Haikou was the Qing court's contemptuous name for the Zheng group, and it was also a contemptuous name for Zheng Chenggong, the leader of the Zheng group. In the Ming army outside the city, Zheng Chenggong's Zhangguo Gong beckoned the general banner to wave in the wind, and every time he stretched his muscles, there would be more Ming soldiers who expressed the joy of victory in sight.

So far, the first general in Nanming must still be Li Dingguo, after all, Nikan's head is still very golden. And Zheng Chenggong's side, he has also defeated the troops of the Han Army Banner many times, regained a large area of lost territory, and even brought Chen Kai with Zheng Chenggong, and his huge prestige in Fujian is far from being comparable to Li Dingguo.

Dong Dayong knew very well that Zheng Chenggong's arrival meant that the Fujian Ming army had determined the direction of attack, and this time it was not the Guangdong Ming army going alone at all, but the joint operation of the Ming army of the two provinces. Relying on Nanjiang alone, against the 100,000 army that is not mixed with water, Dong Dayong feels that even with his knees, he can figure out what kind of dangerous situation it will be. Especially in Yu, he didn't know if the two places of Nanxiong Mansion and Nan'an Mansion had really fallen.

Zheng Chenggong's arrival pushed the military morale of Tingzhou Mansion to the peak, and Dong Dayong began to gradually lose control of the morale of the defenders, and he also began to lose control of the defenders in the city and the Ming army outside the city.

On the third day after Zheng Chenggong's arrival, Zheng Chenggong personally arrived near the city, and as soon as they met, five huge cannons were directly displayed, lined up. Looking at the size from the head of the city, it looks like the rumored Chen Kai bombarded the caliber cannon used in Xinhui County. According to the information collected by the Fujian government before, there are a total of seven such giant cannons in the Zheng Group, two of which are in Chen Kai's hands, and the other five are under the direct control of Zheng Chenggong!

Without further ado, the spirit gun and the four replicas opened fire together, and the huge cannonball immediately bombarded the capital city of Tingzhou. The black parabola, accompanied by a huge roar, seemed to be a blink of an eye, and the movement that shook the world was directly reflected on the city wall.

This city has always been a well-known fortified city in Fujian, "pillow mountain and river for the city", forming a unique pattern of "there is a city in the mountain, there is water in the city" and "Buddha hanging beads". The city wall is wrapped in bricks in the Hongwu period, Chongzhen Dynasty rebuilt, and increased height and thickness, since the Qing court occupied Fujian, there are many repairs for this city, the city is strong, so that Huangshan led the advantage of the Ming army is also several times failed to achieve breakthrough.

However, this time, the cannonballs hit the city wall one by one, the bricks of the city were shattered, and the Qing army at the head of the city only felt that the ground under their feet was shaking. And this tremor, not only the walls of the city wall, but also the defenders' military spirit that had begun to waver under the heavy blows like drums again and again, shattered, disintegrated, blown away, and passed.

The range of the twenty-four-pounder Hongyi cannon made those little guys at the head of the city feel so inferior that they didn't even dare to take the lead, and under the bombardment of passive beating, Dong Dayong went to the city head to boost their morale, but what he saw was that the subordinates who had been doing their best in the city guards were panicking at the head of the city, and many of them had begun to gradually lose their minds.

He knew very well that if it was just an artillery bombardment, it was just a passive beating, and with the experience of their city guards and the ability to resist pressure they had accumulated, they would never be like this. But the problem is that before the shelling began, the Qing army in the city was already demoralized under the baptism of rumors. Coupled with Zheng Chenggong's presence in the city, the disparity between the enemy's strength and our weakness between the two sides can be seen even by ordinary soldiers, and this shelling is just a catalyst to speed up the reaction.

The Ming army's giant cannon was unimaginably accurate, as if there was no need for a test firing at all. One by one, they bombarded the city, endlessly, as if time had been stretched for a long time.

Depression and fear, only forced to bear helplessly, nowhere to vent, this is not a kind of torment for the Qing army in the city. It's like no matter how strong the elasticity of the rubber band is, there will always be a moment when it is broken. What's more, the leather band named Tingzhou Fucheng has already shown traces of dryness and cracking under the irradiation of rumors, and it has become pale and weak faster under infinite stretching.

The shelling continued for a long time, and the siege equipment of the Ming army began to arrive in front of the battle. Next, Zheng Chenggong's handsome flag pressed forward, and the war drums beat like thunder, intertwined with the shouting and killing, and converged into the deafening accompaniment of that sound.

The siege of the Ming army officially kicked off, and Dong Dayong and his generals hurriedly drove the soldiers to the city for defense. The bombardment lasted for such a long time, relying on the many repairs, thickening and heightening of the city in recent years, and the walls remained basically intact.

The Ming army quickly approached the city, and the ant attached to the city was staged again. This scene has been the most common drama in the capital city of Tingzhou in the past year, Dong Da calmly commanded the generals and soldiers under his command, guarded the battlements everywhere, and poured arrows, cannonballs, lead bullets and rolling wood and stones on the Ming army under the city.

Returning to the familiar mode, the Qing army at the head of the city began to gradually find its state. The afternoon passed like this, and the morale of the Ming army was especially boosted, and it was by no means easy to take this city in the face of strong cities and strong soldiers. However, Zheng Chenggong's threat was still pressing on their hearts, and it did not disappear even half a point because of Ming Jin's withdrawal of troops outside the city.

"It's time to prove Your Excellency's sincerity to the country."

"The villain understands, the villain understands. But ......"

"Nothing! The surname of the country plus Chen Fujun, these, no matter how powerful the characters are, which one has not suffered a big loss. Just rely on his great use, and he is also worthy? ”

"This ......"

"You are still waiting for that Hong Chengchou, with all due respect, it is a great luck that he can save his head in front of His Royal Highness the King of Xining." The voice paused, the silence was so quiet that breathing could be heard, and after a while, the urging talisman sounded again: "This kind of shelling lasts for a few days, I'm afraid this city wall should also collapse!" ”

The next day, the siege broke out again, to be precise, this time the Ming army only launched a continuous artillery bombardment in the distance, and did not send out the ant-attached siege troops.

The Ming army seemed to be enjoying this, and the defenders at the head of the city seemed to be beginning to adapt to this rhythm. In this way, it continued until the afternoon, and the artillery bombardment of the Ming army still did not end. However, with the beating of war drums and the reopening of the new ant-attached siege city, the panic spread rapidly in the direction of the city gate on the north side of the city in the direction of the Tingzhou capital city after only a moment's pause.

"The pirates are in town!"

The strong momentum of the Ming army in the past two years, the combination of Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai, plus the panic in the Tingzhou capital and the banner of Zheng Chenggong outside the city, in the next moment, the Qing army in the city has no other possibility of reaction, from last year's Ming army swept through Fujian, and now it has been guarding the Tingzhou capital city for more than a year, and the momentum of escape can no longer be stopped.

"Dashuai, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood!"

In front of them, the siege troops of the Ming army were getting closer and closer; Behind him, smoke was already rising from the place where the chaos had started. Dong Dayong knew that with the strong city, the more than 8,000 green battalions in his hands could have the power to fight with the Ming army outside the city, but if the barrier of the city wall was no longer there, then with the little men and horses he was currently controlling, how could he resist the Ming army outside the city while restoring the order of the Qing army in the city, and by the way, he would expel the Ming army that had already entered the city.

The defeat of the army, although I don't want to admit it, but now there is no way to recover it. Dong Da drew his sword in his hand and was about to die, but he was stopped by the soldiers who had already prepared beside him.

This sentence may be a compulsory course for every pro-soldier, and Dong Dayong's pro-soldier here came as soon as he opened his mouth, without the slightest hesitation, and there was no mistake or omission in a single word. Dong Dayong naturally didn't have a chance to notice these things, the sword had already been snatched away by his own soldiers, and seeing that the Ming army was getting closer and closer, even a moment of breathing had not passed, and it was likely that he would face a completely different fate.

If something doesn't work out, I have to let the city go, Dong Dayong is a general, and he has rich experience in escaping from defeat, and when it comes to such a situation, how to escape, he can't be clearer.

Speaking of which, the capital city of Tingzhou is bordered by the Tingjiang River in the east, and the official road leading to Ruijin County is to the west. The siege of the Ming army is across the Tingjiang River, with pontoon bridges together with both banks, connecting the north and south, only to open the official road to the west. Siege is the most normal method of besieging the city, such as Li Dingguo in Zhaoqing and Zheng Chenggong in Zhangzhou, and the result is often that the defenders fight desperately, because they really have no way to retreat. This is a psychological effect, if you don't crush it, if you can't crush the besieger, you will face greater difficulty in breaking the city.

Huangshan has always been like this, this time Zheng Chenggong arrived, and the Ming army still did not surround the west of the city. In the meantime, the torrent of the Qing army's escape has begun to emerge at the west city gate, Dong Da's war horse is guarded by his own soldiers, and he quickly rode his horse to the west of the city after leaving the city.

The gap that is released is often the bait of the trap. Dong Dayong is not unaware of this truth, but the problem now is that in the land of Tingzhou, the Qing army only has such a capital city left, and the surrounding counties are in the hands of the Ming army, and even the entire Fujian is basically in the hands of the Ming army. If you want to escape, then the fastest way is to try to find a life from the mountain road through the road between the capital city of Tingzhou and Ruijin County.

His life was at stake, and the belongings in the town government couldn't be taken care of, so Dong Dayong took his soldiers to gallop on the stone road in the city. It's a pity that he doesn't know this way of life, the Qing army defending the city has been besieged at every turn for more than a year, and no matter how lacking the heart and eyes are, he understands the truth that if he wants to escape, he can only run to the west of the city.

The more they went, the more panicked the Qing army became. On weekdays, the ranks in the army are strict, don't say that they are handsome, even if they are thousands of generals, generals, and pawns have to give way. But at this time, who cares about the dispatch of any officer, Dong Dayong is a general, of course he knows that if he continues to pressure at this time, he will force the soldiers to be anxious, and he will have to explain to these chaotic soldiers before he escapes.

At this time, the authority of the senior officer could no longer provide him with any protection, but his head was likely to become a rebellious soldier begging to surrender to the Ming army. Not even talking about this life, just talking about the war horse under the crotch, the difference between the speed of escape between a horse and a horse on foot is obvious, and a bad rebel covets the war horse to break through reason, and they will fall into a frenzy that delays the best time to escape.

From Dong Dayong to his own soldiers, they held their hands tightly on the hilt of their swords one by one, and while driving their war horses, they walked slowly through the fleeing crowd, while they were all on guard, doing some isolation as much as possible.

In this way, in the tense atmosphere of Rusi, Dong Dayong and his personal soldiers gradually moved to the left side of the West City Gate in the midst of the chaos. At this time, in the direction of the south of the city, the cheers swept in, as if the back wave pushed the front wave to the beach, and at this point, the movement outside the city turned into a surge.

That cheer could not be anything else, it must be that the Ming army had opened the city gate and entered the city. The barrier of the city wall was gone, and the fortified city became a cage, and when the doors of the prison were opened, the beasts in the cage seemed to have gone mad. Crowding, stampede, and even drawing knives at the slightest disagreement are all happening in this area all the time.

The vigilance was even worse, and beads of sweat began to drip down the heads of Dong Dayong and his loyal soldiers. Fortunately, since they had reached the point of trampling, escaping from the city was the first priority for everyone, and it didn't take long for them to leave the city they had been guarding for more than a year.

"Drive!"

The Ming army that entered the city was already chasing after here, needless to say, Dong Dayong and his soldiers first bypassed the flow of people, and then let go of the horse speed, and ran away on the official road.

At this time, the advantage of having war horses as a substitute was revealed, and when those soldiers were still panting heavily, and galloping wildly, they had already achieved corner overtaking, and easily overtook the West Gate defenders who fled to the front from the middle of the crowd.

This is already a step out of the ghost gate. Especially so, Dong Dayong still didn't dare to relax, and continued to gallop with his own soldiers, throwing the turtles behind him farther and farther away.

The official road in the mountains soon appeared in front of you, and it was even more rapid here. However, the officers and cavalrymen of the West Gate, who had just rushed into the official road and had escaped from the city far earlier than them, were still grinding on the official road, allowing the war horses to draw dragons on the official road as if they were drunk, and there was no intention of letting go of the speed at all.

"Back to Dong Dashuai's words, it is not that he deliberately delayed his duties, but it was really too unbelievable to be destroyed by Haikou's meticulous work along the way. It took too long for such a large convoy to pass, and many of them would not have been able to survive without repairing one or two. ”

The voice of the warden's aggrieved explanation sounded in Dong Dayong's ears along with the first, and the last pit that the warden passed through when he came. At the same time, he sneered at this explanation, and ordered the warden to go back immediately and continue to escort the grain and grass. At this time, he found out that he had really wronged the diligent and lowly official, and the most indispensable fight for merit in the officialdom really did not happen this time, but he was influenced by the plain and thought too much!

The roads were only repaired by the convoy that could barely pass, and after being run over by so many vehicles, many of the repaired roads became dilapidated again. These damages are not a big deal for the convoy returning lightly, but for them, behind them is the pursuit of the Ming army, and it is absolutely impossible to let the horse run wild in such a road condition, otherwise a horse will miss its front hooves, and if it is not good, it will even hit out the brain.

As a last resort, Dong Dayong and his soldiers had to draw dragons on the official road like the officers and cavalry in front. At the same time, the flow of people behind also began to gradually approach the official road, and farther away, the Ming army also killed from the south of the city, the west gate and other places.

Infantry does not fight, this is the iron law of soldiers. At this time, the Qing army had no battle formation to speak of, and some only had the desire to flee to survive. The sound of the Ming army's iron hooves stepped out of the illusion of blood and fire in their minds, and when the Qing army heard it, they ran even more frantically in the direction of the official road, not daring to stop at all.

However, the two-legged one could not compete with the four-legged one at this time, and the cavalry of the Ming army chased after it and quickly entered the rhythm of the Ouroboros pursuit. As if hunted by wolves, the cavalry of the Ming army wantonly chased and drove the Qing army in this area, cutting down the stragglers and those who were driven out.

In the past, such a scene was basically only the Qing army to the Ming army, but now it has been reversed, which is really a bit of an incredible illusion.

There were thousands of Qing troops who escaped from the city, and there were many cavalry of the Ming army, but the hunt had been planned by Huangshan as a practical training for cavalry. Moreover, the entrance to the official road will soon be blocked by the rout, and the situation there is unknown, and the Ming army does not dare to enter easily.

In the rear, the situation of the sheep chasing after the wolves could not be changed. On the official road, the cavalry that entered in advance was entrusted with the bad luck of those foot soldiers to replace the dead ghosts, but they were never pursued by the Ming army. However, the dilapidated official road inevitably delayed their escape speed, and like turtles, it took several times longer to barely escape into the ancient town.

"Quick, prepare water, Ben Shuai will return to Ganzhou City immediately."

"Dashuai, at this time, I'm afraid I can't help you." As soon as the garrison of the ancient town waved its hand, the Qing army of the brigade rushed up and took these tired Qing troops

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