the riding bow.

It is unrealistic to break through the battle formation with cavalry alone, it is nothing more than trying to find a hole in the defense of the Ming army, so as to enter and try to destroy the artillery team of the Ming army. However, in the face of the defense of the Ming army like an iron bucket, Rao is Xu Erxian was unable to break through after decades of fighting, but lost some cavalry in the process of continuous maneuvering.

Several assaults were ineffective. If the artillery of the Ming army can be destroyed, then the losses of the Qing army are worth it; But if it can't be destroyed, every loss of a cavalry is a greater loss for the defenders.

As a last resort, Xu Erxian deserved to return to Guangzhou City with his troops. All of this was in Geng Jimao's eyes, and when Xu Erxian returned, Geng Jimao had already begun to build the inner city wall along the former gap, so as to continue to defend after the city wall collapsed.

This is not something that can be done in a moment. Rushing back to the city and hearing this order, Xu Erxian confessed to Geng Jimao about the lack of time, but Jin Guang, who was ordered to be in charge of the project, explained: "Xu Shuai, the thieves are shelling, even if the city wall collapses, they will not attack the city at night, they will always wait until dawn." From now on, it is impossible to build a city with fire in one night, but it is still possible to build a certain height and block the thieves. ”

As long as they desperately survive the first round of attacks, they can use the Baoyi in the city and the people on the other side of the new city to continue to strengthen the city. In this way, although it is not a cure for the root cause, it is better than being directly bombarded by the Ming army and then rushing in and killing them all.

Xu Erxian has been in battle for a long time, and as long as he adds a little bit to this, he can completely figure it out. In this case, Xu Erxian had no choice but to take the troops back to the camp to rest and recuperate for the time being, and to prepare for tomorrow's big battle. On the Jin Guang side, with the assistance of Li Qifeng and other civil officials in Guangzhou, he quickly mobilized the clothed minions in the city and a large number of people to organize the repair of the city.

The construction of the inner city wall was in full swing, and Geng Jimao, who had been tossing for a day, went back to the palace to rest for a while. According to his estimates, in the second half of the night, he should go to the city, so now is the time to eat and rest, and then there will be a greater mental headβ€”after all, he is still a patient.

Compared with Du Yonghe back then, at least there was a waterway to escape, and Geng Jimao didn't even have a mouse hole to drill. After returning to the palace, he began to rest step by step, and before his meal was finished, the shelling outside the city officially fired the first cannon at the setting sun, just like a leather whip whip on the officials and generals of the Qing court, forcing them to urge the clothed servants and people to speed up the construction of the inner city wall.

Cannonballs roared out from the muzzles of the Hongyi cannons, and they were bombarded on the city wall, as if Lei Gong was using this Guangzhou city as a war drum, beating again and again, even if it was late at night.

As Lei Gong's drum hammer, according to European standards, the smallest of these Hongyi cannons is also nine pounds, and the largest one is naturally the auxiliary gun of the spirit gun that Chen Kai removed from Lu Feng's twin fortresses, but on the ground in Guangdong, the fame of this auxiliary gun is no longer comparable to that of the main owner. Don't talk about it, just say that the paragraph that collapsed the Xinhui city wall has already flown all over the sky, and the versions of the rumors range from the ancient magic weapon of the god list type, to the birth of the evil dragon of the Water Margin type, and then to the Journey to the West type of passing the test, which is enough for those storytellers to say for a few years.

The Hongyi cannons were of different calibers, and the interval between the shelling was negligible. The bricks, the women's wall, and even the rammed earth wrapped in them were shattered, splashed, and even a small area of collapse gradually extended as the shelling progressed.

After four years, the great movement in the northwest of the city came again, due to the construction of the inner city wall, the families of the feudal soldiers within the range had already fled far away, and when the cannon sounded, even the families of the feudal soldiers in the vicinity of the left also dragged their families to the homes of relatives and friends in other areas, lest the war would affect the pond fish.

The shelling began at sunset, and before the second half of the night, the tofu slag project had collapsed. Being woken up from his sleep, Geng Jimao hurriedly rushed to the inner city wall to sit down, but when he arrived, the city wall collapsed, and many clothed servants and people fled in panic under the cover of night, and even the speed of the construction of the inner city wall also plunged.

Bao Yi and Minfu ran away, and they definitely won't hide nearby, but it's not so easy to catch them back. Since this is the case, Geng Jimao hurriedly ordered to arrest all the families of the surrounding feudal soldiers, whether they are men, women, or children, to ensure the progress of the construction of the inner city wall. It's just that in this way, the low crying in the night no longer needs to be taken into account, the crying and screaming spread from the northwest of the city, and the farther away from there, the more it is determined that the Ming army has entered the city of Guangzhou, and the families of batches of feudal soldiers have nowhere to escape, so they simply hid in the Liumai Canal in the city, waiting for the Ming army to "seal the knife" in their imagination.

Chaos spread throughout the city from the second half of the night, crying and hiding, accompanied by the looting and revenge of many heavily bullied clothed minions and people. After tossing all night, even Geng Jimao sent someone to suppress it, but he couldn't suppress it at all.

Early the next morning, dawn fell, and the first rays of light filled the land, tearing open the dark curtain of slaughter and plunder that had been woven four years earlier.

"Tell Your Highness, the Supervisor, and the Fu Army, after a night of shelling, the northwest corner of Guangzhou City has collapsed more than 30 zhang!"

Gao En, the commander of the artillery team, came to report in person, and the excitement in his tone was self-evident, and at this moment, he was even more arrogant in front of Li Dingguo, Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai.

"Good!"

There was no need to report that the Ming army outside the city had already noticed the huge gap there as the dawn came. More than 30 zhang, that is a 100-meter opening, it is not possible to quickly plug it at all, especially under the artillery barrage of the Ming army, even if there is a real opportunity to do it, it is difficult to achieve it in the face of continuous destruction and casualties.

Soon, the shelling stopped, and as the commander, Li Dingguo rode in front of the army, giving orders loudly, and the heralds took the tin horns they learned from Chen Kai to amplify their voices to the extent that everyone could hear them.

"Four years ago, it was here that the traitors Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao collapsed the city wall of Guangzhou. After shouting and killing all the barbarians, the beasts under their command rushed into the city of Guangzhou. If it weren't for Chen Fujun's efforts to rescue, I am afraid that none of the 700,000 people in Guangzhou would be spared! ”

Now, four years later, the army has also collapsed the city walls. However, we are the Ming king's division, not those beast scum who fight for the tiger, this king and Guo Inspector, Chen Fujun discussed and decided, the army entered the city, and those who saw it, wearing the uniforms of the feudal soldiers, were killed; Those who wield weapons will be killed; Whoever resists, shoot or kill...... It is strictly forbidden to rape *** and kill ...... As for the goods in the city, they belong to you! ”

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

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In the tsunami-like cheers of the mountains, the war drums in the sky were beating, and the army was overwhelmingly slaughtering Guangzhou City from the northwest direction of the city. For a while, the red uniforms of the Ming army were like wildfires in the field, sweeping towards the already dangerous city of Guangzhou.

The war drums of the Ming army sounded, and Geng Jimao, who had stayed up for most of the night on the side of the inner city wall, also boarded the inner city wall. It took a whole night, tens of thousands of clothed servants and people's husbands, and even the families of the feudal soldiers in the second half of the night to work overnight, and finally built a one-person-high inner city wall. Height, thickness, these things are completely not up to standard, the only use is that after the Ming army breaks the city, it can be used as a shield to block the Ming army that cannot carry too many siege equipment, and shoot at the Ming army from multiple angles from the inside of the city wall, that's all.

For this reason, they ripped all the houses in this area, and razed them to the ground, but they demolished them into ruins, and the Ming army could get much less cover.

At this time, the war drums were beating, and the Qing army was already in full position, and the city wall was full of Qing troops, just waiting for the Ming army to enter the city to counterattack. As they expected, the signal of the Ming army to attack the city soon came from the city, and only a moment later, the Ming army of the brigade poured into the gap like a tide, and the first was the strong crossbow battalion led by Guo Youming, the general under Li Dingguo.

When the Ming army entered the city, Geng Jimao also erected the banner of the vassal king of Jingnan Wangfu on the inner city wall, and the Qing army saw this, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they all clenched the weapons in their hands.

This way, the gap there, the strong crossbow battalion occupied the gap, and the Ming army, armed with crossbow machines, bows and arrows, and bird guns, did not hesitate to start aiming, shooting every Qing army they saw.

On the city heads on both sides of the gap, the Qing army was quickly cleared, and the Ming army began to climb up the slope of the gap. At the same time, more Ming troops rushed to the gap, the strong crossbow battalion as the vanguard of the current entry into the city, still crossbow machines, bows and arrows, birds to open the way, Rao is that stretching inner city wall did startle them, but these Ming troops who had fought bloody battles with the Eight Banners Army in Jiangmen have long been incompatible, seeing that the Qing army is prepared, there is no slightest cowardice, but in the process of advancing looking for a barrier, and at the same time more actively attacking.

After entering the gap, the Ming army quickly transformed into a small team and flowed into the ruins that had not had time to be completely demolished, and actively suppressed the Qing army on the inner city wall.

In front of Geng Jimao, the shield of the palace guards protected him tightly, but he was the only one who could enjoy this kind of treatment. The Qing army continued to fall from the inner city wall, and the real and bloody war scenes brought those who were temporarily forcibly recruited, and the old decay and teenagers who had never been in battle soon forgot about the tactical movements, and just shot blindly to vent their fears.

The dense crowd on the inner city wall was soon overwhelmed by the crossbow battalion, and in less time, the Ming army rushed up the slope of the gap, and the Ming army with swords, shields, and spears shouted and rushed to the Qing army at the head of the city, only to wait for a few screams, the Qing army at the head of the city invariably screamed and began to flee, and the city defense was thrown to the Ming army regardless of his head.

"Defeated, defeated, run!"

The more than 30,000 Qing troops in the city were distributed to the west, north, and east, and there were also 10,000 people on each side. However, war is never as simple as counting the number of people, most of the families of these forcibly recruited feudal soldiers have never been in battle, some are young men who have just grown up, and some are farmers who have brothers in the army, and they are farmers who work at home, only a very small number of old people have been on the battlefield, but it was also many years ago.

Such a Qing army, the ability to withstand casualties is not much stronger than those ordinary rebels, shooting from a distance can barely do, when hand-to-hand combat breaks out, the Ming army in front of them to kill their acquaintances, fear when even drown them.

The army is defeated, like a mountain falling!

The fear of defeat spread as quickly as a contagion, and the screams on the head of the city seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back, only in an instant, on the inner city wall, which was much lower than the head of the city, the morale of the Qing troops who had endured more shots suddenly fell to the bottom, and most of the Qing soldiers who were already shooting blindly only went blank at the moment they heard the first scream, and then just like the robes on the city head who had been doing it for several days, the screams of defeat spread all over the city, People fled down the stairs one after another, and even jumped directly from the wall.

The guards and warlords of the palace began to try their best to suppress them, but in the face of the frightened crowd, they were not only useless, but more of them were coerced by the panicked Qing army. There are also some who do their best to do their duty, but are quickly brought down, trampled, or even trampled to death.

The general situation was irreversible, and the inner city walls, which had been built with all their might, were held for less than a quarter of an hour before the whole army was defeated. The Ming army rushed to the wall, trying to push it in, and some simply climbed onto the wall.

For the palace guards to escape from the inner city wall, the war horses have been snatched away, Geng Jimao let the guards run towards the city. Looking back, I watched the levee collapse and the torrent pouring in, and everything turned into one sentence:

"It's over, it's over!"

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