In the dim and damp dungeon, Huang Zongxi, Hou Fangyu and others also learned from the sporadic conversations between the jailers that the emperor was going to personally conquer Zuo Liangyu. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead, God really help me, God help me!"

Huang Zongxi's beard was unshaven, his hair was scattered, and he would keep walking around the cell, laughing like crazy.

Zuo Guang squatted in a corner first, and because he was too frightened earlier, his eyes were dull at the moment and he kept giggling. I don't know if it's happy or sad.

Hou Fangyu kept calling Gao Hongtu, who was sitting in the other corner of the cell with his eyes closed, staring on a hunger strike.

"Yan Lao, don't go on a hunger strike anymore, that faint gentleman is dead and cut down Zuo Shuai, and I will wait for the big revenge to be avenged in a few days! God help me! ”

Gao Hongtu was unmoved, cross-legged and his eyes closed.

"Let's eat as much as I want, the day Zuo Shuai enters Nanjing, it will be the time when I am waiting for my life, and the old man is on a hunger strike at this moment, how stupid!"

Gao Hongtu remained unmoved.

Hou Fangyu's persuasion again and again, but it didn't work, and finally stomped his feet a few times hatefully, and plotted with Huang Zongxi to wait for the defeat of the faint monarch, after Zuo Liangyu entered Beijing, how should they cooperate with the Qing monarch's side army to counterattack those eunuch remnants.

"If you don't punish the Ma Ruan Ten Clan, it's not enough to vent the hatred in my heart!"

Huang Zongxi stared at the blood-red eyes and gritted his teeth.

"I don't know what happened to my beloved concubine (Li Xiangjun) now, don't be ruined by those thieves!" Until this time, Hou Fangyu was still thinking about the famous prostitute of Qin Huai who made him fascinated.

……

Under the city of Jiujiang.

Amid the sound of the bull's horn of the left army, the vigorous Jiujiang offensive and defensive battle has lasted for four days.

One hundred and ten trench trucks were slowly approaching the city wall from the east and west sides under the impetus of the left soldiers, and the top layer of the trench trucks had hard guards, which had long been wet with water, which could resist rocket attacks and prevent fires, and in the wagons they carried sacks full of earth to fill the moat and outer moats.

Behind the trench cart are tens of thousands of left soldiers, rattan players form a card wall, archers and musketeers are behind, shooting at the city!

There was a constant sound of bang and bang all around, and the feather arrows and guns shot at the city head like locusts, and most of the Ming troops on the city head were backed against the female wall, blocking the arrows and lead bullets.

Under the cover of archers and musketeers, the left soldier roared and dragged the trench cart.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps......

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the outer trench, Governor Zhu Dadian finally shouted an order: "Gunner, prepare!" ”

The gunners of the Ming army, who had been holding back before, immediately loaded the shotguns and aimed them at the city. Seeing that the left soldier had arrived at the outer trench with the trench filling cart, Zhu Dadian shouted: "Release!" ”

The gunners were ordered, and dozens of large and small artillery guns lined up at the head of the city fired a large number of scattered bullets, pouring out at the left soldiers under the city.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! Screams rang out again and again on the side of the outer trenches, and many of the left soldiers who commanded the trench filling trucks were killed by scattered bullets on the spot, and dozens of trench filling trucks were directly hit by scattered bullets.

Seeing this, the left crossbowmen and musket team who were responsible for covering the trench filling vehicles once again set off a rain of arrows and lead, and fired wildly at the Ming army that fired artillery at the head of the city. Unfortunately, because of the inferior performance of the back fire and musket, the lethality of the counterattack is not great.

Not to be outdone, the thousands of armoured Imperial Musketeers in the city, armed with new Spanish light and heavy arquebuses, condescended to the top, and immediately shot back in color. With the bang bang ......, thousands of fine muskets fired, white smoke entwined, and another large wave of left troops were shot and fell to the ground, and the archers and musketeers were killed and wounded countless times.

The left army attacked for a day, suffered serious injuries, and had to collect troops and return to the camp for rectification.

On the first day, in order to fill the outer trenches, the left army spent more than 60 trench filling trucks, and more than 1,000 casualties. Fail.

The next day, more than eighty trench trucks were expended, more than a thousand casualties, and failed.

On the third day, it took more than 100 trench trucks and nearly 2,000 casualties to finally fill in the outer trench.

For three whole days, in order to fill an outer trench, it took 300 trench filling trucks and more than 4,000 casualties to succeed.

Breaking through the outer trench is only the first step in the siege war, and it is necessary to continue to fill the moat, level the antler array, pull out the plum blossom pile, etc., in the face of the defensive and hedgehog-like Jiujiang City, not to mention the capture of the city, it is not easy to attack the root of the wall. Every step forward has to pay the price of blood, if it weren't for the fact that most of the people consumed were strong men and miscellaneous cards, Zuo Liangyu would not have done this!

In order to take Jiujiang City as soon as possible, he looked around at the generals in the tent with sharp eyes, and shouted: "60,000 troops have gathered here for a few days, and only one outer trench has been filled, where is the majesty of our army?!" Where is Ben Shuai's face?!

After dawn, all the three armies will be attacked, if you can't break the city quickly-" Zuo Liangyu brazenly pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist and cut off a corner of the handsome case: "The generals are from the general army down, there is such a case!" ”

"Yes!" The generals in the tent were shocked in their hearts and received their orders with a bang.

On the fourth day, at ten o'clock in the morning, tens of thousands of left soldiers set up a formation under the city, waving flags, soldiers such as forests, Zuo Liangyu wore a hood, wore iron armor, personally supervised the battle, he pulled out his waist knife, and shouted in front of the battle: "The three armies obey orders, there is no retreat in the battle today, if there is disobedience, there will be no forgiveness!" ”

After the herald conveyed the general's order, tens of thousands of left soldiers waved their spears and echoed in unison: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ......" The sound of killing shook the four fields, and the birds on the trees flew away in pieces.

The flag swayed, the cowhide war drums were beaten, and hundreds of left soldiers rushed to the moat in the form of stragglers in the form of sandbags and cotton armor in order to avoid the scattered shells of the artillery.

"Gunner, shoot! Quick—"

The military orders at the head of the city are frequent, the gunshots rang out suddenly, the musketeers of the imperial camp flashed out from behind the female wall one by one, regardless of the safety and rained lead rain under the city, the left soldiers held rattan cards, forming an impermeable shield array, and the left soldiers holding sandbags were tightly protected, "Ping Pong ......" hit the window lattice like rain, many rattan cards were instantly pierced by the powerful Spanish heavy muskets, and the shield array appeared flawed, revealing the left soldiers wearing cotton armor and leather armor inside, and after another burst of gunfire, the left soldiers holding sandbags have been beaten into shabu with lead, There was a burst of screams of crying dad and mother. Even wearing cotton armor and leather armor still can't stop the coming of death.

The left soldiers did not seem to fill the moat at one time this time and swore not to give up, a group of death, a group of rushes, the follow-up team stepped on the corpse of the front team, holding sandbags and rushed to the moat, one person fell, one person went up, a little timidity, and was killed by Zuo Liangyu's family guards.

Seeing that the sons under his command were killed or injured one by one, after being carried down from the front of the formation, the heart of the forward chief soldier Ma Jinzhong was dripping blood, these soldiers were his baby bumps, and they were consumed under Jiujiang City like cannon fodder, he was unwilling!

After another wave of Guanzhong Erlang was killed, he finally mustered up the courage to walk in front of Zuo Liangyu, the commander of the Chinese army in the rear formation, and knelt down to persuade in tears: "Dashuai, you can't attack anymore!" The muskets in the city were too sharp, and the casualties were too great! ”

"Bastard!" Zuo Liangyu's eyes widened angrily, and he scolded: "You dare to mess with my army's heart? Believe it or not, Benjue has beheaded you! ”

"It's not a pity to die! It's just such a bloody battle, even if the marshal takes Jiujiang, how many soldiers are left around? How to deal with the reinforcements of the imperial court? How will the handsome man deal with himself then? ”