Sure enough, the local guard armies in Zhejiang and Fujian that fought with Xu Daoqing not only had poor actual combat effectiveness, but also had problems with each other and could not cooperate closely, so naturally they were not the opponents of the White Lotus Sect, which fought against the odds.

I saw Xu Daoqing leading more and more White Lotus Sect believers to gather, but with a cup of tea, he blocked the not-so-narrow gap in the city wall that Ji Qingwen had opened with artillery, so that the officials and troops outside the city could not advance half a step.

Liu Kongzhao was not stupid enough to personally lead the charge in person, he sat in the rear, and saw that Zhang Yandeng and Zou Weilian were not in a good position, so he sent three soldiers in a row to give orders: If he dared to fear the enemy and delay the fighter plane, he would be dismissed from his official post on the spot.

The governor is not a big official, but he is a prince of one side and a feudal official, and he is also a meritorious name under his own number of scientific fields and real swords and guns, and it is also an official position earned by himself left and right, and he is also an official position earned by shooting horses back and forth, how can he easily not want it?

However, the two governors, Zhang Yandeng and Zou Weilian, both disliked each other and refused to cooperate with each other. So the two of them quarreled a bit, and decided not to cooperate at all, and each led the army to fight independently - you rush first, if you can't attack, you will immediately retreat, and then I will attack the wave, and so on.

In this way, Xu Daoqing suddenly felt that the attack in front of him was much sharper and more decisive, but there was a lot of gap and time difference between the two waves of attacks, which was enough for him to reorganize the army and rebuild the defense line, and it was quite stable for a while.

This is the battle situation of the defense line in the south of the city.

In the north of the city, it was an offensive launched by the Nanjing garrison directly under Liu Kongzhao.

The combat effectiveness of the Nanjing garrison was much stronger than that of the ordinary local garrison, and with Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of the Nanjing garrison, personally supervising the battle, the offensive was obviously much more fierce than the local armies of Zhejiang and Fujian on the southern front.

But what they met was Zhou Xiuying, who came in a hurry, and her pro-command women's army. Their combat effectiveness was above the White Lotus Sect led by Xu Daoqing, and their resistance was naturally much fiercer than in the south of the city.

In this way, the gap in the north of the city is also in a stalemate, and Wenzhou City, which is so weak that it seems that a gust of wind can blow down, just can't beat it.

Although Ji Qingwen outside the city did not participate in the direct battle, but he was not idle, and after his two artillery pieces blasted a gap in the south and north of Wenzhou, he ordered his sergeants to immediately transport the two chariots to the direction of the west of Wenzhou, and gathered the Ming Wu Army, the White Pole Soldier and the entire army of the Beijing Division Battalion to quickly rush to the east of the city.

It turned out that Ji Qingwen expected that with the ability of the imperial court officials and soldiers, it would be difficult to capture Wenzhou City, so he was already ready to open up a third front, and planned to give the White Lotus Sect a salary from the bottom of the kettle.

And the reason why Ji Qingwen wanted to attack the west of the city also had his own reasons.

It was because according to the report, he had already found out that the "palace" where the White Lotus Sect leader Xu Hongru was located was in the west of Wenzhou City, and as long as he broke through the Wenzhou city wall, he could kill Xu Hongru in front of him if he couldn't walk a few steps.

This was the idea that Ji Qingwen had discussed with Li Yan and the others - let the officials and soldiers attract the attention of the White Lotus Sect, and he would steal a gap behind them. Originally, Ji Qingwen said to Liu Kongzhao that he would let the officials and soldiers take the lead and grab the lead, and he would pick up a leak in the back, as for the head function that could not be grabbed and what kind of leak could be picked up, then it would only be left to fate.

So Ji Qingwen concentrated the power of the four cannons on the two chariots, and after a fierce bombardment, he really collapsed a section of the city wall in the west of Wenzhou. At this time, all the followers of the White Lotus Sect in the city were concentrated in the south and north of the city, and there were few believers guarding the city in the west of the city.

At this time, Ji Qingwen was like a fish in water, and ordered his sergeants to line up in formation, with the Sichuan white pole soldiers taking the lead, followed by his own Ming Wu army, and the forbidden army of the Beijing division battalion swept outside the city, and after a little effort to repel eighty or ninety White Lotus believers who guarded the West City, they rushed into Wenzhou City.

Li Yuanyin's eyes and ears in Wenzhou City had already investigated the situation in the city, and even the terrain in the city was turned into a pattern, tied to a stone and thrown out.

With this topographical map, Ji Qingwen asked Yang Zhan, who was strong in martial arts and safe in his work, to lead the way, and swept away several White Lotus cultists who stood in the way one after another, and finally killed the so-called palace.

But it was not easy to capture this palace.

Xu Hongru has been busy dreaming of being an emperor these days and has not participated in military deployment, but he has been the leader of the White Lotus Sect for so many years, and there are still some pious old believers around him. For these people, Xu Hongru was originally scattered after he ascended to the top and became the emperor, so this group of people with a total of one or two thousand people was always guarding around the palace, and it happened that Ji Qingwen, who attacked Wenzhou City, handed over.

Ji Qingwen's team was cleared by the white pole soldiers who were able to fight in close combat, and they were escorted on both sides by musketeers, and they only fought their opponents for two or three rounds before they were routed.

The White Lotus Sect had no choice but to knock on the gate of the "Imperial Palace" and enter the palace to escort them.

Xu Hongru's "palace" was originally the Wenzhou prefect's yamen, and it did not undergo large-scale transformation in a hurry, so the pattern was not very large, and even the "palace gate" was just a small door that was wide and narrow in the ordinary prefect's yamen, and it was very easy to block it.

Therefore, as soon as the followers of the White Lotus Sect retreated into the palace gate, they quickly demolished a gatehouse of the original prefect's yamen and blocked the city gate with bricks, wooden beams, tiles and other miscellaneous items.

Ji Qingwen used the white pole soldiers as the backbone this time, and his speed of action slowed down somewhat, and he was unable to seize the opportunity of the opponent's unstable foothold to attack the "palace", so he could only separate a wall and confront the White Lotus disciples.

Although Ji Qingwen had already attacked Xu Hongru's doorstep, he now lacked the weapons to attack the fortifications, and he was unwilling to order his soldiers to charge forcibly, so he had to stand firm first and shoot at the palace through the wall.

According to common sense, in this kind of siege warfare, the head of one side is separated from the other soldiers, and the order cannot be communicated, which will lead to the collapse of the whole army. But Xu Hongru was absent for a long time, and Wenzhou's defense relied on Zhou Xiuying and Xu Daoqing to fight separately, but avoided the rapid defeat of the defenders of the city.

However, Xu Hongru was surrounded, whether it was a major event, or a serious disciple of the White Lotus Sect, who immediately ran to the north of the city to inform the "holy woman" Zhou Xiuying.

When Zhou Xiuying heard that Xu Hongru was surrounded by Ji Qingwen, she was immediately startled, and she couldn't wait to run to the "palace" to protect her "sect leader father". But now Zhou Xiuying is commanding thousands of believers to resist the all-out impact of the Nanjing garrison in front of him, and it is the time when he can't leave for a while.

At this moment, a believer who worked as a cook in a big hotel before joining the church suddenly suggested: "Holy Maiden, we might as well set a big fire here and see what these eagle dogs in the court have to break through the fire!" ”

"Good! Good idea! Zhou Xiuying was in a hurry to get out, and agreed without thinking about it.

After that, she ordered her disciples of the White Lotus Sect to take out all the tung oil, vegetable oil, fire oil, and lamp oil left in the treasury, and ordered someone to demolish a wooden archway on the side of the street, pile the removed wood on both sides of the gap in the city wall, pour oil on it, and start a fire.

It was the time of autumn when things were dry.

The wood, which was almost cracked and dry, became extremely flammable under the infiltration of various oils, and when a spark fell, it immediately attracted countless fiery snakes, opened their mouths wide, and spat out countless bright red, hot tongues of fire into the sky.

This is not the end, Zhou Xiuying still thinks that the fire is not big enough, and ordered people to continue to demolish the buildings on the street, and keep throwing the dismantled wood into the fire, so that the fire will burn more and more, and the gap in the city gate will be blocked after a while.

The imperial court officials and soldiers outside the city are not Sun Wukong who jumped out of the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun, so naturally there is no steel skin and iron bones all over his body, and of course he will not be able to break through this sea of fire.

Han Zanzhou, the Nanjing garrison eunuch who was in charge of the battle, was anxious when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered his sergeants to temporarily retreat first and find tools to extinguish the fire.

In this way, Zhou Xiuying suddenly lost the pressure of the enemy army in front of her, so she could calmly retreat from the front line, and ordered the White Lotus Sect to continue to throw flammable materials into the fire, while she led Su Liu and Qi Yun to immediately rush towards the direction of the palace.