Fuzhou Gutian, the mountains are undulating, and the clouds and mist are shrouded.

In the early morning, the temple hidden in the pine waves, the apricot yellow courtyard walls, the blue-gray temple ridge, and the pale green towering ancient trees are all bathed in the rose-red morning glow.

Two monks play a game under a tree. Recently, the weather has been getting better, and the sun is shining warmly on my body.

Wang Qi held the white and dropped a son on the chessboard casually. I haven't learned chess for a long time, and this game is already a must-lose, and I haven't put it in action just because my mind is not on the board at all.

"The Tartars under the city of Fuzhou were defeated, and the Nanyang Yi soldiers were thin and the city walls were thin. Liu Zhongzao raised troops in Fu'an, and the Tartar troops in Funing Prefecture were empty, and they could go down in the near future. The Liang Qin brothers recovered Shaxian, and Zheng Xiu besieged Pucheng. Your Highness, our chance to raise our troops has come. ”

The slightly older monk still looked at the chessboard seriously, "General Wang, I am going to go through the years before I can accumulate the strength of 300 people." We must not be cautious in the matter of raising troops. ”

Wang Qi: "His Royal Highness the Supervisor has sworn in southern Fujian, and the official army has captured Zhangpu and Haicheng, and the recovery of the whole territory of Fujian is just around the corner." Your Highness, it will be too late for us to send any more troops. ”

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, many desperate clans and resisters did not want to shave their heads, and they became monks and Taoist priests, and lived in seclusion in the mountains around the country. Zhu Changchao is also one of them, unlike other people who have really entered Buddhism, he used his identity as a monk to cover and secretly organize an army. In addition to the 300 strong men dressed as monks, many Ming troops gathered in the mountains near Gutian, including the Fujian army and the Zhejiang army. Zhu Changchao had solid ties with these armies.

Wang Qi was originally a general of the Lu Jianguo, and he was wrecked in northern Fujian with the warship he was riding when he went south, and was forced to land, all the way, and defected to Zhu Changchao, the king of the western part of the country, in the Gutian Mountains. Wang Qi has not been a monk for a long time, and he has not yet been accepted by the boundless Buddhism. At this time, I only felt a raging fire burning in my heart.

Zhu Changchao was still a little hesitant, "It's not difficult to raise troops, and it's easy to conquer Gutian, but what should we do after that?" To Jianning or to Fuzhou? ”

Wang Qi and Zhu Changchao have discussed this issue many times. If it weren't for the surprising Battle of Fuzhou, then Jianning Mansion would be a better place. At the junction of the three provinces of Jianning, backed by Jiangxi and Zhejiang, there is more room for movement. Excluding the three salaries, Jianning is paying 53,000 taels of silver a year, which is the highest government in Fujian, 7,000 taels more than Fuzhou. Compared with the rich returns, Jianning only has more than 800 green battalion soldiers stationed, which is simply a piece of cooked fat.

But now something is different, Wang Qi said: "Your Highness, I think Fuzhou is better." Our army is short of equipment, and I heard that the Yi people in Nanyang have captured a lot of green battalion armor, and they are almost sending it. ”

Zhu Changchao was still a little hesitant, "General Wang, my previous contact deployment was all aimed at Jianning Mansion, and Fuzhou was not prepared. ”

Wang Qi: "Your Highness, it doesn't matter. Let's go to Fuzhou, get some armor, and then we can go to Jianning Mansion again. ”

Wang Qi's military experience was much richer than Zhu Changchao's, and his tone was firm, and he quickly persuaded Zhu Changchao. But there's another problem.

Zhu Changchao: "Now that there are two Shuo on the sea, whose era name do we have to use when we raise our troops?" ”

Wang Qi: "This ...... Your Highness, it is said that the Son of Longwu has been martyred. ”

"But there's no real evidence."

Wang Qi secretly stomped his feet, "What does Your Highness want to do?" ”

Zhu Changchao smiled slightly, "I think it's more appropriate to use the Longwu year name." ”

Wang Qi didn't think that the era name was important at all, "Your Highness will do what he says." ”

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In fact, Wang Qi and Zhu Changchao, who are in the deep mountains, are wrong, and there are currently three Shuo on the southeast coast. Zheng Chenggong of Nanao Island is named after the Yongli calendar, and Zheng Cai of Jinxia is called by the year of Lu Jianguo, and the northern Fujian region with a long distance and more closed news uses the name of Longwu. Wang Qiyi's army, which had regular soldiers as the backbone, showed stronger combat effectiveness than others when it raised troops. This army easily conquered Gutian, and after obtaining the resources of the county seat, it quickly grew to 5,000 people. With the exception of a few backbones, like the rest of the rebels, most of the soldiers had only rudimentary weapons.

Wang Qi led the rebel army down the Min River and soon arrived in Fuzhou. At this time, the rebel army gathered around Fuzhou had reached 24,000 people. Before Wang Qi came, the leaders of the rebel armies in various places publicly recommended Liu Zhongzao, a scholar, as the leader of the alliance.

The order has aroused some interest in Wang Qi's army, and the combat effectiveness is reflected in some external manifestations of daily life. But he will be most concerned about artillery.

Behind the artillery position, several furnaces were erected by the Min River, and dozens of blacksmiths were working hard. The Army seized a lot of large and small lead bullets in the Green Battalion Battalion, and all of them were melted to make 12-pound solid bullets at this time. It took several days for the 12-pounder guns in the forts to cut down the small towers on the urn city. Now the east wing is being shot unhurriedly. The 12-pounder cannon did not have a significant direct effect on the thick Fuzhou city wall, mainly by destroying the city tower and the female wall to blunt the enemy's defenses.

"Boom," the enemy artillery on the southern wall returned fire, and the shells landed inaccurately.

With the current accuracy of artillery, artillery firing at enemy positions is more of a waste of ammunition, and the probability of hitting is very low, far less than using these ammunition to shoot at the opposing infantry cavalry or conspicuous fixed targets such as the castle tower in front of you.

Langemann found Shou Order, "Your Excellency, there is a group of Chinese from outside the camp, saying that they want to see you. ”

Shou Xuan nodded, "I'll go see them, you look at the cannon." ”

The people who came were Liu Zhonghai, the leader of the Righteous Army outside Fuzhou, Wang Qi, Li Changjiao and other leaders.

Liu Zhongzao opened his mouth and asked Shou Xuan for a weapon.

Shou Xuan smiled, "Elder Liu Ge, the weapon can be given, but I have one condition." ”

Wang Qi couldn't wait to ask, "What are the conditions for the lord of the country?" ”

Shou Xuan said lightly: "Conquer Fuzhou City, Fuzhou will belong to you, and the children's jade silk will belong to me." ”

There were several loud noises outside the camp, and several people looked north, and the east wing of the south gate of Fuzhou, which had been continuously shelled, collapsed.

Shou ordered to drink tea, waiting for Liu Zhongzao to reply.

Liu Zhongzao is a university scholar, so of course he knows the allusions of the order. The Tang Dynasty borrowed the rebellion of the Ping'an history of the Hui soldiers, and the conditions were that Luoyang City would be returned to the Tang Dynasty, the silver silk would be returned to the Hui, and the men and women captured in the city would also be given to the Hui as slaves. Of course, unlike the Hui generals, Shou Xiang did not have a hobby of whipping the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

The guards had weapons in their hands that were simply armed with 5,000 people, half of which were captured in the Battle of Fuzhou, and the other half were collected from the inventory of 2,000 households in Meihua and Dinghai, as well as the coastal inspection divisions and military villages. Furlong cannons and armor are relatively valuable captured weapons, and the rest of the general's cannons, tiger cannons, bows and arrows, bird guns, three-eyed guns, flying cannons, etc., are all scrap metal in the eyes of the federal army.

However, scrap iron also has the use of scrap iron, and the rebel army is not well equipped, and giving them a big general cannon is a treasure. Shou ordered to put these weapons in the camp of Nantai Port, and distributed a small part to the rebels who looked okay. The rest, for the time being, are still idle.

It has been a tradition since ancient times that the Central Dynasty used barbarian soldiers to quell the rebellion, and it is not too difficult to accept. Liu Zhongzao agreed without hesitation. The other rebel leaders were probably thinking about whether they could take Fuzhou or not, and then they would get their weapons.

The real desire of the Ming alliance for Fuzhou was due to the arrival of a reinforcement by sea a few days later. Nearly 100 large and small warships loaded with 6,000 officers and soldiers sailed into the Minjiang River.

Zhou Hezhi was close at hand, but he was late. No matter what Zhou Hezhi thinks about the order, it's better to be late than never.

How much effort you make, how much you get. The Coalition spent several days discussing the distribution of loot.

Defend the order to defeat the main force of the Fuzhou Green Battalion, with the only heavy artillery in the Allied army, and it is undeniable to take the lion's lead. But because it was difficult for 12 pounds to collapse the city wall, after blunting the enemy's defense, he still had to climb the ladder to fight in the end, and he didn't want to consume the infantry on the city wall, so he didn't have the luxury of the wealth of the entire Fuzhou City.

Two small rivers pass through the city of Fuzhou, and according to the river, the city is divided into three areas, including Zhou Hezhi. There are 9 cities in Fuzhou, 6 in the city and 3 in the city. The city has been swept away, and the four who want to be in the south of the city are in order.

After Zhou Hezhi's reinforcements came, the strength of the Ming army outside the city had an advantage. In order to avoid prolonging the time, the enemy troops in southern Fujian or Zhejiang came to help, which led to changes in the war situation. After accumulating enough shells, the artillery opened full fire, and after 3 days of heavy bombardment, the west wing tower and the main city tower collapsed one after another. Then the fire was transferred to the battlements and the female wall, and the enemy's defenses were scattered with stone chips, and there was no one standing in the vicinity of the tower.

The coalition army released the northern city wall, and the rebel army attacked the city from the west and Zhou Hezhi from the east. It is better not to take the city wall and force the enemy to disperse its forces.

The enemy counterattack fire became weaker and weaker, and the artillery and navy pushed the 6-pounder guns forward. Twenty-six six-pounder guns fired nearly half of the female wall of the southern wall, and the Green Battalion could only repair part of the wall with earth bags at night. The artillery advanced layer by layer, and when the 4-pounder gun also entered the effective range, the enemy's repair speed could not keep up with the speed of destruction.

Together, the Navy and Zhou Hezhi refurbished dozens of sampans, taking advantage of the early hours of a high tide to enter the moat along the canal. The moat in the south of Fuzhou is about seven meters wide, and it will be very troublesome to build a trench or force the people to fill the river with soil. But since the Ming Dynasty dug a canal to communicate the moat and the Minjiang River for the convenience of trading, it became very simple to cross the moat.

Several sampans are connected in series, and the wooden planks become a pontoon bridge. Overnight, more than a dozen pontoon bridges spanned the moat. The enemy fired desperately and destroyed only 4 of them.

At daybreak, 60 guns opened fire one after another. The south of Fuzhou is full of gunsmoke.

The volunteer battalion and the Dengzhou soldiers covered with firepower, and Wang Qi's soldiers moved from the west of the city to the south of the city, and climbed the ladder first.

As long as the Green Battalion is not stupid, they must know that the south is the main direction of attack. Yang Yufan personally went to the city to direct the counterattack, and the enemy army resisted with all his might. After attacking for a day, Wang Qi finally retreated from the city wall.

At night, the enemy army came down to burn the pontoon bridge. The artillerymen ignored the pontoon bridge and used 4-pounder guns to hit the base of the city wall.

At dawn, 9 pontoon bridges were burned down, and Zhou Hezhi's face was disgraced.

Shou Xuan pointed to the minced meat under the city wall, and laughed: "Why should General Zhou be discouraged. The enemy troops who dare to fight back in the city are all elite, and there will not be many of them in the city. We can trade a few small wrecked ships for the elite of the enemy, which is a good deal. ”

How many sampans on the Min River. In the evening of the same day, the navy dragged more than 50 sampans into the canal in front of the enemy's eyes. The next morning, another 10 pontoons were built.

Yang Yufan once again sent people out of the city to fight back.

The Orderly has more ammo than the warriors who can go down the city to fight back. After three times, the pontoon bridge crossed the moat steadily. Zhou Hezhi and Wang Qi once again threw themselves into the siege.

There is no strategy to talk about in the war, and the descriptions of the Three Kingdoms and the Warring States Policy are all artistic treatments. Fighting a war is a math problem of passivation and depassivation. Consumption, consumption, and re-consumption are consumed to the point that the comparison between the warring parties in a certain or several resources has a qualitative change, and to the point that one side of the resource is embarrassed and nervously nervous to deal with the error.

For Yang Yufan, it was definitely safer to keep the allies outside the moat than to directly thin the city. Just like the axioms of mathematics, this is not an option at all, since he can't withstand the moat, it only shows one problem, his strength has been consumed to an extreme extent.

Human life and ammunition is a simple math problem. As long as the wind direction, weather, and distance are suitable, the navy has a very obvious advantage in power projection. As far as Order's choice of place of engagement, the Tatars were not even as troublesome as the winds had caused. The preparation of the order was mostly before the battle, casting better artillery, stockpiling ammunition, preparing the battleship, choosing a suitable weather, landing. Unless the enemy succeeds in concealing the main mobile forces, victory is only a matter of time. This time, Fuzhou obviously has no exceptions.

2 days later, in the early hours of the morning. Like climbing the Galen bulwark, the volunteer battalion took down the ruined towers with a swift assault. Blowing open the city gate, the Dengzhou battalion rushed into the city along the central axis of the city.