The city of Xuzhou, under the bombardment of artillery, has been dilapidated.

Especially the huge cannon of the Ming army, as soon as the cannon hits, the city wall can be hit with a huge depression, and the two cannons hit the same place, and the city wall immediately collapses.

Fortunately, the cannon was very inconvenient to operate, and it took two quarters of an hour to clear the chamber and reload gunpowder and shells for each shot, just pushing the cannon back into place.

The Ming army's huge artillery fired at least an hour and a half, which gave the Qing army time to repair the city walls.

It's just that although the city wall can be repaired, the shock of the giant cannon to the Qing army and the psychological pressure caused to the Qing army cannot be repaired.

If it weren't for the Xuzhou city, nearly 50,000 Qing troops were gathered, and the city might have been broken by the Ming army long ago.

The first onslaught of the Ming army was blocked by the Qing army, but the situation was also quite dangerous, and the Ming army almost broke into the city.

The Qing army in the city suffered thousands of casualties in one day, and the men and horses in the city were already a little desperate.

In the past few days, although the Ming army has not attacked, the shelling continues, and it will not be long before the next attack of the Ming army will come.

At night, Ma Guanghui stood on the city wall, and saw the lights in the Ming military camp outside the city, countless soldiers and craftsmen, who were rushing to make siege equipment overnight, and ladders were erected, and his heart suddenly became bitter.

"Governor, news has come from Beicheng, Wang Junmen has led the troops over!"

Ma Guanghui was stunned in the city, and a Qing general hurriedly rushed up the city wall from the stairs with a knife on his waist in one hand, and ran behind him, panting.

When Ma Guanghui heard this, he was stunned for a moment, his face was instantly overjoyed, and he hurriedly turned around and asked, "What about people?" How many people came? ”

Li Youlong, who was on the side, asked cautiously: "Have you seen Wang Zhongqing?" The governor must beware of the Ming army defrauding the city! ”

Ma Guanghui's heart tightened when he heard this, and he looked at the future of the news, and the latter hurriedly clenched his fists and reported: "Your Excellency the Governor, there is no doubt that it is the general soldier of the king, and he has seen it with his own eyes." ”

Ma Guanghui asked Jinan for help, but he also knew that Jinan did not have many troops, all he wanted was Jinan to send some people over, so that the Qing army in the city knew that they had reinforcements, and he actually didn't expect Wang Zhongqing to personally lead the troops over.

Speaking of which, Ma Guanghui and Wang Zhongqing actually have some contradictions, Dolgon wants to support Wang Zhongqing to contain him, and he and Wang Zhongqing don't get along very happily.

This time, Wang Zhongqing came in person, which made Ma Guanghui a little moved. If he survives this difficulty, he will definitely no longer withhold Wang Zhongqing's food and salary in the future.

"Okay, since it's Wang Zhongqing, you immediately send an order to let him into the city! If the Ming army finds out, it will be troublesome to send troops to intercept it. In addition, tell Wang Zhongqing that the governor is waiting in the festival hall! Ma Guanghui immediately commanded.

The general clenched his fists and turned to leave, and he also led the deployment to turn around and go down to the city and return to Xingyuan.

Ma Guanghui returned to Xingyuan, and after a short time, Wang Zhongqing arrived at the festival hall, he was busy, and as soon as he stepped into the threshold, Wang Zhongqing greeted him and saluted, "Lord Governor, I am ordered to help!" ”

Ma Guanghui grabbed his hand and said happily: "The wind knows the strength of the grass, the adversity sees loyalty, and the loyalty can come, the governor is very relieved!" ”

Wang Zhongqing said with a smile on his face: "Your Excellency's order, how dare you not come?" Besides, Xuzhou is the gateway to Shandong, and there must be no mistakes, how can I not count in my humble heart! ”

Ma Guanghui couldn't help patting the back of his hand, "You have worked hard, as soon as you came, it can be regarded as helping me stabilize the morale of the army, you can rest assured, you will have the benefit of getting through this pass." ”

"Then I will thank the Governor first!" Wang Zhongqing hurriedly smiled with his hands.

Ma Guanghui nodded, "Okay, you came from Jinan, you must be tired, let's go rest first." ”

Wang Zhongqing immediately saluted, bowed back, and when he retreated to the door, he turned around, sneered, and walked away quickly.

When Wang Zhongqing left, Li Youlong stepped forward and asked with a melancholy face: "Is the governor really ready to defend Xuzhou?" In the humble opinion, even if Wang Zhongqing leads his troops to help, I'm afraid we are not the opponent of the Ming army! ”

More than a year ago, Ma Guanghui thwarted a Northern Expedition of 100,000 troops of the Ming army in Xuzhou, which made Ma Guanghui overestimate his own strength and misjudge the strength of the Ming army too low in the face of the Ming army's Northern Expedition.

In addition, the Qing court judged that the direction of the Ming army's main attack was Henan, so Ma Guanghui made a mistake in judgment, thinking that he could wait and see, and on the one hand, he put forward extremely high conditions for surrender, and on the other hand, he wanted to wait for the battle situation in Heluo to be clear before making a judgment.

Dai Zhifan was anxious to break through Xuzhou and outflank the Central Plains, so naturally he would not quarrel with him.

In this way, he did not negotiate with Dai Zhifan, and the Ming army saw that his asking price was too high, and felt that he was not sincere, so he began to attack in an all-out way.

As soon as the battle began, Ma Guanghui knew that he was wrong, and understood that Dolgon's judgment was wrong, and the attack on Xuzhou was not a partial division at all, but the main force of the Ming army.

Ma Guanghui listened to Li Youlong's words, walked a few steps with his hands in his hands, stopped and said in a deep voice: "This governor knows in his heart, but if we want to have a good condition, we have to defend Xuzhou first." Only by making Dai Zhifan feel that Xuzhou is not easy to fight, and you and I can get better treatment and be reused by the Ming Dynasty. ”

Wang Zhongqing brought only 4,000 people, which did not play much role in the defense of the entire Xuzhou, and could only stabilize people's hearts for a short time, but in the long run, it still could not change the disadvantage of the Qing army in Xuzhou.

Li Youlong was relieved when he heard Ma Guanghui say this, but he suddenly asked again: "If Xuzhou is held and Dai Zhifan offers better conditions, what will Wang Zhongqing do?" ”

This is indeed a problem, the situation in Xuzhou is so tense, the siege battle is so tragic, Wang Zhongqing also led the army to support, which shows that he is still very loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

Ma Guanghui was silent for a while, and after half a sound, he said cruelly: "Bendu will give him a chance to be rich with us, but if he wants to be as "Zhongqing" as his name, then he can't blame Bendu for being ruthless!" ”

At the end of March, after Wang Zhongqing entered the city, Man Dazhuang led the army to the north of Jinan and got in touch with Dai Zhifan.

Dai Zhifan was overjoyed when he learned that there was an internal should enter the city, and according to the discussion between Man Dazhuang and Wang Zhongqing, he decided to attack again two days later and capture Xuzhou City.

On the 28th, on a sunny day, the defenders reported that the Ming army was preparing equipment and it seemed possible to attack the city.

Wang Zhongqing took the initiative to ask for orders to defend Dongcheng, Ma Guanghui knew that this battle was very important, if he could hold Xuzhou again, I am afraid that the Ming army would have to negotiate new terms with him.

He didn't want to expend too many troops in defending the city, so he readily agreed to Wang Zhongqing's request and praised his actions.

In the morning, the people on the city wall were busy, and they were rushing to repair the city wall and make the final preparations for defending the city under the drive of the Qing army.

Although the Ming army was fierce, Ma Guanghui was still more confident in blocking the Ming army's attack again. After all, there are still nearly 50,000 Qing troops in the city, and the morale of the army has stabilized, and the Ming army wants to attack twice and break the city, which can be said to be not easy to achieve.

After a morning's preparations, the Ming army outside the city began to bombard at three o'clock in the morning, and nearly 100 artillery pieces continued to bombard the city, causing the bricks and stones on the city to splash.

Tens of thousands of soldiers stood behind the artillery array, ready to go! Today, Xuzhou City will be broken!

The artillery bombardment lasted for an hour, the war drums of the Chinese army were beaten, and Li Yuanyin, who was standing in front of the formation, raised his sword and shouted: "Attack!" ”

Tens of thousands of soldiers surged like a tide, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and they were all pressed over!

In the east of Xuzhou City, the Qing army guarding the city gate heard the horn of the charge, but the soldiers were not prepared at all, they wound their bows and arrows, and did not aim at the rushing Ming army, but aimed the arrows at the city.

At the city gate, the defenders directly moved away the masonry, pushed open the city gate, and let the Ming army enter the city.

The siege troops of the Ming army, all armed with weapons, with shields, bravely charged, who knew that all the way over, not even a single arrow, when rushing to the front of the city, even the city gate actually opened by itself.

"Let's go! Follow me to kill Ma Guanghui and make another contribution! When Wang Zhongqing saw the Ming army entering the city, he rushed to the city with a knife!

But it was said that Ma Guanghui was commanding in the festival hall, and he heard the sound of killing in the south and west cities, and the battle was fierce, but there was no sound in the east city, and he couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart.

At this moment, a general crawled into the hall and shouted hoarsely, "Governor! Big things are wrong! Wang Zhongqing rebelled, and Dongcheng did not resist, so he let the Ming army enter the city......"

When Ma Guanghui heard this, there was an explosion in his head, and his face was full of disbelief, if he wanted to fall, he would also fall, why did Wang Zhongqing suddenly turn back? He has only been in Xuzhou for two days, how can he catch up with the Ming army?

At this moment, there was a buzz in the direction of Dongcheng, and there was a shout, which could be vaguely distinguished, "The Ming army enters the city, abandon the weapon and don't kill!" ”

"Governor! How good is that! How good is that! The generals in the festival hall suddenly panicked.

Ma Guanghui's face was pale, he really hated Wang Zhongqing to death, suddenly, he pulled out his knife in his hand and roared angrily, "What are you doing!" Don't drive the Ming army out of the city with me! ”

After speaking, he snatched out of the festival hall, and only then did he go out, and he bumped into a team of people head-on, and the two sides were immediately stunned, who is it not Wang Zhongqing?

When the enemy met, his eyes were extremely red, Ma Guanghui's face was hideous, and he immediately waved his knife and pointed at Wang Zhongqing's nose and scolded: "Wang Zhongqing, you are a traitor, this governor will kill you!" ”

Ma Guanghui didn't expect to be preempted by Wang Zhongqing, making him fall short, the Buddha would be angry when he encountered this, let alone him.

Wang Zhongqing sneered, "Who is Wang Zhongqing?" This town is now called Wang Zhongming! ”

"Shameless! Straight sissy thief! Ma Guanghui was trembling with anger, he had nothing to say, and the anger in his heart turned into a roar, "Let me shoot him with an arrow!" ”

A group of archers immediately bent their bows, Wang Zhongqing's face changed in fright, and he hurriedly dodged, but the archers had already loosened the bowstring, and he was not in a hurry to dodge, and an arrow hit the root of his thigh, making him suddenly howl.

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