The elder of the Wang family, who was called the fifth uncle by Wang Jingxian, shook his head and stopped making a sound. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And another clan elder next to him nodded and said, "What Jing Xian said is very true! The number of Qing Qi has been exhausted, and now looking at the general trend of the world, the long-haired thieves believe in foreign religions, poison the people, and exterminate human nature, which will not last long. There is the appearance of dragon xing! And my Wang family, who has always made a living from the tea trade in Fujian, is also one of the big tea merchants in Fujian, and it is also for the sake of the survival of the Wang family. Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of the holy kingdom and the large-scale trade between foreigners, we will expand the business of our royal family, and the royal family will surely prosper. ”

The rest of the clan elders also spoke out one after another, agreeing with the Wang family's defection to the Holy Kingdom.

So, Wang Jingxian, the county magistrate of Minxian County, finally concluded: "Since this is the case, our Wang family decided to come down and fully devote ourselves to the Holy Kingdom. I will let the children of the Wang family go out of the city tonight, contact the Cantonese soldiers outside the city, and agree on the surrender of our Wang family. Each room of the Wang family also went to prepare, waiting for my unified command, waiting for the opportunity to respond to the attack of the Cantonese soldiers in the city! ”

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The 1st and 1st Divisions B, which were responsible for besieging Fuzhou City, had already set up an offensive posture. On the 18th day of the first lunar month, news came from the 5th Division B, which was in charge of transportation at sea, that a total of 80 30-pound heavy erection guns had arrived at the mouth of the Minjiang River.

On the Jinniu Mountain, four miles west of Fuzhou, Lin Fengxiang was overjoyed when he heard that the Holy King had sent a naval division from Guangzhou to transport eighty newly purchased 30-pound heavy erection guns to Fuzhou and ration the First Division as siege weapons.

The Holy King transferred so many artillery pieces, accounting for almost one-third of this batch of artillery, which was an incomparable importance to the First Division. With so many heavy artillery, Lin Fengxiang secretly thought that no matter what, he must remove the thorn in Fuzhou's eye.

Lin Fengxiang hurriedly ordered two artillery regiments of the 1st Division to receive artillery, and requisitioned livestock such as people, cattle and horses, to haul artillery, and pulled 80 heavy artillery pieces outside the city of Fuzhou, preparing to bombard the city from the west and north of the city.

That night, Lin Fengxiang had just finished arranging and was about to discuss the details of tomorrow's siege with a few staff officers, when he suddenly heard a report from the soldiers of the guard company, saying that the county commander of Minxian County in Fuzhou City had sent someone to report something.

Lin Fengxiang didn't bother to pay attention to it, but just sent a staff officer to ask what was going on, but he didn't expect that it didn't take long for the staff officer to attach great importance to it and happily invite him to go. Only then did Lin Fengxiang know that Wang Jingxian, the county commander of Min County, was the person in charge of the Wang family in Fuzhou City, and sent people to surrender to the captive army on behalf of the Wang family. Moreover, he is willing to respond to his own siege at any time as the internal response of Fuzhou City.

Such a good thing, Lin Fengxiang naturally will not refuse. However, now that there are 80 more artillery pieces, Lin Fengxiang is confident that he can take Fuzhou City with artillery alone, and he doesn't care so much about how effective they should be.

Therefore, the two sides agreed to attack the city tomorrow, and tomorrow night the Wang family will send people to set fire to the city, and meet the captives in the west of the city to attack the city.

After the people of the Wang family left, immediately afterwards, the Li family, the Zhang family, the Cai family and other powerful families in Fuzhou City sent people to express to Lin Fengxiang that they were willing to return to the Holy Kingdom and were willing to act as a matter for the captive army to conquer Fuzhou City.

Lin Fengxiang didn't expect it to be like this! These big families and local gentry who previously hated and hated the Holy Kingdom would take the initiative to abandon the Manchus and surrender to the Holy Kingdom.

Lin Fengxiang asked Xu Daguang, chief of staff of the First Division, why did these local merchants and wealthy clans in Fuzhou City rush to surrender to the Holy Country?

Xu Daguang is a member of the Xu family in Guangzhou, so he naturally understands the thoughts of these local big families.

"Division Commander Lin, it must be that the military in Fuzhou City is already in turmoil and demoralized. Like these wealthy families in Fuzhou City, they are so anxious to come and surrender and take the initiative to act as internal responses. Xu Daguang analyzed: "I begged the captive army to occupy the southern part of Zhejiang, completely surrounded the city of Fuzhou, and the entire Fujian also became an enclave, and the Manchu court should have completely abandoned Fujian." Therefore, these families in Fuzhou City knew that the Manchus could not return, so they abandoned the Manchus one after another and threw themselves into the Holy Kingdom. ”

"At this time, it is the best time to attack Fuzhou City!"

Lin Fengxiang listened to it and felt that it made sense. The two agreed to let the soldiers of the captives rest in turn tonight, prepare for the siege of the city overnight, and wait for the artillery to be dragged outside the city tomorrow, and then start the siege.

The next morning, a messenger from the artillery regiment came to report that eighty pieces of artillery were in place.

Lin Fengxiang immediately notified He Lu, the commander of the 1st Division of B, who had been preparing for a long time, and the two armies began to officially attack the city.

The artillery regiment braved the artillery of the city tower, lined up the 30-pounder heavy erection of the retreat artillery into battle, and then used foreign gunners to cover the formation on both sides of the artillery, and stopped at a distance of more than two miles from the Fuzhou city wall, and began to set up the artillery.

On the city tower, Wang Yide, Li Tingyu and others looked at the dozens of heavy artillery pieces lined up, and their faces changed greatly! They finally understood why the Cantonese thieves had been besieged for so long, and suddenly began to attack the city.

Li Tingyu had fought with foreigners more than ten years ago, and was very familiar with this kind of artillery placed on the iron shelf, and at a glance he knew that it was a Western artillery, and the frame was a buffer for the recoil generated when the artillery was fired. It's just that he didn't expect that there would be so many of them, and besides, the caliber of the artillery is still so large!

He hurriedly ordered the Qing army on the city to fire their artillery quickly, seize the Cantonese thieves to set up artillery, and bomb the Western artillery outside the city first. It's just that there are more than ten artillery pieces on the west side of the city, and although they can barely reach the firing range, the accuracy is very unreliable, and they fired two rounds of artillery in a row, but they only hit two cannons, and I don't know if they were smashed or not.

Just as Li Tingyu was anxious to order the cannon to hurry up and fire, the artillery outside the city also fired.

"Boom, boom! ......Although there were only more than 30 artillery pieces in the west of the city, the momentum was huge, and more than 20 huge cannons smashed on the city wall, with a huge bang, the entire city wall was shaking, and the bricks that were broken were of course killing dozens of people.

The Qing army at the head of the city was brave, panicked, and scattered to hide. The Western artillery under the city opened the first round, followed by the second round, and the Qing army at the head of the city had no intention of fighting back, just dodging the artillery, hoping to end it as soon as possible.

Li Tingyu saw that the situation was not good, and Wang Yide and Wang Yide were about to send thousands of inspectors from their own guards to force the gunners at the head of the city to return fire. At this time, two messengers rushed over and shouted: "My lord, the Wang family, the Li family, the Cai family and other families in the city have instigated the regimental warriors and soldiers of the city gate to rebel against the enemy, and opened the north gate of the city, and thousands of Cantonese thieves have rushed into the city." ”

When Li Tingyu and Wang Yide heard this, they almost fell to the ground, but Wang Yide rolled his eyes and fainted.

Li Tingyu's face was also pale, and he exclaimed: "Heaven is dead, I am also a clear person!" After speaking, he didn't care about Wang Yide, and ordered someone to report to Youfeng, the general of Fuzhou in the east of Fuzhou City, asking for troops to support and block the north gate. At the same time, he personally organized part of the troops at the head of the city and nearly 20,000 green battalion soldiers and regimental warriors in the city to rush to the north of the city, preparing to block the north gate and lead the troops to destroy all the thieves who rushed into the city.

Quickly walking to the north gate half a mile away, seeing hundreds of Cantonese thieves in gray-green uniform uniforms rushing towards him, Li Tingyu ordered to kill him.

I saw that the opposite side remembered the sound of bursting bean-like shooting, and thousands of Qing troops rushed forward less than twenty steps before they fell to the ground one after another. A staff member reported to the general: "At the military gate, the foreign guns in the hands of the thieves are too fierce to rush through, and there are already two or three thousand dead and wounded in a single pillar of incense." The north gate of the city is already difficult to recapture! ”

"Smack!" Li Tingyu slapped him and shouted: "If you can't take it back, you have to take it back!" No matter how many brothers die, kill Lao Tzu and kill the thieves out of the city! ”

The general had no choice but to organize more than 2,000 people again, crowded densely on the avenue in the city, and rushed to kill the Cantonese thieves squatting there.

However, this kind of one-sided slaughter made even the thieves who fired on the opposite side a little unbearable.

Rushing forward with a waist knife in his hand, he was knocked to the ground by a shot after a few dozen steps away. Thousands of men were lost, and no matter how the generals shouted, the Qing soldiers no longer stepped forward, but dodged back.

Li Tingyu was furious, and just wanted to order the law enforcement team to step forward and behead the soldiers who were dodging, when a small group of messengers came to report: "The big thing is not good, the military gate, that Fuzhou General Youfeng led nearly 2,000 horse armor banner soldiers, and actually carried gold and silver, opened the east gate, abandoned the city and fled north!" ”

"What? Youfeng has escaped!? Li Tingyu exclaimed, staring at the messenger in disbelief: "You mean, under the leadership of Youfeng, the Manqi soldiers abandoned the city and fled?" ”

Looking at the messenger's crying face, Li Tingyu shouted: "I'm done!" A mouthful of black blood gushed out of his throat and fell to the ground.