On May 28, Zhong Feng led a 5,000-strong trap regiment to attack the capital of Jinan Prefecture according to the order of Li Zhi, the governor of Shandong, who had blocked the supply of cotton from Shandong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, and the city is tall and steep.

The walls of Jinan were originally built of rammed earth. Hongwu four years, Jinan city wall bricks. The circumference of the city wall is 12 miles and 48 zhang, 3 zhang 3 feet high, and 5 zhang wide. Gate 4: Qichuan in the east, Luoyuan in the west, Lishan in the south, and Huibo in the north. There are 11 towers, 3,350 battlements, 55 flagstands, and 4 turrets.

There were 3,000 pacesetters under the command of Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, plus 800 soldiers guarding the city and countryside, a total of 3,800 people guarded the city of Jinan. Speaking of which, such a defensive force is quite impressive.

However, the trap regiment is an army in the era of thermal weapons. These lofty city walls, these thousands of defenders, in front of the trapped regiment, are not worthy of the word opponent.

Zhong Feng set out on this expedition with forty eighteen-pounder guns. These eighteen-pounder guns were four inches and three cents in caliber, each cannon weighed 3,200 catties, plus the gun carriage weighed more than 4,000 catties, and it took twelve pack horses to drag it.

Because of these heavy cannons, Fanjiazhuang traveled 600 miles to Jinan, and the trapped regiment walked for 16 days.

The army of the trapped regiment arrived at the city of Jinan, and the city of Jinan had already known about the arrival of the trapped regiment, and closed the city gate and put on a posture of stubborn defense. The 3,000 standard army had no problem with their loyalty to the governor, and they demolished their houses in the city to raise wood, and posed for a battle to the death with the trapped.

Zhong Feng looked at the Shandong pacesetters standing on the city wall, smiled and said, "The mantis arm is a car!" ”

With a wave of Zhong Feng's hand, the forty sixteen-pounder cannons moved to two miles away from the city wall, and they all aimed at the middle of the northern city wall of Jinan.

"Fire! Smash the walls down! ”

Forty gun commanders lit the arquebus on the cannon, which gradually burned out, igniting large particles of black powder in the chamber. Only forty loud bangs were heard, and huge tongues of fire came out of the muzzles, making people's eyes flash and have to close their eyes. Forty cannons produced a huge recoil force that shook the ground nearby.

The horses of the officers of the trap regiment neighed in fright and even ran out.

A volley of forty heavy cannonballs hit the targeted section of the wall, smashing into the blue bricks that had been wrapped in rammed earth. The huge impact caused the city wall to shake violently, like an earthquake, and frightened the guards on this section of the city wall to flee in a hurry.

Under the huge force of the cannonball, the blue bricks were smashed into powder by the cannonball in an instant. The female wall at the edge of the wall collapsed at once, fell at the foot of the wall, and became broken bricks. The rammed earth inside the city walls was also shaken off by forty shells. There was no longer a steep right-angle angle between the wall and the ground, and the collapsed rammed earth fell to the ground, turning the wall into a slope.

For the first time, the defenders on the city wall saw the grand scene of so many heavy artillery bombarding the city wall, and they turned pale with fright.

The shelling came one after another, smashing on the walls again and again, breaking down section after section of the wall. The cannons fought for a morning, and finally smashed a section of the 200-step city wall, and smashed this section of the city wall covered with bricks into a dirt slope. The rammed earth that had fallen down filled the moat.

The originally strict city wall of Jinan City was punched out of a huge opening.

The soldiers of the trap regiment, armed with loaded rifles, climbed up the wall from this section of the dirt slope.

At the beginning, there were still a few pacesetter battalion officers who wanted to organize a charge and stop the advance of the trapped regiment. But in the rows of rifle salvos of the soldiers of the trap regiment, the soldiers of the standard battalion soon discovered that they were not qualified to be a dish of the soldiers of Fanjiazhuang.

The soldiers of Fanjiazhuang stood on the dirt slope and fired in three bursts in a row of ten, killing the pacesetters who tried to rush up like a massacre. The pacesetters of the governor of Shandong plucked up their courage to rush forward again and again, and were defeated again and again by the soldiers of the trapped regiment, and finally jumped off the city wall in a panic.

The Tiger Divisions were simply too well equipped, and the rows of volleys of rifle formations were dominant in the narrow terrain. The artillery of the trapped regiment, as well as the steel armor on the soldiers, all made the pacesetters of the Shandong governor have the urge to escape. After throwing down more than 100 corpses, the pacesetters lost their confidence in the fierce battle, scattered as birds and beasts, threw away their weapons and took off their battle jackets and fled into the city.

The soldiers of the trap regiment stood on the four walls and controlled the four gates.

The north gate was opened, and Zhong Feng rode a horse and drove into Jinan with a swagger.

The soldiers entered the city, and the people of the city fled back to their homes one by one. They locked the courtyard gate and secretly watched the well-armed army through the cracks in the courtyard gate.

Zhong Feng looked at Gao Ligong, the "Ambassador of the Overseas Agency of the Shogunate", and said with a smile: "Ambassador Gao, this prince is close at hand in Tianjin, and he dares to provoke his uncle with such a vulnerable army under his command?" ”

Gao Ligong smiled and said: "Commander Zhong, the uncle breaks the cliché in doing things, how could Wang Gongbi have expected that the uncle would dare to attack Jinan?" ”

Zhong Feng took a sip and said, "If you don't kill a few gentry leaders, these gentry think they can be lawless!" ”

Before he reached the governor's yamen, five fast horses rode in front, and the first one was a battalion commander under Zhong Feng.

The battalion commander rushed to Zhong Feng and said loudly: "Regiment commander, I have caught Wang Gongbi's family of twelve who want to escape from the south gate!" ”

Zhong Feng hehehe, and said, "Bring it on!" ”

In the middle of the night, an elderly man with a white beard and hair dressed in civilian clothes walked in front of Zhong Feng with eleven family members wearing cotton and linen single clothes. Although Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, was caught in Yifu and escaped, he still had a little temper, and he looked at Zhong Feng angrily and shouted: "You dare to storm Jinan City? This is a rebellion! ”

Zhong Feng said to a personal soldier beside him: "Slap him!" ”

The pro-soldier sang a promise loudly, and when he went up, he slapped Wang Gongbi on the right side of the face, causing Wang Gongbi to stumble and fall to the ground.

Wang Gongbi glared at Zhong Feng fiercely on the ground, gritted his teeth and shouted, "I am the governor of the palace!" Do you dare to hit me? ”

"Fight again!"

The soldiers shouted the order, grabbed Wang Gongbi again, slapped him on the left side of the face, and hit Wang Gongbi to the ground. The pro-soldier opened his bow left and right, slapped Wang Gongbi five times, and the elderly Wang Gongbi trembled and fainted. The pro-soldiers haven't enjoyed the fight yet, and they have to fight again when they catch Wang Gongbi, but Wang Gongbi, who was beaten with blood in his mouth, has already collapsed.

The governor of Shandong finally understood that Zhong Feng would kill him at any time, and knelt on the ground with a puff, two lines of turbid tears on his face.

"Stop fighting! Stop hitting me! The general spares his life! Wang Gongbi repented, and the general spared the lives of my family of twelve! ”

Seeing Wang Gongbi kneeling, all the eleven people behind him knelt down and shouted for mercy.

Zhong Feng sneered and said, "You arrested the men and women of the eleven cotton merchants, and now they have been locked up for more than half a month, how many have died?" ”

When Wang Gongbi heard this, his blood-red face suddenly turned snow-white, and he knelt on the ground and trembled, not daring to answer.

Zhong Feng's face changed abruptly, and he shouted: "How many have died?" ”

Wang Gongbi knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and replied tremblingly: "Seven dead..."

Zhong Feng said coldly: "These cotton merchants are all friends of my Xingguobo, and one life is worth two lives of your Wang family." Since seven have died, all the males of your family have folded in! ”