Chapter 393: Entering the City (Third Update, Asking for Support)

(The content is heavy,,,, tears run)

On one side of the city are the people of Guangzhou, and on the other side are the Qing army of the Han army under the command of Shang Kexi, and most of the people who speak Cantonese can't understand the words of the Qing army in Liaodong, and the Qing army can't understand what they are talking about. In fact, most of the time, there was not much interaction between the two sides, at most at the time of the order, the Qing army on that side would give the order through a local who could understand the official language. And the communication between the people and Zhuang who defended the city was naturally in Cantonese dialect, which the Qing army could not understand.

"But whoever the people in my city help the army to attack the city, they will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!"

I don't know when this news has spread among the people and Zhuang, no one knows where the news came from, but it is certain that it was an order from the King of Jin.

Help the army to siege the city?

What's the help?

Zhao Guozhen looked at Zhou Chenglin, in the past few days, he had been by his side all day long, listening to how he quietly spread the news.

Helping the army to siege the city was rewarded with ten taels of silver, and even the head of a captive was worth ten taels of silver.

For this reason, he had asked Zhou Chenglin more than once, whether this was true, and Zhou Chenglin even took out a notice quite mysteriously, which clearly wrote these words, of course, what made him even more convinced was that the notice had the big seal of King Jin. How could Zhao Guozhen, who only recognized the Great Seal, doubt it again?

"Give me a knife, just a knife ......"

Staring at the nearby Qing army, Zhao Guozhen only had one thought in his mind, he wanted a knife, if he had a knife in his hand, he might have cut it with a knife, but he didn't have a knife in his hand, they were now in the city, but they were just coolies, driving wooden stakes where the city wall was blown down, and then building bamboo baskets full of earth in it, although it would not be long before they would collapse again under the shelling, but Zhao Guozhen still did the same work every day like everyone else.

"Don't worry, it's not time yet,"

While working, looking at Zhao Guozhen, who was staring at the Qing soldiers from time to time, Zhou Chenglin whispered.

"When the time comes, let's do it again!"

When will that time be?

The shelling continued, and the 10-day bombardment had changed the city wall of Guangzhou, not to mention that the bricks of the city wall were blown to pieces, and even the city wall from Yongxingmen to Dadongmen was blown down several large openings, and in the continuous shelling, large pieces of broken bricks and mud fell from the gap above, and piled up to one-third of the city wall, piling up several large slopes that could accommodate thousands of people to go up to the city at the same time.

But even so, the Ming army still did not attack the city, they were still shelling the city walls, and large pieces of mud were still falling from the big mouth. In order to defend these places, the Qing army immediately mobilized a large number of men and horses around to prevent the Ming army from attacking the city.

Staring at those big slopes from the binoculars, Li Dingguo once again calculated in his heart, if he had gone past and saw such a few big slopes, I am afraid that he would have ordered the army to attack them, but now, he was extremely cautious, because he knew that the Qing army at the head of the city would definitely defend these big mouths with all his might.

"Dad, it's almost, I've been to see it, those big slopes are only hard, they will definitely be able to attack it, as long as you give the child 3,000 men and horses, the child will definitely knock down this Guangzhou city!"

Li Sixing's tone was a little excited, seeing that the few big slopes that could go to the city finally burst out, but he didn't send troops to attack the city, how could he not be anxious.

"King, if you don't attack the city now, maybe the Qing army will make up for it again."

Bai Wenxuan also persuaded on the side, but Li Dingguo shook his head and said.

"You don't understand, now, how can there be 3,000 men and horses in the hands of my father to squander?"

For Li Dingguo, who has insufficient troops, as long as there is a slight possibility, he will not take people to fill in the city, after all, the troops at hand are too limited, and if he conquers Guangzhou, he will take Guangdong and Guangxi, and this soldier and horse are already stretched, so he is naturally unwilling to attack Guangzhou.

It is precisely because of this that he will send people into the city, trying to incite those people to help him attack the city, and even promise a generous reward, although he does not even have 100,000 taels of silver in his hand, but it does not prevent him from taking out "one million taels of silver" as a reward, as long as he conquers Guangzhou, among the still gratifying palaces, there are more than one million taels of silver, he slaughtered the city all the way from the north to Guangzhou, and the plundered silver is more than millions of taels?

"Although there are several big slopes now, it still takes some effort for people to go up, let's wait, and when that section of the city wall collapses, we will send people up, but it's ......."

Li Dingguo picked up the telescope again, looking at the root of the city wall that was blasted out of a big hole, from the telescope can be seen, with the shelling, every time a large number of clods of soil fall in the deep hole, because of the shelling of the three sections of the city wall, this section is closest to the root of the city wall, so the slope of the city under the city is the slowest, but because of the thickness of the city wall root, so even after ten days of shelling, there is still no sign of collapse.

Staring at the big hole, Li Dingguo's mind moved another thought.

"Yugong, you say, what if we send a few thousand catties of gunpowder to that cave?"

Late that night, when the Qing army at the head of the city began to relax its vigilance because of the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, in the burned ruins outside the city, hundreds of Ming soldiers carried boxes of gunpowder, took advantage of the cover of night, directly rushed to the gentle slope under the city wall, and then entered a large hole in the deep city wall above the gentle slope that was more than ten zhang wide.

"Good boy, there are guns on the ground!"

As soon as they entered the cave, the soldiers in the cave were really shocked by the iron cannons all over the ground, these cannons were left behind by the shelling, and the cannons were hitting the rammed earth and bursting into large chunks of land

However, they didn't have time to think about this, but directly used the shovel to dig deep into the city wall, even if the movement was a little big, they were not too worried, after all, the shelling was still continuing, and it took them almost three hours to deepen this half-zhang deep hole to the inner wall, although the deepened hole was only one person high, two people wide, and one zhang deep, but it was barely enough.

After everyone dug out the secret passage in the wall, everyone began to stuff a wooden box into the hole, these neatly stacked wooden boxes were filled with 20 catties of gunpowder, which was a unique blasting box of the Loyal Army, for this mission, the fleet even swept away all the blasting boxes on the ship, a full 200 boxes of gunpowder were stacked in the hole, as much as 4000 pounds of gunpowder is enough to blow up the broken city wall.

After finally putting the fuses in place, they slid down the dirt slope, leaving only a few soldiers in charge of lighting and guarding, who were nervously staring at the burned houses nearby, and now nearly 10,000 brothers were hiding among the ruins, waiting for the last moment.

"King Qibing, the king has an order, attack the city immediately!"

The news brought by the herald made Li Sixing, who had long been unable to do it, immediately wave his hand to his subordinates on the side, and the man immediately lit a torch and shook it a few times. When the soldiers hiding in the cave received the signal, they immediately lit the fuse, and the long lead "Ziz" burned, and when the lead burned, they all desperately rushed out of the hole and ran into the distance.

It takes a few minutes for the long fuse to burn out, which is enough time for them to run away from Baizhang, and outside Baizhang, the soldiers of the Ming army who received the order all picked up their swords and guns, staring at the city wall, just waiting for this side of the city wall to be blown up, and they will kill into the city.

"Boom"

Suddenly, with a violent loud noise, the city wall erupted a flame, the flame was instantly swallowed by the smoke, in the smoke, the seemingly solid city wall of Guangzhou was violently lifted like a piece of paper, thousands of tons of adobe bricks collapsed in the explosion, forming two huge gentle slopes on both sides of the city wall, at the same time, almost at the moment of the explosion, Li Sixing, who was holding a steel knife, took the lead and rushed forward, when he rushed, he could even feel the impact of the explosion from the front city wallThere were even clods of earth that fell on him, but even so, he still did not stop, but rushed directly into the smoke, and when he stepped on the gentle slope formed by the collapsed city wall, although the broken earth under his feet seemed a little soft, and the potholes, and he could not see the front at all, but his footsteps did not stop, he rushed and shouted loudly.

"Rush, brothers, kill and take the city of Guangzhou!"

Take the city of Guangzhou!

Li Sixing's heart was beating violently, he only had one thought in his heart, he knew that taking Guangzhou would mean to his father and for them, which meant that from now on they would not only be able to end their lives of exile, but also be able to use this as a foundation to train troops, the Northern Expedition, and then restore the Ming Dynasty, so as to redeem the sins of yesterday, as the son of Li Dingguo, Li Sixing knows very well what his father cares about, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, every time he thinks of the suffering suffered by the people of the world, There are also people who were slaughtered by the Qing captives, and they will always regret the beginning.

Now, as long as the city of Guangzhou is captured, it can be taken as a foundation, and the Ming army will join the Ming army in the north to attack the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then it will naturally be able to atone for the sins of yesterday......

Compared with many of the ideas of the county king, the ideas of the soldiers who followed him could not be simpler, for these soldiers who have been running in the wilderness of the mountains and forests in the southwest in the past few years, after witnessing the prosperity of Guangdong, they are not eager to stay here for a long time, they know that whether they can stay here and take Guangdong depends on whether they can take the city of Guangzhou today.

Even if it is death, it will die in Guangzhou!

Every soldier who rushed to the city had this in mind, and when they rushed to the city and were about to kill the enemy, they saw that the city would be completely different.