Zhu Yujian saw that Zhang Qiang had no choice, and his heart was a little sad, and his confidence fell again, and he was lost for a while.

The three of them were silent for a while, and Zhu Yujian raised his head again and asked, "Zhang Aiqing, I have ordered Master Su to take over the county government and take the post of county magistrate, I don't know what Aiqing thinks about this matter." ”

Zhang Qiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is in charge of this matter, and the ministers only fight." ”

He reacted quickly, in fact, he knew that he couldn't fall out with Zhu Yujian at this moment, besides, he didn't have the talent to deal with civil affairs, Su Guansheng also served as the prefect of the county, the prefect, and also handled government affairs for the emperor, there is such a talent, why should he send those half-baked people to take care of those things, anyway, he doesn't plan to guard here, how long does Su Guansheng be the magistrate of the county, what does it have to do with him, in a few days, he will take them to evacuate here.

But this is a signal, a signal that Zhu Yujian wants power from him, and he also wants to borrow Zhu Yujian, he is more wise than other brothers and uncles, and his vision will not be so short-sighted, so he is not worried about being controlled by Zhu Yujian for the time being, and Zhu Yujian can control it here or elsewhere, but Taizhou Mansion, Jinhua Mansion, or even the state capital, he does not intend to let Zhu Yujian interfere.

That's his territory, his territory, even if those who take office are fools, he won't let Zhu Yujian interfere, this is his bottom line.

As the days passed like this, a week passed, and Zhang Qiang stepped up the reorganization of his troops, cut out the old and weak, replenished the strong soldiers, and repaired the city walls, strengthened the fortifications, and trained the soldiers.

This time, he trained 800 rebels at a time, and from the eighth day onwards, they had been integrated into his troops, and those rebel soldiers had become fewer and fewer.

The rebel soldiers fought continuously and had some combat effectiveness, and after only one week of training, they changed from militia to skilled Jinhua rebel soldiers, and changed into the uniform of the Jinhua rebels.

Of course, these people must be firecrackers, and Zhang Qiang trained them to strengthen his firecrackers.

However, half of them were holding the eliminated low-grade Ming army guns, and half of them were holding three-eyed guns, which were a kind of guns that could only hit a distance of thirty meters, but the advantage was that they could be fired continuously.

The only thing to consider was the issue of the bombardment, which was also used by the previous firecrackers, and the bombardment killed many of the firecrackers he had trained in the early days.

But at the moment he has no choice, and he can't produce firearms, which are all captured.

After driving back and forth, we have to build an arsenal to produce firecrackers, and we can't let those Portuguese be idle, just repair some damaged firecrackers.

"Enemy, enemy,"

The guards observing the "bell, bell, bell" city wall rang the gong to alarm.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Zhang Qiang's subordinates came to the city.

Zhang Qiang held a captured monocular and looked at the outside of the city, the dense countryside outside the city, yes the township brave, there were people in front, and there were Qing soldiers and Han soldiers in the back.

Farther away, it was the enemy's artillery, which the enemy brought in.

"It seems that the enemy has been waiting for a week to transport artillery." Zhang Qiang handed the monocular to Tang Dianfeng.

Tang Dianfeng picked it up and observed it carefully, "My lord, a lot of red-clothed cannons, depending on the situation, they are relatively sophisticated, I am afraid that they are the artillery of the Portuguese, this time the Portuguese did not go into battle in person, and sold them to the Qing artillery." ”

Gu Yuesheng and Yang Yangyang both took the binoculars and looked at them a few times, "How do you fight?" ”

Zhang Qiang said: "Let the soldiers on the head of the city go down, assemble behind the city wall, leave artillery and some observing soldiers, once the enemy attacks, the soldiers climb up from the ladder on the inside, attack the enemy's troops, let the enemy fill the moat, let's let the enemy fight on the city wall." ”

The battle began, everyone sat in one direction, Zhang Qiang sat on the south city wall, Tang Dianfeng sat on the east city wall, Gu Yuesheng sat on the west city wall, and Yang Yangyang sat on the north city wall.

The whistling cannonballs smashed on the battlements of the city wall, taking away one after another the battlements of the city wall, and smashed on the city wall, splashing a lot of debris, and some of the shells fell on the establishment, piercing the roofs of many houses in the city near the city wall, and injuring some people.

Fierce artillery fire was very rare, and Zhang Qiang had only seen such a scene when Jinhua Mansion was bombarded by hundreds of Qing artillery.

Some of the soldiers who were in charge of observing the enemy cowered behind the battlements of the wall, and just like that, from time to time people were smashed and wounded.

The artillery bombarded for half an hour, and the Qing army's Xiangyong covered a large number of people to fill the moat and destroy the obstacles outside the city.

After another hour, when some small cannons at the head of the city were smashed and the artillerymen were injured, Zhang Qiang ordered the captured enemy's Hongyi artillery at the head of the city to start firing back, and the shells fell.

Some of the people began to flee, and the villagers went up to stop them and drive them away, and only a very small number of people were beheaded.

The people had no choice but to run back again to fill the moat.

In an hour, the moat had almost been filled, and the villagers drove the people to push the siege equipment and carry the ladder to start the siege.

At this time, the Fran machine guns at the head of the city began to shoot, and there were many of these cannons, which caused greater panic to the enemy, and the villagers pushed me and squeezed me, refusing to come forward, and the villagers stopped them with all their might, and slashed and killed many people, before forcing them to move forward.

Seeing them approach the city wall, the tiger squat cannon began to erupt iron sand, a large piece of it.

But this was not enough to stop the enemy from attacking the city, and Zhang Qiang ordered the people to be strong, archers, and go to the city to return fire.

For a time, Minfu and Xiangyong all suffered heavy losses, and they wasted all their strength before they approached the city wall and shot at the archers and Minzhuang on the city wall.

The artillery on both sides did not mean to stop, but became more and more violent.

Casualties are inevitable, casualties are getting heavier, on both sides.

The artillery of the Han army flag pushed closer and closer, and the infantry of the Han army flag also got closer and closer, at this time, the Hongyi artillery also shifted its target and began to bombard the small artillery and infantry of the Han army flag, archers.

In three hours, the enemy had already begun to attack the city, and Zhang Qiang sent a part of the captives to consume it.

It can be seen that the purpose of the Qing army is to consume those people and villagers, and their people have no intention of approaching at all.

In four hours, the Jinhua Righteous Army alone suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the local townsmen and people were even more miserable, after all, they were attacking one side, and in the face of the Jinhua Righteous Army with the defense of the city, with their combat effectiveness, they still suffered heavy losses.

In five hours, Minzhuang was withdrawn to rest and recuperate, and was transferred to transport the wounded and carry supplies, and the captives were sent in large numbers to fight the enemy under the supervision of the rebel soldiers and Zhang Qiang's Jinhua rebel soldiers.

Six hours, the artillery fire on both sides began to gradually stop, the city wall was already full of soldiers on both sides, Xiang Yong with the advantage of numbers, plus some elite Han army banners to join the battle, Zhang Qiang sent those prisoners at the head of the city The morale of the soldiers was not high, the number of the righteous army and the Jinhua righteous army was too small, and some prisoners took the opportunity to turn against the water, which made the city head fall into a crisis.

The rebel soldiers could only defend artillery and some key areas, while the Jinhua rebels were responsible for monitoring and storming the enemy.

"Send five battalions of firecrackers and six battalions up." Zhang Qiang said to the guards around him.

In a moment, two battalions of musketeers went up, and they took inferior muskets and fired fiercely at the enemy and the captives.

Shoot all enemies and captives on the walls indiscriminately.

The enemy panicked and jumped off the walls to return to the outside of the city, but unfortunately, they were not as fast as the firearms.

In less than half an hour, the city wall on Zhang Qiang's side had been cleared, and the firecrackers of the fifth and sixth battalions, with the cooperation of the archers of the first battalion, swept along the city wall, and the enemy's attack was broken.

The enemy retreated in full.

The enemy's artillery began to bombard the city wall again, and Zhang Qiang's elite forces once again moved to hide under the city wall.