Speaking of which, the first half of Shang Kexi's life, at least ten years, was spent in a bloody battle with the Houjin Manchurians.

For him, this is a decade of good resisting evil and serving the country, and it can be regarded as the most glorious decade of his life.

He was still gratifying, originally at the beginning of Nurhachi's army, when he led the Houjin Eight Banners to invade the Liaoshen region and raged wildly, he and his father and brother were angry, unwilling to be oppressed and enslaved by the murderous nation, and joined the rebellion under the command of Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of Daming Dongjiang Town, who was stationed on Phi Island.

Since then, he has fought bloodily for ten years, and has been promoted to the deputy general of Guangludao in Dongjiang Town, Daming Dynasty.

In the past ten years, Shang Kexi's father and brother have died in the battlefield of anti-Jin, and then hundreds of people from their families have been killed, which can be described as a combination of national hatred and family hatred.

However, in the officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty, one word was "chaos", in just a few years, Mao Wenlong was killed, and factions in Dongjiang Town were in dispute, and mutinies continued.

The new boss is either stupid and incompetent, or he declares a personal vendetta and vigorously cuts out dissidents.

When the situation was chaotic and he felt persecuted by his boss and colleagues, in a fit of anger, he disregarded the hatred of the country and the family, suddenly lowered the Houjin, and turned around to massacre his compatriots, becoming a shameful traitor.

For this reason, Shang Kexi received a very high courtesy from Huang Taiji, praising him for "reaching the right to change", "knowing the danger of fortune, knowing the back of the times", and rewarding countless treasures.

Later, when the Jin changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji added Shang Kexi as one of the "Three Shun Kings", and gave Haizhou as his fief, and his subordinates were also compiled into the blue flag of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, which can be described as extremely heavy.

Since then, he has not been able to turn back, and is willing to be a Manchu eagle dog, and has participated in the pacification of Korea, the battle of Songjin, the entry into the south and other battles, until Guangzhou.

He killed countless people along the way, suppressed the people of the Ming Dynasty who rose up to resist everywhere, stained his crown red with the blood of his Han compatriots, and eventually became the Han thief pointed out by thousands of people.

……

Retribution is coming so fast!

The days of leisure haven't tasted enough, and they will turn into clouds of smoke in the blink of an eye?

To this day, "Is it repentance? Is it hate? ”

Shang Kexi can't even tell himself, maybe it's both, right?

"May it, heaven, bless me...... Get through this catastrophe......"

Shang Kexi's face was like ashes, his eyes were closed, and he spit out these words intermittently like a dream, and then stretched out two fingers of his right hand and waved it gently.

Nie Bao was very interested, and when he saw this, he hurriedly got up, made a silent gesture, and bowed his body and quietly exited the study.

……

However, the heavens did not respond to Shang Kexi's prayers.

Only one day later, on the evening of the third day, Zu Zeqing's boat returning from Guangzhou had just arrived at the Yuejianglou Wharf outside Zhaoqing, and got a big bad news.

Zu Zeqing, who had just landed on the shore and was greeting with a group of generals who had rushed to greet him, accidentally looked up at the south bank of the Xijiang River.

Suddenly, I found that the smoke was billowing in the direction of Gaoyao County, and the river on the opposite bank was crowded with the figures of the rout, and more than a dozen small boats in the river had just left the shore and were desperately rowing towards the north bank......

After Zu Zeqing came out of the Pingnan Palace, he stayed in his own mansion in Guangzhou that night, and a bleak goodbye to his wives and concubines and relatives was naturally inevitable.

The next day, because he was waiting to receive the salary and supervising the ordnance, grain and grass, etc., the distraught Zu Zeqing entangled and argued with the officials of the palace yamen for a long time, so he was almost delayed in Guangzhou for another day.

It wasn't until it was dark that he hurriedly boarded the boat and returned to Zhaoqing.

More than 100 miles of crooked waterway, and it was against the current overnight, until the evening of the third day, the boat arrived in Zhaoqing, unexpectedly, what I saw when I raised my eyes was this miserable scene.

"What's going on? Don't...... The thief has already killed the supreme king? ”

Zu Zeqing was shocked, stared at the opposite shore with puzzled eyes, and hurriedly said to the deputy general who came to greet him: "Quick, catch those boats and inquire, what is the situation!" ”

"Huh! Hurry up, stop them! ”

The deputy general, who was also stunned, turned his head and waved his hand, shouting at the soldiers behind him.

Soon, the fleeing ship's rout was intercepted, and a small officer who had not yet recovered from his panic was escorted up.

After asking, it turned out that just two hours ago, the figure of the Ming army appeared under the city of Gaoyao, and two hours later, Gaoyao was lost.

"Two hours? This...... How can it be? ”

Zu Zeqing exclaimed, and then shouted angrily, "What about Wang Guodong? This bale of straw! Where is he? ”

"Go back to the capital, and the counselor will be him, he will ...... Already...... Martyrdom. ”

The gray-faced leader trembled all over and replied with a crying voice.

"Huh?" Zu Zeqing almost fell to the ground......

Who did this? Is it really the Ming Army?

Is this still a siege? Or is it still a war?

This horse is a tornado!

Zhaoqing Mansion City, backed by the steep Dinghu Mountain, facing the Xijiang River, which turns sharply here, is easy to defend and difficult to attack because of the back of the mountain and the river.

If the Ming army wanted to capture Zhaoqing, the only way for the sailors to go down the river by boat, or to capture the county town of Gaoyao on the other side of the Xijiang River by land, and then try to cross the river.

At present, in the upper reaches of the Xijiang River, there is an iron chain between the two mountains, and there are several water villages built by the river, which have piled up a large number of flammable materials, and the Ming army does not have a strong water division at all, so there is only one way to attack by land.

The county seat of Gaoyao, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river, is a small riverside city.

Because it faces each other across the river from Zhaoqing, it is a horn for each other, and the two places are only more than ten miles apart, which is not only the only barrier of Zhaoqing Fucheng, but also the place where the Ming army must take.

For this reason, Dutong (equivalent to the Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners, author's note) Zu Zeqing specially ordered the participation (equivalent to the Jiala Ezhen of the Manchu Eight Banners, author's note) Wang Guodong led three Han army Jiala, nearly 5,000 people to garrison Gaoyao.

On both sides of the Xijiang River, a large number of wooden boats were docked for communication, and if necessary, troops could be increased at any time.

Confident of natural danger, the two places are each other's horns, Zu Zeqing is very confident, although the general trend is more auspicious, but he thinks that at least there is no problem in guarding him for a month.

You must know that in the era of cold weapons, it is not so easy to attack a fortified city.

Just the year before last, the prince led tens of thousands of troops to besiege Guangzhou, which was unsafe to defend, but it took ten months to attack and how many people died, and it was not easy to take it.

……

Where would Zu Zeqing know, let alone a small county town like Gaoyao, even his Zhaoqing City, in the eyes of Lin Xiao, is simply paper-paste.

As far as the modern army of the 21 st century is concerned, even if it is an army, the importance of fighting a war is to kill and injure the enemy's vital forces, and second, to capture strategic points.

No matter how strong the city gates are in this era, as long as they want to, they only need a shot.

So, who came to attack Gaoyao, who is so powerful, which way is it?

In fact, the besiegers were neither Xia Bomin's Northern Route Army nor the Southern Route Army, but the Ming general Wang Xing, who was arranged in the middle lane.

……

The day before, as soon as the sky was brightened, Lin Xiao got up, took Duan Zhenghong and Wang Dong, ran for a while with great interest, played a set of military boxing, watched the soldiers' morning exercises for a while, and went back to breakfast.

Zhang Chenfeng, He Shouxin, Situ Zheng, Yu Cheng and others need to lead their troops to practice, so Lin Xiao's side is only accompanied by Duan Zhenghong, the commander of the light pole, who has no soldiers to bring, and Wang Dong, the leader of the communication squad.

Because he can only set off in the evening at the earliest, Lin Xiao wants to go to Shangchuan Island today.

From there, you can see the cliffs in the distance.

Thanks to book friends: "Fireworks", "Yang Junyuyao", "Baby", "Can't Think of It", "You Are in Me" and "Quasi-Proposed" tips! Thank you!

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