Although the city gate of Qiantang in Hangzhou, which has been broken, has been planted with the Taiping green flag representing the change of hands, in the new city of Waiguo, sporadic fierce battles still continue in several areas.

"That's kind of interesting."

Wang Yanzhang, who was leaning against a wall, touched the blood stains flowing down his head and muttered to himself.

The sparse defenders at the head of the city, after retreating to the corresponding castle mansions, showed the opposite of courage, fighting spirit, and tenacity. It is also mixed with some melee skills and good sword skills.

Therefore, Wang Yanzhang was driven straight in, and he couldn't help but fall into the siege of the other party, so he could only retreat back to regroup and relieve his breath a little, and he was also hit several times on his body and head.

"Captain, let me rush for a while, I don't believe this...

As one of the three brothers from the old rebel army, Zhang Guiba's third brother Zhang Guiben couldn't help but say. Then he was slapped on the head by Wang Yanzhang and drank:

"You stupid guy, how many times have we said it in the evening study, as long as there is a better choice, don't just risk your life to fight."

"The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has good food and drink, and it has enough salary to support everyone, but it's not like you will give up your life casually. Use more brains, use more thoughts, don't just be stupid and just cover your head and rush forward. ”

Then, he shouted behind him

"Second Battalion Commander, take my Italian artillery." Ah no, it's "The support of the Lookout team and the grenadiers has come up? Burn the for me. ”

"It's coming, it's coming."

In the swift echo from far and near, the soldiers who lived in the streets, armed with bows and crossbows, and the jumping soldiers behind the makeshift bunkers, also moved their bodies to make way for a passage.

I saw a number of lightly armed assistants with only leather waistcoats, carrying a tube-like object in groups of two, and rushed forward with fast steps, until they reached the corner of the street where the wall and the ground were full of arrow feathers, and then put down the firearm in their hands to operate.

It was a leather cannon with two relatively light iron bores wrapped in thick leather and covered with iron hoops, and a simple wooden cannon with a temporary hollowing out of the tree segments, filling in the iron bore tightly, and then stuffing gunpowder bags and projectile bags with fuses.

Then, he set up on the oncoming cart, and slowly pushed out of the corner under the cover of chest-high players, roughly aimed at the filled gate and the wall with many baffles and scattered arrows, and pulled down the fuse.

Suddenly, with the sudden jump of the car, a succession of gray smoke burst out, and many dense iron pellets burst out out of thin air, and in a blink of an eye, the confinement vermilion lacquer gate and the head of the Yanbian wall were hit with hundreds of holes, and with a bang, half of them shattered and fell into the smoke and dust.

Suddenly, most of the toppled stuffed furniture behind it was revealed, as well as figures who fell horizontally, rolled on the ground screaming, and ran away. And the big players led by Wang Yanzhang also rushed to the front in one go, and swarmed in along the remnants of the portal that was pushed open.

At this time, whether it was the bow and arrow from the left and right walls, or the skilled fighter who suddenly jumped from behind the door, he was gone. Either they were frightened and turned and fled, or they lay in a pool of blood on the ground, moaning and slowly dying.

However, the grenadiers that Wang Yanzhang brought over as a follow-up means of suppression failed to come in handy for a while. However, he didn't hesitate for long before continuing to shout.

"Each team formed two types of battle groups, B and C, and continued to raid and search for buildings in depth, and when they encountered obstacles, they only besieged and did not forcibly take them, although they threw bombs and greeted them. Dare to resist with arms and kill without mercy. ”

After half a ring, Wang Yanzhang walked through several courtyards full of messes and a messy number of buildings, and finally saw the last group of people who were resisting stubbornly on the rockery pavilion by the pond in the back garden.

Just between the pavilion and the rugged rocks, more than a dozen good hands wearing variegated armor and holding swords and clubs, with skillful alternate cover fighting, actually let the Taiping soldiers who repeatedly attacked on their backs be repeatedly overcome, and some people were roaring:

"Zhushan Sanyi is here, don't be that dog thief, come and have a few more people who will be killed."

"Iron hand Meng Shangao, come and kill your grandfather's subordinates."

"I'm the Xiling Ranger Iron Sword Sheng, and the one who dares to go against me."

However, before the words fell, the grenadiers who came with Wang Yanzhang had already marked the initial demarcation, and together they used a special catapult made of bamboo and cow tendon to fly several sassafras explosive bombs into it, although some people waved their hands to pick up and dial when they saw that the situation was not good, and then a cloud of gray smoke exploded in the midst of them.

When the soldiers who stepped forward to mend the knife and capture the prisoner again, they found that among the crooked corpses, there was still a white-haired and elegant high-crowned old man, holding his blood-stained body and tearing his fingers and dropping his face, and he suddenly made righteous words and scolded himself:

"The thief kills the good, and I will never be crowned with the door, when Yu Er does not wear the sky, and the ghost will also turn behind him. . . ."

Wang Yanzhang, who was impatient, shot an arrow in his heart with a bow with his own hand, and suddenly lost his voice and suddenly fell down from the two-zhang high rockery, and hit the bulge under the rockery, and immediately dyed a large area of pond water.

Then Wang Yanzhang said dissatisfiedly to the left and right.

"What kind of situation are you doing, if you don't deal with this kind of stubborn people, will you still keep it for the New Year?"

"Don't we want to catch a job so that everyone can try it out? I know that there are a lot of in the follow.,And said a bunch of some and no.。。 ”

Zhang Guiben, who led the team, scratched his head a little apologetically and said:

"Why do you need to listen to him 。。?"

Wang Yanzhang shook his head with some hatred.

"We and the Taiping Army are for the well-being and livelihood of the vast number of poor people in the world, and the wealthy families of this generation who only want to keep their personal wealth and power and do not care about the lives of others at all, are originally enemies who are incompatible with life and death, and let him speak like a spring, no matter how reasonable and useful it is."

"Could it be that if you talk too much about the truth, you can make those who starve to death and freeze to death, and those who were forced to die alive, come back to life... Dare to swear that after the death of ghosts, shouldn't it be those people in the world who died in vain, and first tore them up under the spirit, and there are grievances and revenge to take revenge?"

And on Phoenix Mountain, another place in the south of the city, under the escort of a group of die-hard people who have been cultivated for many years, it was unsuccessful to break through the southeast water gate, and Jiang Huan, who had to flee here for a while, also looked at the city that gradually calmed down with a gloomy face. This also represents the end of his years of business and ambition.

And the billowing smoke coming out of the square area where several rich mansions are gathered is so abrupt and eye-catching. Even more so that he couldn't help muttering angrily:

"Isn't it all a bunch of self-conscious clumsy people, who were unwilling to sell their best to block the thieves who broke through in the city earlier, and now what good is it to desperately defend their respective homes

。。 ”

"Lord, the little one has already found more than a dozen people's clothes, and asked the lord to change it later to hide for a while."

It was a close attendant who interrupted his thoughts:

"And then the little ones will desperately make a chance to get the Lord out of this dangerous place, in order to come back..."

"You, you really have a heart, if you get out of trouble this time, you will definitely treat your family like my relatives."

Jiang Huan couldn't help but look at him with emotion, although he still couldn't remember the other party's name, he still stroked his shoulders and agreed.

At this moment, he gradually figured it out. The hope of making a comeback after escaping can only be placed on his old rival Dong Chang.

In the old city of Qiantang, where martial law was initially implemented, many scholars gathered and hid from the fire in the Guangyan Temple.

As a protégé of Jiangdong celebrities and scholars, Huang Tao, who is also the most valued disciple of Huang Pu, a Confucian in Fujian, also said harshly in front of many silent old days:

"But today's people, whether openly or secretly, can no longer compete with the general trend and the pattern of the world led by the metropolitan governor. Don't you understand? Or do you have to wait and see with hesitation? ”

"Even if you and I are both cultivating and reading heirlooms, what about the temporary fame, even if we spend our lives exhausted, how many children can be taught, and how many useful disciples and disciples can be passed on?"

"However, today's Taiping Metropolitan Governor's Office runs lecture institutes and schools in various states, and uses a large number of low-cost and new-style printing books and step-by-step group teaching methods, as well as the method of approving examinations, which can be used quickly in half a year and a few months, and the elderly can be used for many years after several years of learning."

"In Gangneung alone, every time there is a graduation period, hundreds or thousands of students are available at every turn. How can my generation's home-learning methods compare with them, and how can my children compete with them. ”

"If you hold on to the past for a long time, there is really no shortage of officials in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and there is no shortage of lower-level people to run for it, and naturally there is no need to give preferential treatment to the outside world to recruit scholars and students for their own use... Don't care about the reputation and reputation of Jiangdong Shilin. ”

"This is the biggest enemy and threat of those high-ranking family heirlooms who have been eunuchs for generations. Because he doesn't need the knowledge and popularity of his peers, he can also govern in his own system. Even those who have been familiar with the families of the officials in the township for generations are afraid that there is no means to replace them. ”

"Today's plan under the general trend is only to take advantage of my generation's knowledge or usefulness, and it is only right to take yourself out. Otherwise, you can really only take what you have learned.,Although the land is deserted and buried.。。 Are you willing? ”

"Don't you want to find an opportunity to protect some of your relatives and family members, and even the old ones, so that you won't be convicted and displaced, so that you will be far away from home?"