On April 28, in Anping Town, Jinjiang, Fujian, 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division surrounded Zheng Zhilong's private city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a small city with bricks on the city wall, the city wall is four zhang high, 300 steps long and more than 200 steps wide, there are two city gates in the north and south. The pirates who were captured alive by Li Zhi said that this city was called Dinghai City. There are Zheng Zhilong's luxurious private mansions built in the city walls, as well as some mansions of the Zheng family's military generals, in short, the Zheng family's base camp.

After Zheng Zhilong escaped from the sea, he hid in this city, hoping to hold on to the strong walls for some time.

The Zheng family's sailors have been defeated by Li Zhi, but the Zheng family is strong in the southeast and still has 20,000 foot soldiers. The Zheng family's news was more spiritual, and they informed the Tiger Master that he was powerful, and he did not go out of the city to fight with the Tiger Master. 20,000 people stubbornly guarded the thick city wall, hoping to rely on the city wall to keep the Zheng family's prosperity and wealth.

It should be said that Zheng Zhilong's strategy has a certain truth. There were more than sixty cannons on the walls of the Zheng family, many of which were more than a dozen pounds of heavy cannons. If the opponent was not a tiger division, there was basically no soldier or horse who could capture this private city with sixty cannons.

But when encountering Li Zhi's Tiger Division, such a defensive force is not enough.

Li Zhi unloaded three hundred heavy cannons from the ship and dragged them to the bottom of the walls of Dinghai City. In order to tow these cannons, Li Zhi requisitioned the people's mules and horses everywhere after getting off the ship. Of course, although Li Zhi was requisitioned, he still gave silver to the people.

After five busy days, it was not until the 28th that Li Zhi arranged the cannon outside the southern wall of Dinghai City. Little by little, the gunners pushed the gun carriage forward, marched to within five miles of the city wall, and began to bombard the batteries on the city wall with flowering shells.

The cannon was not fired at a distance of five miles. But it doesn't matter, even if the cannonball doesn't hit the fort and shoots into the city wall, it will be the Zheng family who will be injured. Li Zhi was not in a hurry at all, let the cannon bombard slowly, stop and cool down slowly when the barrel was hot, and shoot a few more rounds when the barrel was cooled.

Three hundred cannons bombarded the Zheng family's "Dinghai City" for two days, firing more than 10,000 rounds of flowering shells on and inside the city wall. The Zheng family's private soldiers were blown up, and their morale gradually collapsed.

The soldiers on the city walls also returned fire with artillery. But the light artillery could not reach it, and the heavy artillery had no lethality if it was fired five miles away. After the solid bullet is thrown high, the downward kinetic energy is too large, and it will not roll forward at high speed like when it is fired directly, and it will no longer move when it is smashed into the dirt. Unless it just happens to hit someone, it's a shot for nothing.

Li Zhi's flowering bomb is different, it will explode when projectile five miles away. The forts on the city walls are relatively strong, and it is difficult to knock through the strong forts when a flowering bullet is fired, and it takes three or four flowering shells to knock through the fort. Li Zhi bombed for two days, and only demolished more than 20 forts.

But the rest of the city wall was not so thickly defended, and the pheasant moat was smashed by flowering shells, which exploded in pieces. Even more vulnerable are the buildings and people in Dinghai City. The flowering bombs flew over the city wall and flew into the city to bombard indiscriminately, blowing up Dinghai City, which had been operated by the Zheng family for more than ten years, into a mess.

Li Zhi is not in a hurry, the cost of a flowering bullet is only seven dollars of silver. Even if the 30,000 flowering bombs on more than 50 boats were used up, it would only be more than 10,000 taels of silver. When the flowering bombs ran out, they sent a boat to Hsinchu to bring new ones. Compared to the huge harvest of winning Zheng Zhilong's lair, the consumption of these flowering bombs is nothing.

Blossom shells exploded one after another on and within the walls, and the projectiles that were fired were like death, harvesting nearby lives. The entire Dinghai City was blown up by Li Zhi into a Shura hell.

Although the people in Dinghai City quickly understood that dodging on the ground could reduce the casualties caused by the flowering bomb. But even so, more than 10,000 shells killed thousands of people in the city.

And Li Zhi's casualties are basically negligible. It was a one-sided massacre.

Obviously, if the fight continues like this, sooner or later, all the people in Dinghai City will be blown up by Li Zhi. Li Zhi didn't need to attack the city, he only needed to scatter artillery shells five miles away. It's a completely asymmetrical war.

In the early morning of the third day, Li Zhi's artillery began to tilt cannonballs towards Dinghai City again, and the Zheng family's private soldiers on the city wall collapsed. Li Zhi wanted Zheng Zhilong's life, why did they stupidly lie on the city wall and be blown up?

Seeing the robes being killed one by one, and seeing the corpses of the soldiers being carried down the city wall one by one, these soldiers could no longer stand this kind of massacre. Several private soldiers of the Zheng family rushed down the city wall despite the intimidation of the Zheng family officers and fled into the city regardless of it. The first soldiers to flee led the others, and the thousands of soldiers on the southern wall were finally all routed.

The routs rushed into the city with a clamor and hid in the buildings inside the city.

The collapse of the southern wall soon brought with it the soldiers of several other walls. When Li Zhi's cannon hit the third round, the soldiers of the entire Dinghai City had all collapsed. The soldiers of the Zheng family threw away their armor and crowded and shoved and hid in the city, without the courage to resist Li Zhi.

Li Zhi blasted open the southern city gate with cannons, erected a pontoon bridge over the moat, and sent a thousand soldiers into the city to capture Zheng Zhilong.

After being identified by the surrendered pirates, Zheng Zhilong was soon caught in the mansion in the city. The soldiers tied up this Fujian general soldier and put him in Li Zhi's military tent.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong's face was pale and trembling, where was the style that threatened Li Zhi in the court? His eyes were bloodshot, and he had apparently not slept well since escaping from the Battle of North Harbor.

Zheng Zhilong saw Li Zhi and closed his eyes helplessly. However, this pirate leader, who is used to dominating the sea, is still a little arrogant, and he saw that Li Zhi actually stood up and did not kneel.

Seeing Zheng Zhilong's stubbornness, Li Zhi smiled and said, "The chief officer is really not afraid of death?" ”

Zheng Zhilong's body trembled, but his neck stiffened, and he said loudly: "Zheng Zhilong has been on the sea for twenty years, and this life has long been out of his mind. Li Zhi, don't be arrogant, if you don't have that ironclad ship, where is my opponent Zheng Zhilong? ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, tough enough, really a tough pirate!" I, Li Zhi, will give you a happy one, and I will kill you in this Dinghai City! ”

Zheng Zhilong's body shook violently when he heard this, and he closed his eyes and said nothing.

Li Zhi smiled, and his eyes lit up a little and asked, "Chief Soldier, how much silver is there in this Dinghai City?" If you tell me honestly, I will give your wives and concubines a way to live, and give them 100 taels each to do a small business to make ends meet! ”

Zheng Zhilong heard Li Zhi say that he would not kill his children, and his righteous and awe-inspiring face was relieved.

Li Zhi said again: "Chief soldier, if you don't tell the location of the silver and my soldiers find out the silver, I will send someone to hunt down and kill your children." ”

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong sighed and said slowly: "I have been hoarding silver in Dinghai City for more than ten years, and I have saved seven million taels of silver, all of which are in the three cellars in the mansion. Jin Guogong blew up the rockery in my house, and naturally I saw the passage to the cellar. ”