"Report! The first division and one brigade have already arrived at the predetermined positions! "Report! The 2nd Division and 5th Brigade have reached the predetermined position, and the enemy troops have all retreated into the city! "Report! Three Divisions", one by one the reports were quickly transmitted to the general headquarters, and before the deadline was reached, the various units had already surrounded the city of Fuzhou without almost any resistance.

"Chief helmsman, let's fight now!" , Lin Hu couldn't wait to ask, "Look at the virtue of the Tartar, I guarantee that you can climb the city wall with one charge!" ”

Chen Jialuo took a telescope and carefully looked at the situation on the city wall, only to see that the soldiers of the green battalion were standing densely at the head of the city under the coercion of the Tartars, and they were all equipped with tools to defend the city, such as rolling wood and stones, ash bottles, and gold juice. "Don't attack yet, bombard the wall from afar with artillery fire, and then set up a cloud car and let the snipers take a roll call at the officers on the wall one by one! Kill their morale first! ”

"Yes!" At the beginning, the Qing army cannons on the city wall could still respond to one or two rounds from time to time, but it didn't take long to be cleared by the cannons of the Red Flower Society, even if the artillery left by luck was hidden and did not dare to fire; It's a pity that the caliber of the Red Flower Society's current artillery is not large enough, and the cannonballs can only cause casualties to the people on the city wall, but they have little effect on the city wall itself.

After a day of indiscriminate bombardment, the people of the Red Flower Society responded with satisfaction, and the Qing army inside the city walls was able to breathe. In the Governor's Palace, Su Chang was pacing around the room restlessly, and when he saw Fuzhou General Xinzhu coming in, he hurriedly asked, "General Xinzhu!" What's going on today? ”

"Lord Qiqi, the saffron thief did not send people to attack the city today, but only fired cannons from afar, and there were heavy losses on the city wall!" At this time, Xinzhu also lost the ** who falsely reported the military situation, and said dejectedly, "The reinforcements from the imperial court will not come again." I'm afraid this Fuzhou city won't be able to hold on for much longer! ”

Why was I so unlucky to be assigned to Fujian as an official? Su Chang and Dingchang let out a lament in their hearts at the same time, Su Chang shook his head and said, "The excerpt I asked for reinforcements was sent out a month ago, and even if the imperial court moves quickly, I am afraid that it will not be able to send reinforcements in a short time." This city will be defended for three months anyway! General Xinzhu, can you do it? ”

"Xia Guan doesn't dare to hide the two adults at this moment!" , Xinzhu smiled bitterly, "Don't look at the safflower thieves outside at this time, there are only thirty or forty thousand people, and there are more than forty thousand soldiers in our city." But if you really want to fight, this Fuzhou City will be able to defend the sky for a month! He experienced two major defeats of the Qing army in succession, and was extremely jealous of the combat effectiveness of the Red Flower Society.

"Nonsense, the art of war has ten rules around it, and the number of safflower thieves outside the city is not as good as ours at the moment, as long as all the soldiers work together, how can they not hold it!" , Su Chang scolded repeatedly.

Up and down? It sounds good, after the first two ransom of prisoners, the contradiction between the Fujian Green Camp and the Eight Banners is getting bigger and bigger. In addition, the green battalion has been purged since Su Chang took office, and the soldiers are full of complaints about this governor, and now they are not rebelling, and the new pillar is already burning high incense!

Several people stayed up until midnight and didn't come up with any good ideas, so they had to go home and sleep. The next morning, Su Chang was woken up from his sleep by the servant, "Master! It's a big deal, the safflower thief is casting a demon spell outside the city! Adults, go and check it out! ”

Su Chang hurriedly got dressed and hid behind a bunch of shields and climbed up the city wall, and when he looked out, he was dumbfounded, only to see several huge red balls rising from the position of the Red Flower Society, which were slowly floating towards the city wall at a height of dozens of zhang. There was also a basket hanging under the big ball, and there seemed to be several people standing in the basket.

"What is this?" , All this in front of him simply subverted Su Chang's cognition, what kind of magic it should be to make people fly to the sky! "Go and ask the abbot of Gushan Temple! There is also the Qingyunzi Taoist of Zhang Zhenjun's ancestral hall! ”

The Dingchang who had just arrived hurriedly added. "And send someone to the city to collect black dog blood and moon cloth!"

Xinzhu stood at the entrance of the ladder and poked his head out, "Two adults, hurry down, that saffron thief's firearm is fierce, specializing in beating officials, and many generals have died yesterday." Two adults, be careful! ”

As soon as they heard this, the two of them could still stand, and hurriedly ran back to the city wall, watching the dynamics on the city wall from the tall building not far from the city, and after a while, groups of monks and Taoist priests rushed to the city wall under the coercion of the soldiers, but unfortunately neither the Diamond Sutra nor the Tao Te Ching had any effect on the hot air balloon outside the city. As for the black dog blood, the hot air balloon is so high that they can't splash it if they want to!

The hot air balloon floated closer and closer by the wind, and the Red Flower Society soldiers in the basket bent down to take out a stack of white paper from under their feet and threw it down the direction of the wind, although there was still some distance from the city wall, but because of the condescending nature of the hot air balloon and the direction of the wind, half of the paper still fell into Fuzhou City.

A pro-soldier quickly poked his head out of the tall building, reached out and grabbed a piece of floating white paper and handed it to Su Chang, "My lord, please look!" ”。

Su Chang fixed his eyes and saw that what was written on the paper was the persuasion document of the Red Flower Society, first writing a lot of words about the mighty Fuzhou of the Red Flower Society's army, and then pointing out the way out for the soldiers of the Green Battalion, and when the Red Flower Society attacked the city, as long as they surrendered on the spot, they could avoid death. There is a heavy reward for those who take the initiative to open the city.

When he saw this, Su Chang was suddenly anxious, this thing spread out and it was okay! Hurriedly got up and ordered, "Quickly send someone to put all these away, dare to hide in private and kill without forgiveness!" ”

Xinzhu smiled secretly bitterly, looking at the appearance of this safflower club, there must be no less leaflets, even if you can collect a batch, what can you do if the next batch comes? These things will eventually fall into the hands of the soldiers.

"Chief helmsman, this thing is wonderful!" , Lin Hu keenly observed the role of hot air balloons in military affairs, "Condescending, the enemy's formation is unobstructed, and all the weaknesses in the formation fall into the eyes of our army, so it will be easier to fight a war!" ”

"It can also provide firing coordinates for artillery, so that our cannons can be bigger and more accurate!" , This is also one of the earliest uses of hot air balloons in the military, turning around and looking at Gao Class, "These are all done by Mr. Gao with his students, don't you hurry up and thank Mr. Gao!" ”

"Thank you, Mr. Gao!" , Lin Hu hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Chief helmsman, this hot air balloon leaflet seems to be a bit of a waste!" ”

"The siege of the city has always been based on the attack on the heart, and we will send leaflets for another three days, and when the morale of the soldiers in the city is low, we will attack again!" (To be continued.) )