Lao Wang's gloomy departure clearly told the outside world that he could completely let go of his hands.

The court will not take care of it anymore.

Immediately afterwards, the governor of Southern Jiangxi, the governor of Yunnan, and even the Duke of Qianguo, who had not formally rebelled before, but only warned the governor of Fengyang, and even the distant governor of Guangxi, all joined the ranks of the rebellion.

However, Guangdong did not join.

After all, the Nanyang Naval Division was stationed on Hong Kong Island, and the strongest army in Guangzhou was the new army that Yang Xin had organized and trained at the beginning, and there were also a large number of Yang family members on Hong Kong Island and Macao. Although the main force went south to escort the Western ambassadors, the Nanyang sailors who stayed on Hong Kong Island were still the bosses of this sea, not to mention those family members, because of the developed canned food industry, the Yang family has recruited a large number of employees over the years, and Macao and Hong Kong alone can pull out 20,000 or 30,000 young adults.

And all have weapons.

And all carry out daily military training.

Guangdong officials are not stupid, others can raise the banner of rebellion without worrying about danger, but they really risk their lives when they raise it, don't you see that even the imperial court dare not move?

But with the exception of Guangdong, the whole south raised the banner of rebellion.

However, there was no attack on Nanjing.

After all, they also have self-knowledge, and the soldiers they put together are at most the level of the Jiangxi front, and the Ming army on the Jiangxi front line has been violently beaten by the Datong army before, which means that there is a huge gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides.

Therefore, the matter of attacking Nanjing should be left to the Datong army.

The rebel army in other provinces only needs to watch Yang Xin's henchmen and prevent them from rebelling and going to Nanjing for reinforcements. The only ones who really did it were Zheng Zhilong's Fujian regimental training, and they and the Yang family's fleet began to attack each other at sea, and even Zheng Zhilong tried to attack Taiwan, but was blocked by the combined forces of the Yang family and the Li family in Penghu.

Under Xu Xinsu's orders, some of the armed merchant ships of the Nanyang Company participated in the battle to help the Yang-Li coalition army.

Including Yu Zhigao also joined the alliance.

He and his subordinate Nanao Island Military General Group is one of the three major shareholders of Nanyang Company, Yang Xin, Li Dan family, and the Military General Group headed by Yu Zhigao and Fang Yifeng jointly formed this company.

In fact, the battle in the southeast sea has nothing to do with Yang Xin's rebellion, it is the general outbreak of the contradiction between the Minshang Group and the Nanyang Company, Yang Xin or something is just an excuse, this war is the battle for maritime trade caused by Li Dan's death. Behind Zheng Zhilong are the Dutch and Fujian private maritime merchants, including some in Guangdong, who are trying to solve the problem of Nanyang Company, which has stolen more and more of the cake, and the increasingly important control of the Kuroshio route.

As for how the north loves to fight, it has nothing to do with them.

Originally, it was similar in history.

It was Zheng Zhilong who fought with Li Guozhu and Xu Xinsu after Li Dan's death for everything left by Li Dan, and the latter originally attracted the official army led by Yu Zhigao in history, but the result was that Yu Zhigao was defeated, and Xu Xinsu was killed by Zheng Zhilong.

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Zhilong accepted Zhao'an.

Then he relied on the civil officials, but became bigger and even began to monopolize the sea, and provoked the Dutch to support Liu Xiang and others, and finally it was the general decisive battle between the two sides in Liuluo Bay, but the Dutch were defeated, and from then on they had to admit Zheng Zhilong's control of the sea. Now it is just a new version of the battle between Yu Zhigao and Xu Xinsu against Zheng Zhilong in 1627 in the original history, and the root cause is not Yang Xin's rebellion, but Li Dan's death, Yang Xin's rebellion just gave Zheng Zhilong enough courage to act.

However, there is nothing to worry about for Yang Xin, because the two battleships of the Nanyang Fleet are all scum after they return.

And so it was fast to the end of the year.

"It's finally begun!"

On the city wall in the cold wind, Yang Dudu looked outside with interest.

The Qinhuai River outside the city wall has exposed the frozen riverbed, and there are only a few places of stagnant water, which has also been frozen by the severe cold, and a dam upstream blocks the river and leads to the west, and the entire inner and outer Qinhuai River has lost its water source.

And the fortress on Yuhuatai stands.

Beneath the huge boomerang fortress were small holes, and the muzzles of the cannons were hidden in them, and even with his eyesight, he had to rely on a telescope to see.

It took Zhang Mingzhen two months to cast 12 cannons of 15,000 pounds, which is probably close to the 60-pound level according to European standards, which is absolutely a miracle. And what supports this miracle is the concerted efforts of the entire Jiangnan gentry, even the Huguang gentry sent him the best craftsmen, the Jiangxi gentry even sent a large number of copper, and the recent Taiping Mansion gentry even used the Xuande furnace at home to melt the casting cannon for him.

It is quite the style of the people of the Japanese country in the nuclear era to tighten their belts and support the war.

Tin is also the best.

The Duke of Qianguo, who knew about this, specially sent someone to transport the best tin ingots on horses, and then sent it by post road relay.

Relying on the power of the entire Jiangnan, Zhang Mingzhen finally cast twelve giant cannons in two months, and then, under the impetus of countless coolies, pushed from the cannon casting site along the track little by little to this fortress, and stretched out the cannon muzzle from the inside to aim at the city of Nanjing......

"If you don't force me, I don't know that our Daming can still make a giant cannon of this level!"

Yang Dudu said.

Almost at the same time, a hole in the distant fortress erupted with fire, and the next moment the whistling of the cannonball swept on the left side, Yang Xin immediately turned his head, and the high-pitched cannonball swept past the city wall and crashed into the Confucius Temple at once. Although it had already flown more than 2,000 meters, it was still like a bulldozer, collapsing half of the Dacheng Hall in an instant, and the cannonball still crashed through the collapsing rubble, directly penetrating the entire Confucius Temple.

Yang Xin turned his head and raised the horn.

"Zhang Mingzhen, you dare to blaspheme Kong Sheng, you have collapsed the Dacheng Palace!"

He yelled.

The next moment the second hole erupted in flames.

With the whistling sound of cannonballs, this huge cannonball weighing more than forty catties suddenly hit the city wall half a mile away on the left......

"This wall is really strong!"

He exclaimed.

More than 40 catties of reborn iron balls, the result of hitting the Nanjing city wall at supersonic speed, just smashed themselves, and then left a crater on the city wall with a diameter of more than one meter and a depth of more than half a meter, but the surrounding city bricks were obviously a little loose. But this city wall, which Zhu Yuanzhang worked so hard to do, even after more than 200 years of wind and rain, still really showed its value, and the more than 40 catties of cannonballs that were enough to collapse the rammed earth city wall only created a small scar on it.

The 10,000-pound cannon is quite scary, but it is really not as powerful as the 105 cannon, and it can play this effect, and there are a bunch of various bullet marks on the modern Nanjing city wall.

The most of them is probably this level.

"Grandpa, are we going to fight back?"

The subordinate next to him asked.

At present, the defenders of the city are still his family members, and the new army is still training, only two months, that is, let them learn to line up and use weapons, and they have to rely on their family members to defend the city for the time being.

"Withdraw all under the city walls, whatever they want, don't waste shells, when they blast away!"

Yang Xin said.

It didn't help him to fight back.

His eighteen-pound cannons can't hit the fortress, although there are a large number of mortars, especially the Beiyang Naval Division also sent him a large number of mortars, but this is useless for the Datong army hidden in the fortress. Those flowering shells are very precious, at least it would be too wasteful to use them for this, they are used to bombard the infantry, and Yang Dudu has never been prepared for an artillery battle with Zhang Mingzhen. Even if the latter collapses the city wall with 10,000 catties of cannons, they still have to rush in and engage the infantry, and then they will be waiting for them here.

It's just street fighting.

Yang Dudu likes street fighting the most.

As for the losses caused by these shells, it is not worth mentioning.

The city of Nanjing is large enough, and the people in this area have been evacuated out of range, and all that is left is a deserted house, even if it is destroyed by shells, it is nothing more than to build a new one.

The important building is the Confucius Temple.

If Zhang Mingzhen's cannonballs raze the Confucius Temple......

Yang Du will condemn him.

condemn him with righteous words.

"Remove the walls!"

The officer immediately shouted.

The soldiers around them, who were poking their heads out to look at the bullet marks and marveling, quickly turned to leave.

At this moment, the tethered balloons slowly rose in the city, and in the hanging baskets of the balloons, the soldiers wrapped in thick fur began to be on guard, but the soldiers who were originally defending the city all withdrew from the city wall and retreated to the caves. Behind them, two miles away on the Yuhuatai, in the fortress of the Datong Army, a huge cannon of 10,000 catties joined the ranks of bombarding the city wall of Nanjing, and the huge cannonballs flew out and hit the predetermined attack point.

Certainly not the Treasure Gate.

Even if there is a 10,000-pound cannon, Zhang Mingzhen also knows that it is completely unrealistic to blast open an almost solid brick stone that is more than ten zhang long and more than ten zhang wide.

I'm afraid this thing needs a ground-piercing bomb.

But the width of the city wall is less than four zhang, and his goal is a section more than a mile east of the Jubao Gate, where a gap is opened, and then the elite is gathered to break into the city, and at the same time, other places are strong and contained, as long as the city wall is broken, the city will almost be breached, but he doesn't know that the city's strongest defense force is not the city wall he is bombarding......

"The mustache and millions of troops have been drowned in Stalingrad, and these tens of thousands of people still want to plunge into the vast sea of the people's war?

Naive! ”

Yang Dudu said disdainfully.

The next moment, a cannonball hit the arrow stack not far away, and the arrow stack instantly turned into countless pieces, and then the cannonball hit the top of the city wall, and the huge force plowed through the shocking ravine at once, and then flew out of the city wall with countless broken bricks.

Immediately the exclamations of the soldiers rang out below.

Yang Dudu turned around and walked straight along the road to the city......

(Resumption of the third watch)

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