Yang Xiaoshan gritted his teeth, if he betrayed his relatives and friends, betrayed his compatriots in the kingdom of heaven, and used their blood to forge his own red top. In this way, how is he different from Zhou Xineng and other traitors? Heaven is not kind to itself, it has never treated itself badly, and it cannot do anything without conscience. After thinking about it, Yang Xiaoshan stiffened his neck and said loudly: "If the eldest husband dies, he will die, so why bother to say more, I, Yang Xiaoshan, will never betray the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" ”

"You。。。。。。。 You! Xiang Rong didn't expect this young man who looked a little bookish to be so stubborn, he was a little annoyed and angry: "Stubborn unknown, stubborn unknown!" Come on, put me in prison immediately, and keep me under strict guard! I'm out on a business trip, and I'm going to have your heads! ”

The news of Yang Xiaoshan's accident was quickly brought to Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, by Chen Yucheng. Yang Xiuqing was shocked when she learned this, and couldn't help but blame herself: "It was this king who underestimated the Qing demon and harmed Xiaoshan, and it was this king who didn't think it through." ”

Then he ordered all the men and horses, ended the rest in Shaoping, and led the army to Guilin without stopping. When he arrived in Guilin, Yang Xiuqing couldn't help but gasp when he saw Guilin's high city walls and wide moat, such a fortification is incomparable to Yong'an City.

He carefully calculated that the current men and horses alone were not enough to surround such a large city, and he also had to divide troops to garrison the surrounding strongholds to prevent the Qing army on the periphery from sneaking attack. The few men at hand could only concentrate on attacking one or two gates. And Guilin City has ten gates, the Qing soldiers are not fools, they have enough time to adjust their defenses, it seems that it is destined to be a bloody battle.

Fortunately, Yang Xiaoshan occupied the Elephant Mountain outside the South Gate as soon as he came, and with this geographical advantage, the cannon was set on the Elephant Mountain, and the range was just able to reach the South Gate and the Wenchang Gate, and the focus of this attack on Guilin could only be these two city gates. This also blames Governor Zou for being stupid and giving the Taiping army a chance. If he had sent people to occupy the commanding heights of Xiangshan from the beginning, the Taiping army would really have nowhere to start.

Three days later, everything was properly prepared, and Yang Xiuqing gave the order for a general attack.

The captured Qing heavy artillery opened fire first, and these cannons were placed in the cave of the Xiangshan mountain wall, and the muzzles of the guns were bombarded at the south gate and Wenchang gate of Guilin.

The power of these cannons was indeed great, and the watchtowers on the city walls were blown away when one shell went down.

"Thankfully, it's the walls of the provincial capital." Xiang Rong looked at the cannonballs of the Taiping army and palpitated, but fortunately, the walls of Guilin were too thick, more than three zhang deep. After he arrived in Guilin, he urged Minyong to reinforce another inner wall behind the outer wall. If it had been replaced by other small counties, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

Although the Taiping army's artillery was of limited effect, it still gave the Qing army on the city wall a huge deterrent. After several rounds of shelling, as planned, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng's troops attacked the South Gate, and Xiao Chaogui's troops attacked the Wenchang Gate.

Xiang Rong is not a waste like Governor Zou, he has not been idle in the past few days, and sent spies to basically find out the intentions of the Taiping army, and he estimated that the south gate and Wenchang gate were the focus of the Taiping army's attack.

Xiang Rong concentrated his forces on these two city gates, he and Liu Changqing defended the south gate, and He Chun and Li Nengchen defended the Wenchang gate. Each gate was defended by more than 2,000 Qing soldiers and equipped with a large number of defensive equipment.

The Taiping army attacked with artillery fire on the city wall, and the shells continued to explode in the crowd, and the Taiping army suffered a lot of losses at the beginning of the siege.

"Rush with me, kill!" Chen Yucheng led the team to rush to the front. In order to rescue Yang Xiaoshan, his subordinates worked hard.

The two sides attacked at the same time, Xiao Chaogui led Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang's elite troops to storm Wenchangmen, and their movements were already relatively fast. But Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng are even faster, dozens of ladders have been set up on the city wall of the south gate, these ladders are specially made in the past few days, because the moat in Guilin is relatively wide, and the general ladders are not long enough to reach the battlements of the city wall.

The first group of siege troops carried iron shields up the ladder, and the Taiping army generally had rattan shields, and this time a small number of iron shields were taken out for the siege and distributed to the first group of siege brothers.

Iron shields are indeed easier to use, and the bows and arrows on the city walls rattle down, while the rattan shields are sometimes easy to shoot through, and they are not as safe as the iron ones.

"Well done!" Li Xiucheng didn't expect the first batch of siege troops to go so smoothly, and they were almost half the distance on the ladder.

But he didn't wait long for him to be happy, Xiang Rong ordered people to throw wooden stones on the ladder, and suddenly a large number of Taiping troops were smashed down, and most of them fell into the moat. The vicious Xiang Rong placed a large number of bamboo spears in the moat at the city gate, and the people who fell from the middle of the ladder were pierced by the bamboo spears in the river, and suffered heavy casualties.

"Archer cover!" Li Xiucheng sent an archer army to shoot arrows at the city wall, as long as the Qing army showed its head at the battlement, several arrows followed, and the dense bows and arrows pressed the Qing army on the city wall to raise their heads.

"Keep attacking!" The besieging troops behind them climbed the ladder and rushed to the city walls.

This time, Xiang Rong used more vicious boiling oil and boiling water, and if he said that the rolling wood and stones would be aimed at smashing. Boiling oil and boiling water do not need to be aimed, it is poured directly from the city wall, and people will be miserable as long as they get a little bit of it. The skin of the Taiping soldiers was red and swollen, the blisters on the skin were about to arch out, the figure was much fatter, and the flesh was swollen over there, like a balloon that would burst when poked.

"Hold on, they don't have that much boiling oil! Rush with me, save the world! Chen Yucheng was already red-eyed, he grabbed a shield and climbed the ladder himself.

"Yucheng, don't go! Dangerous! Wei Jun hurriedly grabbed him.

"Fuck off, leave me alone!" Chen Yucheng didn't look back, kicked Wei Jun away, and rushed to the cloud ladder under the city wall.

The morale that had been a little low was high again, and everyone saw that Chen Junshuai was on it in person, and they mustered up the courage to continue to attack the city gate.

Chen Yucheng was really full of courage, holding a shield in his left hand and a spear in his right hand, and went up the ladder. The soldiers next to him naturally rushed up and climbed up with him.

"Kill!" Chen Yucheng was really agile, and he was about to reach the battlement of the city wall in three or two clicks, and a Qing soldier saw that he was about to board, and immediately wanted to poke him with long hair. But Chen Yucheng's eyes were quick, and the spear in his hand pierced out in advance, piercing the Qing soldier.

Chen Yucheng jumped up and jumped into the city wall, stepped on the corpse of the Qing soldier with his right foot, pulled out his spear, and shouted: "Brothers, kill the Qing demon!" ”

The soldiers who followed him rushed in, and his standard-bearer finally planted the banner of the Taiping Army on the wall of the south gate.

"Good; Good, good! Chen Yucheng is a good boy! Yang Xiuqing, who was sitting in the rear, slapped his thigh and shouted a few good words, "This is Zhao Zilong of our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" ”