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In February of the seventh year of Yongli, looking at the messenger who was beaten back by a stick, Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, was completely dead to his righteous brother. However, the two sides inevitably fought each other, and Li Dingguo chose to withdraw from Yongzhou Mansion and go south into Guangxi.

Not long after Li Dingguo left Yongzhou Mansion, the Dingyuan general Dorobele Tunqi, who took over the seal of Nikan Shuaiyin, took over the Yongzhou Mansion again after taking over the Hengzhou Mansion that Li Dingguo had abandoned in the lunar month last year. At this point, the Huguangfu County recovered by the Southwest Ming Army in the great counteroffensive in the sixth year of Yongli was left with Chenzhou, Baoqing and Jingzhou.

Next, Li Dingguo led his army to cross the Dragon and Tiger Pass between Yongming County, Yongzhou Prefecture, Huguang, and Gongcheng County, Leping Prefecture, Guangxi, and went south through He County in the east of Leping Prefecture to reoccupy the important town of Wuzhou.

Wuzhou, its strategic location is extremely important. This place is not only the eastern gateway of Guangxi, but also the bridgehead from Guangxi to Guangdong. Li Dingguo took a short rest in Wuzhou and then marched eastward with his army.

Compared with the last attack on Guangxi, the former East Route Army no longer exists, Li Dingguo's then deputy generals Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong did not return after the Battle of Hengyang, they took away nearly half of the East Route Army's soldiers and horses, so that this time Li Dingguo entered Guangdong, and the army under his command was only more than 40,000 people.

However, the prestige of the two famous kings had already spread throughout the two vast areas, and the anti-Qing forces in the two regions were all deeply encouraged and rose up one after another to respond and cooperate in the battle.

When Li Dingguo invaded Guangdong, Song Guoxiang and Wei Yingdeng of Cenxi County, Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi, crossed the border between the two provinces and invaded Luoding Prefecture west of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and launched an attack on the state city and the two counties of Dong'an and Xining under his rule; Zhou Jintang, Ye Biao, Shi Shangyi, Xiong Chaozuo, Wang Han, Deng Yao and other troops on the western coast of Guangdong also gathered more than 200 large and small warships, planning to go straight to the Xijiang River from Jiulongkou, and then go up the river to meet Li Dingguo in Zhaoqing Fucheng; In addition, the anti-Qing forces in the mountains of Qingyuan, Shaozhou Prefecture, also sent envoys to contact Li Dingguo, preparing to cooperate with Li Dingguo's army and attack Guangzhou from Conghua County to the south.

The situation in northwest Guangdong was very good, and by 14 March, after Li Dingguo's army entered Guangdong, it also took Kaijian County, Fengkai County and Deqing Prefecture like a devastating state. Then they went down the river, and by 25 March the army had already arrived under the city of Zhaoqing.

Zhaoqing Fucheng has always been a strategic place, at first the city was built because Nong Zhigao was against the Song Dynasty, the famous general Di Qing in the pacification of Nong Zhigao's rebellion, built a city here, thought that Guangdong shielded. Later, in the Ming Dynasty, from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Chongzhen Dynasty, it was built repeatedly. Even two years ago, the Qing army had made another addition shortly after the capture of Zhaoqing Mansion.

By this moment, the city had reached a circumference of 2,800 meters. The height of the city is two feet five feet and five inches, and there are corner towers at each of the four corners, and there are city gates and roads and other places to ensure that the defenders in various parts of the city can quickly respond. Open four gates, the east gate "Qingyun", the west gate "Jingxing", the south gate "Nanxun", the north gate "Chaotian", the four gates are shielded by the moon city. In addition, the Qing army also built 6 additional forts, 148 nest shops, and 2 Shuicheng forts on the city, demolished houses within 4 feet of the city, and added and repaired buildings. Not only is it stronger, but it also has a better artillery effect than ordinary cities.

Zhaoqing Mansion City is the western barrier of Guangzhou, after this, down the river, through Sanshui County can reach the city of Guangzhou. Li Dingguo was bound to win this, and divided his troops to capture Sihui County in the northeast of Zhaoqing Prefecture, as well as Guangning County in the northwest of Sihui County, and made a posture of taking the northern part of Zhaoqing, and he only launched a strong attack on this prefecture city the next day.

The south of Zhaoqing Mansion faced the river, and Li Dingguo, as Liu Wenxiu did when he attacked Baoning last year, commanded his troops to storm the east, west, and north of the city. The ants of the army are attacking the city, the artillery on the forts and the city walls are still bombarding with all their might, and the defenders are condescending, shooting with bows and guns from afar, and rolling logs and stones from near. However, the Ming army, which came like a wave, was not afraid of casualties, but blindly attacked, which was as fierce as the attack on Baoning, only to make the Qing army exhausted.

Xu Erxian assisted in defending here, and even those forts, nests and other things were built by him and the prefect Zhang Zhibi, so he was not unfamiliar with this. However, the Ming army's offensive was too fierce, and the Qing army was not given a chance to breathe, as if they were a group of monsters who did not know what pain and fear were.

"It's really fierce, no wonder you can kill King Dingnan."

He also saw such a face when he was in Dongjiang, the Qing army, or the Houjin army at that time, and the Dongjiang army. The former may still lie in Yidi's savage nature, while the latter is more about hatred and hunger.

The Ming army in front of him was obviously not like the ones he had seen before, and as for why, he had guessed something based on experience. However, this is not something he can dismantle by tricks, and at this moment, only by fighting to the death can he have that glimmer of life. Otherwise, if you really want Li Dingguo to go straight to the city of Guangzhou, it will be too late to say anything! 、

On the city wall, the Qing army was still fighting to the death. Inside the city wall, a group of Qing troops wearing armor, armed with sharp axes, and carrying shields and swords lined up in two rows. The auxiliary soldiers handed the well-made porcelain bowls to these Qing soldiers, and then the auxiliary soldiers behind them carried wine jars to pour wine for the Qing soldiers holding the bowls one by one.

The wine pours from the jar into the bowl, and the subsequent wine pushes the wine in front of it, as if the back waves of the Yangtze River are always pushing the front waves, pushing the wine high and then falling back into the bowl. There was no shortage of splashes outside, but no one wiped half a minute, just silently watched the wine pour full, that's all.

"Soldiers, we all came out of Liaodong, followed the imperial court, and followed the old prince to live a good life in this rich land of Guangdong, just like the porcelain bowl we use to drink at this moment, who has used such a delicate one in Liaodong? But now, the old thieves out there, they want to take it all away...... As long as the city of Zhaoqing falls, Guangzhou is bound to be unprotected. When the time comes, our parents, wives and children, the gold, silver and jewelry we have accumulated over the years, and even our lives, will all have to be handed over to those old thieves outside! ”

When I was in Liaodong, I had such a happy pastoral life of men and women weaving, and most of the Qing troops in it had never experienced it. They are all the younger generation of Liaodong Han people, and their memories are more about the hunger during the Dongjiang Town period, and the massacre, killing, and looting that followed the Manchu Qing after the Qing Dynasty. Today's good days are all made by killing Han people. It's like that Guangzhou city, if it weren't for the nosy guy named Chen Kai, he would definitely have to kill more and grab more gold and silver goods.

All this is built on such a foundation that when the Ming army comes back, especially those who are still former rogues, they will inevitably be afraid. What's more, with Kong Youde as an example, at this moment, the Ming army is besieging on three sides, leaving the Taotao River in the south of the city alone in front of them, and no one dares to hope for the possibility of surviving.

"Kill the old thief! Kill the old thief! ”

On the opposite side of the Qing army, Xu Erxian spoke out, and the anger of the Qing army was even worse. The military heart is available, seeing this, Xu Erxian is not ambiguous, takes a bowl of water and wine, and takes the lead to drink it. And those Qing soldiers also drank the wine in the same way, and then only heard the crisp sound, and the Qing soldiers who had drunk the wine threw the porcelain bowls to the ground......

The offensive of the Ming army was still fierce, and gradually the Ming army had climbed the city wall and fought with the Qing army on the city wall. At this time, Xu Erxian also took the Qing army to the top of the city, and did not care about the first arrival of the Ming army, but allowed those Qing troops to tie ropes on the battlements in this tense city attack and defense battle.

In the next moment, Xu Erxian gave an order, and the Qing army shouted, dragged the rope and crossed the battlement, and then followed the rope and went down the city.

"Kill the old thief!"

After leaving the city, the Qing army quickly launched an attack on the Ming troops who were besieging the city. They are dead soldiers, and they have no intention of returning alive in the city. The purpose of the Qing army was very clear, that is, to destroy the siege equipment of the Ming army, thus cutting off the offensive of the Ming army.

On one side, he was still struggling to attack the city, putting all his energy into climbing the ladder and shooting the Qing army from under the city, while on the other side was completely attacking and killing with his life. Li Dingguo naturally saw it clearly, and hurriedly sent cavalry reinforcements. Soon, the dead soldiers of the Qing army in Xiacheng were killed by the Ming army, but before that, more than 100 ladders of the Ming army were also smashed by the Qing army.

Li Dingguo thought that he could go down with one drum, so he only built a batch of ladders to start the siege operation. Unexpectedly, the Qing army still had such a hand, even if it disrupted his rhythm. However, the siege equipment was destroyed by the Qing army, and although the Ming army was fierce, it could not climb the city wall with bare hands, so it had to withdraw its troops and return to the camp.

The Qing army had rich combat experience, and Li Dingguo saw that the strong attack was ineffective, so he took a short rest, so he ordered his soldiers to use cloth bags to pile up the soil as a wall, plant trees into a fence, supplemented by a sign as a cover, and use firearms to snipe the Qing army.

In doing so, on the surface, he was trying to consume the living strength of the Qing army and turn the rapid attack into a slow attack, but in fact, Li Dingguo secretly organized manpower to dig tunnels behind those invisible walls of the Qing army, and excavated tunnels leading to the interior of Zhaoqing City!

The confrontation between the head of the city and the wall continued, although Xu Erxian could not see the movement behind the wall at the head of the city, but the Ming army's continuous transportation of soil to strengthen the parapet wall was clearly in front of him. Seeing this, he ordered the defenders to hold out and continue to shoot at the Ming army in the city, while digging a trench behind the city wall.

The artillery of the Qing army was bombarding the earthen wall of the Ming army, but the earthen wall was piled up too quickly, and the damage caused by the solid shells was minimal.

With the passage of time, the excavation of the Ming army gradually became effective. Beneath the ground, with the digging deeper, a few days later, the Ming army dug under the city wall.

The Ming army's excavation continued, and the Qing army's trench on the other side of the city wall was also dug. The Qing army of the brigade waited in the trench, just waiting for the Ming army to connect the tunnel with the trench.

Standing in the trench, the breathing of the Qing army became heavier and heavier with the sound of the Ming army digging earth and rocks. I don't know how long it had been, but the tip of an iron shovel protruded from the dirt to the side of the ditch near the wall, like a resurrected corpse stretching out its arms into the sun. When it was retracted, there was a hole, accompanied by a series of exclamations.

Next, the excavation still did not stop, just under the eyes of the Qing army, the Ming army slowly excavated, but never poked their heads out to see the situation outside. Finally, a hole was dug to allow the soldiers to break through, but at this time, it was not the assault warriors of the Ming army who rushed out, but a group of Ming troops with cards, and they were completely on the defensive.

"Kill!"

The battle broke out, and the Ming army's players stood shoulder to shoulder, resisting the Qing army's ambush. Subsequently, hand-to-hand combat broke out, and the soldiers on both sides fought hard in the trenches and tunnels, all of them took out the strength to eat, but for a while, they had no choice but to get the opponent's cent, just to increase consumption.

The surprise attack was not successful, and it was reduced to adding fuel, which was a taboo for soldiers, especially the Qing army in the city had already prepared, even if the Ming army was alert and resisted the first round of ambushes, but the Qing army also had an advantage in terms of geographical advantages. On the surface, the exchange is very unfriendly to the Ming army, but Li Dingguo has 40,000 troops, and Xu Erxian's defenders are only a few thousand.

Xu Erxian asked Shang Kexi for help overnight, and in Guangzhou, the two feudal domains of Pingnan and Jingnan were also closely observing the battle situation in Zhaoqing, and had already prepared a large army to help, just waiting for the veterans of Li Dingguo's division to be tired. Unexpectedly, it was only a few days, and with Zhaoqing Jiancheng, Xu Erxian was about to be unable to hold on, which really broke through Shang Kexi's glasses.

"The old thief is so fierce!"

Kong Youde Yin Jian was not far away, and Shang Kexi walked back and forth in the hall many times, but the anxiety in his chest could not be dissipated.

"What is the prince worried about, but Chen Kai's house?"

After the war at the end of last year, Geng Jimao's health has been poor and he is completely unable to serve. In addition, he was defeated by Chen Kai twice, the first time he lost nearly 1,000 vassal soldiers, and the second time he lost 3,000 or 4,000 vassal soldiers, plus a left-wing general soldier, the Qing court was extremely dissatisfied with the command ability of this little prince, and simply made a decree to let Geng Jimao recuperate.

While recuperating from illness, in the past few months, the Qing court has transferred three or four thousand green battalion soldiers from the north to supplement the vassal soldiers of the Jingnan Domain. There are those in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and even the establishment of the two towns of Huizhou Town and Xin'an Town, if it weren't for the fact that the Qing court has a strong enough foundation now, I am afraid that it may not be able to bear it.

However, in terms of the command of these Qing troops, the Qing court could no longer trust Geng Jimao, the general of the defeated army, and handed them over to the king of Pingnan, Shang Kexi. Even the rebuilt Jingnan Domain was temporarily commanded by Shang Kexi.

At this moment, Lian Decheng, who was ordered to attend the meeting, asked in a speech, and it was really based on Chaozhou's detailed report, and Chen Kailian disappeared with Zhongchong and Hussar Towns. For the guy who always has new tricks to toss them, seeing Shang Kexi's look at this moment, Lian Decheng of course thought of this person for the first time. But in this regard, Shang Kexi shook his head.

"One thousand infantry in Zhongchong Town, five hundred cavalry in Hussar Town, Chen Kai brought this thing over, but this prince wants to laugh at it. What I'm worried about is not just Chen Kai, because the imperial court in southern Fujian sent Jin Li to put great pressure on Zheng Wei, Zheng Wei can't go west in a big way, and Chen Kai's little men and horses alone are not enough to help us. Not to mention, he only set off with those 1,500 soldiers, and he must have another ghost. ”

"After thinking about it, Chen Kai and Lianchengbi joined forces, relying on the water division, into the mouth of Jiulong, and then tried to meet the old thief through the Xijiang waterway. In this way, it is possible to avoid the heavily guarded town of Guangzhou. At that time, once the two armies meet, with the ferocity of the old thief, supplemented by Chen Kai's cunning, that is the most fatal thing! ”

Hearing the song and knowing the elegant meaning, Lian Decheng of course understood what Shang Kexi meant, and immediately asked for orders to try to intercept it with his own soldiers and horses. However, Shang Kexi did not agree with this, because Li Dingguo's army was coming, he wanted to take the main forces of the two feudal clans to meet the battle, and only promised to give Lian Decheng a few hundred cavalry.

In addition, he pointed out a location on the map and told Lian Decheng unmistakably that he would set up an ambush here, and as long as the Ming army dared to come, he would definitely be able to catch them off guard.

"Kapok Head Ferry?"

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