When Li Chengdong said that he had broken through, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, he patted his armor and said with a happy face: "Yes, this town has a way to break the city." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"How?" Shi Fu asked curiously, forgetting the etiquette of humility for a while.

Li Chengdong was in a good mood, and he didn't blame Shi Fu for being rude, he helped him up, stroked his short beard and said with a wry smile: "Half a moon attack, countless shelling, the southwest corner of Wuzhou has the most collapses, obviously not thick, at that time, I didn't expect to concentrate on the shelling, directly hit the gap, and the town was also confused!" ”

"What does the big marshal mean - where is the breakthrough point?"

"Yes!" Li Chengdong took Shi Fu to a watchtower, raised his eyes into the distance, and after observing the southwest corner of Wuzhou for a while, he turned around and ordered: "Order, stop the siege, collect all the Hongyi cannons, and take turns shelling at the southwest corner, and make sure to blast a gap in the town!" ”

Wuzhou is an important town in Guangxi, the city walls are all made of stones, only the southwest corner of this section of the old city is made of bricks and stones, the Hongyi cannon cannons can not move the stones, but the masonry does have a good destructive power.

After a round of bombardment, until the barrel of the cannon is red can no longer be put to stop, and then look at the southwest corner of Wuzhou City, the gravel cracked, several places appeared to collapse, even the female wall was flattened a section, the outer skin of the city wall fell down, revealing the dark red rammed earth inside, and many Ming troops hidden behind the female wall were smashed by the flying stones to the flesh and blood.

During the period, the Portuguese artillery also used new artillery to knock out several artillery pieces of the Qing army to alleviate the city defense crisis, but Li Chengdong was cunning, knowing that the Ming army had a new foreign artillery, with a long range and a fast rate of fire, so he did not use the Hongyi cannon in a centralized manner, but scattered in all corners, and when the cannon was fired, it was concentrated on the southwest corner of the state city, which made the Portuguese gunners helpless.

Just when Li Chengdong was about to make persistent efforts, a person who had a fold hurriedly ran up to the watchtower and knelt down on one knee: "The 800-mile urgent document from the Yamen of the Governor of Guangzhou, please read it!" With that, he took off the package from behind him, unsealed the oil seal, and took out the paperwork.

The news that it is necessary to send it urgently for 800 miles must be very important, Li Chengdong glanced at the difference, and took the document suspiciously.

"How is that possible? Ridiculous! It's ridiculous! ”

After reading the paperwork in a hurry, he changed color.

The generals around me look at me, and I look at you, looking at you at a loss.

"What's the matter, Daddy?" Relying on Li Chengdong's confidant and beloved son, Li Yuanyin, the righteous son and the leader of the guard, asked boldly.

"See for yourself!" Li Chengdong angrily threw the paperwork to Li Yuanyin.

Li Yuanyin was also surprised after reading the contents of the document, he frowned and said, "It's an urgent order from Governor Tong!" Shall we save it or not? ”

It turned out that at the same time that the Qing army was besieging Wuzhou, Guangxi, Chen Bangyan, a famous man hidden in the occupied area of Guangdong, joined forces with Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang and others to destroy their families and relieve difficulties, donate funds to recruit troops, establish a righteous army, and secretly swore an anti-Qing army in Guangdong.

At the beginning of February of the first year of Yongli, taking advantage of the opportunity of Li Chengdong's troops to besiege Wuzhou, Chen Bangyan took advantage of the situation to raid Guangzhou, and the righteous army first defeated the sailors sent by Tong Yangjia to meet the attack in Dongguan, burned more than 100 enemy ships, and then surrounded Guangzhou and surrounded Tong Yangjia in the city.

At the same time, Zhang Jiayu sent his generals Chen Zhenguo and Feng Jialu to lead the troops to join the former generals Liu Long and Li Qixin to recover Longmen, while Chen Zizhuang attacked everywhere to contain the Qing troops in other places and effectively blocked the Qing army's reinforcements to Guangzhou.

Driven by the three of them, Hu Jing and Liang Bin in Shunde, Liang Xinzhuo in Xinxing, Huang Gongfu and He Shixiong in Xinhui, Wang Xing in Enping, Mo Tinglan in Yangjiang, and He Shizhang in Dong'an gathered to raise their hearts and attack the local Qing garrison.

Because Li Chengdong had been leading the main army to continuously advance westward, the number of Qing troops remaining in the provincial capitals of Guangdong was extremely limited, and even the provincial capital Guangzhou was also short of major generals, with only a few thousand green battalion soldiers. Under the siege of the rebels, Guangzhou was shocked three times a day, and Tong Yangjia, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, also deeply experienced the taste of being embattled.

After Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu, and Chen Zizhuang joined forces, 50,000 righteous troops gathered under the city of Guangzhou, and the momentum was amazing.

Li Chengdong said undeniably: "Now that the battle of Wuzhou has reached the most critical moment, the town will be able to capture Wuzhou in a few days and capture the puppet Ming Emperor. Besides, he still has thousands of men and horses under his command, and it is really ridiculous and ridiculous to sit on a strong city but have no confidence to resist the rebellion! ”

"Father, it's hard to disobey the military order!" Li Yuanyin said worriedly.

"Humph! If you want to return to the army, you have to wait until today's battle is over, and the 50,000 army has spent more than half a month in Wuzhou, and if you don't take Wuzhou, how can this town save face? ! ”

In the end, Li Chengdong still compromised one or two, he could not listen to Tong Yangjia's military orders, but the master behind him could not help but give face, and it was up to the owner to beat the dog, not to mention that everyone still gave their lives to the same master.

Li Yuanyin knew that it was enough, and seeing that his father-in-law had made up his mind, he nodded and stopped persuading.

After several rounds of shelling, a gap was finally opened in the southwest corner of Wuzhou City, and Li Chengdong was overjoyed.

The horn whined, and the Qing army, which had taken a little rest, opened a siege phalanx under the command of officers at all levels, and it was neat and tidy.

Li Chengdong stood on top of the Chinese army's chariot with his sword, holding the handle of the knife in his right hand, at this moment, looking at the head of Wuzhou City, his face was full of the determination of the shame of the First World War!

The drums beat and the army began.

Dozens of siege phalanxes hugged the ladder and flocked to the city wall again fiercely, especially at the gap in the southwest corner, more than ten ladders were set up densely in the gap of dozens of steps, and the Qing army on the ladder was Li Chengdong's headquarters veteran, this time he pressed the old book, and vowed to break the city in a battle.

Those Guanzhong big men were all dressed in iron armor and wearing iron helmets, with good protection, rich experience in siege, extraordinary bravery, and very fast climbing, almost in the blink of an eye, they climbed to the middle of the city wall.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Wuzhou City, knowing the ferocity of the Qing army, knew that once the city was breached, no one could survive, so men, women, old and young set out together, pushing chicken carts, and constantly replenishing the city with rolling wood and stones, and the houses and houses against the root of the wall were demolished, and all the bricks and stones and wood were transported to the city, split his head and cover his face, and fell to the Qing soldiers under the city.

The boiling oil penetrated along the gaps in the armor, the Qing soldiers were burned and the flesh was opened, the human feces were poisonous, stained on the wounds, and the pain was abnormal.

ps: The younger brother would like to introduce to you three important characters here, who are also important characters in the later story, they are Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang, collectively known as Lingnan Sanzhong.

Chen Bangyan: The word Lingbin, the head of the three loyalties in Lingnan, the resourcefulness is extremely high, in the early years, he set up a museum to give lectures, he was a famous teacher of Confucianism in Southern Guangdong, the northern capital fell, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Chen Bangyan ended his lectures, and went to the southern capital alone with his painstaking work - "Zhongxing Political Strategy", because the content mainly involves the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, so it is not adopted by Ma Shiying, Qian Qianyi and other important ministers of the southern capital who are advocating the "joint Qing Dynasty to destroy the Kou". In the first year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, in the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Youlang, the emperor of Yongli, was surrounded by the Qing army Li Chengdong and Guilin, Chen Bangyan united Chen Zizhuang, Zhang Jiayu and others, raised troops to attack Guangzhou, and forced Li Chengdong to return to help with the plan of encircling Wei and saving Zhao. Although Guilin finally broke the siege, Chen Bangyan was unfortunately defeated and executed, and his sons were all killed in battle.

Zhang Jiayu: The word Xuanzi, Longwu was in the middle of the military department, Longwu was ordered to Guangdong to raise salaries and recruit troops in the second year, and soon, Longwu was killed, and the new army lacked food and salary, so it had to be disbanded. In the first year of Yongli, he led the righteous army and Chen Bangyan, Chen Zizhuang made an appointment to besiege Guangzhou, in order to solve the danger of Guilin, after Li Chengdong returned to the army, Zhang Jiayu led the righteous army to fight with it successively in Wanjiang rent and Daojiao, and did not defeat and went to Xixiang. His grandmother Chen, mother Li and sister Shi Baoju committed suicide by throwing themselves into the water; His wife Peng was held and died unyieldingly. After Li Chengdong concentrated the army to Zhang Jiayu stationed in Zengcheng, the two sides fought for ten days, Zhang Jiayu was hit by nine arrows, seriously wounded, unwilling to be a prisoner, then threw himself into the pond and died, martyrdom, only 33 years old.

Chen Zizhuang: Zijisheng, in the first year of Yongli, Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu and other rebels, in the suburbs of Guangzhou, Zengcheng, Qingyuan, Gaoming and other areas of each other's horns, sniping at the Qing army. They also gathered more than 6,000 boat divisions to attack Guangzhou by warship, but unfortunately due to the mistakes in the city, the plot failed. In this battle, Chen Zizhuang's eldest son, Shangyong, sacrificed his life heroically. Later, the Qing army divided troops to attack Jiujiang and Gaoming City, Chen Zizhuang retreated to Gaoming, and led the whole city soldiers and civilians to defend the city day and night. The city was broken, and Zhang Jiayu and Chen Bangyan died. Zi Zhuang, the father and son in the picture above led the remaining 500 volunteers to fight bloodily, and all of them were killed. Zizhuang, pictured above, and others were also captured and then escorted back to Guangzhou. He refused to surrender, and was escorted to the execution ground to "accompany the beheading" but still laughed and scolded freely, and was executed by Li Chengdong by cruel means - "saw execution".